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4 hours ago, The Royal We said:

Kendall was the guest speaker last night at the Nacogdoches County Democratic Party "Beans and Jeans" fundraiser. I came away very impressed by his passion and his message of focusing on working class issues and education. He's from New Boston, TX and comes across as very genuine. Time will tell if he'll be able to make the changes necessary to actually help Dems win in Texas again, but he's a step in the right direction IMO. I spoke with him briefly afterwards and thanked him for coming to Nac and told him how great I thought his message was. I hope he is successful.

Talking about why he thought he was elected as chair in a 7-way race:

 

He also has some good thoughts around the 6:50 mark about why a lot of dem leaning people stayed home in 2024.

Absolutely.  Show up and fight. I'll fight with you but you gotta give me something 

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22 minutes ago, Satchel said:

A majority of the voting public could not abide another four years of feeling a loss of privilege and power they experienced during Obama’s presidency. 


A "majority of the voting public" is not a majority of Americans, which is what Brisket said, nor is it what I responded to ---- and that's not even taking into account the part of Brisket's statement that the damage is irreparable. 

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

Fuck all of the conservative southerner bullshit. No offense.

I respect your views and I would love to hear your suggestions on how we can field a winning campaign in 2028. 

Post LBJ, democrats have only been elected during times of crisis except for Bill Clinton…. and that was only due to a strong 3rd party candidate AND a decision.

Winning in 2028 will mean that the nation is facing some sort of large economic catastrophe or existential event.

I have no faith in the democrats strategically make any kind of moves that help them. Our best hope is that they don’t make any decisions that alienate more of the electorate than they already have and just hope whatever terrible shit that happens doesn’t kill us all.

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9 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Post LBJ, democrats have only been elected during times of crisis except for Bill Clinton…. and that was only due to a strong 3rd party candidate AND a decision.

Winning in 2028 will mean that the nation is facing some sort of large economic catastrophe or existential event.

I have no faith in the democrats strategically make any kind of moves that help them. Our best hope is that they don’t make any decisions that alienate more of the electorate than they already have and just hope whatever terrible shit that happens doesn’t kill us all.

I love you how state that as if the odds are low we'll be in deep shit.  

1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


A "majority of the voting public" is not a majority of Americans, which is what Brisket said, nor is it what I responded to ---- and that's not even taking into account the part of Brisket's statement that the damage is irreparable. 

It’s a fact that 92 million Americans of voting age skipped the last election. Unfortunately, considering where we are today, they don’t matter, other than taking up wasted space in the majority of Americans.

Does anyone live in Washington? Many folks there are apparently pretty ticked off that they’ve rolled out a zero interest $100k loan for blacks and certain minorities only to buy a house in Washington state. It is only repayable when they sell it. 

https://www.homeownership-wa.org/services/bhi/

This is a backdrop to very serious debt and deficit issues facing the state as well. I really don’t think these types of programs help Democrats win elections. If anything, these programs should be economic based not race based. 

23 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Does anyone live in Washington? Many folks there are apparently pretty ticked off that they’ve rolled out a zero interest $100k loan for blacks and certain minorities only to buy a house in Washington state. It is only repayable when they sell it. 

https://www.homeownership-wa.org/services/bhi/

This is a backdrop to very serious debt and deficit issues facing the state as well. I really don’t think these types of programs help Democrats win elections. If anything, these programs should be economic based not race based. 

Yeah...seems pretty tone-deaf.

42 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Does anyone live in Washington? Many folks there are apparently pretty ticked off that they’ve rolled out a zero interest $100k loan for blacks and certain minorities only to buy a house in Washington state. It is only repayable when they sell it. 

https://www.homeownership-wa.org/services/bhi/

This is a backdrop to very serious debt and deficit issues facing the state as well. I really don’t think these types of programs help Democrats win elections. If anything, these programs should be economic based not race based. 

I don't know this to be true, but what if I told you that this was a program available nationally using HUD money but administered by the states, but this particular program was simply branded "for black people" in an effort to better engage with that community?  Would that change your mind? 

I'd have to dig into this one further, but bear in mind we have state (via multiple agencies) and local (both for Travis county and city of Austin) 2nd lien down-payment assistance functionally similar to each other but branded differently (this one is for teachers, this one is for first responders, this one is for veterans, etc.).  My favorite is from SETH; we don't get to use it in Travis County but last I checked, it was also a 0% down-payment assistance lien, forgivable depending on length of ownership. It's possible something of this ilk is available to EVERYONE in Washington state. 

That said, I agree with you and @Brisketexan that it's bad optics and I'd not be giving conservatives an easy target if I were them. 

