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Can you guys not bring in another proper progressive and have another primary?
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.
I mean, just the timeline shows that whoever was putting this together (Politico and NYT) had the main concern of getting Platner to drop out
They didn't care about the story, they didn't investigate anything to find the truth, they didn't even chase ratings.
They just kept dropping bombs a week before he could be forced out.
Doesn't mean he's innocent, if anything it means there needs to be an investigation into all of it. But the only way that would have happened was if Planter stayed in, won, and then had an investigation done himself.
Now that he's dropped no one is going to look into any of it, in a month he won't be in any headlines or mentioned again.
Depending on who replaces him is what may make it a big deal long term.
But the NYT just smacked down a progressive who was vocally against Israel, if it worked once the oligarchs will keep doing it. A senate seat is too important for them to just not try.
You think no investigation happened at all?
Look, there's room to talk about the best way forward and it sucks, this really, really sucks that Platner couldn't live up to what we all had hoped. But we can have those discussions without victim blaming and indulging in conspiracy theories too much.
You think no investigation happened at all?
I, for on, don't have a bottomless well of trust for pro-Israel establishment media.
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.
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.