The dude has literally dozens of easily discoverable quote-bites of him excitedly expressing how much he loves killing, can’t get enough of it, wants to get back to doing it asap. How does he pass any smell test at all for anybody who is nominally on the left? I just don’t get it, I feel like he should be seen as so rotten that touching him would taint you (looking at popular youtubers and twitch personalities).
A healthy dose of DNC astroturfing helps too
The DNC does NOT like him at all wtf are you talking about. They would much rather Janet Mills be the democratic candidate.
They don’t? All I ever hear about this chode from mainstream sources is how the totenkopf tattoo is a nothingburger and he just did a few lil wholesome chungus warcrimerinos and it’s not that big of a deal. Dems (at least on the national level; can’t speak to the Maine state-level apparatus) have proven in the past that they can and will ratfuck any candidate at any time, so I guess I assumed Mills just pissed someone off and this is how they’re getting rid of her.
Yeah, Chuck Schumer backed his opponent.
They like that he is a marine/nazi. They like the war crime thing. They don’t like the medicare for all thing.
They tried and failed with platner. It was not his turn.
A cursory glance at mainstream media seems to show them being annoyed at his success, while the outlets playing down things like the tattoo the most are places like Jacobin
I am once again posting my conspiracy theory which has no evidence that the mills campaign was fake and only meant to make it seem as though they didn’t want platner to win. The corporate media has been guzzling platner’s — HARD since he entered the race. His half brother has been photographed with the president of the entity. They want him to win, although they’re also pretty happy with collins.
That doesn’t really fit with what I’ve seen?
Looking through the news now, it looks like the coverage of platner is either neutral or somewhat negative but not like viciously hostile. I can’t find it now of course but I swear to god my extremely bourgeois firefox recommended news items had a very Biden-esque headline which read something like “Platner wants to do [X Good Thing].” After I saw that I assumed that they adored him, but I may have jumped the gun.
I think they’re at least fine with him if they’re not actively colluding with him. The “establishment” campaign against him was pathetic and they’ve fully transferred their support behind him after Mills dropped out even though the primary isn’t even over yet.
Source will have to be “trust me bro” on this but she grabbed her bag and quit as soon as she got it. She was never going to win and never intended to. It was a personal favor to someone who wanted her to run.