Elissa Slotkin barely won her election by a fraction of 1% against a lunatic carnival barker. Meanwhile Rashida Tlaib clobbered her opponent AGAIN and outperformed Kamala even in the notoriously right wing Wayne county suburbs like Westland, Garden City. Slotkin is not who we need to listen to

I would likewise double check your numbers. Talib's district is Mich 12. 48% white. 48% black. Less than 2% Hispanic to cut into her vote. She is Cook D+21. Many R's voted Kamala but stayed true for their darling Rogers (v Slotkin) for Senate & below. Mich statewide is R+1. Very different races.

Uh no. Did you miss the part where I said she also outperformed kamala in the notoriously far right 90% white suburbs of Wayne county? I even listed a couple. That district is practically 2 different states for how different they are from dearborn & Detroit.

i almost feel like long term better if she lost lol

Yea we could’ve ousted her opponent next election. Slotkin will end up blocking the democrats agenda for decades

who’s excited for Manchin 2

This is the propagandized GOP. We have to counteract. If you disagree with Slotkin about shadow cabinet who come out to rebut every time, what is your idea? We’re losing the propaganda war bc of arrogance and elitism. youtu.be/sVVaDeNRy5c?...

Slotkin’s answer is to fight back LESS and be LESS liberal. Did you even fucking read the article?

No were losing the war because instead of fighting back democrats have gone farther right in every election since Reagan so we have a Nazi party and a Conservative party but no longer have a liberal pro labor party to counter them. Slotkin is every bit as bad as Reagan.

Yeah, that last sentence is disqualifying. You need to get out of your feelings and debate using logic, not ridiculous hyperbole.

No, being in the CIA as a democrat is disqualifying. kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-d...

Interesting. I agree that being in the CIA as a libertarian would be weird, but not a Democrat.

The CIA goes against everything liberal values stand for and is over 95% republican. You really don’t know enough to be so condescending about politics

I didn’t say that the CIA wasn’t majority republican. I merely stated a Democrat can be in the CIA. With your logic Democrats should not be in the military either.

No that’s not what I said. I said nobody who worked as a CIA spook overthrowing legitimately elected leftist governments should be allowed to run as a democrat.

It’s not hyperbole it’s a factual assessment of Slotkin’s voting record. Or did you miss her yes vote on trumps mass deportation and her no vote on raising minimum wage?

She most recently in 2024 voted to increase min wage. I’m not really sure why she and Gary peters both voted for the Laken Riley act. I actually don’t personally care for her, but as I said everybody but Bernie and AOC are sitting on their asses letting all this happen. At least she has an idea.

Slotkin is such a bigot that even with a gay mom she voted against gay rights. There is no difference whatsoever between Slotkin and liz Cheney. They’re both bigots and they’re both far right extremists and they’re both part of how we got here.

Bernie & AOC & Rashida & Ilhan are the only ones NOT sitting on their asses. Your beloved rapidly aging moderates aren’t doing shit and haven’t done anything since Obama

they’re not my beloved moderates bc I’m not moderate. We believe mostly the same things, but your hyperbole comparing these people to W and to Reagan is ridiculous. I used to be a Republican during those times and I promise you they were probably the two worst and most conservative presidents ever.

Voting for democrats with far right policy views doesn’t help anything. You don’t beat Nazi fascists by becoming them

Yea so why did democrats abandon new deal values and get behind republican economics. Biden’s tax rate on the rich was LESS THAN HALF of what Eisenhower republicans were Eisenhower spent so much on infrastructure he built the hwy system in one presidency abs expanded welfare more than any other pres

because we’re not living in the 50s anymore. the GOP has a propaganda ecosystem that is hard to overcome. The other thing is that voters that benefit from democratic policies don’t always vote. The Dems lost the messaging battle. Even Obama caved to the moderates and moved to the center.

She voted yes on laken Riley because she’s a far right anti immigrant racist twat. She wouldn’t break the filibuster to protect your rights but she did to pass trumps budget and got nothing in return. She’s against min wage she always has been.

- medicare for all - housing as a right - legal and medical autonomy for trans people - no more genocide+colonial wars things the democrats will never do

The saddest thing I can say is the first three bullet points are more possible than the fourth one. A nation whose riches are founded on slavery is always going to fall short. Especially since said slave owners were allowed to help design the government and the electoral system.

