YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
100mm would be a massive increase. Trump only got 74mm in 2020 (losing by 6 million).
It’s possible that a felony conviction will get him 20mm more votes but I think that’s pretty unlikely.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Trump literally ran a university to scam the plebs! He’s the most nakedly predatory man in the game.
I’m very much red tribe and it’s an absolute embarrassment that Trump is the nominee again.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Agree so much with this. It honestly still baffles me how much of a cult of personality Trump has been able to build and maintain despite losing.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Did Trump really go to war with the establishment? His largest legislative accomplishment was a huge corporate tax cut. That strikes me as about as establishment as it comes.
I get that he says things like “drain the swamp”, but it’s very unclear to me that he was anti establishment at all aside from his personality.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Tesla’s history is a graveyard of short sellers. They could be right eventually but it’s been a bloodbath so far.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
A cynical political reading would be the democrats want to be seen as “doing something” on immigration. Immigration is the 1st or 2nd best issue for Trump (along with inflation) so the democrats are trying to paint the republicans as blocking immigration reform in order to please Trump.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Personally if I was told a family was ethnicity cleansed I wouldn’t assume they moved to a nicer area of town, but to each his own.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Honestly I was just fired up about the phrase “ethnic cleansing”. Felt like such an insane phrase to use for people moving to the suburbs.
YouEssAyyy
5mo ago
Buying mansions in the DFW suburbs is now considered ethnic cleansing? Also, there are tons of white people walking around Manhattan. The whites seemed to have rebounded well from the genocide.
YouEssAyyy
6mo ago
Young women are materially more likely to identify as liberal or progressive than young men. Palestine is a huge liberal issue.
I noticed the same thing during BLM, it was almost exclusively women posting about it.
YouEssAyyy
6mo ago
I predict we will see more and more of this stuff. Red state governments & AGs are increasingly hostile to DEI and I think there is real legal risk of DEI hiring policies. I’m noticing the vibe shift occurring in corporate America. At my mega corp the most cringe of the DEI initiatives have gone away and sr leadership is no longer emphasizing it.
The wildcard is how a Trump victory might impact this. I could see a world where him winning galvanizes the DEI activists.
YouEssAyyy
6mo ago
I think this is tying things into a conspiracy that doesn’t exist.
Bud Light had an advertising campaign aimed at growing their audience (tik tok liberal teenagers) blow up in their face. They then spent a ton of money to try to win back their core audience (young white men). Seems like normal course of business.
Brett Favre (and tons of other celebrities) has appeared in pharma ads. Kelce being in one is hardly surprising.
Neither of these seem at all conspiratorial to me and don’t relate to Trump.
YouEssAyyy
8mo ago
I always heard teenage boys were the biggest driver of movie theater ticket sales. The juggernauts of MCU and fast and the furious franchise would certainly point in that direction.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
Amazing to describe a bunch of Asians and Indians making $300K+ at Amazon and Microsoft as “incapable of maintaining American civilization.”
Aside from Bezos, Nadella has probably done more than anyone for property values in Seattle in the last 10 years.
The homeless are definitely a problem but it’s more fixable than this mindset of racial division that both you and the DEI people preach.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
Your point about being held hostage by a relatively small number is so spot on and is what drives me the most nuts about the homeless situation. There really are not that many problem homeless people out there as a % of the population. If we could just figure out a solution for the very worst hundred to a thousand that would make a massive difference.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
The red tribe still has significant political power. Especially in state legislatures where they are not afraid to flex their power to do things like ban abortion.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
Very curious who he will borrow from to pay. My guess would be Arab oil money, but I’m not sure how broad the definition of “registered in New York” is.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
Nationally support is over 70% for gay marriage. Obviously differs by state but the opinion of the country is clearly on the side of allowing gay marriage.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
Which of those states do you think wouldn’t pass it? Gay marriage has over 70% support nationally and it seems to me there is no organized opposition to it. This is all a hypothetical exercise but I think it would pass fairly easily.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
I disagree completely. There might be 1-2 states who would try to ban it (even then I think they would approve “civil unions”) but think you easily get to 38 who would pass it and call it marriage.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
Absolutely, Biden won 25 states. To get to 38 you add in IN OH MO KS IA NE TX FL NV NC TN KY AK and those are just the easiest ones. I honestly think it would pass easily. Is there serious opposition to gay marriage left in America?
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
If gay marriage was seriously threatened/thrown out by SCOTUS I could see an amendment passing to ensure certain states don’t try and ban it.
YouEssAyyy
9mo ago
If the Greeks had full employment for years I bet they would have had recruitment problems as well. The military is a job and right now competing jobs are looking more attractive.
YouEssAyyy
11mo ago
I think a poor kid from Central America will probably do the same as a poor kid from Texas who is joining to get free college.
Always thought it was wild that Biden is only the 2nd Catholic president.
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