Maine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It was so stupid to run someone so old, in this environment.

That’s Schumer for ya

Schumer was just doing what is good for Israel.

Unfortunately, I sort of believe this. Plus wealthy donors.

I'm not Jewish (I'm not anything) but my 55+ years stepfather and all his 5 brothers my "uncles" spoke Yiddish fluently. They came from Brooklyn, every single one went to Harvard or Columbia either for undergrad, law or med school and they all ended up ridiculously wealthy with multiple wives and families. My cousins all did Kibbutz and went to great colleges and are now also becoming professors, lawyers etc. One of them already has a million dollar yacht from working on Wall Street. (He also nearly sunk it, hilariously)

My stepdad is now long since passed, but I still follow some former family stuff including a whole story about how one branch of the family joined forces to shun a younger female cousin because her grad school boyfriend (not Jewish) proposed and she accepted. She had to break up with him. Everyone talks about anti-semitism, but, honestly, that whole family group for all their money and superior education is as racist and prejudiced as any bunch of hicks in the sticks.

I'm kind of sad about Kirsten Gillibrand for the same reason, she's not Jewish but I can tell she's not saying no to the money, either.

[Anonymous]

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A 100% VA disability rating for PTSD requires documentation of total occupational and social impairment. Symptoms must be severe, such as persistent delusions/hallucinations, danger to self/others, gross impairment in thought processes, or inability to perform basic daily hygiene. It indicates a complete inability to function in work or social settings.

Key Requirements for 100% PTSD Rating
To achieve a 100% rating, the veteran must demonstrate extreme impairment, usually including several of the following:

Total Occupational and Social Impairment: Inability to maintain work, relationships, or routine functions.

Persistent Danger: A constant risk of harming self or others.

Severe Cognitive/Communication Deficits: Gross impairment in thought processes, communication, or memory loss (e.g., forgetting own name, names of close relatives).

Grossly Inappropriate Behavior: Inability to act within societal norms.

Persistent Delusions or Hallucinations: Experiencing things that are not present.

Inability to Perform Daily Tasks: Regular inability to handle personal hygiene, cooking, or basic daily activities.

Alternative to 100% Rating (TDIU)
If your PTSD is not rated at 100% but you are unable to work, you may qualify for Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU), which pays at the 100% rate. This requires showing that your service-connected condition makes it impossible for you to maintain gainful employment.

How is a person with either of these ratings (Platner won’t release his DD214 or any other documentation to verify the exact parameters of his 100% VA disability rating) fit to serve in the US Senate and perform for his constituents???

You can keep beating this drum but he's made himself very accessible and we can all hear him talk, think on the fly in interviews and long form conversations. He's better at it than most politicians. Not concerned about his mental faculties.

If his mental faculties are fine, then he’s no longer disabled by PTSD and he’s cheating the American taxpayers by continuing to collect 100% disability benefits. Why can’t you grasp this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

A 100% VA disability rating for PTSD requires documentation of total occupational and social impairment. Symptoms must be severe, such as persistent delusions/hallucinations, danger to self/others, gross impairment in thought processes, or inability to perform basic daily hygiene. It indicates a complete inability to function in work or social settings.

Key Requirements for 100% PTSD Rating
To achieve a 100% rating, the veteran must demonstrate extreme impairment, usually including several of the following:

Total Occupational and Social Impairment: Inability to maintain work, relationships, or routine functions.

Persistent Danger: A constant risk of harming self or others.

Severe Cognitive/Communication Deficits: Gross impairment in thought processes, communication, or memory loss (e.g., forgetting own name, names of close relatives).

Grossly Inappropriate Behavior: Inability to act within societal norms.

Persistent Delusions or Hallucinations: Experiencing things that are not present.

Inability to Perform Daily Tasks: Regular inability to handle personal hygiene, cooking, or basic daily activities.

Alternative to 100% Rating (TDIU)
If your PTSD is not rated at 100% but you are unable to work, you may qualify for Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU), which pays at the 100% rate. This requires showing that your service-connected condition makes it impossible for you to maintain gainful employment.

How is a person with either of these ratings (Platner won’t release his DD214 or any other documentation to verify the exact parameters of his 100% VA disability rating) fit to serve in the US Senate and perform for his constituents???

You can keep beating this drum but he's made himself very accessible and we can all hear him talk, think on the fly in interviews and long form conversations. He's better at it than most politicians. Not concerned about his mental faculties.

If his mental faculties are fine, then he’s no longer disabled by PTSD and he’s cheating the American taxpayers by continuing to collect 100% disability benefits. Why can’t you grasp this?

