Who could possibly have possibly predicted this would end in disaster? /s
She told Politico she hesitated to make her claim public because she had a “huge moral conflict” between supporting Platner’s politics and not supporting him as a person. She also said she did not share the sexual assault claims with the New York Times for their story because she did not want to be known as a rape victim.
But now she’s ok with that and making accusations at the worst possible political time for Platner. This is sus AF.
Don’t be victim blaming. Literally everyone warned he couldn’t be trusted. I mean, the Nazi tattoo wasn’t enough for you to realise he’s a piece of shit?
hardly victim blaming. you have an axe to grind against this guy. schumer/gilli have used this tactic repeatedly to target people they dont like.
if platner does nothing else but remove collins im happy.
Wtf happened to believing women when they are brave enough to come forward?
Timing and context. Next time file a police report when it happens and I’ll lend it more credence vs it purely being a made up story with no supporting evidence.
You’d need a few more reports for it to actually being a pattern of behavior vs some unfortunate situation where two individuals recollection of events differs.
Right now all you have is a singular individual being pushed forward by a group of political actors with a history of making false sexually assault allegations against political opponents.
fucking rape apologia? ugh
If platner did nothing else but remove collins people wouldn’t be complaining…
platner hasnt done anything yet. hes been accused by a group that has literally made false sexual assault allegations in the past against political opponents and everyone else is dog piling to avoid any appearance of condoning it. which is understandable.
if this was a serious allegation they’d have filed criminal charges but the fact of the matter is they wont because they’re not real allegations. remember biden had literally half a dozen or more allegations against him and schumer/gilli/warren/main stream media didnt say shit.
I’ll admit I defended him in the past. I did see the plausible deniability in the tattoo and reddit posts, but this is just horrible.
There’s no excuses for these actions. The documention provided is damning in every way.
He must drop out, and in a just world face criminal charges
If he refuses to drop out he should be pushed out
The documention provided is damning in every way.
What documentation? A one-sided story from five years ago?
We’re not supposed to question the timing of this?
Same, and agreed.
Several top Democratic figures call…
opinions of individuals who dont matter. but lets dig deeper…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chair Kirsten Gillibrand…
oh the two racist blow hards from NY. nothing to see here people just the people failing america being idiotic again.
Schumer & Gillibrand are the backstabbing bitches who ruined Al Franken’s career and life:
Schmuck Schumer is an enemy of the Democratic Party, and the American people. He would rather have Collins win AGAIN, than back Platner. HE is a significant reason that MAGA is in power. The Dems should be replacing him as leader right now.
His priorities are Israel and Insider Trading and destroying rising Democratic careers, and I would not be surprised at all to find that he’s been paid to tank the Democratic Party. When the Dems take Congress in the Fall, the new Progressive Democratic Party should be just as harsh on Democratic corruption as they are on MAGA corruption, and they should investigate him, too. He belongs in prison.
AOC needs to take one of their seats, and somebody else needs to take the other one.
She told Politico she hesitated to make her claim public because she had a “huge moral conflict” between supporting Platner’s politics and not supporting him as a person.
Fuck, even his actual victim struggled to square her own right to justice with her political convictions. She made the right choice though, if he doesn’t respect the consent of a partner, he certainly won’t respect the consent of the governed.
Racicot told Politico she had previously had consensual relations with Platner, until a night in 2021 when he allegedly let himself into her unlocked house and forced himself on her. She said she repeatedly told him to stop and that she believed he was “almost blackout drunk”.
Getting black out drunk and raping your sometime fuck buddy by breaking into her house in the middle of the night and forcing your self on her that’s like one of the worst possible scenarios. That guy does not belong in power he is an irresponsible predator.
Yet again this is everything I hate about politics.
The obvious solution here is to undo the Missouri Compromise that happened only to extend slavery. Retrocede Maine to Massachusetts and just deprive Missouri of Congressional representation/statehood.
Amen, old man.
My favorite Mamdani quote:
“For far too long our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people. That old way of thinking will lose.”
The Dems would rather have Collins win, and lose their chance to take over the Senate, than allow Platner to fight for US.
I have never written to a candidate, but I sent a message to Platner telling him to stay in the race.
