32 minutes ago, SingAPorn said:

What about all those nazi scientists and other high level bureaucrats and business leaders close to the nazi party, that America gave a safe haven ?

Were any of them elected to the Senate?

We must remember Robert KKK Byrd (D) was in the Senate, and FDR's first nominee to the Supreme Court was Hugo Black, who was an active member of the KKK. So Platner is in good company as a Nazi.

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Were any of them elected to the Senate?

It will be a first for that & this (first senator to sport Nazi stuff) , no party in the history of the USA,No mainstream Democratic Party, either in the U.S. or globally, has adopted a platform of neo Nazi or fascist sports nostalgia.

7 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The tattoo he foolishly got while in the military won't stop him winning. The recent domestic violence allegations might.

An own goal by the Democrats, as Maine is a vital Senate pick-up. It will be close.

The domestic violence and kiddie pick-up site were apparently when he was young and foolish as well.

4 minutes ago, TedG said:

We must remember Robert KKK Byrd (D) was in the Senate, and FDR's first nominee to the Supreme Court was Hugo Black, who was an active member of the KKK. So Platner is in good company as a Nazi.

Good point & thanks,Byrd was a card carrying proud member of the KKK.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8272822

Edited June 12Jun 12 by riclag

2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The domestic violence and kiddie pick-up site were apparently when he was young and foolish as well.

Basically everything he did would of nullified him in a sane Dem Party. But these people practically invite fraudsters/Criminals to the table.

12 hours ago, riclag said:

During the House Judiciary hearing, Rep. Hunt Q & A the SPLC interim CEO Mr. Fair with a gotcha question. “Were they informed that this was actually funding members of the KKK?”

Fair twisted in his seat and deflected for what seemed like the thousandth time

From the House hearing transcript:

Wesley Hunt (03:42:15):

So you were taking money from people. And were they informed that this was actually funding members of the KKK?

Mr. Fair (03:42:23):

Congressman.

Wesley Hunt (03:42:24):

So if a donor says, "Hey, I'm going to give you all a million dollars." Did you then say, "Well, we're actually going to have a covert operation that's going to secretly give money to KKK to fund the organization." And then did the donor then say, "Well, that sounds like a good idea. Please take more of my money." That ever happened?

Mr. Fair (03:42:40):

Congressman Hunt-

Wesley Hunt (03:42:40):

Yes, sir.

Mr. Fair (03:42:41):

...all of the allegations in the indictment will be addressed in the Middle District of Alabama in the criminal proceeding.

NB The current federal indictment one of 2 counts specifically requires an INTENT to defraud -- so Congressman Hunt, in his zeal, is not an attorney who would have known that is an improper question and would not expect an answer given the current criminal indictment

Edited June 13Jun 13 by JerryM

The Nazis were a far right political party. You cannot be a Marxist and be a Nazi. Just because they were officially named National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) is meaningless. The name was largely a strategic move to attract working-class voters during a time of high anti-capitalist sentiment. In practice, their economic and political actions actively dismantled traditional socialism.

Wikipedia is your friend.

On 6/10/2026 at 3:13 AM, riclag said:

At a recent Oversite hearing on the SPLC.

After a bit of round & round Q&A from Fair, Gill said the SPLC has referred to the Totenkopf as a "racist skinhead symbol", Yet this same organization now finds itself soft pedaling its association with a Dem Senate candidate in Maine who proudly wore this Nazi SS death’s head tattoo for years before covering it up.

The hypocrisy , the SPLC eagerly brands conservatives and ordinary Americans as "extremists" for far less, but suddenly gets tongue tied when one of their own party’s candidates has literal Nazi imagery in his past.

This is the party whose member now represents a man with a documented Nazi tattoo, and the SPLC’s selective outrage proves exactly who they really serve.

Their foot soldiers in the streets perfectly reflect this moral bankruptcy , the same crowd that cheers Antifa’s black bloc violence, waves communist flags, and tolerates National Socialist cosplayers when it suits their narrative.

While the SPLC obsesses over labeling everyday conservatives as "hate groups", it conveniently looks the other way as its ideological allies blend Nazi aesthetics, communist authoritarianism, and Antifa thuggery into one toxic package.

The story is based on a Senator Lee X posting

I have been seeing on the internet, that the SPLC has been supporting white supremist members and KKK members. Then they use the groups to propagandized and bring money into their coffers.

17 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

I have been seeing on the internet, that the SPLC has been supporting white supremist members and KKK members. Then they use the groups to propagandized and bring money into their coffers.

Washington Post via https://archive.ph/JvOVp

Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement

The Southern Poverty Law Center has told a federal court that law enforcement agencies knew for years that the nonprofit was paying informants to report on the movements of hate groups

April 28, 2026

WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court on Tuesday that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups without the knowledge of authorities.

In its first legal defense against the charges, the group filed motions in federal court in Alabama asking the court to order acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to retract statements saying the government had “no information” about the informant program, and to block him from making further similar statements. Blanche made the comment in a press conference last week and later on Fox News as he announced charges against the nonprofit.

