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Your 5 minutes of research still doesn't account for the financial documents provided by Act Blue stating someone gave 80k, despite that person, a self proclaimed progressive, that says she doesn't have that kind of money and only gave $2.50 a couple of times.

Another symptom of TDS is deflecting and going straight to a Hitler comparison.

Hopefully some more evidence of the GOP starting to realize Trump shouldn't be followed.

TDS is a mindset, it's not one thing. I don't think of it as a slur myself, but I don't use MAGA as a slur either. But I was just in Washington with my BIL who suffers from TDS and he uses MAGA and hicks interchangeably and it's clearly meant as a slur, so I would venture most of you will think of TDS as a slur too. In short, kind of think of it as the opposite of MAGA, whom think Trump can do no wrong and anyone that doesn't support them is harmful to their definition of 'common sense' for the country. As a whole I tend to think one is worse than the other in terms of numbers and you wouldn't believe me if I told you which side I thought was worse anyway, but I do think both sides (just me both sidesin' again) has a decent chunk of folks that fall into these terms. Ironically, you happened to point out the hypocrisy I see with TDS folks where they are able to see that with MAGA folks, but fail to realize when they are doing it as well. I'm generally incapable of criticizing anyone without some kind of caveat or disclaimer. People are complicated and I like to try and think about how/why they do certain things. He's a complete narcissist, he's greedy, he's unpresidential, and IMO he should be in jail for 1/6 and possibly some other things (1 of which he was found civilly liable for). I think I have made it quite clear he's a horrible person. I have never voted for him and I won't even vote for people in his party unless it's for local positions AND they don't openly endorse Trump. Yet I point out something fishy with some donations with an org that fundraises for democrats and Benson just happened to be the recipient of some of those funds and BOOM - Red lights go up! You have all the ewsieg files stored right up front and ready to go. Did ewsieg actually spend time complaining about a democrat when Trump was president? Check! Did ewsieg actually spend time complaining about a democrat back in 19-23 when Trump wasn't the president? Check!! Why does this ewsieg fool keep on complaining about democrats!!! He must secretly love Trump. Who cares that Whitmer signed a bill that led to the death of a man, why won't ewsieg just point out car insurance rates dropped (and not point out that we're still one of the worst states for car insurance rates and that we now have worse coverage too) And Ewsieg complained about Nessel and Whitmer in 2023 and then mentioned Benson in 2025!!!! The absolute horror!!!! I know why, if ewsieg is wasting his time pointing out something so small like a SOS helping her friend get out of a fraud charges or a disabled man dying because the Gov failed to understand the consequences of what she was signing, it must be he secretly wants Trump to win, because these women bash Trump regularly, so they are the solution, not the problem. Therefore ewsieg must hate women. Especially women that don't like Trump. Bingo! I know you folks blame Tigerholic and Archie for us having to deal with Trump again. I do as well, but I also blame left leaning folks, some on this site, that can no longer view anything with an independent lens. Democrats can't be criticized because IMO, you folks feel any bad press on dems gives Trump and MAGA more ammo. Plus how can someone do something bad if they hate Trump? IMO, some of you guys are the ammo that is all MAGA wants and needs, folks that can't criticize your own side but hyper criticize anything you can tie to Trump. Trump is horrible. I, like many of you, am very concerned that we can recover from him, assuming we even get past him with the same type of government we had for the 200+ years prior. His entire 2nd administration has been fueled by how the media and folks with TDS dealt with him the first time around. Kids in Cages!!!! (Oh never mind, those pics were from when Obama was in office. Maybe we should have just focused on the fact that Trump pursued policies that led to more separation of children from parents than was done under Obama which in itself is very bad? Nah, that's not as catchy as what we ran without knowing the full story first, so let's just keep saying Kids in Cages and hopefully no one will read this fine print ) I don't want to get into naming everything, because there was a tremendous bit of bad things that happened in the first admin and even most of the overhyped issues still weren't good policies even if they were as horrible as they were made out as. But because of the hypersensitized overreaction on every subject, many folks saw Trump refuse to back down and then noticed some of the article retractions and media frenzy die down. Many interpreted that as Trump must not be as bad as they were being told and some that weren't even traditional republicans beforehand started to fall into his MAGA cult. Fast forward to this 2nd admin and Trump is doing exactly what every non Trump voter feared, he learned from his first term. Now he doesn't need to worry about walking back something he said at a rally or having the White House send some official notice that contradicts what he said earlier. He is simply upping his game and going to the radicalized version of whatever his whim is that day and his MAGA cult expects the media to react harshly. When the media does this, this only validates that they must be right. They didn't get here all on their own though, and while you may not agree, that's (in part) why I feel some of you have TDS and also why it has also hurt our country. That said, I'll take TDS over Trump all day long, just wish we didn't have either.

Trust me, some of you folks on this board have TDS. That said, you're right, there is projection with it too, which is needed by your brain when you're in a cult (MAGA) to be able to rationalize the behavior. His statements on Reiner is not surprising. Unpresidential, undignified, unbecoming, but certainly not surprising.

