stevenkesslar

It couldn't happen to a lovelier woman. You are gracious, charming, and kind-hearted. You are the woman I have always wanted to be. Congratulations.

Oh my God! I am so honored! Why, swear to God, just yesterday I was bitching and moaning to my devoted and darling Sister In Cock @Suckrates that I never win anything. And now this! The Green Giant Peas Prize. Since I am the winner, do I get to suggest what I get for my award? I'll even share it with you and my sister. If she is not too busy with Mamdani.

Okay, now I will do a total Steven Kesslar free range mind dump. The only connection in what you wrote to what I am about to say is the idea of a surprise weird sex thing. I saw the movie Conclave last night. Every year there seems to be a movie like this. All the trappings of an Oscar winner - from serious topic to A list actors - that just falls flat. My point here is about the plot and the ending. So if you don't want spoilers don't read. Turns out that in the course of a fictional conclave that lasts only a few days two of the top candidates are disqualified because of a sex scandal and a financial scandal that was only discovered during the conclave. Then somebody who nobody even knew was a cardinal turns up, completely unknown, and ends up becoming pope. Then, as if they wasn't enough of a massive suspension of disbelief, turns out he is actually a woman - maybe. At least it turns out he has ovaries which he apparently did not know about until his 30's. Huh? If there is any connection of my point to Trump, I guess it is that Trump turns out to be more authentic than Hollywood. At least with Trump one third of voters really believe him. And close to half of voters believed him enough to vote for him. Even though it seems to be a very bad and fake act to me, and over half of all voters, for the last decade. Turns out we had an actual conclave within a year of the film. If the reporting of the secret voting is correct, turns out two top candidates entered the conclave. And one of them won and is now pope. Which is what we would expect. I guess there just was not enough drama in reality for Hollywood. Conclave actually won Best Adapted Screenplay, which really blows my mind. I'm all for movies about Terminators or Martians or Dinosaurs. Or whatever fun fantasy Hollywood wants to dream up. But it seems like if they want to roll out their top honors for a film that is based in reality, maybe it should be the tiniest bit realistic? I guess not. Honestly, instead of the Nobel or FIFA Peace Prize I'd give Trump the Best Adapted Screenplay award. He is pretty good at just making up lies and grift and scandal as he goes along. And it is all very real.

We're both right. You are right that Trump is surrounded by people far more competent than he is who are doing serious institutional damage nonstop. That said, even those people are often whacko and unable to get the job done. Did Elon Musk really reinvent government, or make it more efficient? Ha ha ha. He fired good people and stole data. And is making an even bigger fortune off Trump at his day job. As soon as Musk started to bleed out government he lost popularity fast. Americans don't like sick cruel butchers like Elon. He hates his own queer child. Sick fuck. It was interesting that in January 2025 the cruel sick fuck called Elon was actually popular among young Zoomer men, according to polls. That lasted maybe a month or two. The same young men who looked up to him at first decided very quickly that he was not their kind of guy, the polls suggested at the time. And then the cruel sick fuck was gone. Granted, you are right that Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation has much better staying power. Real damage is being done. That said, I'll use FDR as a once in a century example. He remained in power for over a decade. He had a working class winning majority so strong that he transformed institutions forever/ FDR built a political coalition that was dominant for about half a century, until Reagan put an end to it. Reagan was much more transformational than Trump has been. By comparison, Trump is just a petty crook and celebrity whore. The verdict is out on how much irreversible damage Trump can do. My guess is this is the moment in history which will be looked back on with this headline: China wins, America loses. Trump is destroying or at least weakening many of the things that have made America great. And the whole rest of the world, including China, knows it. But that is not because Trump is some evil genius. He is a child. And Biden was borderline senile, as it turns out. So we have had weak leadership for over a decade. The long and historic effect may be that it gave China a clear lane to zoom right on ahead. That's what we get for electing a man child. Twice. By less than 50 % of the vote both time.

