I know Dean Phillips has many admirable qualities, but I question the political judgment of anyone who thinks Gretchen Whitmer and Raphael Warnock would have made an "unbeatable" ticket.
“Politics is about winning, and then it is about working together to get stuff done.”
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This triggers me so much.
No, Dean, I do not want the government to “get stuff done”. That’s because I’m not a communist.
No I do not want to be governed by the dumbest people in the country. I am not excited by the concept of “governance” because I’m not a creep. Jesus.
Currently the federal government is doing $7 trillion worth of stuff. Anyone who wants the federal government to “get more stuff done”, when they are already doing $7 trillion worth of stuff, should be tried for treason and launched into the ocean with a trebuchet.
He starts the interview by describing all of Congress as a bunch of self-serving windbags. In the next breath the sidles-up to Liz Cheney for wisdom on a means to insure Trump is never elected again. If I heard correctly his daughter's tears (out of fear of a Trump presidency?) then convince him to run for office. His blatant disrespect for the opinions of anyone outside of his immediate bubble only reinforce my immediate dislike for this token leftist. Yes, many slots should be created in the DNC for competing interests. Thus far their only competition for Joe Biden is simply a younger version of the same.
Dean, take the time to actually get to know some of the "deplorables" and you might find out they are real people with real concerns about the direction of our country.
Ok this is just pathetic. Dean Phillips is not a moderate Democrat, no matter what personal brand he’s trying to promote.
Please folks, do not follow what the man says, follow what he does. And what he does is vote with Nancy Pelosi 99% of the time. If you like that sort of thing, fine. But if you’re looking for that rare animal that is truly a “moderate Democrat,” it ain’t him. I’m in his district and follow him closely. He’s all talk, then votes with the radicals.
That’s quintessential Minnesota nice: nice to your face, cut you when your back is turned. If you’re going to vote like Paul Wellstone, admit who you are. This interview is all smoke and mirrors.
He's well spoken and his personal story is very compelling. Coupled with the photo of him alone in NH TFP showed a few days ago, I actually was convinced to hear him out and was open to being convinced. But at the end of the day, I was disappointed. He talks about the wealth divide and families not able to make ends meet, then turned next immediately to advocate for the misguided liberal agenda of student loan forgiveness. So he wants the working class that can't make ends meet to pay for the transfer of their tax dollars to universities through students? Including universities like Harvard with their billion dollars endowment that inflated tuitions to the current insane amount because they can grift on the guaranteed student loan program? And after finding themselves sitting on all that money not knowing what to do with it, they created their bloated administrative staff, many of whom brought us the horror that is DEI? And also the working class is to fund a free ride not only for kids who study STEM or majors that can result in jobs where they can earn salaries to pay their debts, but also to kids electing majors that lead to no prospects of gainful employment but only to be indoctrinated? And that's not even counting kids from wealthier homes whose families can pay their tuitions and yet they take out guaranteed student loans to invest in stocks to get an even better head start? Sorry but no. The entire system of guaranteed student loans need to be re-examined so that bloated universities must stop profiting off it, and students must be held accountable for making better financial decisions instead of sticking taxpayers including blue collar workers without higher education with the bill. The student loan forgiveness scheme is an outright scam by Dems to buy votes from young people with taxpayers' money. It is a detrimental interference with the free market that enables colleges to inflate and keep tuitions artificially high.
The disappointment continued with him dodging Bari's question on why the Dems are allowing the southern border to be open and all these illegal immigrants including potential terrorists to come through. He kept not answering the question even though Bari persisted and asked him twice about it. He's on the foreign affairs committee, he said, and gets the same intel on the crisis as the others politicians. He said he agrees it's a threat and a crisis. So why did he dodge this question and kept diverting? It was so obvious he wouldn't say the reason why the Dems are completely ignoring the border crisis, even though everyone in the country wants to know why. That was the red flag moment for me.
And then his friendship with Rashida Talib. I don't even know what to say about that. I suppose his view that keeping communications open has some merit. It's no different than traditional foreign policy of maintaining a channel with opponent regimes rather than a total break on stance and principle. But he admits she literally wants Israel gone and would not compromise on a two-states solution. Does he think she would one day come around to his side? It just seems hopelessly idealistic, almost like the Jews who were hoping that at some point Hitler and the Nazis would stop if good Jews like them just do their best to appease. That if they go the distance and appease enough, the Nazis would see Jews actually meant no harm! Maybe I am just biased against the views of people like Talib and it's me who just don't get it. But this friendship of his sounds to me like an abusive relationship in which he's the wife who keeps deluding herself that her abusive husband is really a good guy despite him continuing to smack her around.
