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New revelations about the Graham Platner origin story. A Biden civil war is breaking out into the open and one state is thinking about banning meat and forcing vegetarianism. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. Last night, President Trump attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals with the New York Knicks, who he's been a longtime fan of, against the San Antonio Spurs. Meanwhile, President Trump is working hard to maintain some degree of peace between Israel and Iran, particularly after Iran fired missiles at Israel on Sunday night and Israel returned fire. This from Barack Ravid. Netanyahu said in a statement on Monday that he decided to hold fire against Iran because the Iranians stopped attacking Israel. If they make a mistake and resume attacks, we will respond powerfully. Israel has the right to defend itself and we implement it when needed. Netanyahu said he told this to President Trump. He claimed Iran and Hezbollah tried to establish a new equation of firing on Israel with Israel not responding. That is unacceptable. Netanyahu said President Trump believes that if he can keep people from firing at each other, they might be able to work out final details of a deal to set up conversations about a larger peace deal. That remains to be seen. This conflict and then the stalled ceasefire where no one's actually ceasing fire now has gone on for several months. We'll see where this actually goes. We've talked quite a bit here about Graham Platner and how he got as far in this race without significant vetting from the Democrats side. We've talked about the fact that Chuck Schumer got behind Curry, current Maine Democrat Governor Janet Mills, and did some vetting of her. But Graham Platner came from a very different place within the Democratic Party and was not vetted at all. And we've learned a little bit from a news story over the weekend how that happened.
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Interviewer
At this point, you hadn't vetted Graham Platner. You hadn't done a full scrub of who he is. How did you go about vetting him and why did you?
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Host
This is video from the Wall Street Journal, who interviewed the Democrat socialist couple that found Graham Platner and put him out there. And when you hear her laug at the vetting, she's kind of all of us. They seem to acknowledge the fact that they dropped the ball on the most basic googling of this guy for Example, just to give you a little bit of inside baseball, Graham Platner has the same username that P Hustle that John Fadderman keeps making fun of. Same username on YouTube that he also had on Kik, the platform where men meet underage women and groom them. He also had that same username for Reddit where he had the history of insane comments. Somehow nobody seemed to catch that. And they get into this in that interview.
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Narrator
We paid a nice firm a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back. Some of what you've seen on the news we got back. Other stuff we didn't.
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Interviewer
Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial? No.
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Host
Yikes. Okay, so campaigns 101, you want to be able to figure out everything that can be used against you. And in this video, they go through the Nazi tattoo. They didn't know about it. Even though there are public photos of Graham Platner with the Nazi tattoo that have been out on Facebook for a long time. Him sitting on his boat shirtless with the Nazi tattoo out there. But also, as we learned from the New York Times story with Lindsey Fifield, Graham Platner has talked about his Nazi tattoo. He calls it my Totenkopf, but also even posted about it on social media. So the larger part of this you need to understand is if I'm a Democrat and I ever want Democrats to get elected again, I. I'm finding out who this research firm is that couldn't find the most basic things about Graham Platner and ensuring they never work in politics again. But a little bit more about this couple from the New York Post. Meet the champagne socialist duo who groomed rich kid Graham Platner into a working class candidate. Now, this is a group of Ivy League educated Democrat activists who are part of the Democrat Socialists of America, who work very closely with Bernie Sanders and his network to try and find these people that. That they can pitch as working class heroes. Graham Plattner, as we've talked about, is not a working class hero. His parents gave him $200,000 to buy his first house. They put him through Hotchkiss and an expensive boarding school, and they also funded essentially every aspect of his life. In the last several years, he's been living off of VA benefits on disability and not actually been working at all. And while he pitches himself as an oyster farmer, his only real customer is his mom's restaurant. So again, what these two people do is find people that kind of look the part and then help create and cur and narrative around them. Another person that they've worked on that I thought was really interesting here was Nebraska independent Senate candidate Dan Osborne. Now, Dan Osborne is a union leader. The Democrats have tried to say isn't another Democrat. That's why he's running as an independent, because in Nebraska, if you put a D by your name, you're going to lose. But this guy was found by Democrat socialist activists and put up to run. And again, just as with Graham Platner, they're doing everything they can to create an image that might make him more electable, even if it's completely detached from his actual identity. And as you'll remember From a previous 10 minute drill segment, Dan Osborne is using his campaign and the opportunity to run for office to pay his family members insane amounts of money. So if you're tempted by an image of a candidate that you think might be a new rough and tumble working class hero, check their background and make sure that they're not just another part of the cause. Playing Democrats have turned into such a sort of successful cottage industry. The other thing I wanted to highlight today is what Graham Platner says about the state of Democrats in America. Now, a number of great reporters went up to Maine over the weekend to sort of try and capture the fallout after Graham Platner's terrible week culminating in that New York Times story. They talked to a lot of voters. Now, one thing that I think is important to preface is if you're attending a campaign rally before a primary, most of the people that show up for that are already pretty engaged. And so it's not a surprise that you go to a Graham Platner campaign rally and find a lot of people who say, I'm not concerned about anything about this guy. I would walk across broken glass to get Graham Platner into office because their North Star is partisan politics. In defeating Susan Collins, we still heard some very startling things from this rally. Here's one.
