If the illusion is real, let them give you a ride, if they got tabbie appeal, let them be on your side ...
Asked AOC yesterday about Platner, and this is what she told me. Bernie Sanders, a big Platner backer, has defended him after the report about his messages. But no word yet after NYT story that just broke https://t.co/ONSWxEIvpm
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 4, 2026
Ed: Yeah, I'd bet it will be a couple of days before these progressive clowns formulate an explanation for supporting a Nazi-tatted alleged abuser. The truth is that there is no good explanation to offer.
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Jim Geraghty at NRO (this morning):
“It’s not a secret I’ve had a messy, complicated life,” he told the senators, one of the people said. “The worst of the rumors we’ve all heard are not true.”
I don’t know about you, but that wording does not seem particularly reassuring if you’re a Democrat. First, which rumors was Platner referring to? And if only “the worst” are not true… how about the merely moderately bad? Doesn’t that sound like a de facto concession that some rumors out there are true?
Mind you, in April, Platner assured a supporter that he had no additional scandals or past bad behavior to disclose. ... In other words, Platner has twice already assured the public that he has no other scandals he needed to admit, and then the Kik account and sexting came out. If you’re a Democratic senator, why on earth would you believe his assurances now?
Ed: This is the Otter Response in Animal House: "You f****d up, you trusted us!" The question is why anyone trusted a pig-in-a-poke candidate like Platner in the first place. I would guess that Democrat socialists are desperate for candidates that they can sell to younger male voters, and so chose someone whom they think represents the kind of masculinity those voters respect. They have James Talarico on one end of that spectrum and Graham Platner on the other, and in both cases, prove they have no idea what middle Americans see as normal masculinity.
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Maine Governor Janet Mills did not withdraw from the ME Senate race. She is just not campaigning but @SenSchumer threw her overboard when Platner was the “next Mamdani.” Now that Platner is toxic, will Schumer re-endorse Mills? Or is he planning on a Torricelli switcheroo? Maine…
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 4, 2026
Maine isn’t NJ. Not likely to play that game especially against @SenatorCollins (who is going to handily beat anyone Dems run against her and always has).
Ed: I actually think Mills had a better shot against Collins than Platner. And it may actually benefit Democrats that this is detonating now, before Tuesday's primary, when Democrat voters in Maine can still choose Mills.
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NY Times: “He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape 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 would rape 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.
Mr. Platner, who had overlapping relationships with other women while he and Ms. Fifield dated, also referred to women as “hatchet wounds,” Ms. Fifield said, a crude term for female anatomy.
Ed: Gross. I've literally never heard this slang before reading it in the NYT. The fact that the campaign isn't disputing these remarks, but instead attacking Lyndsey as a "GOP operative," speaks volumes.
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I love how the best defense they can mount is "well that sounds out of character" when NEITHER PRINCIPAL is denying it. https://t.co/fN5peKILds
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) June 4, 2026
Ed: I think that Lyndsey Fifield's credibility is way too big a problem for flat denials. Also, I think they're worried that the NYT piece might produce more women who can testify to the same thing. Particularly, the part where Platner referred to women as "hatchet wounds" based on the appearance of their genitalia. Anyone want to ask AOC about that reveal?
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Fox News: "This is a guy that had a problem with me, how I dress, but he seemed to have no problem posing in a towel at a disgusting website that consistently had serious problems about that kinds of depravity," Fetterman told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The Democrat later challenged Platner to make public messages he allegedly exchanged with women on the platform.
"Let me make a deal. I'll tell P-Hustle, I'll wear a suit every day, if he releases all those texts and messages that he's had... [with] the dozen women," he continued, referencing Platner's username on the platform.
"You can prove [to] America... what's [in] these conversations. Can P-Hustle prove how old these people are?"
Ed: Literally the only Democrat with a working radar on common sense sniffed out Platner weeks ago. He warned his colleagues about Platner, and went public early and often to call him out. And now everyone but Fetterman and Janet Mills have Platner's stink all over them.
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"Believe all women" is about to get an asterisk, isn't it?
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) June 4, 2026
Ed: It always (D)oes when it's (D)ifferent.
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Democrat Senator Chris Coons refuses to denounce Graham Platner:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2026
COONS: "I'm going to give him a measure of grace." pic.twitter.com/rONPWuYvz7
Ed: "A measure of grace," eh? It really IS (D)ifferent.
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Glenn Reynolds: Years ago a friend of mine in DC commented that he knew a lot of people who thought they were big shots, because while they were in important government jobs people treated them like big shots. It was nice to be so liked and admired.
Then when they left the important jobs, they didn’t feel nearly so liked and admired anymore. Turned out that what people liked and admired about them wasn’t their personal qualities, but the big shot jobs — or, more specifically, what they hoped the holder of those big shot jobs could do for them. No job, no big shot treatment.
He commented that it was hilarious how often people felt this way, especially since most of them had been dealing with other people in and out of big shot jobs for most of their careers.
