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Chris Sinclair

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Executive Director of FLIP National. If it has to do with first-generation college students, I’m there. Avatar: The Last Airbender enthusiast. Views are my own. Reposts not having to do with FLIP National ≠ endorsements. #WeDidItFirst #FirstGen

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Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · Mar 12

I am the Executive Director of FLIP National, a nonprofit organization that does advocacy work on behalf of first-generation and/or low-income (FGLI) college students at colleges and universities across the country. (FLIP National will be on Bluesky soon.)

FLIP National does have an epic co-sign:

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Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 9h

I feel personally attacked.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 9h

Need to hear @marcelias.bsky.social’s thoughts on this and whether or not this is on @democracydocket.com’s radar.

Seems like a VERY stupid argument Missouri is making, but my guess is Marc Elias is all over it.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 9h

AOC and Jasmine Crockett are my favorites, but I see a lot of people (rightfully) choosing them. So just to offer some variety:

Favorite: Maxwell Frost
Least Favorite: Lauren Boebert

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 9h

I had never heard of Lurie Daniel Favors before watching this video. Obviously that was my oversight because after watching it, I was like “who is this beautiful black woman spitting FACTS?!”

@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social you earned a follow for this.

www.youtube.com/live/C64t4ay...

Zohran Mamdani: Thoughts for Black NYC Voters

YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors

www.youtube.com

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget that people who protest against the government “hate America”.

Almost as if Trump thinks he is the state and that if people hate him, they hate America when he’s the furthest thing from America there is.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 1d

Haven’t you heard from Joni Ernst? We’re all gonna die anyway.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Shit, I won’t even give them my E-mail address just to read a free gift article, let alone pay them money.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Case in point: Claire McCaskill lost her Senate seat to Josh Hawley in the same election where a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage was adopted.

Yet now she's a pundit on MSNBC trying to lecture people who actually won their elections about how to win elections.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

That popularity is also not translating to votes because Democrats aren't talking about these things, let alone running on them. They're not speaking to issues that affect voters' day-to-day lives, which is why voters think they're elitist and out of touch.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

They voted for that guy for a lot of different reasons, including their disdain for Democrats. That kind of illustrates my point; Democrats are so unpopular that they can't win over the voters they need to win over to win elections, and yet they refuse to embrace a guy who's doing exactly that.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

We've already established that it was a lot more than "2 employees sending each other E-mails". The fact that you can't engage with the facts that prove that to be nonsense just shows how weak your position is.

bsky.app/profile/airs...

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 14d

Right, they just worked with the Clinton campaign to devise strategies to discredit his supporters, manipulated the primary debate schedule to minimize voters' exposure to Bernie, and gave the Clinton campaign control over the DNC's finances a year before the primary.

But no sabotage. Got it.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

The more I interact with you, the more I realize that all you do is ignore facts that contradict your argument when presented to you and repeat yourself over and over as if the more you say things, the more true they become.

Things aren't "not substantive" just because they debunk your bullshit.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

And here's proof that raising the minimum wage is popular all over the country.

Seriously, we have enough stupid people in this country and this world; don't procreate. We can't survive bringing more of your level of stupidity into the world.

www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/4/....

Voters Think It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage

Voters support increasing the federal minimum wage to $9. $12, and $17 per hour.

www.dataforprogress.org

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

I said that taxing the rich is popular all over the country.

I could cite dozens of polls for that one, but we'll go with this one:

pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/tru...

Republican Voters Increasingly Want to See the Rich Pay More

The American right is looking more populist on taxes

pro.morningconsult.com

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

But I said they're a hit in Kansas, and they are:

www.ruralgrocery.org/learn/public...

www.ruralgrocery.org

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Luckily for you, my dreams (also known as the realm of facts and reality) have lots of sources to back up my claims.

Municipal-owned grocery stores are actually popular in more places than Kansas even though I only said Kansas:

nourishcolorado.org/policy-in-re...

Policy in Review: A Look Back on 2022 - Nourish

There were many wins for food systems in 2022, and some changes in our state and federal government that will impact our work moving forward. For an overview of 2022 November state and federal election results please read this summary from our lobbyists. Please note that since this was published, a mandatory recount confirmed Lauren […]

nourishcolorado.org

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

There's no way you're a lawyer and you're still this stupid.

Do you really not know that there are no rural areas of NYC? It's NYC; that's as urban as it gets.

But since you brought up rural margins, you can read this and sit yo dumb ass down.

Please don't procreate.

bsky.app/profile/airs...

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Antonio Delgado won in NY-19, a rural district in upstate New York, in 2018.

Trump won his district in 2016. He's the first person of color to represent that district.

He won re-election in 2020 before becoming lieutenant governor.

Are you gonna tell me that NY-19 is "solidly blue"?

Sit down.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

And before you go claiming that this is somehow unique to Mamdani or NYC:

bsky.app/profile/airs...

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Want proof? Look at the excitement for Omar Fateh in Minneapolis.

Or Katie Wilson in Seattle.

Or Graham Platner in Maine. You gonna tell me Maine is solid blue too?

Even though she's trash, Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez won with a similar message in 2022 in Washington state.

So did Summer Lee.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

3) Mamdani's specific ideas for NYC aren't the message that Democrats need to embrace. I'm not saying everyone in America should run on free buses.

But it's a *blueprint* for how Democrats can win. His message is resonating with the voters Democrats need to win back to take back Congress.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

2) I have said repeatedly that I'm trying to get Democrats to adopt a winning strategy and message so they can start winning elections. I keep saying that, yet you keep blabbering on about how all I wanna do is bash Democrats.

Easy to make your arguments right by just ignoring what I say.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

That's unmitigated nonsense. No one is not receiving Democratic messaging because I'm criticizing Hakeem Jeffries.

Do my Bluesky posts stop Hakeem Jeffries from holding press conferences? Or going on cable news shows?

Does it stop Democrats from E-mailing people?

This is truly nonsensical.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

1) I'm "stepping on Democratic comms"? So because of everything I'm saying, Democratic messaging isn't reaching everyone Democrats are trying to reach?

Are you serious? You keep coming back to this wild notion that my being critical of Democrats somehow diminishes the reach of their message.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Instead, Democrats allowed him to get away with just putting out statements saying he doesn't support the package. It's a different level of pressure to make him put that no vote on the record, especially since he didn't seek re-election after torpedoing the bill.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

Putting the bill up for a vote at the $3.5 trillion level would have made it clear that the rest of the caucus was on board with the bill even after progressives compromised and they had a deal in place to pass that bill and the bill that Joe Manchin did support at the same time.

Chris Sinclair @airsinclair28g.bsky.social · 2d

It's not about him "being devastated"; he literally made money from voting no on the bill, so he was never gonna be "devastated". That's the entire point; negotiating with him was pointless because he was never gonna vote for the bill anyway.

But of course, Democrats don't know what BATNA means.