Graham Platner's rise happened entirely outside the Democratic Party's establishment, handpicked by a group of independent activists.
Before a woman Platner was romantically involved with publicly alleged that he sexually assaulted her, WSJ's Aaron Zitner reported on the strategy behind the activists' gamble on the Maine Democratic Senate nominee.
The sexual assault allegation, which Platner denied, has prompted top Senate Democrats and close allies to rescind their endorsements, cut off funding and call for him to drop out.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday that he had spoken with Platner and “in light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.”
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@Libs_OfChicago@DeepDishhhLover You already have a landlord that’s not charging market rates if your rent has only gone up $50 a year for almost a decade. So it’s not really surprising that your rent won’t reflect the market. Most people’s do though
When you let this stuff go unchallenged -- because the blowback might be unpleasant -- you're essentially letting hysterical blackmailing psychos dictate hugely consequential political/social/legal outcomes that will ultimately degrade the entire polity. So, someone's gotta do it
President Trump on NATO Leaders: “If you could have seen the respect and the love in the room. It’s love really for our country… They like the job I’m doing. They said, ‘Sir, we love you!’ These are grown people saying this. Isn’t that nice? Maybe they're trying to get to me. And in a way, they did.”
The black inability to swim has nothing to do with bone density or muscle mass or any other physical reason. It has to do with IQ.
They panic, violently thrash around, exhaust themselves, drown and take anyone trying to help with them
It's because of the basic psychologies of fascism and communism.
Fascism is a disgust spiral, whose basic commandment is "thou shalt not be worse than me." It starts out with anti-smoking campaigns and burning child pornography, and ends up disappearing anyone who doesn't mow his lawn.
Communism is an envy spiral, whose basic commandment is "thou shalt not be better than me." It starts out targeting captains of industry and genius intellectuals, and ends up disappearing anyone who wears glasses, which create the suspicion that he might have read a book once.
This is why people with communist psychology (the left) equate clean streets with fascism.
Leftists can't keep their streets clean and their lawns mowed, but instead of the psychologically healthy response of being slightly embarrassed and resolving to do better, they decide that anyone in a nice neighborhood is a fascist who needs to be exposed and purged.
You, oh right-wing conservative, watching this video clip, think that leftists are accidentally pointing out the benefits of fascism.... i.e. that people can have nice things.
But if you understood communist psychology, really understood it, you would realize that the mowed lawns, clean streets, and neatly-groomed people are actually another accusation.
Not only are they racists, complains the narrative, they have nicer houses and neighborhoods than you. How dare they?
How dare they not be surrounded by trash and graffiti?
How dare they not be awoken at 3 AM by their drunk neighbors blasting loud music?
Who do they think they are, some sort of superior race?
You don't notice that accusation because you are not the target audience. The target audience is people prone to destructive envy, and the goal is to recruit them to communism.
They don't care if you think this points out the benefits of fascism, or even just the benefits of racism. Because you are not prone to destructive envy, so they can never recruit you anyway.
And it makes no difference if you point out that the end result of this is that every neighborhood is covered in trash and graffiti.
That's what commies want.
Why? Because their neighborhoods are always going to be messed up no matter what ideology is in control. Fascism, communism, liberalism, objectivism, doesn't matter. They are not disciplined enough to do battle with entropy through sustained effort, and not creative or intelligent enough to do battle with entropy through innovation.
But if their house is inevitably going to be surrounded by mountains of trash, just because of who they are, then the greatest comfort they can aspire to is a world where your house is surrounded by trash, too.
This is why communism ruins everything, and why communists cannot be dissuaded when you point this out. Ruining everything for anyone who's better off is what they want.
The trick is to get them to realize that communism allows anyone who is even worse off than they to ruin whatever they still have. Which isn't easy, because if they were smart enough to easily understand this, they wouldn't be surrounded by trash in the first place.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces he believes the ceasefire with Iran is "OVER"
"To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them... There's SICK people.. They're vicious, violent people.
"It's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're LIARS."
Obviously, POTUS is out of patience.
One of my favorite Platner moments was when he defended himself to a credulous Jon Stewart by saying his Reddit posts were due to him being an “angry young dude” and he was talking about posts he made when he was 36
DSA types seem to have the wildest emotional swings of any of the major American political subgroups when they get good news its HA HA HA HA WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE! WE ARE COMING FOR YOU WE ARE COMING FOR YOUR FAMILIES YOU WILL BOW TO US YOU WILL BOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW and then five minutes later they get bad news and its "capital is undefeated we will NEVER get a fair shake Israel AIPAC Israel media"
Here's video of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway just a couple weeks ago defending Graham Platner and saying that Platner's past should not matter at all.
They defended the nazi tattoo, the obscene posts, the sexting, all of it.
Swisher (a self-proclaimed strong feminist) said that Platner reminded him of Bill Clinton because Clinton made some mistakes but was a good President.
Galloway (a Jew) gave Platner a "hall pass" for his nazi tattoo.
The only thing that matters to the Left is power. When you see them outraged about anything, remember they truly do not care. It is all performative.
These two frauds have both accused Elon Musk of making nazi gestures. Galloway once said he couldn't drive a Tesla anymore because a joke Musk made could be interpreted as homophobic.
Two terrible people.