Whitmer is wrong to capitulate. They are opening up palisades after YEARS of environmental degradation and nuclear reactor damage. I’m compiling info to share more later, I’ve been working on it all week. Since Dump announced his nuclear proclamation last week. PALISADES WOULD BE THE NEXT CHERNOBYL - it would destroy a 1,000 mile radius at the base of LAKE MICHIGAN. WHICH FEEDS THE MISSISSIPPI.
LITERALLY THE THE LARGEST FRESH WATER SOURCE IN THE United States
Great Leaders make difficult decisions. Democrats, these days are like children going to the first day at a new school. They want to become a member of the current coolest click, that’s all. They have no direction, no vision and no integrity. They lost a long time ago. Now, they want to grasp on to the idea that the word Racist has meaning. ( The meaning lost value, when everyone who disagreed with a Democrat was considered racist). And the word Legal has no meaning. They have allowed their country to be over run by Illegal activity and have become advocates ( die hard advocates) for that illegal activity. ( No integrity- gotta find the cool click). So, just go to another country, walk through their border with no identification no credentials and expect the people of that country to house you, feed you, educate you, provide you an interpreter when you go for free healthcare, reload your debit card and provide laundry services , new cell phone, shoes and clothes for you and your family and friends, millions of friends! Now, some of your friends are gang members and they steal, rape and murder the very people who paid taxes to pay for all your services. It’s better now, being in this new country. You now have freedom to run amuck. In reality there is NO country who would do this for their citizens and certainly Not for unvetted people entering a country. Oh, except for the Democratic Party of the United States of America. They choose to hang on to that act so they can become part of the click.
Someone is following the wrong leader. Maybe, just maybe someone can wake up and protect the borders of this sovereign nation. Maybe someone can allow people to enter this country legally and maybe someone can put it all together and protect the United States of America’ s children ( number one), protect the children from human trafficking, protect the children from body mutilation, and from abuse and drugs and protect our Constitution and our God given rights. And have oversight of taxpayers money so politicians can’t use it for their own piggy banks. And oversight of politicians to not be influenced by third parties to dilute the will of the legal constituents.That’s all. That’s not asking too much!
I’m in Michigan and support Whitmer. She has shared that she was scheduled to meet with him and walked into this mess. She was set up. I believe her. She held a folder in front of her face for a while. Planned by the administration to weaken her.
Whitmer is wrong to capitulate. They are opening up palisades after YEARS of environmental degradation and nuclear reactor damage. I’m compiling info to share more later, I’ve been working on it all week. Since Dump announced his nuclear proclamation last week. PALISADES WOULD BE THE NEXT CHERNOBYL - it would destroy a 1,000 mile radius at the base of LAKE MICHIGAN. WHICH FEEDS THE MISSISSIPPI.
LITERALLY THE THE LARGEST FRESH WATER SOURCE IN THE United States.
Once you’re in the room, you have a choice—fight or fealty. She chose fealty. It matters not that she was “set up,” she had agency and the choice to treat fascism as normal or expose it for the danger that it is. She treated it as normal. I’m sick and tired of people asserting that she is a pawn who doesn’t have moves. She has a voice!! She just chose not to use it.
I disagree that her standing in a room that she was brought into with a lie told to her about what was happening in that room is proof of anything. Should she have worn a specific color of clothing? Was her hair the wrong style? Did she take too many breaths or look the wrong direction as words were being said? Let’s pick apart all of her decisions in that tiny moment and make up meanings and punish her. What a crap way to be a human.
What are you doing trashing the only people that have ever been on the side of the people and the rule of law in this country! You cannot blame the victims for the crimes of the attackers but that seems to be the only thing that is on the lips of the critics since election! You are not helping the cause by trashing the only people who have any chance to do anything for our nation! You have been first complaining about the weakness of democrats leadership and then you have the audacity to say why don’t they fight back but you have said that they are complicit with the Republican Party and they have loyalty to their own millionaire donors so that’s why they are not doing what they should be fighting against! I realize that they are not standing up to the authoritarian party like we wish they would but they are not the guilty ones either because trump’s regime had everything lined up in the 2025 manifesto and they ripped the presidency and Congress out from under the democrats hands! The election was rigged by the influence of Russian media and the money that Elon Musk used to buy votes and influence the election and the behind the scenes Republican purges of voters rolls and the intimidation of voters by the MAGA cult! And the manipulation of the election machine totals all worked to steal the election from democrats! All of this coordinated propaganda and manipulation and voter suppression and money is what made this election a disaster!
