Anonymous wrote:TEXAS IS IN PLAY

it's prpbably still a mirage, but...

Adulterers of a feather flock together!
Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas senate race.

Anonymous wrote:Trump is really bad at playing politics. Chosing loyalty over the easy victory needs to be studied

I think he honestly believes that whoever is the Republican candidate, Texas will go Red. They think Talerico will be a bust like Beto in the end. I hope they are wrong.

TEXAS IS IN PLAY

Trump is really bad at playing politics. Chosing loyalty over the easy victory needs to be studied

....wow

Trump is set to endorse Paxton

Anonymous wrote:Not knowing much about Graham Platner, I was wondering if he had any rizz. Is he a good speaker? Do people want to listen to him?

There's a handy invention called "YouTube" where you can see clips of him speaking. That said, it takes a lot for a candidate who has never been an elected official to displace Janet Mills, the establishment candidate and former governor pushed by the DNC.

Not knowing much about Graham Platner, I was wondering if he had any rizz. Is he a good speaker? Do people want to listen to him?

Anonymous wrote:#Other98 percent

Graham Platner is a four-tour Marine combat veteran and oysterman from a Maine town of 1,200 people and he's beating Susan Collins by seven points.

Sooo mainstream media has decided the real story isn't her record. It's whether he's really working-class enough. The New York Times just devoted 2,500 words to the question.

Let's run that side-by-side.

Platner wakes up before dawn and works the water. Most of his income is tax-free disability he earned over four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives in a small blue-shingled house in his hometown of Sullivan.

Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband Thomas Daffron are sitting on an estimated net worth between $4 million and $40 million. Their portfolio is stocked with Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ConocoPhillips, and Johnson & Johnson, all companies she helps regulate from her Senate perch.

One of these people is the working-class one. The press appears unsure.

They want you to know Platner's dad helped him with a mortgage. His mom buys his oysters. His grandfather designed nice furniture. He went to a prep school as a teenager.

Meanwhile this gets treated as routine. Susan Collins took $2 million from private equity king Steve Schwarzman on June 27. The very next day she cast the decisive vote to advance Trump's bill projected to kick at least 10 million Americans off their health insurance.

It wasn't her first time. In 2017, Collins floated an amendment to close the carried interest loophole, dropped it the next day, then voted yes on Trump's tax bill.

Schwarzman rewarded her with another $2 million that cycle.

When a billionaire writes a senator a check, the press calls that politics. When a father helps his combat-veteran son buy a $205,000 house, the press calls that a story.

Thank you.

#Other98 percent

Graham Platner is a four-tour Marine combat veteran and oysterman from a Maine town of 1,200 people and he's beating Susan Collins by seven points.

Sooo mainstream media has decided the real story isn't her record. It's whether he's really working-class enough. The New York Times just devoted 2,500 words to the question.

Let's run that side-by-side.

Platner wakes up before dawn and works the water. Most of his income is tax-free disability he earned over four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives in a small blue-shingled house in his hometown of Sullivan.

Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband Thomas Daffron are sitting on an estimated net worth between $4 million and $40 million. Their portfolio is stocked with Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ConocoPhillips, and Johnson & Johnson, all companies she helps regulate from her Senate perch.

One of these people is the working-class one. The press appears unsure.

They want you to know Platner's dad helped him with a mortgage. His mom buys his oysters. His grandfather designed nice furniture. He went to a prep school as a teenager.

Meanwhile this gets treated as routine. Susan Collins took $2 million from private equity king Steve Schwarzman on June 27. The very next day she cast the decisive vote to advance Trump's bill projected to kick at least 10 million Americans off their health insurance.

It wasn't her first time. In 2017, Collins floated an amendment to close the carried interest loophole, dropped it the next day, then voted yes on Trump's tax bill.

Schwarzman rewarded her with another $2 million that cycle.

When a billionaire writes a senator a check, the press calls that politics. When a father helps his combat-veteran son buy a $205,000 house, the press calls that a story.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cassidy loses in Louisiana but his concession speech is aimed directly at trump without mentioning Trump's name.

I wonder if Cassidy will start voting his conscience for the remainder of his term

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/louisiana-election-bill-cassidy-live-updates-rcna344986

I think Cassidy’s loss is linked to his vote for RFK jr, not Trump. He needs to accept he is responsible for the death of every child whose demise could have been prevented by vaccine.

Cassidy voted to impeach trump in 2021. It's more of Trump's getting even for not supporting him.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cassidy loses in Louisiana but his concession speech is aimed directly at trump without mentioning Trump's name.

I wonder if Cassidy will start voting his conscience for the remainder of his term

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/louisiana-election-bill-cassidy-live-updates-rcna344986

I think Cassidy’s loss is linked to his vote for RFK jr, not Trump. He needs to accept he is responsible for the death of every child whose demise could have been prevented by vaccine.

It is both, isn't it?