The other shoe to drop (maybe one of many) is hearing from his former shipmates in the Marine Corps. Oh boy, I bet there are some stories. If Collins is holding a nuclear bomb to drop on him, this might be it.
If we paraphrase Marshall McCluhan, “the medium is the ‘massage’,” we follow his theory that facts are irrelevant compared to how the message makes you feel — especially for women.
It is wonderful to watch the Democrats commit party suicide. They are destroying the party before our eyes as their Identity Politics, Barack Obama's brainchild, has caused them to shrink their tent to only the most unpopular / dangerous identity groups such as trans and NAZIs. We see even the Southern Poverty Law Center aligned themselves with NAZIs and KKK. Meantime, anyone quasi-moderate is fleeing the party. Sasha is a good example. There are millions of others.
Issue is that it is only party suicide if they don’t win at the national level. If they do manage to win Senate/Prez/House, it won’t be the “SAVE Act”. No, it will be nationalizing the CA election (lol) system that guarantees one outcome
The Democrat "base" are the extremists I reference, including the Leftist media. What was the fringe Left is now the "base". The old moderate base has largely left the party, or in the process of. Can you imagine being Jewish and pro-Israel and staying in a party that hates you? Why?
It's always about power. That's what politicians only ever truly care about, so I'm never really surprised by their behavior. I have zero expectations that they will do anything that's not in their own self-interest.
What truly infuriates me is how individual party supporters who engaged in constant, public moral posturing about fascism, believing women, and defending democracy all of a sudden have done a complete 180 and yet see nothing wrong with their own behavior. Seeing cognitive dissonance at work is fascinating. I'd love to see their reaction if Platner happened to have a different letter next to his name on the ballot.
Progressive are ends justify the means utopians. Because of those beliefs, their only iron-clad principle, the only one from which they will never, ever deviate, is to seize power by any means necessary.
OK, point made once again: the Democratic Party is the evil party.
But is the other part of the joke working out to be true as well: the Republican Party is the stupid party?
What is Collins doing to campaign against this? And where are the Republicans making the case against this evil He-Man Democrat? Have you heard a peep from them? Are they going to lose this race? Are they going to end up being the stupid party? I certainly hope not!
I find it hard to call Collins a Republican. She consistently votes against “her party”. In fact it’s a shocker when and if she ever votes along party lines. Maine is hosed, one way or another!
Interesting take.... I am sure that is correct and why we have such a huge political and cultural disconnect in America today. Money? No big deal. Just take it from "the oligarchs" (that mythical creature) and run the printing presses, MMT
This morning it was reported the Collins has shifted her vote to 'yes' on the SAVE Act. I think that's her reacting to Platner's victory. She may not be a Republican, but she needs Republican votes to survive.
Yes, the Republican Party is the stupid party. The two parties typically take turns alternating roles. However, they were probably smart enough in this case to wait until the primary was over to unleash on Platner. As Napoleon once said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
My favorite part of the "stupid party and evil party" quote is the last two sentences: "Sometimes the parties get together to pass something both stupid and evil. That's called bipartisanship."
Something tells me Susan Collins was letting Platner hang himself, but now that he won, she’ll be like, “Seriously, you’d rather vote for this Neanderthal over someone rational and logical like me?”
He just won the primary, the election is 4 months away. Wait until you see the campaign. And outside of Maine, "Senator Ossoff, do you support Platner? Do you believe all women? Are you uncomfortable with a Nazi in the Senate". Over, and over, and over again until November. I personally can't wait.
As a black father, I'm FAR more concerned about my son crossing the pychopath of a Karmelo Anthony with no impulse control, that I am about ephemeral racism.
Black felons also kill mostly other black felons. Let them go at it and step in occasionally and do some culling. This will run its evolutionary course in a few generations
Maine, the land of Concentration Camps. I have been to Portland, ME a few times. Maine is very rural. Loggers and lobstermen are NOT Lefties. I am not sure where all these Democrats came from other than NYC and Boston elites who got tired of the city.
Ah yes! The women of castration island! They keep the testicles of their husband by their bedside, and show the jar to binky milquetoast a couple of times a month to remind him of who is in charge. Then a MAN from Down East Maine shows up, unshaven, dirty flannel shirt with BO sweat stains and faded blue jeans capped off with steel toed work boots Red Wings most likely. And then the women of Castration Island swoon! AND he is a progressive democrat who like they stands for absolutely nothing. They love this fraud, they can have a “relationship”!with him without any real need to be in a relationship. This writer can not figure out why his military record has not been part of the conversation. We are led to believe he is decorated combat Marine. Where are the Marines that served with him in Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion 8th Marines? Wouldn’t you think they would be all over Maine helping a fellow Marine get to Congress? Where are the other Blackwater contractors that worked with him…so far crickets…this guy is nothing but bad news but the hell with it. If John E. Sununu defeats Chris Pappas in New Hampshire it’s a zero sum game. Except that Maine all 1.4 million of them and their shared tooth will find that life didn’t get any better with Graham Platner in the US senate. But hey they voted for him. Elections have consequences…
The reason rich people like Graham Platner is ... because he's one of them!
