I don't know that he can beat her. He's new and untried. He's never run for office. He has a great manner and an excellent message and I absolutely *want* him to go to the Senate, but Collins is extremely good at winning in Maine and this is a tough lift. He has to prove he can do it.
I said this a few times on Facebook in 2016 and got into so many arguments with angry people that I shut up about it for years (and then quit Facebook after the election), but now I feel very comfortable saying it. The VOTERS have to want you!
My first awareness of Jason Alexander ever was catching bits of this as I walked through the room as my roommate was watching it on our tiny portable in 1992 or something. Every time I went back and forth to the kitchen, something even more fucked up was happening onscreen.
I just do not understand what the fuss is. You want to show me you can beat the heretofore unbeatable Susan Collins? Beat Janet Mills! Then we'll talk.
But he won because he's an asshole who gives them permission to be assholes. That is more precious to them than anything else on earth, that permission.
Me too. I saw tons of posting here leading up to the shutdown expressing rage and puzzlement, "the GOP WANTS to extend the subsidies, they'll fold on their own, why are we helping them??"
I think we all overestimated their political savvy and underestimated their massive hatred of the ACA.
I really like Antonio Delgado so much and I am sad that his greatest service to this nation seems to have been helping to push Hochul left, but I salute him for it. And of course most of it is Trump.
Definitely very different! The Grounding of Group 6 is a realistic, if over-the-top, YA novel about parents who send their kids to a boarding school with the express purpose of getting rid of them permanently.