Are you secretly a Politico reporter in disguise, my Dearest and Darlingest Sister In Cock? The President Who Never Grew Up Instead of focusing on governing, Trump spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence. That article is actually lighthearted compared to your list. In a way, it's a shame that Trump focuses on being a child, rather than being an adult who governs. But as your list spells out, it's actually probably a good thing. Every moment he spends being a celebrity whore or having an opulent Great Gatsby party is a moment he can't fuck something else up permanently. Whether he renames it or not, the White House will now forever more be the out of scale Trump monstrosity. Why does he need everything to be so big, Sis? 🤔 I will say this is Trump's defense. His lack of interest in the real affordability problems of the working class is also a good thing, in a way. He won for the same reason lots of people did after a few years of seemingly intolerable inflation: the action is in the reaction. People hated Bidenflation. But now a majority of Americans clearly don't feel Trump has lowered prices as promised. Tariffs, anyone? So go ahead and be a child, Donald. Better that than he seriously fucks things up even more by getting more bad laws passed. The massive tax cuts to himself and his billionaire donors and pals are more than enough, as he throws millions off health care insurance. So much for affordability. Maybe in my lifetime we will get a Democratic President who actually governs like an adult and deals with affordability. I can make a great argument that Biden was even more tone deaf than Trump. Or maybe it was just his age. He insisted on crowing about "Bidenomics" even though everyone with a political brain, like David Axelrod, said he should shut the fuck up. To his credit, Biden did produce expanded Obamacare premium subsidies and child tax credits that helped tens of millions of working class voters. And maybe some of those voters now realize they'd rather have those things than Trump's crimes and misdemeanors. Oh well. Maybe it will get fixed in 2028. Clinton and Obama did better. Clinton never got the Holy Grail of universal health care passed. But in retrospect it was a golden age for the working class. It was right after Clinton, under W, that millions of factory jobs went away. Under Clinton, sound working class homeownership and working class wealth creation (largely through owning a home) hit record levels for working class Americans of all races. Had that continued, rather than Bush letting the subprime mortgage predators in and the factory jobs out, maybe we never would have had Trump. Obama (and Pelosi) did get the Holy Grail of Obamacare passed. But I think part of the problem is Obama could never figure out, or he didn't have the power to enact, an FDR-type New Deal that addressed the fundamental problems of wage stagnation and shitty job creation that replaced stable working class incomes. Trump, our Child Criminal POTUS, clearly is not up to the task. I'd rather he party, cheat, and lie away until he dies of a fat attack or leaves office once again highly unpopular. Maybe some other Democrat will eventually do better.

Great question. Who the heel knows? I'm surprised that in this Gallup poll it is is still around 50/50 favorable. I have seen other polls that show SCOTUS as net unfavorable. Clearly right now conservatives are lovin it. And Democrats don't. We'll see if they can manage to maintain any sense of balance. I was worried that do to same sex marriage what they did to abortion. They haven't. At least not yet. Since Democrats basically have no power in the executive and legislative branches, and SCOTUS is seeming more and more like a Trump rubber stamp, it is definitely setting the stage for a reaction back toward Democrats. That reaction has clearly already started. If and when we have Democrats in charge again, it would not surprise me to see a right wing SCOTUS resist what Democrats can do. It already happened under Biden - like student loan forgiveness.

Jesus Fucking Christ. How did you know Mamdani was the top? Were you in on it, too? And may I remind you my beloved Justin actually enjoyed giving Trump a hand job? Whereas Trump had an obviously hard time getting it up? There. I ruined your whole weekend. Fucking Americans! So sorry.

Trump, Mamdani make love — not war Fact: You've been awful quiet today, Sis. Fact: Mamdani and Trump made love. Fact: It happened behind closed doors. Fact: My Dearest And Darlingest Sister In Cock @Suckrates has been quite open about how she'd like to get it on with New York's hot new Mayor. Or perhaps she's just had something to chew over today? Inquiring minds want to know, Sis. I mean, it fits in thematically, after all. Trump and Mamdani got it on around affordability. And my Sis and I have always been cheap whores. 🤔 Seriously, kudos to both Mamdani and Trump. What it proves is that Mamdani is actually quite politically adept. Who knew? And Trump is once and always a media whore. Is my Beloved Sis guilty of having a sordid three way? I'd say the jury is hung. Which makes it even better for you, Sis. 💞

I hate to be harsh. But you liberal whiners disgust me. Traitors! Perhaps some of YOU need to be hung. Then again, perhaps some of you are. 😉 The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation Even the Wall Street Journal is now betraying our President, as he makes America great again. All this proves to me is that Trump is a man of his word. He has gotten prices down. Why are you traitors whining about it?

