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US PoliERA 2018 |OT13| And now the fun starts
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My thing with Beto is when i saw him at one of his events answering questions during his Q&A portions, he never seemed all that prepared. He kind of just rode on charisma. Obviously reality has taught us that you don't need to be a genius to run the country, but I've always liked that Democratic Presidential candidates mostly seemed like really well-read people. I don't know Beto's actual intelligence or anything, but I remember sitting there thinking that homeboy was kind of talking around a lot of questions he didn't feel prepared for. But maybe that was just pure campaign messaging discipline.
Macron is pretty good despite the shitty personnel politics. France legit needed overhauls rightwards in parts of their economy to unfuck unemployment which was very much not the norm in most other countries. Hes still more popular than any other leader there, you have to grade on a curve w approvals.
It really isn't nice to describe other people's posts that way.
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The Clintons are notoriously guarded -- going back to the 90s. During 2016 campaign you saw this with the Goldman Sachs speech transcripts that she refused to release, that ended up being leaked. Their closedness is often seen as a response to the ridiculous conspiracies attacking them, but Hillary is certainly not known for being an open book.
Also the yellow vest thing probably looks catastrophic to US folks, but to Europeans, French workers striking and causing a giant ruckus is also known as "Thursday" - this one looks better organized in some respects and more organic in others -- butI have ZERO doubt that outside agitators and right wing groups are taking advantage of the situation and making it worse. There's almost zero chance Russia isn't spending money to motivate extra participants.
Good thing we kept voting after Election Day in CA21!
Early voting is for n00bs. Late voting is where it's at!
Early voting is for n00bs. Late voting is where it's at!
Im thinking of things like the Deplorables speech specifically where "is honest, doesnt go over well" was a thing.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone claim that they disliked Hillary because she was just too honest and authentic.
Edit: She shouldn't have backed down on the Deplorables comment. But she also wasn't really the best person to make that kind of comment.
Look at her response to the "would u ever lie to the American people" and Colberts rebuttal.
If you asked people why they hated Hilary, it usually amounted to " I just don't like her, she's bad, I feel it in my gut". They couldn't give a reason if they tried unless it was Benghazi or emails which, lol. Now if they were being honest with themselves, their reasons might be more interesting.
I'm not a politician obviously - but a lot of that is experience not of policy, but of specific questions. If I'm on a media tour and I hear a new question, I answer it to the best of my ability - but I may be sort of diagraming information as I speak and talking around tricky aspects simply because I haven't had to elucidate them, rather than from not knowing the answer. By the end of a tour, I'll have the answer to that question down pat, and will start repeating it more succinctly and with better focus. Beto has moved into the national spotlight and so he's answering completely new questions about shit like foreign policy that a TX local rep would never have had to . So he's probably going through something similar.
Basically, they just want bullshitters.
Yep.
Maybe it's just me but I like that he was just trying to wing his responses. That's how you get honest and sincere responses. Not responses prepared and carefully examined by a team of people.
I know that he made labor reforms that aren't popular on top of the (now-suspended) gas tax, but it's hard for me to suss out how necessary they were because I just don't have the knowledge of the French economy to do so. It seems like you have a much better grasp on that.
I don't think that he's particularly great on African immigration or race in general, and right now, I'm more sensitive than ever to that sort of thing, so this probably colors my view of his overall performance as well.
Survivor 18 (and the follow ups 20 and 34) should be required political viewing for the "charismatic bullshitter" vs "nerd with brain" dynamic.
Basically, it was so hard to fire someone that way-higher-than-normal unemployment was a result because businesses were taking on so much implied risk each time they'd bring someone on. France had the "security" part of "flexicurity" in place w/ social safety nets, but the labor laws were done in such a way where it was great if you could get a job.... but actually getting one was extraordinarily difficult.
Translate this to the USSR for me. Stalin vs. Trotsky? Lenin vs. Martov?
The charismatic guy who won vs the guy who actually engineered everything (and probably got killed.)
And then after killing the brain behind it, the charismatic guy starts flailing and governing terribly.
Any analysis of Hillary that doesn't include 'if her husband did the same, the country would've loved it' is incomplete.
See: Who are you glad calls you an enemy? "Republicans!" That's a fuckin slam dunk answer and only sexist double standards prevented that from being analyzed on its merits. Fuck everyone I'm still mad.
See: Who are you glad calls you an enemy? "Republicans!" That's a fuckin slam dunk answer and only sexist double standards prevented that from being analyzed on its merits. Fuck everyone I'm still mad.
He says trump hasn't delivered on the wall, defunding planned parenthood and getting rid of the ACA. He loves what trump is selling, he just thinks he's too stupid to get it done. This is hardly shocking.
Well sure, people don't like the truth when it makes them look bad :P
In general, I think "authenticity" in politics is usually more about how they talk about and express themselves + how consistent they are in their views (and if they change their views, how they walk that evolution) --- bonus points in authenticity for consistency in uncommon views: "he says it like it is" vs talking like a politician. And by talking like a politician, I mean being politically correct, but not just "not saying bigoted things" -- in a broader sense that can also include merely sticking with political orthodoxies (having "realistic" policy proposals and sounding like everything you say has been focus tested).
(Beto also had this sort of authenticity in his senate race)
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Didn't expect much news today, but a filing under "No Collusion" ?
Trump and the NRA used the same consultants to spearhead TV ad blitzes during the '16 election, possibly in violation of federal law, MoJo reports. "This is very strong evidence, if not proof, of illegal coordination," said an ex-FEC general counsel.
Trump and the NRA used the same consultants to spearhead TV ad blitzes during the '16 election, possibly in violation of federal law, MoJo reports. "This is very strong evidence, if not proof, of illegal coordination," said an ex-FEC general counsel.
I think there's obviously other arguments against Brown's candidacy, but I also am fairly confident he'd win in a general election versus Trump. Electability doesn't seem to be the argument against Sherrod.
I was talking about the primary - I'm fairly confident any candidate who can win the primary can win against Trump.
Sherrod is uninspiring and even his voice is kinda grating.
They say that like Trump and the GOP did super well in the Rust Belt in 2018.
This and Brown would be giving up a Senate seat + he's a very boring dude.
Also I'm having trouble figuring out which is the worst video title here
If nothing else the last two years has proven that the GOP is a party that believes in power and rejects democracy. That it's a weak but effective party of cheating and fingers on the scale and a party of craven followers with no moral leadership. The evangelical movement also sacrificed even the appearance of morality and is no longer a base but rather an arm of the GOP. To abortions as the NRA is to gun control.
Yeah this doesn't really work with Soviet history since usually the charismatic guy is also the more intelligent guy and gets killed or purged fist.
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