Comrades! Stand by your Graham!! | Hour 2

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Apparently you can whip up on a woman if she's a Republican. But the line is, the line is a progressive woman. That's the line. In case you were wondering what the rules are in the me too movement, I'm just kidding. There's that whole thing is dead. Democrats killed that, right, the whole me too thing. That's just. Put a nail in the coffin on that thing, because for all the lip service they pay, they threw a lot of women under the bus when it became politically expedient to do so. But yes, now we have another gram Platiner scandal. It's a scandal, Graham. I'm workshopping that. We'll see how it turns out. Anyway. This the latest from Politico, and there's a There are a couple angles here. First is the scandal, and I'm going to ignore journalism in rule number two, which is that when the scandal is about a Republican, the story is the scandal. But when the scandal is about a Democrat, then the story is the Republican reaction to the scandal. I'm ignoring that. I'm going to talk about the scandal as I do with democrats, and so the story is the scandal. The scandal is the story. Okay, But then you also have another scandal, which is probably more it's worse, and that is a media scandal, and at the center of that media scandal is The New York Times. I will get to this, okay, So first we have the story publishes yesterday. We knew something was happening. I mentioned it on the program yesterday because we were seeing reports that Graham Platner had canceled all of his town hall appearances and he was heading to a bunker, which not sure that's a great look for a guy with a Nazi tattoo to be hiding out in a bunker at the end of a campaign, but that's where he went. He was like hanging out someplace and they were like workshopping some response to some scandal, some story that was about to drop, and then it dropped over at Politico, pieced by Jessica Piper and Adam Wrenn. A woman who dated Maine US Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago, despite her repeated objections, and there was a there's a word for that. That's called rape. When you force a woman to have sex against her will, that that's rape. And remember, this was the red line that all of the left was saying it. I mean, it's been a while, Like I'm old enough to remember the last time Graham Platner was accused of of assaulting a woman, and this was like, no, no, no, he didn't. He didn't sexually assault that Republican woman. But that would be a red line, Like if you just shove her around, you know, maybe you know, stick her in a room and lock the door and don't let her out, like basically kidnap her. Like that's that's one thing, okay, Like we can look past the Nazi tattoo, the pleasuring yourself and the portajohn's, the poop posting on Reddit, the the the bashing of military guys who are getting shot by the enemy, the self avowed or self description as a communist. We can look past all of these things. And that, by the way, that list is not totally inclusive. There's a bunch of other stuff I'm leaving off of the list because I'm just I've lost track of all of the scandals with this guy. So, but this is the red line. If this was sexual assault, then we would say to drop out and lo and behold, you now have an allegation of sexual assault. Except we kind of thought that this. Might actually be coming a month ago when the first story was dropped by the New York Times in what I referred to at the time as a soft catch and kill story, right, which is where you catch the story and you kill it by by not doing the full reporting of all of the information you have, and it helps to inoculate the campaign because then they could say, oh, we already covered that, that's old news, moving on. Because the New York Times had that information, They had information about this story and didn't put it in their original piece. So this is as much of a scandal for the New York Times as it is for Graham Platner. The woman in this latest allegation, she also appeared in the New York Times story, but they didn't talk about these allegations. She's a forty one year old resident of Maine. Her name is Jenny Rasicott or Rakacott Rasico anyway. She detailed the alleged incident to Politico in three interviews over the past two weeks. Politico also spoke with a man that she dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident. Politico reviewed documents, including emails between her and her therapist messages between her and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platinir years before he ran for office. So those are what we call contemporaneous notes, contemporaneous communications and accounts. Right they took place at that time. That is what you call evidence in support of the allegations. Unlike, for example, Christine blazey Ford, who had none of that when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when he was in high school. Even the people that she claimed were there at this gathering at the house of four people, none of them say that we were not there. One of them didn't even know her. Kavanaugh never knew her. There's no zero evidence that this ever occurred, but that that was enough to keep him off the US Supreme Court. Rassico said she had an on and off relationship with Platner for more than two years before he entered her rural main home uninvited one in late twenty twenty one, so this was like four and a half years ago. He was deeply intoxicated