“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty – come and join the Platner party!” is the collective refrain from Democrats (with rare exceptions) as they close ranks around the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

Now that Governor Janet Mills has dropped out of the primary race, the opportunity for Graham Platner to be the Democrat candidate for United States Senate in Maine is all but assured, and Democrats are willingly spinning this news as “happy and gay.”

Yes, yes, Graham Platner covered up his Totenkopf tattoo with a really shitty wolf-ish thing, but let’s all remember two things. First, he knew what that tattoo was (his own former campaign manager attests to that, as do other people who heard him talk about it), and second, he was totally fine with keeping that tattoo UNTIL he was running for office. So no, the Nazi apologetics coming from Democrats are pathetically disingenuous. Example A of this apologia comes from “Pod Save America” Obama bro Jon Favreau, who tried giving Hasan Piker an out (and Piker made a fool of him by affirming his fanboy love for Hamas), who is desperately singing a tune that he would rightfully rip Republicans for, if there was a Republican who had a Nazi tattoo running for office. As he himself says, he’s doubling down because of loyalty to the Party. Ahem.

As the community note makes clear, I didn't delete it because I stand by it.

But if MAGA world has decided their best play is to insult Mainers' intelligence by trying to fool them into thinking Platner's old tattoo makes him a Nazi sympathizer, best of luck in November! https://t.co/JpkY5hH3cG

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 3, 2026

And when Mary Katharine Ham correctly pointed out the problems with the tattoo, Favreau kept digging.

I don’t know, you strike me as someone smart enough to know that a good test as to whether someone is sympathetic to Nazis is if they’ve ever said a single word in their entire life that could be construed as sympathetic to Nazis.

But I guess the story you’d have us believe is…

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 4, 2026

The full comment reads:

I don’t know, you strike me as someone smart enough to know that a good test as to whether someone is sympathetic to Nazis is if they’ve ever said a single word in their entire life that could be construed as sympathetic to Nazis.

But I guess the story you’d have us believe is this: a group of American marines, who risked their lives for this country, decided to get skull and crossbones tattoos together in their 20s that they all knew were Nazi symbols. Then they all kept their actual Nazi sympathies hidden for the next decade, a time when Platner frequently took his shirt off in front of his Jewish family, who I suppose either didn’t care about his Nazi sympathies or didn’t recognize the symbol you claim is extremely obvious. And then Platner, who was clearly not shy about expressing all kinds of views on Reddit, especially all the offensive shit he now regrets, somehow managed to keep his Nazi sympathies hidden from the world, as did his Nazi-sympathizing Marine friends who got the same tattoo.

Yes, this makes sense. You cracked it for sure. Bravo. Congrats on being smarter than all those rubes in Maine who’ve fallen for the secret Nazi’s cover story.

There has only been one Marine “friend” who has gone on the record confirming that this group went and got this tattoo. Platner, however, expressed zero regrets until he actually gained national attention, and then something he had had for YEARS was suddenly a problem that he had to cover up. Also, about that bit about Platner not being “sympathetic to Nazis”… let’s check from earlier THIS YEAR.

Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner’s team said the post was made in error and “immediately” removed it after learning it elevated a “despicable account.”

In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself “a longtime fan” of Cornacchia’s YouTube channel, “Valhalla VFT,” and said it was “an absolute pleasure being” on the show.

Cornacchia, whose show claims nearly 500,000 YouTube subscribers, has in recent months helped stoke a burgeoning far-right conspiracy theory alleging that Israel was involved in the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

For someone who claims that he isn’t anti-Semitic, he seems to have no issues rubbing shoulders with those who are. (For that matter, neither does Jon Favreau, but I digress.) Additionally, Graham Platner has a problem with two other things – one, lying, and second, Israel.

Platner has repeatedly expressed his loathing of Israel, and while Maine doesn’t have a large Jewish population, Democrat Jews are keeping far, far away from him.

Democratic Majority for Israel’s PAC lists no Maine endorsements, and Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, stated recently that “we won’t support a Democrat who doesn’t represent the views and values of the vast majority of American Jews.”

The council “has endorsed more than 120 candidates across the country who are fighting for the issues Jewish Americans care about and standing against antisemitism,” Soifer said. “It’s those many Democrats who have our backs, and we’ll have theirs as they work to defeat Republicans aligned with this White House whose views are antithetical to our values.”

