I heard that message when I was watching The World from A to Z. She couldn’t be anymore right about all of this. The U.S. is in terrible shape right now, yet more people allowed a convicted felon to be president for a second time. We’re all gonna be even more fucked than we are now.
We are still getting the opposition wrong. The days of bipartisanship were gone A LONG TIME AGO! The same strategy to appeal to the middle did not work and it won't work going forward. We need voices with power and energy, silencing authoritarian wannabe kings. This ain't it!
I'm sorry, who among the Dems thought we wanted to hear Elissa Slotkin's views on anything? What they didn't think Fetterman would break out his dress hoodie? They must be the same strategy geniuses who thought Biden needed a second term. Step aside NOW!
Couldn’t agree more. We are in this mess because of what RR started. But perhaps she is trying to appeal to all the Gen X’ers and Boomers that went for Trump?
Imagine bringing up Reagan as an example of show of force in a response from a Democratic candidate, gurl bye, this is Schumer sticking with candidates that are “moderate” in other words are closer to MAGA, why not AOC or Crocket? She just got to Congress and has voted for 8 of trump’s nominees
Trump is losing the Cold War, we like to believe it ended with the wall… it paused and it came back as soon as Putin took over. He’s been playing the long game since and they are now pounding the US into dust.
Yes he would have. I've seen many SOTU addresses but never anything like tonight. Why did no one kick out Joe Wilson when he yelled "You lie" at Pres. Obama. This was disturbing and dark.
Das ist Demokratie ! Die gibt es nicht mehr ! Obama konnte mit Kritik umgehen war ein toller Präsident was man von Trump nicht behaupten kann! Er ist eines Präsidenten von Amerika unwürdig ! Einem Diktator hat sich keiner in den Weg zu stellen! Wenigstens war es nur der Saal und nicht das Fenster!
She’s speaking to Democrats, but also non-MAGA conservatives..and Michiganders. Everybody has to team up to beat this machine and she’s smart enough to understand this.
We can agree to disagree, but against the tech billionaires we need the numbers. You may hate Conservative politics, but Trump and his MAGA nut jobs are threatening anyone who stands up to him. True Democracy includes all opinions and all people. You don’t have to like it. Big picture time.
What are you talking about? Numbers win elections. We only have two parties so nobody is going to get everything they want. Right now, Republicans have stolen the voters who Dems left behind. It’s time to win them back. Welcoming all people isn’t alienating some. That’s a you problem.
If it helps you in the US to actually start resisting and not just watching a coup unfold... In every other respect, this is exactly the nonsense that got us all here: the US belief in its own exceptionalism and the neoliberal destruction (Reagan, Pinochet, Thatcher...) of all decency and truth.
Pretty good but is it really that hard to say that Donald is illegally withholding war funding, providing aid and comfort to our enemies? He is a traitor
She's one of mine. She isn't to be trusted. She voted for the Laken Riley Act, after stating that she would not. She also voted to confirm Trump nominees. She's just trying to save face after what she's already done. She's not to be trusted
She's already being chosen by the Dems. Schumer said she's a rising star. We need a new party and have to do it ourselves. I plan on calling reps like Aoc and Jasmine Crockett and demanding they break away because they're being held back.
All I hear is cowardice from him when up against anyone truly powerful and bullying towards people who up until a month ago were on our side. America elected a weak man.
Trump would have lost us the Cold War. Trump would have also lost us World War II. He is a moral degenerate who cares about only one thing... enriching, empowering and glorifying himself. Another word for that is EVIL.
It is part of the problem that the Democratic rebuttal praised Reagan.
1. Reagan was racist
2. Reagan started the mistrust of government.
3. Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy with “pee down economics”
4. Reagan destroyed balanced media
5. Reagan created the party that Trump took over
My rebuttal.
For decades Trump has been paid vast sums by Russians buying his real estate. The dollars and dots are now connecting as Donald is dancing for Putin. The danger is real; a self inflicted boycott of America is needed, as money is the only language he speaks. Time for action before it’s too late.
