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All Right, so, uh, 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,280 just to be clear, because you know, I want everybody 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,840 to be on sort of the same page here in 12 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:42,039 the public square. Things that are Nazi Madison Square Garden, 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:51,439 the ok hand sign, Trump obviously, Uh, everybody who works 14 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,119 for Donald Trump or worked for Donald Trump, everybody who 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:03,200 voted for Donald Trump, anybody who's opposed to illegal immigration. Also, 16 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,359 it's Nazi to wave at a crowd if you don't 17 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:11,040 sufficiently close your hand for a long enough period, I believe. 18 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,319 Also Nazi Israel and the Jews. Okay, So just so. 19 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: We're all clear, those are all Nazi, not Nazi. 20 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: A Nazi tattoo on your chest that is not Nazi, Okay, 21 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:36,040 Nazi not Nazi. Nazi tattoo not at all Nazi. That's 22 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:40,959 apparently the standard that we are now going with. I 23 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,519 mentioned I think I mentioned this guy the other day, 24 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,480 but I did not go in depth, and it turned 25 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:51,159 out to be quite the fortuitous procrastination that I engaged in, 26 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:54,680 because Wow, what a difference seventy two hours has made 27 00:01:54,719 --> 00:02:00,799 in this guy's implosion. I mean campaign Democrat Maine Senate hopeful, 28 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:09,159 Graham Platner. Is his name, Graham Platner. This is going 29 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,719 to take a while because there are a lot of 30 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:12,759 things that Graham Platner. 31 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:14,719 Speaker 3: Has going on. 32 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,719 Speaker 2: He's doing a lot of apologies, he's offering a lot 33 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:24,840 of regrets. Apparently his youthful indiscretions dating all the way 34 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,039 back to about a minute ago, have now been unearthed 35 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:32,240 and it's causing some awkwardness on the campaign trail and 36 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,120 actually had to result in a tattoo. I think he 37 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:41,039 may be the first political candidate I've ever heard of 38 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,800 that had to go get a tattoo on the campaign trail. Okay, 39 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:53,960 so Graham Platner is expressing regret over getting a tattoo 40 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,599 that this is from Politico. The tattoo appears similar to 41 00:03:01,719 --> 00:03:06,400 a Nazi symbol, and by appearing similar, I think what 42 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:09,520 Politico means there is that it is in fact actually 43 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,800 the Nazi tattoo. It is the logo, it is the thing. 44 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,599 It is the totin kop, which I had never heard of. 45 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,400 I would not know this. If I saw this thing, 46 00:03:19,479 --> 00:03:21,840 I would not know what that is. I would not 47 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,599 realize that that was the logo of a Nazi SS 48 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,120 unit that guarded the concentration camps. 49 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,039 Speaker 1: I would not know that. 50 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: I also would not get it tattooed on me, because 51 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:40,199 I don't know what that thing means. Right now, he's 52 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:46,159 got a story for this youthful indiscretion, highly intoxicated, which 53 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,840 that seems to be the recurring theme in Graham Plattner's 54 00:03:49,919 --> 00:03:54,719 excuses and regrets. He's got a lot, but then again 55 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:58,280 too few dimension Actually it's actually a lot, so he yeah, 56 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,719 and media is now in covering all of this because 57 00:04:00,759 --> 00:04:05,080 he would also apparently be very public in his regretful, 58 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,560 youthful indiscretions from about a minute ago. He got the 59 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:17,959 tattoo on his chest about eighteen years ago, or as 60 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,120 Politico calls it, nearly two decades ago, and he plans 61 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,199 to have it removed. 62 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,319 Speaker 1: He did not actually have it removed. He had it 63 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:25,959 covered up. 64 00:04:26,439 --> 00:04:29,199 Speaker 2: He had a different tattoo put on top of the 65 00:04:29,319 --> 00:04:34,439 Nazi tattoo. So I guess he's like gone into hiding 66 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,959 the Nazi. He's like undercover. It's an undercover Nazi tattoo. Now, 67 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:44,240 this is his latest maya kulpa, after a week of 68 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:50,240 damning headlines over resurfaced social media posts platners, which, by 69 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:55,000 the way, he attributes to getting drunk and poop posting. 70 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:57,759 As the kids say, well, they don't say poop posting, 71 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,120 but they use. 72 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: An analogous term. 73 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 2: So he By the way, what happened to all the 74 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,480 people that were so very concerned about Pete Hegseth and 75 00:05:07,759 --> 00:05:11,360 his drinking? Remember they were oh so very concerned about 76 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:14,360 his sobriety and whether he would be drinking as the 77 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,000 Secretary of Defense, sorry, Secretary. 