RadixJournal - July 06, 2026


In Defense of Graham Platner

Topics
Graham Plattner rape accusation
Hosted by
Richard Spencer
Mentioned
Graham Plattner Jenny Rascott Hassan Piker Ryan Grimm Susan Collins Emma Viglund Ukraine Graham Prattner Ryan Graham Momdami
Skywalkers The Rape of Graham Platner

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15 minutes

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2,158

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140

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Misogyny

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Summary

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A woman named Jenny Rassicott has accused Graham Plattner of rape, and he is denying it. But what does she have to say about it? Is this the straw that breaks the camel's back for him? And if so, what should he do next?

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00:00:00.000 All right. Hey, everyone. How are you doing? Hello, everyone. I think I'm now on, but we'll see. It says my internet connection is unstable. That's not good. I will just proceed as planned anyway.
00:00:20.560 All right. I see a lot of people joining. I would like to offer up a defense of Graham Plattner. And apparently no one else is willing to do this. So it's left to me.
00:00:36.400 Now, you probably heard, if you are watching this, that a woman named Jenny Rassicott, I believe is how you pronounce her name, from Maine, who is a Democrat, has accused Plattner of rape.
00:00:53.280 And Plattner is denying this, but he sort of left the door open to leave the campaign.
00:01:00.980 The impression I got looking at Twitter for 15 or 20 minutes afterward is that this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for Graham Plattner.
00:01:15.580 They put up with a lot. They put up with similar accusations, actually accusations by Jenny a couple of months ago.
00:01:25.080 They put up with a suspicious kick profile.
00:01:28.960 They put up with his weird work history, with the fact that he worked for Blackwater, with the fact that he's quite messy and so on and so forth.
00:01:38.020 They put up with all that, but maybe this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:01:42.580 And there are a lot of voices calling for him to resign, even people who supported him in the past.
00:01:49.120 I think he should stick with it.
00:01:51.480 First off, let me just talk about the accusations themselves. If you take them at their most salacious, they seem to imply that Graham Prattner broke into Jenny's house, raped her, left the next morning, and Jenny was ashamed and didn't want to accuse him of anything, and blah, blah, blah.
00:02:17.040 Well, that's not really what happened, now, is it?
00:02:22.380 Jenny and Graham were dating at the time.
00:02:27.960 She claims that her door was unlocked.
00:02:32.440 Okay, I wonder if Graham actually had a key.
00:02:36.580 Just a thought.
00:02:38.200 And they were dating at the time,
00:02:41.180 and I would imagine, knowing Plattner,
00:02:43.820 knowing kids these days, 0.86
00:02:45.300 that they were having sex,
00:02:47.040 frequently he came he was drunk and i don't doubt that something that there isn't some factual basis
00:02:57.460 to this i just to be frank don't think this rises to the level of rape and it actually destroys
00:03:06.780 the meaning of rape when you go around accusing people like this uh according to jenny and these
00:03:14.880 text messages that she published when she was talking about this with her friends she said that
00:03:20.980 he was casual casually consensual um this is extremely different than someone even if it
00:03:31.740 were her boyfriend someone who forced himself on her used violence etc that's something that you
00:03:37.940 go to the police the next day. It's clear cut. It's also serious. And there is a proper police
00:03:46.100 investigation into what is a crime. This sounds like bad behavior by Graham Plattner.
00:03:55.740 That's probably as generous as I would go. Bad behavior on Graham Plattner's part. He's a mess.
00:04:01.980 But we knew that from the beginning. You can know that by just looking at him. But I think
00:04:07.500 it's actually something deeper than just bad behavior. I do think that that's a part, but I
00:04:13.480 think there's something deeper. First off, I think this is a woman who got the ick about someone she
00:04:21.280 was dating, understandably, and then decided to sort of refashion the past in her mind and claim
00:04:29.760 that it was all non-consensual. She would never do that. And she was telling this to her besties,
00:04:36.640 to keep them away from dating Graham Plattner,
00:04:40.020 a little bit of ex-girlfriend revenge going on there.
00:04:44.760 The fact is, our memories are not photographs.
00:04:49.640 You can find an old hard drive
