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    People were seriously HATING on Pete during that election cycle, but this dude was going on Fox News when these other pussies wouldn’t, and putting all the pundits TO SHAME.

    Guy has a gift of cognizance and saying the right thing, while also destroying the idiotic logic of the opposition.

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      I soured on him because it seemed like he didn’t have any policy he actually cared about. He started progressive then turned moderate when he couldn’t compete with Bernie and Warren. Him being an incredibly good spin doctor and his dodgy consultant career just reinforced the impression of insincerity.

      I’m happy to have him on the team, but I just don’t trust him. His lack of personal convictions would actually kind of make him a fine veep, but not for Harris. Not because that’s too many identities, just because she has her own impression of insincerity.

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      I don’t think there was much against him for the 2024 election cycle. 2020 he was still some guy we didn’t really know and he had a weird victory speech in Iowa when they had all kinds of counting issues and we didn’t really know the results yet.

      In between when he was transportation secretary I think we got to know him and how much he could dominate those guys.

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        WOW THERE WAS. Holy shit, it was prolific. The Fox News crowd they’d have no chance against this dude in a debate, and they laid into that angle SO heavily.

        Even the lefty people were turning against him, for no good reason. He’s a good dude, smart as fuck, a family man, but gay. As if that’s a fucking drawback. Insane.

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          Leftists didn’t like him because he used to work as a managing consultant for McKinsey & Company…which is seen as a highly corrupt PR firm. In a nutshell, they view him as an accomplished propagandist for the Capitalist class.

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            Leftists do not like him because he is a nihilist Politician believing in nothing but his self-advancement. Like All of our establishment politicians.

            He is as fake as Kamala and biden were and there is no way he overcomes the Party Machine in 2028 to take the election as vice president or anything.

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          Hold on, are we even talking about the same thing here? I understood your comment to mean that the left was hating on Pete, who was never a serious contender for 2024 POTUS candidate, in that cycle. If that’s correct, can you tell me what people did that would be considered “hating” on him? Not just overlooking him when the spotlight was on Biden and later Harris, but actively speaking negatively against him?

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            Yes, the Progressive left commentators were hating on Pete.

            Seder and Emma, those Turks whoever they are, Piker…they all have wavering things to say. Very disappointing.

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              Didn’t one of those Turks fall down the Terf rabbit hole? 'Cause if so, maybe it was never that “progressive left” to begin with. 😬

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          The Fox News crowd they’d have no chance against this dude in a debate

          Fox owns the venue and controls the terms of the debate. Just like Kirk’s phony “debates.” There’s no fairness when the referee is paid for by one of the participants.

          He’s a good dude, smart as fuck, a family man, but gay.

          Yeah, based on that, he’s a great guy. But the fact that he’s former McKinsey is a dealbreaker for me. I’ve dealt with those weasels before and would support a former Goldman Sachs person rather than one of them.

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      Pete is the most seemingly manufactured dem politician at the moment, and that’s saying a lot considering he’s competing against people like Harris. If he can’t seem authentic it doesn’t matter what interviews he does. I don’t know him, I don’t know if he is authentic, but people do not perceive him to be. Pete would be another disaster for the party.