You can all thank Lewiston for killing the War Powers Resolution in the House of Representatives today. Our Democratic representative Jared Golden joined with Republicans to shoot it down by one vote. Unsurprisingly, Thomas Massie joined with the Democrats.
I didn’t vote for Golden but I’ve always been grateful that he isn’t a woke embarrassment to Maine.
If we end up sending Graham Platner to the Senate, well, there’s going to be a lot of joke material. He’s more radical than AOC, less emotionally stable, and even dumber than she is. He’s got a pretty energetic following of pretty hardcore Democratic Socialists behind him.
I actually rolled with his campaign manager years ago and got tapped out, but it was my first no gi open mat and I still really sucked at grappling. He’s a professional activist with The Maine People’s Alliance, failed mayoral candidate, and somewhere to the left of Mao.
I sometimes wonder if Graham Platner is some kind of weird test to see how many red flags a candidate can have and still get elected to the highest offices of government.
Unambiguous Nazi tattoo on his chest for his whole adult life? Check.
Unambiguous racist comments against black people? Check.
Unambiguous racist comments against white rural Mainers? Check.
Unambiguous slurs against homosexuals? Check.
Training socialist revolutionaries in gunfighting tactics? Check.
Blaming women for being raped? Check.
Used the word “retard”? Check.
I’m not sure how many of the left’s sacred cows this guy will get another pass on slaughtering, but it appears to be unlimited at this point. Somehow he’s currently clobbering Governor Mills in the primary race. I don’t think either will win against Susan Collins, but you never know how things will shake out in a state where anyone can register to vote with no documentation whatsoever.
Trump definitely had a lot of red flags, but he had a lot more green flags going for him than Platner does. His military record is the only one, and for some reason not a single soldier from any of his units have come forward to endorse him.
Bartending and running an oyster farm with shady funders and his mom’s restaurant as his largest customer are his only private sector accomplishments.
He is very good at apologizing for his past and saying Bernie Sanders things in a gravely voice.
I’ve always suspected the earlier versions in Hebrew, aramaic and Greek were a bunch of BS, just like the following translations up until the KJV. Feel sorry for those who never lived to read the translation that constitutes the true word of God.
You speak as if one were to use logic one would come to conclude that none of that stuff makes any sense.
I feel like this guy has traits that both appeal to and turn off all kinds of voters. Racists and anti-rcists should both like him and hate him for different reasons (or colours).
You’re free to live your truth however you want, ignore the 10’s of thousands of people who Donald Trump employed, all of the buildings he got built, and explain it all away as exploitative capitalism if you wish.
Step 2) Call mission accomplished while American soldiers are dying on foreign soil for oil money
Step 3) you and your friends rake in the cash while the American citizens foot the multi trillion dollar tax bill
Which 3 of the last republican presidents did this? All 3? Well, that’s certainly an odd coincidence… im sure this is Obama or Hillary’s fault somehow.
In local news, it was an eventful day here in Lewiston. The Congolese owners of Gelux, LLC had their residence raided about 1/2 mile away from me with assistance from the DEA first thing in the morning. Then our hospitals, public schools, and Bates College went into lockdown this afternoon due to some guy who was high on lots of drugs texting his girlfriend that he had a gun and intended to use it. He was out on six different sets of bail conditions, which is completely normal here in Maine. Fortunately he was taken into custody within a few hours of the lockdowns going into effect.
I hope he gets the restorative justice he needs to avoid incarceration and validate the emotions of Maine’s woke white women.
At least he has made a fortune after becoming a president. I don’t know if this is normal in US, but I never thought precidency as fiscally lucrative position.
Completely off topic, but anyway.
You can use logic and rationalizing when approaching religious questions. Some brightest people in this field we’re deeply religious.
Science for another matter has not much to do with religion. That’s why you believe in God or Vishnu etc.
Sciencitific findings is our best knowledge about some topics currently, they are rarely matter of believing. But you can’t prove religion in the same way you can prove evolution or that earth in over 4 billion years old. But you don’t need to prove it either, it’s just matter of believing.
But you can rationalize and logically study Christianity for example. Aquinas was one of the first to do it. He showed that it’s possible to logically prove god.
During his first term he was one of the few modern Presidents who lost personal net worth while holding the office. He was loaded to begin with and didn’t need to pursue politics for personal enrichment. What is your evidence that suggests he’s profited unscrupulously in his second term?
I’m not doubting that he has in some stretch of the term, but I’d like to understand your explanation for it.
As a bonus question, do you think Hungary’s new leader will soon become a fascist dictator in the minds of the European establishment politicians? I’m not following the situation very closely, but what I’ve read gives me the impression that he’s quite similar to Orban on most major policies.
