Originally published at: The Brief: Two-and-a-Half-Week Race to Replace Graham Platner Begins - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Maine Dems Piece Together Plan to Help Party Hold Senate Graham Platner is finally out. In a defiant statement last night, he once again denied the sexual assault allegations against him, but conceded what his allies had been telling him for days: it was time to leave the race. He called for an “open” and…
Surly there is one decent person in Maine without skeletons in their closet, personally I think they should start looking at women for that, maybe someone also named Susan Collins. s/
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Aaron Reitz sounds like another sad, mediocre man who will continue to double down on performative hate to compensate for the absence of any interiority. Not looking forward to finding out what’s on his hard drive 5-10 years from now.
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Why no, JD, or whatever you call yourselves these days, I will not be voting for the party of Trump and his cultish klan of grifters, getting fat off of the nation’s sweat and tears. I am surprised you put the question out front and center like that.
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I’m loving this new column, TPM
Please keep it coming
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They should be focusing as much firepower as they can muster on negative information about Susan Collins. If they don’t make her look like the worse choice regardless of who the D’s put up, then she’ll prevail yet again.
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The party lead by a president with thirty-four felony fraud convictions.
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And another bearded bald guy (WTF is with that?).
I am not sure that doubling down on the hate and stupidity is the win they think it is.
Hilary said that half his supporters were a basket of deplorables. That proportion is growing, but not because there are more of them and but because the moderates have been driven away.
The continuing warmongering, pillaging, corruption, environmental destruction and persecution of minorities and immigrants are all bad for society, but those behaviors make the Dotard popular with a dwindling segment of the voting public.
They are going to have to cheat, big-time.
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JD has no clothes, either.
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Yes, and questions about the financing and expenditures on his fair, his reflecting pool project, his bawlroom, his manipulation of markets with his messaging about the progress of his war on Iran and Dear Leader’s multi-billion dollar clipping of buyers with his “crypto.”
And, that’s just going with what’s near at hand.
Is there anything done by these chuckleheads that won’t have to be investigated?
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So, what’s this, a criminal enterpriise?
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Was Stevie wetting his beak?
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Posted before, posting again:
"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times, you must be Susan Collins."
– Stephen King
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No grift is out of bounds for these sleazebags. Skeevie already has been convicted for the phony wall- building grift.
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"Bloomberg Law broke the news yesterday, writing that the district’s judges voted to appoint Reitz to the role, “according to a person familiar with the matter.”
Lotta MAGA judges in the Southern District of Texas.
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Predictable results of vulture capitalism:
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Just lookin’ around for her criticisms of Ken Paxton and the national GQP’s silence on his irregularities:
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ETA:
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Replicants?
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I prefer the term vampire capitalism. Vulture capitalism implies that the person is already dead, while vampire capitalism more accurately describes the person getting drained dry by the Epstein class. The latter is where we are now.
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