the sad thing is the inflation is going to make 1000 dollars into the next 2 dollar bill

I've also started writing a short story about the Second Civil War, in which Yang's victory in the presidential race inspires Arizona, Texas, and other Sun Belt states to secede and form the Boomer States of America

if he says he's gonna overhaul the entire welfare system he'll piss off a lot of welfare recipients, boomers and federal workers. "How can I get only 1k a month? I deserve my bloated federal pension."

the Union wins, but Yang is assassinated by a deranged Bill Mitchell

Replace Bill Mitchell with Cantwell. "Yang cucked on me, like Trump. No more!"

@HeroicFool logically arguing against the UBI is pointless, a significant portion of Yang's support is fueled by pure spite

@HeroicFool or bring Zimbabwe levels of inflation. Pay 20 quadrillion dollars for a small bottle of Coke 😂

@mattforney yep, Logo's gone mad as of late

a lot of YangGangers are fine with crashing the economy so long as it makes Boomers suffer

literal Yang Gangs might be better. Sort of like communist forced collectivization commandos. Move in to boomer McMansions, kick them out and confiscate their wealth

Mark Ames wrote about the "spite vote" back in 2004; the spite with Yang's supporters is so thick you'd need a laser to cut through it

about 70% of my twitter feed is yangposting now. stuff is weird

spite is a hell of a drug

I've tried to remain level-headed on the whole thing and even I'M feeling it

I don't blame the nihilist yang posting, but the rationalizers are just pure cope

rationalization is fucking gay

this tbh

unga bunga > big think

also, Elizabeth Warren is now pledging to break up the big tech monopolies if she's elected president

I was thinking Trump would easily win a second term but now I'm becoming less sure of that since different Dem candidates are hitting him on his weak points

If Biden steals Yang's and Warren's schtick drumpf is unironically finished

I'm becoming increasingly convinced of Skowronek's "disjunctive president" theory, namely that Trump is a failed realigning figure who ends up paving the way for genuine reformers in the opposition party

much in the same way that Carter was a failed realigning figure who paved the way for the Reagan years

or Hoover was a failed realigning figure who paved the way for the New Deal

The difference is that Trump is not a part of the current year failed establishment, not even a little bit like Carter

Carter was an outsider

we'll see what ideas come out on top after the first debates. Still think intersectionality will be the Dem losing ticket for 2020

An daily captured one

Easily

his whole shtick when he ran for president was that he was not associated with the Washington establishment, since he was Georgia's governor

and he made moves towards deregulation during his presidency (most notably in the airline industry), but was stymied by his own party, which was still run by New Dealers

similarly, Trump made moves towards ending free trade and mass immigration but has been stymied by his own party

Trump is a failed outsider who won largely thanks to name recognition and desire for change from the Obama presidency. Now he only has name recognition to run on unless he turns things around in this grand game of 69th dimensional chutes and ladders.

the theory from Agnostic (a blogger who talks a lot about Skowronek's theory) is that the Dems, under a pro-worker reformer regime, will be more likely to end mass immigration/free trade, namely by jacking up the cost of labor (minimum wage increases), killing off a lot of the low-profit margin industry that relies on cheap labor

they'll also be more likely to punish businesses that skirt labor regulations

I'm skeptical of that because the Dems are still clearly dominated by the corporate cabal

minimum wage increases will just drive up the usage of migrant workers who pay under the table.

@HeroicFool Stawp poasting

make me

that's why I'm skeptical

a minimum wage jackup would have to be accompanied by harsh enforcement, combined with strict penalties for violators