1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

Does anyone live in Washington? Many folks there are apparently pretty ticked off that they’ve rolled out a zero interest $100k loan for blacks and certain minorities only to buy a house in Washington state. It is only repayable when they sell it. 

https://www.homeownership-wa.org/services/bhi/

This is a backdrop to very serious debt and deficit issues facing the state as well. I really don’t think these types of programs help Democrats win elections. If anything, these programs should be economic based not race based. 

Yeah. They should definitely be income based. But reading the text is seems like it is only for a very small number of low income black people:

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The Black Home Initiative (BHI) aims to create opportunities for 1,500 new low- and moderate-income Black households to own a home in South Seattle, South King County, and North Pierce County in the next 5 years.

1,500 people in a pretty small geographical area? Over 5 years? Seems likely to only be a pretty small budget item and potentially be revenue neutral in the long term.

Seems like a pretty small thing to get upset about. But yeah they probably just should have made it income based. Granted Washington has a pretty small black population compared to the rest of the US so if they did just make it income based it probably wouldn't really help in the goal of getting black people in homes. I don't know.

As for the deficit, they are one of those states with no income tax like us. We get away with it by just allowing public services state to go to shit. Maybe they should follow suit or start having an income tax.

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7 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

I respect your views and I would love to hear your suggestions on how we can field a winning campaign in 2028. 

Don't be a Republican or have anything to do with Donald Trump. I think people will be that pissed off.

2 minutes ago, wackawacka said:

Beto teasing another election run typifies the dems.

Why? That doesn't make any sense. He is free to run. 

He still has to make it through the Primary. If nobody better shows up then what difference does it make?

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Just now, Valmy77 said:

Why? That doesn't make any sense. He is free to run. 

He still has to make it through the Primary. If nobody better shows up then what difference does it make?

The Democratic primary is gonna be all sorts of allsome. I can't wait to see who gets relegated to the B team debates.

1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Why? That doesn't make any sense. He is free to run. 

He still has to make it through the Primary. If nobody better shows up then what difference does it make?

I know many on this board love him but he couldn't win against CRUZ! Didn't he not even capture the latino vote. White liberals love him but that isn't a big enough voting block to win.

7 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

Post LBJ, democrats have only been elected during times of crisis except for Bill Clinton…. and that was only due to a strong 3rd party candidate AND a decision.

Winning in 2028 will mean that the nation is facing some sort of large economic catastrophe or existential event.

I have no faith in the democrats strategically make any kind of moves that help them. Our best hope is that they don’t make any decisions that alienate more of the electorate than they already have and just hope whatever terrible shit that happens doesn’t kill us all.

Well that is how it goes. Between 1860 and 1932 the Democrats only ever won when the Republicans seriously fucked up. Likewise between 1932 and 1968 the only time the Republicans ever won was when they had Eisenhower.

The Democrats see how they can win, and heck even the Republicans see it, by doing the anti-Oligarchy thing. But they don't want to. They would rather just sit back and be corrupt and let the Republicans just keep fucking up and putting them back in power by default. It is up to us to kick out the losers.

1 minute ago, wackawacka said:

I know many on this board love him but he couldn't win against CRUZ! Didn't he not even capture the latino vote. White liberals love him but that isn't a big enough voting block to win.

He won't win. I respect him as a political operative, he is out there doing important work, but really the only position he can hold is Congressman from El Paso. 

But we have to run somebody. And whomever that is, they at least need to show they can beat Beto in a Primary before I have much confidence they can beat Cornyn or Paxton or whomever.

10 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Don't be a Republican or have anything to do with Donald Trump. I think people will be that pissed off.

I don't think that will be enough. 

RUN A HETERO, WHITE MALE then Ds will win.

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Just now, TreatyOak said:

I don't think that will be enough. 

I think it will be if he stays on his current trajectory.

I'm pretty dumb, though, so there's that.

6 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Yeah. They should definitely be income based. But reading the text is seems like it is only for a very small number of low income black people:

1,500 people in a pretty small geographical area? Over 5 years? Seems likely to only be a pretty small budget item and potentially be revenue neutral in the long term.

Seems like a pretty small thing to get upset about. But yeah they probably just should have made it income based. Granted Washington has a pretty small black population compared to the rest of the US so if they did just make it income based it probably wouldn't really help in the goal of getting black people in homes. I don't know.

As for the deficit, they are one of those states with no income tax like us. We get away with it by just allowing public services state to go to shit. Maybe they should follow suit or start having an income tax.

FWIW, $100K in this area will buy a lovely 1.5 car garage or some lovely land to build a tiny house on.

Whew, man, we dodged a bullet:

 

2 hours ago, immamac said:

Good for her. 

What was that for?

On 4/29/2025 at 1:19 PM, TreatyOak said:

I respectfully disagree.