78 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: Of War, What is it good for? 79 00:05:20,079 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 2: No, I've not seen anybody raising any questions about whether 80 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,959 or not this guy from Maine, who, by the way, 81 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,600 also was a Blackwater Yeah, he was a Blackwater mercenary, 82 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,639 which I'm old enough to remember when the Left thought 83 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:45,639 Blackwater was Nazis. Well yeah, so, but it's different. See now, 84 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:49,639 it's different. This is different because he's a Democrat and 85 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:56,199 he's this working class you know, works with his hands, fishermen, oyster, 86 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:02,240 farmer guy. Oh actually, no, that's not true either. That 87 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,800 actually just came out about an hour ago. Not really 88 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:10,519 so working class. Yeah, we'll get to it. So, Platner's 89 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:17,519 campaign sought to what Politico describes as front run opposition research. 90 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,000 I've never heard this term, front run opposition research. I've 91 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 never heard that term before. The term that we usually 92 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,920 use in this case is that they are trying to 93 00:06:28,079 --> 00:06:31,399 get in front of They're trying to get in front 94 00:06:31,399 --> 00:06:35,319 of a scandal. They want their narrative out there first 95 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:39,360 to address it. So you address it first, and you 96 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:43,639 break the news, You give your explanation, and you allow 97 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,560 the media then to take up your explanation, advance that narrative. 98 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,399 It calcifies, and then any future reporting always has your 99 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:58,519 narrative embedded in the story, and any time it comes 100 00:06:58,639 --> 00:07:02,720 up after that, you can say, I've already addressed this, 101 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,439 let's move on. I'm focused on the people. I'm focused 102 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,560 on winning this election for the mayners, that's what they're called. 103 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,519 I did not realize that people who live in Maine 104 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:23,240 are called Mayners. I don't like the term. I'm thinking Maynias. 105 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 4: No. 106 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 2: I mean, if they elect this guy, definitely Maynites, Manians, 107 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:32,000 what about Manians. 108 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: Main Owens. I don't know. 109 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,399 Speaker 2: Maynor just seems like it's missing an extra syllable there 110 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:41,000 for I don't know. That's just the way it hits 111 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,360 my ear. So again, he is front running opposition research 112 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:49,720 about his tattoo, which as Political once again describes it 113 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:55,920 here as resembling a Nazi skull and crossbones. Again not resembling. 114 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:02,600 Is it resembles the Nazi skins and crossbones logo because 115 00:08:02,639 --> 00:08:07,000 it is the Nazi skull and crossbones logo. 116 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 4: Okay. 117 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:11,519 Speaker 2: He did an appearance to get out in front of 118 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,279 all of this on the liberal podcast pod Save America. 119 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: The podbros and his campaign shared. 120 00:08:19,399 --> 00:08:22,079 Speaker 2: The video of him that was going to get released 121 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,399 against him as part of an OPO research dump. And 122 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,759 the video, according to Politico, shows him dancing shirtless, which 123 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,879 is true, but it doesn't provide the whole story. He 124 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,799 is not just shirtless, he is pantless as well. Yes, 125 00:08:40,279 --> 00:08:44,519 he is in his underwear prancing around a bar at 126 00:08:44,519 --> 00:08:48,679 what appears to be a wedding, because who among us, 127 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:54,000 right hasn't just stripped down to their tidy white although 128 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:54,720 they're not white. 129 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: He's not wearing white underwear. It's like the it's got 130 00:08:57,159 --> 00:08:58,519 like the boxer briefs. They're black. 131 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 2: But who among us really hasn't, you know, imbibed too 132 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,559 much and taken off all of our clothes at a wedding. 133 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:10,759 Platner said he had no idea of any Nazi link 134 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:15,080 to the logo when he got the tattoo quote. It 135 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,960 was not until I started hearing from reporters and DC 136 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,240 insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol. 137 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,159 Oh so he's using the term that it resembled the 138 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,279 Nazi symbol. So Politico just picking up his terminology, using 139 00:09:29,519 --> 00:09:33,480 his preferred narrative to advance that. He said, I have absolutely, 140 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,120 I absolutely would not have gone through life having this 141 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,759 on my chest if I knew that, and to insinuate 142 00:09:38,799 --> 00:09:42,480 that I did is disgusting. I am already planning to 143 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:48,240 get this removed. So he had no idea except there 144 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,279 are people who knew him from back in the day 145 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:53,399 and they're like, oh, yeah, he totally knew. 