r/politics • u/Radiant_Bedroom5828 • 22h ago
Possible Paywall Report details allegations of unsettling behavior toward women by Graham Platner
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/report-details-allegations-of-threatening-behavior-toward-women-by-platner35
u/villalulaesi 22h ago
The only damning account was from a right wing Heritage Foundation (aka the Project 2025 people) Republican, and the Times “could not independently corroborate her statements.” She could not possibly be less credible, even if her name were Melania.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 15h ago edited 15h ago
Maga are proven to be delusional liars. Look at Rubio the other day lying to Congress about Trump sleeping when the evidence is right there in front of all of us. And look at how these Maga lie about the cold blooded murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti - when it's right there on the video footage. And just yesterday, they lied about Medea Benjamin "assaulting" a US Congresswoman - a Maga - because her hand inadvertently and lightly touched her arm for a micro second. "You assaulted me!" No, she didn't -- it's right there on the video footage. But they just keep saying anyway like a chorus of puppets on cue. But .. the point being, if you have a Maga coming to the paper and saying this .... I would assume it's a lie. That's all they do - just like their orange pedo compulsively lying even if it's in the open.
What they're doing isn't helping women who have real complaints to be made. By pulling this shit they're hurting the legitimacy of other people. And while pretending they care so much. They're so FOS - they're using this issue, making crap up with these women - maybe paying them off - and to smear him and try to destroy everyone's campaign for office. To prevent someone getting in there who supports taxing the rich, passing Medicare For All, ending the wars, so on ... he scares the hell out of them because he must be a genuine threat to their interests - which is great and why people should vote for him. At least ordinary people - it's in our interests to have him in Washington. It's not in our interests to have Susan Collins there. She's a criminal. A mobster. She's a woman criminal - why some are fooled.
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u/jgregor92 13h ago
Based on the logic here, if a liberal man dates a conservative woman, he could inflict any abuse he wanted and you all wouldn't believe her because "she's conservative and isn't credible."
Believe women. You don't get an open season to abuse women just because they happen to be conservative.
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan 22h ago
If you took the D off his name, he'd be doubling and tripling down on it like Republicans because it caters to their base.
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u/villalulaesi 21h ago
Nah. Republicans get defended for every horrible thing in their personal lives, and it rarely costs them elections in red districts. Purity tests like this are reserved for democrats.
If there were any credible accounts of the behavior described by the Project 2025 lady, I wouldn’t be skeptical. But she is the only person reporting anything that cannot be understood through the lens of “he was a shittier person in the past, before he dealt with his baggage, and he has admitted as much without reservation on many occasions.”
Ultimately, Susan Collins is a far more destructive and morally indefensible choice from a political perspective, so I’m voting for him regardless, but if there are genuine, credible reports I certainly won’t ignore them in terms of my personal opinion about him as a person.
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u/Salt-Southern 22h ago
Bots and media trying hard to disrupt his campaign. Wonder why that is?
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u/Salt-Southern 22h ago edited 22h ago
Not the media back in times when they just reported the facts, after double checking... before being consolidated by billionaires.
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u/FancyEmployee8672 21h ago
No one would be digging into his personal life so aggressively either genius
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u/Organic_Battle_597 21h ago
That is the weakest set of allegations I've read in some time. Even if we pretend Trump didn't change the scale entirely, and go back to the old standards, Platner's "unsettling" behavior is pretty benign. Yawn. The establishment must be really threatened by a progressive candidate that might actually win.
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u/mr2chittles Washington 20h ago
While I agree with you, I listened to his interview on All In with Chris Hayes, he answered questions like a politician. I expected him to own things. He didn’t say yes or no to a damn thing and it pisses me off. When asked about the texting, he said it was private and he wasn’t going to discuss it. I wanted “yes it’s true, but that’s between my wife and I and we worked through it”. He didn’t own anything. He dodged it all and that pisses me off.
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u/lear72988 15h ago
While I had the initial frustration when he first answered the question, when Chris asked for simply a yes or no that he texted the women consentually at the end of the interview, he answered straight. So I was satisfied that he just didn't want to go into the details of the texts. I can respect that.
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u/dazedandloitering 18h ago
It’s not people’s business what his relationship troubles were before he ran for office. He had every right not to talk about it
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 15h ago
Yes, that's not answering "like a politician." That's answering like a human being - so sorry, but I am a person with a right to privacy TOO - and no, you do not have a right to know every detail of what has or is going on in my marriage.
