John F. Morton

18.5K posts

John F. Morton banner
John F. Morton

John F. Morton

@musepwt

Deckhand. Penobscot Bay via the Kuskokwim. Experiencing technical difficulties. He/Him

Beigetreten Ocak 2011
917 Folgt306 Follower
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@MikeJohnsoupdo @BlueBob53 @wfdltd @nick_field90 Wouldn't life be easier if that were true. I'm a commercial fisherman myself. I know plenty well what it is to struggle. That's why I know you and others criticising Graham like this are full of shit and don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
English
1
0
0
23
Nick Field
Nick Field@nick_field90·
We need a Discourse Cycle about how Democratic recruiters aren't seeking actual working class people, but the child of wealthy people who have reinvented themselves as working class people. We could use some discussion on why this is happening x.com/lxeagle17/stat…
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17

Four points on Maine: 1) Mills is a very poor candidate. 2) Platner could beat Collins. 3) Platner is a very risky gamble. 4) Platner is doing best with upscale Dems, rather than non-college Dems — not what you'd expect from a "working-class whisperer" theargumentmag.com/p/is-graham-pl…

English
26
20
374
46.2K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@AlbenBarkleyFan @lxeagle17 Is a lobsterman who makes over 100k a year fishing not working class? You really want to go down this road? Are you that fucking stupid?
English
0
0
0
26
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson@MikeJohnsoupdo·
@BlueBob53 @wfdltd @nick_field90 Yes, it is. Being an oyster man with a trust fund is a very different experience than an oyster man living paycheck to paycheck.
English
2
0
4
120
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@adamjohnsonCHI Also, what the fuck is the centrist obsession with painting "college educated" in opposition to "working class"? "Well you have a degree and are self employed, you aren't working class. And commercial fishing isn't blue collar - cause I with my email job said so". Like... what?
English
0
1
37
1.2K
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson@adamjohnsonCHI·
This is very cleverly worded. Here Jain says Platner is “doing best with upscale Dems, rather than non-college Dems” without noting that, based on the polls he links to, he is ALSO winning working class democrats, just by a smaller margin. Brilliant stuff.
Adam Johnson tweet media
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17

Four points on Maine: 1) Mills is a very poor candidate. 2) Platner could beat Collins. 3) Platner is a very risky gamble. 4) Platner is doing best with upscale Dems, rather than non-college Dems — not what you'd expect from a "working-class whisperer" theargumentmag.com/p/is-graham-pl…

English
21
103
1.1K
79.5K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@TheMaineWire @JanetMillsforME If this were the old days, the boys in Winter Harbor would have already sunk his boat and cut his gear. Seems like the boys downeast have gotten soft in the last few decades.
English
0
0
0
6
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@TheMaineWire @JanetMillsforME No fisherman worth their salt has any respect for Billy Bob. He shouldn't be on the fucking water. Makes the rest of us who are actually competent at our jobs look like dipshits like him. An embarrasment to the fleet. He's not a real fisherman, by any definition.
English
1
0
3
18
The Maine Wire
The Maine Wire@TheMaineWire·
Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham will be joining us on MW TV today to respond to the tyrannical @JanetMillsforME attack against his livelihood. Going live at approximately 4:00 PM!
The Maine Wire tweet media
English
5
10
37
1.2K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@JanetMillsforME How about you vocally denounce AIPAC, refuse to take funds from PACs that defend Israel, commit to ending ALL aid to Israel, and call what's happening a fucking Genocide, Janet? How about that? While we're talking about "illegal wars". You are funded by those who wanted this
English
1
0
1
24
Janet Mills
Janet Mills@JanetMillsforME·
Maine people have already seen funding for their health care go to tax breaks for billionaires. Now Republicans want to cut health care even more to support an illegal war that nobody wants. This has to stop. End wars. Fund health care.
Axios@axios

NEW: Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. axios.com/2026/03/30/gop…

