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Were we expecting billionaires to act any differently?

Or are we asserting billionaires run the Dem Party?

No, especially one who identifies as a republuQan but is trying to fund a Dem challenger out of the goodness of his civic-minded heart.
There is an AIPAC angle to Dem funding (ALL funding, to be clear) which is not great in this specific context.

"His sex predator opponent is a shit person" /=/ "The Party(tm) is fighting Mamdani with all its got!"

No, but if he’s going rogue, I’d prefer to hear some party heavy say it. It sounds like they convinced him to stick around as a spoiler. Whether they did or not. It’s an asshole move and reflects poorly on them.

Even Chuck Schumer, legitimate neoliberal supreme, has defended Mamdani on that account.

Glad to hear it. Chuck has his moments now and then. His defense did not make it into my feed fwiw, but that’s not too surprising.

It's been consistently stalled by Dems and its cuts, particularly to Medicaid, a genuinely unpopular cut that plays well with a broad swathe of the electorate, highlighted by Dem mainstays; not really sure what more is reasonably expected at this point and juncture.

Well this is it’s own post, but something that would make the highlight reels would be Pelosi saying she fucked up shoehorning Connolly in there, more DNC household names on the road with Bernie & AOC (Why is Warren not in there, as an example, she’s got anti-oligarchy chops). Setting off a smoke bomb in the conference room, throwing a pie at Perjury Traitor Greed, tying Mike Johnson’s shoes together, paid advertisements, a WARPED Tour with free t-shirt swag; shit it feels like they’re content to get quoted in the NYT and tour the Sunday morning circuit and that’s it for the PR.

No one’s confused that the Democrats are shit at messaging; the few times they broke out (remember the first two weeks of Kamala’s campaign?) they get shushed by fogeys and idiot consultants.

It’s months past time to start doing outrageous fucking shit. As it is, this is the press they’re generating.

1.) recognize it
2.) address it
3.) cause a fumble on the republiQan offense
4.) run it back for six
5.) repeat

Last week, ethnic studies teachers, district employees and a school board member raised alarms after they said Superintendent Maria Su met with school leaders to discuss a possible plan to pause the San Francisco Unified School District’s ethnic studies program entirely. For months, the course had come under fire from some parents who found it biased and “activist-driven.”

Some parents added, “ Wenn gewisse Personen, die für die wirkliche Lage der Dinge blind waren, meinten, sie könnten sich weigern, sich der praktischen Anwendung der Prinzipien der Bewegung zu unterwerfen, die der Reichsregierung anvertraut worden war, dann, aber nicht früher, dann hat die Partei mit eiserner Hand diese illegalen Friedensstörer dazu gebracht, ihre widerspenstigen Hälse vor den Gesetzen des neuen nationalsozialistischen Reiches und der neuen MAGA Regierung zu beugen!”

I mean, the billionaire offering to fund, basically anyone, to run against him, Cuomo’s non-concession staying on the ballot, leaving The Squad to defend him from outrageous fascist threats to deport him, and still no concerted national pushback messaging on the Big Beautiful Reich bill.

It may not be right, but it’s got truthiness.

It really felt like it, but it has a human’s name on the byline, fwiw. And there were some “rounded corners” that made me think a person edited it a fair bit.

Shoulder-fired missiles?

Melted?

Traitor in Chief

Elmo found his phone before the hit wore off again

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and Gentleman, in tonight's performance of Deep Space Nine, the role of "Ben Sisko" will be played by Bill "Spaceman" Lee.

RSN: Let's talk about pitching, and pitchers. We'll start with Oil Can Boyd.

BL: The Can! Man, he's a great story. As a matter of fact, if they ever do Satchel Paige's life story, Oil Can should play the lead role. He's Satchel, incarnate! I was sort of a left handed Paige, myself, but The Can was the real deal.

RSN: I brought up Oil Can because he threw such a variety of pitches, and from a lot of different arm angles. Warren Spahn, meanwhile, said you only need two: the one the hitter's looking for, and the one he's not. Where do you fit in?

BL: I know it's a cliche, but pitching is like real estate: location, location, location. That, and changing speeds. It takes guts and confidence to throw slow stuff over the plate, but you have to do it. Greg Maddux pitches like the Spahn quote. He gets hitters looking for one thing and freezes them with another. I think he looks at the plate differently than other pitchers. He looks at it in three-dimensions, with a spatial relationship.

RSN: What did you throw, and how hard?

BL: I could get as high as 90, but I was mostly around 86. I could be pinpoint at 85-86, so that's where I stayed most of the time. I threw a change and breaking ball, too. Sometimes a cutter off my fastball. My change was like a screwball. I threw a 12-to-6 curve, sort of like Barry Zito does now. And I knew enough to stay away from guys who were hot.

RSN: Tell us about that.

BL: There are times when you have to pitch around guys who are hitting everything. Derek Lowe, for instance, has the problem of not knowing when a hitter is dangerous. Sometimes you can't attack every hitter. You have to stay away from the guys who are hot. Of course, sometimes the whole team is hot and then you need to get lucky. I once saw Catfish Hunter give up seven consecutive fly-outs to the warning track.

RSN: It sounds like you might be a believer in charts on hitters, more than pitching to your own strengths.

BL: I believe you should know the hitters, but you should KNOW them — not have to rely on charts. That's one of the problems with baseball. There are too many academics and slide rule guys, and not enough baseball guys. Why use charts when you can use your mind? That's what your neurons are for.

The death thrests are coming from the wife, obvs.

Proton MAGAts