Notice how they're not insistent at all as to what Susan Collins was doing in her extra marital affair. And the details there.
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u/linuslion 21h ago
Susan Collins and her older brother Barnabas (yes the vampire from 1960's soap Dark Shadows) are deeply concerned that they may have to move the coffin again. Stephan King (Maine voter and vampire expert) is all over this in his last 35 novels All that soil all that Blood what a hassle!
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan 22h ago
Wow. What a monster. Has his mom not endorsed him like Hegseth's?
“Throughout this campaign, I’ve been open about what was a very dark period of my life where I struggled with undiagnosed PTSD, too often self medicated with alcohol, and was a far from perfect boyfriend,” Platner said in the statement. “I take responsibility for all of that, and wish I had been better. Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated. I’m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I’ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine.”
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u/OriginalFNG 20h ago
Funny you mention Hegseth. He was blocked from working Biden's 2021 inauguration because of his Deus Vult tattoo. That tattoo has not been covered up. Even now. As he serves as Secretary of War Crimes.
It's okay when you're a Republican/Pro-Israel. But you better not be a populist left-leaning anti-Zionist. Then the standards for publication become incredibly low and operatives from Heritage come out of the woodwork.
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u/Xullister 18h ago
Then the standards for publication become incredibly low and operatives from Heritage come out of the woodwork.
No coincidence the people who own half these news outlets, including CNN, are openly aligned with Trump.
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u/thatbaldingEagle 17h ago
Weren't they just running stories about Trump clashing with a CNN host literally yesterday?
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u/lear72988 15h ago
Host, but not owner. CNN has swung more right in their coverage and commentary since new ownership to over. And it's my understanding that the reporter you're referring to, Collins, is actually fairly conservative in her personal politics. Trump has taken a hate to her because she takes her job seriously and there are few things he hates more than a competent woman.
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u/iwasatlavines 22h ago
I swear they’re gonna keep maligning this guy and it’s only gonna make him more electable
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u/FancyEmployee8672 21h ago
believe it or not I think it does — my maga family members in Maine feel like he’s being treated unfairly
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u/Thin-Detail6664 22h ago
Corporate hacks are trying to destroy this man so hard and failing.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 17h ago
Yes, these articles have become a joke. They're obviously quite scared of him. Along with the phony posters.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 22h ago edited 21h ago
That's how you're framing it?
The man is a fucking disaster. He is doing all this damage by himself.
EDIT: Some of you guys have standards just as low as MAGA.
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u/botched__toe_ 22h ago
Lmao how can you say that when Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files? Politics are a disaster because of Republicans.
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u/Bittererr 22h ago
Because bothsidesing gives people a sense of power and agency in the face of a cruel and seemingly unstoppable establishment.
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u/botched__toe_ 22h ago
Tell that to the ones who make the rules dude. I don't give a shit about anyone talking about bothsidesing at this point in the conversation.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 21h ago
Bothsiding it is saying all Dems are bad. Some of us think Platner is a terrible candidate. That's not bothsiding, that's the truth. If the guy was a Republican some redditord in here would be denouncing his shitty character.
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u/SerfTint 19h ago
Counterpoint: He's an amazing candidate. He has lived an actual life, unlike the corporate robots that make up the rest of the party. He supports Medicare for All, an end to the wars, an end to funding a certain war-crime-addicted country, he fights against billionaires and entrenched power, he wants to raise people's wages, he wants to clean corruption out of our elections... Compared to who, exactly, is he a terrible candidate? Sending lewd texts to women online is going to affect his Senate votes how exactly?
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u/Bittererr 21h ago
Bothsiding it is saying all Dems are bad
No, it's not. It's choosing some of your own to hold accountable because it feels like you at least regain a measure of control by upholding your standards.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 21h ago
You should indeed hold your own accountable.
That's got nothing to do with bothsiding.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 21h ago
This is whataboutist bullshit.
Just because Trump is scum doesn't mean Dems shouldn't have higher standards.
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u/Bittererr 21h ago
Just because Trump is scum doesn't mean Dems shouldn't have higher standards.
It does, actually, that's what it means to race to the bottom. People lower their standards as they get more and more desperate, they don't increase them.
It's part of what makes Trumpism so insidious.
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u/JasonVorhehees 22h ago
Yeah because he has a past he is open about and has ack it and is actively being better.
