Elissa Slotkin: You're not going to get me to defend democratic messaging. We can have a whole autopsy about that.
— Blue Georgia (@BlueGeorgia) March 28, 2026
Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, the American people want something different out of their government. Can we have a little bit more alpha energy? pic.twitter.com/h8li6EAbmq
You often talk about the need for Democrats to bring back “alpha energy,” along the lines of Michigan sports coaches. What is something Democrats do that is the opposite of alpha energy?
In the Midwest, alpha energy is about emotion. Whether you’re a coach and you know what your team has put into the game, or you’re frustrated that they didn’t give it their all, you’re not speaking from wonky details. You’re speaking about your gut and your emotion. I think Democrats have lost that.
We respond to people’s pain with a long list of wonky policies.
Alpha energy is synonymous with being bold. Call the tough play, take a risk, be bold. And don’t be so damn scared of your own shadow.
Yeah, my first guess was right: She's saying Democrats need to talk and act more like Trump because they need to get elected.
Did she answer the question "What is something Democrats do that is the opposite of alpha energy?" Only vaguely. They're "speaking from wonky details" and not "speaking about your gut and your emotion." Her statement of the problem is, ironically, lacking in the quality she's saying they need.
And what is that quality again? And frankly, I think the idea is based on gender stereotypes but mixes up the male and the female up so we're served an unwholesome stew.
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"..believe in what we believe in. believe in what we believe in.."
and WHAT IS IT? that the democrats "believe in"?
Orange Man BAD?
child genital mutilation GOOD?
MORE illegal immigration?
FREE STUFF for illegals?
what IS it? could she let US know?
Dems are all emotion: They hate Trump.
As to their actions, they let in 10m illegal aliens and went whack protecting them from deportation.
What has Lisa Slotkin ever done that helped the American people? She voted in favor of long TSA lines. STFU.
It’s your policies. We can keep telling them and they will never learn. Well keep slamming away at it’s the messaging, maybe it will work…
I must have missed that long list of wonky policies. I got ‘flood the country with illegals, pay them with fraud and theft and misappropriation, count them in the next census so we have a bulletproof majority.’ After that the long wonky list gets fuzzy…
maybe it was ‘make rich people pay for everything’…
"In the Midwest, alpha energy is about emotion. Whether you’re a coach and you know what your team has put into the game, or you’re frustrated that they didn’t give it their all, you’re not speaking from wonky details. You’re speaking about your gut and your emotion. I think Democrats have lost that."
She just doesn't get it. They've been trying to promote ruinous policies to game our elections, move us by stealth to socialism, and as a corollary, disrupt traditional norms. It's not about the messaging. It's the subtext, the core of what they mean despite their protestations, and their sneaky way of hiding it.
The (D) Party needs more guys like John Fetterman. But they're doing their best to primary him, so...
She said "long list of wonky" details. Does she mean the past 9 years of TDS?
She also said "long list of policies". This, I have not seen.
The only policy I know of is "swinging dicks" in women's locker rooms.
But to her credit, neither details nor policies are action.
Yet, "energy" is not action either.
“ Her statement of the problem is, ironically, lacking in the quality she's saying they need. ”
Exactly. She should role model it, not complain others are not doing so.
I agree with others here. The issue is their policies, not their messaging acumen.
My message to Slotkin: Just tell the truth.
Admittedly an impossible task when you’ve been conditioned to have the media fully corroborate your lies.
We're at midterms and her top talking point is we can begin an autopsy on the last election…
"Admittedly an impossible task when you’ve been conditioned to have the media fully corroborate your lies."
Republicans don't need to worry about this, not one little tiny bit. Oh no. Certainly not. In fact one of the easiest ways to tell if you are right or wrong about something is your certainty. If you can't imagine that you can possibly be wrong, then you are onto the truth, full square. World events are no more complicated than a 1960s era lawnmower engine.
"Unwholesome stew" pretty much describes all of politics from both sides, but people love a good food fight, even when the food itself is not fit to eat, apparently.
Lately I’ve been following the rule never trust a “former” CIA operative turned politician with Spamberger as the preeminent example but Slotkin close behind. There’s a raft of them groomed during Obama’s tenure and weaseling their way into Congress and Governorship now.
The dems' winning issue would be abortion, with republicans banning it.
In her own way, Slotkin is admitting her party sucks. She’s right about that.
I voted against my Republican congressman in the primary. He’s a former Navy SEAL, so plenty of “alpha energy”. But like Democrats, he got into office, made himself rich, and didn’t listen to his constituents on 80/20 issues. He won’t be going back to Congress next year.
Maybe she’s not defending Democrat messaging, because she is to busy using it.
