May 1, 2026 • 44 mins
Jon is joined in studio by MN Rep. Max Rymer, Kathryn Johnson, and Grace Keating where the group explains to Jon why it's now common to scrub social media. Jon looks at a DFL candidate with a dark past and a young person with a unique opinion on voting in MN.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Raise your hand. If you didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You didn't even know people didn't know that there weren't
any games on last night.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Henry could not care any less than I do about
this sport?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Did you it?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Couldn't care less? He said, I could not go. He
did it right. I just wanted to make sure he
got that right, because sometimes I.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Screw that up. Could care less? Could it couldn't care?
But couldn't it couldn't care less. Okay, I love the
listeners of the show. I want you to know that
there's a big butt coming by the way.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
You're not You're not cool for pretending you don't care
about sports. Okay, Yes, sports are happening. It's like one
of the only things that like, we can come together
on as a country.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Rist be happy about it.
Speaker 7 (00:54):
Like I think I'm very cool for not caring about sports.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
People take an unusual is different than their.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, people take an unusual amount of pride about not
caring about something. There were talk backs that role then
regarding the conversation that we were having about Michael and
Taylor Swift, as one would would expect, but there was
this level just.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Here, it's a freedom Friday and we have to talk
about this too. It's like, yes, we do.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I'm interested in it, Okay, It's okay to have other interests.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Okay, it doesn't make you uncool that high time. You
like your sports ball, Yeah I do. I like it
a lot better rough you're fired up?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Is it? Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
This is very unmax representative Max rhymer esque attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Morning.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It's okay to like sports Okay, arn't it. Grace Keating
is here.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Good morning, Grace, Good morning Centers the American Experience. I'm
I'm happy now.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Another great podcast this week, by the way, that comes
out every Tuesday. I encourage people to go and check
it out every Tuesday.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
And we just launched our new studio, our beautiful new set.
We've been building for you guys. We've spent so long
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Speaker 1 (02:01):
And it's for you, guys. It's not for them. It's
for you guys. That's why they did it, as we
do everything.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Catherine Johnson's making her way up right now on a
Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Freedom Friday. I think we have a new political duel.
Damn Walls and Eli is that's right, Dim Walls and
see Fellerson brad tab Feed don't have one for Mary.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Moriarty, and I'm almost I'm almost afraid to ask for
one on Twin Cities News Talk because I get the
feeling that they would be rather, rather vicious. I don't
know what kind of alliteration you could come up with that,
and I've probably opened a can of worms now, so
I'm just gonna move on to the next item here
on Twin City's News Talk on a Freedom Friday.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Scary Mary, Oh, that's a scary man to internal.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Save it right. Moving on.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
One of the leading Democrat candidates for US Senate in Michigan,
and this is a Mallory mcmarrow is playing defense after
a CNN report revealed that she purged thousands of tweets
and klitting posts in which she disparaged Middle America after
President Donald Trump's twenty sixteen election victory. So, this lunatic
white woman, she was most notable, sort of ros to
(03:14):
a rose to bizarre prominence. I believe it was during
the the DNC and the last presidential election cycle.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
She was one of the individuals that came up on
stage to give a speech, and.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
During her speech, she kept licking her lips like in
a really pronounced way. Like it wasn't like an individual
would quickly go and just sort of use their tongue
and dab their lips because they're dry.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Like she was doing full like lizard like this.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
There are memes of this available online. I would encourage
you to go and check them out because they are hysterical.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Ye got to get some cameras in here.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, I know, well I do, I just haven't figured
how to work them yet. Yeah, that lip thing was
really special. I've I have been trying to find a
quick start guide for the camera system in the studio
for three week weeks now, and I've been able to
do so.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I haven't taken the next step of actually emailing somebody
with an iHeart to teach me. I've just been going
the route of trying to learn myself. But I've been
able to find that yet. If you guys want an
issue video, can do it again if you like. Catherine
Johnson r right just in time?
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Wow, Hello, good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
How's it going? Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Good?
Speaker 10 (04:23):
I should probably apologize to the woman I always hit
in the ramp. I don't think maybe I should start
that way. I'm really sorry.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
I almost ran into another car in the ramp.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But I made it.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
That happened to me when I almost killed Chris Carro
last week on Friday, when I was driving in.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
There's a blind kind of turn.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's a bad blind spot driving into the parking lot.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yes, absolutely, Mine insight is not good. So this psychopath McMorrow.
She also recently garnered a lot of attention online as
she was heading into the Michigan State Democratic Convention with
a full high school band behind her, along with huge
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blown up pictures of her face as she was dancing
up the stairs in very sort of dim Walls esque
of style. Catherine, I looks like you saw the video
of which I'm alluding to.
Speaker 10 (05:11):
Oh yes, definitely very cringe politicians. I think in general
should just stop dancing. Her and Mayor Fry both, I
mean put the dancing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
She's deleted six thousand social media posts, including tweets in
which she said miss that she missed living in California
and fantasized about the coasts breaking off from Middle America.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Did you just say six thousand tweets.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Six thousand social media.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Posts, thousand oh posts?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Still, Yeah, that's a lot. I don't think it's a
thousand tweets total.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
That's how much she had that she had to scrub
and hide.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Though.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Two days after Trump shocked to Democrats and defeated Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat urged her followers to
read a thread to post it by journalist Patrick Thornton,
who wrote, all of this talk about coastal elites and
needing to understand more of how America has it backwards.
She went on to say it is much of white
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working class America that needs to reach outside its comfort
zone and meet to people not like them. Thornton wrote
at the time, many rural Americans have isolated themselves from
the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresented areas.
Mcmarro said in the thread rings one hundred percent. Now
a month later, she fantasized about the coastal states divorcing
Middle America. Well now, in the wake of her deleting
(06:28):
these social media posts, even the CNN kind of got
in on the action. They have a report on what
happened with her here. It is CNN's.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Uncovered thousands of deleted tweets by one of the candidates
and a must win Senate race for Democrats in Michigan Mattori.
Mcmarrow is trying to win over both traditional Democrats and
progressives and is a top contender in the race. One
of the tweets that CNN found talks about a dream
she had where parts of the US broke off from
Middle America and elected former President Barack Obama as prime minister.
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She also lamented leaving California, where she lived for several years,
and claimed she voted in California in twenty sixteen in
numerous tweets, even though in her autobiography she says this
and in twenty fourteen, we took the leap and relocated permanently,
setting down roots in Michigan to finally have a place
to call home. In another post in January twenty seventeen,
(07:18):
after a user said California should have diplomats to protect
it from quote morons on the other side of the country,
mcmarrow responded, these are the days that make me miss
California even more. McMorrow is in a three way race
against Hailey Stevens, who is a favorite of the Democratic
Party establishment, and Abdul el sayed, a progressive pushing to
the left on key issues. Other deleted posts included pass
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support for the Black Lives Matter movement, a white privileged seminar,
and even a future without cars, which is kind of
a notable comment in a state that's built around the
auto industry. Other posts from that period showed a more
mixed tone, including one comment that praised Detroit's diversity and
said she was upset that the state had voted for
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We asked mcmorrow's campaign why.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
They deleted these tweets, and they told us it was quote,
pretty standard for candidates.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
They also now say that.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Inmorro's move from California to Michigan was a process and
that it wasn't completed until mid twenty sixteen. They told CNN, quote,
these are normal tweets by a normal person.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
So I bring this up. I'm going to talk about
the tweets here in a second. I bring this up
because we're going to get into in the next segment
what's happened in Maine with a governor Janet Mills dropping
her Senate bid and how the Democrats are now forced
to go and support this Nazi tattoo adorned radical leftist
lunatic Graham Platiner. Because this woman here is a really
(08:37):
good example about how it really is stunning that Democrats
can still be favored prior to the Scotis ruling on
the redistricting, and yet they still have all of these
wretched candidates that are running for office. I mean, as
we'll talk about coming up, I'll have I have the examples,
the audio examples. This Platiner guy is a leftist lunatic,
(09:01):
I mean, kind of a radical Nazi, and yet they
are out there publicly defending him at this point in time.
I do find it funny though, this hold the line
in the in the CNN story where you know, it's
a pretty commonplace for you know, the the.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Candidates to go and scrub all their social media accounts.
Speaker 12 (09:18):
Is it though?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That is true? Yeah?
Speaker 13 (09:20):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You typically want to do that one you shouldn't have to.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Why would why would?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I know, there's some conventional thought that you should always,
at some point in time go back and do a
certain scrubbing of your social media account just to sort
of upkeep. I've never done that, but if I was
running for office, I don't, I don't, I don't know
if I don't know if I would trust somebody who
wouldn't scrub their account.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Listen, I was tweeting in middle school. Okay, so I
did at one point do a scrub because I probably said, like,
you know, ha ha lol, so funny at.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
The cafeteria today, Okay, all.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Right, and I never I don't think I had anything
bad because my parents insisted.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
On following me on anything I was on.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
But I did have tweets that were probably.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Quite embarrassing in retrospect. So I think that this maybe
is a new.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Uh, a newer it's best practice, like as you're preparing
a candidate, because I'm the same way, right, being a
millennial of in my thirties, right, Like social media was
just dawning when I was a freshman in college or
late in high school, and it's like.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You change, right, you you change now.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
There's a difference between that in twenty sixteen tweeting about
how much you hate the people you're choosing now to represent.
