Talk about BAD judgement. Uggh. I've liked Slotkin, but damn...

better job.

Do you not know what a total moron (and fake liberal/progressive) Stephen A. Smith is? He'll take whatever she says and spin it to his purpose.

show and expanding her audience, or bringing in a new audience is a good idea. This is how Dems have been winning purple districts, by getting out there.

And yeah, I think she knows what she is doing without the help.

We'll agree, Smith's a loser, but he has a platform on Sirius and a big audience. Use it. Next talk to Steve Schmidt, Meidas Touch, Rick Wilson, and Brian Tyler Cohen. Hammer this same message out on every venue possible.

I guess Plato was right.

I thought it was a big mistake to kick David Hogg out of the DNC. i get daily emails from his group, Leaders We Deserve. Here's a paragraph from a recent one with a message from Jane Fonda.

"On Tuesday, July 14th, I’m teaming up with activist and Leaders We Deserve founder David Hogg for a virtual conversation about the future of our country, the power of primaries, and what it will take to elect leaders brave enough to meet this moment."

I have no clue how well Fonda will play with younger voters, but at least he is doing things to reach out to them. I'm unaware of Martin doing anything but occasionally asking for money.

As far as I am concerned, the Dems have done nothing the last 46+ years, starting with when HWBush committed TREASON to "Install" Reagan in the White House to be a front man/pawn to HW and his CABAL........

BTW, we here in Denver/Colorado are facing a tsunami of ads for DeGette, Bennett, Hickenlooper. The very first ones we have ever seen in previous decades.........I think they are frightened beyond belief and well should be....These Do-Nothings shouldn't be frightened......They should be mortified of the upcoming election........

I wonder if Bennet becomes Governor, I suspect he will appoint Gov. Polis to fill out the remainder of his term as U.S. Senator.
If Bennet loses the governor race, he will merely return to the senate for another Do-Nothing couple of years.

Just a quick reality check on this: David Hogg wasn't actually kicked out of the DNC. He was elected as a Vice Chair in February 2025, but he chose to step down voluntarily a few months later in June.

The issue wasn't his activism, but a major conflict of interest with his PAC, Leaders We Deserve. His group planned to spend $20 million to primary older, establishment Democrats in safe seats to usher in a new generation of leadership.

DNC Chair Ken Martin and other party leaders pointed out that DNC officers are required to remain neutral arbiters in primaries and cannot actively work to unseat incumbent Democrats.

When the DNC called for a redo of the vice-chair elections due to procedural rules, Hogg decided not to run again so he could fully focus on running his PAC and backing those primary challenges without violating DNC neutrality.

in order to help dem candidates who support the status quo. This is so wrong. We the people will decide who our nominees are, NOT the DCCC.

He is such a two faced a hole!

And a repuke in disguise.

I support Democrats who go where the moderates/persuadables might be. Those are the votes needed to win elections. It's why I would support someone like Pete Buttigieg if he ran for POTUS. He can stand on his own, outside of the bubble.

I enjoy DU and always vote for Democrats. I also have news sources which I don't always agree with. The Bulwark and The Atlantic are must reads. Then there are opinionated blowhards, who I choose not to have living rent-free in my brain. Stephen A. Smith is a cipher, unless he runs for office himself.

he seeks. He has a history of nutty behavior and no one should put any "created" spin beyond him for attention. You don't know him, apparently, or you would not be chastising ME for my VALID opinion--as shared by others here. When one of ours goes on a RW podcast or Fox or any other media, it is well known what they are all about. That Smith claims to be a Liberal Democrat and "merely a truth-teller wanting to say it like it is about his own party" while saying anything and everything--no matter how untrue-- to create attention to himself is the problem. People watch him because he is outrageous and listen to him because he claims to be what he is not. Hell, if you watch him re: sports, you know he does that continually, but who the hell cares in that context...?

Have your own opinion, but I have every damned right to MINE-- that KNOWS what he is all about! He is all about Stephen A. Smith and no lie, no bastardized story, no bizarre attempt to paint a true Democrat as something they truly are NOT, is beyond him. He's shown that repeatedly. But you be you and adore him. Most of use see through him. Slotkin showed very poor judgement going on his show.

I don't recall denying anyone their opinion. I also don't recall questioning your expertise in all things Stephen A. Smith. Finally, I certainly showed no appreciation for Stephen A. Smith, let alone adoration.

