Hearing Trump say “color blind, merit based” is infuriating when you live in a city where the kids near the white schools have music programs and the kids near the black and brown schools don’t.
For anyone wondering about why the Marines aren’t playing, it’s because they were scheduled to perform with Equity Arc, an organization that helps black and brown kids have access to the music programs that have been cut from their schools.
IMHO, the stupid bean counters got to her and they stared obsessing about messages, positions, and tactics that will give you a percent here and a percent there.
If you look at Chavez’s regime toward the end of his life, you’re honestly going to find a lot of shit that is analogous, or identical, to what Trump is doing. Authoritarian populist demagoguery, but wrapped in North american conservatism instead of South American socialism.
It was weird, but pivoting to poll tested messages, and refusing to shit on Biden, is probably what really sunk her. She was doing well early on when she was being fast and disruptive. Then she reverted to the boring old playbook.
90% of all American wine is grown in California. Napa and Sonoma, the heart of the industry, overwhelmingly voted against Trump in 2024 by like a 2/3 majority.
They will gladly funnel their additional wine money into campaigns against Trump.
I see we’ve now hit the “Trump is tired of this and wants to TACO, but you have to make it look like he’s winning something” stage.