Rapey Maine Kampf looking to anoint his successor | Hour 2

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She dated Platner for a while, like about fifteen years ago or so. She said that Platner came to her apartment was all drunk and got physically aggressive with her, shoved her, grabbed her enough to leave bruises and such, and then locked her up in her bedroom and kept her there overnight. And she was the one that was the focus of the New York Times piece. I went over all of this yesterday. I'm not going to go in depth on it again. But this is the same woman. But there is now another component to this story that she has told to CNN. Okay, she described her own alleged mistreatment by Platner for the first time on camera to CNN yesterday, saying that he repeatedly grabbed her at times, leaving bruises, and once blocked her inside a bedroom while they were dating more than a decade ago. Feifeld said she was inspired to come forward with this new information by Jenny Rassico. Jenny Rasico is the one whose story dropped in Politico on Friday, and she alleged Platner raped her that caused the Platner campaign to cancel all of their events. He went down into a bunker. I'm kidding, it's not a bunker, but he does have the Nazi tattoo, so it would be apropos But no, he is like he's holed up in his house and I'll tell you what they're apparently strategizing, at least according to the media reports. But Jenny Rasico's story that came out on Friday, we covered this yesterday. That's the reason Feifeld has now come forward with new information that was not published in The New York Times. She said she was inspired by Rasiko's bravery coming forward and felt relief that endorsers of Platners, like Senator Bernie Sanders, have now urged Platner to drop out of the race. At the same time, she says she's disturbed that her own allegations about Platner's behavior, which were published by The New York Times last month, did not spark similar condemnation from Platner's supporters. Right she was written off and dismissed as, oh, she's a Republican, so this is all political, and you know he didn't sexually assault her, So that's really the red line. You can whip up on a Republican woman, that's fine, not disqualifying, but if you rape a progressive woman, that's the red line. Now you got to get out, okay. And also, we went over yesterday the media malpractice, malfeasans of the New York Times reporter in the way that they they caught five Feld's story and then essentially killed it in a way to help inoculate Graham Platner from the story. They were not successful and now they look terrible. But that was obviously the way. And I said this a month ago when the New York Times did the story because Fivefeld went out after as she posted on social media that she had told the New York Times that there were they She gave them five people's names that they could talk to. Three of the five could corroborate her story of abuse, and the New York Times did not contact those three people. Instead, they contacted the other two of the five that Fivefeld had told the Times. They will not be able to corroborate that story, but they can corroborate other things that I had said about whatever whatever. So then the New York Times publishers in their piece that the allegations are denied by Platner and they are uncorroborated because they never talked to the three people that could have corroborated the story. So this is now at CNN. Fifel Met Platner in twenty thirteen, when Platner was a student at George Washington University and she was working in DC, and they dated on and off in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen. In the interview with CNN, she described Platner as struggling with serious alcohol problems and being violent towards her. She said Platner regularly grabbed her, sometimes hard enough to leave Marx. One time, during an argument, she said, Platner grabbed her arms, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed so she could not leave. And here's the new piece of information. At times when they were having adult relations, Platner would remove the protection and he would not tell her when she confronted him about it. She says he would make up excuses or deflect. She said quote The worst and most violating part was how often he would do that secretly. Emily Zenatti, a friend of Fifeld's, told CNN that Fifeld told her years ago that she had been trying to avoid pregnancy while dating Platner, but Platner would remove condoms during sex. She said, I knew that Graham had been really a really destructive force in her life. In a statement to the Washington Post about the allegation, Platner's campaign called it false and politically motivated, because Firefeld has a history of working on Republican campaigns and for conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and Nikki Haley's twenty twenty four presidential campaign. After the Time story was published, some Platiner supporters pointed to Fifeld's political history when defending him against her claims. Right, that was the only counterproof they offered. Plattner said, burden and wrong, and that was enough for them, because she's a Republican. You can't trust anything she's saying. I mean, obviously it's politically motivated. Believe all women otherwise. So that's the first new scandal, is that he would remove protection during relations without telling the woman. Once again, if only there was a sign that this guy was a degenerate. If only maybe he had had a big tattoo and blazoned on his chest that screams I'm a degenerate, right, maybe, if only people could have avoided voting for this guy. So now the clock is running because if Platner is going to withdraw from the race, he has to do it by Monday or else