Graham Platner
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2,222 appearances
59 recordings
20 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026
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And that's, by the way, that's what it was when we were dropping bombs on fishing boats in the Caribbean last fall.
That's what going into Venezuela and kidnapping a foreign head of state was.
This is people...
Who have access to immense amounts of power, who think that all of this is a game.
It's a game that they can use to help themselves politically or enrich themselves and their friends.
That's how they see it.
And the burden of it is going to fall on the young American men and women who are sent over to fight it and the civilian populations and the nations that we start these wars in.
That's who bears it.
And I think that this war in Iran is exactly the same.
Everyone's like, oh, we're almost to a peace deal in which we reopen the Straits of Hormuz.
And it's like, oh, you mean what we had before the war started?
You're going to tell me that we just spent $50 billion, 13 dead Americans, thousands of dead people, gas prices soaring, a possible collapse of fertilizer industries just to get back to where we were?
That seems like a pretty stupid use of military force to me.
You should talk to the VA.
They'll tell you how the process works.
What I say is that one of the things I really want to work on in the Senate is building an army of social workers for the VA to go out into this country and find every single veteran who is not getting the benefits that they earned.
Because one of the biggest problems is, and I have friends like this.
I just was hanging out with one last week.
friends who, because of struggles in life, have not been able to access benefits, which is ironic because the whole point of benefits is to help with the struggles.
You know, when people are in the hole, when they are really having a hard time making it work,
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