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Apr 17 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
The problem for MAGA is that Americans don't like immigration chaos as it occurred under Biden, but they actually like immigration in general and are fine with legal immigration. They overinterpreted their mandate. They have to realize it's not a white nationalist country. If I was Trump I couldn't imagine losing my political edge on immigration just months into my administration but at this rate he will. Mostly because he won't contain the more extreme elements of his administration.
Apr 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Nayyib Bukele, the El Salvador president who Trump is fawning over, imposed some of the most extreme COVID-19 measures in the world. He had his police mass arrest people who violated government-imposed quarantines and turned the country into a police state. What Bukele did in El Salvador made Canada or America during COVID-19 look like Ron Paul was running them. Image
Apr 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The man who RFK Jr. just hired to run his autism study

1) Doesn't have a medical degree
2) Ran experiments where he injected autistic children with a puberty-blocking drug
3) Was fined $10,000 by the state of Maryland for doing all this without a medical license Image Read the full story here: theamericansaga.com/p/rfk-jr-taps-…
Apr 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Stephen Miller once explained that the reason he wants to cut immigration is because he doesn’t have a family or anything else to give him purpose in life. Perfect encapsulation of nihilism of the post religious right. Image Literally if Stephen Miller had kids or a relationship with God maybe he wouldn’t be such a sadistic person.
Apr 16 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: The GOP has been outlawing the use of puberty blockers for minors who want to transition, arguing that it's reckless and dangerous.

BUT: RFK Jr. just hired a man who disgraced himself by trying to use puberty-delaying drugs to cure autism.

theamericansaga.com/p/rfk-jr-taps-… Last week, @RobertKennedyJr told those of us with family and friends on the spectrum that we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

By September, he will have cracked the case on what causes autism. Image
Mar 30 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Does reducing the role of testing -- or getting rid of it altogether -- reduce bias and expand opportunity? An interesting study out of India shows us that maybe we shouldn't be so quick to throw baby out with the bathwater when it comes to testing. 🧵theamericansaga.com/p/does-reducin… In 2020, a bunch of American colleges and universities dropped their SAT and ACT requirements. For that year, the choice was obvious: the pandemic made it pretty much impossible to administer the tests.

But some argued that the tests shouldn't be used in the first place. Image
Mar 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The problem with Klein and Thompson is they looked at the economy and they tried to figure out what's the one big thing that prevents the government from solving problems and they decided that thing is regulations, mostly local regulations. That's a libertarian worldview. Now I don't think they're all wrong especially about housing.* But is it that much of a surprise many libs are not libertarians? It's a whole different thing.
Feb 20 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Trump picked a VP from the Rust Belt who lived the American Dream of going rags to riches in a path that led through state school, the Marines, Yale, and marrying the daughter of immigrants.

And instead he’s doing interviews branded around a guy who can’t not do a Nazi salute. Even the obsessive Elon fans have to admit he is extremely awkward and unlikable in interviews, at the very least as a comms strategy it sucks.
Feb 17 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
JD Vance drops manifestos in tweets and to this day I still have no idea what Kamala Harris actually thinks about 80 percent of issues. Progressives are uneasy saying this but I’m not: we need smart leaders who are interested in policy. Figurehead type leaders are easily taken advantage of.
Feb 8 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A lot of Democrats don't wanna admit this but Obama came in with a massive coalition and potential Reagan-style realignment but squandered it on hiring Wall Street guys who protected the banks at all cost while millions lost their homes. I was pushing back on this in realtime in DC when it happened and everyone treated me like an idiot. A few years later, no more Obama coalition.
Jan 30 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
The fact so many libs really thought Tim Walz appealed to men is all you gotta know about how deep in the hole they are with male voters. The second he did the oh shucks I can’t handle spicy food loser sitcom dad routine…
Jan 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In the Quinnipiac poll, only 22% of men in America say they have a positive impression of the Democratic Party.

22%!

Maybe Democrats need to start treating men like full humans and not just sexist bumbling oafs who are responsible for all the world's ills. Their strategy was to throw Tim Walz out there to joke about how he can’t handle spicy food, so appealing to men I know.
Jan 29 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Since the election, Democratic pundits have a new boogeyman: the Groups. Activist groups have forced their party to take unelectable positions, which is part of why Kamala Harris lost. It's a theory backed by @AJentleson, @ezraklein and others. But it's too simple. 🧵 Image Jentleson, a Fetterman staffer, wrote an oped in the NYT shortly after the election telling us that the @ACLU "pushed" Harris to support a position on surgeries for transgender prisoners, and that this helped contribute to the GOP's attack ads.

But that's not what happened. Image
Jan 24 • 34 tweets • 10 min read
DEI was a failure. It was a failure not because it wasn't implemented properly or because we didn't try hard enough.

It was a failure because the civil rights movement wasn't about elite diversity in the first place -- it was about lifting up the poor.

theamericansaga.com/p/dei-is-a-fai… Trump is ordering federal agencies to eliminate DEI efforts. This has polarized elite liberals, who are not happy: Image
Jan 21 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
The Resistance is dead. Americans want Trump to succeed on major issues -- from orderly immigration to ending endless wars to bringing down cost of living for families.

So Democrats should, where Trump is willing to, work with him on these issues, I argue at @compactmag_ 🧵 Image There's a vibe shift in American politics. Trump is no longer an anomaly. Now he's a fixture of government, and he's more popular than the Democrats are (for now).

There's a reason Zuckerberg is cozying up to him. He wants to be on the winning team. Image
Jan 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why annex Canada but not Mexico? This is like when libs always say they want to run away to Canada if a Republican wins. Mexico is much cheaper to live in and has great food, weather, and chill people. Americans always compare themselves to white people but the reality is our culture is more Latin than European.
Jan 8 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The definition of antisemitism that the ADL and lobby groups promote says that calling an Israeli a Nazi is antisemitic.

What happens when an unstoppable force (criticism of Israelis is antisemitic) meets an immovable object (even Israelis shouldn’t criticize war crimes)? Yeah Israel and rest of MENA love hyperbole which is the funniest part about Americans promoting censorship. You can’t have a three tweet thread about the Middle East without someone calling someone else an ancient dictator.
Dec 26, 2024 • 29 tweets • 8 min read
NEW: A new podcast called @TelepathyTapes is taking America by storm -- it claims to prove nonverbal autistic kids are telepathic.

But after interviewing autism experts and the podcast team, it's clear there are *big* questions about their conclusion. 🧵theamericansaga.com/p/the-telepath… The @TelepathyTapes, produced by documentarian @KyDickens is the most popular podcast in America, at least going by Apple Podcast charts. It's #3 on Spotify. Image
Dec 23, 2024 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien said Kamala Harris's argument to them for their endorsement of then-candidate Biden was: "You better get on board." From his latest interview with Tucker.

(He didn't get on board.)

HT: @DanielMKishi Image I dunno Trump can be boorish but he's also funny. And he let the Teamsters speak at the RNC even when they refused to endorse him. Kamala OTOH prevented O'Brien from speaking at the DNC.
Dec 17, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A question progressives have to ask themselves is why in a population of tens of millions there is so much fixation on say Harvard rather than the pitiful state of Baltimore schools. We can’t change child performance by adjusting the finish line. 19 black students in the freshman class of Harvard law…there are individual classroom with more students like that who can’t read many levels below their grade level. This is the much bigger problem.
Dec 14, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Post office sends a personal representative of the government to every address in the country, and it’s been doing it for 250 years. Congress put a mandate on the post office to prepay retirement benefits many years in advance, that’s the main reason USPS has any debt. It’s not because of operations, which are efficient.