Verdict with Ted Cruz - BONUS POD： There's Some 14 things About Platner

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00:01:07.160 You know, Ben, I will say this seriously.

00:01:09.400 I'm beginning to wonder whether we're about to have something enter popular culture,

00:01:13.820 which is a new euphemism of oyster farming.

00:01:16.660 You know, what is my scoundrel husband doing?

00:01:19.720 Oh, he's oyster farming.

00:01:20.860 I mean, this guy has a potential to, like, set a term that is going to last well beyond the Maine Senate race.

00:01:27.280 And if Saturday Night Live actually did comedy, they would have an entire skit on oyster farming.

00:01:32.520 Like, it dries out for them.

00:01:34.720 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

00:01:38.420 Good Tuesday morning. It's nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.

00:01:42.220 Many of you have asked me why exactly Graham Plattner is such a controversial candidate.

00:01:48.280 Well, in Maine, you need to know especially what he's all about, and I hope all of you will share it.

00:01:54.300 We've got a top list of the 14 things you need to know about Graham Plattner.

00:01:59.640 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.

00:02:02.980 Story number one.

00:02:04.060 We're going to start with Maine's front-running Democrat, the U.S. Senate candidate Graham Nazi tattoo Plattner. 0.54

00:02:12.440 He is a man that Democrats have just completely been infatuated with,

00:02:18.200 and the corporate media, they love him.

00:02:19.960 They don't care what he does.

00:02:21.020 They don't care about his background.

00:02:22.120 They don't care about his history.

00:02:23.120 They don't care about the scandals until the last 24 hours.

00:02:27.040 Why?

00:02:27.580 For one reason, because he's a Democrat.

00:02:29.260 And if you say you're a Democrat, you can do and be in just about anything you want, right?

00:02:35.000 You don't even have to know what a man is or what a woman is.

00:02:37.700 The Democrats will stand by you the more radical you actually are.

00:02:41.600 the corporate media will also stand by you unless the democratic party tells you that then we need

00:02:49.420 to turn on him we saw this happen in california with eric swalwell right california loved the guy

00:02:56.060 the democratic party loved the guy then all of a sudden he might lose and a republican might win

00:03:01.060 and what they do they used all of the dirt they knew about him they protect him from to then take

00:03:06.040 him down well we're now living in a world where that same media that created this individual this

00:03:13.200 nazi tattoo guy may actually look to destroy him or maybe not why because well even the obamas seem

00:03:21.940 to be trying to help behind the scenes now let's just go through the list all right if you look at

00:03:28.500 the list of things that this individual has done if my count is correct now it's at 14 different

00:03:34.800 scandals all right so so let's start with number one and i hope by the way all of you will take

00:03:40.540 this information and i hope you will share it wherever you can i hope that not only will you

00:03:45.300 share it but share the podcast put it anywhere you can on social media so let's start at number

00:03:50.580 one this is a guy who had tattooed on his chest a nazi ss tattoo and he said they didn't know what

00:04:00.260 was but he had the tattoo for 18 years now you may not know about the nazi ss and exactly what

00:04:08.160 they did like you can you can almost go even further than just like there's generic nazis

00:04:14.580 in germany and then there's the ss what did the ss do well they were the major paramilitary

00:04:21.800 organization under hitler and the nazi party in germany and and these were the guys that began

00:04:28.680 is a small guard unit known as the hall security they were made up of party volunteers then they 0.61

00:04:34.520 got even worse right they're like all right we start you there now the ss was the foremost agency

00:04:39.800 on security mass surveillance and state terrorism within germany and germany occupied europe what's

00:04:47.060 even more interesting about the ss all right and how hardcore these guys were is they were in charge

00:04:53.340 of the concentration camps right they were the ones that were referred to as the death's head

00:04:59.460 units all right they ran the concentration camps and then they ran the extermination camps so if 0.65

00:05:06.620 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

00:05:10.980 with my tattoos i don't just want a swastika no no i want an ss tattoo then you are like all right 0.83

00:05:17.060 well here we go i'm a concentration extermination camp kind of guy they were also tasked with

00:05:22.680 detecting actual or potential enemies of Nazi Germany they were in charge of neutralizing the

00:05:29.320 oppression at all costs and then they were also policing the German people and they would kill

00:05:34.900 them if they thought you were getting out of line they they were committed to quote Nazi ideology 0.79

00:05:40.400 and then providing domestic and foreign intelligence now the SS and again I go back

00:05:46.760 because I think it's important that you understand why he chose this tattoo. 0.56

00:05:50.860 The SS was the organization most responsible for the genocidal murder of an estimated 6 million Jews

00:05:59.080 and millions of other victims during the Holocaust.

