Democrats Are Really Screwed Now - "The Maine Senate race just got a lot more interesting — and a lot more embarrassing for the Democratic Party. Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for the U.S. Senate, citing a lack of financial resources after falling further and further behind political newcomer Graham Platner in both polls and fundraising. Her exit leaves Democrats in an uncomfortable spot: their presumptive nominee is a self-described communist with a Nazi tattoo and a taste for racism and misogyny... Platner has amassed a record so toxic that Republicans are practically giddy. The RNC wasted no time. "In November Susan Collins, a proven leader with an indisputable record of delivering for Maine, will face a Nazi sympathizing self-proclaimed communist with a record of hate-mongering and dishonesty," RNC spokesperson Kristen Cianci said. "It's safe to say we are confident going into Election Day." It's hard to argue with that assessment. Platner's past comments are disqualifying by any reasonable standard. He said women who are raped deserve it. He endorsed the racist stereotype that black people don't tip. He called white, rural Mainers stupid. He used slurs like “f*g” and used “gay” as a pejorative. He praised Hamas terrorists who murdered Jews, defended urinating on corpses, called all cops "bastards," referred to Jesus as a "zombie" and the Virgin Mary as a "skank," and openly argued that political violence is sometimes necessary. That's not a candidate with baggage. That's a candidate who is the baggage. And the Democrats own him now. And of course, there's the tattoo — a totenkopf, the skull-and-crossbones emblem worn by Hitler's SS and closely associated with Nazi death squads. Platner apparently called it "my totenkopf" for years. When the scrutiny finally landed, he scrambled to cover it rather than remove it, citing limited options in rural Maine. His explanation for why he got the tattoo in the first place was somehow even worse than the tattoo itself. "When I left the military, I came out of a hyper-masculine, hyper-violent place. I did four tours in the infantry. We have a crude sense of humor in the infantry. We certainly have a, I would say, narrow view of a lot of topics, and that colored my opinions and my beliefs," Platner asserted. Blaming the United States military — the institution that defeated Nazi Germany — for inspiring a Nazi tattoo takes a special kind of audacity. That's not all. Platner lied about Washington, D.C., consultants running his campaign and reportedly trained an Antifa-style militia. He called himself an "Antifa supersoldier" — a distinction that stings a bit more now that the Trump administration has designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. And yet here Democrats are. Mills notably did not endorse Platner on her way out the door. Who will? Every Democrat who endorses Platner endorses his bigotry… his antisemitism… his misogyny… his homophobia. Republicans couldn't have drawn this up better if they tried. And when you consider everything that's already surfaced about Graham Platner, the real question isn't whether Democrats are screwed — it's how much worse it gets before November."
Cynical Publius on X - "Graham Platner does not merely have a "Nazi tattoo." It's the worst possible Nazi tattoo. It's the Death's Head "Totenkopf," which was the official symbol of the SS units who ran the death camps. It is not possible to have a more wildly evil and antisemitic tattoo than this. So of course Democrats want him to be a U.S. Senator."
Good reminder that when left wingers go on about "fascism" and "Nazis", they just mean anyone opposing the left wing agenda. The "punch a Nazi" crowd just want to attack anyone they disagree with, when they support one of the closest things to a Nazi that exists today
Lucythegreat on X - "The Graham Platner tattoo controversy is not about youthful mistakes. It is about the specificity of the Totenkopf. This is not the widely recognized swastika, it is the specific insignia of the SS units that ran the Nazi death camps. This is the symbol of the executioners. This is the symbol of the men that murdered 10 million men, women, and children. These men murdered the babies. For a self proclaimed military history enthusiast to wear the literal badge of Holocaust executioners for 20 years shows a level of understanding and admiration that cannot be explained away. People tattoo on their body WHO THEY ARE and WHAT THEY LOVE. The Democrats are so desperate to flip a Maine Senate seat that they have abandoned every moral red line they once claimed to hold. They have proven that winning at any cost is their only conviction and the Holocaust is just a cheap political prop to be weaponized only against their opponents. This is not just a betrayal of their voters. It is a total moral collapse."
