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[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

NYT Story today that *50* ex-staffers signed a letter telling him to get out and calling for investigations. Whether he's guilty of the particular accusations at play here or not, how do you tick off that many of the people who have worked for you? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/eric-swalwell-staffers-campaign-governor-resign-house.html

Edited yesterday at 01:06 AM by gehringer_2

[oblong]

When you are a bulldog against sexual predators and all of that you have to be clean. If he was doing this stuff or even other things questionable then he’s an idiot. Of course those in power think they are invincible. 

[romad1]

Very interesting ad I keep hearing in my youtube feed that reminds people to vote (african american voice) "Virginians you need to vote by April 21...something something, your vote is private but your friends loved ones and neighbors can check to see if you did vote" 

I wonder if that's the African American community's effort to remind peers they have nobody to blame but themselves if Yes vote fails. 

[Motown Bombers]

More election denialism from the far left. Bernie Sanders got locked out because voters overwhelmingly voted for his opponent  

 

[romad1]

5 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

More election denialism from the far left. Bernie Sanders got locked out because voters overwhelmingly voted for his opponent  

 

He's the one candidate if boosted will give Rogers a fighting chance in a wave election.  So, lets not boost him. 

[Motown Bombers]

18 minutes ago, romad1 said:

He's the one candidate if boosted will give Rogers a fighting chance in a wave election.  So, lets not boost him. 

He supported the uncommitted campaign. He also campaigns with Hasan Piker who said America deserved 9/11 and said he didn’t care about Ukraine. 

[romad1]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

He supported the uncommitted campaign. He also campaigns with Hasan Piker who said America deserved 9/11 and said he didn’t care about Ukraine. 

Yeah, nobody should support this guy. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Definitely voting and supporting Abdul because he gets it on policy more than the others. Haley Stevens would be another corporate shill who thinks that pathway forward to a successful future is giving subsidies to corporations and making only marginal improvements on the edges for things. She's a supporter of the failed trickle-down economic theory as well. Mallory is better than Haley and supports, at least at some level, more substantive changes than Stevens does. McMorrow is also a big advocate for trickle-down economics. During her time in the State Senate, she voted in support of over $2 billion in corporate subsidies while our public schools continued to be underfunded and our roads continued to crumble.

Governor Whitmer's SOAR corporate welfare slush fund has been an unmitigated disaster for Michigan. We spent billions of dollars to create a paltry amount of jobs. McMorrow never once voted against the Governor's SOAR corporate welfare slush fund. Giving direct payments to corporations in exchange for "creating jobs" is such a 1980s/1990s outdated theory of economic growth. Corporations rarely ever deliver on the promised amount of jobs after receiving the taxpayer subsidy payment.

If you want to improve an economy you need to invest in the people, not the company. Improving education systems, job training programs, skilled-trade training, regional transit, affordable housing, affordable college. These are the things that over the longterm create more job growth and keep people from moving out of the area. A great example of our failure to do so is when Michigan tried to attract Amazon to build one of their regional HQs here in Metro Detroit. Amazon essentially laughed at us and said no way. They cited, among other things, a lack of amenities that younger workers want like no regional transit in the area, as a reason for not choosing Southeast Michigan for an HQ. It's too bad McMorrow seems to think the opposite is true and that direct cash payments to corporations in exchange for jobs is the way to go.

Also, Abdul endorsed and campaigned for Kamala.

Edited 4 hours ago by Mr.TaterSalad

[Hongbit]

Policy doesn’t matter in this election cycle.  Keeping the evil empire out of absolute power is all that matters.

Abdul becoming the Democratic candidate in Michigan would be the dream scenario for the GOP.  It would give them their best chance to steal a Senate seat back.   

[Motown Bombers]

If you want to improve the economy, you don’t campaign against the only person to defeat Trump. 

[Motown Bombers]

McMorrow was part of the rat****ing coop. She urged Biden to drop out after I voted for him and he won the primary so she doesn’t give a **** about Michigan primary voters. 

[Motown Bombers]

Also, what exactly is “establishment?” Would establishment be 35 years in congress and never working in the private sector? The far left has basically become the far right. Establishment is woke and AIPAC is Soros. When you lose elections, it was rigged. Black people aren’t part of the movement despite being the base of the Democratic Party. 

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

McMorrow was part of the rat****ing coop. She urged Biden to drop out after I voted for him and he won the primary so she doesn’t give a **** about Michigan primary voters. 

