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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.

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He's such a fraud.

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

So Platner gets exposed as the son of a lawyer and restaurateur and the scion of the family whose paternal grandfather was a famous architect who designed a restaurant on top of the World Trade Center and a line of $15,000 office chairs and had a self described chateau for a home and now we have to revise working class to include anyone who has a job and by this all so convenient expanded definition it can include two lawyer parents working to pay off a $3 million house in Bethesda?

No, I’m not playing that game. Your guy is a fraud and a charlatan and no different than Rachel Dolezal. No need to redefine definitions because some politician in Maine is full of it.

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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.

So Platner gets exposed as the son of a lawyer and restaurateur and the scion of the family whose paternal grandfather was a famous architect who designed a restaurant on top of the World Trade Center and a line of $15,000 office chairs and had a self described chateau for a home and now we have to revise working class to include anyone who has a job and by this all so convenient expanded definition it can include two lawyer parents working to pay off a $3 million house in Bethesda?

No, I’m not playing that game. Your guy is a fraud and a charlatan and no different than Rachel Dolezal. No need to redefine definitions because some politician in Maine is full of it.

DP. This guy is now guaranteed to win after your attacks. You AIPAC clowns have to be stopped.

[Anonymous]

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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.

So Platner gets exposed as the son of a lawyer and restaurateur and the scion of the family whose paternal grandfather was a famous architect who designed a restaurant on top of the World Trade Center and a line of $15,000 office chairs and had a self described chateau for a home and now we have to revise working class to include anyone who has a job and by this all so convenient expanded definition it can include two lawyer parents working to pay off a $3 million house in Bethesda?

No, I’m not playing that game. Your guy is a fraud and a charlatan and no different than Rachel Dolezal. No need to redefine definitions because some politician in Maine is full of it.

I am an attorney with an MC income. If my son decides that after a year of college, because it's not worth the time and cost, and pivots to trade school for plumbing and HVAC, is he forever defined as MC because of his parents' lifestyle and profession? He works with his hands in dirty jobs that you would never do, but yet, because of his parents' lifestyle and income, you say he is not working class. GMAFB. And yes, DH and I will put money towards his children's education, but that still does not mean DS is not working class because his parents decided to help him financially.

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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.

So Platner gets exposed as the son of a lawyer and restaurateur and the scion of the family whose paternal grandfather was a famous architect who designed a restaurant on top of the World Trade Center and a line of $15,000 office chairs and had a self described chateau for a home and now we have to revise working class to include anyone who has a job and by this all so convenient expanded definition it can include two lawyer parents working to pay off a $3 million house in Bethesda?

No, I’m not playing that game. Your guy is a fraud and a charlatan and no different than Rachel Dolezal. No need to redefine definitions because some politician in Maine is full of it.

I'm 44 and don't have access to any of my (deceased) grandparent's money. It all sits with my parents and their adult siblings.

Anyways, it doesn't matter. Graham Platner does not live like a rich person. He lives in a house that cost $200K and pays a mortgage to his dad (rather than a bank); that's what smart families do.

It seems he's actively turned his back on wealth or pulling strings throughout his life.

How many tours did he do in Iraq vs. Trump's tour in Vietnam?

Why are we holding a Senate candidate to a higher standard than the President?

[Anonymous]

Remember, we have no other choice. It's him or Collins. He is problematic, no doubt. But he is not an enabler of the most disastrous administration in this country's history. I doubt he'll get a whole lot done in Washington tbh, but he may be a key to getting some checks and balances back if Dems get the Senate.

[Anonymous]

I don't trust Platner. I excused the multiple times Collins voted with MAGA. Not anymore. She's part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't trust Platner. I excused the multiple times Collins voted with MAGA. Not anymore. She's part of the problem.

Same. Although im giving Platner the benefit of the doubt. I’ve voted in Maine my whole life & voted for Susan Collins & Olympia Snow. I would NEVER vote for Collins again.

[Anonymous]

Collins is why we have the SC we have now. Platner exaggerating his working class metrics seems not a problem in comparison to me.

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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.

So Platner gets exposed as the son of a lawyer and restaurateur and the scion of the family whose paternal grandfather was a famous architect who designed a restaurant on top of the World Trade Center and a line of $15,000 office chairs and had a self described chateau for a home and now we have to revise working class to include anyone who has a job and by this all so convenient expanded definition it can include two lawyer parents working to pay off a $3 million house in Bethesda?

No, I’m not playing that game. Your guy is a fraud and a charlatan and no different than Rachel Dolezal. No need to redefine definitions because some politician in Maine is full of it.

Dude, nothing matters anymore. We were given Trump and were told he was a "businessman" and "self made man" when he was actually just a dumb rich playboy who was handed a half-billion dollar real estate empire from his dad, and outside of that real estate empire most of his side businesses flopped and went bankrupt. He talks like a construction worker and the MAGA morons buy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Collins is why we have the SC we have now. Platner exaggerating his working class metrics seems not a problem in comparison to me.

She is why we lost Roe v Wade. She lied.

I don't see what damage he can do even if he can't accomplish that much.