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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.

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.

THIS x 100. Excellent post.

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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!

+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.

DP. I find it hilarious that you consider anyone calling out Platner as a fraud to be an "AIPAC clown." It's clear you're a one-issue voter, not to mention, not very bright.

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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.

DP. Trump has never claimed or even pretended to be "working class." He's a buffoon, but he owns his background and wealth. You're comparing apples and oranges.

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I don't know how anyone could vote for Platner given everything that has come out about him.

In 2019, seven years ago, when he was 34-years-old, Graham Platner logged into reddit and posted a response to a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban.

Platner wrote:

"This video never gets old. Dumb motherf****r didn't deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat."

Think about each line. "This video never gets old." Platner's implying he's watched the video several times and enjoys it. "At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt."

That's what Platner thinks about his fellow Americans at war. If they're not good at killing or broader tactics, he has contempt for them. He displays no empathy. The opposite, in fact.

The man that Platner is commenting on, by the way, is Pfc. Ted Daniels, who was a 37-year-old father of two serving in Afghanistan at the time of the incident (2012). The bad tactic Platner enjoys mocking? Daniels stepped into the open deliberately to draw Taliban fire away from his fellow soldiers so his squad could get to safety.

Daniels was shot four times in this video and, ultimately, earned a Purple Heart.

When the video was initially released (2013), Pfc. Daniels was critical of himself in interviews, saying, "It wasn't the most tactically brilliant thing to do." He described that he was embarrassed by the video; that people could hear him screaming for help. But, also, he said: "I put my ass on the line for other guys."

Then, we have, again, Graham Platner, logging into reddit, in 2019, to comment: "Dumb motherf****r didn't deserve to live."

For all those who say, "That's just how Marines talk," I'll tell you: Platner's comment got downvoted by the military community. Even if it didn't: We're not talking about the military anymore. We're talking about a 34-year-old man, years after service, logging in to mock another man who's being shot on video. We're also talking about the U.S. Senate, not boys-will-be-boys or Marines-will-be-Marines.

We're always told to view Platner as a changed man. 2013, when he made the rape apologia comments, was the "darkest point in his life," or so we have been told. So what was going on in 2019, such that Platner enjoyed watching a video of a man getting shot and mocking him? How many arcs of change are there in Platner's life? Was there a specific point where he discovered human empathy?

I couldn't help but think of that specific reddit comment while watching the video below. "Still sending young Americans to die thousands of miles away from home," Platner says. Didn't he log in to reddit seven years ago to say, "Dumb motherf*****r didn't deserve to live" ?

I don't like being lied to.

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He is such a disgusting pig and manchild. It makes me sick to my stomach to see Maine progressives embracing him - and when these profound character flaws are exposed, they cry ‘but look at Trump!,’ as though THAT is the bar to which we should hold our politicians now.

This very liberal woman from a military family that served in every generation since this revolutionary war is SICKENED.

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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!

+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.

DP. I find it hilarious that you consider anyone calling out Platner as a fraud to be an "AIPAC clown." It's clear you're a one-issue voter, not to mention, not very bright.

Wow you AIPAC types are all fired up! All in to ensure Trump stays in office! Disgusting.

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Platner is horrible. It is abundantly clear that the DNC failed yet again in vetting this guy.

The more that comes out, the worse it gets. He has no redeeming qualities.

I just hope the voters in Maine have better judgment than the voters of VA who voted in Jay "two bullets" Jones.

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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.

DP. I find it hilarious that you consider anyone calling out Platner as a fraud to be an "AIPAC clown." It's clear you're a one-issue voter, not to mention, not very bright.

Wow you AIPAC types are all fired up! All in to ensure Trump stays in office! Disgusting.

WTF are you even talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Platner is horrible. It is abundantly clear that the DNC failed yet again in vetting this guy.

The more that comes out, the worse it gets. He has no redeeming qualities.

I just hope the voters in Maine have better judgment than the voters of VA who voted in Jay "two bullets" Jones.

The DNC was behind Janet Mills - they should have recruited a younger more dynamic candidate from the pool of Democrat politicians in Maine, where there is an abundance in the governor’s race.