So instead of trashing the whole Democratic Party try putting the blame on the real problem of corruption in the republican MAGA cult! How can we do better? We must all join in the process and work together to take the same tactics of the last election and make sure we use them to our own advantage! And if we give the leadership some compliments and support and loyalty they might be able to make a stronger stand and push back against the next attack! But for sure trashing our leaders will only make them less effective to make intelligent decisions! So please stop “owning the libs” you are just doing MAGA a favor!!!
No but since I am not you we are conversing with ideas and we won’t agree with each other but that’s the way we learn from the opinions and facts that we share here in Substack! I am currently thinking about your perspective and I will keep it in mind for future posts! Thanks for sharing!
I reject these assertions that the 2024 election was stolen, just as I reject the big lie that 2020 was stolen. You may believe these democratic leaders have acted in good faith; I do not. You may think they are beyond reproach; I do not. I want them to be strong—and strong leaders can handle criticism. Weak leaders misconstrue criticism as an attack. Well that’s not what this is. I want the people I vote for, donate to, and hear from to stand up for me, not against me. Is that so much to ask?
Lay off Gretchen. She was ambushed just like Zelensky. That is what the twisted do. After she figured out what was going on, she could have made a scene and that would replay in the news and on the internet millions of times. She is a smart lady and she did what she needed to do for her state. You were not in that situation to comment.
Deedles, we don’t need the weak and forlorn right now. Whitmer made a huge mistake and her career in politics is doomed. Unless of course she pulls a Fetterman and switches teams.
This is an elevation of a minor point: yes, the HBO drama Chernobyl is scary, but it’s definitely worth watching. It was appointment TV for my 30-something daughter and me. Please steel yourself to watch it, even just one episode at a time.
You have hit the nail on the head. US politics is meaninglessly and superficially divided into a binary matrix of red and blue sprinkles on a cone that is filled with the same vanilla ice cream. Both corridors of power lead back to the same puppet masters and, until proper institutional firewalls are re-established and re-empowered to police and prosecute the puppet masters and their puppets, the rights, freedoms and opportunities for average Americans will continue to deteriorate.
Gretchen Whitmer had a choice, cozy up to Trump because American industrial workers deserve their old jobs back and his insanity just might work, or at least he’s on the right track, or take a stand against Trump because he’s a danger to democracy and call out the banks and corporations that instigated and supported globalization for the past fifty years. Too bad, she made the idiotic choice to align with Trump. Now she’s finished in politics. Good riddance.
Thank you Simon for your ever-positive tireless truthful efforts. Today it’s difficult to remain positive as the link below sensibly states - as millions of constituents (you, me, et al.) are out on the frontlines fighting for our Democracy (calls, protests {local & nationwide}, town halls, donations, ect.) we are still looking for D leadership & a plan - well there is no D plan & there is likely not going to be a plan after 5 unthinkable months (likely too late to turn our Constitutional Crisis around). With the exception of a handful of Congressional D taking action (Booker, Raskin, Murphy, Kaine, AOC, Bernie - & several unbeknownst to me) most all are taking recess once again - without an established plan to save our Democracy. Hakeem Jeffries just spoke out on insider trading calling R out - frankly why bother when this has been going on unchecked for eons (R& also D) instead, why not place an all hands on deck effort to saving our Democracy - uniting both the House & Senate. And after all this time, still no D press secretary to communicate voluminous daily updates. Lost for words.
No matter how fast the Republicans sink the Democrats manage to plummet farther and faster.
