Libs of TikTok on X - "Just three days ago Platner said there weren’t any more allegations coming out against him. Today a woman accused him of r*pe."
Meme - Susan For San Jacinto City Council: "Don't ever forget."
Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiSho... @KyleKulinski: "Platner could've sexted my mom and I'd still vote for him"
Meme - Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur: "This is what I know for sure about Platner - every legacy media outlet is trying their hardest to make sure he loses. They are investigating every minute and every facet of his life. They never do this for insiders. They despise outsiders who challenge power. The minute a candidate says he's not going to listen to the donors, especially AIPAC, he is set upon by people posing as reporters. They are the attack dogs of the wealthy and powerful people who run this country - and they hate it when their orders are not follwoed. So, no, I don't believe any mainstream media story. I think they are agents of propganda and not real news. And to my knowledge, they haven't investigated a single component of Susan Collins very long and very corrupt life. Because that's precisely the type of corruption that national media loves and wants you to think is normal."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "The sexual assault allegation against Platner is corroborated by messages between the accuser and her therapist and friends years before Platner's run for office. The Nazi tattoo was done in 2007, almost 2 decades before running for office. platn."
Lyndsey Fifield on X - "I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now. It was by design. The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends. I gave them the contact information for five friends. They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc. They simply did not call the other three. I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it. I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked. I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured. As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim. My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate. Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman. Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well. But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”"
Alex Berenson on X - "This may get very ugly for @nytimes. A victim of sexual misconduct (at a minimum) by Graham Platner explains in detail how she provided the Times the evidence it could have used to corroborate her story - and how the Times ignored it This is deep journalistic malfeasance"
Damn fascism, criticising the media!
Jonathan Martin on X - "A cautionary tale here for all the Dems who turned to character assassination to discredit one of multiple women - this is what that tactic got you: “Racicot said she later felt compelled to go public about her experience because the reaction to the Times story was dominated by controversy about another woman, Lyndsey Fifield, who alleged Platner mistreated her and faced attacks because of her ties to the Republican Party”"
Josh Barro on X - "A lot of people owe apologies to Lyndsey Fifield — most notably Sheldon Whitehouse, who dismissed her allegations on the grounds that she worked for “right-wing political operations.”"
Meme - Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle: ""This guy is good on Palestine but bad on raping me. Really torn on this." Truly a woman moment for the ages."
American Kulak @AmericanKulakx: ">she's voting for her rapist"
"Racicot said she was torn over coming forward in part because she agrees with Platner politically. "One of the reasons I didn't come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person," she said. "I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.""
AG on X - "The politico story confirms that the NYT writers had the details of the sexual assault but chose to omit them and instead focus their article overwhelmingly on the claims from LF so that they can just be spun as a partisan attack. Would be interested to see the communication between the Platner camp and NYT before the article was published."
PoIiMath on X - "Here are things that the Platner story has that the Kavanaugh allegations did not have:
1) proof of contact between the accuser and the accused
2) documented allegations from the accuser naming the accused to others *before* the accused rose to the national stage
3) multiple accusers with documented proof of contact and long-standing recognition of abuse
Liberals who are saying "this is just like Kavanaugh" are just reminding everyone of how flimsy the Kavanaugh accusations were They are also letting you know that they don't care about evidence. They will accuse their enemies without any documented evidence. They will protect their own even with mountains of evidence."
Daniel Friedman on X - "Graham Platner is one of the most ridiculous figures to arise in American politics in years. He is bright red like a strawberry with a ridiculous walrus mustache. He has a giant Nazi death’s head tattooed on his chest. He posted on Reddit claiming to have engaged in sex tourism and masturbated in portable toilets. He has multiple accusations of serious sexual misconduct and violence. There are no memes about this man. There are no late night talk show hosts making jokes at his expense. Nobody portrays him on SNL. Consider the way this utterly ridiculous Democratic figure has been treated by the comedy world compared to Republican figures like Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and JD Vance. This is not harmless and this is not meaningless. Democrats have successfully incepted the idea into voters’ heads that Republicans are absurd, clownish and unqualified and the one-sided mockery in entertainment media has helped to spread this lie when the Democrats are actually a collection of hideous weirdos and circus freaks that media has somehow convinced you are normal. We have to do a better job of making fun of them."