English
42
56
142
3.5K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@ethanmwolf The next few years are going to be extremely painful for you emotionally and mentally I suspect.
English
0
0
0
37
Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸
Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸@ethanmwolf·
This is Hasan Piker’s editor coming out and saying there is a large swath of Americans who sympathize with… checks notes… the Iranian regime. What an idiot.
Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸 tweet media
English
46
74
633
14.8K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@treeaston It's a private club, they're allowed to change the rules as they go as they see fit. But they did change the rules as they went along in order to throw institutional weight behind Hillary. People say it was rigged cause it was fucking rigged. They changed the rules midgame.
English
0
0
3
134
tré easton
tré easton@treeaston·
i *wish* the dnc were as organized, ruthless, and effective as some of you people think it is. i also wish to be jettisoned directly into the sun because how the hell are we still doing "it was rigged" discourse 10 years later?
n x d@nxd1979

this was a completely rigged election btw. the DNC gave clinton control over the party finances, the DNC leadership brainstormed media narratives to undermine bernie, donna brazile admitted to giving clinton debate questions ahead of time, the superdelegates etc

English
18
53
576
14.6K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@ohpwearhaus It's a real "if you're self employed you're not working class" attitude that belies a jealousy about their own labor relations that has nothing to do with any actual real class analysis.
English
1
0
0
13
Stephen W
Stephen W@ohpwearhaus·
@musepwt I think there's a deep misunderstanding of Maine working class by all of these terminally online "campaigners" and people angling to hang out at the Dew Drop Inn.
English
1
0
1
13
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
Liberals truly have no understanding of the terms "blue collar" or "working class", but that sure as shit doesn't stop them from using them!
English
2
0
3
100
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@Wilson__Valdez I guarantee I know more rural white americans than you do nationwide, and definitely in Maine, and yes, actually. You're just too fucking stupid to pay attention. But again. Going to be funny when he wins this thing easily! As I remind you; get used to losing!
English
0
0
0
37
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@CulRMartin She is not a poplar sitting governor. She is the least liked dem governor in the country. Her own state party leadership has repeatedly described her over the years as the "single biggest holdup to progress in the state"
English
0
0
0
8
Cullen Martin
Cullen Martin@CulRMartin·
1. How bad a candidate can Mills be when she is already a popular sitting Governor? 2. Can Platner hang onto his lead when the race actually goes into full swing in late April & May? The guy's got some real vulnerabilities.
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17

Four points on Maine: 1) Mills is a very poor candidate. 2) Platner could beat Collins. 3) Platner is a very risky gamble. 4) Platner is doing best with upscale Dems, rather than non-college Dems — not what you'd expect from a "working-class whisperer" theargumentmag.com/p/is-graham-pl…

English
3
1
5
293
wfdltd
wfdltd@wfdltd·
@BlueBob53 @nick_field90 he went to a fancy new england private school and then one of the most expensive universities in the country and his family has money, can we please not pretend he was some kind of bootstrap kid
English
3
0
11
340
Cocteau Triplet
Cocteau Triplet@DrCsC51·
@agraybee And upscale Democratic voters love the "working class" because, while they absolutely don't want to be working class, they love working-class tourists like Platner
English
1
0
1
295
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee·
That's actually exactly what I'd expect. Working class voters love the rich people they wish they were.
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17

Four points on Maine: 1) Mills is a very poor candidate. 2) Platner could beat Collins. 3) Platner is a very risky gamble. 4) Platner is doing best with upscale Dems, rather than non-college Dems — not what you'd expect from a "working-class whisperer" theargumentmag.com/p/is-graham-pl…

English
14
16
407
20K
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@aobrien2010 I've never viscerally understood the unbridled hatred for "from-aways" more than this week. And I'm from away!
English
0
0
1
22
John F. Morton
John F. Morton@musepwt·
@lxeagle17 You are so fucking ignorant of reality it's not even funny. Don't ever talk about Maine again, you clearly don't know the first fucking thing about it.
English
0
0
18
479
Lakshya Jain
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17·
Four points on Maine: 1) Mills is a very poor candidate. 2) Platner could beat Collins. 3) Platner is a very risky gamble. 4) Platner is doing best with upscale Dems, rather than non-college Dems — not what you'd expect from a "working-class whisperer" theargumentmag.com/p/is-graham-pl…
English
147
95
1.2K
257.5K

Entdecken

@MikeJohnsoupdo @BlueBob53 @wfdltd @nick_field90 @AlbenBarkleyFan @lxeagle17 @adamjohnsonCHI @TheMaineWire