Platner’s online Reddit posts, which resurfaced last fall, included a slew of controversial comments, including calling himself a communist; saying white, rural Americans were racist and stupid; and writing that “all” police officers are “bastards” after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020.In posts first reported by The Washington Post, Platner responded to a Reddit commenter who wrote, “There’s always that story about the girl who gets raped because she drank too much and somebody took advantage of that.”Platner responded, “Holy f---, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to? Men and women, you make a choice to consume enough of a substance to lose your self control. So if you don’t want to be in a compromising situation, act like an adult for f---s sake.”
Here's Mills's ad exploiting Platner's dumb social media, an ad that will obviously be helpful to Collins if Mills doesn't get the nomination:
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Luv those Karens!!!
Interesting that a Dem admits he's a Communist. Many of them are, but won't admit it.
He sounds nice. Very stable.
Well, he sounds honest.
Haha! He's a misogynist commie, and Mills looks like she's on death's door.
----an ad that will bviously be helpful to Collins if Mills doesn't get the nomination
Not obvious to me. Those prim bluenoses are quite the self-righteous turnoffs. Go back to your knitting, you never had this problem and never will. Most things I read about Platner are bizarre, but this is one that makes perfect sense and no amount of fembot scolding can take that away. Tsk, tsk, tskarooni. The days when this simpering disapproval could work are over.
Oysters make him crabby.
Communists are sexists. That's a dirty not-so-secret. They pretend not to be because women's rights somehow belong on the leftwing agenda. Expect these rights to be shunted aside whenever anything else is in the way.
Ann is correct. Communists are sexists. And they are just out for themselves and their buddies.
---- women's rights
The right to be completely irresponsible, change your mind after the event, blame the Other? The right to be nothing but children? If in a college, the right to start a process utterly one-sided and highly likely to ruin the man's educational and employment potential? Hmm, quite a version of women"s rights you are espousing there, Professor.
Graham Platner responds : ‘I was drunk out of my mind when I wrote that.’
Is he ever sober
Everyone in that video is a grotesque monster. If we deport them to Canada, will they be euthanized?
“Holy f---, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?
I find that statement hard to disagree with.
It would make me more, not less, inclined to vote for him.
John Henry
Ann Althouse said, "Communists are sexists."
From each according to her sexuality, to each according to his thirst. Seize the means of reproduction!
A communist a nazi lets call the whole thing off
If he wins, they'll still end up voting for him. The Gays for Palestine effect.......Still, it's informative to note what about his colorful past they find offensive. Sure, anybody can be a Communist. Just shows too much enthusiasm for social justice. But talking trash about drunk women. While unforgivable for a Republican, that's reprehensible even for a Democrat.
And he'd still be a better leader than Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom.
Six more years of Collins: the price we must pay.
Women's rights are now MAGA values: The right to stay home and raise your kids, the right to your own sports & bathrooms, the right to be distinct from men (even gay men), the right to protection from violence, the right to be judged fairly by your merits, the right to be held responsible for your actions just like a man (no crying exception). In other words, the right to live in a great America again.
Are we really going to discus women without even knowing what the word means?
So this is where the Democrats are now. And this guy has a nazi SS tattoo on his chest.
“calling himself a communist; saying white, rural Americans were racist and stupid; and writing that “all” police officers are “bastards” after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020.
So wrote Graham Platner, the man who's leading in the polls to become the Democratic Party candidate to run against Susan Collins for the Senate seat for Maine.”
Big mistake to have Janet Mills on the screen after the words "the closer you get the worse it looks." You betcha.
RSM FTW
How long before Democrats start nominating serial killers?
“The right to be completely irresponsible, change your mind after the event, blame the Other?“
Is it ok to rummage through the pockets of a drunk guy and take his credit cards and money?
If the guy was completely irresponsible - isn’t that consent?
So not everything he says is America-hating lunacy?
It would be something if the one thing he said that made sense--bad sex isn't rape and if you don't want bad sex, don't get stinking drunk so much--turns out to be the thing that sinks him.
