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Amazing how the #YangMediaBlackout ends the moment Yang drops out of the race. Suddenly every media outlet is falling over themselves to cover the candidate they worked to hide. Congrats. You got the outcome you wanted. But this fight is far from over. The #YangGang has awakened.
Thank you to all of you for everything you've done, pouring your heart & soul into this campaign which has become a movement. The #YangGang is incredible and important and we will change the world. I hope you all will continue fighting for the justice we all so desperately need.
Fear is a weapon used against us to keep us in line, but hope is a shield. If we can picture in our mind's eye the potential our civilization has to break away from this dystopian track we're on, and forge the utopian path instead, we will never stop fighting for that. I won't.
(THREAD) I have some words regarding last night, #YangGang... 
We all had very high expectations for @AndrewYang to perform last night.
Frankly, he performed *too well* at the debate. The media did not know how to handle this. This is what happens when you #LetYangSpeak-
Frankly, he performed *too well* at the debate. The media did not know how to handle this. This is what happens when you #LetYangSpeak-
Out of the gate, @AndrewYang was confident about interjecting himself and calling out the mediaâs hyper-obsession with @realDonaldTrump.
We had an amazing start, which means weâre going to have a snowballs chance in hell at finishing strong. How does @ABC respond?
Cut the mic.
We had an amazing start, which means weâre going to have a snowballs chance in hell at finishing strong. How does @ABC respond?
Cut the mic.
Iâm not delusional here. As anyone who follows this feed knows, Iâm far more interested in the issue of ending âThe Truman Showâ than in who becomes president. There are three candidates that challenge the party leadership: Tulsi, Yang & Sanders. Yang has only one possible path.
It is very simple. The MSM and DNC have been VERY effective at killing off the sense he *can* win. For Yang to take off, he would need to ride a wave of preference falsification. For example, if he did twice as well as expected for a while, the polls would become suspect to all.
I donât see this for Tulsi, and Sanders has already ridden such a wave from 2016. So the question is simple.
Q: Are enough Yang supporters:
A) Invisible to Polls
and/or
B) Contingent on realism concerns
and/or
C) Lying about supporting Biden/Sanders Warren.
I donât know.
Q: Are enough Yang supporters:
A) Invisible to Polls
and/or
B) Contingent on realism concerns
and/or
C) Lying about supporting Biden/Sanders Warren.
I donât know.
My sense is that there has been *much* more energy behind @AndrewYang than has been reflected in official narratives. Hence #YangMediaBlackout This is what I thought about Bernie & Trump in 2016. I only wish the first primary were a simple secret ballot to test that theory.
My other big question is how many folks would vote for Yang except for UBI being portrayed as âmagic moneyâ. This is in large part an issue of optics: you either love the idea of free money as dividend or it looks to you like an evil gimmick from satan.
UBI, however, is neither.
UBI, however, is neither.
The map is not the territory & the marketing is not the product. Keep that in mind. It is a desperate measure for a desperate situation which hasnât fully happened yet. There are still jobs, but there are few careers. We have to do something when labor markets fail families. đ
We need an emergency talk about this media war on @AndrewYang & @TulsiGabbard that was waged on @RonPaul, @BernieSanders & others before.
This is what I call the âVampire Effectâ; institutions will not reflect certain people just as vampires supposedly donât reflect in a mirror.
This is what I call the âVampire Effectâ; institutions will not reflect certain people just as vampires supposedly donât reflect in a mirror.
This isnât cute as #YangMediaBlackout. This isnât hidden any more. This is a boast by our media. Their point to all of us is: âFuck you and your illusionsâ. And We arenât calling it what it is: a declaration of war by our own media and parties against our own democratic process.
Forget the Russians tampering in US democracy. Thatâs amateur hour. The Russians arenât bragging like this. @MSNBC has been asking: âSo tough guys, whatcha gonna do about the fact that we just keep knocking your milkshake into your dateâs lap?â
My personal & overly condensed view of mathematics and physics in the 20th century would be summarized like this.
Mathematics began as a stool on the three legs of Algebra, Calculus, and Geometry where the last appeared to many to be the weakest leg. It turned out otherwise.
Mathematics began as a stool on the three legs of Algebra, Calculus, and Geometry where the last appeared to many to be the weakest leg. It turned out otherwise.
Repeatedly we find that any important problem from math or physics which we consider to be outside geometry/topology has a hidden geometrical nature to it. And there are only so many times you fall for that before you start to see geometry absolutely everywhere.
As for Weinberg, he is one of three people I can make the case for as our âGreatest Living Physicistâ. Iâve met him. But he still has big bets which are undecided (e.g. asymptotic safety). Witten is somehow even smarter but less accomplished in standard predictive theory. But...
