I have the experience in both the DOD Active Duty and Civ Contractor in Iraq to verify that Platner’s an opportunistic bullshitter. I would also, given the fact that the DNC hierarchy does everything possible to annihilate any voices Left of the McKinsey class, fully support Platner over any of the GOP / Schumer preferred alternatives.
We’re not in our current predicament because the GOP are geniuses, but because the Dems consistently offer crap Status Quo candidates assuming that the public will choose that option over the monster that the GOP is offering. How’s that working out, Chuck?
A person has to be 25 to run for Congress and 30 to run for the Senate--but needs only a pulse to stay in office until death or defeat. I'm a lively 82, but I couldn't resume the job--with the energy and the creativity and the focus-- that I had when I was 65. We need to stop talking about term limits and start talking about age limits. Simply because we're devoting so much research and cash into extending our physical lifespans doesn't mean our mental capacity is extended. I was going to say something else, but I forgot what it was. Nap time.
And even if our mental capacities are perfect, as mine undoubtedly are, at 81, I believe a new generation brings a necessary perception correction that is vital to rescue what remains of our so-called democracy.
So the Democratic Party would rather lose to Susan Collins than win with Dan Platner? Wouldn’t surprise me a bit, the old farts (I’m 78 btw) at the DNC have to retain control no matter what.
I don't care about Platner's "scandals." what I do care about is whether or not he's a non-mainstream styled "progressive" - think Fetterman or Sinema - who'll turn into a full-on conserva-dem as soon as some Republican daddy starts being nice to him. He just doesn't have enough political priors to rule out that possibility.
I recall a drawn cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine during the first term of Trump. It showed him running interference on the football field and getting all the attention. Meanwhile the snap is over there..."hike."
This style of politician who knows what a salad fork is, is the same thing. They don't care that we have no money for food or healthcare, and fear being picked up and held indefinitely with no charge. Platner does.
The people who endorse Platner, are the best ones in Congress: Warren, Bernie and Rashida. That's good enough for me.
I'm a paid subscriber who is not leaving as a result of this post, but I do feel like the subtext of you captioning the photos of Collins and Mills with this: "Susan Collins and Janet Mills would never be embroiled in a sexting scandal (too much integrity?)" is that you're saying that no one would want to sext with these two people because they're old, unattractive women. If that's what is happening here, I do think that's gross of you.
How is that relevant to my point, which is that KK is just a tool of the patriarchy when he takes such a cheap, lazy shot in dissing Collins and Mills by implying that they're not attractive sexually? Of course their politics, fitness for political office, etc. are fair game, but the inclusion of their photos with a snarky caption related to their sex appeal is gratuitous BS.
eh, it's a leap to imply this is sexist. it happens that platners opponents are (old) women. if one or both of them were ugly old men id think he'd have included them in a similar joke, given the rest of the piece (and his general reporting on the gerontocracy). if your issue is with taking shots at appearance in general, that's an altogether different point.
I’m 15 years sober, a well educated member of my community, and every year reminds me that if I tried to run for office I would be destroyed before I even got out the gate. Imperfections are not allowed in candidates, even if they believe in nothing but their own right to power.
I don’t care if Platner is messaging whoever what I DO care about is that he was doing it in 2024, on the run up for his campaign announcement in 2025. So you couldn’t put your dick away for one year just to not have a scandal? That is what I don’t understand, maybe you’re conflicted about your commitment to your wife, but not your multi million dollar long shot campaign!
You do have to take into consideration his PTSD...look it has been a long journey for me, and I never sexted anyone...you come home angry, full of testosterone, and it crowds out the goodness....not an excuse, but, one has to see he is more than that...I am hoping he had VA PTSD help.
Everybody's got imperfections, it's just been weaponized lately. Politics is so toxic, I don't see why any "normal/regular" person would run. We're screwed, like Ken said, you pick who they nominated and certain voters vote straight line Democrat
The Uniparty is working as it is supposed to. It's up to us to find a way past the line they are holding. If I were a Mainer, I'd be voting for Plattner. I would be voting for his policy, not his p---s.
I hope Platner wins....dumbass as he is....you described Collins perfectly....she sent me to Iraq, too! I signed up to protect the USA, not be used as a vanity embellisher...
You made my day Ken! I hope Mainers go for Platner over Collins but that's entirely up to them. Clearly they didn't want the DNC pick. If those of us who are older haven't figured it out yet, turning the government over to those who are raising kids so they can create a future for them involves letting them dress and speak as their gen does. Although I really hope no one does as bad a job of clothing himself as Fetterman does. A civil job should carry some decent kind of wardrobe, regardless of what it covers!
I remember a time when a reporter would never be crass enough to ask about a candidate's religion, let alone their sex life...
Please oh please make Gavin Newsom go away. Thank you, Ken, for bringing him up. He has a boatload of people flummoxed, or at least misled. Also, thanks for your refreshing post.
