Senate tea-leaves
John Fetterman speaks. Once upon a time, an object of ridicule and horror on the right, part of a holy trio alongside Biden and Feinstein for “the Democrats’ cognitive decline problem” — two old people and a stroke victim. How did this guy who stutters incoherently and could barely campaign on his way through rehabilitation have won that election? Never mind the piece of work representing the Republicans. Now he is the Republicans’ favorite Democrat. Israel bashing Democrats turned him. Gaza lovers, I guess. A cautionary tale for the Bernie Sanders pac that pumped him up — Damned it, the Democrats should have gone with Conor Lamb. He walks into Fox News, comes out swinging for Trump’s building of a ballroom, calls everyone opposing this victims of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. I mean — security — a guy got into the far peripheral a ways way from the President with a gun — that should settle it: ballroom!
Today you can do a side by side of Majority Report youtube clips for Fetterman’s Senate campaign and how threatening this bold progressiveness is to the Democratic Establishment next to clips of Graham Platner and his Senate bid on how threatening his bold progressiveness is to the Democratic Establishment. Indeed, Schumer did whiff on the recruitment — an 80 year old workhorse who… um… is 80 and had to get dragged in anyway. Promises a single term, which worked just fine for the presidential campaign of Biden (though not a re-election) but for the Senate you are eyeing how they may accumulate power. Today the Republican incumbent does as she always does — it is Jon Tester’s re-election campaigns over in Montana or Maine to what they have done for the state and whatever is going on in Washington is their business. Likely this time up Collins meets her time as up — though I guess we see if Platner’s skull tattoo reads as a Nazi tattoo and how everyone registers old reddit posts — warnings loom in the “one of us — loud blowhead men” category.
For Platner’s part, we get a little galaxy brained, half welcome in its conspiratorial grip. He has in his stump speech some issues I normally associate as getting pulled in on the conspiratorial right and a seeing of Communism everywhere. The “they” don’t want you owning anything. Under this umbrella, there are quite a things in tech and patent law that should be redecided and pulled off from the “well, that’s capitalism!”, the terms of service agreement on e-books and how Apple has its contracts, dove-tails neatly into vague Marjorie Taylor Greene weather horrors. Despite protestations from a respectable politico — post Trump ex-Republican — on a cash-less society as “conspiracy theory”, I do stare down at the casual acceptance of a laundromat that chucked its coin operation for its machines — a headache running amok when we move further and further on this model. This is to suggest a kind of Platner if he has a move from political hackdom in the right places could do some good here — exvept, hopefully he is a political hack in the right places. It probably hardly matters — in as much as I can single the broad point of his distinct stumping into individual lines of legislative moves — and it gets past the money that swaps out 40 and 50 Senators for passing — the Supreme Court will back the Power.