It’s fucking surreal. Donald Trump is a rapist, who appears in the Epstein files thousands of times. He’s on camera bragging about sexual assault. About this, apparently nobody gives a shit.
Meanwhile a Democrat has some women come out of the woodwork saying he was kind of a mean drunk and yelled sometimes. And now America is going to pretend like couples don’t fight. Oh me, oh my, this man once got into a passionate argument! Somebody find me a new set of pearls, because the ones I’ve been clutching have mysteriously turned to dust.
Every time I get into it with one of these people online it goes exactly the same way:
Them, acting like Nazis and pointing fingers: “Platner has NAZI tattoos!”
Me: [pointing out that Platner is up against literal fascists, building concentration camps and filling them with immigrants; Hegseth has proven and unambiguous Nazi tats and acts like a Nazi; etc]
Them: “But his tattoos! His TATTOOOOOOS!”
It’s all they have. And if they don’t care about Hegseth’s multiple Nazi/white nationalist tats, don’t even have an answer for them, then why should I care about Platner’s? Without the actual ideology behind it, it’s just ink, and it’s pretty clear that whatever Platner is, he’s not an ideological Nazi, so I don’t give a good goddamn how many tats Platner has.
So now every time these motherfuckers start pearl-clutching about Platner, a voice reaches up from the past in my head and softly says,
"I believe that the president has learned from this case. The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
That little voice never fails. Bless Susan Collins for that turd of wisdom she dropped back in 2020 as sufficient reason not to convict in the Senate impeachment trial, because that same stupid ass line is still ringing through the years. Trump did indeed learn his lesson: that Susan Collins would never act to lift a finger against him.
I wouldn’t vote for Mills, either. But Collins is not worthy of the office, nor of the great state that sent her. Maine can do better. I’d vote for Platner just because of Collins.
blackwater mercenaries who joined the marines to kill muslims, got a nazi tattoo, and SA women never need to win.
he ain’t even progressive; he’s pro gun and wants to make the army bigger.
Did he assault someone? I missed the trial, but the accusation seems perfectly-timed.
It’s pretty amazing he can have so little come out against him, allegedly, that he was “physically threatening” (I.e. he never was physically abusive) and he had some raunchy texts and people even consider voting for the party of a felon and Epstein child rapists.
There’s not another option. Platner is incredibly popular - outfundraising the sitting democrat governor! - and vocally supports some progressive causes.
Susan Collins has consistantly voted with our fascist regime while pretending she’s a moderate. She needs to go.
The effort and money the regime is focusing against Platner shows how much of a threat they see him as. He does need to win, and opponents of our fascist regime shouldn’t be listening to the regime’s attempts to defeat him.
Woman who accused Biden of sexual assault seeks Russian citizenship
Wow that was all the way back in . . . 2023
Really weird to bring up on an article that has nothing to do with Biden.
Not so weird, it’s pointing out that the fascist regime and their russian allies are absolutely willing to cook and stoke rape allegations as part of their disinformation campaigns.
I don’t know how they manage it, but the democrats always have a knack for stacking the odd against themselves.
Trump, an easily defeatable buffoon in 2016 and 2024, with a huge career-ending legal and moral baggage that normally would have caused any voter with an IQ above that of a turkey to reconsider, won because the democrats somehow managed to pit the absolute worst candidate imaginable against him both times.
This is more of the same. Platner will lose. Because democrats.
that’s their strategy.
Conservatives can be the worst of the worst, democrats can then be terrible as long as they can say that they aren’t as bad as Republicans. they can sell the nation to billionaires in a more camera friendly way.
Trump, an easily defeatable buffoon in 2016 and 2024
He wasn’t easily defeatable.
He was a wealthy, popular, fascist candidate running with the wind at his back thanks to his wealth, fascist friends in media, banking, and tech.
Trump beat a litany of professional politicians in his own party. Then he ran neck and neck with the liberal challenger three times, because he was actually very savvy and very well-connected and not easy to beat at all.
