I don't care about Platner's sexting issue, but I do care about his Nazi Tattoo.
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It wasn't a "Youthful Indiscretion." You can't tell me he didn't know what it stood for. If a Republican candidate had one DU would be hammering them continuously.
May I remind everyone that 12 million innocent civilians were murdered by the Nazi regime. That still matters to me!
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I have seen a great deal on this. This is just one example that Collins would use against Platner in a general election campaign.
Link to tweet
I have seen some other oppo that pesters me including the material on this thread.
doesn't count.
Good to know.
Unlike any other candidate that ever had marriage problems or showed poor judgement in his PERSONAL life. And if that were the case, we'd have trouble finding enough saints to run for office.
But it's Platner, who is a " direct threat to the US- Israel relationship" (AIPAC's words, not mine), so all of a sudden some democrats are rediscovering their moral outrage at personal peccadillos that they usually, for anyone else, recognize as none of their business.
who called Mary (mother of Jesus) a "skank", voted for Collins three times, did not vote for Biden in 2020 and did not vote for Harris in 2024, posted that he enlisted in the Marines to have an adventure and "kill people", falsely claimed that he bought his house with a VA mortgage when his rich father gave him the money, and *accidentally* had a Nazi tattoo on his chest for more than a decade, a fact that we know because he likes to buffoon around in public with his shirt off.
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Now for the question at hand: Did the high powered consultants and influencers who astroturfed his campaign vet him? It's possible that the answer is "yes" and equally possible that they didn't care.
Did everybody on his team know about his history at the outset of the campaign? Probably not. Three high level campaign staffers resigned in October 2025 when the stories started breaking. Platner required NDA agreements going forward.
There will be three Democratic candidates on the ranked choice ME ballot on June 9. Platner is only one of them.
but only because of the current state of media affairs"?
I remember when Sanders endorsed and then un-endorsed Cenk Uyger.
Sanders had come under fire from supporters for backing someone who had made demeaning and controversial comments about women, Muslims and African Americans.
Sen. Bernie Sanders pulled his endorsement for a California congressional candidate on Friday after coming under fire for supporting the online news personality who has made degrading comments about African Americans and women.
In a statement posted online, Sanders said Uygur “will serve ordinary people, not powerful special interests. He is a voice that we desperately need in Congress & will be a great representative for CA-25 and the country.
In one blog post from 2000, Uygur wrote that “obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”
Uygur also came under fire for using the N-word on his show multiple times. He acknowledged this week that “The Young Turks" had a policy of using the N-word when quoting racists as a means of mocking them but stopped after complaints.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/bernie-sanders-retracts-cenk-uyger-endorsement-after-backlash-n1102171
Gabbard, Turner, Uyger, Fetterman, and now Platner. He sure can pick 'em.
and it's not too late for Platner to do the decent thing and drop out and for Democrats to rally behind Costello.
I, too, would prefer that Collins not be re-elected and that Platner not be a drag on every Democrat running in 2026.
He's a Democrat with experience in government and a history of public service. And he's lived in Maine his whole life.
If someone answers thoughtfully. by all means, don't respond to that, just change the line of attack.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/graham-platner-controversies-maine-senate-campaign-rcna240367
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Wannabe Edgelord Platner told his friends on Reddit that he voted for Collins in every election in which I had the option."
Assuming that he bothered to vote once he turned 18, that would mean that Platner voted for Collins in 2002, 2008, and 2014.
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despite the fact that his parents were wealthy enough to send him to Hotchkiss, give him a mortgage *loan*, and buy him a business?
He told NBC news that he voted for Collins, "once, maybe twice".
Before he was running for anything as a Democrat, Platner told his friends on Reddit that he voted for Collins in every election in which I had the option."
Assuming that he bothered to vote once he turned 18, that would mean that Platner voted for Collins in 2002, 2008, and 2014.
I didn't read these posts until way later. I just wanted to say thanks because I've run into the same thing on here where people will make a claim and swear on the holy Bible that it's true but will not under any circumstances provide you with a clip or article or post or whatever else is supposed to back up their claim. Just seems like they're full of shit
Read post 107 
Or maybe pandering.
Is highly problematic but his sexist texts and things he has posted really matter to those of us who were born without a penis.
It was probably an AIPAC operative with him in the tattoo shop tricking him into getting it so he could be targeted when he ran for office years later.
"They" play the long game and "their" hand is in everything.
BTW would it still be inane to make an issue of a tattoo if it is a swastika- it's just an old south Asian good luck symbol...
Following the war, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists resurrected the Totenkopf as a hate symbol because of its importance to the SS and it has been a common hate symbol since. It is this particular image of a skull and crossbones that is considered a hate symbol, not any image of a skull and crossbones.
That emblem can be traced all the way back to the early 19th Century
Prussia
Use of the Totenkopf in Germany as a military emblem began under Frederick the Great, who formed a regiment of Hussar cavalry in the Prussian army commanded by Colonel von Ruesch, the Husaren-Regiment Nr. 5 (von Ruesch). It adopted a black uniform with a Totenkopf emblazoned on the front of its mirlitons and wore it on the field in the War of Austrian Succession and in the Seven Years' War. The Totenkopf remained a part of the uniform when the regiment was reformed into Leib-Husaren Regiments Nr.1 and Nr.2 in 1808. The symbol was then granted 3 years later to the Spanish Army’s 8th Light Cavalry Regiment “Lusitania”, who were nicknamed “Los Dragones de la Muerte” (the Dragons of Death) and were granted use of the skull after the infamous Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo in 1744, where they suffered great casualties.
Brunswick
Totenkopf badge worn by the Brunswick Leibbataillon ("Life-Guard Battalion" at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
In 1809, during the War of the Fifth Coalition, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel raised a force of volunteers to fight Napoleon Bonaparte, who had conquered the Duke's lands. The Brunswick Corps was provided with black uniforms, giving rise to their nickname, the Black Brunswickers. Both hussar cavalry and infantry in the force wore a Totenkopf badge, either in mourning for the duke's father, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who had been killed at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt in 1806, or according to some sources, as a sign of revenge against the French. After fighting their way through Germany, the Black Brunswickers entered British service and fought with them in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. The Brunswick corps was eventually incorporated into the Prussian Army in 1866.
German Empire
The skull continued to be used by the Prussian and Brunswick armed forces until 1918, and some of the stormtroopers that led the last German offensives on the Western Front in 1918 used skull badges. Luftstreitkräfte fighter pilots Georg von Hantelmann and Kurt Adolf Monnington are just two of a number of Central Powers military pilots who used the Totenkopf as their personal aircraft insignia.
Weimar Republic
The Totenkopf was used in Germany throughout the interwar period, most prominently by the Freikorps. In 1933, it was in use by the regimental staff and the 1st, 5th, and 11th squadrons of the Reichswehr's 5th Cavalry Regiment as a continuation of a tradition from the Kaiserreich.
US Military
The U.S. military does not have an official, standard-issue "death's head" insignia. However, the skull and crossbones (Totenkopf) motif has occasionally appeared in unofficial unit patches and unofficial morale gear—though these have occasionally sparked investigations or controversy due to the symbol's historical ties to Nazi Germany's SS units.
UK
The death's head (skull and crossbones) is a historic military emblem used by the British Army, famously featured on the cap badge of The Royal Lancers (and their antecedent units, the 17th Lancers and the 17th/21st Lancers).
According to you it was 30 years ago, now it's 20.
Which is directly tied to republicans and their support of Israel
Iran announced they are permanently closing the strait because Israel will not stop bombing it’s neighbors but that gets ignored by du
I guess they really are behind it all