This is an obvious point. If anything, Platner should relinquish his 100% disability payment because as PP’s have noted you have to be REALLY messed up to get 100% disability. Either he’s fine and he defrauded the government or he isn’t fine at all and is really messed up. You can’t have it both ways.

[Anonymous]

Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was so stupid to run someone so old, in this environment.

That’s Schumer for ya

Schumer was just doing what is good for Israel.

Unfortunately, I sort of believe this. Plus wealthy donors.

I'm not Jewish (I'm not anything) but my 55+ years stepfather and all his 5 brothers my "uncles" spoke Yiddish fluently. They came from Brooklyn, every single one went to Harvard or Columbia either for undergrad, law or med school and they all ended up ridiculously wealthy with multiple wives and families. My cousins all did Kibbutz and went to great colleges and are now also becoming professors, lawyers etc. One of them already has a million dollar yacht from working on Wall Street. (He also nearly sunk it, hilariously)

My stepdad is now long since passed, but I still follow some former family stuff including a whole story about how one branch of the family joined forces to shun a younger female cousin because her grad school boyfriend (not Jewish) proposed and she accepted. She had to break up with him. Everyone talks about anti-semitism, but, honestly, that whole family group for all their money and superior education is as racist and prejudiced as any bunch of hicks in the sticks.

I'm kind of sad about Kirsten Gillibrand for the same reason, she's not Jewish but I can tell she's not saying no to the money, either.

Wutchu talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?!

There are far more insane Zionists who ARE NOT Jewish than there are ones who ARE Jewish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

[Anonymous]

Maine/Dem voter here. I’ve got some real reservations about Platner. I probably would have voted for Mills if she stayed in. However- it’s him or Collins. We have no other choice. I would vote for a hamster on meth over Collins. And I’m voting to increase likelihood Dems get control of Senate. That’s it. That’s the whole bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was so stupid to run someone so old, in this environment.

That’s Schumer for ya

Schumer was just doing what is good for Israel.

Unfortunately, I sort of believe this. Plus wealthy donors.

I'm not Jewish (I'm not anything) but my 55+ years stepfather and all his 5 brothers my "uncles" spoke Yiddish fluently. They came from Brooklyn, every single one went to Harvard or Columbia either for undergrad, law or med school and they all ended up ridiculously wealthy with multiple wives and families. My cousins all did Kibbutz and went to great colleges and are now also becoming professors, lawyers etc. One of them already has a million dollar yacht from working on Wall Street. (He also nearly sunk it, hilariously)

My stepdad is now long since passed, but I still follow some former family stuff including a whole story about how one branch of the family joined forces to shun a younger female cousin because her grad school boyfriend (not Jewish) proposed and she accepted. She had to break up with him. Everyone talks about anti-semitism, but, honestly, that whole family group for all their money and superior education is as racist and prejudiced as any bunch of hicks in the sticks.

I'm kind of sad about Kirsten Gillibrand for the same reason, she's not Jewish but I can tell she's not saying no to the money, either.

Let me tell you about my Jewish husband's extended family, a few of whom are lawyers but most of whom work retail, clean houses, have jobs in security, teach children, and do carpentry. This post reeks of disdain, as if most high-income lawyers and doctors with boats and multiple wives are Jewish. We are 2% of the U.S. population even if we are overrepresented in higher education and high-income fields.

[Anonymous]

The Dems are going to have to drop the “Nazi” shtick toward the Trump administration, and virtually all Republicans to be honest, if they are going to support a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Dems are going to have to drop the “Nazi” shtick toward the Trump administration, and virtually all Republicans to be honest, if they are going to support a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo.

lol Trump and republicans are openly white nationalists and Nazis. This “guy” is just anti Israel as are all Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Dems are going to have to drop the “Nazi” shtick toward the Trump administration, and virtually all Republicans to be honest, if they are going to support a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo.

lol Trump and republicans are openly white nationalists and Nazis. This “guy” is just anti Israel as are all Americans.

Lol. No, we all aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Dems are going to have to drop the “Nazi” shtick toward the Trump administration, and virtually all Republicans to be honest, if they are going to support a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo.

Platner covered up the tattoo. We’ll stop comparing Republicans to Nazis when Republicans do the equivalent: stop following the playbook, stop using dog whistles to play footsie with white supremacists, actively repudiate candidates and influencers who borrow the rhetoric. Nobody’s holding their breath, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Please I'm a vet and it's not an open secret that most people getting VA disability are just scamming the system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

Who cares bone of it matters. Congress is a completely impotent branch of gov at this point. Anyone you send there is just doing it to enrich themselves.