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BurnDoubt

(1,937 posts)
17. This is who we have.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 07:05 PM
Yesterday

The job now is to see him be seated in the chair.
Time spent second-guessing our now-real choice is worse than wasted.
The way forward is door-to-door street warfare, organizing and implementing GOTV.
Get him out in the towns where PEOPLE live and let him share the plan face-to-face and help him shape his strategy for meeting the needs of his neighbors. If he’s a “Real” guy with “Real” solutions it should be plainly obvious.
The Democrats and the media created Fetterman’s Monster by milking his challenges and focusing attention away from mission and policy considerations to personality and style. While we’ve been treated to a lot of personality and style, the mission and policy end of the stick is still pretty clean and pristine in terms of our Progressive expectations.
What we need from Platner is for him to pick up that stick and stir up some Shit.
But he’s Our Guy now, and it’s our mission to make him a Senator, so we’re either on the bus… or off the bus.
In November we’ll either be ON the bus, or… UNDER the bus.

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The Teddy Roosevelt mustache has a visceral affect Ponietz Yesterday #1
Just beat Collins BannonsLiver Yesterday #2
Who is "He"? Nt Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #3
Platner buzzycrumbhunger Yesterday #5
Let Maine be Maine. Sneederbunk Yesterday #4
Not Seeing It ProfessorGAC Yesterday #6
No. This analysis is wishful thinking on the part of the author. QueerDuck Yesterday #7
Bingo! sheshe2 Yesterday #10
What a terrible suggestion. milestogo Yesterday #8
Maga is a cult. Mainers are not a cult. Nor are the rest of Democrats. Scrivener7 Yesterday #9
Thanks for that PatSeg Yesterday #15
There's a lot of BS in that article from the Guardian. patphil Yesterday #11
Plattner resonates because he's a regular person DemocracyForever Yesterday #12
"economic populism of one kind or another" i.e. real or fascist fraud (nt) William Seger Yesterday #13
Meh. Tommy Carcetti Yesterday #14
Our "change agent" really? Ok. flvegan Yesterday #16
This is who we have. BurnDoubt Yesterday #17
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