Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 10 July 2026, Friday-On-the-Front-Porch

Episode Date: July 11, 2026

Thanks, again, SCOTUS! That whole "fire-em-if-you-got-em" ruling is already yielding Federalist Society/Heritage Foundation dividends, yeah? ICE goons murder again . . . and try to abduct the witnesses out-of-country. Nitwit Nero doesn't understand that not signing a bill means IT BECOMES LAW. I'faith, we breathe the ether of the Moronosphere.  Oddly enough, I mentioned Generalissmo Fracisco Franco, who is still dead. OTOH, Moscow Mitch is become Schrödinger's Senator: both dead and alive at the same time until someone opens the box/hospital room/sliding drawer in the hospital morgue.  Have an AWESOME Weekend. 

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month subscribers and contributors via PayPal so that means thank you ever so kindly to Joe thank you Joe and thanks to Daniel and thanks to Dana Daniel Smitty Yes, and Dana in Ohio said she hadn't been able to listen a lot lately. I understand that. There were many constraints on our time, but she said she was horrified by this latest murder by the ice goons. And, well, if you have a conscience, how can you not be? So thank you for that, Dana.

Thank you very, very kindly. Where do we stand? well, we remain a little bit ahead of the game. And so there's no game. But we are a little bit ahead in July, thanks to Ralph's magnificent No More Holes challenge that was met at the beginning of the month. We have $2,860 to go to finish the month of July fully funded. and hopefully that will be reachable between now and the 31st. And, well, if we can, whew, I know, I look forward to it.

We could have some fundraising free radio where I don't even have to mention it for a few days. And so, let's see, let's do a little bit of quick, a little bit of quick gazintas. and so that's and we do this it works out to an average given the number of broadcasts remaining in the month of $178.75 per day that I hope is manageable

and thank you very kindly to our kind anonymous friend beer money because I can't drink for the next six days thank you thank you thank you I'm sorry you can't and I hope you can soon. So that gets us down to 2830. Feel better soon, please. And it's going to be a busy night with the juvenile delinquents,

or a busy evening with the juvenile delinquents I can already tell. It's not the truth that you're everywhere, damn it, says juvenile delinquent, Jeremy. People can't catch reruns of you in their teeth fillings like they can with rush. if they just sit around doing a Mitch impression with their mouth open. Yeah. Megadillos from busted knuckle rush. I just love you. At least we don't have to hear that anymore.

But it does remind me of the password for this evening. Yeah. Hangout. Because it appears that CNN has in fact decided to hang out their nasty little right-wing liar to dry him with his claims of having had long, soulful, deep, and searching conversations with Moscow Mitch McConnell. He tried to double down talking to Jake Tapper. and remember Jennings actually at one point ran political operations

for Moscow Mitch's Senate campaigns and so therefore he has to a certain extent he has a certain degree of culpability for all of the shitting on America that Moscow Mitch has done with his miserable misbegotten best part of him ran down his mama's leg life

and so despite well his voice sounded strong and all of that baloney earlier today speaking to Tapper Scotty said that well I talked to

the senator's staff and they said he's planning to return to work and trying to trying to dispel the rumors of Moscow Mitch's recent demise or that he is brain dead or in a persistent vegetative state or roughly the equivalent of a human ruda bega that is to say a vegetable causing CNN then to issue a statement Speaking to the Daily Beast, a CNN mouthpiece said,

As a CNN political commentator, Scott Jennings is not a full-time employee or journalist for the network. His account of a personal conversation with Senator McConnell reflects his experience and is not CNN reporting. Jesus, that's the kind of thing a network would say back in the day, having had I don't know, Gene Dixon on to talk about her predictions for 1974. Yeah. Nothing says loyalty quite like getting hung out to dry by the network that you claim to work for, but actually don't, really? and interestingly our pal joy in Ann Arbor is keeping a close eye on all of this

and I got a note from her earlier complete with a video somebody actually did shoot video the day that the EMS with advanced life support appeared, arrived at Moscow Mitch's abode, with, of course, Elaine Chow, spending the fourth of children. Well, yeah, Elaine Chow had already jetted off to Jainya. And so an individual was brought out on a gurney, and it's telling, because, usually if one is a heart attack victim, one of the first things you do is you start trying to get oxygen to them.