What media bubble is this guy living in? You're probably right if you're referring only to Fox News, but your normal MSM, CNN, NBC-MSNBC/ABC/CBS, major papers etc, every day I hear about legitimate economic issues. Even the more right wing stuff I listen to is mocking Trump when it comes to prices.

I was thinking about this and I definitely don't like Nessel, but I really don't remember saying a ton about Benson. As for Whitmer, I definitely was pissed at what she was involved in regarding Brian Woodward, but outside of that, I thought i've said good things about her too. Obviously I can't go back to motownsports, but since we landed here in 2021 I haven't created one thread about any of these 3. I didn't want to spend to much time, but I searched for posts I made that included any of their names. I won't even mention Nessel, you're probably right about her. I blame it on her constant screw ups, unethical behavior, and violating her oath of office, but I digress. Benson - 5 posts in total. 2 of them had a complaint that I felt the wait times got worse under her early on before Covid. 1 was about her husband when he got himself in the news and the other 2 weren't complaints. Whitmer - obviously more posts, let's just go back with the last 10 or so: May '25 - Positive on Whitmer Feb '25 - I invoked her and Biden's name when I was calling out some hypocrisy on Tigerholic. Jul '24 - Named her and a few other democrats as likely VP candidates. Jul '24 - Named her and Newsom as waiting for 2028 to run for POTUS. I did make a dig at the Dem talking point of 'there will be no more elections after this one if Trump wins' June '24 - Neutral post, it was about journalism and how they post info they get from admins. Apr '24 - Positive on Whitmer Oct '23 - The Tracy Kornak story, I went after Nessel and wanted the story pushed to force Whitmer to respond to it. Ultimately no one cared that Nessel violated her oath of office and her own policies to protect her friend who was defrauding insurance. Sep '23 - I was pissed, and still am, about how Whitmer and a bi-partisan bill she signed led to the death of Brian Woodward. I know I got on Whitmer towards the end of Covid. I felt she wanted the new status quo, and wasn't following the science. Also didn't understand the God status everyone put on her either, I guess it's because I wanted her barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

They have a Quid Pro Quo worked out. She argues this will affect her appeal, he pardons her at the end of his term. It's clear Trump will pardon anyone that gives him something or at least says something nice about him, he doesn't care about the blowback, but you are right with Maxwell, she's the only one that he is hesitant on, hence why I think he's asked her to just hold off a little longer.

https://news.sky.com/story/releasing-epstein-files-could-jeopardise-my-appeal-claims-ghislaine-maxwell-13479622 Guess who just guaranteed her eventual pardon?

I occasionally disagree with my Governor, AG, and SoS and put it out there to discuss on a political forum which most people get to based on their love of Detroit sports, which the Governor, AG, and SoS represents. I never saw anyone get mad at anyone else for posting about Snyder because he was a man. I voted for all of them, but even if I didn't, I think I should have a right to criticize issues I disagree with them on. It's clear for everyone else here that them being anti-Trump is enough to shield them from criticism, except for Oblong who doesn't think they are strong enough to handle criticism and have to be protected for that reason. Chasfh, you're point on the source is legit. But a legitimate issue, not just in Michigan, but everywhere, is local news doesn't have the investigative journalists they had before. The money is not there and therefore much less scrutiny is being put into investigating state and local officials. Going forward you're mostly only going to have partisan folks investigating the party in power, regardless which state you're in. In this case though, it's not like it's a wild accusation that can't be easily proven or disproven. He's not saying some women he refuses to name is involved, he's giving names and exact donation times and amounts. He's even going to that women and she's flat out saying that the information he has must be wrong because she didn't give that much. Personally I think it's worth taking that next step and verifying. Instead, Act Blue and its supporters don't even want the question asked, so you guys are doing what you do: Redirect to Trump. Attack the source. Attack the person that brings it up as misogynist (or racist, or ageist, etc).

FWIW, I suspect Act Blue and WinRed both try and push folks towards reoccurring payments towards candidates (No different than any other business). I will go further and say that WinRed, probably at the lack of morals from the party leading them, pushed it in a way that at least can be deemed unethical. I wouldn't be surprised further if it's tougher to stop those payments if you gave to WinRed than if you gave to Act Blue either. While everyone says I 'both sides', even I'm not even pretending to give each the same benefit of the doubt. But that doesn't mean the other side may not be doing things wrong. And by calling them out for it shouldn't be called 'both sides'ing'.

Gehringer, while I give everyone here the benefit of the doubt, you are hold in higher regard than most. You are one of the few that can occasionally smell some BS being thrown at you from your own side and acknowledge it. You are absolutely right to say there is no definitive proof this was a lab leak. You are absolutely right that science has shown that such a thing can happen naturally. Honestly, I would not even put my life on the line to bet that it was definitely a lab leak..... but c'mon, you and I both know that if I bet my 401k on it, I'd probably be a whole lot better off. And trust me, the US knows too.

