Adventures in HellwQrld - Adventures in HellwQrld Presents: Destroying the White House and Nazi Tattoos

Oct. 27, 2025 - Adventures in HellwQrld

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Adventures in HellwQrld Presents: Destroying the White House and Nazi Tattoos

This week talk about Trump pardoning anyone he feels like and destroying chunks of the White House for his giant, bribe funded ballroom. We then discuss the Nazi Tattoo guy in Maine and how it's insane people are defending him. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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	The Adventures in Hell World podcast talks in depth about QAnon.
	While it's meant to be comedic informative, sometimes we have to get into things like child abuse and violence against people.
	Listener discretion advised.
	Hello, everybody.
	I am Mike Raines, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hell World.
	This week I am joined by Eric, the deep state operative.
	Hi, and I just want to officially announce right now that I am replacing my SS tattoo with one of Jeffrey Epstein.
	A bold and far less controversial decision.
	That's a good idea.
	Epstein has way less stink on him than the SS.
	It's very good.
	We're going to carry Maine in a landslide now, baby, let me tell you.
	And we're also joined by Steph.
	Hey, Steph.
	I'm here.
	She's here.
	She made it.
	Busy from fresh off her shift of destroying the east wing of the White House.
	Steph is here.
	With her bare hands.
	With her.
	Yeah, just barely.
	I just drew her.
	Just ripping apart paintings of Abraham Lincoln with her bare hands.
	Screaming the whole time that jet fuel doesn't melt steel bars.
	Yeah.
	I was trying to figure out a bit for that.
	I was trying to figure out what is my 9-11 talking point joke about the White House being destroyed.
	Someone that I was, okay.
	I was thinking of making this joke myself, but because I'm such a 9-11 nerd, I know it wouldn't have actually been an accurate joke.
	Someone had posted a picture of like the construction going on at the White House, and it said Trump did what Osama bin Laden couldn't.
	And that is funny.
	And I was thinking of posting it too, but the reason I didn't is because Flight 93, they think it was either headed for the White House or the Capitol building.
	And most evidence points to the Capitol building.
	So I was like, I'm not going to make that joke because it's not accurate.
	But yeah, yeah, no.
	Yeah.
	What if we said Donald Trump did what the British couldn't do in 1812?
	But they did burn down the White House.
	Okay.
	Yeah, didn't they have something to do with the ice cream lady?
	Isn't there an ice cream named after one of the president's wives, Dolly something?
	Dolly Madison.
	Yeah, I thought there was like some kind of ice cream.
	Yeah, no, there's like some kind of like, yeah, there's some kind of like a bakery company or something called that.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Fun fact for everybody out there.
	Oh, that's what this podcast is all about.
	Oh, and if anyone wants to, if you want to look me up on Patreon and check out my InfoWars board games for The Sims 4, I had a lot of fun making them, and I have an Alex Jones flashlight for The Sims 4, too.
	I can't confirm the board games are funny.
	I like the one of Alex Jones.
	It was called Axis and Axis, which if you're not a video board game nerd like me, it's a reference to Axis and Allies.
	Oh, I think Axis and Allies is broken containment.
	I don't know.
	I think it's still kind of like the kind of still consider the redhead a stepchild to risk.
	Well, I mean, risk is just so old and like also unplayable.
	Not that Axis and Allies is any better.
	You better pack a lunch if you're going to play either of those games because they are not ending anytime soon.
	When I played Risk, we would all take out our phones and take pictures so that we can come back the next day and take off where we left, you know, where we were before.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	That's like, that's the problem with all the old tiny games that are like just have been popular due to legacy.
	I just, every time I see like, oh, look, it's a reskin of Monopoly.
	Who doesn't want four hours of crippling tedium?
	Oh, man.
	Well, you know, they didn't have TV back then.
	They had to do something while the hours away.
	They lose something to grind the day away.
	Exactly.
	Which is why I, whenever, whenever that happens, I'm like, you, do you realize you can just play Catan and it's 45 minutes to a half hour and it's over and you've actually completed the game and it's been fun.
	Whereas Monopoly is literally four hours and it all just comes down to some moron making a terribly bad trade or one guy getting lucky and getting a monopoly on a not terrible section of properties and then the game is over.
	I mean, it's just you, I'm sure I was laughing because you reminded me of I was playing Catan with a group of friends and two of them there had just recently broken up and the guy was just being a total dick about it.
	Like to the point like that his ex-girlfriend was like crying in the middle of the game.
	So so me being the big chivalrous Goomba that I am, I decided, okay, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to hit him where it hurts.
	So we're playing and he's like, he's like, okay, I need some, I need some sheep.
	I'm like, I have sheep.
	He's like, will you trade it for me?
	Like, no.
	He's like, well, here, I'll give you all this.
	I'm like, no.
	It's like, you got it.
	I'm like, I don't gotta.
	I don't have to make a trade with you if I don't want to.
	Yeah.
	And he was getting so salty about it.
	Yeah, I remember you telling that story.
	And then I told the story about the guy who, the lady who came through when I was in an actual serious Catan tournament and the lady game through because the kid was weeby, then he got to like seven points while the rest of us were all at like four.
	And then we played Catan correctly and caught up to him.
	And he was just like, I was going to win.
	Now it's close.
	And this old lady felt bad for him and came through.
	And I was just out of my mind livid because you can't do that in a competitive format.
	We're playing for real prizes here.
	Hey, get some thicker skin, lady.
	I got to take note when I, whenever I tell an anecdote, I got to write it down because I knew I had told that story recently, but I didn't realize it was two you guys or I wouldn't have said it again.
	No problem.
	Anyhow, I actually got a listener question.
	And I think we're going to just like do listener questions at the start of the show.
	If anyone ever sends one, DM me, DM the other co-hosts, contact us on, post a comment on Spotify or whatever, because Eric reads those comments.
	But a Twitter account called No Angel messaged me and said, can you send me the Hillary face carving video?
	To which I told them, no, I cannot, but there are a lot of people who claim they can.
	So if you go out looking in this big, bad world of ours, you'll find plenty of people who've seen it.
	And weirdly enough, cannot get you a copy of it.
	But boy, if they did, you'd be scarred for life.
	And get me a copy of Lol's Superman while you're out there.
	What I like so much about that is that these people will tell this story.
	They'll be like, this video is so disturbing that hardened NYPD officers committed suicide after watching it.
	And then I and I've watched it three times, but I'm fine.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	Literally, like the first 20 people who watched it blew their brains out.
	But you, the 21st person to have watched Frazzle Drip, you were just like, eh, whatever.
	Hey, yeah, they carved that kid's face off.
	Yeah, Hillary was wearing it.
	Oh, they're drinking.
