Platner Kept a Profile on a Messaging App That Has Been a Playground for Predators for Years

If there is one thing that Graham Platner's Senate campaign has taught us, it's that every time people think they've hit the bottom of the opposition research barrel, the bottom is deeper still.

Over the course of this campaign, Mainers have learned about Platner's public restroom chicken-choking self-gratification habits, his phone-sex adventures on a network that was compromised by the Taliban, and his apparent emotional investment in a Thailand prostitution tax loophole. Most candidates spend campaign season talking about jobs, inflation, and national security. Platner has spent it providing material that sounds like it was rejected by the writers of a dark cable comedy.

Now comes another revelation.

According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, Platner maintained an account on Kik, the anonymous messaging platform that has spent years battling a reputation as a haven for sexual predators and child exploitation.

The account, operating under the username phustle0331, remains active. The profile picture is a mirror selfie featuring an individual who appears to be wearing nothing more than a bath towel. The tattoos visible in the image reportedly match tattoos Platner displayed during an interview with a local ABC affiliate last October. The username also matches a private Instagram account linked to Platner, as well as the Reddit account that has already generated plenty of unwanted headlines for his campaign.

Platner later acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that the account was his.

The account was created on June 26, 2016. By that point, Kik's reputation wasn't exactly a mystery. The platform had already become notorious for attracting predators looking to exploit children. That same year, a major sting operation led to the arrest of more than 2,600 predators. Concerns about the app became so widespread that the New York Times published an exposé detailing the dangers it posed to minors.

The issue has been especially relevant in Maine, the state Platner hopes to represent in the Senate.

Just last year, one Maine man received a sentence of 30 to 60 years for producing videos depicting the sexual abuse of children for users on the platform. Another case that surfaced in September involved a man who allegedly attended children's sporting events to obtain photographs that he later transformed into sexualized images using artificial intelligence.

Platner's Nazi tattoo

Experts estimate that roughly 70 percent of Kik users are between the ages of 13 and 24. Although the company has updated its rules to prohibit minors from using the app, there is no meaningful age-verification system in place to ensure users are actually adults. As a result, critics continue to describe the platform as a "Predator's Paradise."

Platner's campaign has insisted that he deleted the app from his phone, but apparently neglected to deactivate the account itself. They were apparently more concerned with him being embarrassed if the app was still there, than the idea that he is still on the platform. 

With the primary election only days away, Platner remains the favorite to secure the Democratic nomination, because, of course he is. If he does get the nomination, he is expected to face incumbent [RINO] Republican Senator Susan Collins in November in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

At this point, every new revelation about Platner feels less like opposition research and more like another installment in a series that nobody asked for, but everyone is reading anyway. He is disgusting, but he's Democrat disgusting and for that Party, it's okay.

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Tulsi rips Mittens a new one during hearing

Now that the House majority belongs to the GOP, they have a little clout and opened the select committee hearing on the weaponization of the DoJ and FBI.

Former Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was one of the witnesses for the hearing, and minced no words about the corruption she has observed between Big Tech and the federal government and how they targeted her personally.

She recounted how she was once approached by a woman during the 2020 presidential campaign and was asked by he whether she was working for Vladimir Putin. Evidently, the woman got the misinformation from the words of Hillary Clinton who accused Gabbard of being "groomed by Putin.” 

Now we have Sen. Mitt Romney [RINO] spouting nearly the same accusation, claiming that she was spreading “treasonous lies” in response to some of her commentary on the conflict in Ukraine.

Treason is punishable by death. Tulsi Gabbard is an officer in the US military, risking her life for the country while Mittens has never served in the military a day in his life.

During the hearing, Gabbard was given an official platform to respond, and she ripped Romney a new one.You really ought to consider checking out the tweet below for a part of her statement about Romney:

Tulsi Gabbard calls out Mitt Romney for accusing her of treason. pic.twitter.com/IKHelwm0ki

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 9, 2023

These were her words:

"More recently, US senator Mitt Romney accused me of treason, a crime that is punishable by death under our laws. I challenged him to back this serious allegation up with evidence. What was this based on? There was no response, no explanation, no evidence, and certainly no apology.

