I have no interest in watching his video but I also have no interest in further reading the article when it talks about Nixon and his “graceful exit”.
Yes, I seem to remember his graceful exit taking years.
I mean, just the timeline shows that whoever was putting this together (Politico and NYT) had the main concern of getting Platner to drop out
They didn’t care about the story, they didn’t investigate anything to find the truth, they didn’t even chase ratings.
They just kept dropping bombs a week before he could be forced out.
Doesn’t mean he’s innocent, if anything it means there needs to be an investigation into all of it. But the only way that would have happened was if Planter stayed in, won, and then had an investigation done himself.
Now that he’s dropped no one is going to look into any of it, in a month he won’t be in any headlines or mentioned again.
Depending on who replaces him is what may make it a big deal long term.
But the NYT just smacked down a progressive who was vocally against Israel, if it worked once the oligarchs will keep doing it. A senate seat is too important for them to just not try.
You think no investigation happened at all?
Look, there’s room to talk about the best way forward and it sucks, this really, really sucks that Platner couldn’t live up to what we all had hoped. But we can have those discussions without victim blaming and indulging in conspiracy theories too much.
I dunno what they’re expecting. He said the allegations were false. Why would he do that and then give “contrition and humility” to the people that supposedly made horrendous false allegations against him that torpedoed his career?
What’s crazy is everyone acting like he was “forced” to do this.
Dude could have 100% just stayed in the race, no one had the authority to make him drop out.
If he was half the monster the media has been wanting us to believe he is, he definitely would have stayed in the race, and no one could have done anything about it.
He got Franklen’d
Dude had a swastika tattooed on his body and feigned ignorance… He is very much a monster for that alone.
Dude had a swastika tattooed on his body a
Who told you that?
And more importantly why did you believe them?
Like a totenkopf is much better?
We don’t need to relitigate this. That tattoo along with everything else should have made it clear he wasn’t a good candidate. If we had heeded those warning signs, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
When Platner observed, “we live in a political system that is not built for normal people”, the implication was that he is a normal person, which the shenanigans of recent months have comprehensively disproved.
Even if you don’t think Platner is a normal person, you can’t deny that he appealed to a lot of normal people. But then, maybe “normal” just isn’t a useful adjective. I don’t know. Of course, Platner doesn’t necessarily have to be a normal person himself for the statement to be true. Platner can be abnormal and we can live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It can also be true that liberal elites have a general disdain for “normal” people. Or at least they have disdain for the voters who find uncouth, crass, ill-mannered populists appealing. Whether or not those voters are “normal” is a matter of debate, I suppose. But if they’re not normal, who is? And even if the populists aren’t “normal,” they still exist. In the millions. Ignorant, unrefined and problematic they may be, they exist. In this society, with you. What will the liberal elites do about them? They’ve tried snark and condescension, but for some reason it just hasn’t worked.
Lesson learned. Troy Jackson has already taken off all mentions of Gaza from his campaign platforms. Hope it was worth it yall!
Blame the dems. Not voting for a rapist is still the right call. There would have been other candidates if the establishment wasn’t a shitshow addicted to losing.
Because what’s the point of a primary? There were other candidates and Platner beat them all at the polls despite the DNC’s best efforts.
rapist [citation needed]
I cannot believe I let you guys lecture me about “the enemy of the perfect” two years ago when the options were Trump and Diet Trump.
Because what’s the point of a primary? There were other candidates and Platner beat them all at the polls despite the DNC’s best efforts.
Pretending like this happened after this woman stepped forward with credible evidence, which was after another woman had stepped forward and y’all collectively decided to not believe her, is disingenuous at best.
He wouldn’t have been chosen in the primary if he had been properly vetted.
You don’t like Troy Jackson for his replacement? Then start talking about the positives of the other potential candidates. Let’s stop victim blaming and shitting on women and start focusing on moving forward.