Google AI is actually a Mechanical Turk(ish-owned politician)

I suppose that probably was part of Lucas’ thought process, but the fact that the execution was akin to Michael Scott’s diversity training probably ought to have some bearing on the overall assessment

I think that’s probably right, but I’m still annoyed that the Dems had been telegraphing this for a week. If they had a better poker face I just wonder if some moderate Reps would’ve caved. Getting Trump and Johnson to accept would still be a challenge, but Dems could’ve tried harder.

From a purely cynical perspective there is a case to be made that the best outcome for Dems was raising the salience of the subsidy cuts while failing to stop them. The questions are how well they executed the messaging piece and whether they did collateral damage to deterrents against Trump.

Probably doesn’t help that the NYT, Atlantic and most of the top substacks are dedicated to hammering the point that the Dem base is out of step with the rest of the country and should be ignored

Yes exactly it’s a non-sequitur. Does literally nothing to address the premium increases.

Great flavors, have you thought about making it into a smoothie?

So sorry to hear that, I enjoyed Inner Loop, I’ll definitely check out the Substack

I’m talking about how much they outperformed the winning margin, not vote share

Youngkin outperforms Trump 2020 by 12pts: brilliant; savior of his party

Spanberger outperforms Harris 2024 by 10pts: underwhelming; failed to make a dent in her party’s problems

A second previously data-driven Nate who has transitioned to traditional vibes-based punditry has hit the discourse

Ok but Threads will be popping off about this game in about 36 hours

I think Ganz is still pretty good and normal? He gets into a flame war now again, but usually with deserving targets.

this is such a good point. I shit on the boomers a lot but they were so good at coming up with slang for body parts and drugs.