Now Nazi tattoos are cool

[mspart]

He got 72% of the primary vote.   I don't know how many that is in comparison to a Nov vote but that is a lot of Ds that want this lunatic. 

mspart

[1032004]

15 minutes ago, mspart said:

He got 72% of the primary vote.   I don't know how many that is in comparison to a Nov vote but that is a lot of Ds that want this lunatic. 

mspart

Mills got 2nd and she already dropped out.

Nonetheless, Platner is still probably a better candidate than Collins though

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

21 hours ago, uncle bernard said:

 

I would bet a million dollars you couldn't have picked the Totenkampf out of a lineup before this either.

Huh?  "Battle of the dead?" out of a lineup?

What are you talking about?

Weird...

[1032004]

Court filing: Republican congressman accused of multiple assaults on ex-wife.  This apparently happened a month ago and I just heard about it.  But Platner’s tattoo!

https://tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-maga-congressman-accused-of-brutally-beating-gop-senator-s-daughter/

 

[uncle bernard]

4 hours ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Huh?  "Battle of the dead?" out of a lineup?

What are you talking about?

Weird...

Case in point. You don't even know what the image is called. (Neither did I until this. Almost no American would ever be able to identify it).

[uncle bernard]

16 hours ago, mspart said:

He got 72% of the primary vote.   I don't know how many that is in comparison to a Nov vote but that is a lot of Ds that want this lunatic. 

mspart

They see through the BS attacks.

Not a perfect, or even good, guy. By his own admission, he made a lot of mistakes. But he's got a platform that represents normal people, not the rich.

You vote for policy, not people. You should understand that. You're a Trump supporter. Dude's a poster boy for infidelity.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

22 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

Case in point. You don't even know what the image is called. (Neither did I until this. Almost no American would ever be able to identify it).

You literally called it a "death struggle/battle"...

"Kampf" means struggle, like Herr Platner's book; "kopf" means head- you know like "dummkopf," which really fits you: A guy who copies and pastes 90%+ of his stuff from AI sources to try and sound smart. (Which you've pretty much admitted)

Edited June 12 by Interviewed_at_Weehawken

[Offthemat]

“After hearing so much about Platner's everyman appeal, I went down a rabbit hole, watching his speeches and listening to his interviews. Virtually every one of them is crammed with brain-numbing platitudes and freshman-level socialist sloganeering. His rhetoric makes former Vice President Kamala Harris sound weighty by comparison.

"This is a race about performative politics they're used to," Platner told a crowd recently. "What they don't understand is that this is a race about us."

This kind of banality, and there is a lot of it, calls to mind Lt. Frank Drebin trying to win over the love of his life in "The Naked Gun" by telling her that "maybe the problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beans ... but this is our hill, and these are our beans."

The late philosopher Daniel Dennett called phrases like this "deepities" — words that create the impression of moral and emotional weight while offering no actual insight.

Obviously, most politicians traffic in deepities to some extent. Platner, however, can spew inane class-war cliches for an hour without wandering anywhere near a deeper thought.

That is because Platner is the embodiment of performative left-wing populism. His cosplay working-man candidacy was created by Faiz Shakir and Ben Wikler, two Ivy League-educated former Bernie Sanders staffers. 

"Part of the thesis here is that people don't want candidates who are grown in a vat," Wikler recently said. "They want people who are real human beings. And they want people who do not look and sound like the people who have been leading this country off a cliff the last century."

In other words, Platner is not a compelling organic candidate. He is a man who can play a part. Democrats have lost working-class voters to Republican populists, so they have become enamored with the idea of running someone who carries the aesthetic qualities of one. That is my thesis.

"If we want folks that are representing us from the working class, they're not necessarily going to have a groomed and perfect political record," a Maine voter recently told Fox News, repeating a common talking point.

But is the progressive impression of working-class "folks" really that they get Nazi tattoos, fantasize about rape and murder, and cheat on their wives? Because that seems like an insulting stereotype. 

As James Kirchick notes, people used to say Donald Trump "was a poor person's idea of a rich person." Platner, he says, "is a rich person's idea of a poor person."“
 

https://jewishworldreview.com/0626/harsanyi061226.php

[1032004]

7 hours ago, Offthemat said:

 

“After hearing so much about Platner's everyman appeal, I went down a rabbit hole, watching his speeches and listening to his interviews. Virtually every one of them is crammed with brain-numbing platitudes and freshman-level socialist sloganeering. His rhetoric makes former Vice President Kamala Harris sound weighty by comparison."