Okay who else had the immediate mental image of Tampon Tim doing his Jazzhands Elmer Fudd act when she started with “in the Midwest alpha energy means”?
Recklessness, extreme recklessness is what we need more of.
Mike, there’s an argument to be made that George HW Bush can be included in that rule, just watch his lips.
"We can have a whole autopsy about that."
I thought they did that, and then promptly hid it because they didn't like the results.
I’m curious, Imtay, what your purpose was in quoting Humperdink but in no way refuting the point he clearly stated. Your rambling about “certainty” reads more like projection than anything that would contradict the smart comment you quoted.
WTF are you trying to say?
No doubt Leland and it should be applied bipartisanly.
Whether you’re a coach and you know what your team has put into the game, or you’re frustrated that they didn’t give it their all, you’re not speaking from wonky details.
The thing with the coach/team metaphor is that Republicans see US citizens as their team and illegal immigrants as the opposing team. Democrats think they are the same team and Republican voters are the opposing team. Their problem isn't one of poor messaging, it's that too many voters have been understanding the message.
Crimso, that's the way I remember it, too. Slotkin seems to be misinformed. As a number of people have noted, it ain't the messaging, it's the policies.
And frankly, I think the idea is based on gender stereotypes but mixes up the male and the female up so we're served an unwholesome stew.
Absolutely. The root of this whole tranny explosion is gendering *human* emotions, desires, and actions with a specific goal of identifying the 'bad' ones as "male". She even has to soften aggressive into the new-agey 'alpha energy'.
Her party’s biggest problem is SCOTUS Louisiana energy…
Shes a traitorous (redacted) that much is clear
Maybe Elissa Slotkin is the kind of woman who expresses her disappointment by calling her son a sissy.
Yup... I'm not buying that at all. Democrats' idea of "alpha energy" as of 2024 was Tim Walz, and now it's Gavin Newsom. We are not fooled.
Democrats are just bonehead dense. I sing in a local men’s choral group. We were planning on doing a series of patriotic tunes for our Spring Concert in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. The Democrats in our group decided to bomb the group with an e-mail flame war. They don’t want to be patriotic because they hate Trump. What’s really stupid about this is that they don’t even know that the choral group is full of Trump supporters. The idiots just assumed everybody agreed with them. You cannot get thru this idiot shield. So, now, everybody is being outed by their tribe, everybody’s pissed, and I don’t know if we’re going to make it to the concert. It seems impossible for Dems to believe that people really disagree with, and often hate, their policies.
Democrat Party members could begin to be pro-American. They could offer legislation and programs that would help American citizens. They could prosecute the criminals and the illegal aliens that make life worse for Americans. They could do all they could to keep our nation and our citizens healthy and happy, but they don't and they won't because Democrat Party members are deranged, corrupt, and arrogant narcissists. They profit by trafficking in the evil, illegal, and immoral.
Pick issues that resonate with people who have jobs and follow the law and also embrace traditional social norms.
That is not the alpha energy she means.
Pick issues that resonate with people who have jobs and follow the law and also embrace traditional social norms.
That is not the alpha energy she means.
Yeah, my first guess was right: She's saying Democrats need to talk and act more like Trump because they need to get elected.
Did she answer the question "What is something Democrats do that is the opposite of alpha energy?" Only vaguely. They're "speaking from wonky details" and not "speaking about your gut and your emotion." Her statement of the problem is, ironically, lacking in the quality she's saying they need.
And what is that quality again? And frankly, I think the idea is based on gender stereotypes but mixes up the male and the female up so we're served an unwholesome stew.
You need to say the quiet part out loud Ann.
The democrat party was taken over by college educated white women.
College educated white women have proven to be really poor leaders and are taking this country to ruin.
What Slotkin is really saying is we need leaders to lead like men, not like women.
She sides with the hezbollah assasin remember
imTay said...
Republicans don't need to worry about this, not one little tiny bit. Oh no. Certainly not. In fact one of the easiest ways to tell if you are right or wrong about something is your certainty. If you can't imagine that you can possibly be wrong, then you are onto the truth, full square. World events are no more complicated than a 1960s era lawnmower engine.
LOL! That is one of the most self unaware comments I have seen in a long time.
You really don't realize that you are the king of ignorant stupid certainty?
Little dutchboy gets tiring
I don’t want a house full of spooks. It feels Putinesque…
The Democrats are still stuck on the idea that the problem is the messaging. No matter how insane the message is, they can’t conceive that that is the problem.
They are hopeless. Their only advantages are media sabotage, Republican fecklessness, and voter fraud. Granted, those are significant advantages.