His grandfather was a famous architect, his father is an Ivy League lawyer and his mother ... she owns an expensive restaurant and is the only customer for Graham Platner's oyster fishery.
You can't be less working class than that. Luckily he dropped out of his expensive prep school or he would have to explain an inconvenient degree.
It was a primary, so liberals of Maine proved they are degenerates. They had the option to vote for what's-her-face, the governor, and chose to vote for the racist ticket
"They might not have even realized how much power masculinity has until they saw it wearing a flannel shirt and speaking to them in that low voice that signals somewhere deep in their lizard brains that this guy could populate a whole village." Hahahahaha. These women have Fifty Shades of Gray (and other "romance" novels) hidden under their mattress.
When I see this guy I have an overwhelming desire to punch him right in the nose. He stirs in me a visceral disgust. I see a lowlife scumbag. I think you are right as to his appeal to desperate insane females. And weak TDS males. Stephen King is emblematic. Everything that is vile in our culture is represented here in this one phenomenon.
If that's what they think real men are like, no wonder they don't know what a woman is. I think progressive, feminist, left,....whatever they call themselves have their feet firmly planted in mid-air.
Very shrewd analysis Sasha.
Excellent - but I don’t see the “charisma”. But then again I’m not a progressive.
While I can definitely appreciate a masculine man, he is highly unattractive and somewhat repulsive physically.
Agreed. I’m lesbian, but I’m not a man hater, so I know a good looking guy when I see one, and he’s just not. He is repulsive.
The other shoe to drop (maybe one of many) is hearing from his former shipmates in the Marine Corps. Oh boy, I bet there are some stories. If Collins is holding a nuclear bomb to drop on him, this might be it.
If we paraphrase Marshall McCluhan, “the medium is the ‘massage’,” we follow his theory that facts are irrelevant compared to how the message makes you feel — especially for women.
The dems don't care if he is a pedophile, zoophile, or necrophile. He's their man.
It is wonderful to watch the Democrats commit party suicide. They are destroying the party before our eyes as their Identity Politics, Barack Obama's brainchild, has caused them to shrink their tent to only the most unpopular / dangerous identity groups such as trans and NAZIs. We see even the Southern Poverty Law Center aligned themselves with NAZIs and KKK. Meantime, anyone quasi-moderate is fleeing the party. Sasha is a good example. There are millions of others.
Prediction - 100% of democrats will fall into line behind Platner
“the people of Maine have spoken, who am I to second guess them”
“Nazi tattoo? We all have some indiscretions in our past”
Issue is that it is only party suicide if they don’t win at the national level. If they do manage to win Senate/Prez/House, it won’t be the “SAVE Act”. No, it will be nationalizing the CA election (lol) system that guarantees one outcome
They aren't to their base. Because their base is assuaged by their media. If they say it is OK, then it is.
The Democrat "base" are the extremists I reference, including the Leftist media. What was the fringe Left is now the "base". The old moderate base has largely left the party, or in the process of. Can you imagine being Jewish and pro-Israel and staying in a party that hates you? Why?
It's always about power. That's what politicians only ever truly care about, so I'm never really surprised by their behavior. I have zero expectations that they will do anything that's not in their own self-interest.
What truly infuriates me is how individual party supporters who engaged in constant, public moral posturing about fascism, believing women, and defending democracy all of a sudden have done a complete 180 and yet see nothing wrong with their own behavior. Seeing cognitive dissonance at work is fascinating. I'd love to see their reaction if Platner happened to have a different letter next to his name on the ballot.
Progressive are ends justify the means utopians. Because of those beliefs, their only iron-clad principle, the only one from which they will never, ever deviate, is to seize power by any means necessary.
"I’m telling you these women have deep, dark fantasies about being dragged by the hair and thrown on the bed."
It's hilarious how true this is for progressive women.
And how unlikely it is to happen
Dragging a pudgy, tattooed, nose-pierced gender neutral human off to breed by its purple hair is not appealing to this cave dweller.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My sentiments exactly! 👍
HaHaHa!
OK, point made once again: the Democratic Party is the evil party.
But is the other part of the joke working out to be true as well: the Republican Party is the stupid party?
What is Collins doing to campaign against this? And where are the Republicans making the case against this evil He-Man Democrat? Have you heard a peep from them? Are they going to lose this race? Are they going to end up being the stupid party? I certainly hope not!
There was no point in campaigning against Nazi-boi until today, but I think we all agree that it is now time for her to get her ass in gear
I find it hard to call Collins a Republican. She consistently votes against “her party”. In fact it’s a shocker when and if she ever votes along party lines. Maine is hosed, one way or another!
I can only laugh when the Dem machine tries to cast Collins as Ultra-MAGA right. What a clown show they all are
To a true leftist, reality itself is "oppressive" and so should be ignored.