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You guys really suck 171 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,519 at creating a narrative that the Nazi talk is unjustified. 172 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:35,320 Your condescending tone doesn't make reality not real. Uh well, 173 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:38,679 let's see, I did cover the Young Republican Group chat. 174 00:11:38,799 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: I did cover that. 175 00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 2: I disagreed with the the approach that some people on 176 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:47,720 the right, aka the woke right, are taking that there 177 00:11:47,759 --> 00:11:50,799 are no enemies to the right of me. This uh 178 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,519 sort of dictum that people are adopting, so you can 179 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,120 never criticize anybody on the right. 180 00:11:58,519 --> 00:11:58,639 Speaker 5: Uh. 181 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 2: I don't agree with that, just like I don't agree 182 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:04,519 with the dictum that you don't criticize if you are 183 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,759 on the left, that you don't criticize anybody to the 184 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,279 left of you, because all that does is allow the 185 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:17,360 crazies and the radicals to hijack your organization. And so 186 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:22,080 I was totally fine and totally supportive of firing all 187 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,000 of the people that were involved in the Young Republican 188 00:12:25,039 --> 00:12:29,639 Group chat totally fine with it because it was completely 189 00:12:29,639 --> 00:12:32,320 inappropriate the stuff that they were saying. You got to 190 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:39,000 excise that cancer. Now that being said, if you want 191 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:43,960 to cite that as a reason or an example sc leftist, 192 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,000 you want to cite that as an example that Republicans 193 00:12:48,039 --> 00:12:51,519 are Nazis and that somehow or another, that's an argument 194 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:57,240 against Graham Platner literally tattooing a Nazi logo on his chest. Well, 195 00:12:57,279 --> 00:13:00,840 that would be dishonest, right, that would be a double standard, 196 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,279 which you know, I'm reminded of the frequent criticism that 197 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,720 people on the right have of people on the left 198 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,440 that if y'all didn't have double standards, you'd have none 199 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,759 at all. Right, But I'm not saying that. I'm just 200 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:18,960 saying I've heard that criticism. And even so, see that 201 00:13:19,039 --> 00:13:25,440 might work on somebody who has not condemned the people 202 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:28,559 in that group chat. It doesn't work on me, though, 203 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:34,200 because I did see sorry not sorry, And that also 204 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:40,519 exposes you as a hypocrite because you're not disavowing your guy. 205 00:13:40,759 --> 00:13:43,559 In fact, it looks like this guy, Graham Platner, he 206 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,320 very well could win the Democrat primary. The maners in 207 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:53,360 the Democrat mayners, they love what they love. The heart 208 00:13:53,399 --> 00:13:56,759 wants what it wants, you know, and they really want 209 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:03,080 this kind of leftist and so you are employing the 210 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,159 very same dictum, no enemies to my left, you will 211 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:12,080 not excise the radicals. And that's why, by the way, 212 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,799 the Democrat Party has moved further and further and further 213 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:20,240 to the left. That's why your party is captured by 214 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,039 this radical base. It's why so many people on the left, 215 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,279 so many people in the Democrat Party come across as 216 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,799 insane because they're celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. Right, there's all 217 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:37,279 this what aboutism, because you just cannot bring yourselves to 218 00:14:37,399 --> 00:14:42,960 criticize guys like say Jay Jones, right, who fantasized about 219 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,000 murdering a Republican and that Republican's two young children in 220 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,919 front of his wife. 221 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: Right. 222 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 2: You guys just can't do it, and that's how your 223 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:59,240 organization gets corrupted, and that's why you lose. By the way, 224 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,480 that's why you guys are losing these like the swing states. 225 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:08,440 That it's why people are leaving the Democrat Party. North 226 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,639 Carolina Democrats hemorrhaging registered voters. That's why I've been telling 227 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:15,879 you this for years. You don't want to listen to 228 00:15:15,919 --> 00:15:18,480 me because I'm a Nazi. Apparently, oh there you go. 229 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:26,519 Pete called himself a Nazi. Just absolute idiocy. So Platner 230 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,399 said that he got the tattoo while he was out 231 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,240 drinking with fellow Marines while on leave surely or whatever 232 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:37,080 in Croatia. So that's I think, really where we need 233 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,480 to direct the blame here, the tattoo parlor in Croatia. 