It seems. Jim Geraghty at NRO says
The Nazi Tattoo Guy Is Exactly Who You Thought He Was. Batya Ungar Sargon thinks T
he Nazi Tattoo Should Have Been Enough. Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke, "
It’s quite funny that the case for Platner, up until about 15 hours ago, was, “well, yes, he has a Nazi tattoo and a history of saying terrible things and treats women abominably, but on the other hand he’s a communist.”" Ace,
Breaking: Graham Platner Covered Up His Death Head Tattoo With a Rape Head Tattoo, "Okay that's probably not true but it caught your attention and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have taught me that's all that matters. Here's some catch-up on the Nazi Rapist." As I've said before, the tattoo doesn't bother me that much. Young soldiers do stupid things. What bothers me is a nepo baby turning communist. At NYPo,
Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriend alleges Maine Dem would sneakily pull off condoms during sex. Hat Hair's Dave Strom,
Who Could Have Guessed That Graham Platner Was a Bad Guy? At PJM Steven Kruiser thinks
Der Platnerfürher Might Finally Be Too Creepy for the Dems. But maybe not. Ace,
LOL: Narcissist Psychopath Graham Platner Is Refusing to Drop Out of Race Unless He, the Nazi Rapist, Gets to Pick His Successor "Who wouldn't want to be known as the candidate
hand-picked by the Nazi Rapist Stalker?" Hat Hair's Capt. Ed asks
Say, What Happens If Platner ... Stays? "If he holds on, however, Democrats will be stuck with him after next week. Given how negative partisanship works, the left-wing tilt of the state, and the control of the Senate at stake, it’s easy to see Democratic voters talking themselves into the idea that they have to suck it up and support Platner." At Politico,
Bernie Sanders says he told Graham Platner to ‘step aside.’ At Althouse,
"You said: He's your kind of man." Resist the Mainstream
@ResisttheMS, "CNBC host calls out Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Host: "You campaigned with Graham Platner… you said, 'He's your kind of man.' … This is a guy who had a chest tattoo with a N*zi symbol… It's a guy that reportedly wrote 'people concerned about r*pe should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f*cked up that they end up having s*x with someone they don't mean to.' … I'm just curious why you think he's your kind of man?"
Warren: "He has apologized… I'm there to stand with him and to help in that fight."" Jimmy Failla
@jimmyfailla, "
Elizabeth Warren wants to retract her endorsement of Graham Platner but she doesn’t want to look like an Indian giver." Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich, "
Chris Murphy is one of the worst and he’s running for president in 2028," Quote Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "JUST IN: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has scrubbed his X account of all mentions of Graham Platner in hopes no one will remember he was a diehard early supporter. Legal Phil
@Legal_Fil, "
Not only will they pretend that they never supported Platner, they’ll demand credit for his being forced to drop out. And they’ll hold up Platner’s dropping out as an example of what makes their side morally better than the side that didn’t nominate a woman-abusing Nazi." Quote Erick Erickson @EWErickson "I've seen this movie before. The Nazi drops out after everyone has admitted he's a Nazi and the people who supported the Nazi pretend they never supported him."
Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "Former Gov. Ralph Northam was appointed to a college board by Gov. Abigail Spanberger this year after refusing to resign in 2019 in the face of party-wide demands in the wake of a blackface/Klan hood picture scandal and another admitted blackface incident. Everyone just shut up and he served a full term. ... So, maybe Ds in Maine can find someone besides Platner who doesn't have a racist pic or tattoo and/or violent history with women, but their record thus far not great, and the Virginia Dems don't offer a template for that. Quote Sunny @sunnyright, "
If Platner refuses to drop out, Democrats are suddenly going to go quiet with the demands for him to go and will start re-embracing him and re-funding him as "well whatever it takes to beat Susan Collins". He almost certainly knows that."