We wants citizens disarmed and terrorist and criminals free
Huh?
Alpha energy is not showing up at protests every stinking weekend, either supporting Hamas, or the gutting of ICE and our border security, or something called "No Kings"- which this weekend will feature probably every Congressional Democrat and calls to save the Ayatollah regime in Iran, or the communist regime in Cuba.
No Kings. Just communist and Muslim thugs.
The 'no kings' thing is such a made up, funded and scripted event that leftists buy into. It's pretty remarkable in it's ridiculousness.
As for alpha, well...they're pretty much too far down the beta road to show any Alpha. Words by Slotkin aside, there's more alpha on the women's soccer team at Oberlin than there is in the Democratic Party.
Thats the dem policy' forgot the quote mark
No kings but dictators aplenty
"...more alpha energy?"
The Democrats generally call that "Toxic Masculinity". So no Dems can't have any.
Their alpha energy is that psycho platner
It’s the woke ideology, stupid.
They relied on red herrings like Russiagate and the Epstein files instead of focusing on what Trump said he was going to do all along, bomb the shit out of Iran. They could have been a useful counter to his foreign policy plans.
Did they actually believe he was a peacy president?
They know how to surrender thats their alpha energy on the streets on the ocean in the air
Word salad.
Times up. Applause light comes on
Audience claps enthusiastically
Maher says, "You could run for President..."
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/no-bosses.php
As the old joke goes, if we wanted to get to where we want to be, we shouldn’t be starting from here.
Stop waiting for it to get easier. Learn to handle hard better.
Would Slotnik’s head lean the other way if the part in her hair were on the other side? Her hair part is like the ideology that determines her posture and what her head position will be.
“The parting on the left, is now parting on the right…
Won’t get fooled again”
Didn't I recently see that the only white male democrat under age 40 in Congress is "Sarah" McBride? Now that's quite the repository of Alpha Energy!
The dogs don't like the dog food. But they'll show up for a rally in St. Paul if they get to see Springsteen for $200 less than his normal asking rate.
And hes pretending to be a woman
"...That's part of the problem and why we lost the last election. We can have a whole autopsy about that...." Why, yes, we could, couldn't we?
Her whole message comes across like 'chicks with dicks', so I can see why she left it tacked on at the end, so she wouldn't have to explain it. We have to remember, she's former CIA. So the prospect of messaging as a psy-op is ever-present. And l wonder just how many ex-CIA operatives have salted themselves into the Federal and State government? It would be an interesting analysis, right there. The new Virginia governor is another example.
Like her, I think this one has Big Plans for #1. Alpha, as in, 'me first'.
Progressives might find themselves a little more endeared if they would stop importing the unwashed, under-educated, over-infected, unvaccinated masses into the country en masse, transporting and installing them on the public dole, and through their portfolio of actions, viscerally hating half the country and wishing them dead, while barely tolerating the other half with pander, because they need their vote to stay in power. They're a Death Cult. Slotkin is just trying on a New Face.
Genuinely disingenuous. Pig-faced and phony.
Lately I’ve been following the rule never trust a “former” CIA operative turned politician with Spamberger as the preeminent example but Slotkin close behind. There’s a raft of them groomed during Obama’s tenure and weaseling their way into Congress and Governorship now.
Bingo.
She stole her seat fair and square remember
They really need to eat more carburetors for breakfast.
Slotkin reminds me of another junior Senator—Kirstin Gillibrand.
Elissa, your problem is that it's tough to pretend you've got "alpha energy" when you only have Beta males on your team. You'd have better luck starting a country-rock group called Chicksy Dix.
Achilles: The democrat party was taken over by college indoctinated white women.
FIFY.
"The dogs don't like the dog food. But they'll show up for a rally in St. Paul if they get to see Springsteen for $200 less than his normal asking rate."
Well let's see, I think it was about 100,000 who attended the previous No Kings rally last fall. You know -- the one without Bruce Springsteen....
I think it's a bit late. We all see Trumpism now.
The ‘home of the free and the land of the brave' has 'secret police' running around the streets in masks detaining, assaulting and killing people. You can't drawdown from that.
Lots of digital ink being spilled here to pretend otherwise.
The state is beyond broke maybe the boss can do a fundraiser
Anybody paying attention has seen the Democrats trying this for at least the last few years and especially since Trump's substantial win in 2024. They've adopted the tough talk, and f-bombs and threats, and all the performance BS they always do. Nothing is authentic with Democrats except fraud and that brainless need to get behind anything that's opposite of American values. They have a mass psychogenic disorder that has spread among millions. You can watch them all over the internet spewing unhinged anger at their phone with their face inches from the screen, hateful, homicidal rage. The last thing anyone should want is for them to try harder at that insanity. I would suggest just the opposite, but the last thing we need is for progressives to figure out how to win without cheating.