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Audience Member
The Nazi tattoo. How do you kind of. Somebody said that they talked to somebody who had seen one of those or wore one of those and it was silver and it didn't even occur to him that it was the same thing. I think people are making as much of it as they can. He doesn't have a lot of substance around anything else. What if he has like Israeli flag tattoo or something? Would that be a deal breaker for me? Yeah. Honestly?
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Yeah. Understand what that woman is saying. She's saying a Nazi tattoo is not a big deal, but an Israel tattoo would be disqualifying if that's not shocking to you. I would also note that if you were to look at this lady's social media history, which I have not done, I, I'm sure she spends a lot of time calling other people fascists and yet a Nazi tattoo, not a big deal. But another troubling element to this is the Platner campaign announced they had their biggest fundraising day in history. Immediately after the New York Times story, this from Patrick's V tag, Graham Platner's campaign announced raising over $200,000 since publication of New York Times article calling it the best day of fundraising since Janet Mills dropped out. Now it is incredibly troubling that immediately after finding out Graham Platner abused women and that there's likely more shoes to drop about his history of violence against women, he raised the most money he's ever raised throughout this campaign. That is a really scary thing. But also they released a map showing the fact that he raised money from all 50 states. Now if you look closely at that, you'll see a giant clump of donations all up the coast of California, particularly in Los Angeles and San Francisco. No surprise there. Then you look at New York, you look at Chicago, you look at a lot of these big cities and you see the, this is where Graham Platner's getting so much money from. I've always been fascinated by Senate candidates that wanna tout getting donations from all 50 states. That doesn't mean that you're going to be a good senator. It means you're gonna be answering to everybody else outside of your own state. But another piece to this sort of what Graham Platner says about the state of Democrats today. Ro Khanna, who has been an active defender of Graham Platner in large part I believe because he wants to carry on the Bernie mantle. Graham Platner is a Bernie Sanders hand selected groomed candidate who's carrying on Bernie Sanders vision for champ socialism in America. And Ro Khanna wants to own the Bernie Sanders Lane in 2028 if Bernie Sanders doesn't run. So Ro Khanna has attached himself to Graham Platner at the hip. He rallied with him on Friday night. He tried to dismiss away the allegations against him. Then on Sunday he went on TV and did this.
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Ro Khanna
My sense is before the primary a lot of this has come out. Obviously look, if there was evidence of violence, I would not support him. If there was evidence of a sexual assault, I'd have zero support.
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Host
What you can see there is Ro Khanna wants to have it both ways. He wants to maintain the believe all women mantle that most Democrats right now are throwing out like hot garbage so that they can try and win this Senate seat and ignore Lindsey Fifield and every other woman who's raising red flags about Graham Platner. But at the same time, he's saying if there were evidence of violence, which Lindsey provided a vivid firsthand account of, but Ro Khanna is basically dismissing her account when he says, if there was this evidence of violence, I would not be able to support him. But what you need to understand here is Graham Platner had a history of talking incredibly violently, downplaying things like sexual assault, saying that women had a responsibility in their own rape. He also talked about the fact that he was in a drunken stupor most of this period of his life. So for you to believe him over Lindsey, who gets nothing out of this except for having her name dragged through the mud by Graham Platner and his paid minions. If you're willing to believe Graham Platner over that, throw out believe all women forever and always. And Democrats will have no moral high ground to ever challenge any of these kind of character issues again if they stick with this dirt bag. There's a big fight brewing between Texas and New York. And I'm not talking about the NBA Finals between the spurs and the Knicks. This is between New York's failing public schools and a new model in Houston, Texas that's getting a lot of attention. This from Bethany Mandel. NYC's failing $43 billion schools need some tough Texas tutoring. New York City spends roughly $43 billion a year to educate about 850,000 students, putting the rest of the country's spending to shame. That's over $44,000 per child per year. The result of that astronomical figure? Two thirds of fourth graders can't do math properly and nearly three quarters can't read at grade level. Along with poor academic outcomes, those billions are buying increasingly unsafe schools. School assaults are rising even as city schools suspend fewer students. So again, this is a problem we've talked about in the education system for a long time in blue states and blue cities. And anything tied to the federal Department of Education under Democrat leadership has largely meant more and more spending while outcomes have decreased. There's a lot of explanations for that. In a lot of cases, it's that money's going to bureaucracy, it's going to advisers over academic programs, it's going to work woke nonsense that you need expensive consultants to come into