Shock of shocks – a new batch of old Reddit posts is haunting U.S. Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine.
Platner, a Marine veteran who has positioned himself as a staunch anti-war candidate and critic of the U.S. military campaign in Iran, once defended a Marine who urinated on a dead Taliban fighter, unearthed posts show.
The report of yet-another trove of yet-more freshly discovered Reddit posts comes from The New York Post.
“The left-wing populist further described war as the ‘most enjoyable experience of my life” and combat as the ‘best goddamn thing in the world’ in a series of since-deleted posts from 2013 through 2020 reviewed by The Post.
“I find the urinating on bodies as a poor choice, but only because of the current state of media affairs,” Reddit user “P-Hustle,” which CNN traced back to Platner, 41, wrote in a since-deleted July 2013 post.
The comment appears in a thread about a Marine getting fined and demoted for urinating on a dead Taliban fighter, the Post says.
Years ago, under his anonymous Reddit account where he gave unvarnished takes, Platner argued that the war in Afghanistan was never about “fixing the place” and once he “just focused on the work, I enjoyed the hell out of myself.”
For Platner, the repeated discovery of offensive social-media posts from his past has become so routine for its shock value to be almost muted.
The last batch came out just last week in a report from Washington Free Beacon.
It’s almost gotten so expected to hear Graham Platner saying offensive things that primary voters may be becoming immune from even hearing them.
The polls have shown little if any reaction to the posts, allowing Platner to continue enjoying a large electoral lead over Gov. Janet Mills no matter what he has said prior to the campaign.
Mills, meanwhile, posted Monday on X that she was “the first candidate to commit to five primary debates and forums.”
The governor’s boast came hours after a kerfuffle over whether she had cancelled a debate appearance April 11 or had never committed to it in the first place.
All Platner has to say is “I don’t recognize that person…that was years ago…I was troubled, but now I’m better…I had PTSD,” etc.
Just imagine if he were a Republican. He’d have been hounded out of the race by now. Instead, he leads and it’s probably going to be Mills who’ll drop out.
If Collins cannot crush this clown there’s no hope for Maine.
I have no problem urinating on a dead Taliban scum, but if the NAZI found war so enjoyable, why are his political ads bitchin about PTSD? Clearly, he has a screw loose.
Already an embarrassment, Maine and not even elected yet
I like what Colonel Alan West said about the urination incident. The appropriate punishment would be to require them to sing the entire four versus of the Marine Corps him, wearing in class, a uniform uniforms, in front of the entire unit.
In other words, embarrass them in front of their unit, make it clear that this was unappropriate and then forget it. It was a war.
That said, I am really disturbed about the bipolar nature of this candidate. He loves war, but gets the tax equivalent of $70,000 a year being disabled by PTSD. He says how terrible war is and then goes back into it. He can’t even make up his mind war is good or bad.
And he’s got to convince us that he’s capable of being a senator and by saying how damaged he is, doesn’t do it, the man makes General Mills look like the lesser of two evils, and Susan Collins most definitely the preferable choice
If the people of Maine are so clueless as the vote this guy into the senate, then we deserve all the idiocy that comes with it. It will make me wonder if we can handle democracy.