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It's corporations which are cancelling Thanksgiving and Christmas. Both have been transformed into extensive play days for the rich who are served by working people having to put in longer hours. Hell Scrooge was closed Christmas.

Who Cancels National Holidays? There’s more to Thanksgiving and its meaning than cooking a fkn turkey.

It is incredibly close

Her answer was that not everyone loves Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean it should be canceled. It sounds like she wants to be respectful of everyone's feelings about it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

That’s great information which perhaps explains why she fell short. She’s an inexperienced politician it seems, ultimately.

Could she have won? Certainly possible. But again, I did a phone interview with Gov. Evers one week ago today, and he was of the belief that only Crowley could win. Was that just a line? Who knows! But he said it over and over for two weeks. Voters heard the message.

I truly believe that the opposition ads run by GOP in the past two weeks caused Hong to lose. If that was the GOP goal, they succeeded. Every conservative WI account I follow on X, they all fully believed that Hong was the most beatable candidate. And I think Dems statewide saw that, believed it.

Thanks for following up!

She refused to answer it...that tells a story in itself.

why do these candidates so easily blow up their own campaigns with some of the dumbest comments? yes we all know about thanksgiving but you dont just say "cancel thanksgiving". you know people will eat you alive.

She doesn’t have the power to cancel any holidays even as a governor- why are people so dumb?

Definitely not a good answer.

Yes, I think the polls were all jacked up. One was taken when Rodriguez was in. Then the second was rushed right after Crowley got back in but before the debate. Then Barnes dropped out. I agree the polls were off.

Since she gave an honest and thoughtful response shows that she has too much integrity to be governor.

Assuming she still wins, she should laugh and answer with a simple “no” going forward. Then she can go into her explanation.

What the fuck...?

Perhaps she was speaking to the 12 Indigenous Nations that live in Wisconsin?

It was a remarkably dumb thing to say

Why is it always the media that wants to focus on old tweets and not the actual policy positions? It may have been a long time ago, but I do remember when they had candidates on and asked them what they were running on. Now, this culture war BS feeds and helps R's. Sad this is called "journalism."

And shes had some work done. 🫠

💯

Oh my…

So w the primary season ending, we can definitely say that the Democratic Party is populated w liberals, progressives, socialists, and centrists. Glad we got that clarified.

Don't argue about the basis of the question; this isn't debate. Just say no.

ok..her statement made no sense

Oh, she's good.

With this close Of a vote, all variables contributed.

Exactly, nobody is going in the booth giving a fuck about the Thanksgiving thing as a serious talking point. Tony Evers was well liked during his tenure as governor and basically anointed Crowley as his preferred successor, that's the real reason this race is so close.

The progressive agenda can be easily minimized by attaching the broader, incredibly popular agenda to dumb sentimental triggers- we must have agile, learned, candidates who can sidestep this bs or they will fail. @mayor.nyc.gov @abdulelsayed.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

Fucking ridiculous stupid questions from gotcha media

Ridiculous question by Collins, yes, probably hurt Hong. Remember, Collins is another opinion person interested in making news, not reporting news. I would have simply said, "Send the question to my campaign, and we will respond in order of importance." Then, never respond because it's not important

You need to start writing history textbooks, because I definitely would have paid more attention if those details were shared 😏

Well, it’s certainly the moment every conservative news outlet fixated on. I’m sure if Crowley wins they’ll find some random offhand comment to sound the “socialism!” “Communism!” alarms. 🙄

Don't mess with the white narrative of Thanksgiving. It knows no party, only race. No matter where the chips fall, white Americans want their white American.

Unwelcometaking would be a better name for the holiday.

They seriously do nothing but shoot themselves in the foot. Why the hell would you even say this? Stop letting the far left drive the message. You pull dumb shit like this and then wonder why you kill your own momentum.

IDK, but it was a terrible response. Thanksgiving? Really? How does being a chef confer skills needed to be a governor? Maybe Wis Democrats dodged a bullet on this one.

The election is over, rally around the nominee and focus on beating the actual enemy, the fascist republican election denier.

Some of these replies are examples of how she lost

also she dumb

If this actually offended you, you are fucking imbecile

Nope. I promise you’re a socialist. You’re just very very confused and indoctrinated. There is no middle. There is humanity and there is conservatism. If your not fighting for the furthest left ideology possible your fighting for fascism. This is literally what the words mean.

The point was then vote for the person who will deliver what people want and don’t fall for fascist narratives.

Yes and no. Yes, because you can't mess with a major beloved holiday and no, because, let's face it...her race had something to do with her loss.

Unfortunately, yes. Always comes down to electability. She would have gotten my vote, but I’m woke plus.

Americans *are* pretty stupid.

