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BurnDoubt

(1,940 posts)
17. This is who we have.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 07:05 PM
Jun 14

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