Said- but not said.

I think so many of you - think so little of black people - that you don't want to give them the strategic credit of orchestrating the civil rights movement. It fits within your world view - that it was this tribal spontaneous movement of anger that rose to the top and shocked the conscience of benevolent white people

So that is what you seek to emulate. And despite that never yielding a positive outcome, you are going to continue

Each watermelon activist sees themselves as Rosa Parks while engaging in these actions, which are the least Rosa Parks-esque things one could do. 🧵

https://twitter.com/wondermann5/status/1779207349766664230

https://twitter.com/bluesteeldc/status/1725242750944026743

If the Rock choose not to endorse this time, I don’t think anybody would’ve noticed

But to say you sitting on the fence after J6 after other Republicans have decided that was a divisional line and reset to neutral takes a special kind decision making ie “like a steer” You are basically saying

I heard of Project 25 as a black man and that has nothing todo with w/ me

I am okay as long as people like me enough to buy tickets

This type of help =no help

I’m going to tell you why.

Countless daily decisions shape climate policy, yet rebellious climate activists are missing from each one.

https://twitter.com/samfish90/status/1776175475439906976

State assembly meetings on how much investment into renewable energy, the timetable and how equitable implementation

Are these guys there- no

We often lose these fights daily

With utility pushing to slow down the timetable

And “affordability” advocates helping fhem

Everyday - with the same wording someone now jumps into my account to talk about replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee.

Some don't try to hide they don't live in the U.S. and everyone is currently from Michigan or Pennsylvania.

A thread Being able to run for president - means being able to run in

56 states- Yes that number is correct #.
Having large staffing, and infrastructure at your disposal
And a good enough name ID

That narrows things considerably

If you think the word cease-fire means the fighting stops - of course you are for it.

But the additional info -that one side vows to keep fighting - drops support for this by a lot

https://twitter.com/tify330/status/1751754514279825883

But from the week in October, a troll told me - what he wants from the U.S. “ to step aside while they bomb Israel”

That is the goal

So a one sided stop fighting is what they want and that is Not a ceasefire

This is a great question and I don't understand why I have never made a thread about the nomination process.

https://twitter.com/kaygem58/status/1751094491862200519

An independent candidate on this app once contemplate “ joining a party”

The contrarians on this app strongly encouraged her not to

In the end she pointed out anyone running for office needs hundreds of people to get elected

That is the short form explaination of a party

I get this question a lot on podcast, family meetings etc

Question:
If more than 70% of Americans want someone other than President Biden and Donald Trump how come it looks like we are heading into another matchup with both of them.

The answer is really simple There is NO Consensus replacement person

Every other Democrat that could replace President Biden--ready to lead- Like Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer and Madam Vice Pres Harris have signal digit support. MVP is the only one in double digits. but low double digits

Thread on Black Republican.

As a DC Politico - I meet a lot of Black Republicans.

I have been friends w/ several. They give different reasons:

1. Conservative Christian values
2. Diversity of political organization
3. Needing to be in the membership of the party of the financial power ( this is the number 1 actually)
4. Dems paternalistic approach to ethnic minorities

Let me talk about " blind hiring" before I speak about diversity in hiring
While it has some mix outcomes on actual hiring -blind hiring consistently show women and minorities doing better in the early screens than traditional hiring that is network based

shrm.org/topics-tools/n… But lets be honest.
Most jobs, 70% are never even published meaning the vast majority are found and filled through recruiters, employee referrals, and other forms of networking. Source HR Online

Additionally, Americans have racialize homogenized networks
reuters.com/article/idUSBR…

More frequently than not, I come across American voters thinking neither President Biden or Trump will be the nominee

Surprisingly it happens even among former campaign staffers

So I am curious if there is something specific abt the process not clearly understood

A 🧵 I am going to tag some national campaign staffers to keep me on track w/ this info sharing
@reesetheone1 @RealRichWilkins @Sallying_Forth as accuracy is the most important

My opinion

On "authentic candidate" and let this standard die a slow painful death.

Would you be your authentic self -at a job interviews
Or for a PhD defense or capstone?

Foremost you would respect the moment to be prepared Ever since the takedown of Hillary Clinton

Led by the likes of " Late Night Bros" like Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah- wanting someone who wings it and makes for good TV.

We have had more idiot candidates.

A Thread About Schools

This will talk about race- American competitiveness and global competition.

I am not going to make friends today- jump off at this point. We have had two Presidential election campaigns and have not spoken about K-12 school systems as a national topic or discussion.

Yet every late fall we passionately discuss the victimhood of children failing to secure the less than 1,500 spots at elite schools.

Yesterday- younger voters of color told me why they are having problems with Pres Biden

And I was just sitting there- hating Marianne Williamson at the end of the conversation. They blamed president Biden for the Willow Project,
Cop City in Atlanta, and a whole host of things -- that fall under either States jurisdiction or fail to understand the role of the other branches of government.

So ask are you voting for MW. Emphatically they said " NO"

Political Scientist in Europe are directly attributing the win of anti -Muslim, candidate Geert Wilder.

Starbucks good profits since the " boycott"

Can now we talk about refining the message and method of communication? Before I get accused of " respectability" politics- I want to point out there is a tactic in law- you don't ask a question you don't know the answer to.

And you don't push a political action if you can't calculate the general outcome.

Fck it- why not

Lets lose some followers today.

A thread on why Dean Phillips is yesterday in so many ways and MVP Kamala Harris is the safe bet in a forward looking electorate. @reesetheone1 @RealRichWilkins Dean Phillips is the physical embodiment of " mediocre white man -does good" and doesn't understand why more excitement wasn't thrown his way for entering the race.

You can hear the salty-bitter taste in his podcast.

Did any of you actually read the books by the civil rights pioneers?

The protest themselves were not the purpose

Civil rights leaders sometimes spent years planning effective protest because the point wasn’t a meeting disruption it was a societal one

To effectively., To effectively live in the consciousness of the person, observing the protest

Was the effective aim

Rosa Parks the woman you thought had tired feet worked with activists for over a year to plan the disruption of the Montgomery Bus system

Negative about this Race

I shat all on the polls

But I do see one really problematic thing about this race the previous

Youth voters tend to primarily focus on Democrats regardless of what anyone else is doing or who is in charge If this was a Trump presidency young voters still focus on what the Dems doing to oppose

And feel the Democrats owe the group a “customer service level” of government

The more unhappy- young voters are with government the more they blame democrats even if we didn’t cause it

This is a lose- lose political gambit and I can’t help saying something on the inherent idiocy of the strategy

Goodbye mentions but as a long time political operative can I point out the scenarios?

https://twitter.com/rowaida_abdel/status/1719081969051639897

Scenario 1: President Biden loses as they wanted

They now aided the win of the political forces who has open contempt for even their existence in this country and they not likely to benefit. Hell there was direct threat to harm as a campaign promise

After the death of George Floyd

The outpouring of grief and sympathy should the world public was ready for action to make sure that tragedy could never happen again

This chaos players centered the conversation around themselves

The conversation got diverted to split and then split again the support to a point that if you supported police reform

It could cost you your next election

Because by then it was less about preventing another George Floyd but a defund measurepolice1.com/health-wellnes…

This is a very dark day for American Democracy
We don’t know anything conclusively abt the hospital

we do know conclusively the American media - large names that are supposed to be the bedrock of Truth-fcked up on an epic scale by not following basic long established rules 🧵 We also understand Congress- has a credibility problem

Republican or Democrat- there are rules about the power of our word as a representative of this government- apparently some of us are failing to understand

How critical