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RoeVWade

(995 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 07:17 AM Thursday

Where's the manual on "Mistakes we don't need to make again in the nominating process."

It's kind of a bad joke. But seriously, the worst mistake is repeating the same mistakes. If anything good comes out of something bad, it's learning something and applying it.

Platner said in his farewell. "It needs to be open, transparent and democratic." Except the candidate himself failed on the open and transparent more than once. I guess it was democratic though.

This is all I have to say on him personally. Zip, and gone.

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Where's the manual on "Mistakes we don't need to make again in the nominating process." (Original Post) RoeVWade Thursday OP
I can tell you one of the things in the manual is, GPV Thursday #1

GPV

(73,535 posts)
1. I can tell you one of the things in the manual is,
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 07:29 AM
Thursday

how we swapped in Kamala for Joe. That has to be heavy on the minds of the people who have to clean up this mess.

I would be happy with any of the progressive candidate possibilities, but I'm leaning toward Shenna. It would be sweet for her to win this time. It's not 2014 anymore. The nation has a very different vibe, and I think she could pick up on the good parts of the Platner campaign. The going hard after Trump and Susie with loud, plain talk.

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