We had 50 years of slow but steady progress when both parties believed in new deal economics from FDR- Reagan election. Even Nixon was better than this shi

the saddest thing is that democrats regularly join with republicans to block all of those things at a federal level; neither party is for us

Comparing a statewide election result in a state with a huge rural, racist MAGA population to a local congressional district with a majority of one type of voter shows that like many Dems, you are out of touch. This is why we keep losing. I’m not pro Slotkin, but your post is incorrect.

If you were correct both Hillary and kamala wouldn’t have lost Michigan since they ran on a platform farther right than W Bush. A pro labor left wing economic populist has a WAY better chance at winning the Rust belt.

when you say shit like Kamala was more right thanW you lose all credibility. Your argument would be sound without that comparison. That’s why nobody wants to be a new member of the progressives or the Democratic socialist or even the Democrats because you discredit yourself with ridiculous hyperbole

You realize progressives controlled the party for 50 years and democrats frequently won supermajorities then and it was the longest period of prosperity in American history AND WE CREATED THE MIDDLE CLASS. Even Eisenhower republicans were farther left that war criminals Hillary & Kamala

well, progressives need to figure out messaging so it resonates w/everyday people bc middle class is overwhelmingly voting for MAGA and polls show Americans overwhelmingly think GOP is better on economy when that’s literally untrue. All I know is, I’ll support anybody running against the Republican.

Lol you got that backwards. Every poll in 2016 had Bernie winning every swing state and winning the election by double digits. Bernie is drawing bigger crowds than Biden AND ITS NOT AN ELECTION YEAR. And he’s doing that in hardcore right wing parts of rust belt swing states kamala lost

I love Bernie, but Dems think they need swing voters. I don’t think it matters anymore who the Democrats put up unless they can win the propaganda war. So figure out how to do that and they’re better ideas should be able to take route. My family are Fox News watchers and they’re all brainwashed.

Yea and progressives are the only ones trying to combat that. You ever see Slotkin going on Fox News and destroying their talking points? Nope. Only progressives do that.

you think I love Slotkin? I’m just saying where’s the rest of the party speaking out? And having been a Fox News brainwashed person, her idea of having one person assigned to counteract each cabinet member when they speak publicly could help the propaganda war. we have to break through that space.

You blue maga folks are just as brainwashed as trump supporters. Name 1 liberal position supported by Slotkin. I dare ya. I’ll wait

W bush raised minimum wage. Slotkin is against it.

Lol riiiight. That’s why Slotkin won by the lowest margin of any democrats in Michigan. Meanwhile bernie just drew a bigger crowd than trump in an off year w no election in a part of Macomb county that may as well be 1940 Mississippi

Elissa slotkin is Dick Cheney in drag. She’s got to go and we can’t wait 6 years. She needs to be recalled.

Goddamn it

She's a dumb bitch.

In other words, she wants Dems to throw us to the wolves. Fuck that. Stand strong AND be “woke!”

Slotkin should go build a new Republican Party or something.

Typical @politico.com clickbait to put Dems at each others’ throats, but the content in the article is not quite as bad as the headline suggests.

I did read it

She can go fuck herself. Hope that wasn't too weak and woke, Elissa. I'm proud of my wokeness and always will be.

Really want to hear this hog define "woke".

"She is urging Democrats to 'fucking retake the flag'" That's exactly what I was pushing last year to anyone who would listen. Take back the "We the People," the flag, and all that symbolic hoohah. Republicans turned it into something cheap and dirty.

Everyone outside of the Republican Party except for the Elissa Slotkins who seem to be dead-set on joining the Republican ranks seem to associate the American flag with Trumpism now. I think that ship has sailed.

Not everyone, and it's only sailed when everyone gives up. Doomerism isn't the best path.

Tell her to shove it.

Cool cool cool. I wonder if we have any evidence of what running against the Cheneys of the world looks like? 🤔

She said weakly

Nah, Slotkin is serious. Her plan is to make the Democratic Party into even more of the Republican Party from 1985 and to kill all leftists, trans kids, and minorities. She's vile.

my point is that her plan is coming from a place of weakness. You MUST stand up against the paper tiger that is Trump. Fight or die.

My point is she's on Trump's side.

Republicans are the only ones who even use the word "woke." So now she's sounding like one.

That said, if you actually READ the article and not just the headline, the headline is misleading and her strategy makes a lot more sense.