234 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:47,120 They slipped a fast one by these marines who asked 235 00:15:47,159 --> 00:15:50,519 for the Nazi logo as a tattoo. He said that 236 00:15:51,519 --> 00:15:57,559 the similarity to Nazi iconography never came up. Include but 237 00:15:57,639 --> 00:16:00,840 if you guys were completely sauced, then like maybe the 238 00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:04,360 guy did tell you at the tattoo parlor, like are 239 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:07,120 you sure? Or maybe there was a language barrier. I 240 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:11,840 don't know, but here's the thing. You've had the tattoo 241 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:18,919 for eighteen years. And Genevieve MacDonald, the former political director 242 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:26,039 for Platner, his own political director, quit and said, maybe 243 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,600 he didn't know it when he got it, but he 244 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:30,960 got it years ago, and he should have had it 245 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,559 covered up because he knows damn well what it means. 246 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,519 A former Democrat state lawmaker McDonald resigned from the campaign 247 00:16:38,639 --> 00:16:42,440 last week after revelations about his numerous controversial posts on 248 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:47,799 the platform Readit. Jewish Insider dot com also reported this 249 00:16:47,879 --> 00:16:52,240 week that an acquaintance of Platner recalled him referring to 250 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:57,000 the tattoo the tattoo as quote my totin kop which 251 00:16:57,039 --> 00:16:59,720 is what that thing is called. Although Politico is not 252 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:03,399 into dependently verified the reporting. Toten kopf is a German 253 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:06,400 word typically referring to an image of a skull and crossbones. 254 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,240 During the Nazi era, one form of the image was 255 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,759 adopted by the Nazi police, leading to a lasting association 256 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,920 with Nazism and continued use by white supremacists, sort of 257 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,200 like the okay symbol that we have to kick a 258 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,559 bunch of guys out of the West Point over right 259 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:25,920 because they were playing the circle game and you guys were. 260 00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: Like white supremacist. The people who hear all the dog 261 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:35,680 whistles somehow just don't see this. It's amazing. 262 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,839 Speaker 2: Here's a great idea. 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Employers are picking up about three quarters 292 00:19:16,039 --> 00:19:19,000 of that, with employees contributing nearly six hundred dollars a month. 293 00:19:19,279 --> 00:19:22,559 Kff's chief executive says he's a wave of employees potentially 294 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,480 being made to share more of the costs as they 295 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,599 go up. Employers cite the biggest factors in rising costs 296 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,279 as prescription drug coverage for some covering the use of 297 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,440 GLP one, weight loss drugs, long term illness rates, and 298 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:36,960 more use of medical services. Chris Foster Fox news. 299 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 3: Of fatal fire in Roanne County. One person found dead 300 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,559 after a blaze last night at a town of land Is. 301 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,240 Happened at a home on West Taylor Street. The fire 302 00:19:46,559 --> 00:19:50,039 and death are currently under investigation. In New York City. 303 00:19:50,079 --> 00:19:53,400 Their current mayor, Eric Adams, has made his choice on 304 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,359 who he wants to succeed him as leader of America's 305 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:57,079 largest city. 306 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 7: Adams will endorse ex New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 307 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,039 this closely watched mayor's race. Adams spokesman Todd Shapiro, in 308 00:20:05,079 --> 00:20:08,880 a brief statement, said the mayor intends to campaign alongside Cuomo, 309 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,720 but those plans are still being finalized. Cuomo, who's running 310 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,079 as an independent, continues to trail Democratic nominees or on 311 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,759 Mom Donnie in polling by Fox News and other outlets. 312 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,240 Adams dropped his bid for reelection nearly a month ago, 313 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:27,400 citing in part the city campaign finance boards withholding of funds. 314 00:20:27,599 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 3: Correspondent Granald Scott and the Charlotte Hornets had a franchise 315 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,960 record nine players finishing double digits in their season opening 316 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,279 one thirty six to one to seventeen win last night 317 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:40,880 over the Nets at the at the Uptown Arena. It 318 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,279 was also the first night that fans could take in 319 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:47,720 the nearly quarter billion bucks and renovations to the Spectrum Cinemas. 320 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 8: Building, reopening after two summers of renovations, and it looks 321 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,319 like a brand new arena. I mean, obviously every seat 322 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:53,960 in this building was ripped out and they brought in 323 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,759 new seats, addams some extra seats as well. The capacity 324 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:58,400 now just over nineteen thousand. 