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Tehran on the Brink of Economic Collapse plus 14 Things About Graham Platner · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The White House giving an update.
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  Speaker 2: The President Trump says the talks with Iran are continuing.
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  Speaker 2: The President making it clear on true social by saying,
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  Speaker 2: talks are continuing at a rapid pace and the Islamic
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  Speaker 2: Republic of Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter,
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  Speaker 2: Signed President Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump. Now, what is clear is time is running out now.
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  Speaker 2: The media and Democrats would want you to think that
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  Speaker 2: the time's running out on Donald Trump, but the reality
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  Speaker 2: is Iran is the one running out of time. And
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  Speaker 2: if you want to understand what's happening with a Ran
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  Speaker 2: right now, then you need to stop listing the propaganda
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  Speaker 2: that's coming out of Tehran and also out of the
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  Speaker 2: mainstream media and start looking at the actual facts. Number One,
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian regime is under extraordinary pressure. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about pressure from America. I'm talking about their economy. It's
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  Speaker 2: in shambles. Its leadership also appears to be extremely divided.
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  Speaker 1: Its nuclear program is.
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  Speaker 2: Under unprecedented scrutiny on top of that, and now reports
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  Speaker 2: are swirling about turmoil at the highest levels of their government,
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  Speaker 2: including the claims in the last twenty four hours that
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian president submitted a resignation letter amid growing infighting
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  Speaker 2: between political leaders and those that are well technically running
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  Speaker 2: the country, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Whether that resignation ultimately
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  Speaker 2: becomes official or not, the story itself tells you everything
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  Speaker 2: that you need to know. The regime is feeling the
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  Speaker 2: extreme pressure and heat because their economy is collapsing, and
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  Speaker 2: that brings us to President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Now the media wants you to believe.
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  Speaker 2: Now. While the media loves to portray every international showdown
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  Speaker 2: as a crisis only for America because of Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the reality is that right now Iran is.
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  Speaker 1: The side facing the crisis.
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  Speaker 2: Not only is their economy literally on life support, but
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  Speaker 2: they're begging for money to be released in a deal.
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  Speaker 2: They have frozen assets that they're desperate to get their
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  Speaker 2: hands on in the hundreds of billions. Now, they also
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  Speaker 2: have another problem. Their currency, because of the lack of
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  Speaker 2: trade and oil leaving that country has been devastated. Inflation
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  Speaker 2: has also crushed the average families in Iran. Investment has
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  Speaker 2: dried up completely. Young people are literally fleeing the country
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  Speaker 2: as fast as they can. Businesses are closing, and many
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  Speaker 2: are just struggling to survive, and the regime They know
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  Speaker 2: all of this, and that's exactly why President Trump is
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  Speaker 2: negotiating from a position of strength instead of weakness. Let's
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  Speaker 2: also be clear the Ayatolas, they don't need another speech.
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  Speaker 2: They literally at this point just need money. They need
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  Speaker 2: sanctions relief as fast as they can get it, which
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  Speaker 2: is why it's part of the negotiation and the deal
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  Speaker 2: that they're begging for. And they need access to the
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  Speaker 2: global markets which have been shut off, and that's where
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  Speaker 2: they get the majority of their money from oil. They
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  Speaker 2: need their economy to simply stop bleeding out. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: they need something from us far more than we need
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  Speaker 2: something from them. And that is ultimate leverage. And Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump knows it. And even the president of Iranu resigned
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  Speaker 2: apparently or gave a letter of resignation, understands it as well. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the White House continues to make it clear that any
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  Speaker 2: agreement must guarantee that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: The administration has also maintained its position that Iran's highly
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  Speaker 2: enriched uranium cannot remain a threat hanging over the world's head. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what makes this moment different is that Tehran's options are
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  Speaker 2: becoming increasingly limited. Now, for years the regimes survived by
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  Speaker 2: exporting a massive amount of oil, and then that was
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  Speaker 2: used to fund terrorist proxies, and that was used a
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  Speaker 2: threat and its neighbors, and that was used to convince
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  Speaker 2: its own people that suffering was, in theorynecessary. But all
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  Speaker 2: of that reality is now caught up to them. You
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  Speaker 2: can only tell people to tighten their belts for so
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  Speaker 2: long before they ask why the ruling class that would
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  Speaker 2: be the Iatola and his friends always seem to be
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  Speaker 2: doing just fine. You can only blame America, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: for so many problems before people start looking inward and
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  Speaker 2: realizing maybe this isn't the evil, big Satan America. And
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  Speaker 2: you can only prop up a failing economy for so
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  Speaker 2: long before the cracks become impossible to hide or fix.
