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I think they think different,

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:11:21 +0000

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I think they think different, gotta get their agents in there before it's all settled or it's curtains on their agenda(s) whatever they may be. Kind of interesting to me that they think the people in the executive branch have so much power, while the way it's supposed to work is power to stop anything or start anything is actually with Congress. They want some bully pulpit action on their agenda(s), thinking that will offset their being a minority that has not convinced the majority of the public yet? To me, it's sad and bassackwards that we always end up doing it that way. Fixing the gerrymandering problem would help right this situation, but that ability's been lost for another long period with so many state houses going GOP once again.

They need to wait until dude

Orion — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:52:55 +0000

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They need to wait until dude is actually in there before they have fights like this.

Yglesias getting pushback on

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:11:41 +0000

In reply to On a group lobbying against a

Yglesias getting pushback on the above and answering it with a very interesting blunt argument. (Say what you're thinking aloud Matt, with no fear-he's getting awful emboldened by being an independent writer with no ladder to climb anymore?!)

I do not have all the answers on climate change politics but I am confident that the correct level to fund relentlessly counterproductive activists at is $0 https://t.co/gvwAAZ4lq0
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 26, 2020

You can’t blame the “activists” themselves. Funders have bought into the idea that this style of group that picks pointless intraparty fights is a good.

So we get what they pay for.

But it’s bad and nobody wants to say it because they also want the same funders’ money.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 26, 2020

On a group lobbying against a

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:01:54 +0000

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Yglesias on a group lobbying and protesting against a different possible Biden pick, Brian Deese for NEC

The people writing checks to this group are doing enormous damage to the cause of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and have been for a while.https://t.co/DCOCvpVEGz
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 25, 2020

To make climate progress you need either:

(a) Ideas that will generate progress on climate change that Republicans will vote for

OR

(b) To help candidates with normal Dems climate views win GOP-held Senate seats

Picking endless intra-party fights ain't it.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 25, 2020

At any rate, yes, if you are dumb and think Joe Biden's climate plan deserved an "F" rating then by that standard Brian Deese is horrible.

But it's all simultaneously detached from actual policy analysis AND political reality in an absurd way.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 25, 2020