And this is why she didn't deserve to be considered for the race. She's only in it for herself. She doesn't care about anybody else. She played dirty politics while Graham Platner refused to do so. It backfired on her big time, so she's taking her toys and going home. Selfish bitch.
Yeah, I don’t understand how people looked at “Susan Collins, but Older!” as a better option than Planter.
She's 'vetted and battle-tested' according to the DNC.
The DNC only likes corporate bootlickers that are completely out of touch with constituents.
battle-tested
In the second world war, maybe...
She’s only in it to make sure that Democrats do not gain power in the senate.
If she had won and retired after one 6 year term that would mean that those 6 years would be wasted and she would have no seniority position of power.
They’re afraid of Platner because he’s young and would be able to accumulate seniority and power over the years.
Seems a lot of people have only seen his tattoo or heard about his reddit comments. I encourage you to watch some of his long form interviews or campaign events. The guy is demanding real change from the neoliberal norm and so threatens their sovereignty over the party, I'd be surprised if they ever endorse him.
Whether or not you're from Maine, if all you've seen is his controversies then you're in a specific news echo chamber that does not want to share his policies.
A lot of people really can’t take nuance in scandals and individual negative attributes. There’s things about ME that suck that I’m glad don’t get exposed online. Might come up if I run for office, which I’ll have to deal with.
I can honestly say until Graham, I had no idea there was a format of the pirate skull-and-bones symbol that had direct Nazi connections. I respect those who know the details of history better than me.
It'd be rough for me if I ran for major office no doubt.
Specifically about the tattoo: I grew up orthodox Jewish and went to school (a yeshiva) across the street from a Holocaust museum and used to go there all the time. I did not know what the toten kopf was until Graham Platner got called out in it. I'm also into tattoo culture and have come close to getting a similar style skull because it was cool and piratey.
I get it... And if I lived there and had to vote I would absolutely do more thinking on it, but my view from afar is why can't we just find people to run with these campaign platforms who don't have Nazi tattoos? It isn't that hard.
I think one of the issues is, to have these people that grow up into roles where they choose to shoulder a lot of responsibility, see the world's faults, and act beyond their station to resolve it...you kind of need a complex character for that. Someone who didn't just grow up in a poor environment, saying no to every opportunity (because they're all offered by evil crooks) to finally come out as a competent legislator with big social media presence.
We're very lucky to have waitresses turned Senator like AOC, but those perfect, morally unblemished stories of zero to hero are hard to come by. Hence why a lot of noir stories about a detective getting justice for the marginalized (anyone playing Mouse, PI?) will emphasize how morally grey they act. A lot of people are working to fight fascism because they want to recognize how they've unknowingly contributed to it (not necessarily by voting for Trump) and want to amend their mistakes.
To give an example: I haven't contributed to fascism. I also don't personally know people hurt by it. While I consider it a civic duty to fight, at times I struggle to develop motivation to do risky, above-and-beyond actions that may take up a large part of my day for low gains. That might be different for someone who's either been hit hard by it, or feels direct responsibility for it, eg by joining the army.
Context matters a lot. He got the tattoo with military buddies in the early 2000s, in Romania.
It's not very hard to imagine a group of drunk 20 year old men picking a skull tattoo because it "looks badass". There was almost certainly a language barrier with the tattoo artist and back then we didn't all have computers in our pockets to access all the world's information.
Really not that hard to belive they saw a skull as a skull. It's a relatively obscure symbol even in the modern day.
remember, the tea party was a hostile take over of the GOP. The only way the old democrats go down is with a similar hostile take over.
The Tea Party was not "grass roots". It was 100% AstroTurf. They were created by Republican strategists and funded by conservative donors.
A hostile takeover backed by all the right wing media. The tea party was working but grass roots. The established Republicans might have regretted it but nothing about the tea party was organic except the absolute nutters that got elected.
Trump took over the GOP too. Right wing media was initially against him. You can reductively dismiss this as him still being on the side capital , but Trump's trade policy is NOT what rich people wanted in general or else the US wouldn't have championed free trade for the last 70 years.
More to the point, building a national party with enough recognition to actually win is extremely difficult. Hijacking the Democratic party and giving people a reason to vote for it, difficult though it may be, is far easier.
Holy shit his John Stewart interview. Wow.
This was the primary. That's when you root out as many shitfucks as you can.
Anyone still calling themselves Republican is in bed with fascism at the very least. Vote against them in a way that ensures they lose in a FPTP system.
Anyone still calling themselves Repiblican
…can't spell. ;-)
sorry, can't resist playing with typos, but I'm being silly, not giving you shit :)
Schumer still hasn't even endorsed Mamdani because he's more concerned with representing Israel than representing New York.
And the Democrats are taking credit for Mamdani's successes even though they fought against him.
We need to primary every AIPAC funded Democrat.
Get AIPAC out of the US! And money out of politics. Schumer is a spineless turd who does not represent the American people.
Two party system is terrible and both options are ridiculously bad, but you are crazy if you think that they are the same.
Should we break the system and make a new one? Yes. Will you do anything like that? For 99% of people the answer is no.
So if you are doing nothing to change the system, at the very least you should do what you can within the system (ie voting)
Anyone who says "both sides are terrible so why bother" but does nothing except online bitching, is just letting the people who are voting decide the future for them. If you are doing nothing to fight the system, at the very least use your rights within the system to choose the least awful option.
Does who she endorses matter even in the least? Would anyone pay any attention to her endorsing someone?
No, it's just more evidence of who these losers really are.
I was gonna say, I feel like for AIPAC crowd, not endorsing him is kind of an endorsement.
Vote blue yes. But do a quick google search or something before blinding voting.
Hmmm, just another cuck’n funt.
Schumer backed=> funny how that refusal swings around and becomes an endorsement anyway.
Lowkey, I love watching our resident political purity testers encounter a progressive-populist with a literal SS tattoo XD
He doesn't have it anymore.
ITT: Stop purity testing American "progressives"!!!
source: Graham Platner's Reddit account, just before declaring himself a communist, lol
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