Platner, Collins, VERU, And An Important (Overlooked) Step On The Road to Autocracy June 7, 2026June 6, 2026 SUSAN COLLINS : BRETT CAVANAUGH More on the Graham Platner race here. Must-watch if you’re undecided (7 minutes). We’re gonna win. YOUR PLATNER RESPONSES At one extreme and the other: Clare D.: Have you seen Democrats can do better than Graham Platner. They must demand he drop out. It’s pretty devastating. Peter S.: I am so pissed at Democrats attacking him when Trump just brushed it off as locker room talk about saying on tape he would just “Grab em by the pussy”, dozens of women accusing him of harassment or worse, raping his first wife, —-ing a porn star while Melania was pregnant and paying her hundreds of thousands in hush money, walking in on teen girl pageant contestants naked on purpose and being mentioned more than any other person in the Epstein files who’s now desperately burying the files, and distracting from it by starting a war. None of that was disqualifying and yet they’re going to crucify Platner for consensual sext messages with adult women? He should make this very point. This is the same disgraceful treatment they gave the great Al Franken. Kirsten Gillibrand [cannot be forgiven] for what she did to Al. And any Dem who attacks Platner is almost as bad. Granted, Platner’s peccadillos are worse than the absolute NOTHING Al did, but still on a scale of Al’s being a 1 and Trump’s being 100, Platner is maybe a 5. Rally around him. He’s not a perfectly groomed lifetime striver for political office but what he says and believes and how he expresses himself like a real person is exactly what the Democratic Party needs more of in spades. VERU The stock that some of us first bought around $5.40 opened at $2.18 Thursday, traded as high as $7.33 on news that Veru had signed a deal with Novo Nordisk — to test the effect of taking its drug enobosarm alongside Wegovy — and closed the week (in after-hours trading) at $3.15. The hope is that anyone taking weight -loss drugs like Wegovy may one day want to take enobosarm as well to reduce the loss of muscle mass. It could be huge — or just fade away. Did I mention that this is a stock to buy only with money you can truly afford to lose? BONUS Donald Trump just tripled the size of his personal army inside government. It was illegal.