Okay. Time for a little fun online sleuthing. Who is Bubba? Here is what Epstein's brother said: And here is what the Wikipedia description of Get Hard says: I think it was a joke about Trump having to go to prison for some strange reason. Maybe something to do with Putin? Who could imagine such a thing? Trump is just winning and winning and winning, and making America greater than ever. And this is what he gets in return!

You forgot rape. Then again, he only does that to women. As far as we know. Then again, who's Bubba?

I'd be surprised if there is anything in those files about Trump that is much worse than what we already know. And what his loyal followers could care less about. It does seem like Muller 2.0. I read in one article that Trump was surprised that Mueller let him off the hook, basically, after such a thorough investigation. I thought that was largely Kabuki. By that I mean I think it was an honest investigation. And if Mueller had found something truly shell shocking - like a video of Putin handing Trump money or a video of Trump fucking Russian hookers - he would have gone after Trump. I think we know Trump learned to hide his tracks well from Roy Cohn, among others. He for sure knows how the media works, and how they can go after you or make you famous. So while we may get more smoke, I very much doubt we will get a smoking gun on Trump. It still hurts Trump. While he's explaining, he's losing. Poor thing!

If I didn't grow up with you at an all girls boarding school sucking the cocks of hot young boys, I would swear to God you are Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sis. You even look a bit like her, truth be told. It would be nice if Republicans just tore their assholes apart while Democrats focus on - wait for it - health care and affordability for Americans. Chuck Schumer right now is an example of no good deed going unpunished. While a lot of Democrats, maybe a majority of Democrats, despise him for not fighting hard enough - even if it is a battle Democrats simply do not have the votes to win - it is also true that ending the shutdown and hammering on things that help working class people right now may save the asses of Democrats in swing states that need centrist voters. Centrist voters are not into fighting and shutdowns. Schumer made a prediction months ago, I think during the first fight where the Democrats caved, based on his experience of Trump 1.0. He said when Trump's disapproval rating got to 55 % Republicans would start to split and work with Democrats. Trump's disapproval rating is at 54.7 %. And here we go.

This is diverting the subject from Epstein. And you probably won't agree with this article. But the question could be, WHY are Democrats wasting time on anything other than the direct and immediate needs of working class voters? Especially the ones in the middle who decide who wins? Both Nevada senators spurned their party. They were reading the room. Once a Democratic stronghold, Nevada’s shifting economy — and shrinking patience — are fueling a Republican revival. I agree with that article, and with Rosen and Cortez Masto. Rule #1 for any politician is survival. How does it help matters if Nevada replaces two Democratic Senators with two Republican ones? I think it is correct that of all the swing states Nevada is the one swinging the most Republican, for the reasons stated. And it is all about the working class just getting by. Trump appealed to that with no tax on tips. I think it is true that these people don't want to hear about fight Trump or shutdowns that hurt them or democracy. They want to hear about how you are going to help the working class. Period. The good news to me is that we can have our Mamdani and eat it too, so to speak. I know you'd like a big slice of Mamdani, SIs. 😂 In NYC I hope the Mamdani Zoomers govern well and have some success and don't just create some new example of what the right will label a socialist hellscape. But while that is happening if Democrats can get the votes they can do much more centrist economic things for the people in the middle in Nevada and Missouri - if we can ever win Claire McCaskill's seat back.