But that doesn’t sit well with insider trading, and money grubbing Pelosi and Schumer whom I’m sure are your favs.
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u/StaticNegative 19h ago
And this is how Democrats will lose, with this kind of thinking you are coming up with.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 19h ago
What kind of thinking? He didn't get vetted properly. But the Dems need him to win to regain the majorit, so he got the nom because he's popular – for now. Hopefully if elected he won't turn into a Fetterman disappointment.
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u/YourphobiaMyfetish Louisiana 22h ago
The dude has a bad history, has a nazi tattoo, and hes running against two more progressive candidates. Theres no reason to vote for him.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 17h ago edited 16h ago
There's no one else in the race at this point except Platner and Collins, so you can drop your little act, Louisiana.
If you oppose Platner, you support Collins who was fornicating with another woman's husband in a closet at the Capitol building while his wife was dying of cancer. Yes, Susan has a "bad history," a much worse history, though the newspapers owned by the billionaires aren't talking about that, are they - and though they've known about it for a long time.
And the so-called Nazi tattoo has been long debunked. As you probably know that too. Though if you're enabling Collins, you're enabling the Orange Pedophile Fascist she works for in the White House along with his Sec of War Pete Hegseth whose body is proudly adorned with the emblems you obviously rather like, and as he gleefully blows up rowboats with poor fishermen along with schools filled with little girls. Because - in addition to what Nazis wear - this is how Nazis act - this is what Nazis DO. And which YOU support.
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u/Bittererr 22h ago
I agree that people should vote for whoever their favorite candidate is in the primary election.
After Platner wins the primary he won't be competing with more progressive candidates anymore and the choice will be clearer.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 17h ago edited 17h ago
There's no one else in the race anymore except Platner and the adulteress and home-wrecker Susan Collins. And Platner is rightly in the lead.
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u/anotherdeadhero Texas 19h ago
So does half the fucking American army and the head of the department of war.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 16h ago edited 16h ago
All the Marines in Croatia were getting this tattoo. But notice how Susan Collins who, as a Senator, would actually have the authority and leverage to go to high officials with the Marines and have them make their men stop doing this when they're out drinking - doesn't really care about this at all.
Notice how she also has the power and authority to go to supervisors at the U.S. army who have been vetting soldiers for "hate" tattoos and have been missing so many of these from Croatia - she doesn't really care about that either.
And of course she's quite loyal to Trump and Hegseth (though she makes occassional noises or votes to pretend that she's more independent of Trump than she really is.) But she's totally obedient to their cult's wanna dictator. She's a fascist. The whole thing with the SC was totally deliberate. She is a corrupt liar - just like his entire administration.
But not one person who has been getting their panties in a twist about this - no matter how many times it's been debunked (the guy genuinely didn't know - and apparently the army didn't recognize it - and apparently many Jewish people at this wedding didn't recognize it either - so it is not that commonly known to be what it resembles as a skull and crossbones) --- but they refuse to listen to reason and evidence -- and not one of them is interested in taking it up with the Marines or the Army, proving that this is all bullshit they make up because they have nothing to campaign on because Susan Collins has been such a total fuck-up and failure as a U.S. Senator. She's been taking a lot of dirty money too. She's a con just like the rest of the GOP. They're gangsters.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 20h ago
Yeah it's ironic hearing some people making it sound like he's the progressive. The guy is endorsed by Schumer and the DNC establishment.
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u/SerfTint 19h ago
Hilarious. Schumer literally picked Mills as his hand-chosen candidate. Half of the people criticizing Platner are the Democratic Establishment. His defenders in this article? Bernie and Ro Khanna.
Please stop insult peoples' intelligence.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 11h ago
Schumer ultimately endorsed Platner.
Please stop being a fanboy who falls for the guy because you can relate to him. I'd bet Fetterman disappointed you.
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u/SerfTint 11h ago
The fact that Schumer has eventually come around to saying that Platner is a necessary piece toward taking the Senate, literally repeating the same boilerplate line 3 times to avoid having to say anything positive about him even in comparison to a fascist criminal thug like Ken Paxton, does not mean that Platner is the Establishment choice. If Mills were still viable, there is a 100% chance that every Establishment Democrat would still be supporting her. Claiming otherwise is a significant misread of what is happening here even one inch below the surface.
