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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.

Well said.

It would be well said if it were true. But IT IS NOT TRUE.

PP keeps insisting that his rating requires UNEMPLOYABILITY when there are categories that carry no work restrictions including 1) a combined 100% rating OR 2) the 100% Schedular Rating for PTSD which requires total occupational impairment at the time of the exam. In both cases, if you can find ways to manage symptoms there are no restrictions.

From what I have read Platner reached the 100% threshold with physical injuries (herniated discs, shoulder, knees) plus PTSD plus hearing loss.

It is entirely legitimate for him to work. We want veterans to get the support they need and return to work, remember?

Yes, but once they return to work, they shouldn't collect disability anymore. No private disability insurance keeps paying you once you can work again--the federal government shouldn't either.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

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Still more honest than Susan Collins and Chuckie Schumie

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Man the NYTimes is really on the pro Israel payroll.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Man the NYTimes is really on the pro Israel payroll.

What’s your counter argument to Platner posing a working class man of the people when his Daddy is a lawyer who pays for his down payments, elite private high school, and Norwegian fertility treatments though?

You’re deflecting.

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Anonymous wrote:Still more honest than Susan Collins and Chuckie Schumie

+1

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

John Bapst is nowhere near $70k for a Maine resident kid

Nice try

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Man the NYTimes is really on the pro Israel payroll.

What’s your counter argument to Platner posing a working class man of the people when his Daddy is a lawyer who pays for his down payments, elite private high school, and Norwegian fertility treatments though?

You’re deflecting.

His father didn’t pay the down payment on Platner’s house - he paid the entire purchase price.

Meanwhile Platner’s stump speech includes him expressing gratitude to the VA for helping him buy a home, but he never got a VA loan which is the reasonable assumption folks will draw from that statement. Daddy bought his house, that’s what the public record shows, and he won’t release any documentation detailing any kind of repayment arrangement he has with his father if he has any.

He’s an oily sleaze manipulating the Maine electorate with stories about his circumstances which don’t match reality. Rich kid who defied daddy to have a ME adventure, came home to live with mommy and bartend and dabble in college, now hobby farms for mommy’s restaurant while living in house daddy bought and if he pays for anything it’s with taxpayer dollars because he’s never in his life worked the way REAL blue collar downeast Mainers work.

He’s gross.

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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.

Well said.

It would be well said if it were true. But IT IS NOT TRUE.

PP keeps insisting that his rating requires UNEMPLOYABILITY when there are categories that carry no work restrictions including 1) a combined 100% rating OR 2) the 100% Schedular Rating for PTSD which requires total occupational impairment at the time of the exam. In both cases, if you can find ways to manage symptoms there are no restrictions.

From what I have read Platner reached the 100% threshold with physical injuries (herniated discs, shoulder, knees) plus PTSD plus hearing loss.

It is entirely legitimate for him to work. We want veterans to get the support they need and return to work, remember?

Could you explain to the class why Platner has stated he doesn’t draw an income from his oyster farming but instead has his wife draw that income, so as not to impact his disability benefits?

Please cite where he said that "he doesn’t draw an income from his oyster farming but instead has his wife draw that income, so as not to impact his disability benefits."

Given that he COULD draw a a salary and it would not impact his benefits, this does not ring true.

It is extremely common for small business owners to reinvest money rather than draw a salary. I know that it is what I do.

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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.

Well said.

It would be well said if it were true. But IT IS NOT TRUE.

PP keeps insisting that his rating requires UNEMPLOYABILITY when there are categories that carry no work restrictions including 1) a combined 100% rating OR 2) the 100% Schedular Rating for PTSD which requires total occupational impairment at the time of the exam. In both cases, if you can find ways to manage symptoms there are no restrictions.

From what I have read Platner reached the 100% threshold with physical injuries (herniated discs, shoulder, knees) plus PTSD plus hearing loss.

It is entirely legitimate for him to work. We want veterans to get the support they need and return to work, remember?

Yes, but once they return to work, they shouldn't collect disability anymore. No private disability insurance keeps paying you once you can work again--the federal government shouldn't either.

Take it up with the system, not him!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

QUOTE: After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.


You all are just trolls trying to discredit someone you clearly know nothing about. If you lived in Maine, if you cared to listen to Platner, you wouldn't say this.

Most of Maine is extremely econominally DEPRESSED. Platner's mother was highly focused on education and wanted him out of there so she found a prep school that gave them a ton of financial aid. He is very open about this. He immediately didn't fit in at Hotchkiss. He tells a story about how in an assembly early on, the students were asked to raise their hands if they had held a part-time job and he was the only one who raised his hand. He felt completely out of place. The kid didn't last a year there.

I believe he was a paying day student at the HS in Bangor - I am not sure if there was aid. But I do know that the student body at Bapst is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from that at Hotchkiss. I used to live in Maine and I have worked in New England independent schools and attended one. Over 60% of the students at Bapst are publicly funded students. They are indeed mostly working class kids.

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The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Man the NYTimes is really on the pro Israel payroll.

What’s your counter argument to Platner posing a working class man of the people when his Daddy is a lawyer who pays for his down payments, elite private high school, and Norwegian fertility treatments though?

You’re deflecting.

From long sleeves to short sleeves in one generation. It happens. There are multiple threads about DCUM high-income earners posting that it was okay for their kids to take up a trade or become police officers/firefighters. College isn't for everyone, including kids born to rich, upper-income parents.

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Anybody willing to gift this article?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html