Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028
John Fetterman, the maverick Democratic senator who has provoked widespread anger by increasingly siding with Republicans, is to be challenged for his Pennsylvania seat by a democratic socialist candidate who is originally from Gaza.
Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028, when Fetterman’s seat is up for re-election.
The move is the first sign of Fetterman’s weakened position in the party since the Democrats won back control of the Senate in last week’s US midterm elections, when the party won at least 54 of the upper chamber’s 100 seats.
Except the Tea Party was astroturfed as fuck, by big GOP donors.
This isn’t.
I know this, because I was once a Ron Paul Republican. End the Fed, Stop the Wars, that kinda thing. They co-opted that movement, at the time.
They saw the 4chan driven ‘money bombs’ timed to coincide with reporting on campaign funding level announcements, and that Paul’s campaign was literally self organizing… just a random organization sprung up, rented a fucking blimp, put Ron Paul ads on it, and flew it around the country.
This had nothing to do with Paul’s own campaign organization.
It was literally just some guys.
The GOP saw that kind of enthusiasm and then aped it, co-opted it, re-directed it, and called that the Tea Party.
Interesting. I always wondered why Ron Paul seemed so much more popular than other Libertarian candidates
So I later found out he had a troubling level of a racist past with the John Birch Society… but at the time, I didn’t know that, I was raised Republican, and I knew the wars were wrong, before I even got out of high school.
I can’t speak for everybody that was part of it, but it was basically that simple for me.
And Paul ran in the Republican primaries, not the Libertarian Party.
If we could get any major candidate in 08 to be staunchly anti-war, that was my main goal. The Libertarians obviously did not stand a chance, after seeing what had happened with Ralph Nader mostly acting as a spoiler candidate.
Paul also, being a paleoconservative, did (/does still?) genuienly believe that the abortion debate should be settled at the state level, not federally banned.
At the time, that seemed to be the most sensible position to me in general, certainly out of all the possible Republican choices for presidential nominee.
Transcript of a primary debate:
https://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul_Abortion.htm
Ron Paul is/was literally an OB, he was a doctor, who’d delivered 100s of babies. Compared to every single other Republican nominee… he actually knew what he was fucking talking about in regards to abortion/women’s healthcare.
He also was the first major politician to talk about the concept of “blowback” regarding 9/11 being the inevitable result of the U.S. military involvement in the middle east. He was truly anti-war to the core.
That’s really interesting! I remember the rallies and the Glen Beck “progressives” panic when Obama was elected. Trash all around!
Doublepost but:
https://www.wired.com/2007/12/ron-paul-blim-1/
Yeah this was all the way back when Twitch was still Justin.tv, and I think YouTube still owned YouTube, not Google.
https://www.politico.com/story/2007/12/ron-paul-blimp-charts-unprecedented-course-007245
This was… also pre-Citizens United, so… basically you as a person couldn’t contribute over $250 without gasp regulatory scrutiny.
Oh how times have changed lol.
But yeah, they literally dumped tea bags over ‘targets’, from this ridiculous blimp. That’s what caught on and then was later reappropriated as the ‘Tea Party’.
This would have been around the same time cable news gave us ‘The Mysterious Hacker Known As 4chan’.
We had people basically photobombing pretty much just any live news cast about anything with people screaming or chanting something about Ron Paul, because cable news was barely if at all even mentioning he was even in the Republican primary.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mOhRd8yUs8w
And heres Ron Paulites surrounding Sean Hannity and telling him he sucks:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5rJI5e0jBU
Also just overwhelming state GOP conventions.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UwHXbmaA80w
… a self organizing insurgent/guerilla political campaign, that Paul himself had very little control over. We refused to be ignored.
In the end though, the GOP ratfucked us, after Romney won the nomination.
Myself, I learn more things, over time, change my views on a lot of things… Bernie is now my guy.
The Democrats then ratfuck Bernie even harder than the Republicans ratfucked Paul.
But now, with this BluNami… maybe, maybe the will of the people can finally be enacted.
Fuck Chuck Schumer and fuck Hakeem Jefferies, and turbomegaultrafuck every MAGA fascist.
EDIT:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-pD-KCfdGKY
Oh well would you look at that, that explains a lot.
Peter Thiel, self-described “Definitely NOT the AntiChrist” played a large role in all this getting turned inside out.
Why am I not surprised?
I remember thinking at the time that Glenn Beck was just low rent, great value brand Alex Jones.
… many of my political opinions have changed since then, but not that one.