What a weaksauce response. Not sure if that is in reference to me or LeDuff, but regardless it's BS.

Pretty sure every person in this forum but 1 or 2 of us still believes a bat infected a pangolin 1000 miles away from Wuhan, but got shipped up there and via a wet market, began Covid, yet I’m still able to set that aside and assess new stuff you guys add here. Also looking forward to you guys citing LeDuff when he goes after our next Republican governor.

Haha, this response is awesome. LeDuff tracked down a Michigan person based on research he cited from another person that has noticed many circumstances like this. LeDuff chose to follow up on this one example. What evidence do we have that WinRed was being unethical? If you google it, you'll see many articles regarding Blue state AG's investigating it because WinRed 'misled consumers'. But all you will see in those articles is that they detail those AG's complaints. In the last year, many red state AG's have done the same to ActBlue but not surprisingly, you won't see a ton of articles about it (Gee, I wonder why?!?!) So because there are articles saying what Dem AG's are complaining about, we have proof, but because we don't have a ton of articles detailing what GOP AG's are complaining about, there is no evidence....lol. One of the Trumpy responses I remember hearing as a defense of WinRed was that elderly people just aren't as good with technology and probably didn't realize they were setting up reoccurring payments. As such, please realize your defense of ActBlue sounds just as Trumpy. One thing that seems like it could easily be proven though, this women doesn't seem to think she gave more than $2.50 cents a few times. I would think she could easily confirm if her checking account has 80k less than she expects. If 80k wasn't pulled from her account, but more along the lines of the $2.50 change a handful of times, then where did that money that ActBlue gave on her behalf come from?

That's for an individual though right? The article says this lady only gave 9 donations to Benson, 7 dollars and then 8 more donations every month of $2.50 cents. Would you set up recurring donations to a candidate for governor if you weren't even sure if you were going to vote for them either? Because she says she told LeDuff she wasn't even sure who she was supporting yet.

I can assure you LeDuff is not working for Trump in investigating this. He focuses on local and state level, so whoever is in charge, rest assure LeDuff will be looking at them. If you read his article, he found a local women that ActBlue states she donated over 8000 times and over 80k. When asked about it, she said she's donated a few times, but not this much. Definitely seems fishy, but again, maybe nothing illegal and they just prayed on an old women and are glad she didn't realize she was giving reoccurring donations. If that's the case, we can just all ignore and move on as that would only be unethical if Trump was doing it....amirite?

If they are guilty, all they need to do is admit it, don't apologize for it, claim the investigation started under Biden, and Trump will pardon all involved.

LeDuff is quite a character, but if he goes sniffing somewhere, there is usually something that stinks. I mean, we know from Trump and his auto-renew donations that he conned people into does indeed happen, so maybe there is no money laundering going on and Benson and dems are simply stealing money from their supporters. Either way, not good.

https://enjoyer.com/jocelyn-benson-grassroot-fundraising-smurf-lie/ Looks like ActBlue is just a money laundering group to funnel illegal funds into Democratic campaigns. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

I listened to a little and he is fixing the FAA by no longer 'putting copper into the fiber' because you 'can't just do that, it doesn't work that way'. Ironically I was helping a co-worker review some inventory of our TDM aggregators, which is exactly that, bringing copper connections from customers and putting it on fiber. It's an older technology, we are trying to phase it out as well. Still, it's not going to stop planes from crashing (as Trump alluded to right after making that comment.)

I was a little lost on this response to I re-read this page and realized I misread the Twitter quote I quoted. I read it as Mace's consultant was resigning because Mace wasn't loyal to Trump and Mace's consultant was now joining forces with Rand Paul. I apologize for the screw up.

Doesn't most MAGA think Rand Paul is disloyal to Trump? Just a whole lotta crazy going on around Mace.

Exactly, it's like the left and Science.

A person critical of the border and says 'Open Border' to point out the same issues we all agree to (Except Pfife) and that means they are dishonest and probably a racist.... but I went off the rails? My guess is we are probably pretty close on immigration, but there are legitimate reasons for disagreement. Simply labeling disagreement as dishonest and racist isn't helping your cause. I don't think Civil Rights leaders, democratic politicians, and all the 'peaceful' protesters with BLM were dishonest. They saw a legitimate problem and IMO, were a bit misguided at the scale and direction of it, so while I would like to see police reform (screw getting rid of qualified immunity, but lawsuits should be paid out of their retirement funds), I vehemently disagreed with those leaders that it was an endemic, an epidemic of cops killing black people, or that policing was started so it could kill blacks and continue enslavement. My guess is most people don't believe in those comments either, especially here. My guess is that most of you were probably a bit more sympathetic to those leaders and even if you disagreed, you either participated in BLM protests or at minimum, supported them. Harsh words and phrases sound a lot more harsh when you disagree with them and softer when you don't.