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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Liberals get a 'KICK' outta Platner in the Polls plus Jill Biden Defends the Undefendable

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

1 Allegations about Maine Candidate Graham Platner

    • Having a Nazi tattoo
    • Making extreme or offensive statements
    • Sending explicit messages
    • Using a messaging app described as a “predator’s paradise”
  • He is still polling strongly against Senator Susan Collins, despite these controversies.

2. Political Strategy (“Party Protects Then Destroys”)

  1. Protect controversial figures when they are useful.
  2. Turn on them and leak damaging information if they become a liability.
  • Eric Swalwell is a supposed example, claiming internal leaks destroyed his career.
  • It then argues the same tactic is being used against “Platner.”

3. Criticism of the Democratic Party

  • The Democratic Party prioritizes power over ethics.
  • They are willing to support “extreme” or “radical” individuals.
  • They promote ideologies such as socialism or communism.
  • Strong emotional phrasing (“soulless,” “radical extremist party”)
  • Generalizations about an entire political party

4. Discussion of Joe and Jill Biden

  • Joe Biden’s debate performance and claims of cognitive decline
  • Jill Biden’s response, which the text portrays as dishonest or contradictory
  • The administration and media allegedly covered up Biden’s condition
  • Jill Biden’s statements are framed as inconsistent or misleading

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.1

There is a guy running for office in Maine.

0:10.1

He is a Nazi.

0:12.9

He is a guy that had a Nazi SS tattoo on his chest.

0:18.0

He is a guy that has said some incredibly radical and extreme things.

0:22.9

He's an individual that is mocked, people who have fought, protect and defended this country

0:27.9

and said that they should die or deserve to die. And this is a guy who the Democratic Party

0:34.9

seems to be willing to protect at all costs until maybe today.

0:40.4

Now, let me explain what happened and what changed.

0:43.8

I want to take you back to Eric Swalwell as the basis for this story.

0:49.1

You may remember Eric Swalwell, scumbag, a guy that everybody knew had major problems, a guy that the Democratic Party knew

0:56.5

they had major scandals around him and they protected him at all cost because he was one of those

1:02.3

easy on the I TV guys. He was a guy that hated Donald Trump. He was a guy that went after Donald

1:07.2

Trump. He was a Trump attack dog. And so the Democratic Party was willing more than happy, like more than willing to look the other way,

1:18.0

was more than willing to say, yeah, we like him.

1:22.7

We know that he's got all his problems with women in the office,

1:25.3

and we know that there's all these stories about him being a pretty terrible person and a lot of issues, but we don't really

1:31.8

care because he's doing all these other things for us, so we like him. Now, the Democratic Party

1:38.0

had to make a choice. And the choice that they had to make was, do we get rid of Eric Swalwell

1:43.6

in California in the governor's race?

1:46.1

Once we realized just how bad, all right, he is for us, the Democratic Party,

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