Slotkin: While we are on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who's comfortable with him and his gang using his own computer servers to poke to your tax returns, your health information, your bank accounts?
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Not what we needed right now. Failed to meet the moment. Still moving to the middle, chasing the elusive moderate conservative.
This was a chance to show passion. Emotion. Call out plainly the corruption and threat to democracy. Articulate 2-3 huge ideas. Show some fight. Appeal to the base.
Slotkin’s response was very good. It’s not that hard, Dems, to talk in plain English, authentically to (not at) the American people about what matters to them.
This isn’t anything we haven’t already heard and the message has to be delivered with more urgency. I won’t give a dime until they actually get real leadership in place. This current group sucks out loud.
JFC democrats why? They aren’t looking at your bank accounts. But he is defrauding us and stealing American jobs. Why do they have to be hyperbolic rn?
I surely am not. He & his band of children are nothing more than a hackers accessing & stealing information they should not have access too. It pisses me off beyond belief!
I hope I am still alive when these kids come to terms with what they are a part of and how it changed their lives. Did they hide? Did they need therapy? Really hope I am around
She did her very best, but fire the Casting Director. The person giving the Rebuttal needs to be a silver tongued Orator and a powerful "Closer". She was more like a student giving a book report in 11th grade.
“Hi, I’m middle America and bland as fuck. My job is to make sure everything is business as usual and that Democrats seem so normal and reasonable.” - thanks for weak medicine when we need nuclear solutions.
I’m willing to bet that there are somewhere around 77 million people who think this is perfectly fine. And great. A direct correlation between them and Trump voters. 1: 1
You know that situation in sports where the team stinks up the place during the game and instead of sending out the coach to answer questions they send out the assistant coach. That.
Why is Democratic leadership constantly failing every day?????Why would they not have gotten AOC or Crockett or Maxwell Frost to do this. The Democratic leadership scared of MAGA and Trump?? MUSK/Trump are giving the Democrats material they can use to shout from the rooftops every day. Yet nothing.
Reminder:
PLEASE contact your congressperson & INSIST they DO NOT help repubs pass the spending bill, extension OR anything. LET🍊 gov't shut down. Yes, we'll all suffer, but non maga voters need 2 feel pain. Maybe they'll listen. NO MORE "Norms & optics" tellem 2 ignore @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
She voted for the Laken Riley act, 8 out of 10 Trump nominees, is opposed to M4A and student debt relief. She also praised Reagan in her speech - fuck off.
Elected Democrats are asking We the People display our outrage by asking us to protest & put ourselves in the path of danger. THEY MUST WALK THE WALK, NOT TALK THE TALK. This is the time! Elected Democrats and Independents must be brave. WALK THIS BRIDGE WITH US!!!!!!
Always focused on the wrong things. Our information is important, sure. But as always, the dems bury the lead. The real threat is the destruction of our vital government institutions. Illegal mass firings of civil servants. Dismantling of programs and agencies that we depend on! That's the lead.
This response by the Democrats is too boring and plain. There needs to be posters in the background and people clapping and nodding their heads. Maybe this should have been done at a Republican town hall where their representative wint show up. Come on man
Sorry, I can’t stomach another nice white lady saying nice things anymore. Those days should have been long gone. Pelosi was grifting for money as the speech started too. Another thing that should be long gone. But here we are. Most Democrats have learned nothing. But we have. ✊
Slotkin needs to be voted out at the first chance. She claims to be a Dem. But, she voted to confirm Trump's nominees. She voted for the Laken Riley Act, after saying that she would not. This is just performative bullshit to save face, after what she's already done. Don't fall for it
Democrats will never learn. They should have had Bernie make the speech in his words. (Paraphrased) "Trumps government is of Billionaires, by Billionaires, and for Billionaires. Slaps harder than anything Slotkin said.
Musk is why we recently signed up for an identity theft protection service. It is odd that our reason for doing so is that we no longer have any trust in our government.
What are you Democrats going to do to stop them? You better hope your voting rights come next election still mean something. Better hope they still exist
Americans are so self-interested and immune to ideas that she cannot just say that what he is doing violates the constitution and is not subject to oversight. She had to frame it as “he’s looking at YOUR tax return” even though he is most certainly not doing that.
