The Populist, Millennial Veteran who was retweeted by Ann Coulter Who Wants to Turn Missouri Blue

[BlackSand]

Then came Trump in 2016, and the state that supported one Clinton routed the other by nearly 20 points. Even Trump voters, though, were perfectly willing to vote for Democrats down the ballot. That was also the year Jason Kander — another Democratic veteran with a knack for media who, like Kunce, wanted Blunt’s Senate seat — shot to national prominence with a viral campaign ad in which he assembled an AR-15 blindfolded and said, “I’d like to see Senator Blunt do this.”

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To assemble an AR-15 and suggest he would like to see Senator Blunt do the same ...
While Democrats lead the charge to keep anyone from ever assembling their own AR-15 ...
Is a fucking hilarious demonstration of how disconnected they are with their own party's issues ...

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[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Is that the opposite of dishonestly fuck democrats?

Remember, commas say lives! "Let's eat, Grandpa" versus "Let's eat Grandpa!"

Commas say lives ? Odd!

 

[wamose]

Democrats are like gang members. They're pretty harmless when they're by themselves but when you put them in a group, they're as dangerous as it gets. The legislation they're proposing is the best reason to limit their numbers. They're monkey see, monkey doers who will always go along with the gang regardless how dangerous or stupid it may be.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

i pray he wins. anyone but Greitens

The Populist, Millennial Veteran Who Wants to Turn Missouri Blue

Lucas Kunce hopes his campaign against corporations and corruption can launch him into the Senate — and help Democrats win back the working class.

www.politico.com

excerpts:

Kunce (pronounced “Koontz,” he says, “and the other way will get you in a lot of trouble, so be real careful about that”) does not come from money. As he tells people on the campaign trail, he grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Jefferson City, the state capital, where medical bills related to his little sister’s heart condition at one point bankrupted his family. But every year before school started, he and his siblings got to pick out new shoes from Payless. Heading into eighth grade, Kunce got a pair of spotless white Reeboks, a source of serious pride for a teenaged boy in the late 1990s. “I’m, like, strutting through the school, hoping someone will notice,” he recalls. Finally, a wealthier boy took note: “Hey! Did you guys see Kunce’s new shoes?”

But the boy went on. “You can always tell how poor somebody is when they get new shoes, because their socks are so gray and nasty.”

Kunce remembers spending the rest of the day trying to hide his socks, stuffing the tops into his shoes and walking uncomfortably on lumps of fabric. He was working so hard just to be cool. His parents were working so hard to afford that for him. And he remembers, in that moment, “just this sinking feeling of, like, utter powerlessness.”

From there, back in the car, a self-conscious kid’s socks become a political parable that explains why Kunce thinks a state former President Donald Trump won by 15 points in 2020 might just send him, a Democrat who has never held elected office, to the Senate. He is seeking a seat Republicans have held since 1987, when Kunce, now a tall, long-limbed 39-year-old who favors hoodies and talks with his hands, was a toddler. But so many people around the state, he says, feel the same powerlessness he did as a teenager — that they’re part of a system that insists on keeping them down, no matter how hard they try

Nine months ahead of the 2022 primary, he has attracted national attention and cable-news spots for his blistering critiques of the war in Afghanistan, where he deployed twice — Kabul’s collapse, he says, was inevitable; U.S. elites lied about the war for 20 years; and defense contractors got rich while communities like his hometown decayed. Last quarter, Kunce outraised all his opponents in the race, Republicans included. And no matter if the issue is war in the Middle East, agriculture in the Midwest or pretty much anything else, his appeal to unity is this: Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you’re all getting screwed.

In this, he can sound remarkably like the more-famous Missouri populist who won a Senate seat with a similar-sounding message: Republican Josh Hawley. Kunce dislikes the comparison — he considers Hawley a “fake populist,” pointing to the senator’s upbringing (son of a banker, private-school grad) and votes to confirm “corporate judges” (he named Neil Gorsuch, though Hawley was not in the Senate when Gorsuch was confirmed). Don’t even get Kunce started on Hawley’s recent comments decrying video games and the state of American masculinity (Marines play video games, Kunce points out). But in rhetoric if not in backstory, it can be hard to tell the two apart. Although Kunce does not share Hawley’s worries about corporate “wokeness,” both men blame multinational corporations, Big Tech, China and elites for what ails America in general and Missouri in particular. Both of them, furthermore, went to Yale — though Kunce emphasizes that he did so with financial aid. (Hawley’s office declined to comment for this story.)

