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1·4 days agoMorged.
1·5 days agoWhat?
5·6 days agoBlasted.
5·6 days agoOh, okay.
7·7 days agoRemains to be determined.
To the reflecting pool? Yes.
1·7 days agoProbably. Haven’t dug into Steyer’s past.
I’d say Graham Platner reminds me superficially of Fetterman. Saying the right things, but doesn’t have a track record.
Doesn’t mean I don’t support him. Just in proportion to his qualifications.
It’s hard to vote for someone who might be tricking you. Especially if you’ve been tricked before. But there’s some value in signaling that you at least support people saying progressive things.
Too many people considered voting for Cuomo because he was the devil they knew. Some wondered aloud if Mamdani was a plant. I don’t think he spent years at the DSA just to trick us, but it’s possible.
All you can do is do your homework and weigh your options, and not let the perfect be the enemy of the better.
He has faced widespread criticism among his supporters not only for his unwavering support for Israel as it continues its retaliatory military campaign in Gaza, but also his recent willingness to join Senate Republicans in crafting more stringent immigration laws.
“I’m not a progressive,” Mr Fetterman told NBC News on Friday. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.”
He said he was a progressive and it was a lie. Nothing up for debate about it.
I’ve also read an essay about his time as mayor of Braddock. It seems he used family money to do things outside of the democratic process that had a vernier of progressivism (like run a charity store). But nothing much progressives would really claim as their own policy.
And aside from some cheap words during his senate campaign, I don’t see any real bona fides.
I stand by what I said. Some cheap promises and running agains Mehmet Oz got him (barely) over the finish line. And the cheap promises turned out to be conscious lies.
What were his progressive policies? Unwavering support for Israel?
Do you have any data that shows support for him based on his supposed progressive policies? It seemed very obvious to me that his win was more a rejection of Donald and his acolytes.
I wouldn’t call Fetterman supporters progressives.
If he even has any.
He won because his opponent was a daytime talk show crony of Donald’s, not because of his progressive bona fides.
62·7 days agoRemember, it’s only genocide when Europeans do it.
This is sparkling colonialism.
It’s giving birth.
The ol’ giraffe-jerker himself.
2·8 days agoThey don’t still show Gilligan’s Island reruns after weekday morning cartoons and before The Beverly Hillbillies?
Huh. Who would have guessed.
Blasted.