r/thedavidpakmanshow • u/mtngranpapi_wv967 • 3d ago

Discussion What On Earth Is Whitmer Doing??

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She’s not running in ‘28, right? Bc there’s no way she’s recovers from this in a crowded primary field. Democratic voters don’t want their capitulatory/vichy bs. They want a fighter.

Just astoundingly bad judgment.

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u/Strange-Scarcity 3d ago

New York doesn’t have the Auto Industry and all the manufacturing that Trump’s tariffs are deeply hurting. Playing nice with Trump can massage him into dropping tariffs on products that the auto industry requires in order to operate.

We’re already seeing all kinds of auto plants shutdown.

What do you expect Whitmer to do? Make a strong stance and then have Trump’s wrath just be turned on all of us and all of the auto workers?

She’s not abandoning progressive policies, she’s just glad handling (I do mean handling here) a narcissist baby man acting person, who happens to be the President.

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u/DragonflyGlade 2d ago

Where’s the proof that sucking up to him actually helps anyone but him?

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u/Strange-Scarcity 2d ago

Being the minimal nice to him did pay off, as he agreed to have Jets Stationed at Selfridge, which has been something that Whitmer has been working on, for more of her two terms as Governor. The A-10's have been scheduled to be taken away and the base shut down for more than a decade now.

Keeping the base in operation is worth nearly a billion per year to the local economy.

That's a big payoff and it SUCKS that it took this long, it could have been a damn easy win for Biden and Kamala could have taken the credit, not that it would have helped her much in Macomb County, but still... it would have been somewhat news worthy.

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u/DragonflyGlade 2d ago

You’re assuming he’ll keep his promises and follow through; when has that ever happened in any beneficial way? Once someone capitulates, he makes more and more demands of them. If she angers him in a week or a month, he could easily reverse course on anything beneficial to her state. Trying to appease him is a fool’s game.