Motown Bombers Posted Friday at 02:46 PM Posted Friday at 02:46 PM 11 minutes ago, mtutiger said: The media has a lot of issues and I've criticized it plenty, but to at least some extent, I've come around on the idea that Democratic electeds bear some of the blame in the sense that they are not nearly quick enough to get in front of a camera and let it fly whenever various things happen. They are very different people with very different personas, but this is why AOC and John Fetterman are both very effective: they put it out there, it isn't airbrushed or combed through by consultants. And if they **** up when putting it out there, they are quickly pivoting to putting more stuff out there that will get at least some coverage. Aside from these two, I think we've seen some spines from Democrats outside of Washington (ie. JB Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, other Governors and AGs mostly), but the Washington set, particularly in the Senate, have been really ineffective in this moment. To that end, I don't know that it makes much of a difference, but I've called and emailed by blue state Senators multiple times in the past 10 days to plead for them to use their platforms more effectively and rise to the occasion. Even if we agree more with them, there's still value in holding their feet to the fire and demanding more effective representation. Unfortunately Fetterman worries me. He's flirting too much with MAGA. He has no principals and just goes whichever way the wind blows. Quote
mtutiger Posted Friday at 02:51 PM Posted Friday at 02:51 PM 2 minutes ago, pfife said: Yes, it is. Michigan Public mentioned it several times this morning, they said it's 25% on Mexico and Canada, 10% on China, and apparently he's considering exempting oil from Canada to keep gas prices down. Of course, we all remember he said consumers don't pay tariffs which if true wouldn't need to exempt oil to keep gas prices down. There's this tendency by some to assuming that absolutely nothing can damage Trump politically, but the fact that his people feel the need to exempt oil is an example of this not being true. Quote
Tigerbomb13 Posted Friday at 02:54 PM Posted Friday at 02:54 PM 7 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said: Unfortunately Fetterman worries me. He's flirting too much with MAGA. He has no principals and just goes whichever way the wind blows. He seems to be following a Sinema type path now, unfortunately. 1 Quote
Motown Bombers Posted Friday at 02:57 PM Posted Friday at 02:57 PM 1 minute ago, Tigerbomb13 said: He seems to be following a Sinema type path now, unfortunately. Sinema used to be a leftist like Fetterman and Green Party. So done with these so called progressives. We would have been better off with Conor Lamb. Quote
romad1 Posted Friday at 03:04 PM Posted Friday at 03:04 PM 6 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said: Sinema used to be a leftist like Fetterman and Green Party. So done with these so called progressives. We would have been better off with Conor Lamb. Left/right do not matter. We need principled people. 4 1 Quote
Motown Bombers Posted Friday at 03:16 PM Posted Friday at 03:16 PM 11 minutes ago, romad1 said: Left/right do not matter. We need principled people. Principled means we can eliminate republicans and progressives. I just want a 50 year old Biden and not Hunter. What could have been if Beau were still alive. 2 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted Friday at 03:54 PM Posted Friday at 03:54 PM OK where is the share/embed on the Bluesky app? Copy and paste or what? Quote
Motown Bombers Posted Friday at 04:06 PM Posted Friday at 04:06 PM 11 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: OK where is the share/embed on the Bluesky app? Copy and paste or what? Just go to share and copy the link. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted Friday at 04:09 PM Posted Friday at 04:09 PM Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social Follow From my extraordinary colleague and aviation correspondent Pete Muntean @cnn Quote
mtutiger Posted Friday at 04:51 PM Posted Friday at 04:51 PM Guessing they aren't getting many bites... Quote
Archie Posted Friday at 04:54 PM Posted Friday at 04:54 PM 1 hour ago, romad1 said: President Trump is doing such a good job delivering on what he said he would in his campaign that the left has resorted to posting garbage like this. Pretty soon this will be reported as fact on CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN so the far left heads will explode over more false info. 1 Quote
Tigerbomb13 Posted Friday at 05:02 PM Posted Friday at 05:02 PM 8 minutes ago, Archie said: President Trump is doing such a good job delivering on what he said he would in his campaign that the left has resorted to posting garbage like this. Pretty soon this will be reported as fact on CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN so the far left heads will explode over more false info. Riiiiiiiight Quote
pfife Posted Friday at 05:39 PM Posted Friday at 05:39 PM the right showing off that famous sense of humor Quote
pfife Posted Friday at 05:46 PM Posted Friday at 05:46 PM Wow. What an absolute failure Trump is. Promise obvs not kept Quote
Tiger337 Posted Friday at 06:02 PM Posted Friday at 06:02 PM 1 hour ago, mtutiger said: Guessing they aren't getting many bites... They did something like that in Massachusetts state government once. The only people who accepted were those who were planning on leaving anyway. Quote
Motown Bombers Posted Friday at 06:07 PM Posted Friday at 06:07 PM 2 minutes ago, romad1 said: Lets hope they get some game quick. It's funny how Democratic voters complained that Dems were only running on Trump bad, now they demand to have magical solutions when they are the minority. They had to of been raised by helicopter parents. Quote
Tigermojo Posted Friday at 06:42 PM Posted Friday at 06:42 PM When will society understand the danger to us all are these men who have been abused and their minds are warped by violence and they become predators who victimize everyone they can? Nope. Let's deport pregnant women. I believe free mental health care would help prevent so many of our problems with drugs and violence and would save so much money overall. 2 Quote
mtutiger Posted Friday at 06:58 PM Posted Friday at 06:58 PM 4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said: As Sarah Langs would say.... "Weeeeeeee" Quote
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