Shell-Shocked Centrist

Filling the gap between words and data.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

I showed people this picture of my son when I went to Cuba. They scratched their heads and said "Why'd he get married so young?" Except one woman, who immediately whipped out a photo of her five-year-old daughter, also at the altar.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

We keep hearing about how the WNBA is falling apart. Which is much better than never hearing about it at all, which used to be the case. From invisibility to headlines. Big improvement.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Love John Kennedy's nickname for DSA types, "Lulu Lenins," but I hate the fact that the NY Post, after introducing the term, is compelled to explain who Lenin was and what Lululemon is. Tells me that many of their readers aren't very bright.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

"I asked one of my uncles if he thought the Democratic Party looked down on people like him. 40-year union guy, Navy veteran, gun owner, lifelong Democrat - and Trump voter."

"He laughed. 'Do Democrats look down on me? They don’t look at me at all!'"
https://t.co/hJuEbH8V9n

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Reading about @SplitTicket's wins above replacement (WAR) model for candidate strength.

Money means so little that they've made it binary: If the candidates can spend slightly more than zero, the coefficient drops out.

So much for "buying elections."
https://t.co/LIelmV8noj

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

The data center boom is powering the US economy right now. And people want to kill it.
https://t.co/YzOyrYrrKw

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

The moment someone says that his critics are racially motivated, I immediately choose to believe the critics. Such a lazy response.
https://t.co/rhTrtpYOWg

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

The death of self-checkout in New York State. Get ready to stand in line.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

The guards say that 2+2=5, we have always been at war with Eastasia, and the emperor is not parading around with his wiener out.

This is what all right-thinking people believe. And they're looking at you.

Because you're one of us, aren’t you?

[The Free Press @TheFP]

When basketball player Sophie Cunningham said, ‘Young girls in sport shouldn’t have to go against biological men,’ the mainstream media shrugged. How far we’ve come, writes Kat Rosenfield. https://t.co/wcqqD7r38K

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Universities are now factories that create the Democratic voter base. Not due to indoctrination, but because universities bring together the already progressive and isolate them from interaction with dissenting ideas.
https://t.co/Qf57rfEccO

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

@jdbHawks2025 @johnnyginkle_76 The golf course apocalypse already happened. 2006 to 2016, about 10-15% of courses closed. Since then, growth has been flat, but hasn't declined. More young people are playing and it's a more diverse crowd. Golf will be with us for a long time.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

No more elections in Nicaragua. You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
https://t.co/gptSPAmZff

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

For all the talk of a divided Supreme Court, half of the cases decided during the last term were 9-0 or 8-1.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

"DSA types aren’t communists, but lean heavily toward 'slopulism': rent control, price controls, bans on housing, free services of all kinds, extreme fiscal profligacy, and pointless regulations in response to every social media outcry or fad."
- Noah Smith, my favorite lefty

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

"At its zenith, Detroit had the highest per-capita income of any major US city and the highest rate of homeownership. The average Ford worker took home more than twice the national median wage."
https://t.co/NUlcrMVcjh

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Platner was chosen by consultants to appeal to men and working-class voters. Yet his strongest support came from women and college-educated voters, the progressive heart of the party's Trump-hating base.
https://t.co/9uWIUd6Wvp

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Paying Taylor Swift a billion dollars to have kids might have a greater effect on US fertility then the same money poured into tax credits and public outreach.

We are mimetic creatures. Especially when it comes to high-status leaders.
https://t.co/xkUM3DI6Ic

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Another reason to support self-driving taxis:

LA cops arrest two 15-year-olds drinking and shooting toy guns out of the Waymo in which they were passengers after the Waymo itself contacted the police.

[C. Douglas Golden @CillianZeal]

@MaineDems Wait, Graham Platner is the duly elected nominee. This sounds a lot like he's not consenting to this -- and if there's anyone who knows a lot about not consenting, it's Graham Platner.

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

Platner calls himself a Communist? We are too.

Nazi tattoo? A sign of manliness.

Rape? No problem, she was a Republican.

Raped a Democrat? She's establishment, not a progressive, so it's OK.

You can vote for him in good conscience.
https://t.co/yvmHiLuKpK

[Shell-Shocked Centrist @Fuertebrazos]

I 💕 Kat Rosenfield: "Having committed to Platner as a macho working-class vote whisperer who could combat the party’s image of finger-wagging wokescolds, there was a powerful incentive to recast every allegation as evidence of his real-person appeal."
https://t.co/uIB6krGZSN