Jon Reisman

Maine's May political and cultural newsfeed has been something of a firehose, making it difficult for this Statler and Waldorf intern to pick a particular policy topic amidst:

• The JD Vance-led investigation of health care fraud/theft, mendacious Democrat corruption, oversight negligence/malpractice, and illegal immigrant voting schemes to keep Democrats in power. (Thank you, Janet Mills.) If LePage was Trump before Trump, Mills was fake moderate Democrat radical/Deep State plant Abigail Spanberger before she lied to and screwed over every right-of-center voter in Virginia. Mills and her minions have focused most of their efforts on screwing over the 2nd Congressional District voters who supported Donald Trump and anyone who has the temerity to believe that fourth-trimester abortions are not a good thing, which Maine taxpayers should support, while rewarding affluent 1st Congressional District leftists and climate alarmists. Who’s the oppressor/oppressed party, Janet?

Continued egregious legacy media (Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Maine Trust for Local News, and Newscenter Maine) (looking at you Phil Herschhorn) bias and malpractice, and the incredible investigative journalism/sunshine that Steve Robinson and the Maine Wire crew have added. I don’t trust the agitation propaganda the legacy press continuously pumps out. The climate alarmist caucus has strong supporters amongst the unbiased (extreme) weather expert meteorologists at Newscenter Maine, and the biggest fraudsters in Maine may well be the legacy media as opposed to Shenna, Somalis, and Socialists. 

• The Collins/Platner top-of-the-ticket Senate race. The Democrats are united and strongly supporting a Totenkopf-tattooed-antisemitic-pogrom-promoting socialist after calling Trump and Trump voters authoritarian-fascist-Hitler fans and Nazis (conveniently ignoring that Nazi is a diminutive from the German national socialist). Democratic socialists can tell themselves that it’s a different kind of socialism and they’re not really antisemitic — I’m sure some of their best friends are Jews. I expect a very close, very divisive race, with significant generational and congressional district cleavages. I hope Senator Collins runs an aggressive digital campaign, because the Jacobin (off with their heads/political violence is acceptable) Platner socialists most certainly will. On a personal level, I have made the decision to disassociate from Platner-supporting socialist antisemites, which has extended the division to my immediate family and ended my participation in weekly bridge games. I will try to avoid setting foot in Centre Street Church ever again. The message I hear whenever I see a Platner sign is pretty clear: let’s kill Jews.

• The Republican and Democratic Gubernatorial primaries, rank-choice voting, and partisan preferences. I expect the nominees to be Bobby Charles and Shenna Bellows, with independent Rick Bennett running as a climate alarmist and recovering Republican. I believe Shenna will win the Democratic nomination because she has demonstrated the most effective and consequential opposition to Trump. Former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem secured Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary nomination when she published a memoir bragging about having the courage and steely determination to put down her ailing and problematic dogs. Shenna’s message to secure the nomination: I’ll euthanize Republicans and evil Trump voters. She and Platner will make a fine team.

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.