It remains to be seen. He’s a right wing conservatist, a former Fidesz member himself, so some political posturing against him should be expected, that’s how political rhetorics work.
Most people are not just interested just in his political stance though, but if he will change the state based policies, corruption and ties to Russia. This will take time so I will give him a chance to prove his worth.
Could you give an example? He’s already backing Ukraine and EU, and not siding with Russia in the war. He’s also declared that he will dismantle the old regime.
I doubt he will change the immigration stuff much, but tightening immigration policies is a norm in today’s Europe.
This explains a lot of what Europeans probably observe when examining American politics in the 21st Century. Out of all political offices held by elected politicians, the President is by far the one most people have the least control over, yet it consumes the attention of most people in every political camp you can imagine.
I’ll do my best to answer your questions in better detail tomorrow. I’m up way past my bedtime on this Thursday night, which we Americans stole from you Europeans because Thor’s day is actually pretty badass.
Also the political system differ pretty significantly.
In the US president is the most influential position, same (but different) in France. Every European country has different governmental structure and none of them resemble US model (well maybe UK a little, but it’s a democratic monarchy so maybe not)
In Finland the president is important in foreign policy, but has very little influence in inner politics. It’s considered important that president don’t even participate in debates between parties or touch legislation in any meaningful way (which he even can not do).
But I agree, The POTUS is over represented in European media, we generally follow much less gongress,not to mention state level stuff.
I was referring more to the stories in the Bible that were inspired by much older pagan stories, which some people interpret literally, like Noah’s ark and that kind of nonsense. I was not refering to the existence of God Himself. Besides, if He is actually for real I don’t wanna piss Him off. Old testament Him has a bit of a temper. You think Trump is petty, insecure, needy, and vindictive? Well…
I suppose we’ll need to watch and learn when it comes to the new Hungarian leader, but the woke left here in the USA was cheering the outcome as if one of their own had just won, when that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.
Speaking of woke left, I think Groypers should consider the possibility that they’ve fallen victim to a psyop, especially with the leader of that movement openly encouraging people to vote for Democrats to punish Republicans for not governing as Adolf Hitler would have. Fuentes’s ideas went from fringe to common even at the local level in an eyeblink. Some of my kid’s friends are now saying Nick Fuentes shit.
If you’ve been convinced that the Jews are running all of society for longer than Fuentes has been around, I guess you should be congratulated on your consistency. Neo-Nazis have been a thing for a very long time here in the USA, after all. The ACLU actually defended Illinois Nazis during the 1970’s, with the court case famously depicted in The Blues Brother’s movie.
If you just came around to this idea in the last couple of years, I think you got played by leftist subversives doing what leftist subversives do, which is lie about who they are and what they want. Here’s a headline from Maine’s largest newspaper playing the same kind of trick. There’s no way any “Republican” would ever even dream of voting for Shenna Bellows, probably the furthest-left candidate still in the race for governor, but enough money can always force the right kind of mental gymnastics.
Back to Groyperism, here is a side-by-side of “far-left” Ana Kasparian and “far-right” Nick Fuentes repeating identical talking points to their very different audiences, with both encouraging their followers to vote for Democrats to stick it to the Jewish overlords. All of the other differences between the two don’t actually matter when they are promoting the same political party that is now firmly captured by communists.
In local news, the judge who let yesterday’s manhunt suspect out on six different sets of bail conditions is the same judge who let Leein Hinkley out of prison after he stabbed the mother of one of my kid’s hockey teammates 11 times. He then went on to murder someone across the river in Auburn and burn a house down before being shot and killed by police. The same judge let out another bat-shit crazy guy who smashed over 90 cars at an Auburn dealership.
The pretense for allowing Hinkley to walk free was that The State of Maine couldn’t provide him with legal defense, depriving him of his Sixth Amendment rights to council. Maine has money for activist NGO’s, pallets full of needles to hand out to addicts for free, flop-houses for them to stay in, more NGO’s to provide other services, fake healthcare companies, benefits for illegal immigrants, but not for defense lawyers to process all of the crooks they attract to the state.
@SepCalla Earlier you mentioned that you think Maine has a corruption problem, not necessarily an ideological problem. I think you’re missing the rather obvious (to me) conclusion that the two go hand-in-hand by design. Democratic Socialism as expressed in Maine Democratic Party policy expands government spending dramatically at all levels of government, creating ever more opportunities for outright corruption along with many new beneficiaries of the spending, like the above-mentioned NGO’s.
Our state budget has gone up 61 percent since 2019, with Lewiston’s budget increasing by 44 percent during the same period. All while our schools grow worse, crime grows worse, crooks get let out on the street, immigrants flock to the state, massive amounts of fraud happens, and the political power of Maine Democrats becomes further entrenched.
Corruption is the goal of Democratic Party policy in Maine, not an oopsie daisy.
