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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 3m

For what it's worth, on balance the candidate track record thing is not really true. It's really just Platner. Fetterman had EVERYBODY fooled; Tulsi was anointed early as a rising star by party leaders.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 13m

1) The George Wallace article was pointing out how dangerous he was because he mixed in the gutter racism with talk about some genuine problems. Even Jonathan Chait defended Bernie on this. 2) Source or it didn't happen. 3) You'd have to ask the Black voters.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 16m

1) There's no evidence that he "white-flighted" to Vermont. He just moved there. That's some load-bearing conjecture. 2) He DIDN'T primary Obama, even if he allegedly wanted to. 3) He DID support Harris.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 2h

Kamala ratfucker? What are you talking about?!

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 2h

Describing the man's actions is not tokenism.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, the guy who led CORE in Chicago and was the only white elected official to endorse Jesse Jackson in 1988 loves segregation. Keep feeding that big brain.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 5h

Especially not if he was constitutionally ineligible to ever run for President.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani won Jeffries's district, actually.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 6h

Kamala Harris wasn't exactly scouring NYC Assembly districts for endorsements. It's really a ridiculous comparison.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 6h

State charges are pardon-proof.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 10h

The detective's "And what are the circumstances when it might 'slip out'?" actually made me laugh for the only time while watching it.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, that interrogation should be taught at every police academy in the country. Also impressed by the sheriff's deputies who acted like peacekeepers rather than warriors.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 1d

It's gotta be either her or Keith Ellison.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, sorry, mentioning tattoos is what did it. Good luck to your guy though, he sounds great!

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 1d

If *I* got drunk in Croatia, I'd just mispronounce all the street names as I stumbled back to my hotel room. I guess Graham Platner is just built different.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 1d

Fetterman already had something of a national profile when he was Mayor of Braddock, and 2022 was his second time running for Senate, after being Lieutenant Governor. He was the front-runner the whole way through.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 1d

Tulsi Gabbard was a DNC vice chair (appointed by Debbie Wasserman Schultz). She spoke at the 2012 convention, and the JFK Library gave her a rising-star award. Bernie did not "give" us Tulsi.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 2d

ppl forgot the original context of "no purity tests" - campaigns for ppl to sit out GENERAL elections bc the D candidate wasn't pure enough, thus electing the worse R. This PRIMARY IS THE EXACT TIME FOR PURITY TESTING. It's when you decide what kind of candidate you want to run. All issues are on.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 1d

Hold on. Bernie did not "give us" Fetterman, he was one of a whole bunch of people who endorsed him. Fetterman already had statewide name recognition and was the wire-to-wire leader in every poll.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but that's still not how it happened. The freakout started among the centrists. Bernie, to name one example, stuck by Biden to the end.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, his recent track record is pretty good: Zohran Mamdani, Adelita Grijalva, Summer Lee, Delia Ramirez, Greg Casar, Maxwell Frost.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 2d

Hold on a second . . . the Biden thing was not the "cosplay socialist left," it was people like Nancy Pelosi and Lloyd Doggett.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 3d

Please rescind your endorsement of Graham Platner.

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Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 3d

The far left didn't pick Sinema.

Greg @gregsowa.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pretty sure nothing like this is coming out about Abdul El-Sayed or Robert Peters, though.