But, well, and this is no reflection on the EMS staff, they were kind of leisurely in what they did. I'm not saying they were happy. Just leisurely. Basically what you do when you had the unfortunate, fortunate experience of serving on an EMS team and showing up where the subject of the call has already well expired. Brought out and put into the amylance, there were just a pair of bare feet sticking out from the bottom of the blanket. And no tubes, no oxygen, no nothing.

and as Joy noted one neighbor said he was covered by a blanket with his feet exposed another said he wasn't wearing an oxygen mask and that does say yeah maybe we'll all be proven to be wrong maybe at some point in time

he'll show up in the well of the Senate and say I'm back and I'll be like well I'll be dipped but it seems highly unlikely is I wonder because they don't have much

in the way of rules so well you just you just wonder if we're going to continue this charade and you know rules we don't need no

stinking rules and just play along until it's convenient for him to finally be well you know dead and as to CNN

they finally had to say something because what little credibility they have was rapidly working its way down the down the toilet because these are because jennings was making unsubstantiated claims as what as did john toon john barasso i'm just curious how they'll explain it away probably something along the lines of after after a long battle with brain deadness the longest serving senate majority leader in american history moscow michael michael man who spent every day of his life trying to fuck other Americans finally passed away and just sort of anticipating the whole laying in state and professional mourning that will attend all of that

will very likely be absolutely repulsive and nauseating. when the time comes. Yeah. Well. Again, I think there's every chance in the world. He's scripted every bit of this as part of his ongoing long game. Yeah.

And, well, speaking of don't need no Federal Election Commission? We don't need no stinking federal election commission? Yeah, nitwit Nero, having been given the go-ahead to do so by our most puissant, dread sovereign, Supreme Catholic Majesties, just barely a week ago,

fired the entire Federal Election Commission, election assistance commission, and for all intents and purposes, erased, well, one of, if not the only

federal agency whose only job you had one job was to administer elections at the federal level. Miles Taylor, who served in the first Trump

maladministration, and was the individual who early on said, listen, there are people inside this administration who are trying to keep him from doing as much harm as possible. Well, Miles Taylor said, this is the clearest sign yet that Trump plans to meddle in the midterms, and they may have plans to circumvent Congress to carry out a sweeping voter suppression scheme.

At first, my stomach sank when I saw the news. There were three remaining. members on the election assistance commission. And in a Thursday night massacre, he shit-canned all three. So it's leaderless, memberless, and he could very easily simply appoint some lackeys and licks fiddles to fill those seats.

What it doesn't fill is anyone with confidence for the coming November plebiscite. right um hmm jeremy sending this along he follows things such as this right now this is from yesterday

right now a massive cargo plane just touched down at lexington's airport witnesses say numerous people disembarked followed by what appeared to be a blacked out ambulance the unusual scene has sparked intense online speculation excuse me speculation without a possible connection to senator moscow Mitch mcconnell what's going on

hmm hmm indeed wow and courtesy of ralps the current slate of potential replacements for graham platinor up in Maine

via C BS News includes the Secretary of State of Maine Shenna Bellows and she's 51 and she ran for the governor's office but lost in the primary. She's also been a member of the state senate

and the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine. David Costello of Bangor. He said when Plattner dropped out that he was back in, he got all of 8.1% of the prime. primary vote. Valley Geiger said to be a close ally of Platner's. She's 70. And I don't know if proximity to Platner is something that's going to be helpful. Troy Jackson has set up a federal election commission exploratory committee. He says he's the best person to replace Platner. He's 58. Dan Cleven, a beer brewer, wants the seat.

He's 49. He ran briefly before he endorsed Maine Governor Janet Mills for that Senate nomination. He's well known through his beer brewery. Page Loud, 29 years old, and the social worker, she said, Mainers deserve more than a hand-picked replacement whose morality only kicked in at the last minute. Nirov Shah, formerly of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said he might be interested. He came in second in the Democratic gubernatorial primary last month. Establishment politicians have failed us, Shaw said.

To defeat Susan Collins, we need an outsider who's not afraid to. to take on the broken system, she has spent decades upholding. Shaw has degrees both in law and medicine from the University of Chicago. That's a little worrisome. University of Chicago always is. He campaigned on fixing, housing, funding health care, feeding kids, and fueling growth, all while fighting the overreaches of the Trump administration. He proved to be an effective fundraiser bringing in over a million bucks.