Umm… not sure why this isn’t obvious. But he literally just won the #coldwar for #putin. He has fulfilled in less than 2 months what Putin could not achieve in his tenure @ the kgb. I bet 🎃 is gloating.
So HE DID just lose us the Cold War. Delayed by 35 years.
Good, just one fact check to her: the US is no more "an exceptional country" than any other country, the continuous repeating of this, and the US as "the greatest nation in the world" is quite frankly absurd and sickening.
She mentioned Reagan to reach out to center Republicans. We need more people close to the center. She was intelligent and made her points. I personally find Reagan overrated but a lot of people look back in that time as a time of American prosperity.
Trump's actions show he is NOT worried about elections because they are fixed. Dems must demand audits of weird swing state election stas. Dems must introduce articles of impeachment for ALL Trump's crimes. Dems must introduce an amnesty bill for Trump's insurrection that must pass by a 2/3 vote.
Unfortunately all i saw in this speech was the DNC propping up another fall guy candidate while openly sliding further to the right by appealing to Reagan Reps who are tired of Trump and MAGA.
This wasn't the speech that was needed to counter Trumps and isnt a good one for those tired of the DNC.
Elisa Slotkin is the epitome of "they go low, we go high." She commented how her dad was a GOPer & her mom was a Democrat but they got along. Translation "despite the fact that my dad wanted full and exclusive control of my mom's vagina, he was kind enough to not mention it at dinner...good times"
She should have started with Ya know folks in his first month as POTUS Trump spent over $10 million on himself golfing at his resorts. Hold up a blown up sign of Trump's tweet about the stock market the that President should be impeached if Stockmarket falls 1000 points in 2 days.
News Flash: NO ONE WANTS MORE REPUBLICANS IN DEMOCRAT CLOTHING, WE'RE ACTIVELY HUNTING THEM NOW. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED, WE ARE NOT THE CULT AND WILL NOT BACK FALSE GENERALS ANYMORE.
Elissa should have said what she meant without mention of Reagan or innuendos about protesting. We need her out there with us. The speech she gave missed its mark. A call to save Democracy is all she needed to say
This was uninspiring.
Why are Dems so damn weak.
Not one should have gone to that lie fest last night. All should have left when Al Green was forced to leave.
When she stumped for Harris she was great. She was probably attempting to reach moderates, and that’s thoughtful — but it also makes it seem like we don’t believe in our platform as much as the GOP believes in theirs.
It’s time for Democrats to leave Reagan in the dustbin of history.
The irony is the USSR was capable of having relationships with allies - so surrendering to them and joining their side would have actually resulted in a true new alliance.
Putin's Russia isn't capable of cultivating relationships.
Being subservient to Putin just means you die when he's done w/ u.
I served the first decade of my 20 year Navy career during the last decade of the Cold War. Never did I ever foresee a POTUS / Commander in Chief sell out America to Russia.
That typically happens only once in the history of a given country, not once in 20 yrs. And it is happening right now. Historically, the countries that got sold out to its enemies by no other than their Commander in Chief do not survive such a catastrophic betrayal.
Spread the Word that we are a RUSSIAN REPUBLIC now. The newly endorsed Russian Republican GOP Communist Party. See how the American People feel about that?
Russia is actually winning the Cold War. The KGB/FSB never stopped fighting, they were stronger. Ironically, it was the American people who gave them victory. They took advantage of the gullibility of the American people and the weaknesses of their democracy. Trump is burning everything. Checkmate
The Yeltsin-Putin regime is as much a child of Reagan as DOGE, Milei etc. are - you will not keep your republic for long when you confuse neoliberalism (starting politically with Pinochet) with democracy and freedom. Reagan & Co. fucked up the world, Trump, Putin etc. just profit from it.
You should see the Elon MAGA troll farm hate she is getting on X. She posts and there are 500 blue check mark bits demeaning her in every way possible. It’s really sad that so many Americans don’t see the propaganda. She made sense and really was center left. We need more people in the center.