	They're drinking the child's fear-infused blood.
	Ain't that a cliche?
	Rolling your eyes.
	Just like.
	Oh, boy.
	This world we live in.
	This magical world we live.
	And again, that's like one of the big things that QAnon does to sell itself to its audience is that the normies can't handle this shit, man.
	But us, the elect, the awake but not woke, we can handle this hard shit without like it breaking our brains.
	Yeah.
	Because we're powerful.
	We're like the ultra cool people.
	Yeah, that's like that.
	That's that's like a big draw of conspiracy theories in general.
	But I do say it a lot more with QAnon is that it's like you are privy to information that most people wouldn't be able to accept.
	You are special because you know this secret knowledge.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's the heroine.
	That's the heroine, man.
	That's the heroine of the conspiracy theories.
	And you need more and you need more and you need more.
	And then yeah, because you need more to get that sweet dopamine hit.
	Yeah.
	I did two episodes with Spencer Watson, Truth Unrestricted, about conspiracy theory addiction.
	But yeah, we talked.
	And I remember that when I saw Zeit and they were talking about controlled demolition of 9-11, you can hear I'm smiling, remembering the sensation.
	I actually, in my head, I said to myself, oh, I'm so high.
	I got to get into this because I've been off and on with the 9-11 stuff.
	But yeah, it gave me a rush and I kept chasing that rush, man.
	It's dragging.
	That's how social media drags you in, too.
	You're like, oh, I got a like.
	And your self-esteem goes up one point.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I've received one confirmation point.
	Yes.
	If I keep going, I could get 100.
	Oh, my God.
	There's something like every now and then, it's weird because it feels like on the average, a lot of my posts don't get as many likes as they usually do.
	But every now and then, I'll have something like break containment and get a ton of likes and it's crazy.
	And then I just have to remind myself, I'm like, dude, you're still way less popular than a 20-second video of an adorable kitten.
	Like, no matter how hard you're busting your ass to come up with the spiciest tweet you can think of.
	Oh, I want to see it.
	I want to see a kitten video.
	Right.
	That's what I'm saying.
	It's like, no matter how hard I work, I'm still multiple tiers below adorable kitten.
	Do the Zoom thing that that guy did in the one meeting where he turned into a kitten.
	Oh, I can't turn it off.
	Yes.
	But I say, yeah, that is one thing that brings me to earth real quick, though, is like I'll be feeling pretty good about myself.
	And then I'll look over my, and I'll notice that like I'll sit there and craft this tweet that I think is like brilliant and hilarious and poignant and makes a great point.
	And I'll get a like, one like, and then I'll post a meme and get 500 likes because I, because I posted it as some popular guy's account, it's like, okay, so it's cool that I got 500 hits, but it's for someone else's content.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So anyhow, Trump's destroying the White House.
	That's very exciting.
	You're saying he wouldn't.
	So, I mean, it's, I swear, it's, it's like, it's like, just take the opposite of what he says is the truth.
	It's, it's crazy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's, uh, it's what's wild about this is like so many people claimed that he was just like taking down this like overhang on the east wing and like that was all that was being destroyed and like the actual entirety of the east wing wasn't being destroyed and now it's all gone like there we have google earth photos of overhead shots of the white house and you can see like the main building and then you can see the west wing and the east wing is just gone it's just been leveled to the ground and
	and and the goalposts move because these same people who are like he's not going to destroy the entire east wing now they're like well it's not like this is the first time that the white house has been rebuilt yeah oh oh obama turned the tennis courts into a basketball court yeah i saw that one and then somebody else responded he painted a couple lines on a tennis court and installed a basketball hoop he didn't he didn't tear down half the the white house yeah oh yeah yeah but you know but it's always got to be what about
	obama anytime he does anything yeah
	exactly exactly i mean it's it's really it's just that ridiculous that oh jackie kennedy renovated the white house and if you look at like if you look at what jackie said it was really about like getting back to the tradition of the white house and its history and preserving and restoring that and honoring it it is the exact opposite of what they're doing right now it's really really insane that they
	would say this but of course they're going to say it because they're shameless they lie about everything and i just i hope whoever comes in after him at least uh i mean they can't obviously they can't get rid of the ballroom um um, but they at least make it less hideous on the inside than what he's got planned.
	Yeah, if we can get rid of all the gold, we can just de-goldify it.
	Yeah, my mom was talking about it.
	She saw a picture of me and she's like, She's like, Why is it?
	Why is everything golden?
	I'm like, Have you ever seen pictures of his Manhattan of his Manhattan penthouse?
	It's the man thing, the man thinks like he's mighty, King Midas.
	It's like everything he touches is gold.
	It's you can't buy taste.
	That's it's as simple as that.
	You can't buy taste.
	Oh, yeah, exactly.
	I mean, that's really what it is.
	Yeah, and it's not even a year, we're not even a year in.
	Yeah, it's matte.
	Yeah, it's truly magical.
	It's truly magical that we're not even a year into this crap, and this is what we're dealing with.
	And I mean, and as people are pointing out, uh, one of the big things they're renovating, they're renovating the bunker in the White House.
	Oh, yeah, the one that he quote-unquote investigated while there were protests going on outside.
	Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
	Um, like, so here's the uh, here's the quote from Jackie Kennedy: uh, everything in the White House must have a reason for being there, it would be sacrilege merely to redecorate it.
	A word I hate.
	It must be restored, and that has nothing to do with decoration, that is a question of scholarship.
	So, yeah, like Jackie was like on top of this shit.
	The Kennedys did not just go around dynamiting various sections of the White House to put their stamp on it.
	Well, that's why the CIA killed JFK because he didn't want to renovate.
	That's right.
	It's like, I'll give you a rose garden in your brain.
	I was literally three words from bringing up Chucky the typewriter, and then you motherfuckers just came in off the top rope and crushed me.
	I was just going to talk about how like Chucky the typewriter was sitting there somewhere in the White House when they were renting, they were redecorating it.
	He was like, You motherfuckers.
	That's right, that's right.
	Uh, Stephanie set up the pile driver, and then my uh entrance music came in for the uh for the interference.
	Yeah, yes, all of it, all of it, yeah.
	But I mean, it's just so ridiculous that again, there's they'll say anything.
	Obama redecorated the Kennedys redecorated.
	Yeah, everyone does this.
	It's like, no, they didn't, and you know, they didn't.
	You're lying, but you don't care that you're lying because that's what you do, yeah.
	That's what you people are all about.
	It's just pathological, the need to defend Trump, no matter what he does.
	Yes, yeah, lying liars and the lies they tell.
	Yep, oh, oh, that Al Franken book was great.
	I did very much enjoy it.
	Um, but uh, unfortunately, Al Al got caught, and that was the end of Al.