325 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:01,559 Speaker 3: Queen City News gave McDonald. There's also a new concourse 326 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,240 with more bars, bathrooms and food options. The reno paid 327 00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:07,559 for by the cities tourism tax. 328 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,079 Speaker 9: Well. 329 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 3: Now out to those afternoon roads we go and pan 330 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,079 the jam is still looking pretty good out there. 331 00:21:14,279 --> 00:21:16,839 Speaker 10: Yeah, it is still looking good, especially as the far 332 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,599 as the drive times go. But we have had a 333 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,519 few extra REX checking in and University thirty seven hundred 334 00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:24,880 Bloc Rocky River Road for a hit and run over. 335 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,319 In Wash Charlotte fifty three hundred blocks South Boulevard a 336 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,519 minor accident there, Central and His Pearl Parkway and South 337 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:33,799 King's Drive that one with injuries. Also in East Charlotte 338 00:21:33,839 --> 00:21:36,759 to Central Avenue at Lamar Avenue a hit and run 339 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,279 and rolling hill drive at wash Sugar Creek Road a 340 00:21:39,319 --> 00:21:39,920 thunder bender. 341 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: Now, all of those have. 342 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 10: Checked in within the last fifteen to twenty five minutes, 343 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,000 so officials on scene. We are working them out of 344 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:49,240 the way and they are starting to clear up. I'm 345 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:51,519 Paan the jam winner, WBT Traffic. 346 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,079 Speaker 3: WBT News Time one thirty three. 347 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 11: Everybody, It's Beth Trautman with Madison Levine from Levigne Hearing. 348 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,119 And I just learned that some people are atually mistakenly 349 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:05,440 tagged with cognitive issues when in reality they simply can't 350 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:06,079 hear clearly. 351 00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 12: I have seen that so many times, when the family 352 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:12,960 assumes that a person is having a cognitive problem when 353 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,200 actually it's hearing. But hearing actually does affect cognition too, 354 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,240 they are connected. 355 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:18,599 Speaker 11: Explain how that works. 356 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,839 Speaker 12: You actually are working your brain and overdrive trying to 357 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,680 understand the sounds around you, and it's pulling attention away 358 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:28,799 from your frontal lobe. But it corrects. Once we put 359 00:22:28,799 --> 00:22:31,759 hearing aids on that person, that strain is not there anymore. 360 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,839 You don't have that increased risk anymore. It's actually an 361 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,319 eight percent increase risk of dementia with an untreated hearing loss. 362 00:22:39,559 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: That's huge. 363 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 12: It's the largest of all modifiable risk factors is addressing 364 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:45,839 a hearing loss. 365 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 11: This is serious stuff, folks, and the prevention starts with 366 00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:53,359 a complimentary hearing evaluation at Levine Hearing. 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Go to WBT dot com for details. 427 00:26:04,319 --> 00:26:17,839 Speaker 2: Cheers Regarding the near naked Dancing Russ says another reason 428 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,839 to not do the cash gift up front at the wedding. 429 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,640 If they don't let you dance around the bar in 430 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,440 your underwear, then you could just pro rate the gift. 431 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:32,240 Some good advice there, and some good advice from the 432 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,359 WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC a text 433 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:41,480 from evil Lefty. At least Platner serve the country. What 434 00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:46,759 have you done? That's a fair question. I've not gotten 435 00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:52,480 a Nazi tattoo on my chest, so there's that. I 436 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,519 feel like that's a pretty big deal, not putting Nazi 437 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:58,839 logos on my body permanently. 438 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,079 Speaker 1: So yeah. 439 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,559 Speaker 2: So from this is a from Politico. Plattner apologized last 440 00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:12,039 week for a series of offensive Reddit posts. For example, 441 00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:16,480 twenty thirteen, he downplayed sexual assault in the military twenty 442 00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:21,079 eighteen suggested that violence is necessary to enact social change. 443 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,880 He also this is from CNN. In a comment from 444 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:31,799 Youthful Indiscretion twenty twenty one Long Time Ago twenty twenty one, 445 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,440 he says I got older and became a communist. He 446 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:44,640 was posting in a subreddit called anti work. He also 447 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,359 later in twenty twenty one, reflected on his life after 448 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,000 his military servicing. He was a vegetable growing, psychedelics taking socialist. 