John Marek

Attorney, business owner, former Congressional campaign manager.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Trump running on lower gas prices and no more foreign wars and then starting a war with Iran that literallly everyone except Pete Hegseth knew was going to be a quagmire has to be on the shortlist for dumbest political blunders in American history.

[John Marek @jmarek5]

AI Likely to Cause the Next Political Realignment in the 2030s https://t.co/mU91MZ4IZj

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@NateSilver538 Eh, I like Obama a lot, but I also realize why people being inspired by hope and change aren't so excited when the best mainstream Dems have to offer is another grant program. Working class voters have to feel the "change" or apparently we get fascism. Higher taxes or fascism?

[John Marek @jmarek5]

My latest on Substack:

https://t.co/4DWxzswIl2

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@NateSilver538 ME is gone now. Time to move on.

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@jjverdi Check out redistricting in TN and update your comment to include Republicans.

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@jkam12 @NateSilver538 The tech is only going to get better, and we are going to rely more and more on it and much more from AI. You only set yourself banning it. Like refusing to use the internet in the mid 90s.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Does it also require them to drive a horse-and-buggy to work wtf

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@EricBurlison Exciting tweet, but does he mean it? Are we really going to receive anything new, or is this just another example of being told what we want to hear while not actually doing it? (See also: credit cards being capped at 10%; hedge funds not being allowed to buy residential housing)

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@rosscoulthart @chrisramsay52 @AlchemyAmerican Exciting tweet, but does he mean it? Are we really going to receive anything new, or is this just another example of being told what we want to hear while not actually doing it? (See also: credit cards being capped at 10%; hedge funds not being allowed to buy residential housing)

[TIME @TIME]

“They’re real,” former President Barack Obama said when asked about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

https://t.co/qyXyEnpIjG

[WREG News Channel 3 @3onyourside]

Former President Barack Obama confirmed what many have been waiting for: aliens are, in fact, real. They're aren't being kept in Nevada's Area 51, however.

What do you think?

https://t.co/aX8wHHh4Th

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Yeah I've written about that (see below). The issue is Harris took a lot of very progressive stances during her campaign in 2019/2020 and these also aren't *liberal* positions. She was sorta center-left on economics but progressive/left/woke on culture, not a popular combo btw!

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@NateSilver538 @ClareMalone @galendruke Mayor Pete didn't cause the inflation, but he would be blamed for it as anyone from the Biden administration would. It would be extremely dim to run him.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

This is in fact a totally rational reaction you can think Zohran and Bernie are decent people and also like the free market. The country would be in better shape if more people thought this way in fact. Polarization is midwit.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism that leftism. Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people. If you could subtract those the left would win more often.

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@RickKonkey @danpfeiffer @ZohranKMamdani That didn't work in '16 or '24, and it only worked in '20 because of COVID.

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@Matt_M_Bennett @NateSilver538 I studied political economy for my Masters. Please show how this would ever be considered a hard science. Feel free to ask AI if needed.

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@Matt_M_Bennett @NateSilver538 Yes it would

[John Marek @jmarek5]

@catturd2 Because land doesn't vote.