This is Why Democrats are Stuck with Platner + Buck Sexton Joins the Progrum

**John Ashbrook** (0:00)
What's the kind of person who sticks with Graham Platner through thick and thin?

**Comfortably Smug** (0:03)
Democrats are willing to light everything they've ever believed in on fire for this guy.

**Josh Holmes** (0:09)
We haven't gone on a calendar day for like five months without something horrific coming out about this cat.

**John Ashbrook** (0:18)
I didn't really expect that at any point in American history that somebody would just have a Nazi tattoo and then be a candidate for office as a Democrat, the United States Senate.

**Josh Holmes** (0:29)
The pent up aggression within the Democratic base is such that they have created this on their own.

**John Ashbrook** (0:39)
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**Michael Duncan** (1:48)
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**Josh Holmes** (1:51)
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**Buck Sexton** (1:58)
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**Sean Hannity** (2:10)
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**Josh Holmes** (2:13)
Good Thursday to you. Welcome back to the Ruthless Variety Program. Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook left to right across your radio dial. It's been a really big week here in Washington, DC. Great press conference by President Donald J. Trump, which he got into a whole bunch of stuff, some of which we'll give you here as it pertains to Graham Platner, which I think he's our favorite reoccurring character on the program right now.
I mean, Talarico has got his spot, no question about it. But like what once was Jazzy Jazz, I think has been taken over by Platner. What do you guys think about that?

**Comfortably Smug** (2:59)
I mean, that's the thing is Democrats are willing to light everything they've ever believed in on fire for this guy.
Like it's kind of like, you know, Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown, where like Democrats have asked this guy 10 times, like, so this is the last thing that's going to come out? And he's like, yup, and then he just pulls the football, they're on their face again. So this is the last thing that's going to come out. He's going to keep doing this shit because he's fake and he keeps doing bad shit. That's all that's good, there's to it.

**Michael Duncan** (3:30)
Yeah, like the jazzy jazz stuff was funny content for our show. And I'm sure there's a lot of Democrats that laughed at it. You know, they never do that publicly, but the stakes of that was very low for like our national politics.

**Josh Holmes** (3:44)
Yes.

**Michael Duncan** (3:45)
Like this could decide who controls the United States Senate.

**Josh Holmes** (3:47)
Yeah. Yeah, there's no question about it. Graham Platner in the state of Maine, which is why Chuck Schumer invested everything he could in Governor Janet Mills to try to oppose this guy. And she didn't even make it to the finish line.
It's why the stakes are as immense as they are. So they're not willing to laugh at any of this stuff, except for the fact that we haven't gotten a calendar day for like five months without something horrific coming out about this cat. You know, we talked about it a little bit, Johnny, on last show, where it's like, I don't know how many people that you know who have a Nazi tattoo, but generally speaking, you're not like, ah, good with kids, thoughtful guy. You know?

**John Ashbrook** (4:34)
Got it all together.