	Yeah, so yeah, such as life.
	Too bad Franken wasn't a Republican, he'd still be in office right now.
	Oh, or I mean, as we're as we're gonna get to it on the back end of this episode, if only he wasn't a hardcore lunatic progressive, boy, would have he found his defenders then if he was living in the world we have now, yeah.
	Uh, so yeah, uh, it's uh it's really crazy that, like, that's what we're dealing with.
	Uh, and then on top of uh, the White House annihilation uh campaign, we have uh Trump busting out his pardon pen and uh commuting the sentence of George Santos for no fucking reason.
	And literally, if you read the truth social post where he talked about it, he was mostly complaining about Senator Blumenthal and him lying about stuff that happened to him, and then he was like, Oh, yeah, but by the way, George Santos voted for most of the stuff I wanted, and for that reason, I'm commuting his sentence.
	Have a great day, George.
	Literally, openly stating that crimes are okay as long as you vote for me.
	The rule of law in America is effectively dead.
	Yeah, what was that?
	Uh, what's I can't remember what state it was, uh, Missouri or Minnesota, but he was, but but Trump was like, I'm going to send them, uh, I'm going to send them all the disaster relief money they need.
	And in a completely unrelated note, they voted for me three times, right?
	Exactly, exactly, yeah.
	Yeah, if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
	By the way, I'm a president for all Americans, except for the Americans I'm not the president for.
	They can go fuck themselves.
	Does he even claim to be the president for everybody anymore?
	No, but I mean, during during the campaigns, like some of his like his spokespeople would say that.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, that's where we're at with that shit.
	Uh, he pardons Santos.
	And then today he pardoned the guy that was running Binance, which was a giant crypto scam.
	And Trump pardoned Chang Penzao, I believe is the name.
	Again, I'm very bad with names and even worse with non-English names.
	So I do apologize.
	But basically, this guy has admitted to sanctions violations.
	He know he, I'm reading from a tweet from Adam Cochran where it says he had knowingly allowed groups like Hamas and Wagner to use Binance, had Binance partner with Trump's World Liberty Fi coin on their on their new stable coin.
	He was partnered with a group that includes Trump's sons and operates at a Trump Tower.
	He invested in these other these projects through YZI Labs, formerly Binance Venture Arm run by his partner.
	Then he was pardoned by Trump less than a month later.
	He had also served his time.
	So what difference does his pardons make?
	It lets him run Binance or other financial projects again and removes oversight requirements.
	So literally, they're just like letting him get his job back by pardoning him.
	So yeah, this is great.
	This is lovely.
	Again, pay to play.
	You scratch my back.
	I'll scratch yours.
	Just naked criminality.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, I totally lost what I was going to say.
	I am a professional.
	Yes.
	All three of us, professional podcasters.
	I totally know what we're doing.
	If you drank every time I said the word like, you would die within 20 minutes of this podcast starting.
	I cannot stop using filter words.
	When I catch myself using them, I get so angry.
	And then I vow to myself, next podcast, I won't do that.
	Yeah.
	And, then, Smash Cut 2 next podcast, Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like.
	And, I'm just like, No!
	Stop saying that word!
	Nope.
	I need to go to like podcast boot camp where they like where they they did it.
	I did it.
	Exactly.
	They, they're, I, I, I, I gotta, I gotta wear the shock collar of Hassan's dog.
	And every time I say like, I get a little zap to condition me to stop saying it.
	It'd be great.
	Just I need to, I need, I need the swear jar, but for the word like, and it has to be like 20 bucks a pop.
	It has to hurt.
	I have to actually feel that shit.
	I'm just, I'm just remembering an episode of uh Scooby-Doo where uh um where Velma was trying to get Shaggy to stop saying like all the time so she had to wear a rubber band on his wrist and he would snap it every time he said like yep that's where I'm at only I would probably like burst a blood vessel and die in the process because I just can't stop doing it and then we had this marvelous exchange between a member of the press and
	Trump about the pardon Collins member of the press today you pardoned the founder of Binance can you explain why you did that Trump which one was that Collins the founder of Binance Trump Trump.
	I believe we're talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people.
	I don't know.
	He was recommended by a lot of people.
	I just slide the pardon in front of me and I sign it.
	What more do you want?
	Right.
	They're like, signing here to get your diet coke.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Well, what gets me is these reporters never actually seem to notice this, but he always asks them, like, what are we talking about?
	Wait, wait, what was the question?
	I couldn't hear you.
	What was that?
	Who?
	Yes.
	That is the thing that is always so mind-blowing about this shit is that when the press comes into the room and they start talking to Trump, for the first 10 or 15 minutes, he's got his talking points and he goes through them.
	And then at the 15-minute mark, sometimes earlier, at that point, his brain just becomes tapioca and he no longer has any concept of what's going on.
	And he just refers to those talking points.
	But the moment we go off subject, he does not know what is going on at all.
	Like he could walk into the room and say, it's time for me to talk about my anti-inflation plan.
	And this is how it's going to work.
	And we're going to get drug prices down 2,000% and blah, blah, blah.
	And then someone will say something to him along the lines of, so Mr. President, what's our plan in Venezuela?
	And he'll just be like, Venezuela, that's one of them South American countries, right?
	Ah, we're going to do something there, I'm sure.
	And people will tell him, but Mr. President, we got bombers like flying over the country.
	We're about to go to war with them.
	And he would be all, oh, that's great.
	Because if we did that, then I could make the sue for peace.
	And I'm the peace president.
	And I've ended nine wars.
	I'm about to end number 10 with Russia.
	He's literally a doll that you pull the string on.
	And he just says the pre-recorded line.
	And if he doesn't have a pre-recorded line, he just gets confused.
	He's a his brain is a full cup and he can't put anything in without something else spilling out.
	Yes.
	Oh my God.
	It really is that.
	He's absolutely tapped out.
	There's no that's the other thing that's so aggravating about it is not only is he senile, he's checked out entirely.
	That is what was really the big thing for me about SignalGate and all of the other scandals that have happened inside the White House involving Trump's minions is that in Trump's first term, if shit like that happened, he would fire people.
	He would get a new guy in there.
	He would feel insulted that somebody had besmirched his administration by fucking up in such a stupid way.
	But now you can do anything.
	There is absolutely no accountability in Trump's White House.
	Pam Bondi said the Epstein files were on her desk, has done a ton of bullshit, is indicting people on the flimsiest of charges, and is an obvious in over her head crony.
	And she'll never get fired.
	If you say, yeah, Mr. President, how's Pam Bondi doing?
	He'll be like, back up job.
	Absolutely killing it.
	Love it.
	Love what she's doing.
	10 out of 10.
	No notes.
