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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 50 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Gottheimer urged Platner to step aside and allow another Democratic candidate to take on Collins. “I don’t understand how somebody like this is going to represent our party and I think the best action would be for him to leave and get somebody else who’s qualified onto the ballot.”

Josh Gottheimer supports the Iran war and co-sponsored a bill defining criticism of Israel as an offense against Jewish people. It's not Platner who we need to worry about tainting the party's brand.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

sigh Fine.

It's not Platner who we need to worry about perineuming the party's brand.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Grundle, taint, gooch, chode.... Pick your poison.

Although, I did learn the other year that many people think of a chode as a short fat dick, and I had heard that is was often on gender lines where more women have that definition. Anecdotally, of the ~10 people I surveyed, it heald mostly true, which was kind of wild but not at all binding.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In my experience it's regional. Back home, a chode was a gooch. I moved, and all of a sudden a chode is a tuna-can dick.

It's like how a reach-around meant a completely different thing where I'm from.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought a gooch was a fuppa

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

this is the sophisticated level of discourse that drew me to the fediverse. thank you internet strangers.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

But what about the speds?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah, because switching candidates mid-stream worked out so well the last time.

We've got a candidate with a D next to his name who is actually WINNING, and all the leadership can think about is how to stop him. They should be making all their other candidates say the same things.

This why Dems have such a low approval rating among their own members.