Accused rapist Graham Platner was ripped aside on social media Wednesday over his whiny, rambling video message saying the tip of his Senate bid in Maine and blaming everybody however himself.
Platner’s pathetic 11-minute-long rant – wherein he blamed the “company media,” the “political institution” and even his assist for “Medicare for all” as causes for the downfall of his scandal-scarred marketing campaign – was panned as useless and “narcissistic” by X customers uninterested in the previous oyster farmer’s antics.
“His marketing campaign actually ended with a whimper,” conservative commentator Ryan James Girdusky mentioned of Platner’s self-pitying monologue.
The failed candidate uploaded the “woe is me” clip saying his withdrawal after a girl he beforehand dated, Jenny Racicot, publicly alleged that he drunkenly raped her at her Maine residence in 2021 regardless of her repeated pleas to cease. He denied the allegation.
“This video is extra embarrassing than the Nazi tattoo,” Emily Zanotti, a pal of 1 Platner’s exes accusing him of misconduct, tweeted.
“Graham Platner proclaims the true sufferer in all of that is Graham Platner,” right-wing influencer Western Lensman posted on X. “Saved you 11 minutes.”
“TLDR: Marketing campaign suspended and a complete bunch of bluster,” learn a put up from the Chicks on the Proper X account.
One other social media person joked Platner was “attempting to submit this for documentary quick on the Oscars.”
“Coincidentally, 11 minutes is how lengthy it might take to get a PBR on the Tune Inn when Platner was working as a result of he’d be jawing somebody on the different finish of the bar who was doing a gradual step away,” Doug Heye mentioned of the previous DC bartender’s long-winded video.
The failed candidate’s lack of self-awareness all through the video, in addition to his insistence that his ex-girlfriend was mendacity about being raped by him, left many surprised and puzzled.
“It’s not the institution’s fault that your ex lover accused you of raping her,” political advisor Micah Erfan famous.
“Narcissistic sociopath,” conservative radio discuss present host Larry O’Connor mentioned in response to Platner’s video.
Hutch, a well-liked lefty streamer, known as Platner a “piece of s–t manipulator conman” after listening to his exit speech.
“He entered the stage mendacity, and he leaves the stage mendacity. He’s a extremely unhealthy man,” former Republican congressman Joe Walsh tweeted.
“He’s delusional sufficient to assume it is a second to protect political capital and sermonize as a self-styled chief moderately than his closing alternative to just accept ethical culpability for the disaster he has created along with his poor judgment, on the very least. A coward to the very finish,” learn one other social media person’s blistering criticism.
Veteran political columnist Ed Morrissey described the video as “essentially the most smug show I’ve seen in a protracted whereas.”
“He didn’t lead a motion; he answered a casting name. His total narrative has been a lie. And he has the nerve to solid himself because the sufferer right here,” Morrissey argued.
Platner bemoaning that “we dwell in a political system that isn’t constructed for regular individuals” additionally rankled X customers.
“Idk dude, most conventional individuals aren’t accused of repeated sexual misconduct and most conventional individuals don’t get Nazi tattoos,” Mission Liberal board member Joshua Reed Eakle posted.
“’The institution framed me for rape as a result of I assist Medicare For All’ is perhaps the craziest factor this man’s mentioned but,” journalist Tim Rice wrote.
Former Obama marketing campaign adviser David Axelrod argued, “Platner constructed an admirable motion. However there was nothing admirable about the way in which he mentioned goodbye.”
