Talkin' Politics | November 21, 2022

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Adam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85

Rachel Parker @RaichetP

Sean Diller @SeanDillerCO

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“Change The Conversation”

1. True or False
   1. Dems replacing Pelosi is an opportunity to fold in the middle of the map that Dems will squander
      1. https://www.axios.com/2022/11/17/congress-house-democrats-minority-leaders-plan
      2. Hakeem Jeffries - excellent politician but what is the signal to folks in Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa? 
      3. https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=a941493eeea57ede8214fd77d41806bc.1772 From American Prospect: “Keeping cool, making specific requests to authorities who could provide police reinforcements, determined to resume the announcement of the Electoral College votes, Pelosi stood out as the one leader in the Capitol, let alone the White House, who knew what had to be done and how to do it. That encapsulated her strengths as party leader and Speaker; it stands now as her valedictory.”
      4. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3730173-neguse-running-for-democratic-caucus-chair/
2. Yeah…No: 
   1. The Trump Media Industrial Complex - CNN says they won’t cover his every move, days after covering his every move
3. Buy or Sell: 
   1. The Kentucky abortion result is the most important result of the 2022 midterm cycle to set up the 2024 argument
      1. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/15/kentucky-supreme-court-abortion-laws-00066994
      2. https://www.wlky.com/article/kentucky-supreme-court-hear-arguments-reinstate-states-abortion-ban-temporarily-1668531238/41968544
      3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/15/kentucky-abortion-ban-supreme-court/
   2. Ballot measure lost - a lost by a TON in population centers
      1. ​​https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/kentucky/issue-1
4. The Big One: 
   1.  FTX was a Ponzi scheme and now lawmakers have to back peddle as the too good to be true crypto scheme implodes with bankruptcy filing
      1. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/15/lawmakers-return-ftx-money-00067009
      2. (note for myself, from Rachel): lawmakers have all the framework they need right now with actual laws to go after all of these people
   2. We talked about this several months ago that Sam Bankman-Fried had the money to life the Dems up as a mega donor 
   3. GOP snowflakes freaking out about a tech bro mega donor - will the real slim shady please stand up
      1. https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article268921592.html
5. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/ftx-freefall-was-oversight-rcna57098
6. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/ftx-says-could-have-over-1-million-creditors-in-new-bankruptcy-filing.html
7. Crypto impacts https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/crypto-businesses-brace-for-ftx-aftershock
8. Relate it to the heartland - another way to extract money from folks who have little to spare and will take the “rocket ship” chance on a ponzi scheme like this 
   1. From Rachel: St. Louis is home to maybe the biggest crypto bro of them all (Yes, I mean “Bloc” CEO Jack Dorsey)
9. Tom Brady to the Bahamas for FTX?
   1. https://thecomeback.com/nfl/ftx-theory-tom-brady-training-camp-bahamas.html

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