That is one of the most confusing parts about this
is why you are seeking an elected position with people
you fundamentally hate. I could not imagine saying, oh, Chicago
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County sucks and then going and representing Casago County in
the state legislature. You know, you do it because you
love the people and you want them to have a
better life.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No, those people who just that's not.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Why the left, that's not why you're on the left, right,
it's not at all. It's because they think they are
better and that's why they run.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Max.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
You're a great representative because you love where you're from.
I seriously think someone like Tim Wallas looks at himself
and says, no, I should be governor because I am
better than the people of this state. And you see
that attitude from less horrible.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
It's despicable.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
She said the guiebart out loud, great, and she does
want to be a celebrity.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
All the things we talk yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
The fact dancing in the high school band. She thinks
she's in high school musical.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I want to continue a bit of this discussion because
you guys made a really good point.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I think it is an age demographic relating to scrubbing
social media post because I had not thought about that,
and that's a really good point. So like when I
started doing social media, I was already for as much
as I'm grown up, I was already you know, older
in doing talk radio. So my role is a little
bit unique and different. Therefore, you know, my views and
opinions back then match exactly what I have now. But
(11:52):
I was not posting on social media in grade school,
so that would make a huge difference, are there. I mean,
how early did you start posting on social media?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
I mean my earliest social media accounts were middle school,
and so anything that I've had to take down it's
just like cringey, you.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
I work with today.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Do not need to see photos of me in like
my high school plays.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
My Instagram I was too harsh.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Master needed some serious curiating.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
So yeah, just a little, just some hiding, because yeah,
cringe is the perfect word for it.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, speaking of cringe, we got a lot of comments
rolling in for nicknames for Mary Moriarty, even though I
didn't request them. There was a certain individual who typically
would be here on Friday who said, a Marxist Moriarty, Okay,
doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well, It's kind
of what I'm what I'm what I'm looking for. I
have Mary uh murder ARTI I like that one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, also doesn't quite roll off the flat off the tongue.
It is all right, we will get to the Nazi
tattoo guy that is now getting support from Democrats and
an opinion piece from the Minnesota Reform we should be
able to vote with our phones. I will share with you.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
The details of this, speaking of the younger generation, as
a younger individual who says it's very difficult for her
to go and vote, and it would be so much
easier for her to be able to do it and
her friends be able to do it on her cell phones.
So we will dive into this coming up on our
Freedom Friday. You're listening to Twin City's News Talk.
Speaker 14 (13:22):
Peace News Talk Am eleven thirty and one o three
points five.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
All right, I think I can actually put to bed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's a nickname for Hannepin County Attorney Mary Moriardy. I'm
looking at the talkback right now here on Twin Cities
News Talk. I'll share it with you in just a
moment on a Freedom Friday. Those talkbacks are brought to
you by Lyndall Realty and in studio. This morning, we
have both of the hosts of the American Experiment podcast
out every Tuesday, and we have Catherine Johnson. Good morning,
(13:54):
Good morning. We have Grace Keating, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Representative Max Rhymer's here too, part of their podcast. No,
but I'd like to be one day.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
So I've come on anytime.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I've got I got dim walls. Somebody actually just emailed me.
Did I hear you say dim or was that a
slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It was initially a slip of the tongue when I
came up with the moniker. I didn't mean to say that.
It just kind of came out.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Uh Seeve Fellison. That was actually a friend of the
show that had shared that one with me. So I've
been talking about sort of this this trifective stupid, including
Mary Moriarty in this, but I didn't have a good nickname.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
For Mary Moriarty.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
We've had some good suggestions in here. This one I
think is going to be the one that sticks.
Speaker 15 (14:34):
Hey, John Frank from Hudson Future, are you really trying
to talk about Scary Morioardy.
Speaker 16 (14:40):
I'm just but we all knew her name.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, that's easy. Yeah, thank you Frank. Yeah, Scary Moriarty.
That's good. That's good. That's easy done. That's easy. I
take partial credit for that. Did you say scary Mori
scary Mary. Come on, I'll give you partial credit. I
at least want to if you had done. If you
want a contributor, yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Sure, but but you know, scary moriarty is it just
has a good ring to it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It is good why you had I'm sorry, Max, you've
had a week maxing.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Okay, yeah, you know, everybody, send some great some some
well wishes, you know, words of words of great encouragement.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Can you tell the twenty twenty six legislative session is
impacting me in.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
A very positive way right now? Just send some words
of encourage. Thank you this morning for your representative, Max Rhymer.
You know, see go see Michael. That'll cheer, yeh Okay, Well, you.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Guys gonna go see the Michael Jackson on biopic any interest.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I know he's probably way out of your guys wheelhouse.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
I actually had a Michael Jackson CD that I listened to,
like Religitive when I was a kid, So I do
love his music, but it's just such a eye barrier
to get me to go to the movie theater at
this point.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I'll see it at some point.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It was very good, and you did like Project Hail Mary.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I loved project.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Gosh, see, like that got me to the theater.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
One of us finally went and saw it. I sent
us I'm not gonna be I asked her on Sunday,
because you said you said Friday you were gonna go
see it, and I was like, oh my gosh, I forgot.
Grace went to go see Hail Mary. I want to
know what she thought, and so she enjoyed it.
Speaker 17 (16:07):
So I will say Grace's is her her answer kind
of is how I was about Bohemian Rhapsody. It's just
like just far enough out of my out of my wheelhouse,
but still enjoyed the movie.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Still a fan of Queen's music. Yeah, all that.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Bohemian Rhapsody did go deeper into you know, the background
of Freddie Mercury. Then they did the difficulties that Michael
Jackson was having, but again it only went up to
the to the to the album bad. In terms of
covering his career, there's gonna be a sequel where they'll
cover the all the other when everything really starts to go.
(16:42):
It's kind of his Apex Mountain and after that things
start to go never land or start.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
To go bad.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Yeah, I'll see this, I'll see this.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
What did you say, like Rose Colored Glass movie the
other stuff? Like I saw a Rocketman Ellen John biopic.
It was good, but it was like so heavy. Yeah,
I love that music, but it was I got out.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I was like, oh, that's kind of sad.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
No, this one is very uplifting. It's a good positive film,
not positive as Governor Janet Mills ending her bidden for
United States Senate, leaving populist as written in The Daily Wire,
Graham Plattner to take on Susan Collins out of Maine
in an extremely competitive general election that could determine which
party controls the Upper Chamber. And this is the guy
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the Democrats are stuck with.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And now defending.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I was unfamiliar with Platiner up until about a day ago.
I saw comments about him floating around but focusing on
the show and what we've been talking about. I hadn't
gone down that road. I've gone down that road now,
and this guy is a lunatic. He faced multiple scandals
early in his campaign, including scrutiny of a now covered
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Nazi tattoo.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And it was a legitimate Nazi symbol.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
It wasn't like the left going and mischaracterizing the Christian
Cross on Pete hex Seth.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
This was a Nazi tattoo.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Mills Will struggled to gain traction in the polls at
backing of Schumer, whereas Platiner is backed by Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren. Mills said she did not have enough money
to continue campaigning. So Plattner has faced a backlash on
a couple of different fronts. First off, for Reddit posts.
In the past, he's called himself a communist, said cops
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are b words. I'm gonna play for you a piece
of audio. It's been edited hat tipped to a conservative commentator,
Dustin Gregie.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I found this. He actually shared this.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is a somebody had taken Platiner's Reddit posts. Okay,
these are attributable to him. It's been confirmed, and he
does not deny them. He does not deny them. And
they basically did a dramatic reading of Plattner's Reddit posts,
and it goes, if I can get my mouse to work,
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it goes something like this.
Speaker 14 (18:58):
And now for a dramatic greeting of Graham Platner's Reddit comments.
Speaker 16 (19:02):
Holy, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves
and not get so frecked up. They wind up having
sex with someone they don't mean to. Grape is a
real thing. If you're so worried about it to buy
Kevlar underwear, it you think you might not get blacked
out up around people you aren't comfortable with. Why don't
black people tip? I work as a bartender, and it always
amazes me how solid this stereotype is living in white
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roll America. I'm afraid to tell you they actually are.
I got older and became a communist, still got the guns,
though I don't trust the fascists to act politely. I
did used to love America, or at least the idea
of it. These days, I'm pretty disgusted by it all.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Feel free to back it up with facts.
Speaker 16 (19:45):
Facts. This was the gayest, not in a fun sucking way,
thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 14 (19:52):
This has been a dramatic reading of Graham Platiner's Reddit comments.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
So there's a sample of this clan which is putting
it mildly. Listen to this clip from CNN. Abby Phillips
is pressing Adam Mackler about Platner and his controversial background,
and listen to this leftist talking head defend this candidate
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that now is again the top candidate for this open
Senate seat.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Now, if this were.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
A Republican candidate who had a Nazi tattoo, covered it
up when he was running for something, and had said
all the things that he had said about black people,
about women, about.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Rape, etc.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
Do you really think there's a world in which Democrats
would be like, let's just let bygones be bygones.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's the past. Today is the president.
Speaker 18 (20:44):
I think we're entering a new era and we'll see
what the base wants. We'll see who wins when the
actual election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have
been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump, and now
Graham Plattner has a forward looking message. So if Donald Trump,
or if another Republican had a Nazi tatch, I don't know,
Donald Trump has dinner with nazis not that far from
you know, it's happening. But there's also plausible deniability regarding
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grand Flatter's tattoo.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We don't know if he knew, we don't know what
he knew. But it's not just the tattoo.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
It's not just the tattoo that sounds so pragmatic.
