[The headline refers to this post.]
I keep hoping someone, maybe one of you, dear readers, will make a YouTube video of the moment at the end of “The Godfather” where Connie confronts Michael, now the new and soulless Corleone family mafia boss, accusing him of having her husband (who deserved it, but never mind) murdered. I want the three seconds where, sobbing, she rages to Diane Keaton as Michael’s clueless wife Kay to look at the newspapers: “That’s your husband! That’s your husband!”
I want to add it to the Ethics Alarms Hollywood Clip Archive, because it has become the perfect metaphor for how the Trump Deranged and desperate Democrats are behaving as they try to take over the nation’s culture and government by any means necessary. Dear progressives and Democrats: “That’s your party! That’s your party!”
In particular, Maine’s female Democrats should have to wear their heads under bags. They had a woman as an alternative to vote for rather than the domestic abuser, sexting Nazi-admirer and didn’t. Why, you well may ask? Rotten values? Civic ignorance? Stupidity? Women don’t “read the papers”? It doesn’t matter why; this is res ipsa loquitur. Now we know #MeToo was a cynical partisan scam; we already knew, or should, that the now defunct “Times Up!”was a lie with a non-profit designation. No “feminist” who voted for Platner or who supports the political party trying to put this epic creep in the U.S. Senate should ever be taken seriously again. Former governor Janet Mills is no prize, but I can guarantee that she’s never sent anyone dick picks. I’m pretty sure she didn’t have a Nazi symbol tattooed on her chest either.
I just learned, from former Mainer commenter Arthur in Maine (below), that about 14% of Maine’s Democrats bothered to vote. That is also disgraceful.
Count on the New York Times to come up with fatuous rationalizations for why this damning primary result is a good thing. In “The Good That Can Come From Platner’s Candidacy,” intermittently conscious Times captive conservative Bret Stephens argues that two alleged boons may come from the Democrats chucking all of their alleged principles to present an absolute bounder to the public as an acceptable member of the Senate:
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Platner scored approximately 72% of Dem votes, according to the Bangor Daily News. 100% of votes have been counted (eat THAT, California).
Shocking? Well, not really. According to the Independent Voting Project, there are approximately 1 million registered voters in Maine. That includes approximately 326,000 registered Democrats and 351,000 registered independents.
Platner’s 72% victory was earned with roughly 136,000 votes. In other words, less than 14% of registered voters pulled the lever for him. And here he is.
Loathsome as Platner is, to me this is less an indictment of Platner and more of an indictment of the primary system used in so many places in the United States (at least Platner scored big enough to avoid the ranked choice voting system progressives conned the state into approving – the Governor’s races for both parties and the D nomination for the Second CD are going through that preposterous bullshit as I type this).
Platner wasn’t some organically-rising state pol when all of this started. He was recruited by out-of-staters with the Democratic Socialists of America. I’ve seen reports that they initially had their eyes on someone else but went for Platner because their first choice carried baggage that oppo research indicated would be problematic. Gosh, but I’d like to know what THAT jerk did if Platner was seen as the safer choice!
As has been proven many times now, primaries attract only the most highly-motivated voters, and that’s what produces wingnut candidates like Graham Platner and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And, arguably, Donald Trump.
So much for democracy, eh? No wonder the Founders didn’t trust it. Maybe it’s time to revert to the smoke-filled rooms.
I tried to find out what the % of eligible voters voting was. 14% is disgraceful.
I remember, years ago, that people on the right were upset that a conservative survivor of a school shooting, Kyle Kashuv, had his offer of admission to Harvard rescinded because of his previous liberal use of racial slurs for black and Jewish people. I think it was even a little contentious here, but I remember saying that I didn’t mind the rescinding, because not everyone gets to go to Harvard, and there were probably a near infinite number of applicants with equal qualifications that didn’t have a documented history of racial slurs.
This is almost an identical situation – Even fewer people get to even run to be senators backed by major political parties, there has to be a nearly infinite pool of people to draw from, you’d figure you’d be able to find one or two without Nazi ideations. Except that there were some, they’re right there… In the loser’s columns. This would be like Harvard specifically tapping Kashuv over one of the other candidates despite knowing about his moral failings. It’s indefensible.
Many moons ago, I decided that universal suffrage wasn’t a good thing. Too much liberty and a focus on equality will destroy a nation from within. Our nation came close to achieving a balance that never happened in any major nation, but many people do not really have a deep moral core. They just adjust to whatever is around them.
Look at OnlyFans. If we let the market decide full stop, this is what we get. Every person is not qualified to vote or hold public office, but I fear we are on the downward trend now. Trump seems like a blip to me. I think we are going to get more outrageous public candidates and a more biased judiciary before things get better
Platner is almost everything Democrats claim to hate. Mamdani is similar in an ideological sense because he believes in Islam, which isn’t consistent with western civilization and is at odds again with what the left claims to believe.
I think the biggest problem is that the Democrats hate Donald Trump (and Republicans in general as a close 2nd). Platner is anti-Trump (as is Mamdani) so his myriad issues are just things they “little h” hate, as opposed to Trump, who they HATE!!
I wonder if the Democrats look at Platner the way we did the Soviets during WWII, perhaps a relationship of mutual interests destined to shatter when Platner is no longer needed to oppose Trump.
Jeeeez, Josh! I write these things, and nobody reads them…that’s exactly the argument James Carville made, discussed here.
Criticism duly noted Jack.
Seems like an obvious political calculation though. You could be even more cynical and say the Dems can use Platner as a way to show they aren’t intolerant of people who have “redeemed” themselves. Look, we aren’t in favor of cancel culture. We nominated a former neo-nazi womanizer!
Stephens is simply Trump deranged. The tell: “shameless people, our current president not least.” The inability to say or write anything without bring up “Trump!” is the first symptom on the list.
Interesting. Using AiM’s numbers, Platner’s “74%” win was done with approximately 6.8% of the registered Democrat voters in Maine. [It would be even less is those registered as Independent are allowed to vote in the Dem primary. Maybe half of the 6.8% since there are slightly more Independents than Dems, essentially doubling the pool.] The bottom line is: can the incumbent draw enough of those of the Dem-Indy pool who voted for other than Platner (including those who abstained) to win in November?