Sailor Michael

This is a huge story.

Anna Sale: When news came out about your tattoo—the skull-and-crossbones design that resembles Nazi imagery—you said it was fed from people researching your background who wanted to discredit you. Do you understand it to have come from national Democrats? Graham Platner: We have our suspicions. The governor announced the campaign on a Tuesday and all of the negative stories began to drop Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of that week. You don’t have to do a lot of deep thinking to find connections there.

Here's his big "accusation:" That he "suspects" the DSCC "fed" the story about the Nazi tattoo to the media to "discredit" him.

As if the fact that HE HAD A LARGE NAZI SS TOTENKOPF TATTOO ON HIS CHEST FOR 18 YEARS was something which they should have kept mum about.

You don’t have to be an expert to know that “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” means boots on the ground.

Trump is broadcasting a plan for the escalation of his war.

Thats what's bothering me. Its worse with incompetence

The Democratic Party is following the same playbook as Target and will get similar results:

Teacher Pay Raise, Mandatory Online Campaign Finance Filing Among Bills Dead in Mississippi Legislature Bills to enact a teacher pay raise and force all political candidates to file campaign finance documents online died in the Mississippi Legislature.

The Mississippi Legislature failed to advance a teacher pay raise bill because the House and Senate could not come to an agreement on how much of a raise to provide.

Trump would have loved Saddam and Gaddafi. 💕

Whew…for real. fucked the entire world.

Yeah. That sums it up perfectly.

Y'all are going to kill us all. Fucking dumbasses

Y'all are going to kill us all. Fucking dumbasses

We have a fucked up economy, Nazis running to the Democratic Party and being pushed by Senators and anti-Democrats, war and threats to the whole hemisphere.

Fuck y'all

Those bashing the Dems here don't care about all the shit that this idiot has destroyed.

It's so fucking annoying.

We have a fucked up economy, Nazis running to the Democratic Party and being pushed by Senators and anti-Democrats, war and threats to the whole hemisphere.

Fuck y'all

You fucked the entire world🌎 The easiest two elections in my lifetime and you botched it on purpose

You fucked the entire world🌎 The easiest two elections in my lifetime and you botched it on purpose

prolly the former rather than the latter.

unless something like that is printed in BIG BOLD TYPE, very few actually see it.

i wouldn't argue with you on being convinced about that. his brain wasn't total oatmeal then like it is now.

So, Trump is openly saying that Cuba is going to fall and we can only deduct from that, he will be the reason. Y'all completely fucked that election up and it will NOT be corrected in my lifetime. You make me sick and its pathetic that most of you don't see what you have done

He's full of shit. Platner is a terrible candidate and probably the worse running as a Democrat

Share Comment Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Maine’s Democratic Senate primary has become one of the most closely watched races of the 2026 midterms, and one of the most contentious within the party itself. Graham Platner, a 41-year-old combat veteran and oyster farmer from a town of 1,000, is leading two-term Gov. Janet Mills by more than 30 points in the most recent poll. That’s despite a rocky October that surfaced offensive Reddit posts from Platner’s past, as well as a chest tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, which he promptly had covered with a new design. He’s outraised Mills. He’s been endorsed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, Martin Heinrich, and, most recently, Ruben Gallego. And still, he says, no one from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spoken to him. I’ve been following Platner’s campaign as a former political reporter who grew up in West Virginia, a rural state where Democrats have lost the ability to win over the course of my lifetime. When I heard that Platner was passing through the Bay Area for meetings and fundraising, I sat down with him for an extended interview for Death, Sex & Money. We talked about a lot: his childhood in rural Maine, his combat service, his struggles with PTSD, why he and his wife traveled to Norway for fertility treatment they couldn’t afford in the U.S. But some of his most striking comments were about how the national Democratic Party has treated his candidacy from the very start, and how he thinks about the political choices Democrats face right now. We offered the DSCC a chance to comment on Platner’s accusations—he raises serious and controversial charges—but the committee did not respond. Platner spoke to Death, Sex & Money on Feb. 23, before the U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran. An excerpt of our conversation, below, has been edited and condensed for clarity. Anna Sale: When news came out about your tattoo—t…

Here's what he said. He basically blames Democrats for focusing on "culture war" issues.

Sooooooo many people don't realize or remember that we were actually in the first part of a recession before COVID hit. COVID basically gave them cover for the shitty economy and I'm convinced he pretended to go along with the shutdown in the beginning to distract from that.

So, Trump is openly saying that Cuba is going to fall and we can only deduct from that, he will be the reason. Y'all completely fucked that election up and it will NOT be corrected in my lifetime. You make me sick and its pathetic that most of you don't see what you have done

It’s called “vetting,” asshole. You’re running for a high-profile U.S. Senate seat with zero political experience. Of COURSE they’re gonna dig into your past. That’s standard.

Once again: Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t have a clue how anything works.

we are already there.

I agree

Whatever the reason it is not good for dems and democracy.

He is denying the progressive label that was given to him like Fetterman. 🤷🏿‍♂️

He is denying the progressive label that was given to him like Fetterman. 🤷🏿‍♂️

He should NOT be running as a Democrat. He was recruited for a purpose and I don't know what that purpose is, don't give a fuck but I do know its troubling

He should NOT be running as a Democrat. He was recruited for a purpose and I don't know what that purpose is, don't give a fuck but I do know its troubling