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Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce one. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today, the topic is the albatross around the Democrat neck P. Hustle, the nickname John Fetterman has bestowed on the vile Graham Platner. It doesn't matter that Platner has just stepped aside. It's too late for the Democrats to save face. The party of MeToo has shown its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal. Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat endorsed Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out. But it's me Too late to save face. Conservatives always knew the left's effort to assert moral superiority on matters of sex, race and ideology were play actors acting. But now it's undeniable for even their most blinkered supporters. The Democrat Party's defence of Platner to the bitter end against an avalanche of rape and sexual abuse allegations, not to mention his Nazi tattoo, has left them exposed as hypocrites. They weaponise moral outrage against the right while rationalizing far worse on their own side. They waved away reports of Platner's issues with women when they first surfaced two months ago in the form of Reddit posts in which he downplayed sexual assault and suggested victims only had themselves to blame if they got drunk. These disturbing comments were dismissed as old and irrelevant and excused on the pretext that Platner was suffering from ptsd, an insult to all the military veterans who don't treat rape like a legitimate spoil of masculinity. In any case, Platner, 41, wrote the posts a decade ago, when he was old enough to know better. Senator John Fetterman was the lone voice in the Democrat Party calling out Platner from the start as a creep and dirtbag. He dubbed him P Hustle, the name Platner used on Kik, a grooming messaging app for underage kids, where he sent explicit messages for a decade and and as recently as last year, when Platner was revealed to have cheated on his new wife by sexting at least six women after getting married in 2023, Democrats said he was, quote, a good, decent man who's struggled and grown. A month ago, when the New York Times published its soft soap catch and kill story in which multiple ex girlfriends euphemistically described unsettling encounters with Platner, including physical intimidation, Democrats again excused Platner by attacking the victim, conservative Lindsay Fifield. The Times chose to highlight Fifield while burying the graphic rape claim of another alleged victim, Jenny Racicot, a liberal ex girlfriend of Platner who might have attracted more sympathy from their readers. Seems like a lot of nothing, democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said of the Times piece. The only one who had anything to say that seemed unsettling was a woman who works for right wing political operations by design, as Fifield would later bitterly complain. It was that betrayal by the Times that persuaded Rasicot to come forward again this week to catalogue her shocking rape claim. She alleged to Politico and CNN that a drunk Platner entered her rural home uninvited one night in 20, grabbed her pelvis and forcibly raped her despite her repeated pleas for him to stop. The vaunted Times, the media outlet that most energetically prosecuted the MeToo explosion in the last decade, has equally been exposed for staggering hypocrisy. Times reporter Jodi Cantor, who won a pulitzer for her MeToo takedowns, opined to CNN last month that Platner wasn't guilty of MeToo infractions because, quote, were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships. End quote. Oh, that's okay then. It was this kind of endorsement from the gatekeepers of left wing morality that allowed Platner to stay in the race. The Nazi tattoo he proudly sported for almost two decades should have been a warning, but Democrats cared only about power. My Tottenkopf, he would say in a German accent, and reportedly called his penis mein. The hypocrisy from the same people who accused Elon Musk of giving a Nazi salute when he innocently raised his arm on stage at a Trump rally, and who rail against Trump and MAGA Republicans as fascists is astonishing. He's my kind of man, purred lefty Senator Elizabeth Warren. He sure is. And Democrats are saddled with his legacy. They are back where they were in June 2024, held hostage by a fatally flawed candidate who blew himself up at the 11th hour and then demanded he choose his own successor. They haven't learned a thing from the Biden fiasco. Again, they only have themselves to blame for trying to fool lavosiers with a candidate who is not what he appears to be. Joe Biden was not honest, modest or moderate. He just pretended to be. He was not the grown up in the room who would end the chaos and unify the country. He was a divisive revolutionary with cognitive problems who flung open the border and wreaked damage on this country it will take a generation to get over. Similarly, Platner is not a working class oysterman with a heart of gold, but an alleged rapist, rabid communist, anti Semite and proven pathological liar who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has recklessly abused his privilege all his life. Life. Like so many spoiled rich kids, he never grew up. His mother is reportedly his only oyster customer and his father paid for his house. Quote Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats, said Daniel Moraf, the ex Bernie Sanders staffer and socialist recruiter with Male Vocal Fry who discovered Platner. Times columnist Michelle Goldberg admitted this week that his appeal was, quote, working class aesthetics married to uncompromising lefty politics. A commie in a Mainer costume, in other words. Quote this guy is an authentic man, gushed Senator Reuben Gallego. No, Platner cosplayed authenticity with his flannel shirts and gravelly voice. He was a caricature of what the left thinks is an authentic white working class man, a marginal upgrade from Tim Waltz after demonizing masculinity for a decade, Democrats have driven authentic men out of their party and can't even recognize the real thing anymore. They insulted men and the working class by insisting that a person of Platner's low character represented their values. Hilariously, it didn't work. The white working class voters who are the key to winning the light blue state smelled a phony a mile off. Despite his vow to fight against corporate greed and and the billionaire oligarchy, Platner was trailing Republican incumbent Susan Collins by 23 points with White non college educated voters, according to a New York Times Portland Press Herald Sienna poll released last week. If his polls weren't tanking, chances are Dems would still be circling the wagons around their Frankenstein monster. They'll only hold their nose and vote for the devil if the devil can beat Donald Trump. That is their sole moral calculus these days and the sour their party's collapse. Instead of coming up with alternative policies for the betterment of the country, they just lazily lean into the Trump derangement syndrome. They have stoked in their base for a decade. It worked in 2020 when they tricked the electorate with Honest Joe Biden. But like the Iranians with the Hormuz strait, it's a trump card you can only play once. Thanks for listening. I'll be back with another mini episode on Monday. Hope you can tune in and enjoy the rest of your week.