If the Democrat Party were a game show here are some probable names; “The Wheel of Misfortune,” “Jeopardy, Real Jeopardy,” “Anti-Family Feud”, but most aptly it would be titled, “The Hating Game”. A game played by pitting one class, race, or identity against another for political power.
A game without a prize and no winner, just more hate.
In today’s Democrat Party Hating Game, they are seeking a love match with three potential partners. A perfect match between the Donkey party’s deep disdain for our country and the candidates’ abject lack of character.
Let’s meet today’s would-be matches.
Candidate #1 is an oyster farmer whose only customer is his mother, a nazi-tattoo bearer, and serial abuser of girlfriends and female acquaintances who stated that a fellow veteran and purple heart recipient “didn’t deserve to live”.
Candidate #2 is an Egypt-born former combat surgeon who once volunteered with an Al Qaeda-linked group in Bosnia, hates Israel and had a long relationship with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheik” convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995 after his followers carried out the bombing of the World Trade Center.
Candidate # 3 is a Presbyterian seminarian who believes god is “non-binary” and atheists are more “Christ Like” than some of his fellow Christian lawmakers. A proud Texas vegan who believes there are at least six biological sexes and earnestly espouses, “Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence.”
In order, Candidate # 1 is Graham Platner, seeking a Senate seat in Maine, Candidate #2 Adam Hamzawy US congressional office seeker from New Jersey, and Candidate #3 is James Talarico who wants to be a senator from Texas.
While one might argue the descriptions attached to each accentuate the negative, it is also true that the basic description for each of them is accurate, rooted in the facts. The quotes within their bios are their words, unembellished, and in which context is unnecessary.
These three would-be public servants have more baggage than an airport luggage carousel during the holidays. Each of them would be excellent additions to a Kamala Harris word salad as nuts.
While it may be true that drunken soldiers obtaining regrettable tattoos is a rite of passage, it is also true that each of them upon sobering up knew both what the ink meant and why they chose it. Platner claims he didn’t know his tattoo was Nazi-based when he got it, nor for many years thereafter. Multiple women have accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior and/or abuse. Additionally, he is registered on a website, Kik, notorious for its use by child predators.
Politics operates on the premise of “plausible deniability”. Platner is now placed in the position of denying plausibility.
Hamzawy, as a National Guard combat trauma surgeon, is credited as having saved the life of now Senator Tammy Duckworth after her helicopter was shot down. That is impressive and due the honor it received.
His testimony as a defense witness for Omar Abdel‑Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” and interning with the Benevolence International Foundation, an organization later designated as a terrorist front is not the usual resume for a congressional representative. These aren’t garden‑variety college “trying to find yourself” activism stories. These are connections that intersect with Al‑Qaida-linked networks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case.
Talarico is no better. He is the least Texan political candidate since Beto O’Rourke and whose Texas Man card has been permanently revoked. His stunning theological belief in God’s sexuality is a political first and while his belief in six sexes is on the low end for contemporary gender accounting, it is still four more than actually exist.
It is a wonder that in this Hating Game these three represent the best that Democrats could find. They are the Democrats’ best and brightest. Leading lights whose combined wattage leave the room as dark as when they walked in.
Character, formerly of importance in public life, is abandoned by a party desperate for an image makeover. I’m not sure going from Wokemeisters to Nazi Tattoo Loving Sexual Deviants/ Abusers is trading up. Is admiring Dudes in dresses preferable to applauding Al-Qaida apologists or Open borders better than open hostility for cherished American values?
This is no game show. This is the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy, unmoored from principle and untethered to reality. They offer card-carrying Socialists, Communists, men dressed as women, and foreign born and foreign-loyal candidates as dross pretending to be gold.
In the Democrats’ Hating Game, everyone’s a loser and none more so than their candidates.
Stephen Piccirillo © 2026
