[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Nate Silver says this inane drivel about BlueSky progressivism like Kamala Harris didn’t just get her ass handed to her in an election by ignoring genocide and campaigning with Liz and Dick Cheney
We need to persuade the Democratic leadership they're barking up the wrong tree. There aren't enough GOP votes to make game worth the candle. They should instead reclaim all the voters they lost since 2020 and promote policies that attract and re-enfranchise those who've stopped voting.
Ah yes, the old "BlueSky is horrible because it is horrible"... argument, without any kind of explanation as to why that is.
Because we don't tolerate disingenuous right wing trolls.
I'm not a political point person, but I'd be more inclined to believe someone posting as a pundit if they checked their posts for grammatical & spelling errors, than someone who just let fly without checking their homework.
Nailed it
But Republicans should go full tilt on X-ism... Be racist, misogynist, attention seeking whores proselytizing their echo chamber because delusional violent rhetoric & disdain for facts really polls well with "normal" Americans.
Who is Nate Silver, and why does he believe he's relevant?
Say what??? LOL!!! :D
Nate's socials content is indecipherable to the same electoral voter he thinks is put off by whatever hes arbitrarily decided "bluekyism" is My mom doesnt know what that means. Get less online nate
I feel bad for these X nincompoops. What a sad state of existence. Forever gargling Elon and Trump's balls.
Nate silver has been right once in his life.
The "normal people" he mentions would be more receptive to Dixie Democrats.
silver has sold out to the maga years ago
Man this really makes me reconsider how I act. Is it too late to support 2028 frontrunner Eric Adams?
Excellent work, WKWH. Poor old insignificant Nate.
Nate should stick to sports gambling
The blue won! The red cheated as usual!! When we fight we win. When they cheat they win!!!
What???
It both amazes and amuses me that they consider themselves “normal people.” No homie—I’M a normal person and I have nothing in common with xitter pundits.
Yeah, says the guy that didn't see the felon coming
'Normal' people? Poor little Nate. How far he's fallen.
Do not agree! BS provides TRUTH & FACTS to people who may be CLUELESS! Also, BS provides a place of much needed SAFE COMMISERATION during this increasingly PERILOUS time in OUR COUNTRY!
Fuck off, Nate Silver.
He was and still is a sellout.
So do you, Willie! Hugs.
Yet the vile MAGA shit posters that have flooded Twitter is what, a net positive for Republicans? WTF is he talking about. Peter Theil must be paying him a shit load to say this stupid shit
I love it when people who hate liberals try to give us advice on how to do better. For some reason it is always "shut up and go away". He is a numbers guy, so he knows how F*ed the Republican party is, which is why he posts crap like that.
Nate has failed to consider that most people want what the pundits (whose work depends on being heard) don't understand. Affordable housing & health care, sensible gun laws, due process under the law. Those "radicals" are mostly on Bluesky. We'll get to dark money in politics too. So they worry.
If it's not important why say this..
meanwhile over on bsky
Nate.. you aren’t truly full of 💩!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nate Silver is paid by Trump supporter and Elon Musk friend Peter Thiel. If he’s attacking Bluesky it’s because they’re scared/mad.
Nobody asked you for advice, Nate. We all already know what side your benefactor, Peter Thiel, is on. 🙄
I mean, I guess he’s good at math?
/2 SALLY: Bluesky. It can be a happy place. An exciting place. A popular place. [CLOSE UP ON SALLY’S FACE] But every day, for some pundits, it is not a safe place. [A TEAR FORMS IN SALLY’S EYE] [VOICE IN BACKGROUND] Jesse Singal. Bari Weiss. Richard Hanania.
There's an excellent WWII film that opens with the narrator speaking names and "mort pour la France". We need a similar phrase, but closer to "Insane From Own Punditry"
"More Pundit Rants"
Trying to remember the last time Silver was correct/informed/relevant about anything…
I think he called the 2012 election correctly.
/3 SALLY: Every day pundits are abused. Taunted. Disrespected. Their contributions are unliked. Their Substacks are unread. They are told that nobody cares. That nobody is on their side. Do you care? Will you be on their side? [VOICE IN BACKGROUND]: Chris Rufo. Elon Musk.
