Graham Platner, Democrat Candidate & Rising Star

[Strike]

Just now, thegeneral said:

The relevant question is whether he knew it was a Nazi symbol. He says he didn’t and that he got it as a young Marine in Croatia. The fact that it passed a couple of military screenings for hate imagery is a compelling argument for that no?

That's all according to him.   People on his own staff dispute that.  I trust them, not him.  He has a reason to lie.  They don't.

[thegeneral]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

That's all according to him.   People on his own staff dispute that.  I trust them, not him.  He has a reason to lie.  They don't.

Well they left the campaign, or were canned. so perhaps they do have reasons to take shots, right?

He didn’t pass military screenings though. Isn’t that part of the gigs he got in the military.? This would be an easy thing to disprove I would think.

[Hardcore troubadour]

This man of the working class is a snooty rich kid that calls people he’s asking to represent mouth breathers and his rich daddy lawyer bought his house for him. Also claimed he was “sent” to war then took a gig with Black Water and went back. Remember when liberals were up in arms about Blackwater? HT Farms remembers. 

[seafoam1]

On 5/19/2026 at 2:30 PM, Maximum Overkill said:

 

 democrats...

[Strike]

8 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Well they left the campaign, or were canned. so perhaps they do have reasons to take shots, right?

He didn’t pass military screenings though. Isn’t that part of the gigs he got in the military.? This would be an easy thing to disprove I would think.

There has been no suggestion that any of the people who have spoken out were fired.  Why are you trying to plant that seed?  And if they chose to leave they have no incentive to lie about the tattoo.  You're just making excuses.

[Engorgeous George]

24 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

The relevant question is whether he knew it was a Nazi symbol. He says he didn’t and that he got it as a young Marine in Croatia. The fact that it passed a couple of military screenings for hate imagery is a compelling argument for that no?

No.  Unless we know the criteria for such screenings and the qualifications of the person doing the screenings.  I have no idea how these are conducted.  Is some private given a brochure showing the 100 tats not allowed and they compare any tats with that in the brochure and if it is not shown it is not a problem?  How comprehensive is that brochure?  Is it a more comprehensive review of thousands of symbols, or where each tat is put in some symbology index?  I don't know.  I bet someone here may have had the experience of having gone through this.  Perhaps they can give us some insight, or perhaps someone has a link to the process of review.

[thegeneral]

3 minutes ago, Strike said:

There has been no suggestion that any of the people who have spoken out were fired.  Why are you trying to plant that seed?  And if they chose to leave they have no incentive to lie about the tattoo.  You're just making excuses.

True I am not sure why that broad left the campaign. Do you know? You automatically believe them but not that the military passed this tat though it seems.

[thegeneral]

1 minute ago, Engorgeous George said:

No.  Unless we know the criteria for such screenings and the qualifications of the person doing the screenings.  I have no idea how these are conducted.  Is some private given a brochure showing the 100 tats not allowed and they compare any tats with that in the brochure and if it is not shown it is not a problem?  How comprehensive is that brochure?  Is it a more comprehensive review of thousands of symbols, or where each tat is put in some symbology index?  I don't know.  I bet someone here may have had tghe experience of ahving gone through this.  Perhaps they can give us some insight, or perhaps someone has a link to the process of review.

I assume this would all be part of the attack on this guy. He put out this response quite awhile ago. 

[Strike]

2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

True I am not sure why that broad left the campaign. Do you know? You automatically believe them but not that the military passed this tat though it seems.

Because there are people who can dispute her claim that she left the campaign - the campaign.  And they have never said it wasn't her choice to leave.  Again, there has not even been a suggestion that it wasn't her choice to leave.   I also don't believe she's the only person who has corroborated his knowledge of the significance of the tattoo.  Regardless, the campaign has never disputed the tattoo, and the candidate had it altered.  So there is acknowledgement of the heinous nature of the tattoo.  That you and Tim want to argue the semantics of the heinous nature of the tattoo is curious but not unexpected.

[thegeneral]

Just now, Strike said:

Because there are people who can dispute her claim that she left the campaign - the campaign.  And they have never said it wasn't her choice to leave.  Again, there has not even been a suggestion that it wasn't her choice to leave.

Can you post info on this? That would be useful.

[Strike]

Just now, thegeneral said:

Can you post info on this? That would be useful.

I probably could, but I'm not going to.  it's not worth wasting my time to go find again.  The fact that you and Tim want to argue the semantics of the heinousness of the tattoo is curious but not unexpected.

