at least when you do the surveys you have a chance of winning a $500 gift card or whatever, with Yelp your prize is…free labor?
Marianne is great, and I think she’d have been a transcendently good POTUS. A legitimately good person who is a little loony >>>> a pragmatic careerist. Money is fake. Crystal power.
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Back half of the Carlin pod is…not good. LOL at equating literal nazis with BLM protesters and just blanket saying CONGRESS BAD because there isn’t bipartisanship.
You can tell the dude is having serious cognitive dissonance between his deplorable (“libertarian”) instincts and reality.
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I listened to it based on your suggestion. It was basically the same dumb Carlan shit as usual with a bit more anti-Trump valence. He just has fundamentally anti institutional inclinations even though he knows some history.
Most people in the US don’t tip shuttle bus drivers. I do. But I certainly wouldn’t tip in this situation.
Everyone else was tipping, but yeah. I’m OK with it I think. It’s the only time in the US I intentionally didn’t tip, didn’t ever undertip either.
One time in Vegas I was there with my ex and tipping 5 bucks per drink order at Voodoo Lounge to get fast service. She was drinking vodka cranberries and on her fourth one was like “this vodka is terrible”. I was like “wat” as it was Grey Goose. I tasted it. It was at this juncture that I discovered that tipping 5 bucks also gets you poured triples. It was like neat vodka with a blush of cranberry. She was very sick.
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Very interesting discussion of how racism hindered patent filing and entrenched white supremacy.
The prize is an illusory sense of empowerment and authority.
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New Chapo is pretty solid. They agree with the UP consensus, though Matt’s constant need to shit on all democrats no matter what is pretty tedious and annoying.
Thought they raised an interesting question on what do the Dems do legislature wise if Biden wins and they take the Senate
Don Hughes intro is always a welcome surprise
Thing with Dan was that he was always pushing for some third party type of figure to buck the establishment. Then, Trump got elected. So, he got what he wanted while simultaneously having that thing be an absolute pile of shit.
Around that time, his fan base became (and probably still is) ultra-deplorable. His own forum was basically Chiefs Planet minus the football and it was so toxic that Dan shut it down.
At the moment, Dan really seems to use the podcast as a hot take dumping ground. I wouldn’t look at it as a legitimate political podcast. It’s really just some guy occasionally recording his thoughts.
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Perfect summary
I’m sure the Lincoln Project podcast isn’t a go to for Chapotolists, but their latest podcast has some of the best discussion of demographics and voting in the Midwest and where Trump voters come from that I’ve heard. Politicology
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I will begrudgingly agree that the Lincoln Project pod on rust belt “swing voters” is very good.
They’re absolutely right that Obama/Trump voters are not swing voters. They’re Republicans.
I am absolutely terrified of Pennsylvania. If Florida and PA go red, god fucking help us.
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Yeah I thought this was a good way of pointing out the essential vacuousness of both the Clinton and Biden campaigns. People are fond of saying stuff like “oh yeah Clinton had a really detailed policy agenda” or “Biden is running the most progressive campaign in history” or whatever. If I can’t tell you what their legislative priorities are in their first month in office, they’re not running on a policy platform. At all. I don’t give a shit what it says on their website.
Oh yea I read an article about this years back, I couldn’t believe that shit was legal. It’s a shame because I think taking people out of bad enviroments and giving them a chance to do outdoor stuff is a good circuit breaker for people in bad situations. There’s a program here called Operation Flinders which does that.
He has detailed policy platforms on his website. He has policy working groups. He has discussed these policies in several speeches. You can go to YouTube right now and watch videos on these policies.
There is no other way to have policies.
How come I can’t answer the question “what would be the legislative priorities of a Biden administration”? I’m more aware of what’s going on in American politics than the vast majority of Americans. Either they’re deliberately not running on a policy agenda or this is a massive messaging failure.
The whole point is that whether a candidate is or is not “running on a policy agenda” is a question about their core marketing and messaging. It’s not about how many hundred random individual policies they have on their website. That’s “policies” but it’s not a policy AGENDA, which is about the direction they want to take the country. “Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it” is a better policy agenda than anything Biden has despite being nonsense, because it’s an encapsulation of Trump’s priorities - that is, America First, isolationism, ethno-nationalism, etc. When I say the Biden campaign is vacuous and not running on policy, I mean there is no discernible agenda. Also that this is a deliberate choice on the part of the campaign.
Edit: Like what out of the stuff on the Biden website is ride-or-die for his administration? What is he willing to expend political capital on? If an attempt to get an assault weapons ban fails, is it going to be “oh well” or will he really go to the mat on that? I have no idea what the answer is for any of the “policies” on his website, which means they’re all worthless. I can’t distinguish between the ones he’s serious about and the ones that are there to appease people but that Biden and the Dems more generally have no real intention of making serious efforts on behalf of.
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