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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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · Politics for ME (and You) with Graham Platner · 29 Apr 2026
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It's almost as though political power goes a little bit further than just the words on the page.
It's almost as though that political power is in fact its own unique thing that needs to be at times wielded creatively.
And if that hadn't happened, then this country doesn't get dragged out of the depression.
If that hadn't happened, we wouldn't have set the stage to win the war.
that's i mean that's it that i mean and which is exactly what has happened and it didn't fix anything because the problem isn't about the problem isn't marginal the problem is systemic
And systemic, I mean, you know, this is like, the reason we know it's systemic, by the way, is because it's happening everywhere.
It's not like one state has a problem with housing.
It's not like one state has a problem with healthcare.
It's not like one state has a problem with affordability.
It's the entire country.
And so, which is very clear to me that this is a obvious systemic problem.
But like, okay, I'm going to, because we Roosevelted a little bit, I'm going to do one more.
I'm going to do one more.
We had to Roosevelt.
In 1928, Roosevelt writes that the problem with the Democratic Party today is it has no constructive policy and vision of the future, and that if you ask the average American what the Democratic Party believed in, nobody would be able to tell you, and that the entire theory is that we're going to wait for the Republicans to screw it up so much that we'll just magically get power again.
He said that in 1928.
I mean, possibly.
Same shit, man.
But here's the thing, though, and this is why I'm not remotely hopeless.
Roosevelt writes that in 28.
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