June 2, 2026 • 17 mins
1. Graham Platner at a glance:
- Extremist symbolism (Nazi SS tattoo)
- Offensive online behavior (racist, sexist, homophobic remarks)
- Sexual misconduct or inappropriate online activity
- Disrespect toward religion, military members, and others
- Criminal behavior (e.g., DUI)
- Liberals LOVE HIM!
2. the Democratic Party
- The Democratic Party protects problematic figures if politically useful.
- Standards are applied unevenly based on party affiliation.
- Media bias is asserted—the “corporate media” shields Democrats.
- Media outlets ignore scandals unless politically convenient.
- They create and destroy political figures strategically.
3. Moral and Cultural Conflict
The situation is a broader societal issue to:
-
- Race
- LGBTQ+ issues
- Religion
- Policing
Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the The Ben Ferguson Show Podcast and Verdict with Ted Cruz Wherever You get You're Podcasts. And don't forget to follow the show on Social Media so you never miss a moment! Thanks for Listening
X: https://x.com/benfergusonshow
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
You know, Bet, I will say this seriously. I'm beginning
to wonder whether we're about to have something inner popular culture,
which is a new euphemism of oyster farming. You know,
what is my scoundrel husband doing. Oh, he's oyster farming.
I mean, this guy has a potential to like set
a term that is going to last well beyond the
main Senate race. And if Saturday Night Live actually did comedy,
(00:24):
they would have an entire skin on oyster farming like
it fries out voice.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good Tuesday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. Many of you have
asked me why exactly Grand Platner is such a controversial candidate.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, in Maine, you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Need to know, especially what he's all about, and I
hope all of you will share it. We've got a
top list of the fourteen things you need to know
about grand Platner. It's a forty seven Morning Update and
it starts right now.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We're going to start with Maine's front running democrat, the
US senicnic Graham Nazi tattoo Platner. Here's a man that
Democrats have just completely been infatuated with, and the corporate
media they love him. They don't care what he does,
they don't care about his background, they don't care about
his history, they don't care about the scandals until the
(01:19):
last twenty four hours. Why for one reason, because he's
a Democrat. And if you say you're a Democrat, you
can do and be and just about anything you want. Right,
you don't even have to know what a man is
or what a woman is. The Democrats will stand by you.
The more radical you actually are. The corporate media will
also stand by you, unless the Democratic Party tells you
(01:41):
that then we need to turn on him. We saw
this happen in California with Eric Swalwell. Right, California love
the guy, the Democratic Party love the guy. Then all
of a sudden he might lose and a Republican might win.
And what they do They used all of the dirt
they knew about him, they protect him from, to then
take him down. Well, we're now living in a world
(02:02):
where that same media that created this individual, this Nazi
tattoo guy, may actually look to destroy him or maybe not.
Why because well, even the Obamas seem to be trying
to help behind the scenes. Now, let's just go through
the list, all right. If you look at the list
(02:23):
of things that this individual has done, if Mike count
is correct, now it's at fourteen different scandals, all right,
So let's start with number one. And I hope, by
the way, all of you will take this information, and
I hope you will share it wherever you can. I
hope that not only will you share it, but share
the podcast, put it anywhere you can on social media.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So let's start at number one.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
This is a guy who had tattooed on his chest
a Nazi SS tattoo and he said that he didn't
know what it was, but he had the tattoo for
eighteen years. Now you may not know about Nazi SS
and exactly what they did. Like you can almost go
even further then, just like there's generic Nazis in Germany
(03:09):
and then there's the SS.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
What did the SS do well?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
They were the major paramilitary organization under Hitler and the
Nazi Party in Germany. And these were the guys that
began as a small guard unit known as the Hall Security.
They were made up of party volunteers. Then they got
even worse. Right, They're like, all right, we start you
there now. The SS was the foremost agency on security,
(03:35):
mass surveillance, and state terrorism within Germany and Germany occupied Europe.