"Now, these accusations are often shrugged off as “well hey, it’s politics, people say things about each other all the time.” But that may be easy for some of you to say, but for somebody who wears the uniform, this is serious, and it’s serious not only to me but to my fellow servicemembers and veterans, every one of us making a decision at some point in our lives to raise our right hand, prepared and volunteering to lay our life down for this country.

"What does that mean in reality? It means that before every deployment, we have to make peace in our own hearts with the possibility that we may not come home. It means writing letters to our loved ones, trying to find the words (end of clip)."

To speak of those of us who have served in the military and some who are currently serving, as Tulsi Gabbard is, Romney's words define him as a shitbird. [Marines know what I mean.] Calling someone a traitor because they don't agree with a foreign war that does not directly involve the USA, is disgusting, defamatory, and ridiculous.

Tulsi Gabbard put her money where her mouth is; Mitt Romney never did.

Romney should be impeached. Period. And I don't give a damn what party he is or what party she is. He is an execrable scumbag.

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The drunken-sailor-in-a cat-house spending bill and the GOPers who voted with the Dems

Eighteen Republicans have gone along with the Democrats and passed an omnibus spending bill that is filled with woke pet projects and a pant load of LGBTQ+1~HQ projects as well. There are the usual "anti-racism" initiatives that with their bigotry of low expectations make them racist, and museums and pride centers.

The bill for the nation comes to a mere $1,700,000,000.54 [Okay, I was kidding about the $0.54] Fo perspective, it would take about 31,710 years just to count to one trillion if you count one number per second.

The bill was presented only hours before it was to be signed and was 4,155 pages long, which of course made it impossible to be reviewed in depth.

One such taxpayer-funded expense is a $750,000 is for LGBT and gender non-conforming housing in Albany, NY, because if you're confused about what to do with that stuff in your crotch, you need help to find a place to live. Makes perfect sense.

In Baltimore, Democrats and the 18 Republican cowards voted for a $2,000,000 "Great Blacks in Wax" museum and an $856,000 "LGBT Center" in New York, so there will be no mistaking who that woman is with the baritone voice hitting on a man without an Adam's Apple.

There was $1,200,000 for "LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers and the same amount to assist illegal aliens handle taxpayer money at San Diego Community College where silence is violence and so are many words.

There was $477,000 to be handed over to the Equity Institute in Rhode Island to be used to indoctrinate "teachers" with "antiracism virtual labs," where science goes to die.

Fully $1,000,000 will go to Zora's House in Ohio. Zora's House [not to confused with the Hispanic caped crusader with a sword who cuts a "Z" on the bellies of bad guys] is a "coworking and community space" for "women and gender-expansive people of color." It is still not known exactly what that means, but it has to do with the person being uncertain of what's going on 'down there' and how that person feels about it. Or maybe not.

A gender expansive they are

There is $3,000,000 is slated to go to The American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City where visitors can view the latest in sex toys, butt plugs and many other interesting LGBTQ+ artifacts and equipment.

And speaking of Michelle Obama, there will be $3,600,000 to fund a Michelle Obama Trail to be constructed in Georgia. The trail will be decorated in BLM and rainbow flags along its path and only Democrats will be permitted to partake in the peripatetics.

The final vote on the ridiculous spending bill was 68 - 29. The Republican senators who voted for the bill were: 

Roy Blunt (MO), John Boozman (AR), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), Susan Collins (ME), John Cornyn (TX), Tom Cotton (AR), Lindsey Graham (SC), Jim Inhofe (OK), Mitch McConnell (KY), Jerry Moran (KS), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Robert Portman (OH), Mitt Romney (UT), Mike Rounds (SD), Richard Shelby (AL), John Thune (SD), Roger Wicker (MS) and Todd Young (IN) 

REMEMBER THEIR NAMES NEXT TIME YOU VOTE.

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Liz Cheney, the proverbial snowball in Wyoming

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was blasted by Wyoming voters on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" when they were asked whether they supported the congresswoman and give her a fourth term in office.

One Trump supporter didn't beat around the bush: "Hell no!" she said. She defended her response by saying Cheney did her former president [Trump] and her constituent "dirty" in her outspoken role with the Jan. 6 House committee [aka: television extravaganza].

