U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

Trump is better than most Democrats at making people feel like part of a movement.

Bernie is the obvious exception here. I've never been convinced that he would've won in either 2016 or 2020, but that's the kind of grassroots energy you'd want from a candidate.

Will Stancil is on Bluesky huh. Interesting.

I was a vocal skeptic of the feasibility of platform migration (and was briefly the most-blocked person on Bluesky as a result). But it’s worth noting that engagement is ALREADY higher on Bluesky and at the current growth rate it would probably eclipse Twitter in months https://t.co/R1w8tAdFyu

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) November 17, 2024

do we hav an ilx starter-pack yet? would follow

― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Tuesday, November 19, 2024 9:04 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/critterjams.bsky.social/3law7ygzj6p2h

No Garu G no credibility

The Twitter stuff that annoys me (which I assume is on Bluesky as well) is all the breathless reporting of incomplete or wishful information. Like on election day there were all these reports of how Philadelphia had exceeded 2020 vote totals by the early afternoon--but now it seems as though there were around 10,000 few votes cast in Philly this year than in 2020?

Just followed the whole starter pack, gimme quality content.

I'm at https://bsky.app/profile/foxshark.bsky.social

xpost I will freely admit there were lots of accounts spreading skepticism on the numbers being touted for PA on ED that I read and willfully ignored as nonsense as it was mostly Trumpers sharing it. but even without that, I kinda knew deep down I was building a house on sand trusting some of that data and did it anyway because "hope" lol. wish I hadn't at this point.

today's Garbage Day news: Dr. Oz to head Medicare and Medicaid Services

The Great and Powerful Oz!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Trouble_Under_Oz.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgrin7i7JV4

Ooohhh wait til Dr. Phil hears about this slight

getting over appointment assigns simply being shitpost opps

I mean their shitposts, not mine. Mine shitposts never get old, imo.

unless they are about explosive mines, which i condemn and abhor.

If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude. https://t.co/vededEgSuD

— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) November 19, 2024

Big dummy

man his campaign had good handlers

has anyone done a purely troll cabinet before? feels like a first, but maybe Coolidge or someone did something similar

Nah, Reagan.

Alexander Haig? James Watt? Our boy's mom Anne M. Gorsuch?

Lots of Dem “strategists” having a normal one

I can’t believe the Ds lost when we have professors at AZ St using racial slurs against White people. https://t.co/2bWsi4pizA

— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) November 19, 2024

I didn’t think she was a “strategist”? Just some academic?

Oh yeah, she’s on one today

I probably won’t be able to stop the Schadenfreude when Shahid gets deported.

FAFO https://t.co/VKLux9GtlI

— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) November 19, 2024

the main dilemma for Dems is that they don't know how to construct a simple, coherent, and understandable vision of government that they can sell to a majority of the US electorate as worth pursuing. I don't underestimate the difficulty of that task compared to selling the idea of a strong leader who will simply vanquish all your foes and fix everything for you, but selling the idea that everything is essentially fine and all it needs is some narrowly targeted tinkering to make it that much better just doesn't fly with the majority of voters.

the Dem coalition needs to concentrate on making both more friends and more enemies.

Bitecofer is insufferable. I followed her for about one week on twitter before I had to mute her.

Bitecofer is pretty intolerable. She reminds me of the 13 Keys guy (who I think is now saying that technically the Keys were right), she made a good prediction once and mostly just talks out her ass.

xp jinx

but selling the idea that everything is essentially fine and all it needs is some narrowly targeted tinkering to make it that much better just doesn't fly with the majority of voters.

I think this approach can work quite well if you're the opposition party. Basically the dems' strategy this time around was to try persuade voters that was the case, which was, understandably, a tall order

that comment on Shahid is so disgusting it should frankly sink her to the bottom of the ocean where no one ever has to read something stupid by her ever again.

she's like Rebekah Jones, someone with an outsized sense of self importance who only got attention due to twitter. nice to see that twitter engagement is so bad now she only got a few hundred likes on those posts.

why is anyone listening to let alone reposting bitecofer

We like drama?

https://theonion.com/comey-what-can-i-say-i-m-just-a-catty-bitch-from-new-1825295514/

Good morning!

Where’s the time machine back to 1993?

Talk about problematic attorney general nominees: Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier, amirite???

Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick for Education secretary, resigned from a state education board shortly after a newspaper asked her about her false claim that she had an education degree. pic.twitter.com/kqKgdZQxYE

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 20, 2024

https://abcnews.go.com/US/gaetz-10k-venmo-payments-2-women-testified-house/story?id=116019367

Venmo records show Gaetz paid over $10k to two women who were later witnesses in sexual misconduct probes against him

Very generous man

I’m imagining an alternate past where Gary Hart became president in 1988

Maybe we're too much like the French these days

Tom Daschle had to withdraw his nomination as HHS secretary in 2009 because of unpaid back taxes.

Neera Tanden had to withdraw because of shitposting

Garu G had to withdraw because of

Bobby Ray Inman had to withdraw because he needed to go assassinate someone

I knew that, amidst this bullshit trolling spree he's on, Trump's nominee for education secretary was going to piss me off the most but I guess I underestimated exactly how much it was going to piss me off the most.

Picking a Road Rules cast member for Transportation Secretary is very on-brand for Trump

I always had a bad feeling about reality TV but I underestimated its eventual impact.

just watching the USA in reruns from now on, first-run programming has jumped the shark

There were a couple of decent seasons, but tbh it had never quite lived up to the hype.