So looks like a divided Congress by a very slim margin in both houses. Aka gridlock for a president who will be a lame duck on day 1. Which would suit either of them fine. Biden won’t try to be bold with a narrow mandate, Trump has no big ideas now that the courts are secured.
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He likes to be the center of attention, not comment from the sidelines or merely own the media empire from the back room like Murdoch. Also note that a lot of his charisma is derived from being in office. It’s not clear to me his base will see him the same out of it.
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When people go out on top on their own terms, like star athletes who retire at the right time, many doors are open. I think people are underestimating the effects of even a narrow loss all around. He’ll milk the “unfair theft” shtick for a while but it’s not a career.
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I’m not writing him off. He’s more of a live player at 73 than I am at 47. Runs on pure bile which seems to act as an astonishing elixir of life for him. He’ll find some way to matter. It just won’t be the 2 obvious possibilities of offstage kingmaker in politics or media.
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True. The birther thing was a major kayfabe win. I’d expect something along those lines. Producer and booster of conspiracy theories. Maybe even documentaries like Al Gore.https://twitter.com/mkbdrx1/status/1324481815667761154 …
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Typo, I’ll be 46 in a few weeks not 47. Anyhow, still no news huh?
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If he wins with PA, it will be vindication of the value of technically correct and statsistically conservative strategy in a game with a long history. He bet on the boring play of rebuilding the Blue Wall that Trump breached in 2016. No fancy narrative. Just do the math right.
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It would be poetic justice if a figurative “rebuilt wall” kept Trump from a second term. Tactical fumbles like the Latinos-against-Socialism stuff in Florida foreshadow future strategic concerns, but in the short term, betting on the proven strategy seems to have been wise.
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A good question in this context. I think "wise" political strategy in US elections is not just making historically data-driven decisions (that's merely smart), but also tuning out all massive noise levels about all sorts of things that just don't matter.https://twitter.com/muzkmuzkmuzk/status/1324526374736982016 …
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This might be the first time I've noticed NYT baldly use the word "lies" in a headline about Trump instead of euphemisms like "claimed without evidence" ... has this happened before?pic.twitter.com/YPzLXu2Ifp
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Nothing happening at go brrrr rates on CNNhttps://twitter.com/daretorant/status/1324497396848447491?s=21 …
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Getting bored by this. That’s a good sign. We’re not going back to normal, but we can potentially go back to boring for a while.
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If Biden brings it home I would like to request an ASMR presidency. Happy little trees. Free Bob Ross painting kit for everyone with next stimulus check.
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Oh I just realized Token Republican on CNN is Rick Santorum. This is a world I do rarely pay attention to I don’t know most of the players by face.
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