157 responses to “Sandbox – 8mar25”

1. 

   Scott O

   22 March 2025

   Hey BeerBelly – here’s yer champion:
   “Zohran Mamdani may not win his election, but he could offer a strategy to the left.”
   And what’s the “strategy”?
   Everything is FREE!
   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/22/zohran-mamdani-mayor-democratic-socialist-new-york-00225213
   AND
   Bernie Sanders! Apparently he doesn’t have enough houses to live in. Running for office and promising free shit has been a very lucrative biz for him so he’s back for another round. Gotta love the lede:
   “Two-time presidential candidate draws ‘insane’ crowds as he criticizes cuts by Musk and Trump”
   And I thought all Dem rallies attracted the insane.
   https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bernie-sanders-rally-tour-republican-opposition-571cd417

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   Gregory

   22 March 2025

   Free stuff is a powerful message when dealing with the gullible.
   The non-gullible feel the tugs at their wallet.

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   Don Bessee

   22 March 2025

   A death spiral for the dem brand and the generational shift that has recreated the R brand –
   When Klein and Shor reviewed numerous charts, including one headlined, “2024 Democratic Support by Age – Split by Race and Gender,” the pollster explained that in this chart in particular, “One thing you can notice is that among 18-year-olds, women of color are the only of the four [race and gender demographic groups] that Harris won. Trump narrowly won nonwhite men.”
   The Times columnist seized on one “shocking” finding in the data that defies one of the Democratic Party’s core beliefs.
   “I find this part of this chart shocking. I sometimes talk about narrative violations, and if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it was that young people didn’t like him. And Republicans had been maybe throwing away young people for generations in order to run up their margins among seniors,” Klein said. “But if you look at this chart, 75-year-old White men supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than 20-year-old White men.”
   “It is a real shift,” Shor agreed. “This is the thing I am the most shocked by in the last four years — that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the Baby Boomers, and maybe even in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years.”
   The data expert went on to discuss what he called “the scariest chart in this entire presentation,” which shows the massive and historically unusual polarization between young men and women.
   “What’s crazy is that if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. Eighteen-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics,” Shor said.
   “There’s a lot of research to do here, but it’s still very striking,” Shor said. “It’s similar to how a lot of people talk about the Democratic young men problem — and it’s still somehow underrated, because the actual numbers are just a lot worse than people think.”
   “Democrats are getting destroyed now among young voters. I do think that, even as the idea of the rising demographic Democratic majority became a little discredited in 2016 and 2020, Democrats believed that these young voters were eventually going to save them,” he said.
   “They thought that this was a last gasp of something and that if Donald Trump couldn’t run up his numbers among seniors and you had Millennials and Gen Z really coming into voting power, that would be the end of this Republican Party. That is just completely false, and it might be the beginning of this Republican Party,” Klein added.
   “I have to admit, I was one of those liberals four years ago, and it seems I was wrong,” Shor replied. “The future has a way of surprising us.”
   https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/nyt-writer-says-dems-getting-235117203.html
   😉

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4. 

   George Rebane

   22 March 2025

   DonB 845pm – I think this essay belongs better under my 22mar25 post. Thanks.

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5. 

   fish

   23 March 2025

   Owwww……my “shocked face” hurts.
   

   Startups That Set Out to Fix the Climate Are Now Talking About Jet Fighters

   I eagerly await the rebranding of the Sierra Business Council to the Sierra Business Council and Small Arms Collective.
   https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/startups-that-set-out-to-fix-the-climate-are-now-talking-about-jet-fighters-f710fdad

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6. 

   scenes

   23 March 2025

   While the lack of privacy is a bummer, one thing you get from cell phones is good astroturf detection.
   https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

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7. 

   fish

   23 March 2025

   Posted by: scenes | 23 March 2025 at 08:03 AM
   USAID……wonder why that keeps coming up in these debriefings?

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