his name will appear on the ballot. Okay, if he withdraws before Monday, then the Democrat Party gets to put somebody else on the ballot. Slight problem. Platner has been running as an anti establishment DSA adjacent He's been supported by the Bernie Sanders camp. And what's the fight agency is what it's called the fight agency. These are the socialists that put mom Donnie into office. That's who has been running his campaign. And so now he doesn't want to turn over the appointment of his successor to the Democrat Party because he's been running in opposition to those very people. See this is the problem. You know, we've been talking about the DSA taking over inside the Democrat Party, fielding these candidates and these primaries, knocking off incumbents, long time incumbents. And they've made it very clear, the DSA leadership in their platform and their speeches and their zoom calls and such, they've made it very clear the DSA these are communists and they are looking to just to take over and destroy the Democrat Party from within. That's what that's the goal. And Democrats a lot of them are in denial about this. Some of them are waking up, albeit belatedly. But that's been that's been their mission. So now you've got to turn it over to the very people that you've just been saying this stuff about, to a replacement. So Platner is reportedly trying to leverage his presence in the race to try to get his preferred replacement. All right, For over a year now, you've heard me talking about Create a Video. 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I mean it matches almost Pete headsets and he's our secretary of war. So what did you say? It matches? Headset? How does it match? Really? D? Come now, D are you a child? You didn't sound like a child anything, but I mean you you that's kind of chicken what you just did there. Yeah, you sat on hold for five minutes, six minutes to say something as stupid as that, and then wouldn't even wouldn't even stay on the line for me to ask you to list some of the comparatives. So, if memory serves correctly, what D just alleged was that Platner's history with alcohol and women completely matches heg sets. Did I get that right? It completely matches? Heg sets? Sorry, were there rape allegations on heag set? No, that was the woman who had the one night stand with him and she felt like he didn't treat her well. He did drink alcohol. Yeah, and that's not even that's not one of the scandals related to platter I've seen nobody saying he shouldn't be in office, he shouldn't run for office because he drank a lot, because he would get blackout drunk. I haven't seen anybody make that argument. Now, people the argument that when you get blackout drunk and then you break into someone's house and rape them. That's like your denial is a little bit undercut by the fact that you have this history of being blackout drunk. So that's yeah, I'm not really The other thing was grabbing a woman? Did Hegseeth? Was he accused of whipping up on women? Not aware of that allegation. Those are really the only two regarding the alcohol and the women. Pete Haggseth wasn't on the Kick app as far as I recall there. I know people said a lot of bad stuff about Pete Haigseth, but I don't recall there ever being an allegation that he had set up a profile on the quote unquote predators paradise app called Kick where most of the users or a disproportionate large number of them are are like under the age of fourteen. There aren't any like parental restrictions, age verification protocols and stuff like that. So not aware of that being part of heg Seth's history infidelity. I think maybe I don't know if that matches exactly because I think heg Seth. I think he but I don't remember, like I did not follow all of this stuff on. Heg seth mainly because he wasn't running for office and he did not have a Nazi tattoo like that was That's really what launched Graham Platner into the public eye was the Nazi tattoo. But that's not about drinking, although he said he was blackout drunk when he got the tattoo. So maybe that's what D is talking about. See, this is the problem D is that when you make when you make an assertion and then you run away, like you don't have, you know, the the courage of your convictions. You don't have the ability to defend what you say. Like I'm now just left to kind of make up arguments that you may not make. So D, I don't do this very often, but considering how you participate in the program, I don't want you to participate in the program any longer. So I'm just just gonna have to ban you, maybe for maybe we'll do a temporary time out for you. So is there a norm, like does winter Bll have like a norm that he puts people in time out for at least at least a month? Okay, so at least a month? All right? So we're gonna put D in time out for a month, and in that month, D, I would highly recommend that you maybe watch a couple YouTube videos or something, or read some books or a book, and learn how to make an assertion and then defend the assertion right, provide some evidence, some supporting pieces of information, right to try to make a case, because it's way more helpful to your argument. Because when you come on and you just say stupid things like that, well, I mean, you just embarrass yourself. So from the text line, D caller, D did not impress many people here with that, with that call of hers seven oh four numbers, is D is a typical Democrat instead of facing the actual facts. Sorry, oh, shooting false fact at a Republican just to I don't know. I don't think a false fact is a thing, because a fact would be true right anyway. As Rushwood say D was a drive by caller, Paul says, the caller would not have been able to defend that stance. In no wonder. She