I’m sorry but it offends ME to hear people say the former VICE PRESIDENT, US Senator, and ATTORNEY GENERAL of California was unqualified to be president. Please go to hell

If he was a centrist, Blackwater is all that *they* would be talking about.

If Platner was a centrist blue dog, the same people defending him now would be the ones doing that. Populists are so staggeringly hypocritical.

I can't trust anyone who worked for those mercenaries. Trump pardoned a bunch of the Blackwater murderers in 2020. This guy worked for the State Dept in 2018, Trump's state dept.

You're never going to find a 'reasonable centrist' or some sort of temperate, enlightened political thinker whose goodness and rightness transcends mere party, and instead its stupid people who don't think about politics and maybe don't think, period

And today the Times has rounded up the stupidest people you can imagine and asked them basic political questions and you'll be shocked to know unless you've paid attention to any of the billions of times this has happened that they are all fucking stupid

So complicit that Thune was forced to change the Senate rules to break through his blockade of Trump’s political nominees. Put the thesaurus away.

It doesn't matter now. Biden-Harris is over, and uncommitted/non-voters made sure Harris-Walz didn't happen. Whatever happens to Gaza has nothing to do with Kamala Harris anymore.

The pro-Palis will do anything but protest Republicans. She's a private citizen, you numpties. She has no power, just like you wanted. Go wave your little Jordanian flags and scream "Globalize the Intifada" at the White House.

people do not really understand that once a movement's popularity starts falling towards the 30% mark, it begins shedding even core supporters. this is because you can no longer maintain the information environment inside that core. there are just too many leaks.

235 federal judges confirmed, dozens of federal statutes passed, and so many Trump appointees blocked that Thune had to change the rules. Do you have anything more interesting to say than this trite theater criticism?

You equate winning with empty promises and pointless sloganeering but I’m the one who doesn’t want to win? Lmao

You wanted the federal courts stopping DOGE to be shut down? For what reason?

Considering we wouldn't have Roy Cooper and Sherrod Brown running for open seats without Chuck Schumer, I find it rather idiotic that you people keep frothing at the mouth for his ouster.

Must be why we didn't recruit Roy Cooper and Sherrod Brown to flip two Republican held seats - OH WAIT that's exactly what Chuck Schumer did.

What the fuck is class solidarity? Nobody cares about your Marxist vocabulary lessons. Does the left suffer from such a lack of imagination that organic defenses against their bullshit smears reads as paid opposition now?

Just like Trump, you idiots cannot conceive of people organically defending others from lies and bullshit because everything is transactional. Must be sad not to have a functioning moral compass.

So you agree that @grahamformaine.bsky.social accepted an offer of employment from a PMC infamous for its atrocities? Even if he left, why did he accept in the first place? It's not like it was a secret that Blackwater was a sketchy outfit. You can't defend this because it is indefensible.

You showed us who you are by the fact you were part of Blackwater, an organization no one should ever trust and certainly not allow to run a state.

You are running for office as a Dem. The first sentence applies to you. This inept a first stab at attention tells us all. You wonder why your faves are last for committee seats. Mute for now. Just another unvetted Fetterman/Sinema, meh.

Why were you still working for Blackwater in 2018? How well was Erik Prince paying you? What kind of trouble were you up to in the Korengal Valley, Graham?

Do you have anything more interesting to offer than the same trite theater criticism and moral judgment?

Keep Chuck Schumer’s name out of your mouth, Blackwater Boy. Are you running to represent Maine in the Senate, or for Minority Leader?

Platner was a security contractor for Constellis which is the new name of Blackwater, according to his FEC donations. He worked for Trump's State Department in 2018.

Because if there's one thing the Democratic Party is known for, it's rubber stamping anything the Democratic President wants to do. Reminder: Ken Klippenstein is an incredibly stupid asshole paid a metric fuckton of money by a right wing billionaire to do this shit.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Go where? He was duly elected by his colleagues.

Ken Klippenstein’s entire professional existence is predicated on willfully refusing to understand the basic premises of litigation and the federal government.

A Republican in a swing seat in the New Hampshire House just resigned, Matthew Lunney. Belknap County District 2 is in the town of Meredith, which voted 51-48 for Trump last year and 50-49 Trump in 2020. Very flippable seat for Dems — *if* there is a special election.

No. And also no. They swallowed the bullshit and will never admit they fell for propaganda. Just like maga. And all antisemites.

PLATNER IS NOT A DEM. he is a former right wing blackwater mercenary. and you are a troll, “dan”.

Is that why Republicans keep shooting each other in the street like animals?

They have superimposed their own white guilt colonizing bullshit onto the middle east where they can pretend to be white saviors while erasing all of the Black and brown indigenous Jews. They're sick.

Who gives a fuck if AIPAC funds Republicans? AIPAC is a single-issue PAC for Jewish Americans who support Israel. Support of American allies is supposed to be nonpartisan, not whatever bullshit fantasy you've deluded yourself into believing.

Can you find me some proof of Chuck Schumer's vote in favor of honoring Charlie Kirk? You should be aware that, if you can't, I'm going to call you a fucking liar.

Yes, as a sitting U.S. Senator, I expect that Chuck Schumer's priorities are to vote on legislation first and endorse in low-stakes municipal elections second. Who told you that this would be an effective political bludgeon? TikTok again?

Not quickly enough tbh

They don't like that it's a Jew leading us in the Senate either.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

Chuck Schumer's job, as a minority leader, is to recruit candidates to run and slow down the confirmation of Trump's appointees. He does not have the magical powers that you idiots seem to believe he does. Stop embarrassing yourself

Just another poorly vetted Fetterman/Sinema. If your focus is not on defeating GOP you have no business running as a Dem. Nuanced? This is not that. Polling? GTFOHRN w that bullshit. We Dems vote for solid Dems, you are neither.

He's running to represent Maine and instead running his mouth about the Senate Minority Leader for a race he hasn't won yet. Don't you think that puts the cart before the horse? You do not have the credibility to gaslight me into blindly accepting bullshit bad faith criticism about Chuck Schumer.

Good luck! Fucking clowns

That and "bring the fire" are clear indicators that the person speaking is a vibes voter and should be ignored.

I'm calling it btw, Walters resigning in Oklahoma is the canary in the coal mine of how bad '26 is going to be.

All politics is local politics. Do you think Mainers give a shit about what kind of political theater the Senate Minority Leader is up to? Go catch up on the reading before speaking again.

You need to know wtf you’re talking about when you say “ abuses murderous behaviour and travesties” until you start addressing this. Keep your opinions about the war in the drafts or out of my comments section.

Why do all the populist shitheads use the same boring copypaste buzzwords? “Meeting the moment” has become an excretable cliche in such a short time

robert redford was the pinnacle of american hegemonic soft sex power