	And they'll be like, hey, Mr. President, Cash Patel.
	Literally would not have caught the guy that killed Charlie Kirk if his family did not turn him in.
	Doesn't know what he's doing.
	We have lots of stories about him working from home in Las Vegas instead of actually being at FBI headquarters doing his job.
	After saying, if you work from home, you're fired.
	Right.
	If anyone else works from home, they get fired.
	And they're like, so Mr. Trump, how's he doing?
	10 out of 10.
	No notes.
	Love it.
	Just absolutely no one has to worry.
	You've all got your jobs for four years.
	Garonte'd.
	You're in.
	You're in.
	And there's no getting you out.
	You've burrowed in there like a tick.
	And we're not removing you.
	And you can just glut yourself on that precious, precious American bankroll blood.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, it's just like, I mean, it's just like, thank you for your valuable input, sir.
	Yes.
	Oh, bless you.
	Bless you, God Emperor Trump, for your incredible information, your sterling judgment, your sparkling wisdom.
	The fact that you just told us, yeah, they're all doing great.
	Everyone's doing great.
	You know who's doing the best, though?
	Me.
	I'm so good at presidenting.
	I'm the best president there ever was.
	I remember in this class I was doing, we were watching this documentary about this reporter who was allowed into North Korea.
	And I can't remember if I think it was the funeral of Kim Jong-il, but it might have been his father's funeral.
	But they're like, they're showing like the funeral procession, and this reporter is literally crying his eyes out and screaming, how can this be possible?
	And I just, that's, that's going to be his motorcade when they try to sneak him into Arlington Cemetery.
	Yeah.
	Oh, oh, my God.
	It's going to be, it's going to be that.
	It's going to be a combination of that and the quote about Stalin was that don't be the first to stop clapping when they lower Trump into the ground at Arlington and all of the coordinated press will be clapping.
	President Vance will be standing there with Steve Bannon and they will have ice goons waiting.
	And the first person, the first person to bring their hands down from clapping is going to be sent to El Salvador immediately.
	Insufficient sympathy and enthusiasm for the fallen king.
	Yeah, the last thing they'll see as the cage closes is Stephen Miller drinking their blood from their neck.
	Right.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Oh my God.
	That's that's where we're going to be at.
	I mean, it's really simple that this is this is this is an attempted authoritarian takeover.
	This guy's not leaving.
	The only way this guy leaves the presidency is feet first.
	If he's alive, he's going to try to run for president in 2028.
	And boy howdy, will America have America will be so fucked at that point?
	And I do believe that the majority of Americans will be so strung out on this bullshit at that point that he would lose in a landslide to anybody.
	Two legs and a pulse and you'll beat Trump.
	And after that happens, he will be, he'll just say, not certifying the results.
	I won.
	I ain't fucking leaving.
	Go fuck yourself.
	And thanks, America, for making this constitutional crisis possible.
	We just had to vote for Kamala Harris and this wouldn't have happened, but she was cringe and the media hated her.
	So she refused to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
	So we got Trump because of that.
	Trump, who, by the way, is doing double genocide in Gaza.
	And I'm, and we're having the ceasefire breaking.
	Like, there's shit going on there.
	And what's really funny is I see a few of the QAnon ball washers who are adamant that Trump's bringing world peace and is doing all the best and all that kind of stuff.
	They're like, you all need to shut up.
	This peace in Gaza is going to hold.
	And you're all just rooting for Trump to fail.
	And it's like, no, this is actually just a 2,000-year-old grudge between two religions that have never been able to hash their shit out.
	And it's bad.
	And we have got Trump in the White House saying that if Hamas doesn't cut the shit, we're going to kill them.
	That was his quote: We are going to kill them.
	Oh, so American boots are going to go into Gaza now to murder Hamas.
	I remember that truckle fuck cosplaying college professor with the camo hat who had the tweet about how someone said to him something to the effect of, what can Kamala Harris do to quiet your concerns about young men thinking they'll be sent off to like fight or something?
	And he was like, how about you promise not to send them off to get killed in some fucking pointless war in the Middle East?
	And now everyone's re reposting that tweet about our impending invasions in Venezuela, the Panama Canal, Canada, every other thing that Trump's promised to do to invade and conquer and kill some other nation that he doesn't like.
	So, yeah, the peace ticket.
	I can't remember his name, but I keep thinking about that one guy who was like, who was like, I don't, you know, unless you're partisan or stupid, nobody thinks that Trump is actually going to put tariffs on anything.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	That shit.
	Yeah, I remember.
	I remember.
	That's the sad thing is I remember who I remember that tweet, but I don't remember who said it the same way as you.
	It's just, yep, that's where we're at.
	The magic of where we're at right now is there's no way Trump will do the terrible things he's saying he's going to do.
	Smash cut to oh my god, Trump's doing the bad things.
	That's the thing that kills me because it's like people are like, Kamala Harris is saying Trump is going to do this.
	I'm like, and Trump is also saying he's going to do it.
	Yeah, I mean, that's, I've posted that tweet at least like three times where the tweet is, Trump, I'm going to do a bad thing.
	Kamala, Trump is going to do a bad thing.
	Don't let him do that.
	Vote for me.
	Media, Kamala Harris baselessly claims Trump will do bad thing in an effort to scare up votes.
	And it's like, no, she's quoting him.
	She's quoting him, you fucking pricks.
	Yeah.
	And so, yeah, all that's great.
	And oh, yeah, Stephen mentioned this earlier in our pre-show prep meeting because, again, height of professionalism here at the like adventures of like Hellworld, like like.
	That a guy who was pardoned for January 6th has now been arrested for credibly threatening Hakeem Jeffries's life.
	And again, another awesome thing that Trump promised to do on the campaign trail.
	I will pardon everyone involved on January 6th.
	And the media was like, ah, he doesn't mean that.
	He'll probably just pardon a couple of the non-violent people who just walked in after the door got knocked over.
	And then they walked out and they got hit with some federal charges.
	No, be pardoned, everybody.
	If you did it, if you did the thing in January 6th, you just got away with it.
	Again, fuck the rule of law.
	And they're completely silent on it.
	They're like, they're like, oh, yeah.
	It's like, yeah, he said he's going to do this.
	You said he wasn't going to do it.
	And now he did it.
	And they're like, what's your point?
	Yeah, fuck you.
	Yeah.
	He does press conferences.
	Biden didn't.
	Trump is exciting.
	Biden was boring.
	That's the whole thing.
	That's the whole thing.
	That's because people are like, because I'm like, you know, why would the media want this guy in charge?
	And that's why.
	Because he's a headline machine.
	Right.
	They wanted the ultimate content creator.
	They didn't manage.
