The Democrats

[stevenkesslar]

14 minutes ago, Suckrates said:

Dont HATE me !   

Silly.   I will always lover my OLDER sister.  

11 minutes ago, Suckrates said:

our politics have far progressed to a point where a more commanding "personality" is needed. 

Again, I will go for "Unpredictable for $500." 

David Axelrod said he did not see Trump coming in 2016, and he felt dumb afterward.  He advised Obama to be the opposite of W. in 2008.  So, in hindsight, Axelrod said it made sense that after eight years America might want the opposite of Obama.

Other than being old, calm Joe was kind of the opposite of Trump in 2020.  So as much as a lot of people think we need our own Trump in 2028, I'm not sure.  Mostly, I think it is unpredictable.

But this much is predictable.  You will always be my Beloved Sister in Cock.

[stevenkesslar]

On 7/7/2025 at 3:27 PM, bucknaway said:

 

Wow.  When I saw a video that actually has facts and is kind of thoughtful, I thought maybe our old dog is really learning new tricks.  But once I watched the video, it's just another reflexive bark from our STUPID STUPID DOG.  But I am glad to see Tik Tok at least allows a mostly factual video to be posted.

If we want to talk about Democrats and power, we should talk about housing.  High housing costs, high mortgage rates, and high rent all helped Trump win in 2024.  Especially among Zoomer men that are feeling the brunt of it.

That said, our stupid barking dog is hopeless.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.  I like our barking dog.  I don't want Trump to turn him into food for hungry Trump voters.  But, sadly, his brain is Trump steaks already.  He can not think.  He is a stupid dumb Pavlov's dog barking reflexively.

From green icon to housing villain: The fall of California’s landmark environmental law

Our stupid dumb dog can not read.  So of course he is not up to date on the news.  He is conditioned to watch some video and bark.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS, OKAY?

Newsom got the memo from the 2024 elections.  As that article documents, what he has done this year is a needed political earthquake in California.  Critics who want to defend NIMBY laws that making it harder to build homes correctly say that scaling back the California Environmental Quality Act is just one small barrier. And that the law still has good intentions, as it did when Reagan signed it.  True.  But it is now one less barrier to affordable housing.  Newsom thinks Democrats should knock down more barriers.  I agree

Only a BRAIN DEAD BARKING DOG would bark like crazy at the stupid arguments in that video.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.  The argument our dumb dog barks at is that hypocritical liberals fought to keep one block in Palo Alto, CA from being turned into "affordable housing."  News flash!  As the video says, homes in Palo Alto - one of the richest cities in the world - cost like $5 million.  How is THAT affordable to anyone?  

The STUPID STUPID DOG posted a video that says, correctly, that California communities are adding way more good paying jobs than affordable housing.  So if California has all these high paying jobs, tell me why it sucks so bad?  Or why Californians are lazy?  You poor STUPID STUPID DOG.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.

And Trump just gave tax cuts to all the richest Americans, who live in places like Palo Alto.  How does that make things more affordable?  How does cutting Medicaid for working class families, some of whom own homes, help them pay their mortgage or rent?   YOU STUPID STUPID BARKING DOG.  Didn't your mother teach you anything?  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.

Could a Trump voting Mormon family or a liberal Black working class family in Utah or Sacramento afford a $300,000 home, as opposed to a $5 million home in Palo Alto? Yes.  I know they can.  I sold the home in Utah to a guy who was my tenant for 20 years last year.  He and his wife love owning a home.  I am working right now with the Black family in Sacramento, who have been my tenants for over a decade.  They all want to own homes.  They do not want to rent.  

Here is a news flash to our STUPID STUPID BARKING DOG.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.  In America, owning a home is the American dream.  Owning a home is the single best way to slowly build wealth. People who want to own a single-family home are smart, you STUPID STUPID DOG. 

The problem is not that people like single-family homes.  Or that they like the good paying jobs they can get in California.  The problem is that progressive government should be working hard to knock down barriers to help working class people either own if they can or rent if they must - affordably.  And sorry.  Palo Alto will never be an affordable place for working class people.  Why focus on that, other than to get the STUPID STUPID DOG to bark reflexively?

