Her response: "I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip,” she said in the informal, selfie-style video where she paced along a road. “No marriage is perfect, and I don’t want a perfect marriage, I want my marriage.”
Factually incorrect.
The Dems played ball with those three. People just sorta pretended Manchin/Fetterman/Sinema were progressive for putting on a blue uniform.
That both Republicans and Democrats are trying to swift boat Platner lends credibility to his message as a progressive.
That’s literally what you’re doing for Graham Platner.
And you pretending a guy with a Nazi tattoo who joined the army to kill people and loved his time in the infantry so much he went back is a progressive for putting on a blue uniform is materially different how?
I’d love to be wrong, but all I see at this stage is someone who learned the right words to say to get power, and I’m disappointed that: 1) people are giving him credence without regard to his past and 2) there’s no better progressive candidate without a sordid past.
We are going to find out that you’re wrong, yes. I know this because both Democrats and Republicans are in lockstep to oppose him, just like they were against Mamdani and Bernie, among others.
I don’t care that he doesn’t know anything about Nazi symbols nor his shit posting. I care that he’s going to oppose billionaires, unlike all but a handful of other Democrats.
I care about the fact that he loves blood and killing so much that, when he was done with the army, he became a fucking mercenary.
Being universally opposed doesn’t make one right, best, or good.
There’ve also been a few reports of him knowing it was a Nazi symbol years before he got it covered up.
You’re making unfounded assertions devoid of his history. I do not share your optimism.
You are pretending the political establishment politicians on both the right and the left uniting against someone isn’t the best candidate regardless.
Stop watching cable news
“The white liberal must honestly ask himself why he supported the movement in the first place. If he supported it for the right reasons, he will continue to support it in spite of the confusions of the present moment. But if he supported the movement for the wrong reasons, he will find every available excuse to withdraw from it now, and he will discover that he was inoculated with so mild a form of commitment that he was immune to the genuine moral article.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Not sure why you’ve spammed that MLK Jr. quote across this thread as it really doesn’t seem to apply.
Firstly you are assuming (or worse projecting) the identity of your interlocutors. Secondly “support of the movement” doesn’t mean blindly following anyone that claims to walk with you despite historical evidence that they do not. Similarly critiquing the very real failures of a candidate with no track record of support is not “finding every available excuse.” We should critique all our leaders because we want both for them to improve and to foster others to be better. Following based on lip service alone is some misguided messianic practice, and Platner ain’t no messiah.
This disingenuous injection of MLK Jr’s words feels no better than the right’s jingoistic quote mining as an attempt to produce a diverse authority that agrees with them.
I highly doubt MLK Jr. would be in favor of a white boy with a Nazi tattoo who served multiple tours and signed up as a mercenary because he liked killing so much.
I think he’s better than Collins. I don’t think he’s a good candidate in the field of all possible candidates that could (but aren’t) run.
Furthermore being universally opposed doesn’t make one right, best, or good.
I don’t watch cable news.
This guy absolutely doesn’t remember the 2016 republican primary where the GOP establishment was in universal opposition to Trump but couldn’t convince enough of the lifetime careerists running against him to exit the clown car.
The DNC only played ball with Fetterman after he won his primary against Conor Lamb, who was who they were initially backing. They’re going to do the same with Platner against Collins, it’s not like they really have a choice.
The DNC “swiftboating” him in his primary doesn’t do anything but tell us he doesn’t have connections with the DNC establishment, which could be good or bad. There is nothing in politics that lends credibility to a politician but their prior actions.