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waynebishop retweeted
For Republicans, losing Texas was like finding out your girlfriend is dating a lesbian. You knew she was unhappy, but you didn't think she’d go that far.
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Monica Lewinsky was 22 when she started having sex with the President of the United States. Bill Clinton was 49 and her boss. She was an unpaid White House intern. They hooked up nine times in the Oval Office. Then her friend from work secretly recorded 20 hours of their phone calls and handed them to the prosecutor. And it was Monica, not the president, whose life was destroyed.
Monica started her internship in July 1995. Four months later she was alone with Clinton for the first time. Their last encounter was in spring 1997. By then she had been moved to a job at the Pentagon.
That's where she met Linda Tripp. Monica told her everything. On the advice of literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, Tripp started recording their calls in secret, which was illegal in Maryland where she lived. And Tripp told Monica not to dry-clean the blue dress with the president's semen on it.
On January 16, 1998, Tripp invited Monica to lunch at the Pentagon City mall food court. She came down the escalator with two FBI agents. They took Monica to room 1012 of the Ritz-Carlton next door. For about 12 hours prosecutors told her she could go to prison for 27 years. She was 24.
Ten days later Clinton went on national TV: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Monica got immunity and handed the blue dress to Ken Starr. In August the FBI took Clinton's blood for a DNA test. It matched. Clinton admitted the relationship. In December 1998 he was impeached. He stayed in office.
Monica says sympathy lasted "five seconds." After that she was called "a stalker, a whore, mentally unstable, a bimbo."
In 1999, 70 million Americans watched her interview with Barbara Walters. She made $1 million from the international rights and about $500,000 from a book. Jenny Craig signed her for $1 million if she lost 40 pounds. They paid her $300,000.
In 2018 NBC asked Clinton if he owed her an apology. "No, I do not." In 2020 he said he felt "terrible" that the affair had defined her life.
In 2021 Monica produced the TV series about her own scandal, Impeachment: American Crime Story. In 2025 she said Clinton should have resigned instead of throwing a young woman "under the bus." "I lost my future." "I bet nobody has asked Bill if he ever thought about changing his name."
He got impeached and kept his job. She got a blue dress, 27 years on the table and a name she can't change.
Some lessons are written in other people's mistakes. Watch it once. Remember it forever.
waynebishop retweeted
Every last kick holds all the information I need for creating the perfect next one.
To get everything from it though, I’ve got to make sure i’m giving everything to it, which means my full energy and attention!
waynebishop retweeted
Paying homage to the ball! A life long partner in crime that has a way of rewarding us with endless discovery!
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One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
waynebishop retweeted
With the loss of governors races in Texas, Ohio and Georgia, there will be only one state of the top ten most populous states with a Republican governor:
Florida.
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“I don’t want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything.”
President Donald Trump picked up a call from @DashaBurns on POLITICO Elections Live and talked to us about the blue wave and how he’s willing to work with incoming congressional Democrats.
Watch live now: politi.co/4AgCofb
waynebishop retweeted
I can't wait to see mainstream media talking heads, pollsters, newspaper editors and out-of-touch academics make excuses and spin if things don't go the way they've so confidently said they would.
The Blue Wave, Obama on campaign, Abdul, Hillary, Kara Swisher, Hasan Piker, the DSA - pretty much all the worst people in America. Let's see what happens...
waynebishop retweeted
Lose Satanists, gain believers. That's what the Bible App does with negative framing - the finding that saying who you’re not for can be more appealing than saying who you are for.
There’s good evidence for this from a 2025 study by Karen Anne Wallach (University of Alabama).
She showed dark coffee lovers one of two reviews of a new dark roast, Folgers Noir. The reviews were identical, except they randomly included one of these messages:
“This is the coffee for you if you like dark roast coffee!” (positive framing)
“This is NOT the coffee for you if you don’t like dark roast coffee!” (negative framing)
Then everyone was told that they’d be entered into a prize draw and asked what they'd like to win: $1 in cash or a $10 gift card for the dark roast, Folgers Noir.
In the positive framing group, 27% picked the gift card. However, in the negative framing group, 40% chose it - a 48% uplift.
Why? We know a product can’t be all things to all people. So when a brand says who it’s not for, the target audience is more likely to believe it will suit their needs.
The Bible App does exactly that, with a clever dash of humour.
If you'd like to learn more, I'm running a training session on behavioural science for better marketing on December 10th.
More details here: tickettailor.com/events/astr…
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When Shara and I first got married, we were about to buy a one-bed flat in Battersea. It was the cheapest we could find, and it was still money I didn’t really have.
Then I found an old houseboat on the river at Battersea. It was rusty and in need of work, but it had once belonged to the polar explorer Robert Swan.
There was also a small island off north Wales up for sale. If I could talk the owners down, we’d have two places for the price of one, and that was going to be my pitch to Shara. They said yes.
The barge and the island together cost us less than that one flat.
We lived on the river for years, and there was a proper community down there. We kept a little boat on the side so we could bomb up and down the Thames, and our youngest, Huckleberry, was born on board.
The houseboat looked like the mad option, and it turned out to be the start of a great adventure filled life as it set the tone for what was possible and how we would go on to approach life. We write off the odd-looking choice far too quickly, in business and at home, usually before we’ve even done the sums.
waynebishop retweeted
Well said
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
waynebishop retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
waynebishop retweeted
Eating with Trump is like dating Taylor Swift. A lot of laughs at the time, but later on they’re tearing you a new asshole.
Proof that humor is a great leveller 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 perfect response @billmaher