For an entire century beginning in 1904, Missouri was a famous political bellwether that picked the winner in every presidential election but one, when its voters went for Democrat Adlai Stevenson over Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. “A mirror for the nation,” the Chicago Tribune called it in 2004, at the tail end of this period: “one part Dixie, one part industrial Detroit, a bit of Great Plains conservatism and a dash of the get-the-government-off-my-back-and-cut-my-taxes West.” Or as Slate put it that year: “It is the swingiest of swingers,” where any discussion of politics likely contained “the words ‘microcosm’ or ‘representativeness.’”

The Democratic collapse in the state came slowly, then suddenly, and the reasons people give vary. Missouri broke its president-choosing streak by voting twice against Barack Obama and has stayed Republican in presidential votes ever since. Ken Warren, a pollster at St. Louis University, believes race played a role in this but also notes that Obama eventually stopped campaigning in the state in 2008 after determining he didn’t need the electoral votes, and he didn’t personally return in 2012. In the same period, Democrats were getting further shellacked in a legislature where Republicans had taken control of both houses in 2003. (The state results came in tandem with the Democrats’ national shellacking in the 2010 midterms — a microcosm, if you will.)

Republicans also argue the state hasn’t so much moved right as Democrats have moved left — the pro-gun, anti-abortion Missouri Democrat voter of yesteryear is simply a Republican now. “It’s clear national Democrats have abandoned Missouri,” says Steele Shippy, a senior strategist for Republican state Senate President Dave Schatz, who’s also vying for Blunt’s seat. “Missouri Democrats have zero party infrastructure, traditional Democrat donors don’t want to waste their resources, and they are in constant conflict with voters for embracing the socialist agenda being pushed by the DNC.” (Michael Butler, the current chair of the Missouri Democratic Party, concedes that party infrastructure in the state is “not what it should be.”)

Then came Trump in 2016, and the state that supported one Clinton routed the other by nearly 20 points. Even Trump voters, though, were perfectly willing to vote for Democrats down the ballot. That was also the year Jason Kander — another Democratic veteran with a knack for media who, like Kunce, wanted Blunt’s Senate seat — shot to national prominence with a viral campaign ad in which he assembled an AR-15 blindfolded and said, “I’d like to see Senator Blunt do this.” Butler of the Missouri Democratic Party recalled seeing Trump signs alongside Kander signs in the Kansas City suburbs and even rural areas that year. “Folks try to say Trump voters won’t vote Democrat,” Butler told me. “But that’s just not true in Missouri.” Kander came within 3 points of unseating Blunt, netting hundreds of thousands of Trump voters in the state; without Trump on the ballot, he might well have won.

The Missouri electorate has since sent some other contradictory signals that Kunce holds up as evidence that the state, even now, isn’t as red as it looks. Since 2018, Missourians have passed ballot initiatives to legalize medical marijuana, expand Medicaid and overturn a “right-to-work” law opposed by labor unions. Meanwhile, the most recent St. Louis University poll, from over the summer, found that 73 percent of Missourians think the economy is not in good shape, perhaps underscoring the advantage of an economic message for a candidate like Kunce. On the other hand, slight majorities also thought the state government should ban abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy and that “critical race theory” should not be taught in schools — both issues where Kunce trends to the left. The voter picture on pandemic restrictions is mixed, with voters about evenly split on how they rate the national response and mostly approving of their state and local response. Republican Senate candidates have spoken passionately against mask and vaccine mandates, but Kunce says he rarely hears voters bring up Covid. In any case, populist rhetoric seems to pay, at least for the GOP: Hawley beats Blunt’s approval rating by double digits.

Kunce wouldn’t or couldn’t name a single serving member of the House or Senate he admires or believes he resembles, professing not to follow Washington, D.C., personalities closely. For political models, he reaches all the way back to fellow Missouri Democrat Harry Truman — another veteran, of World War I, who desegregated the military, tried to get universal health care and, in Kunce’s view, fought for workers “and got pilloried for it.”