It’s not entirely clear who the actors are behind the recruitment of Platner to run from outside, but given how atrocious he is one has to wonder at the motives.

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Anonymous wrote:Platner is horrible. It is abundantly clear that the DNC failed yet again in vetting this guy.

The more that comes out, the worse it gets. He has no redeeming qualities.

I just hope the voters in Maine have better judgment than the voters of VA who voted in Jay "two bullets" Jones.

The DNC was behind Janet Mills - they should have recruited a younger more dynamic candidate from the pool of Democrat politicians in Maine, where there is an abundance in the governor’s race.

It’s not entirely clear who the actors are behind the recruitment of Platner to run from outside, but given how atrocious he is one has to wonder at the motives.

The progressives in the Democratic Party are all in on Platner.
You would think the DNC would have done a little digging. It wasn't hard to find the dirt on him.
Why they didn't put out any of these negative things as he was rising in the primary is a mystery......
Instead, the Dem estabilshment is all lining up to support him. And, in doing that - they are really soiling their name.

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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.

DP. Trump has never claimed or even pretended to be "working class." He's a buffoon, but he owns his background and wealth. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Not at all.

Trump presents himself as a self‑made success, but independent financial investigations show he mostly benefited from extensive family wealth and support.

Examples from public reporting:

Trump has often described receiving only a “small loan” from his father to start his business.

He has repeatedly claimed he built his empire through “hard work,” “tough negotiating,” and “being smart.”

In his books (The Art of the Deal, The Art of the Comeback), he presents himself as a scrappy, self‑driven builder who outworked competitors.

What independent investigations found:

Reporting from The New York Times and other outlets documented that Trump received the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support from his father over decades, including loans, gifts, and inheritance structures.

These reports also found that Trump was a millionaire by age 8 and a full partner in his father’s business by his 20s.

Trump uses construction‑worker language as a rhetorical tool to present himself as a hands‑on builder and a champion of blue‑collar workers, even though his background is elite and inherited.

Examples of the style:
He talks about “builders,” “welders,” “steelworkers,” “concrete guys,” and “the trades.”

He uses phrases like “I know construction,” “I know deals,” “I know how to build things,” and “I’ve been on job sites my whole life.”

He often contrasts himself with “politicians who never built anything.”

Why he does this:
It reinforces his brand as a hands‑on builder rather than a traditional politician.

It appeals to blue‑collar and union‑adjacent audiences, even though he is a billionaire real‑estate developer.

It positions him as someone who “gets” the working world despite his wealth.

It's not "apples and oranges" whatsoever.

Trump embraces his wealth. He is not ashamed of it. And, Republicans do not demonize people who are wealthy.
And, believe it or not - he relates to the working class. He doesn't criticize people who decided not to go to college. He understands that people in the trades make a good living without a college education. He employs these people!

On the other hand, Democrats seem to hate people who make money and create jobs. Unless those people are their big donors like George Soros or Neville Roy Singham. Notice that they never criticize actors and actresses who are quite wealthy, yet are not job creators. Why is that?

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Anonymous wrote:Platner is horrible. It is abundantly clear that the DNC failed yet again in vetting this guy.

The more that comes out, the worse it gets. He has no redeeming qualities.

I just hope the voters in Maine have better judgment than the voters of VA who voted in Jay "two bullets" Jones.

The DNC was behind Janet Mills - they should have recruited a younger more dynamic candidate from the pool of Democrat politicians in Maine, where there is an abundance in the governor’s race.

It’s not entirely clear who the actors are behind the recruitment of Platner to run from outside, but given how atrocious he is one has to wonder at the motives.

The progressives in the Democratic Party are all in on Platner.
You would think the DNC would have done a little digging. It wasn't hard to find the dirt on him.
Why they didn't put out any of these negative things as he was rising in the primary is a mystery......
Instead, the Dem estabilshment is all lining up to support him. And, in doing that - they are really soiling their name.

Platner announced at the end of August last year; the revelations of his abhorrent Reddit posts and his Nazi tattoo came out in mid October and prompted the resignations of a number of his campaign staffers.

