Oh for FUCKS SAKE. Even after defeating a objectively bad progressive, this moderate dumbass cannot help but keep on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by ignoring the people who will vote him in.
The most insane part about this is that, since hating AI data centers is bipartisan for voters, the Republican candidate, Tom Tiffany, is promising to end data center subsidies.
https://tomtiffany.com/tiffany-vows-to-end-subsidies-for-data-centers-in-wisconsin/
It’s like Trump successfully positioning himself as the peace candidate because Harris couldn’t bring herself to condemn a genocide, and couldn’t help herself from saying things like “I will ensure America has the most lethal fighting force in the world” at the DNC. Or like when Trump managed to position himself as the peace candidate because his opponent was the butcher of Libya who couldn’t bring herself to condemn the illegal invasion of Iraq she voted for.
Almost like it was set up this way by both of them
Seriously stupid. The one issue that no one is ambiguous on and he refuses to read the writing on the wall.
He’s reading the writing on his checks instead. Just another bribed, corrupt Democrat with no ideas, and no shame. Nothing to see here.
At least they defended the honor of Thanksgiving, I guess.
Fucking alcoholic cheesehead morons.
You know how moderates are, Blue lips no matter who when it comes to bribery, especially when it comes from deep pocketed tecno-fascists.
Even after defeating a objectively bad progressive
:-/
I love “objectively bad” on a subjective scale.
But I love “these Far-Leftist candidates who advocate for everything I agree with are totally unelectable, unlike the corporate empty-suite dweebs I despise” even more.
Why do you think Crowley (and the rest of his corporate media allies) campaigned on frivolous bullshit and made the election about Hong being Too Woke? Where do you think he got all his money to run attack ads?
Fucking morons.
I mean that;s fine, I’ll just say she was dog shit at politics then and a empirically bad candidate that had no political sense that she couldn’t win run a campaign on great ideas that others made work. I mean even in Florida, FLORIDA for fucks sake, her fellow DSA candidate won her primary and other progressives were running won.
Hong was just bad at everything, couldn’t or wouldn’t address her controversial post history. She was bad at her debates. She was so timid that she couldn’t stand up for what she believed in. She was so bad that Sanders didn’t endorse her.
And even with all of that, she still barely lost. People want the policies but not with someone that came off as incompetent as her and not every progressive candidate is a good one, she was just particularly dog ass shit.
Bernie didn’t endorse her the same reason he didn’t endorse Angie Nixon - they were both candidates in states where he didn’t feel hopeful for a win and he didn’t want to risk being blamed had they lost.
Part of the reason Nixon won was due to her finding a coalition between white liberals and black voters.
Hong barely lost, or in other words, she could have just as well won. Abdul could just have easily lost, but he benefited from having Bernie’s endorsement and being the first to have Hasan rally with him. There was way more media attention on his campaign than there was on Hong’s. By that time, the media had developed their playbook: dig up pointless social media posts; point out the most “radical” policies from the DSA platform; condemn the candidate for associating with Hasan Piker.
You clearly didn’t follow the campaign that closely if you’re just finding out now that her opponent supported data centers.
I doubt her post history had as much as the media claims it did, and if you are among those people that believe it did, you are just as gullible to the bullshit the media spins.
I’ll just say she was dog shit at politics
Sure. She should have backed genocide in Gaza and data centers squatting on your front lawn. Then she’d have won against the guy who got back in the race because a bird told him to do it in a dream.
People want the policies
Not the people profiting off the status quo
Oh for fucks sake. You are such a unserious person with your bullshit strawman, perpetual victimhood.
Again, other progressives like El-Sayed, Angie Nixon, Miranda Lopez, N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas have all ran with progressive politics, being against APIAC, being against the war in Gaza, being against the tech bros and they WON their elections just fine against their moderate opponents. You just can’t admit that she was just too damn flawed and weak willed to be seen as serious. and lost because of that.
Me and you, we will never see eye to eye on things as you cannot see past your perceived victimhood just as bad as any MAGA extremist and can’t have any introspection, it’s always the fault of someone else.
Thank god non-internet progressives actually have sense in their heads to learn.
you cannot see past your perceived victimhood just as bad as any MAGA extremist
This seems like the go-to any time you get into any kind of policy dispute.
“Everyone I disagree with is MAGA”
Thank god non-internet progressives actually have sense
I gotta wonder if you know any. They must have a lot of patience to listen to a guy like you heckling them constantly.
I REALLY REALLY hate Data Centers BUT the Media told me Hong was TOO WOKE so I GUESS I’ll stop drinking Water!
-Wisconsin Voters!
The movement is badly-named.
If you only knew what we were using datacenters for before Ai, you’d want them kept around.
You want to lose an election in 2026? Because that’s how you lose an election in 2026
What’s crazy is both candidates are for building more ai datacenters. One of them is just too stupid and greedy to see that position is incredibly unpopular.
They don’t care, the oligarchy gets what they want regardless which of their pets wins the election
This may be unpopular, but data centers are a modern necessity. HOWEVER, these mega centers for ai processing and mass surveillance MUST be stopped.
They can also be built to not require any water, or cause pollution (sound, environment, air quality).
Everything you just said is true.
However, DCs are apparently bad: 100% of them.
Democrats are also not our friends.
They never have been
FDR was pretty cool. It’s been downhill since him, though.
The guy that threw Americans in concentration camps?
Progressives need to fall in love, they say, where conservatives only need to fall in line.
They chose him in the primary knowing he was an establishment puppet. This shouldn’t be news to anyone
Controlled opposition
Ahh… “nuance”…
Gj Wisconsin. Ya fekken blew it.
He shouldn’t be able to campaign anywhere without hearing about how stupid this is. Make him regret doing a stupid thing.
Even after defeating a objectively bad progressive
I believe what we’re seeing here is called “getting what you vote for”. Nicely done, Wisconsin!
David Crowley of Wisconsin.
Ultimately, the two candidates have similar policy views on data centers, as a piece in Vox laid out last week. Neither one has called for a moratorium on building them, as Hong did. Tiffany has called for rolling back a state subsidy on data centers, which Crowley hasn’t matched, but otherwise the candidates are aligned on the issue, calling for local control over construction and environmental standards to protect natural resources.
A governor kicking the can down the road for local governments isn’t the end of the world, and still an improvement.
He’d get more votes supporting a state wide ban. But anyone advocating not to vote D because they have the same policy on a single issue as the R candidate is just ignoring literally every other policy…
In the purple state of Wisconsin he would earn a lot of center votes if he took a hard stance against datacenters. Talking to people about the candidates here all they ever talk about is datacenters and Flock. Those two issues transcend the parties and would get you an easy win. Hong said some crazy shit on Twitter in the past and she almost won the primary because she was anti datacenter (I voted for her).