I'll take it in a different (rambling) direction and bring Chuck Schumer along for the ride. We could have and perhaps should have had a "the torch has passed" moment around 2023 or so. Smart pundits were thinking there could be a fight to replace Pelosi. And certainly there would be a big fight for the Democratic POTUS nomination. Pelosi, no surprise, organized quiet institutional change among insider institutionalists like Jeffries. Biden just hung on. Oh well. In hindsight, it's easy to argue that too many old people holding on to power for too long cost Democrats the election in 2024. The irony is that Trump is hardly young and fresh. And electing a Black Asian American woman POTUS would have been a fresh idea. Nevertheless, I say this for two reasons. A lot of Zoomers had a deep distaste for Biden that rubbed off on Harris. And many of these newer folks, even if they are not young, are the vanguard for a Sandernista/AOC/Mamdani style economic populism on the left. Less ICE, more child tax credits and ACA subsidies. We'll never know what would have happened if the torch had passed. But we do know it would have matched Trump's right-wing economic populism with some kind of left-wing economic populism that at least knew what it stood for. Our version of Mexico's AMLO. My simple mind keeps thing anything good Hecho en Mexico can work here. It seems clear this is the direction the Democratic Party is going. And wants to go. The action is in the reaction. After eight years of Trump "fight like hell" will be in the Democratic DNA in 2028. Just like eight years of Obama led the GOP to Trump. Mamdani is a big canary in a big apple mine. Slaughtered the metaphor. But you know what I mean. So my point is that this moment right now may be as close as we get to a "the torch has passed" moment. Pelosi is exiting. And there was just a long and good article in Politico about how Schumer is fading, perhaps not by choice. There is speculation that he may not even run again. And if he does AOC may kick his ass. The days when Schumer was the young dynamo who took out two decades of Al D'Amato seem to have ended. Long ago. Pelosi was a fighter, for sure. But she was as much of an institutionalist as you can get. As is Schumer. As was Biden. As was Harris. Although she was in the junior leagues and couldn't quite make the step up. This does not mean that it is inevitable that Democrats will nominate a died in the wool economic populist in 2028. But I do think whoever we do nominate will run as a fighter. And they will have to at least embrace economic populism.

In fairness, my full on MAGA niece, who loves Broadway, might make a different selection. [TUPTIM, spoken] The King is pleased! (sung) He is pleased with me! My Lord and Master Declares he's pleased with me— What does he mean? What does he know of me This lord and master? When he has looked at me what has he seen? Something young Soft and slim Painted cheek Tap'ring limb Smiling lips All for him Eyes that shine Just for him— So he thinks Just for him! Though the man may be My Lord and Master Though he may study me As hard as he can The smile beneath my smile He'll never see He'll never know, I love another man He'll never know, I love another man The poor piece of shit. Probably nobody ever loved him, and never will. Certainly not Melania.

Maybe if Mayor Pete runs you could be his running mate. It would add to diversity to the ticket. 😉

The only push back I would make to that is that some Republicans don't like cruelty .................... to themselves. As in committing political suicide by fucking over their own constituents on health care. We've seen this movie before in 2018. Just trying to kill Obamacare and pre-existing conditions killed 42 Republican House members. Of course the GOP had a larger majority before the 2018 midterms. So they had more to lose. And as I argued above, killing Obamacare would have been way more severe and hurtful than just taking away relatively new help on affordability. So you can even argue the Republicans are less cruel than in 2018. I don't think they will lose 42 House seats. Democrats have already mouthed off that they are expanding the number of House seats they target to include some House members in what would be considered pretty solid red districts. Running against Trump definitely would be dumb in these districts, since Trump won them. Running against his cruelty and how people were fucked on health care and hunger and prices is a hole different matter. We'll see if Democrats can do a Pelosi-style raw political execution without Pelosi in charge of it. Here's the bad news, regardless of how well things go for House Democrats. First, as you note, we are stuck with Trump for at least three more years. Unless he has a fat attack and dies. Praise Jesus. Second, in that same 2018 election when Democrats romped in the House, they lost two Senate seats. Some red wave! And how it happened is, I think, one of the most important problems Democrats face. Democrats picked up two seats in Arizona and Nevada, and lost four seats in Missouri, North Dakota, Indiana, and Florida. Charlie Cook nailed it that year by calling Trump a "color intsenifier". He makes red redder, and blue bluer. And a handful of states like Arizona and Nevada still don't know what color they are. I don't think this brawl will get settled until Democrats win back states like iowa, North Dakota, Florida, and Indiana. It is simply mathematically impossible to break a Senate filibuster, or even get 51 votes. And I think we know that winni9ng those states means being less woke, and more working class. And right now there are at best only glimmers of hope that this can be done. I ain't holding my breath for 2026. Which means a Senate GOP majority in 2027 is still very likely, if not certain. That said, if they fuck with health care and food prices enough, maybe not. But my main point is that fighting Trump for being Trump is necessary, but not sufficient. It helps in California and New York City. It hurts in Iowa, Indiana, North Dakota, and Missouri. If we want a majority that can actually help the working class, and not billionaires, that needs to be at the center of what the next Democratic POTUS ushers in. Any volunteers? How about you, Sis? 😉

