Of course, just like the Hannity operative that smeared Al Franken, allowing Schumer to kick him out of the Senate, and clear the decks for his partner Gillibrand’s presidential bid. Which flamed out in about 2 weeks because everyone knew what a backstabbing bitch she was, killing any chance she ever had.
Shocker.
[Platner’s accuser Lyndsey Fitfield’s] biography at her most recent role says that she loves “motherhood, marriage, home birth, raw milk—but also Botox & Chick-fil-A,” and she dislikes, "Facebook groups for moms, gentle parenting, mommy bloggers.
This is exactly the kind of person you’d expect to found a group like Ladies for Kavanaugh, which Fitfield admitted at the time was devoted solely to discreditting Christine Blasey Ford’s (very credible) rape allegations against the then-nominee.
Ladies for Kavanaugh
That’s straight up gross. Hopefully she’s just a drunk and not, like, dangerously unmedicated.
If she’s actually a mom I feel bad for her kids. Not as bad as I feel for Charlie Kirk’s kids, but still pretty bad.
Fifield, 40, graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature from Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama. She has spent more than a decade working in Washington, D.C., in a range of policy and communications roles.
In 2023, she briefly served as a digital marketing director for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley for two months. Haley, the former South Carolina governor, ran for president against Donald Trump in the 2024 electionbefore dropping out in March.
Fifield was the digital marketing director for Stand for America, an advocacy group founded by Haley that “promotes freedom at home and strength abroad.”
Her longest stint, according to her LinkedIn, was at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that later authored Project 2025, a conservative playbook for the Trump administration. She served as a social media manager at the think tank for over six years, from September 2015 to April 2022.
Prior to that, she worked at another think tank, the American Action Forum, which identifies as a “center-right think tank” focused on domestic economy policy.
Fifield was also a co-host of The LadyBrains, a Ricochet podcast alongside other female conservative commentators, which stopped airing in late 2021.
Boofing
I don’t think this will have much impact on this race honestly. Nobody’s shocked that he’s horny or curses or was eager to be a badass killer marine when he was a kid.
Just like how Trump was unaffected by being a rapist in his races, the people who liked him liked that about him.
So are the accusations false? Or is this just naked ad hominem.
We can’t really know because the accuser has literally spent her career playing political dirty tricks for the Republican Party. And if she really has a concern about abuse of women, why the hell did she found a group for women supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court?
There is also some discussion on Reddit that she actually provided the talking points for the speech Susan Collins gave to justify her vote for Kavanaugh. If that’s true, it’s a huge conflict of interest.
Edit: confirmed here that her dark money political group contributed to the talking points that Susan Collins says she used in her speech justifying her vote for Kavanaugh.
Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV, and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!”
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/06/ny-times-omits-minor-detail-platnet-hit
Additionally, the NY times did not appear to be able to even verify the accusations. So, why print them if this was not just a political hit job for the headline?
Either say you think the accusations are false or don’t, all of these character attacks are just pure ad hominem in the most literal sense
You asked if it is not true or just an ad hominem. They listed why you might suspect it to not be true, but that we can’t know for sure (just as you can’t disprove a god, because you can’t prove that something that doesn’t exist doesn’t exist). You’re then angry at them about that? Fuck right off. You’re a dishonest person engaging in a bad faith discussion. Everything they said is relevant to why you’d question their authenticity.
An ad hominem fallacy would be saying she’s a bad person in a way that does not materially effect the discussion. It is to short circuit it and make it so you don’t have to engage the facts. While this might be an ad hominem, it isn’t fallacious. These are materially relevant. It’s not just saying she’s evil, which she could still be telling the truth regardless. It’s saying she’s previously participated in actions that you’d expect from someone who would make something like this up.
It’s like if someone drinks all the alcohol, then a drunk alcoholic claims it isn’t them. Bringing up the fact that they’re drunk and an alcoholic isn’t fallacious. Sure, it doesn’t prove they drank it, which will probably be impossible, it does provide a reason to be suspicious of them.
Bro is a known ragebaiter.
You don’t think it’s at all relevant that the accuser works in politics on the other side, is a hypocrite on matters of abuse, and worked to support Platner’s political opponent?
Knowing that Republican PACs are spending $50 million on the race, I have a really hard time believing it. This is in their book of tricks.
Also, am I going to abandon Platner and let a Senator who enables a literal pedophile in the White House win over these rumors? No.
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It’s pretty much standard issue politician.
99.99999%* of people chasing positions of power are pieces of shit. It’s like a requirement apparently…
*Citation needed
I feel like government roles need to just go to random citizens each year, similar to jury duty.
Sure we will end up with some idiots in important roles but that wouldn’t be new and at least we will also get decent people who actually would give a fuck.
I am sure there would be numerous issues but I bet it would be better than how things go now.
I too have had this thought
Ugh hes going to get cooked isnt he. Seems like its a constant slew of bad news with this guy. But hes still a saint compared to any republican.
Did anyone think a POS with nazi tattoo’s would ‘date’ progressive women?
So why were they together if their values were so different?
You’ve never outgrown ideals you had as a kid?
A kid? This is a middle aged man. The accusations date back to a time a decade ago. He was 31.
Fine, you’ve never changed your mind with a decade of extra experience?
Not that drastically at this mature an age. I mean, if he truly did, then fine, but I’m having a hard time buying it. Too much lived experience.
I left the religion (cult) I was raised in in my 30s. That’s a change in my whole outlook and ideology, from door to door preaching about an old book which claims to be about love despite also saying what to hate (and other stuff like support of slavery, though they didn’t preach that part much) to being someone who now fully supports many of the things that old book condemned. Lost all my friends, and parts of my family think I’m now going down wrong path etc.
Just because you can’t doesn’t mean others can’t. As long as you’re willing to examine your life and change things you used to believe when presented with new evidence, that can change a lot about you. While I never really bought into the hate side from the start, it took some effort to stop thinking a vengeful God in the sky was going to punish me for having doubts. I finally came across something that expanded one of those pushed down doubts and was able to shake that, and realize that even what I thought was me being sorta open minded was still just wrong.
If you get to that point in life, it could appear to some that you’ve completely changed, and it could be surprising.
That’s an extremely unique circumstance that Graham Platner was not under.
I don’t see how you can expect a whole society to change if you can’t accept individuals can.
This is like sage af wisdom. Saving for later!
Not that drastically at this mature an age.
Thats sad.
lol, sure.
Ossification of identity is always sad.
She worked for the Heritage Foundation and founded the pro-Kavanaugh group after they dated
Fifield, who dated Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015 while they were living in the Washington
In 2014, she became digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC focused on House races.
Digital director seems to be a senior position so I am assuming she was involved somehow before that,
but I haven’t seen anything confirming that.Edit:
served as the communications director for Republican candidate Ray McKinney in Georgia.
McKinney ran for congress in Georgia in 2010.
And so you believe HER values changed, not his?
Keep trying lol.
Lol. I really don’t have any more words for this.