What's even more interesting about the SS, all right, and
how hardcore these guys were, is they were in charge
of the concentration camps.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They were the ones that were referred to as the
deaths head units.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They ran the concentration camps, and then they ran the
extermination camps. So if you want to be a Nazi,
that's one thing you want to level up and say,
oh no, no, I want to go pro with my tattoos.
I don't just want to swatskad No, no, I want
an SS tattoo.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Then you are like, all right, well, here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm a concentration extermination camp kind of got. They were
also tasked with detecting actual or potential enemies of Nazi Germany.
They were in charge of neutralizing the oppression at all costs.
And then they were also policing the German people and
they would kill them if they thought you were getting
out of line. They were committed to quote Nazi ideology
(04:35):
and then providing domestic and foreign intelligence. Now the SS,
and again I go back because I think it's important
to understand why he chose this tattoo. The SS was
the organization most responsible for the genocidal murder of an
estimated six million Jews and millions of other victims during
(04:56):
the holocausts Now, members of its branches not only committed
war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War Two,
we now know through history that the SS was also
involved in commercial enterprises and exploited concentration camp inmates as
their slave labors. They could even make cash off of
them before they then exterminated them. Now, as after Nazi
(05:19):
Germany's defeat, the SS and the Nazi Party were judged
by the international military tribunals at Nuremberg.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
There's a great movie about it, you can go see
it right now.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And what we learn is the highest ranking surviving SS
Main Department chief was found guilty of not only crimes
against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, but he was also
hanged in nineteen eighty six. So, if you're going to
get a tattoo, and you decide to go with the
SS insignia a tattoo instead of just you know the Nazi.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
You know, you know Swasika tattoo.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You clearly understand that, you're like on another level of
understanding what a Nazi is, right, And so this is
the tattoo that he chose. Now, of course he lied.
He's like, Oh, I didn't know what it was, are
you kidding me? Of course you knew what it was,
and that's why you got it. So that is the
baseline for who he is. So let's move on to
(06:14):
something else. We also know that he has an account
on a what has been described by The New York
Times a predator sex site called Kick.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
He's married, everybody knows that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
But this site is a site that is for child exportation,
underage sexual encounters, and child pornography.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
That is what's there. You can go read the New
York Times on this.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So not only do we have a Naziss death's head
tattoo that he had for eighteen years, now he's like, oh,
I'm going to get on this website that is a
predator's safe haven for underage exploiting of children and child pornography.
We then find out, no surprise, that there's explicit sexting
(06:59):
or sex texts from with about a half a dozen
women in twenty twenty three, after he got married about
a year earlier. Moved past that real quick, disparage all
black people as a population that doesn't tip. Yes, he
actually has it on social media where he was out
there and he was talking they saying that black people
don't tip. That is what you refer to as racism.
(07:20):
One oh one. The Democratic Party apparently has no problem
within disparaging all black people as a population, saying that
all black people don't tip. Number five, he blamed sexual
assault victims for being sexually assaulted. Now you may look
at that and you go, hold on a second, what
(07:40):
do you actually mean by that? All right, you know what,
it's a great question. Graham Platner says sexual assault victims
should take some responsibility in Reddit post that he had
throughout the years he made the disturbing comments about sexual
assault victims. Where then, and of course, of course he
deleted them right right before he launch his campaign. But
(08:01):
we had the they had the data, They had them
like it's there. We know it's there in a discussion.
But what's interesting is he said that assault victims should
take some responsibility for themselves to avoid attacks and act
like an adult for effing's sake.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
He said people should.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Avoid alcohols they don't end up in a compromising situation,
and then downplay the challenges service members face and reporting
sexual assault. So he's like, look, if you got raped
in your chick and you got you and you drank,
that's on you. And so I don't really care, and
signed I guess, you know, Hale Hitler like, I guess
that's how this works. Now, Now, these these comments came
(08:40):
on the hills of a similar Reddit posts where that
were uncovered, which included Platner saying people who live in
rural Maine actually are racist and stupid. He also is
promoting violent political actions, including saying an armed working class
as a requirement for economic justice. He said, deeming all
police bastards and f these cops. So now we found
(09:02):
out he's against police. He was promoting racist stereotypes by questioning, quote,
why don't black people tip quote unquote I mentioned that
a moment ago, and then using slurs and telling people
to f off and die when asked about a recent
vote against a power line in Maine. Now, these are
just some of the big things that he said online.
