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They already tried and failed. Now he’s way too popular, unless his tenure as mayor fails.

The only reason you are defending the democrats is because at some point they persuaded you, but somehow you deny the relevance of persuading others in a system which power is awarded though votes (in each state). Ironic.

So the Michelin star restaurant should not consider adopting the winning strategy McDonald’s uses but instead just declare it is everyone who didn’t buy from thems fault and let their business tank and go out of business? Congrats your business failed and no one cares. I wonder if you’d maintain this belief if we invested your life savings in a business. Would you sit on your high horse like this or would you suggest they actually try to convince customers to buy? By your logic everyone should just stop donating to democrats and they shouldn’t even bother campaigning. Since it’s everyone else’s job to just vote for them.

No I just have capacity for nuance and basic logic. This doesn’t conflict with anything I’m saying. Democrats are just getting lucky their opposition is shooting itself in the foot.

In a competitive market it is up to the producer to persuade consumers. Imagine two people start companies, one focuses on convincing people to buy from them, the other whines that it’s the peoples job to come buy from him. You literally brought up McDonald’s yourself which is an example of this. McDonald’s wins because they persuade. Imagine if McDonald’s only ever just expected people to buy from them because it’s their job, they would have gone out of business a long time ago. Hutch and his ilk never use this blame the voters logic when the side they don’t like loses! It’s just sour grapes because their beloved establishment democrats and their strategies failed but he doesn’t want to fundamentally question why.

McDonald’s sells more than any other restaurant precisely for this reason. Its called acknowledging reality. McDonald’s knows that what matters is taking ownership and marketing to get people in the door. A good restaurant can complain people don’t appreciate them all they want, no one cares. If you run a restaurant and you want it to succeed you don’t just expect people to know, you market and persuade. The entire point of elections is for candidates to persuade the public. If they fail to persuade the public, that’s on them. Just complaining about the voters is stupid, if you can’t get the voters on your side you should resign and put someone in your position who can, that’s the purpose of campaigning. Notice how Hutch and his ilk never use this blame the voters logic when the side they don’t like loses, then it’s that they are just wrong and would need to change how they do things to succeed.

How is Huberman charismatic? He just summarizes research papers and science facts in an important sounding voice. He gets girls because he’s famous and tall.

Yes voters are adults, and the purpose of elections is for politicians to get voters to vote for them, If they fail the politician failed. What you’re saying is like if a restaurant goes out of business and blames people for not eating at it. It is the restaurants responsibility to bring customers, if it failed to do so it will fail.

That’s not how it works. The job of politicians is to inspire people to vote for them. If the politicians can’t do that they failed, not the voters.

Ramana actually responded to this

They don’t need that to strike them.

That’s because the plan is to just let republicans screw up enough so that people feel forced to vote for them and they don’t have to change at all. And to be honest it’s working, they’re actually doing slightly better in polls and everyone’s lining up behind Newsom.

Because most of the world doesn’t support Iran, the protests were because israel was being armed and supported by world governments. Americans and Europeans protested because they wanted their government to stop supporting Israel. Their governments don’t support Iran so there is nothing to protest. Where were you when Israel committed far worse slaughters and far worse repression? Defending then excusing it.

Update, apparently delayed after Israel said not to https://www.axios.com/2026/01/15/trump-iran-strikes-israel-concern

Naturals are just naturally able to bring out the instinctive parts of their personality designed for socializing and flirting.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/trump-call-nyc-mamdani-calls-text

That guy is a CIA agent who repeatedly provides cover for the US a deep state. Khamenei isn’t the only clerical leader, he is 86 and already has the succession lined up. His death does not automatically remove the clerical power base. If the clerical regime goes the only powerful enough group to replace it is the IRGC which will likely be even more brutal and extreme, for example Khamenei repeatedly refused to weaponize the nuclear program despite IRGC hardliners demanding it.

Iran never even attempted to assassinate him because he is so disliked and unpopular. He has next to no on the ground support in Iran. Even his wife publicly cheats on him. You can’t just bomb a government out of office and install someone like that and have elections. If it’s a targeted assassination of the clerical leadership the result may be that the IRGC takes over if they are weakened enough. If it’s a mass bombing that somehow makes the IRGC also unable to grip power then Iran would enter a failed state / Syria situation as all the different groups splinter off. I’m suspecting it’ll be another semi-symbolic strike that doesn’t change much, even Trump may not be dumb enough to be tricked by his advisors into thinking they can decisively topple the regime with just airstrikes, that’s obviously a ploy by israel to bait Iran into firing back forcing the US to expand the intervention into a full scale war. John Bolton did this exactly insisting to trump to assassinated the general and when they did and Iran fired at the bases tried to get trump to escalate but trump refused.

that is so absurd even trump doesn’t believe that will happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxt4dbfgVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eit85FAj4wg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ctRMR8qXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p3-MJJm_R0

Like what? Hopefully it stays that way, no child deserves that fate.

Jeffy (former old school PUA) had a nice breakdown of this issue.