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@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.

@musepwt @BlueBob53 @wfdltd @nick_field90 I don’t think you know what it’s like to actively worry about supporting yourself or your family.

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…

@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?

That graph if anything proves @lxeagle17 point. x.com/adamjohnsonCHI…

@MikeJohnsoupdo @BlueBob53 @wfdltd @nick_field90 I don't think you know anything about what it is to be an oyster man

@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.

@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?

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.

@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.

@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.

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!

@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

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.

@ethanmwolf The next few years are going to be extremely painful for you emotionally and mentally I suspect.

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.

Israel is engaging in mass execution of civilians in concentration camps.

@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.

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?

@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.

@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.

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!

@Rizabellepow And it's going to have no effect.

This isn’t even half of it.

@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!

Dude get over it. It's already been litigated. No one will ever bring it up again. You think rural Mainers are going to care when they learn he thinks they're 'stupid and racist?' Get a grip. What they really care about is The Oligarchy and Benjamin Netanyahu.

@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"

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.

@nick_field90 What the fuck do you think "working class" means?

@wfdltd @BlueBob53 @nick_field90 that has nothing to do with his relationship to the means of production, you illiterate oaf

@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

@DrCsC51 @agraybee How is he a "tourist"? How is he not "working class"? Does he not labor for his money?

@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

That's actually exactly what I'd expect. Working class voters love the rich people they wish they were.

@aobrien2010 I've never viscerally understood the unbridled hatred for "from-aways" more than this week. And I'm from away!

I don't think I ever seen so many dumb takes about our state as I have during the past week.

@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.

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…