Remember all the furor over Pete Hegseth’s Christian tattoos from the US media, how they said it was disqualifying? Weirdly, I’m not seeing any of that with this guy
Sanders-backed Democrat who accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ has Nazi ‘Totenkopf’ tattoo
An oyster farmer and progressive military veteran running an insurgent campaign for Maine’s Democratic Senate nomination admitted this week to having had a Nazi tattoo for nearly two decades.
Graham Platner shared a video of himself shirtless, sporting the tattoo, on a popular progressive podcast. He denied that he himself ever held Nazi views, instead claiming he had gotten the tattoo while “inebriated” as a young adult without knowing what it meant.
Since launching his campaign this summer, the 41-year-old Platner has picked up steam in left-wing circles for his populist positions, including calling Israel’s military campaign in Gaza a genocide.
The political neophyte has won endorsements from progressive leaders, including Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish. Morris Katz, the Jewish campaign strategist behind Zohran Mamdani’s digital ads for New York City mayor, made a campaign launch video for Platner.
As of Sept. 30, according to campaign finance records, Platner led his Democratic rivals in campaign donations with $3.2 million in contributions. At his rallies, the biggest applause comes when he delivers lines like “Our tax dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs that destroy schools and hospitals in Gaza.”
No calls from the NY Times or Washington Post for him to drop out, not even performative ones, because the Democrat base supports the aims of Nazis, as they’ve aligned themselves with the Islamists and Jew haters.
This week, a recent video of a shirtless Platner also surfaced in which he can be seen sporting a chest tattoo of a Totenkopf, a Nazi-era skull-and-crossbones design favored by SS officers. “Totenkopf,” or “Death’s Head,” was also the name of the division of officers who guarded the concentration camps.
He claims he got while drunk as a skunk while on leave in 2007 without knowing the meaning. And that is what he is telling the media in the US, which do not seem very interested
However, quoting an anonymous former acquaintance of his, Jewish Insider reported on Tuesday that Platner had referred to the ink as “my Totenkopf” more than a decade ago and would frequently take his shirt off at the Washington, D.C., bar where he worked at the time. “He said it in a cutesy little way,” the source said. Jewish Insider additionally reported that Platner had met with other men with Nazi links, including one neo-Nazi who is running for a seat on Bangor City Council.
Huh. He claims he is going to have it removed. You know, now that he is busted. But, will he? Will Democrats vote for him? Are we surprised by him being accepted by the Democratic Party?
Who among us hasn’t gotten a nazi tattoo while drunk on leave? And the Democrats have a shortage of people who don’t have even worse pasts, thanks to social media. This is the best they could find on short notice.
A Democrat that’s a Nazi…what else is new?