/4 SALLY: For just pennies a day, you can give these pundits hope. You can show them someone is on their side. You can give them a place where they will be cherished. A place where they will not be questioned from the wrong side. A place called home. [BLUE TWITTER CHECKMARK APPEARS IN BACKGROUND]
So good I'm dying
/5 [A FACE APPEARS ON SCREEN] SALLY: How can you look at this face and not feel pity? Is your heart made of stone?
🤣
i look at that face and I feel queasy
Who is this?
Elsewhere in the thread someone says it's Noah Smith. I don't know if that's right.
I thought that guy was making another joke I didn't get.😀
It is.
OK I’m not saying that this is the most generic white guy face ever, but this does kind of look like an AI generated version of Peter Griffin crossed with Jared from subway
Yeah, I have NO IDEA who that generic white guy face is supposed to be.
Count yourself lucky.
I believe this thread is your best ever! 🏆
You get rid of the hair, and that’s Ken White circa 1999-ish.
Oh that’s another “Bluesky is dying” piece right there
I swear I thought it WAS jared from subway when I first saw it.
/6 [SALLY is WEEPING. Two RIVERS of SNOT run down her face gleaming SILVER in the SPOTLIGHT. Her voice is TREMUOUS.] Give them support. Give them respect. Give them deference. Give them . . . hope. [VISUAL SLOWLY FADES OUT] [VOICE IN BACKGROUND] Tom . . . Cotton? Like the Senator? Seriously?
RIVERS OF SNOT! How romantic.
Silver Snot is my new band name. Dibs!
Hey! I already claimed it!
"... and the camping area we have secured is where the western fork of the Silver Snot River meets the eastern fork, this will NOT be our source of water..."
Two Rivers of Snot is my nee metal band
Reminds me of Hemingway's great story "Big Two-Snotted River."
Wasn’t “Big Snot River” a Johnny Cash song covered by the Dead?
You may be thinking of "Big Snot Candy Mountain."
For Sale: Two snots, never blown.
Monster Rainbows on the Two-Snotted. In fact, the original title for the book/flick was "The Two-Snotted Runs Through It."
Was that a UP Hemingway story or a LP Hemingway story?
I can't remember Hemingway ever writing about Les Pauls.
🤣
so maybe that was always just snot running down the faces of all those big strong men coming up to trump?
🔥🔥 tour de force!
OMG This is brilliant!💪👏👍🤣
🏆🏆🏆
This is.. art.
Genius. 💯
Truly!
😂🤣😂 ART.
🤢 a vision ancient oracles would have regarded as a bad omen bravo
The ghost of Shakespeare weeps with joy
Brilliant. 🏆
Two RIVERS of SNOT
I'd say slay but this is like slaughter slay, a medieval bloodbath slay, this needs to become a Broadway musical, SLAY.
Don't forget JD Vance.
I have this overwhelming urge to give him a nuclear wedgie and shove him into a locker.
he's like the 2nd evolution of a will stancil
☠️
😂😂😂
Jarred from Subway?
Probably a pædo as well
Backpfeifengesicht.
Ou aussi, en français, une face à claques.
Je doit construire les mots qui j’ai fait en allemand en la belle langue. *looks up shovel and backhoe* Pelle Tractopelle or pelleteuse I like tractopelle because of the harsher sounds. Une face à tractopelles.
I’ve created some further German words for when Backpfeifengesicht isn’t good enough. Schaufelschlagengesicht Baggerladerschlagengesicht
🎵 HE'S STILL LOOKIN' GOOD! HIS NAME IS JARED! HIS NAME IS JARED, AND HE LIKES TO EAT THE SANDICHES! 🎵
I pity the fool
What did Jonah Hill do?
Please stop—I had abdominal surgery on Wednesday and you’re making me laugh
I AM DEAD, KEN. DAMMIT! GOOD NIGHT!!!!
Hey chat, draw me a picture of a goyish, unfunny version of Jonah Hill.
Not that you're wrong, but that's Noah Smith, who is jewish despite having grown up in Texas.
I didn’t know he was Jewish.
I did a google search on the face and found the same face IDed as Noah Smith. The one below is Nate Silver, so it says.
variety.com/2023/digital... link
link btw variety.com/2023/digital...
If they just learned to ‘Read the room’ and ‘Do Better’ they wouldn’t have so much trouble
Pennies a day isn’t even going to cover the vig for Mr Silver
KEN. gorrammit fuckshitstacks.