No comment on McMorrow in partcular, but I can't hold a Dem's position on Biden's run against them - I think Dems of good conscience were in a serious quandry about it. It was completely reasonable to believe if Biden had tried to keep campaigning there would soon have been more video flying around of more episodes that looked like the debate. There was no clear right answer there. I was ambivalent myself, and I think it still would have been the right decision if Harris had been able to connect to people better. To me she had this weakness that when you heard her speaking on video, it was always like she was talking to someone else, not to 'you'. Somehow she didn't connect through the camera like Obama or Trump can. Video 'Charisma' is a weird thing, but it's indispensable.

Edited 3 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

10 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

No comment on McMorrow in partcular, but I can't hold a Dem's position on Biden's run against them - I think Dems of good conscience were in a serious quandry about it. It was completely reasonable to believe if Biden had tried to keep campaigning there would soon have been more video flying around of more episodes that looked like the debate. There was no clear right answer there. I was ambivalent myself, and I think it still would have been the right decision if Harris had been able to connect to people better. To me she had this weakness that when you heard her speaking on video, it was always like she was talking to someone else, not to 'you'. Somehow she didn't connect through the camera like Obama or Trump can. Charisma is a weird thing, but it's indispensable.

Ridiculous. Republicans doubled down when Trump talked about eating dogs and cats. Biden was cooked before the debate because the far left actively campaigned against the most progressive president since Johnson. 

[romad1]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

No comment on McMorrow in partcular, but I can't hold a Dem's position on Biden's run against them - I think Dems of good conscience were in a serious quandry about it. It was completely reasonable to believe if Biden had tried to keep campaigning there would soon have been more video flying around of more episodes that looked like the debate. There was no clear right answer there. I was ambivalent myself, and I think it still would have been the right decision if Harris had been able to connect to people better. To me she had this weakness that when you heard her speaking on video, it was always like she was talking to someone else, not to 'you'. Somehow she didn't connect through the camera like Obama or Trump can. Video 'Charisma' is a weird thing, but it's indispensable.

if you can beat the generic GOP candidate with a ham sandwich and you decide to nominate the rotting pumpkin from last year's Halloween or something that is nuttier than a Payday Bar... instead, well. 

[romad1]

Knowing full well that sometimes the GOP will inject one of their own into your race (I see you Doctor Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard). 

[Motown Bombers]

The same people supporting El-Sayed are the same ones supporting a Nazi who says Swalwell’s victims had it coming. 

[Motown Bombers]

Just now, romad1 said:

Knowing full well that sometimes the GOP will inject one of their own into your race (I see you Doctor Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard). 

Graham Platner who is a backwater op who was literally a Republican before he decided to run for senate. 

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Ridiculous. Republicans doubled down when Trump talked about eating dogs and cats. 

What Trump does by comparison is meaningless, GOP and Dem voters have different criteria - it is what it is.

You have an ongoing complaint about the radical left, I share some of that, but they are most useful as the stalking horse for the right to campaign against no matter who the mainstream Dems run. I mean, honestly, was Hammoud any more help to Harris than he would have been to Biden?

Edited 3 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

What Trump does by comparison is meaningless, GOP and Dem voters have different criteria - it is what it is.

You have an ongoing complaint about the radical left, I share some of that, but they are most useful as the stalking horse for the right to campaign against no matter who the mainstream Dems run. I mean, honestly, was Hammoud any more help to Harris than he would have been to Biden?

That’s the issue. Dems need to cut the radical left loose. **** Dearborn. 

[romad1]

Were the Democratic party as wealthy as the GOP...they would be splitting the seam between Rubio and Vance wide open.  

[Motown Bombers]

Dems do have different criteria. They want results. Biden was one of the most productive presidents in decades. The radical left often lied and people like AOC always lectured on what Biden didn’t do instead of celebrating he delivered like 90% of the Green New Deal. I guarantee no president is going to cancel student debt. It was always unpopular, Biden appealed to the far left and they **** on him. 

[romad1]

29 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Were the Democratic party as wealthy as the GOP...they would be splitting the seam between Rubio and Vance wide open.  

Look at that, Rubio got Erika Kirk to infiltrate the Vance campaign.  She already plotted Charlie Kirk's murder on behalf of the zionists, etc.   

(SARCASM) 

Edited 3 hours ago by romad1

[pfife]

1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Definitely voting and supporting Abdul because he gets it on policy more 

This post is absolutely outrageous. 

The audacity you have to inform yourself and then push it so far overboard that you use that information to have your own opinion about your own vote?

What next are you going to work your ass off for the dem nominee whoever it is AGAIN????