Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroApr 12

Thomas Frank makes prediction for Real Madrid vs Arsenal Champions League showdown

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/12/thomas-frank-makes-prediction-real-madrid-vs-arsenal-champions-league-showdown-22899023/

Thomas Frank makes prediction for Real Madrid vs Arsenal Champions League showdown

Brentford boss Thomas Frank has made a prediction for the Champions League showdown between Arsenal and Real Madrid on Wednesday.

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Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroApr 6

Enzo Maresca makes embarrassing excuse after Chelsea draw with Brentford

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Enzo Maresca makes embarrassing excuse after Chelsea draw with Brentford

Enzo Maresca made an embarrassing excuse for Chelsea's underwhelming performance in their Premier League draw with Brentford.

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Marshall MayerJan 30
Once Dominant Political Party in Dramatic Decay

Hashtags: #IndependentVoters #ThomasFrank #NoneOfTheAbove #Millennials #WorkingClass #Populism #DemocraticParty #Authentic #photography

Source: https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/once-dominant-political-party-in-dramatic-decay/view
Sporting TimesJan 26

Why Brentford signed Michael Kayode — Thomas Frank

#brentford #michaelkayode #thomasfrank
https://sportingtimes.ng/why-brentford-signed-michael-kayode-thomas-frank/

Why Brentford signed Michael Kayode -- Thomas Frank | Sporting Times

Brentford manager Thomas Frank has explained why the loan signing of defender Michael Kayode from Fiorentina is important for his side.

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Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroJan 1

Gabriel Martinelli says Arsenal star is ‘irreplaceable’ after Brentford win

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/01/gabriel-martinelli-says-arsenal-star-irreplaceable-brentford-win-22279329/

Gabriel Martinelli says Arsenal star is 'irreplaceable' after Brentford win

Gabriel Martinelli admitted one of his Arsenal team-mates was 'irreplaceable' after the Premier League victory over Brentford.

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Nottingham Forest NewsDec 22
https://www.nottinghamforest.news/2024/12/22/brentford-boss-thomas-frank-says-he-saw-nottingham-forest-do-something-for-the-first-time-this-season/
Brentford boss Thomas Frank says he saw Nottingham Forest do something for the first time this season: 😅
#NFFC #COYR #ThomasFrank #News
Brentford boss Thomas Frank says he saw Nottingham Forest do something for the first time this season

😅

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Sporting TimesDec 14

Brentford boss Frank rates Chelsea as best team in EPL

#brentford #chelsea #thomasfrank
https://sportingtimes.ng/brentford-boss-frank-rates-chelsea-as-best-team-in-epl/

Brentford boss Frank rates Chelsea as best team in EPL | Sporting Times

There is no team as good as Chelsea in the English Premier League at the moment, according to Brentford manager Thomas Frank.

Sporting Times
Show threadDoug GrinbergsNov 15, 2024

@rbreich
Thurs Nov. 14 8P ET
Will the Democratic Party Finally Change? David Sirota talking with U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna and Thomas Frank (What's the Matter With Kansas?), taking questions

YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdjzmSY1gM
Original zoom call https://www.levernews.com/live-event-at-8-p-m-et-tonight-will-the-democratic-party-finally-change-2/
#DavidSirota #RoKhanna #ThomasFrank

LIVE EVENT: Will The Democratic Party Finally Change? (with David Sirota, Ro Khanna & Thomas Frank)

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Steve Randy WaldmanNov 10, 2024

from #ThomasFrank https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html

(the piece is badly titled.)

Opinion | The Elites Had It Coming

Democrats got exactly what they set out to get, and now here we are.

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Paria sans portefeuilleNov 9, 2024

"[T]hink of all those ebullient Democratic proclamations in the ’90s about trade and tech and globalization and financial innovation. [..] All those manifestoes about futurific 'wired workers' or the 'learning class'… all those speeches about how Democrats had to leave the worker-centric populism of the 1930s behind them … all those brilliant triangulations and reaching out to the right." - #ThomasFrank

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk4.bhv5.1sfpCqNUvNlz&smid=url-share
#2024election #USpol #USpolitics #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #neoliberalism

Opinion | The Elites Had It Coming

Democrats got exactly what they set out to get, and now here we are.

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Steve Randy WaldmanNov 10, 2024

from #ThomasFrank https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html

(the piece is badly titled.)

Show threadAlexander_Anotherskip_DavisNov 10, 2024
@interfluidity yes. This is pretty much the great flaw of the Democrats they think they are the smartest people in the room. When the other side also has some smart people. But hey they keep on drinking the bath water…..
Show threaddbnxNov 10, 2024
@interfluidity He won't 'do nothing', he'll do what he wants.
Show threadBenjamin RossNov 10, 2024
@interfluidity I agree with most of this but not the knock against Harris's campaign. Her task was not to position the party for future victory, but to win (which would have positioned much better than any campaign speeches via labor & industrial policy).
The "opportunity society" messaging was on mainstream media, which reach middle-class Rs but few Trump-leaning workers. In western PA where I doorknocked, the TV ads and lit were heavily into jobs and anti-plutocrat.
Show threadSteve Randy WaldmanNov 10, 2024
@BenRossTransit i mostly think the campaign was lost not because of bad targeting or particular issues, but because the Trump campaign used new media to create a kind of tribe, in which belonging and (mostly false) worldview reinforced one another, in which the tools of a confidence man did their core work, engendering trust. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/08/its-the-parasocials-stupid/index.html
It's the parasocials, stupid

drafts @ interfluidity

Show threadBenjamin RossNov 10, 2024
@interfluidity On the issues, I think voters were overwhelmingly persuaded that Harris would protect abortion more and Trump would cut immigration more.
You may be right about the second part, but the reason Trump could make "gaffes" is that he had a closed right-wing information system that hid them. To me, an equally plausible theory about non-issues voters is that Trump filled a human yearning for the strong man who will fix everything.
Show threadSteve Randy WaldmanNov 10, 2024
@BenRossTransit yeah. i think that’s right too. although i think by emphasizing “strong man” rather than “fix everything” we deny for ourselves an ethical path to compete. he said he would fix everything! he said things would be great, a new golden age. dems are too “reality based” to let themselves promise that anything will fundamentally change. it’s hard to get people excited over the slow boring of hard boards when the other guy is offering an amazing (if brave) new world.
Show threadBenjamin RossNov 10, 2024
@interfluidity I doubt the "fix everything" works without the "strong man." Americans are inured to the confidence man who promises everything, and can see through it.
If you believed the promises on both candidates' TV ads and lawn signs, Trump's ads were overwhelmingly superior to Harris's. He failed to persuade 48% percent of the voters in Pennsylvania and nationally.
Show threadSteve Randy WaldmanNov 10, 2024
@BenRossTransit The thing is, I don’t think he really presents as a strong man on “intimate” social media. I think he presents as a nice, reasonable guy who says some crazy things people who like him are willing to look past. And even if you don’t fully buy “Trump will fix it”, if you think he’s a fundamentally decent who exaggerates, you think “well, he’s going to do his best, he’a going to try”. 1/
Show threadSteve Randy WaldmanNov 10, 2024
@BenRossTransit it’s a bit like the “aim for the stars and you will never reach them, but you will go much higher than if you’d aimed for the tree” inspirationals. if what you see in Trump is a venal, self-interested con man, his grand claims just sound like deception. but if you think he’s a decent guy who overstates stuff but fundamentally means it, it signals ambition on your behalf. /fin