Why does it matter? The president is a serial child rapist, thief, conman, sadist and possible child murderer and he's supported by all of the GOP.
If our choices aren't effective then we lose, regardless of the morals or ethics of any of it.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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The real measure will be to count the hogs who eat the slop.
Plenty here on Lemmy have been. I've seen posts declaring he's a predator with more upvotes than downvotes. I've seen comments alleging the same.
It's honestly pretty sad how many have fallen for such an obvious smeer campaign, doing the work of the Zionists and Republicans whether they realize it or not
Its wild to me like I just look at who is against him and that says a lot. Israel, democratic leadership, and Maga hates the guy, sweet well I hate all of those fuckers and they would hate me too so it sounds like I'm pretty aligned with Platner. I haven't even needed to research his positions either since I'm not from Maine.
Say Graham joined the military to kill people, because that is what he said, and called him a MERC. Have some person rant about my formatting of MERC claiming he never was one, nor said that. I cite the quote, and point to the wikipedia person posts to refute my claims says that he joined a PMC in afghanistan.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-senate-candidate-graham-platner-215012230.html
“In a January 2, 2020, on the Reddit thread, “Why Did You Enlist In The Marines?” Platner posted, “I wanted to have an adventure and kill some people.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Platner#Military
“After his military service, he worked as a State Department security contractor in Afghanistan "
“In 2018, Platner returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, for about six months as a State Department security contractor with Constellis, where he provided diplomatic security to the US Ambassador to Afghanistan.”
Constellis, BTW, inherited what Blackwater was doing when Blackwater dissolved their corporation legally because it was in a PR/legal nightmare. So Constellis was basically Blackwater by another name.
still better than collins, ultimately.
What policies does he promote?
Only the worst of things such as stopping the war with Iran, not providing any money/weapons to Israel, universal healthcare, taxing the rich, and the most horrible is that he supports trans people even the kids.
Clearly an evil man who will punish hundreds of people for the benefit of millions of Americans.
Getting a little sick of this progressive push to put this human butcherer into a position of power. Politically this guy is a made man. Powerful people are paying for him to get where he is. He might be the lesser of evils, but that ain't saying much.
Was he not recently endorsed by Chuck Schumer?
After months of dodging the question until it became clear he was the only electable one.
Joke: That's part of the psyop broooo
Please. Platner’s past is so spotty that there would only be a conspiracy if this didn’t get discussed.
I’m not telling you to avoid voting for him, but he’s definitely got a checkered past.