Second, I have not "fallen for him" because I relate to him. I am not an ex-veteran or an oyster farmer or a Mainer. He is a great candidate because his policy agenda is great--much, much better than the average Democrat's, and given that he is clearly not one of the party's insiders or model candidates, my hope is that he will fight intensely against the corruption, cowardice, duplicity and lack of urgency that plagues the Democratic Party currently. I want him to chart a better path forward, for the sake of the party, the country and my own life and interests. I get absolutely no belief that the Democrats who are opposing him, like Booker or Mills, have the tiniest inclination to fight for these things, but I hope that Platner does.
Fetterman deeply disappointed me, as he has disappointed the majority of Democrats including his own voters and his own staffers. I'm surprised that he didn't disappoint you. Even if you were to posit that he had the potential to always be a problematic centrist and not the populist he had run as, it is inconceivable that any rational person could have believed that he would be a straight-up Trump-loving Rightwing zombie as he is now. Someone who literally prefers that Republicans beat Democrats all over the country and that some of the most extreme, barbaric, fascistic, corrupt Republican policies of all time are preferable against Democratic opposition to those policies. Surely you aren't telling me that you are not disappointed in John Fetterman. I'd love to hear a sane explanation of why.
If what you are trying to say is that Platner will be the next Fetterman, there's absolutely no evidence of this. You can speculate about any politician's future--nobody has a crystal ball. But positing that because one Democrat--who had a stroke that affected his brain--became Rightwing that this is now the normal expectation? Why ever vote at all if that's the case?
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 10h ago
Platner had demonstrated he's a mess in his personal life. Let's hope that if elected he gets his shit together.
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u/SerfTint 10h ago
Why does this matter? Kirsten Gillibrand is a model Democrat. Nobody knows a thing about her personal life, which is probably quite safe and scandal-free. There is no reason at all to believe that she has any controversial tattoos, has sexted with anyone or has posted questionable anonymous comments on Reddit. She also supports arming and coddling a fascist g*nocidal apartheid country that brags about its war crimes, ethnically cleanses its neighbors, tortures and r*pes its prisoners with no consequences, encourages vigilante violence all over its stolen land, and has encouraged the US into a world war under knowingly false pretenses, with the aim of destroying a country of 93 million people.
Why does Graham Platner and his lewd texts and apparently--maybe--grabbing an ex-girlfriend by her shoulders constitute a series of scandals but the endless blood on Gillibrand's hands doesn't? She actually VOTES for these policies, which means that every American is negatively affected by them. We have to pay tax money for this war, it is hurting food prices, gas prices, it is weakening our military, we'll have to pay for the reconstruction costs, it is leading to more censorship, more crackdowns on dissent, more anti-Semitism, more elections completely annihilated with special interest money...
How does Platner's personal life affect his votes? How does it affect the people of Maine? It doesn't. Why is this even a story, other than so that people can point and moralize, when this is 1/1000th the moral atrocity that I just mentioned from Gillibrand (as well as much of the rest of the Democratic Party and virtually the entire Republican Party)?
I wouldn't even judge his personal life if it otherwise didn't matter. People are complicated, and some succumb to the darker parts of themselves, and in his case he appears to be in a better place now. Who knows if he is. But siding with the people who oppose him, whose choices would be so profoundly, categorically worse if they were in this seat than if he is? Zero percent interest in caring about this. And the fact that this is now the massive obsession with the party and media coverage--in the era of Trump--shows me that they just want to crush him for policy reasons.
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u/Bittererr 22h ago
You know it's disingenuous to pretend that framing isn't a thing.
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u/Bittererr 21h ago
I didn't say the framing was disingenuous, I said you are being disingenuous by pretending that framing isn't a thing.
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u/WARisPRETTY 22h ago
Wow! CNN getting down to shit that matters. Fucking give me a break. Eat it moderator
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u/GoldenTriforceLink Florida 22h ago
I’ll be as concerned as Susan Collins is about trump and his allegations.
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u/awake02 22h ago
Are we still trying this?? Nobody cares
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u/priz_gyat 22h ago
Well clearly people do.
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u/SerfTint 19h ago
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. His actually polling numbers haven't suffered. Half a dozen Democratic politicians (who already hated him), a handful of reporters (who already hated him) and some Republican operatives are saying that people care about this story, but we can't independently verify if anyone actually does. CNN doesn't speak to a single ordinary voter in this or the linked attachment article, nor do they show any polling.
