Random thoughts about the SS Totenkopf "Death Head" symbol and tattoo...

[Jack Valentino]

22. In the absence of the Nazi military hat and eagle-with-swastika,

I would never have recognized this particular "skull and crossbones"
as a particular "Nazi-owned" version of the symbol---

(I never spent much time studying various Nazi symbols....
I detest them, so why the fuck WOULD I study their symbols?!)

and I doubt a young drunken marine on leave did, either---
and he's now stated that he will have it removed. Ok.


However, the next day comes the story about his homophobic and misogynist Reddit posts,
and the day after that his upper-class family background, making the 'working class' theme ring a little hollow....

My enthusiasm has been cooled. Maine can do what it likes.

I admire Mr. Platner's audacity at challenging the sitting Republican senator of Maine---
but with no previous experience in office, and with the problems that have been coming out---
perhaps it would be more appropriate for him to challenge a state-level Republican legislator first.