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Augusta, MAINE — Today, the Mills for Maine campaign released a new television ad featuring Graham Platner claiming he is “not ashamed” for his offensive comments and Reddit posts, including saying that women worried about rape should “not get so f—-d up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to” and “act like an adult for f—s sake.”
The ad also features comments where Platnercalled people who disagreed with him “fags” and asking if they are “retarded.”
Platner has previously downplayed his record of past offensive comments as an “absurd litmus test” for people to “clutch our pearls” and claiming that “people don’t care.”
Read transcript of “No Shame” below:
Platner: “I made a lot of comments that I’m not, that I’m not offen-, that I’m not, like, ashamed of.”
Voice over: What comments has Graham Platner made?
Voice over: Platner wrote that women worried about rape need to, quote
Voice over: “Not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”
Voice over: Platner wrote to avoid rape, women should quote…
Voiceover: “act like an adult for fucks sake.”
Voice over: And called people who disagreed with him
Voice over: “fags” and “retarded”
*Note: The ad features sound effects covering the slurs
Platner: “I made a lot of comments that I’m not, that I’m not offen-, that I’m not, like, ashamed of”
Voice over: Graham Platner, the closer you look, the worse it gets.
>The ad also features comments where Platnercalled people who disagreed with him “fags” and asking if they are “retarded.”
check out this Atlantic article
The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse
How we got to“I love Hitler.”
By George Packer
A static-patterned icon with three dots, on fire, in front of a black background with grey diagonal lines emanating
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic
October 17, 2025
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When leaders of Young Republican groups around the country exchange texts that say“I love Hitler”;that joke about gas chambers and rape, approve of slavery, sneer about “watermelon people” and monkeys in zoos,and throw around words like faggot and retarded, they aren’t just exposing their own anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and misogyny. To see only the varieties of bigotry with which we’re painfully familiar is to miss the depth of MAGA’s moral collapse. Professing love for Hitler ismore than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman. It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent. The texts degrade all of us.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/maga-moral-collapse-groupchat/684594/