Harris didn't have a lot of time to prepare for office and she was not well liked in her office. I was really never a fan but I do think the polarized congress could stand to make some compromises towards the center to get our country back on track.
Now that USA is on the Russian side and are even having secret discussion with former Ukrainian president that was jailed by corruption as an Russian collaborator to pressure Ukraine to have a wartime election. One should hope that some fired Veterans will fight back against TrumpCo. All means!
This felt like a campaign speech. I was not impressed. I was expecting an actual rebuttal. A point-by-point illustration of how everything he said was a lie. It’s not like we didn’t know what he was going to say. But the people who support him need to hear it.
I’ve spent the last 50 yrs as a Democrat involved in activism. All I have to show for it is the disaster we have today. Then this woman goes on to praise Ronald Reagan.
We need better Democrats or a new party on the left.
I know everyone is crowing over her response - part of what she said was to eliminate federal jobs “the right way” (RIF). The dems agreed to firing federal employees. Who have done nothing. Yet again we’re the pawns to be moved around and treated like crap. Ya’ll were holding signs for us a day ago
No, he would have just turned over and plaid dead so it would never have started and we would not be a superpower. Just like the success of his casinos.... all transactional, HA!
Not perfect, but change must start by coming back to center. Maga will remain willfully ignorant until it impacts them personally. They'll want change, but not if it makes them appear "woke". If we want to shift the majority, the fight isn't to win over 'fascists'... it is to win over ignorance.
What’s center? Ignoring Trans people? Gutting important services to lower a theoretical debt ceiling? Allowing our immigration system to favor white immigrants? Why must we move center when the right is off their ledge? I’m sorry but fuck her and fuck going center.
I live in redneck Maga town of dumb-fucks who simply regurgitate whatever their friends are spewing, with no clue what it actually means. They are not willing to 'think'. They just want to be comfortably dumb,,,"woke = bad", "Democrat = bad". How else do we sway these idiots? It's half the country!
I mean as far as we know 22% of the total US population voted for Trump. Most were MAGA but not all so what we need to do is go after the non-voters who actually don’t hate trans people, are pro-choice, pro-immigration and not overtly religious. That’s not center that’s “liberal”
Agree... but I guarantee that if these 'non-voters' actually were 'aware', they would have voted. They chose not to. Many 'passives' viewed the election as too extreme, right or left and don't want to be labeled as "lib-tards" or "magots". We'd better figure out how to appeal to them going forward.
I think it’s as simple as exposing MAGA as the fraud and hate-fueled people that they are and showing how being liberal just means you have empathy, compassion, and value facts over fantasy
Putting Reagan on a pedestal is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard. He was the beginning of the end for the middle class. This is part of the problem enabled by the Dem’s overpaid consultants. In their attempts to appeal to ‘moderate GOP’ they have completely lost touch with their actual base
Should’ve gotten Crockett or AOC but sure get someone who’ll invoke Reagan like he had “moral clarity” . Sure if they go more right that’ll def give us a win in the next election 🙄
We all lost the cold War when YOU elected Trump.
And still with the "exceptional" USA stuff? That's a big part of why your country is so effed up. You were never exceptional, except in a lot of embarrassingly bad ways.
Yeah, Slotkin is a former CIA ghoul, voted for the Laken Riley Act, is a pro-corporate centrist, and worked for the Bush Administration. And, wasn’t that Reagan reference just precious? What a perfect choice to deliver the “official” Democratic response to the Turd’s unhinged address. Unbelievable!
Project 2026.
True-blue red-blooded American patriots step up & remove Trump from office by any means necessary.
If the military that We the People pay to protect & defend our Constitution & die for our Liberty ain't going to do it, then We the People will have to do it ourselves by Revolution.
trump would have but so would have Reagan. Reagan was senile and led by the nose in every decision he made. Interestingly enough.--Just like trump. He was horrible.
Sadly, the best we can do “well at least it wasn’t as bad as Britt’s performative outrage”
Romanticizing Ronald Reagan is the grossest shit I’ve ever seen in any Democrat rebuff of tRump. Outright capitulation to the most based right wingers on the planet.
