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Michael Cohen

@speechboy71

8 Dec

Besides the obvious civ-mil reasons why Gen. Austin is a bad pick, there's a larger issue: his background doesn't lend itself to someone who would make for a good Sec Def

He's been a highly effective battlefield commander, which is not really good training for a civilian position like Sec Def. It's true he was Cent Com commander but running a military organization is very different than running a civilian bureaucracy like the Pentagon

To be an effective Sec Def you need to have strong administrative and political skills. You need to have distance from the military. You need to bring a civilian mindset to the job. Austin really has none of those qualities.

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Michael Cohen

@speechboy71

18 Nov

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Ok so along with my good friend @mahler3 I’m rewatching Contagion ... so prepare for some live tweeting. For those who want to follow along it’s on HBO

There are so many great subtle touches in this film about how the virus is spread ... the bowl of nuts for example that Paltrow is eating out of in the hotel bar

Feels a bit too spot on

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Michael Cohen

@speechboy71

6 Nov

As bad as that Trump statement was, keep in mind that close to 70 million Americans voted for four more years of it

You want to talk about the divide in America? On any every news network, even Fox, pundits and analysts will eviscerate Trump for what he just said. Tens of millions of Americans who voted for him thought it was great.

I said earlier that the issue raised by this election is not that Democrats have a bad message or can't communicate with voters ... it's that tens of millions of voters are ok, even applauding, of the president's lying, corruption, and bats**t insanity. How do you fix that?

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Michael Cohen

@speechboy71

5 Nov

I've seen a lot of folks praising Stacey Abrams for everything she did to help Democrats win in Georgia. Oddly, I don't see her name on the ballot in either of the state's two Senate races.

In case there's some confusion about what this means, Abrams sat out the Georgia Senate race because she wanted to be Biden's VP. She actively lobbied for it. Had she run for Senate it's not hard to imagine that Democrats would have done better than they did.

And yes I know the argument that Abrams didn't want to run for senate. I'm pretty sure Hickenlooper and Bullock didn't want to run either. But they gave Dems the best chance they had of picking up Senate seats. The same is true of Abrams in Georgia.

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Michael Cohen

@speechboy71

5 Nov

So I've seen some people argue that one of the takeaways from the 2020 results is that America is a center-right country ... let's take a look at the numbers THREAD

Since 1988, Democrats have won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 POTUS elections

Republicans have won more than 47.9 percent of the popular vote one time (50.7 in 2004)

Democrats have won more than 47.9 percent of the vote in every single election, except 1992

Democrats have won more than 50 percent of the vote in presidential elections three times.

Republicans have won the presidency while losing the popular vote twice (2000 and 2016). Assuming Trump loses, two Republican incumbents will have lost their bids for reelection

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