Posted on 06/06/2026 1:56:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Most people don't know this, but the rise of Graham Platner wasn't remotely organic, and there is almost nothing real about his origin story or his campaign.
Jim Geraghty did a superb job explaining the process by which a wealthy, mentally unstable guy who was kicked out of an exclusive private school and who bragged about how he went off to war because he wanted to kill people was transformed into a working-class everyman oyster farmer.
Platner was handpicked, groomed, artificially constructed, promoted through a sophisticated public relations campaign, and elevated to superstar status.
The phrase “it’s an op” – meaning an influence operation – is often, though not always, a marker of paranoia, a tendency towards conspiracy theories, or a belief in forces that are unseen and cannot yet be proven to exist.
Still, from the very start of SS-tattooed Democrat Graham Platner’s campaign for Senate, something seemed odd. The New York Times is not in the habit of writing a largely glowing profile of every long-shot, little-known Democrat who announces a bid for Senate. Platner was the harbormaster of Sullivan, Maine, population 1,246.
Yet the Times wrote its profile of Platner before he officially announced his campaign, in August.
In September, The New Yorker wrote its own 3,400-word profile of Platner, emphasizing how he “devoured books on military history.” (But remember, he insists he never recognized the tattoo on his chest as a symbol of the Nazi SS.) Again, The New Yorker almost never writes long-detailed profiles of little-known Democratic Senate candidates one month after they announce their bid.
Then in October, GQ – not primarily a political magazine, and not one that often spotlights candidates – published its own large spread of Platner with lots of photos.
Then in November, the culinary magazine Bon Appetit – again, not in the habit of covering obscure Senate candidates – wrote another glowing profile, this one entitled, “How Graham Platner Went From Working-Class Oysterman to Maine’s Zohran Mamdani.”
This is Beto O’Rourke-level national coverage, right out of the gate.
There was nothing organic about this, obviously. It's not like The New York Times has a laser-focus on random oyster farmers in Maine and can predict that one might jump into the Senate race
Graham Platner created the website for his Senate campaign before he created the website for his fake oyster business. The WhoIs records are indisputable.
His mom is the only customer of his oyster hobby, and judging by the number of liens, she’s had filed against her for unpaid taxes, she’s not buying that many.
For that matter, Graham Platner wasn't an oyster farmer who was on the map. He created the website for his business AFTER he registered his Senate campaign address, which makes sense, since he has only one customer—his mother—and his "farm" is on a wealthy buddy's private island.
Maine's far-left Democratic Senate nominee, Graham Platner, has leaned on his career as a "working-class" oyster farmer to cast himself as a blue-collar everyman. His Ivy League business partner—who owns the secluded island where the farm is based—is, well, anything but.
Robert Cushman III is an elite New England boarding school graduate who has described his habit of drinking "foraged spring water with Redmond sea salt." He got into the oyster farming business, he has said, after having had a "liminal seafood experience" at the age of four.
The website for the Platner-Cushman farm—which is officially called the Frenchman Bay Oyster Company but does business under the name of Waukeag Neck Oyster Co.—describes Cushman as a "local food" advocate with "long-time family ties" to Maine. But Cushman was born in Africa and raised in Canada, according to an interview he gave to CKTH, short for Can't Knock the Hustle, an online wetsuit store that sells $25 wooden hangers and counts Cushman as a "founding member." He has spoken of spending summers in Maine with his family, and his "liminal seafood experience in Maine," he said in 2010, came when he "was about four and it involved fresh mussels collected a hundred feet from the table."
"I crave that rich, savory rush of amino acids that it has in such abundance," Cushman said, describing his love of seafood in an interview with Greenhorns, an organization focused on "food justice" and creating a "welcoming cultural space."
A very Maine working-class story, isn't it? Very relatable.
Of course, candidates always burnish their resumes; what makes this all interesting is that, clearly, Platner didn't do the burnishing; he is the product carefully constructed by a highly sophisticated political operation that has its roots in the Obama Bros, who have been Platner's cheerleaders, helping him rise from obscurity to the Democratic candidate for Senate against Susan Collins.
Morris Katz, about whom many others and I have written, is the wunderkind running Platner's campaign, and he, in turn, is being run by his mentor, David Axelrod. These are the people who picked a deranged, violent, Nazi-tattoo-wearing self-avowed communist who abuses women to become their everyman candidate.
It’s sickening to watch Democrats who screamed “Believe All Women” and lionized Christine Blasey Ford — despite zero corroboration — now dismiss allegations against Graham Platner simply because she’s a Republican .
Ford got the Time cover, CBS, The View. A conservative woman gets a character assassination.
Bear in mind, Dems aren’t forced to choose between a democrat and republican... they’re choosing a guy with a Nazi tattoo over a normal Democrat.
Seriously. Platner didn't find them and fool them into backing him; they found him, groomed him, constructed a narrative around him, and are backing him despite (or because of?) his obvious red flags. Even the origin story that random DSA kids convinced Graham to run is constructed, since random DSA kids can't conjure up New York Times, New Yorker, GQ, and Bon Appetít profiles on demand.
With all the scandals that have swirled around Platner's campaign, you have to wonder why these sophisticated operatives chose such a flawed vehicle for their takeover of the Maine Democratic Party—and make no mistake, that was part of the plan, and it was successful enough to destroy the political career of one of the most popular governors in the country, Janet Mills.
I can't answer that, but it certainly wasn't because they couldn't have vetted him thoroughly before elevating him. Graham Platner was a random crank who liked to train Antifa trannies—that was his preferred student group—in how to do combat assaults. He was bloodthirsty, openly saying he wanted to kill people, and even after serving in the Marines, he lusted to go back into combat, so he volunteered for a PMC, despite coming from a wealthy family, being on 100% combat disability, and not needing the money.
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His wife loves his abuse, that much is obvious. And sad.
The reason he polls +0 is because Mainers have a surplus of backwoods Deliverance methhead Groyper whi&&er commie simp retards.
As I posted earlier, because the oppo can put the revelation in neutral and wait until after Labor Day to produce the rest of the damning selfie videos, dik pix, and texts he sent to 'of-age' girls on Kik, before / after his marriage.
Genuine scumbag, incapable of remorse. Why? No remorse means his Simper Fi training parked itself in his limbic system, becoming a trained killer filled that limbic void, but now has no outlet. Go look at his disability claims.
In a normal world, he would not even be permitted to enter the Senate gallery, much less run for office.
Collins has always successfully made it on money + dark money + more dark money + PACs. And she will do the exact same thing again in November.
The only remaining question, is can the GOP use Groyper Shitstain as a key woman wedge issue driven against the other marxists who refuse to remove him or even denounce his spousal abuse.
Not sure why, but when black martyrs are chosen to be lionized, they seem to pick generally non-angelic thugs.
Dem playbook.
I wonder what else is going on in Maine that the Dems don’t want the rest of us noticing?
They come from affluent backgrounds and have educated and/ or wealthy parents but are downwardly mobile, they fail to launch and then find a foothold in leftist politics.
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