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I have been fooled before, but i'm starting to come around on Green. I don't think she's bright, but I am starting to think she went to congress for 'the right' reasons. (I'm not advocating that her 'right reasons' were good, just saying she may have truly felt she was fighting for the good) It took her some time to realize the new swamp was the same as the old swamp (possibly worse). At the time she appears to have decided to publicly go against Trump, that was still a death sentence though, especially in hard right leaning districts. So choosing to run might have actually looked like less serious action than stepping down and using the media like she has to put doubts in MAGA minds. It's not all about using Carlson and Green to flip people from red to blue either. I didn't flip to blue in 2016, but I didn't vote red either. So they may not flip folks, but it can cause them to not support the GOP either. I suspect not all of you will agree with that last statement, but man, when I point out something shady Nessel did, or something stupid Whitmer did, even though I voted for them and will continue to vote blue until a major political change within the GOP, it's met with fire. Winning over voters from another party is a home run, but disenfranchising them from their own party still puts runs on the board if you get enough of them.

So, I hate that we have, for the most part, moved away from this path. That said, it was not 100% for political reasons. Car companies didn't want to be left behind and it got to the point where they were expecting growth that our infrastructure could not support. You could argue there was political reasons that kept them pursuing even when it was clear the growth they claimed they would have with EVs clearly couldn't be supported. Some companies like Toyota were worried about that early and focused more on hybrid growth as a logical next step. Now add in the AI bubble and there is even more constraint expected for our energy grid. But yes, it would have been nice to have a thoughtful administration that understood nuance and wasn't all 'clean energy BAD!'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/politics/lafayette-park-fountains-trump-contract.html Now I understand the Kwame pardon, he must be consulting for the administration.

There has been a lot of reporting lately on how unhinged he was after the first plane went down. Sounds like Caine made sure Trump would only get updates and not be involved in any decisions related to the mission. This might just be a continuation of that with Trump, but I suspect it wasn't related to the nuclear codes unless it was something real general, like Trump saying 'you know I would send nukes, they need to know that'. I mean, that's crazy too, but not to the point of what was reported.

Jon Stewart finally understands the 3d, 4d, and even 5d chess Trump plays while everyone else is playing checkers. He apologizes to Trump as well.

I saw reporting that indicated this was debunked. I feel like if there was any truth to it, it would be all over the news right now.

Hungary just took a hard turn to avoid jumping off the cliff into illiberalism. The left played a huge part by endorsing a conservative, a conservative that they don't agree with much on, except that illiberalism was not the direction they should be going. The left in Hungary in no way endorsed hard right policies, they simply didn't want Orban who was a much bigger threat. They know can regroup and focus on improving Hungary now that it was saved.

One you missed was Rogan. And not the decision not to go on, but whoever thought it would be good to lie about the reasons. The campaign could have simply stated that scheduling didn't work. Texas wasn't a swing state hence Kamala didn't need to spend money visiting it. Instead they wanted it entirely on their terms and when they couldn't get that, they blamed Rogan. So they not only didn't court the base that Rogan's show has, they alienated it. Kind of related, Arsenio Hall was just on Rogan and I listened to them talk about Clinton being on and how they offered an interview with Bush as well, but Bush declined as it was 'unbecoming of the presidency'. You could argue Clinton won in large part to what his appearance on that show meant to his campaign. In seeing Hillary in interviews now, I think she could have came across very well on Howard Stern, who knows what that could have done. Just not sure if Kamala has the charisma to make it happen, but wish she would have tried.

Chuck, why are you so hung up on Kamala? None of those reasons are enough to justify a vote for Trump! Trump is the real issue and you keep on blaming Kamala for everything! Just joking, I agree with everything you posted. Just thought it was funny that i'm in this thread praising Whitmer and you're criticizing Harris.

Her campaign, that was definitely a flub.

I live in a community that easily could have lost Selfridge Air Base if it weren't for goodwill capital that Whitmer got for being the better person and agreeing to try and work with Trump. Michigan and the rest of the great lakes states got the added benefit of additional funds to help keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan too. In Whitmer's case I don't think she capitulated to Trump either in order to get some benefit for this state. Additionally you can make the argument that if Trump didn't get to pick the cabinet he wanted, that cabinet may have shielded him from being the trainwreck he is, arguably like they did his first term. Allowing Trump to pick his own cabinet, which an elected president should be able to do unless he's putting outrageously unqualified folks up for nomination is arguably one of the biggest reasons we're starting to see cracks in MAGA and unprecedented likability numbers in a time of war like we're seeing now.

If he keeps this up, does he go into the HOF with a Dodger, Yankee, or Mets hat?

Ahh, I took it as the guy mocking religion and laughing at the fact that MAGA didn't get pissed until Trump mocked Jesus with a picture, but mocking jesus with his actions over the years was fine. To me, I saw enough prior to 2016, but I'm still completely lost on how he maintained support after 1/6/21. But at this point, if it leaked he demanded his TP to be under vs over and that lost him more votes, I'm all for it.

I might be annoyed at where they put their 'red' line, but happy when folks realize it's been crossed.