Jordan Wood is 36 and says that he'd like a run at it. He is a former chief of staff to Representative Katie Porter, former Representative Katie Porter of California. He said he wants to get big money out of politics and end corruption in Washington. If I'm a nominee for Senate, I'll lead the fight to pass Medicare for all-pass sweeping anti-corruption reform and stand up to Trump's lawlessness. He raised $5 million from donors

and spent almost all of it during the campaign. Now, Ralph's sister, whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few years ago, she says she favors Shennebello's Troy Jackson and Nirov Shah. And with all of that, As prologue, Ralph says, so I'll offer a $25 challenge for main picking a good Democratic candidate for Senate.

Oh, so let it be written, so let it be done. July the 27th, well, they've got till July 27th to name their candidate. They're going to have a nominating convention. And I don't know, as far as I'm concerned, the sooner the better. and get the stench off of that campaign. And now Susan Collins's entire campaign staff is scrambling to come up with filth to smear any potential candidate with because they've got to do that just to try to divert from the manifest evil that that Susie Q did with her support. for, well, you know,

B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B., without, not to mention her support for the handmade, thus, wiping out nearly 50 years of reproductive freedom via Roe v. Wade. So, if anybody would like to jump in with 25 bucks, it'll turn into 50 automatically. and we'll be down to

2780 that would be awesome thank you ralps thank you always uh from lea new york back to moscow mission obligatory star trek not dead reference from where no man has gone before

spot repeating from the valiance recorder severe damage seven crewman dead beeping no think that's six one crewman seemed to have recovered Lee at Memory Alpha. Look, the whole Moscow-Mitch thing is pure Monty Python.

I'm not dead. Oh, you're very ill. You will be very soon. I don't want to go on the car. Oh, don't be such a baby. Right. Yeah. And, well,

so there was the Election Assistance Commission, and then the Thursday night massacre of the Federal Election Commission. It had to have a bipartisan balance of members by law, and it had a whole bunch of unfilled vacancies, couldn't get a quorum to meet, and so, uh, bye. Yeah.

Ah, Jesus. Yeah, Lee says, what do you mean they're not alive? Those Republicans done seeing the band at Chuck E. Cheese. They're clearly alive and sang in. Just like Mitch. Oh, God. Mitch McConnell is an animatronic. What would he be in the band at Chuckie Cheese?

An animatronic weasel? That seems fair. And like I said, we have the ice murders down in the Houston area to deal with. Jesus Christ, this is some filthy business. But any time it involves the ice goons, it's going to be. Yeah. and by the way Reverbo said of Moscow

Mitch reminds me of a favorite quote from I think Clarence Darrow While I have never killed anyone I have been pleased to read some people's obituaries I think it was something like While I have never wished anyone dead I have read some obituaries with real pleasure Spencer Tracy played a great Clarence Darrow

Inherit the Wind Yeah. But yeah, down in Houston, Texas, a gang of bloodthirsty ice goons, once again deploying the same old, he tried to run over me. Wasted an undocumented immigrant to this country who had been here for over 20 years and had three children. Slaughtered him in cold blood. God damn. And really the only thing, the only thing you can say is that it's yet another reason that we've got to recapture the presidency in 2028 so that we can begin holding trials and convicting and appropriately punishing, perhaps with extreme prejudice, these ice goons. that's the only way this country begins to heal and even then the healing will be a long time coming and of course if we could get a majority in the Senate

and a majority in the House I know oh Roxanne you sweet summer child we might actually make progress on I hate this right reforming the immigration nightmare the laws that are a nightmare for immigrants in this country and stop in its tracks,

this godforsaken white supremacy that befoules every corner of the executive branch of this country. And by the way, that line, that clip from Nitwit Niro about Spain, there's scum I hate him cut off all trade with Spain do it now

just further proof of his dementia his madness but when a madman makes the utterances of a madman the same people still have to have to worry and this all went down at the NATO summit in Ankara Turkey they're a terrible

partner is what? They didn't commit to spending 5% of their GDP on military defense. I mean, if you're Spain, you can kind of understand. I mean,

the Iberian Peninsula is, well, I mean, suddenly I'm thinking about Charles Martel crossing the, what, the Pyrenees to fight the Saracet?

Spain didn't participate in the Second World War because they had served as a laboratory for the fight between fascism and, well, liberty. The Russians and the Soviets, that is to say, and a host of people from all over the country, all over the world, came together to support the Republican side, while Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany tried out their brand spanking new military arsenal in support of the fascist Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who, by the way, I should note, is still dead. The fascists won. Don't have to, yeah, but, yeah. But nonetheless, he attacked Spain.

