FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CLEARING THE DECK IN MAINE EDITION.

No, really, is that how you pronounce "kilometre"?

We’re rid of Graham Platner at last. His removal comports with the widely-known difference in approaches to this sort of thing between the two parties; Democrats expel their sex pests while Republicans make them President. The latter are still trying to make hay of Platner's brief dalliance at the head of the Maine Democratic ticket; at The Hill, the malignant Liz Peek says that “after winning recent primary races in New York and Colorado, the elimination of the accused rapist brought the soaring far left back to earth — at least, for the moment.” 

As this claim is unsupportable, Peek spends the rest of her space shaking her fist at Zohran Mamdani, insisting the popular New York Mayor is riding for a fall because of shit no one actually cares about (e.g. “he refused to criticize the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’”). I’m surprised none of these idiots has tried “if they love collectivism so much why don’t they collectively share Platner’s guilt.” The centrist dipshits pushing other centrist dipshits to take Platner’s place (“he worked with Republicans to stop the deeply unpopular progressive push to extend government healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants”) are only slightly less bad.

Anyway, the first of this week’s Roy Edroso Breaks It Down issues to come out from behind the paywall is my Platner envoi. Here’s hoping Maine Democrats, who will soon find the Prestige Press inattentive to their state, can stop bickering and arguing about who killed who and run Susan Collins out of office. 

The other REBID freebie is a dramatic speculation on what’s up with Mitch McConnell. Coming on the heels of Jersey GOP Congressman Kean’s long-unexplained absence from work (which he finally revealed to be government-financed depression treatment of a sort that, were it proposed for actual working persons, would be supported by exactly zero Republicans), McConnell’s vanishing act and the weird coyness of his enablers reenforces the impression that Republicans not only can’t do anything for their fellow Americans while in office, they also can’t even be bothered to show up; also, the possibility that McConnell is some kind of dead can’t be discounted, as nobody thinks that trying some shenanigans with his Senate seat is beneath them. (There may not be any percentage in it, but you can imagine them lying about his demise merely out of instinct.)

Otherwise, it’s business as usual: ICE murdering a guy (and trying to remove the witnesses); Tubby choking the Iranian chicken; and the GOP prepping for November with candidates like the self-professed mass murderer who is now their official candidate for governor of Colorado. It’s as if every moment we allow the current crop of scumbags to remain in office emboldens Republicans to try and install even worse freaks and madmen.