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  Speaker 2: And those cracks are showing everywhere right now in Iran's government.
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  Speaker 2: And again, this is why the resignation report matters, This
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  Speaker 2: is why every statement coming out of the White House matters,
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  Speaker 2: and this is why the negotiations actually matter now more
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  Speaker 2: than ever, because what we're watching isn't simply a diplomatic dispute.
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  Speaker 2: What we're watching is a regime being forced to confront
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  Speaker 2: their own reality. Now this Trump's strategy appears to be
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  Speaker 2: extremely straightforward. Keep the pressure on, keep the sanctions in place,
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  Speaker 2: refuse to blink and refuse to surrender the leverage that
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  Speaker 2: we've gained. And then finally you make it very clear
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  Speaker 2: as President Trump is done, that America will not accept
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear ran. The administration believes time is working against Tehran,
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  Speaker 2: not Washington. No matter what the media the Democrats have
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  Speaker 2: to say. In this country, every moment that passes is
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  Speaker 2: another month of massive economic pain for those in charge
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. Another month of inflation, another month of pressure
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  Speaker 2: on the regime, another month of their currency disappearing in value,
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  Speaker 2: and another month of people not getting their paychecks from
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  Speaker 2: the government. And it also means that it's another month
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  Speaker 2: where the people of Iran are reminded that their leaders
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  Speaker 2: have sold them out. They've spent decades funding foreign adventures
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  Speaker 2: or those that are doing the terrorism on their behalf,
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  Speaker 2: and their own account has deteriorated. And that's why the
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  Speaker 2: next several days are so vitally important. Now the White
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  Speaker 2: House is signaling that discussions are continuing, Iran is also
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  Speaker 2: signaling urgency, and the entire world is watching to see
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  Speaker 2: whether the regime finally accepts reality or continues down a
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  Speaker 2: path that has brought it to the brink. There's one
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  Speaker 2: thing that is certain, Donald Trump is holding stronger than
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  Speaker 2: ever a hand and he's not going to fold it.
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  Speaker 2: Iran needs a deal, a Ran needs economic relief. A
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  Speaker 2: Ran needs sanctioned relief. A Ran needs a lifeline. The
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  Speaker 2: question now is whether the regime is willing to pay
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  Speaker 2: the price required to get one. Because every indication right
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  Speaker 2: now is that the pressure campaign is in fact working,
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  Speaker 2: and the people feeling the pressure the most aren't.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting in Washington, They're sitting in Tehran.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's also be clear, the media wants you to
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  Speaker 2: believe that you're the one who's suffering here. A perfect
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  Speaker 2: example of that is Kevin Hassett being asked this question
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  Speaker 2: on ABC News. Of course, it's about paint at the
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  Speaker 2: pump and doom and Gloom saying Exon is warning that
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  Speaker 2: the oil inventory is hitting really really low levels. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, Exon will make a lot of money because
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  Speaker 2: of that statement, So take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, the International Energy Agency said it could take several
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  Speaker 3: months before the flow really gets going and prices come down.
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  Speaker 1: But the Exon mobile.
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  Speaker 3: Senior Vice President's Neil Chapman. I'm sure you saw what
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  Speaker 3: he said to investors on a conference.