Speaker 18 (21:14):
If Republicans want to clutch the ruthlessly.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You want to win.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well, let's you're willing to overlook his Nazis type.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Republicans want to close it.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
The left does not stand behind anything that they say
they stand for.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
They have no guiding morals, they have no guiding principles,
no guiding values. It is solely what is politically convenient
for them. And if you do not agree, you have
not been paying attention.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Mills gain notoriety over her dispute with Trump over the
transgender identifying athlete's ability to play in women's sports. The
Washington Post reported those multiple posts made to Reddit in
twenty thirteen regarding sexual assaults while he was in the military,
as well as you more examples to share coming up
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in just a moment, we'll get to a few of
your comments from the iHeartRadio, and with all this, we'll
get into this editorial from the Minnesota Reformer. There have
been successful mobile voting pilots in several states, both red
and blue. Bills in the Minnesota legislature would actually make
it an option here, you know, like flying the Minnesota
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state flag, the new one, and we know how well
that's gone as of late so we'll get into all
of this and more of your comments on a Freedom
Friday with our in studio guests here on Twin Cities
News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty one oh three
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back to the iHeartRadio Apple's talkbacks brought to you by
Lyndahl Realty. Here and just a moment in studio, we
do have our Freedom Friday guest, Representative Max Rymer. We
have Grace and Catherine from the American Experiment podcast. Democrats
are stuck with a Nazi ted two guy after Supreme
Court shake up in Senate primary and Governor Janet Mills
said she was struggling during her campaigning didn't have enough money.
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This left of the populist has described in the Daily
Wire article Graham Plattner to take on Senator Susan Collins
out of Maine, the Republican in this incredibly competitive general election.
This guy to say he has a scary pass as
an understatement, even not to Nazi tattoos. Aside the comments
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that he's made online and even his commentary to media
as of you know recent commentary is a bit frightening
as well.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We're the majority.
Speaker 19 (23:41):
We need to use the power we get to shut
this White House down.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Well, on a second, we haven't heard from Eric and
Brainerd in a while. He sounds sounds yeah, good, sounds
an awful. He sounds a lot like Eric from we
do that.
Speaker 19 (23:58):
I think one of the best ways is through committee
hearings and investigations. I want the Trump administration not to
function because everyone in the White House is being hauled
under subpoena in front of a Senate committee day after
day after day. Not just because one, we have so
many crimes to investigate.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
By the way, every single time somebody says that, in
every video that I've seen where somebody makes that comment
about all the crimes committed by the Trump administration and
all the things they could be investigated, whenever they're pressed
on it, they can't ever even name one, not even one.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And of course he wasn't pressed on and in this interview.
Speaker 19 (24:36):
At this point, we could probably be doing this for the
next thirty years. But two, because it's a lever of power,
using subpoena power bringing people in for investigations that keeps
them busy with this.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You now have prominent.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Democrats that are now defending this guy, including not a
huge surprise here because he's a lunatic as well, Chris
van Holland defending Platinner his Nazi tattoo and his social
media posts.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
The dude doesn't not have a Nazi tattoo. I mean,
let's be clear about what's going on here. I mean,
is that how do you view that? I mean, it
seems to be at least somewhat disqualifying and traditional, certainly historical.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Look, I mean, let's take a.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
Couple issues, including the comments he's made in the past.
I mean, he's been very clear that he went into combat,
I behalf the United States, he went through a really
rough period PTSD type period, and he is himself said
there are lots of things he's done and said that
he completely regrets, and I do believe people should have
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second chances and.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That people can learn from their mistakes. Only if you're.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
On the left, though they give no grace to anybody
ever on the right. They have actively campaigned on convincing
their base of supporters to strip the humanity from anyone
who disagrees with your opinion. And this guy is just
one of the best examples of the of the of
the moment.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
Yeah, I mean, this is just the left has the
same problem every time. They have a far left problem,
and we have it in Minnesota too, people like Peggy Flanagan.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
They are winning the day with.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
The base, it's what the base wants, but they're not
ultimately winning elections. I mean, look at Susan Collins, She's
going to be just fine. She's pulled this out how
many times when when the expert said, you know, it
was never gonna happen, and the Left goes and runs
someone who's totally insane in a Nazi. I mean, it's
just classic. This is a problem they have constantly.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
In every state.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how the left pivots
when for the last ten years they've called Republicans Nazis
and then you run an actual Nazi. It's like kind
of invalidates just a little terrif whole brand. What I
will just say though, is for this grand Platner guy,
my understanding is he by trade, he's like an oyster
fisherman and kind of does represent some kind of blue
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collar element in Maine. I don't know this state super well,
but one thing that we got to avoid as Republicans,
I think in a race like that is getting into
the woke scolding that has defined the Democrat Party for
so long. Now this guy sucks like he's got a
ton of stuff wrong with him.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I certainly would not want him representing me.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
But it's like, I know, this Susan Collins is smart,
and you got to attack him on the policy elements
of it because for him to for him to take
out an incumbent governor in this seat actually does speak
to people are willing to overlook you know, maybe it's
just the base, but people are willing to overlook some
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of these things that we're talking about well, and I
wonder and while I tend to agree with you and not,
it's tough not knowing, you know, what the politics are
like in the region because that dictates so much, does
so so much of the commentary and how you're going
to go and encourage people to go and vote. It
is another example, in my mind, taking that thirty thousand
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foot view of you just cannot rationalize with anybody on
the left, right, now and when it comes to the
GOP winning elections, you just have to focus on the
issues are there. That's obviously a part of it, it's
embedded in it, but just getting as many people out
to vote as possible. Right, If that's focusing on the
issues there, then great. If that's focusing on this guy's
a radical lunatic and you can't put him into office
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because he's perpetuating the you know the idea of political
violence and things that we're dealing with, then you know,
focus focus on that. But again, it is another really
good example of just how the left is just not
a rational party anymore.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
And I do find it funny that we're talking about
this because it's Maine, right, And I don't know Maine
super well, but Maine strikes me is they want to
be more of a not make the news type of states,
not be Minnesota in nature. Yeah, this guy, if he
was running in Los Angeles or he's running in California,
we would be like, oh, that's that's part for the chorus.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That makes sense.
Speaker 17 (28:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
John at the Gray Zone did a dissection on Graham
Plattner about six months ago. This guy's deep state is
slot in or Spanberger. Grandpa, the architect, had all the money.
Daddy was the Marxist Democrat lawyer. He was a norm
Isisen before Ansen. This guy went to the Hodgkiss school.
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You don't even get into the Hodgskiss school as easily
as you get into Brown or Yale.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Thank you for the comment on the iHeartRadio asks good
points talkback, sir, brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. Since
we're talking about voting, I thought it might be fun
to go through this editorial. H This is written by
A Feven test Faye lives in Savage seven.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It's an interesting name. Fve ve e n even hadn't
heard that before.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Seven says as a soon to be first time voter
in Minnesota this fall okay, so not quite eighteen, which
just means that we should really take a Feven's view
to art.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Clearly an individual who's lived.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
There are people in the Minnesota legislature who wanted Faven
to vote two years ago.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
So Feven says, I assume which way? What are we
attributing male or female?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
On seven? I'm gonna go female, right.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
I would have gone male.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Would you got male? I got to read what the
editorials say okay, then I can.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
I don't know if there's any clues in this. See
I say female, we have two votes for male. What
do you you're You're not male?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're male? Sam feven feminine? Or I'm looking into it Maine.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Okay, he's looking up all right, poorn getting raked over
the colls early just for if they care about that
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know, but you gotta know what their pronouns are.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Right, could be either.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Since childhood seven rites, I have understood the importance because
both my parents are immigrants from Ethiopia. When they moved
into Savage, where I've lived my whole life, they took
my sister and me to a polling place every election.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
That doesn't help, just in terms of the gender of even.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I know, I'm listening with large grins and showed us
how lucky we were to be in a place that
prioritized all voices. That's sweet, It is nice, right, Okay, give.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Credit where credits due to seven.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Recently, as the days have drawn near for me to
actually vote, the concept has become more abstract and distant,
even though I have participated in democracy in many forms.
Organized voter registration drives to joining the youth in government
the biggest driver of democracy. Voting has become harder than before,
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opines Feven. I have found that young people are eager
and enthusiastic about voting, it the process can still seem challenging.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I've talked to students who.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Were unaware of the locations of polling stations, the acceptable
forms of identification, or how to fit voting into their
very busy schedules filled with classes, additional education, and pay jobs.
I've even had to verify the details myself, writes Feven,
to ensure sure that I had grasped all of the
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necessary information before I continue any further. Does anybody have
any initial thoughts or should I just can?
Speaker 9 (32:09):
What should we should we tell Feven about Google?
Speaker 8 (32:11):
I know this is an eighteen year old writing this
complaining that he can't Google. This would take a young
person like two minutes to investigate online.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Also, let's add in the fact that the whole point
at this piece is that Feven wants people to vote
using their phones, but yet it seems to be incapable
of figuring out how to use those things on your
phone which can assist you with everything that you just
mentioned in terms of the challenges when it comes to voting.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
He wants a text he wants a text message to
come in that says do you want this.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Governor or that governor? And that's the entire process for him.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Sam, did we get a confirmation on the agenda of
fven for her? By the way, it was really it
is a female Okay, of course I thought it was good.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Yeah, that was the same vibe that I got from
the article as well. I hate to say it, you know,
I don't know. I mean, there wasn't anything really specific
in terms of the gender language, but the way that
it was written, I was leaning towards it being a
not a dig by industretch.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
I can't tell with young guys today, though, it's true metrosexual.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Back in my day, I think kanuses go off every time.
