Only the best people.

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11 hours ago, Stable Genius said:

Meet the new Director of Homeland Security:

 

 

 

But he's a tough guy NOW !......   Taking a page from Petey Hegseth's Macho Boy Manual...... BE ALPHA !   

[Stable Genius]

Republican senator floats using violence against journalists who report 'fake news'

Markwayne Mullin recounted that a reporter fatally shot a former congressman in 1890, adding there might be less "fake news ... if we could still handle our differences that way."

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/markwayne-mullin-floats-using-violence-journalists-report-fake-news-rcna199922

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3 hours ago, Stable Genius said:

Republican senator floats using violence against journalists who report 'fake news'

Markwayne Mullin recounted that a reporter fatally shot a former congressman in 1890, adding there might be less "fake news ... if we could still handle our differences that way."

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/markwayne-mullin-floats-using-violence-journalists-report-fake-news-rcna199922

 

They DO handle their differences THAT way. 

Has he already forgotten our govt MURDERED Renee Good and Alex Pretti ?  

Journalists, protestors, potatoe, patato........

[Stable Genius]

Hegseth. Kennedy. Noem. Vance. Johnson. Bondi. Mullin.

The list goes on and on. Bootlicking, ambitious amateurs. People without experience and without conscience. And a President who starts a war —yes, a WAR— to distract from his mishandling of the economy and his intimate association with Epstein.

And Congress lets it happen?

WHO ARE WE?

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1 hour ago, Stable Genius said:

WHO ARE WE?

That is the question.  

And here is a rant.

We better all pray that some Democrat running for President can answer that question in 2028 in a way that 50.1 % or more of voters like.  Assuming we get to 2028, with this reckless maniac Trump in control.

I think the handwriting is on the wall that the reckless warmonger will get his ass kicked at the polls in 2026.  And Democrats will do well just because they are not Republicans.  The question is whether Democrats can do well because they are Democrats.  That's on us, not Trump.

 

Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won

That's a very long and data-filled (aka boring) interview from about a year ago I stumbled on last night and watched.  David Shor is the wunderkind who ran afoul of some woke Democrats by saying things they didn't want to hear.  I guess the good news is after Trump winning again many more Democrats are willing to look at who WE are.  And why Trump looked better to so many Americans.

The fact that you have two very smart and liberal college educated men, one of whom works for the New York Times, discussing this problem is actually part of the problem.  Young men watching Tik Tok have no clue who Ezra Klein or David Shor are.  And they could care less.

They do care about inflation.  And they do not want to die in a war.  Many of them regret voting for Trump.  That is a start.

The single most stunning fact Shor has is that if everyone had voted in 2024, Trump would have won the popular vote by 5 % or so.  Four years earlier, if everyone had voted, Biden would have won in 2020 by a bigger margin.  So it was not about blind loyalty to Trump.  It was about high prices, and endless wars, and feeling like the system is broken.

In 2024 Trump won 18 year old men.  He even won 18 year old men OF COLOR, Shor says.  So it is hard to argue non-White young men wanted a racist President.  Something else was going on.  They were pissed, and they didn't like higher prices.  They want good paying jobs and affordable rent or mortgages. 

And call me old.  But it is a problem that they get their news from Tik Tok.  Trump knew that and played to it.  Selling a brand and being a carnival barker - and liar - is in his skill set.

This is why I am watching Gavin Newsom and hoping he, among others,  can figure it out.  Newsom has a podcast.  He invites Charlie Kirk and Scott Galloway on and tries to figure out: what are these guys saying to young men that they find appealing?  How can Democrats speak to young men, so they don't line up behind JD Vance in 2028? 

That is a start, and a vert smart thing to do.  Democrats and Independents who don't like Trump should be asking ourselves: who are we?  What do we stand for that people care deeply about?