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Reuben Rodriguez
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Jun 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ben Rhodes created, truly, all of this

Our present troubles are traced *directly* to a speech Mr Rhodes wrote in 2009 “A New Beginning”

An genuinely orientalist speech, masquerading as enlightenment, Rhodes set the Obama admin on a disastrous Foreign Policy course The fulcrum event was Obama’s abandonment of Hosni Mubarak. A stalwart US ally, Mubarak was sacrificed on the pyre of “democracy”

Every single Arab leader was terrified; if Egypt could be abandoned to doe eyed ideals, what about us?
Jun 4 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I’m not a scholar but “dining out” in America didn’t exist as we understand it until ~1965

Before that you had a spectrum
-Roadside Hamburger shacks
-Woolworths Counters
-TINY mom & pop ethnic eateries
-“Supper Clubs”
-Fine dining in hotel restaurants

Benihana changed the game Benihanna brought upscale but accessible exotic dining to upper class. Ppl wore ties & sipped mai-tais. It was VERY mid 60s

But Benihanna and its imitators were urban. The REAL transformation came in late 60s/early 70s
Apr 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This woman pushes the worst modern ideology bar none

Forget Groypers or ANTIFA. “Equity in the home” is 💀for both genders

As a man who does 100% of groceries, cooking, dishes, drop off, pickup AND is the sole income earner…let me explain why the mental load is bullshit 🧵 To start, her marriage crisis began when she had *3 kids under age 10 AND an infant with no nanny, familial help and was working*

Infants are crazy hard no matter what and everyone has these moments w/ babies. Her husband unloading the dishwasher would NOT have made a diff
Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It’s actually important to understand Bannon’s vision…and why he is not part of Trump 2.0 (and basically failed at Trump 1.0)

Bannon *correctly* ID’d (in 2015 no less!) the contours of the *2024* Trump coalition

But the ‘16 coalition was still too Romney-esque for his views Bannon strongly believed in leveraging the existing power of the federal government for his ideal coalition (which again didn’t really happen till 2024)

This is at odds w/ both old school Cons who want less gov’t & antiwoke new Rs who get that the Fed Gov’t will always tilt left
Nov 8, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I was wrong bout Trump’s Midwest weakness and the reason is SUPER important

NY/NJ/VA shifting 12/10/5 points rightwards is huge. I said “this will happen but it won’t carry over to the Midwest”…it did BUT it really was bifurcated/not uniform

The reason was NOT ground game 🧵 Obvi Trump got his 2020 base at perfect high levels (better than I expected) but in places where minority men live he really did find new voters

The Midwest didn’t uniformly swing like NY b/c Harris voters there just didn’t have a reason to be as done w/ Ds as blue state Ds
Nov 1, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Here is my prediction for Tuesday

Pop vote: Trump 47.4%, Harris 50.7%

EC: Harris 281, Trump 257

Senate: 52 R, 48 D

I have low-medium confidence in map but higher in top line Harris W. Let me explain Image This election is odd b/c both parties got their “dream” opponent

Rs were thrilled to face Harris believing Biden’s gains with whites could not be recreated by Harris

Dems have based their entire platform on Trump animus, casually saying “If it had been Hayley she’d romp”
Oct 28, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My cousin is a couples therapist serving the well to do suburbs of NYC

At $375/hr, her book is *overflowing*

She, a Rutgers grad, makes 2x her Ivy League husband b/c she is solving the banal crisis wreaking havoc on UMC parents; the discontents of progressive marraiges “Chores are sexy” is the worst piece of advice ever given

It gave the impression women are transactional…but they are NOT. Millenial males have taken on huge swaths of domestic & parental labor…w/ a (deeply misguided) implicit idea that there would be a “reward” for this
Jul 2, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Why aren’t more ppl afraid Trump will be a dictator??” the media wails

I have a theory: for 2 straight years these *same ppl* actively encouraged a national descent into a collective psychosis

Forgive us not summoning outrage after seeing what their “concern” produced🧵 Image From March 2020 until March 2022, the DC was enthralled to a single man’s words

Daycares masked toddlers for 2 yrs

Crime rose parabolically. A new lexicon centered on “equity” was ubiquitous

All of this was deemed well & good by the same ppl gnashing teeth about Project 2025
Jun 28, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Now that we’ve plumbed the depths of Biden’s terrible night…let’s talk Trump