	They didn't care if the rest of us were going to get skull fucked by him.
	Yeah, they don't have to do anything.
	They just have to, they just have to write down what he said and boom, their subscriptions go up.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's not great.
	It's not great at all.
	So all of that happened.
	That was that's all the fun on that side of the world.
	But we need to pivot now and do a little housekeeping on the Democratic side of the aisle.
	And boy, howdy, are we having some fun on a bun?
	Because there's our boy.
	You mean a front on a bond?
	Fund on a boond.
	Oh, God.
	If I was, if I was actually in the Riverside interface right now and not checking my and not checking online for proper spelling and pronunciation of this guy's name, I would have absolutely hit you with the rim shot there.
	But unfortunately, I couldn't.
	So our boy Graham Plattner, if you don't know what's going on here, I'll explain it to you all.
	So this guy, he has gotten the Bernie Sanders kiss of approval.
	And he also appears to be buddy buddies of the pod Save America Boys and also appears to be pals of Ro Khanna, and who's another huge piece of shit.
	And this guy is running for Senate in Maine, and he's running on the whole idea of I'm not your mama's Democrat.
	I've received the text messages from him because I'm on mailing lists.
	And his text messages are very aggravating to me because his text messages are literally, there's nothing I hate more than the Democratic Party begging me for money because those pieces of shit don't do a goddamn thing.
	But I'm a different kind of Democrat.
	I will actually fuck shit up.
	So give me money and I'll actually put in the work.
	So he's literally running in the Democratic primary while whining about how Democrats suck, which I have never been a huge fan of.
	It's like, why are you in our party if you blow if our party bloats?
	Why don't you start your own party or be a Republican or something?
	I mean, though, in his defense, that is the Boggs standard progressive stance is fuck my own party.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I can't wait for that.
	I God, God.
	I mean, I just, again, I, if we have a free and fair election in 2028 and all that fun stuff, which I think we will when Trump dies and Vance is too gutless to do anything.
	But when we are in the second Great Depression and we have 25% unemployment and the Democrats win in a landslide, we are going to have President Democrat begin all of their speeches by saying, my fellow Americans, now I'm a Democrat.
	I'm very sorry that I'm a Democrat, but I apologize.
	Anyhow, as a spineless Democrat, I now propose the following plans.
	And it's like, thank God.
	Thank God everyone has to hate themselves or the Democrats before they can even get another word out of their mouths.
	Because no, you know what American people hate?
	Confidence, swagger, self-assurance.
	When we see that in our politicians, our skin crawls.
	We're like, this guy thinks he can create positive change and a better future for me.
	Fuck you, buddy, you piece of shit.
	I want to wallow in self-defeat and misery and anxiety.
	That's what I'm looking for in my candidates.
	I mean, and it's so ridiculous.
	I actually saw someone post on Twitter where they said, Zorhan Mandani smiles too much.
	It's creeping me out.
	And it's like, you know why he's smiling a lot?
	Because he's a politician.
	He's trying to convey optimism and enthusiasm and hope for a better future because that's what politicians do.
	They want you to walk out of the room feeling good and feeling inspired so you'll vote for them so they can carry out their policies.
	Yeah, I can't help but feel this is a rehash of Kamala's laugh.
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah.
	Kamala's laugh is weird.
	Zorhan's smile is unsettling to me.
	All that kind of shit.
	The only difference is that Zorhan's winning in a layup.
	So he doesn't have to worry about idiots on the internet complaining about his smile.
	But anyhow, our boy, Graham Plantner, he's running as your typical blue collar salt of the earth ex-military guy.
	Spoiler alert, he's also ex-Blackwater.
	Although I've heard that like he, it wasn't technically Blackwater.
	It was one of the Blackwater knockoffs after Blackwater rebranded.
	But no, the dude was a mercenary.
	This dude was involved, did tours, has talked on Reddit about how he enjoyed combat.
	He enjoyed shooting people.
	And then he enjoyed shooting people so much that after his military tours, he decided, I'll go mercenary, which would normally be disqualifying from the left.
	But again, this guy has got, this guy obviously has contacts and obviously has pull inside these consultant podcasting circles such that they're going to buck up their uh client they're going to buck up their product here no matter how shitty things appear to be going and so uh the first bit of oppo research about this guy came out and it was a bunch of unsavory things he
	said on reddit uh they found his handle it's a p hustle was his hustle yeah oh my god that is that is that is such a uh that's like such a a gen z uh you know swagger thing too oh yeah p swag oh man he was so mad when p swag was already taken and he had he had to switch to p hustle yeah he's on that 24 7 sigma male grind set let me i was just gonna say that i was like he should have gone
	with sigma but yeah yeah all all that so he so he said some stuff about how uh women who drink too much and get raped need to like you know not drink so much because that's kind of their fault and uh he complained that black people don't tip well enough because he was a bartender in the dc area and um the stereotype of blacks being cheap is accurate so he did all that kind of stuff it's not stereotype if
	it's true right exactly that shit yeah that shit that fucking statement so we did all of that and that was the first wave of bad press that came for him and boy howdy if that was only it if only we if only that was the storm we needed to weather things would have been so much smoother than what they are now where um he was caught and this is the best part about this is that it like literally he and the pod save america bros decided to get
	out in front of this story by posting the video themselves so anyone who wants to complain about i've actually seen people like i had a guy who like on my facebook like i don't even know people i'm i'm like friends with friends of friends of friends and all that kind of stuff you know how you know how it goes when you don't curate your facebook properly but i actually had some random person who is pretty progressive on my facebook post a thing about how the centrist
	insider democrats did this go ahead steph i i was just trying to look it up i quick what this pod save america is because spotify is always recommending it to me and i guess it was like oh it's hosted by like is this a blue anon this is basically a blue anon podcast right no no no it's it's a bunch of ex-obama guys it's okay these aren't like these aren't outsider kooks peddling shit these are guys who have
	like actual kind of pull in this well that's even worse right oh it's even worse it's it's very it's very bad it's really not good but uh the point is is that like these these uh people in the pod save america group they and platner got together and how
	they did not do this months before he declared his candidacy to get in front of this story then they decided we need to get in front of it now so they aired video of him basically i mean and even had his pants off it was like him in his underwear at a party like dancing around and bopping and doing his thing and he had a very prominent skull on his chest and
	the tattoo and i'm probably gonna get the word the pronunciation wrong i hope my toes can correct me uh tottencough is that it steph did i get it tottencough tottencough it means death's head yeah it and it it's been used by the the shit band death in june also yeah yeah so the the tottencough tattoo uh they decided we need to get out in front of this so
	they posted that and then they came up with this story and again i i mean this is the this is the quote-unquote good explanation for this thing was that he had this tattoo and that he got it when he was on shore leave in croatia when he was in the service when he was like 19 years old so one day he and his buds hit a croatian tattoo parlor and he just saw in this as the story goes he just saw a cool looking skull
	and said put that on my chest and somehow for 17 years had no idea about its connotations and after all of this uh there was a stories uh from uh there was a story from a source that said that someone saw it x number of years ago i don't know like five or six years ago or whatever and that in the conversation with platner about it he said oh yeah this is my
	tottencough he literally named what it was so this whole idea that he was all zoinks scoob i had no idea what i had on my chest oh ah beans who knew and uh now a uh other people dug around the p hustle reddit uh account and they saw that he replied to a thread where on that thread someone was talking about in
	tottencoughs and he made a comment.
