I've had three political revelations in the last week I need to share.

1. The GOP is down to cultural wars. That's all they got. If they aren't talking about Dr. Suesss and other Culture War touch points, they have literally nothing else to talk about.

2. If all the GOP has is cultural wars, then why fight them on the one topic that they feel good about and probably have the more popular opinion regarding? If they argue that Dr. Suess is being cancelled, I don't think the right response is listing all the reasons why Dr. Suess deserves to be cancelled. Why let them frame the discussion? Its more like, "No he's not/Who gives a sh*t/Is this really the most important thing to you"?"

3. And then ONLY yesterday I learned that the Stimmy Bill is being described as "the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working people in the modern history of this country" (c) Bernie. Why? Because it basically includes UBI for children. How did I miss all that? Oh yeah, I missed all that because in social media folks was arguing over Dr. Suess. That got me thinking maybe GOPers cultural war strategy is finally no longer working and maybe even its a GOOD idea to argue over culture wars so fox news gets its ratings and legislatures can get busy passing more progressive bills.

Anyway, I may be late to the party but if you like me and haven't heard about these hidden pieces of the stimmy bill check out:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRwcm94eS5nb29nbGUuY29tL255X2RhaWx5X21keA/episode/NDRjOWQ1ZmVkM2ExMGIzYWEzNzViNzNhMDQzYmY3NDM?ep=14

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/child-tax-credit-stimulus.html


4. My other thing is less a revelation but more of a reminder is that all political takes on twitter are always wrong because they can never capture the long view.

I was telling my homie about the Child tax credit but he said that sounds nice but what about the 2000 checks that were promised instead of the 1400 checks they sent? SMH.




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