00:04:52.880 and have a photograph of exactly what happened.
00:04:57.360 That is direct evidence of something.
00:05:00.040 Our memories are not like that.
00:05:01.640 Our memories are not photographs.
00:05:02.900 We're constantly recreating our memories
00:05:05.680 in order to serve the present and the future.
00:05:09.780 We're telling ourselves new stories about the past,
00:05:14.020 fictional stories or historical fiction, you could say,
00:05:18.300 in order to guide us into the future.
00:05:21.680 So she has decided that she doesn't want to be around Graham Plattner.
00:05:25.640 Fair enough.
00:05:26.960 If I were a woman, I probably wouldn't want to date Graham Plattner either. 1.00
00:05:29.940 But that doesn't mean that you can recreate, imagine a rape that never happened and that is more fairly described as some drunk former soldier in Maine who acts like a jerk. 0.98
00:05:46.620 That seems to be a very fair way of describing what happened as opposed to rape. 0.98
00:05:53.620 The fact is she has no evidence of this. There is evidence of her telling her besties or telling her therapist about something. That's not evidence of anything. That's evidence of having regrets after having a bad experience with Graham Plattner, which I don't doubt was was unpleasant.
00:06:15.280 But it is not rape. It is the essence of Me Too in the sense that it is the will to power among some women and a will to recreate the past.
00:06:28.140 you saw this against uh justice kavanaugh you see this again with graham platner i'm saying this
00:06:34.560 from a completely non-partisan perspective i like democrats i vote for centrist democrats
00:06:40.340 i myself am a bit skeptical of some of graham platner's more outlandish statements uh but
00:06:47.780 ending the me too era would be such a triumph by graham platner such a almost era defining thing
00:06:57.060 That I hope he sticks in this race, and I hope he beats Susan Collins, just to show them, basically, that we can't be held hostage by people, men and women, who want to invent memories, recreate the past, revalorize, trans-evaluate the past, and make things that were either socially acceptable or at least understandable, somehow now crimes.
00:07:26.240 because we've decided to think of them in this way. 0.96
00:07:30.020 I think Graham Plattner sticking it out
00:07:32.740 and ending Me Too would be an excellent, heroic thing.
00:07:37.600 Will he be a good senator?
00:07:39.500 I don't know.
00:07:40.200 I doubt it, to be honest.
00:07:41.560 But if he could do this,
00:07:43.660 that would be a wonderful achievement.
00:07:47.480 Now, let me talk about something else
00:07:50.660 that I've been thinking about
00:07:51.800 because a lot of people have been saying
00:07:54.420 that it's the democratic establishment
00:07:58.040 that wants to get rid of Graham Plattner
00:08:00.300 because he's a little too socialist
00:08:02.720 or he's a little too rough around the edges
00:08:06.300 and they think they might lose to Susan Collins.
00:08:10.040 Okay, I would agree with you
00:08:14.000 that there is some motivation there.
00:08:16.740 But I would also like to suggest something else
00:08:21.760 that I found very interesting.
00:08:23.420 So the DSA people who previously were sticking up for Graham Plattner, I'm thinking of Ryan Grimm, Emma Vigland, this type of, Emma Vigland's a bit of a fellow traveler in that she's a fellow traveler in life.
00:08:43.040 but um ryan grimm is a particular telling one uh ryan grimm is russia aligned um he is he edits a
00:08:54.040 website that delivers brain worms to streamers like asan piker asan piker is another example of this
00:09:01.040 they've all turned on gram platner this is it oh no what these are serious reliable allegations
00:09:08.740 We can no longer support Graham Plattner. Well, I think it's easy for people to associate Graham Plattner with someone like Hassan Piker or someone like AOC, etc. But the fact is, he's not. He's not associated with them. He's not a member of the DSA.
00:09:28.480 I have looked up his statements on Ukraine, and they are pro-West, pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine unequivocally. That's who he is. He might actually rub me the wrong way on some economic points because in my old age, I've become more libertarian or whatever.
00:09:50.140 But he doesn't rub me the wrong way on foreign policy, actually. And his criticisms of Israel's actions in Gaza, his criticisms of the AIPAC lobby, etc. First off, these are sort of off the shelf criticisms at this point in time. This is the mainstream of Democrats. It's not that unusual for him to say these things.
00:10:13.740 A. B, those go directly in line. Those aren't incompatible in the slightest bit with being pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine, which he is. So isn't it interesting? Isn't it interesting that all of these DSA people are throwing Graham Plattner under the bus? Because he doesn't quite fit in with their agenda now, does he?