The historic Democratic icons FDR, and JFK would laugh at what passes for policy in their own beloved party. Although they were upper class they understood that victory for their party depended on appealing to working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester.
Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and the environment and grow nuclear power.
Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy that requires backup continuous generating capacity which is then used intermittently. A ridiculously expensive approach. Even more important, realize that the stifling maze of environmental procedures that now must be followed to build anything has raised the price of necessities like mass transit and housing that the working class needs to survive. Figure out how to build stuff quickly.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines.
Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights.
Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration.
Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live.
Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice.
Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Keep support for unions and fair wages
Dump “free trade” policies that have devastated our manufacturing sector.
Do all of the above and start governing like you know what the fuck you’re doing and you might just find your way back to power.
“Our only choice is to fight and win within the party apparatus, reinvigorating it in the process. In fact, the Democratic party needs our clarion calls for justice and progress as badly as we need it to endorse and elect our champions.”
This shit pisses me off so much. You list the countless examples of Democrats deliberately betraying the working class, only to say “and that’s why we have to fight to change it from within!” People are so tired of hearing this refrain.
It may not be an easy task, and it may take a long time, with plenty of mistakes along the way, but the bottom line is that we need to build a working class party. I’m sick of people dismissing this outright and forcing the conversation to be trapped within the confines of a fundamentally capitalist party that would sooner implode itself than allow the party to genuinely be reformed in the way you say it needs to be.
Cowards and ashamed they think that because he was allowed this position through corruption of the cheat they all bow like ok, so what he's a lying cheating diaper wearing criminal he's the President. Please when are these people going to wake the fuck up!!!!
Whitmer is wrong to capitulate. They are opening up palisades after YEARS of environmental degradation and nuclear reactor damage. I’m compiling info to share more later, I’ve been working on it all week. Since Dump announced his nuclear proclamation last week. PALISADES WOULD BE THE NEXT CHERNOBYL - it would destroy a 1,000 mile radius at the base of LAKE MICHIGAN. WHICH FEEDS THE MISSISSIPPI.
LITERALLY THE THE LARGEST FRESH WATER SOURCE IN THE United States
Great Leaders make difficult decisions. Democrats, these days are like children going to the first day at a new school. They want to become a member of the current coolest click, that’s all. They have no direction, no vision and no integrity. They lost a long time ago. Now, they want to grasp on to the idea that the word Racist has meaning. ( The meaning lost value, when everyone who disagreed with a Democrat was considered racist). And the word Legal has no meaning. They have allowed their country to be over run by Illegal activity and have become advocates ( die hard advocates) for that illegal activity. ( No integrity- gotta find the cool click). So, just go to another country, walk through their border with no identification no credentials and expect the people of that country to house you, feed you, educate you, provide you an interpreter when you go for free healthcare, reload your debit card and provide laundry services , new cell phone, shoes and clothes for you and your family and friends, millions of friends! Now, some of your friends are gang members and they steal, rape and murder the very people who paid taxes to pay for all your services. It’s better now, being in this new country. You now have freedom to run amuck. In reality there is NO country who would do this for their citizens and certainly Not for unvetted people entering a country. Oh, except for the Democratic Party of the United States of America. They choose to hang on to that act so they can become part of the click.
Someone is following the wrong leader. Maybe, just maybe someone can wake up and protect the borders of this sovereign nation. Maybe someone can allow people to enter this country legally and maybe someone can put it all together and protect the United States of America’ s children ( number one), protect the children from human trafficking, protect the children from body mutilation, and from abuse and drugs and protect our Constitution and our God given rights. And have oversight of taxpayers money so politicians can’t use it for their own piggy banks. And oversight of politicians to not be influenced by third parties to dilute the will of the legal constituents.That’s all. That’s not asking too much!
I’m in Michigan and support Whitmer. She has shared that she was scheduled to meet with him and walked into this mess. She was set up. I believe her. She held a folder in front of her face for a while. Planned by the administration to weaken her.
This is exactly the kind of thing they would do.
