Sean Mooney

Ask JuneJuly...maybe that alter ego gets the point?

I'm seeing some crying on my Facebook feed but also a lot of like weird over the top stuff about Trump from his supporters. I'll say what I've said numerous times here- hero worshipping politicians (be it Trump, Obama, etc) is just bizarre. I compare it to the people who define their lives through like Taylor Swift songs. Settle the hell down people.

They won't hold the same position but cool....hope you feel better now.

I've never sat and watched a full program of any of it- be it Gutfeld, The Five, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Anderson Cooper, Abby Phillips (I've seen clips online of these things)....but they are not news programs. They tell you a story and then spend time arguing about their opinions on it and at some point it just becomes a blur of nonsense being disguised as news. I mean I've seen clips of The Five and it is literally just PTI for the news- who the hell wants that?

I think they are probably called Keishas... that's a bad joke. I know

Every admin has at least someone who is unqualified in a position. I really hope Trump decides against RFK Jr......that dude is a dumb lunatic.

This is interesting to note because it seems to be pointed directly at legacy or older media. However, the most preferred places to get news by Gen X and younger is places like TikTok, and Twitter which are also places- especially the former- where stuff is presented as snippets of interviews edited in a way to make things sound worse than what they actually were. And there are two times as much "pro-Trump" content as their way "pro-Biden or pro-Harris" content there. Additionally, look at the amount of people here who share YouTube videos as fact when it is someone blowing up a singular quote to rant on it for 10-15 minutes. The biggest issue we have from a news source is we have allowed- in all forms and walks of media- for the line between opinion and news to blur to an insane point. Look at any of the 24 hour news channels. They are dominated from about 3pm on by personality driven opinion shows. Social media allows us to curate our timelines in such a way that we only see things that support our already held positions. This is all a problem because the general public isn't reaching out to learn opposing viewpoints, they are allowing the opposing viewpoints to be brought to them with a spin applied to it.

Tina Nguyen is a writer for Puck and previously worked with Tucker Carlson, Breitbart, and other places like that. She is fairly plugged in to the MAGA world and Donald Trump. She wrote a long social media thread where she argued that Project 2025 most likely is not what Trump is going to borrow from. Mainly because the Project 2025 playbook from the Heritage Foundation was designed to be a turnkey playbook for any Republican President, not specifically Donald Trump. Additionally Trump is not a huge fan of the Heritage Foundation because they have a board and donors and Trump feels like they will have a layer of independence from him and he doesn't want that. Instead Trump will most likely pull from a "MAGA version" of the Project 2025 handbook which was developed by the America First Policy Institute which was founded 4 years ago by many people who were former Cabinet members and Trump officials- this includes people like Linda McMahon, Chad Wolf, and Larry Kudlow. They argued that they were better attuned to Trump's thought process and best for creating a ready made policy for him. Their playbook is designed to be for one GOP president and that was Trump. It is a means of providing and protecting a legacy for him. The thread ends with this: Make of all that what you will. Thread is on Twitter

Yup. All the pieces are in place. No reason to not get stuff done. If he does good for him. If he doesn't, he should be called out on it.

I figured maybe like AOC or Wes Moore who were two of the people still backing him Maybe Tammy Duckworth

100% she should have

You can say it....League Champion.

I posted it yesterday but if I'm Biden I go into the DNC and re-enact the scene from half Baked where the guy quits the fast food place and tells everyone "Fuk You"

I gave some thoughts on this before but I'll quickly recap: 1.) She should've taken the Joe Rogan podcast invite. There were almost no negatives to it. She either goes on and completely bombs out and loses no votes most likely, or she goes there- trades shots with Rogan and comes off looking tough and presidential. There was more upside than downside to doing it and they miscalculated. 2.) They narrowed the scope of what they were going for voter wise (this ties into 1 some). You need to throw the net wide and try to catch people. They decided their path to win was women and young people and then they zeroed in on essentially just women and started thinking "We've got these votes in hand." It is the same thing Hillary did in 2016 where she abandoned polling in the Rust Belt states thinking "I've got those" and started looking to a rout and it blew up in her face. 3.) They never established strongly enough the policies she wanted to implement and they relied on focus grouped catchphrases. "I want to create an Opportunity Economy." Okay but that means nothing. Just say "I want to cut taxes x%." Speak in simple, direct phrasing. That's why Clinton rolled in the 90's. That was an appeal of Obama. Yes Barack was an intelligent guy, but he knew how to speak in a way that cut right to what he wanted to do. 4.) They badly misread the emotions of the general populace. Every poll indicated this was about the economy. I pointed out here that this is despite a lot of markers being positive economically but still people's perceptions of the economy was not meeting reality because they were focusing on the singular tangible issue of a grocery bill. But the Kamala team message then was all about "Feel those vibes? Aren't you feeling joy? Let's party everyone" Then it became "Hey, don't put the potential dictator in charge." Then in the last week it went back too "Enough of that dictator stuff, back to the vibes." Look when people are pissed you can't stand there and try to tell them "We are having fun though right?" That just further pisses people off. 5.) To the point about #4- the Kamala campaign central message changed 3 times in a 107 day campaign. So basically, once a month. You can't do that.

