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Graham Platner welcomes attacks from 'fascists and bigots' over his support for trans rights
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The "he deserved to die" outrage over Platners reddit comments literally solidified every veterans vote in Maine for Platner.
It's kinda funny. They (media and the establishment) are so out of touch that they tried to make outrage around a comment literally every veteran would universally understand. Mocking someone in the military for their own stupidity and incompetence that should have gotten them killed.
I'm not a veteran myself. But, I have enough veteran friends to know that that is exactly how they talk about people they served with. It's like military banter 101. The fact that they tried to form a "he wants troops to die" story out of it. It makes literally everything else they bring up useless.
I'll just be happy when I have to stop hearing about this guy. Hope he wins. But, holy shit, he's not worth this much attention.
Anyone who threatens the status quo is going to receive a lot of negative media attention. That's how I know he's the real deal. The establishment is afraid of him. Just like Talarico. They wouldn't put so much effort into manufacturing outrage about him if they didn't know he means what he says. If he was a turncoat, the right-wing media would be quiet about him and the troll farms wouldn't be so desperate to smear him.
Once he (hopefully) wins, they'll try to sweep him under the rug and not give him any attention, because they won't want people to see how much good an elected progressive can do.
If Platner loses, you'll hear the odd "This is why the Left Lost" op-ed for a few more years before he fades into obscurity.
If he wins... It's going to be Scandal of The Month with Platner for six whole years or until they can get him to resign early. Imagine the endless shit Al Franken got and then ratchet that up a peg. CBS is going to reinvent #MeToo just to monster him out of office.
Nah, they'll ignore him once he's in office. Because his personal life won't matter anymore. If he actually follows through on being progressive and anti war they'll basically ignore him like they have anything positive related to Mamdani.
There's always a handful of Congresscritters who become the fixation of media monstering campaigns. AOC, Cori Bush, and Ilhan Omar have been popular whipping girls for nearly a decade. Ted Cruz and Louise Gohmert were another pair of jokers the DC media loved to clown on. Platner is exactly the kind of guy you'll see written about in some Op-Ed or Style Guide, where the professional Mean Girls Club of pundits plaster catty smears masquerading as serious think pieces.
Ross Douthat will be putting up an article every month about how Jesus Wept over the Maine election process. Maggie Haberman will be doing think pieces titled "Does a Senator Beat His Wife?" the first time Platner and Amy Gertner express diverging views in public. We're going to get an Israeli flag background image behind some WaPo piece about New England anti-semitism, fixating on the worst five Platner voters the paper can find.
He'll be in a single-digit minority voting pool most of his career. Which is to his credit. Gotta start somewhere. But the Senate is a naturally reactionary and deeply genocidal institution by design. I hope he wins, but I doubt he'll do more with his time in office than put up a bunch of angry protest votes.
Yeah but Al Franken didn't have a nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty years before claiming he didn't know the obvious nazi tattoo was a nazi tattoo.
A lot of people have tattoos they don't know the meaning of, and a lot of people aren't familiar with nazi iconography, apart from the swastika.
People accusing him of being a Nazi sympathizer because of his tattoo are incredibly shortsighted.
I'm accusing him of being a liar or being fucking stupid, both of which should be disqualifying if Americans weren't mostly fucking fascists. I don't think he's a nazi I think he's a fucking moron or a liar. Both are bad. Still better than Collins because that's where the bar is now. Reading comprehension is important. I'm accusing everyone making bullshit excuses about the nazi tattoo nazi apologists because they're making apologies for Nazi shit.
Well if you don't, why are you focussing so much on the tattoo? Just file it under "stupid things he did when he was younger" and move on. It might be offensive to some people, but that's the price for freedom of speech.
Because he's either lying about knowing what it was or he unwittingly had a Nazi tattoo on his chest for 18 years and I think that deserves a big fuckin helping of scrutiny, because both those options look real fuckin bad. Not as bad as Collins but why are y'all making excuses for literal Nazi tattoos? Like, fuck. This really is America.
At this point, I have to assume everything else you say is a lie, because you are all-in on lying about that tattoo over and over and over and over and over.
Are you AIPAC or a Republican candidate? No one else picks one note and lies on it this much.
I'm a person unwilling to make excuses for a guy having a Nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty years and claims to have been unaware for the entirety of that twenty years. Which is bullshit because that tattoo would get your ass kicked at a public pool. I guess apparently not now since all y'all like excusing actual Nazi shit and claim to be just as fuck ignorant about recent fuckin super relevant history. Also, Israel doesn't have a right to exist and is a genocidal theocratic apartheid ethnostate; fuck Israel. And all elected republicans are traitors and deserve a messy public death. So yeah, fuck you Bill.
Go yell at some more clouds, liar.
I think that cheddar might have you backed up because you're full of shit Bill.