(09:25):
So let's let's just, you know, move past that for
a second. I'm going to go out in a limb
and say, hey, if you started attacking or smearing or
mocking the LGBTQIA plus plus plus population as a Democrat
in Maine, like, that's got to get you in trouble,
right like Scott to be apparently not today. Quote I
(09:48):
find that stuff abhorrent. That is what Platner told The Advocate,
and I'm sorry that I ever used it, referencing he
and admitting he used indefensible anti gay slurs and his
other Reddit posts. They even say in this Advocate dot
com story, quote, a progressive US Senate candidate in Maine,
(10:11):
who has already apologized for earlier misogynistic and racially insensitive
remarks and said that he did not realize that tattoo
in his chest resembled a Nazi SS emblem is again
under scrutiny, this time for anti LGBTQ plus comments. In
an interview on Wednesday afternoon, The Advocate Graham, a forty
one year old Marine an Army veteran running in Main's
(10:33):
Democratic primary, seeking to become the nominated challenge Republican US
Inersusan Collins confirmed that he offered a series of Reddit
comments and included homophobic slurs, anti LGBTQ plus jokes and
sexually explicit stories denigrating gay men. The existence of the
comments posted under the handle p Hustle between twenty sixteen
(10:56):
and twenty twenty one, meaning he did this a lot.
All Right I previously been reported on. The Advocate obtained
the post independently this week. The revelation comes on the
same day Platner are scheduled to hold the town hall
in one part of the state, a seaside resort long
known as New England's most prominent LGBTQ plus destinations featuring
(11:17):
a thriving gay community and pride celebrations that draw visits
from across the region.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I have zero reason deny that the posts are mine,
Platner said in a zoom interview. I made a lot
of comments over the years and talked a lot of
blank on the Internet. I have no reason to doubt
that at some point I use language that I would
not be using today. He paused and then added its indefensible.
Now these posts that were obtained by The Advocate, all
(11:43):
Right says they unearthed them and show a pattern of
homophobic language and rhetoric that mocked and demeaned.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
The LGBTQ plus people.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
In some cases, Platner appeared to use slurs casually in
discussions unrelated to sexuality. In others, he explicitly framed gay
people as the punchline. In June twenty sixteen, Platner wrote
in a thread about life on military guard duties, saying no,
seriously flog the blankers as often as possible, write gay
(12:11):
poetry about how gay your current job is. Congratulations, you
made it through one shift. Now do it all again
in twelve hours. Welcome to the world of standing posts,
where sanity is a sliding scale quote unquote. In March
twenty eighteen, two years later, he wasn't done. He recounted
explicit detail. What he described is a quote gay off
(12:32):
between Marines and British sailors and Bahrain pull into by
Rain and seven at Amu, a Royal Navy submarine, happens
to be imported at the same time. Before we even
realize what's going on, the other weird blinkers just leaned
down and licked the blank from the bottom of the
blank all the way up to the blank stand up
look dead at us and yelled beat that I probably
(12:54):
withdrew our team on the grounds that one cannot play
gay chicken if one is actually gay.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
This is what he wrote online.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Now you would think that these explicit posts, and by
the way, there's some in eighteen and nineteen and twenty
and twenty one, and even in twenty twenty two the Advocate,
which is obviously advocate advocating for gay lesbian communities.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
They write all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But apparently it was just to help him get it
out there and we'll move on. So that doesn't even
disqualify him from being the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Number eight.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
He promoted an alleged Holocaust denier on social media. So
not only is this guy wearing an SS tattoo right
the death head tattoo and then claims it know what
it is, but he also has a Holocaust denier, someone
who believes the Holocaust never happened. On social media. He
also and if you have kids ear muffs, all right,
(13:51):
that's my warning. He actually bragged online about masturbating in
public portapottis. Yes, those were his words. I'm sure he
will tell you. Don't worry. I wouldn't say that. Now,
are Democrats ashamed of this being their candidate. Nope, they're
still standing by him even with the Porta Potti comments.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
So now like, surely that's it. Nope, that's not all Graham.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Platner also mocked a purple Heart recipient as a dumb
mfor who didn't deserve to live, and then double down
on the comments when he was asked about it.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