Democrats treated him like a joke twice and lost both times. They took him seriously once and barely eeked out a win in a wave year.
Platner will lose.
For all Platner’s sins, he appears to be both popular and exactly as fascist as Americans like to see in a politician.
Now the only question is whether he can beat Collins’s money machine.
Anybody who has mixed feelings about him need to listen to his interview with Jon Stewart on the Weekly Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-itNjgCJDxU
MSM/Corporate Media are doing a massive smear campaign on him because he’s railing against the Iran war and against Israel’s incursions. The money machine is stacking against him and he needs as much support as possible. The tattoo is a red herring.
MSM/Corporate Media are doing a massive smear campaign on him because he’s railing against the Iran war and against Israel’s incursions.
What is infuriating about Platner isn’t that his rhetoric is bad or that his totenkomf is “fake news” or whatever. It’s that it really is just Platner or actual fascists.
In a better world, Platner would not be a viable candidate, because he’d be running against a dozen Zohran Mamdani’s. In this world, it’s Platner versus The Genocide Machine.
And I’m not going to vote for the Genocide Machine. I’m still disgusted that a Shoot-And-Cry Iraq Vet is the best we can do.
Exactly fucker brag about going to Iraq to murder people. Sucks that the best the DNC can put forward. That’s my problem glad I don’t have to make that vote.
Sick and tired of holding my nose to vote for a lesser evil.
Sucks that the best the DNC can put forward.
The DNC didn’t put Platner up. Schumer backed Janet Mills, a wildly unpopular governor already pushing 80. Platner drubbed her in the primary precisely because she was such a wet fart of a candidate.
Sick and tired of holding my nose to vote for a lesser evil.
Genuinely infuriating. But I’m enjoying the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” crowd go into convulsions over whether or not they want to sink this guy or sink their chances at taking the Senate.
Well I no longer a registered Democrat so I can even vote in their primary anymore. Regardless DNC put up two shit candidates. This guy just other Fetterman and no progressive hero. His past actions show who he really is.
Any way I am in Oklahoma lets see how it plays out. He probably will win at least Colin got to go. But I won’t get excited not until we see how he vote once he is in office.
This guy just other Fetterman
Fetterman is deep in the tank for Israel. If anything, Platner is the opposite of Fetterman. Genuinely curious to see what happens in a Senate where they’re both sharing a committee assignment.
The tattoo story is sketchy AF. I watched the interview, and what I got out of it is that this guy knew exactly what he was inking on his chest, and now he’s trying really hard to explain it away as complete ignorance.
Well, here’s my take: either his story is made up and I wouldn’t vote for a Nazi, or it’s true and I wouldn’t vote for a moron.
Do you think he’s a secret Nazi or a reformed Nazi? Because there’s a galaxy between a person who is trying to trick their way into advancing white supremacy, and a person who has walked down a dark path and learned from it.
It doesn’t matter what I think - but I think he’s a dimwit, for what it’s worth.
My point is that, once again, the democrats managed to find possibly the most controversial candidate they could find, when it would have been so easy to go with someone with a genuine connection to the voters and without the stupid baggage of awkward questions.
Its crazy to watch the slop operate on people in real time.
I’m going by what the man himself said to Chris Hayes in that interview. No slop involved.
When I was a little kid, I thought the ghost outfits looked cool. Does that make me KKK because I had a stupid idea as a youth?
We all have moments in our life that we regret. The man’s actions then may have been misinformed. Do you condemn everyone for transgressions forever? Have you made mistakes that you can’t take back?
Point being - despite that symbol having been reappropriated/misappropriated/etc. from Nordic symbology, could there be a chance that it was done by an impetuous Marine in his HOOOO-rah days and not something ingrained in their psyche or philosophy?
despite that symbol having been reappropriated/misappropriated/etc. from Nordic symbology,
The totenkopf is not an appropriated Nordic symbol.
