Keith Schumann

Interested in talking about the present future of global politics, economics, and entertainment and culture.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Harris was a good candidate, people just hated inflation more than they liked her.

[John Sides @johnmsides]

In @Civiqs polling, Trump is 35-61 fav/unfav among 18-29 year olds. Maybe let's wait for some more data before we hot-take this one.

[Hans Kundnani @hanskundnani]

German foreign policy think tankers seem to have almost nothing to say about the ICC's announcement today, even as they continue to tweet about Russia and Ukraine, i.e. exactly as I argued in this piece published in April. https://t.co/IXIYXsVGdy

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

In the 37 competitive House districts where we have near-final presidential election results:

• Dem incumbents are outperforming Harris by an avg of 5.9 points (or a median of 6.1 pts)

• Dem non-incumbents are outperforming Harris by an avg of 0.5 pts (or a median of 1.4 pts)

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

Trump's mandate? It's very shallow. Trump's now under 50% in the popular vote. His margin ranks 44 of 51 since 1824.

Weak coattails: 4 Dems won for Senate in states Trump won. (It was 0 in 2016 & 2020.)

The GOP is on track for smallest House majority since there were 50 states.

[Eric Lipton @EricLiptonNYT]

Trump to name Brendan Carr--a massive champion for Elon Musk and his Starlink system--as chairman of the F.C.C. which controls orbital access by space communications companies in the US.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

No one like exponsive borger. No exponsive borger and 2020 is probably Harris's floor.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

More than electoral lessons, I do hope everyone involved learns some policymaking lessons for next time. Blaming The Groups for the election strikes me as self serving deflection from politicians who forgot they have agency, but there are clearly real institutional problems here

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

We may be overthinking a 49-48 election.

[Drew Savicki @TheDrewSav]

If AOC tweeted this it would run nonstop on Fox News and it would spawn countless think pieces.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

In this, Democrats now have a somewhat unique position for them. They are *extremely* well positioned as a party downballot thanks to their incredible 2018 and 2022 midterms. Go back to 2014 now and compare — it’s extremely stark. Not a consolation for losing, but not nothing.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

The chef's kiss is unions demanding that Biden give them pension bailouts, spending, tariffs, Buy America rules, tighter Davis-Bacon regs, etc - which are all inflationary - and then complaining that Democrats are out of touch on grocery and gas prices. That's some chutzpah.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Publicly demanding a cover up of a Republican-led ethics investigation into the Attorney General nominee doesn’t suggest much confidence that it will exonerate Gaetz

[Bill Scher @billscher]

The nation’s finest health care institutions are being reduced to delivering basic personal hygiene information

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

I'm not sure people fully realize that the GOP's attacks on trans student athletes largely originated from social conservatives searching for a new target after their defeat on gay marriage

"We threw everything at the wall" Terry Schilling said

https://t.co/wKLbmziFo8

[Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐 @_giacomo_volpe_]

Idk why Trump always gets a pass for his very extensive record of antisemitic statements and behavior

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

I’d go one farther: trump
is an amalgamation of protest votes, which are contradictory in many ways

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

honestly just depressing how so many people think the mere existence of a trans person is some sort of moral transgression equivalent to being a literal pedophile

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

The thing about Deliverism is it only works if you deliver what people care about. Manufacturing and energy jobs etc are great in the areas Biden’s policies targeted but not when grocery prices are up 30% over 3 years and liberals have failed on housing (in cities they control!)

[Gabriel Sherman @gabrielsherman]

Trump transition team had a meeting today to discuss sexual assault allegations against Sec of Defense nominee @PeteHegseth (he denies it)

https://t.co/7x73L8ebFU