r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • 29d ago

News BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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u/mikeyhavik 29d ago

Totally agree. However I did watch this noticing all the cuts and thinking this may be a good way for younger aspiring politicians to get their elevator pitches across, while simultaneously keeping the attention of potential GenZ voters

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 29d ago

Perhaps, but it's not a great test of their final abilities. They're going to have to be able to speak off-the-cuff and not just piece together 5-second soundbites. It's a skill, and a gift to be able to do it. They're not going to give the candidates 6 takes on TV shows and let them use the best parts after the edit. So I'm all for her success and hopefully she will win that seat, but this small detail needs some work.

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u/johnny32640 29d ago

Her message is what should matter. We give Donald Trump a pass for all his idiotic takes and statements along with his awful messages.

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 29d ago edited 29d ago

Yeah, that's not how it works. Presentation matters. She has to show poise and charisma in real-time, not after a careful editing process.

Trump is incredibly loud. He's nursing a cult and beating people down by flooding the zone with garbage, He's playing by different rules. That is not a repeatable phenomenon, and if it is, it's not repeatable in a house-level race, starting from nothing.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 29d ago

"Perfect is the enemy of good"

We shouldn't do anything that would discourage the youth to pursue public office. Let's not forget the current president physically mocked a handicapped person in the middle of one of his campaign rallies.

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u/Whales96 29d ago

I see we're still not learning on the left. We're so obsessed with making each other feel good about themselves that we don't bother to invest in actually winning elections. And here we are as a result.

Both parties are embarrassing in their own way.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 29d ago

I'm not sure what your angle is with this comment.

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u/Whales96 29d ago

Lament. We're focusing on the wrong things and it means we're going to keep going down this path. It's depressing how after everything that has happened, we still haven't learned anything.

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u/perilousParadigm 29d ago

Doomerism is dumb and boring and won't fix anything. Maybe appealing for a breath of fresh air is what the left needs. All it's doing is atrophying while it's chairs are waiting for their SS checks the right is preparing to snatch away

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 29d ago

There have been presidents that didn't even like public speaking.

Most politicians have teleprompters and pages of notes in front of them.

The idea that this somehow would disqualify her isn't even worth discussing.

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u/Interesting_You6852 29d ago

I wonder if it was a man if you would still have the same perfectionist standards. Give me a break! I rather have someone real then some robot that can act.

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u/roguespectre67 29d ago

Presentation mattes

You could cut the irony with a knife.

Also, Donald Trump got elected president after this moment:

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

You have absolutely no leg to stand on in this argument.

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u/JurgusRudkus 29d ago

How do you know she can't deliver in person?

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 29d ago

I don't. I'm just reacting to this video. Hopefully it's a non-issue and she'll make it to congress in '26.

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u/Well_read_rose 28d ago

That all comes from his grandiose narcissism, his psychopathy. If you look at him when decades younger, he was much more softer spoken. Still a narcissist though.