I think it’s dangerous to say that if you don’t toe the line on every Dem issue then you are Rep in sheep’s clothing. That’s classic MAGA and a path for continued losing. Still don’t agree at all with the assessment, but appreciate the response.
So this is why Al Green was “escorted” out and AOC didn’t bother to show up 😒 They didn’t want to sit thru more #lies from king con and then have to hear a pathetic rebuttal. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE LISTENING TOO?!!
IMHO they need to give up on Republicans being reasoned with. there will never be a moment they're able to agree with anything. they will only care when it effects them.
When the anti-trans sports bill SB9 failed, she was absent while 45 other dems voted no to stop that bigoted hateful bill from becoming law. Not a fighter if can’t even stand up to transphobe Nazis! 弱虫
Why wasn’t it AOC? We need some people in the party with real fight. This acknowledges but does not adequately convey just how thoroughly fubar our situation is
Some might also be uncomfortable
with Musk defunding safeguards:
Future Musk: The loss of Las Vegas and Wichita to atomic weapons detonations due to my elimination of nuclear safety is a small price to pay when squeezing cash out of the feds so that I can buy more ketamine!
Do the Democrats really think that only Elmo's servers have our personal data? That Elmo hasn't distributed it to Putin and to scumbag Republican operatives like Roger Stone?
The Dems are lost. The GOP is unified around avarice and racism. The Dems? Will have to get back to you because they seem to not stand for anything other than fund-raising. Their consultants should all be fired. They've been fucking up since they joined in on the ritual shanking of Joe Biden.
Trump and Musk are working at break neck speed to make you poorer, hungry, and less safe. Now Trump says he's going to lower taxes, but the only taxes that went down were for the rich. Every word about his trade wars was a lie, and the US has been safe for over 200 years without Greenland.
Correct tone and word choice for the audience >> with this clip, Senator Slotkin is speaking to FFFOTUS voters (not MAGA) who want social security to continue, want veterans to be employed, want air planes to not crash. She sounds rational and reasonable to THEM (pre-empting the libtard label, etc.)
Major yawn, democrats are completely impotent. This isn't an appropriate response to the dismantling of our democracy. It's all still rainbows and unicorns to them.
Musk and his merry band of lost boys have stolen the people’s information. Are misinterpreting and cherry picking for breaking the government. And will monetize it by using it to train their LLM’s (AI is a misnomer) to self deal - I can go. Not enough space here to touch all of it.
I am in Michigan. I voted for her. And Gary Peters. Neither one has replied to calls or emails. I do this almost daily.
Turns out the only vote on the Democratic ticket I don't regret is the one I cast for Harris.
I'm truly disappointed in our leadership.
Elise did a great job. She spoke in a way that many can relate to. She spoke common sense and her folksy demeanor is great. I can see why she won in a red district. We need more like this.
Not really. A night of feckless non-responses closed with Slotkin's anodyne self-presentation, introducing herself as a bipartisan healer ("My father was a Republican, my mother a Democrat...") to establish her purple street cred rather than tackle real-time history: the GOP is now fully fascistic.
she's transphobic and she voted for EIGHT trump nominees. all this does is make me not want to pay taxes, cuz it reminds me I'm paying for her stupid bigot ass
What a fucking joke of a response, no mention of domestic policy, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, cuts to SS. Nothing, Slotkin agreeing with the R framing of dismantling the government for "waste fraud and abuse" this response is a joke, the democratic party is so far out of touch no wonder we lost.
So we put our trust in an 86 year old geriatric…..anybody else? That barely 30 year old former bartender? Yeah I guess she’s good. So that’s 2 people to try and build a progressive coalition. Good luck is all I have to say to that lol
Well the working class continues to screw themselves over by voting for a deranged con man who doesn’t give a shit about them so forgive me if I say that at this moment, my sympathy for the working class isn’t very high….
"Doesn't have the fire" yes, but there's also a naïveté that this is a correctable situation if Democrats can just turn right a bit and grab some Republican votes. The Billionaire Media says: "Votes, schmotes" we own this now. You have to deal with us because we're behind MAGA 100%."
Because Dems are the Moderate right-wing party now.
Much like Trumpettes, they've sacrificed their principles for tribalism and the desire to win. And since they cannot win against Republicans, they go after the folks they CAN beat; Progressives.