[thegeneral]

Just now, Strike said:

I probably could, but I'm not going to.  it's not worth wasting my time to go find again.  The fact that you and Tim want to argue the semantics of the heinousness of the tattoo is curious but not unexpected.

Oh ok.

I’m not arguing semantics. The issue is of he is lying about this tattoo. I believed how he explained it but am willing to hear otherwise.

[Strike]

Just now, thegeneral said:

Oh ok.

I’m not arguing semantics. The issue is of he is lying about this tattoo. I believed how he explained it but am willing to hear otherwise.

Why would you believe him?  He's lied about just about everything.  And there are credible people disputing his lies. But you believe him.  That's all I need to know. 

[Caine Mutiny]

Actually none of this is relevant. Upon learning of the Nazi tattoo, and his subsequent  explanation, I had only one question: does Platner have any record of statements or political positions that would indicate pro-Nazi leanings? (This could be white supremacy, anti-semitism, extreme nationalism, etc.) 

The answer, so far as I can see, appears to be no. Therefore this doesn’t bother me. 

[Strike]

4 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Actually none of this is relevant. Upon learning of the Nazi tattoo, and his subsequent  explanation, I had only one question: does Platner have any record of statements or political positions that would indicate pro-Nazi leanings? (This could be white supremacy, anti-semitism, extreme nationalism, etc.) 

The answer, so far as I can see, appears to be no. Therefore this doesn’t bother me. 

Neither does Trump but you call him a Nazi daily.

[Caine Mutiny]

6 minutes ago, Strike said:

He's lied about just about everything. 

I’ve also seen no evidence that Platner is a consistent liar. However, given that he’s a populist politician, this is always possible. 

But I have seen evidence, in real time, that Susan Collins is a liar. And I have seen evidence in real time of the damage she has caused this nation as Senator. So to me it remains an easy choice. 

[Caine Mutiny]

Just now, Strike said:

Neither does Trump but you call him a Nazi daily.

Actually I don’t. Nazi is a pretty strong term and I’ve avoided calling Trump that since I don’t think he is one. He is certainly authoritarian and nationalist but I would compare him more to a wannabe Mussolini. Like Benito, Donald has a need for adoration taken to absurd levels. Though Hitler received such adoration, he never desired it. More importantly I don’t regard Trump as evil; he is a bumbling incompetent fool and a jerk but not evil. 
 

I HAVE compared ICE under Trump to the Gestapo; and that is an imperfect but apt analogy. 

[thegeneral]

12 minutes ago, Strike said:

Why would you believe him?  He's lied about just about everything.  And there are credible people disputing his lies. But you believe him.  That's all I need to know. 

I don’t actually know much about him. What has he lied about?

I know about this tattoo we have talked about. I listened to a long interview with him where he talked about it and the Reddit posts among other topics. His politics are not really aligned with mine fully but I saw why he made a strong candidate in Maine.

 

[Strike]

Just now, Caine Mutiny said:

Actually I don’t. Nazi is a pretty strong term and I’ve avoided calling Trump that since I don’t think he is one. He is certainly authoritarian and nationalist but I would compare him more to a wannabe Mussolini. Like Benito, Donald has a need for adoration taken to absurd levels. Though Hitler received such adoration, he never desired it. More importantly I don’t regard Trump as evil; he is a bumbling incompetent fool and a jerk but not evil. 
 

I HAVE compared ICE under Trump to the Gestapo; and that is an imperfect but apt analogy. 

LIar.

[Strike]

1 minute ago, thegeneral said:

I don’t actually know much about him. What has he lied about?

 

So you're just willfully ignorant.  Got it.  And, for the record, the reason I'm not giving you the information you pretend to seek is that you're disingenuous.  Just like his tattoo, if I give you all of his lies on a silver platter you'd just makes excuses, minimize, or otherwise pretend they don't matter.  So there's no point.  You've never processed information people have given you and altered your viewpoint.  You're just one of the lib talking points machines that troll this forum every day.

[Caine Mutiny]

Just now, Strike said:

LIar.

Well you’re welcome to provide a link in which I referred to Trump as a Nazi or Hitler. Until then kindly fock off. 

[thegeneral]

2 minutes ago, Strike said:

So you're just willfully ignorant.  Got it.  And, for the record, the reason I'm not giving you the information you pretend to seek is that you're disingenuous.  Just like his tattoo, if I give you all of his lies on a silver platter you'd just makes excuses, minimize, or otherwise pretend they don't matter.  So there's no point.  You've never processed information people have given you and altered your viewpoint.  You're just one of the lib talking points machines that troll this forum every day.