Nate site was closed by ABC after it agreed a deal with Trump. Name: FUCK BLUESKY!
This is a thing of beauty, wow
🤣
Who's Nate Silver? Is that the guy who wrote a whole book to justify his gambling addiction? That guy?
fuck all, ken...
Wait. There’s an UNLIKE button? Why am I always the last to know?
For just $10 a month, mere pennies a day, you too can rescue a Democrat. Would you abandon these voiceless, spineless, pitable, pathetic creatures. You are their last hope.
Omg we literally are watching the same aspca ad.
😭😭😭
“We will be deploying the National Guard to Bluesky in the next 2 weeks. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
goddammit ken...
They’re all so gross
Shut up, Nate. No one is listening to your babbling this time.
It's like the age-old question: if 75 million Democrats tell you something is wrong, does it actually make a sound that a political journalist of pollster can hear?
Isn't Nate Silver's ball-gargling, pro-Trump polling bad enough? Now he's gracing us with his insights about social media. Not all that may glitter is gold, but everything shitter is Silver.
I'm so old I remember when Nate was a progressive. It was like, fifteen years ago.
Has Nate Silver been right about anything since 2008?
THE SONG IS CALLED “ANGEL” NOT “ARMS OF THE ANGEL” KEN! My god, today of all days, can you have some consideration 🤣🤣🤣
Give it up for #SallyStruthers! 👏I haven’t heard that name in awhile.
Nate Silver is a paid Russian troll posting from Myanmar on a ten dollar phone
All jokes aside, there's really an anti-intellectual and an infantilizing you of American citizens that despite all claims will always serve the far right. If you believe in democracy, you need to believe that people can be wise and educated.
Good work. Should play on CNN any day now.
This guy is an expert on what is appealing to normal people, and he is here to tell you that the data says that he is appealing and everyone on the web site he doesn't like is unappealing.
Does Nate Silver read what he writes? Any person with a basic understanding of how our government is supposed to work should be horrified at the Trump administration. Bluesky is the only place pointing that out.
McArdle is atrocious. She penned an OP-ED for WaPo claiming that Gov. Lisa Cook of the Fed has some "splaining to do" because made a baseless allegation.
Yeah I saw the headline that OP-ED and immediately closed the tab. One of the most horrible concern trolls ever continues to get worse. Perfect fit for WaPo.
Jury’s still out whether Nate Silver will be found guilty on one count each of concern trolling, tone trolling, or both!
"normal people" lol
Well, alrighty then. Nate has just decreed that progressives are not normal people. The oracle has spoken.
You know, I just don't get this. Bluesky is social media, the modern version of a chat room. I left X because it gave me agita amidst all of the MAGA trash. You don't like what you see here? Go elsewhere. Let people talk to who they want to talk to...
Little Nate must have lost some followers on Nazi twitter.
Nate Silver immediately clicks his heels, thrusting his right arm up and forward simultaneously as if to say, "Are you proud of me, mein tech führer?" He then morphs into a corn cob, as is tradition.
Now I picture Nate Silver in a wheelchair a la Dr. Strangelove.
He's got the strange part down to an art form.
Many years ago now, young Nate Silver had one too many people call him refreshing and intelligent. It was fatal.
“Bluesky is terminally unappealing to normies. Up next on the everything app, here’s our CEO and his AI waifu offering 1,488 recipe ideas for your next celebration of Hitler’s birthday.”
We must secure the sustenance of our people and a dessert for white children
On Mars, where everyone really wants to drive in their Cybertrucks, as normal people do.
Christ do I have to adopt one?
Nate Silver wouldn’t know a “normal person” if one punched him in the nose.
What are the odds that this has already happened? Could Nate calculate those for us?
And would he bet the payroll at 538 on it?
If anyone is planning empirical trials to test this hypothesis, I will volunteer.
As they would.
Wanna bet?
Any chance we could test that hypothesis out?
Remember, Nate Silver now works as an advisor for Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based prediction market, which was founded by fascist vulture capitalist Peter Thiel
Yes, Nate, I'm sure there are HORDES out there who want to follow you.
His opinion. It’s fine.
*than
Is Nate Silver still a thing?🤯
WTF are you talking about?
Did Nate Silver just neg Bluesky, like the way incels neg women they're attracted to (but who don't reciprocate) because of their fragile egos and deluded sense of self worth?