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  Speaker 1: Call this week.
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  Speaker 3: He said, we're approaching unheard of infantry levels, I mean
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  Speaker 3: really really low levels. You can debate whether it's going
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  Speaker 3: to hit those really low levels in two weeks or
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  Speaker 3: three weeks, but once you get to that point, you'll
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  Speaker 3: see the price shoot up. So I mean, the concern
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  Speaker 3: here is, I'm sure you must share it that if
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  Speaker 3: a deal isn't struck, we could actually see those significantly
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  Speaker 3: higher levels, not just oil prices, but of course gas prices.
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  Speaker 4: Right well, we track inventory every day. Started out with
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  Speaker 4: billions billions of barrels of private and government inventories, and
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  Speaker 4: we still are in the billions, and so.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of runway.
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  Speaker 4: But also you know, there's a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 4: Arian to finally agree to the president's terms. You know,
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  Speaker 4: one way to think about it is that if you
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  Speaker 4: look at the real you know, half a dozen years ago,
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  Speaker 4: then one would four thousand of them would buy a dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, it's something like one point four million of
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  Speaker 4: them buys something.
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  Speaker 3: The Irania currency. Well, their inflation is higher than ours, but.
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  Speaker 4: It also puts a lot of pressure on them, like
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  Speaker 4: the people on fixed incomes and so on are really suffering.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you notice how ABC News kind of laughs right there,
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  Speaker 2: right They're like, oh, yeah, that's true. Their currency is
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  Speaker 2: just a complete and utter disaster. You're right right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's something like one point four million of them buys
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  Speaker 2: one dollar American. Let me just say that right now again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read from the transcript. You know, one
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  Speaker 2: way to think about it is that if it's if
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  Speaker 2: you look at their ray out that's their currency, you know,
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  Speaker 2: half a dozen years ago, then one would be four
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  Speaker 2: thousand of them would buy one dollar. Right now, it's
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  Speaker 2: something like one point four million of them buys one dollar.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Carl, ABC News, He says the ranting currency hasse
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  Speaker 2: tot says, yeah, Carl, Well, their inflation is higher than ours, Hassett,
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  Speaker 2: but it also has a lot of pressure on them,
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  Speaker 2: like the people on fixed income, so they're really suffering.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Jonathan Carl wants to end the interview, and
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  Speaker 2: what does he say, Well, Kevin Hassett, you remain very optimistic.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us this morning, because when the
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  Speaker 2: year told the truth about how bad things are in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: That is not the messaging that the media wants to
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  Speaker 2: get out. They don't want you to know just how
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  Speaker 2: bad their currency is, they don't want you to know
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  Speaker 2: how much their economy in their country is teetering. They
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  Speaker 2: want you to believe that we are suffering far more
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  Speaker 2: than the people and the leadership of Iran, and the
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  Speaker 2: reality is that is not true. And what that means
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  Speaker 2: moving forward is the president has a lot of leverage
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  Speaker 2: and there's a very good chance that a deal is
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  Speaker 2: going to finally get done in the very near future.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to start with Main's front running democrat, the
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  Speaker 2: US synicandic Graham Nazi tattoo Platner. Here's a man that
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  Speaker 2: democrats have just completely been infatuated with, and the corporate
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  Speaker 2: media they love him. They don't care what he does,
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  Speaker 2: they don't care about his background, they don't care about
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  Speaker 2: his history, they don't care about the scandals until the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty four hours. Why for one reason, because he's
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat. And if you say you're a Democrat, you
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  Speaker 2: can do and be and just about anything you want. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you don't even have to know what a man is
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  Speaker 2: or what a woman is. The Democrats will stand by
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  Speaker 2: you the more radical you actually are. The corporate media
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  Speaker 2: will also stand by you, unless the Democratic Party tells
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  Speaker 2: you that then we need to turn on him. We
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: saw this happen in California with Eric Swalwell. Right, California
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  Speaker 2: love the guy, the Democratic Party loved the guy. Then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he might lose and a Republican
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  Speaker 2: might win.