Clear proof that Donald Trump is a Nazi and a fascist, which is why you need to Vote Blue, No Matter Who!
Melissa Steinberg Brodsky | Facebook - "The Senate Minority Leader just endorsed a man who covered up a Nazi tattoo rather than remove it. A senator is defending him by citing PTSD. And the leading fundraiser in a New Jersey congressional primary testified in federal court that the man he’d spent years following around might have talked about “conquering the land of the infidels,” and yes, the weekend conference “wasn’t a commerce thing.” None of this ended anyone’s campaign. None of it cost anyone an endorsement. That’s what I want to talk about. Where exactly is the line? I’m asking because I genuinely want to know. Graham Platner has all but locked up the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine. He’s been running with a Totenkopf tattoo on his chest. The Totenkopf is the skull-and-crossbones insignia of the SS units that ran Nazi concentration camps. When the story broke, Platner said he didn’t know the symbol’s origins. Then a 2019 social media post surfaced showing he’d used the word “totenkopf” correctly in context. He knew exactly what it was. He didn’t have the tattoo removed. He had it covered up. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has since endorsed him. Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the tattoo was probably PTSD. That same Van Hollen also endorsed Chris Rabb for Congress in Pennsylvania. Rabb is a five-term state representative who, at a January 2026 candidates forum, said “f— AIPAC” out loud and called the organization “racist.” In December, his campaign Instagram account shared a post calling the Bondi Beach massacre a Zionist false flag. The massacre happened on December 14 during a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. A father and his adult son shot and killed 14 Jewish people. Australian authorities said the attackers were motivated by Islamic State ideology. The post published to Rabb’s campaign account read that the gunmen “were likely Zionists themselves.” Rabb blamed a former staffer. He didn’t drop out. He’s running with endorsements from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamie Raskin, Van Hollen, Maxwell Frost, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, after campaigning alongside Hasan Piker, the streamer who has said on the record that Hamas is “a thousand times better” than Israel and that he would “vote for Hamas” over the Israeli government. In New Jersey, the leading fundraiser in a 13-candidate Democratic congressional primary is a plastic surgeon named Adam Hamawy. What he did with his time is a matter of federal court record. By his own testimony, Hamawy met Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman at a middle school forum in New Jersey in 1991, then accompanied the sheikh to mosques, visited him at home, and took a 13-hour van ride with him to a conference in Detroit. The conference was called “Towards a Global Islamic Economy.” When a federal prosecutor asked Hamawy on the stand whether it was actually about commerce, he said no. When asked whether Abdel-Rahman spoke about “conquering the land of the infidels,” Hamawy said, “He might have, yes.” He told the court he heard the word “jihad” more than once that weekend. The Blind Sheikh, whose followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and died in federal prison in 2017. Hamawy testified for the defense. He’s raised more than $540,000 in the current race, leads every other candidate in fundraising, and is backed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, CAIR’s political arm, and a PAC funded largely by donors to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Before becoming mayor of New York City, Mamdani was asked twice, point blank whether he would condemn the phrases “from the river to the sea” and “globalize the intifada.” Twice he wouldn’t. He won the Democratic primary by 80,000 votes and took office on January 1, 2026. On day one, he revoked the city’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism and allowed city employees to participate in the BDS movement. Jewish hate crimes in New York City rose from 11 in February 2025 to 31 in February 2026. The ADL called the increase “staggering.” The people being positioned to run Democratic foreign policy for 2028 are being picked right now. National Security Action, the group co-founded by Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes that helped staff the Biden administration and is building the bench for the next one, named Maher Bitar its new director this week. At Georgetown, Bitar was an executive board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, served as a principal organizer of a 2006 BDS conference on campus, appeared in the university yearbook doing a dance in front of a banner reading “Divest from Israeli Apartheid,” and ran a conference session on how to infiltrate Christian churches to build support for the boycott movement. A former senior Biden foreign policy official told the Washington Free Beacon that Bitar was “easily the most antagonistic to Israel” of any senior White House adviser and worked quietly to undermine Biden’s own stated positions after October 7. That’s who Jake Sullivan handed the keys to. I don’t think every registered Democrat is responsible for every candidate running under their party’s name. Primaries are chaotic and not always a clean picture of where a party is headed. But the institutional response to all of this has been silence, endorsements, and PTSD explanations. Van Hollen endorsed Rabb after the Bondi Beach post and defended Platner’s Nazi tattoo in the same week. Schumer lined up behind Platner the moment his opponent dropped out. AOC is on the trail with Rabb. Ilhan Omar is backing a man who testified for the Blind Sheikh. The structure that’s supposed to push back on this isn’t pushing back. It’s opening doors. Seth Mandel wrote in Commentary this week that there won’t be a fight for the party. There will just be a handoff, and the old guard is doing the handing. He’s right. Democrats, how are you feeling about this? Because if this doesn’t cement it for you, it’s put it in the ground, buried it, and threw up a headstone for me. The question is whether you’re going to stand over the grave or help dig it."