Uh-huh. You can STFU now, Nate.
Aww did poor wittle Nate get blocked
If we "subtracted" those folks, the "left" would be the center and all of Schumer's centrists dreams would come true. Nate can eat rocks! As long as I breathe it will be progressive votes from me.
What are the odds Trump will release the Epstein files?
Progressivism is unappealing to people who are repelled by progress. Those aren't the "normal" people.
lmao two grammatical errors in three sentences for the Greenwald of the statistics world. That said, nothing more makes me want bluesky to stay exactly as it is.
He proves that “good with charts” doesn’t necessarily mean “good with extrapolation of meaning”…
Most of the insanely vocal people, as well as most media networks, don't understand that my children's generation is shifting over into the Progressive side, and their audience is shrinking.
What will happen to the GOP will be similar to what happened to the Whigs and the Know Nothings. If the Democrats keep with their approach, they will become the new Right Wing Party
His text made me laugh Such twaddle
Trying to decipher what he means by the characteristics of Bluesky/Blueskyism. I’ve got: - being unfriendly to fascists - being unfriendly to transphobes (but I repeat myself) - opposing social media monetization - criticizing generative AI - reminding people to use alt text - hating Nate Silver
F Nate Silver.
🔥Bless his heart🔥
uhhh.... if they subtract progressive voices you are left with no left...
Hey Ken, did you see that they removed the taxes on gambling bookmakers and runners? Nate's gonna be juuuust fine. Thiel will pay him 5 dollars an hour, plus tips. He's gonna be stunned when Pete stiffs him harder than a prayer group at an IHOP but
"If you were only more like Republicans, you'd win more." Uhhh... Nate? We tried that.
Repeatedly for 4+ decades
😡@autocorrect That was intended to read: "FORTY-SEVEN #FacePALMS!?!?" (FCK my ADHD?! ;]])
How am I not the voice-over for this
I think the voice-over should be Pee Wee Herman but, unfortunately, Paul is now gone.
I’m going for subtle here
The crossover episode we’ve been waiting for.
😂
Oh, I would opt for a pic of Brett Stephens, but I await the video!
He’s a conservative republican but you dumbasses think anyone who doesn’t cheer for Luigi is a moderate Dem and that’s why Dems lose. Truly ignorant people on this platform.
That's a bit of a self-own.
Dems won in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023(Virginia). Try harder!
What are you doing here? Where is the "block" button?
Dems are winning elections at the state level.
You're on this platform.
Perfect response, Bekkabee 💯
Almost like a big tent includes people with different opinions.
Silver is an insipid gasbag, as is Yglesias
Hahahahahahahahahahhahaha
😂
Welcome, apparently, fellow Progressive!
Literally nothing stops you recording this and releasing it. Plagiarism is only real if a lawyer finds out. 🤷🏾🤪
😂
Hahahahahhahahhhahahha
Not being anti-Lincoln Project here, but Sally Struthers makes the bit funnier
My first thought, yeah, but I'll take Sally Struthers if that's what it takes to get help for these poor pundits.
I would love for him to elaborate and provide more description of "normal people."
50% of people vote against progressivism when they actually like it because conservatives convince them these good things for people aren't liked by God and it will help PoC. The other 50% are irretrievably stupid
Fuck Nate !
That’s why he’s so bitter because no one will. 😬
So True!
May he rot in hell..
Well I agree with him that the leftist takes on this platform make progressivism less appealing to the American public, cause the ones I see are incoherently stupid
That being said, I’d put Nate in that same box too. A lot of his takes are every bit as performative and meaningless but phrases in a way to draw in clicks
If only people would pay more attention to what Nate Silver thinks are important. Which are mostly things Nate Silver has put actual cash money bets on, because that's what he does now.
I mean, I disagree with Nate on this, but he's not wrong.
Well he's wrong in that he has no real grasp on what normal people want, and hasn't for some time. He's "right" in that Democratic Party politicians sure aren't serving those wants and needs.
I think Nate's problem is that he mistook being good at statistics for knowing how politics work.
I'm not convinced he's even good at that. And I say this as someone who has a Masters degree in essentially applied statistics & has seen some of his 'work'.
Nates problem is that he mistook being able to do the math necessary to do statistics with being able to apply statistical analysis in any way that doesn’t align with his preconceptions
This
Also he seems to think sports and politics are fungible because betting markets exist for both.