At Twitchy, Ditching Democracy: Scott Jennings Reminds CNN Hosts Dems Picking Power Over People to Replace Platner, Totally Hitlarious: Chris Murphy Worries About Dem Party’s Credibility If Platner Isn’t Properly Replaced and Politico Correspondent Clarifies How Graham Platner Is Not ‘DSA-Backed.’ Hat Hair VIP's John Sexton sees Dems Propose a Platner Replacement...Wait, Never Mind. Wesley Yang @wesyang, "So yeah, about that DSA-endorsed candidate that folx want to replace Platner: "As Maine Senate President in a state senate caucus meeting several years ago, Troy Jackson in a heated disagreement struck a female colleague with a bottle he threw at her." Biff LaTourette @BiffLaTourette, "Democrats and their media cohorts have relied for decades on this tried and true technique since Hillary's laughable keep lying/stonewall strategy failed in the wake of l'affaire Lewinsky. They created a slogan that spawned a PAC, http://MoveOn.org. Both remain everyday tools of the Party's preference to pound the prevarications, however ineffective, until they must beg to "move on," with lame mea culpas.
PJM's Matt Margolis sees
The Left Has a New Narrative About Graham Platner, and Scott Jennings Just Nuked It. "On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed that "Democrats did not do their due diligence in vetting this man and now their path to the Senate looks significantly bleaker because they went all-in on this one." Seriously?" Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY, "
Democrats fully vetted Graham Platner, happily signed off on his incredibly disturbing history to win a Senate seat, and are only pretending to be shocked now because they can no longer rationalize the hypocrisy." From Ace,
The New York Times Knew All About Graham Platner's Rape Allegation But Deliberately Buried It. Update: North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association Grifter Rick Wilson Weighs In. Sunny
@sunnyright, "
MSNOW is attacking a media outlet for publishing corroborated rape allegations because it’s hurting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo who has previously been accused of hurting women." Quote Tom Elliott @tomselliott "Morning Joe spends 5 minutes grilling Politico’s @adamwren for running a story on Platner’s ex accusing him of rape. “Given the very high standards Politico has before they write something like this and publish it, what aspects of this story brought it to the level of publishable?”" Matt Vespa,
An MS Now Host Did Not Just Say *That* About the Rape Allegation Against Platner "What is the actual – is there evidence between her and him, evidence of a crime?" Hat Hair's Dave Strom sees
More Narrative™ Shaping by The New York Times.
John Ondrasik @johnondrasik, "
The reason the @nytimes can practice gross journalist malpractice, like they did to Lyndsey, is because they know there will be no consequences, from their company, from their media peers, and from their subscribers. In fact, protecting Democrats is how you climb the ladder." Quote Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield "I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now. It was by design." Neeraja Deshpande
@neerajadeshp, "
Here's @jodikantor, one of the NYT journos who broke the Weinstein story, naturally, an avid early proponent of MeToo, even had a movie made about her and Megan Twohey breaking the story—here she is writing off @lyndseyfifield for essentially partisan reasons. How's this aged?" Quote Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck, "WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by @LyndseyFifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw." From Althouse,
"While I’m assigning blame, I shouldn’t leave out myself. Last October, when stories about Platner’s tattoo and Reddit posts first broke...", ""... I went to Maine to write about him. I tried to
convey what I saw: a campaign that was electrifying angry Maine voters. But I deeply regret that, impressed by Platner’s political charisma, I wrote that he was 'nothing like the edgelord caricature I encountered online.' If anything, he seems to be significantly worse...." Writes Michelle Goldberg, in
"Lessons From the Graham Platner Disaster." Sensurround @ShamashAran, "
I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan't actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn't actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from "The Onion." back when it was funny. But no. She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically. This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room..."
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator, "
What Republican has faced credible rape allegations? Because it’s not Trump or Kavanaugh." Quote Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic, "The one good thing I can say about this entire Platner shitshow is that most Democrats are calling for him to drop out, which is not how Republicans have acted when their favored candidates have faced credible rape allegations. The parties are still different: Democrats see credible rape allegations as disqualifying; Republicans continue to have a nearly unlimited tolerance for abusing women. Call them "Dem HR lady politics" if you want, but I'm actually glad we haven't fully rejected them." PoIiMath
@politicalmath, "
Here are things that the Platner story has that the Kavanaugh allegations did not have: 1) proof of contact between the accuser and the accused 2) documented allegations from the accuser naming the accused to others *before* the accused rose to the national stage 3) multiple accusers with documented proof of contact and long-standing recognition of abuse Liberals who are saying "this is just like Kavanaugh" are just reminding everyone of how flimsy the Kavanaugh accusations were …" quote Sarcastic Cupcake @SarcasticCupcak, "Hilarious to see right wingers try to pump up this story that reads like Kavanaugh allegations."