There were like two times in that article so far
where it was like protect our democracy.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Can get that clip to please Sam?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I was a metrosexual. Metrosexual.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Anybody know the top cologne for one who would have
identified as a metrosexual back in the day.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I don't know what that is. What is a metrosexual?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
It's a sensitive man.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
It was like a sensitive man a little fruity.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
But it was no, I wouldn't I know metrosexual, wasn't.
It was more just you were in touch with your
masculine masculinity but also your feminine side. But you weren't
like You weren't like the You weren't the jock, you
weren't the man's man. You understood what good grooming was.
You cared about your appearance.
Speaker 17 (33:51):
You cared about your appearance. You wanted to smell good.
I can sum this up pretty easily. Timothy's shallow may.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Good point juste reference. By the way, c K one
would have been the colonne of choice, that's metrosexual back
in the back in the day. And I was like, yeah,
I had that. I was sporting that. That wasn't me.
Speaker 17 (34:12):
But uh no, k is it was popular in my
in my day.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let me some K one all right? Back to uh
feven and her editorial.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Additionally, for some Mintons Minnesotan's, particularly those in rural communities,
voting may require hours of travel.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But but if.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
That's that's true, Max, you want not true.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
It's not true.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
I mean, like listen, Actually, it's a problem in Greater Minnesota,
where a lot of precincts in Greater Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It is mail in ballots only, you know, so they I.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Mean, maybe there's like one guy like in really far
north of Minnesota, all the way out by himself and
me up the travel miles.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
But guess what that dude.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Is in Greater is in northern Minnesota for a reason.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
He ain't voting. He ain't voting. He drives out to
get his new gun.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
And that's you know, that's that's the extent of the
civic process he engages with.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
He's there for a reason. All right, Before we continue,
I do take it to a couple of comments from
the Iheartradia lapp.
Speaker 15 (35:10):
Listen here seven. I somehow figured out how to go
and vote pre internet. We just kind of figured it out. Yeah,
I don't know the newspaper, your parents somebody told you.
I don't know that we had to go figure out
how to register. I have no idea. I had no Google,
I know way to look it up. I didn't know
where My point precinct was, how do we survive? It
is not harder now than it was then. Get over
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at your little whiny brat get oh love.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
The anger coming out.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
That's a great point yes, seven, How are you.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
Doing things before the Internet?
Speaker 7 (35:39):
I asked myself that all the time.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
By the way, you live in Minnesota registering to vote,
I can say, this is my friend who lives under
a bridge.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Can you please get them a ballot?
Speaker 8 (35:48):
It could not be easier for you to go vote.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Talking about.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Hey seven, since you haven't voted before, let me give
you a clue. Nothing has changed and you still need
an ID to prove who you are. You don't at
least we used to in Minnesota, and you still have
to look up where your polling place is. None of
these things are magical. It's hard about it. It's just
becoming an adult.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Grow up, dear.
Speaker 20 (36:16):
I find it hard to believe that you can't find
a polling place or the hours the polls are open.
You have a phone in your hand, and you grew
up with one in your hand. Go to the Secretary
of State's website. Even an old person like me can
figure that out.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
All right.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
So feven goes on to say, this is not a
matter of indifference, but of accessibility. That's why I believe
we need to go where the voters are, and for
my generation that is our mobile phones.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
As you've probably noticed.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
We young people have become accustomed to using our mobile
phones for almost any activity, organizing school events, organizing state
wide campaigns, participating in civil and political debates. However, when
it comes to something as vital as voting, we are
forced to participate in a process that does not yet
correspond with outur way of life.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
Oh my gosh, this is the most privileged, entitled take
on voting I've ever heard in my life. She's explaining
to readers that young people use their phones, and so
we should vote by phones.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
That's it, that's her argument.
Speaker 9 (37:21):
And a pen and paper is not our way of life.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Yeah, just got to go where they are.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Yeah, Yeah, Minnesota can begin that change with a SF
of forty five fifty nine and HF forty nine sixty two,
a bipartisan bill that would allow cities to offer mobile
voting in municipal elections if they choose. And as I
mentioned earlier, yeah, because that's gone so well when it
comes to our new state flag and the controversy that's
currently surrounding that issue.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Do we know where that this whole bill had to
have died?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Do we have? You?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Were you aware of any of this? Max Is this
new needs. I would have thought this would have made
news if this was anywhere near being debated or or
or discussed.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
No, it got introduced in mid April, and that we're
already passed deadlines. There's there's nothing happening on this bill
in the House. So do not fret, at least for
this year. Although I'm sure Democrats if they get a
if they get power back, would love nothing more than
for this to be priority number one.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
I'm sure feven is very disappointed. Did you, by the way,
do we know the origin of feven? Is it like
a derivative of Heaven or something. I'm just out of curiosity.
Did it tell you that I that it really matters
that much. I'm just I'm putting Sam on the spot.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
That was part of it. Was just I know, I
didn't tell you.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
I was just curious the translation on the talkbacks had
had put Heaven down instead because it mishurt somebody.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
And I was like, oh, wonder if it's derivative of
that at all.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
By the way, Heaven not to continue to dunk on
a seventeen year old who wrote an hotbed and we
can't though, if you want.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
To listen, you're a seventeen year.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Old who lives in Savage, Minnesota, and you're talking about
voter access in greater Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
You know nothing about.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
That, right about?
Speaker 11 (39:00):
What do you know?
Speaker 7 (39:01):
It's very simple?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
No, I think you guys missed the subtle insult to
outstate Minnesota, where the rocks and cows are. This person
doesn't know that there's actually voting stations outside of the
Twin Cities area because, according to most Democrats, there is
no Minnesota outside the Twin Cities metro area.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So let's wrap up. Even though this isn't going anywhere,
she still attempts to make some points here. It might
sound futuristic, but there have.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Been successful mobile voting pilots in several states. You want
to know what states that you want to take a
you probady guess what states are California? No, we have Seattle, Charleston,
South Carolina, and Denver, Ah. Of course, security is as
important as accessibility. My generation banks on our smartphones, communicates
with them, organize our lives with technology protected by multi
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factor authentication and encryption. Sof Evan just assumes, as we
have that this will completely be protected if we were
to go to being able to vote on our phones.
Mobile voting is not only possible, but it's also safe
and transparent as long as it includes these protections. Even
encouraging young voters who are still getting familiar with the
process to participate mobile voting would not take away from
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other voting methods. It would only add to them as
a first time voter. I don't want the hardest part
of participating in democracy to be figuring out how to vote.
It should be the responsibility of making an informed choice.
The future of voting should reflect the way we live today,
and for my generation, that future is already in our hands.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Listen of all the.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Bad ideas, this is the baddest of the bad ideas.
On almost every conceivable anger. It's not secure, it would
never be secure, easily manipulated. The psychological component, given the
pure propaganda that is peddled online as of late, clone phones,
fake people going and getting the app to go and vote.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I mean, I could just go on and on for
the rest of the show.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Of all the ways that this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Look, if you can't go online and find your polling
place and manage to get yourself a ride to the
polling place, and manage to show that you are the
person that should be voting. If you can't follow these
extremely basic steps, I don't think you should be voting.
It's a nice little, you know barrier.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
I totally agree of. Like, first of all, we don't
live in a democracy. We live in a constitutional republic,
and I actually don't think that we should make it
as easy as humanly possible for everyone to vote. You
have a right to vote, you have a right to participate,
but that doesn't mean we have to show up at
your door and make it as simple as humanly possible.
There should be some barrier to entry, some level that
you have to pass to show that you care and
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that you're informed to some degree.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
It should be something that should carry with it a
level of difficulty. And when I say difficulty, I mean
the same level of difficulty that you have going through
the drive through at a Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I mean just to go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
It should be a process that you respect, that you
want to do in person to take part in it,
because that is the most secure way. I am absolutely
on board with making it a one.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Day to vote.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Everybody gets the day off, you can go to your
polling place, show your ID, and vote. I think that
would be the best, the safest, and the most fair
way to conduct our elections. This is the complete opposite
of that. Yeah, to your point, voting is a sacred duty.
It's your responsibility.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
It's your civic duty to not even duty, but like
it's your civic responsibility. If you think you are worth
casting a vote, then there should be something level of difficulty.
I will just say, Catherine, you brought up the basic
things that you should do when you're voting. Well, in
Minnesota right now, you have forty five days to vote.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
You don't need a ID.
Speaker 6 (43:01):
In fact, you can go collect ten ballots of your
friends and mail them on their behalf. We have made
it way too easy to vote, and you're telling me
that I can't be inconvenienced with any of that.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
I need to.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
I need to be able to like go and type
my candidates on Reddit and that should count as a vote.
Speaker 9 (43:18):
Press B for you know, Max Rhymer Like.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, it's like just the text message you respond to. Yikes.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
We're going to continue this conversation coming up in hour three.
As a matter of fact, speaking of phones, Disney has
just moved to ban you're actually having a phone on
a lot of their rides. We'll give you the details
on this and I got a stack of stuff that
we'll be diving into. I'm really really excited about. And Max,
I absolutely agree with you when you said it should
be your duty right. You should.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
You should respect your duty to go and vote.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Speaking of duty, did you know that the average person
spends a total of ninety two days on the toilet.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's a lot of time.