"She's done us dirty… look at how she's done Trump. I'm a Trump fan," she said, adding,"she's supposed to be supporting him. She's a Republican, for crying out loud."

Randi Kaye, another Wyoming voter was asked the same question and replied, "absolutely not" when he was asked if he would vote for Cheney. And another voter said that Cheney already served more than she deserved.

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There were others angry with the anti-Trump Republican, particularly her role on the Jan. 6 kangaroo court. The fact that the Democrats didn't allow the Republican Party select their own committee representatives but instead, put two RINOs in the seats--Cheney and Kinzinger--and that there was only a prosecution and no defense, is a disgusting travesty of justice.

If Cheney somehow wins a fourth term, I suggest the state audit the election because she is toast.

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Latest Poll: Liz Cheney losing bigly against Trump-backed challenger by 22 points

Cheney goes after Trump at the Jan 6 TV show

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is trailing her GOP challenger Harriet Hageman by 22% in a poll released Friday. Hopefully Ms. Cheney will ride off into the sunset and disappear from the public view after she gets clobbered next month in the Wyoming primaries.

A full 52% of likely primary voters in the state would support Hageman, and just 30% would support Cheney, for some reason, according to the survey by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy for the Star Tribune in Casper, Wyoming.

Harriet Hageman

The poll was conducted between July 7th to 11th and consisted of 1,100 likely voters. Other Republican primary candidates can hang up their spurs as they received only single-digit support for the only House seat up for grabs. Eleven percent of voters were undecided because there is always anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of the population that can't decide what to wear, where to go, and what to do, never mind who to vote for.

Former President Donald J. Trump chose Hageman out of several Republicans who are vying for Cheney's seat [which, I hear, is rather large]. Cheney was one of the two RINOs who voted to impeach Trump and likely committed political suicide, rightfully so.

Admiral Rachel Levine models himself after Liz

The poll also found that most voters disagreed with Cheney's decision to serve on the Jan. 6 Committee (63%) and believe her opposition to Trump destroyed her ability to represent Wyoming (61%). Fully 54% of Wyoming likely GOP voters also said her service on the select committee investigating attacks made them less likely to vote for her.

Cheney tried to convince Democrats in Wyoming to vote for her in the Republican primary to gain support, a move that Hageman's campaign correctly characterized as a "desperate" move to "hold on to power."

The Wyoming primary election is August 16th.

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Although Cheney claims to be a constitutional conservative who has fought for "everyday Wyomingites" against crippling regulation and government overreach, she seems to ignore the existence of the Constitution and rule of law, and lately appears to be more of a Democrat than a conservative.

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Another RINO gets an override: Utah Gov. Cox's veto of transgender sports ban

It's time to kick the bums out. No, I'm not talking about Biden and his fellow idiot second-in-command. I'm talking about RINOs [aka Republicans In Name Only] and in this case it's Utah Governor Spencer Cox.

Cox vetoed a bill that would ban men from competing in sports against women--let's call it the "Don't Say 'Slow Down Dude, You're Killing the Competition'" bill. The Utah legislature voted on Friday to override Cox's veto of the bill because he believes men who call themselves women, whether they believe it or not, should be allowed to compete against women, whose genital gear and chromosomes proves their claim to womanhood.

The override vote was 56 -18, a supermajority in the Republican-controlled House. Then the Senate clinched the override of the veto by a 21-8 vote. Cox, a sucker for the Democrats, looked like a fool.

In an attempt to cover his RINO butt, Cox issued a statement regarding his veto of H.B. 11, titled Student Eligibility in Interscholastic Activities. He said that while "politically, it would be much easier and better for me to simply sign the bill," he vetoed it because he "tried to do what I feel is the right thing regardless of the consequences."

So Cox took the side of the woke at the expense of women who train hard to compete but lack the physiological advantages men have over them. Women have been losing scholarships to these narcissistic men like Lia Thomas, a guy who by changing his name and keeping his twigs and berries, is able to compete against women in swimming competitions. As a male swimmer, Thomas is mediocre, but as a fake female, he dominates the pool and has to intentionally lose races to show he's just another woman swimming against his peers.

