Graham Platner, who has a skull-and-bones tattoo resembling the Nazi Schutzstaffel’s symbol

The totenkopf, specifically. I cannot tell you the literally COUNTLESS skull-and-bones tats I have seen on everything from Deadheads to Jolly Roger flags that have fuck all to do with Nazis. A tat on an oyster farmer doesn’t bother me a bit, and given this administration’s fondness for all things Nazi, including Pete Hegseth’s own array of actual Nazi tattoos, I think you’re looking in the wrong place for offense.

But hey, if you’re gonna go there and start equating appearance with substance, then what I really have a serious problem with is Republican Senator Susan Collins’ pearls.

She prefers clutching them to doing anything practical at all, except advancing the Republican party’s goal of abdicating their own constitutional powers to a would-be dictator as he destroys everything we care about, and right this very second is credibly threatening to wipe Iran off the map. Those pearls have absorbed a great deal of Sen. Collins’ power, authority, and duty that could have and should have gone to support her constituents and her country, and they are a disgrace.

Remember when she said she was certain Trump had learned his lesson? I do. And when when Trump officially kicks off WWIII – if he has not done so already – I will remember that woman’s useless, corrupt fucking pearls that helped put him there and keep him there.

If I were a Mainer, I’d vote for Platner in a heartbeat.

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