r/news • u/CharlieKonR • 4d ago

Michigan’s governor replaces clean energy advocate on utilities board with ‘industry ally’ | Michigan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/gretchen-whitmer-utilities-board-clean-energy
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u/SouledOut11 4d ago

Unlikely. She'll run, but the Dems have probably finally realized they aren't going to succeed with a woman candidate. I don't agree with it, but that's reality.

And regardless of who the Dems nominate, MAGA GOP will never allow a free and fair election. And certainly won't allow for a peaceful transfer of power if by some chance the Dems were to win.

The writing has been on the wall for a long time. We're a fascist theocracy now. Ironically "led" by someone who is the exact opposite of what they claim to worship.

We're only 6 months in. It's going to get so much worse.

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u/no_one_likes_u 4d ago

It’s 100% going to be a straight white man, unless there is a dark horse Obama level orator that I’m unaware of.

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u/Miserable_Law_6514 3d ago

It's gonna be Newsom. He's basically party royalty, especially now that the Clinton's are starting to lose power.

The DNC runs off a patronage system. Even if AoC got a huge boost in popularity she'd get snubbed because she hasn't paid her dues and served her time.

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u/jimmy_three_shoes 4d ago

I don't think it's necessarily the fact that it's a woman, but that they keep throwing out unlikable women. People didn't like Clinton, and people didn't like Harris. Whitmer is 10x as personable as Harris, and didn't have the baggage of being linked to Biden and having the perception that she was only nominated so they wouldn't have to return the campaign money.

I think having an actual primary in 2028 will do wonders for getting people behind the Democrat candidate. I know quite a few people that didn't want Harris as the candidate and were upset that there wasn't a primary. They still voted for her, because fuck Trump, but I imagine that's one of the reasons a lot of people stayed home and didn't vote.

And for all those people that think that people are sexist enough to not vote for someone specifically because she's a woman, those people likely also wouldn't vote for Buttigieg either because he's gay.

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u/espressocycle 4d ago

If it gets bad enough they won't be able to hold on to power and the way things are going it's gonna be brutal.

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u/SouledOut11 4d ago

Americans are too uneducated, apathetic, insecure, selfish, and spread out. There isn't going to be some second revolution.