and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual. Now in the New York Times piece, she described quote reckless and unsettling behavior by Platner, but says she did not go public with the specific assault claim because she did not want to be known as a rape victim, but she later felt compelled to go public after her experience because the reaction to the New York Times story was dominated by controversy about another woman, Lindsey Fiffeld, who alleged that Platner mistreated her, and Fiftheld was attacked because of her ties to the Republican Party and so her account, her story, her truth was completely dismissed by the media, by the Democrats. But I repeat myself, right, They just all they were like, ah, she's just a Republican activist whatever, and Rassico saw that. Contacted by Politico, Fifeld stood by her allegations declined to comment any further. She said, my part of Rasico said, my part of the story was just a read over, and the story was Lindsay and the accusations of her being politically motivated, and good for her, she saw that, saw it was wrong, knew what the truth was, and that prompted her to come forward. Now, she said, she was torn over coming forward in part because she agrees with Platner politically, and that might be the worst part about this story. Well, no, the assault that's the worst. Like what kind of a world is that? Like where you don't want to come forward because you agreed politically with your attacker. All right? For over a year now, you've heard me talking about Create a Video. 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Come on, like, what's the point of arguing against Donald Trump and the erosion of standards. Are you gonna unilaterally disarm right, No, you can't do that. You gotta stand by this guy. What are you doing. You're gonna You're gonna sacrifice him to the establishment Democrats, what are you doing? See here's here's part of the problem that the uh the socialists have here is that when you run your operation inside of a political part as they have been with the Democrat Party, and something like this happens where your preferred socialist candidate gets through a primary, but now has what is it a week six days or so to withdraw. He can take his name off the ballot. He has to do that first, and if that happens, then the Democrat Party gets to put in another candidate for democracy obviously, I mean, that's that's democracy in action as practiced by That's, by the way, this is why I call it the Democrat Party not the Democratic Party, because this is the kind of shenanigans they pull. And we've known this was coming. Platner knew it was coming, The Campaig knew was coming, media knew, everybody knew this was coming. We've been talking. Look me in Charlotte knew this was coming. And if I know this is coming. You could see like the drip drip, drip, drip drip stories all throughout the last six months or so, and they were sticking with this guy, sticking with this guy because there was all the energy and the youth vote. And no, he's a working man. He's an oyster man. Look at him, oyster man, you know. And this is what we think is going to appeal to the rural masculine many men's, you know. And you could tell that they were going to drop even more stuff on this guy later, they being Democrats, because Democrats tried to drop stuff on him before the primary to try to get him out. Didn't work. And then Janet. Mills, who agrees with Platner on like everything, she had to drop out. She couldn't raise any money, so she's out and he wins the primary. So now you have this window. And that's why you've got Democrats that are dropping this research, this opo research to try to get him out so they can swap him out with someone else. They want to put in someone else. And this is the problem that you dsa types. You have not factored it, like this may be the way the establishment quote unquote Democrats fight back against this rising Marxist element within their ranks is just sit on all of the worst stuff and then if your establishment Democrat non COMMI candidate loses in the primary, then you drop all this stuff in an attempt to get them to drop out. They drop out, and then you plug in a Democrat establishment candidate. See that's the problem when you don't control the establishment. DSA folks. See you didn't. You didn't factor that in, which is weird because this is the Biden model. Right, we just went through this. You guys saw what they did with Joe Biden. They forced him out. They put in Kamala Harris, right, never won any primary votes. Now they're gonna swap out somebody else and you're not gonna get to control that. Now they're gonna try the DSA folks. They're trying. They're like, no, you have to put in a progressive. You got to put in some you know, some commie adjacent person that we support. But yeah, they don't have to listen to you now. Whoops. See this is seven oh four number. This is why I'm saying, like they're trying to rob you of your candidate. You can really show Maga. By standing with Graham Platner, you could really strike a blow against Maga by refusing you. You need to donate money right now. Seven oh four number. You need to go and donate money right now. It's probably on Act Blue. They probably haven't deactivated him yet. Go donate some money to him. Do a change dot org petition or something. You need to do something right now. Express your support for Graham Platner. It doesn't matter anything that he has done. He's gonna fight the jew