Sexual abuse
Ms. Fifield also recalled that Mr. Platner’s displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.
She said he kept an AR-15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill, and would sharpen an ax — a relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines — while watching television.
He had what she described as a “warrior ethos” and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat, she said. She said he told her thatremoved was about power.
It was something that stuck with her through the years, Ms. Fifield said.
“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I wouldremoved them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”
“He was like, I wouldremoved them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.
Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them. A friend who knew Mr. Platner and Ms. Fifield during that period said the comments sounded out of character.
Let me start off by saying I hate Graham Platner, for all the obvious reasons.
But this is a Republican hit piece that the NYT is running because it wants Susan Collins to win. The main woman quoted is a lifelong Republican operative who co-hosted a DC podcast with Bethany Mandel.
Understandable
It does also sound like a very specific type of guy that Grahm Cracker is
I’m sorry if I snapped at you. It’s just this whole thing is super annoying. I wish Graham Platner had died in Iraq.
It’s all good buddy
I understand the sentiments
Shit is wild out there and information is a powerful tool
Just like Graham Cracker is a powerful tool
This is the sort of attitude I hope we can have more of on this site
This is the sort of attitude I hope we can have more of on this site
“I understand it’s a smear piece but It sounds right based on my judgement of the type of guy he is”
Can you PLEASE not make me defend Graham Platner? Can you please just dismiss everything in this article so I don’t have to keep explaining how and why it isn’t credible at all and am thus put in the position of defending a Blackwater mercenary with a Nazi tatoo?
You could just stop defending the war criminal with the Nazi tattoo who wishes he “got to fight in Vietnam” and gets mad that other people “got their bolts” without earning them.
Look, he’s a piece of shit, but you can’t just believe lies about him because he’s a piece of shit. That’s not how it works.
I don’t. Those are the things he has admitted to. I’m just not going to read the obvious hit piece.
Okay, then why are you getting on my ass for calling the obvious hit piece what it is?
Because this forum currently has too many people saying “I hate the guy but you should vote for him as harm reduction” and that’s obvious horseshit. He’s a naked imperialist running in the Zionist democratic party, there’s no way that his sole good foreign policy position survives the first five minutes and it’s fucking exhausting to watch. Apologies if that’s not your position but I am so goddamn sick of watching ostensible communists defend a man who says America should “stop fighting stupid wars that don’t benefit us” (ie, start fighting ones that do). It’s revolting and honestly shouldn’t be allowed in a supposedly anti imperialist space.
I have not seen a single instance of someone saying to vote for him. How many of us even live in Maine lmao.
We should be able to recognize and call out obvious smear campaigns rather than signal boosting them. It’s important for the credibility of our own criticisms, as well as knowing how to recognize it and respond effectively when these same tactics are used against our comrades.
My concern is there’s a real problem with people actually defending Graham “we should stop fighting stupid wars that don’t benefit us” Platner as the harm reduction candidate. Even with their different positions on Gaza (and he’s running for a Zionist party, remember! No way his position survives election, unless he doesn’t get elected until after we reach “one day everyone will have been against this”) there’s nothing his opponent has done or could ever do to inflict more violence and misery on the global south than he has, and he clearly doesn’t regret anything about it except the part where he thinks he should’ve been paid better. He’s running on building more ships and increasing military wages! That is to say, growing the American military. I’m not saying he would necessarily be worse in office (no way to tell), just that this is a clear 99% Hitler situation and I thought we were agreed that voting for Hitler is bad.
Sorry, that’s got little to do with this being an obvious hit piece but I am really disgusted by seeing people here, in an ostensibly anti imperialist space, defending the dude. I wish this had just been reported as propaganda and pulled down rather than even the very mild defense of saying “the dude sucks but this is just a hit piece”.
God damn I want some fucking Graham crackers now!
Cracker was lifelong republican (so he could have met others of this caliber), so let them fight it out in court eh? his campaign is spending in the millions, he can afford lawyers, or his new friend chucky schumer can provide some
How is she worse than Platner?
Tell me again about how you aren’t defending Platner.
disengage