Trump WAS disciplined (for him) and stayed on message (immigration)

But Trump had ~6 hanging curves over the middle he barely connected on

He actually did this a lot in 16&20 but ppl forget 🧵 Trump’s extensive reliance on 3 adjectives (“the worst ever” “disaster” “most embarrassing”) felt a lot like a crutch

He nailed Biden ONCE on his Medicare line but was much more unfocused given the lack of coherence on Biden’s answers
May 21, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ppl who succeed today are, 90% of the time, female coded

It’s neither good nor bad. But you need to accept this to understand our new social mores

@wanyeburkett buried the lead: meanness even in service to truth is unacceptable. Trump however, squares the circle 🧵 Image I say it constantly but Trump’s cartoonishness lets him channel a reactionary id with a laugh vs upsetting chill if RDS/Cruz said it

This is his superpower

Most Rs have a sufficient EQ to know that you can’t just be a jerk…and thus Trump is best of both worlds
Mar 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Okay I’m answering this once and for all. Things were “better” in 1985 b/c

1. Ppl had less after $
2. There were less things to spend $ on
3. WAY less access to credit/capital
4. FAR less material & social stratification between classes
5. America was less competitive 1. Ppl had less after tax $

A married couple in 1985 w/ an HHI of $50k ($185k today) paid 36% fed taxes. At 100k ($290k today) you paid 50%!

Tax advantages were really mature back then (401k, HSA) so ppl ACTUALLY paid that
Nov 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There is an answer to Gaza. You won’t like it but only way

Arab society remains strongly clan/family based. Patronage is 👑

Issues in Gaza *began* when GWB pushed for elections. Given a choice, Gazans picked terror vs patronage Fatah; we must return

A Gazan Gambino family 🧵 A few baseline facts:

1. MOST Gazans want to fight Israel forever & don’t accept Israel w/in ‘67 lines

2. Int’l peacekeepers will be a disaster; they’ll get killed and/or let Hamas Re-arm under their nose (as they did in Lebanon)

3. No one wants an Israeli Re occupation
Oct 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why liberals dominate:

The “Notorious RBG” meme was created in 2013

Catering to online progressives (created by a female law student) the meme hit the right notes; high brow but accessible

By 2016, Kate McKinnon was regularly playing RBG on SNL, a critical crossover

(1/4) SNL was a key part of icon building

Very accessible, upper middle brow, RBG was now 2 things: an iconic liberal judge…and a funny stand in to channel Ds righteous anger in age of Trump

By 2018 “On the Basis of Sex” was released, a rosy biopic aired frequently on CNN

2/4
Jan 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The gas stove thing demonstrates the ecosystem of left activist (the right has 1 I’ll address in a moment)

Literally no one talked about the alleged dangers of gas stoves until ~Nov 2022

EnviroTwitter was abuzz about eco-friendly homes that used heat pumps vs central heating 🧵 Two weeks ago ppl latched onto an obscure study demonstrating a link between natural gas stoves & childhood asthma

Fast forward to today, Sen Manchin’s replies are full of indignant ppl

Why?
Nov 2, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Here's my #Election2020 5 things to know (maps at end)

1. DJT will win FL
As I've noted to @SeanTrende ppl confuse small margins for uncertain outcomes. DJT will lose Pinellas but D weakness in Miami Dade will bolster very narrow win

2. Biden will shock us all & win GA

(1/n) GA is demographically perfect for '20: the truly unbelievable growth of ATL & its suburbs make it ideal for the college white PMC D coalition to blaze run up insane margins. The psychological hit to GOP of losing GA will be massive

3. Both GAs go to runoff
How can this be?
Feb 6, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
@LPDonovan @JayCostTWS @SteveKornacki Want to make sense of VA turmoil? Even with all top state Dems in scandal, the GOP doesn’t have a chance in 2019. This tweetstorm will explain VA & 2019 politics in toto.
(Spoiler - its all Jim Gilmore's fault) The absolute explosion of DC as a job and cultural center of America is an earthquake that VA never quite addressed. State GOP policy succeeded wildly in bringing this to be, but also assured the death of the party, to be completed this year