Originally published at: Dr. Oz kindly helped rival Fetterman's campaign by handing him a winning slogan | Boing Boing
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Yeah, I’d love that slogan as well. No lie, that’s a kick ass slogan.
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That picture of New Jersey resident Mehmet Oz look like he’s wondering where the hell he is, and how he got there.
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Newt Gingrich decided to pitch in too:
(The obvious answer is that he got the tattoo to focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real.)
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Hey Newt…
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Wait, so wearing a hoodie is now “kicking authority in the balls”?
Cue explosion in hoodie sales.
I’m wearing a hoodie, right now!
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Oz is clearly trying to appeal to those few voters whose preferred alternative to the everyday apparel of hoodies is a stick up their arse.
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He met Newt? That’ll piss anyone off.
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I’m assuming there’s already fan artwork of Fetterman kicking Oz in the balls?
Also, a much less effective campaign slogan for Oz is “Don’t vote for Fetterman! He likes Johnny Cash!”
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Me too! I’m bringing the system down just by sitting on my couch.
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Dr. Oz just keeps handing Fetterman wins.
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I vote in Pennsylvania, but only because that’s where my Mum’s from. I get the feeling that there’s probably loads of news about this race if you’re there, but here in Scotland I only get the really big headlines and, well, updates from good old BoingBoing.
Everything I’ve read about the candidates leads me to the impression that this is a pretty easy choice, but then I see the current polling has Fetterman on only a ~5 point lead?. Oof.
(Not that I can really snark, I suppose. The news of political and constitutional issues from this part of the world is hardly inspiring…)
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Remember, lots of polling is just “who is the R vs D” and completely ignores anything else. Lots of voting too unfortunately.
Especially when those opinions are based on some historic past rose colored fantasy view of what people think the R vs D stood for 30 years ago. Completely out of touch with any current policy or positions. Probably out of touch with what they actually were 30 years ago too.
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Though I’m not sure how reliable this informal type of polling is, I’m seeing far more Fetterman signs sprouting up than I would’ve thought. Democrats in the boonies have been cowed into the shadows in the last couple of elections, with a sea of donnie-loving signs everywhere you look. This is the first bit of pushback in the form of political signage that I can recall since at least 2016. I’ve not seen a single Oz sign, even in the yards that still have their Let’s Go Brandon flags out. It makes me think there’s some hope we’ll get it right this time.
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I want this to be a meme where the question is asked of other song lyrics.
Why would Pennsylvania democratic senate candidate john fetterman have a tattoo saying “I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world"?
Why would Pennsylvania democratic senate candidate john fetterman have a tattoo saying “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, Here we are now, entertain us”?
Why would Pennsylvania democratic senate candidate john fetterman have a tattoo saying “Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp”?
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yes, clearly that is what Trayvon Martin and all the many young, unarmed Black men who were murdered by pigs were doing when they died wearing hoodies.
fucking nonsense conflating a garment with “troublemaking” or “anti-authoritailrian” behavior.
kick 'em in the balls, indeed!
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Wear TWO! Save on heating bills AND bring the system down twice as fast! 
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I’ve seen a few OZ signs but the vast majority have been in the
N
O
configuration.
Hilarious!
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In addition to Oz’s inanity, he also doesn’t seem to be able to hire competent people.
Who thought this graphic design on the word Ruthless was a good idea? Breaking it up into it’s component parts when the etymology of “Ruth” is archaic at best is silly and bad messaging.
I fully realize this is the most nitpicky of complaints when there are many, MANY more important reasons that oz is a dangerous dingbat, but that doesn’t mean it will stop bugging me.
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