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something that’s not about politics last
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night was just so had it I can’t take it
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I don’t want it I have read that expense
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office all of them and the short stories
10:22
I can’t take it don’t want it but it’s
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not like that was the first time do you
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guys remember 2018 do you remember
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Kansas the night of that primary it was
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ridiculous or in 2016 California like
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how long it took for the results like oh
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it’s just where’s the way you and and
10:38
one of the things that made it even
10:39
worse was like I was tweeting about how
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frustrated I was that people were just
10:43
sharing like like whatever they they
10:46
heard they don’t check it they don’t
10:47
Google it they just share it something
10:49
pops into their head it sounds good like
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you have an inclination you want to
10:53
believe that something is true and so
10:55
people are gonna like and they’re gonna
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retweet what says that they’re there
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right like there was so much
11:00
misinformation and just people not
11:02
caring enough about the material to
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actually Google it like like all the
11:06
stuff going around about the
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like obviously there’s problems with the
11:08
app but like the people who were like
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100% Budaj edge made the app I got it
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and and look we have the disclosures
11:16
that were coming out and and responsible
11:18
people we’re talking about the
11:19
disclosures that they had paid that app
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company okay now before you then take
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that and say and thus he made the app
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and presumably put in some sort of
11:31
backdoor where he could steal the
11:33
election do just a little bit of
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googling like that company makes other
11:37
apps political canvassing apps things
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for volunteers things that campaigns
11:41
would use and so the fact that he paid
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money to that company does not mean that
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he invested in the construction of that
11:48
app he could be buying one of the
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political apps that they already have
11:52
and in fact it turns out that over the
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past year I believe Klobuchar Biden and
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Gillibrand all of them gave money to
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this company presumably for one of the
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political canvassing apps that they have
12:03
sold for some time you know how I found
12:05
out that stuff by googling for like 90
12:08
seconds it was super simple but I
12:10
noticed that when I started tweeting out
12:12
those I guess inconvenient truths nobody
12:16
cared like the people who were like no
12:18
no no Buddha judge definitely made the
12:21
app he stole this thing a hundred times
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as many of retweets a hundred times as
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many likes someone who’s like hey guys
12:27
you know pump the brakes first of all it
12:30
looks like Bernie’s Bernie’s still gonna
12:31
win second of all it looks like this
12:32
company actually has other apps nobody
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cares about that stuff nobody’s
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interested in that is really depressing
12:39
you know because media is a big thing
12:42
it’s not one thing it’s a lot of
12:44
different voices in a lot of different
12:46
forms but the fact that the people who
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are trying to be accurate and reasonable
12:50
are always going to have to compete with
12:52
people who are just their thing is I’m
12:55
going to see what people want to hear
12:57
what they desperately want to believe is
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true and I’m just gonna tell admit I’m
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just gonna say that it’s true and nobody
13:02
ever tweets you know um you know I just
13:05
I want to apologize because I retweeted
13:08
something last night you know sort of in
13:10
the fervor of what was going on it turns
13:11
out that it was untrue I apologize if I
13:14
helped to misinform anyone in the future
13:17
I’m going to be
13:19
but more careful before I spread these
13:20
things and in particular I will not be
13:23
spreading the the people who were
