Graham Platner, who has a skull-and-bones tattoo resembling the Nazi Schutzstaffel’s symbol

The totenkopf, specifically. I cannot tell you the literally COUNTLESS skull-and-bones tats I have seen on everything from Deadheads to Jolly Roger flags that have fuck all to do with Nazis. A tat on an oyster farmer doesn’t bother me a bit, and given this administration’s fondness for all things Nazi, including Pete Hegseth’s own array of actual Nazi tattoos, I think you’re looking in the wrong place for offense.

But hey, if you’re gonna go there and start equating appearance with substance, then what I really have a serious problem with is Republican Senator Susan Collins’ pearls.

She prefers clutching them to doing anything practical at all, except advancing the Republican party’s goal of abdicating their own constitutional powers to a would-be dictator as he destroys everything we care about, and right this very second is credibly threatening to wipe Iran off the map. Those pearls have absorbed a great deal of Sen. Collins’ power, authority, and duty that could have and should have gone to support her constituents and her country, and they are a disgrace.

Remember when she said she was certain Trump had learned his lesson? I do. And when when Trump officially kicks off WWIII – if he has not done so already – I will remember that woman’s useless, corrupt fucking pearls that helped put him there and keep him there.

If I were a Mainer, I’d vote for Platner in a heartbeat.

EDITED to add links

Note: My comment is a joke. Unlike the comment I am replying to.

Are you still joking, or is it that you never were, because you seem to be tripling down on your original shitty joke-but-not-really-joking.

EDITED to add: 19 day old account, lol. Should’ve known. Blocked.

She’s an evil Zio neolib like the rest of the Democratic Party. Crocodile tears

That’s literally MAGA speak with different slurs, lol

Hitler wanted a Triumphbogen, a triumphal arch, twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Triumphbogen

That’s just inadvertently hilarious. Especially because the entire article is an obvious reference to Trump’s own aspirations to the same gaudy spray-gilded trailer-palace chic.

So did I: this is supposed to be a representational democracy, with representatives picked locally, with elections held by each state, to represent their individual constituents at every level of government, near or distant.

If the people want a president gone, their representatives are supposed to be doing that for them. That is their specific job. Or to put it another way, if Congress were actually doing what they were elected and constitutionally empowered to do, there would be zero No Kings protests, because they’d have already used their powers to impeach.

The check on the elected representatives is that they are supposed to be disposable when bad, swapped out for better representatives through elections, which is part of why their term length is relatively short.

It used to work.

Truth. Aileen Cannon is so thoroughly corrupt and dedicated to covering up Trump’s crimes that her gag order on Jack Smith meant he could not even describe the contents of his report to Congress under subpoena in a deposition.

Seems like more people should be upset about this, but I guess we’ve all given up on democracy.

You, maybe. Certainly nowhere near ALL. I was out there on Saturday. It’s FAR from over.

They did intend the people to have both the right and the power to forcibly remove bad presidents: it’s been written into Article I since the beginning.

My personal take is that the framers of the Constitution never expected Congress to legislate themselves out of power, which is why many of the checks on executive power lie in their hands. But that is exactly what they’ve done.

I don’t think these majority Face Eating Party members have actually considered the fact that they’ve fucked themselves as much as they’ve fucked anyone else. But they’ll figure it out too, once they realize a king can appoint his own Congress: he doesn’t actually need them anymore either.

Rules of the comm say you have to use the exact title of the article. I had taken that off and then realized it had to stay if the post was to remain up.

Yeah, I think it’s safe to say that no one wants to watch an orange pustule erupt.

Six hour old account with post history of less than a single day insists year old account with plenty of Iranian content isn’t actually posting from Iran.

Posting the same lie twice doesn’t make it true, it just makes you a repetitive liar. So I’m just gonna block you now and limit my exposure to what I’ve already seen. Got enough misinformation coming at me already without your own ongoing personal amateur hour shit.

I still can’t understand why you need to register to vote? I mean, is that really democracy?

