Phil Klinkner

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People need to relax

Anyone predicting overall turnout in next week's election? 2018 (50%) and 2022 (46%) showed big increases over previous midterms (generally in the low 40s-high 30s).

Social scientists have lent our names to calls for electoral system change and rule of law, because of the findings of our disciplines. We should do the same for anti-trans ads, which have dubious benefit and demonstrable harm. My latest at GP/BP goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/social-sci...

His name sounds like an SCTV character

Klinkner's rule of restaurant politics: Dunk on Cheesecake Factory all you want but don't ever, ever diss Texas Roadhouse.

They got Zombie Roger Taney to appear at a Trump rally.

Somebody needs to call Child Protective Services

Go the life of me I will never understand how Scott Galloway became a thing.

Born 1963, so: End of legal segregation Gender equality laws Same sex marriage Lower poverty rate Lower infant mortality Higher median income Higher life expectancy

He's a talented candidate but he really needs to try Cortland or Empire apples.

Trump is going to sow as much chaos and confusion as possible in order to avoid seating elected Democrats. January 3, 2027 is going to make January 6, 2021 seem mild.

Charles Murray's The Bell Curve is the most influential conservative book of the last 50 years.

In case you missed it, I've been hard at work writing :) Got a piece at the University of Kansas Press blog that riffs on my book chapter in a recent volume, looking at the concentration of power in the Trump era kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641185/

Not quite sure what to make of this El-Sayed always seems to be within a point or two of Benson. Benson’s lead relative to El-Sayed’s comes from lower numbers for James.

I’m guessing that 50 or more years ago it was parents cutting off their kids. For example, in 1956 my grandfather cut off my mom for marrying a Catholic.

It’s like the Iran-Iraq War—you want both sides to lose.

Silicon Valley is a faith-based industry www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Nationalize Starlink

Does the Atlantic really think the second Trump admin has thus far been an example of rigorous efficiency?

I saw You Can See Everything last night. It totally lives up to the hype and then some. Probably the most fascinating documentary I’ve ever seen.

The AI doomers are right. It’s going to be the death of us all.

Awesome. Looks like we are finally getting Medicare for All.

Definitely keeping my eye on this

Nationalize Starlink.

A spectre is haunting Los Angeles

Damning stuff, but if you don’t believe by now that Paxton is corrupt there’s probably nothing that would convince you.

When does the federal raid on Kimberly Guilfoyle happen?

This can't help Gavin Newsom if he runs for president. I can just imagine a debate opponent saying, "Anyone who married Kimberly Guilfoyle doesn't have the judgment to be president."

horror story in five words challenge: “Ross Douthat YA fantasy novel”

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🎶The final countdown🎶

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

This is a pretty fun political trivia site. Yea or Nay №59 — Read My Lips 14/15 · Majority Whip 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 politicaltrivia.com/yeaornay

I’m guessing there are more Trump voters in LA county than in any other county in the US.

They should have done this when the university president ran over a protestor’s foot