BONUS POD： There's Some 14 things About Platner
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A list of 14 things you need to know about Graham Nader Plattner, the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate seat in Maine, running on a platform of fighting for the middle class and fighting for small businesses.
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I'm beginning to wonder whether we're about to have something enter popular culture,
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I mean, this guy has a potential to, like, set a term that is going to last well beyond the Maine Senate race.
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And if Saturday Night Live actually did comedy, they would have an entire skit on oyster farming.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good Tuesday morning. It's nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
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Many of you have asked me why exactly Graham Plattner is such a controversial candidate.
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Well, in Maine, you need to know especially what he's all about, and I hope all of you will share it.
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We've got a top list of the 14 things you need to know about Graham Plattner.
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It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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We're going to start with Maine's front-running Democrat, the U.S. Senate candidate Graham Nazi tattoo Plattner.
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He is a man that Democrats have just completely been infatuated with,
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They don't care about the scandals until the last 24 hours.
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And if you say you're a Democrat, you can do and be in just about anything you want, right?
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You don't even have to know what a man is or what a woman is.
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The Democrats will stand by you the more radical you actually are.
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the corporate media will also stand by you unless the democratic party tells you that then we need
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to turn on him we saw this happen in california with eric swalwell right california loved the guy
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the democratic party loved the guy then all of a sudden he might lose and a republican might win
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and what they do they used all of the dirt they knew about him they protect him from to then take
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him down well we're now living in a world where that same media that created this individual this
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nazi tattoo guy may actually look to destroy him or maybe not why because well even the obamas seem
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to be trying to help behind the scenes now let's just go through the list all right if you look at
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the list of things that this individual has done if my count is correct now it's at 14 different
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scandals all right so so let's start with number one and i hope by the way all of you will take
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this information and i hope you will share it wherever you can i hope that not only will you
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share it but share the podcast put it anywhere you can on social media so let's start at number
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one this is a guy who had tattooed on his chest a nazi ss tattoo and he said they didn't know what
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was but he had the tattoo for 18 years now you may not know about the nazi ss and exactly what
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they did like you can you can almost go even further than just like there's generic nazis
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in germany and then there's the ss what did the ss do well they were the major paramilitary
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organization under hitler and the nazi party in germany and and these were the guys that began
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is a small guard unit known as the hall security they were made up of party volunteers then they
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got even worse right they're like all right we start you there now the ss was the foremost agency
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on security mass surveillance and state terrorism within germany and germany occupied europe what's
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even more interesting about the ss all right and how hardcore these guys were is they were in charge
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of the concentration camps right they were the ones that were referred to as the death's head
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units all right they ran the concentration camps and then they ran the extermination camps so if
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you want to be a nazi that's one thing you want to level up and say i don't know i want to go pro
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with my tattoos i don't just want a swastika no no i want an ss tattoo then you are like all right
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well here we go i'm a concentration extermination camp kind of guy they were also tasked with
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detecting actual or potential enemies of Nazi Germany they were in charge of neutralizing the
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oppression at all costs and then they were also policing the German people and they would kill
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them if they thought you were getting out of line they they were committed to quote Nazi ideology
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and then providing domestic and foreign intelligence now the SS and again I go back
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because I think it's important that you understand why he chose this tattoo.
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The SS was the organization most responsible for the genocidal murder of an estimated 6 million Jews
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and millions of other victims during the Holocaust.
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Now, members of its branches not only committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II,
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we now know through history that the SS was also involved in commercial enterprises
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and exploited concentration camp inmates as their slave laborers
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so they could even make cash off of them before they then exterminated them.
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Now, as after Nazi Germany's defeat, the SS and the Nazi Party
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were judged by the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg.
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There's a great movie about it. You can go see it right now.
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And what we learned is the highest-ranking surviving SS, Main Department Chief,
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was found guilty of not only crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials,
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but he was also hanged in 1986 so if you're going to get a tattoo and you decide to go with the ss
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insignia tattoo instead of just you know the the nazi you know you know swastika tattoo you clearly
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understand that you're like on another level of of understanding what a nazi is right and so this
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is the tattoo that he chose now of course he lied he's like i didn't know what it was are you kidding
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me of course you knew what it was and that's why you got it so that is the baseline for who he is
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so let's move on to something else we also know that he has an account on a what has been described
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by the new york times a predator sex site called kick he's married everybody knows that but this
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site is a site that is for child exploitation underage sexual encounters and child pornography
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So not only do we have a Nazi SS death's head tattoo that he had for 18 years,
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now he's like, oh, I'm going to get on this website that is a predator's safe haven
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for underage exploiting of children and child pornography.
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We then find out, no surprise, that there's explicit sexting or sex texts
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after he got married about a year earlier.
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Disparage all black people as a population that doesn't tip.
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with disparaging all black people as a population
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saying that all black people don't tip number five he blames sexual assault victims for being
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sexually assaulted now you may look at that you go hold on a second what do you what do you actually
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mean by that all right you know what it's a great question Graham Plattner says sexual assault
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victims should take some responsibility in reddit posts that he had throughout the years he made
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the disturbing comments about sexual assault victims uh where then and of course of course
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he deleted them right right before he launched his campaign but we had the they had the the data
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they had them like it's there we know it's there in the discussion but what's interesting is he
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said that assault victims should take some responsibility for themselves to avoid attacks
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and act like an adult for effing sake he said people should avoid alcohol so they don't end
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up in a compromising situation and then downplay the challenges service members face in reporting
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sexual assault so he's like look if you got raped and you're a chick and you got and you and you
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drank that's on you and so i don't really care and signed i guess you know how hitler like i guess
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that's how this works now now these these comments came on the hills of the similar reddit posts
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where that were uncovered which included platner saying people who live in rural maine actually are
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racist and stupid he also is promoting violent political actions including saying an armed
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working class is a requirement for economic justice he said deeming all police bastards
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and writing f these cops so now we found out he's against police he was promoting racist stereotypes
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by questioning quote why don't black people tip quote unquote i mentioned that a moment ago
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and then using slurs and telling people to F off and die
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when asked about a recent vote against a power line in Maine.