Someone gave me advice many years ago about politics. Pick a couple issues that are your redline and change them when times change but only have two. My two policy redlines are: 1. They have to support Medicare for All (this has been one for years). 2. They must commit to ending all funding for Israel. It use to be they didn’t take any Corporate PAC money or SuperPac money. Graham Platner checks all the boxes. Humans are imperfect. I want policy that will help humanity. I still like him and find it funny how the DNC is now trying to get Susan Fucking Collin’s re-elected, because vote blue if the donor class approves. I’m only voting blue is the donor class disapproves.
You may have heard that 49-year-old Mass. Rep. Seth Moulton is challenging 79-year-old longtime Mass. Sen. Ed Markey to be the Dem candidate for the Senate this year. New, younger leadership is needed in both the Party and the nation he asserts. Went to two of his campaign events to get a clearer picture of where he stands. Between the two events he gave entirely contradictory answers on the obscenity of the $1+ trillion in “defense” we’re wasting PER YEAR now (he voted for the latest National Defense Authorization Act, stating “First, I want to see that our troops get paid,” whereas Markey voted against it, and he artfully dodged a question on where he’d stand in support for Israel should he get into office. Not with my vote. And so much for any new Dem leadership. A pox upon them.
Well, you’re not gonna lose this subscriber over this one. Kinda like what I paid for. Deft wielding of the linguistic stiletto. My entry in the contest? “Finally nudging Susan Collins off her tightrope.” A long-awaited splat! Decorum in politics - the right look, the right words, the right appearances (and non-appearances), the right stances (provided not too principled, aside from the principle of not saying, not doing what needs to be said, needs to be done). The result? The American experiment has failed. It’s been fun – for some – while it lasted.
Ken, don't know how to forward it to you but David Sirota of Lever News sent out an e-mail at 7:15 this evening titled "Graham Platner And The New Politics Of Character" which also specifically mentioned you.
Not a Platner fan. To me, Platner seems morally worse than average. I don't think it's too much to ask not to have a nazi tattoo or to refrain from posting lewd things. But, still, I hope he wins because I want the Democrats to win the Senate.
The DNC/establishment are trying every excuse in the book to avoid looking in the mirror and acknowledging the old Pogo strip "We have met the enemy and he is us". The DNC abandoned the working class decades ago as you point out. In 2016 one of my friends actually said he's voting for trump to (his actual words) "burn the place down". Keep pointing that out because it's the truth. Lies repeated become the truth (trump's playbook), perhaps truth repeated will become the truth too. :-)
I can excuse the rape of children but I draw the line a flirty texts.
I have the experience in both the DOD Active Duty and Civ Contractor in Iraq to verify that Platner’s an opportunistic bullshitter. I would also, given the fact that the DNC hierarchy does everything possible to annihilate any voices Left of the McKinsey class, fully support Platner over any of the GOP / Schumer preferred alternatives.
We’re not in our current predicament because the GOP are geniuses, but because the Dems consistently offer crap Status Quo candidates assuming that the public will choose that option over the monster that the GOP is offering. How’s that working out, Chuck?
A person has to be 25 to run for Congress and 30 to run for the Senate--but needs only a pulse to stay in office until death or defeat. I'm a lively 82, but I couldn't resume the job--with the energy and the creativity and the focus-- that I had when I was 65. We need to stop talking about term limits and start talking about age limits. Simply because we're devoting so much research and cash into extending our physical lifespans doesn't mean our mental capacity is extended. I was going to say something else, but I forgot what it was. Nap time.
And even if our mental capacities are perfect, as mine undoubtedly are, at 81, I believe a new generation brings a necessary perception correction that is vital to rescue what remains of our so-called democracy.
So the Democratic Party would rather lose to Susan Collins than win with Dan Platner? Wouldn’t surprise me a bit, the old farts (I’m 78 btw) at the DNC have to retain control no matter what.
yes, exactly
Death (by natural causes) can’t come soon enough for a lot of people.
I don't care about Platner's "scandals." what I do care about is whether or not he's a non-mainstream styled "progressive" - think Fetterman or Sinema - who'll turn into a full-on conserva-dem as soon as some Republican daddy starts being nice to him. He just doesn't have enough political priors to rule out that possibility.
You forgot Gabbard.
I recall a drawn cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker magazine during the first term of Trump. It showed him running interference on the football field and getting all the attention. Meanwhile the snap is over there..."hike."
This style of politician who knows what a salad fork is, is the same thing. They don't care that we have no money for food or healthcare, and fear being picked up and held indefinitely with no charge. Platner does.
The people who endorse Platner, are the best ones in Congress: Warren, Bernie and Rashida. That's good enough for me.
I like to eat with my hands.
I'm a paid subscriber who is not leaving as a result of this post, but I do feel like the subtext of you captioning the photos of Collins and Mills with this: "Susan Collins and Janet Mills would never be embroiled in a sexting scandal (too much integrity?)" is that you're saying that no one would want to sext with these two people because they're old, unattractive women. If that's what is happening here, I do think that's gross of you.
Yeah, he assumes no one would ever want to have sex with an older woman. Maybe they just aren't dumb enough for it to turn into a scandal.