The king of broad statements that seem insightful and precise.
He is, in fact, wrong. The past 30 years show one Democrat after another trying to build a movement by "triangulating" and they've all failed. Have you considered the possibility that surrendering ideological ground without fight only serves to empower the other side?
Who's ideological ground? Yours? The Party's? The voters'? Ideological purity is dandy. It doesn't win elections. Reluctance to build coalitions doesn't win elections. Elections are won from the centre.
Yes I remember hearing that bit about the center too..30 years ago in college. Tell me what center Trump won from again..twice?
Given a choice between a Democrat who is willing to yield ground to Republican interests and, well, *a Republican*, voters generally choose the Republican because the Democrat has no principles that aren't up for negotiation.
In your scenario, wouldn't voters stay home?
I'm referring to voters as a whole. The Republican motivates their base, everyone else gives it a miss, and you've got a Republican who is now claiming the mandate of the voters. Stop me if you've heard this one.
So in your scenario it's not voters saying, "I am disappointed my preferred candidate has moved to the centre so I am going to vote for the right-wing candidate who is standing firm like a stonewall." Rather the right-wing base shows up and both the left-wing and centrist bases stay home.
I'm not sure the distinction you're trying to draw here. The Republican has things that people are willing to turn out for. The centrist is selling compromise as a virtue, but just comes across... compromised. Nothing to excite people to turn out. Nobody wants to vote for preemptive surrender.
"Ideological purity is dandy. It doesn't win elections." That's a phenomenally wrong claim. In the past thirty years, the only Republicans to win the Presidency have also been the most ideologically extreme. Trump and Bush won where Dole, McCain, and Romney couldn't.
Whereas the only Democrats who could win the presidency were Clinton, Obama and Biden.
Yes, Obama could win. He was the leftist candidate in 2008, though that fact seems to have been buried. Clinton won in 1992 with 43% of the vote because H. Ross Perot had an axe to grind with George HW Bush and made it his mission to deny re-election. (Also, HW failed 'purity' tests himself.)
And Biden beat Trump because Trump was an objectively terrible President. But, in spite of that, and because the Democrats didn't thoroughly bury him when they should have, he resurrected and beat another milquetoast centrist.
You cannot seriously argue that leftists cannot win general elections when a) they are never allowed to be the nominee and b) the center refuses to respect primary results when they lose, siding with Republicans to defeat leftist Dems (See, Ned Lamont, Zohran Mamdani.)
Of course leftists can win elections (and do in my country). Let's do maths and stuff! Imagine a bell curve of voters. You and I stand on the left of the curve. Way out on the right is the GOP. We want to pick a candidate to win the general. Are they from where we are? The centre? Somewhere else?
Meanwhile, the only Democrat to win commandingly has been Obama, who also was the further left (as a candidate) of any we've seen since Mondale. But he compromised his "purity," betrayed his mandate, the country was worse off, and his coattails disappeared.
The anti-"purity" rhetoric is just gaslighting on the part of centrists. It's not remotely rigorously supported. It just expresses their personal desires about what they don't want to fight for. Of course, when centrists reject leftist proposals, that is its own type of purity.
Case in point: the VA governor race between Terry McAuliffe and Glen Youngkin. McAuliffe has a long history of being a great fundraiser and a guy who cannot be relied on for any ideological fight. Youngkin scared voters with CRT. Youngkin won. McAuliffe's brand of centrism was useless.
I heard Nate Silver called Hillary for the election and also that Donna Martin graduates…
What does Polymarket say? Can Nate still write off his gambling losses?
That must be why everyone left X and Facebook to come here.
Nate is so full of shit we should start calling him Nate Sewer.
Electorally speaking it is important for republicans to avoid Truth Socialing, because voters hate Trump’s stupid policies with the heat of a thousand suns.
gosh I used to like Nate Silver but that was such a nonsensical statement
Electorally speaking it’s more important for Republicans to avoid TruthSocialism than rightism. Not that TruthSocial is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make conservatism unappealing to normal people. If you could subtract those the right would win more often.
If we could subtract Nate Silver, America would win more often.
😂😂😂😂😂 I bow to your thread! Utterly Hilarious!
Literally lol’d. Thank you.