Well, that’s Scott Pelley’s situation, but I don’t think he knows it yet.
Ed: Pelley made the mistake of considering himself the indispensable element in his organization. He's not the first to make that mistake, and he's not going to be the last, but most people don't burn a $5 million annual salary in learning the hard way that unless you own the company, you can be replaced. And Pelley's about to learn that there are very few $5 million jobs in this industry, especially after you become known as a toxic element in a work environment.
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The NYT did a huge disservice to Lyndsey in how they packaged the story about Graham Platner.
— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) June 4, 2026
What she describes is physical abuse, and they buried it 22 grafs deep under a headline describing "unsettling behavior."
Platner allies already dismissing this as a nothing burger pic.twitter.com/3QcFWKtva6
Ed: Yes, I pointed this out in my post as well. They ran with the women who claimed he did nothing wrong with them ahead of the abuse claims. The NYT ran the story, so they deserve credit for that, but they basically asterisked it up first and buried the lede. Pelley's not the only journalistic disgrace. That's not on the reporters either, but on the NYT's editors.
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John Fetterman, top Platner critic among Senate Dems, told me it’s time for ME voters to get behind Janet Mills. “I think what's time is is for Maine voters to take a look at the sitting governor, an honorable woman, and that is a committed Democrat that's already won statewide”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 4, 2026
Ed: She's still on the ballot. She's won statewide elections in the past. One of the biggest questions Democrats and progressives should answer is why they pushed the Nazi-tatted alleged abuser in the first place.
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Byron York: “Clearly, Democratic senators are terrified that there is going to be more to come out,” York said Thursday on Fox News’s America Reports. "I think it’s important to point out right now there’s a lot we don’t know about what has come out about this whole sexting stuff." ...
“The primary is actually next Tuesday in Maine, and Platner’s going to win by a big number, and then July 13 comes up, which is the final day that a candidate can leave the race, and then the Democratic Party of Maine could appoint another one, so those are really important dates,” York said.
“You have the Democrats who worry that there’s more but believe that we don’t know enough right now to kick him off the ticket, and then you have others like Fetterman who believe, 'Yeah, we do know enough right now to kick him off,'” York said.
Ed: Byron spoke before the NYT story dropped, but the Democrats certainly have enough now to demand Platner's withdrawal. Will they, or will they attack the women who came forward while asking voters to give their favorite Nazi-tatted socialist "a measure of grace"? I think right now it's even odds.
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The bottom line is to DC Democrats, they are more terrified of the disillusionment of their antisemitic fever swamp base by dumping him than they are to lock arms knowingly with a violent, abusing, lying, perverted, homophobic, cheating, Marxist fraud...who is also antisemitic. https://t.co/5FMtLPyG2Q
— Duane Patterson (@Radioblogger) June 4, 2026
Ed: I think Duane's right, assuming Platner actually wins on Tuesday. Get ready for a lot of "old news, asked and answered" narratives if that happens.
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Been thinking a lot about this oh-so-specific Elizabeth Warren comment from the WSJ story. https://t.co/O0cMfLzVjo pic.twitter.com/yO8tQqnjUq
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) June 4, 2026
Ed: When I saw that yesterday, I knew that they knew what the story would be. The question was whether they could diminish it effectively enough to salvage Platner's candidacy. Now they're all about to spend the next several months trying to explain how "it's (D)ifferent." Good luck with that.
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I would like to remind everyone that there is, to this day, no piece of evidence or testimony corroborating whether Bret Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford WERE EVER IN THE SAME ROOM.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 4, 2026
That was the number one story in America for months. The Platner story is much more robust. https://t.co/P5fwm5qQzr
"E. Jean Carroll and Christine Blasey Ford were credible and upstanding examples of female empowerment, but this perfectly lucid woman who has politics I disagree with is obviously a liar." https://t.co/xtIJ2aFYlb
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 4, 2026
Ed: Yep. It begins. Tough to use that to explain away Racicot, though.
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It’s funny watching the party that tried to ruin Brett Kavanaugh’s life using the completely unsupported narrative of Christine Blasey Ford suddenly start questioning the veracity a story with great depth of detail as far as time, place, and contemporaneous verification of events…
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 4, 2026
... and contemporaneous verification of events sourced from multiple women
Ed: With contemporaneous diary entries and text messages, to boot.
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I've known Lyndsey a long time and we all would hang out at Tune when she and Graham were dating. As her friend, I was never comfortable with that relationship because of how unhinged he was. And she told me he had an SS tattoo long before it became public. Her word is solid. https://t.co/mMW5T8VSOp
— Todd Stacy (@toddcstacy) June 4, 2026
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Prison Rules Platner https://t.co/KwYvmre0jB
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 4, 2026
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Welp. https://t.co/Q4DT59dFji pic.twitter.com/gqV0MBQ6ZF
— GayPatriot (@GayPatriot) June 4, 2026
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Last night's lyric: "Take It On the Run" by REO Speedwagon.
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