The end justifies the means for you?
Wtf is wrong with you. These allegations are pretty damning, absolutely no plausible deniability. This is straight up sexual assault
If he drops out now the dems can at least field another candidate that isn’t a rapist. I would hope you’d want to not vote for a rapist
Wtf is wrong with you. These allegations are pretty damning, absolutely no plausible deniability. This is straight up sexual assault
in 2021, perhaps… so why did she wait 5 years, and after his political career started, and after his nomination? Are we all idiots to ignore the timing?
These allegations are pretty damning, absolutely no plausible deniability
its literally a case of he said she said, being backed by people who have used this tactic repeatedly to remove individuals they dont like from office. Pretty sure you dont understand the words you’re typing.
All that account’s post have a recurring lack of punctuation on the final line of text.
I’m done caring about any of this stuff. I want to see MAGA crushed decisively, and purged from our government and society. We need as many warriors as we can get, and Platner is committed to that goal. Who else are we going to count on, the MAGA comedy duo of Schmuck & Jeffries? It’s 50% their fault that MAGA got back in power. All they care about is Israel and Insider Trading.
I’m looking for a elected representatives that will fight for me. I don’t have to be friends with them or like them. I just want them to fight for us.
We need as many warriors as we can get, and Platner is committed to that goal.
Which is exactly why the old Democrats want to shit can him. Warren, Schumer… they do not want reform.
If our country needs to elect rapist, war criminal murderers to take down the “bad guys” then the whole system is irredeemable. There are a million other ways we can construct all of this, why are we so endlessly limited by this obviously horrific fucking system?
You sure reason in the same way as MAGA people.
When they go low, you stop giving a fuck
Sounds like a race to the bottom, especially in this example. This is telling women their assaulters/rapists will be rewarded. If you as a nation decide to “stop giving a fuck” about that, then I don’t think it matters who’s in charge. It’s just cosmetic change you’re after.
Oh look everyone, the American nazbols have arrived.
Despite a lot of people being okay with war crimes against civilians of other countries, I’m glad at least they draw the line somewhere (probably the same kind of scum who are fine with the military but hate ICE; at least they have a line somewhere)
I watched an interview with him about the tattoo. I thought he was lying.
I think so too, but my read is that it was funny to him as a non-nazi to get the tottenkopf (whether he knew at the time or not), but didn’t go with that story because people wouldn’t believe or like it.
I believe this round of accusations against Platner are credible. I’d like to see more receipts but I will try not to reflexively deny the victim from coming forward how and when she did.
That said, if Platner does not step down within the next week, then Maine must accept one of the two options they are given, as is. One is a Senator who will support women having no rights related to voting or bodily autonomy, reckless war spending, support for genocide, and no accountability on Trump’s corruption empire, while starving the livelihood of the common American. The other is a Senator with a storied history chewed and spat out by the military, leading to drunken behvaiour and an alleged serious rape incident, who will work to stop Israel and large corporations having influence through their money in politics, and prosecute Trump org for their crimes and benefit more than just the 1%.
If he does, the choice is likely to be between supporting the removal of women’s rights, supporting genocide, oligarchy and Trump’s corruption, versus flowery words opposing these things but tacitly allowing the same to continue unpunished.
I believe this round of accusations against Platner are credible
Then why now. Why wait 5 years until the eve.
Heck if I know. It seems possible for a perpetrator of that to reform during that time too.
He’s a disgusting pig of a man who deserves to be in jail. Voting for him is a moral stain. The Dems are so commited to the lesser evil thing that they’re putting up the lesser rapist for elections now. Unbelievable.
Removed by mod
So…Susan Collins would then be running, unopposed?
As I understand it the Dems have until July 13th according to Maine election law to replace him if they’re going to. So she wouldn’t necessarily be running unopposed.
So, they would just get to “choose” a new candidate, at the last minute? All of a sudden, this seems incredibly fishy.
As I understand it, yes they would just pick someone to replace Platner if he dropped out. I could be wrong, but that’s what it seemed like from what I was reading.
As fishy as an allegation that supposedly happened in 2021 and only now comes to light?
Honestly, these allegations themselves do seem pretty legit…it’s just the timing that makes them seem suspicious.
