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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 09:55:25 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   The part that blows my mind is that RFK Jr is clearly being sponsored to do exactly what liberals spent like 5 years telling me Bernie Sanders is doing; pulling a portion of their electorate so far out of the equation that they won't even vote, and they're all looking at me like I have 3 heads when I say this is the plan.

   Sanders was all about bringing people who probably weren't going to vote, into the party; yeah it was to get himself nominated, but the upshot is you probably keep the voters for life. RFK is trying to get your dogshit reactionary conspiracy wing (and dawg YOU DO HAVE ONE, you SPECIFICALLY COURT REPUBLICAN VOTERS EVERY ELECTION) to absolutely shit the rug, burn things down, and stay home in 2024.

   That's what he's here for. He doesn't have to win.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 10:25:14 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     • Scott, Drowning in Information

     @vortex_egg @AnarchoNinaWrites

     One caveat, though....what about that threat by that No Labels group to run someone like Manchin or Sinema (provided she doesn't go Indy Center-Right once she gets run from her Democrat AZSen primary) as an Indy as a protest against Biden? Wouldn't that draw into the same conservative "hard hat/White working class" voting base RFK2 is wooing?

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     Scott, Drowning in Information (vortex_egg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 10:25:15 JST Scott, Drowning in Information

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites I keep saying this and all of the responses are like the other comment to your post here: “He’s so dumb no one I know is going to vote for him.” But it’s going to be a problem.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 10:38:26 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     • AnthonyJK-Admin

     @AnthonyJK @vortex_egg I think it's kinda of a death by a thousand paper cuts strategy to be honest with you; both campaigns are designed to pull away a certain type of Dem voter - a slightly different type; but the goal isn't to win a primary, it's just to make sure rich people get what they want in the general.

     I don't think these are separate strategies at all.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 10:38:26 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     • AnthonyJK-Admin

     @AnthonyJK @vortex_egg I mean I'm sure the No Labels people aren't meeting with Bannon, but I bet they all have the same donors. And definitely both represent the same class of people.