But in its filings, the SPLC said it sent a 45-page “event alert” to the FBI in advance of the (Charlottesville, VA) rally with information gathered from the informant program, including information about some attendees’ weapons.

2 hours ago, radiochaser said:

I have been seeing on the internet, that the SPLC has been supporting white supremist members and KKK members. Then they use the groups to propagandized and bring money into their coffers.

Most Recently the world has seen the insignificant /once significant & once worthy NGO represent its own institutional survival above the causes it claims to champion, now those causes have dried up ,the groups that burn. cause havoc are from the left , resulting in a untrustworthy Marxist organization who manufactures hate to survive.The organization is on trial , 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for 'revolution'

https://www.foxnews.com/us/500-groups-3b-revenues-behind-nokings-protests-communist-call-revolution

Google ai overview:

"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was indicted by a federal grand jury on 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. Prosecutors allege the organization secretly funneled over $4 million in tax-exempt donor funds to extremists—including members of the Ku Klux Klan—via shell companies without disclosing the payments to its donors".

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and

Edited June 13Jun 13 by riclag

3 hours ago, Purdey said:

The Nazis were a far right political party. You cannot be a Marxist and be a Nazi. Just because they were officially named National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) is meaningless. The name was largely a strategic move to attract working-class voters during a time of high anti-capitalist sentiment. In practice, their economic and political actions actively dismantled traditional socialism.

Wikipedia is your friend.

Wikipedia is your friend, not mine.

From the DoJ link above:

“Donors gave their money believing they were supporting the fight against violent extremism,” said Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson. “As alleged, the SPLC instead diverted a portion of those funds to benefit individuals and groups they claimed to oppose. That kind of deception undermines public trust and social cohesion.”

Transcript from recent SPLC judicial House hearing:

Ranking Member Raskin: SPLC donors are not claiming fraud. They were proud to support this program. Even the extremist groups themselves understood they were being infiltrated and were constantly looking for the (traitors), the spies. ... What have SPLC's donors done in light of this criminal indictment? They've not lined up to file class action suits or to denounce the SPLC. They continue to support the SPLC's works. Donations to the organization have gone up since this fraudulent indictment was brought down by the Trump administration.

Edited June 13Jun 13 by JerryM

2 minutes ago, JerryM said:

From the DoJ link above:

“Donors gave their money believing they were supporting the fight against violent extremism,” said Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson. “As alleged, the SPLC instead diverted a portion of those funds to benefit individuals and groups they claimed to oppose. That kind of deception undermines public trust and social cohesion.”

Transcript from recent SPLC judicial House hearing:

Ranking Member Raskin: SPLC donors are not claiming fraud. They were proud to support this program. Even the extremist groups themselves understood they were being infiltrated and were constantly looking for the traders, the spies. ... What have SPLC's donors done in light of this criminal indictment? They've not lined up to file class action suits or to denounce the SPLC. They continue to support the SPLC's works. Donations to the organization have gone up since this fraudulent indictment was brought down by the Trump administration.

Yeah, as long as they promote the left and attack the right, the money will keep flowing in.

"Truth is not a left-wing value"

The irony, 500 groups on the NO KINGS march including communist and socialist organizations calling for revolution never made it to the SPLC hate map. Some want to kill/burn USA down, while peaceful conservatives, parental rights groups, or immigration enforcement advocates routinely get branded as hate groups on the SPLC's map.

The irony is thick,Some of these NoKings participants including openly communist and socialist organizations explicitly calling for revolution , wave flags of of authoritarian terrorist regimes , chant from the river to the sea, chant for the destruction of the American system, and talk about burning it all down. Yet they never make it onto the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate map.

14 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Yeah, as long as they promote the left and attack the right, the money will keep flowing in.

Again from the DoJ link above:

“The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public," said FBI Director Kash Patel.

NB The federal lawsuit claims donors have been deceived.

Great. Find one.

Edited June 13Jun 13 by JerryM

NB2 to the above: The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama where SPLC case was filed has 3 active judges. All appointed by president Trump 2 during his first term and one the current term.

A judge has not been assigned as still in the hands of Magistrate Judge Kelly Fitzgerald.

Google ai overview:

2 hours ago, riclag said:

The irony, 500 groups on the NO KINGS march including communist and socialist organizations calling for revolution never made it to the SPLC hate map. Some want to kill/burn USA down, while peaceful conservatives, parental rights groups, or immigration enforcement advocates routinely get branded as hate groups on the SPLC's map.

The irony is thick,Some of these NoKings participants including openly communist and socialist organizations explicitly calling for revolution , wave flags of of authoritarian terrorist regimes , chant from the river to the sea, chant for the destruction of the American system, and talk about burning it all down. Yet they never make it onto the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate map.

Are communist/socialist groups on the splc hate map?

google ai overview

No, mainstream communist and socialist groups are not included on the Southern Poverty Law Center's SPLC Hate Map.

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/

Motion seeks dismissal of all charges against SPLC by the court

May 26, 2026 MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a motion in federal court to dismiss the charges against the SPLC based on vindictive prosecution. The motion argues that the charges brought against the 55-year old civil rights organization are the result of targeting by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and amount to retaliation, violating the SPLC’s constitutional right to due process.

