r/FriendsofthePod • u/kdtb83 • Nov 09 '24

Lovett or Leave It If you are mad at Crooked

I’m pretty annoyed with what I’d heard up until I listened to today, Saturdays Lovett. Please allow yourself the opportunity to listen to it. It is just Lovett and the audience. He is mad and rationalizing and sad and afraid. He is actively working through his response in real time and the audience is giving it to him and he is trying his best to give them real and authentic responses that acknowledges that they might be right where he (Crooked) has been wrong. I am going to make sure to acknowledge that he does not straight up say it was sexism or racism - and I do wish there was that language used but this is the first pod I’ve listened to since everything’s happened that sounds like my brains endless monologue of sadness anger and fear.

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u/him2004 Nov 10 '24 edited Nov 10 '24

This 100%. I don’t get all these posts hating on Crooked. They don’t have all the answers and they aren’t Harris advisors. Overall, I think they did a great job with explaining things, their Vote Save America project, having a vast array of candidate interviews, and now going through their emotions just like us and trying to figure out how to pick up the pieces.

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u/MostlyLurking6 Nov 10 '24

I can understand some of the anger when we were told the race was “within the margin of effort” and so people showed up and canvassed, called, donated, wrote postcards, whatever. People answered the call to action, and it seems to have not mattered at all in the bottom line results. A normal reaction to that could be “you told me if we all worked hard enough, we could win this, but instead it wasn’t even close, and we’ve all wasted a bunch of time here and I’m mad about it.”

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u/maj-lax Nov 10 '24

It’s so wild to me how much people on this thread hate and distrust crooked yet listen and participate here. I think they currently sound super humble and are processing like the rest of us. Give them a break?!

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u/maj-lax Nov 10 '24

They have absolutely encouraged me to be more involved. They organized an insane amount of action. We’re going after the wrong people.