My point wasn’t to defend Elon’s intelligence. Also, the second highlighted quote is agreeing with me.
Putin, and I would assume China, were doing the string pulling. Elon has been connected to both for years. It wasn’t that hard to see what the endgame was, despite how you think the inner workings were constructed.
Saudi Arabia and Russia provided funding for the takeover.
Imo, this is where intellectuals, especially anyone on the left, fail to have vision since thinking outside the box can easily be labeled as xenophobic and technocrats, understandably so, only want to deal in hard facts.
You should do away with that party registration nonsense altogether; let everyone vote in every primary. I never understood how Americans are OK with the government knowing how they are usually voting.
Can we not do BlueAnon shit. Spoonamore seems like a crank. I have no idea if his history of running companies etc is exaggerated, but this does not preclude someone from being a crank. Look at Steve Kerr.
Use some basic logic. All the states run elections with different infrastructure. We saw a consistent swing to Rs all over the country. The swing was in fact more pronounced in areas where it didn’t matter than in swing states. In at least one case, Dems only won a Senate seat because a bunch of Trump voters didnt bother to vote on anything downballot. None of this suggests vote rigging. All of it suggests a thorough political victory by Trumpism.
Whatever it was he was saying about the bomb threats - and I didnt even read it because i rolled my eyes so hard as soon as he brought it up - is typical conspiracy shit of weaving all the known details into the conspiracy tapestry. The threats cannot possibly be relevant since they were localized to one city and again, Trump was ascendant all over the country.
Pick one word to describe Republicans and Donald Trump, the focus group moderator asked, and one word to describe Democrats and Kamala Harris.
“Crazy,” said the White woman in her 40s, who hadn’t gone to college. Then: “Preachy.”
The focus group organized by Harris supporters in western Pennsylvania, not long after the presidential debate in September, was made up of a dozen people who voted for Trump in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020 but who were undecided this time, except for being sure that they’d vote.
Asked to pick between the two words, the woman said she’d “probably go with ‘crazy,’” anguish clearly in her voice.
“Because ‘crazy’ doesn’t look down on me,” she said. “‘Preachy’ does.”
Also this from 4-time MN Rep. Angie Craig was exactly my reaction to the college debt forgiveness thing:
“If I’m talking to working folks and I’m really listening to them, when an administration puts forward a college loan debt forgiveness program, my immediate reaction is, ‘My God, my noncollege-educated working people are going to be really pissed off about that,’” Craig said.
Beyond policy, it is just very obvious to non college educated voters that they are not welcome in the Democratic club. They are not wrong about this, it has been made extremely clear.
From what I’ve seen there’s a lot more acceptance and willingness to transform from Democrats this time around. Who knows what that will actually entail though.
I don’t think a “transformation” is really possible. Difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it and all that. You probably need a Trump style hostile takeover.