Citing statements and actions by President Trump, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, other high ranking DOJ officials and FBI Director Kash Patel, the SPLC posits that the charges against it were brought not because of any criminal activity, but because the SPLC has been critical of the Administration’s policies and has published about extremist views held by Administration officials.

Some statements highlighted in the motion, like Blanche’s false claim that there was not evidence the SPLC passed information to law enforcement in efforts to thwart the criminal activities of hate groups—which the prosecution in the case has conceded was untrue and that Blanche later corrected— have also been the subject of other motions the SPLC has made showing how this prosecution is improper.

https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/motion-vindictive-prosecution-department-justice/

Manufacturing hate , SPLC should be on their own Map.

"Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including:

• Ku Klux Klan

• United Klans of America

• Unite the Right

• National Alliance

• National Socialist Movement

• Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club

• National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party)

• American Front"

  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and

On 6/10/2026 at 2:13 PM, riclag said:

At a recent Oversite hearing on the SPLC.

After a bit of round & round Q&A from Fair, Gill said the SPLC has referred to the Totenkopf as a "racist skinhead symbol", Yet this same organization now finds itself soft pedaling its association with a Dem Senate candidate in Maine who proudly wore this Nazi SS death’s head tattoo for years before covering it up.

The hypocrisy , the SPLC eagerly brands conservatives and ordinary Americans as "extremists" for far less, but suddenly gets tongue tied when one of their own party’s candidates has literal Nazi imagery in his past.

This is the party whose member now represents a man with a documented Nazi tattoo, and the SPLC’s selective outrage proves exactly who they really serve.

Their foot soldiers in the streets perfectly reflect this moral bankruptcy , the same crowd that cheers Antifa’s black bloc violence, waves communist flags, and tolerates National Socialist cosplayers when it suits their narrative.

While the SPLC obsesses over labeling everyday conservatives as "hate groups", it conveniently looks the other way as its ideological allies blend Nazi aesthetics, communist authoritarianism, and Antifa thuggery into one toxic package.

The story is based on a Senator Lee X posting

Edited June 13Jun 13 by riclag

The DoJ 12 JUN 2026 filed a motion opposing the SPLC's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution. It doesn't mention the words 'Blanche' or 'Patel'.

The May 26, 2026 SPLC motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution mentions the word 'Blanche' 33 times and 'Patel' 17 times.

On 6/12/2026 at 9:19 PM, Yellowtail said:

The domestic violence and kiddie pick-up site were apparently when he was young and foolish as well.

That's OK then 😉

Baiting troll posts and the replies have been removed.

On 6/12/2026 at 9:19 PM, Yellowtail said:

The domestic violence and kiddie pick-up site were apparently when he was young and foolish as well.

The kiddie app is called kik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_(app)

2 minutes ago, JerryM said:

The kiddie app is called kik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_(app)

What's your username?

8 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What's your username?

jerrym same as here

On 6/10/2026 at 9:44 PM, riclag said:

Prediction markets currently favor Dems to flip a seat in November. Maine's Platner’s chances fell following the latest scandals involving his past relationships, but Collins still trails which means it looks like the Senate will have its first Dem Nazi representation according to polling.

He may remove the tattoo from his chest, but there's no way of removing it from the minds of people who despise what the Totenkopf represented.

Platner earlier faced controversy over the tattoo resembling the Totenkopf, or death’s head, a symbol adopted by the Nazi SS. He has apologized and claimed ignorance, yet the radical left brings up Nazism every single day in politics while excusing one of their own.

https://www.newsweek.com/susan-collins-chances-losing-graham-platner-maine-senate-race-12048871

You need to take a good hard look at Trump, his cabinet appoinments, his and their ideologies, beliefs and actions before you start pointing the finger at others.

On 6/11/2026 at 8:08 AM, unblocktheplanet said:

Of course, we also have a Secretary of War with an Iron Cross tattoo. I don't buy either's story of ignorance. Was the tattoo artist a neo-Nazi?

On 6/11/2026 at 8:30 AM, riclag said:

Iron cross lol ,is that the rubbish the international leftist are trying to push. The haters were recently pushing Hegseth as a extremists favoring Jews by wearing a Jerusalem Cross.

The Cross of Jerusalem and the Iron Cross are very different.

The Cross of Jerusalem is a religious symbol associated with the Crusades, while the Iron Cross is a German military symbol dating from the 1800s.

A dem party with a senator wearing Nazi nostalgia will be hard pressed to walk back the nazi nostalgia and the hate it represents .

22 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

The Cross of Jerusalem and the Iron Cross are very different.

The Cross of Jerusalem is a religious symbol associated with the Crusades, while the Iron Cross is a German military symbol dating from the 1800s.

What the international left did was twist, bend the facts to fit their hate narrative, thanks for presenting the illustrations.

Platner is native born Maine and an oyster farmer. In Maine that counts for a lot -- especially when Senator Collins' family has been in the Maine lumber business since 1844.