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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Nov 6

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1853969785744203993

Because it revealed who she really is. Disrespectful, snotty, deeply unserious. It exposed her frivolity and her arrogance completely. A total lightweight, unprepared to deal with serious issues. Zero gravitas. Just ego.

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1853969785744203993

People who are reflexively dismissive about accountability and apologies are deeply dangerous and unworthy of holding a high position. It tells you EVERYTHING about a person.

It was "I'M SPEAKING" that exposed her in an instant. Before that I thought there was a chance she could learn to lead. But after I saw that moment of pure snotty contempt from her towards her own voters, I realized that she is total trash. Even if she disagreed with the protesters there's a way to handle that with gravitas. Being a disrespectful snotty dipshit is a choice, and it was clear that she had made that choice many times before so it was easy for her. Absolutely no understanding of what's at stake.

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Oct 28

Watching a video of a man who bought a $15,000 house in France (the cheapest house for sale in France) and he recorded 30 days of renovations, which involve demolishing the entire inside down to the studs. Maybe more than the studs, because he had for remove walls, ceilings, floors, and joists. I am not exaggerating when I say I started this with very low expectations and now I think it's the most compelling thing I've watched in months

Really starting to understand those older Italian men who gather outside construction sites every day just to watch the proceedings

They uncovered this incredible spiral staircase that had been completely walled up

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Oct 13

I saw a TikTok from a young woman about how she paid $1000 to go to a yacht event in Monaco and people invited her to parties on some yachts "because I was dressed to impress...you can dress to show you bring value to the yacht."

And I don't know if anyone will tell her that cute dresses are not why young women are invited to yacht parties.

She's getting cooked in the comments -- but only because other young women don't think the dress is cute, not because anyone is pointing out the obvious fact that inviting young women with no money onto yachts is the equivalent of "ladies night" at a bar. The young women -- in any dress -- are there to bring the old men in.

I think this is what happens when young women are told that Old Money is an aesthetic you can buy through clothes, rather than a set of rigid and unspoken social codes that you instinctually understand.

It's also a result of the current nonsense that's been going around for years about "high-value women" or "high-value men" where "high-value" is a euphemism for how much money they have. There's no understanding that people are not their net worth.

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Oct 9

My landlord just sent out an email saying he changed the front-door lock an hour ago (?!) and our front-door keys no longer work and we all have to see him personally for a new key.

No warning at all. No preparation. People are coming home from work standing around waiting for someone else to come out. Residents can't even get into the building to see him (because the key no longer works). Masterfully chaotic.

It gets better, I just went to see him and he's out of copies of the new keys 😂😭

I asked if the lock was changed because someone dangerous had it or something like that, but no. There were complaints for months that the old locks were wonky so he just decided, randomly, today, at 3 pm, to change them 😭

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jul 24

I think a lot of lefties backing Kamala are not genuinely contradicting their claimed ideals but ARE extremely practical about the fact that there is no antizionist candidate, there is no socialist candidate, and it's a waste of organizing time and power to sit on the couch until the perfect one comes along. You have to pressure politicians. They're not going to come to us straight out of the box with the right policies. That's how politics works.

I'm sorry, I'm just really annoyed with the posturing about how True Leftists don't vote for Kamala. She introduced a version of M4A and co-sponsored the Green New Deal, which is as close as this country has gotten to leftism in the past 30 years. She has slowly changed her position on Israel, and that needs to go a lot further. So she can be pushed. Sitting at home and playing with anti-imperialism dolls living in the perfect commune is a waste of the chance to shape the historical moment. There's no purity in sitting around and complaining. Do something, say something, work with this moment instead of wishing for some perfect future that doesn't exist yet. Biden has been pushed out. Changing things is possible.

If you don't think Kamala can be pushed, that's fine and you don't have to invest a single second of your time in that. But you DO have to invest your time SOMEWHERE, maybe making sure that there IS a good antizionist candidate advancing somewhere, or organizing, or pushing some useful policy idea. Sitting on your ass pretending to be above it all until the perfect person with the perfect politics is delivered to your door like a pizza is not going to happen. You have to make the future you want, however you decide to do it.

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Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

Jul 23

The idea that Dems are vetting PA governor Josh Shapiro is evidence of how out of touch the party is with the historical moment.

Shapiro is anti-free speech: He wants to harm people who speak up against apartheid and genocide. He's the classic neoliberal concession to mid-2000 neocons, but mid-2000 neocons aren't a real voting bloc any more. He does nothing to combat either the MAGA vote or the young white working class vote that JD Vance brings or the libertarian capitalist vote. Electorally, he's useless.

They can get all the benefits of a "swing state pick" with just an endorsement from Shapiro and a promise to campaign for her. Along with the promise of an ambassadorship. He doesn't need to be VP. And he shouldn't be in the cabinet either, considering his embarrassing and controversial stances against free speech and the First Amendment.

The rest of the country is not Pennsylvania. Getting Pennsylvania's votes - which it's not even clear Shapiro can deliver - will not help close the electoral gap significantly between Kamala and Trump.

This weird Democratic obsession with Pennsylvania is a creation of the Democratic consulting class -- which, by the way, has only ever picked similar liberal neocon failures in that state, like Conor Lamb.

Kamala represents, to many people, a chance for an empathetic future. Beshear is the only choice that works with that energy, and he delivers the Southern and evangelical votes who are on the fence and want an option other than Trump.

For Kamala to pick a throwback Boomer-style West Wing liberal neocon like Shapiro who is cold, rigid and unlikeable will hurt her image -- and her votes -- considerably.

Additionally: Whatever the liberal Democratic consulting class - the people who are ALWAYS WRONG - say, it's crazy work to choose to lock down Pennsylvania while ignoring the enormous effect of Uncommitted in far more important stages including Michigan and Minnesota.

If Dems try to ignore the message of Uncommitted, it WILL come back to bite them. And picking Josh Shapiro, a pro-genocide anti-First Amendment neocon, will lose all those states for Kamala.

It's impossible to stress enough how much the pivot to Kamala means Democrats have to understand what Kamala represents to their base and why she's been able to raise so much and get so many volunteers so quickly:

People want empathy again -- something that was completely missing in Biden, and is missing in both Trump and Vance.

People are uniting behind Kamala because they want their RIGHTS. They want abortion rights back. They want immigration rights. They want free speech rights. They want the end of the disastrous Democratic embrace of Republican restrictions on every part of our lives. People want an ADVOCATE.

Josh Shapiro would sink all of this. Shapiro has no empathy. He's a careerist. He's never helped anyone but himself. He's never STOOD UP for anyone but himself. He's a classic liberal neocon narcissist who wants people to have fewer rights.

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