It’s Friday and I’m too tired to mess with this post anymore, so the freeloaders get to enjoy the whole thing. You’re welcome!
Transcript
It’s Friday, May 1, 2026. I’m allegedly Jim Treacher.
And oddly enough, this is my 88th podcast. Graham Platner’s favorite number.
If you don’t know who Graham Platner is, he’s a ginger from Maine who’s running for the United States Senate as a Democrat. And the other Democrat he was running against, she just dropped out. So he’s their guy. Now the Democrats own this guy.
Which is fun, because he’s a Nazi.
A literal Nazi, I mean. Not just: “You think boys and girls are biologically distinct, which makes you a Nazi.” Or: “You don’t think every white person in the world is responsible for the death of George Floyd, you Nazi.”
No, no, this guy’s an actual Nazi. He even signed his work. He’s got a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
And not just any Nazi tattoo. It’s the Totenkopf. Skull and crossbones. But it’s not about thinking pirates are cool. He didn’t go out and get a tattoo after watching Johnny Depp doing a bad British accent.
It’s the symbol of Hitler’s SS units. You know, the guys who did… the Holocaust. Google it.
It’s a pretty specific kind of Nazism. Anybody can draw a swastika on a wall with poop. (Remember that? The poop swastika?) But you really gotta be a fan of the Nazis to get a Totenkopf tattoo.
And since Platner got busted for it last year, he’s come up with so many excuses, you couldn’t fit them all in a boxcar:
“Oh, I didn’t know it was a Nazi symbol… my entire adult life. Oops!”
“It only resembles a Nazi symbol. You know, like Charlie Chaplin resembled that other guy. Oh, y’know, these things happen.”
“I’m not a secret Nazi!” (Well, no, there’s no secret about it anymore.)
“I had PTSD. It’s so tough to be a veteran. That’s why I got a Nazi tattoo.”
Etc.
Then you look at things like his old Reddit posts, which aren’t that old. Some of them were within the last few years. He posted a lot of really bad stuff when he was a mere child of… 30.
He was what’s called an “edgelord,” posting edgy things to shock people. I guess he never thought he’d run for public office.
Now, if Graham Platner was running as a Republican, he’d be done before he even started. The Democrats would have destroyed him by now. But he’s a Democrat, so now the Democrats are embracing him. They’re so desperate for power, they’ll rally around a Nazi.
Here’s Jon Favreau. Not the good Jon Favreau, not the guy from the Iron Man movies. The Jon Favreau who worked for Obama and now does a dumb podcast for the Democrats. He writes:
Well, an algorithm didn’t tell Graham Platner to become a Nazi. He did that all by himself.
But it’s nice to be reminded that the Obama hacks believe in… nothing.
Philip Klein at National Review has an interesting theory about Platner. He writes:
Maine Shows Antisemitism Is a Shortcut to Success in the Modern Democratic Party
...Platner was largely unknown at this point last year and yet managed to drive a sitting governor out of the primary before a single vote was cast. But he had one thing going for him, which is that he gained attention for his antisemitism. That is a ticket to success in the modern Democratic Party...
Platner had a tattoo with a Nazi symbol on his chest for nearly 20 years before covering it up when called out for it during his Senate campaign. On another occasion, he promoted a social media post from the neo-Nazi Holocaust denier Stew Peters, and he also sat for a lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist Nate Cornacchia, claiming he was a longtime fan. He has also described the U.S.-Israel relationship as “shameful” and praised a violent Hamas attack on Israel in 2014...
...Just as Zohran Mamdani proved in New York City, engaging in antisemitism and unhinged hatred of Israel has become a way for upstart candidates to soar to the top of the Democratic Party by convincing the progressive base that they are the real deal.
Yeah, if you’re a Democrat in 2026, you’d better start hating the Jews or the Dems will cast you aside. You’re old-school. You’re on your way out.
Now, not everybody’s down with the program. Much like the rest of America, I don’t watch Abby Phillip on CNN. Nobody does. She gets stomped in the ratings every night by a vindictive old bridge troll. But I gotta give her credit for presenting this very good question to one of her stupid guests:
Okay. First of all, that’s not what “plausible deniability” means.
I don’t know who this kid is, but plausible deniability is not a defense. It’s not something to brag about. It’s a deliberate deception tactic.
Like a mob boss telling his goons, “You know what to do.” He doesn’t say, “Go kill this guy,” but his underlings know what he means. He can honestly say he never said the words, but he still gave the order. That’s plausible deniability.
Besides which: Graham Platner has none. He can’t plausibly deny… Yes, he can deny it, but it’s not plausible.
He’s full of Scheiße, to use his native tongue.
Now, I assume that by election day, Abby Phillip will come around and start saying what she’s supposed to say about any Democrat running for public office. Because she doesn’t want to be accused of supporting Donald Trump. But at least for now, she’s showing a little common sense.
I have no idea if Graham Platner will win. I just appreciate yet another opportunity to point out what monumental hypocrites Democrats are. They’ll get you fired from your blue-collar job for making the OK sign, and then they’ll turn right around and endorse a frickin’ Nazi.
It’s all about power. The truth is secondary.
What else would you expect from a bunch of Nazis?
Last year, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot in the back by a cowardly Italian. (If that’s not redundant. Just kidding! Just kidding, Italians.) Luigi Mangione. Yet another Democrat folk hero.
Well, now another UnitedHealthcare employee has weighed in on the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Get a load of this:
You can’t see it, of course, but when she says, “Trump’s [PAUSE] attempt,” she’s giving the neck-cutting gesture.
See, there you go. Plausible deniability. She didn’t say assassination. What’s the big deal?
And like this woman, a lot of Democrats think that this assassination attempt was fake. That all the assassination attempts have been fake. But they wish somebody would do it for real. That’s the “thinking” at work here.
Now, you would think that, considering her boss was just murdered, she might think twice about saying this. She didn’t even think once.
Oh, I forgot the best part. She works for UnitedHealthcare as a… social media manager. Well, you just heard how she manages social media.
And now one of her co-workers at UnitedHealthcare just tweeted:
As the kids say:
Byeeeeeeee!
I don’t know much about Spencer Pratt. I know he was the bad guy on a reality show, like, 20 years ago. Every reality show has to have a bad guy. Ever since Puck on The Real World, 30 years ago.
Which I remember watching. It was a novelty at the time. Back then, I had no idea reality television would ruin MTV. And the rest of the world.
Anyway, Spencer Pratt. Now he’s running for mayor of Los Angeles, and he just put out this ad.
Yeah, his house burned down in the Pacific Palisades fire last year. He’s living in a trailer, in the middle of all this rubble. The city won’t let him rebuild. So now he’s running for mayor.
I have no idea what his chances are, but that’s a great ad.
Good luck to Spencer Pratt! Strange bedfellows, huh? You just never know who’s gonna step up.
One last thing here…
Jamie Raskin just came up with a fantastic turn of phrase while talking to Scary Larry O’Donnell. On that other 10 o’clock show nobody watches, because they get stomped by Dr. Loveless every night:
Yes, the Supreme Court has been gerrymandered. Yeah, why not. Just throw a trigger word in the middle of a sentence, even if it makes no sense.
When libs get mad, they do Mad Libs.
Thanks for listening. I hope you have a great weekend, and other things I’m supposed to say.
I feel like we have a deep personal connection, you and I. I feel like we’re… friends.
Not really. But thank you for paying me to listen to this. Unless you’re not listening. I really wish you would. If you can. No offense if you can’t…
Alright, that’s it. See ya later, seppos.