The right candidate, of any race, male or female, with the right message and timing can win. Heck, Harris almost won, and she was absolutely the wrong candidate. 

However, I think Trump's acolytes will be very vulnerable in 2028, though we cannot hope to win unless we have a huge change in leadership.  
 

I keep saying it, but the obvious answer is Matthew McConaughey.

He's a blue dog dem

He's a known name / trusted name

He's a celebrity

He's got a best selling book

He has administrative experience-ish (UT)

Business experience-ish (Salesforce.com)

He's a real Texan and not MAGA

He's good looking

He is well-trained in speech, oration, monologues, giving performances (debates, SOTU, etc.) via acting

He's the antidote to Trump in every way and the Bizarro World Trump for the Dems to fight Trump if you look at it.

11 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

He's a real Texan and not MAGA

Has he actually confirmed that he's not MAGA?

1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

I keep saying it, but the obvious answer is Matthew McConaughey.

He's a blue dog dem

He's a known name / trusted name

He's a celebrity

He's got a best selling book

He has administrative experience-ish (UT)

Business experience-ish (Salesforce.com)

He's a real Texan and not MAGA

He's good looking

He is well-trained in speech, oration, monologues, giving performances (debates, SOTU, etc.) via acting

He's the antidote to Trump in every way and the Bizarro World Trump for the Dems to fight Trump if you look at it.

I’m dubious 

1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

I keep saying it, but the obvious answer is Matthew McConaughey.

He's a blue dog dem

He's a known name / trusted name

He's a celebrity

He's got a best selling book

He has administrative experience-ish (UT)

Business experience-ish (Salesforce.com)

He's a real Texan and not MAGA

He's good looking

He is well-trained in speech, oration, monologues, giving performances (debates, SOTU, etc.) via acting

He's the antidote to Trump in every way and the Bizarro World Trump for the Dems to fight Trump if you look at it.

He has a lot going for him, for sure. Solid family man. Progressive. Donates a lot to causes. He's been doing a lot of things to position himself for some kind of role in politics. I interviewed his wife for her healthy food initiative for women. She is very impressive. NOTE: I'm not saying he should run. I do like that you are thinking outside the box. 

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9 hours ago, Underdog said:

Well alright, alright, alright. 

What percentage of the GDP will be for NIL for UT athletes?

The Georgians appear to be saner than most Texans:

A new poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, conducted between April 15 and April 24 among 1,000 registered Georgia voters, found that voters preferred Ossoff over Greene by a 17-point margin—the largest gap in the survey—in a hypothetical race, with the Democrat getting 54 percent of the vote compared to 37 percent for the congresswoman.

The result was largely driven by Greene's unpopularity with independents, 60 percent of whom said they would back Ossoff in a matchup, and moderate Republicans, with nearly 10 percent of Trump voters saying they would also back the incumbent.

The same survey found that Republican Governor Brian Kemp was tops among possible GOP contenders, leading within the margin of error at 49 percent to Ossoff's 46 percent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Whitmer thinks his political instincts suck

 

 

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7 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Whitmer thinks his political instincts suck

 

 

Seriously, is he trying to get recalled? 

Maybe he's just ahead of the game and knows what Silvio knew about recession. Show business and being with the mob. The way some people are bending the knee is just chilling. Like they know something the rest of us don't.  

 

Tony Soprano: And I don't want to hear about the freaking economy either! I don't want to hear it. Sil, break it down for them. What two businesses have traditionally been recession proof since time immemorial?

Silvio Dante: Certain aspects of show business...and our thing.

Tony Soprano: Now that's it. That's all I've gotta say. Frankly, I'm depressed and ashamed.

On 5/1/2025 at 4:36 AM, wackawacka said:

RUN A good looking, HETERO, WHITE MALE then Ds will win.

You’ve talked me into it 

On 5/3/2025 at 2:32 PM, Satchel said:

The Georgians appear to be saner than most Texans:

 

A new poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, conducted between April 15 and April 24 among 1,000 registered Georgia voters, found that voters preferred Ossoff over Greene by a 17-point margin—the largest gap in the survey—in a hypothetical race, with the Democrat getting 54 percent of the vote compared to 37 percent for the congresswoman.

The result was largely driven by Greene's unpopularity with independents, 60 percent of whom said they would back Ossoff in a matchup, and moderate Republicans, with nearly 10 percent of Trump voters saying they would also back the incumbent.

The same survey found that Republican Governor Brian Kemp was tops among possible GOP contenders, leading within the margin of error at 49 percent to Ossoff's 46 percent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Kemp isn’t running because he sees the same numbers as everyone else and wants to keep his powder dry for a presidential run as the alternative to MAGA. 
Wait until the house retirements start going. 

