If Newsom keeps this up, I might have to vote for him 10 times, maybe 20, who knows

3 hours ago, Procus said:

This is today's Democratic party

It’s a sheriff’s star. I don’t like what he says but I like what he does. Sometimes we need an imperfect person to get the job done.

Graham Platner is the Maine Democratic Senate nominee. He took out the Governor without a primary. Susan Collins is next.

Janet Mills, Maine's two-term Democratic Governor, suspended her US Senate campaign Thursday. She blamed money. The truth was more interesting. She was getting outraised, outpolled, and out-organized by a 41-year-old Marine veteran oyster farmer named Graham Platner who six months ago was a complete unknown.

Platner raised $4 million in the first quarter. Mills raised $2.6 million. A February University of New Hampshire poll had Platner up 64-26 in the Democratic primary. He held more than 60 town halls. They were packed. Mills stopped running television ads on April 10. The race was over before the official primary even arrived.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer personally recruited Mills. He wanted her. He believed she was the safe choice to take down Susan Collins, the only Republican senator in a state Trump lost. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee backed her. The party establishment lined up behind her.

Maine Democrats said no.

Bernie Sanders endorsed Platner. Elizabeth Warren endorsed Platner. Ruben Gallego endorsed Platner. Martin Heinrich endorsed Platner. The Democratic National Committee posted on social media: "Maine, let's send an oyster farmer to the U.S. Senate."

Platner is the kind of candidate the establishment has spent fifteen years saying cannot win. He is a Marine veteran with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a working oyster farmer. He has run a populist campaign focused on healthcare, housing, and breaking up corporate power. His old social media posts were dug up and weaponized against him. So was a tattoo he says he regrets and has covered. His response was direct: "Maine, I'm asking you not to judge me for the worst thing I said on the internet on my worst day 14 years ago."

Voters listened. They believed him. They liked him more.

Now he runs against Susan Collins, who is 73, has been in the Senate since 1997, and just voted to fund $70 billion in ICE expansion through the rest of Trump's term. Her approval is the lowest it has been in three decades. She is the only Republican senator left in a state Trump lost.

Maine has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate every election since 1992. The seat is winnable. The wave is real. The Republican super PACs have already booked $68 million in ads against him. Seventy percent of all 2026 Maine Senate ad spending is now Republican-aligned. They are scared.

The lesson is simple. Maine Democrats wanted a fighter and the establishment wanted a placeholder. The fighter won. He raised more money. He drew bigger crowds. He earned the endorsements that mattered. Schumer learned what AOC has been telling him for seven years: the base is voting for the candidates they actually want.

The oyster farmer is the nominee. Six months until November. Susan Collins is on notice.

1 hour ago, Gannan said:

It’s a sheriff’s star. I don’t like what he says but I like what he does. Sometimes we need an imperfect person to get the job done.

You have to admit he loves America. I think everyone can agree with that.

9 hours ago, Procus said:

This is today's Democratic party

If he does his job we'll, why should that other stuff even matter? You really need to stop being such a snowflake over some of the these minor issues like what someone says or believes.

On 4/30/2026 at 10:03 PM, JohnSnowsHair said:

You know a lot of "Democrats" who what, think this president is not that bad?

Not only that, they wish Trump was one of theirs

Not next, current.

3 hours ago, sameaglesfan said:

Im going to need a Trumptard to english dictionary to explain this one.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but thank you Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna, among others. Your never ending desire to weaponize envy and stoke class hatred caused thousands to lose their homes.

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Wasn't sure where to put this, but thank you Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna, among others. Your never ending desire to weaponize envy and stoke class hatred caused thousands to lose their homes.

Really? The Mangione family are prominent Republicans in Baltimore.

Just now, toolg said:

Really? The Mangione family are prominent Republicans in Baltimore.

Yeah, lots of Republicans are preaching hatred of billionaires. This is thanks to the reckless rhetoric of the extreme left.

When asked why someone would ultimately set the blaze, Rinderknecht allegedly responded that it "would be out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as ‘we’re basically being enslaved by them’ and compared such an act of ‘desperation’ to the murder for which Mangione was charged,” according to the memo.