I wouldn’t say that. An hour interview is quite a bit to know about a Senator candidate 3000 miles from me.

I explained my thoughts on the tat. I would be open to hearing more. I asked you for where you get this info you claim about him lying about all sorts of things and you didn’t want to bother.

 

[Strike]

1 minute ago, thegeneral said:

I wouldn’t say that. An hour interview is quite a bit to know about a Senator candidate 3000 miles from me.

I explained my thoughts on the tat. I would be open to hearing more. I asked you for where you get this info you claim about him lying about all sorts of things and you didn’t want to bother.

 

Yes, your thoughts on the tat are that you believe the documented liar but refuse to believe those who dispute the documented liar and have nothing impugning their credibility, and in fact you tried to falsely impugn their credibility yourself by suggesting they may have been fired.

[thegeneral]

32 minutes ago, Strike said:

Yes, your thoughts on the tat are that you believe the documented liar but refuse to believe those who dispute the documented liar and have nothing impugning their credibility.  

His explanation seemed believable especially the military review. That he would be so cavalier about showing it at a wedding where the bride was a Jew getting married to his brother also seemed compelling.

I didn’t out of hand believe this person you alluded to that you didn’t give any additional info on. I read a blurb about her and I took it as she left the campaign and it wasn’t a smooth, amicable break. 

I also haven’t seen what else he has lied about you are talking about but I’m certain there are things as people do lie.

Give a listen to his interview on The Daily a few weeks back. I can see why he was a compelling choice to a rural state and I believed his explanation about this tattoo.

[Maximum Overkill]

6 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

I wouldn’t say that. An hour interview is quite a bit to know about a Senator candidate 3000 miles from me.

I explained my thoughts on the tat. I would be open to hearing more. I asked you for where you get this info you claim about him lying about all sorts of things and you didn’t want to bother.

 

Elon musk NAZI, guy with NAZI tattoos who gives NAZI salute to supporters not a NAZI. You'd vote for this degenerate if you could 

Do you understand why we goof on you now? 

[TimHauck]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

WTF does "resemble" mean?  I mean, you do realize that's just Platner and the media's way of softening the fact that he has a Nazi tattoo.  Sorry, this is what I'm talking about.  You're wanting to argue the semantics of a tattoo that either IS a Nazi tattoo or looks so much like one that Platner had it altered.  That's what you want to discuss, not the FACT that he had a tattoo that looked ENOUGH like a Nazi tattoo that he had it altered.

 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/graham-platner-tattoo-nazi-00617686

FFS.  

Thanks for proving me right yet again, much appreciated.

resemble

verb

re·sem·ble ri-ˈzem-bəl 

 

: to be like or similar to

 

1 hour ago, Strike said:

That's all according to him.   People on his own staff dispute that.  I trust them, not him.  He has a reason to lie.  They don't.

False.  Stop lying please.    “His own staff” that commented on it, didn’t do so until after she was no longer on his staff and after it was public (after only being on his staff for like 2 months).  She clearly didn’t learn about it until everyone else did and was just speculating.  She also appears to be the source for the outing of the explicit text messages, so clearly has a grudge.

[TBayXXXVII]

On 6/2/2026 at 10:12 AM, Fnord said:

Sadly, you're right. Low moral character and a lack of integrity are now things we look past due to partisanship. And it's what got us into this mess. That stuff absolutely SHOULD be disqualifying.

A byproduct of supporting a secular ideology. 

[TimHauck]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

That's all according to him.   People on his own staff dispute that.  I trust them, not him.  He has a reason to lie.  They don't.

A person that left the campaign after 2 months most definitely does have incentive to lie.  HTH

[thegeneral]

22 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Elon musk NAZI, guy with NAZI tattoos who gives NAZI salute to supporters not a NAZI. You'd vote for this degenerate if you could 

Do you understand why we goof on you now? 

I don’t think I have called Elon a Nazi. His salute thing I think was some of his weirdo spectrum thing or trolling, hard to say. Outside of that I just think he’s a complete jackoff

The funny thing about this is you put on the kneepads for all these jackasses, namely Trump like you are going to war, and you then act all surprised when team blue tie doesn’t immediately give in when some candidate has some skeletons in their closet. Look within

[Hardcore troubadour]

43 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

I’ve also seen no evidence that Platner is a consistent liar. However, given that he’s a populist politician, this is always possible. 

But I have seen evidence, in real time, that Susan Collins is a liar. And I have seen evidence in real time of the damage she has caused this nation as Senator. So to me it remains an easy choice. 