Oh, there's Emilio. I'm glad you're back from your period of mourning for the spies. Madness, don't you mean manifest genius? Sure, Emilio, sure. Sorry about the spies. But, yeah, it was Wednesday when it went nearer and said, Cut off our trade with Spain, please, including visits. Whatever that meant.

This is roughly the same time that he was talking about 111 missiles being sent in an aircraft carrier by the Islamic Republic of Japan. Then, of course, Taco, backed down and said, Well, I did have issues with Spain, and I still do, but Spain came back all the way today. And they honored a request for lots of payment.

To him? They were very generous today. You know, I told them I was going to stop trading. Well, this caused Spanish foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares to just sort of look around and do the whole

archie bunker. What? Eat it? And the foreign minister said no, we understand Trump was referring to the data showing we've satisfactory complied with the 2% target.

That was a government spokesperson speaking to tiger beat on the Potomac. There's no spending increase, but I will I'll tell you, I have skin in the game, and so do some other members of the Horn family

community congregation, because the medication that I use on a weekly basis says, at the bottom of the box, made in Spain. So, oh, who knows what the next tantrum will be. he's gone and everybody knows it honest to God I think

Moscow Mitch may actually have more brain function valid brain function than nitwit Nero does and I want to make a point of something here I know we're all like well why won't they just say Moscow Mitch is dead or he's in a persistent vegetative state I want us to take a moment to reflect on the possibility

again the long game Moscow Mitch was made a fool of after his speech during the second impeachment during the trial thereof in the Senate by saying I will not vote

to convict President Trump I don't think it's necessary he can always be charged with a violation of the law and then, well, we saw what happened. So he has that stain on him.

He may very well have died with that stain on him, or he may just be laying there in a bed Captain Piking. Beep! Claire! But as long as it hurts, Nittwit Nero, and it does hurt him, especially as we discussed with regard to him, trying to pillage the treasury for more money to throw down the Iran War rat hole,

the Iran War sewer, then however they want to play it is kind of fine. And I've been, I've had occasion to think over the last couple of days, rather a lot about marginal trailer queens remarks about, well i just wish they'd declare him dead so that uh so that thomas massey uh could run for his seat in a special election if he croaks before i've seen two two dates august the third or august the seventh but if he croaks before then then special election time at which point the uh winner

of that election would be sworn in on election day. I think I've got this right. Whereas if they just have the regular election in November, the new senator does not get sworn in until January. Hmm. Or perhaps sworn in immediately. Hmm? Yeah.

Other things, perhaps, of less moment of a political nature, but if you're afflicted by it, well, it's unpleasant. New words to learn, cyclosporiasis. During the program yesterday, we learned about pseudophiliculitis barbi. Today it's cyclosporiasis. And apparently there is an outbreak of cyclosporiasis running through the country. It appears to have hit

Michigan particularly hard. And there's no fun in this, but cyclosporiasis which is caused by a parasite cyclospora leads to a gastrointestinal problem

cyclosporiasis that and the parasite is cyclosporiasis. chyatenesis. It's most often found contaminating fresh produce and vegetables

and it can lead to well there goes dinner in the eastern daylight time zone. Explosive diarrhea. If there's any good news, it's rarely, it is the fact that it is rarely fatal. And it's

spread by, well, human poo. Which traces back to how we grow our vegetables and how we treat the people who grow and harvest those vegetables. And of course, with this jihad against people from, primarily people from south of the border, many of whom work in agricultural labor. you can see how this might become a problem. And then again, of course, there's always whalehead, dead bear, raccoon penis, brainworm, lamprey,

who probably thinks that we need to develop herd immunity against cyclosporiasis. Jesus. It's running loose in seven... Probably should have put that differently. In 17 states... But of course, because the Centers for Disease Control has been gutted, there hasn't been an update on cyclosporiasis in the United States since June 16th. I think that was...

