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Posted on 05/31/2026 9:29:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Maine Democrats were warned.
They had every reason to look more closely at Graham Platner before handing him their Senate nomination. They didn't. Now the drip, drip, drip of scandal has turned into a flood, and the question isn't whether Platner survives; it’s whether he makes it to Election Day without the whole thing collapsing.
I’m not sure that he will.
As far as I’m concerned, the Nazi tattoo alone should have ended his campaign last year. Yet, Maine Democrats shrugged. Then came the Reddit posts. It was a barrage of embarrassing, disqualifying stuff for most candidates. Maine Democrats shrugged again.
Now we have the latest, reported Saturday by PJ Media's Chris Queen: sexually explicit text messages with multiple women, on an app nicknamed “Predator’s Paradise.”
According to reporting from The New York Times, Platner's wife, Amy Gertner, discovered the texts on his phone in the spring of 2025, less than a year into their marriage. She later disclosed the messages during internal vetting in late August, as campaign aides were doing opposition research on their own candidate. One current campaign official said Platner had been communicating with up to six women. Genevieve McDonald, Platner's former political director, confirmed that Gertner brought her the information, and McDonald showed the screenshots to the Times.
The Times acknowledged that the revelation could damage a political newcomer whose campaign against Sen. Susan Collins was starting to gain traction, particularly damaging in a state where women make up a large share of the electorate. The paper also flagged the broader stakes: the Maine race is considered critical to the Democratic Party’s hopes of reclaiming control of the Senate in November.
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His username, phustle0331, matches a private Instagram account linked to Platner and his Reddit account. The profile photo appears to be a mirror selfie of Platner in nothing but a bath towel, with visible tattoos matching Platner’s known ones. Platner later admitted to the Wall Street Journal that the account was his.
Here's where it still gets worse.
Platner’s Kik account was created on June 26, 2016, at a time when the platform had already become notorious for predatory behavior and earned the nickname “Predator’s Paradise.” A 2016 sting operation resulted in the arrests of more than 2,600 predators. The New York Times had already published an exposé on the app's dangers to children. Experts estimate 70% of Kik's users are between 13 and 24. The app still has no age verification.
This is not the last scandal he’s going to have deal with, guys like this are trainwrecks and I’m sure his opponents have a number of other things they will dole out over the summer
Platner sent dick pix or it never happened.
I think they have until July 13 to replace him, if it comes to that.
Call me old-fashioned, but that should have ended him right there.
And until it did, even if Republicans had an IQ over 20, they should have done anything and everything possible to make him the face of the Democratic Party. It should be on the news every night.
We all know that if a Democrat had a Nazi tattoo, it would be shouted from the roof tops everywhere. And I would be the first person to say dump that candidate so fast you can't even see the blur.
Why do Republicans do almost everything they can to help Democrats?
If Platner somehow got elected, every time a Republican Senator refers to him, they should call him, “The Senator from Deutschland.”
Was his name Carlos Danger or Ron Mexico?
His name is White Trash.
> We all know that if a Democrat had a Nazi tattoo, it would be shouted from the roof tops everywhere.
You meant Republican.
If needed the cheating Democrats will pull a Torricelli and replace the Nazi past the legal deadline.
isn’t he still leading in the polls? And he covered the Nazi tattoo with a hammer and sickle, so the Dems are good with it.
Plattner doesn’t just have a couple skeletons in his closet, he’s got an entire block-long conga line of skeletons parading out of the closet.
I’m in Maine now on vacation. Platner yard signs are everywhere. I don’t think he’s going anywhere
Steve Robinson of “The Maine Wire” appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast more than six months ago.
Steve Robinson said Platner is a member of a group called the “Socialist Rifle Association.”
Steve Robinson also showed photographs of Platner training members of Antifa how to shoot firearms in the Maine woods.
Seeing as how President Trump declared Antifa a terrorist group, why hasn’t Platner been arrested for training terrorists?
Collins was trailing by eight points at this time six years ago and she won by eight points in November of 2020.
I can’t see this communist POS Platner winning.
I think they have until July 13 to replace him, if it comes to that.
Actually the 2nd Monday in July is the last day a party nominee can resign and be replaced. That replacement must happen by the 4th Monday in July.
As there are three candidates on the ballot and Janet Mills did not formaly withdraw the race will be decided by the rank choice process which will take over a week to process the tabulation for. So we will not know any of the state candidates for Dem Senator, Dem 2nd Congressional Distrct and the Rep and Dem governor until that time.
Collins was trailing by eight points at this time six years ago and she won by eight points in November of 2020.
The polls had Susan trailing by 6 to 8 points in October of 2020. She won aby 18 points in a cycle that Trump lost reelection. The polls are worthless.
Trump won. They cheated to make Biden POTUS.
Wait a minute...
The New York Times admits they were given this information to advise the campaign, and they agreed to cover it up, and THAT isn't the bad part of the story?
-PJ
I’m 75 now and my Father died quite a few years ago, he never talked to much about WW II but I did manage to get him a little lit when I got back home in 1970.
Dad went into France, Germany, and Austria with Patton’s 3rd Army.
We were just telling each other about our experiences in combat, just the light stuff you know.
I told him about the time it rained like hell and I fell asleep on a land mine (didn’t go off obviously), woke up the next morning and found out the “ROCK” I had slept on all night WASN”T a rock.
He told me about an action his halftrack was in just after the Bulge; it was snowing and starting to get dark so they stopped by an old barn and he was told to check it out.
He steps through the side door and there’s one of those SS son of a bitches peeking out through the main doors, he must have heard my dad because he starts to turn around and that’s when my Dad shot his Schutzstaffel ass deader than yesterdays dog crap.
Any body who tattoos a TOTENKOPF on their body knows GODAMN GOOD AND WELL WHAT IS and WHAT IT STANDS FOR!
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