Maine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Republican, I don't understand the fuss from my fellow partisans.

2 different polls have Collins down by less than the margin of error.

This Platner guy is running against spry young 73-year-old MAGA patriot with only minor tremors, who will cruise to victory in November, just as she has 5 times before over the last 30 years.


https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-polls/maine

You are correct:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/susan-collins-thrashing-graham-platner-by-double-digits-in-new-gop-poll/ar-AA22IgDW?ocid=BingNewsVerp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

DP. You sound incredibly defensive. Once again: if Platner was running as a Republican, this thread would be hundreds of pages long, full of one objection after another (the same objections being raised against Platner, but magnified x 100). It's kind of funny to read your huffy, hypocritical retorts.

I.totally disagree. There are not 100s of pages about Andy Ogles, Randy Fine... Look at the stuff they have said and tweeted. Too many Rs to name. This stuff is basically a given on that side and not even worth getting excited about.

Also I don't care that a guy who served 4 legit combat tours for his country is getting payments from the VA. I'm glad he is and we should be taking care of all veterans better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

This is false.

Ifa vet has a combination of multiple conditions (for example PTSD, bad knees, and a shoulder injury, they can mathematically add up to 100%. There are absolutely no income or work restrictions for a schedular rating.

Why has Platner refused to release records related to his VA disability rating?

Why has Platner stated that he doesn’t draw any income from his oyster farming but rather has his wife draw the income so as not to reduce his VA benefits?

Your math isn’t mathing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Dems are going to have to drop the “Nazi” shtick toward the Trump administration, and virtually all Republicans to be honest, if they are going to support a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo.

+ a million
I mean, Democrats set the standard here and Republicans are simply following their lead. If everyone is a "Nazi," then I guess everyone is a Nazi. *shrug*

“Look what you made me do” -abusers everywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Republican, I don't understand the fuss from my fellow partisans.

2 different polls have Collins down by less than the margin of error.

This Platner guy is running against spry young 73-year-old MAGA patriot with only minor tremors, who will cruise to victory in November, just as she has 5 times before over the last 30 years.


https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-polls/maine

You are correct:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/susan-collins-thrashing-graham-platner-by-double-digits-in-new-gop-poll/ar-AA22IgDW?ocid=BingNewsVerp

Hahahaha thanks for the laugh, NRCC stooge!

GOP says Collins is by 11 in ME-2!

Collins won that district by 23 last time, and Trump won by 10.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

This is false.

Ifa vet has a combination of multiple conditions (for example PTSD, bad knees, and a shoulder injury, they can mathematically add up to 100%. There are absolutely no income or work restrictions for a schedular rating.

Why has Platner refused to release records related to his VA disability rating?

Why has Platner stated that he doesn’t draw any income from his oyster farming but rather has his wife draw the income so as not to reduce his VA benefits?

Your math isn’t mathing.

Your lies are lying


100% Disability Rating: Veterans with a 100% disability rating are presumed to have a condition that significantly reduces earning capacity, but this rating does not inherently eliminate their right to maintain employment or earn a high income (Should Veterans Disability Compensation Be Conditional, 2020).

DC benefits can be received simultaneously with civilian labor earnings, Social Security benefits, and, in certain cases, military pensions without a dollar-for-dollar offset (Coile et al., 2020).

[Anonymous]

I love the scent of MAGA fear in the morning.

Tick, Tock!

[Anonymous]

Susan Collins gave us the lying disgrace that is Kavanaugh and feigned shock that he “misled” her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

This is false.

Ifa vet has a combination of multiple conditions (for example PTSD, bad knees, and a shoulder injury, they can mathematically add up to 100%. There are absolutely no income or work restrictions for a schedular rating.

Why has Platner refused to release records related to his VA disability rating?

Why has Platner stated that he doesn’t draw any income from his oyster farming but rather has his wife draw the income so as not to reduce his VA benefits?

Your math isn’t mathing.

Your lies are lying


100% Disability Rating: Veterans with a 100% disability rating are presumed to have a condition that significantly reduces earning capacity, but this rating does not inherently eliminate their right to maintain employment or earn a high income (Should Veterans Disability Compensation Be Conditional, 2020).

DC benefits can be received simultaneously with civilian labor earnings, Social Security benefits, and, in certain cases, military pensions without a dollar-for-dollar offset (Coile et al., 2020).

I’m not lying. I have worked extensively with veterans seeking VA disability ratings, and I have repeatedly posted the criteria for 100% PTSD rating in this thread, which requires UNEMPLOYABILITY.

