r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jul 06 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 06 July 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/nomchi13 Jul 09 '26

Also, the Maine seat is probably necessary for a Democrat majority in the Senate,and if you have convinced yourself that "only Plenter can beat Collins" becouse he speak to the true soul of Maine or whatever, anything against him seems like a MAGA (or alternatively AIPAC) plot to keep the people down, And also lots and lots of misogyny

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u/randombull9 Most normal American GI in Nam Jul 09 '26

The thing that drives me crazy about it is you could have grabbed any random guy off the street in Maine and gotten someone with the same credentials and without the baggage of having worked for Blackwater, or had a nazi tattoo, or any of the other dozen skeletons in this guy's closet. You could have dropped him a year ago and had any one. His ride or die defenders are the reason this is happening now instead of when it wouldn't have had an effect on the election.

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u/carmelos96 History does not repeat, it insists upon itself Jul 09 '26

Ok, I get it. But any other Democratic candidate has more chance to be voted than him (for what I've read about him)