We need to come to grips with the fact that the two party system is bad for the nation as a whole. This writer has made the Democrat Party his team. Therefore, everything about Republicans is stupid or wrong. Neither side is looking out for the best interests of the nation. It’s all about which party is going to control the purse strings, but neither party acts responsibly when in power. Choosing a candidate is always choosing the lesser of two evils. There has to be a better way.
This is another example of how Trump always reverses the real narrative. The truth is that Trump needs NC to give Him disaster relief by electing an R stooge senator to save him from impeachment. If he doesn’t get it he will retaliate. Only he won’t be there.
Trump betrays everyone. Fastrack HITEC H1Bs? $ 40 bollion to Argentina/Cronies not US Farms? Conservative? Nationalizing means of production, US STEEL then INTEL now NOVO NORDISK >TRUMP RX is from Karl Marx "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO." No NEW WARS? Abandon/ attack allies everywhere. Next END 2A.
FEMA help has come with a political price tag ever since the orange menace got elected. He’s purely transactional and I hope the people in Western NC at least, have finally figured that out about him and this truly toxic legislature 🤞🏻🤞🏻.
Yes. In point of fact Trump was promising to be transactional and partisan when he campaigned. He promised it during his first term and again in the 2024 campaign and has in the past bragged about it.
Noone can claim to be surprised by this. All they are really surprised by is that it is biting them.
“It was like, North Carolina, it was beautiful, it was apple pie.” Then we elected Republicans, right?”
Except that we didn’t really “elect” republicans. Everyone knows that NC is one of, if not the most, gerrymandered states in the union. NC can barely call itself a democracy.
“Trump also threatened to withhold disaster relief funds for western North Carolina if the state doesn’t elect Whatley.”
This is what we get in NC when republicans are in power: bullying and extortion. I thought there were laws against trying to buy votes for promising something of value that we were already promised in terms of Helene recovery funds.
However, in 2010 NC turned hard on the Democrats just in time for 25ish years of hard work by the NC GOP to pay off. The voters were sold a bill of wanting transparency after a parade of scandals with Democrats on the state level and economic discontent after the recession. What they got made no improvements and made things worse.
Still, it was a bad joke. Disaster aid should go to people who need help, not to people who cast the right vote. Trump looks desperate. He sees the walls closing in and says whatever he thinks might win him a vote.
Trump's attack puts North Carolina Republicans in a bind. If the state is doing well, he's wrong. If the state is failing, they have a lot to answer for. They've held power in Raleigh for more than a decade. They can't take credit for the good and pass off the bad. One way or another, the responsibility is theirs.
Plenty of people can hold two thoughts in their heads. Partisanship, in my experience, helps in this matter and makes it possible to both celebrate gains and damn the destruction.
Its even easier if the gains are all engineered in two metro areas while the rural areas that vote overwhelmingly Republican are increasingly left behind to boarded up storefronts and dead main streets.
That makes it easy for Republicans to bemoan the state of things, get elected to the legislature, deliver for the rich while stifling rural schools or real broad-based investment, then return to their counties to bemoan it all over again.
Trump and Whatley just created raw footage and social media posts for a pretty compelling ad for the Cooper campaign, ie, "These guys think you're the worst state in the nation. I think you're the best and we can make NC better for everyone."
People who don't think the GOP has turned into a kind of religious apocalyptic cult, need to look at Trump and Whatley's campaign appearance as a reality check.
Let’s hope, but the Cooper campaign seems to be taking the traditional democratic route of assuming people will see through it. It’s never worked in the past. Keep taking the high road, lose again, and pat yourselves on the back for running such a positive campaign. Rinse and repeat in 2 years.
At least the Cooper campaign is hammering on the false ads connecting him to a murder in South Carolina, at the same time pointing out Whatley’s habit of hiring sexual predators for roles in the NC GOP and his campaign.
But, yeah, I agree with you - the Republican candidates and their PACs, election cycle after election cycle, put out all manner of racist, bigoted attacks. They even release print and video ads that superimpose white candidates with “scary” groups of Black and brown people and, on those ads and those involving Black candidates, manipulate the ads to make the Blacks in them appear darker skinned and more menacing.
NC Democrats never answer or oppose these ads, just putting out positive little "jobs, economy and look at my faithful family” feel-good pieces. It’s hard to motivate the Democratic base or sympathetic independent voters if you’re being used as a doormat and just let Republicans walk all over you without saying anything at all. It makes voters who would be sympathetic wonder if the candidate would stand up at all if they got elected.
In all, if there’s a “blue wave”, it will likely be because the Republicans have gone off the deep end, making most voters miserable and angry, rather than genuine enthusiasm for what Democratic candidates are offering.
I read that those in the audience groaned when Trump said he'd take finding away ftom Western NC if Whatley lost. Good job Trump. Way to go campaigning for Roy Cooper. As you said, Thomas, it was a gimme for Jamie Ager too.
We need to come to grips with the fact that the two party system is bad for the nation as a whole. This writer has made the Democrat Party his team. Therefore, everything about Republicans is stupid or wrong. Neither side is looking out for the best interests of the nation. It’s all about which party is going to control the purse strings, but neither party acts responsibly when in power. Choosing a candidate is always choosing the lesser of two evils. There has to be a better way.
Spot on.
This is another example of how Trump always reverses the real narrative. The truth is that Trump needs NC to give Him disaster relief by electing an R stooge senator to save him from impeachment. If he doesn’t get it he will retaliate. Only he won’t be there.
