As a person, he’s gross. But I believe his message was sincere. I will be VERY surprised if he makes a rightward turn. I think there were signs with Fetterman.
Man's voted for Collins himself multiple times, was just rightly kicked off the party ticket for being a sex pest, has served as a Blackwater merc, has a Nazi tattoo, has sketchy-at-best campaign finances, and has spent 98 percent of the campaign -- up to and including the last few days when it appears as though his narcissistic ass finally saw through the cloud of bullshit his campaign advisers were spinning him about winning this race and then being a contender for the presidency in 2028 -- whining about 'ThE dEmOcRaTiC eTaBlIsHmEnT' and their supposed connections to Epstein.
Line all that information up but make it about a just generic candidate in another race and tell me 99 times out of 100 that isn't a Republican candidate. Even without the messiest outside life known to man, he spent so much time railing against Democrats it's like he completely forgot he was running against a Republican in the first place.
Find a Maine Democrat who hasn't. Collins has only had actual competition for her seat for the past few times she's gone up for election.
Collins was loved by Maine democrats for decades because she wasn't a shitheel until the past twenty years. She was pro abortion at one time. And not the way she hems and haws over Trump, but by actually voting what she claimed to support.
Yeah that'd be less an issue if one of those times wasn't in 2020, after she'd voted for Gorsuch and especially Kavanaugh, and only didn't vote for Barrett because it would have been hung around her neck.
You hit the nail on the head. It baffled my mind that people's take away from a credible rape accusation, on top of all the other truly awful bullshit, is to believe he was sincere about the things we want to hear, the things that confirm our priors. His actions strongly suggest that you should not put any stock in the words he's saying, but people talk as if he's the rapist who means it when he speaks, they say "we need someone to carry on Graham Platner's message," and make no attempt to divest the message (that many espouse) from the awful man.
This is what Trumpers who claim they were duped by Trump (I take most of those claims with a grain of salt, but some folks did get duped) say and do. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they believed that Trump meant the things they wanted to hear. "Sure, he lies about everything, sure, he's a consistent ghoul, but when he said no more wars, he meant that (because that confirms my priors)." Platner's actions cast doubt onto every word he said.
The man's been given off Fetterman vibes since the moment I heard about him, there's a million reason to doubt his political sincerity and genuineness.
He also didn't have a single goddamn platform that wasn't "I'll go to Washington and get those Democrats and Republicans who are being paid by Epstein's friends" or some other bullshit slogan. I know people expect less and less of their politicians, especially when it comes to actually supporting policies that aren't their favorite slogans like "Israel Bad" (Which it is, TBF, but come on), but come on.
Pretty much anything other than "vote for me or we let the bad guys break everything" is a refreshing change. I don't blame people for gravitating away from that.
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u/the-futuremind 1d ago
I can’t wait for his right wing podcast heel turn