“Democrat Inspired Hoax”

Bernie Sanders: "I think we need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on these data centers. Frankly, I think you gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us, 'It's coming, you adapt.' What are they talking about? Are they gonna… pic.twitter.com/ps7NhxoeRq

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 28, 2025

Bernie Sanders: "I think we need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on these data centers. Frankly, I think you gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us, 'It's coming, you adapt.' What are they talking about? Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when people have no jobs? Make housing free?"

KARL: What side of Russia-Ukraine is Trump on?

GOP REP. MIKE TURNER: I, you know, clearly, ummp, Trump is on the side of peace pic.twitter.com/dOO39XvsPT

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 28, 2025

Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel." pic.twitter.com/1k6UMc8qni

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 28, 2025

Pelosi: "January 6 was really sad in itself. But the sorrow of it also springs from the fact that this president is trying to rewrite history." pic.twitter.com/beHQUqqUcZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 28, 2025

HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "I'll get to the root. When you look at during the Biden administration and the weak immigration policies that impacted our country, tens of millions of illegal immigrants came across our borders unchecked, and that caused the housing supply to go down… pic.twitter.com/HNzyFJ18mT

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 28, 2025

Even the black guy is spouting racist nonsense. “Affordable housing” depends on cheap labor (capitalism has to exploit somebody. That’s how Columbus did it, that’s how we’ve been doing it ever since). Obama’s policies curtailed access to immigrant labor, and housing prices rose on the consequent shortage. Biden continued those policies, Trump made it worse each time he was in office.

You get what you pay for, and we are paying for a shortage of cheap labor we built our expectations on. I have friends who once lived in a very old house that was very small, by modern standards. It once housed three generations of family at once, in four rooms, including a kitchen. I live in a house half again the size of the one I grew up in. With my daughter, we had three people here. She considers it “small,” and now has a house half again the size of ours. With only her and her husband. The house I grew up in held four people quite comfortably. 

There is a “mansion” in Austin, an historic structure. It was built for a large family, includes a library and rooms devoted to social functions. Ironically, the family moved out shortly after the children moved out. It was too big and empty. I’ve toured it. It was a “mansion” in its day. I’ve been in larger modern houses, and no one considers them “mansions,” except derisively.

We are doing this to ourselves. No one is taking anything from us. We are sitting down in the empty theatre, declaring ourselves the owner of the empty seats, and complaining about how few seats we have. And our government is turning that into racism and xenophobia, to make us feel less selfish and childish.