So doesn't believe he did anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Doesn't think you that it's wrong to mock a purple
Heart recipient and saying that the mffort didn't deserve to live.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
He also encourage military contractors to bang hookers in Thailand.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, giving details that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You guys got to go out there and you know,
you should just bang some of them hookers. Yes, he
actually once lamented Thai prostitute loophol closing. The Democrat a
candidate in Maine complained of a loophole that closing that
permitted military contractors to have relations with Thailand prostitutes under
(15:09):
the name p Ussel.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
The Democratic candidate.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Platner reportedly wrote on a Reddit post in June of
nineteen the military contactors could spend their time banging hookers
in Thailand instead of getting blanked.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
At the wife back by the wife.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Back home, spending your lead banging hookers in Thailand instead
of getting bhstat by the wife at home, and you
could sell it as avoiding federal income tax.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Platner wrote.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Once the Afghan start using our paychecks as a personal
piggy bank, the whole loophole disappeared. Platner admitted to using
the handle after The Made Monitor reported about his Reddit posts.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
There it is, it's I mean, it's it's incredible, it is.
It's truly incredible.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Now you would think that would be enough, right for
the Democrats to say, Okay, like we got to like
this guy, can't be the guy.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Nope, keep going. He also called the.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Virgin Mary a skink, Yes, a skink. The Democrat candidate
refer to Jesus also as a zombie. The Virgin Mary
is a skank in a Reddit post from twenty twelve.
That is this man so he hates Christians, he hates Jesus,
(16:25):
he hates Mary, and this is the perfect guy for
the Democratic Party. He also got a dui, not that
anyone cares. Right inside Graham Platner's controversial rise another article
talking about his dui, but It's totally fine, not a
problem at all. Right, He's just you know, sometimes you
gotta go out there and you got to you know,
get a dui. And finally the newest thing, he appeared
(16:49):
on an anti Semites podcast who says the Jews killed Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Now, this is just what we know.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
What's even more shocking is he's still ahead in the polls,
which tells me something very clearly. The Democratic Party is solace.
They only care about power, they only care about controlling you.
They only care about winning, and if it takes a
guy like this to do it or cover up for him,
(17:20):
they're totally fine with it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
You know, Bet, I will say this seriously. I'm beginning
to wonder whether we're about to have something inner popular culture,
which is a new euphemism of oyster farming. You know,
what is my scoundrel husband doing. Oh, he's oyster farming.
I mean, this guy has a potential to like set
a term that is going to last well beyond the
main Senate race. And if Saturday Night Live actually did comedy,
(00:24):
they would have an entire skin on oyster farming like
it fries out voice.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good Tuesday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. Many of you have
asked me why exactly Grand Platner is such a controversial candidate.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, in Maine, you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Need to know, especially what he's all about, and I
hope all of you will share it. We've got a
top list of the fourteen things you need to know
about grand Platner. It's a forty seven Morning Update and
it starts right now.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We're going to start with Maine's front running democrat, the
US senicnic Graham Nazi tattoo Platner. Here's a man that
Democrats have just completely been infatuated with, and the corporate
media they love him. They don't care what he does,
they don't care about his background, they don't care about
his history, they don't care about the scandals until the
(01:19):
last twenty four hours. Why for one reason, because he's
a Democrat. And if you say you're a Democrat, you
can do and be and just about anything you want. Right,
you don't even have to know what a man is
or what a woman is. The Democrats will stand by you.
The more radical you actually are. The corporate media will
also stand by you, unless the Democratic Party tells you
(01:41):
that then we need to turn on him. We saw
this happen in California with Eric Swalwell. Right, California love
the guy, the Democratic Party love the guy. Then all
of a sudden he might lose and a Republican might win.