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Sweet Jesus, he’s been thankfully dead for twenty years and we still have to listen to this stupid shit, and from Democrats!!!
Hopeless scum sucking worm ass loser quislings!!!
Nonsense. The Cold War is not over until I win.
We’re fucked. See you all in the Gulag.
We’re fucked.
This is the Democratic response to the SOTU. It’s supposed to be for the whole country.
Jfc we’re so fucked with these clowns as “opposition”.
Keep alienating your base, that’ll show the Republicans…
This is it, everyone, we truly do know now: this is on us to stop. There is no cavalry coming
1. Reagan was racist
2. Reagan started the mistrust of government.
3. Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy with “pee down economics”
4. Reagan destroyed balanced media
5. Reagan created the party that Trump took over
My rebuttal.
So HE DID just lose us the Cold War. Delayed by 35 years.
Sad that Americans must repeatedly be told this LIE—to make them feel better about the reality we have issues.
It is repugnant. But no way are we as horrid as Trump says.
Somehow, we need Republicans to join us. By giving them “This guy is NO REAGAN” it gives them an “out.”
They were mistaken. Trump is not their new Reagan. Not by a long shot.
This wasn't the speech that was needed to counter Trumps and isnt a good one for those tired of the DNC.
I want someone who will fight for the working class
More like this
Why are Dems so damn weak.
Not one should have gone to that lie fest last night. All should have left when Al Green was forced to leave.
It’s time for Democrats to leave Reagan in the dustbin of history.
And the spanish american war
And any other conflict we’ve ever been involved with in all of history
Putin's Russia isn't capable of cultivating relationships.
Being subservient to Putin just means you die when he's done w/ u.
Clinton bombing Bosnia & missing Bin Laden.
Obama doing 10x more drone strikes than Bush, while ignoring Iraq War lies, torture & domestic spying + Saudi.
Biden support for MIC and Netanyahu genocide.
Reagan invaded Grenada.
Dem leaders are utterly tone deaf.
have elected an administration
that now aligns with RUSSIA & CHINA
no AMERICAN expected
PURE EVIL
Imho, this is the most important comment made by Senator Elisa Slotkin ❣️
E Pluribus Unum
🆘 ⏳🗽 ⚖️ 🫶🏻 🇺🇸
#TrumpIsTheManchurianCandidate
The Democrats current plan to beat this ongoing coup is to try to appeal to Republican voters.
The Democrats future plan to survive the Republican dictatorship is to try to appeal to Republican voters.
We need better Democrats or a new party on the left.
According to the documentary Bad Faith.
https://www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1vN_4?si=-fAyAP18By-YOR-4
These people get up in church and yell at the pastor to stop talking about "weak" Jesus... I don't think Reagan's going to get it done.
And still with the "exceptional" USA stuff? That's a big part of why your country is so effed up. You were never exceptional, except in a lot of embarrassingly bad ways.
confirm 8 of chumps cabinet picks. Does that resonate?
True-blue red-blooded American patriots step up & remove Trump from office by any means necessary.
If the military that We the People pay to protect & defend our Constitution & die for our Liberty ain't going to do it, then We the People will have to do it ourselves by Revolution.
https://youtu.be/4hIF-5xkr-Q?si=ywoM5qLzwSX35ATh
Romanticizing Ronald Reagan is the grossest shit I’ve ever seen in any Democrat rebuff of tRump. Outright capitulation to the most based right wingers on the planet.
Fuck this shit.
And stop with the canonization of Reagan.
Good grief we're fucked
Words matter. The words she said (not how she said them) are important.
Trump’s “fighting” is all about SURRENDER. Syria, Afghanistan, Gaza, Ukraine…he’s a run and hide guy. Nothing is worth dying for: to Trump.
But, there has to be a higher bar us.
Yes, words matter- but so actions. And having emotion.
Her words pandered to "the middle" whatever the DNC thinks that is.
She also voted for 8 of Trump's cabinet picks.
Really great job Elissa.