No it doesn’t and her voting for so many trump nominees and policies while getting NOTHING in return proves that. She’s a far right former CIA spook who never should’ve been allowed on the democratic ticket in the first place. She’s Dick Cheney in a dress FFS

I've heard enough from Slotkin to know that nothing she believes makes sense

ok but, i've seen enough from Slotkin to conclude that she really does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. she should try earning that back

Judging by the majority of responses here, most people didn’t read the article. That lack of taking literally 2 minutes to look further into something is why we’re where we are.

Her plan is moronic and it's clearly designed to appeal to Republicans. She says we can't be weak and woke and then goes on to defend trump... Her "statement" after the trump joint address was also bad.

From what I read she was acknowledging that democrats are seen as “weak and woke.” She’s right about the weak part and the republicans co-opted the woke part as an attack. I didn’t see anything about defending the felon. What in her post address statement was bad?

All of it? First off she does defend the felon by downplaying the threat he and his supporters present to the US. Second she's going to give a speech about "sacrificing sacred cows" next month is which something Dems frequently do, and is what makes them look weak in the first place.

I just read the whole statement and it’s basically the entire Democratic message. She said the felon would’ve lost us the Cold War and she uses her time in Iraq as an example of where the felon is taking us. I don’t want to be missing something here.

It's also stupidly wrong that "oligarchy" doesn't resonate outside of coastal zones. 12,000 people turned up for Bernie and AOC's fight the oligarchy rally in fucking Idaho. This whole this is just stupid desperation.

I get that. And drawing those kinds of numbers is fine and all but it would’ve been better last summer. The people have 2 options. Vote. Or rebel. We had our chance to vote and lost. Now it’s up to the people we elected. If they can’t come through, then it’s on to option 2.

Sorry, never voting for another centrist democrat, ever.

No need to apologize for that. I just hope we get to vote again.

"We have to be strong and not woke, because Trump is a threat to democracy. That's my war plan to retake the Whitehouse, but it's not like I think he's like isis or anything. Not that kind of war plan."

I didn’t see a direct quote of her saying “strong and not woke.” From my pov, it seems like she’s having to spell out she’s not actually talking about combat operations to defeat the felon like we would with ISIS because then, she’d be locked up.

Read the article as did a lot of people in the comments. Slotkin chose to use a word that most of us associate with being used by bigots & racism but we're supposed to listen to her ideas based on her whacko focus groups?

That’s because that’s the only word republicans have to insult democrats. And democrats hem and haw around it in response. As a result, republicans keep using it because they know it’ll get a rise out of them. Democrats need to change their image quick.

It's because lots of elected Democrats can't think on their feet, they're not sure which way the wind is blowing, they don't speak with conviction. I say practice random questions or get out. Not everyone can be a Pete Buttigieg, AOC, Sanders and others who have found their voice & use it.

That’s why I’ve always said Dems are spineless. They don’t want to offend anyone so they choose words that won’t offend everyone. They’re basically good people. They just need to learn that it’s okay to offend degenerates.

Diplomacy from Democrats isn’t working. Trump and thugs find it laughable. Sad that because truth is seen as weak, we have to fight like them. But we joked and and never any justice for these clowns and here we are.

Most Dems are but there's definitely Dems that are not. Sanders and AOC have been out there rallying people up for a fight that the Dems need to follow up on.

Woke is literally defined as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)". Are you trying to say that they should embrace bigotry & racism? To ignore the plight of 50% of Americans barely surviving?

Yeah. We know what it means. And you can scream that into the ear of every felon voter and it won’t matter. But here you are explaining it. And THAT is why republicans keep using it. It’s really effective because now dems are riled up because a dem used it in a way that wasn’t perfect.

I actually don't use it because to me, it's been made to into an idiotic pejorative & is a thought terminating cliche most commonly used by racists & bigots but hey, sure, tell me what the fuck you seem to know about me.

I don’t know anything about you. But in one post you mentioned focus groups and now you’re talking about public perception, which is what Slotkin was talking about. That’s what needs to change. Not who Dems are as people (more or less), but how they’re perceived.

What are you even on about? Ofc I'm going to talk about focus groups as they can be very problematic & misleading depending on how they are formed & public perception because the two things are absolutely related and the Dems keep missing the mark. Completely.

She needs to make sure the word “woke“ never leaves her mouth again.

I know she gets a lot of dismayed looks from people who don't think she's liberal enough, but she did win key Senate seat in open race where the state flips back & forth between R & D. She was a CIA analyst, so I would assume she's good at identifying ways to move forward in challenging situations.