And what they do They used all of the dirt
they knew about him, they protect him from, to then
take him down. Well, we're now living in a world
(02:02):
where that same media that created this individual, this Nazi
tattoo guy, may actually look to destroy him or maybe not.
Why because well, even the Obamas seem to be trying
to help behind the scenes. Now, let's just go through
the list, all right. If you look at the list
(02:23):
of things that this individual has done, if Mike count
is correct, now it's at fourteen different scandals, all right,
So let's start with number one. And I hope, by
the way, all of you will take this information, and
I hope you will share it wherever you can. I
hope that not only will you share it, but share
the podcast, put it anywhere you can on social media.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So let's start at number one.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
This is a guy who had tattooed on his chest
a Nazi SS tattoo and he said that he didn't
know what it was, but he had the tattoo for
eighteen years. Now you may not know about Nazi SS
and exactly what they did. Like you can almost go
even further then, just like there's generic Nazis in Germany
(03:09):
and then there's the SS.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
What did the SS do well?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
They were the major paramilitary organization under Hitler and the
Nazi Party in Germany. And these were the guys that
began as a small guard unit known as the Hall Security.
They were made up of party volunteers. Then they got
even worse. Right, They're like, all right, we start you
there now. The SS was the foremost agency on security,
(03:35):
mass surveillance, and state terrorism within Germany and Germany occupied Europe.
What's even more interesting about the SS, all right, and
how hardcore these guys were, is they were in charge
of the concentration camps.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They were the ones that were referred to as the
deaths head units.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They ran the concentration camps, and then they ran the
extermination camps. So if you want to be a Nazi,
that's one thing you want to level up and say,
oh no, no, I want to go pro with my tattoos.
I don't just want to swatskad No, no, I want
an SS tattoo.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Then you are like, all right, well, here we go.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm a concentration extermination camp kind of got. They were
also tasked with detecting actual or potential enemies of Nazi Germany.
They were in charge of neutralizing the oppression at all costs.
And then they were also policing the German people and
they would kill them if they thought you were getting
out of line. They were committed to quote Nazi ideology
(04:35):
and then providing domestic and foreign intelligence. Now the SS,
and again I go back because I think it's important
to understand why he chose this tattoo. The SS was
the organization most responsible for the genocidal murder of an
estimated six million Jews and millions of other victims during
(04:56):
the holocausts Now, members of its branches not only committed
war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War Two,
we now know through history that the SS was also
involved in commercial enterprises and exploited concentration camp inmates as
their slave labors. They could even make cash off of
them before they then exterminated them. Now, as after Nazi
(05:19):
Germany's defeat, the SS and the Nazi Party were judged
by the international military tribunals at Nuremberg.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
There's a great movie about it, you can go see
it right now.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And what we learn is the highest ranking surviving SS
Main Department chief was found guilty of not only crimes
against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, but he was also
hanged in nineteen eighty six. So, if you're going to
get a tattoo, and you decide to go with the
SS insignia a tattoo instead of just you know the Nazi.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
You know, you know Swasika tattoo.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You clearly understand that, you're like on another level of
understanding what a Nazi is, right, And so this is
the tattoo that he chose. Now, of course he lied.
He's like, Oh, I didn't know what it was, are
you kidding me? Of course you knew what it was,
and that's why you got it. So that is the
baseline for who he is. So let's move on to
(06:14):
something else. We also know that he has an account
on a what has been described by The New York
Times a predator sex site called Kick.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
He's married, everybody knows that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
But this site is a site that is for child exportation,
underage sexual encounters, and child pornography.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
That is what's there. You can go read the New
York Times on this.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So not only do we have a Naziss death's head
tattoo that he had for eighteen years, now he's like, oh,
I'm going to get on this website that is a
predator's safe haven for underage exploiting of children and child pornography.
We then find out, no surprise, that there's explicit sexting
(06:59):
or sex texts from with about a half a dozen
women in twenty twenty three, after he got married about
a year earlier. Moved past that real quick, disparage all
black people as a population that doesn't tip. Yes, he
actually has it on social media where he was out
there and he was talking they saying that black people
don't tip. That is what you refer to as racism.