Spot on, my friend.
My late mother, born in Plymouth and raised in New Bern, must be rolling in her grave.
I was raised reciting this old poem:
Here's to the land of the long-leaf pine
The summer land where the sun doth shine
Where the weak grow strong, and the strong grow great
Here's to down home
The old north state.
Sigh.
The gutter. That where Trump has taken his party and country. Thanks to Mark Carney, Canada and the EU are not following us down the drain.
It's the current classic Republican political playbook: The Politics of fear
Trump betrays everyone. Fastrack HITEC H1Bs? $ 40 bollion to Argentina/Cronies not US Farms? Conservative? Nationalizing means of production, US STEEL then INTEL now NOVO NORDISK >TRUMP RX is from Karl Marx "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO." No NEW WARS? Abandon/ attack allies everywhere. Next END 2A.
FEMA help has come with a political price tag ever since the orange menace got elected. He’s purely transactional and I hope the people in Western NC at least, have finally figured that out about him and this truly toxic legislature 🤞🏻🤞🏻.
Yes. In point of fact Trump was promising to be transactional and partisan when he campaigned. He promised it during his first term and again in the 2024 campaign and has in the past bragged about it.
Noone can claim to be surprised by this. All they are really surprised by is that it is biting them.
“It was like, North Carolina, it was beautiful, it was apple pie.” Then we elected Republicans, right?”
Except that we didn’t really “elect” republicans. Everyone knows that NC is one of, if not the most, gerrymandered states in the union. NC can barely call itself a democracy.
“Trump also threatened to withhold disaster relief funds for western North Carolina if the state doesn’t elect Whatley.”
This is what we get in NC when republicans are in power: bullying and extortion. I thought there were laws against trying to buy votes for promising something of value that we were already promised in terms of Helene recovery funds.
However, in 2010 NC turned hard on the Democrats just in time for 25ish years of hard work by the NC GOP to pay off. The voters were sold a bill of wanting transparency after a parade of scandals with Democrats on the state level and economic discontent after the recession. What they got made no improvements and made things worse.
Shortly after, he said he was joking.
Still, it was a bad joke. Disaster aid should go to people who need help, not to people who cast the right vote. Trump looks desperate. He sees the walls closing in and says whatever he thinks might win him a vote.
Trump's attack puts North Carolina Republicans in a bind. If the state is doing well, he's wrong. If the state is failing, they have a lot to answer for. They've held power in Raleigh for more than a decade. They can't take credit for the good and pass off the bad. One way or another, the responsibility is theirs.
Plenty of people can hold two thoughts in their heads. Partisanship, in my experience, helps in this matter and makes it possible to both celebrate gains and damn the destruction.
Its even easier if the gains are all engineered in two metro areas while the rural areas that vote overwhelmingly Republican are increasingly left behind to boarded up storefronts and dead main streets.
That makes it easy for Republicans to bemoan the state of things, get elected to the legislature, deliver for the rich while stifling rural schools or real broad-based investment, then return to their counties to bemoan it all over again.
Trump & Watley what’s not best for NC. Vote for Cooper 💙💙💙💙
All they have is hate.
Keep talkin’ pal. Many people are saying you need to campaign in NC-11 too!
Oh, so long ago it seems, when Hillary used the right word: DESPICABLE.
The shouting of an deranged bully. You would think that wouldn't be helpful, especally in
western NC. Independents should shutter at the disconnect, meaning rign
ht-leaning voters who vote against anything they think will raise ther taxes.
Trump and Whatley just created raw footage and social media posts for a pretty compelling ad for the Cooper campaign, ie, "These guys think you're the worst state in the nation. I think you're the best and we can make NC better for everyone."
People who don't think the GOP has turned into a kind of religious apocalyptic cult, need to look at Trump and Whatley's campaign appearance as a reality check.
They just wrote Roy Cooper’s newest tv ads!
Let’s hope, but the Cooper campaign seems to be taking the traditional democratic route of assuming people will see through it. It’s never worked in the past. Keep taking the high road, lose again, and pat yourselves on the back for running such a positive campaign. Rinse and repeat in 2 years.
At least the Cooper campaign is hammering on the false ads connecting him to a murder in South Carolina, at the same time pointing out Whatley’s habit of hiring sexual predators for roles in the NC GOP and his campaign.
But, yeah, I agree with you - the Republican candidates and their PACs, election cycle after election cycle, put out all manner of racist, bigoted attacks. They even release print and video ads that superimpose white candidates with “scary” groups of Black and brown people and, on those ads and those involving Black candidates, manipulate the ads to make the Blacks in them appear darker skinned and more menacing.
NC Democrats never answer or oppose these ads, just putting out positive little "jobs, economy and look at my faithful family” feel-good pieces. It’s hard to motivate the Democratic base or sympathetic independent voters if you’re being used as a doormat and just let Republicans walk all over you without saying anything at all. It makes voters who would be sympathetic wonder if the candidate would stand up at all if they got elected.
In all, if there’s a “blue wave”, it will likely be because the Republicans have gone off the deep end, making most voters miserable and angry, rather than genuine enthusiasm for what Democratic candidates are offering.
I read that those in the audience groaned when Trump said he'd take finding away ftom Western NC if Whatley lost. Good job Trump. Way to go campaigning for Roy Cooper. As you said, Thomas, it was a gimme for Jamie Ager too.