Birds of a feather 

[TimHauck]

44 minutes ago, Strike said:

So you're just willfully ignorant.  Got it.  And, for the record, the reason I'm not giving you the information you pretend to seek is that you're disingenuous.  Just like his tattoo, if I give you all of his lies on a silver platter you'd just makes excuses, minimize, or otherwise pretend they don't matter.  So there's no point.  You've never processed information people have given you and altered your viewpoint.  You're just one of the lib talking points machines that troll this forum every day.

Sweet backtrack, fraud

[seafoam1]

10 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

A person that left the campaign after 2 months most definitely does have incentive to lie.  HTH

Are you that petty? In my career job I tell the truth about them after I left. Mostly good. But some not so great realities too. 

How hard is it to tell the truth? Even if you only work somewhere for a short bit.

What's this incentive? If you are talking about your own character, ok. We already know you lie a lot because of your TDS, but no one cares. You are shallow and it's easy to see through. 

[seafoam1]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Sweet backtrack, fraud

theHack is trying hard. 

[TimHauck]

48 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

I don’t actually know much about him. What has he lied about?

I know about this tattoo we have talked about. I listened to a long interview with him where he talked about it and the Reddit posts among other topics. His politics are not really aligned with mine fully but I saw why he made a strong candidate in Maine.

 

I’m guessing if any righty gives an actual answer (unlikely) it will be some semantics like “he said he was working class but his grandad was a famous architect!”

I’m not aware of any “documented” lies from Platner.  It is funny that @Strike has a hardon for hating this guy for “documented lies” yet constantly defends the IDF who have 100% been caught lying and even admitted to it.

[thegeneral]

12 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

A person that left the campaign after 2 months most definitely does have incentive to lie.  HTH

It seems that way to me and the one article I found on this from like the Bangor Gazette a few weeks back did seem to allude to that she had an axe to grind. But who knows in these situations from such little info and perspectives.

The one point she had about the tattoo was that she claimed he’s a huge WW2 buff and she didn’t believe his story about not knowing. That did seem at least plausible I assume there would be some stuff about this he wrote if that were true as he was online talking all kinds of stuff for years. In any case I bought his story as it is currently.

Part of how he handles all this shet is part of this process. He has come across a bit like a dipshit on some of these confrontations or to be more kind not politically polished but that works for many in this world. He has also given some good soundbites that I have caught. I’ll watch a debate with him and Collins if I have a chance for sure. 

 

[TimHauck]

2 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Are you that petty? In my career job I tell the truth about them after I left. Mostly good. But some not so great realities too. 

How hard is it to tell the truth? Even if you only work somewhere for a short bit.

What's this incentive? If you are talking about your own character, ok. We already know you lie a lot because of your TDS, but no one cares. You are shallow and it's easy to see through. 

Presumably she wants to get a new job, so she needs to provide a good reason for leaving so quickly so someone else will hire her.  Claiming her old boss knew he had a Nazi tattoo would probably do the trick.

[seafoam1]

3 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Presumably she wants to get a new job, so she needs to provide a good reason for leaving so quickly so someone else will hire her.  Claiming her old boss knew he had a Nazi tattoo would probably do the trick.

Lying doesn't help because the truth in things like this comes out quickly. And it has done just that. 

He has a Nazi tattoo. He covered it up but hasn't fully gotten rid of it. 

I hope he wins the primary.

[thegeneral]

12 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Are you that petty? In my career job I tell the truth about them after I left. Mostly good. But some not so great realities too. 

How hard is it to tell the truth? Even if you only work somewhere for a short bit.

What's this incentive? If you are talking about your own character, ok. We already know you lie a lot because of your TDS, but no one cares. You are shallow and it's easy to see through. 

You don’t see the incentive or desire to talk about a boss that you may have had an acrimonious situation with?

[thegeneral]

22 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

I’m guessing if any righty gives an actual answer (unlikely) it will be some semantics like “he said he was working class but his grandad was a famous architect!”

I’m not aware of any “documented” lies from Platner.  It is funny that @Strike has a hardon for hating this guy for “documented lies” yet constantly defends the IDF who have 100% been caught lying and even admitted to it.

It would be nice to get a link to all the documented lies. I mean everyone in this world has some level of this. 

[seafoam1]

1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

You don’t see the incentive or desire to talk about a boss that you may have had an acrimonious situation with?

I wouldn't lie about them. And what did he do to her? 

And "may have had"? 

So again, you don't know anything. 

You want to use the word 'possibly' a few times again?