Eva Marie said...If the guy was completely irresponsible - isn’t that consent?
If the guy gives consent, but was drunk, is that consent?
bagoh20 said, "How long before Democrats start nominating serial killers?"
Convicted? Not long. Unindicted? They probably already have. We're talking about the party of Ed Buck and Harvey Weinstein after all.
“Holy f---, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to? Men and women, you make a choice to consume enough of a substance to lose your self control. So if you don’t want to be in a compromising situation, act like an adult for f---s sake.”
He’s speaking to “men and women”, so how is that sexist? Because he left out two-spirit or something?
The real problem is that voters in Maine have become so hysterically self-loathing and anti-Republican that they will vote for anyone with a D after their names, even this piece of insane Porc-Fest-spouting, Deep State Hotchkiss CIA High School alum, trust-fund anarcho-commie military contractor, white-rural-voter hating, pretend oyster farmer ideological roadkill is leading in polls.
He's in the Democratic faction with the cultural appropriator and Wise Woman Whoopie Goldberg: "It's not rape-rape."
For other-than-Karen voters, the Mills ad may help him.
He won't be popular with the RAAT faction. He got Diversity wrong. George "Fentanyl" Floyd died surrounded by a mob and blockade.
They pretend not to be because women's rights somehow belong on the leftwing agenda.
Communism relies on suckers being born every minute, even if some are aborted for the cause.
He looks like the perfect Democrat other than saying what he really thinks. LOL!
Platner is a wannabe Nazi POS.
"...I find that statement hard to disagree with....mIt would make me more, not less, inclined to vote for him.
..."
What about when he disavows it, or claims it was taken out of context, and tries to bob & weave his way out? Still like him?
I really like the white backgrounds and clothing as all these women clutch their pearls. Trust me, they're all Puritans, especially the 'pure' part.
Maine is the east coast Colorado, change my mind.
Mills looked kinda old. So I asked. She will be the oldest first-time Senator ever if elected. I have to ask why she's running? What new can she bring to DC? Absolutely nothing. What a horrible choice!
"saying white, rural Americans were racist and stupid"
so is he calling himself racist and stupid? Or are we to presume he's excluding himself for what, not being "rural"? Or is he claiming not to be white? or American?
Dude, you directly called yourself a communist and now you just directly or indirectly called yourself racist and stupid.
Do Democrats really want to vote for that? Kinda says alot.
Eva Marie: Is it ok to rummage through the pockets of a drunk guy and take his credit cards and money?
If the guy was completely irresponsible - isn’t that consent?
In order to be a proper analogy, the "victim" needs to actually say it's okay and - perhaps more importantly - they both take each other's credit cards (and are probably both drunk).
Whether it's "OK" or not is debatable, but neither one committed a crime.
saying white, rural Americans were racist and stupid
Well, Maine's population is 92-93% non-Hispanic white and is about 61.5% rural (the most rural state in the country. If this guy gets voted in by these folks, I guess he was right about the stupid part.
It's not that women aren't judged by their merits but that nobody after feminism knows what the merits are.
@rhhardin, nobody after feminism knows what women are.
Platner responded to this:
There’s always that story about the girl who gets raped because she drank too much and somebody took advantage of that.”
You think that implies the girl consented? I interpret that as no consent - in the comment it’s labeled as rape.
He responded, “Holy f---, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?”
I interpret that answer as meaning if you get drunk and you’re raped - then it’s not rape-rape, take some responsibility and shut up. Nothing in the question or answer refers to consenting to sex.
Hypothetical:
Lucy goes out to a tavern. She drinks as many unadulterated alcoholic beverages as she cares to. She wakes up in the morning next to a man she does not remember. She kept roommate awake half the night by consenting loudly and enthusiastically to sex.
Sally goes to a tavern, drinks as many unadulterated drinks as she cares to. She wakes in the morning next to a man she doesn't remember meeting. He is lying dead in the passenger seat of her wrecked automobile.
Which woman is responsible or not responsible for their actions?
The chief characteristic of people from Maine is that no matter what they are better than everyone else.