Dismayed looks? All I'm seeing is 97% of commenters calling her a disappointing sellout and telling her TGFH.

She voted for the Laken Riley Act which is being used right now on legal immigrants. She knew what it was about but voted for it anyway.

She sucks.

She has voted yes on a majority of Donald Trump's dangerous and incompetent nominees. Wake the hell up.

She got less votes than Kamala in Michigan and Kamala lost that state. This means lots of GOP voters went in, voted for Donald and then left the rest of their ballot blank. She's an ex-CIA operative aka a COP.

I'm sorry, no, her strategy is stupid and she's still going to look weak. she's afraid to call trump and his supporters what they are. She says he's a threat to democracy in one sentence, then she's approached about the militant stance of the language she equivocates and plays defense for him.

The GOP is in charge because they have been out there shaping the message for decades. Dems are losers because they look like weather vanes. If all this is code for moving right, then it's just going to make her look weaker. Like she's capitulating to the fucking Nazis.

Getting militant and growing a fucking spine, great. That's what we need. But she needs to do it in service of actual good things. Like dismantling the fucking oligarchy. Like healthcare and a living wage. Like standing up for the little guy (immigrants/trans people). Not caving with GOP lite BS.

'My definition of success,” Slotkin said, “includes free & fair elections in 2026, retaking the House, defending the seats we have in the Senate.” In the best-case scenario, she said, Democrats could perhaps gain 1 or 2 seats in the Senate.' This feels like low expectations, sadly pry also correct.

She's voted YES on so many fucking Donald Trump nominees and for the Laken Riley Act and can get goddamn lost. She also got less votes than Kamala did in Michigan.

Pfft. She can get stuffed.

I read the entire article and honestly, IDGAF what her focus groups say as it seems to me that Dem focus groups have been less than accurate given their losses. Perhaps Slotkin should read the signs of the millions of people who protested instead before sounding like a DINO.

I read it before I replied, but maybe I'm just bad at interpreting. Do the quotes in the article NOT mean that she still said those things? I do agree that news headlines really try to grab you, but I'm very much perplexed by her wording right now.

It sounds like she doesn't even know what woke is. And maybe it's because I'm not from Michigan? Because wtf do i know about Campbell? I don't understand what she's describing here. But hey I wasn't there so I'll never know, but as a constituent I can't relate to whatever that was.

Lived in Michigan for 18 years, and I have no clue what she's trying to say here.

Dan Campbell is unwoke Ted Lasso? Idk either. Kind of all over the place there.

She was definitely acknowledging that the reason that the democrats "lost" was because of "woke" and "weakness" but conveniently forgetting that this was part of a conservative propaganda playbook which worked. They played the long game and won Her solution just sounds like "conservative lite"

'GOP lite' is the comfort zone of every reactionary centrist and the entire consultancy class whenever the Democratic party loses.

The first bill she sponsored (as opposed to cosponsored) was one that opposed Chinese cars. She announced that on fucking Fox News. This isn't the first time she's gone out of her way to sound like a Republican.

She brags about working under George W Bush, plus she is a former CIA agent, so yeah she is basically a republican.

She’s a CIA agent. Of course she sounds like a Republican.

I have definitely heard “woke” used in let’s say “mixed company” on my “liberal” campus

Yea she pisses me off. I voted for her before I found out who she really was.

I voted for a Republican for drain commissioner because the only alternative was a libertarian that said that the role should not exist. In that specific case they were the least bad option. I voted for Slotkin for basically the same reason.

What pisses you off about her?

She misrepresented herself.

I’m not seeing that yet. She seems to me like she’s pissed off and wants to stop the felon from turning this country into Iraq.

you seem to be the only one here not seeing it... Reflect on that.

Did you read the entire article?

I guess we'll find out.

She sounds so cringe and out of touch. We’re done with out of touch. I have been, and remain Team McMorrow.

She is a Republican. This is the leadership Democrats are trying to force on us while there is real populist energy inside the party that they’re currently trying to smother

I hope Step 1 is to stop voting for trump's nominees.

"That way, we can make America great again!" she added.

Lord, she sucks. An old school Republican clinging like a barnacle onto the Dem party.

She honestly sounds like the prequel version of Kirsten Sinema

Elissa Slotkin is pathetic and wrong

Woke is strong. It takes strength to be compassionate. Selling out is weak. Although she probably didn't really have anything to sell.

