Graham Platner FTW

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In reply to DiabloWags • 2:31p, 7/8/26
Christine Blasey Ford received quiet backing from Epstein Island visitor and Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman who provided a private jet for her travels to and from D.C.

When asked about the arrangement by reporters, Hoffman stated, "We believed then, as we do now, that it is important to take seriously accusations of violence against women."
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2:54p, 7/8/26
LOL, Janet Mills still does worse.

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In reply to SBGold • 3:07p, 7/8/26
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Personal late night attack my dawg?

Wow

Grow a sense of humor.

You've got some nerve



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3:39p, 7/8/26

They got her, too!
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 4:23p, 7/8/26
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They got her, too!


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In reply to Aunburdened • 4:36p, 7/8/26
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BearlySane88 said:

LMFAO. Democrats learned nothing from the Kamala debacle.

Follow-up:
Nobody hates democracy more than the "Democratic" Party
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4:46p, 7/8/26
Doesn't that idiot Heather Cox Richardson live in Maine? And isn't she married to a lobsterman? Why don't the Dems nominate him, a centrist guy who will tell the populace that Trump is a rogue. It's what the people want, a Kamala Harris shellfish monger. Daddy knows best.
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 4:50p, 7/8/26
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Doesn't that idiot Heather Cox Richardson live in Maine? And isn't she married to a lobsterman? Why don't the Dems nominate him, a centrist guy who will tell the populace that Trump is a rogue. It's what the people want, a Kamala Harris shellfish monger. Daddy knows best.

They'd nominate her, but she makes far more money with her grift on Substack repackaging other people's TDS news stories and passing it off as her own interesting insights.
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6:13p, 7/8/26
Platner dropped out tonight.
Dems have until the 27th to name a new candidate.



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In reply to sycasey • 8:17a, 7/9/26
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even Trump has empathy/sympathy, "pigs" in arms.
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So let's be adults. This is a political attack.

Top Maine Democratic Party donors in recent years are Reid Hoffman, Haim Saban, and David Ellison. David Ellison! As in the Trump ally who fired Stephen Colbert and is taking over TikTok, CBS News, and CNN. These names should mean something. Saban may be the single most important AIPAC donor in the Democratic Party.

Another big donor to the Maine Democratic Party is the founder of Zynga, Marc Pincus, who said in 2024 that "an attack on Amazon is an attack on America." It goes beyond big tech and Wall Street. Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried's partner Nishad Singh at FTX gave $100k to the Maine Democratic Party in 2022.

The insiders running the party are the people funded through these streams of revenue, they are the ones dealing with the donors and currying favor with them. And while I will not speak out of school, the Maine Democratic establishment simply cannot be trusted and that is well-known.

Platner may be a fatally weakened candidate, that is for others to decide. It's a wave year in a blue state, but I get that Susan Collins is a strong incumbent. Winning this Senate seat matters, so I get why people might see value in ditching him. I generally think that polls and electoral guesses are mechanisms to get ordinary voters to focus on anything but policy. It's a disciplining mechanism, since no one can tell the future. But it's not crazy to see Platner as a poor candidate.

Let's be clear, the goal of pushing Platner aside is to destroy the agenda on which he was elected, which is about taming oligarchy and reorienting us from endless war. That is why the Maine Democrats aren't saying 'let's respect Platner voters and transition to someone else,' they are taking a sanctimonious 'he gets NO say in ANYTHING.' Those are not the actions of people who want to win a Senate seat, those are the actions of nasty insiders claiming factional power for themselves.

If Platner steps down, he will be characterized as a deviant, and that's just how it'll be forever. True or not. And everyone will be tarred as supportive of immoral behavior. It doesn't matter if you are a liberal, centrist, young, old, whatever. People are saying the Bulwark, a centrist outlet started by ex-Republicans who were skeptical of Platner, are tarred by this. Punchbowl is reporting that Senate progressives will never have credibility going forward. The ploy here is obvious.

That is, even though the actual immoral behavior at issue here is the genocide in Gaza, the corruption of DOGE and Musk, and the neoliberal turn in American politics for 40 years that has destroyed our faith in society and each other.

