Great work on this! Glaring moment on how the NYT's hypocrisy. They don't like Trump but they like the economic/social status quo. The bias in their reporting which propelled all of this was disgraceful. But people are waking up. And that is what it is going to take to end all of this and start something very different.
Nailed it, again! Timing and sources of the disclosures are highly suspect. Subtle and not-so-subtle slant from traditional news sources is no longer surprising. Platner's policy positions are great. And he's NOT Susan Collins!
Smackdown. I am so sick of the posturing that passes for the "moral high ground" in Congress while fuck-all actually happens. We need more Platners, more people of color who actually understand the consequences of our racist policies both here and abroad, more people who aren't from the moneyed elite. Thank you, Mr. Trent, for speaking out from a place of real understanding.
Totally correct-it's good to hear someone put this in writing. I think the people that would keep Susan Collins in power are morally bankrupt. She so disingenuously votes against Trump's carnage in all areas only when she is sure her vote will come to nothing. That manipulation is so sneakily corrupt it even outdoes all the lies the rest of Americans are subject to daily.
So very well said! There are only a handful of sitting Senators that are half as good of people as Graham Platner! If we had 99 more with his qualities we wouldn’t be in the deep shit as a nation that we’re in today ! Graham has the backbone and the human decency to stand up for our country not bend over for a corrupt president!
Agree, agree, agree! Chris Hayes is my favorite news commentator on cable news. For the first time, I was totally p*ssed at him for rigorously grilling Platner -- chasing that NYTimes story. And it's been a non-stop echoe chamber since. The Corporate Democrats and corporate GOP are both piling on.
I'm an 83 year-old white woman, and in my life-long working career: some in education, some in corporate America, and lastly, working in D.C. before ultimately working long-term in 7 different countries managing USAID-funded development projects -- including Afghanistan, I have witnessed and experienced my share of male dominance/offensive sexist behavior. What Graham Platner is being accused of doesn't qualify as "too compromised for the United States Senate." And believe me, during my stint in D.C., most corporate Senators from both parties DID behave in a manner that should have disqualified them. They just weren't scrutinized by the media in those days.
I have always supported Democrats, with the exception of voting for Bernie when I had the chance, because no question, they govern better for the people. But the Clinton "New Democratic Party" failed us, and is still failing us. It accelerated the GOP drive to rid the country of FDR's New Deal opportunity for a large middle class. We have gross income inequality because BOTH parties became owned by corporations which changed the tax system and the SCOTUS allowing for the burgeoning growth of mega-billionaires who own our government. In the 1950's, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both."
We need 100 Senators like Graham Platner who want to fight to restore opportunity for income equality. I'd vote for Platner in a heartbeat! Instead, since I live in Denver, Colorado, I'll be voting for Julie Gonzalez to replace Corporatist John Hickenlooper (for U.S. Senate) and for Melat Kiros to replace Diana DeGette (U.S. House of Representatives.)
Please do your part by amplifying your voices to encourage Maine to send Platner to the U.S. Senate.
Electoral candidates, job seekers, even college applicants are subjected to the old flashlight up the bum search for dingleberries. The NYT piece is a petty distraction. I mean what person has NOT lusted in their heart for someone other than their current partner or even acted on that impulse. Excusing (vet-PSD-struggles-to-stability) Platner to counter his NYT vilification is not the best use of our energy. His platform should be his best defense.
Let's stay focused. A NJ Congressman who's disappeared for 2 months won his primary. Saikat lost in CA. We have a reality star (another?) running for mayor in LA. Israel continues to rack up a body count across the Middle East that rivals the biblical flood. Trump joins in the genocide while bragging how he controls Venezuela and how he'll do the same across the southern hemisphere from Somalia to Bolivia. These and other offenses deserve our attention more than sexting.
SPOT FUCKING ON, as usual. Unfortunately, Collins is more politically aligned with Schumer and his ilk than Platner is – and I can 100% envision Schumer not lifting a finger or spending a single dime to help Platner win in November.
The same lack of inhibition that let him do the “improper” things allows him to express anger at the elite’s betrayal (including Democrats). And the same probably ADD brain gives hi. The ability to be articulate and clear about the causes of the anger. But let’s consider how this kind of thing made Obama to Trump male voters feel identified with Trump. For that matter George W. Starting with public school boys have a resentment that makes for identification with those who attack the guys who perform propriety in white shirts fresh from the cleaners. Since those guys are mostly screwing all of us the question of whom Platner screwed privately seems to figure quite differently for the working class. Women too. The elite knows people like Platner are coming to challenge their power. They’re not pearl clutching about what he did to others but what he will do to them.
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!! You speak truth to ‘power’.
Absolute truth
Great work on this! Glaring moment on how the NYT's hypocrisy. They don't like Trump but they like the economic/social status quo. The bias in their reporting which propelled all of this was disgraceful. But people are waking up. And that is what it is going to take to end all of this and start something very different.
