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Don’t lose heart, Republicans — Dem disasters like Graham Platner will only make things much, much worse
New York Post ^ | Miranda Devine Published May 24, 2026, 7:01 p.m. PT | Miranda Devine Published May 24, 2026, 7:01 p.m. PT

Posted on 05/25/2026 11:25:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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Exhibit A: Graham Platner, the Dems’ hard-left Senate candidate in Maine who cosplays a rugged working-class oyster farmer. He has been given the superstar treatment by the likes of the New York Times and Time in airbrushed cover stories praising him as a “rough-hewn, gravelly voiced … flawed everyman” whose numerous scandals — sporting a Nazi tattoo for 18 years, excusing rape, masturbating in porta-potties, mocking a Purple Heart recipient — are proof of his authenticity and “redemption arc.”

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Platner wears his hyper masculinity like a fat suit. It’s hiding something he doesn’t want us to see. Everything about him is a concoction: the gravelly voice, the boots, the flannel costumes, even the offensive tattoos. He and JD Vance are the same age — 41 — and both are former Marines. But in the quality of their character, they are exact opposites. One was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and grew up into a spoiled, destructive narcissist who joined the Marines, got a Nazi tattoo, didn’t get married until he was 40 and has never had children — although in fairness, that shouldn’t be held against him, since various soft-soap articles say he and his wife went through IVF treatment in Norway earlier this year.

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Take Texas Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico, who believes there are “six genders” and that God is “non-binary.” Then there’s Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, the sex therapist who wants to lock up “Zionists” in detention camps. Or leading Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigns with vile, dog-torturing, Marxist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and was caught telling staffers to avoid commenting on the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because Dearborn voters were upset about it.

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How many of us had relatives who died fighting Nazis, now they are electing a Nazi senator?
1 posted on 05/25/2026 11:25:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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But he’s a Democrat so it’s OK. (Nothing to see here.)


2 posted on 05/25/2026 11:29:52 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey (No.)
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To: nickcarraway

In my view, liberalism was at its highest point in 2020. Now, due to it going too far and demonizing whites and aborting the children of liberals, it’s on a demographic decline that we can take advantage of and fix America back to the way it was intended.

This could be very good.


3 posted on 05/25/2026 11:32:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He spent a week hunting a mammoth, just because I said I was hungry. He's such a good friend. )
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To: nickcarraway

They elected a former Grand Dragon of the KKK as a Senator.


4 posted on 05/25/2026 11:34:09 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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5 posted on 05/25/2026 11:34:14 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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God is “non-binary."

Since there is only one God then He would be a singleton ... or would the Holy Trinity make Him ternary?
6 posted on 05/25/2026 11:34:30 AM PDT by posterchild
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In my view, liberalism was at its highest point in 2020.

I don't think there has been a liberal in the Democrats in 30 years. Or vanishingly few. 2020 was the least liberal year in our country's history.

7 posted on 05/25/2026 11:36:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Liberalism is just a word that means socialism. I don’t equate it in any way with the liberalism of 250 years ago.


8 posted on 05/25/2026 11:38:50 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He spent a week hunting a mammoth, just because I said I was hungry. He's such a good friend. )
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Well, that is not good. But that was a solely U.S. organization. Nazis were a foreign organization that fought a war against our country.


9 posted on 05/25/2026 11:49:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Ge0ffrey

Well it is even meritorious - he’s a “flawed everyman.” Meanwhile if a Republican every said anything even a tenth as bad as this guy even when they were a teenager, they are a “threat to democracy”.


10 posted on 05/25/2026 11:52:53 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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No, liberalism is not socialism. Conservatives giving the left free license to change the language was a huge mistake that we have to learn from.

When they changed the word "sex" to "gender" it had a profound impact, but nothing was done. Gender is a grammatical concept, it has nothing to do with humans.

I hear conservatives today say, "there are only two genders." There are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. It applies to nouns.

Conservatives apparently learned nothing from Eric Blair/George Orwell. Language can be used to control us.