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  Speaker 1: And what they do.
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  Speaker 2: They used all of the dirt they knew about him,
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  Speaker 2: they protect him from, to then take him down. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we're now living in a world where that same media
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  Speaker 2: that created this individual, this Nazi tattoo guy, may actually
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  Speaker 2: look to destroy him. Or maybe not why because well
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  Speaker 2: even the Obamas seem to be trying to help behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's just go through the list, all right.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the list of things that this
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  Speaker 2: individual has done, if Mike count is correct, now it's
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  Speaker 2: at fourteen different scandals, all right, So let's start with
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  Speaker 2: number one. And I hope, by the way, all of
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  Speaker 2: you will take this information and I hope you will
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  Speaker 2: share it wherever you can. I hope that not only
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  Speaker 2: will you share it, but share the podcast, put it
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  Speaker 2: anywhere you can on social media.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start at number one.
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  Speaker 2: This is a guy who had tattooed on his chest
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  Speaker 2: a Naziss tattoo, and he said they didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: it was, but he had the tattoo for eighteen years. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you may not know about the Nazi SS and exactly
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  Speaker 2: what they did. Like you can almost go even further
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  Speaker 2: than just like there's generic Nazis in Germany and then
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  Speaker 2: there's the SS.
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  Speaker 1: What did the SS do well?
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  Speaker 2: They were the major paramilitary organization under Hitler and the
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  Speaker 2: Nazi Party in Germany. And these were the guys that
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  Speaker 2: began as a small guard unit known as the Hall Security.
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  Speaker 2: They were made up of party volunteers. Then they got
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  Speaker 2: even worse, right, they're like, all right, we start you there.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The SS was the foremost agency on security, mass surveillance
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  Speaker 2: and state terrorism within Germany and Germany occupied Europe. What's
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  Speaker 2: even more interesting about the SS, all right, and how
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: hardcore these guys were, is they were in charge of.
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  Speaker 1: The concentration camps.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They were the ones that were referred to as
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  Speaker 2: the deaths head units. All right, They ran the concentration
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  Speaker 2: camps and then they ran the extermination camps.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to be a Nazi.
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  Speaker 2: That's one thing you want to level up and say,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, no, I want to go pro with my tattoos.
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  Speaker 2: I don't just want to swatskad No, no, I want an
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  Speaker 2: SS tattoo. Then you are like, all right, well, here
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  Speaker 2: we go. I'm a concentration extermination camp kind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: They were also tasked with detecting actual or potential enemies
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  Speaker 2: of Nazi Germany. They were in charge of neutralizing the
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  Speaker 2: oppression at all costs. And then they were also policing
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  Speaker 2: the German people and they would kill them if they
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  Speaker 2: thought you were getting out of line. They were committed
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  Speaker 2: to quote Nazi ideology and then providing domestic and foreign intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: Now the SS, and again I go back because I
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  Speaker 2: think it's important to you understand why he chose this tattoo.
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  Speaker 2: The SS was the organization most responsible for the genocidal
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  Speaker 2: murder of an estimated six million Jews and millions of
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  Speaker 2: other victims during the Holocaust. Now, members of its branches
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  Speaker 2: not only committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: World War Two, we now know through history that the
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  Speaker 2: SS was also involved in commercial enterprises and exploited concentration
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  Speaker 2: camp inmates as their slave labors. They could even make
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  Speaker 2: cash off of them before they then exterminated them. Now,
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  Speaker 2: as after Nazi Germany's defeat, the SS and the Nazi
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  Speaker 2: Party were judged by the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg.
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  Speaker 1: There's a great movie about it. You can go see
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  Speaker 1: it right now.
