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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Bernie Sanders stands by Graham Platner after controversy over sexually explicit texts [View all]quakerboy
(14,917 posts)47. I feel like the pressure on them to talk
Will ve far greater than the pressure to stay silent.
We have a much greater and more intrusive rw media machine in this country than anything the left would even dream of. Every federal branch of government is run by Republicans, and a majority of state branches are as well. And most of the ownership of media companies are trump allies.
They need to keep the senate. Unless theres still worse things to be revealed about platner, I expect dribbles of info on this to keep flowing out right up to election day to try and keep it alive and save collins.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders stands by Graham Platner after controversy over sexually explicit texts [View all]
Omaha Steve
Yesterday
OP
amazing isn't it? we have a fucking rapist in the WH but people get bent out of shape over a few sex texts. nt
Javaman
Yesterday
#6
Republicans know they can always count on Democrats to 'get bent out of shape' about their own candidates.
sop
Yesterday
#17
I remember when the previous Democratic governor of Virginia was almost drummed out of office because he stupidly
Midwestern Democrat
Yesterday
#49
I called it. Here we go with the hit pieces when a Republican is in danger of losing. Our news media
AZLD4Candidate
Yesterday
#9
Conor Lamb was the centrist. In the race of Conor Lamb vs. Fetterman, Lamb was the centrist.
Nixie
Yesterday
#55
Here is AOC admitting she was wrong about Conor Lamb. Fetterman is nicknamed Trump's Favorite Democrat.
Nixie
11 hrs ago
#83
We know one thing. If Platner said something like "Grab them by their pussy".....
chouchou
Yesterday
#32
You think? What I am curious is why has he kept them on his phone for his wife to find.
question everything
Yesterday
#51
Absolutely! Now we're also seeing the complete rewriting of the John Fetterman history since the Berniecrats
Nixie
Yesterday
#50
So you are saying you weren't fooled by Fetterman, you knew all along he was a centrist.
Emile
Yesterday
#54
Rearranging history to fit ideology, like insisting FDR was a democratic socialist or that manufacturing
betsuni
Yesterday
#69
This is not about lewd texts. Graham Platner's platform directly attacks wealthy
Emile
Yesterday
#41
My concerns regarding Platner have to do with the way he has misrepresented his background and upbringing
markpkessinger
Yesterday
#46
Yet populists describe themselves as the "authentic" ones compared to the "elites."
betsuni
Yesterday
#66