	And it went from Tottenkoffs to the Punisher skull.
	And then P. Hussle made a comment about how he saw a lot of Punisher skulls in his military group when he was hanging out with people.
	So, and it's like, and then people were like, oh, I wasn't talking about the Tot and Coffee.
	And it's like, it's a thread that started with Tottenkoffs and then got to the Punisher skull.
	And he's talking in that thread.
	Are you literally saying he missed the rest of the context and jumped in exclusively at the Punisher section of it?
	I just, I just found that thread too.
	So, so yeah, it starts off.
	Somebody says the totem cuff on the dude first on the left is a good clue.
	Has literal human skulls.
	Someone else has literally human skulls on uniform.
	Ignore that.
	We're the good guys.
	Edit just so everyone is fully aware.
	That's a joke.
	And then, yeah, it goes a couple more down.
	Like the next person mentions the Punisher skull for the seals.
	Then another guy.
	Then he comes in.
	Then P. Hussell comes in and says, when I was in Ramadi, we're out of however the hell you say that.
	No six is a ring gun grunt, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah.
	So, so yeah.
	So the thread was discussing Nazis and skull insignia for quite a while before he jumped in.
	And somehow he didn't see that.
	Right.
	And this is the thing I want to make abundantly clear to anyone who's currently grinding their teeth from the progressive sphere of America who doesn't want old lady Janet Mills to be the nominee and go against Susan Collins and all the rest of this shit.
	I don't think that Plattner is a Nazi.
	I believe that he is a progressive.
	I believe that he stands for a progressive ideology.
	And if he was generic Joe progressive, I would have no problem supporting him.
	The problem is that this guy is politically radioactive at this point.
	And if he were to win this primary, literally you're going to have Trump, J.D. Vance, and any other Republican who's bopping around doing the circuit.
	They're going to be talking about the Nazi in Maine.
	That's going to be one of their attack lines.
	And it doesn't matter what you say in response to that.
	There's a very old line in politics and debating.
	And that line is: if you're explaining, you're losing.
	So if I hit the stage and I say that Democrats hate America, they don't stand for our values.
	They have a Nazi running for the Senate in Maine.
	And then you say, he's not a Nazi.
	He didn't know what that tattoo meant.
	He's had it covered up.
	He stands for you're talking way too fucking much to try to defend that guy.
	All I had to say is, you have a Nazi running in Maine.
	That's like, I don't know, seven words.
	You are going to need a hundred words to rebut that.
	And guess what?
	Guess what happens after the first 25 words you've said?
	No one cares.
	No one cares.
	My attack lands so clean and so easy on you.
	And your defense is a bunch of sputtering bullshit.
	And I'm hearing all these people, well, Pete Hankseth has Nazi tattoos.
	And it's like, Pete Hankseth isn't in elective office.
	He was a Fox News host who got appointed to DOD.
	We couldn't stop that.
	And we should talk shit about that.
	And you know what hurts when we have a Nazi tattoo guy?
	Now it's now they can both sides the Nazi tattoo argument.
	That sucks.
	Did either of you guys see that like apology tour ad that he put out about this?
	Where at the end, he blamed the establishment.
	Yes, that one.
	Where it's like, yeah, somebody asked him this obvious layup.
	It wasn't even a question.
	It was just, it was just, sir, I think you're awesome.
	Please tell me more in more detail about the troubled things you did in your past that you would now feel bad about.
	And he's like, you know, I did some stuff.
	I'm not proud of it.
	I don't like who I was back then.
	But you know who else I don't like?
	The establishment was trying to bring me down because I speak for you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Nancy Pelosi strapped you down in that Croatian tattoo parlor and put that Tottenkoff on you.
	You're like, no, Nancy, no.
	It's like, I've got you now.
	Yeah, that was what happened.
	And then, and then he, as he staggered out of that Croatian tattoo parlor, he was like, I'm never taking this off my chest to remind me of Nancy Pelosi did to me.
	This is my scar that I got from the Democratic establishment that I will wear as a badge of honor before I bring them down.
	Yeah.
	Buddy, it was an own goal.
	You did this to yourself.
	And obviously, when you were hanging out with all these various progressive people who were looking at your portfolio, they were looking at your backstory, they enjoyed your personal charm and charisma, and they thought you might have something working for you that could make you an effective politician.
	In all of those months when they were hanging out with you and getting ready to build up the Platner for Senate campaign, you never once said to anybody, oh, wait, by the way, guys, I have a tattoo that might be a bit problematic.
	I literally have some ink on my body that could very well be an issue unless we get out in front of it.
	That you waited for someone else to jump into the campaign to run against you.
	And then you were like, oh, snap, I better get out in front of this story before it becomes a real issue.
	This is the thing is it speaks to really bad judgment.
	That's the problem.
	I don't care about this guy's politics.
	His politics are probably pretty good.
	I don't care about any of that.
	What I care about is this guy appears to be as dumb as a rock that he would allow this to get that he would get deep this deep into the process before being like, oh, yeah, by the way, I literally have a tattoo that is a Nazi symbol.
	Yeah.
	BT dubs, something I should have mentioned five months ago.
	Yes.
	Before I was approving, like when you walked into my office and showed me the five different Platinum for Senate posters that you would come up for me.
	And I looked at the ones, which typeface I liked best, like which graphics I thought popped the most.
	While I was approving the Platinum for Senate signs that were going to be made up for my campaign rallies and stuff, I probably should have mentioned to someone, by the way, I have a Tottencough on my chest.
	And if you don't know what that is, it doesn't matter because a lot of people do.
	And they're going to start talking shit about it once it gets out there.
	And then the people would be like, oh, we will schedule you to see a tattoo artist immediately and we will get that covered up.
	And then when it comes up in the campaign, you can say, oh, yeah, I had that covered up a while ago.
	That was a big mistake that I had that and I apologize for it.
	The fact that you are covering it up only when it's politically required of you is really weird.
	That is not great.
	And he could have done the cover up.
	I mean, like you said, he did the reveal himself.