schools to implement while it's not actually helping students. Meanwhile, down in Houston in Houston, Texas. Just two years into a dramatic state led intervention, student gains in the Houston Independent School District are the envy of urban districts across the country. The district emphasized the basics and introduced a curriculum reform plan, the New Education System In Underperforming schools. The NES model adds more direct instruction, longer reading and math blocks, daily quizzes and an extended school day. The program started in 85 low performing campuses, but it's proved so popular that more than half of the system's 274 principals have voluntarily opted in. Now this is the kind of smaller government, lower government intervention system that we're seeing work in a lot of places. We see a bunch of red states like Mississippi that are testing out innovative programs that are incredibly simple to try and help students get over this hump. And, and we're seeing that again, it costs less but is actually improving performance. So thanks Bethany for this op ed and we'll continue to try and find these stories of people who are doing more with less to make it work better. We move over to Oregon where a very troubling development is underway by way of an initiative Oregon Petition to criminalize Hunting Fishing reaches signature threshold this is Initiative Petition 28, which would essentially criminalize hunting fishing, but much more broadly anything that kills or causes animals discomfort. From the petition text. It is the policy of the state of Oregon that animals should be cared for in ways that minimize their pain, stress, fear and suffering. This is a very comprehensive petition that will make it near impossible to get food from animals in Oregon. They're essentially going to force vegetarianism and they've been trying to collect signatures on this for several years now. And it seems like they're getting enough to get this on the ballot. And this would be an incredibly extreme measure pushed by some of the lunatic animal welfare groups that would be very happy for people to starve if they don't have access to food, if it meant that animals could live a little bit longer. But it goes much further than that into things like this. Adequate bedding means bedding of sufficient quantity and quality to permit a domestic animal to remain dry and reasonably clean and maintain a normal body temperature. I don't know if that means that they're essentially going to build out a system that for people to go to your house and check your pet's temperature and things like do they have a very specific kind of shelter, things like that. But this is a scary thing that people need to keep an eye on, not just for what it means for hunting and fishing, which is a huge deal, but just for people's everyday lives with lots of unintended consequences. And when you talk about a state that's trying to get rid of any kind of meat consumption whatsoever makes me think this might be a good place for Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico to, to go and run for office. We've talked a little bit about Jill Biden's book tour and how inexplicable it is that she'd be wanting to dig up some of these old wounds from 2024 that most Democrats are trying to put behind them and avoid ever talking about. And it has created some new friction. Democrats enraged by Joe Biden's book. As ex first lady puts Joe's disastrous debate back in the news. She must have had a stroke herself. That's from the New York Post. A number of Democrats, most of them off the record anonymously in media reports like the New York Post. But some on the record have been voicing frustration with Joe Biden trying to bring all this back up to sell a few books when most of them are trying to move on with their careers. One person who's gotten a lot of attention for this is former mid level communications staffer Andrew Bates. He said, I don't see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now. Yikes. Now Andrew was one of Biden's most ardent defenders. He was in the media all the time tweeting all sorts of really dumb things in defense of Joe Biden. Like this to answer the question on everyone's minds, no, Joe Biden does not have a doctorate in foreign affairs. He's just that effing good. Now that was a press conference after the debate that blew up the campaign where Joe Biden was trying to reassure people. That was the bravado of Andrew Bates. But it wasn't just that. It was also things like he was the tip of the spear in attacking any reporter that questioned Joe Biden's age. This from Fox new book exposes how top Biden. Com staffer was tip of the spear covering up Biden's cognitive decline. Andrew was also the main person pushing back on videos that were video evidence of Joe Biden wandering off places calling them cheap fakes, which was a made up phrase to get you to believe that video you were seeing was somehow altered when it actually wasn't. And they got media to run with that. And that was Andrew. So this is the guy that Joe Biden's now attacking.
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Audience Member
So I want to say to Andrew, call me up and say it to my face, buddy. Wow.
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Host
Now, Jill taking on Andrew opened up an even bigger food fight with people saying, wait a sec, this was your most shameless defender in the media, and now you're coming at him like that in public. And she would say, you know, he came after us in public. But suffice to say, pass me the popcorn because this one is a lot of fun to watch. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please leave us a review, leave us a comment, leave us a rating, tell your friends and have a great rest of your day.