Yupper Michiganders are much better weirdos than Mainers.
Let's keep it real here. People almost never "consent" to sex. They just don't stop it for lots of reasons, the main ones being that they want it, or what comes with it. Consent is almost never requested either, because it's simply inappropriate. Nobody wants to request it and women in particular don't want their partner to request it, at least not verbally. Like with many things, they prefer you just magically know what they want.
"Which woman is responsible or not responsible for their actions?"
It will be argued in court that neither of them is responsible and in both cases it will have good change of being successful.
If they were men, neither would even be attempted, let alone work.
Ann Althouse said...
"Communists are sexists. That's a dirty not-so-secret."
Well the women do get passed around.
Anything that get Collins out of the Senate is OK with me.
Communists are for Feminism when it helps them keep or gain power. And are against it when it doesnt. There's nothing in the Gopsel of Marx that says feminism will be put in place by the dictatorship of the proleteariat (sic). Communists are in favor of women working though.
Communists are sexists. That's a dirty not-so-secret. They pretend not to be because women's rights somehow belong on the leftwing agenda. Expect these rights to be shunted aside whenever anything else is in the way.
Back in the heyday of Bill Ayers in the 60's and 70's, the Weathermen, Black Panthers, SLA, and other radical communist groups were surrounded by starry-eyed young coed groupies, dazzled by the attraction of "radical chic". These girls were routinely used as disposable sperm receptacles when willing, and often raped and otherwise physically abused if not.
There are some real sexual predators who think themselves insulated from charges of sexism by their devotion to abortion on demand and other far-left politics.
Why did George Floyd get tagged?
He's not a bully. He's a moron. It's plastered on his chest and it comes out of his mouth.
But that's never stopped a Democrat voter.
There is a difference between two people who were both drunk having sex where one regrets it afterwards and says it was rape and where a man keep buying a woman drinks in order to get her drunk and have sex with her and it is rape. Which is he talking about, or does he mean both are the same?
Although I’ve been there a couple times, most of what I know about Maine comes from reading Stephen King. I get the impression there’s a lot more to worry about up there than some drunken screwing.
He was drunk......and he had PTSD.....so he didn't really mean it. So let's elect him as our senator!
@Mary Beth
According to the WaPo
Platner responded to a Reddit commenter who wrote, “There’s always that story about the girl who gets raped because she drank too much and somebody took advantage of that.”
Assuming the commenter knew what his/her words meant, someone raped the girl while she was drunk.
Platner responded:
“Holy f---, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?”
That implies that if the girl got drunk, she should accept responsibility for getting raped.
Also, Janet Mills is Joe Biden in a dress.
"women's rights somehow belong on the leftwing agenda."
They have the same right as men to be enslaved by the state. That's Equality!
Platner's problem is that he's the worst kind of phony, a limousine socialist from a 'Who's-Who' family of excellent Yankee lineage, pretending to be blue-collar by inking up, farming oysters, and talking all rough and outdoorsy. But his oysters get sold to his mom's fancy restaurant, and his trust-fund education at the best institutions is hidden from view behind his military experience. I hope he's the candidate, but either one of them is eminently beatable.
Eva Marie said...“There’s always that story about the girl who gets raped because she drank too much and somebody took advantage of that."
You're using the normal person's definition of rape; that's not the definition education, government or the media uses. When I read this, due to my past experience with how the word "rape" is used, what this sentence says is a woman got drunk and had sex and the next morning wished she hadn't.
Maybe it's worse than that, maybe it isn't, but there's nothing in that sentence to indicate she was raped by any normal definition of the word.
When we ridicule Whoopi Goldberg's "rape-rape" comment, it was not because we think there are no false or exaggerated accusations of rape, it's because she was defending a predator who roofied a 14 year old girl in order to have his way with her while she was passed out.
Look at all the uggos they had to drag out of their caves to condemn Platner. Not a hottie amongst them.
Yes, the left and tbeir AWFLs sure do love their rapists and Nazis...
