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2024 Election Thread

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Actually it's trending (at least was) is because she went on Faux and said the Left Elite hate more moderate folks like her. She said this un ironically on a show with a bunch of expensive dressed tv personalities in New York all made up to look nice.
 
Handyman said:
Actually it's trending (at least was) is because she went on Faux and said the Left Elite hate more moderate folks like her. She said this un ironically on a show with a bunch of expensive dressed tv personalities in New York all made up to look nice.
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She’s moderate? Good to know
 
"Stop calling me a Nazi! I don't want to send LGBTQ folks to camps or kill them. I just want them out of our schools, and to be able to harass them, deny them basic rights & goods/services, and force them into conversion therapy for their mental illness!"

-A "more moderate" conservative in 2023
 
She didn't mean moderate politically she meant she doesn't ship at high end stores on brand name stuff. Hence "Wal Mart Melania".
 
Cornel West is jumping in as a member of the "People's Party", calling Donald Trump a “neo-fascist and President Joe Biden a milquetoast liberal.”

As a 5th party (behind Greens and Libertarians), he'll get 174 votes.
 
Yeah, Cornel has changed the last half decade or so. I used to love the man (he is a trip when you hear him interviewed) but something is different. And yes even the "Third Party Progressives" on Twitter (all 12 of them) came out against him for some of his stances.
 
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Interesting move from Whitmer. 2028 maybe?

https://twitter.com/nicktagliaferro/...3v2cVkMjQylOVg
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Seems likely she'll explore it, especially after she crushed her re-election bid (albeit against a throwaway opponent whose entire platform was "anti-woke"). If she plays a key role in a Biden victory in 2024, she could easily set herself up as the "pragmatic Midwest Dem" option to succeed him in 2028. She's obviously not part of the AOC wing, but consider that so far she (in conjunction with the legislatures she's been handed):

1. Expanded the Michigan Working Families Tax Credit for households that qualify ($3,000+ in refunds)
2. Invested in K-12 education (16.2% increase in per-pupil funding since 2019)
3. Supported & signed gun control legislation (red flag laws, mandatory background checks for all sales, safe storage requirements)
4. Funded much-needed road & bridge reconstruction, which is underway just about everywhere
5. Enshrined LGBTQ+ protections in the state's civil rights laws
6. Led Michigan to become the first state to overturn so-called "Right to Work" laws
7. Paid down $14b in state debt, rebuilt Michigan's rainy day fund to its highest-ever levels, and created a surplus

amongst several other accomplishments. On the whole, I would say she's left-leaning enough and looks like the adult in the room compared to DeSaster and other GOPee govs. *shrug*
 
Handyman said:
Yeah, Cornel has changed the last half decade or so. I used to love the man (he is a trip when you hear him interviewed) but something is different. And yes even the "Third Party Progressives" on Twitter (all 12 of them) came out against him for some of his stances.
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He has a bad case of Main Character Syndrome. cf. Chomsky.

Look at Sanders as a use case for how to avoid it. I guess it takes a combination of being devoted to a cause in practical substance rather than as an Eschaton, and being a genuinely humble person.

Sanders will go down with Lincoln and Carter as two of the most moral American politicians.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
6. Led Michigan to become the first state to overturn so-called "Right to Work" laws
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Slight nit, Indiana was a so-called "right to work" state for nearly a decade in the 1950s and 1960s before it was repealed there in 1965. The Missouri legislature also passed an open shop measure (what "right-to-work" should really be called) in 2017 and their governor signed it into law before Missouri voters overwhelmingly voted to reject it the following year, before it was set to take effect.

Interestingly, no where in the country has the voting public ever passed right to work. It has only been done by state legislators and signed into law by governors.

I love Whitmer by the way, and there probably aren't 25 people practicing high-level politics in this country I'd say that about. She is fearless, and I wish she could be replicated throughout the Democratic party. Ohio's democrats don't have a single person with 1/10th the gumption she has. She is someone I'd truly be voting FOR if she ever runs for president.
 
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