Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.
And I fucking HATE pedophiles.
Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.
People who defend that shit are SICK.
Point us to the country that has no active or ex-miltary in its legislature. I’d love to see this Nirvana to which you refer.
Congress is full of ex-military and vets, and always has been.
What an absolutely bizarre take.
Not from here, are ya?
Who the fuck says it has to be a Democrat?
Platner won the Democratic primary, so the Democratic Party of Maine will select the winner according to Maine law and the state Democratic Party charter. From the Portland Press-Herald article I linked above:
According to Maine law, if a candidate nominated in a primary election withdraws on or before 5 p.m. on the second Monday in July — July 13 this year — a replacement candidate can be named. Platner dropping out now makes that replacement process possible.
The Democrats have until the fourth Monday in July — July 27 this year — to fill the vacancy, according to the Maine Department of the Secretary of State.
According to the Democratic Party charter, the process for naming replacement candidates includes convening a nominating meeting assembled by a person appointed by the party chair.
The charter does not provide great detail on the process for picking a replacement but says the meeting should be run in accordance with state law and the party charter.
This is an archive link to the above Press-Herald article; I am aware there are problems with the archive site but it has the content. Use at your own discretion: https://archive.md/FaCOR
Sounds about right. For myself, I don’t think they can get past just how disliked Mills was during the primary. Poll or not, choosing someone that can actually win against Collins would seem to be the ultimate goal, but some of them would rather lose than take the wrong winner so who knows. They have until July 27, apparently.
Jackson has a pretty good platform, at least. There also seems to be a lot of ground support for Dr. Nirav Shah, which was a name I hadn’t seen much before now, and Shah has a platform almost identical to Jackson but not much experience to go with it.
I guess we’ll see pretty soon.
Agreed.
I love that GOOD BYE at the bottom, seems like we could just lead with that this time
Regarding Troy Jackson,
Created a committee to explore who should replace Platner?!
No, to explore his own run should Platner drop out. The Maine Democratic Party will make the final decision about who replaces him, as Maine law requires. They are describing it as an
in-person convention of about 600 people for the purpose of selecting a new Senate nominee
Here’s an archive link to that same Press-Herald article; I am aware there are problems with the archive site but it has the content. Use at your own discretion:
https://archive.md/FaCOR
It’s up to the Maine Democratic Party now.
For what it’s worth, they’re not going to give Janet Mills the nomination. She’s polling next to last in the half-dozen or so realistic replacements. My own money is on Troy Jackson, who has already created a committee to explore the possibility and who already has an established reputation in Maine politics.
This Politico article gives a good breakdown of who they will be looking at to replace Platner:
The Tuesday poll of 785 Maine voters showed Platner trailing Collins 47 percent to 42 percent. Eleven percent said they were undecided. It also tested Jackson, Bellows, former Senate candidate Jordan Wood, former public health official Nirav Shah and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills — who ended her Senate bid before the primary — in head-to-head match-ups with Collins.
Of the Democrats tested, Jackson performed the best, leading Collins 49 percent to 44 percent, with 7 percent of voters undecided. Bellows and Shah both essentially tied Collins at 47 percent and 45 percent, respectively. Mills, who has not weighed in publicly on the POLITICO report, trailed Collins 48 percent to 37 percent, while Wood trailed 47 percent to 38 percent.
The latest news is that the Maine Democrats are planning 600-person convention to replace Graham Platner: not a special election, but not a small committee either. This article is from just before the news came that he did actually drop out:
EDITED to add Politico summary
I laughed SO fucking hard at this, well done.
I hate that these people act like they have better things to do than walk into the hospital and find out for themselves.
Beshear IS finding out for himself, and for Kentucky, in a legally accountable way. For a governor, that is absolutely the correct way.
Between the change in how Kentucky fills a vacant office that McConnell himself pushed through in 2024 and the current R attempts to hide McConnell’s true condition, when the lawsuits roll – and they absolutely will – a letter goes a hell of a lot farther than a visit.
I am willing to bet Beshear gives far more of a personal shit about how to end the situation that he and the rest of Kentucky are being held hostage to by McConnell’s true condition than about seeing the guy in a hospital bed.
Here’s the letter, for anyone who wants to read it for themselves; note that it was sent to McConnell’s Senate address in DC, the address where McConnell’s legal correspondence as US Senator would be directed, and is addressed to him not personally, but in that senatorial legal capacity. This isn’t a get-well-soon note, though it may initially appear that way; it is a courteously and very carefully worded legal notice:
https://governor.ky.gov/attachments/20260708_McConnell-Letter.pdf
Maybe not. I just got done listening to Heather Cox Richardson – a Mainer herself – on the subject.
