The Jeffries bit is the lede, but the first bit — that Dems have “failed to meaningfully deliver for working families” — is what the fight is about.
There’s a generation of Dems who think they did enormous good under Obama, then Biden, and Trump tried to rip it up. The generation after says: If you did your job Trump couldn’t have won anyway.
But both sides are generally in denial about the cultural and immigration issues that boosted Trump, and want it all to be economic stuff they can fix once those “distractions” go away.
i understand the appeal of paying the highest rents in the country to live in manhattan. i do not understand why people do that for san francisco or boston
Obama:
It is possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder. And that does not negate his greatness.
That simply acknowledges that there is a profound, deep flaw in these Founding Fathers, who were also geniuses and gave us these tools.
Which is true of all of us, right? It's true of every president. We're this mixed bag.
We've got contradictions and embody the country's contradictions.
Source: MS NOW
When San Francisco installed jump proof fare gates, crime, vandalism and the need for janitorial services plummeted by as much as 90%. The notion we have to tolerate disorder and crime from people who won’t pay $1.50 because we feel sorry for them it is deeply corrosive.
@moseskagan There is another way, used to to do it before AB 109, enforce felony drug possession. Word will get out that you will go to jail and drug use will get pushed back into private spaces. Only problem is the state would need more jail beds to comply with consent decree.
@bendreyfuss I hear what you are saying but have you ever been to The Stockyards in Fort Worth Texas? That place is awesome and is 100% distilled straight person culture.
Yes, Karen Bass & Nithya Raman won Dems. Yes, Spencer Pratt won Republicans.
But his reach went beyond Republicans, undercutting some simplistic post-election punditry.
Pratt absolutely *crushed* with independents, per @Political_Data >
A close friend of mine is cancelling his voter registration today. He is convinced Spencer Pratt was robbed of the election. I explained to him that in California we count absentees first (which skew older and more conservative) and election day voters are younger and more Democratic. The slow count is largely because of policies to maximize participation, including postmarking a ballot on Election Day.
Regardless, we need to figure out in California how we can get the vote counted faster and results tabulated so it does not drag on. We should make the investments in operational improvements and resources in the wealthiest state in the nation. It is worth spending the resources to get the vast majority of the vote counted within 48 hours. Right now the system is eroding trust and spawning conspiracy theories.
@noahgittell Totally agree, people used to be proud of liking movies that were not mainstream hits. Now people consume everything through social media attention lenses. Just keep going to see movies and everything will work itself out.
While the tech community notched an L in the governor's race, in the downballot legislative races where they intervened to the tune of millions of dollars, their favored candidates are so far running the table against the candidates backed by labor.
@conorsen Does FIFA really care this much about ticket revenue? Every move the NFL makes is about maximizing broadcast deals. You would think FIFA would be the same.
I’m actually pretty pissed at how badly they’ve bungled America 250. First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders. Then when that didn’t work they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes. This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 year history. Now it will be a political rally identical to the ten million other ones we’ve already seen.