Wait, that's the same day that Elaine Chow took wing to Jaina. Up in Michigan, Dr. Natasha Bogdorassian is the chief medical executive for the state. and she said that Michigan alone has reported more than 700 cases the problem is the number is probably significantly higher because it's not like E. coli or any of the other gut bacteria that can make you sick they'll make you throw up be nauseated, diarrhea too

cyclosporiasis is just the lower gut that's involved. Dr. Bogasarian said typically in the state we see 40 to 50 cases in an average year, but as soon as we started to see an uptick and more reports of cyclosporiasis than we normally see in this time frame, we became concerned. I'd be concerned too, Dr. Bagasarian, because you're not going to get any help from whalehead dead bear raccoon penis brainworm lamprey, you know, of the hyana sport brainworm lampreys. It used to be that it was most commonly seen in people who had traveled overseas where the parasite is endemic, but what we're seeing now is it's happening in people in the United

States who've not gone overseas or crossed any borders. And you always have to factor in the paranoia that infects this country now because they're trying to do contact tracing up in Michigan, interviewing people who have been confirmed to have cyclosporiasis, asking them where they ate, what restaurants they went to, what they ordered, whether they had bought fresh veggies at the grocery store,

what grocery stores they frequent, and so far they've come up with a great big bupkis. and the thing is, it can be around and you don't even know you've got it. Some people don't get the poopies. But you could have it for a couple of weeks, and then you do. And most doctors don't look for it or test for it. Sometimes antibiotics can help. And Dr. Vagdasarian added that once produce is contaminated, it's difficult to get rid of.

you can remove some of it physically through washing and it's particularly prone to inhabit the fruits and veggies with nooks and crannies like raspberries, blackberries, lettuce, cilantro, green onions, basil and it's also affected because you don't see a lot of cooked cilantro and I guess it's not even prone to being killed

say in something that's highly acidic like salsa. They're recommending that if you buy lettuce, buy it by the head, and take off multiple layers of the leaves on the outside and then wash it to avoid it, and, you know, buy fruits that are smoother and easier to wash, like grapes instead of raspberries or blueberries instead of blackberries. So be careful out there.

Please. And, oh, rather a big deal. Tonight at midnight, the housing bill will become law unless Nitwit Nero vetoes it.

Canckel's Caligula has been throwing his. He says, I'm not going to sign shit until you give me to say that so that I can, so that I can monkey up the midterm elections. I mean, it was kind of embarrassing for Caroline real poo-poo leave it alone

because she was out there barking and grunting recently that oh, this is one of the most significant pieces of housing legislation in American history. And then Daddy's put the shiv in her ribs. It was passed with bipartisan support earlier today. And he said,

Oh, it's a minor important. and he has said that it's a big yawn to me compared to this Ave act just about everything is a big yawn he's had it on his desk since ordained southern baptist minister pastor brother mullah moses mike johnson handed it to him on the 29th day of june that gave him 10 days to sign or veto, well, at 11.59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, it becomes law automatically without his signature. And so early this morning, he triped, I will not sign the housing bill,

which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House. In all caps. Protest! Close caps. Over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing to save America act. I'm thinking of holding my breath until I

turn not orange. I added that last part. But along the way, he did give away the game, noting, it would hurt my friends. People like Har Har Har-Kro. It affects things like corporate home ownership, as well as how

mobile homes, trailers, manufactured housing, is built and they really didn't fight over this one in the Congress. I mean, that's what makes this bill particularly noteworthy. Both sides were like, yeah, we need to do this. And there's an affordability aspect to it. And even though Nitwit Niro says,

affordability is a giant fraud. It's not a fraud to people who can't buy a home until they're into their 40s. A particular note is a cap on the number of homes that big money investors can purchase. Corporate landlords that own at least 350 houses can't buy more. And the funny thing is, at one point in time, the Spirokeets told Nitwit Nero to back that idea. And then another Spirokeet shrieked, and he didn't. The one thing that didn't make it into the final bill, was a provision that would have said that if developers build houses that are billed to rent, they have to sell off the rentals for permanent fee, simple, absolute ownership after seven years of profit taking. It's even got things in it that are longstanding parts of the maggot and more broadly Republican,

wish list, like expedited environmental review in some cases. It's not a terrible bill. It's not awesome. It doesn't end homelessness in America. And a gentle reminder that homelessness in America is a choice that this country makes. And we have not yet chosen to not have it. So we'll see.