I mean the oligarchs. Sorry, he's gonna fight the oligarchs. He's gonna give you everything that he promised. He's the only one in Maine that can do it. You gotta stand by it. Do it. M John says on the text line, the media is protecting the Democrats here with the way they handled the Platner case. I completely agree. At first they were trying to keep him propped up and refuse to write the really negative stuff. But when they realized they could not stop it from coming out, they hurried it out yesterday to give the Democrat Party a week to replace him on the ballot. If this was a Republican I guarantee you they would have sat on the story for another week until it was too late to replace him on on the ballot. From a purely political sense, I would have rather Platner be on the ballot because he was going to be much easier to defeat. Yeah, so. That's how you know this is coming from the Democrats oppo dump. It's because of the timing. The Republican you know, Susan Collins, her camp, they have other stuff. They would prefer to wait until after next week. And remember Mark Robinson here in North Carolina. The big hit came against him in like October, right September October timeframe, so the Republicans couldn't get him off the ballot. They couldn't swap him out. This is doing the Democrats a solid. We have yet another scandal. I've lost track. I think we're up to somewhere around fifteen scandals involving Graham Plattner, the latest being a former girlfriend of his went on the record with Politico saying that he sexually assaulted her. He raped her back in two thousand and twenty one, so like four and a half years ago. He was reportedly blackout drunk, which, by the way, he says that didn't happen. He's denying the allegations. He also remember told us that there wasn't anything else coming out, there were no more scandals, no more accusations coming out. And then of course we had that other assault report that came out, and then he said that was it. There was no more coming out than this one came out. So I'm starting to think we might not be able to trust him on this stuff. Oh also, remember he had a profile on the kick app which was dubbed a Predator's Paradise, and we had the report that he was in communication with like half a dozen women. At least we don't know what their age is. There's been a lot, there's been a lot with this guy. The woman who made the accusation last month, Lindsey Fifthel, here's what she said in response to all of this. She says, I actually understand why Democrat leaders did not take our story seriously when The New York Times reported them in June, but are taking them seriously now. It was by design. The line most shared from the piece in the New York Times story was the claim that the Times could not corroborate my story, despite the fact that the reporters talked to two of my friends. I gave them the contact info for five friends. They called two who I clarified would not know about the abuse, but would be able to affirm our relationship, timeline, events, etc. Okay, so she gave the New York Times five contacts. Two of the five, she said that they would not know about the abuse. The other three would. So the Times calls the two that could not corroborate the abuse. They did not call the other three. I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our house, which was about five houses down from his, and waiting for me to return home. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and me discussing it. I gave them the names of other men that I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. So now you have a stalking charge thrown in there. This wasn't part of the New York Times story, but she gave that to them. She says. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town, and diary in trees that I had written talking about it. All of them time stamped. I told them that during premarital counseling, I had spoken to my ex fiance about the abuse, because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said, oh, no, we don't need to bother him. They also did not contact her priest, who could have confirmed and corroborated. Besides, they said I had written about it in my diary, so they had that. As the weeks dragged on, I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them, and thought it meant that they clearly had more than enough to verify my claim. My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that, yes, I had told them that he was abusive long before he ran for Senate. Besides, they assured me. The reporters assured me my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny Rassico and the other anonymous woman. Oh there's a third woman out there. Besides, oh, they assured me that this would just be a small part of it. Jenny and I, having never met or spoken, both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse and love bombing. You know what love bombing. Is, right, This is what the narcissistic sociopaths do. Right. They're abusive to you. And then they they love bomb They overwhelm you with all of this love. Oh, you're the only one that I could ever be with, and you're my entire world. They sent you flowers, like just over the top stuff. Love bombing and then abuse again, that's the cycle. The third unnamed woman in this also apparently talked to The New York Times, and Fifeld says, but yeah, tell me again how they could not corroborate this, Right, The New York Times did a soft catch and kill. That's what they did here. Brent sur