She said I’ll show you how to tab in the mail room, honey, and have you home by five …
The jig is up on Graham Platner, the fraudulent antisemitic Jew hater, far-left Communist Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Maine. Platner’s trail of lies, deceit, hate, bigotry and detestable history of being pro-Nazi, a homophobic rape apologist and a shady Washington DC… pic.twitter.com/FJBu8cN6W1
— Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) May 3, 2026
… and a shady Washington DC student-turned-batender-turned-unemployed-turned-“farmer” Communist proves how deranged and unfit he and the Democrats who endorsed him are to be in the United States congress.
Platner claims he had no idea his Hitlerian tattoo was a Nazi SS unit concentration camp tattoo. He’s lying.
Jewish Insider reported that a former acquaintance recalled Platner stating on at least one occasion that he knew what the tattoo represented.
“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf, the former acquaintance said. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
Ed: No one gets tattooed with this specific image without knowing what it means. The Totenkopf was the symbol of the SS, the criminals who ran extermination camps and carried out the Final Solution on millions of European Jews. Either Platner knew this and didn’t care (or outright endorsed it), or he’s too stupid for any form of public trust. Read this whole thread, because there is evidence for both conclusions.
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CNN, October 2025: In one thread from 2019, Platner weighed in on a conversation about the “Totenkopf” … to note that many US service members had adopted similar imagery, such as the Punisher skull used by some Navy SEALs.
Using his longtime Reddit handle P-Hustle, the former Marine infantryman and future Democratic Senate hopeful also argued in a 2020 online discussion that “SS” lightning-bolt tattoos were a “culture” marker within Marine Scout Sniper units, not an expression of White supremacist ideology.
When commenters in the 2020 thread described the lightning bolts as a Nazi or racist symbol, Platner dismissed the criticism, writing that outsiders “have no idea what they’re talking about” and added, “I will be sure to inform the Black guys I know with bolts that they’re Nazis now.” …
CNN also spoke with an acquaintance of Platner from more than a decade ago who said Platner spoke about his tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol. A second person told CNN that they learned of the tattoo years ago from the acquaintance, who told them that Platner had described it as a Nazi-style design.
Ed: This guy’s lying through his teeth after having this exposed in the campaign last year. So are Democrats and progressives attempting to “contextualize” it. They’re the same idiots who accused Elon Musk of being a Nazi because of the way he waved to a crowd.
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The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner.
It’s about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18… pic.twitter.com/I9Gp2I4dBp
— pragmatometer (@pragmatometer) May 3, 2026
… a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years.
It’s a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.
Ed: Well, it’s not JUST about Platner, as this user acknowledged downstream in this thread. It’s certainly about this loser from nowhere who flattered progressives enough to grab the brass ring in Maine. But yes, it’s a much larger story about how enamored progressive fascists actually get with real Nazis, as opposed to everyone they accuse of being Nazis. And the GOP has to make this THE argument of the midterms.
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Free Beacon: Kelly Neumann, a Michigan trial attorney and Democratic fundraiser, has threatened the Washington Free Beacon with “legal action” unless we retract our story about her Veterans Day Facebook post honoring her grandfather who served “on the German side” in World War II.
The Free Beacon and others reported in January that Neumann, who has ties to prominent Michigan Democrats and co-chairs the finance committee on U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow’s campaign, had posted a bizarre message on her Facebook account in November 2024. McMorrow’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
“Happy Veterans Day to all my family and friends who serve/served!” Neumann’s post read. “Interesting story, I do not talk much about but my Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost…”
The post included several photos of the Nazi soldier in his Wehrmacht uniform. Neumann recalled that her grandfather was one of the first people to accept her as gay, which proved that “people can change and love can indeed win.” Neumann appears to have deleted the post shortly after the Free Beacon published our story. In the interest of full transparency, we have included a screenshot below.
Ed: As Andrew Kaczynski quipped on Twitter, maybe you don’t need to post everything on social media. Anyway, what would the basis of “legal action” be? Neumann posted this herself in a public forum; just because she later deleted it does not make it off-limits for journalists. Or anyone else, for that matter. Democrats really want to sell the “good Nazi” narrative, eh?