Her prior career in the CIA is a tell. She wants to manipulate you. Everything she says is intended to push you in a direction that is not what she says it is. See the antics of new governors Mikie Sherrill in NJ and Abigail Spanberger in VA.
On the other hand, alpha radiation is relatively easily blocked.
Oh cheating sherill practically converted to islam
Over ramadan
See the antics of new governors Mikie Sherrill in NJ and Abigail Spanberger in VA.
From Wikipedia:
"Upon her election in 2018, Slotkin and fellow moderate freshmen women from competitive districts with national security backgrounds Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill, Elaine Luria, and Chrissy Houlahan, were described as a "mod squad" counterweight to the progressive "Squad".
In September 2019, Slotkin and six other freshman House Democrats wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Its publication led to widespread Democratic support for an impeachment inquiry. Slotkin voted to impeach Trump in both his first and second impeachments."
The Six ways from Sunday.
The Dems can't do alpha, because they don't even understand the basics. Alpha doesn't pretend anything. Alpha does, takes action, fixes problems, and only explains it tangentially as needed to keep the betas from panicking while the work is being done.
What the Dems do is complain, explain, promise, act up, and do theater, with no intent to fix anything or even do anything outside of pass money around among themselves. What is the Democrat plan for anything? What will they actually do beyond that passing around money thing? If people think that our problems are a lack of money being spread around, then vote Dem, because they will do that, probably not for you, but that's YOUR problem.
The problem is their message, not messaging. Democrats are on the wrong side of so many issues that many people think they're crazy.
rehajm: "I don’t want a house full of spooks."
RACIST!
CC, JSM
"I think, for me, what is important, going forward, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, is like: the American people, they're telling us something, they want something different out of their government. They want, they want some alpha energy from their leaders."
Here's what I want - to be left alone. Smaller, smaller, smaller, less intrusion, lower, lower cost.
The entire "Trump is a fascist dictator/No kings" messaging narrative is nothing but massive appeals to their gut and their emotions.
The Democrats perennial claim is always that their messaging is bad because the dumb citizens in the middle just don't understand it due to it being too sophisticated and "wonky". Its never that their actual message or policies are unpopular or extreme. Never that.
One word — INSIPID.
Her recommendation is exactly why we have to listen to Gavin Newsome, Tim Walz and Hakeem Jeffries........fake tough guys who couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
She mention her "Three deployments" at least twice. I hate that.
She's an evil CIA witch. I hated those people downrange. I doubt she ever left the FOB.
They just elected one governor here in my state.
I just listened to this, and she's wrong on every thing she says.
Oh and "gut and emotion" isn't "Alpha Male energy" in the least bit.
Just another Democrat who can't accept that people think that Democrats are wrong, so she insists the issue is about messaging.
Ah! That explains the all to common 'Fuck" usage by Swallowwell and Newscum.
As my dad would growl, "Bend over, I'll give ya some alpha"
The world’s largest money laundering operation just needs a better marketing plan, I guess.
Democrats haven nothing but lies - so messaging is used to cover their lies and deceit. and fraud. their sad Cultists need messaging.
Yeah, my first guess was right: She's saying Democrats need to talk and act more like Trump because they need to get elected.
We love Trump for his policies, not his bombast.
What are some of the “wonky” policies the Democrats (like Slotkin) are pushing? Here’s one: releasing dangerous recidivist criminals back into the community to stab to death slender blondes who work for a living, because “prison is racist.” Here’s another: the federal government should leave child rapists who are in this country illegally alone because ICE is fascist. Here’s a third: Want more? How about the policy tgst Democrat state and municipal governments will not cooperate with efforts to root out fraud, even when the fraud is stealing money set aside to help feed hungry children? There are plenty more where that came from.
The democratic plan is to scare their idiot base to the point of insanity - as they seek nothing but power and grift.
Mass voter fraud, mass illegal immigration (their salve class) punitive taxation, rotting infrastructure, crime, anti-police, anti-law enforcement, open borders, open prison doors, pro child sex trafficking, Walzian mob/ with personal assassins.
D's want to kill all the Charlie Kirks. The dems are like the Castro family. Lying grifters who steal all the wealth and means of production for themselves and their loyal cronies, while our nation turns to shit.
Peachy: "mass illegal immigration (their salve class)"
I realize that's a typo for 'slave,' but it's unintentional genius! They bring in slave workers, and salve their consciences by saying it actually helps the poor slaves by giving them a better life then they'd have in their home countries.
