R.M. McGrath

Fuck this amoral piece of shit.

I, for one, welcome our sandwich overlords...

Anything that comes out against him is seen as attempts to spike his campaign by the elitist, do-nothing, corporate-owned, AIPAC-supported Democratic Party leadership that has failed us utterly.

Platner acts and talks like a real person rather than a politician.
He made stupid mistakes in his past? That just makes him more relatable. He's worked as an oysterman. He's served in the Armed Forces. He wants working people to have more support.

Here's the thing re: Platner that I think out-of-staters don't get.

For the past 6+ months, he has been going throughout Maine to listen to people's concerns. We needed this desperately.

Collins hasn't held a town hall in years and when she did, she didn't listen to people.

Well, if there was ever a way for a Kennedy to ever get booed in New England, this would be it...

At this point, given the polls, it's going to be Mills or Platner. Platner is the only one with the juice to defeat Mills.

He's shown remarkable resilience because he keeps doing town halls, meeting Mainers, and listening to us.

Is he perfect? No. But he wants to fight for the working class.

I wouldn't but I also am not him.

Because I am a Mainer and I want a Senator that represents my values.

Also, I am diametrically opposed to Nazism and the Right.

We don't know when he knew about it being a Nazi symbol...

At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.

Can't wait for the tawdry TV movies, TV shows, etc. about the Epstein Files to come out.

I'm hoping for a Broadway musical: Epstein!

He asked about the stereotype of Black people tipping on Reddit. Let's be real here, this is Maine. He probably didn't encounter a lot of Black people growing up here.

And he's apologized for that. Same with the other Reddit comments. I'm sure lots of folks have embarrassing Reddit comments.

We don't know when he knew exactly.

Platner's been vocally supportive of our Somali community in Maine and deeply critical of ICE.

What if he is an ex-Nazi but now has moved to the Left? Do people deserve grace for their past mistakes? (Assuming we're not talking about rape, sexual assault, etc.)

If he was *still* a Nazi, he wouldn't be running as a Dem. Not when he could be mask off as a Republican.

Whoa... what's with the slurs?
Fuck antisemitism now and forever.

Also, he does not have a Nazi tattoo. It's been covered up.

That he's said repeatedly was a mistake. He didn't realize it was a Nazi symbol when he got it. He was a drunk Marine.

He's polling far better against Collins than Mills is.

The tattoo is covered up. It was a youthful drunken mistake that he didn't realize was a Nazi symbol.

I don't see why Jewish feelings would be hurt. The man is not a Nazi. He's been explicit about that.

If feelings are hurt over his criticism of Israel, however, then they deserve to be hurt. Being anti-genocide is the morally right thing to do.

He's been a community organizer.
For me, it's that he has the right positions. He's anti-corporate, pro-labor, pro-living wage, Medicare4All. All of the DSA positions you want in a candidate.

He's also young. His opponent is a nearly-80 y/o corporate Dem who was a below average Governor.

OK, but a lot of us do.

No. Fuck that. He's still the best option we have.

We love the guy here in Maine and I'm tired of out-of-staters acting like it's a problem.

I think he made a mistake. A really dumb mistake.

As someone who made mistakes in my past, I would like to think we can do better.

Granted, mine wasn't a Nazi tattoo.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Platner's flawed, sure, but he's the best option we have out of the three major candidates.

That the Dems have invested so much to oppose him only convinces me further of that.

No? Lots of people didn't know the Totenkopf skull was a Nazi symbol. It's a reasonable assumption that a drunk Marine saw it and just thought it was a 'cool-looking skull'.

People here that have known him for years have said he's not an antisemite or Nazi.

The "unfolding situation".

"Hey, guys, let's go kick this hornet's nest...."

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

The Nazi tattoo which he said he got when he was drunk and didn't realize was a Nazi tattoo.

Goddammit.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

He also had a stroke in between those times and reportedly has cognitive issues since then.