I literally do not understand what this question is trying to say, unless it is coming from a profound misunderstanding of what registering to vote actually means.

In the US, all elections are run by the individual states, across a land mass that is bigger than western Europe, and smaller only than Russia or China, and our voting process goes back to the late 18th century. This process actually worked really well for over two hundred years. It is only with the advent of electronic voting in the 1990s that there has been any real problem with our systems.

But regardless, both back in the 1700s and now, registering to vote in the US is simply a matter of providing your identity and address of residence to your state’s electoral board in accordance with that state’s laws. In return your constitutional right to vote in elections is affirmed by your state, again in accordance with that state’s processes, so that when you show up to vote your vote is properly validated and counted.

So given that understanding, what does registering to vote have to do with any system of government?

What’s not democratic about being affirmed as a lawful voter by the state where you reside, in a country where it is impossible to know all your neighbors by sight and where there even now are vast stretches of rural land that have few to no inhabitants?

It also means that you, as a voter, have zero LOCAL recourse to get yourself added back on to the allowed list, should you ever find you have been kicked off it. And that is by design.

In most (all? I don’t know) states, if there is any problem with your registration or ID at the polling place you are allowed to submit a provisional ballot, which is then counted after the problem is resolved, or discarded if it is not.

But with a federal – physically controlled in Washington, DC – list of allowed voters they can kick whoever they want off the voter rolls, whenever they want, for any reason they want or even no reason at all, and have that be the final word.

EVERYONE is on the disallowed voter list until and unless specifically added, by unnamed operators, in some completely opaque process, answerable to either no one at all, or just to some rubber-stamping kangaroo court in DC.

By contrast, the framers of the Constitution very specifically and deliberately left all election matters to the states, because they never wanted that concentration of power in the federal. Coming out of a very out of touch and physically distant monarchy they wanted people to never be too far from the mechanics of their own elections, so they very carefully wrote it the way they did.

And here we are.

Pretty sure this is gonna be a literal whitelist, as in white voters.

This is very clearly what they wanted all those state voter rolls for.

Pretty much, but as others have pointed out elsewhere, it’s difficult for him to rig the midterms for a number of reasons. It is entirely possible that both the House and the Senate will lose their majorities, even with all these obvious efforts to rig and cheat.

killing random people so he must kill all of them?

I think OP meant pulling out. You know, like Fred Trump should’ve done.

No great loss: at best, Mediaite only ever quotes other reporting. At worst, it’s like the above, which is a simple juxtaposition of “here’s what he said on TruthSocial plus what happened just after” so it’s not even a decent summarize and regurge.

Whenever I see Mediaite, I only ever open it to get the links to the real reporting they’re cribbing. This one didn’t even have that. I still upvote for visibility, but for real content anywhere else is usually better.

The Post and Courier article for anyone interested (paywalled):
Three years on Hilton Head leave trail of mysteries in alleged Jeffrey Epstein affair – March 29, 2026

Archive.world link (I could not find another one that actually had the article content):
https://archive.ph/tsDog

The Substack reporter, Ellie Leonard, who dug it up:
https://substack.com/@redpencilscript/note/c-227060790

This is really good. Thank you for taking the time to write it.

Outside of that I would argue that a protest planned for a specific time on a specific date with a specific end point is little more than cathartic. There’s personal value in catharsis but not societal value; it feels good but doesn’t create change.

But it does avoid all manner of exclusionary purity tests by making them almost impossible – something that is usually fatal for the left – while robbing the opposition of an easily attackable goal. Imagine if No Kings were riven with all the infighting and clashing of sub-goals other protests have been. That’s why I think it’s genius: it’s an unashamedly large tent, so much so that no one group or ideology retains a right to define, and therefore enforce, any given direction.

But that’s just me, and I think we look at this differently, but I appreciate you taking the time to explain what you meant. I will think about what you said, because you’re coming with nuance I had not considered and it’s a complex issue. Thank you for the reasoned response.

But you do. You care enough to reply at length, sending what I am absolutely sure is your very best. “Loser” lol. It’s all you have. :D