These women are ancient, not just old
How is that relevant to my point, which is that KK is just a tool of the patriarchy when he takes such a cheap, lazy shot in dissing Collins and Mills by implying that they're not attractive sexually? Of course their politics, fitness for political office, etc. are fair game, but the inclusion of their photos with a snarky caption related to their sex appeal is gratuitous BS.
eh, it's a leap to imply this is sexist. it happens that platners opponents are (old) women. if one or both of them were ugly old men id think he'd have included them in a similar joke, given the rest of the piece (and his general reporting on the gerontocracy). if your issue is with taking shots at appearance in general, that's an altogether different point.
I’m 15 years sober, a well educated member of my community, and every year reminds me that if I tried to run for office I would be destroyed before I even got out the gate. Imperfections are not allowed in candidates, even if they believe in nothing but their own right to power.
I don’t care if Platner is messaging whoever what I DO care about is that he was doing it in 2024, on the run up for his campaign announcement in 2025. So you couldn’t put your dick away for one year just to not have a scandal? That is what I don’t understand, maybe you’re conflicted about your commitment to your wife, but not your multi million dollar long shot campaign!
You do have to take into consideration his PTSD...look it has been a long journey for me, and I never sexted anyone...you come home angry, full of testosterone, and it crowds out the goodness....not an excuse, but, one has to see he is more than that...I am hoping he had VA PTSD help.
Everybody's got imperfections, it's just been weaponized lately. Politics is so toxic, I don't see why any "normal/regular" person would run. We're screwed, like Ken said, you pick who they nominated and certain voters vote straight line Democrat
The Uniparty is working as it is supposed to. It's up to us to find a way past the line they are holding. If I were a Mainer, I'd be voting for Plattner. I would be voting for his policy, not his p---s.
I hope Platner wins....dumbass as he is....you described Collins perfectly....she sent me to Iraq, too! I signed up to protect the USA, not be used as a vanity embellisher...
I have to wonder what AIPAC had to do with this. Also so sick of men in the public eye who cannot fkn behave.
You made my day Ken! I hope Mainers go for Platner over Collins but that's entirely up to them. Clearly they didn't want the DNC pick. If those of us who are older haven't figured it out yet, turning the government over to those who are raising kids so they can create a future for them involves letting them dress and speak as their gen does. Although I really hope no one does as bad a job of clothing himself as Fetterman does. A civil job should carry some decent kind of wardrobe, regardless of what it covers!
I remember a time when a reporter would never be crass enough to ask about a candidate's religion, let alone their sex life...
Please oh please make Gavin Newsom go away. Thank you, Ken, for bringing him up. He has a boatload of people flummoxed, or at least misled. Also, thanks for your refreshing post.
Someone gave me advice many years ago about politics. Pick a couple issues that are your redline and change them when times change but only have two. My two policy redlines are: 1. They have to support Medicare for All (this has been one for years). 2. They must commit to ending all funding for Israel. It use to be they didn’t take any Corporate PAC money or SuperPac money. Graham Platner checks all the boxes. Humans are imperfect. I want policy that will help humanity. I still like him and find it funny how the DNC is now trying to get Susan Fucking Collin’s re-elected, because vote blue if the donor class approves. I’m only voting blue is the donor class disapproves.
You may have heard that 49-year-old Mass. Rep. Seth Moulton is challenging 79-year-old longtime Mass. Sen. Ed Markey to be the Dem candidate for the Senate this year. New, younger leadership is needed in both the Party and the nation he asserts. Went to two of his campaign events to get a clearer picture of where he stands. Between the two events he gave entirely contradictory answers on the obscenity of the $1+ trillion in “defense” we’re wasting PER YEAR now (he voted for the latest National Defense Authorization Act, stating “First, I want to see that our troops get paid,” whereas Markey voted against it, and he artfully dodged a question on where he’d stand in support for Israel should he get into office. Not with my vote. And so much for any new Dem leadership. A pox upon them.
Well, you’re not gonna lose this subscriber over this one. Kinda like what I paid for. Deft wielding of the linguistic stiletto. My entry in the contest? “Finally nudging Susan Collins off her tightrope.” A long-awaited splat! Decorum in politics - the right look, the right words, the right appearances (and non-appearances), the right stances (provided not too principled, aside from the principle of not saying, not doing what needs to be said, needs to be done). The result? The American experiment has failed. It’s been fun – for some – while it lasted.
hey thanks!
Ken, don't know how to forward it to you but David Sirota of Lever News sent out an e-mail at 7:15 this evening titled "Graham Platner And The New Politics Of Character" which also specifically mentioned you.
Ditto.
Not a Platner fan. To me, Platner seems morally worse than average. I don't think it's too much to ask not to have a nazi tattoo or to refrain from posting lewd things. But, still, I hope he wins because I want the Democrats to win the Senate.
"Gonna lose some subscribers for this one"
You ain't losin' me. I think you're right on (as usual).
Hey thanks !!
The DNC/establishment are trying every excuse in the book to avoid looking in the mirror and acknowledging the old Pogo strip "We have met the enemy and he is us". The DNC abandoned the working class decades ago as you point out. In 2016 one of my friends actually said he's voting for trump to (his actual words) "burn the place down". Keep pointing that out because it's the truth. Lies repeated become the truth (trump's playbook), perhaps truth repeated will become the truth too. :-)