Mr.TaterSalad

I know it won't happen, but I think Jocelyn Benson should offer the job of Lieutenant Governor to Calvin Johnson (Yes, that Calvin Johnson from the Lions). Calvin is a Democrat. He endorsed and campaigned for Kamala in 2024. He is a small business owner in the State of Michigan. He is a beloved figure who can help you win based off of his popularity and iconic status as a sport star in Metro Detroit. He has universal name recognition in the state and in Detroit. He adds diversity in race and ideas to the ticket.

I've shared this song before, but it's such a gem. Pony Bradshaw's 10x10 nestles itself somewhere between country, rock, and folk in the "Americana" genre. Forget the genre though, it's just a well written tune about the struggles life throws at us that you should listen to. I threw in the acoustic version too because his voice stripped down sounds so good by itself.

Disgusting race baiting and Islamophobic attacks are what they've got. It's going to be a nasty race and probably one of the most vile campaigns we've seen since Obama ran in 08 and 12. Abdul brought part of this on himself hanging around with Hasan Piker, which was and is a mistake. Piker only detracts and distracts from the campaign itself. Given his comments around 9/11, Abdul should have not been within a 1,000 miles of the guy as it only gives Republicans ammunition to attack you. I will say though, that even if Abdul had never campaigned with Piker, they'd still launch a tirade of ugly attacks and smears against him for being a brown-skinned, Muslim man named Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. Florida's Mike Rogers doesn't have **** to campaign on because his President that he bootlicks for 24/7 has run the economy into the ground reigniting inflation and high gas prices. He's too busy carrying Trump's jock to distance himself from Trump or dare criticize the Dear Leader. So he's going to have to resort to nasty, bigoted, attacks and smears on the campaign. I did see a Mike Rogers TV ad where he was talking about education and restoring shop class in all schools. Yeah Mike, I don't think getting shop class back in every school is top of voters minds when inflation is running at 3.5% and the national average for a gallon of gas is still very high.

Remind me again how transgendered persons or drag queen bingo is the real problem with society. I'm confused, because I thought raping a child would be far, far worse than coming out as trans or hosting a drag show. The right always complains about the degradation of society.

Wouldn't you go after a PAC that was spending $40 million against you or would you sit there and take a beating from them with no political response? You get worked up over a tweet. I can't imagine how worked up you'd be if $40 million in attack ads and negative mailers came out against you.

You said it was his slogan. You got called out. You then fumbled the football and moved the goal posts for your FG try. He mentions Medicare for all, healthcare, public health, money in politics, and a ton of other stuff in his interviews too. You're just choosing to craft your own narrative and have a blatant refusal to admit you're wrong. He talks about AIPAC, but it ain't in his slogan as you tried to fasely claim.

Yes, that is his messaging. I've probably knocked about 300-400 doors for Abdul in the primary. This is the literature piece the campaign has handed out at every door, to every voter. Additionally, there are multiple mailers, with very similar messaging to this. How many times is AIPAC mentioned here?

You haven't been to a single ****ing event. I've been to three of them now, plus I've canvassed for Abdul multiple times. Time and again and again he is relentless on the message of Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. You said his slogan was noun, verb, AIPAC because your full of **** and too busy in your basement or wherever the **** it is you do whatever it is you do.

His slogan is Money Out of Politics. Money in Your Pocket. Medicare for All. Having been to 3 events for Abdul, I've heard him relentlessly hammer that messaging. Having been to no Abdul events, you wouldn't know that.

Yep, indeed. The government of Norway, a Scandinavian country, recognized Israel was committing a genocide against Gazans. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have stated that if the ICJ believes it is a genocide occurring in Gaza that they will back that finding. Also, I don't believe that Denmark, Norway, nor Sweden have an equivalent force to ICE. I believe Norway's sovereign wealth fund divested as well. https://www.norway.no/en/missions/wto-un/latest-news/norwaygovstatementgaza/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/norway-wealth-fund-divests-stakes-in-several-israeli-companies

I know you have a blind dislike for Abdul, even though he was on Team Kamala from day one with her campaign. But Abdul as a candidate has far better messaging and is running a better campaign than the goofballs the Tea Party ran in the 2010s like the witch Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and Sharon Angle in Nevada. I think Abdul has his flaws as a candidate, notably what he said in the past about defunding the police. That will come back to hurt him to some effect I fear. I also wouldn't have campaigned with Hasan Piker because it just wasn't needed. He could have won young voters no problem, without Piker showing up in Michigan. But Abdul is just objectively a better communicator and better campaigner than the goofballs Republicans ran for office during the Tea Party wave.