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  Speaker 2: And what we learn is the highest ranking surviving SS
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  Speaker 2: Main Department chief was found guilty of not only crimes
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  Speaker 2: against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, but he was also
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  Speaker 2: hanged in nineteen eighty six. So if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get a tattoo and you decide to go with the
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  Speaker 2: SS insignia tattoo instead of just you know that the
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  Speaker 2: Nazi you know, you know Swasika tattoo, you clearly understand
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  Speaker 2: that you're like on another level of understanding what a
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  Speaker 2: Nazi is, right, And so this is the tattoo that
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  Speaker 2: he chose. Now, of course he lied, He's like, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what it was, are you kidding me? Of
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  Speaker 2: course you knew what it was, and that's why you
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  Speaker 2: got it. So that is the baseline for who he is.
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  Speaker 2: So let's move on to something else. We also know
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  Speaker 2: that he has an account on a what has been
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  Speaker 2: described by the Your Times a predator sex site called kick.
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  Speaker 2: He's married, everybody knows that. But this site is a
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  Speaker 2: site that is for child exportation, underage sexual encounters, and
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  Speaker 2: child pornography.
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  Speaker 1: That is what's there. You can go read the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times on this.
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  Speaker 2: So so not only do we have a Naziss Death's
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  Speaker 2: head tattoo that he had for eighteen years now he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get on this website. It is a predator's
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  Speaker 2: safe haven for underage exploiting of children and child pornography.
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  Speaker 2: We then find out, no surprise, that there's explicit sexting
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  Speaker 2: or sex texts from with about a half a dozen
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  Speaker 2: women in twenty twenty three, after you got married about
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  Speaker 2: a year earlier. Moved past that real quick. Disparage all
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  Speaker 2: black people as a population that doesn't tip. Yes, he
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  Speaker 2: actually has it on social media where he was out
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  Speaker 2: there and he was talking that they're saying that black
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  Speaker 2: people don't tip. That is what you refer to as racism.
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  Speaker 2: One oh one. The Democratic Party apparently has no problem
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  Speaker 2: within disparaging all black people as a population, saying that
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  Speaker 2: all black people don't tip. Number five, he blames sexual
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  Speaker 2: assault victims for being sexually assaulted. Now you may look
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  Speaker 2: at that and you go, hold on a second, what
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: do you actually mean by that? All right, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: it's a great question. Graham Platner says sexual assault them
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  Speaker 2: should take some responsibility in Reddit post that he had
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  Speaker 2: throughout the years he made the disturbing comments about sexual
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  Speaker 2: assault victims. Where then, And of course, of course he
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  Speaker 2: deleted them right right before he launched his campaign. But
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: we had the they had the data, they had them, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's there. We know it's there in the discussion. But
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  Speaker 2: what's interesting is he said that assault victims should take
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  Speaker 2: some responsibility for themselves to avoid attacks and act like
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  Speaker 2: an adult for efing's sake.
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  Speaker 1: He said people should.
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  Speaker 2: Avoid alcohols they don't end up in a compromising situation,
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  Speaker 2: and then downplay the challenges service members face and reporting
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  Speaker 2: sexual assault. So he's like, look, if you got raped
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  Speaker 2: in your chick and you got and you and you drank,
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  Speaker 2: that's on you. And so I don't really care, and
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  Speaker 2: signed I guess, you know, hole hitler, Like, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's how this works.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Now, these these comments came on the hills of the
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  Speaker 2: similar reddit posts where that were uncovered, which included Platterner
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  Speaker 2: saying people who live in role, Maine actually are racist
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  Speaker 2: and stupid. He also is promoting violent political actions, including
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  Speaker 2: saying an armed working class as a requirement for economic justice,
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  Speaker 2: he said, deeming all police bastards and riding f these cops.