00:10:36.360 He doesn't fit in with the Ryan Grimm outlook on the world of the wretched of the earth or
00:10:42.940 multipolarism triumphant to destroy the West and destroy the American empire, etc. He doesn't quite
00:10:50.040 fit in with those things. He's not really reliable when it comes to those things. Hassan as well.
00:10:55.620 Hassan is just like a, if you took Ryan Grimm and hit him over the head with a hammer, he'd be 0.96
00:11:00.860 Hassan Piker. Just, in other words, a dumb version of Ryan Graham. But it's the same thing. It's the 1.00
00:11:07.040 same tanky crap. And they're all turning on Graham because he's not really lengthen, now is he? 1.00
00:11:13.880 They want bricks socialism. That is, first off, in terms of the people they support,
00:11:20.100 they want people who embody, incarnate, in fact, bricks. That is, they find someone more trustworthy
00:11:28.820 When they're non-white, when they're Muslim, when they're more of the kind of millennial with a master's degree type person, that's the DSA candidate that they're looking for. Because that person can be relied on as being a communist with a happy smile on her face. 0.68
00:11:48.600 Momdami is pro-Russia, by the way.
00:11:51.520 All of these people fit the bill.
00:11:53.340 They're all communists in this sense.
00:11:55.900 I'm not being hysterical here. 0.50
00:11:57.560 They're all communists in the sense that they support the BRICS alliance of the third world over the West and the American empire. 0.57
00:12:06.860 That is what motivates them. 0.66
00:12:09.060 The whole subsidized co-op grocery stores or free buses.
00:12:13.340 Give me a break.
00:12:14.000 This is just a drop in the bucket, just some little bobble they throw out there to pretend like they're socialist. It's foreign policy that, in my estimation, is motivating to them. Graham Plattner is not part of that crowd. And they all turned on him, one after another, very consistent. They're all in the same group chat, and they all turned on him within five minutes because he isn't part of the club.
00:12:41.400 So this is an interesting moment, I would say, in terms of not so much of an alliance, but a kind of elective affinity, elective affinities between the DSA types and the Democratic establishment.
00:12:57.960 The Democratic establishment has sort of basic, you know, problems with Graham Plattner. And they probably don't like his critical comments about Israel, but they might be able to tolerate those. But, you know, he's a little too rough around the edges. Is he electable? This talk of socialism? We're worried about it.
00:13:21.200 So the Democratic establishment doesn't like him.
00:13:24.960 The DSA doesn't trust him because he's not really one of them.
00:13:28.700 So again, I'm not claiming that there's some alliance like they have the same interest.
00:13:33.280 What I'm claiming is that they have elective affinities, and that is to get rid of Graham Plattner.
00:13:38.140 So Graham, in the off chance that you're listening, I hope you are.
00:13:44.280 That would be awesome.
00:13:45.720 Kind of doubt it, though.
00:13:46.700 But in the off chance that you are listening, just stay the course, bro. 1.00
00:13:51.020 Call them out on their bullshit. 1.00
00:13:53.300 First off, these accusations wouldn't cut muster in a court of law. 1.00
00:13:59.720 She is reinventing the past in order to destroy you, in order to get attention, in order to 0.99
00:14:05.360 get revenge on her ex-boyfriend.
00:14:07.500 Just don't give in to the stuff.
00:14:09.600 Just stay the course.
00:14:10.480 I know it's hard.
00:14:11.820 I couldn't imagine, you know, in a way, what you're going through.
00:14:15.380 but I guess I could imagine it
00:14:18.580 but it's on a bigger scale
00:14:20.520 than anything I face
00:14:21.420 because you're running for Senate, bro
00:14:23.340 I know it's hard, Graham
00:14:26.220 but just stick the course, stick it out
00:14:28.100 you can do it
00:14:29.940 there are many people
00:14:31.860 who are your supporters
00:14:33.780 and who might even have a lot of
00:14:36.180 criticisms about stuff you've said, including
00:14:38.100 myself, but who
00:14:39.880 like you and like what you represent
00:14:41.640 so stick it out
00:14:42.920 that's what I would say to Graham
00:14:45.160 The other thing is that the DSA stuff, these people are a menace.
00:14:51.660 They are motivated by anti-West hatred.
00:14:56.340 And the fact that they are attacking Graham Plattner speaks very, very well of him.
00:15:01.680 All right.
00:15:02.300 Just some thoughts, and I'll leave it here.
00:15:05.600 So we will be having a show tomorrow, Tuesday.
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