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    NY Times podcast hit him with a bunch of such questions. He makes $60,000/year including his wife’s income. The leg up he had is his father was a small town lawyer and helped him buy a house back in 2017, though only as a loan. He also gets healthcare through the VA. Compare that to Susan Collin’s net worth of over $4 million, which is twice the median net worth of senators.

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    Collins, New England’s lone federally elected Republican, is in the fight of her political life against the Democratic progressive upstart candidate Graham Platner. Platner, an oyster farmer and military veteran, has seized on anger directed at President Donald Trump and anti-establishment animus to rocket to the Democratic nomination — forcing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to abandon her own Senate campaign within a matter of months. His yard signs dot the state’s backroads and neighborhoods, and he leads in almost every head-to-head poll against Collins.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/maine-graham-platner-susan-collins-senate-congress.html

    Well, that’s all I need to know. Support Trump? Fuck off. I ended my relationship with my mother over her support of that dirtbag. The first time, I couldn’t figure out why she didn’t know he was a liar. After ten years, she clearly doesn’t care. She’s a bad person. So is this lady.

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    No idea who he was before his conversation with Jon Stewart. Interesting fellow and better than Collins

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    The guy whose parents paid for him to go backpacking in Europe and then joined the military because he wanted to kill brown people for fun was not a “rich kid”?

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      To my understanding the ‘nazi’ tattoo is an unfortunate mistake, young marine goes to tattoo shop and selects a ‘cool looking’ skull and crossed bones, unaware that specific version of skull and crossed bones is tied to the Nazis. Based on actions since then, even before running, he is fram from a Nazi.

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        Exactly, he probably didn’t even choose that tattoo. It sounded like a group thing and was more about bonding with the group of marines he had served with. I suspect he didn’t understand the political significance of it. People need to take a chill pill and look beyond this. Listen to what he actually says. There are now two podcasts with long interviews with the guy. It’s not hard to find out what he thinks.

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        I’ve heard similar stories many, many times. Nearly every time, it turns out the guy is just a POS.

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          Maybe try listening to the guy. He has had interviews on Jon Stewart’s podcast and the NY Times podcast. There is a reason people are gonna vote for him. Ask yourself why you’re out of the loop on that and just towing the line for the dem establishment with boring cheap shot platitudes instead.

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            Sorry, I don’t really care to peel back the layers of someone with a Nazi tattoo. That’s is literally all I need to know about them.