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  Speaker 2: So now we found out he's against police. He was
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  Speaker 2: promoting racist stereotypes by questioning, quote, why don't black people
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  Speaker 2: tip quote unquote I mentioned that a moment ago, and
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  Speaker 2: then using slurs and telling people to f off and
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  Speaker 2: die when asked about a recent vote against a power
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  Speaker 2: line in Maine. Now, these are just some of the
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  Speaker 2: big things that he said online. So let's let's just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, move past that for a second. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go out in a limb and say, hey, if
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you started attacking or smearing or mocking the LGBTQIA plus
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  Speaker 2: plus plus population as a democrat in Maine, like, that's
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: got to get you in trouble, right, Scotta bee, apparently
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  Speaker 2: not today. Quote I find that stuff abhorrent. That is
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  Speaker 2: what Platner told the Advocate, and I'm sorry that I
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  Speaker 2: ever used it, referencing he in admitting he used indefensible
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  Speaker 2: anti gay slurs in his other Reddit posts. They even say.
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  Speaker 2: In this Advocate dot com story quote, a progressive US
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  Speaker 2: Senate candidate Maine, who has already apologized for earlier misogynistic
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  Speaker 2: and racially insensitive remarks and said that he did not
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  Speaker 2: realize that tattoo in his chest resembled a Nazi SS emblem,
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  Speaker 2: is again under scrutiny, this time for anti LGBTQ plus comments.
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  Speaker 2: In an interview on Wednesday afternoon, the Advocate, Graham, a
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  Speaker 2: forty one year old marine an Army veteran running in
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  Speaker 2: Main's Democratic primary seeking to become the nominated challenge Republican
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  Speaker 2: US Inersusan Collins, confirmed that he offered a series of
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  Speaker 2: Reddit comments and included homophobic slurs, anti lg ABTQ plus jokes,
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  Speaker 2: and sexually explicit stories detigrating gay men. The existence of
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  Speaker 2: the comments, posted under the handle p Hustle between twenty
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and twenty twenty one, meaning he did this a
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  Speaker 2: lot all right, had not previously been reported on. The
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  Speaker 2: Advocate obtained the post independently this week. The revelation comes
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  Speaker 2: on the same day Platner are scheduled to hold the
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  Speaker 2: town hall in one part of the state, a seaside
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  Speaker 2: resort long known as New England's most prominent LGBTQ plus destinations,
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  Speaker 2: featuring a thriving gay community and pride celebrations that draw
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  Speaker 2: visits from across the region.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 2: I have zero reason deny that the posts are mine,
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  Speaker 2: Platner said in a Zoom interview. I made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of comments over the years and talked a lot of
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  Speaker 2: blank on the Internet. I have no reason to doubt
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  Speaker 2: that at some point I use language that I would
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  Speaker 2: not be using today. He paused, and then added its indefensible.
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  Speaker 2: Now these posts that were obtained by the Advocate, all
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Right says they unearthed them and show a pattern of
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  Speaker 2: homophobic language and rhetoric that mocked and demeaned.
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  Speaker 1: The LGBTQ plus people.
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  Speaker 2: In some cases, Platner appeared to use slurs casually in
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: discussions unrelated to sexuality. In others, he explicitly framed gay
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  Speaker 2: people as the punchline. In June twenty sixteen, Platner wrote
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: in a thread about life on military guard duties, saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: seriously flog the blankers as often as possible, write gay
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  Speaker 2: poetry about how gay your current job is. Congratulations, you
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  Speaker 2: made it through one shift. Now do it all again
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  Speaker 2: in twelve hours. Welcome to the world of standing posts,
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  Speaker 2: where sanity is a sliding scale quote unquote. In March
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, two years later, he wasn't done. He recounted
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: explicit detail. What he described is a quote gay off
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: between Marines and British sailors and Bahrain pull into Bahrain
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and O seven at Amu, a Royal Navy submarine happens
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to be imported at the same time. Before we even
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: realize what's going on, the other weird blank just leaned
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  Speaker 2: down and licked the blank from the bottom of the
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  Speaker 2: blank all the way up to the blank, stand up,
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  Speaker 2: look dead at us and yelled beat that I probably
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  Speaker 2: withdrew our team on the grounds that one cannot play
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  Speaker 2: gay chicken if one is actually gay.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he wrote online. Now you would think that.
