A day late and a dollar short. Unfortunately, it wasn't just Trump. It was many Republicans. Whether it be those elected, those running or your typical Evangelist lunatic delegates.
Proud of @MIGOP Chair Jim Runestad for speaking plainly after the Senate race.
In an interview with MS NOW, he said Trump’s decision to call Abdul El-Sayed a “jihadist” was not language he would have used. Runestad explained that politics is “a game of addition and not subtraction,” and that candidates and the party have to be careful not to make an entire community feel they are being attacked.
Michigan has one of the largest Arab and Muslim populations in the country. Runestad’s point was straightforward: language that alienates voters can cost more support than it gains. In a close race, that math matters. And it’s the decent thing to do.
Appreciate Chairman @RunWithRunestad saying it out loud.
I hope they enjoy their ass beating. Posts like this is why they lost and will continue to lose.
LOSE EVERY MICHIGAN STATEWIDE RACE. BLAME THE VOTERS THE NEXT MORNING. THEN DELETE IT.
The Michigan Republican Party posted this today and took it down. The voters will have "buyer's remorse." The other side are "socialists." The statement is gone. The thinking behind it isn't. And neither is the screenshot.
Our statewide candidates ran on exactly that. It lost. Everything. And the morning after, the party doubled down and blamed the voters, then deleted it instead of taking it back. Read the room.
Here's a thought. Voters don't owe you remorse or ANYTHING. You owe them something to vote FOR.
FEAR ISN'T A PLATFORM. Enough of this nonsense.
Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
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How fast they distance themselves now that Trump can't do shit for them.
Amazing 👏
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
They don't care about us peasants
I remember making 40k with a wife and two babies and having nothing left at the end of the month after rent and groceries, and I think about it still every day. If you’re struggling to make ends meet and keep your family fed with a roof over their heads, that struggle is simply the most pressing and urgent matter in your life and nothing else really comes close. This is something that many Republican politicians and conservative “thought leaders” still do not understand and maybe never will.
If Trump was smart, he would get the 2 supreme court justices to retire now and replace them before January. Otherwise this country is really fucked.
Stranger Things retweeted
YOU HAVE TWELVE HOURS TO PLACE THE PRONOUNS BACK IN YOUR EMAIL OR YOU WILL BE REPORTED
Especially when some of us worked our asses off to make those alliances! Fuck you all! You racist dirt bags. Let me know how it's working out for you now.