Hmm, when have Dems done something like this before....? CC, JSM
I think it's a bit late. We all see Trumpism now.
I live in Minnesota. If my bien pensant "in this house" fans who will be showing up there were serious about not wanting kings, they'd boo Walz and Ellison off the fucking stage, but they won't. We all see you, too.
Mosby - I'm glad my typos provide double meaning. As Pee Wee would say - I meant to do that. ;]
Those words they are using (i know patinkin is a real lefty but still
Those words they are using (i know patinkin is a real lefty but still
the left's obsessions with race, skin color and gender - are the giant rake they keep stepping on. It's not working for them anymore. well - other than w/ their idiot base.
"Alpha energy" seems a bit tautological: we don't win because we aren't winners. We don't have that unspecified thing that makes someone a winner.
She can complain about "wonky details," but the problem is that the wonkery has become a sham. The "Inflation Reduction Act" did nothing to reduce inflation. The label was pasted on the "New Green Deal" programs that weren't doing the country any good, but provided massive funding to donors. "Comprehensive immigration reform" avoids doing anything about illegal border crossings but adds millions of new Democrat voters. "High Speed Rail" sounds great, but billions are spent without any track being laid. 50 years ago I went to a candidates' forum where everyone was talking about the government "investing" in the country with new projects and programs. It seemed new and fresh and useful then. Now we know it's largely a sham.
Right up there with tiger blood
"I think, for me, what is important, going forward, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, is like: the American people, they're telling us something, they want something different out of their government. They want, they want some alpha energy from their leaders."
The American people (on the right, anyway) don't want "leaders", they want representatives who will do the things the people want done.
Big Mike said...
"We love Trump for his policies, not his bombast."
And there you have it.
Alpha energy is what you get from radium poisoning.
And my plea to my own party is, like, can we have a little bit more alpha energy? Punch and believe in what we believe in. Show people that we give a shit, and be simple about addressing the needs that they care about the most. And that has been a struggle to be a part of that change."
But you can't, because you don't.
You care about forcing women to let perverted men into their private spaces, and chemically castrating and surgically mutilating children.
You care about making sure illegal aliens can come to the US, stay in the US, and vote in the US.
You don't care about lowering gas prices, lowering housing prices, raising employment for Americans, and raising salaries for Americans. You don't care about making lives for Americans better, at all.
Which is why you have to bring in foreigners to vote for you.
It would be nice if Democrats decided to "give a shit" about Americans. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that, and neither are a majority of American voters
Little Excursion™️ said...
Well let's see, I think it was about 100,000 who attended the previous No Kings rally last fall. You know -- the one without Bruce Springsteen....
Even taking your number as true, that's less than 1 American in 3,000.
It's also 10% less than the Michigan football average home attendance for the 2025 season..
IOW, you have to be an idiot to think that's a significant result
Well. You're not going to get any alpha energy at a "No Kings" rally.
A lot of Democrats don't think at all, but just rely on what their "gut" tells them (that doesn't mean that people of other political persuasions aren't similar in that respect). Does "alpha energy" have to do with being "bold" and unafraid? Is that something today's Democrats lack? I think what she's talking about is charisma. Democrats don't have a really charismatic and inspiring leader or a message that moves and uplifts. The usual Democrat path to victory goes through building up their figureheads to be charismatic leaders (whether they really were that great at all): Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama. Maybe it's just the usual path to political victory: Reagan, Trump. She can't say that out loud so she fumbles around with "alpha energy."
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2037933525463425086
In the Trump era, democrat pols know they have the correct position, policy, and programs. If they are rejected, what else can it be except messaging?
Dullard
I think it was about 100,000 who attended the previous No Kings rally last fall.
More people paid money to see George Strait.
"You're not going to get me to defend Democratic messaging. That's not going to be ever something that I'm going to defend. That's part of the problem and why we lost the last election.
Yep. It's always about the messaging and not the actual message.
You go, girl.
The problem is Democrats are now about endless spending programs to hand out as goodies, and never any oversight or care that the bullshit programs they make are exploited.
And since government workers are their main supporters they dont' want to make government do any real work. Just collect the huge paycheck and pension. Don't worry about results.
Whatever you do, never question your policies, Democrats.
Its what beef said to turkey, "Be yourself man"
It’s not the energy that’s missing. It’s the courage to tell the truth instead of lies that’s missing.
tl;dr:
Alpha is not something you do, alpha is something you are
There mind be a few alpha females in the Democrat Party, but most are just raging Karens
There are no alpha males currently active as Democrat politicians. Bill Clinton was the last one, and he is a rapist and molester
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