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With R primary voters set to nominate Paxton and the Trump backlash, I'm having a hard time envisioning how the Ds are going to fuck up this senate election.  But I still know they will.  It's going to be the performance of a lifetime.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/abundance-discourse-ezra-klein-trump-musk-democrats-1235310224/

 

Someone had mentioned recently that they didn't have Rolling Stone as the journalistic entity with the greatest integrity and strongest reporting during Trump 2.0, but damn if it ain't true.

I don't know much about this Klein guy, other than hearing some NPR host embarrassingly gush over his ideas during an interview, but it seems like he might suck. Haven't heard the Pod Save interview, but it's disappointing that NPR and Jon Stewart apparently didn't poke any holes in their book's flawed arguments.

22 minutes ago, WBT said:

With R primary voters set to nominate Paxton and the Trump backlash, I'm having a hard time envisioning how the Ds are going to fuck up this senate election.  But I still know they will.  It's going to be the performance of a lifetime.

They will...death, taxes, dems sucking balls against maga. 

53 minutes ago, Bojack said:

Seriously, is he trying to get recalled? 

Maybe he's just ahead of the game and knows what Silvio knew about recession. Show business and being with the mob. The way some people are bending the knee is just chilling. Like they know something the rest of us don't.  

 


I’m just taking it as he and Gretch understand to win the presidency, they’ll need some crossover votes from magtards, especially those Obama/turnip voters. 
 

Either that or they have insider info that Gilead is here already and they are vying for high level cabinet appointments in our new country.

You expected a D governor of California to come out against protectionism, Hollywood, or the protectionism of Hollywood?

40 minutes ago, WBT said:

I'm having a hard time envisioning how the Ds are going to fuck up this senate election.

Peer into the future:

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37 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/abundance-discourse-ezra-klein-trump-musk-democrats-1235310224/

 

Someone had mentioned recently that they didn't have Rolling Stone as the journalistic entity with the greatest integrity and strongest reporting during Trump 2.0, but damn if it ain't true.

I don't know much about this Klein guy, other than hearing some NPR host embarrassingly gush over his ideas during an interview, but it seems like he might suck. Haven't heard the Pod Save interview, but it's disappointing that NPR and Jon Stewart apparently didn't poke any holes in their book's flawed arguments.

Speaking as someone who finds Ezra Klein to be among the most tedious media figures of our age, hearing lefties who don’t know who Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are and haven’t read the book explain why it’s wrong totally validate my opinion that they are absolutely right. 
David Sirota and a bunch of other toxic recidivist losers hate it? I think we’re on to something.

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Ezra Klein has the affect of an earnest intellectual but doesn’t actually do nearly as good of a job thinking stuff through as he thinks he does. He’s also fucking infinitely gullible when it comes to anything the “good” republicans (those who pretend like they care about more than hurting immigrants and forcing women back into the kitchens) say.

 

10 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Speaking as someone who finds Ezra Klein to be among the most tedious media figures of our age, hearing lefties who don’t know who Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are and haven’t read the book explain why it’s wrong totally validate my opinion that they are absolutely right. 
David Sirota and a bunch of other toxic recidivist losers hate it? I think we’re on to something.

I may not know every liberal podcaster/author/journalist, but I do know that David Sirota hates literally everything.

And I've heard his name, but not much of what he has to say until he started popping up everywhere recently.

13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Ezra Klein has the affect of an earnest intellectual but doesn’t actually do nearly as good of a job thinking stuff through as he thinks he does. He’s also fucking infinitely gullible when it comes to anything the “good” republicans (those who pretend like they care about more than hurting immigrants and forcing women back into the kitchens) say.

 

Ok but we need more housing and infrastructure.
Democrats should be enthusiastic about more housing and swiftly building things like rail and solar and bridges and ports.
Congratulations I just saved you 6 hours of reading. 

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54 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

I don't know much about this Klein guy, other than hearing some NPR host embarrassingly gush over his ideas during an interview, but it seems like he might suck. Haven't heard the Pod Save interview, but it's disappointing that NPR and Jon Stewart apparently didn't poke any holes in their book's flawed arguments.

You’ve read one article but haven’t read the book and your conclusion is that the author sucks and that its arguments are flawed?  
 

13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Ezra Klein has the affect of an earnest intellectual but doesn’t actually do nearly as good of a job thinking stuff through as he thinks he does.

Fwiw, Klein had on two guests from the left last week to critique his book from that side, one of whom was AOC’s chief of staff.  
 

Derek Thompson was also a guest last week with Tim Miller on the Bulwark and made a good point that the book’s argument are a little nontopical when ‘26 is going to be a referendum on Trump and ‘28 is likely to be as well.  

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13 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

I do know that David Sirota hates literally everything.

Here is the “progressive” case against “Abundance” in a nutshell. 

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