00:06:03.700 Now, members of its branches not only committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II, 0.52

00:06:10.320 we now know through history that the SS was also involved in commercial enterprises

00:06:15.120 and exploited concentration camp inmates as their slave laborers

00:06:19.900 so they could even make cash off of them before they then exterminated them. 0.68

00:06:23.500 Now, as after Nazi Germany's defeat, the SS and the Nazi Party

00:06:27.980 were judged by the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg.

00:06:31.800 There's a great movie about it. You can go see it right now.

00:06:34.900 And what we learned is the highest-ranking surviving SS, Main Department Chief,

00:06:40.260 was found guilty of not only crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, 0.72

00:06:44.020 but he was also hanged in 1986 so if you're going to get a tattoo and you decide to go with the ss

00:06:52.340 insignia tattoo instead of just you know the the nazi you know you know swastika tattoo you clearly

00:06:58.640 understand that you're like on another level of of understanding what a nazi is right and so this

00:07:07.120 is the tattoo that he chose now of course he lied he's like i didn't know what it was are you kidding

00:07:12.580 me of course you knew what it was and that's why you got it so that is the baseline for who he is

00:07:18.820 so let's move on to something else we also know that he has an account on a what has been described

00:07:24.840 by the new york times a predator sex site called kick he's married everybody knows that but this 0.98

00:07:31.220 site is a site that is for child exploitation underage sexual encounters and child pornography 0.99

00:07:40.400 That is what's there.

00:07:41.660 You can go read the New York Times on this.

00:07:43.560 So not only do we have a Nazi SS death's head tattoo that he had for 18 years,

00:07:48.740 now he's like, oh, I'm going to get on this website that is a predator's safe haven

00:07:54.740 for underage exploiting of children and child pornography.

00:08:01.180 We then find out, no surprise, that there's explicit sexting or sex texts

00:08:06.340 with about a half a dozen women in 2023

00:08:08.880 after he got married about a year earlier. 0.65

00:08:12.600 Move past that real quick. 1.00

00:08:14.180 Disparage all black people as a population that doesn't tip. 1.00

00:08:17.680 Yes, he actually has it on social media 0.99

00:08:19.460 where he was out there and he was saying 0.98

00:08:20.580 that black people don't tip. 0.97

00:08:24.060 That is what you refer to as racism 101. 0.98

00:08:27.420 The Democratic Party apparently has no problem

00:08:30.440 with disparaging all black people as a population 0.98

00:08:33.960 saying that all black people don't tip number five he blames sexual assault victims for being 0.99

00:08:41.860 sexually assaulted now you may look at that you go hold on a second what do you what do you actually 0.97

00:08:47.120 mean by that all right you know what it's a great question Graham Plattner says sexual assault

00:08:52.080 victims should take some responsibility in reddit posts that he had throughout the years he made

00:08:59.300 the disturbing comments about sexual assault victims uh where then and of course of course

00:09:04.480 he deleted them right right before he launched his campaign but we had the they had the the data

00:09:09.380 they had them like it's there we know it's there in the discussion but what's interesting is he

00:09:14.480 said that assault victims should take some responsibility for themselves to avoid attacks

00:09:18.880 and act like an adult for effing sake he said people should avoid alcohol so they don't end

00:09:24.640 up in a compromising situation and then downplay the challenges service members face in reporting 0.93

00:09:30.160 sexual assault so he's like look if you got raped and you're a chick and you got and you and you 0.98

00:09:35.440 drank that's on you and so i don't really care and signed i guess you know how hitler like i guess 0.98

00:09:42.100 that's how this works now now these these comments came on the hills of the similar reddit posts

00:09:47.720 where that were uncovered which included platner saying people who live in rural maine actually are 0.98

00:09:52.480 racist and stupid he also is promoting violent political actions including saying an armed 1.00

00:09:58.680 working class is a requirement for economic justice he said deeming all police bastards 1.00

00:10:05.460 and writing f these cops so now we found out he's against police he was promoting racist stereotypes 0.97

00:10:12.660 by questioning quote why don't black people tip quote unquote i mentioned that a moment ago 0.99

00:10:18.040 and then using slurs and telling people to F off and die 0.99

00:10:22.140 when asked about a recent vote against a power line in Maine. 0.97

00:10:26.080 Now, these are just some of the big things that he said online.