My thing would be this- pointing the finger at Biden is silly too because- I don't think he wins either. I'm not sold any Democrat wins necessarily. There are some signs that maybe they would have- I mean in Michigan and Wisconsin they elected Democrat senators despite going GOP for President. Nevada and Arizona seem like maybe they elected Democrat senators. Pennsylvania is leaning GOP right now so in the 7 battleground states, you had 5 senator races and 4 of them potentially went Democrat. That speaks to a divide at the top of the ticket. But again- if I'm Biden I'm annoyed. He got pushed aside in 2016. He got pushed aside in 2024. He will be the only Democrat candidate who can say he beat Trump in a Presidential election and it was fairly handily from a popular vote and electoral vote perspective. And he is going to have to deal with the person he instilled as his vice president having her team point fingers at him.

I'll acquiesce to some of this...but I'll add I think it is okay to say things to young men about the way they act and approach women. I'm around high school kids all day long and there are some dudes who just- clearly have respect issues towards women. However, you can't just go completely over the top in castigating them and calling them names and trying to talk to a 18 year old kid about "Do you know what your white male privilege gives you?" First, they don't. Second, they don't care because at 18 most people are not introspective about their position in life and how it affects others. But I think that part of going all the way speaks to how politics operate anymore. People from both sides immediately jump to label people because they aren't in lock step with them and it just turns people off in every way. It bit the Democrats in the azz this election cycle. It could easily bite the Republicans in another. The real measure is what does a party learn from it all. The one thing you can hit Biden over is he talked in 2020 about being a bridge President and then decided to run again so he caught people flat footed in the party I believe. Then he hung on for a long time. Perhaps that is because his perception of himself does not meet the reality. Maybe he did just have a really bad night at that debate and nothing more than that. Maybe he is completely out to lunch mentally at this point. But as I said yesterday- Hillary's campaign in 2016 treated Trump like a joke and they lost. Biden in 2020 did not treat Trump like a joke. He went after him. He challenged him in the debates. He hammered him over the response to COVID. He hammered him over his relations to other countries. He respected what Trump had done in office and turned it against him. Kamala's team came in and decided to try and treat Trump as a joke again. I just think in a pie chart of "what caused Kamala to lose" Biden as an answer has a piece of that pie. But it is nowhere near as big as the rest of the pieces and I think it is solely being looked at so the Kamala campaign can absolve themselves of a bad plan.

It isn't Biden's fault they lost. It's singularly the fault of them running a bad campaign in just about every single way

Harm is harm I get that. Always have and never said otherwise. I'm simply pointing out that the trend is going the right direction. It was 3.7% last September, it is 2.4% now. This is the first time we've had 3 consecutive months under 3% since Jan/Feb/March of 2021. So the trend is moving in the right direction which should give some hope that we are already in the beginning stages of inflation shaking loose out of the system. So since we are trending the right direction it becomes incumbent on what happens next. Do the incoming president's ideas and policies help or hurt the trend? What does the fed do with those policies to keep the trend going?

Inflation has been receding for 6 months now and is essentially at where it was in January/February/March of 2020

Some real talk on the economy: Both sides provided here- first why the economy stings right now and then why many of the underlying metrics are good even if we are not seeing that daily just yet:

1.) Fix the economy and inflation- he said he could and would, so do it. 2.) Set term limits for politicians- he said he would back when he first announced he was running a second time. Besides- if you are the outsider, then piss off the insiders 3.) veto or push back against any abortion legislation that disallows abortions at any point before 10 weeks That's it- I don't really care about the other issues people here seem dead set on

We already produce more oil than any country ever

I am being honest. I'm for term limits in all forms of government. Supreme Court would be included in that. Say a Democrat came into office and all the Supreme Court justices somehow died at the same time- would you really want a Democrat president putting in nine 35 year old judges to sit on the bench for 40-50 years? FLip the scenario and make it a Republican president doing it. A President is capped (hypothetically) at 8 years. Maybe a Supreme Court justice gets 12. I also do not think expanding the court is a good idea. It's a horrible idea. Yes some far left democrats were pushing heavily for it and Biden basically said "No"

I mean would term limits for Supreme Court justices be a bad idea? Would term limits for everybody in politics be a bad idea? It is always interesting to note that when people were pushing to pack the Supreme Court and all that- Biden pushed back on it and still does.

You missed the day where RLLD indicated that Trump does not have to own up to anything because basically- people don't ask him about it