That is not to say that renting or owning a condo in a big complex is bad.  But most families I have rented to in working class neighborhoods are working class people with kids who like having a back yard.  If they can afford it.  It is as American as apple pie.  What the fuck is Trump doing to make homes affordable for these people?  Tax breaks to Elon Musk?  Cutting their Medicaid?  Taking food off their table?

You STUPID STUPID BARKING DOG.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.

Here's your treat.  Now be good!  And sorry if I insulted you.  I guess you can't help the fact that you are stupid.

[PeterRS]

I don't have Tik Tok. Now I know why!

[Suckrates]

33 minutes ago, stevenkesslar said:

 

Wow.  When I saw a video that actually has facts and is kind of thoughtful, I thought maybe our old dog is really learning new tricks.  But once I watched the video, it's just another reflexive bark from our STUPID STUPID DOG.  But I am glad to see Tik Tok at least allows a mostly factual video to be posted.

If we want to talk about Democrats and power, we should talk about housing.  High housing costs, high mortgage rates, and high rent all helped Trump win in 2024.  Especially among Zoomer men that are feeling the brunt of it.

That said, our stupid barking dog is hopeless.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.  I like our barking dog.  I don't want Trump to turn him into food for hungry Trump voters.  But, sadly, his brain is Trump steaks already.  He can not think.  He is a stupid dumb Pavlov's dog barking reflexively.

From green icon to housing villain: The fall of California’s landmark environmental law

Our stupid dumb dog can not read.  So of course he is not up to date on the news.  He is conditioned to watch some video and bark.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS, OKAY?

Newsom got the memo from the 2024 elections.  As that article documents, what he has done this year is a needed political earthquake in California.  Critics who want to defend NIMBY laws that making it harder to build homes correctly say that scaling back the California Environmental Quality Act is just one small barrier. And that the law still has good intentions, as it did when Reagan signed it.  True.  But it is now one less barrier to affordable housing.  Newsom thinks Democrats should knock down more barriers.  I agree

Only a BRAIN DEAD BARKING DOG would bark like crazy at the stupid arguments in that video.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.  The argument our dumb dog barks at is that hypocritical liberals fought to keep one block in Palo Alto, CA from being turned into "affordable housing."  News flash!  As the video says, homes in Palo Alto - one of the richest cities in the world - cost like $5 million.  How is THAT affordable to anyone?  

The STUPID STUPID DOG posted a video that says, correctly, that California communities are adding way more good paying jobs than affordable housing.  So if California has all these high paying jobs, tell me why it sucks so bad?  Or why Californians are lazy?  You poor STUPID STUPID DOG.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.

And Trump just gave tax cuts to all the richest Americans, who live in places like Palo Alto.  How does that make things more affordable?  How does cutting Medicaid for working class families, some of whom own homes, help them pay their mortgage or rent?   YOU STUPID STUPID BARKING DOG.  Didn't your mother teach you anything?  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.

Could a Trump voting Mormon family or a liberal Black working class family in Utah or Sacramento afford a $300,000 home, as opposed to a $5 million home in Palo Alto? Yes.  I know they can.  I sold the home in Utah to a guy who was my tenant for 20 years last year.  He and his wife love owning a home.  I am working right now with the Black family in Sacramento, who have been my tenants for over a decade.  They all want to own homes.  They do not want to rent.  

Here is a news flash to our STUPID STUPID BARKING DOG.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.  In America, owning a home is the American dream.  Owning a home is the single best way to slowly build wealth. People who want to own a single-family home are smart, you STUPID STUPID DOG. 

The problem is not that people like single-family homes.  Or that they like the good paying jobs they can get in California.  The problem is that progressive government should be working hard to knock down barriers to help working class people either own if they can or rent if they must - affordably.  And sorry.  Palo Alto will never be an affordable place for working class people.  Why focus on that, other than to get the STUPID STUPID DOG to bark reflexively?

That is not to say that renting or owning a condo in a big complex is bad.  But most families I have rented to in working class neighborhoods are working class people with kids who like having a back yard.  If they can afford it.  It is as American as apple pie.  What the fuck is Trump doing to make homes affordable for these people?  Tax breaks to Elon Musk?  Cutting their Medicaid?  Taking food off their table?

