Brooks and Capehart on the 'chaos' surrounding Trump's Cabinet picks (youtube.com)
Gabbard. She's never had an intelligence job. Who does that [appoint someone like that to head of Intelligence]? Seems a smart move but not sure about the person. ‘My only conclusion, he’s sent these people into these departments to be agents of chaos.'
Every election, the rules of the game are renegotiated. It's not just the same game of basketball or chess or go. Samo
AOC-Gavin Newson could win in 4 years, Samo thinks (live players), if Newsom spends 3 years in Cali cleaning up the state, tough on crime Democrat. The two most charismatic Democrats. Walk back BLM, Defund the Police. ‘Once I’m president of America we're gonna have all our cities are gonna be clean.' Like he did with California. AOC with kids, a married mom, conservative enough to win. A personally conservative woman. Not a stay at home mom, but a family woman, and I'm here to protect your family. Photo ops. She says she really listened to all those podcasts Republicans appeared on. And we need an America where working class families can be prosperous again. AOC does the social media game, second best to Trump.
People want to feel a personal connection with their head of state. I think it makes us feel safe. On a subconscious level everyone is terrified of government. If the leader is gonna protect me, I don't need to be that scared. Samo.
Trump got the Latin vote like no one else has.
Elon returned online (sm) speech to a decade ago (more free but not as free as earliest internet, still some fear of risk in speaking). Samo. How the feeling of acceptable speech shifts. One of the biggest ways we lose our own recollection, as individuals, our own ability to navigate the political world, is for the sake of fitting forget what we felt or didn't feel safe to say. We always want to flatter ourselves. Oh I was always free, I was never quiet, I was never cowardly, I never felt pressure, I certainly never buckled under pressure. But those are precisely the things that eliminate the understandinf of political future, because if you don't know the political past in your own lifetime, how do you even know what could happen next. What was not OK to do in the Valley a few years back.
The hydra of beurocracy. Samo
It's easier in some ways to do welfare reform from the Center Left, like the Clinton Era, immigration restriction, welfare reform. If I list these things today, they sound almost conservative. Samo. ... You need a higher quality of staff than what the Right Wing have available.
‘Try to compete in making this country better.’ Samo to the two parties.
After the election, what percentage of the secret Trump supporters will admit it openly?
Will the GOP cooperate with Musk? Significant part of the GOP isn't on the same page with Trump.
Gabbard etc aren't expected to get confirmed. It's not looking currently like they're even trying to get them through.
Be alternate funders of political campaigns, be alternate constituants. $20-40b to buy the Republican party, no one has attempted that.
Trump can get banned from X. Musk cannot get banned form X. But now Trump can't get banned from X either.
Is Twitter now the best purchase Musk has made?
If you have 20b dollars and all you do is tweet ... but if you have 20b dollars and you create a thing called ... Samo.
Someone would have to seize the narrative on the D party and say Hey, we lost becaue the people want clean safe streets, cheap electricy, abundance, and on top of that we can have classic progressive policies. A welfare state funded through cheap exports or energy, just produce a lot.
Democrats can't aggress. Unless they find someone who has agressed first. So when they find one, they feel very alive, because suddenly all of these parts of their nature, envy, hatred, anger, they can unleash it with full moral backing and legitimacy. Samo.
The network becomming the new government. WIAH