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  Oh, I so want a link to this add.
context: Good.  Call the MAGAs out.  Make them answer for their behavior for once. >
  
  This reminds me of Fetterman verses Dr. Oz. >
  
  Democrats should take a lot of lessons from that campaign. >
  
  Why do people think that Fetterman was such an incredible candidate but never mention Josh Shapiro, who ran in the same state but did significantly better than Fetterman? >
  
  Because Mastriano was much more insane than Oz lol. >
  
  He at least lived in PA. >
  
  Lmao true. PA really lucked out this cycle. I was happy to cast my vote for Shapiro and fetty >
  
  I love that the only thing Republicans have as an insult is screaming "Woke! Woke!" >
  
  I am so tired of that word.  I could power a small machine with the energy generated from my eyes rolling back so hard. >
  
  The Republicans are pretty good at this kind of simplistic jiujitsu - if there's a word for people on the cultural left, they turn it into an insult right away.  
  It becomes like a euphemism treadmill - and people will always be like 'well maybe if y'all weren't so wacky the word wouldn't gain a negative connotation!'  
  It's like no - the word will always gain a negative connotation because the right will make sure it does. >
  
  Need more popcorn.
  
  Announcing a run for US Senate in 2024, the populist Missouri Democrat Lucas Kunce released an ad focusing on how his prospective opponent, the Republican senator Josh Hawley, ran from the mob he encouraged on the day the US Capitol came under attack.
  “I’ve done a lot of running in my life,” Kunce said, over footage of a man in a ripped suit running on a country road, dropping a US flag pin.
  “Running to stay healthy, running to fight for my country, running to defend democracy. And by the way, that guy you’re looking at, that’s not me. That’s our current US senator, Josh Hawley. This guy.”
  The ad then showed a famous picture from 6 January 2021, of Hawley raising a fist to Trump supporters outside the Capitol, a picture Hawley has used for fundraising purposes.
  
  .....
  
  A former US marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Kunce, 40, also worked on international arms control. He has already mounted a Senate run, last year, losing the primary to Trudy Busch Valentine, a brewing heiress who went on to lose to Eric Schmitt, a former state attorney general.
  A Hawley spokesman told news outlets: “We welcome this desperate woke activist to yet another political race. He just barely finished losing his last one. Maybe he’s running in the wrong state.”
  Lis Smith, a Democratic consultant who ran Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in 2020, said Kunce “takes a metaphorical bat to coward Josh Hawley in his first ad”.
  Hawley, Smith said, “should never able to live down how he helped stoke the crowd on January 6 then sprinted away as they stormed the Capitol”. >
  
  “Desperate woke activist” 
  “Former Marine with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan” 
  Sure bro. Sure. >
  
  
  “Desperate woke activist”
  
  It's literally the only insult they have. And it's not even an insult considering DeSantis' lawyer was asked to define 'woke':
  
  the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them
  
  If that's what it means, everyone should be striving to be woke lol >
  
  So basically if being woke is a bad thing, by that definition they would rather people ignore the systemic injustices taking place?  Sounds about right. >
  
  They’re rich white men. They can pretend there are no systemic injustices because they don’t suffer from them. >
  
  But if there were MORE in justices, think about how much more money they could make. >
  
  Keep pushing. These MAGA idiots hate being attacked for being weak or cowardly…because the attacks have the added benefit of being true and because they work. >
  
  Mo is gettable but you can't win by playing nice. You need to expose these guys. >
  
  Yeah, and calling him a phony and a coward isn’t that mean if it’s true. I’m thinking there’s gonna be a lot more material to work with when that clown’s book on how to be a man finally comes out. >
  
  Hopefully John Danforth - former Senator from MO, mentor to Hawley that declared supporting him was "the biggest mistake of my life" following the insurrection (in case someone doesn't know the name) - will appear in ad supporting Kunce. >
  
  Kunce isn't winning Missouri. >
  
  Doesn’t mean it should be given freely and without a fight. >
  
  It's a waste of money. He's too anti gun to ever win Missouri. I'm a Missouri democrat, I wouldn't vote for him in the primary or in the Senate race. >
  
  Then switch parties and stop pretending you are a gettable vote. >
  
  I've voted Democrat or green party on every ballot so far. I just would vote for a different candidate come election day. Not a republican, but a write in. >
  
  Then what is the issue with Kunce specifically? He performed far better in rural areas and brought more non traditional voters to the primary. What is your reason to not vote for him specifically? Did you vote for Busch-Valentine, or opt third party this past election cycle? >
  
  Red flag laws and universal background checks can go fuck themselves. Single issue voting be like that. If he removed that gun nonsense, he would win Missouri with ease. >
  
  Great. Hope he actually spends the next 22 months putting in the ground work throughout the state. >
  
  He ran in 2020 but lost the primary. He has a good campaign that is focused on that. Biggest issue as you elude to is people not knowing him. He's working on that. >
  
  Exactly. Last election I only heard of him 3 days before casting my ballot (for him). Having nearly 2 years to hit the ground running will be a huge help. All this national coverage is great too. >
  
  He was on the ground but didn’t go a good job. He had multiple moments where he came across as a carpetbagger, coming back to MO for political career, not public service. If he makes a better argument this time, could be different. >
  
  great content but i think framing kunce delivering the monologue in profile for the most part was a bizarre stylistic choice >
  
  No, I like it. It gives it a unique look and less phony than most other political ads. >
  
  feels more phony to me, because it is an obvious choice to try to avoid phoniness. but to each their own. a minor nitpick >
  
  ~~Josh Hawley~~ Jogs Hallway >
  
  Excellent! (+ mandatory Guitar riff) >
  
  Please Kunce, you’re our only hope. >
  
  r/fuckjoshhawley >
  
  First of all and always, fuck Josh Hawley. >
  
  How about nobody ever fucks him again? >
  
  Yeah, Josh Hawleys hero tronny dump did some running also, he was running from a Vietnam war draft board, little donny ran like hell.  All these cowards are the same coward. >
  
  Throw the Trump nicknaming ploy back at them. “Coward” Josh Hawley is great!  ALWAYS use Coward as his first name. >
  
  Coward Josh Hawley ;
  Groomer Gym Jordan ;
  Run to Cancun Ted Cruz ;
  Loser Kevin McCarthy ;
  Cheatin’ MTG ;
  Bobble Head (or groomer again?) Matt Gaetz ;
  Insignificant Paul Gosar ;
  Chinese Mitch ;
  Wrong on everything Ron Johnson/ Wrong  Johnson ;
  Faithless Mike Lee ;
  ha idk this is fun cause they’re all such demented fuckwads >
  
  Fled Cruz? >
  
  hahaha i love you >
  
  Voted for Kunce last time, and I’ll vote for him again. Fuck Hawley, the little prick >
  
  Being cowardly isn’t his biggest flaw.  It’s the whole trying to overthrow the government thing with no valid excuse. >
  
  Josh Hawley is going to have to debate this guy. Hopefully he doesn't, then we can get more ads about him being cowardly and running away from stuff. Fuck Josh Hawley. And I live in FL, I have my own problems in this shit state. >
  
  God, I want that debate to happen.