Platner--"I woke up with my arm pinnned under Ms. Coyote Ugly, so I chewed my arm off so I wouldn't wake her while I escaped." Next he's going to tell us we've all been there. But last time I looked I still had two arms.
"Communists are sexists. That's a dirty not-so-secret."
They tend to expect women to have sex with anybody. They seem to see them as just another "resource" to be shared.
“You're using the normal person's definition of rape; that's not the definition education, government or the media uses.“
I’m going to assume a normal person wrote the original comment on reddit and I’m going to assume words mean what they mean.
The ad, however, makes his reply into a stand alone comment and does Platner a huge favor. Because as a stand alone comment, it’s subject to as many interpretations as there are people listening to it.
Assuming the commenter knew what his/her words meant
It was reddit where a word means precisely what they choose it to mean and either example I listed was possible.
If werent such a jackass one would make allowance but he probably would vote for the star chambers we see on universities
Like biden who pushed up the violence against women act
The "nuts and sluts" defense against rape remains evergreen because it's often quite plausible. Some women are indeed nutty. Some women are indeed slutty.
Some women are also sneaky and predatory. This follows from ancient Roman poison shops, Lucrezia Borgia, North Korea's Kim Jo Yong (Great Leader Kim's ruthless sister) and much more. Women may rarely use force to manipulate others, but they do lie, they do many predatory things, and they can rely on sympathy and fluttering eyelashes to escape punishment.
Beyond irresponsible drinking, the "it wasn't rape-rape" attitude persists for these reasons.
Plattner will be the next junior senator- Mills and Collins are very, very old toast- not even sure they are even still among the living.
"They tend to expect women to have sex with anybody. They seem to see them as just another "resource" to be shared."
George thought so
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/03/27/clavicular-arrested-florida-alligator-battery-n2426524
Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying
son of a bitch Johnson.
Spent some time in San Francisco
I spent a night there in the can
They threw this drunk man in my jail cell
I took fifteen dollars from that man
Left him my watch and my old house key
Don't want folks thinkin' that I'd steal
Then I thanked him as I was leaving
And I headed out for Bakersfield
(Homer Joy)
Who was the crazy lefty anyways
Gallagher once asked does Joe Jackson HAVE to be in his videos? Well…
I give up. Since all words can mean anything we want them to mean, I’m going to interpret the original comment as a critique of the war in Iran and that the commenter is an anti Semite.
…all the Maine women…the ad reminds me of the Sullivan Tire ads that are an institution in Boston. ICYMI they feature young kids of the employees doing the weather- It’s North-eastah!…One twenty eight is a poking lot! well, those women remind me of that…
Wait-a-minute, Clavicular is only 5'11" ? ? But I thought, being a chiseled god, he'd be over 6 for sure. Looks like his mugshot is a 'Curate Fail', too, he's got a lopsided face. Oh, dear...
Lying about height is so jester. I just literally can't even...
Communists are sexists. That's a dirty not-so-secret. They pretend not to be because women's rights somehow belong on the leftwing agenda.
…all y’all gonna vote for ‘em anyways. Would you rather they pander?
A communist a nazi lets call the whole thing off
…you are en fuego this week…
Thanks
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Sorry, she looks like Shoe. Even in Maine retail politics are still important.
Reddit is a communist leftist toilet
That's the best Maine can do in spiriting-up to viable candidates? Oy!
“His Words, from Janet Mills for Maine”
This is part of a certain new internet category, the social media site that simply reposts others’ material with minimal or no comment. The best-known is probably Libs of TikTok, which features self-incriminating videos made mostly by leftist teachers. Another is Mary Cate Delvey’s Listen to Trans People, also on TikTok and X, where every video starts with “Welcome to Episode xx of Listen to Trans People, where that’s all we do here.” Then she displays a TikTok or Reddit post with some disturbing content.
A good trend actually.
Elizabeth Warren is backing Platner. What's her angle? He may be a SOB but he's out SOB?
SP -- our SOB
She endorsed mamdani the cobra
Now we see how lucky we were to get even Susan Collins out of these voters. We all have spent years complaining that she isn't a proper R. No wonder - her constituency are proper berks.
