Communion

…and the polling shows 75% of Americans believe that AI is directly negatively impacting their lives by raising electricity costs! As seen in the polling!

I think this is someone who is unable to understand the average American because they have contempt for them and think they're smarter than them. It's pedantic to argue "well do people KNOW what AI does?". People don't need to know the technical mechanics, the technology as a science, etc. to hate something. If they hate it.. they just do! And that's where most of the more technical "well actually" defenses ultimately remain unconvincing. AI is a stand-in for the elite decision that people's jobs are expendable, that workers have no autonomy, that consumers do not get to consent to what corporations do or the impact on costs that these decisions then have and which are transferred onto the consumer, etc. An app adding new AI features you didn't want or being given a Google AI summary over search results. Your job making you have to incorporate AI into your processes to save money or your job being wiped out due to AI. Your electric bill being 5-10x higher due to the massive strain on the electric grid that is being passed onto regular consumers. Big Tech is broadly partisan (pro-Republican) and broadly anti-consumer. The average person holds a negative view of tech corporations and largely views them as generally evil and greedy. Generative AI is just seen as the next new faze of Big Tech's attempt to make life worse.

I think @Ryusei and @Mr. Blue_Shirt touched on this, but I don't really see Hasan as an 'endorsement' person. It's not so much him endorsing people, but being that actual Joe Rogan of the left figure whose platform is a kind of boiletplate for progressives to launch themselves on. I don't even particularly like the term Dem Tea Party for this reason because it's not specific. And something like "are they going on Hasan's platform?" feels like a good indicator of where electeds sense where progressive energy is currently sitting vs not. There has been 33 progressives candidates with primaries thus far with some kind of major org endorsement (OR, JD, WFP, DSA, etc.) and the majority of them went on Hasan's platform to promote themselves to leftist audiences. Those who didn't but were part of the 33: Challenging Dem Incumbents (2 out of 12) Brad Lander (obviously promoting with someone who is anti-Zionist wouldn't help in this district) Mai Vang Running in Open Seats (5 out of 16) Robert Peters / Junaid Ahmed / Anthony Driver (Hasan really wasn't doing this as his "thing" as early as March and it feels like Kat being the only progressive who had the CPC actively endorsing her opponent and going on Hasan's stream for left-wing media lines up) Frederick Hayes (he didn't need any other endorsement... Crockett basically gave him her seat - upgrade! ddd) Peggy Flanagan (Senate races look like something Hasan still needs to try and breakthrough in terms of being a viable leftist media) Running in Republican-Held Districts (3 out of 5) Randy Villegas (the more l'iberal" progressive out of the California progressives) William Lawrence (Will is on Hasan's stream during Abdul's campaign event talking about wanting to come on the stream so it seems it fell through) Angie Nixon (again, it seems progressive House candidates have bought into his platform as viable promotion but Senate candidates still need to be convinced).

Factionialism can get silly cause we can keep going deeper and deeper. I do think though, however, a Working Families Party style progressive has more in common with DSA than a liberal moderate. And in both Aisha and Angie's races, they were treated no differently than a DSA member by the establishment and their opponent. Aisha still got millions of dollars in AIPAC spent against her. Angie still had to overcome donors giving millions to her moderate opponent on the idea he was inherently more electable, on top of dealing with his racist wife's comments.

There's something insidious and intentional about him purposefully using the music of one of the most pro-trans stars there is and using her music in TikTok's attacking trans people.

Oop-

Other polling shows the same trend of negatives on data centers being driven by growing negative association with AI:

I didn't realize it either until seeing it on Twitter myself, but just so people are aware, the Ohio Senate election is a special election. So the 2028 race is actually just the same senate seat we're doing a special election for in 2026. Moreno isn't up for re-election until 2030. So if Dems flip the seat in 2026, it'll be a "try to hold it" seat for 2028.

This doesn't make sense as an argument. "Support goes down if you tell people it's funded through increased taxation" But the support goes back up when you tell them the policy eliminates premiums, deductibles, and copays.

He co-sponsored the Medicare for All bill in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Majority of Americans support Medicare For All, as well as a majority of Hakeem's caucus as minority house leader.

(it's bad that some liberal types might take the below as vindication and not realizing that supporting AI is an economic dead-end)

Excuse the below looking cracked out, I still have no idea how to best lay out the below info, but I wanted to try and lay out the endorsements this cycle for progressive candidates. Money, I think, still is the largest factor, but I do find it hard to look at the below and not think endorsements play a key role in momentum. The below is the same info but sorted by race type (ie: is it an open primary in a blue district, is an incumbent being challenged in a blue district, is it a GOP seat) because such is the real pattern of behavior for how already-elected progressives do or do not engage and endorse. It's hard to take people wanting insurgent candidates to avoid using Hasan's platform seriously when he seems like the only resource so many of these candidates have, especially when already progressive elected officials refuse to endorse them! (Poor Kat having more progressives explicitly endorse against her in an open seat than endorse her )

@Hasan now is the time to get Karishma on stream and help her continue Angie's momentum!! We have three weeks!

WAIT I didn't know THIS was Angie! @dabunique