"You know, I come up with good names for people. I don't want to stick him with that one. Although, I think pigs would be very upset about it. It's just a terrible thing. I mean, I watch it happening. It's unfolding. It's really history because there's never been a guy like that that's ever run for office at any level. I don't think at any level...."
I don't know what's especially piglike about Graham Platner. I don't know why Trump thinks he's displayed his great talent for name calling here. "Pig" is like something a child would come up with as an insulting name.
Platner, in real life, is associated with a particular animal, the oyster, so I'd be more impressed by an oyster-related epithet. Don't distract us with another animal, however disgusting. Oysters are pretty disgusting — slimy, blobby, brainless, inert. Why go looking for other animals?
Speaking of oysters, I ran across oysters in this abstruse passage that came up in my reading yesterday: "Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me."
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Let's not forget the the oyster farmer claim is a lie.
Oysters have pearls. That would imply Platner has some hidden value under the slime.
It's not that all of Trump's nicknames for people are that creative, they just tend to be fitting and sticky.
He’s more chimera than pig. “Patriot veteran oyster farmer” is a fake image constructed by the PR firm managing Platner. He’s no everyman like the false narrative created around him. The average Maine resident did not attend exclusive boarding schools, does not pretend to “make a living” by supplying $5000 worth of oysters to Mom’s restaurant yearly nor do so from a private island where his “farm” owns no land nor pays rent. The only common man attribute he might share with a majority of his voters is that his income is almost entirely due to disability payments.
Looking forward to the drip drip drip from now until November!
We can call him a Fascist Marxist.
“Oyster Rockefeller” would be a good mockery of Platner’s silver spoon upbringing.
"Fascism and Marxism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory, based on the collectivist principle that Man is the rightness slave of the State".
-Ayn Rand
Oystergruppenfuerer
I read that it was a brave man who ate the first oyster.
Trump is good at picking names that stick.
I doubt his support for Collins will be helpful as she will need support from crossovers who don't like Trump.
"Moby Dick"
I've never heard micropenis referred to as "moby", but damn if Graham "Moby Dick" Platner don't work.
OK, Bob Boyd wins today's comments "Oystergruppenfuerer"
Moby prick. Trick. Flick.
Pig... The older general word for adults was swine, if female, sow, if male, boar. Apparently related to Low German bigge, Dutch big ("but the phonology is difficult" -- OED).
By early 14c. pig was used of a swine or hog regardless of age or sex. Applied to persons, usually in contempt
An authentic porker.
A viable characterization? Maybe, baby. Not? Abort, sequester, and progress no further.
That might have originated with Insty.
"..Platner, in real life, is associated with a particular animal, the oyster.."
and WHEN did Platner START oyster farming?
After he decided to run for the Senate.
and WHO does Platner oyster farm FOR?
his mommy's restaurant.
he Pretends to have something to do with oysters..
he Really doesn't.
he's spent Most of his life getting nazi tattoos, and jacking off in portapoties (and reenlisting in a war he "hated")
(and again after hiring on as a merc for a war he "hated")
When he wasn't jacking off, he was cheating on girlfriends AND financees
Tell me, Again? how he's Not a Pig?
Shucking oysters by the rising waters of the sea forced by climate change. Demos-cracy will judge. Judges will pork.
Prof: “oysters are blobby”
That’s it! Call him Mr Blobby! All his rantings are about as coherent as Mr Blobby’s eponymous cry. Might be a bit too niche, though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Blobby
CC, JSM
I’d guess it’s Herr Platner’s mistreatment and abuse of women that prompts the pig comparison. Oh, and his Animal Farm Marxism.
Trump, as everybody knows, has a totally fabulous eye. If he thinks Platner looks like a pig, pig it is.
And Maine oysters are delicious. They do not deserve to be associated with this clown.
Wince--"Oyster Rockefeller" is a good one, my previous comment notwithstanding.
I don't know Pig really suits him. He's got a Nazi tattoo, He's a liar, and a womanizer / beater. Women would call him a pig.
Dancing around a tavern shirtless with his belly hanging out all pink makes him seem rather porcine to me, but that’s just my opinion, man.
Graham Platner's behavior towards women is disqualifying. ~ Donald Trump
A born shuckerjiver.
"Oysters are pretty disgusting — slimy, blobby, brainless, inert."
I'll take yours.
TinyEE®: a Bonfire of the Inanities
@ ChrisC
I stole it, but can't remember where I saw it.
But you brought it to us, Bob. We are grateful.
I've seen the Bob Boyd suggestion of Oystergruppenfuerer and also Maine Kampf as suitable monikers. Perhaps Prep Throat would also work.
"Platner, in real life, is associated with a particular animal, the oyster, so I'd be more impressed by an oyster-related epithet. Don't distract us with another animal, however disgusting. Oysters are pretty disgusting — slimy, blobby, brainless, inert. Why go looking for other animals?"
Calling an anti-semite a 'pig' is entirely appropriate.
>Ann Althouse
I don't know what's especially piglike about Graham Platner.<
That's a remarkable statement. Especially from a woman. Especially from a feminist woman.
I don't know--the resemblance is pretty close:
https://www.google.com/search?q=geico+commercial+with+pig+and+pinwheel&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1148US1148&oq=Geico+commercial+with+pig&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEAAYgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHtIBCTE2NzQ5ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3be4d1f0,vid:3GLG8gkt3Hc,st:0
On the other hand, pigs are also quite tasty, so maybe we should stick with "silver spoon commie misogynist with Nazi tendencies."
Dave Begley said...
I read that it was a brave man who ate the first oyster.
