• roux [he/him, they/them]
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    342 years ago

    Dumb question since I still don’t know much about this dude but did he simply win because he survived a stroke and also wears hoodies because he’s like me fr fr???

    I remember seeing Dems championing him all over reddit but I haven’t seen anything from this guy that would suggest that he is progressive, like at all. Even from a Dem brainworm definition of “progressive”.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      He also was running against Dr. Mehmet Oz so there was probably some element of “Who do you want, the large adult son or another TV dude.”

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      382 years ago

      Tbh, he only won because the alternative was Dr. Oz, who is now broadly hated for being a genuine piece of shit and harming tens of millions of people with his quack TV grift. If they’d run for office 15 years earlier, he’d have beat Fetterman.

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        2 years ago

        My grandma watched his show regularly and thinks all doctors are smart in all fields. But shes a staunch Democrat so i wonder how she feels about him now. What won, celebrity worship or party politics lol.

        She never abandoned Ellen so. But also Ellen didnt run for office as a Republican lol.