In retrospect, Joe Biden had a better week after Sundowning his way through the presidential debate with Donald Trump in June, 2024. There remains a major television network willing to give his wife extended air time to perpetuate the lie that his performance was a fluke. The idea that Biden’s name is mentioned at all in media two years after his collapse shows he didn’t fall far enough.
You might think disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, aka Carlos Danger, had a bad week in 2011. Oh, sure, he lost his House seat, got shown up at his own press conference by the Late Andrew Breitbart, lost his wife, Huma Abedin (who would later marry Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s son, Alex Soros), and spent over a year in the Graybar Hotel for sexting underage girls. But look at Weiner now. He’s back on New York City airwaves, courtesy of WABC radio, opining as the voice of reason in the era of Communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Sunny Hostin on the View in October, 2024 asked a layup of a question to Democratic presidential appointee, Kamala Harris – what policy differences are there between you and Joe Biden? While not a scripted question, Harris’ campaign strategists knew this was coming. Former staffer Stephanie Cutter tweeted later that they’d practiced an answer with Harris beforehand. What came out instead was standard Kamala Harris – halting, uncomfortable, stiff, before finally uttering arguably her biggest gaffe of the campaign, that she, “could not think of a single thing” she’d do differently.
It was a disaster. During the commercial break, Harris staffers on the set demanded that the question be brought up again so that Harris could have a do-over. It didn’t matter. It was too late. That moment was about the only moment in The View’s history that really went viral for all the wrong reasons. But at least Harris today has a mansion in Brentwood that hasn’t burned down, and sold enough copies of 107 Days to afford all the Sauv Blanc she can drink, and she still leads prospective presidential contenders for the 2028 cycle.
The all-time rankings for political disasters might have to be readjusted down a notch, however, because Maine’s presumptive Democratic nominee for United States Senate, Graham Platner, has had a campaign meltdown unlike anything we’ve seen in recent memory, and the hits just keep coming.
Going into last week, Platner and his Democratic supporters were tying themselves into moral pretzels over the fact that he knew full well what the meaning was behind the tattoo he sported for decades – an actual Nazi concentration camp watchtower guard corps tattoo, the Totenkopf. On the 22nd of May, Time Magazine did a cover story on the viability of Platt called “Party Crasher”.
In the article, it mentions his endearing qualities, like referring to the Virgin Mary as a “skank”, and destroying the campaign’s narrative that it was just a cool-looking tattoo that all of the Marines got at the time.
When Platner knew this is a matter of dispute. An anonymous acquaintance told Jewish Insider that Platner was aware of the tattoo’s meaning years before it became national news; the source alleged that in a 2012 exchange, Platner referred to it as “my totenkopf.” Platner’s former political director, Genevieve McDonald, told the Bangor Daily News last October that Platner had informed her in August that he had a tattoo that could be problematic. (She resigned before it became public.) McDonald declined to speak to TIME, but has said it was far-fetched for someone well-versed in military history to not know the meaning of the symbol.
Oh, did I forget? It was also disclosed that he has a DUI on his record.
Appearing on CNN back in January with Manu Raju, Platner was asked if there were any more land mines out there waiting to come out.
Asked Graham Platner in January if there were any other skeletons in his closet that could haunt his campaign.
“No,” he told me. “My life is not very complicated. And no there’s not anything else coming.” pic.twitter.com/Qt20cOmsdq
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 31, 2026
Five months ago, Raju was asking the question after the Nazi tattoo had become public knowledge, as well as Reddit posts featuring Platner blaming rape victims for getting raped. To be fair to Raju, he didn’t know about additional Reddit posts where Platner reminisced about being conditioned by the smell of the blue water in porta-potties to immediately enter, lock the door, and sexually gratify himself.
Here’s your column pro tip of the day – if the outhouse is rockin’, don’t bother knockin’.
Republicans needle Graham Platner with devastating AI porta potty ad https://t.co/ac3e5XSc1c pic.twitter.com/cq4WWm6Anv
— New York Post (@nypost) May 24, 2026
Remember, clear skies ahead is what Platner told Manu Raju. Nothing out of the ordinary. He lives a normal life.