My appreciation is for Democrats who venture outside of bubbles.

To summarize, Sen. Slotkin "can go on any program," except one?

No reason to be so full of yourself.

In both facilitating constructive discourse, and deterring unbridled expressions of negativity directed at individuals with the sole purpose of harm. They serve no appropriate role in any conversation. SOP for Republicans is not something we should inflict on each other. I’ll gladly give the number of any Republican you’d like.

Rep. Slotkin's sentiments, but why does she have to air them so publicly in a way that the corporate media will simply trot out its "Democrats in Disarray" canard? Why not just support fresh candidates with fresh ideas? That sends the message just as well without giving the bad guys great talking points. We can be principled and smart at the same time.

This time I am beginning to wonder if talking about new leadership may be a plus for Dems. Is it possible that we could bring out voters who otherwise would stay home because they perceive the party as ineffective? If Trump is working overtime to suppress the vote, could it be we need high a highly visible message that we will do things differently, starting with new leadership? Both parties have low approval ratings per every poll I have seen lately.

I don’t know the right answer, but I this has been on my mind.

Chris Murphy should be one.

Jamie Raskin

🫶🏽

Keep fighting the good fight!

for her as a new Rep from a kind of conservative district.

I hope she remembers that “new” doesn’t just mean new people, but more importantly, new ideas and methods of getting shit done .

We need someone with enough fure to be willing to go to bat for US and not just the rich

Whether Slotkin deserves to be handed a microphone or a mirror is less clear.

Senate dem failure to stop Bush 2000 election theft. Does anyone think the repugs would've hid in their cushy, ivory Washington towers if Bush was behind by 537 votes with 160,000 votes in heavily republican voting Florida counties not counted? Not a chance.

But as a Black man in NYC, I WILL NOT let go of the opportunity of Hakeem Jeffries to become the first Black Speaker of The House of Representatives.
That is non negotiable....a non starter...dead on arrival...It is not a "hill I'm willing to die on", it's is turf I'm willing to defend.

For decades, white Democrats have asked for and expected Black Democrats to support and get behind the agenda laid out by leadership. We have done so and we have been told "to wait our turn". I watched as Adam Clayton Powell was torpedoed out of an opportunity , then Charles Rangel and now, suddenly there's dissatisfaction with Jeffries? Right on the cusp when the Democrats will likely take the House?

Hell to the no!

Unless he totally capitulates to the Republicans and becomes the next Byron Donalds, I'm sticking with him. And I expect enthusiastic, energetic support from the rank and file. When the next session of Congress convenes, I fully expect to see Mike Johnson hand over the gavel to Hakeem Jeffries to be the incoming Speaker of the House.

All this mumbling and grumbling I'm really not in the mood for. Now, you want to pressure him? Go right ahead. You want to make him go further left? Have at it. But replace him? Not happn' Cap'n.

Now, you know where I stand. And after I finish this, so too will Congresswoman Slotkin when I write a rather nice letter informing her of my position as a lifetime Democratic voter in NYC.

Thank you for your attention.

They posted it to social media yesterday

I don’t see any reason for replacing him. I think he does fairly well trying to hold our coalition together. Schumer, and others in leadership should definitely be replaced though. We shouldn’t reward people over and over and allow them to “fail forward”.

I don't think Jeffries is the problem. I'm excited to see the 1st African American Speaker of the House. I think the leadership problem is on the Senate side. As far as African Americans being the backbone of the democratic party but still getting the shaft, there's no better example of it than the fact that most of the 160,000 uncounted Florida 2000 ballots are the ballots of low income African American women. If only they'd instead been wealthy white men dem party donors. No one should forget that Senate dems couldn't abandon Al Gore's fight to have the uncounted Florida votes counted fast enough and then they refused to co-sponsor the Congressional Black Caucus's challenged to the fraudulent Florida vote count.

Here he is recently on CNN: “I’m not here to denigrate or insult the president of the United States. He is certainly an upgrade from what we were seeing from Joe Biden in terms of his alertness.”

Here he is on Twitter: "Gotta be honest, this @ufc event at the White House looks spectacular. This is a big time show. I’m not there, and we all know all the complaints folks had about renovations at and around the White House, etc, but — to be fair — this is some impressive stuff I’m looking at. Props to UFC President @danawhite and the show they’ve put on. It’s Bigtime. Plain and simple!!!"

some folk need to PASS THE FUCKING BATON ALREADY

Too many people think they are the only ones who can run the show.