Neal Gabler brilliantly took on the NYT over Platner, here: https://nealgabler.substack.com/p/what-the-platner-case-tells-us-about?r=22nl7&utm_medium=ios
Nailed it, again! Timing and sources of the disclosures are highly suspect. Subtle and not-so-subtle slant from traditional news sources is no longer surprising. Platner's policy positions are great. And he's NOT Susan Collins!
Smackdown. I am so sick of the posturing that passes for the "moral high ground" in Congress while fuck-all actually happens. We need more Platners, more people of color who actually understand the consequences of our racist policies both here and abroad, more people who aren't from the moneyed elite. Thank you, Mr. Trent, for speaking out from a place of real understanding.
Totally correct-it's good to hear someone put this in writing. I think the people that would keep Susan Collins in power are morally bankrupt. She so disingenuously votes against Trump's carnage in all areas only when she is sure her vote will come to nothing. That manipulation is so sneakily corrupt it even outdoes all the lies the rest of Americans are subject to daily.
So very well said! There are only a handful of sitting Senators that are half as good of people as Graham Platner! If we had 99 more with his qualities we wouldn’t be in the deep shit as a nation that we’re in today ! Graham has the backbone and the human decency to stand up for our country not bend over for a corrupt president!
BRAVO!!!
Right as always, Corbin. Fingers crossed he wins. I'm in Califorrnia and he is one out of state candidate I sent $ to.
Complete Truth, Decorum covers a Multitude of SINS !!!!
Agree, agree, agree! Chris Hayes is my favorite news commentator on cable news. For the first time, I was totally p*ssed at him for rigorously grilling Platner -- chasing that NYTimes story. And it's been a non-stop echoe chamber since. The Corporate Democrats and corporate GOP are both piling on.
I'm an 83 year-old white woman, and in my life-long working career: some in education, some in corporate America, and lastly, working in D.C. before ultimately working long-term in 7 different countries managing USAID-funded development projects -- including Afghanistan, I have witnessed and experienced my share of male dominance/offensive sexist behavior. What Graham Platner is being accused of doesn't qualify as "too compromised for the United States Senate." And believe me, during my stint in D.C., most corporate Senators from both parties DID behave in a manner that should have disqualified them. They just weren't scrutinized by the media in those days.
I have always supported Democrats, with the exception of voting for Bernie when I had the chance, because no question, they govern better for the people. But the Clinton "New Democratic Party" failed us, and is still failing us. It accelerated the GOP drive to rid the country of FDR's New Deal opportunity for a large middle class. We have gross income inequality because BOTH parties became owned by corporations which changed the tax system and the SCOTUS allowing for the burgeoning growth of mega-billionaires who own our government. In the 1950's, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both."
We need 100 Senators like Graham Platner who want to fight to restore opportunity for income equality. I'd vote for Platner in a heartbeat! Instead, since I live in Denver, Colorado, I'll be voting for Julie Gonzalez to replace Corporatist John Hickenlooper (for U.S. Senate) and for Melat Kiros to replace Diana DeGette (U.S. House of Representatives.)
Please do your part by amplifying your voices to encourage Maine to send Platner to the U.S. Senate.
What a great post. Thanks for taking the time to write this up and thanks for all of your various services.
Electoral candidates, job seekers, even college applicants are subjected to the old flashlight up the bum search for dingleberries. The NYT piece is a petty distraction. I mean what person has NOT lusted in their heart for someone other than their current partner or even acted on that impulse. Excusing (vet-PSD-struggles-to-stability) Platner to counter his NYT vilification is not the best use of our energy. His platform should be his best defense.
Let's stay focused. A NJ Congressman who's disappeared for 2 months won his primary. Saikat lost in CA. We have a reality star (another?) running for mayor in LA. Israel continues to rack up a body count across the Middle East that rivals the biblical flood. Trump joins in the genocide while bragging how he controls Venezuela and how he'll do the same across the southern hemisphere from Somalia to Bolivia. These and other offenses deserve our attention more than sexting.
SPOT FUCKING ON, as usual. Unfortunately, Collins is more politically aligned with Schumer and his ilk than Platner is – and I can 100% envision Schumer not lifting a finger or spending a single dime to help Platner win in November.
The same lack of inhibition that let him do the “improper” things allows him to express anger at the elite’s betrayal (including Democrats). And the same probably ADD brain gives hi. The ability to be articulate and clear about the causes of the anger. But let’s consider how this kind of thing made Obama to Trump male voters feel identified with Trump. For that matter George W. Starting with public school boys have a resentment that makes for identification with those who attack the guys who perform propriety in white shirts fresh from the cleaners. Since those guys are mostly screwing all of us the question of whom Platner screwed privately seems to figure quite differently for the working class. Women too. The elite knows people like Platner are coming to challenge their power. They’re not pearl clutching about what he did to others but what he will do to them.
Oh, yeah. A fight worth having, for sure!
Its a politically coordinated social media smear campaign, the establishment's self-serving hypocrisy is contemptible!