Plattner is a vile excuse for a human being. The fact that people like him are running for public office tells you everything you need to know about the degeneracy of our society.
Look, you can be against guys roofie-ing girls and getting them drunk to take advantage of them, but also tell girls to just grow a brain. Don't go get drunk! Sure it "might not be your fault" but well, it kind of is. Doesn't excuse the guy, but If you go outside the cave at night and leave your club home and the wolf eats you, it's still stupid of you and partially your fault. Even if the clan hunts down and kills the wolf!
Seriously: how much trouble, grief, pain, anguish, and perhaps your life would people save if they just didn't get drunk and kept their pants on? Don't go sleep with random people; stay faithful to your spouse... good old fashioned "morality" that the left hates. Turns out, all those old commandments from the Old Testament work the vast majority of the time to prevent heartache! Don't screw the monkey, you aren't going to die horribly from some weird disease that crosses over.
It's not rocket science here! Girls, yes, it's your fault if you go get passed out drunk and you end up expecting, or catch something. It's also the guy's fault. Guys, don't go out with girls you aren't married to, and you won't be falsely accused! Just.... be moral and avoid all of these problems.
I want Ann to explain how his comments were dumb.
White women in the United States have been on the decline on a variety of levels. They demand the right to act like idiots and not take responsibility for anything.
Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. Most women are too stupid to figure this out it seems.
Universal suffrage is a death sentence for democracy. People who cannot take responsibility for their actions cannot be allowed to vote.
Democrats have always demanded a much broader definition of rape. Their definition of rape purposely obliterates the boundary between "rape" and "just sex." Mr. Platner is pointing out the obvious.
Platner claims to be a communist.
If you think these comments are worse than that you don't belong in the country.
I you think that these comments are wrong in any way, the problem is with you.
Isn't the actual definition of rape politically dependent? If a leftist is involved, it's whatever the leftist says it is (leftist guy and a girl, no rape. Leftist girl and whomever, it's rape)? If it's two leftists, whichever is the farthest left counts. And if it's a leftist politician they get a free pass to do what they want.
We know he wont vote for common sense thats a rsre vein among the democrats
Achilles, thank you for the comic relief.
Spartacus complains in an empty airport - Don Surber https://share.google/JdYPFeSmeNFmsogcc
Was the hypothetical male getting the hypothetical female drunk to have sex with him or was she drinking wholly of her own accord? Was he drunk too or fully cognizant of what was going on? Rape happens, but so do "mattress girl" situations when consensual sex is interpreted as assault the next morning.
I know nothing about the guy.
Whenever I see his name though, I think of Graham Parker "and the Rumor" and their song, "You Can't Be Too Stong" - a really touching pro-life tune.
Northern Maine voted for Trump. So did the easternmost coastal county. It's the seacoast that votes Democratic. The state divides its electoral vote -- 2 for carrying the state, and 1 for carrying each congressional district. Trump has carried the 2nd CD (which is most of the state) every time, while losing the state and the 1st CD (Portland and the southeast) every time.
Janet Mills turns 80 next year. One wonders why she's running for senator. Hasn't she lived enough and enjoyed power long enough? Does she think she has more to give than a younger person -- even Plattner -- would? Such questions are moot. Her grandfather, father, and brother were all in politics (and all Republicans). I doubt she ever considered not running.
"Sexsomnia" or engaging in sex while sleeping, is a sleep disorder diagnosis these days. I say this in an era where transgenderism has flipped traditional feminism on its head, so take it as you will.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/parasomnias/sexsomnia
Thats not a thing
Eva Marie said...I’m going to assume a normal person wrote the original comment on reddit and I’m going to assume words mean what they mean.
Define “normal.” You assume too much and I am not willing to go down that road with you.
Their definition of rape purposely obliterates the boundary between "rape" and "just sex."
Democrats use language to obfuscate, not communicate.
If Collins goes down that will make zero Rs from New England in Congress, House and Senate. It's only then that we'll know that Democracy is working.
Eva Marie said...
Achilles, thank you for the comic relief.
