Rob Steinernomics

Please don’t kill my congressman, MAGA

Update: Grok deleted itself from my replies rather than admit it draws from bias, disreputable sources

I just had a truly amazing long form conversation with Grok about a DHS *official account* basically blaming undocumented immigrants for every single problem in America. It responded to each of my follow ups within a minute until my last one. I’m still waiting for it…20 minutes at time of this post

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Starting to look like QAnon might have been right church, wrong pew…

“This is a really fucking dark period!”

I think a nice sequence is

Live in the city when you’re young, single and working

Move to the suburbs to raise a family

Move back to the city as empty nesters

I blew the first leg of that and opted for one of those suburban resort apartments and it sucked. Huge regret

The Democrats’ incompetence or rote adherence to norms isn’t on trial here

I posted this LBJ speech to Facebook in 2018 and it seems almost quaint now

I posted this LBJ speech to Facebook in 2018 and it seems almost quaint now

This is a hilarious trivia entry on IMDb for Teen Wolf

Democrats Sweep 2025 Elections, 2024 Narratives Crumble In state and local elections, American voters repudiated Donald Trump's presidency, and disproved claims of a lasting right-wing cultural shift

"The results wreck the argument from some prominent centrist commentators that Demts should react to 2024 by accepting that they lost the culture and need to compromise on core values to win again."

Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on the overreading of 2024:
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Not enough people are talking about comms 2024 v comms 2025

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this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

a cartoon lion with its mouth open and the words be prepared above it ALT: a cartoon lion with its mouth open and the words be prepared above it

Democrats would do well to learn from this, keep doing doing what they’re doing electorally, but when it comes to media/comms in 2026 and 2026 BE PREPARED to meet the GOP on those grounds and invest in winning those narratives with that demographic

When a Trump-less electoral cycle takes place without that motivation, Republicans will get creamed. It’s expensive and time consuming to bombard that demographic with propaganda and this time THEY left a vacuum while regular media filtered into that demos consciousness…

Republicans won in 2024 because they propagandized 18-29 year old males using their preferred media ecosystems while Democrats ignored those mediums and left a huge vacuum and no counter narrative. Full stop…

The obvious thing to point out is that 9/11 happened under a white Christian Republican mayor

There are likely a lot of white Trump-supporting people in Southwestern Pennsylvania on SNAP

“The Market”
KNOWS the deficit is not something to fear

The most important thing in politics that could be happening right now is if my son showed me his TikTok feed filled with 5 second videos, one after the other, of Trump and the GOP looking like lame doofuses who suck and saying cringy shit that kids will mock. Nothing so far tho 😔

Hey guys - starving people and ripping away their healthcare builds character!

And isn’t that why we have a government? So it can build the character of people who clearly have none because they need some help from the government to not die in a gutter?!?!

This sounds like The Crusades v2.0

My 16 year old son showed me what was in his TikTok feed. It was appalling. And NOTHING from Dems to counteract it. Nothing about “This guy is a rapist and traitor and it is definitely not cool to vote for him.” Superior comms work from Republicans. Total new media vacuum from Dems

Oh yes I know - it’s predominant over everything else IMO - more so than culture wars. These young men were inundated with a fire hose of Biden & Harris 5 second out of context clips looking stupid while Trump looked funny & cool. It wasn’t against material interest as much as being lame to vote Dem

Any analysis of 2024 that doesn't centralize Republicans propagandizing 18-29 year old low info male voters via their preferred media (socials, podcasts, etc) while Dems were texting people for money who were already voting for them is fundamentally inserious

By strategically lying to low information voters in their media spaces that Democrats have ignored or shunned in an effort to GOTV and win elections by misrepresenting their positions and the positions of their opponents

If Dems want to run on a message, it should be…

“Are you tired of bullshit, nonsense and stupidity? Vote for us and we’ll get rid of all the stupid tariffs and stop doing dumb, obnoxious shit every day. It’s exhausting. We’ll take important things like immigration and the economy seriously.”