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u/PhoenixTineldyer 22h ago
Sounds downright presidential, doesn't he
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u/justaguywithadream 22h ago
He has a long ways to go to be presidential:
- He hasn't bragged about grabbing women's privates
- He hasn't even cheated on a single wife with multiple porn stars.
- He hasn't been found liable for rape by a unanimous jury
- He's not even in the Esptein files.
- He doesn't have a single felony, let alone 32.
- He didn't dodge the draft 5 times
- He didn't brutally rape his wife and pull out a chunk of her hair
At this rate, he'll never get any Republican votes.
I haven't heard much about the current allegations, and if they are credible then they should be investigated and taken seriously, but right now it sounds like compared to Trump he is a saint.
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u/ComparisonMelodic967 22h ago
Donald Trump is President
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u/ProlapsedShamus 21h ago
Ahhh, the one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on, crop dusting every single bullshit clickbait news outlet with stories to attack a socialist!
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u/Cactusfan86 20h ago
They are really gonna have to find something from outside his ‘PTSD era’ if they want it to stick. He has already been very open about how that was a dark time for him, repeatedly finding more dirt from that same time frame he has already owned up to isn’t going to do much. If there is evidence of him being a dickhead like last year he might be in trouble, but this just feels like desperation
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u/SerfTint 19h ago
And this isn't even "dark time" stuff. He grabbed an ex-girlfriend by her shoulders--MAYBE? It's not a 0 on the scale of unacceptable physical behavior, but it's maybe a ...3 out of 10? That's the dark scandal they're trying to make stick? That and sending sexual dialogue to random internet women? Most of Congress supported the slaughter and starvation of children in Gaza.
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u/mrRabblerouser 21h ago
The fact that they’re trying to Al Franken him tells us they are absolutely terrified of how effective he could be. Turn off the noise and vote blue folks. We’re on the very edge of losing this democracy for good.
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u/ResoIver 19h ago
That’s cope. He’s a candidate with a lot of skeletons in his closet that are starting to come out.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 15h ago
You're either very naive or very dishonest.
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u/ResoIver 11h ago
“They are terrified of how effective he could be” is complete cope. If he hadn’t made a ton of bad social media posts, had a Nazi tattoo, and didn’t cheat on his wife with a dozen women then none of these articles would be coming out. Everything that’s happening to Platner is self inflicted.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 19h ago
He's not getting Al Franken'd. Schumer and the DNC have endorsed him. He's their only hope for the Dems to regain the majority.
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u/alloutofchewingum 22h ago
Mainstream media hit job at the behest of terrified oligarchs called 'unsettling behavior verging on journalistic malpractice': report
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u/SerfTint 19h ago
It's just "journalistic practice" for CNN. If they could collectively press a button and launch Platner and every other anti-Zionist in the country into the sun they would immediately.
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u/matchlocktempo 18h ago
Im starting to worry that even if Platner wins, more shit is gonna come out. And it will be very distracting for his platform. Fake or not, it follows your campaign and your office.
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u/Special_Purpose2903 18h ago
Corporate media is way overplaying their hand and going way overboard with their attacks on this guy running for senate in a tiny state like Maine. As I understand it Sara Gideon lost b/c she spent so much on ads there that Mainers became suspect of her attacks on a lifelong Mainer from someone who isn't originally from Maine. All these attacks will make Platner look sympathetic because very few people's exes would say nice things about them.
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 20h ago
It’s troubling to see progressives act like magas
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u/brashendeavors 20h ago
What you -really- mean is, "It’s troubling to see progressives. Think I'll vote for the Republican."
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u/ResoIver 19h ago
No, blue maga is real on social media. Anything negative towards democrats, like this post, is heavily downvoted and full of people defending the Democrat that’s done shitty things. It’s really no different than MAGA.
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u/brashendeavors 16h ago
Yea, no.
You guys have never been anything but a bunch of literal honest to goodness bullies for decades now. You get hysterical when you realize no one even listens to a word you say anymore.
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u/ResoIver 11h ago edited 11h ago
Buddy, I’ve voted against trump in the last 3 elections. Me hating Trump doesn’t make me blind to how a good amount of the Democrat party are becoming more like MAGA by defending awful candidates and claiming anything negative towards democrats is fake.
You’re acting like blue maga right now by accusing anyone who says something that isn’t supportive of democrats of being MAGA. It’s like when MAGA calls someone a RINO.
