I have no interest in watching his video but I also have no interest in further reading the article when it talks about Nixon and his “graceful exit”.
Yes, I seem to remember his graceful exit taking years.
And no one today would be referring to it as “graceful” if he had actually been prosecuted.
Nixon was granted “grace” by Ford, nothing he did himself was graceful in the slightest.
Well hate say Told everyone so, but I was against this guy from the jump, and told everyone he was no progressive and all I got was scorn and downvoted. Hate to be right, but now we fucked and Republicans win.
Spends an entire lifetime as a rightwing, establishment enforcing chud. Spends six months pretending none of that ever happened so that he can become a senator with zero relevant experience. ‘I believe him.’
I dunno what they’re expecting. He said the allegations were false. Why would he do that and then give “contrition and humility” to the people that supposedly made horrendous false allegations against him that torpedoed his career?
It goes deeper than that because the person who’s accusing him stated plainly that he was actually blackout drunk when the incident occurred and that he didn’t remember it the next morning.
Though I got to say for me, my doubt about him came several weeks ago when it was revealed that he had a Kik account he had been using up till less than a year ago that he was using to meet women. And if you know anything about Kik, you know that’s a very concerning thing. People use that platform are not good people.
The Kik thing wasn’t that serious. Most people would just go on tinder or another dating app to cheat but living in rural Maine that’s a recipe for getting caught. He probably used Kik for its global reach, not because he’s one of the awful users you hear about. Even more relevant to Platner, there are sub Reddits dedicated to meeting other consenting adults via Kik (Or at least there used to be, I haven’t checked in years).
What a shitty article. This person probably nods their head smugly when he hears Schumer is sending a strongly worded letter to donald
Came here to say this. I kept checking to see if this garbage was an opinion piece. I don’t care how shitty the guy is; the article reads like it was written by an angsty teen.
When Platner observed, “we live in a political system that is not built for normal people”, the implication was that he is a normal person, which the shenanigans of recent months have comprehensively disproved.
Even if you don’t think Platner is a normal person, you can’t deny that he appealed to a lot of normal people. But then, maybe “normal” just isn’t a useful adjective. I don’t know. Of course, Platner doesn’t necessarily have to be a normal person himself for the statement to be true. Platner can be abnormal and we can live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It can also be true that liberal elites have a general disdain for “normal” people. Or at least they have disdain for the voters who find uncouth, crass, ill-mannered populists appealing. Whether or not those voters are “normal” is a matter of debate, I suppose. But if they’re not normal, who is? And even if the populists aren’t “normal,” they still exist. In the millions. Ignorant, unrefined and problematic they may be, they exist. In this society, with you. What will the liberal elites do about them? They’ve tried snark and condescension, but for some reason it just hasn’t worked.
Can you guys not bring in another proper progressive and have another primary?
Yes but he needed to exit asap and get off the ballot so someone else could have a proper chance. He didn’t. He forgot the enemy is Susan Collins, not the game.
I thought the new guy was already lined up? It maybe that was a different race. Hard to keep it all together.
