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Sen. Slotkin: Democrats Need "Alpha Energy"

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Sunday, July 20, 2025 2:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/07/19/sen_slotkin_democra
ts_need_alpha_energy.html



I was just going to post this, prepared to make another joke about how there isn't an ounce of Testosterone among the entire lot of Democratic Party voters, but I'm glad I read it to the end.

She's bringing up good points that I've seen pop up several times from lower-ranking Democrats. A little bit of self reflection. Even done so in a way where it's not completely self-deprecating and a huge turnoff to her base, but at the same time doesn't come off as mindless pandering to everyone else, and actually sounds like some people on the left are starting to have some good ideas.

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HOOVER: You have drafted a war plan for Democrats. It includes support for small businesses, deregulation and stimulating the housing market, an all-of-the-above energy plan, education reform, a public option for health insurance. All of this is about the economy. It takes on certain sacred cows, as you say.

SLOTKIN: Slaughters them.

HOOVER: Slaughters sacred cows. Whose sacred cows?

SLOTKIN: The party’s. A lot of Democrats, you know, know that we tend to be the party of additional regulation. And each individual regulation probably comes from a very good place, right? You want to protect the environment, you want to protect kids, you want to… So each one is done with the right intentions. But the cumulative effect of all those regulations on top of each other like a pile means you can’t build enough single-family homes, right? And so, we have to look at the net effect and be willing to say, well, some of these need to come off, right? We can’t regulate ourselves into not enough middle-class housing, right? Which is sort of what we’ve done. So, you gotta face that forward. And people may say, yeah, that sounds right. But then when you go to take off that regulation that they feel attached to, they scream bloody murder, right? And that’s the kind of alpha energy part where you gotta say, hey, I get it, that that regulation made sense to you ten years ago, it doesn’t make sense now, it’s holding us back, and no one gets the right to hold the whole country back like that. We gotta have those tough conversations.



The part about Democrats finding alpha energy is still a joke because they're a bunch of beta hive-mind followers, but I think that everything in that last paragraph was brilliantly stated. I hope that her and the others in her party that are talking about things like this find success. This is the type of shit I'd like to hear Republicans talking about now too, but we're not there yet.

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Sunday, July 20, 2025 7:01 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


the Team A vs Team B stuff is just boring now

Trumpist Magtard are also hive-mind followers, I mean wtf do you think QAnon was?

I will give you one thing though at least Trump hasn't been as useless as old slow senile Biden on some events, at least he tried to fix Biden's border mess
and as bad as Trump is doing the laughing jackass Kamala would have been much worse.

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Sunday, July 20, 2025 10:09 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
the Team A vs Team B stuff is just boring now

Trumpist Magtard are also hive-mind followers, I mean wtf do you think QAnon was?



I don't know. It's not like you've ever explained it any better than anybody else has, and I've never met one before.

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