Goddamn right. Be strong and woke. Concede no ground on DEI, trans rights, civil rights, women’s rights, immigrant rights, or worker’s rights. Demand that every one of these Nazi motherfuckers be tried, convicted, and punished for their treasonous dismantling of the federal government.

Jesus Christ, let it go already. Doing the same bad strategy over and over until it works isn't a plan.

Has she tried saying, "We can't beat 'em so we're joining 'em"?

She can go to Hell.

She was on the NSC’s Iraq policy desk under the W Bush administration. If it exists she’s already got her ticket booked.

a) I’m pretty sure she doesn’t know the origin of the word “woke” b) “Anti-wokeness” is weak, MAGA at its core and = caving to bullies c) The fact that Rahm Emanuel is using this phrase 🙄

Correction: "Slotkin Has An Exit Plan for Her Political Career."

Correction: “The CIA will have another duty station assignment for Slotkin after the voters remove her from this one the CIA has currently assigned her to.”

That's neat, do you think her "series of political speeches" will draw tens of thousands of people in deep-red Real America?

Don't be like Elissa Slotkin: don't be a zionist aka a racist.

every time this woman speaks I think "why is this Republican weighing in"

I think it looks weak to pretend voters don’t know what an oligarch is. Voters do know what an oligarch is and no longer trust the Democratic Party to protect the common good from oligarchs. That’s why the Bernie/AOC message is resonating better than whatever Slotkin’s plan is.

The word has entered the popular lexicon. Bernie and AOC’s tour is called Stop Oligarchy (or something similar). “King” is no synonym. She’s out of touch.

This absurd woman’s plan to “fight”fascists is to become more fascist.😵‍💫

beating republicans by sounding more like republicans i look forward to seeing how this innovative new strategy that absolutely has not already been attempted to resounding failure many times over plays out

Pathetic, cowardly little nazi collaborator. Slotkin should be primaried and tossed to the curb immediately

I like how Target said the same thing and they got the retail equivalent of a curb stomping

Anything left of the far-right is considered "woke" to maga, so what the actual fuck is she even talking about...? She's clueless, and absolutely the last thing we need right now...

Be woke and throw the sleepers out the window.

Democrats forever destined to be losers.

She's the next Sinema. Wolf in sheep's clothing

Slotkin, you jackass. Resign.

oh my god SHUT UP

My message for slotkin: republicans aren’t gonna vote for you.

oh so the same strategy that caused the dems to lose the popular vote to a dumbass?

Just saying the word woke in a negative or derogatory way is a litmus test for me.

Bye, Elise!

Replace woke with compassion and you’ll hear what she’s really saying.

Anyone see the Tim Alberta article where she made a Freudian slip when espousing clear hatred of the “far left” like AOC? I don’t think she’s a real Dem. I think she knew she wouldn’t have success unless she ran on the label. But she sounds more like a Repuke. & where she’s from is violently red.

The Dems who blame wokeness for their loss do so because they're weak. Slotkin's warplan is cowardice in disguise.

She won her race by .34% and got less votes than Kamala. Interesting that the “journalists” at politico failed to mention that.

I prefer strong and woke.

Lmao

I think she would poll worse than Klobuchar and maybe Gillibrand as well.

She can get fucked

Slotkin, divide and conquer no, just divide.

elissa slotkin is a fucking dumbass

How about we primary anyone like this from the left. It they want to be a Republican they should be one but I am sick of Republicans running as Democrats and fucking up the platform

Specifically explain to me what “woke” is.

"Appease racists by throwing black people and immigrants to the wolves" is what she means.

Isn’t she supposed to be a democrat? She sounds MAGA.

"Let's see who you really are." YOINK! "Why, Slotkin was old man Biden this entire time!"

Old man Biden was the most progressive president in living memory, and very successful

She needs to STFU.

this is really confirming the bleak reality we're in, it doesn't matter how toxic and deranged the GOP becomes if their opposition is this feckless and stupid. There's no point in hoping for a backlash if the backlash is captured by these people

Oooooo, what a PLAN

Slotkin is a fucking idiot. She got fewer votes than Harris and thinks the solution is to cosplay Liz fucking Cheney? She's one bad poll away from putting on a swastika armband and a red cap

Sounds like a plan for losing.

Elissa Slotkin is a dumbass who can't manage to successfully rebut a senile old man without losing approval. You guys can try and make her happen, but she's dead in the water. Worst new political launch in decades.

