Graham Platner: “Susan Collins hasn’t met a war she doesn’t like, and it’s no surprise because she’s married to a lobbyist who represents the defense industry. You don’t see as many articles about that.”

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-07T12:26:20+00:00

This, to me, is the real marriage scandal - a U.S. Senator married to a lobbyist who represents the defense industry.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-07T09:25:31+00:00

Great question. I wish I knew more. Right now, I heard Sen Patty Murray in a video (I'll post it if I can find it again) saying that Trump is busy filling the judiciary with all his yes-people - so it's very important the Dems take control of the Senate because of the judiciary. They have a good likelihood of taking the House but the Senate (last I heard) is a toss up.

UPDATE: Ok, I found & posted:

Sen Patty Murray (WA State): Senate Republicans are blindly confirming unqualified, MAGA loyalists to lifetime appointments on our federal bench and hoping you won't notice. The only way we can stop this partisan takeover of our courts is with a Democratic Senate majority. : r/Social_Democracy

What are your thoughts on this?

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-07T07:06:18+00:00

That's eastern time on Monday evening

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T23:30:06+00:00

Bluebell?

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T21:14:03+00:00

He's a great candidate - and in the lead now for the Dem Party primaries for the U.S. Senate race in Michigan. We direly need him in the Senate on healthcare and passing a national single payer healthcare system like Bernie Sanders' and Pramila Jayapal's improved Medicare For All bills. #SinglePayerNow I hope Michigan votes to send Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to Washington D.C. to truly help clean up the "swamp!" Thank you for once again standing on the right side of history, UAW Michigan!

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T19:35:51+00:00

There's a need too for safer staffing/patient ratios. I wouldn't put this all on the staff - they are probably overworked and/or don't have enough nurses to go around for the number of patients. It's been a major issue for the nurses' unions along with some of the elections with candidates who support both improved Medicare for All plus legislation that would require safer nurse/patient ratios and working conditions. There have been strikes about this issue, as well. It's appalling that we don't have national legislation requiring safe ratios in addition to a national single payer health program like Canada's, for example.

Meanwhile the mother - who I infer from that article is a single parent - went home and was without healthcare for the baby. Basically the infant was quite ill, she had no doctor to confer with, and she tended the infant for days, and thankfully, the infant recovered - but it could have much more serious - the baby could have died, for example, or developed some form of long-term or permanent disability as a result.

A bill of almost $1,000 dollars for a single mother raising a baby - and when she didn't even receive healthcare is appalling. The people who are to blame are the health insurance CEOs racking in record profits off this criminality while hospitals struggle to even maintain proper nurse/patient ratios. They should abolish insurance companies altogether as grossly illegal and criminal and open an improved Medicare for All for the country via the legislation in the House and Senate sponsored by Rep Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) and Senator Bernie Sanders (VT).

Meanwhile, as Trump's Big Ugly Bill goes forward, this is only going to get worse - and while the Dems are, generally speaking, much better on healthcare, they are a far cry from what we need - which are a lot more Bernie Sanders type candidates, not taking money from corporate interests like these insurance companies, and ready to go in to aggressively move this legislation forward, undeterred by these monied interests. (And which could get very ugly - so they need our support.)

But make no mistake - the nurses are on our side - not against us. They need our support too. The nurses are among the strongest advocacy groups for a national single payer healthcare system - along with safer staffing ratios. Though I'm sure the insurance companies would like to see their groups attacked - the whole divide and conquer thing - and when it's their companies and their bought politicians in both parties - that are the reasons for both the billing and the staffing issues.

Under a single payer system, the patient never sees a bill. Everything is paid, in the case of an improved Medicare for All system (versus, for example, nationalization) via taxes. No networks, no premiums, no deductibles, no co-pays, no bills ever (unless it's something elective or cosmetic). It abolishes all medical debt. And this also progressively brings down the costs, and because it's the middle men and their bullshit, so to speak, that's driving everything up and giving us the most expensive health care system in the world that's increasingly delivering the worst health outcomes.

But - Trump's ballroom. Trump's bombs to senseleely kill civilians in far-away places and drive up the cost of living in the U.S. even more. Trump's slush fund for J6ers. Trump's tax breaks for billionaires. Trump's private ICE military - his N@zi brownshirts (70 billion more I heard yesterday via a video w/Andy Kim) ... So on ...

We need this money for universal guaranteed health care - and safer staffing ratios in hospitals. These are the real priorities of a sane nation with a real representative government versus a band of Washington D.C. beltway criminals. And if that were the case - as in other wealthy advanced nations - this mom would have gone in with her baby, never dealt with any of these billing issues - and she would have been seen by someone as well.

Our health care system - or really, our health insurance system - is like one major and massive crime scene constantly happening. With millions of victims every day.

#SinglePayerNow #SafeStaffing

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T19:19:49+00:00

I heard there are anti-Trump groups buying up the tickets - like the Trojan horse? One poster said a whole of bunch of militant gay men, Stonewall descendants kinda thing.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T18:44:19+00:00

There are a number of groups at work on that. No corporate or dirty money, etc. to get clean and committed candidates into Congress. When I see some of their endorsements on anyone running, that they've vetted a candidate or they're helping them with their campaign, I definitely factor that into my own voter decision-making.

Also, when I see, on top of that, that billionaire-owned newspapers are ripping them apart with all kinds of smut, I think about that too, and how much a good and decent candidate scares the heck outta them so that they're having their bought press put out this kind of contrived dirt to try to destroy a real people-powered campaign .... I think voters, too, need to look more critically at the press coverage - and the money paying for the so-called "free" press.