5 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Yeah, lots of Republicans are preaching hatred of billionaires. This is thanks to the reckless rhetoric of the extreme left.

So rhetoric now makes people violent? Why does the Republican party breed violent extremism?

14 minutes ago, toolg said:

So rhetoric now makes people violent? Why does the Republican party breed violent extremism?

You seem to have me confused with someone who hasn't called out the GOP for violent rhetoric that directly led to things like 1/6.

I know it's hard to grasp, but I'm against all forms of political rhetoric that leads to violence.

29 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Wasn't sure where to put this, but thank you Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna, among others. Your never ending desire to weaponize envy and stoke class hatred caused thousands to lose their homes.

Jesus too, with all his holier-than-thou preaching about the poor and demonizing the rich. And flipping the tables of the money lenders? An aggressive act if you ask me.

7 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

You seem to have me confused with someone who hasn't called out the GOP for violent rhetoric that directly led to things like 1/6.

I know it's hard to grasp, but I'm against all forms of political rhetoric that leads to violence.

I do not believe the likes of Sanders, Warren, and Khanna are calling for violence. They are politicians. They are saying let us represent you so we can handle this from inside the machine. Rather I think Republicans breed this type of lone wolf violent extremism with their Cowboy mentality. Put the two together in the dark corners of the interwebs and you've got some crazy individuals acting out.

2 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

Jesus too, with all his holier-than-thou preaching about the poor and demonizing the rich. And flipping the tables of the money lenders? An aggressive act if you ask me.

Yes, you really owned the Hindu with this comment about Jesus.

1 minute ago, toolg said:

I do not believe the likes of Sanders, Warren, and Khanna are calling for violence. They are politicians. They are saying let us represent you so we can handle this from inside the machine. Rather I think Republicans breed this type of lone wolf violent extremism with their Cowboy mentality. Put the two together in the dark corners of the interwebs and you've got some crazy individuals acting out.

No, they don't expressly say it in the way Trump does ("fight like hell"). But they are basically Trump's mirror image - telling people who to hate and blame for the fact their lives went to crap. Trump blames immigrants and liberals, and his people hate them. Sanders, Warren and Khanna blame billionaires and corporations and give license for their followers to attack them as well (despite not saying to actually kill people).

Yeah - Bernie condemned the murder and then basically spouted Luigi's manifesto. He's slightly better than Trump, because Trump would have said he was glad the exec was dead. Congrats.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-united-healthcare-ceo-insurance-b2664897.html

4 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Yes, you really owned the Hindu with this comment about Jesus.

Not trying to own you but implying that the wealthy and powerful shouldn’t be criticized because of this nutcase is ridiculous.

Just now, VanHammersly said:

Not trying to own you but implying that the wealthy and powerful shouldn’t be criticized because of this nutcase is ridiculous.

Criticized? OK, especially if you're making a policy argument.

But Bernie et. al go straight into demonization. They say things like "billionaires shouldn't exist." How do you expect a mentally deranged person to hear that.

Bernie Sanders: Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

In a recent interview, Bernie Sanders was forced to defend his position that billionaires shouldn’t exist to an exasperated Chris Wallace. Sanders is absolutely right: a humane system wouldn’t produce

so, billionaires bad, but millionaires good?

5 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Criticized? OK, especially if you're making a policy argument.

But Bernie et. al go straight into demonization. They say things like "billionaires shouldn't exist." How do you expect a mentally deranged person to hear that.

Bernie Sanders: Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

In a recent interview, Bernie Sanders was forced to defend his position that billionaires shouldn’t exist to an exasperated Chris Wallace. Sanders is absolutely right: a humane system wouldn’t produce

I think he is saying you should not exist. Don't take it personally.

30 minutes ago, toolg said:

I think he is saying you should not exist. Don't take it personally.

So you are saying Sanders is a ray-cyst? Yikes.

5 minutes ago, paco said:

So you are saying Sanders is a ray-cyst? Yikes.

No. That's quite an assumption. He's a classist. Watch your prejudices.