Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 1hHe says it with the tone of "this fucking asshole", which makes the clip. 000
Reposted by Michael RosenbergMichael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 3hHe doesn't play the role of underdog like so many older Dems who fancy themselves like the righteous Civil Rights era activists. Voters don't respect righteousness, they respect strength. And Ossoff speaks as if he deserves to be in power and the other side are embarrassing clowns. 1163
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 3hHe doesn't play the role of underdog like so many older Dems who fancy themselves like the righteous Civil Rights era activists. Voters don't respect righteousness, they respect strength. And Ossoff speaks as if he deserves to be in power and the other side are embarrassing clowns. 1163
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 4hI'd say "she voted against Trump when he let her." 000
Reposted by Michael RosenbergVoteHub @votehub.com · 17hMaine Senate candidates clash over Trump: Sen. Susan Collins: “This Congress alone, I voted against President Trump 137 times.” Troy Jackson: “She voted a hundred times against Trump when it didn’t matter.” 39324
Reposted by Michael RosenbergMichael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 5hWhat you have to understand here is that it isn't just about titillating their deplorable base with violence, it's about provoking response and protest and then getting to point at the protesters and say "who do you identify with, us or these pussies?" 001
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 5hWhat you have to understand here is that it isn't just about titillating their deplorable base with violence, it's about provoking response and protest and then getting to point at the protesters and say "who do you identify with, us or these pussies?" 001
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 23hThis guy is such a monumental pussy and nobody is willing to say it. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We need more vengeance-oriented Dems who aren't just ideological leftist caricatures that make easy targets for Republicans. Ossoff is a good start. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They want pre-COVID prices (which were forced upon them) and post-COVID salaries (which they earned all by themselves through hard work and ingenuity). 020
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Of course low-trust rubes don't answer educated elite pollsters. The problem for Republicans is that, this year, they might not vote either. 2014 in reverse. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Suggests Republicans can't bitch about the Dan Sullivan mixup, since Peltola's margin is the same before and after RCV. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I guess "what a plate appearance" doesn't quite ring the same 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This should be the playbook against Susan Collins too. 010
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This represents an explosion of Black turnout in Maine. Good sign for Jackson. 070
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The whole ballgame is whether low Republican poll response represents a lack of enthusiasm that will translate to their not voting. It wasn't true in presidential years, but seems not implausible for midterms. 151
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What we really need is media that is *partisan*, not merely ideological. Having ideological, but non-partisan media is how you get vaguely left-ish personalities who don't actually help Democrats but are fodder for Republican complaints. Fox News is not just conservative, but explicitly pro-GOP. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A Democrat who said nonsense like that would be blamed for not speaking more clearly. When Trump says it, Democrats are blamed for not giving him the benefit of the doubt. Can we stop treating the president like a child and have some god damn self-respect? 040
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The issue is not only that the media narrative will downplay the cultural significance of a blue wave, it's also that nobody in the media fears Democratic reprisals like they do from Republicans. We need to make them uncomfortable. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think this is right, but he's the only American politician in history to whom we are expected to bestow the benefit of the doubt to this degree, and to do otherwise gets us chastised. 010
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He's a pathetic troll. Twitter cooked his brain. 020
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The issue is having a 24% chance of GOP House control, which at this point is ludicrous. That said, GOP trifecta at 23% predicated on GOP House 24% of the time is entirely sensible. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Remember when everyone lost their shit when Biden used the strategic oil reserve after Putin invaded Ukraine? Trump is doing it much more aggressively, and because of his own actions! 000
Reposted by Michael Rosenbergses67.bsky.social @ses67.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They believe! That’s the worst thing! They don’t care. 4593
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Palin normalized shameless anti-intellectualism and circling the wagons in pride of their ignorance. 2250
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Another indicator, which I've been hesitant to mention, is that my Harris/Walz sign was stolen in the days before the 2024 election. I got a sinking feeling that fucking with Democrats and supporting Trump was the subversive/cool thing to do among young people. I don't see any of that right now. 110
Reposted by Michael Rosenbergjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973724438
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If the Teamsters decided that "pro labor/working class" means "pandering to uneducated rubes on cultural issues", kick 'em (and any other unions who decide similarly) to the curb. 000
Reposted by Michael RosenbergMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Fox News talks a lot about the WNBA, but it’s not because it likes to see talented female athletes putting the ball in the hoop. To Fox, women’s sports is good for 2 things: 1. To agitate for white grievance. 2. To foment anti-trans hate. (This is No. 1, but there’s a lot of No. 2 on Fox as well.) 1334465
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They didn't lie to deceive the Senators. They lied to provide cover to Senators who were in on it. 050
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've always hated "people over politics" as a slogan, but this is downright embarrassing for the R. 020
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is good. But also really sad that it takes a 25% favorability gap to eke out a lead here. 020
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do Republicans complain when Susan Collins casts a meaningless vote against them to stoke her "independent" cred? 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Says the second biggest pussy on the planet. 020
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Honestly, Biden kind of spoiled us in this regard. 000
Reposted by Michael RosenbergMichael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Among voters who could write a coherent, 5-paragraph essay justifying their vote, Harris surely won by double-digits. Unfortunately, most voters are not in the category. It's all vibes for them. 272
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Among voters who could write a coherent, 5-paragraph essay justifying their vote, Harris surely won by double-digits. Unfortunately, most voters are not in the category. It's all vibes for them. 272
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You completely misunderstand. The point is we can both win elections and fight for our beliefs most effectively by avoiding giving off activist vibes, which the average voter is innately repelled by. To be clear, I don't like that this is the case, but it is. Talarico can thread this needle. 000
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do you disagree that it's true or do you hate that it's true? 100
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I honestly wonder if Michigan benefits from that Ossoff/Warnock 2020 tag team phenomenon where each candidate excites a critical part of the base (AES: young progressives, Benson: suburban wine moms) and they all come out for both candidates. Just need to make sure Black voters are engaged. 020
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Republican attack on educated experts and the notion of expertise itself goes back decades. 010
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I am very far from bothered by activism, but if we don't have a sense of where the average voter is in terms of vibes (and their vote isn't based on much deeper than that), we lose. People hate activists. Universally. All ideologies. 100
Reposted by Michael RosenbergMichael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Being a (white, male) pastor insulates him from the "activist" vibes that usually plague pro-immigrant advocates. This is important, because the average voter's feelings towards activists ranges from eyerolling mockery at best to seething rage at worst. 3784
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Being a (white, male) pastor insulates him from the "activist" vibes that usually plague pro-immigrant advocates. This is important, because the average voter's feelings towards activists ranges from eyerolling mockery at best to seething rage at worst. 3784
Reposted by Michael RosenbergMichael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Biden era complaint that "nobody wants to work anymore" is really a complaint that we elevated what was formerly a permanent underclass of low-wage workers into not needing to do those jobs while also contributing to demand (inflation), and everyone lost their shit. 0325
Michael Rosenberg @mjrosenbergdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Biden era complaint that "nobody wants to work anymore" is really a complaint that we elevated what was formerly a permanent underclass of low-wage workers into not needing to do those jobs while also contributing to demand (inflation), and everyone lost their shit. 0325