Unfortunately, it’s very likely in 2030 She’ll just be reelected. She represented my (former) home district in the house and I was initially excited when she took it over in 2018 but the last few months have made me disgusted. Tim Alberta caught her in a terrible Freudian slip. She may be a DINO.

No more bullshit

Yes, better be "strong and woke!" Fight for what is right, no matter how it's labelled.

It's called "Paradox of Tolerance", although it's not really a paradox:

We don't want Republican lite, actually.

She can kiss my grubby woke butt. And go away to Siberia while she's at it.

WHELP… we know who’s going to declare she’s an independent in a couple years. And probably a republican a couple years after that.

She’ll flip parties in a heartbeat if the Dems ever threaten a majority again

I think another Sinema!

I would suspect she would even do it if the Republicans got to 59 Senate seats just so she can be the 60th one.

She’s a CIA plant. Both she and Buttigieg. We could’ve had Christopher Smith talking about how the law discriminates against poor people. Instead we have a war criminal throwing brown and trans people into the thresher

🙄 Buttigieg literally talked about how the law discriminates against poor and marginalized people on the Flagrant podcast the other day.

When people say it is "not guided by values but share prices" liberals - people obsessed with markets, image, utterly indifferent to justice unless there's a profit in it - who cleared the way for fascism, this is what they mean. Irredeemably stupid in the face of rising fascist-faux-populism.

God, she sucks so much more than I thought she would

What a colossal ding dong.

She makes my skin crawl. She will sacrifice a vulnerable group.

Isn’t she the one who said not long ago she can’t be out there screaming like AOC and now she’s telling us she has a war plan. OK what is it? Oh don’t be weak and woke. Oh OK🙄🙄🙄 Is the war plan for us to go out and scream while she says she can’t

Battleground Sen. Elissa Slotkin has a “war plan” for Democrats to beat Trump: “Just join him”

What are the examples of Democrats being weak and woke over the last 60 years?

If she wants to be a Fascist Republican, she should just go do it.

Her plan to beat the GOP is to become the GOP? Hard pass.

C’mon, accepting and adopting the Republican narrative worked out great for Dems in 2024!

They've been doing it since the 90s to a mixed record.

Smart leftists predicted Dems would take the wrong lessons from Biden’s 2020 win under unprecedented conditions and use the same strategy in 2024 to a loss. I tend to think that even if Dems’ memories of that were wiped clean, they still would have done it that way, because consultants.

It’s especially rough to think back and be able to see exactly the point at which they sank their fangs into the Harris campaign, which prior to that had showed potential to successfully go their own way. Ugh.

Prevent defense - don’t try to win, try not to lose.

Every time the GOP gets into power they fuck everything up. Then, when it looks like an absolute cake walk for the Dems, you ask yourself, how are they gonna pull defeat outta the jaws of victory and today's answer is Elissa Slotkin.

You're going to have to get him out of office, first. He's glommed on to his new position a chief hall monitor and super controlling asshole. And our economy is in the shitter, almost a million have lost jobs and services have been restricted for those who need help. Three months is a long time.

By weak she means "someone who defends their constituents' most fundamental rights"

STFU Slotkin

Fuck right off with your bullshit.

Slotkin is sounding more like a Republican than a Democrat.

Agree. I had to vote for her because the Republican was worse but I’m so unhappy with her.

@slotkin.senate.gov 🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣 You sound incredibly foolish and ignorant and complicit

🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

What we need now are more language scolds and clumsy but mandatory euphemisms. Voters are attracted to shame. They love the abuse!

It's adorable that they think winning in a state that Trump won means anything. Tammy Baldwin won Wisconsin, and nobody likes her. All of her office staff have quit, all but one of her offices have shut down as far as I can tell.

I hate this war plan, which is basically Republican framing.

I'm so tired of Slotkin, honestly. I won't be surprised if she someday hops the aisle. She says stop him but votes for his crap still.

She's being an idiot by choice here.

I hate that Dem pols play into demonizing GOP talking point like Woke. Makes them look Weak.

🎯

God she’s stupid.

I used to feel badly about the fact that my brain would conflate Elissa Slotkin with Elise Stefanik and I would have to stop for a second and remember which one was “The Bad One.” Not anymore! They’re both pretty terrible (albeit in different ways).

The only difference is Slotkin might wiretap your house for criticizing her.