Among Democrats at the St. Louis senior center, Kunce also had an enthusiastic reception — up to a point. “You’ve got my vote!” one man said as he headed toward a cab.

Then he turned back with a follow-up question. “What’s your first name again?”

Let's consider the source: Politico. The articles says, he "retired from active duty" after 13 years, but later said he stayed in the Marine Reserves. No one can do that, as retirement is after 20 years unless medically retired.

How much other vital information in the article did they get wrong?

After reading the article, he sounds like a Republican who tends to the "woke" voters.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

this is our candidate!

A real cute fellow.
Putting him in office just gives Pelosi, Schumer and Biden more ammunition to fuck the nation.

 

[jbrownson0831]

that's racist, to hate someone just because they're a democrat

Dimmers hate America, don't you? What's wrong to hate someone who hates America?

 

[Correll]

that's racist, to hate someone just because they're a democrat

Mmm, no it's not. Democrat is not a race. You know that right?

 

[Missourian]

basquebromance ... what happened to being a Conservative?



progressive hunter

 

[basquebromance]

basquebromance ... what happened to being a Conservative?



progressive hunter

you need a million years to find out if i'm conservative lol i just like to have fun with politics...but i do lean conservative on issues like the wall, America First, and abortion

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Dragonlady]

Josh Hawley will never let Missouri turn blue.

Josh Hawley is one man with no power. Even those who supported him and helped him gain power, have turned on him, calling him a power hungry con artist.

Inciting the mob when they were behind the barricades and then running like a rabbit when they breached the building mark Hawley as a traitorous coward. Not a good look for someone with political ambitions beyond the Senate.

Stupid, cowardly and racist is going to be a hard sell in his state come re-election time.

 

[Dragonlady]

Lol. Look another dumb fuck who thinks Trump colluded with Russia. Like all the other democrat lies . Debunked ... fool.

Not debunked at all. Confirmed, you fool. By the Mueller Report.

Not ENOUGH evidence of conspiracy to obtain an conviction, but Mueller was clear that he could of exonerated Donald Trump if he was satisfied that there was no cooperation or conspiracy, but the evidence would not allow him to clear Trump.

Mueller breaks silence to say report doesn’t clear Trump

Special counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence Wednesday about his office’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In a nine-minute statement, he reiterated that Justice Department policy prohibits charging a sitting president with a crime, and that his...

www.pbs.org

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

If I was a Missourian, I’d vote for this guy in a moment.
Certainly not because he’s a Democrat.
He’s just miles better than the average politician in almost every way.

 

[lennypartiv]

Josh Hawley is one man with no power. Even those who supported him and helped him gain power, have turned on him, calling him a power hungry con artist.

Inciting the mob when they were behind the barricades and then running like a rabbit when they breached the building mark Hawley as a traitorous coward. Not a good look for someone with political ambitions beyond the Senate.

No power? He has a vote in the Senate.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Not debunked at all. Confirmed, you fool. By the Mueller Report.

Not ENOUGH evidence of conspiracy to obtain an conviction, but Mueller was clear that he could of exonerated Donald Trump if he was satisfied that there was no cooperation or conspiracy, but the evidence would not allow him to clear Trump.

Mueller breaks silence to say report doesn’t clear Trump

Special counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence Wednesday about his office’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In a nine-minute statement, he reiterated that Justice Department policy prohibits charging a sitting president with a crime, and that his...

www.pbs.org

Is that like Jay walking... give him the chair..... do you realize how stupid you sound?

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Not debunked at all. Confirmed, you fool. By the Mueller Report.

Not ENOUGH evidence of conspiracy to obtain an conviction, but Mueller was clear that he could of exonerated Donald Trump if he was satisfied that there was no cooperation or conspiracy, but the evidence would not allow him to clear Trump.

Mueller breaks silence to say report doesn’t clear Trump

Special counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence Wednesday about his office’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In a nine-minute statement, he reiterated that Justice Department policy prohibits charging a sitting president with a crime, and that his...

www.pbs.org

When will he be charged and arrested ....? Fool

 

[Missourian]

He lost.