Gov Whitmer gets schooled by Trump-Dems be warned

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55. Obviously, you are not NNadir. There is no confusion in that. Dropping in as you did is also obviously fine as is...

...my asking for a (and your) position on the speech. So, why you would suppose that I were confused as to the source of your post is a bit out there as too is the remark on "bickering".

Your point on her being played as a prop for Trump is well taken. She did fall for that, and that is not necessarily a good sign of her staff's intelligence or her political awareness. It would probably be safer for them to assume that everything that Trump says or does is a lie or is designed to be self-serving.

"Red tape" is a common business theme and may well be principally of the right. I don't know that that is the case. It may also be a justification that the right claims cost the country manufacturing, but it seems that you are reading a lot into her speech that is simply not there on that count. Everyone knows that access to cheap labor and the lure of larger markets in places like China is the reason why manufacturing was lost and Tienanmen was ignored.

"Golden Age" clearly aligns with Trump's framing, so it could have been said much better by her and her speechwriters (if she has them and used them for this).

Yes, she did mention that discussions began under Trump. Thanks for the link to the CHIPS Act. Again, everyone here knows that is from Biden's term and that Trump is trying to do a multitude of nefarious things with funding that has already been established.

Ultimately, when the title of the NBC piece prominently and initially states something about "Gretchen Whitmer's talk on tariffs", a reference which is related to her speech, that indicates that the speech is a main component of the "Disaster" as NBC put it. That is just the media being disingenuous regarding her speech, but that is expressed a main point of the article whether you agree or not.

If people aren't specific, it seems as if they have just bought into the media framing in lieu of actually paying attention. So, anyway, thanks for taking the time to make your points regarding the speech and the follow-on situation with her prop-like appearance.