We had a huge opportunity to have AOC, Crockett, Swallwell, or Garcia out there, not to mention Slotkin voted for Kristi Noem! I'm trying really hard to not let perfect be the enemy if the good, but I'm also sick of half measures.
Is she saying the right things? I didn’t hear much of a sense of real urgency to the dire situation we are in. I heard a lot of normalization. She’s my senator and I regret my vote for her.
Uh Hello hypocrisy!!! It's ok for fElon to use his own servers at home... but when Hillary sent a fucking email it was enough to get people not to vote for her. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
They were big mad about Clinton using private servers for her own email. But Elon uses private servers to root around in everyone's private financial info, nbfd.
If everyone files an extension for their federal return, and submits no payment; do you think it will get their attention?
I want our National Parks, Medicaid, and other social programs to continue-it’s what we pay taxes for. If they are not going to fund our programs, why would we send money?
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This was a chance to show passion. Emotion. Call out plainly the corruption and threat to democracy. Articulate 2-3 huge ideas. Show some fight. Appeal to the base.
"Gotta win those suburban voters and no one else".
She could have just enumerated all the Constitutional violations. Facts.
The USA is so indoctrinated into corporate power they can’t even separate federal power from corporate power.
Reagan is not my hero, he's a union buster.
MI is an industrial state with unions. Support unions, not unions busters.
She's on my "primary" to do list right after Fetterman.
But a Reagan Democrat isn't exactly in line with our values I don't think. She's going the wrong way.
She spoke to TRUE American values.
#SOTU
She's in the wrong party.
Very short sighted of these Dems. Voters will remember this IF we ever have another election.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin did a solid job responding to Trump’s crazy BS.
Musk and his crew should be far away from gov information. Their website has been hacked; 1 of DOGE is suppose to be associated with hackers, etc
PLEASE contact your congressperson & INSIST they DO NOT help repubs pass the spending bill, extension OR anything. LET🍊 gov't shut down. Yes, we'll all suffer, but non maga voters need 2 feel pain. Maybe they'll listen. NO MORE "Norms & optics" tellem 2 ignore @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
"Non Maga" Republicans.
They need to feel pain before they'll consider listening to anyone other than 🍊
Vance too..they're rats. Treat them as scum that needs cleaning up..
Here's a PRIME example of the energy needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_GRkMZJn4
BREAKING: Trump's comment during his address that DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight" has already landed in federal court.
Moron
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276598/gov.uscourts.dcd.276598.22.0.pdf
Writing my morning post as we speak. 🙂
Also, he couldn’t get the highest security clearance for his SpaceX contracts. Why is that?
To find waste you hire auditors, not hackers. 🙄🤨
Learn.
Musk's AI tool has spoken:
Fraud waste
with Musk defunding safeguards:
Future Musk: The loss of Las Vegas and Wichita to atomic weapons detonations due to my elimination of nuclear safety is a small price to pay when squeezing cash out of the feds so that I can buy more ketamine!
She's no Democrat.
Great to hear her say it.
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We the People
April 25th
Arbor day
Let's plant our future.
No work.
No school.
We occupy our towns, our capitals, DC.
Organize now.
GODDDDDDDAMMMMIT!
How else can the death panels decide who lives.
Turns out the only vote on the Democratic ticket I don't regret is the one I cast for Harris.
I'm truly disappointed in our leadership.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-cfpb-x-money
She spent at least half her time praising GOP touchstone Reagan.
WTF? We need real Democrats, not half hearted Republicans.
It seems the Democrat establishment is afraid of putting the more outspoken, fearless, less politically correct representatives out in front.
Praise FDR or LBJ or Carter...you know, a DEMOCRAT.
Much like Trumpettes, they've sacrificed their principles for tribalism and the desire to win. And since they cannot win against Republicans, they go after the folks they CAN beat; Progressives.
Is he slurping up our personal and running it against it against the voter rolls to decide who to screw the hardest?
Trump outed the Fact that Musk heads D.O.G.E. !!!
Just ⚖️ Observing 🇺🇸
I want our National Parks, Medicaid, and other social programs to continue-it’s what we pay taxes for. If they are not going to fund our programs, why would we send money?