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Graham Platner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
619 total appearances

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

the average working person saw their, frankly, their retirement savings just disappear.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

And then we watched the political apparatus back up the people that broke the thing in the first place.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I think that was huge.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

That broke a lot of trust.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

But I also think that that's why, I'll just be entirely upfront.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I mean, I think that's why we need to...

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

kind of change the political will of the Democratic Party to go a little bit further, to actually go after.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I mean, people should have gone to prison.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I mean, Iceland put people in prison.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

And I understand that, I mean, but Trump administration's happy to abuse the Justice Department and send them after folks.

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They send them after like Comey, because he hurt Trump's feelings.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I honestly don't think the American people would be angry if the Justice Department went after folks that like destroyed their retirement savings or kicked their neighbors out of their homes.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

It's a, and that's the problem, I think.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

But that's the other thing.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

We need people in the Senate and the House who want to pass these laws and also, frankly, put enforcement mechanisms in place.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

That's one of our biggest problems right now.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

We've got lots of laws.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

But then they get broken.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

I mean, the Trump administration breaks the law every day.

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1128: Graham Platner Isn't Backing Down

And then a lot of people just stand around like, well, what do we do?