On Thursday, Platner’s normalcy was further defined. More revelations from Reddit, wherein wounded veterans, Purple Heart recipients, “didn’t deserve to live.” And on the same day, perhaps as a way of deflecting from the bad news piling up, Platner attacked Susan Collins for voting in 2002 to send him to war by approving action in Iraq in the Senate. Collins, and a bipartisan majority of senators, did indeed approve an Authorization for Use of Military Force in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Platner intimated that he got suckered into having to go fight in a war he didn’t support.
Of course, less than an hour later, Senator Collins responded.
Senator Collins responds to the scurrilous claim from Graham Platner that she sent him to “die in Iraq.”
“That was Platner’s decision to serve. He was not drafted.” pic.twitter.com/3hyPjxkfyn
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) May 28, 2026
Two full years passed after that vote before Platner enlisted. And by his own account, he enlisted because he wanted to go kill people. So after face-planting in his attempt to divert attention from face-planting against Purple Heart recipients, he completed the face-planting trifecta by accusing Collins of attacking people who served with her fact-checking.
Platner’s bad week intensified on Saturday when the Wall Street Journal’s Tarini Parti and Aaron Zitner published this explosive story. While married to his wife, Amy Gertner, Graham Platner, the Democratic Party’s presumptive Senatorial nominee, was sexting not one, not two, not five, but having sidebar sexual conversations with up to a dozen different women at once. Remember what he told Manu Raju five months earlier – nothing else to see here, just an uncomplicated life.
Saturday’s revelations, which were confirmed in large part by Politico, which had been working on a parallel story, brought about two distinctly different reactions from Never Trump, Inc. Those former Republicans, current Democrats, and/or their accomplices in Resistance media were caught in a very uncomfortable position. Never mind the fact that they had already thrown in behind the guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest. They could overlook that, so long as he was going to help give the Senate to the Democrats and hamstring Donald Trump’s final two years.
But now? Taking the Anthony Weiner model and multiplying it by a dozen times, so he gets the complimentary eggroll? Some supporters began looking for exits.
When will Democrats in Maine realize Graham Platner is the wrong candidate for them?
And when will the Democratic Party condemn Platner & his scandals like they did to Swalwell & Galindo?
Lastly, vote for Maine Democrat @costello4senate instead! @kenmartin73 @JaredEMoskowitz https://t.co/EkhduR1FUk
— Anne Smith (@AnneS4Justice) May 30, 2026
There were lots of searches over the weekend of Maine’s election laws, calculating hard dates of when a nominee could be replaced on the general election ballot, were they to have to suspend their campaign due to excessive creepiness. July 5th seems to be the deadline to sub in a replacement appointee…for muh democracy.
Of course, most of the responses from Democrats thus far are to slug back a few shots of liquid courage and stay the course. All-in means all-in. Here’s California Congressman and presidential hopeful, Ro Khanna.
I am proud of @grahamformaine for having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair & lopsided economy. I am proud of him for having a vision for a new deal for our time. Excited to campaign with him June 5!
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) May 30, 2026
He’s excited to campaign with him. Did I mention Platner’s active Kik account, the online mall for pedophiles?
Platner also has an active account on Kik, a popular, private messaging app. Platner’s profile shows a mirror selfie of him shirtless with a towel wrapped around his waist. Many of his tattoos are clearly visible in the picture.
The Wall Street Journal verified the account on the app, a messaging platform that has been widely used for sexual encounters.
The account is listed with the user ID phustle0331, which is similar to other social-media handles that Platner has used, including Reddit and a now-deleted Instagram account. It was created in 2016.
Just in case you need advance warning to go grab the eye bleach, here’s one of Platner’s profile pics on the kiddie porn site, he being that non-complicated life guy.
NEW: It’s real. Here is Graham Platner’s active profile on Kik, a “predators paradise” app known as a hotbed for child pornography, kidnapping, and sexual abuse.
Full story @realDailyWire from @TimRiceDC: https://t.co/8lpCwfo5ic pic.twitter.com/8yQqADkX7l
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) May 30, 2026
Again, all this happened over the weekend. Once people read a little deeper into the Journal story about Platner trolling for more than oysters online, again while allegedly happily married and sexting a dozen other women of legal age, more Democratic voices began to tape the brakes. From the New York Post:
Melissa DeRosa, former New York Mayor Andrew Cuomo’s chief of staff, told Fox News’ Bret Baier that Platner’s rise and ensuing questions of his fitness as a candidate are demonstrative of the bubbling conflict within the Democratic Party.
