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A Marine veteran of the Afghanistan War is running for the US Senate from Maine. Around these parts we tend to respect vets that run for office, even if they are doing so as Democrats. Well this fella, Graham Platner, took to a podcast to admit that he’s got a great big Nazi tattoo on his chest. He’s planning on removing it. He blames a night of your typical drunken Marines on liberty antics. Who here hasn’t gotten a giant SS-Totenkopf prominently tattooed while out with the boys?<\/p>\n
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is aware of the tat, and\u00a0still\u00a0<\/em>supports Platner’s Senate bid. Time was that a person with a Nazi tattoo was political kryptonite, but the Democrat party is very accepting of those who want to push all the Jews into the sea these days.<\/p>\n The Press Herald<\/a> has the story;<\/p>\n A leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine took the unusual step this week of disclosing he has a tattoo that has been linked to Nazis.<\/p>\n In an extended interview on \u201cPod Save America\u201d that aired Monday night, Graham Platner said he and fellow Marines got a skull tattoo while drunk on leave in Croatia in 2007 without knowing about its association with Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo,\u201d Platner said. \u201cWe chose a terrifying looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and, you know, skulls and crossbones are pretty standard military thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Platner, a combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, made the disclosure by providing a video of himself dancing in only his \u201csilkies\u201d (Marines\u2019 running shorts) at a family wedding, because he said political opponents were pitching stories about it to national journalists.<\/p>\n The tattoo on his chest appears to resemble the Totenkopf, which is German for \u201cdeath\u2019s head.\u201d It was worn by Hitler\u2019s brutal SS guard and became a symbol of the unit guarding concentration camps, according to the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n The Army prohibits people with tattoos that are \u201cextremist, racist, sexist or otherwise indecent\u201d from serving. And Platner noted that the tattoo was never an issue during his screening for the Army National Guard or when he was cleared to serve on a security detail for the ambassador for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont and a progressive icon who helped launch Platner\u2019s candidacy with an early endorsement and Labor Day rally in Portland, told Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic Tuesday that he continues to support the candidate. Bobic posted Sanders\u2019 comments on the social media site, X.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a young man who served his country in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he went through some really difficult experiences seeing friends of his killed or whatever, and in spite of all of that he had the courage to run,\u201d Sanders said, according to Bobic. \u201cI personally think he is an excellent candidate. I\u2019m going to support him, and I look forward to him becoming the next senator in the state of Maine\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n