Here’s an article I had published today at UnHerd on the latest upsurge of consternation around Graham Platner, who I suppose is on the verge of becoming, or has already become, something like a new household name for anyone minimally attuned to US political affairs.
You think that's why the Dem establishment, and the NY Times etc are attacking him? None of those things would remotely matter if Platner was campaigning as a warmongering maniac. That's Freddie de Boer's point. See Clinton, Bill.
Oh, so you're taking a swipe at Freddie de Boer, without explaining that he's very conscious of his own mental struggles, and has done much to overcome them? Asshole.
You're slowly but relentlessly becoming one of my [teeny handful of] favorite Substackers.
Re the attacks on Platner--who does seem though like a guy who develops a really skeezy smell when he sweats too much--Lynsey Fifield seems like a gal entirely deficient in survival instincts or alternatively is a terrible fiction writer.
Anyway it's hard to get too outraged by the Democrats cleaving to Platner in an almost Biblical sort of betrothal. If I were in Texas I'd vote for Paxton to do my part in thwarting potential Democratic take-back of the Senate and that would bring my whoring out of my integrity for the sake of the nation to new heights [depths?] of self-besmirchment and I ain't even a Republican.
I actually think the Democrats are trying to knockout Platner so the geriatric Janet Mills can join the other octogenarians in the congressional cafeteria for soup every Thursday- rumor has it that her presence will precipitate the inclusion of lobster bisque on the regular menu
I feel the same dichotomy - Paxton may be a sleazy slime bucket but, on the balance (in my transactional spirit) is better than Cornryn and has shown an affinity for my political wishes. How low will I go? I guess that’s another way of saying “how but will it need to get”?
I voted for Trump for the first and presumably only time in 2024 in the hope that he'd destroy both parties, and in that regard things are progressing quite nicely.
I read this article earlier on Unherd. Delighted to see you on it. These women are crazy. Who can’t find something weird about ex boyfriends or ex=husbands for that matter? Platner may be an undesirable candidate but hopefully for more substantial reasons. Thanks. Kathryn from Brooklyn.
Hey I'm still opposed to something ideological! So I am not that much of a contrarian.
I still think Epstein should be hanged by the testicles, elites should actually be oppressed, libs should be tar and feathered publicly, and any form of foreign politics, especially Jewish cause very influent, should be banned.
See? No repeal the 19th or anything. I am an actual gentleman.
I don't really care about Platner, or his tattoo. military people do all sorts of things; some stupid, some more stupid. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they rape and kill civilians.
What does concern me is ukrainian fascism. I've known enough Ukrainians. i have grown up with them. Not a lot, of course. Not enough for any proper RCT study. But enough to remember watching television at a friend's house and having his 60 year old mother turn to me, point at the screen, and say "You know Barbara Walters is a Jew, right?" I know that Himmler himself, in his journals, registered disgust with Bandera and his group's utterly debauched preference for wiping out entire towns of jews, poles, whoever, with hammers. Nothing like a hammer to the skull to expose the sickness of a jew's mind. If you find Roger griffin's attempt to actually define "Fascism" as a distinct political force (as opposed to the up until them default to the socialist's "capitalism on it's last legs" non-definition) then I think a case can easily be made for The Ukrainian Nationalist movement, begun in the 1890s, as the first real Fascist political movement. Fascism is not conservatism. It is a revolutionary movement, meant to be new, meant to bring re-birth and smother the wussy tenets of Liberalism and the enlightenment. When they erect a statuue honoring Bandera in the middle of town, they know what they are doing. They know what it means, what he meant, and what he wanted.
This is bullshit man. The Nazi tattoo is clearly relevant when Platner, eg, went on Nate Cornacchia's podcast who thinks Israel killed Charlie Kirk etc. The fact that people like Schumer are totally fine with this shows the Democrat Part is just rotten to the core. They'll gatekeep Bernie but not Platner. Strange! Also Platner pushes Epstein stuff, are you less concerned with that than Platner's sexual misconduct allegations?
"Also of interest for my admittedly niche, peculiar purposes is"....
Have we time travelled to the sewage filled streets of Victorian England, kill floor stench of Smithfield, faces blackened by coal/ sweat AND sexual mores tight laced for public facade; distinct gender roles, prudishness & chastity? Lol dude can't wear a towel on an app photo? What's going on?
