Graham Platner has traversed a long and unlikely road to become the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Maine. Can he beat longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins and live up to the promise of his firebrand populist campaign?
Sad to think that the economy has gotten so bad that his parents who both worked normal ass professional jobs are considered blue bloods now. Back in my day we called that middle class.
Interesting how many billionaires are pouring cash into spreading any and all kinds of bullshit about this guy. The more they spend the better I feel about him.
To be specific: his parents are a lawyer, and an owner of multiple restaurants. Since when did owning multiple businesses become a normal ass professional job?
So was this restaurant a national chain? His mom owned a business in an industry with famously slim margins and that’s supposed to fail him in some purity test? His parents aren’t venture capitalists, bankers, politicians, technocrats, or corporate billionaires. Anyone who has to work to live is working class. This idea that he has to be “poor enough” and “low class enough” is such bullshit. If his parents were homeless junkies you can bet it would be spun just as negatively. You got anything to say about the actual shit he’s running on?
Guess we have different definitions of being rich, clearly. I don’t begrudge people who can afford a vacation or a nice fridge when billionaires are flying their private jets to their seventeenth home and their yachts have yachts. Graham owns a boat too, how bougie!
If you can send your son to a 12k a year prep school, I consider you rich. If you can donate 50k to democrats, I consider you rich. Can you do that? I can’t.
He went there for three months and it was on a scholarship. Enough with the fake outrage about his " working class creds". He is a harbourmaster and and works on his boat. That is a working class guy.
Maybe I’m getting old but these things used to be something the middle class could afford. Sending your kid to a 12k a year school was something a middle class family could do 30 years ago. Not even upper middle, upper middle would be going to the 40k a year school or whatever. Middle class used to mean going to another state for a week during summer vacation, staying in a hotel and visiting a theme park, or road trips to a national park in your (own!) RV. Being able to put a new bathroom in on your 3 bed house in suburbia, or sending the kids to summer camp. If that sounds rich to you then where do you think that wealth went? Billionaires have been bleeding people so dry that a nice little treat or maybe a splurge for most college educated folks from 30 years ago sounds like some impossible luxury today apparently.
Sad to think that the economy has gotten so bad that his parents who both worked normal ass professional jobs are considered blue bloods now. Back in my day we called that middle class.
Interesting how many billionaires are pouring cash into spreading any and all kinds of bullshit about this guy. The more they spend the better I feel about him.
To be specific: his parents are a lawyer, and an owner of multiple restaurants. Since when did owning multiple businesses become a normal ass professional job?
So was this restaurant a national chain? His mom owned a business in an industry with famously slim margins and that’s supposed to fail him in some purity test? His parents aren’t venture capitalists, bankers, politicians, technocrats, or corporate billionaires. Anyone who has to work to live is working class. This idea that he has to be “poor enough” and “low class enough” is such bullshit. If his parents were homeless junkies you can bet it would be spun just as negatively. You got anything to say about the actual shit he’s running on?
Businesses. Plural. No shame in being rich; let’s not lie on his behalf.
Guess we have different definitions of being rich, clearly. I don’t begrudge people who can afford a vacation or a nice fridge when billionaires are flying their private jets to their seventeenth home and their yachts have yachts. Graham owns a boat too, how bougie!
If you can send your son to a 12k a year prep school, I consider you rich. If you can donate 50k to democrats, I consider you rich. Can you do that? I can’t.
He went there for three months and it was on a scholarship. Enough with the fake outrage about his " working class creds". He is a harbourmaster and and works on his boat. That is a working class guy.
He told people he joined the army to kill people because he’s a psycho chud
Maybe I’m getting old but these things used to be something the middle class could afford. Sending your kid to a 12k a year school was something a middle class family could do 30 years ago. Not even upper middle, upper middle would be going to the 40k a year school or whatever. Middle class used to mean going to another state for a week during summer vacation, staying in a hotel and visiting a theme park, or road trips to a national park in your (own!) RV. Being able to put a new bathroom in on your 3 bed house in suburbia, or sending the kids to summer camp. If that sounds rich to you then where do you think that wealth went? Billionaires have been bleeding people so dry that a nice little treat or maybe a splurge for most college educated folks from 30 years ago sounds like some impossible luxury today apparently.