~She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach"~ haha holy shit what the fuck did i just read lol lmao

"Did you read the article" YES I FUCKING DID

fuck this, be strong and woke

this is a based take

am I just going senile or was that the winning strategy in 2020 why’d they not do that

It is ALWAYS about who to abandon with the Democrats. Time to remove both corrupted parties.

Hope she gets Hagued for being a Quisling

This was needed back in 2016. It may be too late now. But at least she's giving it a shot. Dems must rid themselves of ghouls like Schumer, Pelosi, and any other fascist apologists like former govt servant joke Manchin. Learn your lessons Dems and you might not end up in gulags

So Slotkin is against civil rights, I guess. She’s surrendering to fascist framing and rejecting her own voter base. Get the fuck out of here.

Exactly.

I’m all for different strategies from different folks, the people will have the ultimate say in this fight, we need to start throwing some punches!

Her plan is to attack the left. Again.

Trump made everyone stupid. Surprised she didn’t say this from the cab of a jacked up truck, with a cap on backwards, while drinking a Monster.

Says the Senator who has done more to support this government than any other Democrat.

She's misguided... OK not smart while trying to be calculating, and you (Politico) suck big time BTW.

Slotkin deserves nothing

Not even a kick in the tuchus?

I'll allow it

She's my Senator. I'd never vote for her for president.

As a recently returned Michigander I voted for her because who votes for reds? We learned very quickly she's in it for the DC Jobs Program for the Elected. Not the folks scrounging a low pay living, school shootings, housing costs, education, RX, clean environment, or diversity, equality, inclusion.

Right. I sucked it up and bored for her for Senate (even though I generally try NOT to vote for CIA Agents. This "let's win back centrist Republicans" thing didn't with for Kamala and it won't work for Slotkin either. No more candidates we only begrudgingly vote for.

Let them have the flag. The concept of woke is more worthy of wrestling back.

swap in a true public servant that doesn't use such culture war buzzwords and I'm listening. Slotkin is an air bag

Headline makes her sound pretty bad, the article actually doesn’t

The article is a uninformative, as it contains only a few fragmentary, incomplete quotes from Slotkin. I’m still unsure what she actually said.

Booooooooooo

@ezralevin.bsky.social what do you think about this strategy. I am skeptical.

@slotkin.senate.gov you give me Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin vibes. Needless to say that as a proud Democrat I am not a fan of your leaning into the right strategy. If you're going to betray our party just do it now and get it over with. Declare yourself a republican already.

You know what’s weak? Being a supper democrat along right-wing tropes. GFY yourself slotkin

It's amazing how ill-informed a sitting senator can be. She obviously doesn't understand the meaning of woke or have just accepted the Republicans redefinition of the word. And she is weak, because instead of just talking about a plan - she would be taking bold, decisive actions to remove Trump now.

She may know about the origins. But to the voters the left needs to win back, "woke" means "politically (not substantively) correct." My understanding is that @senslotkin.bsky.social, at this time, would rather fight for the substance rather than for the *successfully* redefined term.

Anti-woke is the epitome of weakness. It's a frail insecurity leveraged by parasites to keep everyone else squabbling instead of looking at those parasites. Slotkin is proven as trustworthy as Trump is with this platform. She wants to be a Republican then she should leave the Democrat party.

She’s cia so she can fuck right offfffff

Ah another loser dipshit republican that couldn't hack it and flipped to being a dem, fuck outta here with this shit

I would vote for a political party literally named The Bernie Bros before this shit

that's not a plan

Elissa Slotkin should find a coherent worldview and try embracing some principled positions before telling other people how to behave. Just a thought.

White grievance politics.

Address people's material needs, this shit isn't hard.

We're not weak. Woke is a good thing.

Someone please primary this loser.

"Don't be woke", by which you mean abandon your morals. Damn I am glad I dropped out of the Democratic party last summer. Hopeless.

Piece of shit pick me

she is an opp

Yes because moving to the right always works for Dems yes this strategy never fails…fucking Christ

No thanks. Not voting to be thrown under the bus of her ambition.

Sit down. AOC has got this.

Her, Bernie Sanders, and freaking Pete Buttigieg(who isn't even running for anything right now) are doing a ton better at fixing Dem messaging than anyone. All Dems should be taking notes from those 3.

WTF?!?!? How insulting! And.... How wrong! Did she not notice the massive crowds at AOC/Bernie rallies? We need to go MORE left, not less. This is a fight for morals. Americans are feeling moral outrage right now. That's not weak.

she has a plan to lose and move the party right in the process. its the exact same plan theyve had for decades that led to Trump. get fucked

When is she up for a primary? Put her ass on the Hogg list

She was just elected… we got 6 years of this trash. Very disappointed, as a Michigander myself.