hung up, and Corey does the This is the familiar chronology of these types of arguments that the Left makes. No, no, no, he never raped anybody. Okay, fine, he raped a couple people, some Republicans and the home intruder. But it's not that bad. Okay, yeah, yeah, he's been raping everybody up in here, and that's a good thing. That's the cycle, which is you first deny it happens, then say, okay, it happened, but it was only one so it was just a couple of times, and then it's like, okay, it did happen, but here's why. That's a good thing. That's the standard progression. So let's get back to the actual story here, which is that Plattner's camp is now trying to use his presence on the ballot in order to swap Platner out with somebody else of their choosing. So they're trying to obviously to save democracy, right, they are obviously trying to short circuit the democratic process here. So main Democratic candidate Graham Platner appears to be holding the Democrat Party hostage and is refusing to drop out after being accused of rape unless he gets to approve his successor to run for the Senate, Which I mean that's a coveted that is a coveted endorsement from rape mind camp, Like that is no it would be rape E main camp main comp or de Oyster Furer. So that's the coveted endorsement, right. I want to be the guy that Grand Platner annoyance as his successor. You should vote for me because, like I agree with everything that Graham Platner has espoused, but like I have, you know, ninety percent fewer rapes in my history. Oh my gosh, this is where we are. A source familiar with the campaign discussion, said Platner. This is according to the New York Post report by Josh Christensen. A source familiar with the campaign discussions. I don't know what that means. I don't know who, I don't know whether you can believe the source, but this is being widely reported elsewhere also says that the Platner campaign and his political strategist Morris Kats and I've talked about this guy before, Morris Katz, he's another one of these NEPO baby commis who his mommy owns a publishing company. And remember he wrote it Child's book where he talked. In the book, he talks about how he wanted to use It was about boys going through puberty, and he wanted to use pictures of himself and his own anatomy, but the publisher said no, and so he had to use pictures of fruit. The publisher was his mother. So that's the guy who ran mom Donnie's camp, and now he was now he because he's part of this group called Fight Agency, which really is I mean, that is kind of a tell, is it not. This is almost like the Fabian Society, the socialists, right, who did their first you like one hundred some years ago, and they their first logo was literally a wolf in sheep's skin in sheep's clothing, right, And then they were like, guys, maybe this is a bit too overt for what we're trying to pull off here, so they got rid of that, but that was their original logo. So the name is Fight Agency, which from a collectivist perspective is exactly what you are doing, right. You don't want people to have their own agency. You want them all to just fall in line and be a part of the collective. So yeah, Fight Agency. I don't know if they saw the other meaning when they adopted that name. Anyway, they are now deliberating about the main Democrat dropping out, but only if his replacement shares Platner's left wing values, and the clock is ticking. As I mentioned, there's a deadline of Monday for the forty one year old oyster farmer. By the way, the farm is owned by his richie rich pals, so this is sort of like a like a scholarship gig for him. So he's running this tiny little oyster farm and the client that buys all the oysters his mom's restaurant. Okay, so like that's silverspoon socialist here. Anyway. If he does withdraw, state party officials will then initiate what they have promised will be an open and transparent process to choose another candidate for the ballot. And one Democrat source said, quote, this vibes to me like a play from Bernie Sanders to slide in Troy Jackson. Anyway, I think in order to put Troy Jackson, this guy named Troy Jackson, he's the former leader of the main Senate who's apparently a lefty two. This person went on to say Platner's team is delusional, saying Morris Katz, the campaign strategists who helped elect Mom Donnie to the mayor of New York City, had been recommending Platner stay in the race. So like right now, See, it's always the same with these comedies. It's about power because Marxism, right, is all about power dynamics. That's why you end up with you know, critical theory, critical race theory, critical gender theory, right, all critical studies. It's all about the power dynamic oppressor versus oppressed, oppressed versus a pressor who's got the power? Right, So right now it's like, Okay, we've lost some power, but we still have a lot of leverage because we're on the ballot. Yes, yes, I know, our polling has tanked and now it looks like we're going to lose to Susan Collins, which is why the Democrats are now pulling the red card on Platner. That's why they're putting out all of these stories because they're on the clock. They have until Monday, and unlike soccer, like we all know when the end of this match is going to be, so they've got a deadline and when that expires, now Platner's name will be on the ballot, So he may not have the leverage he had before, but he still has quite a bit because the Democrat Party in Maine and at the national level cannot do anything unless he withdraws, so he's now holding them hostage to try to get his preferred candidate to swap in to tag a in The twenty seven year old Morris Katz, a Democratic political consultative, works for Fight Agency, a democratic political