Jon Reisman
With Earth Day (April 22 — did you even notice?) in the rear-view mirror and International Workers Day/Pagan Spring Festival (May Day or Mayday?) on the immediate horizon, I am preparing for a packed political palavering and punditry season.
I’ll be travelling to Augusta for the GOP convention, where I expect determined but very worried Republicans to unite behind Senator Collins against national socialist (as in Nazi) Totenkopf tattooed Graham Platner, his progressive supporters (headlined by Lie-awatha Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren, Crazed-commie Bernie Sanders, and apparently a clear and growing majority of Maine’s registered Democrats) and the no-bid contract bought off legacy press (Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, Maine Trust for Public News, and Newscenter Maine).
Following the lead of George Soros and the No Kings protestors, I reached into my oligarchic wallet and had the following shot from the Warren/Platner Portland extravaganza as a reminder of how the legacy press has one standard for the right (Elon Musk) and quite another for their leftist allies. I have to admit I’m somewhat stunned that the left has the chutzpah to attack Trump as Hitler and then nominate an antisemitic Nazi sympathizer to champion their leftist delusions, but they are either oblivious or simply don’t care. I wonder if HHS Secretary Kennedy will take steps to identify and control this dangerous outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome. A Nirav Shah-endorsed Covid-style quarantine/lockdown seems like the appropriate policy response. The only question is who will be locked down/censored — the obviously anti-semitic progressive left or the supposedly white-supremacist regressive right? Hypocritical disdain for the First Amendment can unfortunately be bipartisan. I’m pretty sure my leftist neighbors and acquaintances would be quite pleased to gag me, and I’m actually proud of that.
Immediately after the GOP convention, Platner is scheduled to campaign in Lubec, and he will find some Washington County Republicans aren’t buying his socialist schtick. Shortly after that, those same Republicans are hosting primary debates for State Senate District 6 (Representative/GOP House leader Billy Bob Faulkingham and former Representative Bucket Davis) and House District 10 (Representative Will Tuell and Lubec Selectman Dan Daley). Those debates will take place starting at 6 p.m. on April 30 in the East Machias Municipal Building. For some reason, I am not expecting all the Washington County leftists screaming about protecting Democracy to attend, but my capacity to be astonished at leftist hypocrisy will likely be reinforced yet again.
Jon Reisman is an economist and policy analyst who retired from the University of Maine at Machias after 38 years. He resides on Cathance Lake in Cooper, where he is a Statler and Waldorf intern. Mr. Reisman’s views are his own, and he welcomes comments as letters to the editor here or to him directly via email at jreisman@maine.edu.