Speaker 19 (43:56):
So using fefins logic, maybe that's where we should be voting.
Speaker 16 (44:00):
It should be a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Sometimes have a good day by not
Raise your hand. If you didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You didn't even know people didn't know that there weren't
any games on last night.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Henry could not care any less than I do about
this sport?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Did you it?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Couldn't care less? He said, I could not go. He
did it right. I just wanted to make sure he
got that right, because sometimes I.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Screw that up. Could care less? Could it couldn't care?
But couldn't it couldn't care less. Okay, I love the
listeners of the show. I want you to know that
there's a big butt coming by the way.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
You're not You're not cool for pretending you don't care
about sports. Okay, Yes, sports are happening. It's like one
of the only things that like, we can come together
on as a country.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Rist be happy about it.
Speaker 7 (00:54):
Like I think I'm very cool for not caring about sports.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
People take an unusual is different than their.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, people take an unusual amount of pride about not
caring about something. There were talk backs that role then
regarding the conversation that we were having about Michael and
Taylor Swift, as one would would expect, but there was
this level just.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Here, it's a freedom Friday and we have to talk
about this too. It's like, yes, we do.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I'm interested in it, Okay, It's okay to have other interests.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Okay, it doesn't make you uncool that high time. You
like your sports ball, Yeah I do. I like it
a lot better rough you're fired up?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Is it? Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
This is very unmax representative Max rhymer esque attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Morning.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It's okay to like sports Okay, arn't it. Grace Keating
is here.
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I'm happy now.
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We've been building for you guys. We've spent so long
in it, so comuch get out next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And it's for you, guys. It's not for them. It's
for you guys. That's why they did it, as we
do everything.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Catherine Johnson's making her way up right now on a
Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Freedom Friday. I think we have a new political duel.
Damn Walls and Eli is that's right, Dim Walls and
see Fellerson brad tab Feed don't have one for Mary.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Moriarty, and I'm almost I'm almost afraid to ask for
one on Twin Cities News Talk because I get the
feeling that they would be rather, rather vicious. I don't
know what kind of alliteration you could come up with that,
and I've probably opened a can of worms now, so
I'm just gonna move on to the next item here
on Twin City's News Talk on a Freedom Friday.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Scary Mary, Oh, that's a scary man to internal.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Save it right. Moving on.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
One of the leading Democrat candidates for US Senate in Michigan,
and this is a Mallory mcmarrow is playing defense after
a CNN report revealed that she purged thousands of tweets
and klitting posts in which she disparaged Middle America after
President Donald Trump's twenty sixteen election victory. So, this lunatic
white woman, she was most notable, sort of ros to
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a rose to bizarre prominence. I believe it was during
the the DNC and the last presidential election cycle.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
She was one of the individuals that came up on
stage to give a speech, and.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
During her speech, she kept licking her lips like in
a really pronounced way. Like it wasn't like an individual
would quickly go and just sort of use their tongue
and dab their lips because they're dry.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Like she was doing full like lizard like this.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
There are memes of this available online. I would encourage
you to go and check them out because they are hysterical.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Ye got to get some cameras in here.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah, I know, well I do, I just haven't figured
how to work them yet. Yeah, that lip thing was
really special. I've I have been trying to find a
quick start guide for the camera system in the studio
for three week weeks now, and I've been able to
do so.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I haven't taken the next step of actually emailing somebody
with an iHeart to teach me. I've just been going
the route of trying to learn myself. But I've been
able to find that yet. If you guys want an
issue video, can do it again if you like. Catherine
Johnson r right just in time?
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Wow, Hello, good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
How's it going? Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Good?
Speaker 10 (04:23):
I should probably apologize to the woman I always hit
in the ramp. I don't think maybe I should start
that way. I'm really sorry.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
I almost ran into another car in the ramp.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But I made it.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
That happened to me when I almost killed Chris Carro
last week on Friday, when I was driving in.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
There's a blind kind of turn.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's a bad blind spot driving into the parking lot.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yes, absolutely, Mine insight is not good. So this psychopath McMorrow.
She also recently garnered a lot of attention online as
she was heading into the Michigan State Democratic Convention with
a full high school band behind her, along with huge
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blown up pictures of her face as she was dancing
up the stairs in very sort of dim Walls esque
of style. Catherine, I looks like you saw the video
of which I'm alluding to.
Speaker 10 (05:11):
Oh yes, definitely very cringe politicians. I think in general
should just stop dancing. Her and Mayor Fry both, I
mean put the dancing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
She's deleted six thousand social media posts, including tweets in
which she said miss that she missed living in California
and fantasized about the coasts breaking off from Middle America.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Did you just say six thousand tweets.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Six thousand social media.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Posts, thousand oh posts?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Still, Yeah, that's a lot. I don't think it's a
thousand tweets total.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
That's how much she had that she had to scrub
and hide.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Though.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Two days after Trump shocked to Democrats and defeated Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat urged her followers to
read a thread to post it by journalist Patrick Thornton,
who wrote, all of this talk about coastal elites and
needing to understand more of how America has it backwards.
She went on to say it is much of white
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working class America that needs to reach outside its comfort
zone and meet to people not like them. Thornton wrote
at the time, many rural Americans have isolated themselves from
the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresented areas.
Mcmarro said in the thread rings one hundred percent. Now
a month later, she fantasized about the coastal states divorcing
Middle America. Well now, in the wake of her deleting
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these social media posts, even the CNN kind of got
in on the action. They have a report on what
happened with her here. It is CNN's.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Uncovered thousands of deleted tweets by one of the candidates
and a must win Senate race for Democrats in Michigan Mattori.
Mcmarrow is trying to win over both traditional Democrats and
progressives and is a top contender in the race. One
of the tweets that CNN found talks about a dream
she had where parts of the US broke off from
Middle America and elected former President Barack Obama as prime minister.
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She also lamented leaving California, where she lived for several years,
and claimed she voted in California in twenty sixteen in
numerous tweets, even though in her autobiography she says this
and in twenty fourteen, we took the leap and relocated permanently,
setting down roots in Michigan to finally have a place
to call home. In another post in January twenty seventeen,
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after a user said California should have diplomats to protect
it from quote morons on the other side of the country,
mcmarrow responded, these are the days that make me miss
California even more. McMorrow is in a three way race
against Hailey Stevens, who is a favorite of the Democratic
Party establishment, and Abdul el sayed, a progressive pushing to
the left on key issues. Other deleted posts included pass
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support for the Black Lives Matter movement, a white privileged seminar,
and even a future without cars, which is kind of
a notable comment in a state that's built around the
auto industry. Other posts from that period showed a more
mixed tone, including one comment that praised Detroit's diversity and
said she was upset that the state had voted for
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We asked mcmorrow's campaign why.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
They deleted these tweets, and they told us it was quote,
pretty standard for candidates.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
They also now say that.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Inmorro's move from California to Michigan was a process and
that it wasn't completed until mid twenty sixteen. They told CNN, quote,
these are normal tweets by a normal person.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
So I bring this up. I'm going to talk about
the tweets here in a second. I bring this up
because we're going to get into in the next segment
what's happened in Maine with a governor Janet Mills dropping
her Senate bid and how the Democrats are now forced
to go and support this Nazi tattoo adorned radical leftist
lunatic Graham Platiner. Because this woman here is a really
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good example about how it really is stunning that Democrats
can still be favored prior to the Scotis ruling on
the redistricting, and yet they still have all of these
wretched candidates that are running for office. I mean, as
we'll talk about coming up, I'll have I have the examples,
the audio examples. This Platiner guy is a leftist lunatic,
(09:01):
I mean, kind of a radical Nazi, and yet they
are out there publicly defending him at this point in time.
I do find it funny though, this hold the line
in the in the CNN story where you know, it's
a pretty commonplace for you know, the the.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Candidates to go and scrub all their social media accounts.
Speaker 12 (09:18):
Is it though?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That is true? Yeah?
Speaker 13 (09:20):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You typically want to do that one you shouldn't have to.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Why would why would?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I know, there's some conventional thought that you should always,
at some point in time go back and do a
certain scrubbing of your social media account just to sort
of upkeep. I've never done that, but if I was
running for office, I don't, I don't, I don't know
if I don't know if I would trust somebody who
wouldn't scrub their account.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Listen, I was tweeting in middle school. Okay, so I
did at one point do a scrub because I probably said, like,
you know, ha ha lol, so funny at.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
The cafeteria today, Okay, all.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Right, and I never I don't think I had anything
bad because my parents insisted.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
On following me on anything I was on.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
But I did have tweets that were probably.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Quite embarrassing in retrospect. So I think that this maybe
is a new.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Uh, a newer it's best practice, like as you're preparing
a candidate, because I'm the same way, right, being a
millennial of in my thirties, right, Like social media was
just dawning when I was a freshman in college or
late in high school, and it's like.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You change, right, you you change now.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
There's a difference between that in twenty sixteen tweeting about
how much you hate the people you're choosing now to represent.
That is one of the most confusing parts about this
is why you are seeking an elected position with people
you fundamentally hate. I could not imagine saying, oh, Chicago
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County sucks and then going and representing Casago County in
the state legislature. You know, you do it because you
love the people and you want them to have a
better life.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No, those people who just that's not.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Why the left, that's not why you're on the left, right,
it's not at all. It's because they think they are
better and that's why they run.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Max.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
You're a great representative because you love where you're from.
