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May 27 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The fact that the @NRA is continuing with the #NRAconvention in Texas after 19 kids were murdered in Uvalde (just like they continued with their convention in Denver right after 12 kids were killed in Columbine in 1999), instead of postponing it, confirms something about them.
What it says is that they’re not willing to be inconvenienced. Even if not doing so means that other humans suffer.
The idea of having to go through a background check when buying any firearm from anybody - an idea that like 90% of the country agrees with? Nope. Maybe they think it’s a hassle. Inconvenient. And that’s more important than the fact that people will die when killers get guns.
Holding their massive conference not all that far from where 19 young children and 2 teachers were murdered on Tuesday. Not even taking the hint when most of their musical acts and their top-tier politicians bailed out. No matter. Would be inconvenient to reschedule.
One more thing: their reflexive response to any suggestion for even the slightest changes to gun laws is that gun laws don’t matter because criminals ignore gun laws.

Okay.

Criminals ignore ALL laws. Why have ANY laws? Why should stealing be illegal? Criminals ignore that law.

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May 29
People think politicians change their minds or are motivated by seeing people march.

I seriously doubt that they care about that. In fact, depending on how the people who oppose them behave, it might even help them.

What politicians fear is people VOTING.
I’m going to pretend for a moment that I’m an elected official, get contributions from the NRA and represents a place where people are big supporters of the NRA.

You tell me you’re going to hold a massive march.

Why would I care?
A healthy share of the people marching aren’t even registered to vote. A bigger share isn’t going to vote. The crowd includes a lot of young people, which means that statistically speaking, most of them are DEFINITELY not going to vote.

The NRA folks, on the other hand, will.
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May 29
Right now the Democrats hold 50 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate.

Democrats constantly express, on social media and in protests, frustration that they don’t have more ability to enact legislation that’s important to them.
But in survey after survey, they still indicate that they’re less likely than Republicans to vote this year. Independents are even less likely to vote.
Unless they want to be frustrated perpetually, they need to figure out how to convince their people that voting is more important than creating funny hashtags and massive in-person protests. Those things don’t determine who holds power in America. Voting does.
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May 27
To everyone criticizing Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson: these guys have something in common.

If only 27 more people in every precinct in their states had voted for their competitors, they wouldn’t be U.S. Senators today.
(I said 28 for Cruz earlier. I was wrong. Only 27).
In 2018, the last midterm election, Ted Cruz beat Beto O’Rourke by 214,921 votes (2.57%).

There were 7,949 precincts in Texas that year.

Meaning, that if just 27 people at every voting precinct in the state would have voted for Beto O’Rourke, Cruz would have lost.
Here’s the thing: less than half the people who were eligible to vote in Cruz’ state in 2018 bothered to vote.

And thus, he’s still in the Senate.
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May 27
Mass shootings per state in 2022 through May 25th, based on data from gunviolencearchive.org/reports:

1) Texas - 21 mass shootings in 2022.
45 dead, 106 wounded.
Ranks #2 in population.
Ranks #1 in mass shootings in 2022.
2) California - 20 mass shootings in 2022.
34 dead, 80 wounded.
Ranks #1 in population.
Ranks #2 in mass shootings in 2022.

3) Louisiana - 16 mass shootings in 2022.
9 dead, 79 wounded.
Ranks #25 in population.
Ranks #3 in mass shootings in 2022.
4) Illinois - 14 mass shootings in 2022.
12 dead, 58 wounded.
Ranks #6 in population.
Ranks #4 in mass shootings in 2022.

5) Florida - 11 mass shootings in 2022.
8 dead, 41 wounded.
Ranks #3 in population.
Ranks #5 in mass shootings in 2022.
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May 19
A couple of observations from today's NPR/Marist poll:
maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/upl…

Biden's approval rating: 39% approve/56% disapprove (-17)

Biden's approval rating among adults under age 45:
30%/62% (-32)

Biden's approval rating among adults 45 and older:
46%/50% (-4)

Big gap.
Biden's approval among age groups:

Gen Z/Millennials - 26%/66% - (-40)
Gen X - 43%/51% - (-8)
Baby Boomers - 46%/52% - (-6)
Silent-Greatest - 49%/48% - (1)

Interestingly, the age groups who disapprove of him the most tend to vote the least.
As has been the case since forever, there is a massive gap in Biden's approval among white voters based on educational attainment.

White - Non-College Grad - 28%/69% (-41)
White - College Grad - 51%/46% (5)

A 46 point gap
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May 18
Attention, people who think that Trump really won Pennsylvania in 2020 but that the election was “stolen” from him:

Yeah, you!

Guess what?

There’s been another election in PA. This contest is between only Republicans who say that they love Trump. And they’re still counting!
What’s happening? Is there funny stuff going on in Philadelphia? No. Electronic interference from a foreign nation? No. Voting machines being rigged? Nope. Stop watching whatever you’re watching.

It’s called counting the votes. And validating those counts. It takes time.
When an election is lopsided, it’s easy to predict who the winner will be when only a subset of the votes have been counted. If somebody is up by 30 points with 90 percent of the vote counted, there isn’t a lot of suspense. They can call it.
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