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Platner Implosion Reveals Utter Hypocrisy of National Democrats

Published | Video Starts at 04:56

A Totenkampf, the symbol of the SS at the death squads in World War II, that's what he had tattooed on his chest. Democrats just fine with that. The fact that [Graham Platner] self-described himself as a communist, they had no problem with that at all. The fact that he described that he would have masturbation fantasies in Porta Potties, which is just weird. I mean, I mean, it's just that that's a very odd dynamic that didn't scare any of them away. (04:56–05:21)

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