Um, cite? I cannot find a single story with both the DSA & MTG in them from since she’s left congress. The closest I can find is this Fox News piece with the following mention:
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) criticized the progressive firebrand for voting against an amendment by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to block $500 million in Congress’ annual defense spending bill that was aimed at helping fund Israeli missile defense systems.
Which a) is Fox News and b) is not for MTG so much as against AOC on this one specific issue.
Now that Elizabeth Warren (a notable insurgent bucking the Dem establishment) has said she’s for Platner, endorsements from Stew Peters and Nick Fuentes should be next.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but in 2013 he made an awful comment about sexual assault
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people worried about assault should “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to”
Platner has said that he “posted awful things” while he was struggling to find meaning in his life, but that’s not who he is today.
The Platner of today is a “longtime fan” of people who post awful things.
A lot of people go through a foot-shooting phase when they’re in their 20s. We need to get rid of these purity tests that purge great candidates just because they happen to have a self-inflicted shattered foot. Real people in the white working class don’t care about a few missing feet here and there, they want to hear about the issues that matter to them like why rape is the woman’s fault. Anyway, I decided to get my foot reconstructed 48 hours ago once everyone found out I had shot it off, so we’re done talking about that. And anyway, isn’t the real issue that Israel broke my arm? What sort of rootless cosmopolitan billionaire pharisee intellectual new yorker bagel-eating person is trying to distract you from their crimes by talking about my feet?
Platner’s attempt to host a fundraiser at a gay bar in New York was cancelled after his lengthy record of anti-gay posting on Reddit came to light. He has previously claimed that he posted the comments as a “juvenile” (the last one was made in 2021, when he was 37, twelve years after he was informed that he was being denied re-enlistment in the Marines due to his Nazi tattoo) and, now that he is running for a Democratic nomination, has decided to regret them.
No information on why a candidate for senate from Maine is fundraising in New York was available.