Gemischte Gefühle gegenüber Platner? Bußgeld. Aber er muss gewinnen. Fall abgeschlossen. – Ich weiß nicht, was ich über Graham Platners Vergangenheit glauben soll. Aber ich weiß das. Er hat die letzten 40 Jahre nicht damit verbracht, Billionen Dollar von der arbeitenden Bevölkerung an die Superreichen zu überweisen.
https://newrepublic.com/article/211466/platner-collins-maine-senate-primary
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No one is going to be perfect. And no one has a perfect past. But the measure of a person is how do they address their mistakes and try to improve.
As far as I’m concerned is the best by far. And, most important, his views and agenda reflect mine as well. And that is what true representation is. He is NOT a corporate shill nor is he an aipac shill.
He’s not in bed with AIPAC, he has my vote
Well hopefully he wasn’t part of some international child trafficking/rape cabal.
I hate the Dems for continually surfacing such weak candidates.
Yes he’s better on positioning … and probably better as a governor.
But how the hell is the Dem bench this thin?
Me: „*Is Graham Platner in the Epstein Files?*“
Google: „*No, Democratic Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is not in the unsealed Jeffrey Epstein client or visitor logs.*“
So, not a good person but still genuinely better than large swaths of the most powerful Republicans. 👍👍
I don’t think there’s much in the way of mixed feelings from the average voter. The political establishment doesn’t like him because he supports things like taxes on the wealthy and stopping support for Israel, that the billionaire donors don’t want. They know that the public does like those things so they’re trying to come up with other ways to attack him, but the voters seem smart enough to know that’s exactly what they’re doing.
I feel like this piece from today says it all:
https://youtu.be/lD4hEyd1RbA?si=3nlYJLlhNV-0bcV5
Collins needs to lose. And if Platner’s on the ballot, that means he’s the guy.
But there’s still a month or so where he can drop out, and people who act like that fact isn’t true are sus as fuck.
Democrats have to better than angels while Republicans can be and mostly are worse than most demons.
I mean you all said this about Fetterman as his past came out and you all reassured us it was a kick in the shin, which then turned into a kick in the nuts.
He has a better chance at beating Collins than Mills.
He hasn’t been convicted of rape or felony in an actual court. Hire him!
Why are there always high standards for Democrats and literally no standards for Republicans? Make it make sense.
Control of the Senate could hinge on this race, gtfo.
Susan Collins has sided with every consequential vote in order to side with trump. Platner won’t do that. What’s the issue here folks? Collins/ Trump. Platner/no trump.
The amount of effort that has been expended on both sides to get rid of Platner is crazy.
Okay, cool, but can we not pretend he didn’t have a nazi tattoo?
Remember, “vote blue no matter who”. Or does that only apply when it’s some corporate right wing stooge?
Dems always preach about “reform” and “rehabilitation”, yet when one of our own has had problems, gotten help, and grown through and learned from their past, we tear them down as “not good enough”. We need to stop expecting humans to have been perfect their entire lives, and start focusing on people who have lived through their worst parts and came out the other side better. It’s exhausting the purity tests we put our candidates through, when the other side is literally electing felons and rapists.
This is who people are putting their faith in? A man with a Nazi tattoo who has a poor enough view of his supporters to think they’ll believe he had no idea one of the most well-known symbols of nazism was what it was?
This is exactly why America is screwed these days.
The fact that out of all the women the New York Times interviewed they could only find one who made salacious accusations who just so happens to be a Republican operative who worked for the heritage foundation, and has worked for Susan Collins in the past should make anyone with an ounce of sense take pause. The NYT themselves said in the article that the claims could not be corroborated, and yet published the article anyway.
If Republicans can’t find a good scandal to pin on a rising Democrat they have no problem manufacturing one. Just look at Talarico being accused of being a vegan (he’s not), or of being gay (he’s not). The only thing surprising is the Democrats being idiotic enough to believe the party of pathological lying pedophile protectors.
We’re joking right?
Is this about the tattoo, that he has since covered up? Btw, a ton of military have questionable tattoos, rarely knowing the significance of the crazier ones, I’ve personally known few that found out later, and had them removed or covered.
Guy may have fucked up in the past, but he’s attempted to set it straight.
A lot more than any MAGA republican has done.
True this: as the harbor master of a small port in Maine, he has not transferred trillions of dollars to the Rich.
Are his policies better than Susan Collins? Great, end of discussion!
Very similar headlines to what we saw posted here when Fetterman last ran for Senate and we know how that worked out.
Liberals: Trump is a fascist and the Republican party is ushering in authoritarianism in to America which will strip your freedoms and crater the economy. The party is an existential threat to the whole planet via climate change and war mongering. Also they are all part of a pedophile death cult of financial corruption to a scale the world has only known through our sworn political enemies.
Also Liberals: Vote for the Republican Susan Collins. She made better choices about her tattoos.
Realpolitik!
Democrats need to get off the pedestal they like to put themselves on and start fighting to win. I’d rather a flawed person fighting for me than anyone fighting against me. Thats the reality of democrat vs republican right now.
His opponent has never missed a vote. That includes denying an increase in minimum wage, two justices who ripped away women’s health care, the Iran War, bloated ICE military budget, and so on.
Trump rapes children and Susan Collins is okay with that.
Not in Epstein files – sanders endorsed- good enough for me
Honestly good thing he’s an oyster farmer, he’ll profit off the pearl clutching.
Lol democracy is truly broken.
The problem with not voting for Platner is that you have 4 options in the Dem Primary. Write in, which will never have the numbers to win. David Costello, who will probably get less votes than the write in. Janet Mills, a tired, used up 80 year centrist former governor who is acting like she is doing a huge favor for the electorate, and Platner.
Lack of good options is a problem. Then in the General you have Susan Collins who will rubber stamp Trump.