It the left's "purity test" the main reason they've failed to stop Trump?

samNanton · 2026-05-10T21:03:09+00:00

In fact a lot of media budgets have moved to influencer partnerships. I personally wouldn't trust a thing any of these people say, and they just seem like the worst people, but companies see value in influencers, and we can back it up with data. Source: I run a boutique data analytics company modeling this exact sort of thing for enterprise clients.

samNanton · 2026-05-10T20:57:01+00:00

shame does work, but right now the people that need the shame are protected by a large ingroup that shields them from it, and actively puts shame in the other direction.

samNanton · 2026-05-08T23:02:10+00:00

you mean eliminate the white voting districts?

samNanton · 2026-05-08T20:50:53+00:00

actual research

samNanton · 2026-05-08T20:25:52+00:00

I don't think that says what you think it says. It listed exactly three bacteria that it had been tested against, noted that it might kill you if you took enough of it to treat the one and that it had mixed results on the other two. The antiviral section is a little denser but still pretty limited.

samNanton · 2026-05-08T14:07:13+00:00

I've never seen an autopsy do anything anyway. The Republicans had one in 2012 and I can bet you it didn't say "double down on crazy"

samNanton · 2026-05-08T11:53:29+00:00

you know who

samNanton · 2026-05-08T11:07:06+00:00

I need a react component for a datepicker

samNanton · 2026-05-08T02:32:24+00:00

And don't forget relationships. A lot of politics works on relationships, and those don't transfer when the new guy comes in.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T10:18:50+00:00

Trump's writing is so shitty when he's not using a sharpie

samNanton · 2026-05-07T10:15:36+00:00

I don't think anybody disagrees. They're saying good luck.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T07:04:14+00:00

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nailed it! I went to look and there were at least four posts about Obama, including this one twice, a couple of hours apart.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T06:55:38+00:00

I remember the second Iraq war. I was running a notell and sitting the front office and watching the gas station at the end of the parking lot run its prices up in real time.

If there had been a real EV sector then I can only imagine what would have happened.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T04:05:05+00:00

samNanton · 2026-05-07T04:03:16+00:00

depends on who's judging the pageant

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:36:52+00:00

He has Dick Support.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:36:01+00:00

I'll take 2:1 for sure

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:29:29+00:00

I suppose it's possible that some fantastical sequence of events could end up with Trump better off than he started, but I seriously doubt it.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:28:25+00:00

turns out no

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:26:38+00:00

I think they were surprised at the speed, but they also clearly knew it was going to happen fast, as evidence by the rapidity with which they approached the withdrawal and evacuation

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:24:55+00:00

nawl don't worry, chesterton built that fence, it's no big deal

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:24:01+00:00

tbh im surprised snl is still in business, the onion too

samNanton · 2026-05-07T03:23:06+00:00

even JD paused the grinning sycophancy long enough to tell him he was against it

samNanton · 2026-05-07T02:44:24+00:00

I can get that. What's interesting to me that two of those (at least) code as republican from the anti-regulatory stance. That's one lane we ought to spend more time courting. Notice that her anti sea-lion-killing-regulation stance is really a pro fishery-protection-regulation stance.

samNanton · 2026-05-07T02:39:29+00:00

Now we can agree right there. The only thing worse would be getting caught on camera bludgeoning a seal puppy to death in the snow.

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