The right have got Twitter, Facebook and Truth Social. The left needs somewhere to group and exchange views and ideas. I, for one, welcome not having to spend time countering right-wing nuts and bots. Alternative viewpoints are welcome but not extreme, right-wing nuts. Countering them, is tiring.
This fucking guy.
This sounds like gibberish
"The left would win more often if they didn't represent the left." - a moron
The imagery *Nate sits on a tool*
Wow, I didn’t realize we were such a problem. Good to know.
MLGA: Make the Left GOP Again!
Word salad
Poor Nate. He's been thrown to the curb b/c of his capitulation and he can't stand not being the center of attention any longer. Sad.
If Nate is normal I rather be abnormal; he changes attitudes and views depending on who pays him and by polling the bros on X. He is so desperate for the affection of the kids who beat him up in HS that it hurts.
If democrats would just push republican policies, they’d win!
LOL
I thought Nate was dead.
You know Nate, sometimes I just want to know what people are saying about a basketball game without Nazi’s everywhere
Uh huh that’s just what a blueskyist would say
My bubble: cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, national parks, Scotland, sheep, medieval history, random stuff, shit-talking everyone I don’t agree with politically or morally. Also, what happened to Cuban? I missed it.
Because electing pedophiles are so much more appealing to normal people
I like how Nate Silver identified his entire target audience (Internet liberals) and then promptly decided to shit on them all the time.
slate.com/technology/2...
You got me with Sally F’ing Struthers omg is she still with us?
“Normal people” as in Nate Silver?
Nate Silver sounds like the Fox Entertainment hosts when they are outraged by Gavin Newsom posts.
I didn’t realize Nate Silver was such an asshole
He's such an idiot.
Nate Silver: “Progressives aren’t normal people.”
Nate makes me pine for Glenn and Matt.
The man wanks so hard and so persistently, you wonder if the man holds stock in various personal lubricant companies.
Are people really that afraid of a site that actually bans people for using slurs? Says a bit about them does it
Man, bluesky must terrify these guys!
Nate Silver is a dick.
Perfectly put
But wait. What about fuck Nate Silver till the cows come home?
Dumbass has predictable dumbass opinions. How’s his gambling problem doing?
I'd say the most important thing to avoid is NateSilverism
Whatever Nate is smoking, I want some.
Nate Silver is an insufferable idiot. Can't stand this guy.
"Blueskyism"?🤔🤫😅
They were all normal people.
I'm under the impression that Nate has a bad rash.
Does anyone GAF what that putz says anymore?
Nate Silver is Nay a Sliver of the prognosticator he once was. He's a professional poker player and commercially tied to a sports betting outfit. It's been a *long* time since you could have any faith in his political takes. His rightwards shift manifests through these weird put-downs of democrats.
Nate silver , famous knower of ordinary people
Nate thinks he's a normal person 🙄
It is seriously ridiculous a lot but I'm just a bog-standard wine mom liberal
That gets a follow.
I always get this feeling that Nate Silver has a hidden agenda even though I think statistician types are supposed to be neutral. The vibe is always: Democrats bad.
oh my, I thought Nate was gone
Buy some commas, nate, for the love of Gawd!🤯
Whatever the fuck he thinks normal is, no thanks.
Brutal, but hilarious (and fair) 🤣🤣🤣
According to Major League Nincompoop Nate Silvers DEMs should all be on Eloon’s Nazi hellhole site embodying all the characteristics of Nazis. Because that’s who hangs out there. Not saying this site ain’t a bubble (it is) but JFC, if you hang out at the Nazi bar you’re a f’ing Nazi, k? Thx!
🏆
Leave Sarah out of this mess!
@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social knows what she did
She married Donald Trump’s political origin story. If silence is consent, marriage is super duper consent, ratification and affirmation.
She's just the singer!
Fuck him.
Sally Struthers? You’re showing your age. The fact I get it shows mine too.
Dude has always been this always why does he have a job
Is it coincidence that the country took a huge downturn with Silver's career spiking?
Big bluesky endorsement!
Democrats would win more often if they gave people something to vote for
We aren't getting any of that with the current SCOTUS or the filibuster. The SCOTUS needs to be packed and the filibuster needs to be sacked.
Nate Silver once guessed a map right and made an entire career out of it
To hell with that Conservofascist idiot, who thinks he can poll a virus. What a maroon, as Bugs would say.
Who?
