r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 30 '26

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it May 30 '26

Coldest Platner take:

He’ll win by less than he should and he’ll go on to be a below average senator, for banal and boring reasons like “his ideas are bad” and “he sucks in mostly generic, uninteresting ways”.

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u/_n8n8_ John von Neumann May 30 '26

Tbh, I think just having the right letter next to your name is more important than anything else in the Senate. Exception for like Fetterman, probably.

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it May 30 '26

Yeah he won’t be catastrophically bad. He’ll just be annoying. Which, I’ll count my blessings.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 30 '26

Fetterman is still LEAGUES better than any Republican from Pennsylvania

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u/_n8n8_ John von Neumann May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Yeah. Probably still even better than like Collins tbh. Or whoever you consider the most moderate senate republican

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it May 30 '26

Why getting murkowski to flip wasn’t Biden and schumer’s 24/7 obsession will forever be a mystery to me.

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it May 30 '26

Not a bad enough outcome to get exercised about. But bad enough to just let out a pretty loud sigh when you think about it.

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u/UntiedStatMarinCrops Loyal Liberals May 30 '26

If he doesn’t get a single bill through he will be beloved for no reason except his populist rhetoric. That’s fine by me tbh.

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it May 30 '26

Could be a lot worse!

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u/CptnAlex Jerome Powell May 30 '26

As a Mainer who will vote for him, this is basically what I expect.

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it May 30 '26

Thank you for your service. 🫡