00:10:31.640 So let's just, you know, move past that for a second.

00:10:35.120 I'm going to go out on a limb and say,

00:10:36.700 hey, if you started attacking or smearing or mocking

00:10:41.760 the lgbtqia plus plus plus population as a democrat in maine like that's got to get you

00:10:49.660 in trouble right like it's got to be apparently not today quote i find that stuff abhorrent

00:10:55.680 that is what platner told the advocate and i'm sorry that i ever used it referencing he and

00:11:03.540 admitting he used indefensible anti-gay slurs in his other reddit posts they even say in this

00:11:11.320 advocate.com

00:11:12.920 story. Quote, a progressive

00:11:15.340 U.S. Senate candidate in Maine, who

00:11:17.300 has already apologized for earlier misogynistic

00:11:19.720 and racially insensitive remarks

00:11:21.540 and said that he did not realize

00:11:23.340 a tattoo on his chest resembled a Nazi

00:11:25.340 SS emblem, is again

00:11:27.260 under scrutiny this time for

00:11:28.760 anti-LGBTQ plus

00:11:31.060 comments. In an interview on

00:11:33.300 Wednesday afternoon, the advocate

00:11:34.700 Graham, a 41-year-old

00:11:37.140 Marine, an Army veteran running in Maine's

00:11:39.100 Democratic primary, seeking to become

00:11:41.260 the nominee to challenge Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins confirmed that he offered a series

00:11:46.340 of Reddit comments and included homophobic slurs, anti-LGBTQ plus jokes, and sexually explicit

00:11:53.160 stories denigrating gay men. The existence of the comments posted under the handle P. Hustle

00:12:00.760 between 2016 and 2021, meaning he did this a lot, all right, had not previously been reported on.

00:12:07.420 The advocate obtained the post independently this week.

00:12:10.860 The revelation comes on the same day Plattner is scheduled to hold a town hall in one part of the state,

00:12:16.100 a seaside resort long known as New England's most prominent LGBTQ plus destinations,

00:12:23.120 featuring a thriving gay community and pride celebrations that draw visitors from across the region.

00:12:28.460 Quote, I have zero reason to deny that the posts are mine, Plattner said in a Zoom interview.

00:12:33.100 I made a lot of comments over the years and talked a lot of blank on the Internet.

00:12:37.420 I have no reason to doubt that at some point I use language that I would not be using today.

00:12:43.180 He paused and then added, it's indefensible.

00:12:46.760 Now, these posts that were obtained by the advocate, all right, says they unearthed them

00:12:50.720 and show a pattern of homophobic language and rhetoric that mocked and demeaned the LGBTQ plus people.

00:12:56.900 In some cases, Plattner appeared to use slurs casually in discussions unrelated to sexuality.

00:13:03.300 In others, he explicitly framed gay people as the punchline.

00:13:07.200 In June 2016, Plattner wrote in a thread about life on military guard duty saying,

00:13:12.420 No, seriously, flog the blankers as often as possible. 0.97

00:13:16.440 Write gay poetry about how gay your current job is. 1.00

00:13:19.580 Congratulations, you made it through one shift. 1.00

00:13:22.820 Now do it all again in 12 hours.

00:13:25.400 Welcome to the world of Standing Post, where sanity is a sliding scale, quote unquote.

00:13:30.460 In March 2018, two years later, he wasn't done.

00:13:33.080 he recounted explicit detail what he described as a quote gay off between marines and british

00:13:39.020 sailors in bahrain pulling to bahrain in 07 at a meu a royal navy submarine happens to be in port

00:13:45.640 at the same time before we even realize what's going on the other weird blankers just leaned

00:13:51.100 down and licked the blank from the bottom of the blank all the way up to the blank stand up look

00:13:57.080 dead at us and yelled beat that i probably withdrew our team on the grounds that one cannot play 0.93

00:14:02.900 gay chicken if one is actually gay this is what he wrote online now you would think that these

00:14:09.500 explicit posts and by the way there's some in 18 and 19 and 20 and 21 and even in 2022 0.97

00:14:16.800 the advocate which is obviously advocating for gay lesbian communities they write all this stuff

00:14:23.420 but apparently it was just to help him get it out there and we'll move on so that doesn't even

00:14:29.980 disqualify him from being the Democratic nominee. Number eight, he promoted an alleged Holocaust 0.54

00:14:36.560 denier on social media. So not only is this guy wearing an SS tattoo, right? The death's head

00:14:44.100 tattoo and then claims it. No, it is. But he also has a Holocaust denier, someone who believes the

00:14:49.480 Holocaust never happened on social media. He also and if you have kids earmuffs. All right,

00:14:57.020 That's my warning. 0.98

00:14:58.720 He actually bragged online about masturbating in public port-a-potties. 0.97

00:15:03.760 Yes, those were his words. 0.93

00:15:05.900 I'm sure he will tell you, don't worry, I wouldn't say that now.

00:15:10.000 Are Democrats ashamed of this being their candidate?

00:15:12.420 Nope, they're still standing by him, even with the port-a-potty comments.

00:15:17.280 So now, like, surely that's it.

00:15:19.600 Nope, that's not all. 0.99

00:15:21.140 Graham Plattner also mocked a Purple Heart recipient as a dumb MF-er who didn't deserve to live 0.98

00:15:29.740 and then doubled down on the comments when he was asked about it. 0.98

00:15:33.980 So doesn't believe he did anything wrong.

00:15:35.960 Doesn't think that it's wrong to mock a Purple Heart recipient 0.99

00:15:39.400 and saying that the dumb MF-er didn't deserve to live. 1.00

00:15:43.920 Interesting. 1.00

00:15:44.260 he also encouraged military contractors to bang hookers in thailand yeah giving details that you 0.99

00:15:54.440 guys ought to go out there and you know you should just bang some of them hookers yes he actually 0.99

00:16:00.580 once lamented thai prostitute loophole closing the democratic candidate in maine complained of a 1.00

00:16:07.900 loophole closing that closing that permitted military contractors to have relations with

00:16:13.160 thailand prostitutes under the name p hustle the democratic candidate platner reportedly wrote on

00:16:19.500 a reddit post in june of 19 that military contractors could spend their time banging 0.95

00:16:23.920 hookers in thailand instead of getting blanked at the wife back by the wife back home spending 0.99

00:16:31.080 your leave banging hookers in thailand instead of getting bitch stat by the wife at home and you 0.99

00:16:38.560 could sell it as avoiding federal income tax platner wrote once the afghans started using 0.99

00:16:45.360 our paychecks as a personal piggy bank the whole loophole disappeared platner admitted to using

00:16:50.380 the handle after the maid monitor reported about his reddit post there it is it's i mean it's it's

00:16:58.360 incredible it is it's truly incredible now you would think that would be enough right for the

00:17:03.180 democrats to say okay like we got to stop like this guy can't be the guy nope keep going he also

00:17:10.200 called the virgin mary a skank yes a skank the democrat candidate referred to jesus also as a 0.90

00:17:22.060 zombie the virgin mary is a skank and a reddit post from 2012 that is this man so he hates christians 0.98

00:17:30.100 He hates Jesus. He hates Mary. And this is the perfect guy for the Democratic Party. 0.98

00:17:37.700 He also got a DUI. Not that anyone cares, right? Inside Graham Plattner's Controversial Rise, another article talking about his DUI.

00:17:45.560 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.

00:17:51.480 And finally, the newest thing, he appeared on an anti-Semites podcast who says the Jews killed Kennedy.

00:18:02.380 Now, this is just what we know.

00:18:05.360 What's even more shocking is he's still ahead in the polls, which tells me something very clearly.

00:18:12.380 The Democratic Party is soulless.

00:18:15.040 They only care about power. 0.63

00:18:17.100 They only care about controlling you.

00:18:19.740 They only care about winning.

00:18:22.940 And if it takes a guy like this to do it or cover up for him,

00:18:26.280 they're totally fine with it.

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BONUS POD： There's Some 14 things About Platner

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