Yes, it feels like she is going to. She had messaging that didn't fit the mood of the electorate, she's too moderate for the primary electorate, took bad votes that hurt her reputation, couldn't win over any sizable amount of voters under 40-45 years old, and she didn't campaign all that much save the past few weeks. The electorate right now in the Democratic Party is upset and frustrated with party leadership. They seems upset that we lost to Trump again and that the party doesn't have a unified message for what they are going to do to improve people's livelihoods. She's tied at the hip with Chuck Schumer and current elected officials at a moment when people in the party feel the status quo isn't working. The average Democratic Primary voters has moved more to the left, progressive end of the spectrum. Mallory could have been a better bridge candidate to close the gap between the left and center, but with Haley and Abdul both in the race, she got squeezed out. I think Mallory could have beat Haley head to head and possibly beat Abdul head to head. But with both of them in and her being not as moderate as Haley and not as left as Abdul, she had no defined lane to run in or base of support to build from. The party has lost to Trump twice now. People can crow about Bernie or uncommitted all they want, but there are plenty of reasons Democrats lost twice to Trump. Bad messaging, bad candidate quality, not fitting the change mood of the country, running on the status quo, etc. Haley is a representation of the status quo. The old way of thinking that some voters see cost us against Trump twice now. Maybe Abdul loses to Mike Rogers. Maybe he doesn't. However, voters feel that the so-called establishment has had their day in the sun and failed to make things better and failed to beat Trump twice now. Haley took several bad votes in Congress and bas positions on the trail that hurt her campaign at a time like this. Most notably she voted to thank ICE agents in a vote for a Republican resolution that was put forward to honor law enforcement including ICE. She then came out later on in the campaign after visiting an ICE facility and essentially said how she felt reassured that there were female agents at the facility that were very nice and respectful. This is after the murder of Renee Nicole Good mind you. Her extreme support for Israel, unwilling to condition any military aid, even offensive weapons hurt with the party base. As well, her being in bed with AIPAC and other big money special interests like big pharmaceutical companies, utility companies like DTE, and other corporate interest groups hurt her brand. Even Elissa Slotkin was shrewd enough to reject corporate PAC money and campaign on a broken system in Washington D.C. Slotkin is a very skilled politician and shows how you can be a moderate and still broaden your appeal and win. Her failing to connect with young and middle-aged voters under 45 really hurt her to. She is getting crushed with millennial and Gen Z voters, if the polling proves accurate. it would be one thing if Abdul was winning this demographic 60%-40%, she could manage that politically and come out with a win. But if polling is any indicator here, and it may be wrong, she's poised to lost 75%-25% or more with voters under 40-45 years old. She simply doesn't relate to these voters, does stand where they do on issues, and again, is seen as protecting a status quo that has failed so many millennials. Voters between the age of 34-44, who came of age during the Great Recession, are the most progressive block of voters. Her support with them is non-existent. For Abdul, he has his problems as well. He's got to improve his standing with black voters overall, of any age group. Abdul will probably win black voters under 45. The younger and more educated group of black voters will go for Abdul by bigger margins. Older black voters, north of 50-55, are likely going to be Haley's best demographic. He's got to make sure those voters turn out and vote for him in November to beat Mike Rogers. As well, he's got to improve his standing with white voters 55 and over. He's going to do well with voters under 50 I think and they are continuing to make up a larger and larger chunk of the electorate as boomers and silent gen people starting passing away and millennials become a bigger force within the Democratic Party base. But still, he's going to need voters over 50 if he wants to beat Mike Rogers in November.

They went crazy on the right over Jeremiah Wright being Obama's pastor, meanwhile Trump's spiritual advisor abuses kids.

Were these paid speeches done in private to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms? Were they done in front of big pharmaceutical companies? Did Abdul say you need to have a public position and a private position on the issues? The issue wasn't paid speeches. It was the dollar amount Hillary charged, who her audience was, and what she was telling them.

Rutherford and Shanahan would be disasters as GM. Neither have adopted to the modern game and neither strike me as GMs that would model a team off of Carolina, Florida, or Vegas using analytics. No thanks to either of them.

Oh good, no major reforms, more status quo from Madam Murder Kids. Cause the status quo has worked out well for working people and families. Don't worry though, while we will have no major reforms, Madam Murder Kids will still be sending your money to Israel to blow children's limbs off, kill them, or leave them parentless.

And by denied what Livengood really means is lied. As a journalist, he just won't use the word lie, so I will. She lied.

Next time you're sitting in the dark because of DTE's unreliable service, thank Haley Stevens and all the politicians like her who take their money and refuse to regulate them.

Not a good look that we went from I won't be on the PUP list you can bet on that to please say a prayer for me in the matter of a day. Something tells me Kerby will be out for a while.

Does this mean Kerby is out for the first four games of the season now? Don't they have to sit out the first four games if they go on the PUP list during camp?

Bernie wasn't the nominee. Though the polling showed he polled better against Trump than Hillary had he been the nominee. Democrats have run center (Carter, Mondale, Kerry, Dukakis, Obama, H.Clinton), center-right (B. Clinton, Gore), and at best center-left (Biden) nominees since the McGovern campaign in 72. I say McGovern, because he was the last true progressive-ish candidate Democrats ran for the White House. Running these center and center right candidates, Democrats have lost with more of than they've won. Democrats have a record of 6-7 and below .500 winning percentage. The one time since McGovern they run someone remotely center-left in Joe Biden they actually won. Many progressive policies, populism, and rallying against the status quo (which progressives often do) is popular in this country. It is especially popular when the economy is the top issue on voters minds.

Name me the last progressive candidate to run for President? What, George McGovern 60 years ago? You have no idea that it is a guarantee. Biden ran on the most progressive, populist-ish agenda of any Presidential nominee and won. Now, Biden also won because covid happened, Trump bungled it badly, and the economy shutdown. But nonetheless, Biden ran on the most progressive agenda of any modern President and was successful.

Read the last part of your sentence. He ran on the most progressive agenda and he won.; We agree here. Running on a progressive, populist, anti-status quo agenda is what voters yearn for. Also, let's be honest, Biden won because of how piss poorly and callously Trump handled covid and because the economy shutdown and people were hurting. There is a good chance Trump wins re-election if covid doesn't happen.

How open are you to another 4 years of a MAGA Republican as President? That's what happens if Democrats run a milquetoast, status quo centrist. Signed Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris.