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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Platner out
Date: 07/09/26 2:42 PM
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From the immortal Kurt Schlicter:

For a couple of months, Dems have been looking at each other, going “It can’t get any worse, can it?” And you know, all of us knew it was totally going to get worse. But the socialists wanted to roll the dice on the progressive, instead of on the safe, boring, dinosaur establishment candidate, whom he figuratively beat to a pulp in the primary.

And that means the progressives could not care. They could not care about that Totenkopf, or the onanism, or the raping. They only cared about the communism, and Graham Platner was there for them. He was a real progressive, but more importantly, he was a real progressive in one of those flyover-type states where progressives aren’t supposed to have a shot. If they could convince normal Maine voters to elect him to the Senate, then that kind of hard-core left-wing nonsense could be sold almost anywhere in the country. That was the power of Graham Platner. He was proof that the gangrene could spread. But, at the end of the day, he was gangrene. So the establishment had to amputate.

Whatever happens with Graham Platner—by the time you read this, he may have pulled out of the race in disgrace—this insurgency is not over. The progressives are going to learn lessons from this. One is to vet their candidates a little better, you know, by not picking people with Nazi tattoos in the future. But the other lesson is one they should’ve learned long ago. The establishment is serious and ruthless. It will figuratively cut their pinko throats without a second’s hesitation. And in that way, I guess you can’t paint anybody all black.

townhall.com - Platner is a hilarious symptom of progressive failure
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