(07:20):
One oh one. The Democratic Party apparently has no problem
within disparaging all black people as a population, saying that
all black people don't tip. Number five, he blamed sexual
assault victims for being sexually assaulted. Now you may look
at that and you go, hold on a second, what
(07:40):
do you actually mean by that? All right, you know what,
it's a great question. Graham Platner says sexual assault victims
should take some responsibility in Reddit post that he had
throughout the years he made the disturbing comments about sexual
assault victims. Where then, and of course, of course he
deleted them right right before he launch his campaign. But
(08:01):
we had the they had the data, They had them
like it's there. We know it's there in a discussion.
But what's interesting is he said that assault victims should
take some responsibility for themselves to avoid attacks and act
like an adult for effing's sake.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
He said people should.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Avoid alcohols they don't end up in a compromising situation,
and then downplay the challenges service members face and reporting
sexual assault. So he's like, look, if you got raped
in your chick and you got you and you drank,
that's on you. And so I don't really care, and
signed I guess, you know, Hale Hitler like, I guess
that's how this works. Now, Now, these these comments came
(08:40):
on the hills of a similar Reddit posts where that
were uncovered, which included Platner saying people who live in
rural Maine actually are racist and stupid. He also is
promoting violent political actions, including saying an armed working class
as a requirement for economic justice. He said, deeming all
police bastards and f these cops. So now we found
(09:02):
out he's against police. He was promoting racist stereotypes by questioning, quote,
why don't black people tip quote unquote I mentioned that
a moment ago, and then using slurs and telling people
to f off and die when asked about a recent
vote against a power line in Maine. Now, these are
just some of the big things that he said online.
(09:25):
So let's let's just, you know, move past that for
a second. I'm going to go out in a limb
and say, hey, if you started attacking or smearing or
mocking the LGBTQIA plus plus plus population as a Democrat
in Maine, like, that's got to get you in trouble,
right like Scott to be apparently not today. Quote I
(09:48):
find that stuff abhorrent. That is what Platner told The Advocate,
and I'm sorry that I ever used it, referencing he
and admitting he used indefensible anti gay slurs and his
other Reddit posts. They even say in this Advocate dot
com story, quote, a progressive US Senate candidate in Maine,
(10:11):
who has already apologized for earlier misogynistic and racially insensitive
remarks and said that he did not realize that tattoo
in his chest resembled a Nazi SS emblem is again
under scrutiny, this time for anti LGBTQ plus comments. In
an interview on Wednesday afternoon, The Advocate Graham, a forty
one year old Marine an Army veteran running in Main's
(10:33):
Democratic primary, seeking to become the nominated challenge Republican US
Inersusan Collins confirmed that he offered a series of Reddit
comments and included homophobic slurs, anti LGBTQ plus jokes and
sexually explicit stories denigrating gay men. The existence of the
comments posted under the handle p Hustle between twenty sixteen
(10:56):
and twenty twenty one, meaning he did this a lot.
All Right I previously been reported on. The Advocate obtained
the post independently this week. The revelation comes on the
same day Platner are scheduled to hold the town hall
in one part of the state, a seaside resort long
known as New England's most prominent LGBTQ plus destinations featuring
(11:17):
a thriving gay community and pride celebrations that draw visits
from across the region.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I have zero reason deny that the posts are mine,
Platner said in a zoom interview. I made a lot
of comments over the years and talked a lot of
blank on the Internet. I have no reason to doubt
that at some point I use language that I would
not be using today. He paused and then added its indefensible.
