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  • Mike Johnson won’t call the House in until after the 2 Dec special election in TN-07 Aftyn Behn is running against a maga candidate for a vacant seat

    If she loses the election, then this cancels Grijalva’s vote and then it will be ‘safe’ for the Pedo Protection Party to bring the House back.

    When she wins… Who knows.

    The House will stay out until then, which is a major contributing factor to why the GOP was so desperate to peel off the ten Dork Dems on the Losers List above. They can NOT accept anything that would send the CR back to the House because the House is not available until 3 Dec.

    Send Behn some dollars if you can, many small donations can have a great impact. She accepts no corp pac or iapac money

    https://www.aftynforcongress.com/

    Also, she has a substack for posting about issues

    https://aftynbehnfortn.substack.com/





  • I think that you’re onto something with the dumbass White Guy™ thing here, and while it’s pretty reductive and I do believe that people can (and often do) grow and change (for better or worse) over the course of their lived experiences.

    So, perhaps today he is still a dumbass. I know that I am in some ways. We’re all dumbasses in our way and it’s the people who believe that they (or anyone) are infallible that are the true idiots.

    Maine could do a LOT worse than the dumbass lefty-leaning former Marine that you describe. Maine is composed of roughly 92.82% dumbass White Guy™ (and gals)

    So yeah, maybe someone better will rise up. Or maybe, this guy, who just recently pointed out on his own, in an extemporous exchange at a town hall, that he has a lot of privilege based on his cis-white-maleness and personal experiences, is a good fit for Maine.

    We will see.



  • I am not a Mainer but I’ve donated to Platner’s campaign because I believe we need voices like his. Susan Collins and Janet Mills are two sides of the same coin, in the same way that all the old ‘establishment’ Democrats are similar to their ‘moderate’ Republican counterparts

    Graham Platner is the right choice amongst the candidates in this race.

    We need to elect candidates like Kat Abu and Abigail Spanberger and Zach Dembo and Darren McAuly and Maura Sullivan and Maggie Goodlander and Deb Halland and many other good, earnest, qualified candidates.

    None of them are perfect candidates. None of them are perfect people.

    But they are better, and we have to hope we can all get better, be better and do better together over time.

    (disclaimer: unfortunately my real opinion is that we’re actually totally fucking cooked as a country, and there’s a solid chance that authoritarian fascism will be with us for a while — longer than my lifetime. I will continue to participate in the ways I’m capable and willing, but it’s probably futile)



  • You are not, and apparently don’t know, a tattoo artist who’s client/market includes drunk Marines on shore leave.

    It’s entirely plausible that a group of drunk lower-enlisted Marine reta… errr “Riflemen” went into a shop and all got a tattoo by pointing at something they thought was ‘cool’ posted on the wall.

    It’s ironic (?) they they did this in Split, Croatia which is a country that had a rather strong actual-Nazi sentiment during and after WW2. Look up the Ustatce if you’re interested

    ANYHOW it is undeniable that he got the ink, but completely plausible that he had zero idea what it was about, except that it looked like a fat pirate symbol