Four GOP lawmakers from each legislative body changed their initial votes in opposition to the measure in order to support the override, according to Utah's Deseret News.

Spencer Cox

At least one GOP lawmaker in the House who voted against the measure, state Rep. Mike Winder, did not change his stance. He chose not to vote to override Cox's veto and hopefully he will be voted out of office and replaced with a conservative.

State Rep. Kera Birkeland, the bill’s Republican sponsor and an actual woman, said the bill is "purely" about "preserving women’s sports" and cautioned that when "we don’t act, and we just go with the status quo, we just do more harm to both transgender youth and women athletes."

The Utah Jazz, an NBA Communist China supporting team, released a statement following the legislature's override.

"The Utah Jazz oppose discriminatory legislation. We are committed to our values of inclusivity, mutual respect and fair play," the statement said. "Beyond basketball, we hope for an equitable solution that shows love and compassion for all our youth."

I'd like to see more NBA players declare themselves women and play in the WNBA and see how that works out. In fact, there is an instance of a man fighting against women in Mixed Martial Arts and caused life-changing injuries to at least one woman. 

That's what "inclusion" gets you.

Here we have average male competitors who, as fake females dominate in sports. The only exception might be in sports like shooting and archery. 

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Some states beside Utah have already introduced measures to bar gender dysphoric men students from competing against women in school sports.

Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb also vetoed a bill that would have banned men with XY chromosomes and penises from competing against women with XX chromosomes and uteruses. 

It's time to vote these people out of office and replace them with Republicans who actually follow the science, and also refuse to allow the killing of babies.

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Socialist spending bill passed, thanks to 13 House GOPers and the Democrats

The House of [mis-] Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan socialist "infrastructure" bill late on Friday following a compromise between moderate and progressive [i.e., Marxist] Democrats. Thanks to GOPers in the Senate, [the bill passed there 69 to 30] including Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and 13 House Republicans, the bill now only needs Co-President Joe Biden's shaky signature to pass.

The vote tally was 228 to 206 with six Marxist Democrats voting against the spending bill because it didn't call for even greater spending of taxpayer money. The 'nays' included: 

Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (Hamas-MI), Ilhan Omar (Anti-Semite-MN), Cori Bush (BLM-MO), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and of course, Alexandria Overtly-Commie (Duh-NY).

Then there were people who call themselves Republicans who voted in favor of the exorbitant spending bill. These RINOs included:

Don Bacon (NE), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Andrew Garbarino (NY), Anthony Gonzalez (OH), John Katko (NY), Adam Kinzinger (IL), Nicole Malliotakis (NY), David McKinley (WVA), Tom Reed (NY), Chris Smith (NJ), Fred Upton (MI), Jeff van Drew (NJ), and Don Young (AK).

Now the bill goes to the President's desk [whoever that really is] and Biden will obviously sign it as he is being directed. 

Don Bacon 

The House also passed a procedural vote soon after midnight to advance consideration of the Build Back Better Act.

Democrats plan to pass the second bill unilaterally through the budget reconciliation process, that doesn't need Republican support, but this may be difficult due to the divisions in the Democratic Party between the progressives and moderates.

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For his part, Biden said in a statement that he looked forward to signing both bills if that's what he's supposed to do.

"Tonight, we took a monumental step forward as a nation," the alleged president's statement said, calling the legislation a "once-in-generation bipartisan infrastructure bill that will create millions of jobs, turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, and put us on a path to win the economic competition for the 21st Century."

The 13 Republicans who went along with this nonsense were met with harsh criticism.

For example, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of Georgia's 14th congressional district called those GOP members "traitors." She then posted a list of the Republicans who voted along with the Democrats.

"But 6 Democrats did more than these 13 traitor Republicans to stop Biden's fake Infrastructure bill by voting NO," Greene wrote.

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McCain's integrity circles the bowl

BFFs for life

Senator John McCain told the media that he cannot support the Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare--a main issue he ran on for his reelection to the Senate.

The reason for McCain's turnaround on his promise is simple: he's a lying RINO in bed with the Democrats and hates President Trump to the point where his hatred takes precedence over his integrity.