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  Speaker 2: These explicit posts, and by the way, there's some in
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  Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen and twenty and twenty one, and even
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. The Advocate, which is obviously advocate
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  Speaker 2: advocating for gay lesbian communities, they.
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  Speaker 1: Write all this stuff.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: But apparently it was just to help him get it
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  Speaker 2: out there and we'll move on. So that doesn't even
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: disqualify him from being the Democratic nominee. Number eight, He
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: promoted an alleged Holocaust denier on social media. So not
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: only is this guy wearing an SS tattoo right the
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: death head tattoo and then claims it know what it is,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: but he also has a Holocaust denier, so someone who
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: believes the Holocaust never happened on social media. He also
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: and if you have kids ear muffs, all right, that's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: my warning. He actually bragged online about masturbating in public
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: porta potties. Yes, those were his words. I'm sure he
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  Speaker 2: will tell you. Don't worry. I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Are Democrats ashamed of this being their candidate? Nope, They're
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: still standing by him, even with the porta potty comments.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: So now like, surely that's it. Nope, that's not all.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Graham Platner also mocked a purple heart recipient as a
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  Speaker 2: dumb mfor who didn't deserve to live, and then doubled
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  Speaker 2: down on the comments when he was asked about it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: So doesn't believe he did anything wrong. Doesn't think you
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: that it's wrong to mock a purple heart recipient and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: saying that the dumb m effort didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Deserve to live. Interesting.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: He also encouraged military contray to bang hookers in Thailand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, giving details.
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  Speaker 2: That you guys got to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you should just bang some of them hookers. Yes, he
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  Speaker 2: actually once lamited Thai prostitute loophole closing. The Democratic candidate
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: in Maine complained of a loophole closing that closing that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: permitted military contractors to have relations with Thailand prostitutes. Under
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the name p Ussel, the Democratic candidate, Platner reportedly wrote
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  Speaker 2: on a Reddit post in June of nineteen, the military
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  Speaker 2: contactors could spend their time banging hookers in Thailand instead
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of getting blanked at the wife back by the wife
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  Speaker 2: back home. Spending your lead banging hookers in Thailand instead
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: of getting b itchstat by the wife at home, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: you could sell it as avoiding federal income tax, Platner wrote.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Once the Afghan start using our paychecks as a personal piggybank,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the whole poll disappeared. Platner admitted to using the handle
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  Speaker 2: after The Mad Monitor reported about his Reddit posts.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: There it is it's I mean, it's it's incredible. It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's truly incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Now you would think that would be enough, right for
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats to say, okay, like we got to stop,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: like this guy can't be the guy.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Nope, keep going. He also called.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: The Virgin Mary a skank, Yes, a skink. The Democrat
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: candidate refer to Jesus also as a zombie. The Virgin
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Mary is a skank. And a Reddit post from twenty
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: twelve that is this man so he hates Christians, he
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: hates Jesus, he hates Mary, and this is the perfect
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: guy for the Democratic Party. He also got a dui,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: not that anyone cares. Right inside Grand Platner's controversial rise
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: another article talking about his dui. But it's totally fine,
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  Speaker 2: not a problem at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, He's just, you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Know, sometimes you gotta go out there and you gotta,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: you know, get a dui. And finally the newest thing,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: he appeared on an anti Semites podcast who says the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Jews killed Kennedy. Now this is just what we know.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: What's even more shocking is he's still ahead in the polls,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: which tells me something very clearly. The Democratic Party is solace.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: They only care about power. They only care about controlling you,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: They only care about winning, and if it takes a
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: guy like this to do it or cover up for him,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: they're totally fine with it. Thanks as always for joining
• 26:40
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• 26:42
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• 26:46
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• 26:49
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