Maine Democrat Senate Candidate Imploding Under Weight of Toxic Online Posts
“Reports also revealed Platner posted comments related to violence and sexual assault in the military, which he disavowed in separate statements to outlets.”
A Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maine named Graham Platner is under fire for toxic things he wrote on the internet, which are now coming to light. And it’s not as if he wrote these things as an impressionable teenager, so this doesn’t qualify as cancel culture. Platner wrote these things as a grown adult, and they say an awful lot about his character.
In his online musings, Platner classified himself as a communist, said that all cops are bastards (an Antifa slogan), and called rural Americans stupid.
Politico reported:
Maine Senate candidate promoted violent political action in since-deleted online posts
Graham Platner, who is running as an insurgent Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, once suggested in online posts that violence is a necessary means to achieving social change — comments now drawing scrutiny in an era of increased political violence.
Platner, 41, a former Marine and combat veteran who now raises oysters, made the statements on Reddit in 2018, long before he emerged as a serious candidate to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the midterms.
If people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history,” he wrote in one since-deleted post. In another, he said that “an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice.”
CNN first reported Thursday on Platner’s participation on the subreddit r/SocialistRA, alongside other Reddit forums where he called himself a “communist” and said that “all” police are bastards. All of the posts have been deleted.
Platner also engaged in racial stereotypes and mocked sexual abuse victims.
From The Hill:
The Bangor Daily News wrote that Platner — who has already disavowed his previous posts on Reddit — reportedly asked why Black people “don’t tip” in a thread of questions users “have always wanted to ask someone of another race.”
“I work as a bartender and it always amazes me how solid this stereotype is,” Platner reportedly wrote. “Every now and again a black patron will leave a 15-20% tip, but usually it [is] between 0-5%. There’s got to be a reason behind it, what is it?”
Reports also revealed Platner posted comments related to violence and sexual assault in the military, which he disavowed in separate statements to outlets.
His political director just quit over this.
Graham Platner’s political director resigns over candidate’s controversial comments
A former state lawmaker who worked for Graham Platner’s U.S. Senate campaign has resigned. Genevieve McDonald, the campaign’s former political director, says she cannot overlook the volume and nature of his past comments that Platner made as an adult, not a young man.
The resignation comes as the Washington Post reported more of Platner’s past comments about sexual assault…
McDonald says she cannot continue working for Platner in good conscience.
“These statements were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate for the United States Senate,” McDonald said in her resignation letter.
The story has become national news.
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— Samantha Cantrell (@samanthabrook_) October 17, 2025
As the Democrat Party becomes more radical, these are the types of candidates they are increasingly going to get.
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“called rural Americans stupid.”
Rad photo, Jethro.
Yeah I know. Oyster farmer. I guess that’s more refined than those rural unwashed masses.
It’s rather strange that some of his comments are of the right wing nature. I guess he’s a gun obsessed lefty who wants to harass and bed chicks.
Mike, you say this as though the words he uses are an impediment to his getting elected.
I wouldn’t be so sure.
Maine is *crazy* progressive in a way that would shock people who haven’t visited.
The areas near Portland rival Moscow for the level of communism.
Go up for the weekend if you don’t believe me.
Indeed. ME voters have largely embraced socialist/communist policies and politicians. Platner’s comments should be a real vote-getter for him.
The blue counties in Maine (or anywhere, really) will embrace this wholeheartedly.
I’d would love to hear Bolshevik Bernie and the squads take on this clown.
It is astounding how the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats manage to recruit the absolute stupidest, laziest, most fanatical, most intemperate, most narcissistic, cancerous, self-serving and wretched dregs of American society to run as their apparatchik-candidates. Occasional-Cortex; Mamdani, Omar, Ellison, Sanders, this Maine twit, and, too many others to count.
Well, he’s not wrong about the tipping observation. Anyone working in the service industry can tell you that there are certain ethnic groups that are notorious for being bad tippers, if they tip at all. I do think it’s more a cultural thing than a race thing, though.
Stereotypes exist for a reason, and it’s not because of “racism.”
Cornell scholar of professional hotel administration says the math backs it up.
If people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history”…
He’s not wrong. Mao said “Political power emanates from the barrel of a gun.” A truer thought was never espoused. I just want to know where he thinks he’s going to fight fascists, because the fascists I see in this country are all on the Left. I’m all for the use of firepower to solve certain political problems, but after the shooting, I will want to be left alone. People like Platner have in mind to run other people’s lives for them.
I believe part of this mindset comes from a misunderstanding of the term “self-government.” Americans have been taught (largely in public schools) that we have a “system of self-government” by which we elect people to direct and interfere with each other’s lives, when in fact the phrase meant that our system of (limited) government was designed so that individuals could (and would) govern themselves, without government direction or oversight. Platner (and others like him) have totally bought into the mistaken interpretation of the term.
Once you have redefined words like “democracy” and “freedom,” the sky’s the limit.
He needs to put down the purple crayons…
Maybe he’s more of an equal opportunity crayon eater….he is a Marine so…
” … comments related to violence and sexual assault in the military.”
‘related to.’ Whenever I see vague circumlocutions such as this, I immediately get suspicious, even when the subject appears to be a raging leftista.
IMO this is another example of the weird phenomenon where a depressing number of US military veterans become lefty wackjobs when they enter politics. George McGovern, John Kerry, John McCain. Dan Crenshaw, Adam Kinzinger, Richard Blumenthal, Daniel Inouye, John Glenn, Tammy Duckworth, Don Bacon, Jim Webb – all veterans elected to Congress and a sordid collection of greedy crooks and would-be lefty tyrants whom it would be unsafe to turn your back on. Now Graham Platner seeks to join the list of people who should never be let anywhere near the levers of government power.
In his book Starship Troopers Heinlein popularized the idea that only military veterans should have the right to vote – an idea Kurt Schlichter also used in a number of his books. The above rogues’ gallery suggests that idea would probably not work as Heinlein and Schlichter had hoped.
I am aware that not all veterans are leftists. But politics seems to take heroic men and women and sometimes turn them into power-obsessed psychopaths determined to destroy the Constitution. It is almost as if they are turning into the very thing they used to fight against.
That is what is strongly implied by the text of the book as published. But in Expanded Universe RAH claimed that “In STARSHIP TROOPERS it is stated flatly and more than once that nineteen out of twenty veterans are not military veterans. Instead, 95% of voters are what we call today ‘former members of federal civil service’.” It would appear, then, that that was his original intent when writing it, but that all supporting material was cut during editing.
See Jim Gifford’s essay for a possible explanation of the contradiction.
https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-9659-where-the-white-things-are.html
Christian lander summed up Portland perfectly almost 20 years ago. Seriously, buy the book “Stuff White People Like.” It explains just sooooo much. There is also, I believe, “Whiter Shades of Pale” as a followup. As a white person from Balmer, I was almost royalty in Portland during the height of The Wire with my deep insight into the workings of Charm City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
Monty Python captured the essence of Portland here. If only all problems were as simple. Since Portland Public Schools rarely educates anyone beyond grade 5 level, I can see why most residents think this way.