449 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:56,039 These days, after the war, I've pretty much stopped, pretty 450 00:27:56,079 --> 00:28:00,599 much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that 451 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,839 got me there in the first place, and am a 452 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,079 firm believer that the best thing a person can do 453 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,720 is help their neighbors neighbors and live a loving life. 454 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:10,880 Still got the guns, though, I don't trust the fascists 455 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,039 to act politely. 456 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:15,799 Speaker 10: Hm. 457 00:28:16,559 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 7: Let's see. 458 00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 2: Oh, he called all of the cops, remember the a 459 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:26,640 cab acab All cops are fatherless children, right? You talked 460 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,039 about that? He called rural white Americans racist and stupid. 461 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,359 He also would post prolifically on a subreddit called Socialist 462 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:44,720 r A, a self described anti capitalist left firearms education 463 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,400 forum that says it is unaffiliated with the Socialist Rifle Association. 464 00:28:51,279 --> 00:28:53,319 He said, I did used to love America, or at 465 00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:56,160 least the idea of it. These days, I'm pretty disgusted 466 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,039 by it all. He also told CNN that he he 467 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:02,960 no longer feels that disillusionment with America that he had 468 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,039 once long ago, three years ago, four years ago, that 469 00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:14,960 he posted online. He has evolved on these matters. He 470 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,319 says he's not a secret Nazi, which, like that makes 471 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:22,480 sense because a secret Nazi wouldn't, you know, put the 472 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:26,799 logos on their body like that. According to a person 473 00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:30,759 this is from Jewish Insider dot com, one person who 474 00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:33,920 socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, DC 475 00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:37,079 more than a decade ago. He had specifically acknowledged that 476 00:29:37,119 --> 00:29:41,039 the tattoo was a totin kop, the death's head symbol 477 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:46,200 adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration 478 00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:48,839 camps in World War Two. I know people are arguing 479 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:51,599 with me about this. I don't know what the logo is. 480 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,160 I'm just telling you what Jewish Insider is telling me. 481 00:29:54,599 --> 00:29:56,640 That's what they say. The logo is, which, by the way, 482 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:02,359 appears on Hollywood costu ums in Inglorioa's Bastards. 483 00:30:04,119 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: What was the other one. 484 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:11,359 Speaker 2: It's like three different movies prominently displayed onlike their lapels, 485 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:17,559 on their collars, on their hats. Anyway, he told this acquaintance, Oh, 486 00:30:17,799 --> 00:30:20,680 this is my totein cop He said it in a 487 00:30:20,759 --> 00:30:24,680 cutesy little way. The exchange occurred in twenty twelve at 488 00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:29,039 tune In, which is a popular dive bar on Capitol Hill, 489 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:34,519 where Platner later worked as a bartender, which I feel 490 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:39,680 like one bartender in Congress is enough at this point. No, Okay, 491 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:43,640 So he was a frequent patron, though before he became 492 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,960 a bartender, he was going to George Washington University on 493 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,640 the GI bill. According to the former acquaintance, he would 494 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,359 often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at 495 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,039 night at the bar, and on at least one occasion, 496 00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:03,319 had stated that he knew what the tattoo represented, but 497 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,960 he gave varying accounts of the image during this time, 498 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,960 saying at one point he was aware of what it was, 499 00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:12,559 and then at another time claimed that he had not 500 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,319 known what it was when he got the tattoo. The 501 00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:18,720 mixed accounts indicate that Plattner has at least long been 502 00:31:18,799 --> 00:31:22,400 aware of the symbols connection to Nazism, even as he 503 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:26,759 said in the podcast interview the Podbros that he was 504 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,039 not familiar with any such association when he chose to 505 00:31:30,119 --> 00:31:35,240 get the tattoo. He said he was very inebriated when 506 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,359 he got it. He says, I can honestly say that 507 00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:40,559 if I was trying to hide it, I've not been 508 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:42,960 doing a very good job for the past eighteen years. 