Noting that HCR has never offered a single word of endorsement for Platner (only that she thinks candidates for Senate should have some managerial experience prior to running) she now frames this as a great opportunity and lays out how Platner “was always going to be a heavy lift” because in a state that should be D+15, Platner has only ever run at +2. In addition, Collins has a dismal 17% approval rating, and there’s still time to get a new candidate. According to HCR, there are a number of qualified individuals in Maine who could step into the Democratic slot and not only be good candidates but actually win.
You may agree, you may disagree, you may be tempted to call it hopium and maybe you wouldn’t be wrong, but inasmuch as there’s still time to get a different candidate on the D side who presumably will not bring a history of sexual misconduct with them it’s not the worst thing, IMO.
That particular bit is at the 33 minute mark but overall it’s an excellent listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkDRcv1pzT4
Lol they did the EXACT SAME THING when I was young, during the Carter administration and the 70s energy crisis, calling Carter a “Communist” because he advised the same type of minimal thermostat management to conserve energy and asked people to wear sweaters to conserve heat. I remember people literally enraged about it, like how very dare he even suggest such a thing.
This is as old as time. They ignore it when the Republicans do it and scream holy hell when a Democrat does it, same as it ever was.
Our national trap house
Some crypto guy on X did a deep dive into the minutiae:
Apparently the law itself is so poorly written as to give anyone grounds to sue, which knowing McConnell might have been the point: in election law, timing is EVERYTHING.
That’s my guess as well. There was also reporting that said CPR was administered. When that is done on a frail elderly body, it creates many more problems than it solves.
He started with cardiac arrest and now he’s got maybe a chest full of shrapnel as well: he’s only leaving feet first, IMO.
In the US elections are entirely up to the state, regardless of any other factor: a state legislature can constitutionally address any unusual circumstances, like a natural disaster, according to its needs.
As a separate issue, in most states the governor simply selects replacements for vacant offices, like US Senator, and would also be able to do so in the event of any extreme circumstances.
But Mitch McConnell himself worked to change this in Kentucky in 2024, as soon as he realized he wasn’t going to run again and his health might give out on him: he wanted to ensure Gov. Beshear, a Democrat, could not select his replacement.
The law in Kentucky that he helped to push through, requiring a special election for his replacement, IS automatically triggered and only bars a special election from three months prior to a regular election. If that deadline is passed, in this case August 3, then the good people of Kentucky only have one senator instead of two until January.
But to have a vacancy, someone has reveal the truth that there actually is a vacancy to be filled. So the suspicion now is that the Republicans are going to try to hide McConnell’s condition until the first Tuesday in August – the last day a Kentucky special election can be called – so that Thomas Massie, a Republican who just got primaried out of his own Congressional seat, can’t make a run for McConnell’s now obviously vacant Senate seat.
This is an interesting debate – X link / (xcancel link) – around the minutiae of it; apparently no matter what happens now a legal challenge awaits in Kentucky. That’s what happens when someone like McConnell pushes through a badly written, ill-thought piece of legislation that isn’t clear enough: whoever doesn’t like it has grounds to sue.
Which is to say that he didn’t just fuck it up for his own vacant seat, he fucked it up for Kentucky as a whole, or at least until that law gets changed, by tying the governor’s hands when ANY state or state-related federal office becomes vacant.
If this is too long I apologize; I started off answering your own comment and then it expanded to the current situation. I hope you find it useful.
Exactly. If our esteemed representatives in DC gave even a fraction of this same shit about an actual habitual pedophile and rapist – of his wife Ivanka, other children, and quite possibly his own daughter – sitting in the highest office in the land, what a different country we’d have today.
Some do, certainly, and I don’t want to dishonor the very real efforts of some on both sides to see the truth come out.
But as a whole, their concern about Graham Platner rings hollow as fuck. And at this point I’d vote for fucking Pol Pot raised from the dead before I voted for that dinosaur Susan Collins.
HCR has already said she has no interest in running for office, and reiterated it just last week in one of her live chats. She apparently has the idea of public office suggested to her often.
And honestly she’d be wasted* in office: she’d certainly do well in any position, but no one could do in her stead what she is doing now for us.
*Not wasted in the Kash Patel sense, obv
There are dozens that have their new energy infrastructure costs and even their power usage shared among all the residents of that utility district. They’re hard to find out about because the contracts are often secretive – can’t imagine why – but this was going on for a while before people started to put up a stink about data centers.
This is a good article from about a year ago, and Benn Jordan has also talked about it on his channel, among others.