Maine

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Anonymous wrote:He’s better than Mills? WTH Maine.

Big picture - he’s better than Trump.

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I'm salivating at the thought of Trump having to deal with a Democratic House and Senate next year.

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I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

+1

I watched him on Morning Joe today. I think the main difference, if we really want to go there, is that he acknowledges his flaws, and he is someone seeking redemption and growth in their own way. That is very different than the toxic masculinity exhibited by GOP candidates, who don't even own that they do anything wrong or immoral.

I was very skeptical reading the headlines, but actually now having just watched one interview, I am ok with him, though will certainly watch more closely going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

Voter bamboozled by slick politician. More news at 10.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s better than Mills? WTH Maine.

He's better than Collins and he has a better chance of defeating Collins than Mills' chances.

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Anonymous wrote:Ted Kennedy literally killed a woman so I don’t think a tattoo and a bad dating history are enough to take down a popular white man.

Did he go to college/graduate college? I saw he went to an elite boarding school for high school…but there is no info on higher education past high school that I’ve seen with a quick search. Odd.

He has more college education than the current Secretary of Homeland Security.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

Voter bamboozled by slick politician. More news at 10.

Except he isn't a politician, but Susan is.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

Voter bamboozled by slick politician. More news at 10.

Voters have always considered a candidate's charisma, policies and character. In today's trumpfied society the importance of charisma has gone way up, while the importance of character has gone way down. Sad!

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Anonymous wrote:He won in a laddie. Tonight trump will be up all night screaming fraud!

Hahhahhahahahhahaha EFF TRUMP
for anyone who didn’t think this would be the outcome, you don’t know / understand Maine.

Oh don’t worry, we do. Jackman is a hot bed of white supremacy, your state has more hate crimes per capita than any other state, and there are hardly any Jewish folks or POCs up there. Having a Nazi tattoo must have boosted Platner’s votes by 10% to be honest.

You forgot to mention all the militia based there and all the others who regularly travel to Maine from other parts of the country to train for the coming race wars.

Look up the Charlie Howard killing for an idea of Maine’s warmth toward the LGBTQ community and realize that a substantial number of Maine people grew up in homes where they still refer to the chuck a **** bridge over the Kenduskeag River in Bangor where the rainbow pride crosswalk painted a week or so ago has been defaced repeatedly by locals.

Noteworthy also is the substantially higher than national average DUI rate and the high rate of domestic violence, persistently in the top ten states for such crimes.

Maine is the Alabama of the north. Mississippi currently has better public schools (16th) than Maine does (41st).

Bigotry is rooted from ignorance and lack of exposure. Go to any country, state, province, city or town where there are no white, black, brown, Christian, Muslim, Jewish.... and you will find people who think they hate white, black, brown, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish people. In the US, you'll find true racism in places that aren't diverse like upstate New York, Idaho, Nebraska, parts of Maine and Utah, and many other micros regions of our country that have never been exposed to the beauty of diversity.

You can go to Asia and find a boatload of scary racism towards anyone not presenting as Asian... same can be said for many parts of Europe. It's all ignorance rooted from lack of exposure to people who present differently. Those of us who have been exposed to diversity know that humans can only be judged fairly by the content of their character.

I’ve spent most of my life in rural places, including the next town over from Graham Platner, small towns in Montana and Arizona. Yes, plenty of racism. I currently live in a very diverse very liberal commonwealth- the most liberal in the country - and plenty of racism here, too. It doesn’t really matter if you grow up where there is or isn’t diversity - racism is about a hateful heart and the inclination to teach the same to children.

I respect your anecdotal experience but I'm certain exposure to physically and culturally different people from an early age goes a long way towards understanding how and why people can only judged by their individual character.

DP. Real life isn't limited to what makes sense in your imagination. The MOST racist people I meet are consistently upper middle class and above white people from very diverse places. You see, ignorance comes from lack of exposure. That's what I found in the poorer parts of the south. Being around me made a lot of these people question their assumptions. In contrast, racist hatred and true bigotry come from upbringing and from deeply ingrained attitudes that certain groups are better than others. Exposure doesn't cure that. That's what I found in places like the finance and legal world in NYC, LA, Chicago. The existence of people like me - well spoken, well educated minorities from excellent families - only fueled resentment that we were exceeding our "place."

For instance, many white liberals are extremely racist and their love of condescending to poor Black people in the name of charity is part of this racism. They're very comfortable with Black people living in degraded circumstances because that's where they believe Black people will belong. See how they treat Black equals and how quickly they bring out the backbiting and racially coded language and negative reviews. That's racial hatred. The same goes for wealthier white southerners who don't like seeing people of color in "their" clubs and neighborhoods. All the education and exposure in the world cannot change the fact that they believe the natural order of things is for them to be above us and they will do very ugly things to maintain that natural order they like.

The idea that racism is due to lack of education is a convenient fraud that allows well educated, very worldly white people to pretend racism is a disease of the lower classes.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

Voter bamboozled by slick politician. More news at 10.

Voters have always considered a candidate's charisma, policies and character. In today's trumpfied society the importance of charisma has gone way up, while the importance of character has gone way down. Sad!

I'm very glad that a well rehearsed interview matters more to you than all the evidence he can't falsify showing he has poor character. You really have good judgment.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

Voter bamboozled by slick politician. More news at 10.

Except he isn't a politician, but Susan is.

He is now.
A year or so as an oyster man who sells all his oysters to his mom's restaurant.
Went to very expensive prep school,
Said he got a VA loan. Maybe he did, but he didn't use it. Dad "loaned" him the money.
Gets VA disability. Some reports say 100% disability (not common.)
Nazi tatoo. Claims he didn't know it was a Nazi tatoo but also claims to be a history buff. Reportedly, could not rejoin the Marines because of the tatoo.
Sexting other women within the last couple of years while newly married. Even goes on a website known to be used also by minors.
Wrote on social media that he joined the Marines in order to kill people.
Meanwhile, says that Collins voted to send him to war (even though the war began two years before he enlisted.)
Said very ugly things about other soldiers.
Troubled relationship with women.
Says he was saved by grade---even though some of the sexting appears to be quite recent. And, lots of recent lies.

Great politician! Convinced people to vote for him. What more could you ask for?

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

Voter bamboozled by slick politician. More news at 10.

Voters have always considered a candidate's charisma, policies and character. In today's trumpfied society the importance of charisma has gone way up, while the importance of character has gone way down. Sad!

I'm very glad that a well rehearsed interview matters more to you than all the evidence he can't falsify showing he has poor character. You really have good judgment.

I didn't say I personally supported him - I am just attempting to explain how things have changed since His Orangeness came down the escalator.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

+1

I watched him on Morning Joe today. I think the main difference, if we really want to go there, is that he acknowledges his flaws, and he is someone seeking redemption and growth in their own way. That is very different than the toxic masculinity exhibited by GOP candidates, who don't even own that they do anything wrong or immoral.

I was very skeptical reading the headlines, but actually now having just watched one interview, I am ok with him, though will certainly watch more closely going forward.

I watched him speak too and people will tell themselves anything to excuse the inexcusable. You are easily manipulated.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Plattner speak for the first time and I was actually blown away. He is flawed, but he is really good.

A good talker, indeed.