Several Democratic Lawmakers were asked over the weekend for their thoughts on Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson marrying his cousin.
Jackson was thrust into the spotlight when the Democrats forced former Senate nominee Graham Platner to drop out of the race due to scandals surrounding allegations of sexual assault and abuse.
It was revealed last month by Maine Wire editor-in-chief Steve Robinson that Jackson’s wife is actually his second cousin. The pair had two children together.
“Jackson, a 26-year politician and lobbyist, has made a career of bragging that he’s a is a fifth-generation logger, but you don’t have to go far back the generational line to find where it crosses paths with the ancestors of his significant other Lana M. Pelletier,” Robinson reported.
“Jackson and Pelletier share the same great-grandparents: Thomas Pelletier and Edith Thibodeau. Thomas and Edith’s daughter Albertine was Troy’s grandmother; their son Louis Sr. was Lana’s grandfather. That makes Troy and Lana second cousins on the Pelletier line.”
Robinson’s findings were widely reported on, including by liberal outlets, but Democratic Senators purported to be living under a rock when confronted on the reporting. Either way, they stood by Jackson and emphasized their support for the Democratic nominee.
“I haven’t seen that,” said Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). Jon Ossoff (D-GA) also said, “I haven’t seen it,” but noted that he’s supporting the Democratic nominees in Michigan and in Maine.
Senator Angus King of Maine, the same state as Troy Jackson, said, “I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m not going to comment on it.”
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed, “I haven’t heard of these reports. Troy Jackson is somebody who is obviously in this fight for working people.” Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) said, “I don’t know anything about that, but what I do know is that we have got to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”
Alsobrooks added, “If you ask me who I’m supporting, I’m supporting whoever the nominee in every single state, the Democratic nominee, because we are going to have to take back the House and take back the Senate as well.”
didn’t deny it!
Instead, his campaign chalked it up as “Personal attacks on Troy’s family” as if there’s nothing wrong with marrying your own relative.
“Susan Collins will do anything to distract from the fact that she votes with Trump 96% of the time and has sold out working people in Maine. Personal attacks on Troy’s family are shameful and desperate,” the Jackson campaign said in a statement to Fox News.
I regret to inform you that Megan Rapinoe is still around and still demanding that we pay attention to her ramblings.
Rapinoe, in case you’ve forgotten, was (emphasis on the past tense) known for two things. First, she was almost the best player on the 163rd or so most-followed sports squad in America, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.
Every four years, we maybe sorta paid attention to her and then forgot whether they won the World Cup. (Pop quiz: Did they last time? And what year was it held? And who did they beat/lose to? If you got all that right, congratulations: You’re either woke, a soccer nerd, or just a lucky guesser.)
Second, in between the quadrennial forced feminist reeducation pageant that is the women’s World Cup, Rapinoe has carved out a career for herself as a political and social pundit, particularly around transgender participation in women’s sports.
She believes in Title IX, which she credits with giving her the opportunity to play soccer at an elite level, but also believes we should let men into women’s sports because “your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important.” (Her words.)
Rapinoe has retired from soccer, so the first part of that grift has ended, which means she’s really leaning on the second half. And — would you believe it? — she has Strong Opinions™ about Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham believing that boys don’t belong in girls sports.
Cunningham, mind you, was dragged into this rather against her will. Asked about her position on it in a July ESPN interview, she said that she “got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans.”
“And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” she said. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
Well, that touched off a firestorm, especially after she stood by the remarks. Needless to say, this sent the woke sisterhood of the traveling WNBAers into conniptions, including getting Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve to don these preposterous duds during a game against Cunningham’s Fever squad.
But if there’s cultural grift going on, darn tootin’ that Megan Rapinoe is going to get some of that action on her podcast, which had literally thousands of views as of Saturday morning. (That’s charitably speaking; it has a bit over 1,900 on YouTube, which isn’t precisely multiples of thousands. That’s also 12,000 fewer views than a video posted on the same day as a video of a guy walking around a dead mall in Maryland and 14,000 fewer views than a two-hour play-through of the notoriously terrible 1995 Atari Jaguar video game “Attack of the Mutant Penguins.” Relevancy!)
Surprise, surprise, she’s not a fan — especially given that Cunningham took a photo with Riley Gaines, the activist who’s helped draw attention to trans men invading and dominating women’s sports.
“In an interview with ESPN, Cunningham emphasized how she wanted to ‘protect,’ quote unquote, ‘young girls in the locker room,'” Rapinoe tut-tutted. “After the article was published, Cunningham defended her comments and was recently photographed with Riley Gaines at an Indiana Fever game.