At that point I stopped listening. Anymore would be a waste of my time.
ETA: I might add also, can someone less naive warn him that while he sincerely remains good friends with Talib to keep his friends close, she's remaining good friends with him to keep her enemies closer?
I have commented extensively here about my disgust at elite American Jews who have at best enabled and at worst participated in the rise of the Woke mob. These people were perfectly happy with all of the bullying, canceling, censoring, humiliating and firing of conservatives that have occurred on a rapidly increasing basis, particularly since 2016. As long as they were not at the tip of the spear, this horribly illiberal tyrannical mob was enabled to run amok. Phillips is the exemplar of this hypocrisy, and is now “disappointed” in his moderate friends - moderates like Rashida F’cking Tlaib! And, his hypocrisy is only rivaled by what a dishonest phony he is. At the outset of the interview he says that Joe Biden’s actual physical and cognitive decline is obvious, which it is. But, when asked if he will support a nursing home patient in the general election, he tries to shift to a claim that it is only the “perception” of Biden’s decline that is the issue. At least Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi are shameless in their sleaze, this guy is a soulless politician pretending to be an altruistic truth teller. Of course, he is friends with Liz Cheney.
"And I was sitting with colleagues in tears who were calling and texting home to say goodbye, because we really thought at that moment that they were coming with guns and they were coming for Democrats, and we had nothing to defend ourselves with other than pens and pencils. Those were the worst 15 minutes of my life."
Giving Mr. Phillips the benefit of the doubt that he isn't merely serving up the anti-Trump narrative, where did these poor folks get the idea that they were going to be murdered? From hysterical media coverage at the time? From the FBI? their Congressional leaders? The protesters who were rioting (and the majority were not, seen on videos calmly walking through the halls) were not "coming with guns" to "murder Democrats", their purpose was to disrupt/postpone the vote to ratify the election until the fraud charges were heard in the courts. There is either a continuing dishonesty or ignorance about Jan. 6 that liberal media wants to ignore because it's self-serving for the left, especially for the upcoming election.
"BW: If someone believes that Israel is the only state that doesn’t have a right to exist, is that an antisemitic position? DP: Therein lies my biggest challenge with Rashida."
WTF? Mr. Dean, put your big boy pants on and call it what it is. Stop with the hand wringing and equivocating. If 'from the river to the sea' is not antisemitism, you're dumber than a post. But then again, you don't think Biden has dementia so maybe you are. Sheesh.
What a putz. Whitmer-Warnock a dream ticket? In what world? And extolling the virtues of Tlaib may be the single dumbest thing a human could say. This dude might as well go offer his services to Hamas.
Phillips talks about how terrible Trump is without mentioning his polices and where he would do things differently. Even with the legacy media united in opposition to Trump, as well as most corporate leaders, academia and various cooked up schemes to smear him such as the 2 year Mueller investigation, Biden barely eked out a victory. Phillips talks about Trump being a threat to American democratic institutions yet is silent about the multiple state & federal charges leveled against him. Objectively, Phillips is simply another arrow in a “get Trump” crusade. Is Phillips OK with open borders? Skyrocketing inflation destroying American families? Corruption by the Biden family? High energy prices? Millions of American voters see Trumps policies favorably in spite of the McCarthyite charge that they are MAGA extremists.
When Phillips claimed that Netanyahu was responsible for world-wide increase in antisemitism I just about choked on my own tongue! This is the Democrat line, Jews are responsible for antisemitism, and if they would just shut up and take it they would be just fine. What utter, and craven BULLSHIT! This alone should disqualify him from running.
I know Dean Phillips has many admirable qualities, but I question the political judgment of anyone who thinks Gretchen Whitmer and Raphael Warnock would have made an "unbeatable" ticket.
“Politics is about winning, and then it is about working together to get stuff done.”
——————————————————-
This triggers me so much.
No, Dean, I do not want the government to “get stuff done”. That’s because I’m not a communist.