	He could have gotten it covered up and then done the reveal and be like, oh, hey, look, I don't have it anymore.
	Right.
	I mean, that's the thing is it very easily could have been a thing where, you know, the Tottencough story is going to come out because you've been shirtless a bunch in your life.
	But then your political team talks to you and you talk to them and you kind of map out when was the last time you were out in public shirtless like this.
	And then you're like, OK, we've got a timeline.
	We've got probably a nice like two year gap here where you didn't go around waving around your Tottencough.
	We can cover it up now and claim you've had it covered up for longer than that.
	We will slip the tattoo artist that did this for you a few extra bucks to plead the fifth if anyone comes at them or back our play and and we'll be good.
	We'll be cool.
	It's all going to be good.
	And instead, what we get is this.
	And I don't want to go all blue and on here, but I've actually seen people claiming that his cover-up is actually a fake tattoo and that it's like not really a cover-up.
	And the totem cough is still lurking under it.
	So, well, here's the question: How red, how red does the surrounding skin look?
	Not red at all.
	It's pretty much then.
	Then, no.
	Well, come on, dude.
	Come on.
	If you're going to fake getting it covered up, you get some, you get, you hire a makeup artist to make the skin look right.
	Because I remember when, what was it, the El Paso shooter?
	It was a shooter who did not have white skin, but had an SS tattoo.
	And people are like, oh, this is impossible.
	And I saw a picture of the tattoo, and I'm like, that's fresh.
	He either got that a few hours.
	I judged it at being about one to two hours on the young side, maybe 10 hours old at most.
	I was like, that's a real tattoo.
	The red, the ray skin, the bumps, bruising.
	You can tell when a tattoo, and then the healing process days afterwards, like you're going to, it feels like a sunburn.
	You're going to be tender.
	You're going to be maybe walking a little differently.
	You're going to be standing because I had a chest tattoo.
	Tell you something.
	That shit hurt.
	That really, really hurt.
	And that area gets super red.
	I have it right over like my sternum and my collarbone.
	That shit gets super red.
	So if that's not red, dude's faking.
	I just did that right now.
	Yeah, I just posted the picture in the group chat so you can go look at it.
	And yeah, it is, yeah.
	I mean, if it looks like it does not look like he got it yesterday.
	It doesn't look like he got it a week ago.
	It doesn't look like he got it.
	It looks like he's had it for at least a year.
	There is not so much as a bump around it.
	It looks like he's got that.
	I can't remember what it's called.
	It looks like he's got that clear thing over it, you know, that you put on to heal the skin.
	But unless it's some miracle product on there, it's no, there's no way that's a new tattoo.
	Yeah, because he even, because with when I got my Bohemian Grove and my T.S. Elliott tattoos, those were the first tattoos where they had that clear stuff.
	It's like a weird, like, it's almost, it's like a gel that's like a band-aid almost.
	Yeah.
	And it's like plastic.
	Yeah, it's, it's incredible, but it still sweats underneath there.
	So you're going to get sweat.
	You're going to get blood.
	You're going to get, what is it?
	What is it called?
	I, it's not I. Here it is.
	Pseudoderm.
	That's what it's called.
	Synoderm.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But you're going to get that like that light colored.
	It's not pus.
	It's like a weird ooze that you can.
	Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
	I don't know what it's called, but I'm talking about.
	Yeah, yeah, you're going to get that too, even underneath the clear thing.
	So I didn't see the picture where you put it, but I'm just going to call it this shit based on what you told me.
	Yeah, I put it in our Pete Hagseth signal chat.
	Yeah.
	Oh, and other people have pointed out that if you look at the bottom of it, you can see you can still see the bones from the Tottenkoff poking out.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I forgot to actually hit send.
	So now it's in there.
	Yes.
	And yeah, you can still see a tiny bit of the scope.
	You can still see the tiny little, the tiny little dots of the.
	Although, I mean, although that isn't necessarily proof of anything because my wife got a tattoo covered up and you can still see bits of it.
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	I'm just saying, like, that's a thing people have pointed out.
	Yeah.
	So this is like all of this to me is just very simple.
	Susan Collins is an institution in Maine.
	It is seemingly impossible for her to be defeated.
	Yeah, that's the idea.
	That was the first thing I thought when this whole thing came out is it's like, you know, you're going up against incumbent Susan Collins, who is a complete shit politician and still gets re-elected in a landslide.
	Like, Susan Collins, terrible human being, beloved by the people of Maine.
	She has the magic spell over the people of Maine, the way Joe Manchin had the magic spell over the people of West Virginia.
	It's where it's something about the Senate where name recognition is like the number one thing.
	It's like, it's like, unless you're caught having sex with a dead horse, you're back in.
	Yeah.
	And that you, yeah, you, you need these crazy wave elections to throw people out or massive political realignments within your state where finally they get rid of you.
	But there have been so many people that have bucked even that.
	I mean, John Tester served three terms in the Senate.
	And I believe he was from Montana, but he snuck into office as a Democrat one year and then won two reelections afterwards.
	Just literally, this guy is in this blood red state.
	It's a plus 20 Trump state.
	And the dude's like, I'm John Tester and I'm your senator and you know me and you trust me.
	And the people of Montana are like, you're in a, you're a baby killing communist from the seventh ring of hell, but you got my vote anyways, Mr. Tester.
	It's just, how?
	How is this possible?
	It's the same.
	It was the same thing with Manchin in West Virginia.
	And we have the reverse of that with Susan Collins in Maine, where it's just this blue state.
	And we're sitting there saying, you know, Susan, you're taking away gay people's rights.
	And you're allowing Donald Trump to become a dictator, but gosh, golly begora, Susan.
	We just love you too much to vote you out of office.
	You have my vote.
	And it's this weird thing where she'll, you know, you know, the old thing where she says she's concerned and her eyebrow goes up.
	Right.
	But then she goes along with the party line and somehow still gets called a moderator by the press.
	It's a quick question.
	Is it less wrong if the horse is still alive?
	I've had a feeling someone was going to just because I'm just sitting here.
	I'm like, well, wouldn't that be more merciful for the horse if it's already dead?
	I mean, people have a problem with necrophilia.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, I just wanted to.
	I love that my reaction to the bit was just like stone cold scientific, just talking about social taboos.
	Just no, no effort to add any actual comedy to the bit, just stone-faced, miserable.
	And I read somewhere they said that they said that like Chicagoans are prone to hyperbole.
	So I think that's just, you know, I just, I gotta, I come up with an idea and I gotta immediately top it before I even get it out of my mouth.
	Well, I think I thought you were just kind of going with the Eddie Edwards, the greatest, most quotable politician in the history of America, who declared the only way he would lose an election is if he was caught with a dead girl or a live boy.
