Maine

[Anonymous]

This NYT article is the gift that keeps on giving. So many working class kids that I know are named Graham and their father’s are named Bronson.

Mr. Platner’s father, Bronson Platner, established himself as an attorney in the area with an active practice that took on local real estate and business transactions.

Bronson’s father, Warren Platner, was a celebrated architect who designed the dining room of Windows on the World, the storied restaurant atop the World Trade Center, and offices for the Ford Foundation building.

Before Mr. Platner was born, his grandfather also designed an expansive family estate in Connecticut that he said was inspired by “a chateau in the Loire Valley” of France. Mr. Platner has said he visited his paternal grandparents at their home twice a year, on Thanksgiving and Easter.

Warren Platner is best known for a namesake line of furniture, including midcentury modern easy chairs that today are priced starting at $15,000.

“I love them,” President Trump, who kept Platner chairs in his office at Trump Tower, told The New York Times in 2010. “I’ve had them re-covered recently. I buy the velvet fabric directly from the company, and it costs a fortune, but don’t they look great?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

You know how privileged you must be in a town where a house costs between $116,000 and $140,000 if you have a Dad who went to Dartmouth who’s a lawyer and a Mom who owns a nice restaurant?! You are probably one of the richest kids in your town. No one is saying he’s George W Bush, we’re just saying this upbringing is not working class and his whole persona is a working class act and is in fact offensive to people who grew up without his privilege. It also calls into question his character and every narrative he comes out with if he is this disingenuous about a core part of his identity.

Yeah that guys who bought a $200K house in Maine is elite, meanwhile...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

You know how privileged you must be in a town where a house costs between $116,000 and $140,000 if you have a Dad who went to Dartmouth who’s a lawyer and a Mom who owns a nice restaurant?! You are probably one of the richest kids in your town. No one is saying he’s George W Bush, we’re just saying this upbringing is not working class and his whole persona is a working class act and is in fact offensive to people who grew up without his privilege. It also calls into question his character and every narrative he comes out with if he is this disingenuous about a core part of his identity.

STFU Trump troll. You scaired!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

+1

If you listen to the NYT interview, he defines working class as someone who has to get up and go to WORK for a living, as opposed to amassing wealth on assets. Whether a W2 employee or a small business owner, if your wellbeing depends on you getting up and WORKING everyday, if your world turns over if you get laid off or lose a bunch of clients…you are working class. Not if your money makes money while you sleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

+1

If you listen to the NYT interview, he defines working class as someone who has to get up and go to WORK for a living, as opposed to amassing wealth on assets. Whether a W2 employee or a small business owner, if your wellbeing depends on you getting up and WORKING everyday, if your world turns over if you get laid off or lose a bunch of clients…you are working class. Not if your money makes money while you sleep.

So he gets to redefine terms to suit his narrative?

Anyway, Platner doesn’t work. All he does is collect disability and campaign for the Senate in hopes of soon becoming someone whose money makes money while he sleeps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

+1

If you listen to the NYT interview, he defines working class as someone who has to get up and go to WORK for a living, as opposed to amassing wealth on assets. Whether a W2 employee or a small business owner, if your wellbeing depends on you getting up and WORKING everyday, if your world turns over if you get laid off or lose a bunch of clients…you are working class. Not if your money makes money while you sleep.

+2 just started the podcast. Also his dad was his bank for the mortgage. He pays him back with interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

+1

If you listen to the NYT interview, he defines working class as someone who has to get up and go to WORK for a living, as opposed to amassing wealth on assets. Whether a W2 employee or a small business owner, if your wellbeing depends on you getting up and WORKING everyday, if your world turns over if you get laid off or lose a bunch of clients…you are working class. Not if your money makes money while you sleep.

+2 just started the podcast. Also his dad was his bank for the mortgage. He pays him back with interest.

His Daddy giving him a $200,000 loan does not = growing up working class. You know that, right? I feel like I’m in an alternate universe.

[Anonymous]

This guy is digging his own grave in this NYT interview. A self described “military book nerd” who was a Civil War reenactor doesn’t know when he’s getting an SS Nazi skull tattoo? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

Best of luck to you and your little Hobbit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

You know how privileged you must be in a town where a house costs between $116,000 and $140,000 if you have a Dad who went to Dartmouth who’s a lawyer and a Mom who owns a nice restaurant?! You are probably one of the richest kids in your town. No one is saying he’s George W Bush, we’re just saying this upbringing is not working class and his whole persona is a working class act and is in fact offensive to people who grew up without his privilege. It also calls into question his character and every narrative he comes out with if he is this disingenuous about a core part of his identity.

STFU Trump troll. You scaired!!

I love when LWNJs self-own.

[Anonymous]

When he says “half my family is Jewish” in the NYT podcast he then proceeds to talk about his brother’s wife, who is Jewish. I really hope this guy isn’t claiming his brother’s wife’s family counts as “half” his family being Jewish.

I want someone to look into what this guy’s trust fund is from his architect grandfather who sold $15,000 office chairs to Trump and designed restaurants at the top of the WTC. There is no way this guy doesn’t have a lot of family money coming his way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This guy is digging his own grave in this NYT interview. A self described “military book nerd” who was a Civil War reenactor doesn’t know when he’s getting an SS Nazi skull tattoo? Really?

GMAFB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When he says “half my family is Jewish” in the NYT podcast he then proceeds to talk about his brother’s wife, who is Jewish. I really hope this guy isn’t claiming his brother’s wife’s family counts as “half” his family being Jewish.

I want someone to look into what this guy’s trust fund is from his architect grandfather who sold $15,000 office chairs to Trump and designed restaurants at the top of the WTC. There is no way this guy doesn’t have a lot of family money coming his way.

+1
He's such a fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu

+1
Thank you. So sick of this fiction about him being "working class." I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha!

+1

If you listen to the NYT interview, he defines working class as someone who has to get up and go to WORK for a living, as opposed to amassing wealth on assets. Whether a W2 employee or a small business owner, if your wellbeing depends on you getting up and WORKING everyday, if your world turns over if you get laid off or lose a bunch of clients…you are working class. Not if your money makes money while you sleep.

+2 just started the podcast. Also his dad was his bank for the mortgage. He pays him back with interest.

His Daddy giving him a $200,000 loan does not = growing up working class. You know that, right? I feel like I’m in an alternate universe.

How do you define the working class? I have to work to pay my bills, mortgage, kids' college, and food. Others do not have to work or worry about what happens if they lose their job at 54 years of age. I need to know how posters are defining working class, because if you are working to live and sustain a lifestyle, you are working class in multiple tax brackets.