What a stupid thing to even have a discussion about. I think this is why you can’t have nice things.

She lost by 0.5% - roughly 3200 votes. Who knows what those who voted for the other guy were thinking but I doubt it was about Thanksgiving dinner.

YUPPPPP... I advocate for your personal views, but saying shit like this backfires in a general election.

I’m not thrilled with Crowley, but I will vote for him. I think Kelda Roys was the best choice from that field, but here we are.

In a recent interview, DSA co-chair Romer openly stated that the US should emulate Cuba as a model for governance. Let that sink in for a moment. Cuba.

Americans are fucked. They love genocide and holidays that celebrate genocide.

I will be celebrating dem wins in Nov. I do think we need to minimize dem articles, interviews and republican hype that will alienate supporters of a losing candidate in the primaries, no matter the labels.

It's also about judgement. Regardless of what she said in those posts she should have pivoted to the fact that changing holidays wasn't part of her agenda or even in her purview. It's similar to the JFK approach in framing his Catholism.

Anything would have been better than her pathetic attempt to walk it back. “My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.”

Quitting the race is a fumble from which there should be no return, though.

Her answer is nonsensical. The colonists who celebrated harvest with the Wampanoag did not go on to murder them. Atrocities came later by others. The celebration is aspirational and valid. To remember and condemn the atrocities is also valid (Nat'l Day of Mourning). But they are 2 different things.

Hong did not answer the question..gobbledy-gooked it.

Hong’s Thanksgiving comment reveals that if you buck the system and do not endorse each and every white holiday there is, never mind nuances, you will be attacked by establishment forces united in the quest to remain in power.

Suggesting that the weight of history can and should ruin family togetherness is exactly the type of woke voters are sick of. Can’t we just enjoy ANYTHING?

No it wasn’t. Not at all. That race was needle thin and it just didn’t go in her favor. Both candidates did everything right. I think it’s obvious by how close it was. Both were great candidates.

Maybe or maybe it was the whole DSA tag. Obviously don’t fuck with Thanksgiving. Nothing is more American than that holiday. Yes, sure we can debate on Bluesky the origins and the cost associated with it however, that doesn’t play well in the election season.

I don't care about Thanksgiving. It’s based on a made-up fairytale. Fixed it for you.

That’s not what it means to most Americans today. And in not recognizing that, she failed.

Of course the Truth must be told! But Canceling TG will not change History! 😿😿😿😿

It was.

What kind of dumbass question is that anyway? Let me guess, just more culture war histrionics.

what a dummy

Maybe, but it’s still too early to say. Primaries can change quickly, and what really matters is whether this moment can translate into lasting support from voters.

It's like Tramp when you have to read his words instead of listening to his words.

Just stop doing it. : )

Yikes

I think it's what comes out the other end, actually.

The thing is just about everyone loves Thanksgiving, and it has transcended its origin.

Well, there's her problem - no one serves salad at Thanksgiving.

Centrist Dumocrat sabotage.

Move on. There’s an election coming. Simple fact is put in the rural hustings stuff like this isn’t gonna fly. Subtle is not a strong point there. Perception and depth do not exist.

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You got Communist/Marxist Berniebros, and we have Nazi Berniebros. If a voter votes for a NAZI, what does that make the voter Comrade? www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...

Maybe Berniebros need to stop helping to elect NAZIS? LOL.

Median Strategies was a short term social experiment to see how fast unverified data and fake poll numbers spread through the political media ecosystem The exact identities of the individuals who created Median Strategies remain publicly unknown. "STOP CITING POLL DATA FROM UNVERIFIED SOURCES."

How do Berniebros expect to get HIRED? LOL. Do they think that corporations will hire a Communist/Marxist? Businesses don't want or need radical morons.

I supported Hong until I waivered when all the holiday comments came out. Not because I had a personal issue with them but because I felt it would really turn off voters she needed to secure in order to win and mobilize voters that otherwise might stay home.

If not canceled, then renamed Murder Rape and Pillage Day.

If it is then there are some petty ass voters because she is awesome.

She should have just said no

To all those democrats disappointed with Crowley’s win, please get behind him and make the same effort to vote for him as you would have for Hong. Crowley is a good man, qualified and has the political track record to be great governor. A non vote for Crowley is a vote for Tiffany.

Oy.

Beyond an endorsement. He actually convinced Crowley to get back in the race after he had already dropped out. This has to be one of the largest polling failures ever.

No, I just dont think she would have been voted for by the majority of democrats. There seemed to be a large number of undecideds and she was never going to be their pick. She made a good effort though and hopefully gets the winner to shift more to the left.

Could have been....was an incredibly dumb thing to say, in this time of culture wars.

"word salad" lmao, i think some of yall are just illiterate

Wisconsin has a decent sized indigenous population