	Oh, no, I wasn't even aware of that quote.
	So that was just.
	Oh, if like Eddie Edwards is the greatest, like literally convicted, did time in prison.
	You're a standard absolute piece of shit crook politician, but super beloved by the people of Louisiana, just one election all the time.
	Ran against David Duke, had bumper stickers made that said, vote for the crook.
	It's important.
	When asked about himself and David Duke, he said, we share one commonality.
	We're both wizards in the sheets.
	He just dude, dude just had singers for days.
	Dude was just belting him out.
	He was ridiculous.
	Another person said, how was he going to win the election?
	And he said, staying alive.
	So yeah, that guy crushed.
	He was the absolute man.
	Total piece of shit, but hilarious politician.
	I know.
	I just, it's, it's like, I don't want to respect him, but goddamn, that's clever.
	Right, exactly.
	It's that.
	It's that.
	But yeah, he, so it's that kind of thing.
	And this is the thing is that in 2020, you have Trump universally reviled, loses the popular vote by 8 million.
	Biden crushes him and all that good stuff.
	Biden won Maine by nine points.
	Susan Collins running for reelection and literally all the polls the whole way had her down huge.
	Susan Collins won that election that Biden won by nine.
	She won by nine also.
	There were 18 points worth of Maine voters that were Biden Colin Collins ticket splitters who were all fuck Donald Trump, that piece of shit.
	I'm voting for Biden, but I'm also voting for my girl Susie.
	So like that, this is the huge lift that we are asking any Democrat to make in this election.
	I mean, I know that like the Republicans are going to be even less popular.
	And I know also that there's going to be less MAGA voters going out to vote in the midterms because we've seen that.
	We've seen that when the Trump's not on the ballot, Republican turnout dips because their boy isn't on the ticket.
	So people don't care as much.
	But this is the uphill climb we have.
	And Nazi tattoo guy makes that uphill climb much worse.
	It makes it way harder.
	So, I would I want someone more progressive than Janet Mills.
	I really don't even know her, but I want the most progressive candidate I can get.
	I want to go as far left as I can get on any candidate.
	But the important kicker is they need to have a chance of winning the general election.
	Like, yeah, according to all the Plattner bros, uh, the other woman, the former governor, uh, is a hardcore establishment, according to them.
	Right.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so, like, I mean, I don't know if anyone can beat Susan Collins at this point, but I'm just going to say I like the odds of the person without the Nazi tattoo more.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	That's somebody pointed out.
	All she has to do is get up on the debate stage and say he has a Nazi tattoo.
	And she wins.
	Yes, right.
	Like, that's the thing is that she gets to portray him as this crazy extremist nut.
	And she gets to talk about how she, Susan Collins, is your trusted senator who's been taking care of Maine's interests in Washington for over 20 years now.
	Like, are you going to change horses in midstream and vote for the Nazi tattoo guy?
	Or are you going to vote for the senator you've known and loved for two plus decades?
	This is light work.
	They would call the election within 15 minutes of the polls closing if it's Plattner versus Collins.
	Maybe Mills makes them wait a couple hours before they call it for Collins, but give me that.
	Give me that chance.
	That's all I'm asking for.
	Because boy, howdy, do I see no path to victory for this guy?
	Because in the face of a massive landslide and in the face of overwhelming evidence that Sarah Gideon was going to win the election, Collins crushed her.
	So I just well, maybe this guy's going for the Republican vote.
	He should have primaried Collins then.
	He should have gone to the Republican primary.
	He's trying to bring in the fence sitters.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's Plattner's point.
	He's like, if I can just sneak through the primary, I got the right-wing Nazi vote locked up.
	Oh, wait, wait.
	He could 5D chess this.
	He could say, I got that tattoo.
	So it would start a conversation and make people upset.
	If only he was that smart.
	Oh, God.
	If only he could play 10D chess, that'd be great.
	But I don't see that in this guy.
	He does not feel like that kind of person.
	Ah, man.
	But I really, again, I cannot stress this enough.
	Whatever the furthest left-wing candidate in any primary is, sign me up.
	I'm checking their box as long as they have the possibility of beating the Republican in the general election.
	I live in Ocean Blue, Massachusetts.
	Most of our representatives and senators run unopposed.
	I get to vote for reincarnated Karl Marx every time I get to go to the ballot booth.
	It's not a problem.
	I don't have to worry about these things because the Republican Party in Massachusetts is dead.
	But in other states where that is not the case, I don't get to vote for 500 clones of AOC all across America because she'd probably only win election in like 20 districts because she's too liberal for most of them.
	Now, does that, and that's the thing is like a quick little aside here.
	Seth Moulton is my representative and he's going to go against Ed Markey in the Senate here.
	Fuck Seth Moulton.
	I don't care if Ed Markey's 100 years old.
	I will never vote for Seth Moulton.
	He's the kind of piece of shit backbiter on liberal issues who was immediately like, I'm not sure about being so full-throatedly in support of trans rights and all the rest of it.
	He's always been a political fucking calculating piece of shit.
	So yeah.
	Ed Markey, you've got my vote.
	And if you die in office, I'll speak eloquently at your funeral if you'll have me.
	I don't, I don't care.
	But so yeah, but it's just give we have we have like eight or nine months before the Democratic primary.
	Find me a different progressive without a Nazi tattoo and I'll vote for them or I'll campaign for them.
	I'll fight on their behalf in the glory of Maine.
	I'm not asking much here.
	I swear I don't feel like I'm asking much here.
	What are you looking up, Eric?
	I can hear the clickety clack.
	I'm trying to remember because I'm thinking about this because Dick Durbin has decided not to run for re-election.
	And for the life of me, I cannot remember who is trying to take up the mantle.
	Yeah.
	That I don't know either.
	So that's what I was trying to look up.
	Let's see.
	Okay.
	Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton who received Prisker's endorsement.
	There was one guy here to go, Raja.
	Krishnamurthy.
	I hope to God I said that guy's name right.
	He's the guy who actually texted me because I think I get texts from like Act Blue or someone like that.
	So right now it looks like there's at least four people who are getting ready to go in.
	But yeah, once the primary season heats up, I'm going to have to start looking into these guys more.
	Right.
	But because I mean, for the last few elections, I didn't have to worry about it.
	It's like, okay, either I punched Dick Durbin or I punched Tammy Duckworth.
	I'm good.
	You know, now I actually got to do some research.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah.
	I mean, I just gobsmacked.
	I am currently in a conversation with one of my friends on Facebook where that guy is giving me the whole, ah, youthful indiscretions.
	And I cannot say that's ridiculous enough.
	It's very silly to be arguing that.
	Please don't insult my intelligence.
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