13:26
spreading this misinformation I will be
13:27
more critical of them in particular
13:29
literally no one has ever said that you
13:31
spread things that are false nobody
13:33
cares nobody remembers even theirs the
13:36
incentives are all wrong on social media
13:39
and that is on top of all of the other
13:41
problems of last night that is so
13:43
incredibly frustrating I’m not having a
13:48
stroke down that’ll come later based on
13:51
diet have you seen the Saga comics I
13:54
have not just be reasonable like it’s
14:00
why I’m never gonna be a success
14:01
honestly there’s no there’s no reason
14:03
why would you why would you be
14:04
reasonable yeah nobody at nobody admits
14:06
that they’re wrong that’s where I don’t
14:08
know if you were watching the coverage
14:09
last night but I wanted to add on to
14:11
they were there every conversation they
14:13
were saying no one on TV in political
14:16
media ever pays any sort of price for
14:19
being dead wrong and I wanted to add on
14:21
say you’re right but it ain’t just TV
14:24
nobody in any form of media ever pays
14:26
any sort of price for being wrong not if
14:28
they were wrong in a way that reassured
14:30
their followers their audience that
14:33
things were gonna be okay who who ever
14:36
gets mad at a person for a horrible
14:39
prediction a prediction that when it was
14:40
made was obviously not true nobody cares
14:42
about that they want I want you to be
14:45
wrong in a way that makes me feel warm
14:47
and cozy I want you to tell me the sort
14:49
of things that are a verbal light
14:51
stroking of my head to make me feel a
14:53
little bit better that’s that’s all
14:54
really anyway the reason I talk about
14:58
this now is we were on night one we have
15:01
got a bunch of these nights to go and
15:03
unfortunately I don’t I don’t think that
15:05
any are gonna be as bad as Iowa but
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there’s gonna be a lot of bad nights and
15:08
that’s really unfortunate okay everybody
15:12
I would love to talk longer but we do
15:14
have a show coming up and on it I’m
15:16
gonna be joined by Jordan you’ll as I am
15:18
every other Tuesday you know me also
15:20
were to talk about last night but also
15:21
author podcaster and founder of Vox Ezra
15:25
Klein is also going to be in studio to
15:26
talk about his book about polarization
15:29
which seems especially relevant this
15:33
both of last night and with the State of
15:35
the Union so should be an awesome
15:37
conversation there we’ve got so much
15:39
we’re gonna talk about I have read do
15:41
and I read the first one I wasn’t a huge
15:43
fan maybe I need to read more of them
15:45
but anyway thank you as always for
15:47
joining me this a little live live video
15:48
in ten minutes the full show starts so
15:51
definitely tune in there I’ll see you on
15:53
the other side
Iowa Democrats Say They Want Generational Change
A Wall Street Journal survey of Iowa Democratic county leaders also found support for a contender with appeal to ethnically diverse voters
Democratic leaders in Iowa, the starting line for the party’s wide-open 2020 presidential contest, are hungry for a young standard-bearer who will usher in generational change, which is erecting a potential roadblock for the three best-known prospective contenders for the nomination.
.. Of the 76 Democratic county party leaders who responded to the survey, 43 said they would prefer a young candidate. They said they want a fresh face and expressed interest in potential candidates who haven’t run for president before. They yearn for a nominee with the energizing charisma of President Barack Obama to counter President Donald Trump’s rowdy base. Most said gender wouldn’t be a determining factor.
.. Those are hurdles that could trip up three of the best-known potential candidates, former Vice President
- Joe Biden, and Sens.
- Bernie Sanders of Vermont and
- Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts,
each of whom will be at least 70 years old when Iowa Democrats caucus in February 2020.
“They’re all too old,” said Chris Henning, the 71-year-old Democratic chairwoman in Greene County. “It’s not white bread America any more, we’ve got to get with the program.”
.. “We have to look for the Barack Obama scenario for the party,” said Bryce Smith, the 26-year-old Democratic chairman in Dallas County, a booming Des Moines suburb that is the fifth-fastest growing county in the nation, with a 32% population increase from 2010 to 2017. “I can’t see how my generation, 18- to 34-year-olds, can get excited about a 70-year-old candidate ever again.”.. He said he is intrigued by Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who narrowly lost a Senate race to Republican Ted Cruz. “Beto, he sounds and talks like he’d be Barack Kennedy,” Mr. Smith said, suggesting that Mr. O’Rourke had charisma akin to Mr. Obama or the Kennedys... New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.. When Ms. Harris, 54 years old, appeared recently in Cedar Rapids, “I got calls from people in counties 100 miles away” hoping to attend.. The clamor for a generational change may take its harshest toll on the 77-year-old Mr. Sanders if he decides to run again...Ms. Warren, who will turn 70 in June, declined to run for president in 2016 despite a high-profile effort to draft her into the race. The delay may wind up hurting her chances in 2020... Some said they might make an exception for Mr. Biden, a 76-year-old who was still in demand as a campaign surrogate during this year’s midterms. One person defined “young” as “less than mid-70s.”