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In reply to the discussion: So, it's looking like the whole Platner "controversy" [View all]Cha
(321,081 posts)42. Yeah, your insults to members aren't helping
your cause.
It says nothing about those who weren't okay with Planter's own words, like this one.. Except we're not okay with it.
In 2013, Reddit posts that resurfaced during his campaign, Platner downplayed the military's sexual assault crisis. He wrote that women worried about rape need to "not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to" and told people to "act like an adult for f---s sake".
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Gary Hart, Ed Muskie, "Old Joe" Biden, Mike Dukakis and Bill Somethingorother ...
usonian
11 hrs ago
#7
The Platner "news" sniffs of the old Lee Atwater/Roger Stone days. And Stone's
allegorical oracle
10 hrs ago
#20
Here's where Im at. Platner is flawed and engaged in bad behavior that I would not tolerate in my personal
Nanjeanne
10 hrs ago
#9
Go along with what? They said he had dark moods and was struggling and when old Reddit posts
Nanjeanne
10 hrs ago
#18
The GOP gathers evidence and ignores it, we Democrats execute the accused and then gather the evidence, ...
marble falls
9 hrs ago
#27
Democrats should vote against Platner when Republicans vote against the traitor rapist felon
dalton99a
9 hrs ago
#40
Only thing??? Everyone will forget about it in what, 5 days??? Who'll really care???
a kennedy
4 hrs ago
#51