Kabe

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Ah, so the election would be bipartisan? That makes sense for the Republicans but doesn't then explain why the Democrats aren't demanding the election go ahead in his absence. The fucker is obviously dead.

I mean, I know the Dems often act as controlled opposition, but this is just embarrassing.

Oh, you know -- the usual shower of Twitter chuds saw the racially diverse cast and took the film as a cultural assault on Western civilization.

They dismissed it as wokeslop before they had even seen it, and now that the movie is out and a critical success, they're beside themselves.

A few years ago, I would have dismissed this type of thing as tinfoilhattery, but hear me out.

Don't you think the way the newspaper is incorporated into the shot is odd? The positioning is strange -- like it doesn't quite belong with its surroundings.

Well, what if someone took an old photo and used AI to add today's newspaper in at the bottom of the frame? When you zoom in on the newspaper headline, it looks like gibberish.

Hand holding newspaper

Could it be compression artifacts? Maybe. But even then, the shape of the letters looks very odd. Doesn't even look like English.

If no stronger evidence materializes, I reckon this is a fake intended to buy some time.

One of his aides told the NYT:

“If he was to step down it would only be with a guarantee of being replaced by a candidate who he believes is true to the values and vision and policy agenda of the campaign that Maine voted for."

Fortunately, there is such a candidate - Troy Jackson. Despite being sidelined by the media during the primary, he's working class, a union guy, and a progressive. He has even been endorsed by the Maine chapter of the DSA:

The obvious move, then, would be for Platner to stand down and make way for Jackson to take up the cause.

No but they are a strong indicator of the way the wind is blowing. The Maine Democrats organization has just also called for him to stand down and the pressure is quickly mounting.

Soon the pressure to drop out will be so strong, his base will splinter and he won't have a choice but to concede. It's looking pretty much inevitable at this point.

This is only true for those who have been mainlining Western liberal news media for the past decade. Just sayin'.

(And before anyone says anything -- We can go back and forth about exactly how much blame lies at the hands of Russia, but someone around here needs to acknowledge that 1) cheerleading on behalf of the military-industrial complex is gross in any form, and 2) you're being fooled if you think that no other country contributed to Russia's decision to invade Ukraine, to even a slight degree).

Both of these possibilities could be true, of course.

The latter theory also is how I believe Trump was persuaded to start military action against Iran. But I think it is also highly likely that the Israelis have dirt on Trump via Epstein, who had ties with Mossad and frequently fraternized with top-ranking Israeli officials.

However, to leak this information publicly could cause some major blowback, given how unpredictable a cornered Trump would be. It's easy to imagine him going on a live newsfeed and start throwing all kinds of people under the bus if he thought he had nothing left to lose.