509 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,319 It was not until I started hearing from reporters around 510 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:52,240 and DC insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a 511 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:56,279 Nazi symbol. There it is again, it resembled. I absolutely 512 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,119 would not have gone through life having this on my 513 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,839 chest if I know that, and to insinuate that I 514 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:08,119 did is disgusting. But again, Genevieve MacDonald, former political director 515 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:13,960 for Graham Platner. She said in a Facebook post that 516 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,039 he has an anti Semitic tattoo on his chest. He's 517 00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:21,839 not an idiot. He's a military history buff. Maybe he 518 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,839 didn't know it when he got it, but he got 519 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,920 it years ago, and he should have had it covered 520 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,519 up because he knows damn well what it means. Platner, 521 00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:34,440 a political newcomer who is facing Governor Janet Mills and 522 00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:38,119 other candidates in the Democrat primary, launched his campaign in August, 523 00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:43,759 and he has been really leaning into the opposition to Israel. 524 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:48,000 I know who would have thought that, man, But yeah, 525 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,799 it's true. He's been very, very critical of Israel, very 526 00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:56,640 opposed to the fascist and even picked up an endorsement 527 00:32:56,839 --> 00:33:05,519 from Bernie Sanders. Oh I mentioned the socialist Rifle Association. Yeah, 528 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:11,960 he apparently did instructions for instruction sessions, training sessions for 529 00:33:12,039 --> 00:33:16,960 the Socialist Rifle Association, taught them paramilitary tactics. That's according 530 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,119 to oh his own social media posts. 531 00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:24,599 Speaker 1: Why would you not have blitzed this stuff out? Sorry, 532 00:33:24,599 --> 00:33:26,200 I shouldn't have used that term. 533 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Platner made dozens of posts under the Socialist 534 00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:35,559 Rifle Association subreddit, also under another subreddit called Tactical Gear, 535 00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,359 and he was doing these in June of twenty twenty, 536 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,359 which would be during the summer of fiery but mostly 537 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,920 peaceful riots. That's who he was training and when he 538 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,839 was all right, if you're listening to this show, you 539 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,400 know I try to keep up with all sorts of 540 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,599 current events, and I know you do too, And you've 541 00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:58,880 probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 542 00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:02,640 Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 543 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,559 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's 544 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,079 an app and it's a website and it combines news 545 00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:11,079 from around the world in one place so you can 546 00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:14,440 compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out 547 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:19,079 at check dot ground dot news slash Pete. I put 548 00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:22,079 the link in the podcast description too. 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Graham Platner, according to 560 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:06,079 to The Advocate, which is an LGBTQ plus two IA publication, 561 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:16,039 this time he's under scrutiny for anti LGBTQ plus comments. 562 00:35:16,079 --> 00:35:19,920 He confirmed that he authored a series of Reddit comments 563 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:27,639 that include homophobic slurs, anti LGBTQ plus jokes, and sexually 564 00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:33,760 explicit stories denigrating gay men. The existence of the comments, 565 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,159 posted under the handle p Hustle that's what he went by, P. 566 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: Dash Hustle. 567 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,159 Speaker 2: Between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one, has not been 568 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:49,239 previously reported. The Advocate obtained the posts independently this week. 569 00:35:49,519 --> 00:35:52,400 The revelations come on the same day that Platnir was 570 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,159 scheduled to hold a town hall in Ogunquit, a seaside 571 00:35:56,199 --> 00:35:59,440 resort long known as one of New England's most prominent 572 00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:05,719 LGBTQ plus destinations. He said, quote, I have no reason 573 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,679 to deny that the posts are mine. Well, actually, you 574 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,440 do have some reasons to deny the posts or yours, 575 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,360 but you would be lying so like that's not advisable. 576 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:17,960 But if you had to think of a reason to 577 00:36:18,039 --> 00:36:20,159 deny it, like what, I think the big one would be, 578 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,880 you're running for US Senate right as a Democrat, and 579 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,119 so you Yeah, anyway, he says, I made a lot 580 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:30,320 of comments over the years and talked a lot of 581 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,599 poop on the internet. I have no reason to doubt 582 00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:36,199 that at some point I used language that I would 583 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,000 not be using today. 