You’re burying your head in the sand and conflating/confusing other ratings and conditions to do it. It stinks of desperation.

Platner should just release his records, especially since his party has made such an issue of fitness and criticizing the current administration for failure to do so with the president’s health records.

The Democrats are smelling of the most pathetic hypocrisy on this issue as well as the Nazi tattoo - and there is abundant evidence from Platner’s own friends and former campaign manager that he knew what his tattoo was for many years before he filed to run for office and claimed ignorance.

Why can’t he just be truthful and seek forgiveness on that basis?

For the record, I’m a lifelong unaffiliated independent and very liberal voter who donated to Platner’s campaign last September before all the lies and ugliness came to light. I’m all for most of his messages in the stump speech, but I find his deceitful character incredibly troubling and his misogyny and bigotry offensive - and those things aren’t caused by PTSD, so he hasn’t properly explained and sought forgiveness for those things either.

Platner should have had a better plan for confronting these concerns up front other than trying to lie to the electorate and then blaming it on PTSD or ‘I never knew.’ He’s more and more obviously an entitled jerk who thinks he can get away with whatever. And sadly too many Mainers are letting him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the scent of MAGA fear in the morning.

Tick, Tock!

You know your boy is Nick Fuentes’ ideal candidate right? Nazi tattoos and hates the Jews. This guy is a Groypere wet dream.

[Anonymous]

Forget about the disability payment fiasco. I still haven’t heard anyone defend him posing as a working class oyster man when he went to a $70,000/year elite private high school and his parents are a lawyer and business owner. He also is on record saying that he regrets going into the military in retrospect because he did so because he read too much Hemingway. Who says stuff like that?

This guy is possibly the biggest fraud in politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

This is false.

Ifa vet has a combination of multiple conditions (for example PTSD, bad knees, and a shoulder injury, they can mathematically add up to 100%. There are absolutely no income or work restrictions for a schedular rating.

Why has Platner refused to release records related to his VA disability rating?

Why has Platner stated that he doesn’t draw any income from his oyster farming but rather has his wife draw the income so as not to reduce his VA benefits?

Your math isn’t mathing.

Your lies are lying


100% Disability Rating: Veterans with a 100% disability rating are presumed to have a condition that significantly reduces earning capacity, but this rating does not inherently eliminate their right to maintain employment or earn a high income (Should Veterans Disability Compensation Be Conditional, 2020).

DC benefits can be received simultaneously with civilian labor earnings, Social Security benefits, and, in certain cases, military pensions without a dollar-for-dollar offset (Coile et al., 2020).

I’m not lying. I have worked extensively with veterans seeking VA disability ratings, and I have repeatedly posted the criteria for 100% PTSD rating in this thread, which requires UNEMPLOYABILITY.

You’re burying your head in the sand and conflating/confusing other ratings and conditions to do it. It stinks of desperation.

Platner should just release his records, especially since his party has made such an issue of fitness and criticizing the current administration for failure to do so with the president’s health records.

The Democrats are smelling of the most pathetic hypocrisy on this issue as well as the Nazi tattoo - and there is abundant evidence from Platner’s own friends and former campaign manager that he knew what his tattoo was for many years before he filed to run for office and claimed ignorance.

Why can’t he just be truthful and seek forgiveness on that basis?

For the record, I’m a lifelong unaffiliated independent and very liberal voter who donated to Platner’s campaign last September before all the lies and ugliness came to light. I’m all for most of his messages in the stump speech, but I find his deceitful character incredibly troubling and his misogyny and bigotry offensive - and those things aren’t caused by PTSD, so he hasn’t properly explained and sought forgiveness for those things either.

Platner should have had a better plan for confronting these concerns up front other than trying to lie to the electorate and then blaming it on PTSD or ‘I never knew.’ He’s more and more obviously an entitled jerk who thinks he can get away with whatever. And sadly too many Mainers are letting him.

Where are Collins’s medical records? Because that’s what you’re asking Platner to release.

Further, where the f#ck are Trump’s medical records?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between the tattoos, the potentially fraudulent PTSD disability claim, and the private prep school kid larping as a man of the people act, this general election is going to be fun. There has to be a lot more coming out if we’ve seen all of this already.

The idea that Platner is a Nazi because of a tattoo that none of us even recognizes rings hollow in the context of... well, of EVERYTHING the guy has ever said and done.

And why is anyone besides his doctors or insurance officials assessing whether a former Marine deserves disability payment? Do you have no respect for those who defend our country?