Let me put the #YangMediaBlackout in terms given to me by folks in media: @AndrewYang & @TulsiGabbard are the two ânoveltyâ candidates to the MSM. Their supposed media âfunctionâ is to advance the narrative of the â2 1/2 real candidates: @JoeBiden, @SenWarren & @BernieSanders.â
I kid you not. The âgrownupsâ have apparently âalready held the pre-primary.â They find the campaigns of Andrew & Tulsi âcuteâ but ânobody smart takes them seriouslyâ. As for #YangMediaBlackout: âDoes anyone with a brain seriously believe he can win?â Heâs âbecome a distraction.â
Talk to journalists and pundits. In their âinsular worldâ, you âlose pointsâ for thinking someone can win who âthose of us inside the beltway who breathe this stuff know has zero chanceâ. This is internal culture of media. Learn & share its language, verbal tics and pseudo-logic.
Hey #yanggang! See @scottsantensâs shocking thread below, and if you feel like #MSNBC is giving @AndrewYang unfair treatment with its blatant lies of omission, letâs let them know weâre not going to take this anymore! Example letter is in this thread! #YangMediaBlackout #yang2020
Youâd be surprised how much impact a written complaint has on network news critters! Compose your own constructively written email or letter (FedEx it for extra impact!) or use this form letter that was so gracefully written by the great @travislambirth:
âDear Editor-in-Chief,
I believe that the news media plays a vital role in safeguarding our democracy. Right now, it seems clear that presidential candidate Andrew Yang is being unfairly represented in your content.
I believe that the news media plays a vital role in safeguarding our democracy. Right now, it seems clear that presidential candidate Andrew Yang is being unfairly represented in your content.
CNN: "If you're not going to ignore @AndrewYang's $10 million Q3 fundraising total, MSNBC, we certainly will. And don't you just love how Bidenâs total puts him right in the center of the screen? Gosh we love that guy. And Booker too! Bless his $6M."
#YangGang #YangMediaBlackout
#YangGang #YangMediaBlackout
This new graphic isn't an exclusion, but it's an error that was only made with @AndrewYang's numbers. It looks like ABC created a bar for $28M instead of $2.8M in Q2, so visually, it looks like Yang lost instead of gained a lot of support in Q3.
Source: abcnews.go.com/Politics/berniâŚ
Source: abcnews.go.com/Politics/berniâŚ
CNN: "We only have room for one of the three candidates who polled at 2% in this poll. Let's go with Booker again. Sure he's in 8th, while @AndrewYang is in 6th by RCP avg, but we really want that to change. And let's put Booker in the chyron too."
#YangMediaBlackout #YangGang
#YangMediaBlackout #YangGang
This video is too good. @AnaKasparian
#YangMediaBlackout extends to progressives who refuse to compare ideas by the merits as well.
I've yet to have someone explain why a FJG + Guaranteed Housing + Inc Min Wage is better than straight cash w/ UBI.
#YangMediaBlackout extends to progressives who refuse to compare ideas by the merits as well.
I've yet to have someone explain why a FJG + Guaranteed Housing + Inc Min Wage is better than straight cash w/ UBI.
@AnaKasparian While a housing guarantee sounds nice, I think the real problem is deeper. The problem with Bernie's policies is that they are based on the notion that a person making minimum wage should be able to afford a quality life equivalent to what they could have had in decades past #UBI
How many of the franchise retail stores you went into lately did *not* have automated checkouts? I'll bet the last pharmacy you went into did. In the 1970's a multinational telecommunications company would employ somewhere upward up 25,000 employees #UBI
Let's see which retweet bots are super excited about the third Democratic presidential debate. #ThursdayThoughts
#Warren2020 #AmyForAmerica #YangGang #Booker2020 #FeelTheBern #KHive #MayorPete #Biden2020 #BetoForAmerica #Castro2020
cc: @ZellaQuixote
#Warren2020 #AmyForAmerica #YangGang #Booker2020 #FeelTheBern #KHive #MayorPete #Biden2020 #BetoForAmerica #Castro2020
cc: @ZellaQuixote
@ZellaQuixote A duo of extremely similar real estate bots (@RealtorFairfax and @FairfaxVAAgent) were the first two automated accounts to retweet the preceding tweet. Based on a brief jaunt through their timelines, they seem more focused on retweeting political hashtags than real estate.
@ZellaQuixote @RealtorFairfax @FairfaxVAAgent The third bot retweet comes to us courtesy of @BernieBot_2020, which retweets various Sanders-related hashtags (#Bernie2020, #FeelTheBern, #NotMeUS, and #NoMiddleGround.) We've run across it before.
