b-boy bouiebaisse: real asshole right here www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

real asshole right here www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just finewww.bangordailynews.com “Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise.”

Insane to write this in 2016, to write it in 2024 suggests to me that this person has been lobotomized.

the problem with the “frontliners” is, as always, that in pursuit of their own seats they do enormous damage to the rest of the party was Manchin the only possible Dem who could win WV? yeah did everyone else suffer because of the constant “Joe Manchin calls this an overreach” shit? yeah

I think it’s a bit of a catch-22. In the short term, supporting guys like Golden is probably a good idea. In the long term, I think doing so does significant harm and probably costs many more seats than it wins. But you’ve gotta risk losing Golden’s seat to find out.

It was pointed out that Golden worked for Susan Collins before he became a democratic rep.

AOC is NoT a ReAl DeMoCrAt

Susan Collinsitis has infected the whole state

"Members of Congress, including leaders from both parties, certified the election results." This sentence is written to deliberately obscure the fact that most of one party did NOT certify the results of two states

Also, why does it matter how Republican leadership voted? They have different leadership in the House now

At least that different leadership isn't beholden to their extremists in order to maintain their position, instead of being at all open to bipartisan compromise! Then I might worry!

Tell me that you haven't heard/read the Project 2025 project without telling me that you haven't heard/read the Project 2025 project. And, SCOTUS just handed Trump a blank cheque to do it, and has dismantled the administrative state that was the backstop during his first term.

Oh he knows about it, he just doesn’t care because as a white straight man, he is least likely to be impacted.

This party is the entire rational spectrum of politics, and it's unsustainable. The cracks are finally showing up in public.

"please don't drone strike me, I will be compliant"

Oh, he is so ready to switch parties if Trump wins.

Or play Bipartisan stooge.

worthy of a primary. anyone downplaying Donnie should not be taken seriously.

Unfortunately ME-02 is the West Virginia of New England.

"I will be fine, therefore everyone will be fine." No, Jared, not everyone will be fine. Not everyone made it through the last Trump presidency, JARED, and that was a test run for the next MUCH WORSE version.

And if Jared was being intellectually honest in this piece, that would really be “I will be fine, therefore I don’t give a shit about the rest of you.”

Shame it's too late to primary the SOB.

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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’twww.theonion.com George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

They're really trying it huh

Someday, they'll finally have to admit that the whole "acting in good faith" belief was always a fucking fantasy that only one side ever tried to pay lip-service too. Articles/statements like this say one thing, and one thing only: "Everything might go to shit, but I personally will be unaffected."

I think we have found out where RFK’s brain worm went

Don't talk about me behind my back like that

Golden’s brand from day one has been “developed in a lab to win 50.1% of the vote in ME-2” and honestly, it seems to be working, so at some level I have to hand it to him

Hitler will take Poland and everything will be just fine.

What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the FUCK.

guy's been voting against Dems from Day 1, and the early connection to Manchin is a big and ugly tell of who he is, but JFC what a self-aggrandizing fuckwit

Motion for the congressman from Maine to get fucked.

This guy is wrong about everything until it's too late. www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-g...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden reverses course, now in favor of assault weapons ban after Maine mass shootingwww.cbsnews.com Rep. Jared Golden of Maine has previously been unsupportive of gun control legislation passed by House Democrats.

He'll change his tune during Trump's 3rd term.

real "I for one welcome our new MAGA overlords" vibe

Bro's got way more faith in these institutions than is deserved at this point. Also, easy to say "things will be fine" for the pasty boy representing mostly empty space in Maine. Yeah, I'm sure you'll be just fine, let's hear from someone who represents actual people, especially marginalized ones.

So his defense for Trump is democracy will probably survive ?

Canada has been preparing contingency plans with the expectation that we will fall into full dictatorship if he wins again.

I was going to venture that this comment was well beneath you. Then I read the piece. He is a real asshole. And yet.

He talks about Jan 6th as if it’s an unpleasant but acceptable part of the process. If it were “dark day” why not say what led to those events, and how was involved? And how the person involved might be the reason the election is about the state of democracy?

Close your eyes and think of… corporate profits.

Big difference between 'not as bad as we're afraid it will be' and everything will be just fine.

not as bad for who? For who, MF

Did Susan Collins write this?

Is he trying to pull a Kyrsten Sinema this early?

Charitable interpretation is that he's trying to make his district look more Trumpy in order to scare Nebraska away from eliminating congressional district EVs.

State legislature in Maine already committed to returning to en bloc EC allocation if Nebraska does, and there's the D votes to pass it.

Yes, my point is that thanks to that, if Republicans are convinced they can win ME-02 (despite it having a D Congressman) they'll be less likely to pull the trigger on Nebraska.

His district is pretty Trumpy. I don't blame him.

White moderates gonna white moderate.

That has the same effect as 'calm down, Roe vs Wade is settled law'.

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