Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I was in the National Guard.

But his combat record doesn't look like the combat record of a lot of other people.

And I think that bothers him.

Deep down inside, it makes him insecure.

And so now he gets to posture.

And he gets to literally start wars so he can pretend that he's this big, tough guy.

Never went to ranger school.

So, you know, I'm not sure how tough he actually is.

Same kind of war.

And it's a war.

And the reason I say it's the same kind of war is that it's a...

It is the outcome of politicians who think war is flippant, who think that war is just a little toy they get to play around with in order to kind of help themselves in whatever way possible.

Iraq was that.

It was that in a way that, like, the Bush administration got to enrich a lot of other people, got to kind of use the sort of the post-9-11 regime

field of patriotism to go start that war based on lies that people in the Bush White House have been trying to start for years.

They used it.

They used it because they can.

And I see that exactly.

That's exactly what we have here.

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