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Tommy Carcetti

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17. Whenever I hear someone ask, "Why doesn't the left have a [insert right wing figure] of their own?"

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:03 PM

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I always think about this scene from O Brother Where Art Thou? where Governor O'Daniels' advisors asks why his campaign doesn't have their own little person on the campaign trail like his opponent Homer Stokes does.

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Can The Left Have a Kirk? [View all] Celerity Yesterday OP

We are not sheep, so I doubt it. GreenWave Yesterday #1

Bernie isn't exactly chopped liver. no_hypocrisy Yesterday #2

No. yardwork Yesterday #3

I vote no. Girard442 Yesterday #4

We already have. Norbert Yesterday #5

Do you mean before or after his apotheosis? EYESORE 9001 Yesterday #6

Kirk punched down, not up leftstreet Yesterday #7

I think that because of social media markodochartaigh Yesterday #8

No, because a know nothing blow hard backed by Johonny Yesterday #9

It seems to me a complicated question. Raven123 Yesterday #10

Yes SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #11

I doubt conservative and religious colleges would allow a progressive on campus to berate/debate students thebigidea Yesterday #12

No way, no how. (nt) Paladin Yesterday #13

We have AOC and Jasmine Crockett Jilly_in_VA Yesterday #14

Too many lefties are educated. A Larry "Lonesome" oasis Yesterday #15

True liberalism easily can. gulliver Yesterday #16

Whenever I hear someone ask, "Why doesn't the left have a [insert right wing figure] of their own?" Tommy Carcetti Yesterday #17

It's like a medical researcher saying, why don't we have any GOOD treatments that are as aggresive as sepsis. Girard442 Yesterday #18