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I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate… https://t.co/vRjQAQ2kIF
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 3, 2026
… until the second he wanted to run for Senate and someone noticed. It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to suggest otherwise. Sorry, his Medicare thoughts from last week are not permanent body art or absolution.
Ed: And it’s very revealing that the Obama Bros keep arguing otherwise,
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Brad Slager at RedState: What has been remarkable to watch is that as all of these problems came to light, Platner has not worked much on improving his lot, and the Democrats have been unwavering in their support. How does he grapple with the reality that he had a Nazi tattoo inked on his chest — for decades, mind you — while trying to assuage voters and assure them that he is not a Jew-hating fascist? Cleverly, in January, he sat in on a podcast with a noted antisemitic host. Ah, yes, that should go far in dispelling Nazi claims. And this was not an accidental appearance; Platner said he was “a longtime fan” of Nate Cornacchia.
He then masterfully followed that a month later with a social media post in support of neo-Nazi Stew Peters. After receiving some obvious backlash, his social media team came out to say the “despicable” content from Peters was errantly promoted. It soon joined in with the numerous other posts Platner had previously made that were expunged from his account. By this point, you have to wonder just what it would take for Democrats to be served an assembly line of Nazi/supremacist products from Platner and get to the point of disavowing this dolt.
Instead, as head-shaking as his lack of political prowess has been, Platner’s support from his party and the media has been the most surreal thing to behold. So hungry are those entities to obtain a blue seat in the Senate that they are fully embracing a guy who would not have lasted a few weeks after filing to run as a Republican.
Ed: Brad has more receipts from lefties, including Krytal Ball, who congratulated Platner for having “survived the oppo dump of all oppo dumps.”
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John HInderaker in Power Line: “Islamophobia” is a tendentious term which implies that anyone who has reservations about the wisdom of mass immigration from Islamic countries suffers from an irrational “phobia,” so that the skeptic is the problem, not the behavior of the legal or illegal immigrants. The term was coined and foisted on the rest of us by Muslim activists–the Muslim Brotherhood, if I am not mistaken.
Sweden is one country that has had all the Islamic immigration it can stand. In the last couple of years, its center-right government has reversed the disastrous policies of its predecessors, to the point where there is now a net out-migration from that country. One impetus for that change is the fact that Sweden has one of the highest rates of forcible rape (don’t swallow the BS about how it is all about revised definitions or increased reporting) in Europe, with Islamic immigrants being vastly over-represented among the perpetrators.
Sweden’s government has now announced that it will no longer use the term “Islamophobia,” and will urge other European states to do likewise[.]
Ed: Good, and we should follow suit. A phobia is an irrational fear. Given the violence that accompanies Islamist groups and incursions, especially in Western countries, criticism of Islamists and their ideology is both rational and well-founded. The left-wing project of sticking “-phobia” on words to marginalize criticism needs to come to an end.
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Your daily reminder that Hamas wants to kill every Jew in Israel while Jews in Israel prefer not to be killed.
Until one of those dynamics change there will never be peace in Gaza.
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) May 4, 2026
Ed: It’s not Islamophobic to point this out. It’s just reality, as expressed by Hamas itself. Speaking of stupid leftist tricks, though …
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Nicholas Clairmont at the Free Press: Free of one particular problematic comrade with the wrong individual personality, the animals end the film ready to try again, expecting along with the film’s young audience every success. The message, completely opposed to that of the book, is that the utopian idea of a revolution was actually a good one all along, never mind what we just saw play out when it was actually implemented. Real animal farming has never been tried!
We are destined to argue over Orwell forever, because he is a hauntingly powerful writer who flattered neither right nor left. He was, after all, an avowed socialist who wrote some of the most effective anti-communist works of the 20th century. He also simply died too young. These arguments are healthy, but you cannot stretch Orwell infinitely. There should be no debate as to whether Animal Farm is about the evils of corporate conglomerates or about Soviet communism. And more broadly, the common thread running across Orwell’s fiction and nonfiction is his instinctive tendency to trust the pull of common decency over ideology when the two come into conflict. “How much of the present slide towards Fascist ways of thought,” he asks near the end of that preface to Animal Farm, “is traceable to the ‘anti-Fascism’ of the past 10 years and the unscrupulousness it has entailed?”
