My overwhelming impression from watching Buttigieg in Iowa is that he had studied and absorbed the 2008 Obama game tapes. Even the intonation is sometimes identical.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1226563901220884480 …
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No one seems to have pointed out that a key part of Buttigieg's argument—that as President, he'll deal with Republican intransigence in the Senate by going into their districts to take his argument to more reasonable constituents—was tried by Roosevelt in 1938 and failed utterly
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Several of the candidates seem to have trouble believing that there actually is a populist hard core of the Republican party. They portray polarization as an artifact of D.C. politics. But those voters are very real, and pull their representatives to the right.
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Replying to @Pinboard @jgordonshare
@jgordonshare It’s irritating that@pinboard has been hijacked for political tweets. Muted for the time being.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @martinsteiger @jgordonshare
It used to be all about the bookmarks.
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I’m a political fan and also American but pinboard customers would probably like another stream
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It's OK, it's just the wrong channel in my opinion. (I will unmute
@Pinboard sooner or later, of course. For the moment, Trump, Trump and even more Trump is simply too much for my online well-being.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I have to take the Trump bile because I vote here. Is hard on rest of humanity.
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Pinboard customers have been long-suffering since 2009 and I feel their pain. But at this point the schtick is too firmly established to change
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