I find it disgusting

Hakeem isn't the problem.

In the last election, the American people took for granted that the Democratic party would still be around to uphold Social Security, food programs and also hold the line on Universal health programs. They took it for granted, which is why they voted for Republicans believing their talk track of a better economy. And then the grift began, and not only have Americans lost their safety nets, they're now seeing their tax dollars going to grifting projects. Bottomline, the party that they expected to provide the guardrails to stop the Republicans, were too weak in numbers to stop the massive mess we are in today.

So, this is so damn easy. The Democratic Party stands for Universal Healthcare, food programs, Social Security, Stronger education programs to support our diverse populations. Call yourselves whatever you fucking want to, but stand for these programs.

But here is the problem for Centrist Democrats: Those who are calling themselves Democratic Socialist are behind all these programs and once they come into office, they deliver. So you need to figure out what it is about Centrist Democrats that is undermining their success at the ballot boxes. Because, if they still think they can satisfy and cater to the corporations, and still do good on promises to the people, then maybe they deserve to lose. This combination of objectives hasn't worked in over twenty years.

We actually got improvements in health care,. unlike progressives who haven't accomplished anything and won't. Please stop spreading this nonsense that universal heath care is some magic bullet. After we did just Hillary care and Obama care we lost 60 seats for each . They tried a single payer ballot initiative in liberal Oregon and it lost 78 to 21. One reason we lose, probably the main one is progressives do all they can to sabotage us. Lies about us catering to corporations is an example.

Centrists did tons of stuff during the last 20 years. Progressives accomplished nothing.

Starting with Clinton’s Administration that completely capitulated to the Republicans on welfare and also deregulated the banks. Idk, it’slike they had something on him.

And I lived through the sixties so saying progressives did nothing makes the rest of your comments suspect.

Nothing since. Name their accomplishments. We took a severe beating in 1996 and Clinton had to pivot to the right on some things and welfare was extremely unpopular. Here's what he did accomplish: https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-01.html

I lived through it. Democrats kept backing off, thinking they could find common ground with the Right, and the Right ran right over us. It's not Centrists who are standing up to them. It's everybody else, people who are being targeted by White Supremacists and/or actually need government protection. They're laying it all on the line.

Look, I don't care about the labels. I care about politicians who are committed to fighting and winning. If you can't provide a candidate that can convince voters that they have the commitment to stand up to the Republicans, you're going to lose. It's very simple. I will vote for anyone who can convince me they're serious. Frankly, it's the Centrist Democrats who seem to be getting hot and bothered because progressives and other Lefties are winning. It's not a problem for me to solve for them. It's something that they have to figure out for themselves.

Stay Calm,
Everyone take 3 giant steps to the left,
And move forward.

We have an indicted criminal in the White House because we wasted four years playing old school politics as usual and never used the power we had to bring him to justice, which we certainly could have done, and no excuses will explain that away. That included knowing what a barrier the Supreme Court would be to all of this and not making a real attempt to get rid of them, or at least pack the court, and overturn Citizens United, the immunity rulings and overturning Dobbs, among other things.

People like Slotkin are leading the opposition. Millions are out in the streets, and while the polling data is favorable to Democrats right now, it's not anything close to what it should be.

For the tiny number of even registered voters that participate in any election. If every registered Democrat, for example, voted there is no arm of government we would not have a majority in. As Slotkin stated in the interview - she wants to replace the leaders she criticizes. Where was she when Biden nominated and tolerated Garland? Or Obama allowed McConnell to prevent him from a SCOTUS pick? Leaders are rarely the problem if people help elect them. But if so few people participate the people in charge are the ones that cater to the base voters that actually vote, not the loud critics or protestors that don’t vote.

As a member of the House, she had no say on confirming Garland or anyone else.

This don't fight back strategy started in 2000 with letting Bush steal the 2000 election and it's been downhill ever since. The dem Senate leadership was clueless to the threat that the Bush 2000 election theft posed to our country and they're still just as clueless about the threat that Trump now poses. They keep bringing slingshots to the fight while the repugs are bringing AK-47s. It's long past due for this failed Senate dem don't fight back strategy to end.

Why go to war with each other now?

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

will end the dem Senate's failed don't fight back strategy. He's my suggestion.