I seriously think someone like Tim Wallas looks at himself
and says, no, I should be governor because I am
better than the people of this state. And you see
that attitude from less horrible.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
It's despicable.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
She said the guiebart out loud, great, and she does
want to be a celebrity.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
All the things we talk yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
The fact dancing in the high school band. She thinks
she's in high school musical.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I want to continue a bit of this discussion because
you guys made a really good point.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I think it is an age demographic relating to scrubbing
social media post because I had not thought about that,
and that's a really good point. So like when I
started doing social media, I was already for as much
as I'm grown up, I was already you know, older
in doing talk radio. So my role is a little
bit unique and different. Therefore, you know, my views and
opinions back then match exactly what I have now. But
(11:52):
I was not posting on social media in grade school,
so that would make a huge difference, are there. I mean,
how early did you start posting on social media?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
I mean my earliest social media accounts were middle school,
and so anything that I've had to take down it's
just like cringey, you.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
I work with today.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Do not need to see photos of me in like
my high school plays.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
My Instagram I was too harsh.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Master needed some serious curiating.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
So yeah, just a little, just some hiding, because yeah,
cringe is the perfect word for it.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, speaking of cringe, we got a lot of comments
rolling in for nicknames for Mary Moriarty, even though I
didn't request them. There was a certain individual who typically
would be here on Friday who said, a Marxist Moriarty, Okay,
doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well, It's kind
of what I'm what I'm what I'm looking for. I
have Mary uh murder ARTI I like that one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, also doesn't quite roll off the flat off the tongue.
It is all right, we will get to the Nazi
tattoo guy that is now getting support from Democrats and
an opinion piece from the Minnesota Reform we should be
able to vote with our phones. I will share with you.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
The details of this, speaking of the younger generation, as
a younger individual who says it's very difficult for her
to go and vote, and it would be so much
easier for her to be able to do it and
her friends be able to do it on her cell phones.
So we will dive into this coming up on our
Freedom Friday. You're listening to Twin City's News Talk.
Speaker 14 (13:22):
Peace News Talk Am eleven thirty and one o three
points five.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
All right, I think I can actually put to bed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's a nickname for Hannepin County Attorney Mary Moriardy. I'm
looking at the talkback right now here on Twin Cities
News Talk. I'll share it with you in just a
moment on a Freedom Friday. Those talkbacks are brought to
you by Lyndall Realty and in studio. This morning, we
have both of the hosts of the American Experiment podcast
out every Tuesday, and we have Catherine Johnson. Good morning,
(13:54):
Good morning. We have Grace Keating, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Representative Max Rhymer's here too, part of their podcast. No,
but I'd like to be one day.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
So I've come on anytime.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I've got I got dim walls. Somebody actually just emailed me.
Did I hear you say dim or was that a
slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It was initially a slip of the tongue when I
came up with the moniker. I didn't mean to say that.
It just kind of came out.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Uh Seeve Fellison. That was actually a friend of the
show that had shared that one with me. So I've
been talking about sort of this this trifective stupid, including
Mary Moriarty in this, but I didn't have a good nickname.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
For Mary Moriarty.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
We've had some good suggestions in here. This one I
think is going to be the one that sticks.
Speaker 15 (14:34):
Hey, John Frank from Hudson Future, are you really trying
to talk about Scary Morioardy.
Speaker 16 (14:40):
I'm just but we all knew her name.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, that's easy. Yeah, thank you Frank. Yeah, Scary Moriarty.
That's good. That's good. That's easy done. That's easy. I
take partial credit for that. Did you say scary Mori
scary Mary. Come on, I'll give you partial credit. I
at least want to if you had done. If you
want a contributor, yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Sure, but but you know, scary moriarty is it just
has a good ring to it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It is good why you had I'm sorry, Max, you've
had a week maxing.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Okay, yeah, you know, everybody, send some great some some
well wishes, you know, words of words of great encouragement.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Can you tell the twenty twenty six legislative session is
impacting me in.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
A very positive way right now? Just send some words
of encourage. Thank you this morning for your representative, Max Rhymer.
You know, see go see Michael. That'll cheer, yeh Okay, Well, you.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Guys gonna go see the Michael Jackson on biopic any interest.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I know he's probably way out of your guys wheelhouse.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
I actually had a Michael Jackson CD that I listened to,
like Religitive when I was a kid, So I do
love his music, but it's just such a eye barrier
to get me to go to the movie theater at
this point.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I'll see it at some point.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It was very good, and you did like Project Hail Mary.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I loved project.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Gosh, see, like that got me to the theater.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
One of us finally went and saw it. I sent
us I'm not gonna be I asked her on Sunday,
because you said you said Friday you were gonna go
see it, and I was like, oh my gosh, I forgot.
Grace went to go see Hail Mary. I want to
know what she thought, and so she enjoyed it.
Speaker 17 (16:07):
So I will say Grace's is her her answer kind
of is how I was about Bohemian Rhapsody. It's just
like just far enough out of my out of my wheelhouse,
but still enjoyed the movie.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Still a fan of Queen's music. Yeah, all that.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Bohemian Rhapsody did go deeper into you know, the background
of Freddie Mercury. Then they did the difficulties that Michael
Jackson was having, but again it only went up to
the to the to the album bad. In terms of
covering his career, there's gonna be a sequel where they'll
cover the all the other when everything really starts to go.
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It's kind of his Apex Mountain and after that things
start to go never land or start.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
To go bad.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Yeah, I'll see this, I'll see this.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
What did you say, like Rose Colored Glass movie the
other stuff? Like I saw a Rocketman Ellen John biopic.
It was good, but it was like so heavy. Yeah,
I love that music, but it was I got out.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I was like, oh, that's kind of sad.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
No, this one is very uplifting. It's a good positive film,
not positive as Governor Janet Mills ending her bidden for
United States Senate, leaving populist as written in The Daily Wire,
Graham Plattner to take on Susan Collins out of Maine
in an extremely competitive general election that could determine which
party controls the Upper Chamber. And this is the guy
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the Democrats are stuck with.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And now defending.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I was unfamiliar with Platiner up until about a day ago.
I saw comments about him floating around but focusing on
the show and what we've been talking about. I hadn't
gone down that road. I've gone down that road now,
and this guy is a lunatic. He faced multiple scandals
early in his campaign, including scrutiny of a now covered
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Nazi tattoo.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And it was a legitimate Nazi symbol.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
It wasn't like the left going and mischaracterizing the Christian
Cross on Pete hex Seth.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
This was a Nazi tattoo.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Mills Will struggled to gain traction in the polls at
backing of Schumer, whereas Platiner is backed by Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren. Mills said she did not have enough money
to continue campaigning. So Plattner has faced a backlash on
a couple of different fronts. First off, for Reddit posts.
In the past, he's called himself a communist, said cops
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are b words. I'm gonna play for you a piece
of audio. It's been edited hat tipped to a conservative commentator,
Dustin Gregie.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I found this. He actually shared this.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is a somebody had taken Platiner's Reddit posts. Okay,
these are attributable to him. It's been confirmed, and he
does not deny them. He does not deny them. And
they basically did a dramatic reading of Plattner's Reddit posts,
and it goes, if I can get my mouse to work,
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it goes something like this.
Speaker 14 (18:58):
And now for a dramatic greeting of Graham Platner's Reddit comments.
Speaker 16 (19:02):
Holy, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves
and not get so frecked up. They wind up having
sex with someone they don't mean to. Grape is a
real thing. If you're so worried about it to buy
Kevlar underwear, it you think you might not get blacked
out up around people you aren't comfortable with. Why don't
black people tip? I work as a bartender, and it always
amazes me how solid this stereotype is living in white
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roll America. I'm afraid to tell you they actually are.
I got older and became a communist, still got the guns,
though I don't trust the fascists to act politely. I
did used to love America, or at least the idea
of it. These days, I'm pretty disgusted by it all.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Feel free to back it up with facts.
Speaker 16 (19:45):
Facts. This was the gayest, not in a fun sucking way,
thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 14 (19:52):
This has been a dramatic reading of Graham Platiner's Reddit comments.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
So there's a sample of this clan which is putting
it mildly. Listen to this clip from CNN. Abby Phillips
is pressing Adam Mackler about Platner and his controversial background,
and listen to this leftist talking head defend this candidate
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that now is again the top candidate for this open
Senate seat.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Now, if this were.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
A Republican candidate who had a Nazi tattoo, covered it
up when he was running for something, and had said
all the things that he had said about black people,
about women, about.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Rape, etc.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
Do you really think there's a world in which Democrats
would be like, let's just let bygones be bygones.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's the past. Today is the president.
Speaker 18 (20:44):
I think we're entering a new era and we'll see
what the base wants. We'll see who wins when the
actual election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have
been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump, and now
Graham Plattner has a forward looking message. So if Donald Trump,
or if another Republican had a Nazi tatch, I don't know,
Donald Trump has dinner with nazis not that far from
you know, it's happening. But there's also plausible deniability regarding
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grand Flatter's tattoo.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We don't know if he knew, we don't know what
he knew. But it's not just the tattoo.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
It's not just the tattoo that sounds so pragmatic.
