Senator Elizabeth Warren spent Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing hyperventilating about a Jerusalem Cross on his arm — a Christian symbol that’s been around since, oh, the actual Crusades — and declared that it made him a potential “insider threat” who was too dangerous to lead the Pentagon. She went full Code Red over a tattoo that you can buy on a necklace at any church gift shop in America. It was one of the most embarrassing performances we’ve ever seen from a United States Senator, and that’s a bar so low you’d need a shovel to find it.
So naturally, Warren just endorsed Graham Platner for U.S. Senate in Maine — a guy who had a literal Nazi death’s head skull tattooed on his chest. The Totenkopf. The same symbol worn by the SS. On his body. For almost twenty years. But sure, Liz — tell us more about how a cross is scary.
We need to talk about what’s happening in Maine right now, because this Democratic Senate primary has turned into the most entertaining clown show of the 2026 midterms, and that’s saying something in a year where we’re also fighting a war with Iran.
Platner is an oyster farmer and former Army paratrooper who wants to take on Susan Collins. He’s got Bernie Sanders in his corner, Elizabeth Warren stumping for him, and Ruben Gallego throwing him endorsements from Arizona. The progressive dream team. There’s just one small problem — well, a few problems, actually, and they’re all things that would have ended a Republican’s career before lunch on the first day.
First, there’s the tattoo. Platner claims he and some Marine buddies got matching skull-and-crossbones ink while on leave in Croatia back in 2007, and he had absolutely no idea it was a Nazi symbol. That’s his story. Didn’t know. Just thought it looked cool. Never mind that CNN dug up a former acquaintance who says Platner specifically called it “my Totenkopf” — which is the German name for it, suggesting the kind of familiarity you don’t get from accidentally picking a flash design off a parlor wall in Zagreb.
He finally covered it up this year. After almost two decades of walking around with SS insignia on his chest. Better late than never, we suppose.
But wait — there’s more! Because the tattoo isn’t even the best part.
Platner also had a whole collection of Reddit posts that surfaced like a submarine nobody wanted to see. We’re talking posts where he dismissed military sexual assaults, questioned whether Black restaurant customers tip properly, used homophobic slurs, made anti-LGBTQ jokes, and trashed police officers and rural Americans. All between 2018 and 2021 — not exactly ancient history. He deleted them, of course, but the internet is forever, Graham.
His excuse? Post-traumatic stress and “the crude humor that was a hallmark of the infantry.” And Elizabeth Warren — the same woman who tried to end Pete Hegseth’s career over a cross — looked at all of this and said, basically, “I believe his apology is sincere, and he’s out there talking to the people of Maine every single day.”
Wow. A Christian cross on a Republican? National security threat. A Nazi death’s head on a Democrat? He apologized, everyone move along.
This is what we’ve been telling you about these people for years. The rules they make up don’t apply to them. They never have. Elizabeth Warren spent Hegseth’s confirmation hearing implying that a man who served his country in uniform was some kind of white supremacist because of a religious tattoo. She cited a National Guard report that flagged him as a potential extremist — over a Jerusalem Cross that’s been a symbol of Christianity for a thousand years. She used the phrase “insider threat” on national television about a decorated combat veteran.
And now she’s bear-hugging a candidate whose tattoo was the actual logo of a group that murdered millions of people.
The Maine primary has gotten so bizarre that even the left-wing streamer Hasan Piker — a guy who was recently accused of antisemitic comments himself — just endorsed Platner’s opponent, Governor Janet Mills, specifically because he doesn’t want to back the tattoo guy. When Hasan Piker is the voice of reason in your party’s Senate primary, your party has driven so far off the road that Google Maps has given up trying to recalculate.
Mills is the establishment pick, and she’s been running ads hammering Platner on his Reddit posts and the Nazi ink. It’s Democrat-on-Democrat warfare, and honestly, we should all just grab some popcorn and enjoy it. These are the same people who lecture us about tolerance and inclusion every single day, and they can’t even get through a primary without one candidate’s chest looking like a World War II museum exhibit and the other getting endorsed by a guy who shocks his own dog on a livestream.
This is the party that wants to run America. This is the party that calls US the extremists.
The Maine primary isn’t until June, and Susan Collins is sitting there watching the whole thing like a woman who just found out both of her opponents brought knives to their own party’s potluck. If Republicans can’t hold this seat after watching Democrats spend three months arguing about whether a literal Nazi tattoo is a dealbreaker, then we deserve to lose it.
But here’s what we shouldn’t forget when the primary dust settles and Democrats try to pivot back to calling us fascists: Elizabeth Warren endorsed the Totenkopf guy. She looked at a Nazi death’s head and a pile of deleted Reddit slurs and said, “Yeah, he’s our guy.” She put her name on it. And every time she opens her mouth about “extremism” for the rest of her career, this endorsement should be the first and only thing anyone brings up.
A cross is a threat. A Nazi skull is fine. That’s the Democratic Party in 2026, folks. We couldn’t write better material if we tried.