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[Motown Bombers]

After Trump won Michigan in 2016, Democrats won 9 straight statewide elections. Slotkin won in 2024. He would be the front runner if he made it through the primary. He doesn't have to do this. It's just sabotage. **** him. 

[Motown Bombers]

I actually wonder if this is a power move by Duggan so the Dems don't put up a candidate or a strong candidate? 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Jocelyn Benson is for sure running for Governor. Mike Duggan has always been a politician in it for himself in my mind, this just further entrenches that. Duggan care about one man, Duggan.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

I actually wonder if this is a power move by Duggan so the Dems don't put up a candidate or a strong candidate? 

I tend to see it the opposite way. And I think he just shot himself in the foot. IMHO this is because he knows the party is going to fall in line behind Benson so he has no shot there anyway. If he does mount any kind of independent campaign the end result will be a repub getting elected. (EDIT just saw you said the this in another thread)

f*** him indeed.

Edited December 4, 2024 by gehringer_2

[CMRivdogs]

I'm going to stick this here because this state legislator wants to codify something kin to this in Va. Personally I think it's a good idea (and the guy is a Republican). Too bad Ms Harris didn't suggest this when she was talking about making home buying more available to middle class Americans

 

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[Tigeraholic1]

Sanity is returning to our great nation. 
 

 

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Sanity is returning to our great nation. 
 

 

Part of university learning is being introduced to people who have diferent backgrounds and different viewpoints from you.  DEI definitely has a place at universities.  

[Tigeraholic1]

5 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Part of university learning is being introduced to people who have diferent backgrounds and different viewpoints from you.  DEI definitely has a place at universities.  

Not at U of M apparently. 

[Tiger337]

30 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Not at U of M apparently. 

The customers (students) seem to think it does.

[pfife]

One time coca cola thought there was no room for coca cola classic

[1776]

13 minutes ago, pfife said:

One time coca cola thought there was no room for coca cola classic

If you’re referring to the “Classic” they rolled out about 25-30 years ago, I’d suggest it was the customers that decided there was no room for the new formula. 

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, 1776 said:

If you’re referring to the “Classic” they rolled out about 25-30 years ago, I’d suggest it was the customers that decided there was no room for the new formula. 

concur

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Sanity is returning to our great nation. 
 

 

just note - this was brought to you by a Democratic dominated board of Regents. The looney left is mostly in the Democratic Party, but is not the Democratic Party.

I would guess the Regents will demand more paring, not at all on philosophical grounds, but simply on economic terms. The programs cannot demonstrate their effectiveness at increasing diversity in the student body and they are costing a ton of money. There still a performance ethic at most Universities that trumps most everything else in the end. 

The important program is the scholarship system, and I don't think that is at risk.

Edited December 5, 2024 by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

I'm guessing some magical thinkers will be getting boners dreaming about our own Sodom and Gomorrah event here.

 

[chasfh]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

just note - this was brought to you by a Democratic dominated board of Regents. The looney left is mostly in the Democratic Party, but is not the Democratic Party.

I don't think the "looney left" is in the Democratic Party. I think they are beyond the Democratic party. I do think they will vote for Democrats from time to time, but they are no more reliable at the polls for all Democrats than Nazi sympathizers are for all Republicans.

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I don't think the "looney left" is in the Democratic Party. I think they are beyond the Democratic party. I do think they will vote for Democrats from time to time, but they are no more reliable at the polls for all Democrats than Nazi sympathizers are for all Republicans.

fair enough.

[pfife]

3 hours ago, 1776 said:

If you’re referring to the “Classic” they rolled out about 25-30 years ago, I’d suggest it was the customers that decided there was no room for the new formula. 

Nope.  Orgs make bad choices such as new coke.  

[Tigeraholic1]

Fifey was much happier when Coke used actual Coke!

[Deleterious]

 

[pfife]

LinkedIn is now Assassination circle jerk dot com?

[pfife]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Fifey was much happier when Coke used actual Coke!

You were much happier before a black woman ran for president 

Edited December 5, 2024 by pfife

[Tiger337]

I go to assassination circle jerk dot come to get baseball news and talk.  You can avoid political discussion a lot easier on that site.  Even if you only follow sports posters on Twitter, you can't scroll half a screen without geting flooded by far right propaganda.  

Edited December 6, 2024 by Tiger337

[romad1]

Popaganda was the name of one of John Paul II’s tours of Manchester and the north of England.

[1776]

 

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

By HALEY STRACK

December 5, 2024 5:36 PM

A federal judge rejected aerospace company Boeing’s guilty plea deal in connection to multiple fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes in part because of the deal’s diversity, equity, and inclusion provision that would have subjected an independent monitor of Boeing’s operations to DEI requirements.

Boeing entered a plea deal with the government in July following a Department of Justice investigation into two fatal wrecks that claimed the lives of 346 individuals. Negotiated in the terms of the deal was an up to $487 million fine and an agreement that would require a DOJ-selected independent monitor to oversee Boeing’s safety procedures for at least three years.

The DOJ said in the deal that it would honor its “commitment to diversity and inclusion” when selecting a monitor, a provision about which U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor asked to be briefed by the agency and Boeing in October. In his Wednesday ruling, Judge O’Connor cited concerns with a 2021 Biden administration order that would seemingly “encourage consideration of race in hiring” at federal agencies.

“In a case of this magnitude, it is in the utmost interest of justice that the public is confident this monitor selection is done based solely on competency,” O’Connor wrote.

The agreement is “not in the public interest,” the judge added, echoing criticisms made by relatives of the victims killed in the two plane crashes.

“Judge O’Connor’s emphatic rejection of the plea deal is an important victory,” Paul Cassell, a lawyer for some of the victims’ families, said in response to the ruling. “Judge O’Connor has recognized that this was a cozy deal between [the DOJ and Boeing] that failed to focus on the overriding concerns: holding Boeing accountable for its deadly crime and ensuring that nothing like this happens again in the future.”

Aviation giant Boeing “knowingly and willfully” conspired to defraud the U.S. by concealing pertinent information about the 737 MAX’s software systems, according to DOJ prosecutors. The two fatal crashes, a 2018 Lion Air flight and a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines flight, “exposed fraudulent and deceptive conduct by employees of one of the world’s leading commercial airplane manufacturers,” then-acting assistant attorney general David P. Burns of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in 2021.

NR

 

[gehringer_2]

16 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Not at U of M apparently. 

UM has just upped the family income limit for in state students to receive free tuition to $125K.  That has more potential to increase diversity at the U than most of the money spent on additional internal DEI staffing.

Edited December 6, 2024 by gehringer_2