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Now, these are just some of the big things that he said online.
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So let's just, you know, move past that for a second.
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hey, if you started attacking or smearing or mocking
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the lgbtqia plus plus plus population as a democrat in maine like that's got to get you
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in trouble right like it's got to be apparently not today quote i find that stuff abhorrent
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that is what platner told the advocate and i'm sorry that i ever used it referencing he and
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admitting he used indefensible anti-gay slurs in his other reddit posts they even say in this
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has already apologized for earlier misogynistic
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the nominee to challenge Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins confirmed that he offered a series
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of Reddit comments and included homophobic slurs, anti-LGBTQ plus jokes, and sexually explicit
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stories denigrating gay men. The existence of the comments posted under the handle P. Hustle
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between 2016 and 2021, meaning he did this a lot, all right, had not previously been reported on.
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The advocate obtained the post independently this week.
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The revelation comes on the same day Plattner is scheduled to hold a town hall in one part of the state,
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a seaside resort long known as New England's most prominent LGBTQ plus destinations,
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featuring a thriving gay community and pride celebrations that draw visitors from across the region.
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Quote, I have zero reason to deny that the posts are mine, Plattner said in a Zoom interview.
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I made a lot of comments over the years and talked a lot of blank on the Internet.
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I have no reason to doubt that at some point I use language that I would not be using today.
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Now, these posts that were obtained by the advocate, all right, says they unearthed them
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and show a pattern of homophobic language and rhetoric that mocked and demeaned the LGBTQ plus people.
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In some cases, Plattner appeared to use slurs casually in discussions unrelated to sexuality.
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In others, he explicitly framed gay people as the punchline.
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In June 2016, Plattner wrote in a thread about life on military guard duty saying,
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No, seriously, flog the blankers as often as possible.
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Write gay poetry about how gay your current job is.
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Congratulations, you made it through one shift.
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Welcome to the world of Standing Post, where sanity is a sliding scale, quote unquote.
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In March 2018, two years later, he wasn't done.
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he recounted explicit detail what he described as a quote gay off between marines and british
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sailors in bahrain pulling to bahrain in 07 at a meu a royal navy submarine happens to be in port
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at the same time before we even realize what's going on the other weird blankers just leaned
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down and licked the blank from the bottom of the blank all the way up to the blank stand up look
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dead at us and yelled beat that i probably withdrew our team on the grounds that one cannot play
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gay chicken if one is actually gay this is what he wrote online now you would think that these
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explicit posts and by the way there's some in 18 and 19 and 20 and 21 and even in 2022
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the advocate which is obviously advocating for gay lesbian communities they write all this stuff
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but apparently it was just to help him get it out there and we'll move on so that doesn't even
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disqualify him from being the Democratic nominee. Number eight, he promoted an alleged Holocaust
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denier on social media. So not only is this guy wearing an SS tattoo, right? The death's head
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tattoo and then claims it. No, it is. But he also has a Holocaust denier, someone who believes the
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Holocaust never happened on social media. He also and if you have kids earmuffs. All right,
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He actually bragged online about masturbating in public port-a-potties.
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I'm sure he will tell you, don't worry, I wouldn't say that now.
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Are Democrats ashamed of this being their candidate?
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Nope, they're still standing by him, even with the port-a-potty comments.
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Graham Plattner also mocked a Purple Heart recipient as a dumb MF-er who didn't deserve to live
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and then doubled down on the comments when he was asked about it.
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Doesn't think that it's wrong to mock a Purple Heart recipient
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and saying that the dumb MF-er didn't deserve to live.
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he also encouraged military contractors to bang hookers in thailand yeah giving details that you
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guys ought to go out there and you know you should just bang some of them hookers yes he actually
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once lamented thai prostitute loophole closing the democratic candidate in maine complained of a
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loophole closing that closing that permitted military contractors to have relations with
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thailand prostitutes under the name p hustle the democratic candidate platner reportedly wrote on
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a reddit post in june of 19 that military contractors could spend their time banging
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hookers in thailand instead of getting blanked at the wife back by the wife back home spending
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your leave banging hookers in thailand instead of getting bitch stat by the wife at home and you
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could sell it as avoiding federal income tax platner wrote once the afghans started using
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our paychecks as a personal piggy bank the whole loophole disappeared platner admitted to using
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the handle after the maid monitor reported about his reddit post there it is it's i mean it's it's
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incredible it is it's truly incredible now you would think that would be enough right for the
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democrats to say okay like we got to stop like this guy can't be the guy nope keep going he also
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called the virgin mary a skank yes a skank the democrat candidate referred to jesus also as a
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zombie the virgin mary is a skank and a reddit post from 2012 that is this man so he hates christians
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He hates Jesus. He hates Mary. And this is the perfect guy for the Democratic Party.
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He also got a DUI. Not that anyone cares, right? Inside Graham Plattner's Controversial Rise, another article talking about his DUI.
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But it's totally fine. Not a problem at all, right? He's just, you know, sometimes you got to go out there and you got to, you know, get a DUI.
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And finally, the newest thing, he appeared on an anti-Semites podcast who says the Jews killed Kennedy.
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What's even more shocking is he's still ahead in the polls, which tells me something very clearly.
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And if it takes a guy like this to do it or cover up for him,
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