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Paolo Costa is not on the fight card, so old-geezer 🍊 won't have the chance to flirt with Costa and touch Costa's thigh with his tiny hand. Will there be a locker room 🍊 can stroll through and give pep talks to naked young men? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXEcuZjDjsh/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Elizabeth Warren is 76. She is sharp as a tack. She knows her issues and easily engages when MAGA throws their BS. One might wonder how long she will stay. Does she love serving that much?

The Sacramento Bee likes Porter. Yes, as @unicorn points out, she is known to be abusive and even nasty. However, that does not bother me. She will have our back. She is smart. IMO the political machine and the business lobby are afraid of her. https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/election-endorsements/article315568587.html The embedded video gives her detailed answers to questions from The Bee.

Susan Collins claims her health issues are benign, per this NYTimes article. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/politics/susan-collins-tremor-maine-senate-race.html?smid=url-share She still seems old and frail. Time to flush the old farts out of office.

I have my ballot. Need to decide. Why can't we elect somebody young like Porter or Mahan. They are younger than me. I want someone with energy and without baggage that the old farts carry. I'm not ageist, right? Well eff it, maybe I am, but the political machine has not solved enough problems. Let's get some new blood. Steyer wants to deregulate electric utilities. California tried that decades ago. It's was a f*cked up idea that cost California huge $$$.

There's a new sheriff in town! 😆😆😆 Will he ride that horse around Sacramento?

What is keeping these old Senators in office? The PAC money must be too tempting. But at some point, isn't the US better served by young, sharp minds serving in the legislative branch, House and Senate? Yeah, I know, Susan Collins is not nearly the oldest, but she is still f*cking old, with apparent physical health issues. We must move these old timers out. They seem to want to remain in office, no matter how old.

Why are these old farts running for California governor? No offense to you old farts out there, but there are already too many of them in government. Villaraigosa will be 74 at the start of the term. Becerra and Steyer will soon be 70. Also I prefer not having a billionaire governor. Why does Steyer want to govern California? I trust Katie Porter but the media has f*cked her over. The last thing we need right now is a GOP executive running the state. I hope the Dems muddle through.

Since Miller is Jewish, at most he's Nazi-adjacent. It's fair to call him a liar and vicious kunt, and I say that with all due respect. His mother's family escaped anti-Jewish violence in Europe, early 1900s. His uncle calls him an immigration hypocrite. Will Karma get him like it got Roy Cohn

His "Sunset" Trilogy or "Before"Trilogy is a remarkable trio of movies how a relationship evolves over time. I love Ethan Hawke. The following has a few spoilers, in case you prefer to avoid. Linklater is an acclaimed, influential creator. I feel like watching Before Sunrise tonight, just to watch the ending again. ❤️

I've seen Close. In the States, you can stream it free on TubiTV. Another coming of age gay film called Heartstone (2016, Iceland), has similar themes as Close. praised for its intimate portrayal of youth, stunning Icelandic scenery, and authentic performances, it won the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In the States, stream it on Kanopy, TubiTV, YouTube and other platforms. Very good film.

I didn't like Bill Clinton or HIllary Clinton or Joe Biden. Based on their history, these are examples of untrustworthy Democrats that committed terrible fuck-ups or at least were complicit in them. Yet I voted for them without fail, because they were the lesser evil, as you described above, why some voters chose 🍊. I remain flummoxed how so many voters never connected the dots about Trump and the MAGA GOP, but so easily do so concerning faults of the Dems. As you said, the economy was likely the deciding factor. To your reckoning, that the Democrats' winning path must focus on the economy, one might ask whether to focus specifically on the economy in battleground states? As the Jacobin piece outlined, if the Democrats can't bring the working class voters in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to their side, then they will continue losing. For me, I would make sure the Clintons, the Bidens and Harris drop out of sight. Sweep them under the carpet, and move forward with younger faces and a win-the-working-class through a better economy strategy. Focusing on the economy requires undoing the challenges of tariffs, the exploding debt, and energy costs. That won't be easy. Execution on economic promises may remain a minefield. That said, can the Party afford to leave out other issues such as Incompetency and corruption, as stated by the OP Women's healthcare Closure of rural hospitals Abuses by ICE/ the weakened American democracy and more Lastly, among the "untrustworthy Democrats" the electorate may be turned off by women candidates that laugh like a cackling witch, e.g. Hillary and Kamala. Of course that sounds VERY misogynistic. Yet, how many male political candidates giggle and guffaw? For a somewhat misogynist electorate that perceives the Democrats as the untrustworthy party that is not able to execute on promises, don't voters expect serious answers, not cackling?

Voters trusted Trump more, that he was actually the "honest" candidate, willing to speak the truth. At least that was my take, listening to voters interviewed by the NYT, before the election. My sense is that even though some Trump voters are now in the "we're fucked" category, they still see Democrats as untrustworthy. This article below, from radical lefty Jacobin-dot-com, discusses how attacking Trump's corruption, as John Ossoff is doing, might be a best path to winning future cycles. That said, the piece claims how Democrats continually fail to deliver or execute on such campaign promises, which sounds like they will remain vulnerable in 2028. https://jacobin.com/2025/10/corruption-democrats-trump-oligarchy-midterms Skimming other articles on their site confirms their contempt for Democrats such as Buttigieg and Obama. Knowing how the lefties tend not to lift a finger to prevent MAGA wins, if they are not happy with the Dem candidate, is worrisome to me, 45 and 47 cycles being the obvious examples. I wish the radical lefties and Green Party would admit having Trump has not been the better choice, yet do they? That said, if working class voters in battleground states shift back to the Democrats, that will be a factor in taking back the White House, according to Jacobin. Here is Ossoff talking about Trump corruption.

I'm bothered that she has appeared on RealTime, The View, and so on, as if she isn't still part of the "factory of lies" she promotes. In the end, click bait and ratings steer much of the content out there. Here is a potion of her continuing to lie, on The View. So disappointing she continues to lie about Pelosi.