I have very similar feels about @schiff.senate.gov Tho I have to give him a tiny star for trying lately

2030 she's up for re-election. Term ends January 3, 2031.

ug yeah I thought it was a while

Democrats are at historically low favorability and theyre like We Need to Double Down Harder. 60% of their base want them to forcefully oppose the right. Party Loyalist snake people are on this app like we need to hunt & kill David Hogg for wanting to replace our shitty unpopular failing politicians

David Hogg has more, uh, fortitude than the entire dem congress leadership Cut the dietnazis Out the Olds

What a surprise that the very Democrats who've "led" a virtual surrender to Trump and the GOP, & whose lethargy is generally loathed by Dem voters, are pumping up a hot dog heiress (Slotkin) who underperformed Harris in 2024 & who's said she doesn't see herself as Trump's opposition. Shocker.

Schumer sees her as a “rising star”? Good god, what’s wrong with him 🤦‍♂️

Democrats ***in Schumer's own state*** are evenly split on whether he should lead Senate Dems. This is practically *unheard of*, for voters to give up such seniority. HUGE crisis for the party, & a sign Dem leaders are deeply out of touch with what party members want. TL;DR: Slotkin ain't it.

Slotkin’s plan in a nutshell: “Comply in advance”.

Yep, Slotkin''s off the list of Dems to listen to ever again.

Awesome! I’m sure Republican Lite will work this time!

Fuck Elisa Slotkin with John Fetterman's fist.

Announcing your plan is to be weak in the face of fascism is quite the interesting ploy.

Anyone who uses the word "woke" as a derogatory term just outs themselves as a massive dumbo. But of course you'd expect fascist fanclub Politico to desperately try and promote this outdated idiocy.

OK, woke does not mean weak! And I’m sick and tired of people acting like it does! There are weak Democrats and there are weak Republicans. And it doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not they’re woke!

So... Her plan to beat Trump is for Dems to be more like Trump? These people are truly lost.

This tells me that Senator Slotkin has precisely no plan at all

Dear Elissa: Shut up, cunt.

Compassion, empathy and awareness are not weaknesses.

I’m sure this won’t involve throwing trans people under the bus in any way

This sounds as pathetic as her rebuttal speech. Stop trying to be GQP lite Morning Joe, Newsome, Whitmer, Fetterman Add her to the pile Reagan sucked. Nancy ran the country Destroyed the middle class. Allowed birth of fake news. Denied science until it could help him.

@slotkin.senate.gov Woke means AWARE. How is observing what's going on around you weak!!! Why are you using poisonous, disrespectful, republican talking points?!!

literally, how dare they call wokeness weakness.

Lol white people are insane what the fuck does that even mean????

Most reasonable response in a sea of reasonable responses 🙌

Cool, cool. This is really gonna rally people up. Great plan. Gonna be just swimming in imaginary moderate votes.

she is a fucking joke

I think glazing Ronald Reagan for half of a SOTU response is pretty weak

She's getting primaried in 2026. I'm voting against her.

You mean 2030. She just got elected to the Senate last year.

Yes correct, thank you, we are stuck with her bullshit.

If I was living in Michigan (which I don’t) for the 2026 senate race I would vote for either McMorrow or El-Sayed for Senate. There is no way in hell I would vote for Stevens. Stevens is just another Slotkin. So if you do live in Michigan I would say vote for McMorrow or El-Sayed.

Cheers, thank you for the heads up in Stevens.

No problem spread the word and tell others to vote for either McMorrow or El-Sayed, and against Stevens. Not to mention as well, both Slotkin and Stevens have taken a huge amount of money from AIPAC

Put her on the #HoggList

Slotkin is weak she thinks that if she votes with Republicans and not hold them accountable that’s good enough.

It’s shocking how quickly I have become disappointed in her. Well done, Elissa! It must be a world record!

Republicans would never say “don’t be a sado-populist” to their voters. They know it’s better to completely ignore the framing made by their opponents even if it contains some truth.

@slotkin.senate.gov this is what turns off dem voters. How weak to use cynical talking points as your own (“woke”). Woke means believing others have humanity and should be treated as such. You should try it instead of believing in the be an asshole strategy of republicans.

Dear Sen. Elissa Slotkin: Get fucked.