from the Daily Wires, the editor in chief over there, He says, this is a major embarrassment for the Times. I mean, well, if they could feel embarrassment over there. But Rasico already talked to them and was so disappointed. She went to Politico and CNN because The New York Times made Lindsay Fiffeld and her politics the story instead of Platner and let his comms team shape the whole thing. Mary Catherine Hamm, conservative commentator. She says they also leveraged Rassico's then off the record story to get Lindsay to go on the record, telling her that she'd be the least of the accusations in the article, and then they. Hung around to dry. Not only is Jenny Rasico for speaking out on this, but her move made discourage that kind of catch and kill reporting because what they did was the Strissand effect, the most devastating accusations, right. The strissand effect is when it goes. To Barbara streissand when somebody did some story I think on the size of her house or something, nobody saw the story, and then she went on to social media to complain about the story, thereby alerting everybody that there was in fact a story, and that drew attention to the story. Dwayne Patterson, who's the producer of The Hugh Hewitt Show host of Dwayne's World podcast, says the New York Times knew all along they had this story hand delivered to them, and they screwed it up. Instead of exposing a candidate not up to the job, they tried to inoculate him from further damage. That's exactly right, another stain on the already stained New York Times. It's just really grotesque what they did here. Seth on the text line in Platurneese. Start to go fund me page. Oh, I tell you that's gonna kill me. De Hellian says, Uh. Operation chaos for Platner. Uh. Geo says, thinking Graham is going to wait it out until the Democrats offer him enough money to drop out. I don't know if they're going to offer him any money. See, here's like, this is a big problem. Let me do this now. I was gonna save this. I'm gonna pick this up in the next hour. There's just too much material and there's too many different angles here. You can go through this stack of stuff. Here is the money, the money aspect they got. This is a problem. Okay. So Sean Cooksy is a former White House lawyer, FEC commissioner, Federal Election Commission Senate staffer. Okay, he says, in addition to the question of whether Platner drops out, or not. The other big question is whether he will give up his remaining campaign cash to the DSCC, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Right, so he's been raising all of this money mainly from out of state, and he can make unlimited transfers to the DSCC to help his replacement, but he doesn't have to. Anyone who steps in, though, is still going to be hobbled by an enormous cash disadvantage, even if he gives them his money and the d SEC is able to then fund whoever steps in. Even if they can do that or he does that, whoever replaces him is going to be starting from scratch with zero dollars in the bank and donors limited to a single general election contribution because the primary is over, and so when you don't spend your money in the primary, you get to roll that into the general. But nobody came through the primary with money. Remember Janet Mills suspended her campaign a couple months ago because she couldn't raise. Enough money any money. So she got all hacked off that they weren't helping her against Plattner, so she suspended her campaign. He wins the primary, ain't no money there to roll over. Meanwhile, Susan Collins that you know is the uber maga, the most you know, arch right conservative in the US Senate, Susan Collins. This is what they've been telling us that you have to you gotta vote for the guy with the Nazi tattoo in this series of scandals, this degenerative behavior like or degenerative degenerate this degenerative, Well, I guess either one would work there. You got to vote for this degenerate because Susan Collins is such a terrible maga Republican, a woman who is constantly drawing the ire of Republicans and conservatives because she votes with Democrats too much, like the most milk toast of Republicans in America in the US Senate. And you guys are like going beyond hyperbole in order to say, like you got to get this guy Graham in there. She's got more than nine million dollars already in the bank, just her. Burgess Everett, congressional bureau chief for Semaphore UH, formerly a reporter for Politico. He said the Senate Majority Pack, which is the main Democrat super pack, says Platner should withdraw. If he doesn't, they're gonna scrap their ad bys Senate majority pack is redirecting resources away from the main Senate race in light of the latest allegations against Graham Platner. We continue to believe this seat is winnable if Platner is not on the ballot, and we cannot strategically continue to invest here when there's an expansive battleground map where these resources can help win a Democrat majority. There you go. So the money from the quote establishment moving away, this is all they needed. And this is how you know these are Democrat oppo dumps is because this is the last chance Democrats have to get Platner out and to stick somebody else in. Right, this is why all of you true reds, you guys need to stand by your gram do not the establishment Democrats rob you of this victory. Tell Graham Platner to stay in the race. All right. That'll do it for this episode. 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