I think everyone needs to recognize the level of infiltration of White Nationalist trash into our military.
#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Don't forget the police!
And don't forget the Megachurches.

There is nothing "working class" about Platner.
#25 | Posted by BellRinger

He's got a ------ tattoo.
That's working class.

Like LA Sheriffs and California prison guards with their tattoos.
Working class.

"When everybody's a Nazi, nobody's a Nazi."
--JeffJ

"Did the Republicans make him get the Nazi tattoo?"

You think a tattoo someone got in the military sets their political agenda in stone.

Did Republicans teach you critical thinking skills?

"I am far more critical of Trump than you are of any Democrat."

Hahahahaha.

"Trump is the GOP's Bill Clinton."

Sure. Clinton increased the debt 39%, just like Trump.

"Securing the southern border to almost unprecedented levels has been probably his best achievement"

What metrics are you looking at to call this an "achievement?"

Impact on GDP? It's reducing GDP by about 1%.
Cost? It costs about a half a trillion dollars.
So it can't be either of those. What then?

"Securing the southern border"

Yeah ICE sure did secure that Southern Minneapolis border!

"You are simple incapable of abiding an opposing viewpoint."

Give us an example of one of these "viewpoints."

"If I'm running for political office in this environment and don't want to be branded a Nazi sympathizer, I'd have ditched the tattoo long ago"

Better late than never!

Let me run this past you:

Part of his political journey is coming to the realization that his military experience took place in an environment chock full of Nazi sympathizers. Men like our current Secretary of War.

Could that be a thing?

You also might agree that covering up tattoo normally covered by clothing, a tattoo with sentimental value representimg the camaraderie with his fellow soldiers, is essentially the equivalent of Obama saying "Fine" and wearing the stupid United States flag lapel pin to silence the small-minded critics.

How do you feel about that.

"Was it a swastika, or SS?"
Go look at the pictures and you tell us what it is.

"If someone is that easily swept into an authoritarian culture, I'd have questions."
Are there answers which can result in you thinking person isn't actually a Nazi?

On policy, he is. And I laid it out.
#63 | Posted by BellRinger

You didn't talk about Fiscal Policy.
You didn't talk about Inflation Policy.
You didn't talk economic impact of Border Policy.

On policy, he is. And I laid it out.
#63 | Posted by BellRinger

Lay this one out for us:
"I love the inflation!"
--President Donald J. Trump.

A bag with 99 turds and one apple?
It's still technically a "mixed bag."

The Democrat.
He won't be getting STD's vote?
Shocking.

"Yeah, I'm rankled by Nazi insignia and people who get it literally drilled into them. "

Law enforcement is awash in fascist and racist tattoos, uniform patches, and so on.

If you're only looking at it from "which ones are bad for Jews" that's your choice, but understand you're wearing some pretty dark blinders.

-So running a corporate DNC candidate to beat him isn't an attempt to take him down?
No, it's not an attempt to take him down.
#121 | Posted by eberly

How does that work?

Dude: I'm entering the race as a Democrat:
DNC: Okay, we're backing someone else with our money.

Dude: Oh, so you're trying to take me down?
DNC: No, not at all, we just don't want you to win!

Maine is like 1-1.5% Jewish.

It's probably the sorry truth that someone from Maine doesn't benefit from the critical mass of Jews needed to bring about a broad cultural awareness of Jews.

You know, like I got living outside NYC where the schools were closed for Jewish holidays. And some of the stores downtown were closed on Fridays. And some of my friends didn't go to CCD, they went to Hebrew School.

I work with a guy who didn't see a black person in person until he was eighteen years old. Can you believe that? So he occasionally says some racist sounding ----, but it's really just ignorance.

nasty attitudes
#142 | Posted by eberly

Eberly is doing the "Trump talking to female reporters" thing.

"easily explained tattoo"
is that what it is? Doesn't seem like that at the moment.
#127 | Posted by eberly

Explaining that water is wet to today's Republicans?

Is both a Herculean effort, to try to get them to understand.

And a Sisyphean task, because they'll forget all about it the next time Trump says shine a flashlight up your butt.

You're sticking up for a very interesting cohort today. I didn't realize previously you were so fond of the people who can control your life, along with the courts, and ruin it when they want to, and oh, that was just a boyish gesture.
#154 | Posted by Dbt2

That's every politician, isn't it?

Do you not stick up for any politician, then?

Give me your take on Robert Byrd. Unrepentant racist in his long Senate tenure, his racism cast in stone because of his youth?

"Are we the baddies?"

"Sounds like an excuse for every red voting demographic in America."

If that's what you want to hear.

The guy I described is not a red voter.

But he's a white male, like me. That's a red voting demographic right?

"Did you see his posts?"

No, but I suspect AIPAC will make sure I see them soon enough! Or are they not really so Nazi after all...

Tattoos in general are extremely widespread compared to when I was a kid. Moreso for the DR contingent getting Jell-O on their meal tray.

A common complaint from people who remember when tattoos "meant something" is that tattoos have been democratized to the point they don't convey a clear meaning like before.

