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Chapter 1: What is the context of the UFC Freedom 250 event?
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Chapter 2: What were the details of the alleged terror plot?
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So yes, this is obviously evidence of delusional thinking. This is not someone who's doing well. And this is also not your typical rhetoric from a Democratic politician, considering the claims made by J.D. Vance. This is not regular Democratic politician rhetoric.
Propper's family told the FBI that he recently began interacting with a group of people online who, quote, represented themselves as ex-military and that may share some Christian-based ideology, unquote. The family believed that these people online were using religion to manipulate Propper.
and that they, quote, expressed ultra-religious and anti-government sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions, unquote.
So rather than a sort of general, like, left-wing anti-capitalist or rhetoric from Democratic politicians motivating this attack, this is very general, kind of libertarian-esque anti-government sentiments. And as we will discuss, this group did not consider itself on the right or the left, but saw themselves as American patriots more than anything else.
And they were upset about government corruption and had this anti-establishment kind of leaning that was pushing them to plan very complicated and far-fetched attacks against the establishment and corrupt politicians. This is very average guy who sells cars ideology. Yes. Oftentimes when people like read through these sorts of court documents, they'll be like, they had a incoherent ideology.
And you're like, it's not really incoherent, right? They're responding to real things in the world. Like everyone knows we're all being fucked over. Government did mishandle the Epstein files. There is a lot of corruption, right? And it does exist on both sides of the political spectrum. So like they are responding to real things, but there's not an avenue that it's being channeled in a...
helpful or useful direction so it gets dispersed through these very larpy like idealistic violent avenues where you get a group of people who don't really know what to do but are seeing these problems in the world and then what they end up doing is larping themselves into federal custody by typing on signal about their dreams to shoot politicians spending their college money on guns yeah
Now, the criminal complaint in Ohio for Tyson Proper also specifies that family members highlighted concerning statements he'd made in recent months on social media, quote, such as making sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler and posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook, unquote. Wow. Left wing comments. Well, they are national socialists after all. True, true.
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Chapter 3: How did law enforcement respond to the threat?
He knows he's going to die. He's LARPing like he's going to get out, but he knows he's going to die and he can't be like, I will go and...
I'll sell some bullshit and I'll get like $1,300.
We got to fund this. Do you have like a credit card? Yeah. Does anyone have a credit card? Quote, $1,300 gets us the drones and the charges. We should all pitch in and we need it to ASAP. What kind of drones are they getting?
Like, is this Amazon, like you look up drone on there? I'm just picturing like the drones that you see getting flown around like at the park.
by a family that just bought it just carrying a grenade exactly yeah thomas of california replied quote i'm flat broke i can pay in manpower though i bet you could come up with a hundred dollars in a week somehow maybe just hold a sign by the freeway saying quote fund the freedom fighters oh my god That's awesome, dude.
So, unable to pay for bombs, the group talked about trying to build drones and discussed breaking into military facilities to steal the explosives needed for their attack plan.
Does anybody know how to build this? Shit, we might have to redo the whole, or we can break into some of the most protected facilities in America.
I think that might be the better choice. To be fair, some of those military facilities are not as protected than what you might think. That's fair. The criminal complaints reads, quote, a member of the group stated he knew how to build drones connected via fiber optic cable and capable of carrying explosive charges. but did not have access to the materials needed for explosive charges.
That member suggested that they, quote, may need to hit a military industrial complex facility for the things we need, unquote. Fulcrum, or Eskridge, responded, 10-4, I'm liking the sound of this.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the thwarted attack?
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Chapter 5: What are the key points of Graham Platner's campaign platform?
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Chapter 6: How does Graham Platner's campaign connect with organized labor?
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Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a show about things falling apart and putting them back together. I'm Garrison Davis. This episode is on probably the most controversial midterm election happening this year, the U.S. Senate race in Maine.
where the new Democratic nominee, Graham Plattner, is running to end the 30-year reign of Republican Senator Susan Collins, who brands herself as a moderate, independent-leaning Republican, but has consistently backed Trump's unpopular policies while holding on to power. Beating Susan Collins would be a key part of taking the Senate away from the Republicans.
Much of the media coverage and discussion of this election has focused on the scandals relating to Graham Plattner's personal life, with very little on the real relations of his campaign, the political platform he's running on, the relations between him and organized labor, unions, and working class Mainers.
Platter's campaign has attracted overwhelming support from voters in Maine, despite the series of well-reported personal controversies. The Nazi-linked tattoo he got as a Marine, old offensive Reddit posts, marital issues, relationship issues, and an ex-girlfriend who worked at the Heritage Foundation accusing him of quote-unquote disturbing behavior after he got out of the military.
Mainstream outlets have covered those at length. This episode, I'm going to narrowly focus on the relations of Graham Plattner's campaign. I'll start by going over his campaign platform, then his ties to labor unions and community organizing, and finally, how those ties set up his campaign for massive success in the Democratic primary.