Now these posts that were obtained by The Advocate, all
(11:43):
Right says they unearthed them and show a pattern of
homophobic language and rhetoric that mocked and demeaned.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
The LGBTQ plus people.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
In some cases, Platner appeared to use slurs casually in
discussions unrelated to sexuality. In others, he explicitly framed gay
people as the punchline. In June twenty sixteen, Platner wrote
in a thread about life on military guard duties, saying no,
seriously flog the blankers as often as possible, write gay
(12:11):
poetry about how gay your current job is. Congratulations, you
made it through one shift. Now do it all again
in twelve hours. Welcome to the world of standing posts,
where sanity is a sliding scale quote unquote. In March
twenty eighteen, two years later, he wasn't done. He recounted
explicit detail. What he described is a quote gay off
(12:32):
between Marines and British sailors and Bahrain pull into by
Rain and seven at Amu, a Royal Navy submarine, happens
to be imported at the same time. Before we even
realize what's going on, the other weird blinkers just leaned
down and licked the blank from the bottom of the
blank all the way up to the blank stand up
look dead at us and yelled beat that I probably
(12:54):
withdrew our team on the grounds that one cannot play
gay chicken if one is actually gay.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
This is what he wrote online.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Now you would think that these explicit posts, and by
the way, there's some in eighteen and nineteen and twenty
and twenty one, and even in twenty twenty two the Advocate,
which is obviously advocate advocating for gay lesbian communities.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
They write all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But apparently it was just to help him get it
out there and we'll move on. So that doesn't even
disqualify him from being the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Number eight.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
He promoted an alleged Holocaust denier on social media. So
not only is this guy wearing an SS tattoo right
the death head tattoo and then claims it know what
it is, but he also has a Holocaust denier, someone
who believes the Holocaust never happened. On social media. He
also and if you have kids ear muffs, all right,
(13:51):
that's my warning. He actually bragged online about masturbating in
public portapottis. Yes, those were his words. I'm sure he
will tell you. Don't worry. I wouldn't say that. Now,
are Democrats ashamed of this being their candidate. Nope, they're
still standing by him even with the Porta Potti comments.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
So now like, surely that's it. Nope, that's not all Graham.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Platner also mocked a purple Heart recipient as a dumb
mfor who didn't deserve to live, and then double down
on the comments when he was asked about it.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
So doesn't believe he did anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Doesn't think you that it's wrong to mock a purple
Heart recipient and saying that the mffort didn't deserve to live.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
He also encourage military contractors to bang hookers in Thailand.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, giving details that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You guys got to go out there and you know,
you should just bang some of them hookers. Yes, he
actually once lamented Thai prostitute loophol closing. The Democrat a
candidate in Maine complained of a loophole that closing that
permitted military contractors to have relations with Thailand prostitutes under
(15:09):
the name p Ussel.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
The Democratic candidate.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Platner reportedly wrote on a Reddit post in June of
nineteen the military contactors could spend their time banging hookers
in Thailand instead of getting blanked.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
At the wife back by the wife.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Back home, spending your lead banging hookers in Thailand instead
of getting bhstat by the wife at home, and you
could sell it as avoiding federal income tax.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Platner wrote.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Once the Afghan start using our paychecks as a personal
piggy bank, the whole loophole disappeared. Platner admitted to using
the handle after The Made Monitor reported about his Reddit posts.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
There it is, it's I mean, it's it's incredible, it is.
It's truly incredible.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Now you would think that would be enough, right for
the Democrats to say, Okay, like we got to like
this guy, can't be the guy.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Nope, keep going. He also called the.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Virgin Mary a skink, Yes, a skink. The Democrat candidate
refer to Jesus also as a zombie. The Virgin Mary
is a skank in a Reddit post from twenty twelve.
That is this man so he hates Christians, he hates Jesus,
(16:25):
he hates Mary, and this is the perfect guy for
the Democratic Party. He also got a dui, not that
anyone cares. Right inside Graham Platner's controversial rise another article
talking about his dui, but It's totally fine, not a
problem at all. Right, He's just you know, sometimes you
gotta go out there and you got to you know,
get a dui. And finally the newest thing, he appeared
(16:49):
on an anti Semites podcast who says the Jews killed Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Now, this is just what we know.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
What's even more shocking is he's still ahead in the polls,
which tells me something very clearly. The Democratic Party is solace.
They only care about power, they only care about controlling you.
They only care about winning, and if it takes a
guy like this to do it or cover up for him,
(17:20):
they're totally fine with it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
Host
Ben Ferguson
Popular Podcasts
Hey Jonas!
Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
Betrayal Weekly
Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.