Meme - Stephen King @Stephenking: "Tell you what--if you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said, "Let him without sin cast the first stone.""
Readers added context: "This is referring to Graham Platner, who has been accused of rape. In John the woman to be stoned to death was accused of adultery, not rape. It is understood to be a powerful statement against hypocrisy, not a free-pass for politicians to rape women."
Meme - FischerKing @Fischerking64: "The state of white men in the Democrat party: Guy who dresses like a hobo recovering from a stroke tells a pretend socialist with multiple homes to stop promoting a rapey guy with a Nazi tattoo."
New York Post @nypost: "Fetterman demands Bernie Sanders apologize for pushing 'predator' Graham Plainer on Dems"
Will Steakin on X - "Platner is not DSA backed"
Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X - "Platner “is not DSA backed” in the same way that the USSR was no longer “real communism” once it collapsed. He was proudly backed by the DSA until he became a liability, at which point he was suddenly just some guy they’d never really heard of. He was endorsed by the Maine DSA as well as by Bernie Sanders, his key political consultant is Morris Katz who New York Magazine described as the “Mamdani mastermind”. This is just straight up gaslighting by a “journalist” from Politico"
Richard Hanania on X - "Graham Platner says that billionaires are responsible for the trans in sports issue: “I was a captain of my high school wrestling team in 2003. I wrestled girls. Nobody cared. There was no uproar. We had girls wrestling in boys wrestling, or vice versa, 20-plus years ago. There was a girl on our high school football team. Nobody cared. I’m sorry—I cannot take it seriously.” What? Twenty years ago his high school had co-ed wrestling, and nobody thought this was strange until billionaires came along? Even if this were true, the question is whether biological males can compete in girls’ sports. He’s talking about women competing with males. What a bizarre answer. Something about this guy just isn’t right."
Hutch on X - "In order to believe that the new allegations are made up, you would have to believe that his accuser predicted he would eventually run for office and then for years played the long game of planting a lie. You god damn morons ignored about a dozen extremely obvious red flags."
Ro Khanna on X - "I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line. These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement."
Siraj Hashmi on X - ""I was okay with Graham Platner getting a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo, being physically abusive as a boyfriend, his racist & misogynistic comments on Reddit, sexting minors on Kik, wishing death on a fellow soldier, cranking hog in a porta-potty, lying about his reason for enlisting in the military for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, leaving the military to work for Blackwater, and being a communist, but SEXUAL ASSAULT is where I DRAW THE LINE.""
AG on X - "Even left-wing Dems and liberal commentators are abandoning Platner, but Cenk Uygur and MTG are defending him and suggesting it's part of some AIPAC/Israel conspiracy. This is what happens when you make your entire persona about Israel/Jews and base all your positions on that."
Ryan James Girdusky on X - "Hasan Piker may have dropped Platner…. But don’t worry, Cenk Uygur is proudly standing with him against the real enemy Jewish controlled media. They got him drunk, told him to break into her house, and rape her."
Washington Free Beacon on X - "Graham Platner was recruited to run for Senate by a pair of socialist political operatives, Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, who determined that another prospective candidate had “a skeleton in the closet.” The Wall Street Journal published a rare interview with the duo on Sunday who revealed they paid “a whole chunk of money” to vet Platner but managed to turn up neither his Nazi ink nor many of his Reddit posts."
T Wolf 🌁 on X - "Elizabeth Warren: "That's my kinda man." In reference to Graham Platner, now accused of rape. The far left is no better than the far right. Maybe worse because they pretend to have the moral high ground. That's why I'm critical of them. They're posers."
Charles Gasparino on X - "I'm hardly someone who defends all of Trump and his antics but when you watch this, you realize you're dealing with a special type of rot that has infected the Democratic Party. It goes way beyond any of the Trumpian excesses. And it didn't begin with the party's unflinching support of Platner; rather it has been brewing for years with an embrace of leftism and radicalism that surpasses anything we have seen, even during the 1960s. This is the party that gave us open borders; DEI (the dumb notion that poor white people in the Midwest oppress the world's poor); spending blowouts that they said don't cause inflation before it hit 9%; Joe Biden's "strong" mental agility and Kamala Harris as some working class striver who suddenly became a policy wonk. It was fed through a compliant media that has been pretty compliant on Platner until, like Biden crapping his pants on a debate stage, is exposed for his dark side that can't be ignored."