How about the claim that he is pulling fully disabled payments from the VA which means that he can't work but does with his profits going to his wife? And of course the admitted claim that he cheated multiple times on his wife within a year or two of being married?
He blames his poor decisions on his PTSD but if that is making him make poor decisions is he going to make good decisions in the stress of the Senate?
I like the fact that a normal guy is running for Senate instead of some Mitt Romney type and I too won't care too much if he wins. But I do think criticizing him for this kind of stuff is fair. On the other hand, I think his reaction to the criticism shows some courage that speaks in his favor.
Read Aris Roussinos on Azov. He actually went to Ukraine and talked to them. They worship Bandera. Plenty of countries occupied by Germany decided tgey preferred that to their hereditary enemies, but in Ukraine WW2 it was an ideology. The Azov battalion carried out remarkably horrible and heavy atrocities in Ukraine's post coup civil war ,killing 14500 civilians between 2014 and 2015, That is, part of Porosheno's attack on separatists in Ukraine. Btw, support for joining the EU was not high in Ukraine pre coup, being about 35%, according to their polls.
Collins has never been much of a Republican. She and Platner are probably as close to each other as one can get. But I guess there's the issue of control of the Senate, although even on that, Collins has pretty much made sure to dash Republican hopes whenever it really mattered.
Ok. So the Nazi tattoo doesn’t bother you. It’s not a deal killer for me either. But that fact that he’s mentally unstable does. War vet or not.
Jeezuz. Read this for a more rational take on the situation:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/of-course-this-is-a-coordinated-ratfucking
Ok I did. Now explain the postings about his penis and his opinions about women. Oh and lying about his home purchase.
You think that's why the Dem establishment, and the NY Times etc are attacking him? None of those things would remotely matter if Platner was campaigning as a warmongering maniac. That's Freddie de Boer's point. See Clinton, Bill.
Maybe.i don’t care why they are attacking him. They really don’t need to. He speaks for himself.
Look. I have a son a little bit older than this. If he’d publicly posted comments like this, I’d be in court fighting for conservatorship.
Imagine being convinced by someone who is also mentally unstable that being mentally unstable isn’t actually a big deal.
Oh, so you're taking a swipe at Freddie de Boer, without explaining that he's very conscious of his own mental struggles, and has done much to overcome them? Asshole.
You're slowly but relentlessly becoming one of my [teeny handful of] favorite Substackers.
Re the attacks on Platner--who does seem though like a guy who develops a really skeezy smell when he sweats too much--Lynsey Fifield seems like a gal entirely deficient in survival instincts or alternatively is a terrible fiction writer.
Anyway it's hard to get too outraged by the Democrats cleaving to Platner in an almost Biblical sort of betrothal. If I were in Texas I'd vote for Paxton to do my part in thwarting potential Democratic take-back of the Senate and that would bring my whoring out of my integrity for the sake of the nation to new heights [depths?] of self-besmirchment and I ain't even a Republican.
I actually think the Democrats are trying to knockout Platner so the geriatric Janet Mills can join the other octogenarians in the congressional cafeteria for soup every Thursday- rumor has it that her presence will precipitate the inclusion of lobster bisque on the regular menu
Yes but he'd bring clam chowder at a discounted rate.
I feel the same dichotomy - Paxton may be a sleazy slime bucket but, on the balance (in my transactional spirit) is better than Cornryn and has shown an affinity for my political wishes. How low will I go? I guess that’s another way of saying “how but will it need to get”?
I voted for Trump for the first and presumably only time in 2024 in the hope that he'd destroy both parties, and in that regard things are progressing quite nicely.
I think it's a perfectly reasonable suggestion to interview the ex-boyfriend of those two NYT writers.
I read this article earlier on Unherd. Delighted to see you on it. These women are crazy. Who can’t find something weird about ex boyfriends or ex=husbands for that matter? Platner may be an undesirable candidate but hopefully for more substantial reasons. Thanks. Kathryn from Brooklyn.
Wait he's a misogynistic roughboy ladyabuser, a Nazi, AND wants to expropriates elites???
