I’ve been following the Virginia redistricting fight today and realizing the spin is wild on this one. Republicans, and Texans in particular are mad about this vote. Turns out Virginia is adding more democratic seats! How is this bad? Well it is unfair that it only took a 51% vote to pass it. Sure, that would be a good argument if, well, Texas even voted. Instead the Texas redistrict was done by the gov without a vote at all. So… false argument there. This made me realize that not only is the media game more and more rigged, but the truth of these parties is that Dems cannot sell lies that big because the dem base is generally more savvy about what’s going on because they are experiencing it from a different perspective—one in which they are being portrayed as the villain while Republicans rely on the hero/victim narrative on a more regular basis. Dena talk about inclusion. Yet the argument for exclusion draws more eyes because it raises the value of those still included. This is a problem we have yet to realize how to solve.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline Of the Day: “https://apnews.com/article/kash-patel-girlfriend-new-york-times-investigation-149655b7f7797d09dea9a2c8548d33cb” I know the link is bad but this is a phone post and I’m realizing I’m not very good at those. Translation: Kash Patel sent the FBI after a reporter who wrote an article about him. That guy is surely closer to being fired, right? Right?!
- weak post tonight. The phone is a terrible medium for this sort of thing. Might be the fat fingers…
- I plan to do a waiver come Thursday talking about the silliness of draft predictions… and then saying what I think will happen… j/k I won’t predict. I’ll just hope.