No I do not want to be governed by the dumbest people in the country. I am not excited by the concept of “governance” because I’m not a creep. Jesus.
Currently the federal government is doing $7 trillion worth of stuff. Anyone who wants the federal government to “get more stuff done”, when they are already doing $7 trillion worth of stuff, should be tried for treason and launched into the ocean with a trebuchet.
“I really thought a Whitmer–Warnock ticket would be unbeatable. But the Democratic Party’s culture is tenure, not talent.”
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Those are literally two of the worst people in the history of the country.
He starts the interview by describing all of Congress as a bunch of self-serving windbags. In the next breath the sidles-up to Liz Cheney for wisdom on a means to insure Trump is never elected again. If I heard correctly his daughter's tears (out of fear of a Trump presidency?) then convince him to run for office. His blatant disrespect for the opinions of anyone outside of his immediate bubble only reinforce my immediate dislike for this token leftist. Yes, many slots should be created in the DNC for competing interests. Thus far their only competition for Joe Biden is simply a younger version of the same.
Dean, take the time to actually get to know some of the "deplorables" and you might find out they are real people with real concerns about the direction of our country.
Ok this is just pathetic. Dean Phillips is not a moderate Democrat, no matter what personal brand he’s trying to promote.
Please folks, do not follow what the man says, follow what he does. And what he does is vote with Nancy Pelosi 99% of the time. If you like that sort of thing, fine. But if you’re looking for that rare animal that is truly a “moderate Democrat,” it ain’t him. I’m in his district and follow him closely. He’s all talk, then votes with the radicals.
That’s quintessential Minnesota nice: nice to your face, cut you when your back is turned. If you’re going to vote like Paul Wellstone, admit who you are. This interview is all smoke and mirrors.
Interesting FP has never sat down with Ron DeSantis. Shameful.
Copying and pasting my review here:
He's well spoken and his personal story is very compelling. Coupled with the photo of him alone in NH TFP showed a few days ago, I actually was convinced to hear him out and was open to being convinced. But at the end of the day, I was disappointed. He talks about the wealth divide and families not able to make ends meet, then turned next immediately to advocate for the misguided liberal agenda of student loan forgiveness. So he wants the working class that can't make ends meet to pay for the transfer of their tax dollars to universities through students? Including universities like Harvard with their billion dollars endowment that inflated tuitions to the current insane amount because they can grift on the guaranteed student loan program? And after finding themselves sitting on all that money not knowing what to do with it, they created their bloated administrative staff, many of whom brought us the horror that is DEI? And also the working class is to fund a free ride not only for kids who study STEM or majors that can result in jobs where they can earn salaries to pay their debts, but also to kids electing majors that lead to no prospects of gainful employment but only to be indoctrinated? And that's not even counting kids from wealthier homes whose families can pay their tuitions and yet they take out guaranteed student loans to invest in stocks to get an even better head start? Sorry but no. The entire system of guaranteed student loans need to be re-examined so that bloated universities must stop profiting off it, and students must be held accountable for making better financial decisions instead of sticking taxpayers including blue collar workers without higher education with the bill. The student loan forgiveness scheme is an outright scam by Dems to buy votes from young people with taxpayers' money. It is a detrimental interference with the free market that enables colleges to inflate and keep tuitions artificially high.
The disappointment continued with him dodging Bari's question on why the Dems are allowing the southern border to be open and all these illegal immigrants including potential terrorists to come through. He kept not answering the question even though Bari persisted and asked him twice about it. He's on the foreign affairs committee, he said, and gets the same intel on the crisis as the others politicians. He said he agrees it's a threat and a crisis. So why did he dodge this question and kept diverting? It was so obvious he wouldn't say the reason why the Dems are completely ignoring the border crisis, even though everyone in the country wants to know why. That was the red flag moment for me.
And then his friendship with Rashida Talib. I don't even know what to say about that. I suppose his view that keeping communications open has some merit. It's no different than traditional foreign policy of maintaining a channel with opponent regimes rather than a total break on stance and principle. But he admits she literally wants Israel gone and would not compromise on a two-states solution. Does he think she would one day come around to his side? It just seems hopelessly idealistic, almost like the Jews who were hoping that at some point Hitler and the Nazis would stop if good Jews like them just do their best to appease. That if they go the distance and appease enough, the Nazis would see Jews actually meant no harm! Maybe I am just biased against the views of people like Talib and it's me who just don't get it. But this friendship of his sounds to me like an abusive relationship in which he's the wife who keeps deluding herself that her abusive husband is really a good guy despite him continuing to smack her around.