He said he won't sign it, but somehow or another he doesn't have the courage to veto it. And there is exactly, as of this moment, six hours remaining. We shall see, we shall see, we shall see. In other, well, again, not earth-shattering news, but news. Down in

Alabama, and it's worth remembering that at one point in time, the Alabama legislature tried to declare legislatively that the value of pie was three. I know that always just, that makes the mathematicians in the

community just want to eat dirt and run rabbits, but yes, three. There's a genius down there representing Dale Strong. He is, of course, a white maggot. He declared on a news muck program, my grandmother taught second grade for 38 years

at Monrovia Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama, and I remember starting our day off with prayer and a pledge of our allegiance. I can tell you right now that's something that's not going on all over our country, and I think that one of the things that we're offering in this, our legislation, would be where we start the day off in every classroom with a pledge of allegiance to our country, and then we would also have a flag in every classroom, and even in the gymnasiums in ever school. representing Strong never made it to

Latin class that would be gymnasia dumbass sorry Jesus Christ his bill would make federal funding for public elementary and secondary schools conditional on daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance

and the prominent display of the mark and flag in ever class room and gymnasium and the inclusion of educational materials on the history significant and proper display of the U.S. flag. Okay, doke. This is one of those moments where I get to say,

ha, how about that? It was in the middle, it was either during or shortly after the Second World War that the Supreme Court of the United States prompted by a case brought by of all people, the Jehovah's Witnesses, who get kind of taken. testy about graven images and idols and the like,

objected to a West Virginia law that said, everybody's got to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Supreme Court said, oh, no, the fuck they don't. Because you might be trampling on somebody's religious liberties. And so that's 80 years worth of constitutional precedent. I know, I know, you don't have to email over this one. I know there's no such thing as long-standing constitutional precedent in the new 90 states of America, the greatest country in the history of the world on earth now today, forever in the universe under God. Amen.

But still, the fact that this clown, a member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, is unaware of that, well, I'd say it was disturbing, but it's... more than it being disturbing, it's effin-typical maggots. Can't live with them, can't send them to the Van Allen Radiation Belt. I mean, I wonder, would the history of the, would represent in Strong's history of the Pledge of Allegiance, would it include the fact that it was originally written by a socialist Baptist minister in the late 19th century,

and that under God was not in it and was only added by a paranoid red-baiting Congress in the 1950s? Well, that's probably too woke. Yeah, sure. Jesus. So we are into the second hour of the program. And, well, this, Ralph still has her Democrats, please choose a good candidate. $25 on the table if someone would care to respond to that and get us down to 2780. Yeah, there we are exactly what I was saying, Steve in New York.

How about learning the pledge without under God in it? Uh-huh. I mean, the under-God part, because this is one of those things that drives the maggots absolutely right up a cactus, what if the Muslims want to say under Allah? and what if the what if the devout hyper-orthodox Jews want to say under and not say anything at all because don't say his name out loud if you do that three times they'll show up what about under witslow poachly what about under shiva i mean lots of options it's funny i i don't remember where I heard it, but

someone said, you know, as an atheist, the only difference between me and a believer is that I believe in one less God than they do. I thought that was sharp. On the other hand, you mean I've got to choose between 10,000 or more deities

and I've only got one chance and otherwise it's the eternal fires of a burning hell? Yeah. That's for you, Cynthia. I personally prefer underdog. One Nation, Underdog. Underdog!

Help me, Underdog! But I can't help thinking that representing Dale Strong would be a proven of something that happened there in Chattanooga, Tennessee. You know, once upon a time you could travel all over the southeast and barns would be painted, because farmers could get their barns painted for free, with ads for Sea Rock City, at the top of Lookout Mountain, or see Ruby Falls, or C-7 states,

because you really can from the top of Lookout Mountain, you can see seven states. Let's see, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, maybe. But, yeah, and so it's still a tourist draw. Ruby Falls is beautiful and they've got an incline railway there it's run by the Chattanooga area

regional transportation authority and you know it's just a fun touristy thing to do until a maggot intervened a passenger named Nathan Scherer was visiting from Florida with his

father Charles WRCB of Chattanooga had the story when a part-time conductor on the incline railway decided to when he decided to unburden himself of his xenophobia and racism

The very, very few Americans in here happy independent state to the rest of you welcome to the greatest country on the face of the planet if you disagree you can't leave yeah it's very close that's very close the greatest country in the history of the world on earth now today forever in the universe under god and uh well the organization that runs again carta the chattanooga area regional transportation authority uh promptly fired the part time conductor. Jack Peterson, say his name, spread it far and wide. Guys are disgusting, racist.

