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I would be gobsmacked if it turns out the DNC is not behind this smear campaign. They ratfuck primaries like nobody’s business, and in true Dem fashion, it’s so they can try to get a literal 80 year old into power instead. Fucking moron democrats never learn a damn thing.
edit: saw Platner address this on pod save. Don’t think he knew. I think he should just get the tat covered, make an apology statement, and move on.
This is exactly how the most popular candidate for the Democrats got switched for Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders was getting cut from coverage despite HUGE support and all of a sudden, Obama's bumbling VP was being shown as the top candidate.
Without trying to go down a conspiracy hole, Sanders was a threat to corporate power, predatory banking, and dis-regulation. DNC wants to play as close to the line as they can to get your vote, throw you a few bones, and still take your money. This is why the left and the right in America is still far right of everywhere else.
As someone who has good friends that I respect that are all across the political spectrum, this is where I hope my friends that think trump will break certain things are right. So that the pendulum swing comes back so strongly that we can clearly see how broken things were and fix them in a way that benefits actual people, not just barely enough like the DNC likes to keep things.
Take the ACA for example. Obama had the best of intentions. But he took Chris Dodd's plan as the basis. Chris Dodd's wife, Jackie Clegg, sat on the boards for many health industry companies. The plan could have worked, but was stripped of the public option. Only with subsidies was the plan possible to offer healthcare to people at a sometimes reasonable price, often not. Now those subsidies are ending. The only good thing to come out of it, from what I can tell, is that insurance companies can't deny you for pre-existing conditions. Up till now, It's just enough to make us think that at least it's not worse, but let's be honest, healthcare in America sucks. There are excellent people working as nurses, doctors, EMTs, etc, but insurance, pharmaceutical companies, and private equity working to keep us just barely alive and too desperate to fight it. This is the type of thing Bernie Sanders fought against and why he disappeared from coverage, endorsement, and ballots.
This is part of what needs to break. DNC would bend it as far as it could get away with while trying to make us think it's working, but trump will break it and call me idealist, but I hope the pushback instills leadership with someone like Sanders who cares enough to mend those bones in a way that serves the people.
Smear campaign? I don't see anyone denying that he has a Nazi tattoo. This doesn't seem like the same sort of thing as the baseless accusations of antisemitism against Mamdani or the "Bernie Bros" and "Obama Boys" nonsense.
He addresses the tattoo directly on pod save America and how he got it. It was something him and a bunch of other soldiers got together in the military 20 years ago. He also finds it funny that these smears accuse him of being a Nazi and a communist at the same time.
Ohhh ok he got the Nazi tattoo with other soldiers together in the military, so that makes it ok guys.
Remember John Fetterman? He seemed pretty progressive, right until he got elected.
The guy is a marine who served several tours in places we never should have been in the first place, with a Nazi tattoo on his chest. I think I'll believe that over some bullshit faux leftist lip service he might pay in order to get elected.
Fetterman actually wasn't progressive at all even before he was elected.
And maybe neither is this guy
I dunno, if he's a secret fascist he's been playing the really long game.
Pretty thin sauce given the pic I've seen. And I don't give a rat's ass how he was as a young man.
Watch this and tell me you can't cheer for him.
So even if he was more Nazi when he was younger, you don't think he could have changed since then?
Hey, Janet Mills is only 77! She's a spring chicken!
What an up and coming star! I can't wait for the younger generation in their 70s to run this country instead do of the old geriatric corpses in their 80s
This man is too real. The DNC is going to bury him.
I've watched his longer campaign ad twice, and twice I wept a bit, wanted to fucking SCREAM. My god my fucking god, THIS is the winning message. In my 54-years I have never heard such... don't have words, y'all watch the fucking video.