“I don’t know Sophie, so I can only project what I see about her beliefs based on her actions,” Rapinoe continued. “And seeing a picture of her with Riley Gaines after the game told me everything I need to know about what’s happening. Riley Gaines has made it her life’s mission to exclude trans people from public life.
“She’s directly tied to the Heritage Foundation, the authors of Project 2025 and now 2026, who have now published a report that suggests that they want to repeal Title IX, the very piece of legislation that allowed athletes like Sophie and myself to compete in sports,” she continued.
“And this is where I think the accountability with having a major platform is extremely important. You can hear it even in the language being used — that the root of trans exclusion is to protect young girls from men … it frames the conversation as if we’re protecting young girls from men being in WNBA locker rooms. Not happening.”
This is where the “Arrested Development” narrator would interject via voice-over: “This was a lie.”
It has nothing to do with the WNBA and everything to do with protecting young girls in sports, which Rapinoe acknowledged just seconds later when she said that laws banning boys from playing girls sports “are excluding kids, kids, from playing youth sports.”
Which they’re not, of course. They can play sports — boys sports. But then again, why should we be surprised? This was a farrago of lies, including the fact that Gaines and Cunningham are the ones trying to weaken Title IX and not Rapinoe and her ilk.
And of course, we know how much sympathy Rapinoe has for young girls.
As she said in 2022: “I would also encourage everyone out there who is afraid someone’s going to have an unfair advantage over their kid to really take a step back and think what are we actually talking about here. We’re talking about people’s lives. I’m sorry, your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important. It’s not more important than any one kid’s life.”
But of course, that’s not what this is all about. Megan Rapinoe is not happy that one of the most popular female athletes in the country is standing up against the LGBT agenda, and that she no longer has the soapbox she once had to clap back at common sense, or that the American people are in Cunningham’s corner.
Well, whatever. Here’s hoping that the 2,000 people who view this rant put a “Trans Kids Belong” sticker on the back of their Subaru. I’m sure that’ll make all the difference.
The Democrat Party has gone so far off the deep end into radical Marxism that even their own strategists are running for the exits!
“Ragin’ Cajun” James Carville, the architect of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and a long-time Clinton lackey, just admitted on national television that he could become a REPUBLICAN under one condition.
During an interview with Fox News Digital, Carville was presented with a hypothetical scenario: What if the Republican Party adopted the policies associated with former President Bill Clinton’s 1990s agenda while Democrats went all-in on socialism?
Carville initially dismissed the possibility as pure fantasy.
“That’s a fantasy, OK, but, yeah, hypothetically, if I — hypothetically I could fly to the moon — it’s about the same chance that that happens,” Carville said.
Then came the admission.
“Well, if the Democrats went crazy and the Republicans went sane, then I probably would be a Republican,” Carville said.
But Carville quickly made clear that he believes Republicans — not the increasingly socialist wing of his own party — are the ones unlikely to change course.
“But I don’t see any evidence that there’s any possibility that the latter could happen,” he added.
Carville went on to predict that Democrats will ultimately pull themselves back toward the political center.
“I think it’s more likely than not that the Democrats embrace sanity,” Carville said, adding that Democratic primary voters will ultimately determine the party’s direction.
This comes just days after Carville publicly threatened to abandon the Democratic Party altogether if far-left streamer and open socialist Hasan Piker becomes a major force inside it.
Carville declared on Fox News, “I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker… If he becomes a force in a Democratic Party, I’m out of here.”
Carville has spent recent months in full meltdown mode over the rising influence of democratic socialists who keep winning Democratic primaries. He has called for a formal “schism” in the party, blasted DSA-backed candidates as “so f***ing stupid,” and said he wants nothing to do with politicians who deny Israel’s right to exist or push radical policies on crime and culture.
Yet even as the socialist wing gains ground, with polls showing roughly one in three Democratic voters now identifying as democratic socialists, Carville clings to the hope that “sanity” will somehow prevail through primary voters.
The irony is thick. The same Democratic Party that Carville helped reshape in the Clinton era has moved so far left that the strategist who once coined “It’s the economy, stupid” now has to entertain the idea of bolting to the Republicans if the inmates fully take over the asylum. And still he insists Republicans are the ones who could never “go sane.”
Carville is 81. The party he helped build no longer looks like the one he remembers. Primary voters keep rewarding the radicals. And every time he draws a new red line, Hasan Piker, the DSA, socialist congressional candidates, the left simply ignores it and keeps winning.
