# People defending Graham Platner are pathetic and intellectually bankrupt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839 "2026-06-12T02:58:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/261 "2026-07-06T21:19:50Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > ETA: God, the people attacking Platner for the stupid shit are practically gleeful that this woman was raped. No question. Some people seem to have gone fucking insane on this board. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/262 "2026-07-06T21:20:17Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Susan Collins is a fascist helping fascists. That’s much worse than someone wearing a tattoo. That’s much less bad than a rapist who calls his victim a liar. Now that you’ve decided he’s a rapist shitbag who calls his victim a liar… do you think that maybe he was lying about knowingly having a Nazi tattoo, or are you still gonna cling to the whole “boys gonna be boys” thing about that? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/263 "2026-07-06T21:20:57Z")
I’ll say it once again for maybe the hundredth time - @Smapti, you’re a fucking weirdo. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/264 "2026-07-06T21:21:51Z")
Some of us realize that reprehensible people are generally reprehensible in many different ways. Getting a Nazi tattoo is reprehensible. People who get Nazi tattoos are almost always reprehensible people. It’s no surprise, then, that he’s reprehensible in other ways too. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/265 "2026-07-06T21:22:14Z")
Him not knowing it was a Nazi tattoo fits the evidence. It’s as simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/266 "2026-07-06T21:22:51Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Better than a rapist candidate. And we’ve decided he was a rapist because an anti-progressive propaganda putlet published an unsubstantiated claim by a woman who says she came forward because of her sympathy for Brett Kavanaugh supporters, timed strategically to try to force him out of the race. I don’t know how you don’t recognize a ratfuck when it’s right in front of you. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/267 "2026-07-06T21:23:34Z")
You’re way out in left field on this one. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/268 "2026-07-06T21:23:41Z")
This is a weird hill to die on, since he’s really going to drop out. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/269 "2026-07-06T21:23:49Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > He’s definitely dropping out. Well, that was a nice Senate majority we almost had. I hope your moral purity is worth the national abortion ban Collins will vote for next year. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/270 "2026-07-06T21:24:02Z")
The allegation has multiple points of contemporary support, including messages and conversations with multiple friends long before Platner was politically relevant. You’re a weirdo. Let’s go Troy Jackson! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/271 "2026-07-06T21:26:01Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > The allegation has multiple points of contemporary support, including messages and conversations with multiple friends long before Platner was politically relevant. Then why isn’t he being prosecuted? Because it never happened and this is a politically motivated hit job by Democratic insiders to sabotage any chance of a progressive getting into the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/272 "2026-07-06T21:27:59Z")
“Why isn’t he being prosecuted,” he asks about the information that was first published just over 2 hours ago. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/273 "2026-07-06T21:28:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Then why isn’t he being prosecuted? For the same reasons why most rapists never get prosecuted? Plus, of course, the accusation dropped like two hours ago? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/274 "2026-07-06T21:28:33Z")
Trump wasn’t prosecuted for raping E. Jean Carroll, for reasons such as the narrow definition of rape in New York at the time of the offense and the statue of limitations. That doesn’t mean he didn’t do it. A jury adjudicated that he had raped her by the commonly-held definition of the term. While I generally believe people are “should not be considered legally guilty until proven in court”, that doesn’t mean that everyone not yet prosecuted has never done anything wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/275 "2026-07-06T21:33:13Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > You’re way out in left field on this one. Yeah, I was being told the same thing two years ago when I was saying Bidien dropping out was a bad idea and if he did Trump would win. Guess who wound up being right about that? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/276 "2026-07-06T21:36:27Z")
Go to therapy. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/277 "2026-07-06T21:38:05Z")
I guess whatever you say from here on out is undoubtedly correct, no matter how ridiculous, oh prognosticator of prognosticators. Should we build the shrine to you now or after you’re dead? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/278 "2026-07-06T21:38:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Yeah, I was being told the same thing two years ago when I was saying Bidien dropping out was a bad idea and if he did Trump would win. I wore a red shirt the other day and it was raining. I guess my shirt makes it rain. There’s no way Biden staying in the race would have been better. Zero. In all likelihood, no Democrat would have won because incumbents were being defeated globally in reaction to inflation, as stupid as it was. Trump lucked out by riding that wave back into office. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/279 "2026-07-06T21:41:04Z")
If Biden had stayed in the race he would have won, but he was sabotaged by the Democratic establishment. If Platner stays in the race he will win, but he’s being sabotaged by the Democratic establishment. The parallels are right there for anyone to see. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839/280 "2026-07-06T21:43:45Z")
Dude. Do you track your predictions? Or do you cherry-pick one conditional prediction, state with confidence that it’s right even though there’s no way to know, since the condition wasn’t met, and use that to justify your prophetic powers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-defending-graham-platner-are-pathetic-and-intellectually-bankrupt/1030839.md?page=15)