Exactly
Poor Nate. He used to be important, trusted, more often right than wrong. But, alas, Trump has broken Nate. He just doesn't get it. He's been mostly wrong for the past decade. Centrists are leftists for now until we are completely rid of Trump & Trumpism. Too bad his career depends on a horse race.
Is Nate talking to himself again?
As always.
"Blueskyism"? What the hell does that mean?
whoever labeled nate silver posts 'entertainment' instead of 'politics' on the explore/search page deserves a raise! 🤣
dammit ken...
Make him cry more
I SWEAR I'm normal!
Perfection
MWAH!
Think Big Tent, everybody.
OMG. I’d need to report a murder. 😏
Stop having fun you guys. Go out and kick a puppy or a homeless person.
Nate to Bsky: I feel bad for you. Bsky to Nate: We don't think about you at all.
Nate Silver? Standing next to boards on election night on what was it? CNN? Nate Silver standing by a map of the country, pointing, making predictions while red boxes and blue boxes changed numbers for Al Gore, and hanging chads.
Just occurred to me that X already has “the left” but not “progressives on Bluesky,” so if Nate Silver were serious, he would realize that X is currently his “ideal” for Dems, and guess what? Dems are losing BIGLY on Twitter😉 if they were doing great, he would tell Bluesky ppl to stay here
Because he thinks our ideas are a virus? Very welcoming
I have no plans to go back. There is literally no point when the algorithm is controlled by Musk, and he’s also on a revenge tour, just trying to silence Dems on social media by limiting their reach.
Ken got that extra nap today and now he’s rollin’
We must do everything we can to protect our Strategic Popehat Reserves!! Because I’m beginning to think that it’s one of our most valuable resources.
Did Cuban leave us?
Poor Nate.
Got it, progressives? You're not normal.
Nate Silver: Bluesky sucks. Not a single MechaHitler.
What's blueskyism?
It involves Alf hog.
Gather 'rounder children, while I spin a tale old as time. Some call it sorcery. Some a myth. A fable! But long before our fathers, and our fathers, fathers, and our fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, Blueskyism was a magic as strong and unwieldy, as Middle Earth is long and middle'y.
bsky.app/profile/eva....
He’s really calling most Americans “Nazis.”
America needs a Progressive Party. That way, we can all have nice things. (The 2nd meme is titled "America's To-Do List," but it probably should read "Progressive To-Do List for America.")
I thought he changed his name to Nate Gold to curry favor with the current administration
says Mr. Normal.
I don't know what any of the words mean in this post... But I think we're in his head, so it's important to use this source to tell Nate he sucks.
"Normal people" Nate?
The things I'd give to know his lurker account . . .
Tell us again who Nate Silver is? Some irrelevant pollster from days gone by who predicated more election outcomes incorrectly than accurately…? Oh, yeah, that loser. Got it. Fondly, Bluesky posters
Was he a pollster? As far as I know he never actually did any data collection. He just created a summary based on an amalgamation of other people's work.
See? That’s where progressives are going wrong! Just stop being progressive and you, too, could wield power against the weak without shame.
It worked for all the conservatives who gave up everything they supposedly believed in to support Populism and Authoritarianism. Except… now they have Populism and Authoritarianism and no Conservatism and some cult leader whom they must agree with, no matter what crazy stuff he spews.
I find whatever Nate Silver is unappealing And I don't just mean overrated
the "left" would win more often if they were actually the left. The actual left are the ones told not to use "purity tests" for candidates
We have to defeat fascism. Why are people making up straw men like "blueskyism" when we have real Nazis to defeat?
Who's Nate Silver?
Electorally speaking, Dems should stop overanalyzing and start resisting
He's still sore about this: 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: Silver's model gave Hillary Clinton a 71% chance of winning. He got it wrong, so is now a turncoat...
To be fair, saying Clinton has a 71% chance of winning is saying that they believe Clinton has a 71% chance of winning, not who will win. Obviously claims like this are not falsifiable when you can’t rerun reality a bunch of times, but let’s not misinterpret statistics just to take a shot at him.
Oh, right, he is allowed to have a cheap shot at the whole of the... "Bluesky Community" He got it wrong. If Clinton had won. I bet he would have claimed it right? - be reasonable!!
Yes. That’s why he’s an idiot and we, hopefully, are not.
You’re killing me.