CNBC reported:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday said he "cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham Cassidy proposal.

McCain is one of four Republican senators who have been undecided on the GOP healthcare overhaul, and his opposition dealt the bill's chances a significant blow.

Also on Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she is leaning toward voting NO on Graham Cassidy. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has already expressed his opposition to the bill, which he said didn't fully repeal the Affordable Care Act.

If all three of these votes are nay votes, the bill would not pass. Republicans have until Sept. 30 to pass a health care bill with only 50 votes. After that, they will need 60 votes, a nearly impossible threshold to meet. 

So it's obvious that hating a Trump success, at least in McCain's case, outweighs a campaign promise. 

And they wonder why the approval rate of congress is in the toilet.


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A vote for Kasich is a "Duh" vote

"Nothing here"

John Kasich may have an "R" after his name, but he's no conservative. Ad he's not going to be our nomination, much less our next president. But like a strange groin rash, he refuses to go away.

What is this guy thinking? He is virtually the only GOP member who says he would consider Merrit Garland for the Supreme Court. And while I can see the GOP meeting to interview and pretend to consider the president's nomination of Garland, Kasich is actually willing to have him sit on the SCOTUS bench for life.

Kasich spoke on CBS News saying, "My feeling is, at the end of the day, [he can't put an intelligent sentence together without throwing in that cliche while throwing in a few karate chops for emphasis] whoever gets elected president should be in a position to be able to pick you know who they want and the American people will either decide by voting for a Republican or Democrat what the makeup of the court is."

"As someone who's talked about unity, would you take a look at Mr. Garland . . . if you were elected president?" John Dickerson asked the Ohio RINO.

"Well, you know, he received you know, overwhelming support, I think even from Senator Hatch, [another RINO] so of course we'd think about it," Kasich replied. "The way we do it, John, is we look at a person's record. I want a conservative who's not going to make the law but who will interpret the law and somebody of high standing. I don't care about their peccadilloes, you know, 30 years ago. . . " and on and on, hands chopping the air, at the end of the day, etc.

So clearly, a vote for Kasich is clear support of abolishing the Second Amendment, a vote for the government to dictate what to teach in your child's school via Common Core, and an idiot who, if his hands were tied behind his back, would be speechless.


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Too little, too late, Kerry

Now our so-called Secretary of State is "infuriated" with Iran for their video footage of our American sailors on their knees with their hands raised in surrender after they captured two Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf.

"Where does it itch?"

Kerry claims he didn't know about the video when he spoke last week. Nobody told him. 

He forgot to plug in the TV because the rest of the world knew about it. 

He didn't see it in the funny papers.

How freaking sheltered is this administration pretending to be? How stupid does Kerry and Obama think the American people are--at least those of us on the right.

"I was furious about it, and I immediately contacted my counterpart. And we indicated our disgust," Kerry told Fox News Monday.

To cover his generous butt, he said that "it was clear" the video didn't come from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and probably came from the Iranian military.

Well gee, that's why we have military intelligence, you boob.

"It was very, very unfortunate, inappropriate. And as a former sailor, and member of the military, I was infuriated by it and I expressed that very directly to my counterpart."

Iran, be warned. You pissed off John Kerry and Barack Hussein Obama. Now they're mad. And when they're mad, they get angry and say angry things. And if you're not careful, they may warn you about what they're not going to really do.

If you had a pair, Mr. Obama, you would snap back sanctions like you keep pretending you might. That would show how "infuriated" you traitors really are.

Sen. John McCain (RINO-Ariz.) accused the Obama administration of "pretending as if nothing out of the ordinary has occurred."

Thank you, Senator McCain, and thank you for supporting all of Obama's Iran deal with the other 7 RINOs.

Is it any wonder why Trump and Cruz are leading the pack?


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Exploring the Religion of Peace in the World

Sometimes you look at what's going on in the world and you marvel at how the United States can walk on eggshells when it comes to Islam and its terror components. It amazes me how sharia law is defended by liberals who don't see a conflict with it and the Constitution. It further amazes me how our president can back the Muslim Brotherhood without fear of reprisal from the public.