Ron Coleman @RonColeman, "
I don't have the patience or the stomach to line up all the established rapey stuff associated with Democrats and large percentages of people from certain countries, but it is notable how obsessed they are in their messaging with accusing non-rapey people - and canines - with rape despite the lack of what earthlings regard as evidence and at a certain point you have to step back and ask yourself who are these people and what are they trying to do to both our society and the people in it?" Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatch, "
LOLOLOLOL. So because we don’t know about hypothetical rapey legislators we should forgive the ones we do know about." Quote Stephen King @StephenKing "Tell you what--if you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said, "Let him without sin cast the first stone."" Logic is not a thing in horror stories.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en, "
They told me if I supported Trump we’d end up with neo-Nazi rapists as Senate candidates, and they were right."
Rick Moran at PJM,
Platner Is the Democrat Camel Whose Back Couldn't Be Broken, No Matter How Much Straw Was Piled On. Capt. Ed cites
Politico: The Biggest Loser in PlatnerGate Is ... "In the blast radius from the sexual assault allegations against Graham Platner, few politicians are taking a harder hit than Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna." Twitchy,
The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Democrats and Graham Platner The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline, "
@SarahLongwell25 calls for Graham Platner to drop out: "I want to win. I want Democrats to win the Senate and to win the House…Platner is in an incredibly weak position to do that now, and I think as a moral matter, when someone is accused of rape, that's game over."
Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty, "
Going forward, every reference to The Bulwark should state, "The Bulwark, who had a columnist who argued Graham Platner should be the Democratic nominee in 2028..."" PJM's Scott Pinsker,
My Platner Prediction Just Came True. Here’s What’s Next — Including the Death of the Dems' Brand. Capt. Ed cites the
WSJ: Dems May Have a Bigger Problem Than Platner and
Dem Senate Disaster Intensifies. No, The Other One, Texas.
Insty at his substack sees
Socialists prey on Americans’ apathy — even in places you’d never expect.
Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker, "
The great secret of the last hundred years is that Progressivism is an elitist, technocratic ideology crafted by academia. It has NO working-class foundations at all. This desperate search for a believable marionette is hopeless."
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "
Is the DSA running every single minority member they have for office? DSA is 89% white; their candidates look like the United Colors of Benneton." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch, "Francesca Hong, leading Democratic Socialist in the Wisconsin governor’s race: “Police exist to uphold white supremacy.” Mike LaChance at LI sees the
Liberal Media is Dishonestly Painting DSA Radicals as Gentle Reformers. "Over on MSNOW, contributor Molly Jong-Fast recently talked about how they want free child care. What’s so radical about that?" John Sexton thinks
Sen. Murphy Has a Terrible New Idea. Just one? $25 per hour minimum wage. Paul MaCrae at Am Spec calls them
The New Brownshirts? "Antisemitic rhetoric on the far left increasingly echoes the propaganda of Nazi Germany." Dave Strom,
Democrats Have Gone Down the Antisemitism Rathole This Far.
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "
I hear all the time about how Gen Z is turning socialist because they have no economic hope and how I just don’t understand that we need to do more socialist stuff so they’ll still vote for us. Well…. I’ve spent quite a bit of time as a Silicon Valley startup/VC lawyer, and there is no quicker way to turn a young leftist into a junior Milton Friedman than starting their own business. ..." VodkaPundit at PJM hears
New Yorkers Are Already Mad at Mamdani, and He's Just Getting Started. Dmitri Bolt at TownHall,
Socialists Say Zohran Mamdani Delivered Record-Low Murders in NYC. There's Just One Problem. "People forget that, despite
Zohran Mamdani’s generally hostile stance toward law enforcement and his preference for a more social worker-oriented approach to reducing crime, he has spent almost none of his time in office focusing on crime and nearly all of his energy on affordability. As a result, New York City has retained NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who was appointed under Mayor Eric Adams and has presided over steadily declining murder rates since 2023. The city has also maintained its existing policing strategy, which has clearly proven effective." Kevin Downey at PJM says
Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues.
Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, has
Another Sad, Cautionary Tale of Failed Democratic Candidates - Andrew Gillum Ring a Bell? DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "
People forget that Gov DeSantis beat this guy in 2018 by less than 0.5%. He would’ve been our Governor during Covid, kept us locked down, and the country would’ve never been the same. The reason he almost won was b/c deep blue Broward County kept “finding” votes weeks after the election. The vote fraud was stopped, DeSantis cleaned up our elections, and he won by almost 20% in 2022. It’s amazing what happens when election fraud is cleaned up." Quote Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello, "ARRESTED: Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who narrowly lost to Ron DeSantis in 2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug charges. at the Wombat's
In The Mailbox: 07.07.26 (Afternoon Edition) Twitchy:
“Florida Dodged A Bullet.” I&I has
A Tale Of Two Governors, Newsom vs DeSantis. Leslie Eastman at LI notices
Newsom-Backed Deal Transfers Iconic California Beach to Indigenous-Led Nonprofit, "The 136-acre property, encompassing Blues Beach and surrounding coastal bluffs, will be transferred to Kai Poma, an NGO representing 3 tribes," for a favor to be named later.
Beege Welborn thinks it's a tad late,
Well, Huh: MSM Suddenly Interested in Playing 'Where's Mitch-O?' Atop Da Hill,
McConnell’s health emergency sparks questions on whether he will return to Senate. Dave Manney at PJM,
If McConnell Is Gravely Ill, Kentucky Deserves Clarity.
Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble, "
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible." Not a great endorsement. A corpse could do all of that.
Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible."
Jeff Charles at TownHall sees
This Defense Attorney Thinks Charlie Kirk's Assassin Won't Go to Trial. "When asked whether Robinson’s team will choose to go to trial, he responded, “If they can avoid it, hell no.” He further stated that Robinson’s attorneys will “run to the nearest sporting goods store, they get the thickest knee pads, they fall to their knees in front of the prosecutors, and they beg them to take death off the table.”"
Matt Vespa sees the
New Fed Report that Shows How Joe Biden's Illegal Alien Invasion Brutalized Our Economy.
James Blair @JamesBlairUSA, "
Democrat politicians cause virtually every problem you face, and they have no real solutions for anything. Aside from being woke, weak, and way too liberal, they are incompetent." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Biden's illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds https://trib.al/c3M9oC6."
Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "Most of my friend circle has children ranging from late high school to recent college grad. All I hear are HORROR stories about the jobs market. Can’t get a call back. Can’t get an interview. The political elite in this country better be VERY careful with their language. Very." Quote Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5, "I was starting to get suspicious for a while because I keep hearing stories like this about smart college graduates with STEM degrees putting out 800-3,000 job applications, even to grocery stores, and not getting hired for low-paid entry-level jobs. x.com/cccfounder/sta…"
Bill Marshal @aethelamerican, "
It's the H1Bs and immigrants and we all know this. Whether talking inflated costs for housing, healthcare and schooling, or a brutal entry and mid level job market is because of them. And as far as I know, not a single 2028 candidate has committed to ending the H1B program." Ben Smith at RedState reports
Trump Just Bought the ICE Facilities Newsom’s California Tried to Run Out of Town.
C3 @C_3C_3, "
Sitting down? Legacy Media increased the term “white supremacy” by 5,296% from 2009-2020. Violent crimes 2009-2020: Black on White: 1,162 per 100K Blacks. White on Black: 38 per 100K Whites. 30X more likely! Dangers of “white supremacy” narrative is pure propaganda. Facts." Ace hears from
YouTuber Joshua Carr: Pudgy Nazi Pussy Tucker Carlson Has Hired a Company to Copyright-Strike Any Channel Using His Clips to Critique Him.
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