Look, there are plenty of reasons to despise Graham Platner. The track listing on the K-Tel album of loathsomeness that is his résumé includes pushing around girlfriends, working-class cosplay, bizarre opinions on rape and race, Marxist musings, phallic photos, a Totenkopf tattoo, and his notorious outhouse onanism. He’s the Phil Spector of gaffes, pumping out hit after hit, yet likely to end up in prison after they find a dead lady in the pad his dad bought for him. But we should stay away from his VA disability rating. And this leads to a bigger discussion about how we need to stay away from stuff that isn’t true about our enemies.

Let’s talk about his VA rating. It is 100%. That means he gets about $4,800 bucks a month from the feds. It’s undisputed that he served overseas several times, and we know this because he blames Susan Collins for his volunteering to do so. Let’s add that disingenuous crap to his CV. But don’t add disability fraud, at least not yet.

What civilians don’t know is that when you get 100% disability, you are not 100% disabled in the way normal people think of it – unable to function or perform all aspects of daily life. In the VA disability system, 100% disability means your various disabilities, each assigned a percentage, add up to 100% of the maximum monthly pension. It is not only possible that people with 100% disability can continue to work, including physical jobs, but it happens all the time, and it is not fraud. Most vets are go-getters who will work through their challenges. Moreover, you can’t see all of people’s disabilities. Take tinnitus, that ringing in the ear that so many of us have - hey, there it is now! It’s worth about 10%. And then back problems, which are ubiquitous, especially among paratroopers, could be another 30% or 40%. And so on and so on. Add........

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