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Graham Platner's Comedic Potential Lost in Joke Drought

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26.05.2026

Bonchie of RedState.com asked an interesting question on X: Has a single late-night comic told a single joke about Graham Platner? That question shouldn't have to be asked about the radical-left Democrat Senate nominee in Maine, the one who had the Totenkopf symbol tattooed on his chest, which symbolizes the SS who ran the death camps. OK, that doesn't sound funny.

But Platner is a walking, talking pincushion for comedians. Add to the Nazi tattoo these gaffetastic items:

-- Mocked Purple Heart recipient Ted Daniels after he was shot four times in a 2012 battle with the Taliban: "Dumb motherf---er didn't deserve to live."

-- Replied to a discussion about nostalgic military smells by declaring: "I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portas----er ... That blue water smell conditioned me."

-- In a discussion on rape, Platner claimed people should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't........

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