Trumps Presidency 2025

[Motown Bombers]

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. 

[mtutiger]

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.

[Tigerbomb13]

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. 

[Motown Bombers]

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. 

[romad1]

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. 

[romad1]

 

[Motown Bombers]

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. 

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[CMRivdogs]

OK where is the share/embed on the Bluesky app? Copy and paste or what?

[Motown Bombers]

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. 

[CMRivdogs]

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[mtutiger]

Guessing they aren't getting many bites...

[Archie]

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.