Where do I sign up? He's like the ideal candidate.
He should embrace being a chud. Fuck progressives!
Hope it's all fun n games
I've considered joining the rage bait/ oppositional defiant/ contrarian for shits n giggles camp too
Hey I'm still opposed to something ideological! So I am not that much of a contrarian.
I still think Epstein should be hanged by the testicles, elites should actually be oppressed, libs should be tar and feathered publicly, and any form of foreign politics, especially Jewish cause very influent, should be banned.
See? No repeal the 19th or anything. I am an actual gentleman.
You had me at no-repeal-of-the-19th.
Ahh random, I now have hope that a few moderates still exist I can now navigate the world without signalling my deity like virtue
Gonna moderate this ride right off the cliff miss!
I don't really care about Platner, or his tattoo. military people do all sorts of things; some stupid, some more stupid. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they rape and kill civilians.
What does concern me is ukrainian fascism. I've known enough Ukrainians. i have grown up with them. Not a lot, of course. Not enough for any proper RCT study. But enough to remember watching television at a friend's house and having his 60 year old mother turn to me, point at the screen, and say "You know Barbara Walters is a Jew, right?" I know that Himmler himself, in his journals, registered disgust with Bandera and his group's utterly debauched preference for wiping out entire towns of jews, poles, whoever, with hammers. Nothing like a hammer to the skull to expose the sickness of a jew's mind. If you find Roger griffin's attempt to actually define "Fascism" as a distinct political force (as opposed to the up until them default to the socialist's "capitalism on it's last legs" non-definition) then I think a case can easily be made for The Ukrainian Nationalist movement, begun in the 1890s, as the first real Fascist political movement. Fascism is not conservatism. It is a revolutionary movement, meant to be new, meant to bring re-birth and smother the wussy tenets of Liberalism and the enlightenment. When they erect a statuue honoring Bandera in the middle of town, they know what they are doing. They know what it means, what he meant, and what he wanted.
This is bullshit man. The Nazi tattoo is clearly relevant when Platner, eg, went on Nate Cornacchia's podcast who thinks Israel killed Charlie Kirk etc. The fact that people like Schumer are totally fine with this shows the Democrat Part is just rotten to the core. They'll gatekeep Bernie but not Platner. Strange! Also Platner pushes Epstein stuff, are you less concerned with that than Platner's sexual misconduct allegations?
MT punctuation prowesss. How do you do that? Lol
"Also of interest for my admittedly niche, peculiar purposes is"....
Have we time travelled to the sewage filled streets of Victorian England, kill floor stench of Smithfield, faces blackened by coal/ sweat AND sexual mores tight laced for public facade; distinct gender roles, prudishness & chastity? Lol dude can't wear a towel on an app photo? What's going on?
I have no idea what you're saying, but I love the way you're saying it.
How about the claim that he is pulling fully disabled payments from the VA which means that he can't work but does with his profits going to his wife? And of course the admitted claim that he cheated multiple times on his wife within a year or two of being married?
He blames his poor decisions on his PTSD but if that is making him make poor decisions is he going to make good decisions in the stress of the Senate?
I like the fact that a normal guy is running for Senate instead of some Mitt Romney type and I too won't care too much if he wins. But I do think criticizing him for this kind of stuff is fair. On the other hand, I think his reaction to the criticism shows some courage that speaks in his favor.
I think you are confusing delusion for bravery.
Read Aris Roussinos on Azov. He actually went to Ukraine and talked to them. They worship Bandera. Plenty of countries occupied by Germany decided tgey preferred that to their hereditary enemies, but in Ukraine WW2 it was an ideology. The Azov battalion carried out remarkably horrible and heavy atrocities in Ukraine's post coup civil war ,killing 14500 civilians between 2014 and 2015, That is, part of Porosheno's attack on separatists in Ukraine. Btw, support for joining the EU was not high in Ukraine pre coup, being about 35%, according to their polls.
Collins has never been much of a Republican. She and Platner are probably as close to each other as one can get. But I guess there's the issue of control of the Senate, although even on that, Collins has pretty much made sure to dash Republican hopes whenever it really mattered.
I'm just here to say to my fellow Americans that lo and behold you're not voting your way out of anything.