When you chant "vote blue, no matter who", then accuse the other side of being a cult
Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X - "Everybody in the world is a liar except Graham Platner, the only honest man on Earth"
TimeFor555 on X - "We must never let voters forget that Susan Collins was too extreme for Democrats. But Platner was not."
Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X - "Important point to keep harping on here. The most centrist of centrist Republicans Susan Collins was deemed an Actual Hitler in comparison to Platner by the entire mainstream of the Democratic Party because, despite their high rhetoric, literally all that matters to them is power"
DataRepublican (small r) on X - "Hello Senator Gallego, You don’t care about the allegations against Platner. You never did. You still don’t care. Here’s what everyone knows happened: Graham Platner had lots of baggage yesterday, including allegations from other women. One more woman got added to the pile. Yes, it was a serious allegation. But he had plenty of other disqualifying allegations before - including that tattoo, being a Communist member of DSA, spousal and girlfriend misconduct, and others. I’m going to place my bet on what actually happened. Democratic leadership got spooked - not because of any particular accusation, but because of the DSA backlash threatening to take over their own party. They knew your Senate race is a critical key to taking over Congressional control. They’d either have to spend a whole electional season defending why they’re backing a Communist, or … they could take the most convenient next item in a long list of disqualifying-in-any-sane-world criteria that you’d already racked up. You were, and always were, the most unworthy person to ever run for Senste competitively. That you got this far is an indictment of the character of our country. Bring McCarthyism back."
Gina Milan on X - "Let’s be clear: NONE of this was enough for Democrats to drop Graham Platner 👇
• Blamed rape victims: “Take responsibility… don’t get so fucked up.”
• Asked “Why don’t Black people tip?”
• Called rural Maine voters “racist and stupid.”
• Backed ACAB and screamed “Fuck these cops.”
• Openly called himself a communist and pushed armed political violence.
• Got a Nazi SS-style skull tattoo.
• Sent dirty texts to women while married + kept a Kik profile.
• Mocked a wounded Purple Heart soldier as a “dumb motherfucker who didn’t deserve to live” and called Army soldiers “fat lazy trash.”
• Bragged he’d rape a man breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment: “I would rape them to show I’m dominant.”
• Told a teenage girl who tried to commit suicide: “Someone clearly isn’t trying hard enough.”
But now a new rape allegation surfaces and suddenly they discover morals? LOL. No — they’re pulling the same exact play they ran with Swalwell. Welcome to the Democratic machine: protect the monster until it becomes a liability."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "If nothing else, Platner taught us that in 2026 if you have the right politics and bark about ‘Epstein,’ you can run the gauntlet knocking over almost every Dem shibboleth without being ejected from polite society. You can be a ‘bad boyfriend,’ you can have a (big) Nazi tattoo, you can even fantasize openly about rape (as long as it’s about power but not sexual). It will be interesting to find out what ultimately sunk him."
I could still be wrong... on X - "The Al Franken/Andrew Cuomo precedent is now well-established: if a party needs to throw a politician under the bus for arbitrary reasons of political inconvenience/toxicity, then sexual misconduct allegations are the go-to pretext."
Shawn Farash on X - "The new Platner scandal is a Politico exclusive. This is 100% an intra-party Democrat hit job. They did this with Cuomo in the 2022 NY Gov cycle. Biden in the 2024 Presidential cycle. And now Platner in the 2026 midterm cycle. If they feel you can't win, they throw you in front of a freight train and keep moving, voters be damned."
Vince Coglianese on X - "And Swalwell in this year's CA gov race."
Libs of TikTok on X - "It’s happening. The Left decided Platner isn’t useful to them anymore. So they had Politico drop a new rape claim then had media outlets amplify, and now they will all suddenly condemn him and withdraw their endorsements almost simultaneously. It’s all coordinated So obvious"
Jon Favreau on X - "Graham Platner isn’t just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins, he’s a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better. I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces. Clearly, that’s what so many people in Maine have done - from all different walks of life and political persuasions."
Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸 on X - "A lot of us called for Platner to drop out when it was revealed he had a Nazi death camp tattoo for nearly two decades... a lot joined in when his racist, misogynistic Reddit comments came out… a lot joined when it was revealed he physically assaulted a woman and was a toxic boyfriend. Folks like Jon ripped on us for pushing back and tried to make us seem crazy for calling out the OBVIOUS red flags. Those people should be thinking long and hard about why they defended the indefensible for so long."
MAZE on X - "Here's video of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway just a couple weeks ago defending Graham Platner and saying that Platner's past should not matter at all. They defended the nazi tattoo, the obscene posts, the sexting, all of it. Swisher (a self-proclaimed strong feminist) said that Platner reminded him of Bill Clinton because Clinton made some mistakes but was a good President. Galloway (a Jew) gave Platner a "hall pass" for his nazi tattoo. The only thing that matters to the Left is power. When you see them outraged about anything, remember they truly do not care. It is all performative. These two frauds have both accused Elon Musk of making nazi gestures. Galloway once said he couldn't drive a Tesla anymore because a joke Musk made could be interpreted as homophobic. Two terrible people."
M on X - "I don’t know who needs to hear this but Graham Platner is everything they’ve ever accused President Trump of. And the Democrats supported him."
Syllvenwood Blah on X - "Platner: "I embody healthy masculinity"
> broke into his ex's home, r*ped her
Emhoff: "Toxic masculinity is a crisis"
> impregnated his chiId's nanny
Swalwell: "Believe all women"
> assaulted 6+ women
Nazi's for public office everyone"
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 on X - "NYT: Why Some Women in Maine Are Mourning the End of Graham Platner’s Campaign They believe the accuser, but they also grieve the demise of a campaign that promised that politics could be different — and they blame those who failed to find a less flawed candidate."
Mason McCann on X - "I know I'm beating a dead horse, but if you liked Platner as a candidate at any point I genuinely think less of you politically. His entire campaign was literally just "working class" vibes and saying the right buzzwords. It was designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator"
Josh Kraushaar on X - "Axios: “Starting with their launch video last August, Platner and his team billed him as an oyster farmer — a title most of themedia, including Axios at times, repeated without scrutiny. But as early as August, he told ideologically friendly outlets that he makes little money from selling oysters and it's not how he makes a living.”"
Revenge of the RINOs on X - "The funniest part was how he only has one customer: his Mom’s restaurant"
Megan McArdle on X - "Platner is a private school screwup, of a type familiar to people who went to private school. The fact that he was cast as a man of the people by elites, while the working class rejected him, seems kind of emblematic of the whole progressive project right now."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "One of the defining qualities of post-2010 elite media, culture, and academia is a crippling incapacity for basic social and psychological recognition. Part of the reason for this is that elites come from a narrow, oversocialized milieu. Another big reason is that elite culture (novels, films, etc) used to be brutally and unsparingly honest in its psychological depictions, and you could learn a lot from that and recognize all sorts of personalities you would encounter in real life. Post-2010 the purpose of culture has been to propagandize, lie, confuse, and dissemble on behalf of all sorts of inconvenient truths and now as a result elites tasked with sense making are poorly ‘educated’ to an unprecedented degree and don’t stand a chance in engineering the outcomes that they desire."
Hen Mazzig on X - "This person says that Graham Platner raping "one white American woman" is not worse than other democrats supporting Israel. They emphasize "white" so I can only assume they think the rape is better because it was against a white woman. Gross. It makes my job infinitely easier when these people say the quiet part out loud because they out themselves as completely amoral and detached from reality."
NickFrank40 on X - "The thing that has damaged the Democratic Party brand the most is the fact that a lot of very mentally ill people on the political left have access to smartphone cameras and ring lights and possess a stunningly inability to know when to shut the fuck up."
Of course if you notice, you're the bad person.
Meme - "SHOULD YOU
Is the accused person a Republican or Democrat?
Republican
YES. BELIEVE. ALL. WOMEN.
Democrat
NO.
This is clearly a political SMEAR CAMPAIGN and no amount of evidence should convince you that a guy with a history of being violent that many women have warned people about for years is a bad guy and that Nazi tattoo cmon man how could he have known that was a Nazi symbol man it could happen to anyone man and yeah like he locked a girl in a room for a night huh that's pretty much the same thing as a bad date and this whole Me Too thing is going too for and he's just a huumble oyster farmer who wants to rape people who break into his house but not in a gay way..."
