This means he can be replaced with another Democrat

Per the NYT

Graham Platner can be replaced as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine if he withdraws from the race by next Monday, and state law would then give the state Democratic Party until July 27 to name a replacement.

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      No. I did read what you said. You made a claim that

      (Platner) seemed to be sincerely evolved from majority of any demonstrated bad behaviors

      I pointed out this is demonstrably false as recent as a month ago. If you choose to believe his latest non-apology then… I have a bridge to sell you.

      platner is a rapist. platner had a nazi tattoo for 20 some odd years and a different white supremacy adjacent tattoo for however many months. platner was a guard at Abu Ghraib during the torture and sexual violence and that apparently made him want to sign up with blackwater as a merc.

      He is a fucking monster. We have known this for… pretty much the entirety of his political career (all year or so of it…). But people continue to insist on giving him the benefit of the doubt because he is a handsome white guy who said “medicare for all” once.

      And I am not fucking having that. If folk are gonna defend a rapist, I am gonna point out that they are defending a fucking rapist.


      And as for all of this “It is a smear campaign”: Of fucking course it is. That is what happens in political campaigns. That is why you try not to have skeletons like “raped multiple women” in your closet.

      And I don’t care if it is netanyahu and trump themselves coming up for air and saying it. It doesn’t change anything. platner is a rapist.

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        All that is true.

        And with any luck he may have been willing to show the same behavior to the enemy. The left could have had their very own psychopathic killer who likely would have been very amenable to brutally crushing republican opposition In a bloody pogrom.

        Alas, we’ll just lose sanctimoniously.

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            As entertaining as that would be, no.

            BUT, I do think he would be willing to violate the constitution in order to attack political enemies.

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        I hope you find the ability to show down, breathe, listen and actually talk with others eventually - case in point, I think you were so caught up that you didn’t even realize you were responding to two separate people here… Look into a condition called RSD, you might find some relief there if you always tend to feel like the rooms you are in are attacking you.

        Try to read that linked post. Best of luck.

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          So you have no defense for trying to push “he has changed so much” as an excuse other than tone policing, ad hominem, and continuing to link to a blog post that I am increasingly certain you haven’t actually read.

          Oh reddit.