Platner has been consistent about his platform, and there's no reason to assume that will change. 70% of Maine Democrats picked him as their candidate, and he has the right to represent their views. So he should stay in the race or, if he feels he cannot win, leave on terms that will ensure his platform, and not that of Maine Dem Party oligarch donors, is the one on the ballot in November. The Maine Dem establishment cannot be trusted.

And frankly, this kind of ugly scenario is how power works. They make ordinary people pick among ugly scenarios, and then they make it seem like the obvious path is the one that accords more power and wealth to oligarchs. And if you don't choose that one, you're a bad person who deserves approbation and scorn. That's why I had to delete the original thread and rewrite it, because endless numbers of reporter gossips - who don't report on government policy - are using this extremely obvious rat****ing to try and destroy people like me telling you the truth.

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In reply to DiabloWags • 5:59p, 7/9/26
DiabloWags said:
Platner dropped out tonight.
Dems have until the 27th to name a new candidate.



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6:26p, 7/9/26
I see that the obsession with Platner continues.
Literally 9 pages of Twitter posts.

Since when did Bearinsider become Twitter?

Yawn.
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7:47p, 7/9/26
Yeah it's not like we're talking about something really compelling like the Diablo Valkey
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2:26p, 7/13/26
Dems making money moves in Maine, love to see it

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-stunned-as-dems-surge-in-key-race/?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning&user_emailA=29130012af40393c4ef977aeca11781a&user_emailB=93967a408671cb74a3d8c590d633fc48cad9f915da8bdc017cd009940eb9bafa&lctg=680d7a129c9e0798ae060651&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=260713-am-digest&utm_term=F%20List%20Daily%20Beast%20Newsletter%20AM

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In reply to SBGold • 6:53a, 7/17/26
SBGold said:
Dems making money moves in Maine, love to see it

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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 6:58a, 7/17/26
PAC-10-BEAR said:
SBGold said:
Dems making money moves in Maine, love to see it

hey stop that! That could be my neighbor you are making fun of! Not nice!
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 7:00a, 7/17/26
cal83dls79 said:
hey stop that! That could be my neighbor you are making fun of! Not nice!

The Dems taking out Platner was a loss for all of us.
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 7:09a, 7/17/26
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cal83dls79 said:
hey stop that! That could be my neighbor you are making fun of! Not nice!

The Dems taking out Platner was a loss for all of us.
true, I've collected the Platner lawn signs in Kennebunkport, Kennebunk and Biddeford where the kid was shot……look for them years to come on eBay.
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 7:56a, 7/17/26
Making fun of decent people who may be different than you are?

VOTE BLUE and FREE WAGS
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11:46p, 7/17/26
Economics is why the right wing Democrats had to smear Platner and get him out of the race

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In reply to Aunburdened • 11:49p, 7/17/26
Aunburdened said:
Economics is why the right wing Democrats had to smear Platner and get him out of the race


Not taking Ryan and Alex's opinions (no facts given on anything seriously

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In reply to SBGold • 11:51p, 7/17/26
SBGold said:
Aunburdened said:
Economics is why the right wing Democrats had to smear Platner and get him out of the race


Not taking Ryan and Alex's opinions (no facts given on anything seriously

VOTE BLUE AND FREE WAGS

I bet that you would if they were published on MSNOW
Happy Roevember!
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In reply to SBGold • 6:57a, 7/18/26
SBGold said:
Aunburdened said:
Economics is why the right wing Democrats had to smear Platner and get him out of the race


Not taking Ryan and Alex's opinions (no facts given on anything seriously

VOTE BLUE AND FREE WAGS


You post biased opinion pieces regularly, if your leader Maddow told you to like it you would.
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In reply to Aunburdened • 9:27a, 7/18/26
Aunburdened said:
SBGold said:
Aunburdened said:
Economics is why the right wing Democrats had to smear Platner and get him out of the race


Not taking Ryan and Alex's opinions (no facts given on anything seriously

VOTE BLUE AND FREE WAGS

I bet that you would if they were published on MSNOW

Look man, you can say that Platner got smeared or whatever but if the smears are true then he was simply a bad candidate and this stuff was going to come out sooner or later. At least some of the fault is on him and the people who recruited him, yes?
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In reply to Anarchistbear • 10:02a, 7/18/26
I like the Diablo Valley posts, I've actually learned something from those
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