Mason Klopp aka Guy Trivago

It's the same but for the reboot they used Governors

just simply the best to ever do it

It's really fine to say "X would be good policy" but in the last 8 years people brained themselves into everything having to be framed as an electoral program

Expel and revere

A lot of the "Dems should do X, it would be super popular" genre is something Dems already did, which tells you about the popularity part

Waiting for the remake of the classic Scrooge McDuck story about the Messina Strait Bridge, but this time he calls it fundamental infrastructure for military mobility

Study the good book

Ganz solution after saying Fuck Numbers is his own priors, my solution is my priors (Max-Weber-Thought)

Usual Ganz I guess, right diagnosis, treatment idea is bleh

And who is giving them money honestly, Shor is half brainwormed pundit, half hustling to get the groups that pay him to pay more and new clients.

The problem is that a lot of people (not Morris) who start out as data people swiftly cannot resist the call of the punditry.

Like this is a very good analysis of how a few hyper-motivated pundits were twisting the topline data, but lots of people who actually study public opinion were arguing against that. The pundits were just cherry-picking the data that matched their priors

I think we more pollsters and fewer pundits

I have my beef though with the conclusion from saying fuck numbers here, which is as usual pOpuLisM

Fuck Numbers thought, recognized more and more

Not so much an indictment of issue polling as it is (rightly) of feckless leadership and trend-following pundits that only elevate numbers that confirm their priors. I’d like to see people simultaneously argue both for measurement and against the Yglesias theory of politics and public opinion

Big national media committed time and space for a theory that was mostly based on people not realizing how big the city of Wuhan is and that was from the beginning used and fanned by partisan actors for their purposes.

Ah, naturally

This is why I am so skeptical of the "glonzo" stuff. Because humoring lab-leak conspiracism just helped get us here. (Not to speak of that biggest actual gonzo issue is immigration)

I know her mostly as lab-leak weirdo

Opinion | RFK Jr. may be on the verge of dismantling U.S. preventive health care Here’s how the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force influences medical guidance.

She's right, but she did her lion's share to get us here.

And not reading and no links is linked and definitely worse than on Twitter.

I am also extra skeptic of viral quotes with no linked article, because often it's completely out of context. Not that it is stopping people from making out of context quotes go viral even without a linked article, because no one reads anything anymore.

Weird parasocial relationship

Why Memory Hole the Biden-Harris Successes?  | Washington Monthly Democrats have an odd history of throwing out the good and the bad when it comes to their presidents. They shouldn’t repeat that mistake.

Why look to the past at all? Because Democrats have a story to tell that’s relevant to the future. Time and time again, Republican presidents leave behind economic messes, and Democratic presidents clean them up -- @billscher.bsky.social:

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me and convoluted when you post rodgler in our replies

it is 2017...

it is 2020..

it is 2025..

letting people call them “slide decks” is when things got out of hand. gotta go back to “power points.”