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Skin-Deep Standards Signal Hypocrisy As Elizabeth Warren Set To Rally With Graham Platner In Portland

Maine Wire StaffBy Maine Wire StaffApril 13, 2026Updated:April 13, 202619 Comments1 Min Read2K Views
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Graham Platner will rally alongside U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in Portland, Maine on April 18, 2026 as the two team up for an event while Platner continues to navigate campaign troubles. 

The event, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at a secretive private location, will secure high-profile institutional support for Graham Platner, who maintains a public persona rooted in edgy, anti-government populism and revolutionary themes.    

Platner received a recent endorsement from Warren, joining other Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont), Martin Heinrich (D-Nevada), and Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona). 

[Related: Swastika, Shmastika, Arizona Democrat Senator Downplays Platner Nazi Tattoo]

The outreach isn’t coincidental; it occurs against the backdrop of Platner’s Nazi chest tattoo scandal and some insensitive Reddit posts widely seen as misogynist.

Platner is now set to showboat in Portland alongside Elizabeth Warren who exemplified that not all tattoos are judged equally.

[Related: Elizabeth Warren Backs Platner Despite Nazi Tattoo After Once Labeling Christian Tattoo “Extremist”]

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Dr. Ed
Dr. Ed
21 days ago

This actually is good news because it shows the extent to which the Democratic Party is splitting. There is the establishment who
supports General Mills and the communists who are supporting Platner.

Both Mills and Platner have considerable baggage, and if they destroy each other, they may not only just elect Susan Collins, but might get a whole bunch more Republicans in office as well.

Mills has a lot to answer for for Covid, for the mess the state is in, and just for being ineffective. Platner has a lot to answer for in terms of the Nazi tattoo, getting the equivalent of $70,000 a year in total disability benefit benefits, even though he thinks he should be a US senator, and a real investigation into the financialrelationship between his “farm” and his mother’s restaurant could be quite interesting.

I’m not saying there’s anything amiss, but one trick I’ve seen done elsewhere goes as follows. Let’s say the price that restaurants are paying for lobsters is five dollars a pound. Instead of paying that the restaurant pays ten dollars a pound for the same lobsters, and then deduct that off of its taxes as an expense for the restaurant.

What this wind up doing is shifting the profits from the restaurant to the profits or the oyster farm. He still has to pay taxes, but the IRS has rules about businesses must make money because they don’t want tax dodges, and he can only deduct as much as his gross profits are.

So let’s say his deductible expenses are $50,000, but his gross income from the “farm“ was $30,000. If he can sell the oysters to his mother for twice fair market value, he then will have a gross income of $60,000 from which he can deduct $50,000 as business expenses and pay taxes on the $10,000.

This would actually be legal, sort of, because there’s no requirement that his mother purchase oysters from the lowest bidder. The IRS would ask questions and the whole thing would be a whole lot more complicated than I’ve laid it out here, but I’m just suggesting that it’s something that lobsterman have done and it’s a possibility.

I AM NOT SAYING HE’S DOING THIS, only that this retired lobsterman really noticed how his waste is all go to his mother’s restaurant. Maybe only at fair market value, but we don’t know. And there’s nothing wrong with selling stuff to your mother, a family member often is a more reliable vendor, and I’ve written justifications for not going with the lowest bidder in the public sector because it’s “lowest QUALIFIED bidder.“

And remember that his hundred percent disability pension is tax free.

Just saying….

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Dr. Ed
Dr. Ed
21 days ago

His OYSTERS, not his waste. Grrrr…..

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Islander
Islander
20 days ago

I thought one of his complaints was lying politicians, so he has Bernie and Liawatha, lol

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mark violette
mark violette
20 days ago

This woman is evil, they deserve each other

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Roland
Roland
20 days ago

Sure doesn’t appear 100% disabled. Fraudulent? Government should reassess. Disabled folk don’t do well hauling nets and traps from the ocean. Hard work.

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Tervis
Tervis
20 days ago

Blind leading the blind. Liar liar, sperms on fire

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Wolley Moose
Wolley Moose
20 days ago

The endorsements for Platner are all deep state mafia operatives.

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Handy N Handsome
Handy N Handsome
20 days ago

Fake Indian (feathet/not spot) and fake disabled oysterman.
Perfect candidates for the democrat/communist party.

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Norman Linnell
Norman Linnell
20 days ago

Fauxcahontas is living proof that those that vote for Communist Democrats love to be lied to.

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craig
craig
20 days ago

what is becoming of this country !???? our schools are posioned with communist ideoligy teaching our kids to hate this country and love big government handouts ,as they PROMISE FREE STUFF that cannot work! taxing taking from the working class to support the lazy p.o.s who want free stuff ! its never worked and will never work…..

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Dan
Dan
20 days ago

There is nothing like bringing in the biggest fake in the world to bolster your own “credibility”

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Dorian Grier
Dorian Grier
20 days ago

Private location just goes to show how undemocratic these people are. Transparency not one of your core values, Graham and Pocahontas?

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LuntersHaptop
LuntersHaptop
20 days ago

Two lying faker peas in a rotten pod, Warren claims to be an Indian but she’s really not, and Platner claims to not be a Nazi but really he is.

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Islander
Islander
20 days ago

I bet you will need an ID to attend the Pow Wow with the fake Indian and the fake oysterman

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mainer
mainer
20 days ago

Birds of a feather…get tarred together.

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MaineMadMan
MaineMadMan
20 days ago

Reply to Roland’s post
I seem to recall a blurb in the Portland Herald from Platners wife on his “disability”. “He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress from his three combat tours of duty , that most days he can barely function.” Seems all BS to game the system to me.

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
20 days ago

“ “He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress from his three combat tours of duty , that most days he can barely function.” Is it obvious that if his wife knows he can barely function that the rest of us will discover the same once we have elected him to something. However, if Fauchehontas thinks he is good, he must actually be great.

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poppypapa
poppypapa
20 days ago

Will both be in full indigenous head-pieces?

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poppypapa
poppypapa
19 days ago

Who’d have guessed that oystering on the Maine coast is a job suitable for the fully disabled.

Any indication of what his “full disability” is? If it’s PTSD or something similarly psychological, or TBI, shouldn’t they be disqualifiers for being in the US Congress?

Oh wait, the precedent has already been set. Too many “stress related” disorders and injured brains already serving in congress. They probably have a special caucus.

And we wonder why they push for trans rights.

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