Lost me after this.  Anyone that thinks Kamala is a more insightful speaker than Platner has lost all sense of reality.

Edited June 13 by 1032004

[Caveira]

9 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Lost me after this.  Anyone that thinks Kamala is a more insightful speaker than Platner has lost all sense of reality.

Yes—if “a more insightful speaker” means more polished, structured, and linguistically complex, Kamala Harris clearly comes out ahead. Her background as a lawyer shows in more formal sentence construction, tighter rhetorical framing, and higher vocabulary density. Graham Platner, by contrast, speaks in a simpler, more direct style

[Caveira]

11 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Lost me after this.  Anyone that thinks Kamala is a more insightful speaker than Platner has lost all sense of reality.

• Kamala Harris: usually around 11th grade to college level (11–14) depending on setting. Her formal speeches and debates trend higher because she uses longer, more layered sentences and legal/policy terminology, though she sometimes simplifies in campaign environments.
• Graham Platner: more often around 8th to 10th grade level (8–10). His style is intentionally plainspoken and conversational, with shorter sentences and more direct phrasing.

[1032004]

19 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Yes—if “a more insightful speaker” means more polished, structured, and linguistically complex, Kamala Harris clearly comes out ahead. Her background as a lawyer shows in more formal sentence construction, tighter rhetorical framing, and higher vocabulary density. Graham Platner, by contrast, speaks in a simpler, more direct style

Oh cool so you don’t think she’s always talking in word salads then?

[Caveira]

Just now, 1032004 said:

Oh cool so you don’t think she’s always talking in word salads then?

The Google machine thinks she is more articulate than the Nazi.  It’s ok.  You like communist sounding dudes.  You can admit it 

[1032004]

4 minutes ago, Caveira said:

The Google machine thinks she is more articulate than the Nazi.  It’s ok.  You like communist sounding dudes.  You can admit it 

Oh well if AI says so, it must be true!

[Caveira]

1 minute ago, 1032004 said:

Oh well if AI says so, it must be true!

Ai is good at some things.  That is correct.   
 

it is hard to believe someone speaks at a lower level than Kamala.  I admit I was surprised at that. 

[1032004]

8 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Ai is good at some things.  That is correct.   
 

it is hard to believe someone speaks at a lower level than Kamala.  I admit I was surprised at that. 

What level does it say Trump speaks at?

[Caveira]

5 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

What level does it say Trump speaks at?

Didn’t ask.  Probably he speaks bigly.  You voted for him 3 times you like him more than me.  You tell me 

[1032004]

6 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Didn’t ask.  Probably he speaks bigly.  You voted for him 3 times you like him more than me.  You tell me 

Why don’t you ask and copy it here 

[Caveira]

4 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Why don’t you ask and copy it here 

It’s not relevant to the conversation.   I don’t really care I’m watching the USA.  And your just sore cause you made a flippy flippy comment and were proven wrong so you Changed the topic as per usual 

Edited June 13 by Caveira

[Caveira]

He cares about the people probably 

 

[Caveira]

@1032004 

is mocking a persons suicide attempt as not trying hard enough ….  Good enough for the senate.  What say you? 

 

[braves121]

1 minute ago, Caveira said:

@1032004 

is mocking a persons suicide attempt as not trying hard enough ….  Good enough for the senate.  What say you? 

 

Not gonna lie that’s kinda funny lol if this is what the rights trying to do him in with instead of his policies i don’t think it’s gonna bode well for gop in Maine or overall mid terms

[Bigbrog]

15 hours ago, braves121 said:

Not gonna lie that’s kinda funny lol if this is what the rights trying to do him in with instead of his policies i don’t think it’s gonna bode well for gop in Maine or overall mid terms

Ummm...but it will bode well for the D's who do the best exact same thing???

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

15 hours ago, braves121 said:

Not gonna lie that’s kinda funny lol if this is what the rights trying to do him in with instead of his policies i don’t think it’s gonna bode well for gop in Maine or overall mid terms

You're saying a suicide "joke" is funny?

[braves121]

12 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

You're saying a suicide "joke" is funny?

I’m not a snowflake, there’s humor in everything