Whitmer is wrong to capitulate. They are opening up palisades after YEARS of environmental degradation and nuclear reactor damage. I’m compiling info to share more later, I’ve been working on it all week. Since Dump announced his nuclear proclamation last week. PALISADES WOULD BE THE NEXT CHERNOBYL - it would destroy a 1,000 mile radius at the base of LAKE MICHIGAN. WHICH FEEDS THE MISSISSIPPI.
LITERALLY THE THE LARGEST FRESH WATER SOURCE IN THE United States.
Once you’re in the room, you have a choice—fight or fealty. She chose fealty. It matters not that she was “set up,” she had agency and the choice to treat fascism as normal or expose it for the danger that it is. She treated it as normal. I’m sick and tired of people asserting that she is a pawn who doesn’t have moves. She has a voice!! She just chose not to use it.
Whitmer should have walked out of that setup! Left! What in hell was she doing there to begin with—knowing what a propagandist Trump is???
I disagree that her standing in a room that she was brought into with a lie told to her about what was happening in that room is proof of anything. Should she have worn a specific color of clothing? Was her hair the wrong style? Did she take too many breaths or look the wrong direction as words were being said? Let’s pick apart all of her decisions in that tiny moment and make up meanings and punish her. What a crap way to be a human.
Didn't u see photos of her covering her face?
What are you doing trashing the only people that have ever been on the side of the people and the rule of law in this country! You cannot blame the victims for the crimes of the attackers but that seems to be the only thing that is on the lips of the critics since election! You are not helping the cause by trashing the only people who have any chance to do anything for our nation! You have been first complaining about the weakness of democrats leadership and then you have the audacity to say why don’t they fight back but you have said that they are complicit with the Republican Party and they have loyalty to their own millionaire donors so that’s why they are not doing what they should be fighting against! I realize that they are not standing up to the authoritarian party like we wish they would but they are not the guilty ones either because trump’s regime had everything lined up in the 2025 manifesto and they ripped the presidency and Congress out from under the democrats hands! The election was rigged by the influence of Russian media and the money that Elon Musk used to buy votes and influence the election and the behind the scenes Republican purges of voters rolls and the intimidation of voters by the MAGA cult! And the manipulation of the election machine totals all worked to steal the election from democrats! All of this coordinated propaganda and manipulation and voter suppression and money is what made this election a disaster!
So instead of trashing the whole Democratic Party try putting the blame on the real problem of corruption in the republican MAGA cult! How can we do better? We must all join in the process and work together to take the same tactics of the last election and make sure we use them to our own advantage! And if we give the leadership some compliments and support and loyalty they might be able to make a stronger stand and push back against the next attack! But for sure trashing our leaders will only make them less effective to make intelligent decisions! So please stop “owning the libs” you are just doing MAGA a favor!!!
Correct—it was the farthest THING from a free and fair election!!! Now let’s figure a strategy to THROW them OUT in the midterms!
Capitulation to rump IS complicity.
No but since I am not you we are conversing with ideas and we won’t agree with each other but that’s the way we learn from the opinions and facts that we share here in Substack! I am currently thinking about your perspective and I will keep it in mind for future posts! Thanks for sharing!
I reject these assertions that the 2024 election was stolen, just as I reject the big lie that 2020 was stolen. You may believe these democratic leaders have acted in good faith; I do not. You may think they are beyond reproach; I do not. I want them to be strong—and strong leaders can handle criticism. Weak leaders misconstrue criticism as an attack. Well that’s not what this is. I want the people I vote for, donate to, and hear from to stand up for me, not against me. Is that so much to ask?
Ridiculous
Lay off Gretchen. She was ambushed just like Zelensky. That is what the twisted do. After she figured out what was going on, she could have made a scene and that would replay in the news and on the internet millions of times. She is a smart lady and she did what she needed to do for her state. You were not in that situation to comment.
Deedles, we don’t need the weak and forlorn right now. Whitmer made a huge mistake and her career in politics is doomed. Unless of course she pulls a Fetterman and switches teams.
