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Skeptical

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@Timcast Perhaps the most retarded paid shill statement I’ve seen in a long time, congrats…

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@rorynotsorry Bad ass…

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@SteveRob It’s pretty clear if you have a functioning non TDS brain….

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@PeptidePartners Thus testing.. thanks for being diligent.

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@drawandstrike Not an op, just retards in Maine. In fact the entire group selecting the new Democrat nominee is are mostly teachers or representatives of the LBGTQ?* community. Its stunning.

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@SteveRob Pretty sure the excuse is worse that the bad performance. Imagine the stress of being a US Senator, how would she handle that. How is this person anywhere near government?

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@JDVance It cant stop there JD. Elections must be open source auditable. Without that nothing changes.

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@Scavino47 Come on Dan , that’s not a good sign..

[Steve Robinson @SteveRob]

The principal organizer of the protest at the ICE offices in southern Maine is Michael "Todd" Chretien, former state co-chair of the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA).

It's the DSA's show now. Whatever was happening behind closed doors with the convention to replace Platner has significantly changed in the last 24-36 hours.

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@SenatorCollins Bullshit, ICE must be allowed to do their jobs. If someone tries to run over anyone they have the right to defend themselves. Also if they are legally here, they have no reason to flee. This is garbage woke knee bending by a weak RHINO.

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@SteveRob @mikeshepherdME Disgusting

[Steve Robinson @SteveRob]

@mikeshepherdME Ted didn’t even get paid off by the gas station

https://t.co/3rfmKtC1sI

[Bobby Charles for Maine Governor @Bobby4Maine]

A Note to Graham Platner Voters 1/2

I know a lot of you are frustrated right now, and I want to talk to you directly, one Mainer to another.

I saw what happened this week. Graham is out, and now a room full of insiders in Augusta, influenced by Washington party bosses, is going to sit down and pick who goes on that ballot. Not the voters who showed up, not the people who knocked on doors or made calls, a closed room deciding who gets to run and who gets to hold power. The same establishment class of the same names will now pick the nominee.

Here’s the thing. I think many of you are frustrated with the administration, Augusta, and a system that seems built so that hardworking, average people can never quite get ahead, no matter how hard they work, while the people who are already connected keep getting taken care of. Against a system that feels rigged, self-dealing, and unaccountable to anyone. Against the sense that, no matter who wins, nothing actually changes because the same insiders keep making the decisions behind closed doors.

The Democratic establishment in the Governor’s race is Hannah Pingree and Rick Bennett, who are close with Janet Mills. Bennett and Pingree aren’t some outside voice challenging the status quo in Augusta; Pingree was Mills’ own senior advisor. She is Augusta’s chosen successor, handpicked to keep the same operation running with a different name on the door. These are people who are used to getting what they want and will do whatever it takes to keep it that way, whether that means a closed-door convention in the Senate race or clearing the field for their own candidate in mine.

I get your frustration. I have spent the last year traveling to every corner of this state and talking with tens of thousands of Mainers in diners, town halls, living rooms, and parking lots. I have heard the same story again and again: people working two jobs and still falling behind, seniors choosing between heat and medicine, small business owners buried by regulations while politically connected outfits get the contracts and the passes. It is the same corruption, the same rigged system, and it affects us all, regardless of party.

The insiders get richer at our expense; they’ve raised our taxes to the highest property tax burden in the country. Meanwhile, they take lobbyist money in their campaigns, curry favors, and, in Hannah Pingree’s case… live on an island away from the drug abuse and addiction that is so prevalent in our communities.

Let me tell you a little about who I am. I served in the Navy. I am the son of a public school teacher who raised me to work hard, play by the rules, and treat people the way I would want to be treated. I am not a career politician; I have never run for office before in my life. People are going to try to put a label on me because that’s what the political class does; it’s easier to slap a label on somebody than to actually look at what they stand for. But here’s the truth: I drive an old car; I do not live in some mansion. I have spent my career as an investigator, going after fraud and corruption wherever I found it, without caring whose name was attached to it.

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

A Canadian who lived their “universal healthcare” system for 32 years just gave Americans the reality check everyone pushing “Medicare for All” needs to hear.

She didn’t rant. She showed the receipts:

• Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48+ hours for a hospital bed last year alone.
• Almost 1 million Canadians now leave the ER without care because the wait is too long (up fivefold in some reports).
• ER doctors warn these delays are lethal.
• 5.9 million adults still have no regular family doctor.
• Specialist waitlists are exploding — median 28.6 weeks from GP referral to treatment. Some doctors are closing practices to new patients.
• Only 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people — well below the OECD average. Hallway medicine is routine. Patients die on stretchers.

Her line hits hard:

“We want universal healthcare… until we learn.”

She’s not wrong. Canada’s single-payer model gives coverage on paper but delivers rationing by queue in practice. Long waits aren’t a bug — they’re the feature when government controls supply and prices.

America’s system is also broken: crushing costs, administrative bloat, and real gaps for the uninsured or underinsured. We spend nearly twice as much per person and still have problems.

The solution isn’t importing Canada’s waiting rooms. It’s fixing supply (train more doctors/nurses, cut red tape), adding real competition and price transparency, expanding HSAs/direct primary care, and protecting innovation.

Be informed before you trade one set of problems for another.

[Maine Wire Jon @MaineWireJon]

156,084 people voted for Graham Platner.

Now, roughly 600 people will decide who replaces him.

No election.
No primary.
No real say from the voters who already cast their ballots.
The party of the “No Kings” rallies is now acting like one.
Democracy, apparently, is only sacred when it benefits Democrats.

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@BasedBiohacker What dosing? I’m assuming it’s higher than what most people are doing.

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@BernieSanders No one cares what your lying ass says, go back to Vermont and keep your grift going elsewhere. You knew this smuck had a checkered past but it was a means to an end for you and that’s all you care about.

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@vedichi_ @RetaDiary Nice. I was wondering how people deal with creatine while on Reta, not many people seem to discuss the topic.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True