Interesting take.... I am sure that is correct and why we have such a huge political and cultural disconnect in America today. Money? No big deal. Just take it from "the oligarchs" (that mythical creature) and run the printing presses, MMT
This morning it was reported the Collins has shifted her vote to 'yes' on the SAVE Act. I think that's her reacting to Platner's victory. She may not be a Republican, but she needs Republican votes to survive.
Yes, the Republican Party is the stupid party. The two parties typically take turns alternating roles. However, they were probably smart enough in this case to wait until the primary was over to unleash on Platner. As Napoleon once said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
My favorite part of the "stupid party and evil party" quote is the last two sentences: "Sometimes the parties get together to pass something both stupid and evil. That's called bipartisanship."
Something tells me Susan Collins was letting Platner hang himself, but now that he won, she’ll be like, “Seriously, you’d rather vote for this Neanderthal over someone rational and logical like me?”
He just won the primary, the election is 4 months away. Wait until you see the campaign. And outside of Maine, "Senator Ossoff, do you support Platner? Do you believe all women? Are you uncomfortable with a Nazi in the Senate". Over, and over, and over again until November. I personally can't wait.
As a black father, I'm FAR more concerned about my son crossing the pychopath of a Karmelo Anthony with no impulse control, that I am about ephemeral racism.
Why is this not the focus of the community?
Black kids mainly kill black kids.
Black felons also kill mostly other black felons. Let them go at it and step in occasionally and do some culling. This will run its evolutionary course in a few generations
"Maine Kampf"--that's hysterical!
Maine, the land of Concentration Camps. I have been to Portland, ME a few times. Maine is very rural. Loggers and lobstermen are NOT Lefties. I am not sure where all these Democrats came from other than NYC and Boston elites who got tired of the city.
You’ve heard it before… “If the Democrats didn’t have double standards, then they’d have no standards at all.”
Ah yes! The women of castration island! They keep the testicles of their husband by their bedside, and show the jar to binky milquetoast a couple of times a month to remind him of who is in charge. Then a MAN from Down East Maine shows up, unshaven, dirty flannel shirt with BO sweat stains and faded blue jeans capped off with steel toed work boots Red Wings most likely. And then the women of Castration Island swoon! AND he is a progressive democrat who like they stands for absolutely nothing. They love this fraud, they can have a “relationship”!with him without any real need to be in a relationship. This writer can not figure out why his military record has not been part of the conversation. We are led to believe he is decorated combat Marine. Where are the Marines that served with him in Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion 8th Marines? Wouldn’t you think they would be all over Maine helping a fellow Marine get to Congress? Where are the other Blackwater contractors that worked with him…so far crickets…this guy is nothing but bad news but the hell with it. If John E. Sununu defeats Chris Pappas in New Hampshire it’s a zero sum game. Except that Maine all 1.4 million of them and their shared tooth will find that life didn’t get any better with Graham Platner in the US senate. But hey they voted for him. Elections have consequences…
https://youtu.be/uy5gRxjxHtg?si=A1xruA9NbCIrAPxG
well said Charles!
..."1.4 million of them and their shared tooth"... well said!
The reason rich people like Graham Platner is ... because he's one of them!
His grandfather was a famous architect, his father is an Ivy League lawyer and his mother ... she owns an expensive restaurant and is the only customer for Graham Platner's oyster fishery.
You can't be less working class than that. Luckily he dropped out of his expensive prep school or he would have to explain an inconvenient degree.
He didn't drop out.... he was kicked out for bad behavior.
drop out, kicked out, flunked out .... details!
It takes a rich and spoiled kid to throw away the opportunity for a $60,000/year education
Vote blue no matter ewwwww.
It was a primary, so liberals of Maine proved they are degenerates. They had the option to vote for what's-her-face, the governor, and chose to vote for the racist ticket
Same as it ever was.
Brilliant.
Breathtaking hypocrisy on display.
"They might not have even realized how much power masculinity has until they saw it wearing a flannel shirt and speaking to them in that low voice that signals somewhere deep in their lizard brains that this guy could populate a whole village." Hahahahaha. These women have Fifty Shades of Gray (and other "romance" novels) hidden under their mattress.
Trump is their porn.
When I see this guy I have an overwhelming desire to punch him right in the nose. He stirs in me a visceral disgust. I see a lowlife scumbag. I think you are right as to his appeal to desperate insane females. And weak TDS males. Stephen King is emblematic. Everything that is vile in our culture is represented here in this one phenomenon.
Yeah, Stephen King. Guess it takes a creep to write creepy stuff...
And now we know how the German people could have been attracted to / gone along with Adolf Hitler. Platner is similar in many ways.
If that's what they think real men are like, no wonder they don't know what a woman is. I think progressive, feminist, left,....whatever they call themselves have their feet firmly planted in mid-air.
LOL!! Great turn of phrase: "firmly planted....". And yes, they will want Platner to be on top
"Here you go, the entire Democratic base in one video:"
Is that Greta Thunberg in that video? Sailing around the Mediterranean must age one pretty fast...
Hatred ages even young people.
The Oystergruppernfueher
Great article from Don Surber this morning.