I think she already quit the Democratic Party
So half of Senate Democrats, including Schumer, havenât called for his resignation. My favorite is Booker, though. Heâs called for his resignation but wonât call for or vote for expulsion. Way to take a stand, there, Cory.
This is amazing for Fettermanâs brand. Iâm genuinely shocked nobody else is copycatting him already. Goddamn would he have whipped Ozâs ass if he hadnât stroked out mid campaign.
The boomers think professionalism is politeness and upper class dialect and they value it in their leaders for some reason. Gen X onward love a combative politician who fights a little bit dirty because being âprofessionalâ in a crisis is a really good tell someone is incompetent.
Let me tell you if you manage to screw something up so badly that you get me, a chronic people pleaser who would MUCH rather convince you to do what I want than try force, to chew you out⌠and then you cry about how Iâm not being professional? Ooh boy you are about to get laid the fuck out verbally lol. The subject will be the abject lack of professionalism in your work. I will send you home considering a career change.
Chewing people out is an amazing 5th-6th pitch because the less you use it the better it works.
Itâs really hard to imagine a good leader being super civil in the current situation. It just doesnât make any sense. The stakes are too high and we are too far away from anything resembling a solution to be polite.
One observation I have had over my career is that there is a certain constant passive aggression always coming from the rat race executive types, 99% of the time if this passive aggression is countered with direct in your face aggression they donât know what to do at all.
You canât do it all the time or youâll be labeled a bully but I pick my spots every now and then
Yeah itâs definitely something you shouldnât overuse, but like the QB sneak itâs very very very effective used the correct amount of the time.
Seems like a not great development for democrats:
I believe this was previously the most democratically-leaning/voting religious minority in the US.
Yeah, democrats seem fucked from both sides.
ehh this piece is pretty light on data, itâs basically like âhey look, Fox wants to nuke Gaza and here are a few Jews who agreeâ (while citing Bari Weissâs fake outlet).
There are a lot of Jews who hate Bibi and arenât on board with the genocide.
I have a hard time believing this is going to move the needle all that much come election season. Who are the muslims in America going to vote for Donald âletâs stop all the brown people from coming to the US at allâ Trump? Theyâre going to hold their noses and vote for Biden like the rest of us.
Hopefully Biden pulls a rabbit out of his hat and gets this to end sooner than it otherwise would have. It wonât matter politically Iâm just hoping thereâs a way to get the Israeliâs back on a leash before they fully genocide Gaza.
Muslim Americans already voted Trump at a higher rate than Jewish Americans so, yeah. Look at his gains amongst religious hispanics. He does well with religious people, all religions. Jewish people are, I think, secular at a higher rate than other religious groups. Culture wars shit plays well with religious people of all denominations.
There is an element of voter psychology that I just donât yet understand, perhaps some here do, but itâs been a conspicuous factor in the Individual #1 era, and the phenomenon is that some voters perceive a sleight on some issue by Hilldawg or Sleepy, and theyâre like Nope now Iâm voting for orange who is 10 times worse on that issue. Like the Union stuff comes to mind, sure Biden, despite trying to brand himself as a âunion manâ is far from pristine in favoring union positions across the board, but yeah that shit hits the news cycle, itâs like union support is cratering for Biden and they all love orange now. Some of this is fake news for sure, but if youâre a union person in a purple state, I understand being disappointed but now youâre going to spite your face?
Maybe itâs something like a latent desire for the strongman that gets activated in the lower level of the brain as soon as you feel betrayed, idk, but religious minorities souring on Biden given the alternative is headexplode.gif.
Or they stay home on election day.
Or vote third party.
Or they hold their noses but donât donate to the campaign or volunteer to turn out the vote.
Arizona was won by ~10k votes and has a Muslim population of ~110k.
Georgia was won by ~12k votes and has a Muslim population of ~124k.
Wisconsin was won by ~20k votes and has a Muslim population of ~70k.
Pennsylvania was won by ~80k votes and has a Muslim population of ~150k.
Michigan was won by ~155k votes and has a Muslim population of ~240k.
There is little leeway. Biden needs to win at least 3 of those and every other state he won in 2020.
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Whatâs this based on? My impression is that Biden has been very good on labor issues and I wasnât aware of any large drop in support.
I also donât think itâs quite as calculated as you said:
I think itâs rather that you still have to earn peopleâs votes, and if you act in a way that makes a group of people feel really gross about voting for you because what youâre doing is so antithetical to their interests, then maybe they wonât vote for you. And like Louis said, that has lots of forms that still hurt Biden well short of going âlulz Iâm full MAGA nowâ.
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Also I had a vague memory that Jeremy Peters is a hack but couldnât remember why (and wasnât sure if I was confusing him with his hack colleague Peter Baker), and have since confirmed this is true:
A group of high-profile New York Times journalists on Tuesday privately fired back against NewsGuild of New York president Susan DeCarava, over a letter that sheâd written affirming journalistsâ right to criticize the paper in order to address workplace conditions, a response that came amid a dispute over the Timesâ coverage of transgender issues. âFactual, accurate journalism that is written, edited, and published in accordance with Times standards does not create a hostile workplace,â reads the letter, which was organized by reporter Jeremy Peters and, in the past 24 hours, collected dozens of signatures.
I had the rail strike in mind, but I donât know if that caused any measured erosion of support, was sort of merging it with 2016 and just a lot of blue collar union defections from Ds based on⌠the idea that the union busting party is going to do better by unions. Well, of course that wasnât the main catalyst for economic anxiety voters, but I still feel like Ds atm, far more so than Rs, have to walk a very tight rope to not piss off various components of their coalition when they make damned if you damned if you donât decisions, whereas for Rs yolo nothing matters.
The rail strike really wasnât something the WH could let happen to be fair. Itâs one thing to have a strike itâs another thing to have a rail strike. You shut down the rail for a day you donât get the day back youâre now a day late on every shipment for the rest of the year. You do that for a week⌠well you guys lived through COVID. If the automakers make fewer cars this year thatâs not amazing for the economy but it doesnât trigger a supply chain cascade in every other industry in the country either.
Iâll freely agree that they should have gotten the rail unions a better deal, and that they would have gotten a better deal if they had been allowed to strike.
Sounds like a bunch of good reasons to give the rail unions what they wanted.
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