Plattner calls himself a New Deal Democrat, and like Bernie Sanders, believes we need a quote-unquote political revolution in this country. He wants to shake up the Supreme Court, increase the federal minimum wage, and ban billionaires from buying elections.
His platform is also designed to address the concerns of working class Mainers, like declining manufacturing, decaying infrastructure, closing hospitals, and spiking energy costs.
Plattner supports universal healthcare and ultimately wants to pass a Medicare-for-all type system, while pointing to how the country could build on the VA model, saying, quote, the level of healthcare I've received with Maine's excellent VA system should be available to all, unquote.
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Chapter 7: What controversies surround Graham Platner's past?
We all know that going up against for-profit healthcare will be a hard battle to win. His platform contains a list of policies that will start to break up healthcare monopolies and crack down on pharma corruption. like banning insurance companies and private equity from buying medical practices and hospitals and banning prescription drug advertising.
Plattner says he wants to expand Medicare and Medicaid's power to negotiate drug prices, allow the import of low-cost prescription drugs from other markets, and ban stock buybacks and impose a cap on executive compensation for pharmaceutical companies that receive public funds.
His platform calls to direct federal funds to reopen recently closed hospitals, birthing units and clinics, establish a national public drug manufacturing sector, make Medicare telehealth coverage permanent, reverse doge cuts to the VA, national legislation mandating a safe level of nurse-to-patient ratios to counter chronic hospital understaffing, and to open a new medical school at University of Maine.
A large part of Graham Platner's policy platform is focused on protecting democracy by keeping money out of elections. Quote, democracy cannot function when wealth buys power. Since Citizens United, unlimited dark money has flooded American politics, giving billionaires and special interests enormous influence.
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Plattner wants to overturn Citizens United, either through a constitutional amendment or a different Supreme Court. More on that later. He also campaigns on banning congressional stock trading and advocates that former members of Congress should be banned from congressional lobbying. Quote, public service should never become a pathway to private affluence, unquote.
Plattner supports mandating congressional term limits, two for the Senate and six for the House, and at a minimum, returning to the talking filibuster. His platform also includes congressional representation for everyone in the country, quote-unquote, including in places like Washington, D.C.
As for the Supreme Court, Plattner wants to pack the court and end lifetime appointments with staggered, time-limited terms. He's also in favor of impeaching justices on the Supreme Court by, quote, "...holding the court to the same ethics standards we hold all other federal judges," unquote.
Kleiner supports passing a constitutional amendment to, quote, prohibit partisan gerrymandering and require independent redistricting commissions to draw fair maps, which he says would keep elected officials more accountable and make voters' voices stronger.
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Chapter 8: How do recent election results reflect a shift in political power in New York?
In interviews, Plattner has advocated for something akin to FDR's proposed Economic Bill of Rights. Quote, In order to democratize our economy, we need to provide, as rights, things like housing, healthcare, education, and collective bargaining. Unquote.
He also wants to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to protect against sex discrimination, while addressing how communities of color, LGBTQ Americans, and immigrants have had the legal protections that were meant to guarantee them equal rights. Quote, turned against them instead of working in their defense. We need a 21st century constitution that restores the original purpose of these guarantees.
Equal rights under the law, protected for every person in this country, unquote. His policy platform includes passing federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation and calls out Democrats for, quote unquote, peddling soft bigotry to pander to Trump voters.
One of Plattner's most in-depth policy pages is for his billionaire tax plan, which he says represents, quote, the bare minimum of what I believe we should expect a Democratic Congress under our next president to pass. Plattner believes that income taxes alone, quote, cannot address the massive concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Only a tax on wealth can do so.
He promotes a 5% to 6% annual tax on wealth over $1 billion, as well as taxing capital gains the same as wages, quadrupling taxes on stock buybacks, and taxing excessive CEO pay to pressure corporations to reinvest profits back into their workers through higher wages, better benefits, and long-term security.
On the campaign trail, he's talked with voters about removing the $167,000 a year income tax cap on Social Security payments so that the ultra-rich contribute to the same payroll tax rate as the rest of us. He also wants to restore the enhanced child tax credit.
Plattner's tax plan doesn't just include raising taxes on the rich, but closing loopholes maker corporations use to avoid paying taxes altogether.
Quote, by closing corporate loopholes, we ensure that the giants who profit off our shared infrastructure, courts, and educated workforce finally pay their way and that we can sustain investments into schools, safety, and services every community depends on. One way to stop corporate tax dodging is by ending worker misclassification.
That is hiring workers as quote-unquote contractors to deprive workers of labor protections and healthcare while using this misclassification to dodge payroll taxes. Instead of foreign policy dominated by trade agreements that exploits workers and promotes endless war, Platner's platform calls for a new era of American quote-unquote economic diplomacy that
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