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'The Establishment Is Spooked': Poll Shows Platner With Big Lead Over Mills in Maine Democratic Primary
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100% this.
Leftist out here doing stupid purity tests, looking for some fairy tale candidate messiah. Gatekeeping anyone who isnt some perfect being. Because that's representative of the normal human experience......
The tattoo thing was ALWAYS overblown. Anyone who knows marines, especially young shithead marines, knew that tattoo thing was stupid. I believe that he and his fellow marines didn't know what it was when he got it. Because most people just learned what it was. So many people just now, this week, hearing the word "totenkopf" for the first time in their lives and feigning outrage.
I'll even give you that maybe he found out later, knew what it was, but didn't have it covered. And why?
Because it didn't matter. That's not what the tattoo meant to him, and its not what anyone around him thought it was. He had no pressing reason to cover it. Maybe it even served as a reminder of his shithead past.
It wasn't until he got into the public eye when a bunch of terminally online nitpickers lost their shit that it actually became an issue to him to fix.
And he did fix it IMMEDIATELY.
And I've yet to see anyone who smugly reacted to the initial story with "so he got it covered right? right?" eat their words. Instead they've doubled down and moved the goal posts to "well, he should have had it covered forever ago". Insufferable bullshit.
My brother in law, also a prior marine, had tattoos of clovers. Because he's Irish and thought they were cool. It wasn't until after his service that he learned that clovers are common with skinheads. And because he want a job in teaching, he got them covered.
This shit happens all the time. People making a stink about it are so far out of touch. They either need to touch grass, pull the stick out of their ass or the silver spoon out of their throat.
The privileged pearl clutching to instead defer support to another Biden/Pelosi/Schumer corpo dinosaur is pathetic.
Dems are great at talking themselves out of EVERY candidate, leaving us nothing but MAGAs.
Could you imagine if a strong, intelligent person like Elizabeth Warren was president? America, and the world, would be a much better, far less chaotic, place in the universe.
This isn't a purity test. He knew
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
Even if he knew. Young soldiers doing stupid edgy stuff is par for the course. SS skull? Looks badass, man! That’s about the amount of thought that went into that.
Less thought was put into choosing that tattoo than the next bar to visit.
Then don't wait until years later when you're called out in the media to remove it. He knew, he kept lying about it.
Whatever, be mad forever then. I hope your perfect lefty savior shows up for you. If we're lucky, maybe we'll still be able to vote when they do.
Anything is better than a Nazi, I'm not asking for perfection
Except he's very clearly not a Nazi.
If he's not a Nazi he's too stupid to be a politician anyway
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs
I’ll take a reformed Nazi over Janet Mills or Susan Collins.
Removing a tattoo is very expensive and very painful. Anyone would put it off for as long as possible.
Then at least don't lie about it
You're right, you should vote for the Nazi candidates that are proud to be a Nazis, and are promoting Nazi policies. That will teach those good Dem candidates...to not run for office.
No, you can pick a candidate to vote for who isn't a Nazi at all, and if there is none maybe you should get somebody else to run
There is no such thing as "the better Nazi to vote for". "Lesser evil" only works when you don't have the option to replace the evil.
It's not about him being a "better" Nazi, or even a Nazi at all. It's about whether you believe this politician before he's even elected.
He's clearly not a Nazi, and nobody in his history is claiming he's had a history of Nazi behavior.
This is about his constituents believing him. If they believe his story, then vote for him. Or not.
But he's not a Nazi, he's a guy who used to be Marine, got drunk, and got a regrettable tattoo. That's not a rare thing, and it shouldn't disqualify anyone from anything.
Yes and there's the problem, they shouldn't believe him, because either he's secretly a Nazi or he's actually just too damn stupid to be a politician
You don't accidentally get Nazi tattoos because you have to search to find tattoo artists willing to do them
He got drunk when he was young, and got a tattoo, egged on by his drunken buddies, no doubt. THAT makes him too stupid to get a job DECADES later?
And "secret Nazi?" How exactly does that work? He's been lying in wait for decades, hiding his true feelings, pretending to be a Democrat, even voting for them in every election, getting involved in the local Democratic party, etc., raising money, campaigning, etc., all while hiding his secret Nazi leanings?
That way, he can wait until his middle age to run for office as DEMOCRAT, and his single Congressional vote bring them down from the inside. DIABOLICAL!
The entire problem with Democrats is they think every one of their candidates should be JESUS. They're just humans, who have been living their lives just like you. They haven't been residing in a glass box, quarantined from the world, waiting to be released when the Dems need a perfect, squeaky clean candidate to save them from themselves.
Would we even want a candidate like that? Don't we want someone who is an actual living human, a citizen who has to deal with all the same challenges in life that we have? How many of us think our entire lives should be defined by the one night you got drunk with your buddies, and got a stupid tattoo? If your kid came home with a dumb tattoo, would you declare him unemployable for the rest of their life?
We're electing people to represent people. Let them be people, and accept that they won't be perfect, just like YOU.
I swear to god most of you people attacked both Biden and Kamala despite both being more competent candidates. How the hell do you guys choose who to attack and who to defend? Are you trying to lose on purpose?
I'm not even seeing you defend a candidate like Mamdani either, who actually need the support right now