As many Americans know, Graham Platner is the consultant-found and packaged Democrat candidate running to replace pseudo-Republican Susan Collins in Maine. He’s the choice of a Democrat Party desperate to somehow convince the American men who have been fleeing from them in droves to return and once again embrace their anti-male, anti-American policies.
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He’s everything Democrats think American men are and desire. He’s a scruffy-looking, bearded, beefy former Marine. He’s antisemitic, misogynistic, hates our military and America, masturbates in port-a-potties and brags about it. He’s an oyster farmer, whose farming consists of selling to his only customer: his mother who owns a restaurant. And perhaps best of all, for 18 years he proudly wore a huge Tottenkopf tattoo on his chest. We know this because he also has a tendency to go topless in bars.
This is something of a problem for Democrats because they’ve spent the last decade or so accusing Donald Trump and at least half of America of being Nazis and Hitler. But where Platner is concerned, that doesn’t matter. If Platner wins, Democrats might take control of the Senate, so he’s their kind of Nazi, and he easily won the Democrat nomination.
But the problem just won’t go away, because, well, it’s incredible hypocrisy, and Platner keeps lying about it. He claimed he got it when he was a young Marine and had no idea what it was, nor did he ask the tattoo artist. Apparently, none of his Marine buddies knew or asked. Former girlfriends and friends have testified that he was proud of his “Tottenkopf” and told them all about it. And it was only when he was, just recently, made aware that it was the cherished symbol of Heinrich Himmler and Nazi SS death camp guards, that he hurriedly had it inked over with an equally ugly, but not specifically Nazi tattoo.
So, for Democrats it’s no big deal. It’s not that it’s the naziest of Nazi symbols, but that Normal Americans have noticed it. I mean, what American man doesn’t do all that stuff, like masturbate in port-a-potties, brag about it, and have huge Tottenkopf tattoos inked into their flesh and lie about them? The Democrats’ message to the men it wants to entice back into the fold? Shut up.
But inconvenient facts about Platner keep popping up, and another former girlfriend is outing his lies:
The former girlfriend, who spoke to the New York Post but was not named in the story, is a self-identified leftist. According to her, Platner knew exactly what the tattoo represented and kept it deliberately. Her account blows a massive hole in his story. Platner has insisted he didn’t recognize the symbol until last fall, but she says that’s a lie. She confronted him about it directly.
“As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas,” she told the Post.
Think about that for a second. He kept a Nazi tattoo as an anti-American statement. He knew it had Nazi origins, kept it for years, and used it to express contempt for this country. And Maine Democrats just voted to make him their Senate nominee.
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Can’t they just shut up already? They made their decision. Platner is Democrats’ Nazi. Like them, he hates the Jews! He’s their great white hope!
And it keeps getting worse. Have I mentioned Platner also cheated on his wife and sexted dozens of women, and possibly girls, on a notorious pedo/predator site?
The ex-girlfriend also alleges that Platner cheated on his fiancée with her in 2021 and cheated on a second girlfriend before marrying his current wife. Once again, there are texts to back up her claims. In messages to her mother dated Sept. 26, 2025, months before the tattoo became public knowledge, she called it out directly. “Better not take a peek at the Nazi tattoo on his chest,” she wrote in a separate message to a friend.
She documented all of this in real time, before any of it became a news story. Nobody can retroactively spin that.
Unfortunately for Democrats, and hopefully fortunately for America, Platner’s bizarre beliefs and actions aren’t going away. But American men are, because the constant flood of revelations about just how little Democrats know about men, and just how far from American manhood Platner is, are constant reminders of just who he, and they, are.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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