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I consider it more likely that hunger played a larger role.
He's worse than that. He's a bad man. He checks almost every box for terrible person. I never want to hear anything from the left about character again. Not that they ever cared before, but this time they clearly chose reprehensible as a standard.
I've just recently developed a taste for raw oysters. Like many enjoyed foods they really don't have much of a taste of their own. They are more of a foundation, a slimy slippery foundation.
@bagoh20, try Kumamotos. Especially imports. They're pricier but worth it. Way better than the standard American virginicas flavorwise.
DJT is in no position to cast aspersions on anybody else for the way they act, much less call anyone else a pig given his own track record of divorces, adultery, and obnoxious verbiage.The way for him to help Collins survive this election is to STFU.
"“Oyster Rockefeller” would be a good mockery of Platner’s silver spoon upbringing."
I'd say "Oysters Rockefeller" because that's the name of the dish and because a plural noun can be a nickname — think of Bugs, Peaches, Pickles, and Babycakes.
Oyster Cracker
Dave Begley, a but OT but I'd nominate the guy who looked at a lobster and decided it was edible
I always thought eating raw oysters was something like eating someone else's snot.
Don't insult pigs by comparing disreputable humans to them. Pigs are wonderful animals.
You can grab them by the oyster, they let you do it.
Has the left found its own Charlie Kirk in Graham Platner?
Raw oysters from Long Island sound north are an absolute delicacy. It's the water.
Oysters from south of the Delaware River are not good raw--for the same reason. They generally taste muddy and fishy.
I grew up on Cape Cod but moved away. Several years ago I had some raw oysters from Cotuit (not far from where I grew up) and was instantly transported back. Tasted just like the water I used to swim in.
I am in MD now and I miss the oysters. The crabs here, on the other hand, are the best.
"I don't know what's especially piglike about Graham Platner."
Cruel neutrality has devolved into pretending to be retarded.
“Pig” is dumb, ineffective and not apt. Don Surber calls Platner “Obergrupenfuerer”. Some play on the Nazi theme is called for, but “pig?” Trump is slipping.
My mistake at 11:14. Surber calls him “Oystergrupenfuerer.”
This is just rude:
Cruel neutrality has devolved into pretending to be retarded.
So failing to see the same anthropomorphic characteristics in a character is grounds for insults, even if your target shares the general disdain for the subject? What does your statement add to the discussion?
Hes the most toxic humanoid the dems could find (lets not even soeak of morath the dsa scout)
Sweinfuehrer (like a blend of bane and thomas elliot (hush from the graphic novels
I've seen him referred to as "The Bearded Clam."
I'm starting to think Platner is some sort of The Producers kind of experiment: "Let's see how awful of a person we can actually get elected!"
I can't believe Professor Althouse doesn't know why pig would apply to Platner.
I remember well the not so distant past, when the phrase "male chauvinist pig" was the MOST common descriptor of a certain kind of man.
During that era, Platner's picture would have been included beside the definition of male chauvinist pig in the feminist dictionary.
2) informal a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person: you're such a pig when it comes to sleep.
I hope that helps.
Pig is a classic but we're slipping a long way with the bestowing of nicknames.
Tiny Marco, Pocahontas, Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, Lying Ted, those were all inspired and well crafted. Now hes just mailing it in. Sundowning?
Maybe he needs more naps at his cabinet meetings and he'll be fresh as a daisy.
Even with his very obvious dementia taking hold and rotting his brain in real time, Donald J Trump is still the greatest president of all time.
MAGA!
Oyster names usually refer to their geography like Island Creeks or Hood Canals or even Row 34s but some farmers get mored creative like with Aunt Dottys or Naked Cowboys. His could be Nazi Pigs or Moose Commies or something…
…and yah a self proclaimed feminist missing why he’a a pig is just out of it…
…and what year is it again? How easy we forget- do not underestimate the power of a Trump insult…
…just in time for July 4th- PIG and OYSTERS together! Angry Oysters by Bill Weiss These are fabu. No Nazis…
The oysters where I grew up were enormous and virtually impossible to eat raw unless you chewed away forever. But dipped in beaten eggs and cream, breaded with fine crumbs, and pan-fried in butter, they were the food of the gods.
I think he would fit in quite well with the other Democrat Senators. Birds of a feather and all that.
I noticed Vodkapundit referring to him as the Oystergrubenfuhrer which appealed to me.
Trump's deal with Iran is 95% done. All that remains to be negotiated is Iran's nuclear program, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the unfreezing of Iranian assets.
The only minor sticking point is convincing Iran to agree to any of it.
Has the left found its own Charlie Kirk in Graham Platner?
Is anyone on the right trying to assassinate him? You know, shoot him in the neck when he's speaking to a group of college kids? And then run around celebrating his death?
Is that what you're asking?
Platner was dissed by a girlfriend as a liar amid complaints he was - for all intents and purposes, Sergeant Shrimp🦐dick.
Ace has come up with an amazing number of terrific monikers:
Slim Prickens
Sergeant Shrimpdick
Korporal Kleinschwanz
Trump should hire Ace.
Politeness is increasingly a losing strategy. There's a political Gresham 's Law in which successful bad tactics drive out successful good tactics. Consequently, we get lower trust and higher animosity. We get politicians who are comfortable insulting the opposition, and calloused about absorbing insults.
Oddly enough, this will work against women in politics. Nastiness makes you look masculine. Ask Rosie O'Donnell.
Ace has come up with an amazing number of terrific monikers:
Princess Tinymeat is my favorite. Literally laughed out loud.
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