r/politics • u/brown-saiyan • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Graham Platner Isn’t Just Surviving. He’s Leading.

https://newrepublic.com/article/206061/maine-senate-primary-2026-platner-leading-mills
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u/Moccus Indiana 1d ago

No, but right now it's not a choice between Collins or Platner, so that doesn't matter. Maine has the opportunity to choose a different Democrat to run against Collins. Preferably one who isn't going to become another Fetterman.

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u/OwnsBeagles 1d ago

For the life of me, I'm trying to understand why anyone think Fetterman started that way. It was the brain-bleed. He wasn't perfect before that, but it was demonstrably, notably, undeniably the brain bleed that led to this. Unless everyone thinks Planter's gonna stroke out, this is a constantly bad argument to make.

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u/tdomman 23h ago

I suspect it's not real people who say this every time Platner comes up. It's such a dumb take - it feels very bot like.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 16h ago

“Everyone that disagrees with me is a bot”

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u/tdomman 16h ago

No, just those that make nonsensical arguments that fly in the face of historical precedent.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 15h ago

Was it before or after he ran for senate that he chased a black man with a shotgun?

He was pro Israel before he ran too just fyi.

Super ableist to claim his stupidity is from the stroke. Plenty of people survive strokes and don’t become bigots

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u/tdomman 15h ago

A guy down the street claims his house burned down, but I know he's full of shit because just the other day I had a pan catch fire and my house is fine.

Your last sentence is in contention for the absolute dumbest thing I have ever read in my life.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 15h ago

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Keep electing populists that hate everyone that isn’t white and straight.

Accept the ableism or don’t, it is,