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VIDEO: Planet Hank video lampoons Bernie, Becca on taxes, climate hypocrisy

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by Guy Page

Hank “Planet Hank” Poitras yesterday published his second AI-generated satire video of Rep. Becca Balint. In addition to a repeat appearance by Congress candidate Mark Coester, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Graham Platner, and AOC also make appearances.

The first Planet Hank spoof of Balint elicited charges of ‘deep fake’ campaign fraud by Balint, widespread media coverage by media outlets including VDC, and social media discussion on the appropriateness of AI in political campaigns.


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  1. The best song for Bernie and Becca, ‘Always look on the bright side of life’ from Monty Python.

  2. Wonderful Wonderful stuff ! ! Bern & Becca will NOT survive this…if it continues & I HOPE IT WILL. Hooray!

  3. lol, thank you Hank! May you love and enjoy the free speech! The satire! Some of us find it very refreshing.

  4. Liberal news Media in Vermont including Seven Days,WCAX, and NBC 5 tried to spin fear among Vermonter’s to stifel their exercise of First Amendment rights of showing truth through humor, Parody and artistic creativity.
    Becca Balint openly admitted on Morning Joe that it was perfectly legal but may be a threat to Democracy, then went on to pump the bellows for legislation at a Federal level to ban Memes and Humor.

    People in the United Kingdom are receiving 3 years jail time for Facebook posts , the same is happening in Germany.
    For all the Media coverage Becca has made hay from regarding the original Video , She should cut Planet Hank a Check .
    Brook Page, did suspect that Becca paid Hank to make the first Video, for the purpose of being able to Cry Victim and get news Coverage.

    While I find that doubtful, it was also suspected that Paul Dame sent a Mailer ahead of his Campaign as State Party Chair . Roasting himself , so he could Cry Victim and Blame his opponent Russ Ingals.

    God bless America and Protect your First Amendment rights at all costs .

    • As a rule of thumb whenever I hear the buzz words, “a threat to Democracy” spouted by one of these Commiecrats I know the real threat is a threat to our Constitution. Any politician who does not know we are a Constitutional Republic to me is a “domestic enemy”. At least that’s what the oath I took told me.

      “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful, murder respectable and give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind”. – George Orwell

  5. News alert! Everything Becca and Bernie do is a threat to democracy. Oops, forgot Welch.

  6. If Mark is going to get our money back, maybe he could start with the $300 billion Trump just gave Iran lol

    • Oh my, now that you’ve talked about Trump, I can’t stay on topic! Thank you for once again bringing up Trump rather then staying on topic, surely your comment has changed every readers mind, because of your deflection.

    • Mr Cox,
      The $300 billion you so glibly mention, implying that is it coming from the United States via President Trump, is nonsense. That sum of money, intended for assistance for Iran to rebuild IF they abide by the conditions of the current Memo of Understanding, will possibly, only possibly, come from a consortium of Middle East nations–none of the money will be from the united States.
      If you’re going to try and malign the current administration, you should at least try to get you facts straight. Oh, and you forgot to mention recovery of the pallets of cash the Obama administration flew to Iran…
      Besides, this space is for comments on this very cool video clip about the antics of Vermont’s sole and lackluster, member to the US House of Representatives, not for a display of your TDS…

    • You can’t Neil, because you’re in a cult. You do know what Senators do right? My comment was right on topic. Whether it’s Iran or the algae in the reflecting pool, Trump can’t win a war lol and the Representatives have to sign on off on the capitulation to Iran.

    • LOL? Lots of love? League of legends? Lovely old ladies? Little, only little? Lying obstinate lackey?

    • Chris the discussion is about Balint.

      I’m not in the cult, btw, but nice framing, will say it’s been pretty effective in Vermont. We were so much not in either cult we started a new political party several years ago in Vermont. But yes, please pigeonhole me into the Nazi racist whatever you can think of slur, so I’m no longer considered a member of society, and you can discount anything I say. What do these actions indicate, btw?