Oh, lordy - fair. I gravitated to the pregnant wolf with the knot since there’s a trend of white nationalists to use that symbology. Editing my above statement slightly.
When I was a little kid, I thought the ghost outfits looked cool. Does that make me KKK because I had a stupid idea as a youth?
Platner wasn’t a kid when he got the Totenknopf tattoed. You can claim innocence as a kid, he can’t. That’s the difference.
Also, assuming he did a stupid tattoo when he was serving and he didn’t know - and yes, okay, everybody makes mistakes - he had 17 years to find out. Not once did anyone in the supposedly Jewish side of his family point out that he had a SS tattoo on his chest? Not once did he have the curiosity to find out exactly what he had had tattooed all those years ago? Really?
Draw your own conclusion, but I’m not buying it myself. Like I said, at best it’s sketchy. And if you’re not sure whom to vote for in Maine, this might tip the balance, because nobody who isn’t MAGA wants to vote for someone who reeks of Nazism.
And that’s why I’m saying he’s a terrible candidate, and the dems just don’t know how to win anything.
Did you even know what traits separated a totenkopf from any other skull and crossbones before this scandal? And your hypothesis is that sometime in those 17 years his Jewish family recognized it, told him, and he said “nah, I’ll keep it”? The secret Nazi theory just doesn’t make any sense.
The reality is the totenkopf is a relatively obscure symbol, is similar to popular benign symbols, and tattoos blur over time. That’s why he got through the military tattoo reviews.
You really believe he knew it was a nazi tattoo and still chose to get into politics on a platform that is the direct opposite of the establishment? And somehow not knowing the establishment would turn over every rock to discredit him and a nazi tattoo would easily kill his political career. And then also piss off all the nazis by publicly covering it up? And also not have the insight to side with the republicans where Stephen Miller literally plagiarizes Goebbels to give a public nazi speech? If he wanted to be a nazi politician he would’ve had far easier time being that by siding with the republicans and not run on a platform that pisses off both republicans and democrats.
I’m drawing the conclusion that he was a dumb ass crayon eating marine who got his tattoo vetted (multiple times) by the USMC and didn’t think anything more about it. Because the alternative is that he’s the biggest moron on the planet and Nick Shirley exists so he’s obviously not the biggest moron.
I’m drawing the conclusion that he was a dumb ass crayon eating marine who got his tattoo vetted (multiple times) by the USMC and didn’t think anything more about it.
Yeah alright. Fair enough. Your argument is valid.
Then like I said, if he’s not a Nazi, I wouldn’t vote for a crayon-eating dum-dum.
So, you’ll vote for the actual fascist instead?
He was a crayon-eating dum-dum. It’s pretty clear somewhere along the line he stopped being a crayon-eater and grew up. 10-20 years ago I wasn’t a crayon-eating dumbass but I was a neoliberal dumbass, now I openly criticize neoliberalism for being fucking stupid. People change and I doubt Platner holds the same views he had 20 years ago when he was a dumb grunt.
you:
Platner wasn’t a kid when he got the Totenknopf tattoed. You can claim innocence as a kid, he can’t. That’s the difference.
me:
could there be a chance that it was done by an impetuous Marine in his HOOOO-rah days thinking
There’s a lot we don’t know, and a chance we’ll find out all about it. I do, however, know these two things. One, Platner is almost certain to be the Democratic nominee. Two, short of revelations involving murder, rape, or a taste for child pornography, Platner needs to be backed by Democrats to the hilt. That may seem like a really low bar, and maybe it is. But I’m less interested in his personal life than I am in Collins’s public one, because that’s what really matters here.
So let us now return to the question of Collins’s week. The Senate cast a bunch of votes last week. And Collins did what she always does when she’s up for reelection—she voted with the Democrats on the ones people pay attention to, and as a Republican on the others.
No question. At this point and after primaries I view anyone not fully onboard with getting rid of Republican congress by voting Dem as being complicit with or maga themselves.
