US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

heh

i do think there are sincere swing voters. they're all complete morons obviously. i guess the question is/are 1) are there enough for them to be worth worrying about 2) are there more of them and are they more easily activated than non-voters. land of contrasts stuff i know.

i don't care about the predicitive accuracy of her particular model, but the basic thesis seems clear and plausible.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kFUNJ2TA9II/maxresdefault.jpg

oh yeah that asshole

Andy Reid crossed with Mr Rogers crossed with Joe the Plumber

the basic thesis seems clear and plausible.

To the extent she is right about turnout being the be-all and end-all, it's not like either party thinks that GOTV isn't a critical part of winning elections already. I guess they could channel more resources from running ads into organizing GOTV, but part of GOTV is giving voters the idea that they need to vote and why. iow motivation matters and campaigns build that motivation over time. So, exactly how to turn her basic thesis into a more practical strategy is not entirely clear to me.

fair. i guess if it's correct it helps you figure out which voters *not* to chase.

i assume low info voters, ideologues or not, boil down to tribal prejudice stacked to terrible, misapplied risk mgmt heuristics.

Since this does not add anything i am not writing a book.

imho chasing racist suburban wine moms who think trump is tacky or never trump conservatives who write opinions for nyt & wapo seems like a bad idea but i'm not a data guy

She calls it, with disdain, the “Chuck Todd theory of American politics”

lol tho

read that as "The Chuck Eddy theory of American politics"

the hatred of modern architecture (as well as anything modern or post modern: art, lit, etc) is a big thing in alt-right circles.

Same as the Nazis obvi

yeah that sounds like a pet project of Stephen Miller

read that as "The Chuck Eddy theory of American politics"

TEENA MARIE 2004!

BIG AND RICH 2020

lol Rich was super-pissed a couple of weeks ago because a Nashville private christian school's curriculum included discussions of white privilege and racism.

my man has definitely got a future in TN politics if he wants it

Rig & B*tch

but how would a Nashville private christian school ever even find examples of white privilege and racism to show their students??????

Bitecofer's analysis also points to the effectiveness of disenfranchisement, if her theory is correct. The Republican version of GOTV.

big & rich remains one of the more embarrassing ILM bandwagon movements

that first album is still good, damn you

Also: I was not around in 2004 for Chuck Eddy to cast his cantrips

the hatred of modern architecture (as well as anything modern or post modern: art, lit, etc) is a big thing in alt-right circles

Not because they actually care but because they think the libs do. And if the libs like it they hate it, etc.

I believe one Charles Windsor (him of Wales) has dabbled in this realm of criticism as well.

tbf I dislike a bunch of new buildings, too! but adhering to some artificial idea of what looks "classic" is very wrong-headed

why would the greatest country on earth look towards those effete euros for architectural inspiration??

new mgmt seeks cred

why would the greatest country on earth look towards those effete euros for architectural inspiration??

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger),

are you still talking about Big & Rich

Really, one of the best public services we can all regularly do is find some agreeable little sliver of a right-wing proposition and then excitedly talk up our approval of that sliver, prefacing with 'as a liberal socialist...'.

Kill them with leftness.

I kind of appreciate that conservatives care about aesthetics. I have an affection for the utopianism of modernist architecture and design—a melancholic one as the calm, humane rational of those guys ended up not being the way of the future—and i think it’s good that some other people care enough at least to hate it.

And there is truth to scruton’s critique of modernism. There is something cold and calculating about modernism, and people do feel more comfortable in less rational spaces.

I think every conservative should leave politics and become an architecture critic.

vulgar-highbrow aesthetes are the best. the little mini sloppy joe pintxos at the events- i can't tell If it’s out-of-fashion normcore or next-level trumpism or just gross, really.

"And there is truth to scruton’s critique of modernism."

there is truth to your mom as well

The Koonsinization of the American elite

I’m a modernist calzino i just think it thrives better if there is a critic rather than just apathy

This is the U.S. Courthouse in Austin, Texas, designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, a husband-and-wife firm based in Atlanta. Maybe you like it—maybe you hate it.

The White House proposal to ban modernist federal buildings mentions it by name. https://t.co/FdySKF991b pic.twitter.com/ydHk5SpNUp

— .@kristoncapps (@kristoncapps) February 6, 2020

Great thread there.

The Treasury Department has broken the law for three years in denying Congress from seeing Trump's tax returns. Now they're giving documents on Hunter Biden to GOP senators.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/06/targeting-newly-emboldened-trumps-enemies-may-have-begun/

The Attorney General has notified federal agents and lawyers that they cannot open investigations of any presidential candidates, their campaigns, or advisers without his approval.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/barr-says-no-investigations-2020-candidates-campaigns-without-his-approval-n1131836

Unidentified ICE officers shot a dude in the face today while beating up another dude who is in the country legally, then blamed the NYPD.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/06/ice-agents-new-york-shooting-brooklyn

Think it's time we start working extralegally

Fuck

xp might as well, they sure are

good morning!

so did we note that the Grifter said to Steve Scalise yesterday, "You might've set a record for blood loss"?

"If the right people hadn't been there we might be celebrating something else today"

celebrating the death of steve scalise? ok, cool

not sure where to put this but this is the funniest thing I've seen in years

https://www.reddit.com/r/daverubin/comments/ez6rxi/larry_king_thinks_so_little_of_rubes_show_that_he/

Larry king is still alive is my first learning tbh

FOX reporting the big stories

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQMQElsXkAMkC21?format=jpg&name=large

Elsewhere in Fox, a canary flutters:

Fox News’ own research team has warned colleagues not to trust some of the network’s top commentators’ claims about Ukraine.

The 162-page document, entitled “Ukraine, Disinformation, & the Trump Administration,” was created by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, who produces research from what is known as the network’s Brain Room—a newsroom division of researchers who provide information, data, and topic guides for the network’s programming.