It was a huge story, but apparently many in the Maine electorate - especially in the so-called progressive movement - just don’t care. He continued to gain in polling but he’s not working and has been campaigning full time for 9 months doing town halls - like Trump’s rallies - all over the state. Janet Mills was busy working as governor and couldn’t keep up, plus she announced much later.

It’s a cult of personality like MAGA, and Platner supporters respond to criticisms over his massive character deficits by claiming it’s okay because Trump is worse.

Thing is, much as I dislike Susan Collins’s positions, she has never been a MAGA politician- she has tried desperately to ride the fence and ride it out, and she voted to convict Trump on the January 6 impeachment. Many MAGA call her a RINO and hate her, but Trump won’t speak against her because there has never been a viable Republican challenger for her seat.

She has NEVER exhibited the kind of personal character deficits as Platner has. You can disagree with her voting record but she has personally never exhibited the kind of ugly thinking that Platner has exhibited in abundance - not when he was a teenager, but as recently as a few years ago on Reddit and a couple of months ago using the R word and brushing it off as not really a big deal.

I believe there is more to be revealed, likely already in the hands of oppo researchers and being held for release closer to the general election.

There are strong factors working against Collins this time, but Platner’s issues will not sit well with many Maine swing voters. It’s going to be an interesting race to watch.

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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.

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.

DP. Trump has never claimed or even pretended to be "working class." He's a buffoon, but he owns his background and wealth. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Not at all.

Trump presents himself as a self‑made success, but independent financial investigations show he mostly benefited from extensive family wealth and support.

Examples from public reporting:

Trump has often described receiving only a “small loan” from his father to start his business.

He has repeatedly claimed he built his empire through “hard work,” “tough negotiating,” and “being smart.”

In his books (The Art of the Deal, The Art of the Comeback), he presents himself as a scrappy, self‑driven builder who outworked competitors.

What independent investigations found:

Reporting from The New York Times and other outlets documented that Trump received the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support from his father over decades, including loans, gifts, and inheritance structures.

These reports also found that Trump was a millionaire by age 8 and a full partner in his father’s business by his 20s.

Trump uses construction‑worker language as a rhetorical tool to present himself as a hands‑on builder and a champion of blue‑collar workers, even though his background is elite and inherited.

Examples of the style:
He talks about “builders,” “welders,” “steelworkers,” “concrete guys,” and “the trades.”

He uses phrases like “I know construction,” “I know deals,” “I know how to build things,” and “I’ve been on job sites my whole life.”

He often contrasts himself with “politicians who never built anything.”

Why he does this:
It reinforces his brand as a hands‑on builder rather than a traditional politician.

It appeals to blue‑collar and union‑adjacent audiences, even though he is a billionaire real‑estate developer.

It positions him as someone who “gets” the working world despite his wealth.

It's not "apples and oranges" whatsoever.

Trump embraces his wealth. He is not ashamed of it. And, Republicans do not demonize people who are wealthy.
And, believe it or not - he relates to the working class. He doesn't criticize people who decided not to go to college. He understands that people in the trades make a good living without a college education. He employs these people!

On the other hand, Democrats seem to hate people who make money and create jobs. Unless those people are their big donors like George Soros or Neville Roy Singham. Notice that they never criticize actors and actresses who are quite wealthy, yet are not job creators. Why is that?

This is a really stupid argument. Most actors came from nothing and they’re absolutely “job creators” because they sign onto productions that then get made, employing hundreds of people. I’ve also never heard of a Neville Roy Singham and I’ve been active in Democratic politics for decades. The Trump Org employed very few people and its offices were crumbling when The Apprentice came in and saved Trump’s ass.

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Anonymous wrote:Platner is horrible. It is abundantly clear that the DNC failed yet again in vetting this guy.

The more that comes out, the worse it gets. He has no redeeming qualities.

I just hope the voters in Maine have better judgment than the voters of VA who voted in Jay "two bullets" Jones.

The DNC was behind Janet Mills - they should have recruited a younger more dynamic candidate from the pool of Democrat politicians in Maine, where there is an abundance in the governor’s race.

It’s not entirely clear who the actors are behind the recruitment of Platner to run from outside, but given how atrocious he is one has to wonder at the motives.

