Democrats' Smear Against Marine Graham Platner, Maine Senate Candidate, Shows Fatal Party Character Problem

Graham Platner is a Marine and U.S. Army veteran, and oyster 
farmer, running for nomination in the Democratic Party Primary 
for U.S. Senate in Maine.

Vile Democrat Lies Display Dems As Party of Nothing; Puke Party Should Be Saying, Thank You, Marine

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Graham Platner is a Marine, U.S. Army veteran, oyster farmer, and a Democratic Party candidate running for the U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026, reads this progressive populist's campaign webpage.

Platner is a peace-and-justice, anti-Genocide, pro-privacy, pro-liberty economic populist who is running on a platform that a few decades ago was  more-or-less standard Democratic commitment.

But today; hey, Democrats are the wrong party for Platner, says Chuck Schumer and the liberal media.

You see, Platner right out of high school joined the Marines and fought as an infantryman in four combat deployments in wars that this Marine campaigns on now as pointless and endless. 

And Platner is against Israeli-committed Genocide, never a popular position with the dopes who run the Democratic Party today or hold federal elected office.

Writes Platner:

I have not minced words on this issue. We are sending American taxpayer dollars to underwrite the starvation of Gaza, in what can only be accurately described as a genocide.

I stand with all people seeking peace, democracy, and self-determination. In this moment, that means a clear-eyed condemnation of the Gaza genocide, and the use of every means available to America to bring it to an end.

Now, the Democrat slime machine led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, liberal media and Democrat Party hacks who know nothing about serving our country, or the truth, are slurring Platner as a Nazi sympathizer.

It's bullshit.

In 2007, Platner as a young man was serving downrange as a combat Marine in Croatia, and on shore leave went out drinking with a bunch of other Marines; got very drunk; and visited a tattoo parlor. Horrors.

Platner chose a skull-and-crossbones tattoo from the wall that resembles nothing so much as a Grateful Dead icon, and had the tattoo put on his chest.

So, Democrat Party establishment and liberal media today are trying to say the tattoo is a disqualification for Platner's campaign, because some say the tattoo looks like a Nazi icon from WW II.

The first and last words of this nihilistic Party should be, 'thank you for your service; thank you for being a Marine.'

Guess how many Democrat Senators are standing up and defending Marine Graham Platner?

One. Bernie Sanders. 

Democrats' program of lies, typical opposition research, comes right after national Democrats drafted the 77-year-old Maine governor, Janet Mills, to run against Platner in the Maine U.S. Senate Primary to be held in June 2026.

Democrats are low, weak, devoid of character. Democrats don't care about honor, and this bunch of weaklings are afraid of truth.
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and, from the Right:

 

Uniparty will say anything, smear anybody, to tarnish political opponents. Give me one Marine Graham Platner over the whole bunch of cretins.

Veterans' Suicide Rate Triples

"At least 22 veterans commit suicide every day and young male veterans under the age of 30 are three times more likely to commit suicide when compared to civilian males in the same age bracket, according to a new briefing released (last week) by the Department of Veteran Affairs." 

That's the news from Esther Yu-Hsi Lee in ThinkProgress.

The Obama administration has ditched the imbecilic approach to veteran-troop-Marine suicide that, for example, was taken up by the Bush-Cheney bunch that blamed "erosion of adherence to existing ... policies and standards" as the culprit of combat veterans offing themselves.

One thing that doesn't help veterans is local overzealous district attorneys trying to pad their resumes over the lives of Marines and troops returning home and trying to repair their lives after war.

Screw veterans, says Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker.

Walker has plenty of company from the chicken-hawk-heavy Republican Party.

But then again if veterans are part of the "47 percent," I guess in the Republican mind, they get what they deserve.