Why Platner’s Death Camp Guard Tattoo Really Is No Big Deal to Democrats

One of the most fascinating cultural phenomena of 2026, aside from the fact that the Washington Post wants you to believe that a clean reflecting pool is inferior to a scummy, leaking, stinking one, is the spectacle of leftists explaining that a leftist candidate with a Nazi tattoo is really a great guy, even if he muses about raping burglars, abuses girlfriends, and went off to war because he lusted after the opportunity to kill people. 

Graham Platner is everything the left has claimed to detest, although anybody who has watched the left embrace  BLM, Antifa, and child predators knows that they are merely projecting onto their perceived enemies their own worst impulses. 

Still, they revel in accusing everyone of being a Nazi, yet their most beloved candidate this year—one whom some of the more deranged have floated as a budding presidential candidate- wore as a tattoo a SS-Totenkopfverbande on his chest. 

This was the symbol adopted proudly not just by the SS, but specifically the guards at the concentration camps. It is, literally, the logo of the worst Nazis imaginable. Not the regular soldiers at the front. The guys with the gas chambers.

Yeah, those guys. And he wore it because he saw his role in combat as similar to theirs. 

Newsflash: @ryangrim is kind of a monster.

— David Strom (@DavidStrom) June 11, 2026

Normal people would at least do a double-take, and after ranting about Elon Musk being a Nazi, and waxing poetic about how using the “OK” symbol proved you were a Nazi, we are now treated to lectures about how a Nazi is in fact not just a Nazi. 

CNN: “[Graham] Platner referred to [his tattoo] as ‘my Totenkopf,’ which is a reference to the skull and cross bone used by Nazi SS units years before the controversy became public.” pic.twitter.com/maQ6FnoEDM

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 5, 2026

Now I do grant that Platner, a vicious antisemite who praised Hamas and who wanted his fellow US soldiers to be killed (yes, he said that, too), is probably no longer a Nazi antisemite. He now calls himself a communist, which is just another variation on the theme. So I guess they have a minor point, although he did keep that tattoo after he adopted his Antifa/communist ideology. 

“Obscure Nazi symbol” meaning the symbol that is universally utilized in popular mass media to indicate the wearer is a Nazi https://t.co/t5bzAXJC4k pic.twitter.com/fl6n8pQFLH

— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 11, 2026

If you’re unironically calling Graham Platner a Nazi, you’re not a serious person.

He’s a doofus who got drunk with his military unit overseas, they all got a tattoo, he later learned it was an obscure Nazi symbol and he stupidly kept it anyway because he thought it looked cool.

There are a lot of variations on the theme that the totenkopf isn’t a big deal, ranging from “He changed,” even if his decision to get the tattoo covered up came AFTER he jumped into the Senate race, and within the time that all these people flocked to him, to “the totenkopf is so obscure that nobody knows what it is, so who cares? 

Graham Platner certainly knew. He is a military history buff, and multiple people swear he called it his “Nazi tattoo.” It beggars belief to claim he was ignorant. 

“obscure Nazi symbol” pic.twitter.com/s9GWMVu7i4

— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 11, 2026

The symbol is not obscure, although younger folks for whom history begins and ends with “US really really bad” probably could barely recognize a swastika. But that’s on modern education. Those of us who grew up before, say, 2005, are quite well aware. 

So much so that comedy shows for general audiences could use the totenkopf as part of a skit. 

  

Who doesn’t know the Mitchell and Webb skit “Are we the baddies?” It is an internet meme. Granted, not everybody sees every meme or watches British comedy, but even those who haven’t seen the actual skit get it right away. 

The answer that the left is giving is simple: the concentration camp guards WEREN’T the baddies, which is consistent with their constant messaging as they march in favor of Hamas and against Jews. 

“Obscure Nazi symbol” pic.twitter.com/TtYtOM1yBp

— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 11, 2026

It’s actually quite common to find signs and chants at anti-Israel rallies referring to the Holocaust favorably, and even people saying that Hitler didn’t go far enough. 

Most people wouldn’t dare say it, but every person marching next to somebody who does, or who carries a sign with that message, has endorsed it. I don’t march with anybody with a Swastika, and once left a rally when somebody came with a sign about “Ni**ers.” Being there would be a sign of tolerance or endorsement—saying “I’m with them.”

When you see the shiny spot on top of the SS’s caps, that is a Totenkopf. As I explain in the thread, below, the Totenkopf was the unifying symbol of the SS. The mass executioners. It’s not a random Nazi symbol. It’s a very specific Nazi symbol. Every rank of the SS wore it. https://t.co/0ZPwZPYukJ pic.twitter.com/DHruPB51IR

— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) June 10, 2026

If Graham Platner had left the military, realized he got the very wrong tattoo, and erased it 15 years ago, the issue would be a flash in the pan, unless he were a Republican. But as with Governor Ralph Northam’s KKK outfit, which was forgiven, and more relevantly Jay Jones’ murderous fantasies, Democrats are extremely flexible about their candidates’ behavior. 

CNN: “[Graham] Platner referred to [his tattoo] as ‘my Totenkopf,’ which is a reference to the skull and cross bone used by Nazi SS units years before the controversy became public.” pic.twitter.com/maQ6FnoEDM

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 5, 2026

That goes double when they secretly agree. 

All those complaints about Republicans being Nazis are projections, just as the claim that Republicans wanting guns is because they want to shoot people. 

From the NYT article.

Kfile also verified that Platner’s acquaintances at the Tune Inn said he called it a Totenkopf. pic.twitter.com/wiB7n0t3Bf

— Leia (@TheSWPrincess) June 10, 2026

No. Democrats think that because when they think of guns, they think of who they want to murder, which is why they love Luigi Mangione, cheered the murder of Charlie Kirk, and go online to bitch every time a leftist fails to kill Trump. 

Graham Platner cheated on his fiancée and bragged Nazi tattoo was reminder ‘US was the evil bad guy,’ his ex-girlfriend tells The Post – great scoop from @thatkingthing and @JSweetLI https://t.co/Hi2S8NnlMh

— Emily Goodin (@Emilylgoodin) June 11, 2026

Speaking of which, Graham Platner also has another skeleton in his closet that nobody talks about: his being a trainer in the Socialist Rifle Club, specializing in training Antifa and trans activists in assault tactics. A man who declared his belief that we need a revolution in the United States trains revolutionaries in the use of weapons and tactics, while wearing a Totenkopf tattoo, is the Democrats’ star candidate. 

Are we the baddies? Indeed. 

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