      Vermont has one of the lowest ethical grades of the entire nation, one of the highest educational budgets and lowest outcomes, same goes for health care, but yes, I must be in a cult to notice the massive grifting going on in our state.

      Oh, and we can’t forget about the massive grifting and generational poverty brought about by Vermont’s affordable housing cabal. Along with our drug problems. Along with our zoning from the United Nations, that subjugates us to being a serf.

      Notice these are all Vermont issues? But please let’s talk about some spectacle of Trump????Who’s in the cult Chris? They own you, lock stock and barrel, you can’t even think and reason for yourself at this point and you hate your neighbors, because they are in a cult……

    • Neil, I discount everything you say because you use the Bible to justify bad behavior. I don’t hate my neighbors at all, you don’t know a thing about me lol, but its hilarious that you will so desperately try to change the subject from WASHINGTON issues, because that’s what Senators and Reps do. Enjoy your Juneteenth

    • Thank you for proving my point, you discount everything I say, see I’m not worthy of consideration. While I do consider your comments worthy of discussion. Enjoy. The amount of waste in government is of epic proportions. Balint can’t think or vote for herself or for Vermonters as she is captured and paid for. Some of us would rather vote differently.

      Is Balint talking about reducing wasteful spending?

    • Wasteful spending?? Seriously

      She didn’t vote for the Big Beautiful Bill that increased the deficit $3.4 trillion
      She didn’t decide to give Iran $300 Billion or spend $70 billion losing there
      She’s not asking for $600 million for a ballroom.
      Her terms don’t account for 25 % of the national debt.
      She’s not the one responsible for tariffs, inflation, or high gas prices.

      And I don’t like Balint, but people like you and Mark are not serious people. You want to come at me with wasteful spending and it makes me wonder what planet you’re on because a guy who bankrupted casinos is not a fiscal conservative.

  7. Becca Balint is using the Vermont AG the un Charitable Clark to go after Planet Hank in Revenge for showing Truth through humor.
    It’s Saul Alinsky tactics to try to slide topics with some lie to bring Trump in to Vermont news .

  8. Hopefully Planet Hank can continue and not be persecuted by our Democrat majority as they do in UK and the plan works. I see the disinformation and outright lies of TDS are alive and well with comments on this site

  9. This is hilarious, I love this. But as far as Chris Cos and demps1953, why don’t the two of you and your Trump hating left, go jump in the same pile as Bernie and Becca.

    • Not all Republicans are MAGA’s, some of us still have morals and someone will need to clean this mess when its all done, and people like you are like, “Trump, never heard of him?”

    • Sorry Jane. I am with you all the way. My response was for what Mark Truhuns post said. I must have scrolled up and saw Chris’s name above his and typed it in. I didn’t even read Chris’s post. I’m glad you picked up on that. I am 72. I have lived in Vermont all my life and I am very conservative. I grew up in the fifties. When Phil Hoff was elected Governor in 1962, he was the first democrat governor elected since 1853. That is 109 straight years of conservative leadership. After I read Chris’s post, there is no way I would have said “spot on” to that TDS crazed close minded idiot. Thank you for hopefully saving my reputation.

  10. Somehow, somewhere a comment that I made comparing this lampooning of Becca Balint, and Bernie Sanders to the distasteful displaying of the severed head of President Trump by Cathy Griffin got “lost in the mail”. As I tried to point out in my previous post, anything goes when the left exercises their 1st A rights, but if anybody on the right tries to go that route we are fascists, and or hateful . It’s so blatantly two faced, that I really do not have time for them .

  11. To all this, I say HA! (Hypocrisy Abounds) Everybody is right and everybody is wrong. TGIF

  12. Very interesting, there was a comment above about peeling paint, it didn’t peel, headline, …”Man broke off blue sealant near Lincoln Memorial and caught on camera”
    EMILY MILLER. (Reporter)
    JUN 19
    Algae in river water, go figure.

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