Bobbie Hodges

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

[Bobbie Hodges @bhodges51]

@WajahatAli Bibi's got the dirt on trump

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@JoeKernenSentry @blogitallnight Why would he play at your camp site?

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@KellyGoodmanPhD @BDNTWLGIO He did not register with a party.

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@mjfree Watching a brief clip, it looked like a BAD version of Law & Order, the way they were handling their guns going around corners, rushing down the gallway ... 🙄

[Bobbie Hodges @bhodges51]

@Acyn That tells us it was staged.

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@TheRickWilson Cliff Notes?

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@ML3democrats

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@sandibachom The most important:
"You know that flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't
It' gonna be a long walk home."

[Bobbie Hodges @bhodges51]

@Logically_JC @RonFilipkowski @alala55 He's been too busy to look into it.

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@TheRealThelmaJ1

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@DemocraticWins That's just a lot of hyperbole. Why would it be stunning?

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@KayeSteinsapir Trump has his orders from Netanyahu to fulfill.

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@atrupar Our elected officials are able, ut they're just not willing.

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@MikeNellis He doesn't give a flying fuck about our soldiers. To him, this is like making a movie or playing a video game.

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@factpostnews Grandma and Grandpa are still working.

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@TheRealThelmaJ1

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@TheRealHoarse I saw Tedeschi Trucks Band for the first time. They blew the roof off the Beacon Theater!

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@atrupar WTF?

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@LoveOceanMtnSun @MikeNellis Trump doesn't care about other human beings, so yes.