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[–] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Honestly kind of stunned he actually dropped out. After all the Nazi shit came out and he didn't budge, I thought maybe he had some of that Teflon Don sauce going for him. Guess not. Bye loser!

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    i'd bet money he could've been all "nah i'm staying in, blue no matter who" and been fine.

    it's some 40k shit where he's only vulnerable to it because he thinks he is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    A number of his erstwhile defenders were angry and felt misled by the sexual assault allegation Monday, the breaking point for his allies. Platner had promised Democrats there wouldn’t be stories of that nature coming out, two people with knowledge of the assurances told NBC News.

    Take anonymous sources with a grain of salt, of course. But it seems like this was the red line for the other social democrats who had endorsed him, possibly because he had reassured them he didn't have these specific skeletons in his closet, after all his other scandals. Even if plenty of his supporters were ready to go full MAGA for him, I'm not sure he'd survive all those figures calling for him to drop out.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    oh wow. my "i swear i have never done any SA shirt" etc etc

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago

    I dunno how conspiratorial I want to get but the tattoo coverup or lack thereof and the merc work had me fairly convinced he was basically a MIC plant to get ahead of the democrats moving leftward

    Like I’m fully convinced the pentagon has its own electoral manipulation wing and guys like Platner come out of it

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