Two peas in a pod, as they say.
In one corner, U.S. Senate Democrat candidate Graham Platner, who once said some women invite rape.
In the same corner, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, who once publicly fantasized about rape.
Platner invited Sanders on Sunday to headline a political rally for him in Bangor.
“On our way to Bangor, Maine for a rally with @grahamformaine,” Bernie posted on X with a picture of him standing on the side of the road in New Hampshire entering Gilead, Maine in Oxford County.
“The crises facing our country are too serious for establishment politics and tinkering around the edges,” Bernie added. “We need candidates like Graham who will take on the greed of the oligarchs and deliver for working families.”
Besides their claims to progressive political policies, Platner and Sanders share a dark past.
With Sanders, it was an explosively misogynistic essay he wrote in the 1970s that came to light during his 2016 run for the presidency.
Titled “Man-and-Woman,” the essay written for a radical Vermont newspaper included graphic sentences about rape fantasies.
“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man – as she fantasizes about being raped by three men simultaneously,” it read.
Sanders pooh-poohed the piece when it surfaced in 2015 as “intended to attack gender stereotypes back in the 1970s, though it is as stupid today as it was back then.”
Whatever that was supposed to mean.
In any event, Bernie Sanders never became president.
Enter Graham Platner, who himself knows perhaps all too well about history of past creative personal juices flowing freely.
Amid his current Senate campaign a 2013 Reddit post came to light quoting Platner criticizing women who drink excessively for winding up “having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”
Platner has tried to apologize for the comments, attributing them to untreated PTSD and dark humor following his military service.
Janet Mills, who when she was running against Platner earlier this year tried to make political hay of his rape crack did so to no avail.
The two-term-limited governor later claimed she didn’t have enough funding to support continuing a campaign to take on five-term GOP U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in the fall.
Platner, now the leading Democrat in a two-person primary race with David Costello, has seemingly maintained a strong following among a key demographic – older women, despite his belittling the female gender.
So maybe he can do what Bernie failed to do – turn rape into a political asset.
Crazy People United ……
Sounds like a good NGO….Non Profit Group
Probably gets lots of contributions from the voters of Maine .
Platner is the perfect example of a total nobody schlub with a big enough mouth and backing to become some kind of voice of the people. He’s just looking to get rich like Bernie and the Dems want someone to do their dirty deeds. He would be a terrible dog catcher, let alone politician.
Bernie is a fake, just like Platner. After living under Mills for the last 7+ years I cannot imagine living in a country run by the likes of those 3. Bernie has never produced a thing in his life, yet wants to punish the producers who are successful, same with AOC, Mandami, . I guarantee you that they will not make anything “affordable”. They would have done it years ago. They are control freaks think Covid
As an ex Maine EMT, holding hands with any one of these three weirdos, most especially the “Maine Mouth” Platner, would require double gloving.
Capitalism has worked out really well for old Bernie. How did he make all that money?
These three are repugnant excuses for human beings. What does that say about their supporters?
Compare him to Susan Collins, who quietly attended the firefighter funeral, and then quietly said something appropriate at the town’s Memorial Day Parade.
Forget politics for a minute, who would you rather have represent you?
Susan Collins who will act like a US Senator, or this lunatic?
And then who would you trust more not to randomly do something stupid?
Compare him to Susan Collins, who quietly attended the firefighter funeral, and then quietly said something appropriate at the town’s Memorial Day Parade.
Forget politics for a minute, who would you rather have represent you?
Susan Collins who will act like a US Senator, or this lunatic?
And then who would you trust more not to randomly do something stupid???
The Nazi misogynist racist jackass. Who in their right mind would support this ?
Who’s the other guy ?
I read that Bernie has been in office longer than Hitler.
What a match, a commie and Nazi.
Hitler and Stalin are rolling in their rotten graves
These three are an insult to the state of Maine and Moe, Larry & Curly
Bernie the Commie teams up with Platner the Bolshevik. Reads like a Russian Novel.
Troy Vaseline Jackson’s inclusion in this trio says a lot about his disgusting character.
Democrat/communists would say he’s just there as the lube.