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Maine Democrats Are Losing the Plot—and
the People

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Posted By: DW626, 5/22/2025 10:36:34 AM

If Democrats in Vacationland thought the censure of Rep. Laurel Libby would put an end to the education policy debate surrounding Title IX—and the participation of biological men in women’s sports—they’ve misread the moment, misread federal law, and badly misread their voters. What was meant to silence dissent has only amplified it. What was supposed to end the debate has cracked it wide open. In March, I wrote about how Democrats’ schizophrenic treatment of women’s sports—both existential and irrelevant, depending on the news cycle—was a political liability that helped cost them the 2024 election. Today, in Maine, that liability is becoming a full-blown revolt.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thefield 5/22/2025 10:45:40 AM (No. 1954103)
I hope.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 5/22/2025 10:51:31 AM (No. 1954111)
We can hope that these lunatic leftists get removed from power. Given the fraud in elections these days, I wonder.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Maggie2u 5/22/2025 11:13:37 AM (No. 1954132)
I'm curious about the two dissenting Supreme Court votes. One had to be Roberts and the other? Barrett or Kavanaugh?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Lucky5 5/22/2025 11:42:52 AM (No. 1954150)
Nothing proves democrats love women's rights like banning a woman from voting because she disagrees with them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 5/22/2025 12:21:44 PM (No. 1954173)
The Maine GOP leadership will grasp defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Strike3 5/22/2025 12:26:10 PM (No. 1954178)
No problem, Susan Collins and Angus King will cover for you.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: udanja99 5/22/2025 12:40:04 PM (No. 1954191)
#3, more likely to be Sotomayor and Jackson.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 5/22/2025 1:10:20 PM (No. 1954203)
There are two types of people in Maine: the Mainers - my people, our roots in Maine go back to Colonial times - and Maniacs - the more recent incomers, mostly from Massachusetts, who have brought their mental libtardation with them. The Mainers have always leaned to the Right, but it's the Maniacs who in recent years have seized control of the government. But as usual, libtards have overplayed their hand and pushed too far left too fast. Here's hoping that the libtards' obsessive allegiance to LGBTQEIEIOMOUSEWTF?+ agenda has brought some clarity to Maine voters and results in them pulling off a Youngkin and flipping the state government back to the GOP. Even if they end up with a Collinsesque RINO as governor, it will still be better than the insanity they're dealing with now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: earlybird 5/22/2025 1:41:49 PM (No. 1954210)
#7 is right. You will find Jackson's very long dissent at the end of Original Article.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: earlybird 5/22/2025 1:46:58 PM (No. 1954214)
Last reply on dissent location. Here, and Jackson did the written dissent; Sotomayor joined. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1051_h3ci.pdf
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Reply 11 - Posted by: jasmine 5/22/2025 2:32:34 PM (No. 1954228)
Democrats were outraged when male prisoners at Abu Graib were stripped of their clothing. This human rights violation was properly labeled "sexual humiliation" and everyone understood it was done because being stripped naked before others IS sexual humiliation. The hypocrisy of Democrats today, who refuse to life a finger to protect the human rights of innocent female athletes stands in stark contrast to their concern for Abu Graib terrorists. Someone needs to have these bleeding heart Democrats explain why female athletes are required to "share" locker rooms and showers with men, when they understood perfectly well that it was SEXUAL HUMILIATION when men were stripped naked before others.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Maggie2u 5/22/2025 5:31:23 PM (No. 1954283)
Posters #7 and 9, I was being sarcastic.
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