Catturd ™ on X - "The party who calls you a Nazi, Hitler, racist, a Putin puppet, a pedo protector, a white supremacist, and every name in the book 24/7 - wants you to know that calling Michelle Obama, a man is a bridge too far."
Périférret on X - "You forgot the part where they also just nominated Graham Platner in Maine. A literal nazi sympathizer with a nazi tattoo and an ex who claims he “got the tattoo as a reminder that America is his enemy”"
Exclusive | Graham Platner cheated on fiancée, bragged about Nazi tattoo: ex-girlfriend - "Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner kept his hideous Nazi tattoo to remind himself “the US was the evil bad guy overseas,” according to an ex-girlfriend with whom he cheated on his fiancée in 2021. The left-wing streamer, who spoke to The Post, is the second woman to say that Platner knew about the fascist origin of his Totenkopf skull and crossbones tattoo — despite his claims that he didn’t realize it was a Third Reich symbol until last fall. Her assertions were backed up by texts reviewed by The Post that she’d sent to her mom in September 2025 in which she blasted him for his “Nazi tattoo,” “small d—k” and claims that he tarnished her reputation by using her to step out on his fiancée. The woman also offered allegations Platner cheated on a second partner before his current wife — a now-ex-fiancée he was engaged to around that time. “As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas,” she recounted... the woman publicly shared screenshots of private messages where she described the Nazi tattoo. The messages to her mother were dated Sept. 26, 2025 — before his tattoo was publicly known. “Better not take a peek at the Nazi tattoo on his chest,” she wrote in another message to a pal... She also included a screenshot of an image of Platner on a boat showing off oysters dated June 15, 2021, in Bar Harbor, Maine, not far from his hometown... the woman had multiple posts on social media alluding to a dalliance with “Graham” during that time period. Last October, she posted that “Graham Platner’s a piece of s–t but not because he’s a communist.”... Multiple sources confirmed that Platner had a previous fiancée before getting married to Amy Gertner in 2023, whom he allegedly cheated on via sexting in a bombshell story that broke last month... The whistleblower told The Post she never wanted to come forward with her story but became concerned by what she saw as Platner’s lying to the people of Maine about his tattoo, and a pattern of behavior toward women she saw in recent news reports... Critically, she is not the first woman to have screenshots of private messages describing the tattoo before it became publicly known last October that he had ink on his chest resembling a Totenkopf or “Death’s Head” symbol used by the Schutzstaffel or SS. Earlier this month, another former flame of Platner’s, Lyndsey Fifield, told The New York Times that he was lying when he claimed to be unaware of the Nazi tattoo, recounting how he’d call it “my Totenkopf.” “I would never have known what that was,” she told the outlet. “He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.” The outlet reviewed messages from Fifield last summer where she told friends that he “has a Nazi tattoo on his chest.” She said he told her he got it because “they were like a death unit, they were killers” and he saw parallels to the Nazi SS. Platner has been emphatic that he didn’t know the skull and crossbones tattoo resembled Nazi imagery."