11 posted on 05/25/2026 11:53:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Some languages further divide the genders, e.g. masculine into masculine animate and masculine inanimate.

I’ve never seen the much talked about ‘gender on drivers licenses’ I’ve only seen licenses with sex listed.


12 posted on 05/25/2026 12:02:56 PM PDT by posterchild
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Galindo, Talarico, Platner and El-Sayed are despicable people.

But they are just what Democrats want as candidates.

And all 4 of them could win.

The odds are slightly against is Galindo because she is running in a nominally-GOP district which was reconfigured last year. Also she still has to win her runoff tomorrow otherwise she’s out already (but some other less nutty — probably — Democrat will advance to the general election.

The odds MAY be slightly against the Muzzie in Michigan. He should be the weakest of the 3 clowns running on the Rat side. Their primary is still over 2 months away, which is nice because that gives more time for the Rats to chew on each other.


13 posted on 05/25/2026 12:03:56 PM PDT by PermaRag (Facts, context, and more facts)
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"In my view, liberalism was at its highest point in 2020. Now, due to it going too far and demonizing whites and aborting the children of liberals"

I'll bet the string pullers that aren't public are now thinking they shot their wad a little early. They weren't expecting the pushback they got, or the resistance (J6rs, going after old women and Latin mass goers, the four years of bogus lawfare on Trump-- it didn't have the intimidation effect they thought it would).

Then came 2024

Trump and others started kicking out the legs that propped things up, like USAID among others.

The rearguard actions of the McConnells, Tillises, Cornyns, and Thunes that were giving 'bipartisan' cover are starting to backfire.

I won't go as far as to say the kicking of the hornet's nest from 2008-2015, or moreso from 2029-2024 has gotten the swarm fired up, but the swarm is buzzing.

14 posted on 05/25/2026 12:04:42 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: PermaRag

Galindo has become the “Sistah Souljah” of this election cycle.

Democrats are falling over each other to condemn her.


15 posted on 05/25/2026 12:05:05 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: nickcarraway

Platner? Shucks, he’s possibly the poster boy for the dems these days. And after we all knowingly saw morondummy get placed in the mare’s office in nyc, he might just win. Because the majority of voters are tiktoking cat videos or some perv displays to know anything for real about socialism/communism. Or they all assume they will be the block commissar and immune from the poverty most will face. Fookin’ idjits!


16 posted on 05/25/2026 12:08:14 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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Graham Platner actually IS what Democrats THOUGHT they were getting with John Fetterman.

They are both idiots. One won in 2022, the other is favored to win in 2026.

Susan Collins has been counted out before, and she’s probably not going to lose by as much as 7 points like every poll says she will (then again she might), but her luck is going to run out someday and that day likely comes in November.

It’s logical to believe that voters will eventually run away from a Nazi candidate, but that’s only true if the candidate is a *Republican*. Platner will receive nothing but bouquets from now until he is sworn in.

And then even more unless he pulls a “Fetterman” and stops being a lunatic. But with the Fetterman example (one term and done) staring him in the face, Platner isn’t going to “moderate”. He doesn’t want to, and the media nor any other Democrats are going to suggest that he needs to.


17 posted on 05/25/2026 12:13:31 PM PDT by PermaRag (Facts, context, and more facts)
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And seven years after Muslims killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11, we go and elect one as president.

Consider we have a Cuban communist and an antisemitic Muslim Socialist as mayors of our two largest cities and nothing this country does surprises me anymore.


18 posted on 05/25/2026 12:17:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: PermaRag

I posted an article last week referencing that the DNC was actively working to cancel Galindo in favor of Johnny Garcia.

Really! She is even too stupid/insane for Democrats!


19 posted on 05/25/2026 12:22:05 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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Trannyrico wants Texans to stop eating beef. ROTFL. Friggin’ Tranny Beaver Cleaver.


20 posted on 05/25/2026 12:27:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal Alien Border Invaders are the broken windows of America. Influencers of violence and crime.)
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