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Emile

(43,699 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:34 PM Thursday

Graham Platner's platform directly attacks wealthy

special interests. The "oligarchs" and billionaires dislike his policies because he campaigns on raising taxes on the superrich, enacting a "billionaire minimum tax", and breaking up corporate monopolies. His economic agenda threatens the financial advantages currently enjoyed by corporate elites.

The powerful are attacking him with everything they can make up.

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Graham Platner's platform directly attacks wealthy (Original Post) Emile Thursday OP
Agreed that's exactly what this is oldmanlynn Thursday #1
Endless attacks against the progressive Emile Yesterday #2
I have to admire him, and the way he handles their attacks. He is Emile 23 hrs ago #3
So 3 women are lying? EdmondDantes_ 23 hrs ago #4
He has addressed all that satisfactory. Emile 22 hrs ago #5
Would you believe his denial if it was a Republican? EdmondDantes_ 10 hrs ago #12
So, six more years of Susan Collins is OK with you? MineralMan 19 hrs ago #6
Hes not the only option to beat her Boo1 11 hrs ago #8
It is probably about as likely that Susan Collins croaks mr715 10 hrs ago #9
If he's an abuser, he shouldn't be a senator. EdmondDantes_ 10 hrs ago #10
AIPAC is. Emile 11 hrs ago #7
And AIPAC is, as we all know, mr715 10 hrs ago #11

Emile

(43,699 posts)
2. Endless attacks against the progressive
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 12:07 AM
Yesterday

coming from a centrist lobbying group, and Susan Collins campaign.

Emile

(43,699 posts)
3. I have to admire him, and the way he handles their attacks. He is
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:40 AM
23 hrs ago

an authentic voice of the working class against the establishment, and they can't stand that.

EdmondDantes_

(2,185 posts)
4. So 3 women are lying?
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:48 AM
23 hrs ago

And his tattoo and reddit posts were his own. Nobody made those up. Nobody invented him using retarded as a slur. Nobody invented that he told Nate Cornacchia he was a big fan of Nate who claims Israel killed JFK.

I'll even give him a free pass on the sexting because while gross, it's not in the same realm.

EdmondDantes_

(2,185 posts)
12. Would you believe his denial if it was a Republican?
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 07:03 PM
10 hrs ago

If a Republican had a long history of saying and doing disrespectful things to women like women are to be blamed for rape and sexting right after getting married, would you readily believe them?

He talks a good game about change, but what's the evidence? The sexting and the most recent claims of abusive behavior are from the 2020s.

mr715

(4,493 posts)
9. It is probably about as likely that Susan Collins croaks
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:52 PM
10 hrs ago

than it is Graham Platner loses the primary.

EdmondDantes_

(2,185 posts)
10. If he's an abuser, he shouldn't be a senator.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:53 PM
10 hrs ago

Sorry if you believe in party over every other value, but if patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, what's partisanship the refuge of? Swalwell jad to go regardless of what it did to the California governor's race or his seat. Morality for me doesn't stop because someone is a Democrat. Plus it's really weird you're jumping right past the primary. It's not a binary choice that you want to reduce it to.

mr715

(4,493 posts)
11. And AIPAC is, as we all know,
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:58 PM
10 hrs ago

a critical lodestar of American democracy. I shudder to think of the state of American politics without AIPAC for, without their unimpeachable and steadfast desire to promote the interests of everyday Americans, we would certainly fall apart. How could our party possibly survive on a message of economic and social justice if it didn't include endless wars and an imperial client kingdom's welfare state?

Thank you AIPAC. You really show us the clear boundary between foreign interference, espionage, and diplomacy. You are certainly on the up and up. Always have been. Forever will.

God bless AIPAC and all they do for us, Americans, and for their desire for peace and prosperity to all.




As if it were not obvious...





PS -- I here every time someone thanks AIPAC, a unicorn shits a rainbow.

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