Tattoos don't always mean what they used to. Go into your local trashy bar and you'll probably find woman with sea sparrows, even though she's never been to sea. She just like the design, saw it on other people, and the tattoo artist isn't here to be a gatekeeper.

This guy's tattoo probably doesn't mean much more than "Me and the boys got inked up with some fierce looking tattoos, as soldiers do when completing our male bonding rituals."

"Would you have suspicions about a 40-year-old nominally Democratic politician who willfully attended a Klan meeting with his pals in his youth?"

No, because history tells us Democrats were the Segregationist party at that time.
You didn't know that?

Deciding who this guy is, because of some tattoos, ignoring everything else, while also not being an expert on tattoos?

That's how Kilmar got sent to El Salvador prison for a crime he didn't commit.

I am surprised that's how you want to play this one, Dbt2.

"Why don't black people tip? I work as a bartender and it always amazes me how solid this stereotype is."

That's not problematic. Anyone in the service industry is aware of this stereotype.

"Speaking rape, "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f"-ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to?"

That's good advice. That's what every father tells his daughter. Obviously I can see how someone would say it blames the victim. Meanwhile, every father has told his daughter she will be the victim if she does that. Which is also blaming the victim. And it's also considered good advice. This is right down the middle.

"Whole lot of F off and Dies."
"He was a sad, lonely, incel ----------."

Not great but probably not insurmountable. This is why we have the phrase "It gets better."

If insurmountable, the only politicians we will ever have in the future will be the ones with handlers curating their internet content from before they turn 18.

Now, I don't know if this guys is any good or just another piece of ----. I think we'll know by November and what's the rush, does anyone here even live in Maine?

But I suspect one reason certain people can't imagine he's any good is personal. Some people haven't grown from a crappy version of themselves as a young man to a better person in middle age. Again, I'm being optimistic that's what this guy is. For all I know, he could see the Libs as an easy mark, which they probably are.

His other posts said F the cops, paraphrasing here, but an armed working class is required for justice, I'm a communist, etc. Armed Leftist with an unfortunate tattoo might be an appropriate label.
#173 | Posted by sitzkrieg

That sounds like the standard issue toxic masculinity edgelord stuff. Puffed up ------- who just came out of the military says what? Alpha Male --------.

I'd say the stuff we're hearing from women is probably the worst for him. That being said, it doesn't sound like he's got 25 documented sexual misconduct allegations waiting to be unearthed. So you get to choose if you want a the party that rapes women or girls. Women who drank too much and made themselves targets of opportunity, vs girls who were groomed by a well funded global crime ring.

I bet most voters can see a moral line separating those two things.

This election is so much more fun than Talarico vs Paxton.
#179 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Yeah that's been pretty disappointing. Nobody's going nuclear anything.

He did 3 Iraq and 1 Aghan tour, then went back as a State Dept contractor.
#176 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Alpha Male EdgeLord confirmed.

I know a bunch of those guys. They're all nuts. It's one either or the other.
Start the polymarket timer now for when he sells out. Watch his stock trades, follow him like the eyepatch guy.

#185 | Posted by sitzkrieg

The roided out white guys who can't stand "Identity Politics" from beneath the brim of their Black Rifle Coffee Company snapbacks, completely unaware of the irony of the Punisher decals -- because they've never read the books -- adorning their Mall Crawlers.

Domestic Violence priors are no less a black mark on a man's character than traffic tickets, in these communities.

I wouldn't vote for this guy now. No matter what.
#189 | Posted by Effeteposer

Abortion rights don't matter more to you than your own hurt feelings?

Nobody saw this coming.

It went from only a few people had tattoos to only a few people didn't have tattoos. Though some people never will for cultural/religious reasons.

Someone my age who I'd never expect to get a tattoo now has them now. Another guy I know uses to wear long sleeve shirts to cover his full sleeve, now he doesn't.

People really revel in themselves. It's a generational shift.

I think a lot of it comes from athletes and rappers. You know, hero worship. Glorification through emulation.

"I'm on the fence about Abortion anyway."

That makes no sense.
You can't get pregnant.
You don't have a fence to sit on, about abortion.
Which is why you don't care about it. That part makes sense.

"Hurt Feelings?"

I won't judge a man by his words when he can be judged by his actions.

So yes.
His words hurt your feelings.

Otzi, the 5,000 year old Iceman, had 61 tattoos across his body.
#196 | Posted by donnerboy

I Just Hate Killing.
#200 | Posted by Effeteposer

See?
Feelings.

#208 That's just dumb.
Individual endorsements are not the same as the party's endorsement.

"I Just Hate Killing."

Susan Collins has actually killed people, by enacting Republican policies.
Not said she wants to. Gone ahead and done it.
That doesn't disqualify her?

"Yeah, boy. Another freethinker we want in office."

Better than Republican doormat Susan Collims.

"Towards the end of their lives, George Wallace and Lee Atwater both recanted their vile racist lives."
"Mother Teresa and Graham Greene made death-bed confessions contrary to the lives they led."

Too little, too late.
Planter, on the other hand, is not on his death bed.

"I don't buy into US party politics being 100 percent Israel controlled."

I don't think that's the actual complaint:
The parties are identical on Israel.
Israel isn't a thing we get to vote on.