So, tattoos...

[mr715]

It seems like generally speaking they are a bad political choice. Are there any Democrats with ink that is respectable?

Any tattoos of Emma Lazarus or Susan B. Anthony?

I know this may be a generational thing, but I accidentally got a batman logo on my arm but he isn't too problematic. It appears we may have to deal with nominees that have somewhat more problematic emblems put into them.

If anyone has any Democratic iconography, I'd appreciate suggestions. As a New Yorker, I'm saving for Liberty's diadem and the last line of her invocation.

FYI Graham Platner F'd up but at least did the bare minimum. I am willing to support him despite my reservations once the primary concludes.

[Easterncedar]

1. I wish I trusted him

I wish Janet Mills had a better chance of defeating Collins. I wish we had a better candidate.

Tattoos aside.

[mr715]

2. You from Maine?

Best baked goods I ever had was from Portland.

I am resigned to Platner, obviously. I am not from Maine, but donated to Mills and will no longer. I think the simple optics of dermal ink is enough to win a certain percent.

Humbled. Often. Always.

[Easterncedar]

4. Yep, born in western NY, but in Maine since 1987

I like Mills as a politician. She has been a good governor through really hard times. She steered us through the pandemic brilliantly and did some great progressive things, like free postsecondary education for covid-era kids, although she's too centrist for me. She is smart and honest and abrasive, is arrogant but genuinely cares for people. She is a very uncharismatic politician and a dull speaker. But decent and hardworking.

I think the rightwingers, the antivaxxers, hate her so much she can't beat Collins. Even liberals I know dislike her, influenced by gop disinformation.

And folks want a non establishment candidate. I get it. I had hopes for Fetterman once. Platner has a chance to defeat the soulless Collins, which is a reason to support him, but with no history of elected office outside of local harbormaster, he is simply not qualified. I like my representatives to have experience.

Of course congress is packed with unqualified, ignorant and corrupt people. I dream of better, but I don't have any suggestions.

Platner has some passionate supporters. I hope their faith is justified.

[mr715]

3. No one wants to help me pick a tattoo :(

[Easterncedar]

7. I never wanted to make a permanent fashion choice.

Sorry. Can’t help you. Good luck, though.

[róisín_dubh]

5. I'm about as left as them get

And I’m covered in tattoos.

[Polybius]

6. "It seems like generally speaking they are a bad political choice"

Seems like something that was said in 1994 by an aging Silent Generation person. Tattoos are completely acceptable now. Probably half of Congress has at least one, we just don't know it.

[Torchlight]

8. Ironically enough, last week I saw a tattoo reading

'with devotion's visage, and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself'