Another day another Platner scandal | Hour 1

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And by the way, today is June twelfth, and I believe this is the deadline for somebody to pull their name off of the main ballot, and so the Republican opposition research that's been done on Platner has not dropped yet. Okay, all expect to see more stuff coming. That's those are the reports that I have seen. We will find out, but heretofore, virtually everything that we know about this degenerate mindcomf candidate, everything we know about him, has come via Democrat sources, people who worked on his campaign, right, people who uh, well, except for the one conservative woman who went public with the New York Times. But as I went over last week, New York Times did that story ahead of the primary and did a soft catch and kill on that story, right, just kind of whitewashing it. They ignored all of the evidence that she had produced for the reporters that never made it into the story. And then the other more egregious charges did not make it into the story either. And we now have another woman outside of the New York Times story, This is a different woman who has now told her story about Graham Platner. Maine Senate nominee. Graham Platner kept his Nazi tattoo to remind himself quote, the US was the evil bad guy overseas. That's what he said according to his girlfriend with whom he cheated on his fiance in twenty twenty one, So it's like a double So Platner was engaged prior to his current wife, the one that he cheated on with the sexting and such. I mean, if you consider sexting to be cheating, which I do. You know, he joined the kick app, which law enforcement says is a predator's paradise because it has virtually no age controls. So young girls get on there, and then the predators get on there in order to you know, prey upon the young girls, get them to send pictures, then blackmail them, sex towart them. It's called sextortion, right, So that's where Platner was. He had been there for like a decade or something. He had this profile set up for a long time, years and years and years. And that's the second fiance who became his wife. Girtner is her name, still married to her, although it's only been like two and a half years. She was the one who told the campaign that he was sexting with at least half a dozen women, which now I've seen the numbers somewhere around a dozen women. While right after they got married, so he's a newlywed sexting women. And what. Fetterman has said is p Hustle needs to release his messages as and the people that he was texting to, Like, how do we know that he wasn't hooking up with underage girls or he wasn't sexting with these underage girls that are like all over this app So and so these two guys have been going back and forth in the social media space. I mean, who would have thought that it would take a stroke to make Fetterman the most reasonable Democrat in the Senate. But this is where we are. So this woman, this latest woman, is a left wing streamer. Okay, so she's an influencer of some kind. I guess, I don't know. It just says left wing streamer. But she spoke to the New York Post and she is the second woman to say that Platner knew about the origin of his Totin Kopp skull and crossbones tattoo, which is hilarious because for the last week after Lindsey Feifeld came forward and said, oh yeah, he told me what it was. He knew that it was a Nazi tattoo, and you had all of these democrats and media, but I repeat myself, all of them rushing out to say, oh, you can't trust her. She's some conservative, right. But they dated like a decade ago, which Platner says they didn't. But then of course she has the text messages that show, yeah, they did, but the New York Times left it like ambiguous, We're not really sure, don't know. He's says they didn't date, but her text messages that she gave to the New York Times show that he was like love bombing her as I went over last week, which is what narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths do, is they love bomb you. I can't live without you. You are the love of my life. I've never met it. I just over the top love bombing, right, And why do they do this? Why do men do this to women in that fashion? Well, because it works. Women want to believe that. And remember, at this time when they were dating a decade ago, he was a bartender at the Tune Inn, which is a Washington, d C. Swamp bar, okay, and so this was a normal thing for him to be hooking up with various staffers a decade ago. And back then as Fifeld says, you know, staffers all would mingle amongst each other, Democrat, Republican. They didn't really care so much. Nowadays it's different. But this new accusation is that he did know what it was and gave an explanation for why he had it. Her assertions are also backed up by text messages that have been reviewed by The New York Post that she sent to her mom in September last year, in which she blasted him for his Nazi tattoo. Why is that time frame important, Well, because that's before he claimed he didn't know and he had just found out. And she also made a reference to the size of his male anatomy, which I will not get into, but let's just say it's not flattering. She claims that he tarnished her reputation by using her to step out on his fiance. The woman also offered allegations that Platner cheated on a second partner before his current wife, a now ex fiancee that he was engaged to around that time. Quote this is from the woman. As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, is that a totin cop? Which is the skull and crossbone, called the death head. This was the symbol used by the Nazi SS, particularly those at the concentration camps. And he told me. Quote, he will hold this weight forever. She called it this, He will hold this weight forever. Bravado sobs story about how it was. Yes, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas, which is weird. First he said he didn't know what it was, and as soon as he found out from the media reports in his Senate run, that's when he got it covered up, not removed, just covered up. But now we have evidence, well more evidence that he did know what it was, and he even had a whole explanation, at least for a leftist audience, as to why he had it. I'm not a Nazi. I just have it to remind myself that like I was a Nazi when I was part of the military. There's a different story though, that he also tells if it's a conservative audience. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. 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The name pe Hustle is the online anonymous name that Graham Platner was using across multiple platforms, including on the kick app, but also notably on Reddit, where he made all sorts of disparaging remarks about women, the military, individual service members right rural voters in Maine called them like stupid hicks and stuff. Yeah, so yeah, I mean, just a real stand up guy this but you know, this is this is. Who the Democrats want. The heart wants what it wants. So The New York. Times spoke to this woman, who only spoke to the paper on the condition that her name not be used. Which she's a she's a streamer, so like she's an influencer. Okay, so she did not want to use her name, but I'm sure it'll come out at some point, and I'm sure the Platner campaign knows who this is. She also publicly shared screenshots on social media of private messages where she described the Nazi tattoo. The messages to her mom were dated September twenty sixth, twenty twenty five, which was before the tattoo was publicly known. She said she met Platner on Tinder and texted him for months before dating him in twenty twenty one, when she moved to Maine for work. It seemed like he tailored his answer to me knowing my politics, since that's one of the reasons we matched on Tinder in the first place. She alleges that their romance together ended after she found out from mutual friends that Platner was engaged to another woman at the same time. Multiple sources confirmed Platner had a previous fiancee before getting married to Amy Gertner in twenty twenty three, whom he allegedly cheated on via sexting. In a bombshell story that broke last month, the former fiancee declined to speak with The New York Post. Quote Graham's repeatedly said he picked a skull and crossbones tattoo off a wall in Croatia to commemorate surviving Ramadi in Herac and his friends who were killed there, according to a spokesperson from the Platiner campaign. Quote, Graham has also since covered up the tattoo and has answered countless questions about it. Well, if I answered, you mean lied about it. He's been lying about the nature of the tattoo and all of this stuff for quite some time now, obviously. The whistleblower told the Post that she never wanted to come forward with her story, but became concerned by what she saw as Platner's lying to the people of Maine about the tattoo and a pattern of behavior toward women she saw in recent news reports. She says she does not have her old texts with Platner because she deleted all of his messages when she found out that he was cheating. Earlier this month, another former flame of Platner's, Lindsey Feifeld, told The New York Times that he was lying when he claimed to be unaware of the Nazi tattoo. She said, I would never have known what that was. He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo, and he has said that this was to honor his friends. That's what the campaign just said. Oh, this was just something we did. This was the culture. It was a higher up who suggested it. Like all of these other stories that he's putting out there, and he tells a different audience, right, But when he was talking to a leftist chick, then he's like, oh no, that's sorry. He says, that's because we were of the bad guys. Us is the bad guy. Plattner is also publicly stressed that he had been screened for hate symbols when undergoing a full background check to joined the Ambassador to Afghanistan security detail, and concerned about the tattoo never came up. See, so you know, if it was such a big deal. Why didn't the military say I can't serve with it? Why did they let let me go to Afghanistan with it? To which I would submit? Maybe they thought it was a perk. Hey, this guy's got the Nazi deathhead tattoo on his chest. That might play well in Afghanistan. No, maybe maybe there's a clip here. Let me see if I can pull it up real quick. Uh do do do do? Do do dot? Rokanna no not Rokanna no, not Josh Stein No no, no, all right, well you know what, Well, hang on a second. Yeah, here it is. This is. Jody Canter appearing on Miss Now or sorry no, appearing on CNN. Jody Canter is a New York Times reporter, and here's what she said in defense of Graham. May or may not be willing to overlook. The accusations against Graham Plattner are not classic me too accusations. They're not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances. No, that would be tall rico. Actually, in Texas, they were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships. There are these like very sensational. Texts about sex. There are allegations from former girlfriends that are not the way my colleagues reported them. Were not like classic abuse allegations. They were mostly like being his boyfriend gave me a view into him, and I did not. Like what I saw. His character was scary, he had this Nazi tattoo, et cetera. There was one allegation of crossing a line physically. But I think that actually these are. Pretty different accusations, that say, the one that the ones that President Trump faced, and of course in the Access Hollywood tape, President Trump bragged about women against their will. And so I think it speaks to the kind of confusion of the long post me to moment in which like gender related accusations get bundled together, but they're actually very different. See so this is very different, don't you see? This isn't me too, says Jody Canter. Completely different. Now it's interesting is in this New York Post article the uh press or sorry, the yeah, the spokesperson for the Platner campaign said, unlike Susan Collins, who is a Nazi. I'm just kidding. They didn't say that, But unlike Susan Collins, who refuses to take questions on her disastrous vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Okay, wait, do you. Really want to bring up Brett Kavanaugh in this situation? Because Jody Cantor, who you just heard make all of these excuses, she was one of the ringleaders against Brett Kavanaugh, and there was a little bit of a different standard for Brett Kavanaugh. I wonder why, what could be the reason. I'll tell you what that standard was for Judy Cantor. In a moment, Travis on the text line says, was there a power dynamic aspect to the Kavanaugh accusations? But a great point, right, great point, Travis, No, there was not. The accusation was that he did these things when there was no power dynamic. They were both students, even though they did not know each other. Blazy Ford presented no evidence that she was at a party with Kavanaugh. None of the people that she claimed were there said they were there. There was zero evidence, actually zero evidence to ever support her claims. But Judy Cantor, the reporter, she was all in on this. This was all about just right. She said, don't discount the possibility that doctor Ford has impacted high school, college frats, and Beach Week forever. There's also the possibility that a Kavanaugh confirmation couldn't send the opposite message of no accountability. Right, So this was the believe all women when it was blazy Ford seeking to derail the Supreme Court nominee. Then it was got a believer, even though there's no evidence to support any of her claims, have to believe. But when it comes to Graham Platner and the women who have come forward so far with evidence, no, no, no, this isn't really a classic me too. See did you know that there's a classic me too? It's sort of like there's a diet me too, and there's a new formula me too, which didn't do very well. But like the classic this is classic me too. That's not classic me too. See classic me too involves Republicans and zero it In's allegations. That's classic. I guess the new and improved formula that's when it hits a Democrat and there is evidence. I guess that's the takeaway here. Kirk says, your imitation of Grand Platner sounds like cookie monster. Look I cannot help it if my you know, accurate impression conjures up Cookie Monster. He does kind of look like Cookie Monster too. His eyes are a little googly and all that. Anyway, Jim says, please please, please do more fozzy bear imitations of the Nazi dem candidate in Maine, but less nasally bat guano crazy women commentators like Jodi Kanter no promises Jim, well, I will do more of grand Platner. This from Dennis Pete. I worked for the dos I Guess Department of State in Afghanistan. Nobody inspected your body for tattoos, as Platner alleges. There was a questionnaire asking but that's all. Well, now, that might be something some reporters could ask, because Platiner's campaign keeps saying, well, I was screened. He was screened to be on the security detail for the ambassador to Afghanistan, and nobody said anything. Then if they didn't see it any then then I must be all right, it must not be a Nazi tattoo. It is a Nazi tattoo. You identified it as that to multiple people for years. But because he got screened and that's not then that means what exactly. Either somebody actually did look at it and didn't know what it was, or what they looked at it and they were like, Nazi tattoo. Check, you're fine, right, Or maybe, as Dennis says, they don't actually look at the tattoos. They ask you to fill out a form of your like list your tattoos, and maybe he lied about it. On the form. I know, I know this is quite the stretch for me to suggest that Graham Plattner might be a liar. But Graham Plattner is a liar, so that's why I'm actually suggesting it. Brian says, the fact that Plattner covered up the tattoo after a small bit of political pressure actually makes me think less of him than having it. If that's what he is and what he believes, so be it. If a man is a Nazi, well then that's what he is. Just be honest about it. But to so quickly, to so quickly abandon what he supposedly believed in wholeheartedly says more about him than his getting it in the first place. He also said he's a communist, but he got a Nazi tattoo? Does he know that Nazis and Commies were enemies? Consider this, he has known that the Nazi tattoo is a Nun tattoo from the jump. He has known this from the beginning, right, he has then recruited. I played the audio from the two people that found him and quote unquote vetted him. Remember the audio from that guy the other day he taught like this, we vetted him. We didn't get amy. That was the guy. Okay, the girl didn't say anything. That was the guy. And I'm not exaggerating. That's how he sounded. So do you think that the campaign knew that he had the Nazi tattoo? I do. I believe he probably said something to them about it. But then again, he is a liar, so he may have lied to the campaign about it as well. But he had to have known there's all this video out there, right, So if you're the campaign. What do you do? Do you have him go and quietly cover it up before the campaign launches and then risk that somebody knows he's got a tattoo, but then oh, look at that he had it covered up, and then you have to answer when did you have it covered up and why and all of that, or do you wait for the story to get out, which you know it will because all of these Democrats know that he's got the tattoo, so you wait for the story to get out and then he plays dumb. Then he says, because I could see the campaign like managing this. You know, they're like, okay, look, you got the tat and people know you have it. So when that comes out, then you're gonna go and get it covered up, and you're going to say that you had no idea what it was. And that was the lie that they told, that the campaign told. The problem is they've got a bunch of these women from his past, way in the distance of you know, three and four and five years ago that were they've now stepped forward and said no, no, he knew exactly what it was. Jeff with a G. I love it when a Democrat attempts to misquote Trump and alter the context when we all know exactly what he said. He didn't that he grabbed women. He said, the media doesn't care. If you're a celebrity, you can get away with anything. You could even grab them by the body part and they wouldn't care, right, So like that's yeah, that's what he was saying. Like the nature of the industry and the people in the industry, that's what Trump was talking about like because he was walking around he had these models on his arms, you know, and Billy Bush is like almost, you know, you got some hotties with you whatever, And that's when he starts saying like this entire industry, this Hollywood industry, like nobody cares. They all let you do it because you're famous. Okay. Dean wants to talk about soccer. Chuck says, is it Ai or is it Pete? And who needs Rosetta Stone while we have mister Coliner calendar. I do serve multi purposes like a I'm like a Swiss army knife, but not Swiss. I'd like to know how and when the money switched from Mainz governor to him. It was very early, Helly and on the text line, and Sean wants to know whether we are sure that the SPLC did not pay for Platner's tattoo. We are not. We are not. We don't know if they did that. Now here's a question Jim Garretty asks, in relation to Graham Plattner's supporters are ethics for suckers? Is that the world we are in now that ethics are for suckers? All right? So Jim Garretty at National review headlined why Graham Platner's supporters don't care he talks about They had a town hall gathering just before the primary on Tuesday. Nobody in the town hall asked him about his past misconduct, of course not. The widespread perception at the event was that Platine was the victim in the story, a good man who had been wronged by ex girlfriends and excessive scrutiny. That's an actual quote, by the way, from some moonbat in the audience. It's just all this excessive scrutiny. The real scandal is you noticing, right, this excessive scrutiny from an unscrupulous media. It's like, honey, if you were a Republican, your guy would already be out of the race. Okay, this is misplaced empathy, suicidal empathy, or it's an acceptance that he's a degenerate. But he's our degenerate. He's gonna help us win power, so we don't care, because power is the ultimate principle. Garretty goes on to say that both parties grassroots conclude that ethics are for suckers. I don't think it's that simple, because you've got this on both sides You've got this grassroots and I'm using these terms very very loosely, grassroots versus quote unquote establishment. Right over on the Republican side, we saw this with the rise of the Tea Party, which was then murdered by the establishment. Right, you also have this rising tide of anti Semitism in the Democrat Party. Most profoundly. The Republicans are actually fighting that with you, against their influencer podcast class. He says, to hear Democrats tell it back in twenty twelve, when Republicans were convinced that they had nominated the better man in Mitt Romney, right, But to hear Democrats tell it that year Republicans had nominated the devil. A Democrat activist group ran TV commercials saying Romney had given his workers cancer a lie. Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed Romney didn't pay taxes for ten years, also a lie, and when confronted about it, he said, well he didn't win, did he. In other words, the ends justify the means. The Obama campaign claimed that Romney had committed a felony and lied on his filings with the Federal Elections Commission. That was also a lie. Stephanie Cutter, Obama deputy campaign managers responded, He's not going to get an apology from us, and then accused Romney of just whining. Right, this is how they got how we got Donald Trump. New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote about Romney putting a dog in a crate on the top of the roof of a car on a road trip. Every political consultant focuses on winning the race they're working on. This year, few, if any, contemplate the longer term ramifications of their actions. Republicans learned a hard lesson that year. Nominating the better man did not mean he would win the election, and if the electorate could be so easily persuaded by false accusations, nominating a more ethical man with a better character did not matter much. Four years later, many Republicans concluded that if any person they nominated was going to be painted as the devil, they might as well nominate a man with the reputation of a devil and as a route and as ruthless as the devil, and get all the advantages of actually nominating a devil and the GOP. The country and the world have been living with the consequences of that decision ever since. In twenty twenty four, Democrats convinced themselves that they had nominated, or rather had selected for them, the better candidate in Kamala Harris. Right, she was the candidate of joy. She was bratt. It was summer of bratt, remember all of that garbage. Taylor Swift endorsed her. Democrats told the country it was the prosecutor against the felon. In the minds of those on the political left, Trump had long since morally disqualified himself with his performance in his first term, his refusal to accept defeat in twenty twenty, his incendiary remarks at January sixth, and multiple criminal investigations of him. Right, So Democrats said, this guy's terrible. And she didn't win. She lost the popular vote and then lost every swing state. So now they learned nominating a quote better person doesn't mean much either. So now we have Graham Platner, right, And so this is what they think is the equivalent of Donald Trump. This is what they think a manly man looks like, acts like. Right. That's why I say he is a caricature of what the left thinks Republicans would find appealing in a candidate, just as James Talerico in Texas is. Look, he quotes Bible scripture. Don't you like that? Aren't you a Bible thumper? You should love him. Don't listen to what he actually says and how he uses scripture to like twist God's word. But but he knows, he knows passages. He's he's going to seminary school. He eats ribs now too. By the way, Graham Platner tweeted out today because you heard about SpaceX going public and it raised like what was it, like a two trillion dollar ipo or something just ridiculous. And now Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. And I don't know if this is Platner himself. I suspected some staffer that he's sexting with that runs his social media account. But the grand Platner for Senate campaign tweeted out a couple of hours ago, Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. Let's make sure he's also the last. Why would we Why would you not want more trillionaires? You know, they pay a lot of taxes, like Elon Musk pays tens of billions of dollars in taxes every year. Did you know that that's just him? Personally retired US Army Colonel Kurt Schlichter. He pointed out that I assume that Platner has a final solution to the trillionaire question too, right, so let's make sure Elon Musk is the last trillionaire. Okay. By the way, he also gave. An interview or is doing an interview before he really took off. This is surface Platner. This interview surface where he says that they want to help parents who are saddled with kids. Yeah, saddled with children. That's how he views it. I guess. Yeah, just bang up work there, maners. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.