Leftists Blasted Hegseth’s Christian Tats For Months… Now Their Senate Candidate Has A Nazi Problem
The Maine Kampf headlines we'll see if this guy gets his party's nom will be unreal.
Pete Hegseth is a soldier a patriot, and an unashamed follower of Jesus Christ. If there was any doubt, it’s literally written all over his body.
To properly evaluate the Dem party’s dismissive response to the outrageous tattoo on their Senate candidate’s chest, we must first look at their pearl-clutching over the tattoos of a political appointee cleared by the Senate, who has civilian oversight over the US Armed Forces.
Hegseth’s forearm tat says ‘we the people’ while a big one on his chest shows the Jerusalem Cross, a Christian image with a thousand years of history. There’s another one that says ‘kafir’, the Arabic word for ‘infidel’ or ‘non-believer’.
He’s hardly been one to shy away from speaking his mind, or talking about what the tats on his body might signify. And yet, the left goes out of its way to seek out secret hidden meanings. Even supposedly ‘unbiased fact-based information sources’ like the Encyclopedia Britannica somehow find a way to include in an entry on the Jerusalem Cross claims about the hidden meaning (and wouldn’t you know it) in the Trump-era context, including you guessed it, a specific reference to Pete Hegseth.
Extreme right, blah-blah-blah. Because in these sources, only the political right even has an ‘extreme’ faction, and they look an awful lot like yesteryear’s normies, which might explain why some prominent Dems or moderates have crossed parties because the new-look Dems have fallen off the left edge of the political map.
Now let’s check in on a candidate for Senate hoping to unseat Susan Collins, Democrat Graham Platner. He’s got a tattoo, too. And unlike the fever-dream connections between 11th Century Jerusalem and flash-in-the-pan niche 21st Century US political affiliations, there is no confusion about what Platner’s tattoo means.
It’s called a Totenkopf in the original German. And the name itself is kind of a spoiler for what’s coming next, isn’t it? The totenkopf is a very specific image…
… with unmistakable associations:
You know that infamous ‘are we the baddies’ meme? If you watch the video itself, you’ll notice that one of the clues that makes the German officer think maybe they may be ‘the baddies’ is that the caps have skulls on them.
Yep. There it is.
Same skull.
How awkward must it be for his campaign to know that they’ve got to deal with headlines like this one:
‘I’m not a secret Nazi’: Maine Democratic Senate candidate addresses tattoo (And did we mention that’s an international news source?)
That news story includes his side of trying to spin the oppo research to minimize damage. He said he and some marine buddies picked a tattoo from off the wall because it looked terrifying, but he had no knowledge of its meaning.
The Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner attempted to get ahead of potential opposition research by disclosing and explaining a skull-and-crossbones tattoo he has on his chest that resembles Nazi imagery, along with an embarrassing personal video.
[…] The tattoo in question resembles the Totenkopf, or “death’s head” symbol, which was adopted by Hitler’s SS during the Nazi era and became particularly associated with the SS-Totenkopfverbande, the branch responsible for guarding concentration camps, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
When reached for comment, Platner said: “I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that” the tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol. He said he was “already planning to get this removed”. — Guardian
Of course Democrats have no history of shading the truth when the facts could derail their run for positions of power, right?
“I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I am already planning to get this removed.”
His former campaign director, however, disputed his claim.
“Maybe he didn’t know it when he got it, but he got it years ago, and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means,” Genevieve McDonald wrote on Facebook, according to the outlet.
She resigned from Platner’s campaign after his old Reddit posts surfaced, which include labeling all police “bastards,” describing rural white Americans as “actually” stupid and racist — and once calling himself a “communist” around 2021, according to CNN. — NYPost
Yeah, the actual post was far more emphatic than that. Here’s a screengrab:
What makes the McDonald post believable?
The anger in this post isn’t not about the tattoo itself, but that the stupidity around the tattoo has cost the Dems an opportunity to take the Senate seat in Maine.
It’s exactly the ‘we just shot ourselves in the foot’ outrage that conservative voters have long since known. And the media spin doctors won’t be able to wish this away.
Dems are backing an actual communist as their canidate for NYC’s mayor and a guy with a Nazi SS tat to be one of only 100 Senators responsible for writing this country’s laws.
But we keep hearing about extremists on the Right? Yeah, we’re not buying what they’re selling.
And some of us never were.
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