# I Pit Babale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1539
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/1539 "2026-10-31T18:09:34Z")
Babs is smoothly setting up his nigh-inevitable turn to MAGA: > [@Senate races 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534/1092): > > > [@Senate races 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534/1089): > > > > But the message of the hyperbole is that those of us who do don’t matter. > > > > Which may be true. And is part of the worry - that going forward in the party we don’t. > > The Platner thing demonstrates this perfectly, I think. Those of us concerned about his anti-semitic warning signs were ignored at best, and called MAGA supporting traitors at worst. It’s not until it came out that he was a trash human being for entirely different reasons that people stopped running cover for him. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738)._