Anonymous
06/21/2026 22:54
Subject: Maine
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hey toxic masculinity people: did you vote for Trump? what do you think of Trump's cabinet?
Your efforts to bring down Platner are beyond pathetic.
This is the POINT. You've spent years calling out people who voted for Trump - most of whom only did so because he was the only Republican choice and we wanted a Republican president. Now YOU are in exactly the same situation. You're going to overlook this cretin's many red flags because you want a Democrat to win. So be it - but you'll finally have to shut up and own your double standards and hypocrisy.
Except that Platner is still an aberration within the Democratic Party (not saying he’s the only one, but he isn’t typical), whereas the Republicans have an infinitely deep bench of sexist, racist, toxic politicians and pundits. For years they’ve actively recruited edgelord influencers and made insults and trolling their identity. MAGA coalesced in large part around bringing back the ability for white men to say horrible things without consequence. “Grab them by the p*ssy” only drove more people out to vote for Trump. I’m sure some people held their noses and voted for him, but most MAGA voters I’ve talked to gleefully support the trash talking.
We’re allowed to criticize candidates and demand better. It would be nice if everyone did the same.
I thought Platner was one of the handful of politicians out there who doesn't accept dollars from super PACs. If so, he'd be one of the very few potentially decent politicians in either party.
He's still received donations from George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker, and Jennifer Pritzker, despite his public anti-billionaire stance.
I’m not a Platner fan, but in fairness - he has accepted donations from billionaires only in the maximum amount allowed by any individual voter, the same that Joe or Jody could contribute if they wished. It’s a very modest amount for a billionaire, like change lost in the sofa cushions. It doesn’t allow for the outsized influence that unlimited giving to PACs and Super PACs does.
Surely we all agree that every citizen regardless of wealth should have the right to participate in the process. We just don’t want a very few of them to have more influence than 10s of millions of working stiffs.
Until no single entity can donate more than 1k annually to political campaigns, we're effed. As unrealistic as that may sound, that's what it will take for the American people to reclaim control of their two major political parties.
Anonymous
06/21/2026 22:50
Subject: Maine
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hey toxic masculinity people: did you vote for Trump? what do you think of Trump's cabinet?
Your efforts to bring down Platner are beyond pathetic.
This is the POINT. You've spent years calling out people who voted for Trump - most of whom only did so because he was the only Republican choice and we wanted a Republican president. Now YOU are in exactly the same situation. You're going to overlook this cretin's many red flags because you want a Democrat to win. So be it - but you'll finally have to shut up and own your double standards and hypocrisy.
Except that Platner is still an aberration within the Democratic Party (not saying he’s the only one, but he isn’t typical), whereas the Republicans have an infinitely deep bench of sexist, racist, toxic politicians and pundits. For years they’ve actively recruited edgelord influencers and made insults and trolling their identity. MAGA coalesced in large part around bringing back the ability for white men to say horrible things without consequence. “Grab them by the p*ssy” only drove more people out to vote for Trump. I’m sure some people held their noses and voted for him, but most MAGA voters I’ve talked to gleefully support the trash talking.
We’re allowed to criticize candidates and demand better. It would be nice if everyone did the same.
I thought Platner was one of the handful of politicians out there who doesn't accept dollars from super PACs. If so, he'd be one of the very few potentially decent politicians in either party.
He's still received donations from George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker, and Jennifer Pritzker, despite his public anti-billionaire stance.
I’m not a Platner fan, but in fairness - he has accepted donations from billionaires only in the maximum amount allowed by any individual voter, the same that Joe or Jody could contribute if they wished. It’s a very modest amount for a billionaire, like change lost in the sofa cushions. It doesn’t allow for the outsized influence that unlimited giving to PACs and Super PACs does.
Surely we all agree that every citizen regardless of wealth should have the right to participate in the process. We just don’t want a very few of them to have more influence than 10s of millions of working stiffs.