On Platner. He has got things in his past which are bad. He is currently the subject of an all out political smear campaign. Both these things are true, and unless we can nominate another candidate that can beat Susan Collins, it does not matter.
We are in an existential war for the future of this country, and Senate numbers matter more than anything else. We have seen what happens, particularly to the Supreme Court when the GOP controls the Senate.
It's crucial to elect a Democrat in Maine.
@MisuseCase @mastodonmigration @JonChevreau
Is Fetterman “worse” than Collins?
I do not know the answer to this question.
@paninid @MisuseCase @mastodonmigration @[email protected]
This video is how I want Democratic politicians to speak & he's one of the few who does. Platner is already different from Fetterman, who happens to be the biggest worry I have about Dems gaining the Senate—a 51 to 49 situation where Fetterman switches. If you watch Platner's town halls I think he's the real deal.
Lastly for non-Mainers like me it's not our call.
@RMiddleton @paninid @mastodonmigration Yeah, he’s great at that anti-establishment vibe. And of course all serial abusers are great at reeling people in, otherwise they couldn’t keep doing what they do!
He is going to do to his constituents some version of what he did to his girlfriends. Or at least he’ll do it to some of his staffers.
@MisuseCase @RMiddleton @paninid
He may very well be lying his ass off.
What is crucial is getting to 51 Democratic US Senators.
@mastodonmigration @RMiddleton @paninid Gonna be useless if he’s another Fetterman. Or a Manchin.
Again, Janet Mills would have made a perfectly good 51st Senator. But oh no! She is old and a woman and Chuck Schumer likes her. Y’all have to bet everything on the absolute creep and barely reformed white supremacist instead.
@MisuseCase @RMiddleton @paninid
But, that's not the choice we have.
The choice is between a Democratic or Republican majority in the Senate. You can wish it were otherwise, but it is not.
@mastodonmigration @RMiddleton @paninid “Blue no matter who” but from leftists and progressives for an abusive creep LOL
No wonder Trump won the Presidency twice. This country loves shitty chick-punching white conmen.
@MisuseCase @RMiddleton @paninid
We are living through a burgeoning police state, and the destruction of our democracy. It would be great if there were other choices, but there are not.
Winning the Senate is critical.
@mastodonmigration @RMiddleton @paninid Well, the primary is next week, there’s still time for Democratic voters in Maine to choose someone else.
Anyway you don’t have to waste time with me! I’m not a Democratic voter in Maine.
@paninid @MisuseCase @mastodonmigration @JonChevreau
*The answer is “no”
@paninid @MisuseCase @mastodonmigration @JonChevreau
Why bother asking?
Not everything is a contest. Not everything needs to be ranked.
What's "worse", ass cancer or mouth cancer? Why are we trying to play some perverse Would You Rather game?
How about, bad things can be differently bad-- and need to be stopped, period... so we can have actually GOOD things. Remember those?
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