At that point I stopped listening. Anymore would be a waste of my time.
ETA: I might add also, can someone less naive warn him that while he sincerely remains good friends with Talib to keep his friends close, she's remaining good friends with him to keep her enemies closer?
I have commented extensively here about my disgust at elite American Jews who have at best enabled and at worst participated in the rise of the Woke mob. These people were perfectly happy with all of the bullying, canceling, censoring, humiliating and firing of conservatives that have occurred on a rapidly increasing basis, particularly since 2016. As long as they were not at the tip of the spear, this horribly illiberal tyrannical mob was enabled to run amok. Phillips is the exemplar of this hypocrisy, and is now “disappointed” in his moderate friends - moderates like Rashida F’cking Tlaib! And, his hypocrisy is only rivaled by what a dishonest phony he is. At the outset of the interview he says that Joe Biden’s actual physical and cognitive decline is obvious, which it is. But, when asked if he will support a nursing home patient in the general election, he tries to shift to a claim that it is only the “perception” of Biden’s decline that is the issue. At least Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi are shameless in their sleaze, this guy is a soulless politician pretending to be an altruistic truth teller. Of course, he is friends with Liz Cheney.
"And I was sitting with colleagues in tears who were calling and texting home to say goodbye, because we really thought at that moment that they were coming with guns and they were coming for Democrats, and we had nothing to defend ourselves with other than pens and pencils. Those were the worst 15 minutes of my life."
Giving Mr. Phillips the benefit of the doubt that he isn't merely serving up the anti-Trump narrative, where did these poor folks get the idea that they were going to be murdered? From hysterical media coverage at the time? From the FBI? their Congressional leaders? The protesters who were rioting (and the majority were not, seen on videos calmly walking through the halls) were not "coming with guns" to "murder Democrats", their purpose was to disrupt/postpone the vote to ratify the election until the fraud charges were heard in the courts. There is either a continuing dishonesty or ignorance about Jan. 6 that liberal media wants to ignore because it's self-serving for the left, especially for the upcoming election.
Whitmer and Warnock? Run a mile from this candidate. No, run several.
"BW: If someone believes that Israel is the only state that doesn’t have a right to exist, is that an antisemitic position? DP: Therein lies my biggest challenge with Rashida."
WTF? Mr. Dean, put your big boy pants on and call it what it is. Stop with the hand wringing and equivocating. If 'from the river to the sea' is not antisemitism, you're dumber than a post. But then again, you don't think Biden has dementia so maybe you are. Sheesh.
“DP: I have not received a single invitation to be on MSNBC since I declared my candidacy.
BW: You’re kidding me.
DP: No. Not one. And by the way, I’m the ranking member of the Middle East Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs”
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We’ll I’m guessing that the fact that MSNBC is primarily staffed by Arab terrorists probably plays into this.
What a putz. Whitmer-Warnock a dream ticket? In what world? And extolling the virtues of Tlaib may be the single dumbest thing a human could say. This dude might as well go offer his services to Hamas.
"His improbable friendship with Rashida Tlaib". That is all I need to know to judge this elitist, self-hating enemy of Israel and America.
Phillips talks about how terrible Trump is without mentioning his polices and where he would do things differently. Even with the legacy media united in opposition to Trump, as well as most corporate leaders, academia and various cooked up schemes to smear him such as the 2 year Mueller investigation, Biden barely eked out a victory. Phillips talks about Trump being a threat to American democratic institutions yet is silent about the multiple state & federal charges leveled against him. Objectively, Phillips is simply another arrow in a “get Trump” crusade. Is Phillips OK with open borders? Skyrocketing inflation destroying American families? Corruption by the Biden family? High energy prices? Millions of American voters see Trumps policies favorably in spite of the McCarthyite charge that they are MAGA extremists.
When Phillips claimed that Netanyahu was responsible for world-wide increase in antisemitism I just about choked on my own tongue! This is the Democrat line, Jews are responsible for antisemitism, and if they would just shut up and take it they would be just fine. What utter, and craven BULLSHIT! This alone should disqualify him from running.