Speaker 18 (21:14):
If Republicans want to clutch the ruthlessly.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You want to win.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well, let's you're willing to overlook his Nazis type.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Republicans want to close it.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
The left does not stand behind anything that they say
they stand for.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
They have no guiding morals, they have no guiding principles,
no guiding values. It is solely what is politically convenient
for them. And if you do not agree, you have
not been paying attention.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Mills gain notoriety over her dispute with Trump over the
transgender identifying athlete's ability to play in women's sports. The
Washington Post reported those multiple posts made to Reddit in
twenty thirteen regarding sexual assaults while he was in the military,
as well as you more examples to share coming up
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in just a moment, we'll get to a few of
your comments from the iHeartRadio, and with all this, we'll
get into this editorial from the Minnesota Reformer. There have
been successful mobile voting pilots in several states, both red
and blue. Bills in the Minnesota legislature would actually make
it an option here, you know, like flying the Minnesota
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state flag, the new one, and we know how well
that's gone as of late so we'll get into all
of this and more of your comments on a Freedom
Friday with our in studio guests here on Twin Cities
News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty one oh three
five FM. It is a Freedom Friday, which means you're
on and off topic comments all morning long. We'll get
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back to the iHeartRadio Apple's talkbacks brought to you by
Lyndahl Realty. Here and just a moment in studio, we
do have our Freedom Friday guest, Representative Max Rymer. We
have Grace and Catherine from the American Experiment podcast. Democrats
are stuck with a Nazi ted two guy after Supreme
Court shake up in Senate primary and Governor Janet Mills
said she was struggling during her campaigning didn't have enough money.
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This left of the populist has described in the Daily
Wire article Graham Plattner to take on Senator Susan Collins
out of Maine, the Republican in this incredibly competitive general election.
This guy to say he has a scary pass as
an understatement, even not to Nazi tattoos. Aside the comments
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that he's made online and even his commentary to media
as of you know recent commentary is a bit frightening
as well.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We're the majority.
Speaker 19 (23:41):
We need to use the power we get to shut
this White House down.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Well, on a second, we haven't heard from Eric and
Brainerd in a while. He sounds sounds yeah, good, sounds
an awful. He sounds a lot like Eric from we
do that.
Speaker 19 (23:58):
I think one of the best ways is through committee
hearings and investigations. I want the Trump administration not to
function because everyone in the White House is being hauled
under subpoena in front of a Senate committee day after
day after day. Not just because one, we have so
many crimes to investigate.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
By the way, every single time somebody says that, in
every video that I've seen where somebody makes that comment
about all the crimes committed by the Trump administration and
all the things they could be investigated, whenever they're pressed
on it, they can't ever even name one, not even one.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And of course he wasn't pressed on and in this interview.
Speaker 19 (24:36):
At this point, we could probably be doing this for the
next thirty years. But two, because it's a lever of power,
using subpoena power bringing people in for investigations that keeps
them busy with this.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You now have prominent.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Democrats that are now defending this guy, including not a
huge surprise here because he's a lunatic as well, Chris
van Holland defending Platinner his Nazi tattoo and his social
media posts.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
The dude doesn't not have a Nazi tattoo. I mean,
let's be clear about what's going on here. I mean,
is that how do you view that? I mean, it
seems to be at least somewhat disqualifying and traditional, certainly historical.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Look, I mean, let's take a.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
Couple issues, including the comments he's made in the past.
I mean, he's been very clear that he went into combat,
I behalf the United States, he went through a really
rough period PTSD type period, and he is himself said
there are lots of things he's done and said that
he completely regrets, and I do believe people should have
(25:41):
second chances and.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That people can learn from their mistakes. Only if you're.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
On the left, though they give no grace to anybody
ever on the right. They have actively campaigned on convincing
their base of supporters to strip the humanity from anyone
who disagrees with your opinion. And this guy is just
one of the best examples of the of the of
the moment.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
Yeah, I mean, this is just the left has the
same problem every time. They have a far left problem,
and we have it in Minnesota too, people like Peggy Flanagan.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
They are winning the day with.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
The base, it's what the base wants, but they're not
ultimately winning elections. I mean, look at Susan Collins, She's
going to be just fine. She's pulled this out how
many times when when the expert said, you know, it
was never gonna happen, and the Left goes and runs
someone who's totally insane in a Nazi. I mean, it's
just classic. This is a problem they have constantly.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
In every state.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how the left pivots
when for the last ten years they've called Republicans Nazis
and then you run an actual Nazi. It's like kind
of invalidates just a little terrif whole brand. What I
will just say though, is for this grand Platner guy,
my understanding is he by trade, he's like an oyster
fisherman and kind of does represent some kind of blue
(26:58):
collar element in Maine. I don't know this state super well,
but one thing that we got to avoid as Republicans,
I think in a race like that is getting into
the woke scolding that has defined the Democrat Party for
so long. Now this guy sucks like he's got a
ton of stuff wrong with him.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I certainly would not want him representing me.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
But it's like, I know, this Susan Collins is smart,
and you got to attack him on the policy elements
of it because for him to for him to take
out an incumbent governor in this seat actually does speak
to people are willing to overlook you know, maybe it's
just the base, but people are willing to overlook some
(27:39):
of these things that we're talking about well, and I
wonder and while I tend to agree with you and not,
it's tough not knowing, you know, what the politics are
like in the region because that dictates so much, does
so so much of the commentary and how you're going
to go and encourage people to go and vote. It
is another example, in my mind, taking that thirty thousand
(27:59):
foot view of you just cannot rationalize with anybody on
the left, right, now and when it comes to the
GOP winning elections, you just have to focus on the
issues are there. That's obviously a part of it, it's
embedded in it, but just getting as many people out
to vote as possible. Right, If that's focusing on the
issues there, then great. If that's focusing on this guy's
a radical lunatic and you can't put him into office
(28:22):
because he's perpetuating the you know the idea of political
violence and things that we're dealing with, then you know,
focus focus on that. But again, it is another really
good example of just how the left is just not
a rational party anymore.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
And I do find it funny that we're talking about
this because it's Maine, right, And I don't know Maine
super well, but Maine strikes me is they want to
be more of a not make the news type of states,
not be Minnesota in nature. Yeah, this guy, if he
was running in Los Angeles or he's running in California,
we would be like, oh, that's that's part for the chorus.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That makes sense.
Speaker 17 (28:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
John at the Gray Zone did a dissection on Graham
Plattner about six months ago. This guy's deep state is
slot in or Spanberger. Grandpa, the architect, had all the money.
Daddy was the Marxist Democrat lawyer. He was a norm
Isisen before Ansen. This guy went to the Hodgkiss school.
(29:22):
You don't even get into the Hodgskiss school as easily
as you get into Brown or Yale.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Thank you for the comment on the iHeartRadio asks good
points talkback, sir, brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. Since
we're talking about voting, I thought it might be fun
to go through this editorial. H This is written by
A Feven test Faye lives in Savage seven.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It's an interesting name. Fve ve e n even hadn't
heard that before.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Seven says as a soon to be first time voter
in Minnesota this fall okay, so not quite eighteen, which
just means that we should really take a Feven's view
to art.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Clearly an individual who's lived.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
There are people in the Minnesota legislature who wanted Faven
to vote two years ago.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
So Feven says, I assume which way? What are we
attributing male or female?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
On seven? I'm gonna go female, right.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
I would have gone male.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Would you got male? I got to read what the
editorials say okay, then I can.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
I don't know if there's any clues in this. See
I say female, we have two votes for male. What
do you you're You're not male?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're male? Sam feven feminine? Or I'm looking into it Maine.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Okay, he's looking up all right, poorn getting raked over
the colls early just for if they care about that
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know, but you gotta know what their pronouns are.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Right, could be either.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Since childhood seven rites, I have understood the importance because
both my parents are immigrants from Ethiopia. When they moved
into Savage, where I've lived my whole life, they took
my sister and me to a polling place every election.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
That doesn't help, just in terms of the gender of even.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I know, I'm listening with large grins and showed us
how lucky we were to be in a place that
prioritized all voices. That's sweet, It is nice, right, Okay, give.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Credit where credits due to seven.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Recently, as the days have drawn near for me to
actually vote, the concept has become more abstract and distant,
even though I have participated in democracy in many forms.
Organized voter registration drives to joining the youth in government
the biggest driver of democracy. Voting has become harder than before,
(31:33):
opines Feven. I have found that young people are eager
and enthusiastic about voting, it the process can still seem challenging.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I've talked to students who.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Were unaware of the locations of polling stations, the acceptable
forms of identification, or how to fit voting into their
very busy schedules filled with classes, additional education, and pay jobs.
I've even had to verify the details myself, writes Feven,
to ensure sure that I had grasped all of the
(32:02):
necessary information before I continue any further. Does anybody have
any initial thoughts or should I just can?
Speaker 9 (32:09):
What should we should we tell Feven about Google?
Speaker 8 (32:11):
I know this is an eighteen year old writing this
complaining that he can't Google. This would take a young
person like two minutes to investigate online.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Also, let's add in the fact that the whole point
at this piece is that Feven wants people to vote
using their phones, but yet it seems to be incapable
of figuring out how to use those things on your
phone which can assist you with everything that you just
mentioned in terms of the challenges when it comes to voting.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
He wants a text he wants a text message to
come in that says do you want this.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Governor or that governor? And that's the entire process for him.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Sam, did we get a confirmation on the agenda of
fven for her? By the way, it was really it
is a female Okay, of course I thought it was good.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Yeah, that was the same vibe that I got from
the article as well. I hate to say it, you know,
I don't know. I mean, there wasn't anything really specific
in terms of the gender language, but the way that
it was written, I was leaning towards it being a
not a dig by industretch.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
I can't tell with young guys today, though, it's true metrosexual.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Back in my day, I think kanuses go off every time.
