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.

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.

Not mixed at all. I want a progressive who won't back down from MAGAs, who won't be intimidated, who won't be polite, who will have the courage to crush MAGA.

If he does those things, and later starts getting weird, we'll deal with him then, but right now we need strong courageous warriors, not polite weenies like Schmuck.

The mental gymnastics of purity tests for every candidate are going to be the downfall of American democracy.

I understand distrust in politicians, but come on, this isn't a case of the lesser of two evils. It's a regular guy who is putting forth progressive policy ideas and a proven supporter of everything wrong with modern politics. Not to mention, Collins does almost nothing for her constituents anymore and is so out of touch it's absurd.

Mainers fortunately don't care about the purity test nonsense.

I can't believe people would rather have Susan Collins over an imperfect progressive.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The elites are my enemy and they are doing everything to make sure he doesn't get elected. Voting literally costs you nothing. It seems obvious. Are the Platner haters even real people? Are they even from Maine?

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.

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.

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.

The policies that Platner is backing sure aren't scrutinized for the topic of discussion, that's for sure.

Woman who accused Biden of sexual assault seeks Russian citizenship

Wow that was all the way back in . . . 2023

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.

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.