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Democrats won’t allow a seven-week clean continuing resolution, pretending it’s about 15 million people who won’t get their healthcare. The truth is Obamacare is failing and was never meant to succeed. It was meant to push us into Medicare for all, which analysts have already found is even worse for all the same reasons Obamacare […] The post Shutdown Showdown: The Truth Is Out on the Unsustainable ACA appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner addressed a tattoo on his chest that critics have slammed as being linked to Nazi imagery, as a flurry of controversial social media posts resurfaced. In a Monday interview with “Pod Save America,” Platner encouraged the hosts to play a video of himself lip-syncing to Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” while shirtless at his brother’s wedding a decade ago. The video revealed that Platner has a tattoo of a black skull and crossbones on his chest. The design is known as the Totenkopf or “Death’s Head,” which was used as a symbol for the SS during the Nazi regime, according to the Anti-Defamation League. “I am not a secret Nazi,” Platner told Pod Save America. “Actually, if you read through my Reddit comments I think you can pretty much figure out where I stand on Nazism and antisemitism and racism in general. I would say, lifelong opponent.” Platner explained that he got the tattoo while on deployment as a Marine while “very inebriated” on leave in Croatia, and “we chose a terrifying-looking skull and crossbones off the wall” at the tattoo parlor. “We got those and then we all moved on with our lives,” he added, saying that he was screened without issues when he later joined the Army, obtained security clearance, and worked as a State Department contractor without issue. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “And I’ve also just lived my entire life like a regular person with a skull and crossbones on their chest,” he said, joking about the “Wrecking Ball” clip. “At no point in this entire experience of my life not once did anybody say ‘Hey, you’re a Nazi.’ It never came up, until we got wind that in the opposition research somebody was shopping the idea that I was secret Nazi with a hidden Nazi tattoo. And I can honestly say that if I was trying to hide it, I have not been doing a very good job for the past 18 years,” he added. The tattoo received some negative responses from critics on social media, including on the Left. “No skeletons in his closet, just an apparent Nazi logo on his chest,” MSNBC anchor Catherine Rampell posted to X. “Gonna be hard to erase this one, literally and figuratively,” The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote. Platner is currently in a primary against Maine’s Democratic Governor, Janet Mills. The winner of that race will face incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R) in one of the most competitive races in the country. Various old Reddit posts of his resurfaced last week, including “I got older and became a communist.” “The fact that I have managed to go from Communist to Nazi in the space of four days, according to the people who are trying to, whatever, do this to me, I find to be quite a spectacular turn of events,” Platner added in the podcast interview. Other posts included him saying that, “Bastards. Cops are bastards. All of them, in fact.” The candidate has attempted to turn the tables on the news cycle, sharing other past Reddit posts condemning “misogyny and homophobia in the Marines,” he wrote in a recent X post. Last week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee torched the posts from Platner. “Graham Platner is a communist who supports violence against Republicans to promote his radical agenda. These posts are not just him messing around on the internet as he is trying to claim, they paint a very dark picture of a candidate not fit for office,” Samantha Cantrell, NRSC Regional Press Secretary, told The Daily Wire at the time. The Daily Wire reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment.

A Tren de Aragua gang member who was seen in a viral video last year, armed and forcing his way into an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex taken over by the gang, was handed a 12-year prison sentence. Niefred Serpa-Acosta was involved in the armed break-in at the Edge at Lowry apartments on Aug. 18, 2024, as well as a brutal kidnapping of a couple at the complex the following December. An Arapahoe County judge sentenced Serpa-Acosta last month after he entered a guilty plea, according to 9 News. Minutes after the armed gang members stormed the apartments, a fatal shooting took place, according to CBS Denver. The Venezuelan gang member, however, successfully fled the scene. Police in Aurora later captured Serpa-Acosta, who was dressed as a woman and wearing a wig, for his role in the couple’s kidnapping which the woman was pistol-whipped and the husband was stabbed in the thigh. He later pleaded guilty to a burglary with intent to menace and assault the people inside the apartment and to using a weapon during the attack, according to 9 News. Mugshot of Niefred Serpa-Acosta (Credit: Aurora Police Department) When Serpa-Acosta took part in the apartment takeover with five others, he was already ordered deported by an immigration judge, Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire. The Biden administration released him from ICE custody a month before and after he had already racked up two arrests for theft. It is likely that Serpa-Acosta couldn’t be deported because the Biden administration was unable to force Venezuela to accept removal flights. Shortly after entering office, the Trump administration brokered a deal with the Maduro regime to resume the flights. Serpa-Acosta also admitted his gang ties to the feds and had the organization’s signature tattoos, the sources said. The illegal immigrant crossed the border into El Paso, Texas, in December 2022 and was set to be turned back to Mexico, but he was eventually released into the U.S. He was arrested in June 2023 in Lakewood, Colorado, for theft before he was again released. He then turned up in Fort Collins, where he was arrested in April 2024 for another theft. He was eventually let go again and arrested for a third time for resisting an officer, obstructing police, and larceny in another Denver suburb; ICE then took him into custody. All the while, officials in Colorado, including Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, denied the gang’s takeover of apartment complexes in Aurora. While on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump pledged to carry out “Operation Aurora” to target the gang’s foothold in the Denver suburb. Immigration raids soon took place in Colorado, resulting in the arrests of dozens of gang members.

