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  Great. Hope he actually spends the next 22 months putting in the ground work throughout the state.
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.