Clickbait, with the Swift photo even.

Agree 💯 Repubs are the real menace. I'm fine with "catching". Some good points made by you. Learned some stuff today. I don't think it's that simple. Your theory doesn't explain the exodus of the working folks from the party though. I know that's not Bernie's fault.

All our fault, lol. I'm a progressive. I voted Bernie in the primary in '16 and '20. Then I did what most sensible people did when they lost. I supported the winner. Progressives aren't a monolith. All kinds of us out here.

Agreed, poor example to illustrate my point. Doesn't mean the establishment always gets it right.

Good idea. He probably should have started there.

I get that Platner was a poor example to try to make my point.

I totally respect that.

I respect that. Agree that Platner is probably the wrong hill to fight on. My broader point was about the establishment picking our candidates for us, or attempting to.

I love black women and value their opinions. I wasn't aware they had come out against Platner. If more would have listened to black women we would have President Harris.

I agree Platner is not a good example, but it does seem like often enough what the establishment considers a fucking viable progressive candidate doesn't really exist. Most progressives in Congress got there without much help from the party establishment.

I will stand corrected if that stuff comes up. My point was that if he really held those beliefs there would be other evidence of it.

So, I guess we should just sit back and wait for the party elders to tell us who to vote for.

I guess we should just keep running corporate Dems, this has worked out so well for us.

Sue, I agree that Platner is not a great example. But I still feel like the voters are smart enough to make that decision.

Would you admit that Bernie was on the right track all along (healthcare, tax the rich)and that if establishment Dems would have supported him more after seeing the enthusiasm he was generating we would probably not be in a 2nd Trump term? Maybe the working class wouldn't have left us in droves?

Fair enough, I agree I could have chosen a better example than Platner. After hearing him speak on it, I really don't believe he is a racist, or a Nazi but I totally get why people WOULD think that, and why that makes him a flawed candidate. Just tired of the machine picking candidates for us.

Please, continue with your assumptions about me!

Has nothing to do with him being a white male. I'm sick of litmus tests, let's be a big tent party.

Gee Sue, ya got me! You're right! All I care about is "white male who says things I like". I was just trying to make a point about how it seems our party establishment always takes out the younger, more progressive candidates. They did it to Mamdani, but he's just too popular. McMorrow too!

Ok, so let the people choose. Would you agree that the Dem establishment has a history of thumbing the scales for their preferred primary candidates? I feel like this is a valid perception going back to the Bernie days. Platner is admittedly a flawed example, but that is the point I'm getting at.

Where are all the pro Nazi or racist or antisemitic posts from Platner? They found a lot of old comments but none like that. I've heard him speak, he is no Nazi sympathizer. He made an unfortunate choice of tattoo as a drunk soldier on leave in Croatia in 2007.

I agree but there's vetting, then there is running opposition research to take out the non-preferred candidate. I'm just getting tired of the establishment wing picking our candidates for us.

I think the party should let the people pick a candidate, then fully back that candidate AFTER the primary. We're getting tired of being told who to support, and of watching the party go after our own.

...and voters too!

JUST IN: Former Trump spiritual adviser and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.

He will serve only 6 months in jail and pay $250,000 in restitution.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

They were state reps, not US reps, but I totally agree.

PRESI-DEMENTIA/CON-MANDER-IN-CHIEF/FATTY SHACK/AYATOLLAH COMPLAINI/TANNIBAL LECTER/SCAMMY DAVIS JR./RICH LITTLE HANDS/HIPPOPOTUS/OUR FONDLING FARTER/TRUMPELSTILTSKIN/HUNGRY HUNGRY HYPOCRITE/DICTATOR TOT/UNCLE SCAM/QUID PRO COMBOVER/MANGO MUSSOLINI/FRANCIS FORD GROPE-ALA/ALEXANDER SCAMILTON <the end>

AL CA-PORN/JULIUS SQUEEZER/THE SHART OF THE DEAL/MAYOR McCUT THE CHEESE/GROPER CLEVELAND/SLEEPY DON-ZALES/BURGER JEAN KING/DONNY NAPPLESEED/YABBA DABBA DOOFUS/HIS MAGA-STY/GENGHIS DON/DONNIE D-CUPS/DONYE WEST/DONALD DUCK THE DRAFT/KIM DON UN/THE NOTORIOUS P.I.G./HAIR MUSSOLINI/PHONEY SOPRANO <more>

exactly how our media would cover the coup in another country