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DRUNKS? Atlantic's Jonathan Chait Torches People Who 'Vetted' and Promoted Platner
Newsbusters ^ | July 7, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 07/07/2026 12:55:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

On the heels of Atlantic magazine's prominent writer Jonathan Chait panicking about communists taking over the Democrat party, he went full blast five days later on Monday torching the party enablers of Graham Platt in "With Graham Platner, Democrats Got Drunk on the Beer Test."

Specifically Chait blasted those who performed the laughably lame vetting of Platner as well as those who continued to promote him despite the many scandals that erupted around him.

Chait's first blast was directed at Morris Katz, whose unbelievably weak vetting of Platner in the first place ultimately led to the Democrats being in the unenviable situation of perhaps being forced to switch out their candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine.

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In case you haven't heard the news yet, Platner is now saying that he WON'T QUIT unless he personally picks the one to succeed him.
1 posted on 07/07/2026 12:55:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Horst Wessel was a pimp. He’d fit right in with the modern Democrat Party.


2 posted on 07/07/2026 12:56:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: PJ-Comix

What?? The Atlantic is now allowing sane people to write for them?


3 posted on 07/07/2026 1:05:27 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: PJ-Comix

That’s not exactly how our Republic is supposed to work. But since when does that matter.


4 posted on 07/07/2026 1:06:16 PM PDT by albie
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To: PJ-Comix

I wonder if he’s got dirt on other Blue Maineiacs.


5 posted on 07/07/2026 1:09:43 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: PJ-Comix; Republican Wildcat; BenLurkin

Just to summarize Platner’s scandals that Democrats were totally ok with:
Libs of Tik Tok ^ | 7/6/2026
Posted on 7/6/2026, 7:34:11 PM by Republican Wildcat

Just to summarize Platner’s scandals that Democrats were totally ok with:

- nazi tattoo

- lied repeatedly about nazi tattoo

- said he would rape people

- sexted with women while married

- bragged about drawing penises in porta potties

- praised islamic terrorists

- said he’s a communist

- joined an app known to be used by predators to contact minors

- sexual assault allegations

But now they decided it’s too much. All the above was totally fine though


6 posted on 07/07/2026 1:11:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: PJ-Comix

Backpeddaling


7 posted on 07/07/2026 1:12:14 PM PDT by Fledermaus (United States of America : Born July 4, 1776. Died June 30, 2026.)
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- sexted with women while married

You can't be serious about that one. That's almost a requirement for a Senator.

8 posted on 07/07/2026 1:17:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: PJ-Comix

‘ but beyond that, doesn’t believe voters care about detailed proposals’

The truth is finally verbalized. They think the voters are shallow and ignorant and really care little beyond appearances and talking points. Perhaps they’ve correctly gauged the typical ME voter?


9 posted on 07/07/2026 1:20:46 PM PDT by 556x45
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Dems are good at 1 thing and that is opposition research, trust me, if you took a piss in a sandbox when you were 3 they know it and will use it..They know EVERYTHING about Platner, from the Nazi tattoo, to whacking off watching Oct 7th massacre videos, to laughing at a teenage girl who tried to kill herself, on down the line..they knew EVERYTHING yet they went with him and defended him, why? Simple, his agenda is their agenda, they could give a rats ass about women, they ONLY care about POWER..they use women and women are stupid enough to vote for these morons..so when they needed it, they told this accuser “OK today is the day go on CNN and do your thing” and she did, but dont expect Adolf Jr to go into the good night


10 posted on 07/07/2026 1:28:37 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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My grandfather was head rigger at Ingalls shipyard in Missippii where they built ships for ww2. He was always drunk and shipyard onwner knew it.

“He does a better job drunk than anyone else could sober.”


11 posted on 07/07/2026 1:30:24 PM PDT by Veto! ((Whatever it is, I'm against it))
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On the heels of Atlantic magazine's prominent writer Jonathan Chait panicking about communists taking over the Democrat party...

Not a sentence I ever thought I'd see...

12 posted on 07/07/2026 1:37:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (The good thing about Commie Revolutions is they kill useful idiots first... Bye bye Harvard)
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To: 556x45

Exactly so. I forget the name of the genius group that dug him up. The theory on him was come up with a man who isn’t effeminate, is a veteran, and can mouth the talking points du jour, and push him past the idiot democrat electorate. It worked, too, since he crushed the primary. The lesson for the evil bastards who orchestrated this debacle is you have to exercise at least a little more care in making sure the candidate’s baggage isn’t just a little too heavy


13 posted on 07/07/2026 1:41:52 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Incredibly, Platner is the perfect embodiment of what the Democrats believe MAGA republicans regard as real masculinity - a PTSD-afflicted veteran with a bloodthirsty streak, a “gun nut”, a dumb slob who works with his hands (”oyster farmer”), a goonish sex addict who thinks rape is A-OK, a troglodyte with a beard and a Nazi tattoo, the whole package. This ludicrous caricature of a man is the Democrats’ idea of the perfect instrument to hoodwink straight white he-men into jumping off the Trump train and voting for their fake candidate. Hard to imagine anything more insulting, but that’s their playbook.


14 posted on 07/07/2026 1:43:59 PM PDT by Orosius
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See my No. 13. You make the same point but put much better. Thanks


15 posted on 07/07/2026 2:19:07 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Veto!

“He does a better job drunk than anyone else could sober.”

Yes, that is a real phenomenon. I know a 70-year-old roofer like that!


16 posted on 07/07/2026 2:24:00 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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“. . .and [Planter] speaking directly to the camera in a muddy sweatshirt about how the oligarchy had screwed their beloved state.”

The Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the legislature, and all the major offices in state government.
Is Platner saying that it is fellow Democrats who have screwed the state of Maine?


17 posted on 07/07/2026 2:38:24 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Yes!!!!

He must be holding out for some $$$$$.


18 posted on 07/07/2026 5:10:13 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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Per the NY Post, “The truth is [Platner] was discovered and coached by a pair of Ivy League-educated radical Democratic Socialists, replicating a playbook they’ve used in Nebraska and Iowa: Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan. Moraff and Fan are Democratic Socialists of America, who aim to radically overhaul the Democratic Party.”

Source:
https://nypost.com/2026/06/05/us-news/meet-the-champagne-socialist-duo-who-groomed-rich-kid-graham-platner-into-working-class-candidate/

Platner is the Senatorial version of “The Monkeys”, a product of a casting call. No offense intended to The Monkeys who played their parts well and weren’t rapist scum. Platner’s a manufactured product without any quality control, whose “best sell by” date has passed. Let’s hope he burns the Dems by refusing to drop out before July 13.


19 posted on 07/07/2026 5:57:57 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Chewbarkah

Thanks. That’s the article I was thinking of. F’in vermin


20 posted on 07/07/2026 9:03:37 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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