“The main race really demonstrates the civil war that’s happening within the Democratic Party, and there are a lot of Democrats, moderate Democrats like myself, who will not cry tears should we lose Maine,” DeRosa said.
The same people who begin and end each day hating Donald Trump opined endlessly during the slow rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files. They wanted so deeply in their black hearts to believe evidence would emerge about Donald Trump’s alleged proclivities, and when nothing materialized, they assumed it was because Trump’s DOJ destroyed everything. Never mind the narrative buster that Joe Biden’s DOJ had that same access to the Epstein files for four years, and would have leaked it in a nanosecond to keep Trump from winning the 2024 election if there were any damaging files.
Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark frequently condemned Trump over Epstein allegations that never turned out to be true. Now that all the worst aspects she projected onto the President have been realized this weekend about Graham Platner in Maine, she’s had a moral change of tune.
This is the thing about Platner. He’s brand new to politics (which is what people like about him) but that also carries the risk of being completely unvetted. People will forgive insane things from your 20’s, especially when you apologize and have PTSD. Less so stuff from the… https://t.co/mBdbou29Ri
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) May 31, 2026
By the way, he was 35 when the bulk of his 12-timing of his wife (at least) was underway. His Kik account is still active as of Sunday. This reported activity is from no more than three years ago. The allegations against Trump go back 30-plus years in some cases.
Now imagine you’re one of these types of people who have such anti-Trump sunk costs that they’re willing to support a candidate with, *checks notes*, a Nazi tattoo, rape shaming rape victims, belittling Purple Heart recipients, rubbing one out every time he gets a whiff of a portable toilet, cheats on his wife in quantities making Bill Clinton jealous, opens/maintains an account known for pedophiles to get a little side action from the minor leagues, and refers to the Holy mother of Christ as a sleaze, you’re probably thinking to yourself, ‘surely, this has to be the worst of it.’
What if the worst stuff hasn’t come out yet? A month ago, antisemitic podcast host Mehdi Hassan asked Platner if there was any more dirt out there on him. Platner said no.
Earlier this month, Pervert Graham Platner was asked by Pakistani Islamist Mehdi Hassan if anything else would come out between now and November, to which Platner responded: “No. We put everything out there. Republicans are going to lie, make things up, use AI and dirty tricks.”… pic.twitter.com/SQKeUG75kw
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) May 31, 2026
Two weeks ago, Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked the same question and got the same answer.
Two weeks ago, @LuluGNavarro asked Graham Platner if there was anything he wanted to get in front of or if there was there more oppo coming. Platner said, “No.” pic.twitter.com/3kZSnmSrzH
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 30, 2026
Buried in the last four paragraphs of the Wall Street Journal story from Saturday is this nugget about five years of Graham Platner’s life working as a bartender in Washington, D.C., at a dive bar called the Tune Inn. It’s a place long frequented by Hill electeds and staffers. Platner worked there around 2011-2016, and here’s how the Journal finishes their piece.
In a Reddit post in December 2019, Platner said a politician would frequently drink at the Tune Inn, a Washington, D.C., watering hole popular with lawmakers where Platner worked as a bartender.
The politician, Platner posted, would “get wasted and brag about all the chicks he was slaying who weren’t his wife.”
“I’ve got a pretty flexible moral compass when it comes to those things,” Platner added in his post.
The campaign declined to comment about that post.
Let’s just say my shock-o-meter would barely register a measurable event if it turns out in the coming days that several women come forward about experiences with Platner, women whose moral compass isn’t flexible at all when it comes to those things?
Platner, for his part, is maintaining a public posture unfazed by an avalanche of scandal revelations and deep character flaws. Where did he spend one of his few remaining days of political viability? Exactly where you would expect to find someone with a Nazi tattoo – in his bunker.
Happening now: some of the most dedicated and talented volunteers in America, taking our movement to the front porches of Maine. pic.twitter.com/WqVdzr8biV
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) May 31, 2026
Just a reminder that Governor Janet Mills suspended her campaign. She didn’t end it. She’s still on Maine’s primary ballot.
Come on, who are we kidding? Since when do Democrats care about going through the primary process to pick nominees?
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