The Many Faces Of Pocahontas
Two-faced Senator Elizabeth Warren is furiously tap dancing. And I’m here for the show.
Bad enough that the radical leftist senator has enthusiastically endorsed a man with a Nazi tattoo in the Maine Senate race, but she’s also catching hell over the Spirit Airline bankruptcy because she helped blocked a 2022 merger that would have saved that low-cost airline.
To avoid being named hypocrite of the year, Warren has to hope Americans have short memories.
You see it was just last year during Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearings that she lost her mind over Hegseth’s tattoos. You know, the Jerusalem Cross on his chest and the “Deus Vult” (God wills it) on his arm.
He’s a Nazi, she screamed. A white supremacist.
Hegseth calmly pointed out that he was neither of those things, he was a Christian. In fact, the Jerusalem cross was on the front of the funeral program for President Carter and is embedded in multiple places in the Washington National Cathedral.
Hegseth was confirmed to Donald Trump’s cabinet despite the hysterical mewlings of Warren.
Late last week, when Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills announced that she would not run against Republican Susan Collins, who’s seeking a sixth term in the U.S. Senate, Graham Platner was left as the likely Democrat nominee.
Until a few weeks ago Platner proudly sported a “totenkopf” tattoo on his chest (he’s since had it disguised) There is no question what THAT is. The totenmkopf death head was the insignia chosen by Hitler’s SS and a favorite among the concentration camp guards, the SS-Totenkopfverbande.
It’s a neo-Nazi symbol. But Platner claims he didn’t know what it was when he spent hours in a tattoo parlor having it stamped onto his body.
No one believes that.
As if the Nazi business wasn’t bad enough, there’s more. Turns out that for years, Platner was a busy fellow on Reddit where he left behind a trail of evidence that he was one weird and unpleasant dude. He claimed to be a communist (which no doubt accounts for his endorsement by Bernie Sanders and Warren), he once called all cops “bastards,” he used a homophobic slur in 2018 and argued that if women didn’t want to get raped they shouldn’t get drunk.
An exchange with a host on CNBC last week went like this:
Host: "You campaigned with Graham Platner… you said, 'He's your kind of man.' … This is a guy who had a chest tattoo with a N*zi symbol… It's a guy that reportedly wrote 'people concerned about r*pe should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f*cked up that they end up having s*x with someone they don't mean to.' … I'm just curious why you think he's your kind of man?"
Warren: "He has apologized… I'm there to stand with him and to help in that fight."
Nice guy. I can see why Warren’s smitten.
Now, about Spirit Airlines. In 2022 the troubled airline attempted to merge with Jet Blue. JetBlue offered $3.8 billion in cash to buy Spirit. Shareholders and unions endorsed the move. The combined company would have held 9% of the U.S. market against the big four airlines that already owned 80%.
Hardly a monopoly.
That move was blocked largely at the urging of Warren. She pressured the worst Transportation Secretary in history, Pete Buttigieg, to join her in pressuring Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Biden’s DOJ sued to block the merger and a federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Here they are, bragging about their efforts.
As result of the work of these two economic illiterates, Spirit Airlines ceased flying at 3 a.m. Sunday. An estimated 17,000 workers lost their jobs. Beyond Spirit employees, however, catering employees will lose their jobs, so will baggage crews, gate agents. Hotels and car rental companies in the 70 cities Spirit serve will suffer.
All because one lying member of Congress, who doesn’t understand business and in fact hates capitalism, got her way.
Warren was tap dancing on Sunday, trying to blame Donald Trump and higher gas prices for the bankruptcy. Nice try, but a JetBlue/Spirit airline would have weathered this short storm.
Thanks, Massachusetts, for sending this belligerent loon back to the U.S. Senate over and over again.
