"I held Trump accountable" or whatever nonsense she spouted...

This one was so satisfying. To see that scum Collins gone is just a relief.

Here's a crazy idea: they're both the fault of billionaire greed.

Thanks, sometimes my phone doesn’t copy stuff properly and I don’t notice when I paste it.

The link goes in the URL field, it will then ask if you want to copy the article title as your post title. You can still fix this post, the title is editable.

What a goblin of a human being.

Fuck Bobby Charles. And if you are voting for him, fuck you too!

it seems an independent won in 2024.

I mean... he was governor before that, and he caucuses with the Democrats.

Three things are true:

1. He has aspects of his past that he needs to confront directly.

2. He seemed to be sincerely evolved from majority of any demonstrated bad behaviors, most of which are unfortunately more typical from a male in the US that doesn't grow up with privilege and ends up in the military - an organization that, by design, breaks people and then reshapes them into the same well-conforming hate machine (a hate pointed outward initially, that inevitably points more and more inward).

3. His public takedown was a carefully engineered and intentional effort by the establishment right or left or both in concert.

4. Mitch McConnell died last Thursday after a long and ultimately successful effort to disassemble American democracy.

Oh... Four things actually.

The Dnc likely wanted either collins or mills who would play ball. they wouldnt support any other candidate.

They should have pulled him when we found out he had a nazi tattoo for two decades.

I don't want to completely dismiss it but it certainly feels that way to me.

I agree. They (establishment democrats or republicans) learned from the late stage Biden fiasco on how best to disrupt an election to retain/gain power and it's happening again. All these last minute accusations seems fishy. The guy has been in the spotlight and in the running for over a year now and they wait to go public until now?

Meanwhile, the president raped children and still has not been held accountable for fucking kids.

Of course it comes out after the primary.

I think it's pretty unwise to blindly trust accusations like this, and there has clearly been astroturfing for and against this guy. Politico's evidence when this story broke is her testimony, corroboration that she told this story to a third party, and that she went to therapy for it? I don't think that alone is enough to jump to the conclusion this happened, but I also don't know how you could prove this either way.

Pragmatically, if this seat ends up being the difference between a GOP controlled house and a Democratic controlled one, they gotta make a call soon to replace this guy if there's even a shred of truth to it. But the timing and obvious political motivations gives me pause that this is substantial.

So very strange that people are just jumping on this obvious false flag operation.

Meanwhile the president has a rape conviction, Biden had a harasment allegation, and no charges have been brought from the epstein files.

People shouldn't take a rape allegation lightly, and its a shame that we so often do.

I have defended Platner in the past, saying that he had likely changed. And maybe he has changed, but what is clear now is that he hasnt changed enough. A rape allegation at any point should cost him the election anyways. But paired with the fact he refuses to take accountability, and the fact this was in 2021 which is after his change in beliefs, it adds a lot of weight to the accusations that he hasnt changed at all.

Whether or not he has changed is irrelevant to me now. Rapists, reformed or not (which Platner is not due to not taking accountability), should not hold power. Platner needs to drop out immediately.

I am so let down about this.

He says his goal with the moratorium was to buy time for Sullivan and its residents to “get ordinances in place and have a deeper and more nuanced conversation.” Renewable energy advocates expressed understanding of that rationale.

Sounds like his reasoning was completely understandable, so much that people pushing for solar thought he had a good point. But you keep licking those GOP boots. The adults are ready to move forward.

Bad policy tells you a lot more about a politician than what they say.

Reads like a cheap smear article.

Because everyone fucking makes mistakes and some people take that as an opportunity to grow. He talks like us, looks like us, came from the same place as a lot of us. He isn't pretending to be something he isn't like seemingly most other politicians. He's using Trump's "not a politician" schtick from the left.

Mills has been a fine governor but I really don't want her representing the state on a national stage. I think Graham is a lot closer to the average working class Mainer and that's a big part of why people cut him the slack they did.

Thank god. Electricity up here is ridonculously expensive.