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Helpful review. Good intel to know that the main floor is closed off. I'd have to say as someone familiar with Sapphire's setup that the theater room does not exactly seem like an ideal place to move things as it just seems more suited for smaller or mid-level gatherings. I'm guessing the floor dances, since they were out in the open in that large theater setup, were tamer. One advantage the regular main room had is there were always a few chairs tucked away underneath that huge staircase (between the two stages) which always allowed for the best dances/grinding.

There is no question that in the wake of Kamala's loss, Dems and their strategists still don't understand why they were shellacked. And they are making themselves look even more stupid with their explanations. I too have noticed endless use of the phrase (or close variant of the phrase), "we have to look at our messaging" spouted on the cable shows by the cadre of Washington Dem consultants like Karen Finney, Maria Cardona, Jamal Simmons and the like. Any normal person knows the economy sucks and inflation is rampant, and that the country is being overrun with mass immigration which is straining every facet of civil society. These Democrat consultants are out to lunch. They can't stop talking about "comms" and "messaging." I don't see them fixing this in time for the next cycle. They are too woke and too dumb. I think they run Newsom or Shapiro in 2028 with either Whitmer or Buttigieg as the VP and lose again.

^Yes. The Dems keep trying to run the 2008 playbook, hoping that people will turn out in droves to elect "the first this" or "the first that." I mean, I get the allure of it because Obama's coalition was like hitting a straight flush: 90-96% of the black vote, 65% of all other minorities, huge youth support, and a majority of women. Theoretically (key word), hitting that is a near guaranteed win in modern America. The issue for them is that was a one-time thing (though replicated somewhat in 2012 since it was Obama again). It didn't work in 2016 and now it failed again in '24. The economy sucks no matter how much they try to tell people with their bogus job numbers that it's good. And people have had enough of mass immigration.

I saw a segment about three weeks ago where a pollster was talking to undecided voters. He said what stood out to him most was how young men felt like there was no place for them in the Harris campaign messaging. When being forced to watch one of Kamala's cringe commercials, it was incredible how almost every single person in those commercials was a woman (mostly women of color). Kamala would bend over to hug a little black girl...then the ad would cut to Kamala walking through a factory which for some reason has two women foremen (or I guess "forepersons") and like a 80%+ female staff...then Kamala is talking to a Somalian-looking female doctor, then maybe throw in Kamala shaking hands with a token black guy in a bakery...then it's her speaking on a stage and it's like 96 women and 4 men behind her. I mean, what the actual fuck? I get the strategy was to obviously drive female turnout but this isn't gonna work. To make matters worse, you then had nasty, sanctimonious Michelle Obama lecturing men in the final weeks of the campaign with a dour look on her face to "step up for women" and vote for Kamala, implying they were jerks if they didn't, completely ignoring what their concerns and needs may have been. Just stupid and cringe. I think it was James Carville (noted Dem strategist who got Clinton elected in '92) who said a while back that the Dems had been taken over by "preachy females." I would say preachy females of color. An exit poll from PA showed 51% of Hispanic males backed Trump. That says it all. After Biden dropped out, there really was some genuine question if there would be a mini-primary. But what happened is 500 black women got on a Zoom conference call within hours of the news breaking to get Kamala coronated and block that possibility. This feels like 1980 when Americans sharply repudiated Carter's horrible economy and presidency. It would be twelve more years and two more election losses before the Dems would win back the White House. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't win the presidency again until 2036. It honestly feels like they won't be able to wash away the woke in just four years. The one difference working in their favor now versus then is rapidly shifting demographics...but Trump is now in a position to maybe do something about that.

I agree with the comment about how this is all going to worsen with the attack on the nuclear family. I'm amazed at how Gen Z (i.e. under 24) kids view the world and how far from a "normal" worldview they have. Even just being around in the '90s and early 2000s gave most people a worldview of so-called normal things like having a salaried job, owning a house, envisioning yourself getting married with kids, being part of a stable community, etc. which the kids today don't at all view as normal (probably because it's gotten out of reach for so many of them). The "new normal" for most of them is envisioning themselves becoming Instagram or TikTok stars and just cycling through various sexual partners with no (or very little) desire for a family with kids. Unpacking this will get really political so I'll just leave it there, but Sinclair's experiences in the original post seem to demonstrate these generational differences.