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Monday, August 25, 2025

The Pine Tree License Plate

I live in Maine. My wife and I register two vehicles in Maine. Maine decided that the previous default (no additional cost per year) "chickadee" license plate was getting tired and old and needed to be replaced, but for some reason the state offered two free versions, one with a tree and a blue star on the left side and the other without those symbols. I figure the blue star represents Maine because stars on the American flag represent states and it's blue because Maine leaders (mostly Democrats) figured this symbolized that Maine is a blue state, a Democrat state.

So come registration time I opted for the plate without the blue star.

I didn't realize that the tree appears to be giving the middle finger right up at the top adjacent to the blue star.

Check it out:

https://w2pcms.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/new-maine-plates-e1708962103970.jpg?w=750

I hadn't noticed that before.

I discovered it when I read the comments to an article in the Maine Wire concerning our potential future governor telling the federal government DOJ to go jump in the Gulf of Maine because they had the gall to request the Maine voter registration rolls in response to their discovery that Maine's rolls had 11,000 duplicate registrations. In other words, the DOJ somehow discovered the 11,000 invalid registrations but Maine officials don't want to admit that they could be aware of it as well. Mind you, these Maine officials are Democrats.

Shenna Bellows Refuses to Share State Voter Rolls with Feds and Tells the DOJ: “Go Jump in the Gulf of Maine”

The commenter pointed out that the person featured in this article as telling the DOJ to jump in the Gulf of Maine is also the person responsible for the tree on our car registration plates, the one with the middle finger at the top right next to the blue star.

This Maine Wire article is dated July 30. I wasn't aware of the problem and haven't heard if it has been resolved, but just the same, interesting comment.

We are stuck with the plate, though, the one that everybody is calling the tree plate.

I do recall hearing somewhere, don't ask me where, that Maine's mail-in ballots are counted by this same person's office. Surprise, surprise, eh?


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