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No. of Recommendations: 3
The NY Times had a long discussion between Nate Silver and John Guida about the list of likely democratic presidential candidates in 2028.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/opinion/2028-de...After categorizing the list from progressive (Ocadio-Cortez) to blue dog (Bashear), Silver goes on lament “the comparative lack of Latino candidates, or for that matter, Asian American candidates.”
I found this to be a stunning, and revealing, omission on his part after spending the previous part of the discussion discussing her ownership of the progressive wing among their list of candidates? Is she not Latina? Or did he just mean MALE Latinx candidates? Or is this just a sexist dismissal of women candidates in general?There is very little discussion of the women on the list beyond the relatively dismissive stance on AOC.
Silver, and the NY Times editorial board in general, want to see a milk toast white man who has “crossover appeal” as the democratic candidate in 2028 (assuming we don’t have a dear leader by then).
No. of Recommendations: 3
I found this to be a stunning, and revealing, omission on his part after spending the previous part of the discussion discussing her ownership of the progressive wing among their list of candidates? Is she not Latina? Or did he just mean MALE Latinx candidates? Or is this just a sexist dismissal of women candidates in general?
Maybe it's just lamenting the "comparative" lack of Latino candidates? They were talking about 18 possible candidates:
(1) Newsom; (2) Ocasio-Cortez; (3) Buttigieg; (4) Gretchen Whitmer; (5) Ruben Gallego; (6) Josh Shapiro; (7) Wes Moore; (8) Harris; (9) Cory Booker; (10) Raphael Warnock; (11) Jon Ossoff; (12) Mark Kelly; (13) Jon Stewart; (14) J.B. Pritzker; (15) Andy Beshear; (16) Ro Khanna; (17) Amy Klobuchar; (18) Chris Murphy.
...of which only two are Latino - AOC and Ruben Gallego. That seems...low, relative to the demographic composition of the Democratic Party and the U.S. in general. You have four black candidates up there, but only two Latino choices.
So I think what he's talking about isn't a dismissal of AOC (who was picked number two, after all), but the fact that the Democratic party's "depth chart" for national leaders has so few Latinos. Surprising, given that some 20% of the country overall - and undoubtedly a higher percentage of the party - is Hispanic. Given the importance of Latinos to the Democratic coalition, that seems like an indicator that they're not advancing within the coalition commensurate with that importance.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Silver, and the NY Times editorial board in general, want to see a milk toast white man who has “crossover appeal” as the democratic candidate in 2028 (assuming we don’t have a dear leader by then).
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Interesting how it's ok to say 'milk toast white" man. I wonder can candidates of other backgrounds be described that way ?
Nate -Silver huh? That name SHINES.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Interesting how it's ok to say 'milk toast white" man. I wonder can candidates of other backgrounds be described that way ?
It's amazing how just casually racist so many of them are...
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Which is why for years, I've wanted one cohort to punish them out of IT and engineering jobs.
And another cohort to meet women in the Whole Foods and Yoga parking lots - Sweden romance style.
No. of Recommendations: 3
What amazes me is the amount of abuse they'll put up with from their own leaders also. And it's not that it's just bad governance, their leaders actively gaslight them and tell them that it's raining as the piss on their heads.
Take Washington state. We have the 2nd or 3rd highest gas prices in the nation behind Hawaii and California. Most of that is self-inflicted with the carbon tax (that they said wasn't a tax and the sheep bought it) and other stuff. High energy prices reverberate throughout the local economy and make everything more expensive.
And libs being libs, they've blown out a multi-billion dollar hole in the state budget that they're looking to fill with a targeted income tax. Never mind that the state Constitution frowns on that and that the voters have rejected such a thing 11 or times (including as recently as 2024), they're doing it anyway.
The governor comes out and says it's about "affordability". This from the same guy that signed the largest tax increase in state history last year. Is there gas tax relief on the table? How about sales tax relief? Nope. He says he'll take 5% of the money from the new tax and use that.
How stupid are these people? They all complain about bad governance but just accept mediocrity. I've never seen anything like it before. Same thing with this board; no matter how bad a job their national leaders do they'll keep going with it.
During Covid the strategy seemed to be, 'lock the citizens up and keep them on weed and booze'. I guess a bunch of folks just liked it that way.
No. of Recommendations: 1
And it's not that it's just bad governance, their leaders actively gaslight them and tell them that it's raining as the piss on their heads.
Ah, speaking about Spankee and your personal experience drinking it via a large straw.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Interesting how it's ok to say 'milk toast white" man.
Actually a milquetoast white man wouldn't make the cut. A seasoned handsome man 45-50, fast on his feet, good with a speech and a quip, and can debate well is the better ticket. A Governor. Charisma would help.
Obama had charisma, was smart, seasoned, good with a quip, top notch stump speeches and was handsome to boot. Couldn't bust him down by calling him a nigger or an empty suit.
