by: Eliana Jonshon May 21 2026 -------------------: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nuOX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11f060e9-c097-4815-93e8-a9f9c08a0cc0_2048x1365.jpeg Graham Platner (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner called the U.S. Army an “awful” organization and disparaged its soldiers as “fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform,” the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reports. “The Army does things differently, and as a whole, they do things much worse,” Platner posted to Reddit in March 2019 under the username “P-Hustle,” which he deleted prior to launching his Senate campaign. “As an organization it’s awful. Full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform.” One month later, in April 2019, Platner wrote that “as a whole,” the Army “is absolute trash,” “absolutely lacking in the warrior ethos,” and “generally attracts...
