Is Talarico the Next Democrat to Implode? + What Everyone Missed in the Platner Video

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
The one primary beneficiary, by the way, of everything Platner, is James Talarico.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:06)
He always looks unnerving. You know, like he's a really weird dude.

**James Talarico** (0:11)
You saw it in the anti-LGBTQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender-affirming health care to trans children. All these ideologies stem from this Christo-fascism movement.

**John Ashbrook** (0:24)
Why is it that this guy keeps coming back to trans? Every time you see a video of him, all he's talking about is trans and kids.

**Josh Holmes** (0:31)
Okay, so a lot's been written about the final hours of Graham Platner. We wanted to point in one specific direction on the video that was filmed. Going back through it, I think the only cut.

**Graham Platner** (0:44)
Yes. I intend to file my paperwork to withdraw.
The process needs to assure that what comes next.

**Josh Holmes** (0:54)
That cut really irons it in. If you didn't get enough from the intend thing, you're looking at a video that is 11 minutes long, that is a stream of consciousness thought, very unpolished, certainly could never be confused for scripted. There was only one thing that got cut. My question is, did Graham Platner know that got cut?

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**Josh Holmes** (3:00)
Friday.
Welcome back to the Ruthless Friday program. I'm Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, left to right across your radio dial. Of course, this week has been filled with all kinds of different news. Graham Platner, foremost amongst them. The one primary beneficiary, by the way, of everything Platner is James Talarico in Texas. Because they were sort of linked at the hip for a period of time of being quirky, weird, totally out of step Senate candidates from the Democratic side by mistake or something else. But there they were. And it seemed like a day-to-day race of whose oppo was worse. Yeah. And then ultimately the alleged rape. And then Democrats consolidating around the idea that they needed to do something about Maine, because he got to win Maine. Like, Texas would be nice.
But Maine, you really got it. So we really have to push this guy, which of course is subservient corporate media decided to take it upon themselves to service all of that and miraculously everybody was available on camera just a week before he was supposed to drop out. We have something on that, by the way, in the second segment that is worth focusing a little bit on, is that Graham Platner, that he said he would intend to file the paperwork on Monday. That is of course the drop dead deadline in Maine for him getting out and then being able to replace him. We got more of that in the second segment, but the first segment is the one who has sort of been living underneath the shelter that Graham Platner has provided the Democratic Party, which is Talarico.

**Michael Duncan** (4:39)
Yeah, and I got to say just there's many shows who would see all this news this week and the Platner stuff and rest on their laurels and say good week, good job, gentlemen.
Not the Ruthless Variety Program. We get a scalp and we go and say, we want another.