Apparently, The New York Times is basically campaigning for Sen. Susan Collins at this point.
They're are a complete disgrace. Everyone should cancel your NYT subscriptions immediately.
I completely support Graham Platner!
Graham Platner is an extremely imperfect person and candidate, but the corporate media feeding frenzy that's emerged to try to sink him as grotesque. I know this because I've done a deep dive on his past and therefore know how many claims being casually bandied about are false.
To recap:
- Dem and Rep operatives spend the week setting the narrative that Graham Platner is a predator
- Pro-Israel NYT runs a story on Graham Platner
- Done by a pro-Israel reporter
- No SA allegation
- They talk to 6 exes. 3 say he was fine.
- 2 of the remainder say he drank and womanized
- The last is a Conservative activist who protected Brett Kavanaugh
- She claims Platner trapped her in a room
- The NYT reads her diaries, texts, Google Chats, and Facebook messages. Nothing corroborates her story.
- NYT finds a text from the accuser saying she "Would personally campaign for Susan Collins."
This is the most obvious Zionist smear campaign in history.
Republicans still support a rapist President who partied with a pedophile, is covering up the Epstein Files, is a convicted criminal and pardoned 1600 violent insurrectionists.
Who gives a shit about their bad faith attacks on Dem candidates? Ignore them. Stop playing the rigged game.
Why am I defending Graham Platner?
Because I’m not a fucking idiot.
I can see that the system that screwed you over and made you not be able to afford life is trying to get rid of him daily over slander and extreme exaggerations.
Katie Gluek, the NYT hack who wrote the smear piece on Graham Platner, has parents who are *Israeli settlers* in the West Bank. As usual, the Israel lobby is demonizing a candidate b/c he's dared to criticize Israel. Many will be duped by these reprehensible tactics as usual
As part of this, the Republican Party decided that anyone who openly enables serial rape, mass murder, genocide, public corruption, widespread fraud, and so on is also in the clear. So Susan Collins is given a pass for the millions of deaths her votes have caused—e.g., see DOGE.
Probably the worst stuff to come out thus far, but not the campaign ender it was hyped up to be. My stance remains intact: I cannot break from leftist candidates with moral indiscretions when conservatives and centrists never, ever do so with theirs. It’s unilateral disarmament.
Let’s be clear—the New York Times ran a hit piece on Platner using the uncorroborated allegations of a former Heritage Foundation staffer who told her friends that she would campaign for Susan Collins.
Over the last three days, Democratic and Republican operatives created the narrative that Graham Platner SA'ed someone. When the story came out, there was no SA allegation. It's mostly a conservative activist saying he was a bad boyfriend, but even she says there was no domestic violence.
If you criticize Israel, they'll try to ruin your life.
Running uncorroborated claims on Platner from an ex-girlfriend who is a professional Republican operative is outrageous from the New York Times. It's consistent with their biased treatment of candidates skeptical of Israel.
NYT published uncorroborated accusations against @grahamformaine of “unsettling” and “toxic” behavior that came from a Heritage staffer who previously worked for a conservative org that backs Collins.
The right-wing operative being cited by NYT in their upcoming Platner story worked with Heritage Foundation and is currently a fellow at an anti-trans organization.
One of the two parties, the Republican Party, decided there would be no standards whatsoever anymore. And there are not. Donald Trump is a serial rapist. The Republicans are running a man who admits to killing people for governor in Colorado. All the GOP cares about is power now.
MAGA suddenly deeply concerned about a candidate’s personal behavior. These are the same people who religiously support a man with 34 felony counts, two impeachments, a $5 million sexual abuse verdict from E. Jean Carroll and his name all over the Epstein files. Platner is an anti-war populist running on ending foreign wars, housing affordability and taking on establishment politics. This is why the MAGA neocon establishment wants to destroy him.
capitalism has really ruined people's outlook on the world and made people think it's okay to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn't.
it's not normal to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare if they have no money. it's so dystopian