Left wingers are still coping that he didn't know what it was and/or that he owned up to his mistake so there's nothing wrong with him and/or that the worst he did was cheat on his partner, so that's not relevant to politics. Of course, lying when you're a left winger is a feature, not a bug
Graham Platner cheated on fiancée and bragged Nazi tattoo was reminder ‘US was the evil bad guy’ : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "She's about to find out that the folks who've been chanting "Believe Women" won't believe her."
Laura Loomer on X - "Tucker Carlson came out in support of Graham Platner. He said, “I certainly appreciate his foreign policy views.” Tucker lives in Maine where Platner is the Democrat nominee for US Senate. Source tells me Tucker is already in communication with Platner and he will be on Tucker’s show in the near future. Tucker claims his criticism is restricted to Israel but he admires the man with a Nazi tattoo and is likely going to help him help the Democrats take back the Senate. Everyone who defends Tucker in the GOP should be ostracized and disqualified from running for office in 2028 on the Presidential ticket."
AP on X - "If you ever wondered how countries folded so quickly under Hitler, wonder no more. Just watch this mentality. This guy is an anti-white communist who stands for everything conservatives and religious people claim to oppose, yet some people still defend him because he hates Jews. In their minds, that alone makes him tolerable. They don’t care that if a hundred people like him were elected, Christians, conservatives, and white people would eventually find themselves in the crosshairs too. The fact that he dislikes Jews, and even had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, is enough for them to look the other way. This is how people sleepwalk into disaster. They become so consumed by their hatred of one group that they stop caring about everything else. They excuse things they would never excuse under any other circumstance. That is how Hitler took Europe. Because many people who eventually suffered under him were willing to ignore what he was because they liked who he targeted first. So no, I’m not going to spend my time on X trying to convince people that Platner hates them too. They’ll find out for themselves soon enough."
Meme - Lee Kuan Yimby: "Emma Vigeland, one of the biggest defenders of Graham Platner right now condemned Al Franken and celebrated him having to resign over the most trivial thing ever. Incredible."
Emma Vigeland: "Hey, people: Not sure what Al Franken being a "Hillary supporter" or corporatist shill" has anything to do with the accusations against him Here's a thought: Let's focus on how his alleged victim must be feeling instead of spinning this to square with your political beliefs"
Emma Vigeland: "As of now, six Senate Democrats have said that Al Franken should resign -- Gillibrand, Hirono, McCaskill, Hassan, Murray and Harris. All women."
Emma Vigeland: "Hillary Clinton donors are chastising @SenGillibrand in public for her strong stance on Al Franken. They are trying to strong-arm her: "Fall inline, or our massive New York donor network isn't going to support you come 2020" It's just gross."
Emma Vigeland @Emmavigeland: "So, unless there's something else coming, the big NYT is that Platner was a bad boyfriend to some women but also a good boyfriend to other women?"
Mariano Desiderio | Facebook - "So Graham Platner is opposed to Israel because of human rights concerns but he thinks we should have a closer relationship with China? Why is human rights not a consideration when discussing China?"
Clearly, anti-Zionists just care deeply about human rights
Jonathan Turley on X - "The View's Sunny Hostin set a new standard for blind partisan rage this week. After declaring Democrat Graham Planter "a liar, a racist, an antisemite...a homophobe," she then declared that she still supports him over a moderate Republican woman."
Marco Foster on X - "Graham Platner: “It’s no surprise to me the establishment media outlets are just gonna run gossip instead of wanting to talk about the things that actually matter in this race which are the material realities Mainers are working with. These people are gonna try to make this race about anything but what’s it’s supposed to be about which is policy. Amy and I have a very loving and very happy marriage. They would very much like to try to rip that apart. They’re gonna come after us in every awful way they possibly can and we’re just gonna keep talking about the fact that the hospitals are closing, childcare facilities are closing, teachers and nurses aren’t paid enough and that everybody down here continues to work harder and longer and get less. The powers that be don’t want us to talk about that so they’re just gonna do gossip instead… What Genevieve McDonald said in the NYT is not true”"
Julie Tsirkin on X - "Graham Platner's campaign confirmed the authenticity of the messages reported by WSJ/NYT, exchanged between his wife and former aide. @NBCNews An official close to the campaign says Platner wasn't denying them here, he was referring to the NYT not having the texts themselves."
