Why do Trump supporters need to talk to and be around people who aren’t Trump supporters? Just talk to each other and Leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
@Craig_A_Spencer If staff was so ill why did NY state alone fire over 100,000 care givers who rejected the ineffective gene elixer?
Because it wasn’t about health, and hospitals we not over run.
Last night, the state of the State Of The Union was strong.
If you want to know how the speech played with base Democrats in a battleground state, this about sums it up: halfway through the speech, Portage County Democratic Party co-chair Gary Hawley leaned over to me and said, “He doesn’t seem like an old guy. He seems like a fighter.”
Millions of Americans were thinking the same thing. Trump was probably thinking it too—which is why he was posting so furiously that Truth Social kept collapsing.
This was the unfiltered reality-check moment that American politics needed.
If you were involved in organizing any of the State of the Union watch parties last night—thank you. That speech was even more energizing to watch in good company. I was in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, watching with county Democratic Party members at their office. After it was over, I asked folks there about moments that stood out. Here are a few:
• “Look, folks, we have a simple choice. We can fight about fixing the border, or we can fix it. I’m ready to fix it.”
• “No billionaire should pay a lower federal tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker or a nurse.”
• “If anyone here tries to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age, I will stop you.”
• “I want to give public-school teachers a raise.”
• “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
• People really noticed how Republicans didn’t stand up for things that everyone should support. And they loved how Republicans stood for Biden’s tribute to John Lewis—and then Biden turned the tables: “If you truly want to honor him and all the heroes who marched with him… Pass the Freedom to Vote Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!”
• The story about Kate Cox, the mother in Dallas who was denied a medically necessary abortion in Texas. The warning of a national abortion ban. Biden’s question: “My God, what freedom else would you take away?”
• And then the crystal-clear promise: “If you, the American people, send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
Beyond all these things, that room full of Democrats noticed Biden’s energy. His scrappiness. His readiness to take on his critics and make a difference for people.
Millions of people will need to work their hearts out for the next 241 days to defeat Trump and win another term for President Biden. Last night, those folks saw a champion, someone fighting for the causes they believe in. That’s exactly what this moment needed. Consider the moment met.