There were like two times in that article so far
where it was like protect our democracy.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Can get that clip to please Sam?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I was a metrosexual. Metrosexual.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Anybody know the top cologne for one who would have
identified as a metrosexual back in the day.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I don't know what that is. What is a metrosexual?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
It's a sensitive man.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
It was like a sensitive man a little fruity.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
But it was no, I wouldn't I know metrosexual, wasn't.
It was more just you were in touch with your
masculine masculinity but also your feminine side. But you weren't
like You weren't like the You weren't the jock, you
weren't the man's man. You understood what good grooming was.
You cared about your appearance.
Speaker 17 (33:51):
You cared about your appearance. You wanted to smell good.
I can sum this up pretty easily. Timothy's shallow may.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Good point juste reference. By the way, c K one
would have been the colonne of choice, that's metrosexual back
in the back in the day. And I was like, yeah,
I had that. I was sporting that. That wasn't me.
Speaker 17 (34:12):
But uh no, k is it was popular in my
in my day.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let me some K one all right? Back to uh
feven and her editorial.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Additionally, for some Mintons Minnesotan's, particularly those in rural communities,
voting may require hours of travel.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But but if.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
That's that's true, Max, you want not true.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
It's not true.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
I mean, like listen, Actually, it's a problem in Greater Minnesota,
where a lot of precincts in Greater Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It is mail in ballots only, you know, so they I.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Mean, maybe there's like one guy like in really far
north of Minnesota, all the way out by himself and
me up the travel miles.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
But guess what that dude.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Is in Greater is in northern Minnesota for a reason.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
He ain't voting. He ain't voting. He drives out to
get his new gun.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
And that's you know, that's that's the extent of the
civic process he engages with.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
He's there for a reason. All right, Before we continue,
I do take it to a couple of comments from
the Iheartradia lapp.
Speaker 15 (35:10):
Listen here seven. I somehow figured out how to go
and vote pre internet. We just kind of figured it out. Yeah,
I don't know the newspaper, your parents somebody told you.
I don't know that we had to go figure out
how to register. I have no idea. I had no Google,
I know way to look it up. I didn't know
where My point precinct was, how do we survive? It
is not harder now than it was then. Get over
(35:31):
at your little whiny brat get oh love.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
The anger coming out.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
That's a great point yes, seven, How are you.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
Doing things before the Internet?
Speaker 7 (35:39):
I asked myself that all the time.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
By the way, you live in Minnesota registering to vote,
I can say, this is my friend who lives under
a bridge.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Can you please get them a ballot?
Speaker 8 (35:48):
It could not be easier for you to go vote.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Talking about.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Hey seven, since you haven't voted before, let me give
you a clue. Nothing has changed and you still need
an ID to prove who you are. You don't at
least we used to in Minnesota, and you still have
to look up where your polling place is. None of
these things are magical. It's hard about it. It's just
becoming an adult.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Grow up, dear.
Speaker 20 (36:16):
I find it hard to believe that you can't find
a polling place or the hours the polls are open.
You have a phone in your hand, and you grew
up with one in your hand. Go to the Secretary
of State's website. Even an old person like me can
figure that out.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
All right.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
So feven goes on to say, this is not a
matter of indifference, but of accessibility. That's why I believe
we need to go where the voters are, and for
my generation that is our mobile phones.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
As you've probably noticed.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
We young people have become accustomed to using our mobile
phones for almost any activity, organizing school events, organizing state
wide campaigns, participating in civil and political debates. However, when
it comes to something as vital as voting, we are
forced to participate in a process that does not yet
correspond with outur way of life.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
Oh my gosh, this is the most privileged, entitled take
on voting I've ever heard in my life. She's explaining
to readers that young people use their phones, and so
we should vote by phones.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
That's it, that's her argument.
Speaker 9 (37:21):
And a pen and paper is not our way of life.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Yeah, just got to go where they are.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Yeah, Yeah, Minnesota can begin that change with a SF
of forty five fifty nine and HF forty nine sixty two,
a bipartisan bill that would allow cities to offer mobile
voting in municipal elections if they choose. And as I
mentioned earlier, yeah, because that's gone so well when it
comes to our new state flag and the controversy that's
currently surrounding that issue.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Do we know where that this whole bill had to
have died?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Do we have? You?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Were you aware of any of this? Max Is this
new needs. I would have thought this would have made
news if this was anywhere near being debated or or
or discussed.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
No, it got introduced in mid April, and that we're
already passed deadlines. There's there's nothing happening on this bill
in the House. So do not fret, at least for
this year. Although I'm sure Democrats if they get a
if they get power back, would love nothing more than
for this to be priority number one.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
I'm sure feven is very disappointed. Did you, by the way,
do we know the origin of feven? Is it like
a derivative of Heaven or something. I'm just out of curiosity.
Did it tell you that I that it really matters
that much. I'm just I'm putting Sam on the spot.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
That was part of it. Was just I know, I
didn't tell you.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
I was just curious the translation on the talkbacks had
had put Heaven down instead because it mishurt somebody.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
And I was like, oh, wonder if it's derivative of
that at all.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
By the way, Heaven not to continue to dunk on
a seventeen year old who wrote an hotbed and we
can't though, if you want.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
To listen, you're a seventeen year.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Old who lives in Savage, Minnesota, and you're talking about
voter access in greater Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
You know nothing about.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
That, right about?
Speaker 11 (39:00):
What do you know?
Speaker 7 (39:01):
It's very simple?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
No, I think you guys missed the subtle insult to
outstate Minnesota, where the rocks and cows are. This person
doesn't know that there's actually voting stations outside of the
Twin Cities area because, according to most Democrats, there is
no Minnesota outside the Twin Cities metro area.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So let's wrap up. Even though this isn't going anywhere,
she still attempts to make some points here. It might
sound futuristic, but there have.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Been successful mobile voting pilots in several states. You want
to know what states that you want to take a
you probady guess what states are California? No, we have Seattle, Charleston,
South Carolina, and Denver, Ah. Of course, security is as
important as accessibility. My generation banks on our smartphones, communicates
with them, organize our lives with technology protected by multi
(39:55):
factor authentication and encryption. Sof Evan just assumes, as we
have that this will completely be protected if we were
to go to being able to vote on our phones.
Mobile voting is not only possible, but it's also safe
and transparent as long as it includes these protections. Even
encouraging young voters who are still getting familiar with the
process to participate mobile voting would not take away from
(40:19):
other voting methods. It would only add to them as
a first time voter. I don't want the hardest part
of participating in democracy to be figuring out how to vote.
It should be the responsibility of making an informed choice.
The future of voting should reflect the way we live today,
and for my generation, that future is already in our hands.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Listen of all the.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Bad ideas, this is the baddest of the bad ideas.
On almost every conceivable anger. It's not secure, it would
never be secure, easily manipulated. The psychological component, given the
pure propaganda that is peddled online as of late, clone phones,
fake people going and getting the app to go and vote.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I mean, I could just go on and on for
the rest of the show.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Of all the ways that this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Look, if you can't go online and find your polling
place and manage to get yourself a ride to the
polling place, and manage to show that you are the
person that should be voting. If you can't follow these
extremely basic steps, I don't think you should be voting.
It's a nice little, you know barrier.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
I totally agree of. Like, first of all, we don't
live in a democracy. We live in a constitutional republic,
and I actually don't think that we should make it
as easy as humanly possible for everyone to vote. You
have a right to vote, you have a right to participate,
but that doesn't mean we have to show up at
your door and make it as simple as humanly possible.
There should be some barrier to entry, some level that
you have to pass to show that you care and
(41:48):
that you're informed to some degree.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
It should be something that should carry with it a
level of difficulty. And when I say difficulty, I mean
the same level of difficulty that you have going through
the drive through at a Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I mean just to go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
It should be a process that you respect, that you
want to do in person to take part in it,
because that is the most secure way. I am absolutely
on board with making it a one.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Day to vote.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Everybody gets the day off, you can go to your
polling place, show your ID, and vote. I think that
would be the best, the safest, and the most fair
way to conduct our elections. This is the complete opposite
of that. Yeah, to your point, voting is a sacred duty.
It's your responsibility.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
It's your civic duty to not even duty, but like
it's your civic responsibility. If you think you are worth
casting a vote, then there should be something level of difficulty.
I will just say, Catherine, you brought up the basic
things that you should do when you're voting. Well, in
Minnesota right now, you have forty five days to vote.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
You don't need a ID.
Speaker 6 (43:01):
In fact, you can go collect ten ballots of your
friends and mail them on their behalf. We have made
it way too easy to vote, and you're telling me
that I can't be inconvenienced with any of that.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
I need to.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
I need to be able to like go and type
my candidates on Reddit and that should count as a vote.
Speaker 9 (43:18):
Press B for you know, Max Rhymer Like.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, it's like just the text message you respond to. Yikes.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
We're going to continue this conversation coming up in hour three.
As a matter of fact, speaking of phones, Disney has
just moved to ban you're actually having a phone on
a lot of their rides. We'll give you the details
on this and I got a stack of stuff that
we'll be diving into. I'm really really excited about. And Max,
I absolutely agree with you when you said it should
be your duty right. You should.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
You should respect your duty to go and vote.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Speaking of duty, did you know that the average person
spends a total of ninety two days on the toilet.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's a lot of time.
Speaker 19 (43:56):
So using fefins logic, maybe that's where we should be voting.
Speaker 16 (44:00):
It should be a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Sometimes have a good day by not
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