Women cannot defend how modern females are acting and how much damage they have done to modern society.
This is how they react.
Eva Marie said...
“The right to be completely irresponsible, change your mind after the event, blame the Other?“
Is it ok to rummage through the pockets of a drunk guy and take his credit cards and money?
If the guy was completely irresponsible - isn’t that consent?
The problem here is that there is no way to accurately determine if the man raped her or if she consented then changed her mind later and decided to charge him with rape.
I would personally try to get the woman home safe with family. But there are other men that wont and they may be just as drunk as her.
If a man is drunk does he also get to claim abuse? You know that will never happen. Men are expected to be responsible for themselves.
You don't get to get drunk and pass out and charge everyone at the party with rape. If everyone in society acts like this we will be living in caves.
You can't have people acting irresponsibly and have a free high trust society. Freedom and irresponsibility are anathema in the long term.
Achilles commented, “I want Ann to explain how his comments were dumb.”
These were some of his comments that are printed at the top of this post:
“Platner’s online Reddit posts, which resurfaced last fall, included a slew of controversial comments, including calling himself a communist; saying white, rural Americans were racist and stupid; and writing that “all” police officers are “bastards” after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020.”
Do you really need an explanation why these comments were dumb?
Now come on. You were kidding, weren’t you?
Where is it acceptable or unknowable or scoffed off as such to have someone run for a representative to the USA sport a Totenkopf tattoo????
If I remember correctly, LibertarianLeisure, Democrats loved old Adolf and his party.... until he invaded the Soviet Union. Only then did he become worse than Satan. Before that? they loved mein Kampf. And I'm sure that FDR knew all about the concentration camps but simply didn't care. I think it was the Russians that first announced them to the world after they ran across the first ones during 44. The Democrats didn't mind.... it was the US Army and regular people who were horrified. Democrats were happily putting Japanese people into concentration camps, remember? Adolf's use of them didn't bother Democrats one bit.
Vance, thanks for your post and info. Brngs to mind or reminds me that NYT never reported on any of this. But could have. as written in "Buried by the Times,' Never front page news.
(WHTM) – Democrat Graham Platner leads his primary opponent, Maine Governor Janet Mills (D), and incumbent U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R), in a new Emerson College Polling survey of Maine’s U.S. Senate race.
The poll of likely Democratic Party voters found Platner leading Mills 55% to 28%, with 13% undecided and 4% supporting another candidate in the June 9 Democratic primary.
In a hypothetical matchup, Platner leads Collins 48% to 41%, with 12% undecided. Mills also leads Collins 46% to 43% with 11% undecided.
So Mainers have minds of their own, but long-time Senator Susan Collins isn't far behind in this fall's election.
Eva Marie said...
Achilles commented, “I want Ann to explain how his comments were dumb.”
These were some of his comments that are printed at the top of this post:
“Platner’s online Reddit posts, which resurfaced last fall, included a slew of controversial comments, including calling himself a communist; saying white, rural Americans were racist and stupid; and writing that “all” police officers are “bastards” after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020.”
Do you really need an explanation why these comments were dumb?
You know Ann was talking about stupid women getting drunk and passing out at parties surrounded by strange men and then whining about the results.
But a democrat woman thinks she will get votes from other stupid democrat women because a man pointed out the truth about how they were acting.
You just can't be honest about this. Women in the US need to grow up. We have been allowing you to act like this for too long. The first people to call these stupid women out should be other women.
First of all. It was the 70s. Been there done that.
Secondly. It's Maine! What do the got there? Lobstahs, LLBean and Stephen King? If Maine went to live in Nova Scotia nobody in the rest of the US would notice.
I guess Platner is what Slotkin was talking about when she was talking about Democrats needing more "alpha energy".
“You know Ann was talking about stupid women getting drunk and passing out at parties surrounded by strange men and then whining about the results.”
I really don’t see that. I think it was the totality of his social media presence that’s referenced in “Platner’s dumb social media”
Either way, you both seem to agree on Platner. Does it really matter why? Take the win.
Vance, your memory is faulty; please read some history.
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