Vice President JD Vance promised again on Tuesday that no American troops would be deployed to Gaza as Hamas tests the limits of the ceasefire with Israel that was brokered by President Donald Trump. Vance met with Israeli leaders in southern Israel to discuss the ceasefire and hostage deal, saying at a press conference that he’s “optimistic” that the agreement will hold. The vice president then assured the American people that the Trump administration would not deploy U.S. forces to Gaza. “I think it’s important for Americans to know a couple of things. Number one: there are not going to be American boots on the ground in Gaza,” Vance said. “The President of the United States has made that very clear. All of our military leadership has made that very clear.” “What we can do is provide some useful coordination,” he added, saying that the United States would continue to act as a mediator between the Gulf Arab states, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel. “The only real mediators are the United States of America. That’s the role that we’re going to play [that] I think the American people should be proud of,” Vance said. “But they should know that there are going to be no American boots on the ground in Gaza.” .@VP: “There are not going to be American boots on the ground in Gaza. The President of the United States has made that very clear.” pic.twitter.com/y0p4cTOPgA — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 21, 2025 President Trump warned Hamas last week, saying that if the terrorists continue their violence in Gaza, “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.” Trump later said that he was not referring to U.S. forces being used to take out the terrorists. “I didn’t say who will go in, but somebody will go in,” he said. “It’s not going to be us. We won’t have to. There are people very close, very nearby that will go in. They’ll do the trick very easily, but under our auspices.” Shortly after the ceasefire went into effect and Israeli troops withdrew from much of the Gaza Strip, Hamas publicly executed men whom it accused of conspiring with Israel and started fighting rival groups within Gaza. Hamas has also failed to locate and hand over the rest of the deceased hostages. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Trump added in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, “an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL!” if the terror group fails to abide by the terms of the deal. Vance said at the press conference, “We know that Hamas has to comply with the deal, and if Hamas doesn’t comply with the deal, very bad things are going to happen. But I’m not going to do what the President of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult. A lot of this stuff is unpredictable.” Vance said that the United States and its partners would continue to work to bring the deceased hostages home and rebuild Gaza. He added that he believes some of the Arab nations are growing impatient with Hamas. .@VP: “We know that Hamas has to comply with the deal, and if Hamas doesn’t comply with the deal, very bad things are going to happen… in order for us to give it a chance to succeed, we’ve got to be a little bit flexible.” pic.twitter.com/msu2IRoZf9 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 21, 2025

The latest CNN poll suggests that despite their attempts to spin a very different narrative, Democrats are not coming off as the winners as the government shutdown drags on — and President Donald Trump is not losing any ground at all. CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten broke down the details alongside anchor John Berman, saying that there was a world of difference between the way voters viewed the current shutdown compared to how they’d viewed the 35-day shutdown – stretching from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019 — during President Trump’s first term. WATCH: This shutdown is a different world for Trump than the 2018-19 shutdown. He’s in a much better spot. His net approval is up slightly during this shutdown vs. dropping during 2018-19. Why? The % who blame him a great deal for the shutdown is down significantly now vs. 2018-19. pic.twitter.com/WHEqHaqo4M — (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 20, 2025 “Turns out shutdowns are different the second time around when it comes to Donald Trump,” Enten declared. “Take a look here: you know, we speak about Donald Trump, shutdowns, net approval rating – we’re talking 20 days into it, in 2018 slash 2019, Donald Trump’s net approval rating was already falling. The shutdown was eating into his popular support, it was down three points already at this particular point and would fall considerably more, it was very much on the decline.” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. That’s not the case 20 days into the current shutdown, Enten continued: “This shutdown hasn’t eaten into Donald Trump’s support at all! His net approval rating is actually up a point, in terms of his popular support. So the bottom line is this: the first shutdown during Trump’s first term, 2018-2019, was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting him at all.” “There’s no real reason Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, ‘I want to get out of this shutdown.'” When Berman asked about the blame for the shutdown — and who might shoulder most of it — the numbers reflected a similar shift: fewer than half of those surveyed (48%) blame President Trump for the current shutdown compared to the 61% who blamed him in 2018. “It’s a different world,” he said.