consulting firm that has helped elevate progressive candidates socialists. He wants to be the next David Axelrod and mam Donnie is his Obama, according to one Democratic source, which of course, but obviously Mamdani can't be the president because he was born in Uganda. So he's trying to find this white working class caricature to take up that mantle. What have I been saying about Platina from the very beginning? He is the cartoon version, right, This of what Democrats believe is attractive to Republican voters. This is what they think Republicans want is Platiner. That's who they think Republican voters are. From the text line, Richard says, I know Troy Jackson, That's who the socialists in Maine want to replace Porta Potty. I think he's talking about Platner there. Platner body I served in the legislature for a long time up there and was the chairman of the main Republican Party. I know all these people. Troy couldn't string two complete sentences together to save his life. They called him Mumbles Jackson. He's a union stooge who has multiple ethical issues himself. Interesting. Yeah, that who? That is who the Platner camp wants to replace him. Morris Katz went up there apparently yesterday to select a replacement candidate after Mom Donnie publicly called for Platner to drop out of the race. Elderly Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who was Platner's biggest backer, reportedly wants former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson to get the Democratic nomination to run against Republicans Susan Collins. Jackson is described here as a lagger turned lawmaker. Oh good, so we're going to swap out the oyster guy for the lagger. Very progressive. That is a very progressive profession, right. I'm old enough to remember when the environmentalist wackos were protesting to paper companies because they were cutting trees. I literally went to one they were protesting. What's the one is it? Will Lammette that that set up a headquarters in like Fort Mill, and I went out there as a reporter and then I interviewed some of these you know, these people out front protesting, and then I went in and interviewed like their coms guy, and I remember he said something like, you know, what they're advocating for is for us to like is to grow hemp. Like that was there, like swap swap out the trees for hemp. But it's like, so to take down the trees and put hemp in, so a rowe crop, that's what you wanted, Like that's not that's not as economical. Your paper is going to be more expensive, blah blah blah whatever. So but I remember they were protesting a paper company, so you're gonna put a logger. Okay, that's who they're apparently fighting for. Troy Jackson, who appeared with Platner and Bernie at a fight the Oligaukee rally back in May. He came in third in the Democrat gubernatorial primary. Okay, so Platner finished one, Janet Mills finished two, and Jackson finished three, and so that's who they want in Both main Democrats have backed higher taxes on billionaires a Medicare for all single payer healthcare system, but Platner has leaned more into the foreign policy arena, mainly you know the Jews, like that is that was the main dividing line there. Jackson submitted a filing with the Federal Election Commission yesterday setting up an exploratory committee to replace Platner on the ballot, saying it's a testing the waters exploratory committee filing its treasurer, Peter Sarason, has been earning a salary of roughly three grand a month from Bernie Sanders's principal campaign committee since January of twenty twenty five, So one of the Bernie employees, one of his campaign workers, is now working on Troy Jackson's run. Is it a run? I guess his exploratory now over at the New York Times, a top official with the main Democratic Party said that Grand Platner's team had been trying to quote put their thumb on the scale in the party's planning for his replacement as the Democratic nominee for Senate, but that he would have no role in the selection process. Oh quote. We have repeatedly reiterated to Grand Platner's team that they have no role in determining our US Senate nominee, nor in determining what this process looks like. That is, according to Devin Murphy Anderson, the party's executive director. She posted a video saying that on social media it represented a behind the scenes look at an extraordinary breach between the Democratic nominee for Senate and the party, which was among the many groups to call for Platner to step aside on Monday after he was accused of rape by a woman that he dated. The Platner campaign said in a statement that it had simply reached out to the party so it could understand the process. Like why why you're either in or out? Buddy? That's it. That's your only decision in this, your entire campaign, all your staffers ever, if you even have any left, Like, that's it. All you need to know right now is are you staying or are you going? And you know my position. They need him to stay in. He should stay in. Don't let the Democratics establishment run you out, Platner, they said. Quote. At no point has the campaign tried to put its finger on the scale. The campaign declined to attribute to any individual, aid or advisor this statement, but it added that more than one hundred and fifty thousand maners had voted for Platner's movement. While Platner would not want to be a part of the process, the statement said, he would want to make sure that voters and volunteers, not the political establishment, made this decision. See it's for the people, you see, it's for you. We have to rob you of your voice for democracy. 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 thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break any think while I'm gone.