584 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,519 Speaker 1: Because I'm running for Senate. He said. 585 00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:45,320 Speaker 2: It's indefensible the unearthed posts. I'm not going to tell 586 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,880 you what he said, but yeah, cho as a pattern 587 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:54,719 of homophobic language and rhetoric that mocked or demeaned LGBTQ 588 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,880 plus people. In some cases, Platner appeared to use slurs 589 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,480 casually in discs Russians that were completely unrelated to sexuality. 590 00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:07,000 In others, he explicitly framed gay people as the punchline. 591 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,239 He told The Advocate that he no longer uses these 592 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,559 slurs or dismissive language that appeared frequently in his posts. 593 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,280 These were words that I used for a long time 594 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,360 in ways that I did not take seriously because of 595 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,960 personal relationships that I have developed over the years. Since 596 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,320 twenty twenty one, he says, I don't use these words now, 597 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,440 and I find them to be quite offensive. I stopped 598 00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:34,559 using that specific kind of language a while ago, yeah, 599 00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:38,679 like less than four years ago, and today I find 600 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:46,599 that stuff abhorrent and I am sorry I ever used it. Yes, So, 601 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,719 before the tattoo controversy, Platner had already apologized for earlier 602 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,880 Reddit posts about that included misogynistic as well as racially 603 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,239 charged remarks. He described those as coming from a dark 604 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,039 period after his military service. That defense of his is 605 00:38:03,079 --> 00:38:06,079 a bit complicated by the fact that these newly discovered 606 00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:10,280 comments were written many years later, so he said the 607 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,920 controversies reflect his past, not his present. He says, I 608 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,039 think we need a politics that is reflective of the 609 00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:21,639 fact that people can change and they can evolve. I'm 610 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,400 very proud of who I am now. I'm very proud 611 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,159 of what I've become. I only got here because of 612 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:29,679 the struggles along the journey, and I would just like 613 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,599 the people to judge me off of who I have 614 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,760 become throughout all of this, not who I was at 615 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,519 a darker point in my life. Which if this look, 616 00:38:38,599 --> 00:38:42,400 if this appeal sounds familiar, it's because this is what 617 00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:48,199 Democrats were saying about Mark Robinson in North Carolina. It 618 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,599 was the same thing they were saying, like they were like, 619 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,519 oh okay, no, like that was a different period of 620 00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:55,960 his life. Let's not turn all of this stuff into 621 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,239 attack ads. 622 00:38:59,000 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 1: He said. 623 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 2: I think there's a place for looking back to a point. 624 00:39:03,039 --> 00:39:06,559 But if we're going to just litigate every comment somebody 625 00:39:06,599 --> 00:39:10,360 makes on the internet, we'll never have a politics that functions. 626 00:39:10,679 --> 00:39:12,880 So see, people, we're just gonna have to put up 627 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,599 with the homophobic slurs from Democrats. I think the important 628 00:39:17,599 --> 00:39:19,639 part is is there. 629 00:39:19,519 --> 00:39:23,280 Speaker 1: A believable story of change? 630 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,679 Speaker 2: That's what he said. That's the important part. Is there 631 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:33,840 a believable story of change? So that's his damage control strategy, right, 632 00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:38,639 That's what he's going to go with Now, I do 633 00:39:38,679 --> 00:39:43,800 find it quite interesting that all of this stuff, all 634 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,360 this OPO research, which is like, let's be fair, didn't 635 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,599 only take a lot of research. Just go back through 636 00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:53,920 his social media and once you knew his Reddit name. 637 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,199 Speaker 1: You just look at his posts and holy Toledo. 638 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:02,280 Speaker 2: So I do find it interesting that all of this 639 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:08,559 OPO research came out when Janet Mills entered the race 640 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:15,079 the governor of Maine, a Democrat in the primary. Now, 641 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:18,880 all this stuff comes out, right Now, he may still win, 642 00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:22,119 I don't know, but it all came out after she 643 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,480 got into the race. This stuff did not come out before, 644 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,800 which tells me it probably would not have come out 645 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:36,360 at all because knocking off Susan Collins, who is about 646 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,480 as moderate squishy of a Republican as you can get, 647 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,639 right like, they probably would have sat on all of 648 00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:48,079 that stuff about their own guy. All right, that'll do 649 00:40:48,119 --> 00:40:50,679 it for this episode. 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