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Everybody involved in this is so messy and so awful

Wow. Holy shit. What in the absolute fuck.

This right here.

I just have the feeling that he's going to be the difference in allowing Republicans to retain control of the Senate.

dragged the whole thing out until the bitter end, and then left out some of the other allegations that would have backed up Fyfield? I smell a rat - many rats. /2

Oh jeez.

I believe her and am angry on her behalf.

Pixels are free. Space is free.

I personally think they couldn’t get the other women to go on the record with specific claims in time for the article to drop.

They want Collins to win.

This is why I unsubscribed from the NYT a long time ago. I mean, Too much information? Seriously 😒

Good thing the @nytimes.com doesn't need a public editor.

It was a warning. We didn’t take Thomas’s misogyny or Trump’s sex predator acts seriously and here we are.

I mean, unless Maine craves having an epigone of Donald Trump in all its cult-mongering splendor.

So Democrats should match Republicans in their depravity? Is that your point?

It’s no easy thing to relive all of that & then have your trust destroyed again.

She seems upset that the article included basic biographical background about her and didn't run uncorroboated claims.

The NYT is owned by a petty shithead for sure, but this can just as easily be the NYT only publishing what they can verify is ironclad.

The primary hasn't happened yet. He's not the candidate. There's still time to change course. His past behavior makes these allegations seem not surprising.

Democrats would elect Epstein if he had a “D” next to his name.

I think it’s funnier that some Democrats that insisted it was just a bad tattoo as a result of childish mistake are now defending partner abuse to elect a candidate. I guess they would vote for a pedophile if they had a D by their name.

Except for my own personal typos

Holy shit

Journalists fucking up and trying to sow more chaos to help republicans again.

maybe she likes children with intellectual capabilities mutilated by methylmercury emissions from the coal industry..

Wasn't there mention of ownership of an AR-15 which he took to D.C.?

Not to laugh at the fools who thought a guy with a Nazi tattoo was an option, but 🤣🤣🤣.

I believe her.

Yes, a CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST HE WAS DATING. Doesn’t THAT bring up red flags to you!?

HE WAS DATING A CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST AND HE'S ADMITTED TO VOTING FOR SUSAN COLLINS AT LEAST TWICE.

Also: Me from almost 2 months ago bsky.app/profile/poli...

Platner dated a conservative because he leaned in that direction. Remember, he voted for Collins as recently as 2014.

She may well be truthful about this, but we should all remember she's a fascist professional liar herself -- anti-trans propagandist, activist for rapist Brett Kavanaugh to get on the Supreme Court

No but we don't have to believe Fifields spin on everything either.

You want to be on the side of believing women, but the minute a woman asks her to believe you - in a way that’s not politically convenient - she’s a liar? You are giving me a masterclass in how every MAGA rat fuck spent the last ten years defending him, because now the sides have swapped and you 1/

And did she also dress provacatively enough to deserve it?

Yeah, that is the thing about "She's a horrible Republican TERF." Yes she is. And Platner dated her. And abused her, which is not okay *even if she's a horrible Republican TERF.*

it’s great to see you over here!

I heard the guy she was dating at the time had a nazi tattoo. Yikes!

he was a republican, so it’s not a surprise he dated another republican

leftists fucking hate platner man i don't know where you've been but they've been the ones yelling about the nazi tattoo the whole time

i typed his name and even my phone's autocorrect was sick of that word already i guess

Grabbing her by the shoulders and arms, shaking her, leaving marks, throwing her in a room and shutting the door and refusing to let her leave....

Believe Republican operatives

Perhaps unexpectedly, Mills drops out. From Collins perspective, this is not a good thing, because it gives Dems time to rally around Platner. Enter the NYT. How to present this information in a way that damages Platner, but isn't fatal. His supporters dig in. His critics get angrier at him.

Your suspicion is only strengthened by the fact that The Times didn't do a similar story about Paxton a week before the Texas GOP primary.

Sure. But the question is what we do based on where we are right now, not where we wish we were. How does the Democratic party in Maine (and nationwide) move forward without causing a civil way that is apparently being engineered from the outside? Blaming the other side just plays into that.

Sure, but this isn't part of that.

this is heartbreaking