You STUPID STUPID BARKING DOG.  DO NOT LET TRUMP TURN YOU INTO TRUMP STEAKS.

Here's your treat.  Now be good!  And sorry if I insulted you.  I guess you can't help the fact that you are stupid.

Awwww, so much heat and pressure on barking Dog.....  He is hurting these days, as popularity and support for his idol and savior are evaporating....  So much pressure....so little Tik Tok support,  the sky is falling chicken little......

So I suggest our lonely Trump loving racist homophobic lying brainwashed forum member get himself a "buddy", and better yet A GAY BUDDY.....  Barking dog & GAY BFF.....   We always need someone that has our backs....  Barking dog has depended on Trump to have his.....Now he finds out Trump is "the Deep State".... WOW what a kick in the balls.....

BARKING DOG & New Best Friend

[stevenkesslar]

53 minutes ago, Suckrates said:

BARKING DOG & New Best Friend

I have to admit, Sis.  I am a bit jealous of you.  And not for the first time.

You have always been more compassionate than me.  But I have always aspired to the the smart girl.  Maybe even a little bit of that whole liberal condescending thing the MAGA folk love to hate.  Just a touch, mind you.

And yet here you go again:  both compassionate, and innovative.  In a genuinely sincere and heartfelt way.  I guess I will never be as smart and kind as you.  But I can look up to you, proudly.

Besides, if there are two of them, they can protect each other from Trump turning them into Trump steaks.

[Suckrates]

3 minutes ago, stevenkesslar said:

I have to admit, Sis.  I am a bit jealous of you.  And not for the first time.

You have always been more compassionate than me.  But I have always aspired to the the smart girl.  Maybe even a little bit of that whole liberal condescending thing the MAGA folk love to hate.  Just a touch, mind you.

And yet here you go again:  both compassionate, and innovative.  In a genuinely sincere and heartfelt way.  I guess I will never be as smart and kind as you.  But I can look up to you, proudly.

Besides, if there are two of them, they can protect each other from Trump turning them into Trump steaks.

And one can latch on and bite the ankles of the ICE agents as the other is being dragged away !  🤣

[Suckrates]

Is it just ME, or does Dem representative James Tallarico of Texas remind you of a young John F Kennedy  ?

A smart likable progressive with a bright future.   

[Suckrates]

Was Cory Bookers explosive reprimand of Dems on the Senate floor a"good look" and move for Dems considering their frightening LOW approval rating for NOT being a unified party and fighting for Americans hard enough.

Booker chastised his party for being "complicit" with Trumps authoritarian actions...  

Was this "performance" by the 2028 Presidential hopeful something that SHOULD have been done in Private, or do you think that showing the public that HE alone is fighting just growing his colleagues under the bus and huping his own image for 2028 ?

IMO it was inappropriate, it served only to demonstrate the partys divide......Not good when you are fighting the fastest moving Dictatorship in American history., 

And nothing FEEDS Republlican trolls better than incessant Dem in-fighting !   

[stevenkesslar]

3 hours ago, Suckrates said:

Booker chastised his party for being "complicit" with Trumps authoritarian actions... 

He's a sad case, as is Newsom.  They both just seem inauthentic.  I think Newsom is a good Governor.  But it does feel like he is just performing in the way he needs to perform to run for POTUS.  As is Booker.

And I also just disagree with their strategy.  There's not a lot Democrats can do to stop what Trump is legally doing.  And even if he has SCOTUS in his pocket, it is still legal - thanks to Mitch McConnell blocking Obama, and RBG not retiring when she should have.  

So I'm counting on Alinsky:  "The action is in the reaction."  Things are going to fester for a good long time.  And we'll see what voters have to say next November.

Speaking of which, the generic Congressional vote says right now Democrats are +3.   That's not bad.  They were further ahead at this point in 2017, which did play out with a big Democratic House win in 2018. 

So at the same time voters are saying +3 Democrats some of the same people are saying Democrats are weak and aimless.  This will be the broken record until at least January 2027, when Democrats hopefully can block Trump in the legislative branch.  But it won't really be solved until 2028, assuming Democrats can nominate someone who is NOT weak and aimless.  I hope it is not Booker or Newsom.