And how does electing more nazis and more rapists help with slowing down trump?
If there’s a way to get there without Platner I’m all ears,
Well… the first step is to do what we should have done back during the primaries and get the nazi mercenary off the ticket and put someone else up there. From what I’ve seen, Troy Jackson seems like a great candidate. Very similar platform, good Union boy, and has a strong track record of actually trying to follow through on his campaign promises at the state level.
That’s nice. The good news is that you can think that and just not open your fucking mouth and making everyone assume you are cheering for someone being raped.
It doesn’t have to be Friday to shut the fuck up.
I don’t care if it is Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS. Nobody deserves to be raped.
End of story.
If platner had a long track record of community organizing and working towards the things he has claimed on his platform? I would still not be able to say “Let’s support the rapist nazi” but I would at least understand the logic.
He has no political or leadership track record. He said a few things you want to hear and that is it.
What he DOES have a track record of is lying. Whether it be blatant lies about a “military history buff” reddit user having no idea what Mitchell and Webb’s totenkopf is or, ya know, all the rape?
So we have a wildcard candidate where the only thing we know about him is that he is a rapist nazi. MAYBE it is worth getting someone else on that ticket?
“If we didn’t protect his legacy then Barack HUSSEIN Obama would have taken his seat and sold your children into slavery. Your sexy little children…”
And they don’t care.
I’ve increasingly come to realize it is the mix of the cosplayers who just wanted to keep a nazi on the card and… the idiots are hellbent on getting revenge for 2024. They are mad that the DNC didn’t find a way to fit a full national primary in when Biden fucked us over by stepping down like 5 months before the general election so OBVIOUSLY “their” candidate should stick around because “there isn’t time to find a new candidate”… almost a year prior to the primary.
platner seems to have a LOT of those coordinated effforts put out against him. Like a whole new controversy every month it feels like. I especially hated the one where those evil establishment Democrats got him drunk twenty years ago, tattooed a nazi symbol onto him, and then got him drunk every single for almost twenty years since so that he wouldn’t know it was there until it was too late!
Also
Believe women. Except when it would be inconvenient to me. Then they are all liars out for sperm
This place is REAL reddit-y in the ways that matter.
I mean… you know that SNL joke about “This is the part of New York that still flies the confederate flag”? Maine is basically an entire state of Upstate New York.
Some of the candidates in the primary actually did seem a lot better. But… rich white blackwater rapist is gonna be hard to beat. Wouldn’t be overly shocked if they decide to stay in with a mix of “fake news” and “she was dressed like a slut”.
The “good” news is that this is not a uniquely American problem. You just aren’t paying attention to other countries’ elections.
That said? The key, like in almost all things, is to work with your local party. Folk deeply underestimate the value of having someone in the room (when the cameras are off) saying “Can we maybe not explicitly endorse genocide?” or “People want their tax dollars to go to something that matters”. The DSA have finally started to realize that and it is doing wonders. Find the locals who actually would be good candidates and push them in the primaries. And… it gets more than a bit sketchy, but there are also efforts to “import” candidates to some districts with the goal of running them after they “put down roots” for a year or three.
The problem is that people don’t want to do that. MAYBE they’ll send a text but they expect The Party to provide exactly what they want with no prodding. And, to be fair, for a lot of the most basic of things… the Democrats really shouldn’t need to be told. But that leads to people like platner. Borderline sociopaths who just want power who will come out of nowhere, flash some cash, say words they know will get the influencers to talk about them, and win.
Like… it isn’t THAT WKUK skit, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJuiTAR29E kinda sums things up.
What is especially frustrating is that one of the other people in the primary basically had a very similar platform AND was also a military vet. But she was a she so of course the podcast bros didn’t care.
I get that this is maine so “drain the swamp” probably WAS a smart play but… holy fuck there were so many red flags.
And he had a LOT of support from establishment Democrats since at least January of this year. Which is another thing he and other “outsiders” have in common, I guess.
He was a “military history buff” who had no idea what a totenkopf was but miraculously had one on his chest for decades. And he joined fucking Blackwater as a merc. The only thing he had going for him was he said a few good things about health insurance. Oh, and he had no political history at all so there was no track record of him doing anything other than “being an oyster farmer” with his family money.
So many of us were pointing out he was an even shittier version of fetterman (who also had massive red flags everyone chose to ignore). None of this is a surprise.
Maybe read the fucking article where that is addressed?
So, off the top of my head:
What next will the evil opposition make up about this wonderful and heroic leftist?
The problem is that influencers are already way ahead of you. Lots of normalizing them for “content creation” when they want to film in public. And if they had a sponsorship in a different video? Coincidence.