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Gottheimer urged Platner to step aside and allow another Democratic candidate to take on Collins. “I don’t understand how somebody like this is going to represent our party and I think the best action would be for him to leave and get somebody else who’s qualified onto the ballot.”
Josh Gottheimer supports the Iran war and co-sponsored a bill defining criticism of Israel as an offense against Jewish people. It's not Platner who we need to worry about tainting the party's brand.
heh heh.
you said taint.
sigh Fine.
It's not Platner who we need to worry about perineuming the party's brand.
Grundle, taint, gooch, chode.... Pick your poison.
Although, I did learn the other year that many people think of a chode as a short fat dick, and I had heard that is was often on gender lines where more women have that definition. Anecdotally, of the ~10 people I surveyed, it heald mostly true, which was kind of wild but not at all binding.
In my experience it's regional. Back home, a chode was a gooch. I moved, and all of a sudden a chode is a tuna-can dick.
It's like how a reach-around meant a completely different thing where I'm from.
I thought a gooch was a fuppa
this is the sophisticated level of discourse that drew me to the fediverse. thank you internet strangers.
But what about the speds?
Oh yeah, because switching candidates mid-stream worked out so well the last time.
We've got a candidate with a D next to his name who is actually WINNING, and all the leadership can think about is how to stop him. They should be making all their other candidates say the same things.
This why Dems have such a low approval rating among their own members.
AIPAC about to lose its shit and dump another $4 million into this race
The DNC will sabotage him. Make no mistake, the party would rather he lose.
Keeping their death grip on the party is their driving force, not beating republicans.
Small change. They spend as much as they have to.
Fuck Susan Collins.
And fuck the Corporate Establishment Dems who keep trying to suppress progressives like Mamdani and Platner. Clearly the electorate has different plans, but they'd rather have MAGA in charge than Progressives.
We have a war to fight with the DNC.
Well its at least going to be interesting..
How long before AIPAC gives up and picks a different battle?
It's a Senate seat. They'll pay until their check-writing hand falls off.
This is right. They'll just massage their already-purchased senators to send more of our tax dollars to Israel. The money will never run out.
We give about twice as much money to Israel as we do to California. But also, California is taxed by the federal government. In fact, they're taxed more than they receive funding. Why the fuck are we giving universal healthcare and college to Israel while withholding it from ourselves? Even if y'all can excuse the genocide we're enabling (!) how can you "America first" fucks justify exporting the good life that you are working hard to earn? Where is your outrage?
Why the fuck are we giving universal healthcare and college to Israel while withholding it from ourselves?
This. THIS! WTF? Why does the rest of world get nice stuff, but we don't, even though we PAY for it for OTHERS?
I want America to do good things for the world, but can't we make our own country a good place first?
The money will run out, likely before these traitors lose control of the federal government (because they are fixing to fix our elections and arrest the opposition,) just wait until they have a plausible crisis to justify trillions and trillions more. 8 years I bet.
Same as it always was. Republicans added trillions to the debt already, with more to come, and will then play the part of budget hawk as soon as they've lost power and dumped it on the Democrats. They've done that for every administration in my lifetime. "Fiscal conservative" is as much an obvious lie as "compassionate conservative".
I just imagine an AIPAC class action lawsuit about carpel tunnel
I don't think this is ever going to be a done deal enough for AIPAC to give up. Maine's still purple and they'll have their Democratic centrist turncoats to buoy the effort.
I expect Collins is going to do a lot more Israel glazing in the future.
I'm tired of interesting. I want a boring government where nothing interesting happens.