Brian Romick, president of Democratic Majority for Israel, stated, “I don’t understand why the progressives want to gamble the next Democratic trifecta on someone with a Nazi tattoo,” according to Jewish Insider.

And then there is the lying. Platner’s DD-214 form has been redacted and released, and while he did serve overseas tours of duty, the math doesn’t quite add up for the “ten years overseas” that he claims. and as our good friend Beege at Hot Air points out, he somehow scored 100% disability from the VA after his tours of duty. And then there was the story from the Free Beacon about Platner’s home loan.

Platner’s mortgage record, dated June 30, 2017, shows that he secured “payment of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)” from his father, Bronson Platner, to finance the property. It likely covered the entire purchase price of the four-bedroom house near the water in the Maine town of Sullivan, which sits at the gateway to Acadia National Park. The home’s tax assessed value in 2017 was $164,000, records show.

The mortgage record refers to a “promissory note,” a written legal agreement in which a borrower agrees to repay a lender within a certain timeframe, between Platner and his father. It also includes an attached document describing the house—where Platner still resides—and listing the sellers, who transferred the home to Platner through a deed that was recorded on the same day, documents show. A county assessor told the Free Beacon that the property referenced on that deed matches Platner’s address. In a brief interview, the house’s sellers also confirmed that Platner’s father funded the mortgage.

The records contradict Platner’s description of his home purchase. In September, Platner said, “I bought my house in 2017. If I hadn’t bought then, if I hadn’t had the support of the VA, my wife and I would now be priced out of the town I grew up in, like the millions of Americans being exiled from their towns and cities.”

The campaign’s excuse for that whopper was that since Platner gets money from the VA, that means the VA helped him buy his house. Uh-huh, yeah, sure. And who knows what the opposition research that the Susan Collins campaign has on him. As John Fetterman, the last sane Democrat in the Senate, said:

Fetterman on Graham Platner:

“Democrats really, really like Platner in Maine, but the Republicans fucking love him.”

“If Maine wants an asshole with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, they get him.”

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) April 30, 2026

And that nomination is all over but for the stormtrooper chorus line.

Before Graham Platner dove into the meat of his speech at the Maine Democratic Party Convention on Saturday night, where he said it is “very odd but deeply humbling” to be the “presumptive nominee” for Senate, he first thanked his former opponent, Gov. Janet Mills.

But not everyone was so eager to give Platner, a military veteran and oyster farmer, another look.

“He’s got a lot of baggage,” said Bettie Harris-Howard, a 76-year-old retired nursing administrator from Winthrop. She thought Platner’s convention speech was filled with empty platitudes and said she was not sure if she would even vote in November.

“I think Susan Collins is probably going to take it anyway,” said Harris-Howard, noting that the Republican Party would “do everything they can” to boost the longtime senator. She was also concerned Platner might still be struggling with his time in combat.

Democrats really think that Platner can win Maine for them. At this moment, it seems unlikely, but it is possible. However, if he does, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Platner is being revealed as an unhinged extremist who rationalizes violence. Just what ghoulish Democratic primary voters lust after.

In Reddit posts, he has described himself as an “antifa supersoldier,” and a “communist,” called all cops “bastards” and defended rape: “If you’re so worried about it [rape], you’d think you might not get blacked out f–ked up around people you aren’t comfortable with.”

He defended violence: If people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history,” he wrote in an old post, and praised Hamas terrorists for a “damn fine” attack that killed Israeli soldiers.

He pretends that it’s impossible for him to be both a Nazi and a communist when they’re two sides of the same rotten coin.

Democrats are so desperate to end their losing streak that they will justify supping with the devil by saying nothing is as bad as Trump — or the imaginary Trump monster they have concocted to scare half the country.

By that logic, Democrats would vote for a serial killer if it meant sticking it to Trump.

Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate and putative party elder, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand are backing Platner.

Let’s hope they fall on their face and that Maine voters punish them by rejecting Platner, no matter how many millions they pour into glossing his image.

In their rush to join the chorus line dance about Platner being “the new leader who will restore their former glory”, Democrats are permanently conceding that all of their rhetoric about being “anti-facist” and “punching Nazis in the face” was all a giant lie. It turns out they are more than happy to support a Nazi, if that Nazi will vote with them. It’s “Springtime For Platner,” and Democrats are dancing to his tune.

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