David Crockett on X = "Seriously don’t think I’ve ever seen a campaign other than Donald Trump’s that relied on lying to you this much. He says what the New York Times reported is “not true” when his campaign told the paper it was and you can still find his account on the site right now!"
David Crockett on X - "Oh! Look! His campaign had to clean up his stupid lie with another nonsensical lie! (Also the bet that the texts themselves aren’t out there is…not a smart bet.)"
Christina Hoff Sommers on X - "The Graham Platner campaign is imploding. What a mess."
Joe Wrote on X = "To recap:
- Dem and Rep operatives spend the week setting the narrative that Graham Platner is a predator
- Pro-Israel NYT runs a story on Graham Platner
- Done by a pro-Israel reporter
- No SA allegation
- They talk to 6 exes. 3 say he was fine.
- 2 of the remainder say he drank and womanized
- The last is a Conservative activist who protected Brett Kavanaugh
- She claims Platner trapped her in a room
- The NYT reads her diaries, texts, Google Chats, and Facebook messages. Nothing corroborates her story.
- NYT finds a text from the accuser saying she "Would personally campaign for Susan Collins."
This is the most obvious Zionist smear campaign in history."
Comment (elsewhere): "NYT is so pro Israel they are being sued by Israel for making the false claim that Israel trains dogs to rape people."
Terrorism supporters won't be satisfied till they can attack Jews in the streets
Believe Women - unless they threaten the left wing agenda
Graham Platner was woman hater, made twisted rape comments, ex-girlfriends reveal : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Nobody's going to care. "Vote Blue No Matter Who", plus Platner has that kind of toxic charisma that liberal women in particular fall for. "No, baby, I didn't know that was a NAZI tattoo! Also, I'm really intentional about all my tattoos.""
"Ted Bundy had hundreds of women writing him love letters while he was on the death row. Andrew Tate also has dozens of girlfriends. It is always bad guys who are the most romantically successful. Radical feminists would never acknowledge it, because they are what they are."
Vote Blue No Matter Who - even if it's a Nazi. But punch "Nazis" - i.e. anyone who disagrees with the far left
Thread by @lyndseyfifield on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy. I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham. I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past. Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me. But of course he knew it was me. What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out. I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is. But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this. Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate. I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…” But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten. I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough. They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong. One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together. I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists? Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me. Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong. I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was."
Saul Sadka on X - "It is starting to look like people at the New York Times lured in one of Graham Platner’s victims to try to bury the story for him, but were forced to publish something watered down, due to apparent infighting, which is what came out yesterday, in a way that would leave enough grist for bad actors to portray Platner as a victim of a right-wing witch hunt, exactly as happened: “It dawned on me that this really was a set-up all along. The journalists I trusted, who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell, methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.”"
Cynical Publius on X - "You know how in the New Testament, Jesus was always hanging out with the tax collectors? That's because at the time, tax collectors were the lowest form of human life. Absolute filth. Greedy, mendacious, parasitic liars who the broader society rightfully condemned and shunned. Jesus hung out with them to show that God's grace is available to everyone. However, if Jesus were starting his ministry in 2026, he would be hanging out with journalists."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "A certain type of pundit is going to spend all their time the next couple years hand waving that Jews pulling the strings are behind everything. The fact is that Platner is a chaotic trust fund failson and as is the case with such people, his personal life is a mess. Platner’s anti-Zionist oinking is now a generic feature of lib politics that is no longer transgressive and to pretend it is is a tired conceit. The problem with Platner is that they tried to market him as a likable working- class regional authenticity. But the reality is that he’s a back-sheep misfire from an accomplished family who has had schizo politics and an unformed adult life and as is the case with such people they’re less likable when you get a close look at them. Elevating Platner was a failure of Dem politics from the get go and libs have no one to blame for this electoral malpractice besides themselves."
