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It's not going to happen, lol.

Caveat: The Daily Mail.

On the LGBTQ tip, this is something I suspect is largely relevant to the white posters among us but still something to discuss and something I've been pondering while lurking in certain dark corners of the Internet over the last few days for schadenfreude: The amount of increasingly earnest sounding posts at various right-wing Trumpist cesspools from cis/hetero young men saying they've been holding back wanting to transition or come out of the closet over the last four years and "suppressed it" bc they thought Trump would make America great again and help them overcome, and now they want to surrender the fight, is truly unusual. It's not all trolling - there's a real psychosexual/identity complex for some of these very shut-in young men. It's not an excuse for their behavior I would ever personally accept or tolerate. But it seems like Trumpism became a convenient cloak and denial mechanism for some struggling young people, and I am not the only one who's noticed this in the last few days. I await the first deep dive into it. Trumpist culture (which IMO cannot and will not replicated with another GOPer, because none of them have the longstanding media/popcult appeal of Trump) crossed party and racial/social lines, including to some of the Latino vote or two disaffected swing voting idiots. It reached red state or overcompensating (or both) questioning young men. It consumed everything.

Journo Twitter is getting a lot of pushback/ratio on this love letter to Haberman, the 2010s answer to Judy Miller. This excerpt seems sociopathic to me.

He's a coward who is terrified of direct confrontation - with anyone - and often tries to delegate major decisions, like firings, onto anyone else for fear of making an unpopular choice. All the firings in his administration, he's always phoned eight million sycophants begging for advice on what to do and tried to offload the responsibility onto others, or tried to neg the men and women out of their jobs on twitter to get them to resign first. I've never been afraid of his will.

Trump is not going to get the electors to vote for him lol, but y'all can pretend and worry if ya like.

LOL, if this becomes some sort of contest between Abrams and AOC it's no contest for me at all. Abrams is the future of the party machine in a lot of ways. She's done unbelievable work and anyone who tries to make her a target inside the left is a fool. Your next Vic Berger clip:

I think AOC should've waited a few days before unloading like that to the Times and blowing off steam from a volatile week. It was stupid. For me, the fact is both sides of the party need each other and need to work their districts in a mix of different ways. A lot of what she says in that interview is correct IMO, but it's also real that Spanberger and the moderates have valid concerns and issues. What works for, say, Spanberger's constituency on messaging will not work for AOC's, and vice versa. It's reality that certain words are poison to a lot of our more moderate voter base. But some of the techniques AOC and co. have applied locally can work in redder/purple states too. I am very tired of hearing how we need to always kowtow to the scared moderates, but I am also very tired of the left flank giving the Beltway ammo for Dems in Disarray at every turn and not accepting that different states have different audiences and needs. That's what shít like this does. That's as far as I take this whole thing, and that's as far as I think it'll go tbh. Do I believe she'll quit - no. Unlike some others, AOC is usually shrewd enough to know that she needs to work with the party heads. Unlike Omar who subtweeted her way through it and dogged Warren, AOC was out there putting down the Bernie or death flank in March and telling them to get on track with the party and face the reality of incremental progress. I appreciated that. So I suspect she'll cool off, Pelosi will come collect her again, there will be more Happy Family House photo ops in the next 2-3 weeks and we'll get to work. YMMV. If she digs deeper, I'll check her then.

Valerie had a pretty full life long after that diagnosis that she would die in like 3-6 months - how much longer did she keep going? Six years? And an even busier career. That was some solace.

RIP.

A study in contrasting Sundays:

Still not over the Trump campaign mistakenly booking a landscaping company in an industrial park for a press conference instead of the actual Four Seasons and then refusing to admit the mistake.

A good piece below: And this, in case you missed it: