PA-SN 2022 megathread: Shrek vs. The Wizard of Oz

[Crumpets]

If this is real and the major news outlets pick up on it, that would be very, very bad for Oz.

NYT: Dr. Oz is reportedly responsible for the illegal torture and killing of over 300 dogs. We sat down with the Bedford County Save Our Children from Vicious Killer Dogs Society to see how this affects voters' opinions of the candidate.

[Crumpets]

I’ll repeat it again: it does not matter what “technicality” you bring up. Simple messages win election, especially lies. If anybody knows that it should be Republicans. And while you may not like it or even agree with it, your five paragraph “well, actually” posts defending animal testing (which is controversial anyway) can’t change the fact that we can and will call him a puppy killer

Yeah exactly. Oz can try to squirm his way out of this but it will be difficult

Agree. I remember some adage about "if you're explaining, you're losing" and I think that fits where Oz finds himself here. People don't like hearing about dead dogs. They may accept it as some necessary evil of the modern medical world, but just the fact that someone on the Oz campaign will have to come out and say "well, he wasn't the one directly killing the dogs" and "Columbia already settled the matter with regulators..." means more people are going to end up hearing "Dr. Oz" and "killing dogs" in the same sentence.

[Crumpets]

One other thing that makes this scandal a bit different from a lot of other scandals of this scale, especially for Republicans, is that this has already been adjudicated legally and Columbia had to pay a fine. That's obviously not a huge punishment, but it negates one of the GOP's favorite scandal comebacks of "it's an allegation and he is innocent until proven guilty." It did go through the legal system, they paid a fine, now the rest of us can judge him for his responsibility in that act.

[Crumpets]

Oh boy, we're in the season where I just stay home on my days off from my residency awaiting those glorious polls.  

I miss those NYT/Siena polls form 2018 where you could watch the responses live. I definitely had those running on my phone while I was supposed to be working a couple of times.

[Crumpets]

I'm curious if fhtagn has any takes on this. IIRC even though she's pretty right-wing, animal rights is one of her main causes.

[Crumpets]

Since it will never again be relevant to the political discussion, I must take this opportunity to post this wonderful video exploring the Eagles-Cowboys rivalry and its relationship to union culture.

[Crumpets]

Shapiro-Oz voter found!

https://twitter.com/umichvoter/status/1582749238877835266

[Crumpets]

Was in the gym earlier and finally got to witness the onslaught of ads (the channel was on CBS I believe)

IIRC:

1 anti Lisa Scheller

1 pro Lisa Scheller

2 anti Susan Wild

1 pro Chrissy Houlahan

2 pro John Fetterman (the one with him talking to the camera about family)

2 anti John Fetterman

1 of the "Citizens for Sanity" ads

1 anti Mastriano

None from Oz's actual campaign, so looks like SLF is taking care of him again this week

That Citizens for Sanity ad might be one of the most disgusting campaign ads I've ever seen. 

We've been getting those here in Washington and they play during sports games, so they have a wide reach. I had never heard of them before this cycle, but it seems like they must have deep pockets to get all these ad spots across the country.

[Crumpets]

Some big developments among inter-dimensional entity voters.

[Crumpets]

Atlas brain in the wild.

https://twitter.com/NickyFrank30/status/1583532803001823232

[Crumpets]

Oh hey mainstream media, how's the midterm coverage going?



...Yeah.