Carter said, those remarks were unacceptable and they do not reflect the values of Carter, the incline railway, or the people who work here. Peterson will not work for Carter on the incline railway again. That was from their chief of staff, Scott Wilson. Peterson will not work for Carter or the incline railway. way again. And I want to apologize directly to the passengers who experienced this and to everyone who's

ever seen the video and felt it sting. It should never have happened. Ah, but then they I guess they caught some heat from the maggots. Their chief executive, Charles

Frazier, said I've reached out to Patterson, Peterson, to discuss whether there's a path back to employment. And for his part, Peterson doubled down, saying, I'm very patriotic. It was the USA's Independence Day. I was celebrating with my fellow Americans, native or non-native. I truly do believe we are the greatest country on earth. My statement about if you don't like the country and don't believe we are the best, then you can leave is a freedom of the USA, USA, USA,

that many other countries do not have. It is not racist or xenophobic thing to say. If you don't believe in making this country better, then why are you here? I haven't seen that he has been, but I expect that in no time flat, he will eventually, if he hasn't already, be prominently featured on,

oh, I don't know, newsmuck, Fox News, TV, Radio, Rwanda, that rickety video blog run by the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells, you know, the usual suspects. And speaking of the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells, this is interesting. There's some court documents that have come out.

And you remember when nitwit Niro was shaking down law firms for free work in exchange for not attacking them? well one law firm at least I had the courage to sue over it and it may have been the actual American Bar Association itself

it was a shakedown it was extortion you know nitwit Nero has a habit of that if you think back to the first impeachment and he succeeded to the tune of about a billion dollars. And now, well, the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells, Stevie three shirts Bannon,

and his buddy Boris Epstein, are named as people who secretly aided nitwit Niro in the shakedown. There's only one problem. Neither of them has an official government job. And so consequently, they can't claim that they have some sort of executive privilege. You might recall that the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells tried to use that claim in his own criminal trial, lost his ass, and then went to prison for a few months. But the thing is, Stevie three shirts, out. himself. In a television interview, Bannon said, let me repeat this. There are major law firms in Washington, D.C. What we're trying to do is put you out of business and bankrupt you. Among others were the Paul Weiss law firm. They were targeted. And on March the 19th, 2025,

senior policy strategist in the Magot, I mean White House, May Mailman, no, that's really, that's a real name, sent a draft executive order saying, ASAP, Paul Weiss order, and internal email showed that Nitwit Nero was directing the whole damn thing. Per Potus, this EO needs to be ready now, May Mailman wrote, solving Paul Weiss

V2. Dockx? And of course they went on. They stripped lawyers of their security clearances, canceled contracts, even went so far as to try to borrow lawyers from federal buildings. We talked about it on this program. Nine shameful law firms knuckled under and promised

free legal work to nitwit Nero. in order to get him to stop. Lawfare said the Trump administration extorted the law firms by accepting pro bono legal services, knowing that the law firms promised such services in the hope that President Trump would be influenced not to issue an executive order targeting the firms. And so the American Bar Association is now trying to subpoena Boris Epstein for deposition in the federal court in New York. and the the

the the the white house is refusing all of their discovery requests

saying they're too broad well he may be out on the outside looking in but the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells

still desperately wants to be in the good graces of his pumpkin potentate Jesus I've prattled away into the second hour of the program let's run over to the

old holler tree and see what's going on there Brother Deacon Asa noting incline railway Between the there are very few Americans here And welcome to the greatest country in the world I'm thinking maybe there's a Chattanooga in Canada Because if that's the case Then the dude would be correct on both counts

Ha ha We are you know what's that line from the news? We are not the greatest country in the world. That clip never gets old. So, hey, Jeremy. Hey, is an Incoigne railroad kind of like a cog railway, or is there something different about it? Or is it like hanging below the tracks? It just goes up at a steep angle.

Okay, so I think it's similar. Mount Washington has a famous incline, but they call it a Cog Railway. Yeah, and there's a, there's an incline railway up Mount Washington in Pittsburgh. I met Mount Washington in New Hampshire. I know that. I was just pointing out that they're two Mount Washington's with two inclined railways. That is interesting. I didn't know there was a second.