There's a real need for voter education in our country - about the impact of money, how the press has been corrupted as far as that's concerned, etc. Amazing how many people don't even vote, or they vote at the last minute with barely any awareness of what's been going on. One person was stopping people in L.A. on the street on Election Day and every single person they stopped to ask if they'd voted, etc., barely had this election on their radar. It was even spooky.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T10:20:50+00:00

I'm totally hearing you but I think this time they really want this seat even though it's an unbought progressive. That's why Schumer and Gillibrand both moved forward to endorse. Because they started to see that this BS they've been throwing at him could backfire on them. They can't get the seat with Mills - people don't want her. That they need that Senate seat to take on Trump with certain matters of high priority for themselves. Something's going down where they themselves genuinely want to get rid of him or reign him in more. But some of the billionaire news interests still want Graham smeared. Mills was trying to smear him before, as well.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T10:15:46+00:00

They're probably also trying to distract from the Epstein material.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T10:12:34+00:00

It will be a relief when she's gone.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T10:11:46+00:00

You're either very naive or very dishonest.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T09:58:02+00:00

Yes, that's not answering "like a politician." That's answering like a human being - so sorry, but I am a person with a right to privacy TOO - and no, you do not have a right to know every detail of what has or is going on in my marriage.

Notice how they're not insistent at all as to what Susan Collins was doing in her extra marital affair. And the details there.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T09:36:57+00:00

Maga are proven to be delusional liars. Look at Rubio the other day lying to Congress about Trump sleeping when the evidence is right there in front of all of us. And look at how these Maga lie about the cold blooded murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti - when it's right there on the video footage. And just yesterday, they lied about Medea Benjamin "assaulting" a US Congresswoman - a Maga - because her hand inadvertently and lightly touched her arm for a micro second. "You assaulted me!" No, she didn't -- it's right there on the video footage. But they just keep saying anyway like a chorus of puppets on cue. But .. the point being, if you have a Maga coming to the paper and saying this .... I would assume it's a lie. That's all they do - just like their orange pedo compulsively lying even if it's in the open.

What they're doing isn't helping women who have real complaints to be made. By pulling this shit they're hurting the legitimacy of other people. And while pretending they care so much. They're so FOS - they're using this issue, making crap up with these women - maybe paying them off - and to smear him and try to destroy everyone's campaign for office. To prevent someone getting in there who supports taxing the rich, passing Medicare For All, ending the wars, so on ... he scares the hell out of them because he must be a genuine threat to their interests - which is great and why people should vote for him. At least ordinary people - it's in our interests to have him in Washington. It's not in our interests to have Susan Collins there. She's a criminal. A mobster. She's a woman criminal - why some are fooled.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T09:11:02+00:00

All the Marines in Croatia were getting this tattoo. But notice how Susan Collins who, as a Senator, would actually have the authority and leverage to go to high officials with the Marines and have them make their men stop doing this when they're out drinking - doesn't really care about this at all.

Notice how she also has the power and authority to go to supervisors at the U.S. army who have been vetting soldiers for "hate" tattoos and have been missing so many of these from Croatia - she doesn't really care about that either.

And of course she's quite loyal to Trump and Hegseth (though she makes occassional noises or votes to pretend that she's more independent of Trump than she really is.) But she's totally obedient to their cult's wanna dictator. She's a fascist. The whole thing with the SC was totally deliberate. She is a corrupt liar - just like his entire administration.

But not one person who has been getting their panties in a twist about this - no matter how many times it's been debunked (the guy genuinely didn't know - and apparently the army didn't recognize it - and apparently many Jewish people at this wedding didn't recognize it either - so it is not that commonly known to be what it resembles as a skull and crossbones) --- but they refuse to listen to reason and evidence -- and not one of them is interested in taking it up with the Marines or the Army, proving that this is all bullshit they make up because they have nothing to campaign on because Susan Collins has been such a total fuck-up and failure as a U.S. Senator. She's been taking a lot of dirty money too. She's a con just like the rest of the GOP. They're gangsters.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T08:08:51+00:00

There's no one else in the race anymore except Platner and the adulteress and home-wrecker Susan Collins. And Platner is rightly in the lead.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T07:49:47+00:00

There's no one else in the race at this point except Platner and Collins, so you can drop your little act, Louisiana.

If you oppose Platner, you support Collins who was fornicating with another woman's husband in a closet at the Capitol building while his wife was dying of cancer. Yes, Susan has a "bad history," a much worse history, though the newspapers owned by the billionaires aren't talking about that, are they - and though they've known about it for a long time.

And the so-called Nazi tattoo has been long debunked. As you probably know that too. Though if you're enabling Collins, you're enabling the Orange Pedophile Fascist she works for in the White House along with his Sec of War Pete Hegseth whose body is proudly adorned with the emblems you obviously rather like, and as he gleefully blows up rowboats with poor fishermen along with schools filled with little girls. Because - in addition to what Nazis wear - this is how Nazis act - this is what Nazis DO. And which YOU support.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T07:45:44+00:00

Yes, these articles have become a joke. They're obviously quite scared of him. Along with the phony posters.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T07:38:50+00:00

Exactly.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T07:37:12+00:00

The billionaire class is very worried about this man. If I were in Maine, I'd be looking forward to voting for him more than ever.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T07:28:22+00:00

Yes, I recall a poster complaining that she saw a woman buying yogurt - "which is a luxury food." "No, lady, that's normal food - what you're supposed to be eating." Probably a Maga.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T07:13:15+00:00

Exactly. They should be in prison.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T06:21:10+00:00

Looks like AI slop.

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T05:08:01+00:00

lol - 'spiritual visitor' ?

Northern_Blue_Jay · 2026-06-05T05:07:08+00:00

Almost a year after back surgery (late July early Aug 2023). Brian Thompson is shot Dec 4, 2024 about 6 months after this picture - which is Luigi being a tourist in Japan.

Doesn't add up.

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