How much indeed, Mr. Serkis?
Ed: Ask the people pushing the Boy With The Nazi Tattoo for a seat in the US Senate. Wanna bet that at least a couple of cast members of this film will end up endorsing or donating to Platner’s campaign? Read the whole essay; it’s excellent.
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Tucker Carlson Denies Ever Hearing Of This Tucker Carlson Fellow https://t.co/6ToiOvCWAh pic.twitter.com/OWAHeLSnoj
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 4, 2026
Ed: I’m not even sure this is satire.
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Jonathan Turley: We have previously discussed Gavin Newsom’s train-to-nowhere project. It is now projected to cost $231 billion, but that does not appear to be his only costly boondoggle. The original estimate for the system was $33 billion. California has spent $450 million on Newsom’s “Next Generation,” which, according to the Sacramento Bee, will be scrapped entirely. That is over 300% over the original cost. None of these disastrous programs seems to cause California voters to actually hold their leaders responsible.
Newsom made the Next Generation initiative a central part of his first administration, heralding a new era in 911 communications. … The problem is that “when the time came to turn that system on, it didn’t work.” Of course, as with his high-speed rail, many became fantastically wealthy off the project while the public got stiffed. California citizens “still are depending on an emergency communication system that Newsom denounced as antiquated.”
Ed: And yet, Newsom is still one of the leading figures for the 2028 nomination. I mean, if Democrats can rationalize backing a Nazi-adjacent oyster farmer, maybe they have room in the tent for a guy who couldn’t get trains to run at all, let alone on time.
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Japan’s new prime minister said one sentence about Taiwan — and according to a former Japanese general, China is now being forced to tear up its entire invasion playbook.
Sanae Takaichi told the Diet that if China used warships and force to blockade Taiwan, Japan could classify… pic.twitter.com/zD6HbU8ruo
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) May 4, 2026
Sanae Takaichi told the Diet that if China used warships and force to blockade Taiwan, Japan could classify it as a “survival-threatening situation.”
In plain English: Japan would treat it as an act of war.
Last Friday in Tokyo, retired Lt. Gen. Kiyoshi Ogawa — former commander of Japan’s entire Western Army — explained exactly why Beijing didn’t see this coming.
Ed: Huge, if true. We’ll see, but it would certainly create more headaches for Beijing. Read the whole thing.
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Kira Davis: It was the shot heard round political social media. While the left has been framing the incident as a “meltdown,” the right sees it quite differently.
What we saw was a man who is as sick as the rest of us of the constant, unanswered aggression of our leftwing counterparts. On the video, it doesn’t seem like Mockler is sticking his hands directly in Jennings’ face, but it is obvious he is violating the personal space of his panel-mate.
Furthermore, the kid was being a total turd. This seems to be confirmed by Geraldo Rivera, who was present for the kerfuffle. “The kid was being a dick.” …
No, son, you don’t wave your hands around in the face (or personal space) of your elder just to make a point. You don’t disrespect a man who is clearly older, much more accomplished and much more successful than you just to make a point. You don’t pretend you are peers. You are not. You argue respectfully, understanding the man in front of you has forgotten more in his lifetime than you’ve learned in your couple decades of living, which aren’t yet very far removed from diapers and bottles.
Ed: NARRATOR – The kid was indeed being a dick. I’ve always stuck to the Georgia Satellites Rule: Don’t hand me no lines, and keep your hands to yourself. Read the whole thing.
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For the attention of the USA and Israel:
This is a two step manual for liberating Iran, ending the islamic regime and ending this 47 year long nightmare, in the event that the war restarts for real.
If you truly want this all to be over, the key isn’t to target missile sites or… pic.twitter.com/Nrse7VPPg2
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 4, 2026
Ed: Again, an essay worth reading in full. I’d add a Step Three: Get weapons to Iranians with the courage to challenge the gutless wonders of the Basij, who love to fight unarmed civilians but don hijabs when US and Israeli drones show up.
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