The progressives in the Democratic Party are all in on Platner.
You would think the DNC would have done a little digging. It wasn't hard to find the dirt on him.
Why they didn't put out any of these negative things as he was rising in the primary is a mystery......
Instead, the Dem estabilshment is all lining up to support him. And, in doing that - they are really soiling their name.

Platner announced at the end of August last year; the revelations of his abhorrent Reddit posts and his Nazi tattoo came out in mid October and prompted the resignations of a number of his campaign staffers.

It was a huge story, but apparently many in the Maine electorate - especially in the so-called progressive movement - just don’t care. He continued to gain in polling but he’s not working and has been campaigning full time for 9 months doing town halls - like Trump’s rallies - all over the state. Janet Mills was busy working as governor and couldn’t keep up, plus she announced much later.

It’s a cult of personality like MAGA, and Platner supporters respond to criticisms over his massive character deficits by claiming it’s okay because Trump is worse.

Thing is, much as I dislike Susan Collins’s positions, she has never been a MAGA politician- she has tried desperately to ride the fence and ride it out, and she voted to convict Trump on the January 6 impeachment. Many MAGA call her a RINO and hate her, but Trump won’t speak against her because there has never been a viable Republican challenger for her seat.

She has NEVER exhibited the kind of personal character deficits as Platner has. You can disagree with her voting record but she has personally never exhibited the kind of ugly thinking that Platner has exhibited in abundance - not when he was a teenager, but as recently as a few years ago on Reddit and a couple of months ago using the R word and brushing it off as not really a big deal.

I believe there is more to be revealed, likely already in the hands of oppo researchers and being held for release closer to the general election.

There are strong factors working against Collins this time, but Platner’s issues will not sit well with many Maine swing voters. It’s going to be an interesting race to watch.

Mills could not keep up with his energy because she is 78.

Collins voting to confirm Kavanaugh is as ugly and more impactful on the country than whatever you're talking about.

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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.

DP. Trump has never claimed or even pretended to be "working class." He's a buffoon, but he owns his background and wealth. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Not at all.

Trump presents himself as a self‑made success, but independent financial investigations show he mostly benefited from extensive family wealth and support.

Examples from public reporting:

Trump has often described receiving only a “small loan” from his father to start his business.

He has repeatedly claimed he built his empire through “hard work,” “tough negotiating,” and “being smart.”

In his books (The Art of the Deal, The Art of the Comeback), he presents himself as a scrappy, self‑driven builder who outworked competitors.

What independent investigations found:

Reporting from The New York Times and other outlets documented that Trump received the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support from his father over decades, including loans, gifts, and inheritance structures.

These reports also found that Trump was a millionaire by age 8 and a full partner in his father’s business by his 20s.

Trump uses construction‑worker language as a rhetorical tool to present himself as a hands‑on builder and a champion of blue‑collar workers, even though his background is elite and inherited.

Examples of the style:
He talks about “builders,” “welders,” “steelworkers,” “concrete guys,” and “the trades.”

He uses phrases like “I know construction,” “I know deals,” “I know how to build things,” and “I’ve been on job sites my whole life.”

He often contrasts himself with “politicians who never built anything.”

Why he does this:
It reinforces his brand as a hands‑on builder rather than a traditional politician.

It appeals to blue‑collar and union‑adjacent audiences, even though he is a billionaire real‑estate developer.

It positions him as someone who “gets” the working world despite his wealth.

It's not "apples and oranges" whatsoever.

Trump embraces his wealth. He is not ashamed of it. And, Republicans do not demonize people who are wealthy.
And, believe it or not - he relates to the working class. He doesn't criticize people who decided not to go to college. He understands that people in the trades make a good living without a college education. He employs these people!

On the other hand, Democrats seem to hate people who make money and create jobs. Unless those people are their big donors like George Soros or Neville Roy Singham. Notice that they never criticize actors and actresses who are quite wealthy, yet are not job creators. Why is that?

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Trump is notorious for not paying his bills to blue collar tradesmen. He counter sues and settles for pennies on the dollar.

Trump has literally bankrupted hundreds of contractors in the Tristate area. They are under the threat of severe non disclosure agreements.