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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.
Nov 15, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Get it straight: @JoeRogan is no right-winger. Yes, he voted for Trump in 2024. In the past he liked Bernie.

He's pro-choice and pro-drugs. He's open-minded and curious. He's America's most famous swing voter, and the Harris campaign screwed this up.

theamericansaga.com/p/joe-rogan-is… "Biden stepped down and she had one banger of a speech. She looked young and energetic."

Joe Rogan talking about Kamala Harris in the past month. Image
Nov 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It's not clear to me the "liberal international order" is preventing more violence than it's causing and so whatever Trump does I wouldn't grade it based on preserving something that is leading to endless wars and the strengthening of China. On the contrary, Washington wants to fight until the last Ukranian and is helping wipe out a generation of young men on both sides. And China is the one benefitting. We should be focused on Asia-Pacific if we're anywhere at all.
Nov 10, 2024 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
He’s a millennial who went from a broken violent home to the marines, Yale law, a small fortune, the U.S. Senate, and now the vice presidency.

Look I’m as egalitarian as the next guy, but progressives need to admit sometimes merit is a real thing. Sure plenty of people coast on unearned advantages and schools like Yale are full of kids whose daddy donated $1 million.

Thats not what happened here. Some people actually work their way up and that takes talent.
Nov 8, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For weeks, Democrats were worried that Kamala Harris couldn't do a long-form interview with...anyone. Someone who had served as vice president for four years by that point had to do weeks of preparation to talk about the exact same agenda as Joe Biden. She's not smart. I used to be a sometimes-Hill reporter. I'd go down to Capitol Hill and ask Senators questions as they walked around in the subway segment. If I asked Ted Cruz a question about anything on God's green earth, he'd talk my ear off. And he's not Stephen Hawking.
Nov 8, 2024 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Lefties are not liking this tweet from Lee but consider this. After progressive spent years talking about “toxic masculinity” and humiliating average dudes they were still lionizing creeps like Bill Clinton and Doug Emhoff as great men.

Why should men listen to progressives? AOC herself who is always on the latest wave of feminism campaigned with Emhoff and singled him out as a positive role model. Someone who cheated on his wife, impregnated someone else, and then reportedly assaulted his girlfriend
Nov 7, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The referendum where Kamala Harris thought it was too risky to weigh in I mean game set and match to my argument about Kamala’s competence.
Nov 6, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
By the way, JD Vance isn’t a bad candidate and that was another stupid thing Democrats convinced themselves of because they live in a closed information environment. In fact, he did far more media in more hostile environments than Harris did, making her look weak.. He’s probably the sharpest person on a presidential ticket since Barack Obama. He ran circles around Tim Walz, who really didn’t seem to have any success improving any aspect of Kamala Harris’s campaign.