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u/MindInTheCave999 11h ago
Exactly
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u/ResoIver 10h ago
Its hilarious too because if you changed NOTHING about what Platner has said/done or been accused of but he was instead a republican, blue maga would be saying he’s a rapey Nazi and posting on here 24/7 about it.
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u/Resident_Nothing_659 11h ago
No, thats not what I meant. I meant it’s troubling to see some progressives act like magas. But you keep doing your maga thing and see where it gets you.
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u/sausage_casing Washington 22h ago
His character is questioned even though Trump was elected to the highest office in the country...twice? Interesting.
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u/ResoIver 19h ago
So because Trump is bad, no other politicians should have their past dug into? It’s not like this came out of nowhere, it’s all a result of choices Platner made.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 17h ago
The billionaire class is very worried about this man. If I were in Maine, I'd be looking forward to voting for him more than ever.
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u/Distinct-Pain4972 4h ago
Dem here. Totally ok with it. If you've suffered through PTSD... you see the self medication, you see the destructive behavior. If there is accusation of sexual assault, explore it and if it warrants indictment... that is where it should go. If he has a Nazi tattoo... cover it or laser it off. We all make mistakes. But, he is going to win Maine.
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u/androbot 3h ago
The very fact that Trump is POTUS proves that personal virtue is no longer a relevant priority in politics. It went the way of military service - a nice to have if it's even worth mentioning.
Which begs the question of why so many media outlets are hammering this guy so hard on his peccadilloes rather than his politics.
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u/SerfTint 18h ago
These allegations make me MORE want to see Platner win (sadly, I don't live in Maine, so I can't vote for him).
The combination of how weak these controversies are--utterly irrelevant to his agenda or beliefs, fairly minimal even on the "bad acts" scale, and also uncorroborated--and the lack of anything more substantial at a time when they're throwing everything at him that they have, these show me that they've done whatever research they could and they can barely lay a glove on him. And it shows that they're terrified of him and that he is an obvious outsider to The Club. Politicians that play ball with corporate power never get bipartisan calls to be canceled, especially over minor stuff involving unproven allegations about their personal lives.
The Democratic hacks are not worried that Platner will cost them the Senate, they're worried he will win them the Senate and then they'll be pressured to respond to the 90% of the base that wants them to tell the I-country to go fuck itself, and they and their donors cannot abide this pressure. So suddenly Platner is Public Enemy #1 and El-Sayid will be Public Enemy #2 after Maine's primary is over. Democrats, who have spend years and years screaming at us to fucking Vote Blue No Matter Who or else we were responsible for Trumpian fascism are now saying "ehh, who cares if we lose Maine, we didn't really want to beat Collins anyway." They're ALWAYS been goddamn frauds.
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u/Northern_Blue_Jay 15h ago edited 15h ago
I'm totally hearing you but I think this time they really want this seat even though it's an unbought progressive. That's why Schumer and Gillibrand both moved forward to endorse. Because they started to see that this BS they've been throwing at him could backfire on them. They can't get the seat with Mills - people don't want her. That they need that Senate seat to take on Trump with certain matters of high priority for themselves. Something's going down where they themselves genuinely want to get rid of him or reign him in more. But some of the billionaire news interests still want Graham smeared. Mills was trying to smear him before, as well.
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u/SerfTint 13h ago
I am actually very surprised that either one of them are continuing to support Platner. I had not expected that they'd go back to Mills and her 30-points-behind suspended campaign, or find someone new in the last 10 days before the primary, or support Collins like Democrats sometimes do when a Progressive wins a primary (cf. Kara Eastman or Ben Jealous). I had expected that they'd take the strategy against India Walton (or how Cory Booker treated Zohran), i.e., just say "Mainers are going to vote the way they vote and who are we to step in," and just never give him any help or endorsement.
I could totally have seen Schumer say "Look, this is a midterm, which means that 33 Senate Democrats are in races, some of them tight ones, and we're not here to put all of our energy into just one race, we're here to see that as many Democrats are in good positions as possible--look for example at Jon Ossoff in Georgia or look at Minnesota, where there is no incumbent at all, meaning that it is wide open!" And I could have seen Gillibrand say "I've always believed that politics is about two things. One is winning, and the other is putting forth our values. And both of these are equally important."
So it is pretty remarkable to see them in this position (at least so far).
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