Everything about this smear campaign is so shallow and false. Do you have issues with Yalie JD Vance presenting himself as a man of the people? What about silver spoon Trump himself?

The general election IS going to be fun. The more you guys spout your nonsense, the more scared you look. Bye Bye, Susan. Can't wait to see the last of you.

Again, if he deserves a 100% disability payment for PTSD he is not in any way fit to serve for office because one of qualifications is that you are so impaired that you can’t have a job, have hallucinations, etc. I don’t even vote so I could care less who wins, I’m just being real.

Based on his interviews and his penchant for pretending he’s a working class oyster farmer even though he was born into wealth and went to elite private high schools, I’d be willing to bet that if indeed is getting 100% disability checks for PTSD it is fraudulent because he does not come across as a sincere person. This is not about politics. It is about him as a person.

And before you “what about Trump” me, Trump is a POS and I would never vote for him. But this isn’t about Trump. It’s about a larping rich kid who’s defrauding voters with a working class poseur act.

This is false.

Ifa vet has a combination of multiple conditions (for example PTSD, bad knees, and a shoulder injury, they can mathematically add up to 100%. There are absolutely no income or work restrictions for a schedular rating.

Why has Platner refused to release records related to his VA disability rating?

Why has Platner stated that he doesn’t draw any income from his oyster farming but rather has his wife draw the income so as not to reduce his VA benefits?

Your math isn’t mathing.

Your lies are lying


100% Disability Rating: Veterans with a 100% disability rating are presumed to have a condition that significantly reduces earning capacity, but this rating does not inherently eliminate their right to maintain employment or earn a high income (Should Veterans Disability Compensation Be Conditional, 2020).

DC benefits can be received simultaneously with civilian labor earnings, Social Security benefits, and, in certain cases, military pensions without a dollar-for-dollar offset (Coile et al., 2020).

I’m not lying. I have worked extensively with veterans seeking VA disability ratings, and I have repeatedly posted the criteria for 100% PTSD rating in this thread, which requires UNEMPLOYABILITY.

You’re burying your head in the sand and conflating/confusing other ratings and conditions to do it. It stinks of desperation.

Platner should just release his records, especially since his party has made such an issue of fitness and criticizing the current administration for failure to do so with the president’s health records.

The Democrats are smelling of the most pathetic hypocrisy on this issue as well as the Nazi tattoo - and there is abundant evidence from Platner’s own friends and former campaign manager that he knew what his tattoo was for many years before he filed to run for office and claimed ignorance.

Why can’t he just be truthful and seek forgiveness on that basis?

For the record, I’m a lifelong unaffiliated independent and very liberal voter who donated to Platner’s campaign last September before all the lies and ugliness came to light. I’m all for most of his messages in the stump speech, but I find his deceitful character incredibly troubling and his misogyny and bigotry offensive - and those things aren’t caused by PTSD, so he hasn’t properly explained and sought forgiveness for those things either.

Platner should have had a better plan for confronting these concerns up front other than trying to lie to the electorate and then blaming it on PTSD or ‘I never knew.’ He’s more and more obviously an entitled jerk who thinks he can get away with whatever. And sadly too many Mainers are letting him.

Where are Collins’s medical records? Because that’s what you’re asking Platner to release.

Further, where the f#ck are Trump’s medical records?

Collins has openly discussed her essential tremor diagnosis, which in no way impedes emotional or intellectual capacity and which voters have seen in action for five terms.

Your comment is rather dumb because it supports my assertion; you are suggesting that because Trump hides his medical and financial records, it’s okay now for Democrat candidates to do the same. That’s a race to the landfill in American politics.

I’ve worked many years as an advocate and prosecutor with veterans and others with total disability rating from PTSD. I have empathy for their conditions and what they suffered to develop PTSD, but the vast majority I would not trust to dog sit for me, much less around my kids, much less to serve in one of the most powerful roles in our government.

If Platner is still fully disabled PTSD, it makes no sense to suggest he’s fit to serve. If he’s fit to serve, he’s cheating the system by collecting full benefits on the diagnosis which is no longer valid.

Or he can provide the records to clarify the situation and remove the concern entirely.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Dems are going to have to drop the “Nazi” shtick toward the Trump administration, and virtually all Republicans to be honest, if they are going to support a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo.

+ a million
I mean, Democrats set the standard here and Republicans are simply following their lead. If everyone is a "Nazi," then I guess everyone is a Nazi. *shrug*

“Look what you made me do” -abusers everywhere

“I can’t refute the facts so I’ll deflect and hope no one notices” -idiots everywhere