Doubling down here. I have not been verbose for a while. So I get a few wordy posts. Why Democrats Couldn’t Hold Out Any Longer on the Government Shutdown I read that article right after I made my post. It makes many of the same points, which I obviously agree with. But here is a statement by Schumer critic and "cave in" critic Josh Marshall made that I think captures a very key point: Exactly. The message for the next year to the midterms should be this: Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. Trump is a cruel cold-hearted piece of shit who wants you to pay a lot more. But, hey. At least the poor billionaires will get their tax cuts.

Emotionally, I agree with you, Sis. I think that is baked into the cake. The animating spirit of Democrats now, and arguably since 2017, has been, "Fight back like hell." I think we have had enough time to conclude that this approach is necessary, but not sufficient. We won some (see 2018 and 2020 elections) and lost some (see Trump's 49.8 % 2024 victory.) Angus King is my kind of guy. In defending the deal he is probably exactly right that there is a 50/50 chance that once the deals are cut - or not - at some future point maybe the health care subsidies won't expire. Too many Republicans in close districts understand it is essentially the same as taking a knife in their hands and slitting their own throats open. Then again, too many Republicans said "Fuck no, and what part of fucking no do you not understand you fucking idiot?" to prevent a deal from happening now, despite all the uproar and pain. Angus King explained that fact in less inflammatory terms. So I think the message is clear that when it came to hunger and health care, Republicans said "Fuck no." This may explain why Trump's approval rating has gotten even worse since the shutdown started. People understand Team Trump says "fuck you" on hunger and "fuck you" on health care. This is what all the winning Democrats said in this month's election. This is why many Independents who don't particularly like the "woke" Democrat thing voted for a Democrat. Including rural Independents who both grow and eat food. They don't like "fuck you" as a message, it turns out. Who knew? Trump is a cruel piece of shit. And this does not go unnoticed. Despite the incessant barking of our rabid dog @barknway, Trump is now moving toward being as unpopular as he was at his lowest point in 2017. Let's see. What happened in 2017 that brought his approval rating to the lowest point of his first term? Oh. That's right. He tried to kill Obamacare. People did not like that. His disapproval rating just spiked to 54 % in the RCP average. Granted, it is not quite as high as the 57 % disapproval in 2017 when he tried to kill Obamacare. Perhaps because while Trump will now fuck tens of millions of people, including many Trump voters, on health care, it is still not quite as massive a "fuck you" as killing Obamacare would have been. Either way, people seem to notice what Trump's real agenda is. Those poor billionaires like him need their tax cuts. So people basically don't like being told "fuck you" on health care and hunger by Team Trump. And even if Chuck Schumer and Robot Jeffries are not half the woman Nancy Pelosi was as Speaker, the message is clearly getting through based on both elections and polls. I keep going back to one key fact. Fighting Trump is necessary, but not sufficient. Democrats need an affordability and working class agenda. There is a one word bumper sticker for what we need: "Mexico". If that is too verbose, an even shorter one: "AMLO". Democrats who want to win should be studying what AMLO did in Mexico to foster a working class political revolution. Granted, Mexico is much more working class today than the suburbs of the US are. But the basic formula is the same. Fight like hell for the working class. Put money in the hands of seniors and food on the tables of the working class. AMLO did that. And look what happened. If Democrats can not figure this out, and fight, I agree with you. We deserve to lose.

Justices decline case seeking to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling The high court turned down a petition from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who objected on religious grounds to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This is great news. Except for poor Kim, the bitch. Sing it, Randy.

Hell, maybe even White House butlers. It's not a new idea. But nobody does it like Trump. The rotten piece of shit.

That's such a racist video. 🙃 It's almost as if you are saying Trump is causing Black and Brown kids to be hungry. Haven't we all had enough of that DEI shit? White billionaires are not the cause of Black and Brown kids being ignorant and lazy. Let alone hungry. SNAP out of it, Sis!

Well, it's a theory, my darlingest Sister. I've just never been good at reading subtle body language. It is so much easier when all I have to do is get down on my knees and suck a well hung cock. Something Karoline no doubt seldom has the opportunity to do. Shucks!