This is an elevation of a minor point: yes, the HBO drama Chernobyl is scary, but it’s definitely worth watching. It was appointment TV for my 30-something daughter and me. Please steel yourself to watch it, even just one episode at a time.
You have hit the nail on the head. US politics is meaninglessly and superficially divided into a binary matrix of red and blue sprinkles on a cone that is filled with the same vanilla ice cream. Both corridors of power lead back to the same puppet masters and, until proper institutional firewalls are re-established and re-empowered to police and prosecute the puppet masters and their puppets, the rights, freedoms and opportunities for average Americans will continue to deteriorate.
Gretchen Whitmer had a choice, cozy up to Trump because American industrial workers deserve their old jobs back and his insanity just might work, or at least he’s on the right track, or take a stand against Trump because he’s a danger to democracy and call out the banks and corporations that instigated and supported globalization for the past fifty years. Too bad, she made the idiotic choice to align with Trump. Now she’s finished in politics. Good riddance.
This deserves a great big ignore.
Great piece! Thank you.
Thank you Simon for your ever-positive tireless truthful efforts. Today it’s difficult to remain positive as the link below sensibly states - as millions of constituents (you, me, et al.) are out on the frontlines fighting for our Democracy (calls, protests {local & nationwide}, town halls, donations, ect.) we are still looking for D leadership & a plan - well there is no D plan & there is likely not going to be a plan after 5 unthinkable months (likely too late to turn our Constitutional Crisis around). With the exception of a handful of Congressional D taking action (Booker, Raskin, Murphy, Kaine, AOC, Bernie - & several unbeknownst to me) most all are taking recess once again - without an established plan to save our Democracy. Hakeem Jeffries just spoke out on insider trading calling R out - frankly why bother when this has been going on unchecked for eons (R& also D) instead, why not place an all hands on deck effort to saving our Democracy - uniting both the House & Senate. And after all this time, still no D press secretary to communicate voluminous daily updates. Lost for words.
https://open.substack.com/pub/certainthoughts/p/queen-for-a-day-gretchen-whitmers?r=1kncci&utm_medium=ios
A different take.
No matter how fast the Republicans sink the Democrats manage to plummet farther and faster.
The historic Democratic icons FDR, and JFK would laugh at what passes for policy in their own beloved party. Although they were upper class they understood that victory for their party depended on appealing to working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester.
Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and the environment and grow nuclear power.
Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy that requires backup continuous generating capacity which is then used intermittently. A ridiculously expensive approach. Even more important, realize that the stifling maze of environmental procedures that now must be followed to build anything has raised the price of necessities like mass transit and housing that the working class needs to survive. Figure out how to build stuff quickly.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines.
Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights.
Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration.
Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live.
Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice.
Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Keep support for unions and fair wages
Dump “free trade” policies that have devastated our manufacturing sector.
Do all of the above and start governing like you know what the fuck you’re doing and you might just find your way back to power.
On what planet does MAGA support a woman’s right to choose or dealing with climate change or vaccines? Can you possibly be as stupid as you sound?
Sorry, did I hit a nerve?
“Our only choice is to fight and win within the party apparatus, reinvigorating it in the process. In fact, the Democratic party needs our clarion calls for justice and progress as badly as we need it to endorse and elect our champions.”
This shit pisses me off so much. You list the countless examples of Democrats deliberately betraying the working class, only to say “and that’s why we have to fight to change it from within!” People are so tired of hearing this refrain.
It may not be an easy task, and it may take a long time, with plenty of mistakes along the way, but the bottom line is that we need to build a working class party. I’m sick of people dismissing this outright and forcing the conversation to be trapped within the confines of a fundamentally capitalist party that would sooner implode itself than allow the party to genuinely be reformed in the way you say it needs to be.
Whitmer really is example # 19473920 of Feckless Democrats™️ doing Feckless Democrat things
Cowards and ashamed they think that because he was allowed this position through corruption of the cheat they all bow like ok, so what he's a lying cheating diaper wearing criminal he's the President. Please when are these people going to wake the fuck up!!!!