So, okay, good on that. But I only say that because, was it in the late 60s, early 70s, the Cog Railways, Cog's, failed and it flew down the hill to a steep corner and flew off and killed just about everyone on board including conductor, I believe. I say that because my uncle and grandfather missed that trip by one trip. They were going to take it that day. He decided not to. And as they drove away on the radio, breaking news, it had failed and come off the tracks.

And see, there are a couple of state parks in West Virginia that have aerial tramway. down into like the New River Gorge, and I ain't getting on them. Nope. Right. Can't make me. Kind of the people that jump out of a good, perfectly good airplanes for trails or jump off the needle towers in Vegas and Ontario and stuff for fun. You know, they go down like a bungee cord, but no, I don't need to jump a thousand. No, it's like the base jump.

It's like the base jumpers on Bridge Day here. No bungee cords involved. just you, your parachute, and 876 feet of air. I'm sure percentage-wise, you're perfectly safe. There's that percentage where you don't make it. And it's always there. There's no way to get around to it. Oh, there have been no small number of people killed in the gorge.

It's been a while since we've had one happened, but it does happen. The shoot doesn't open right or what hanging, and boom. I'm pretty sure there was a guy a couple years ago, who jumped and didn't open it enough time. It opened, seemed like, only maybe like 100 feet above the water, and he splashed out of the water and rocks pretty hard. Never heard a follow-up on it. He literally opened him and hit the water.

Like, it barely slowed him down, maybe to save speed, but it was real close. But anyway, enough about parachuting in peril. Parachuting every day to this fucking country in peril. Only we don't have a reserve shoot. I just heard on the news that my state, health insurers are looking for a double-digit increase next year as well. We'll see how that goes over. Great.

Mm-hmm. So, I mean, they can only squeeze people so far, and they're losing people at a time for it. And there's already tens of millions in this country who can't afford it as what they did. It's going to make it even worse. Oh, what else? I'm into my first full week on the new meds, and they seem to be doing their job. They work a lot more effective when I'm active during the week, which makes sense, because I'm burning carbs moving around, so that helps quite a bit.

Weekends, not quite as impressive. I'll admit, weekends I'm pretty, I say in one place an awful lot. I don't move around because I'm beat like Saturday morning, so I'll say that much. anything else I mean nothing that's really striking at the moment is what it is should be two or three good nights

of nice clear skies and blue skies during the day so I'll take it happily because you only have that for a few months and it gets colder and darker again so I'll take it for a little while, won't complain too much Yeah play the cards you're dealt I guess since Roger in here

I guess Steve or Kevin can take over and we'll go back to work because it's hot and I want to get home I understand well we haven't heard from Steve in a very long time how are you? I'm doing okay how about yourself I'm all right I'm happy I've got two beautifully smoked pork shoulders

that turned out to be quite delicious I pulled them off the smoker at about midnight they've been they've been perfuming the house that sounds good you know I came on the porch tonight because I wanted to talk a little bit about Graham Platner

good I've been thinking a lot about this and I'm probably going to anger a whole lot of people with some of the things I'm going to say I'm beginning to wonder or think that where

he was accused of what he was accused of which part the rape stuff. That's the stuff that really concerns me. Yeah. The tattoo, look, I don't, I, horrible judgment, I'm going to assume the guy in, I'm going to assume that he really didn't know what, what it was.

That's just as believable to me as almost anything. I think, or what, what, I just wonder is how, where is the presumption of innocence? Well, the presumption of innocence, I mean, you know this. That attaches only in criminal cases. No, I understand that. I understand that. But as a general concept, I think it's better.

I think that is useful. because we avoid things like what we're like what we're like the the the quagmire that we're I don't want to say quagmire but what we're going to be going through here here in the very in the not too distant future with the nominating process in Maine I just I I what I wish is that rather than litigating an accusation like that in excuse me

I had to cough excuse me sorry I had to mute for a second I had to cough we're litigating his guilt rather than presuming his innocence

and I just wonder if we are not getting into a situation where we are jumping to conclusions and biting off our nose

to spite our face. I find the absolute blind loyalty that Republicans always seem to have for their candidates no matter who they are. On the other hand, it strikes me that there's maybe something to be said about letting a legal process play out.

And I think that would have been very good or would have been useful in something that you said was indict him. Indide him. In the meantime, I think the presumption should be that a person's not guilty. Now, it could very well be that not being female, that I have a blind spot here. But I'm looking at that race. I think the race is over. Oh, I think it was over while he was still in it.

There wasn't any polling that showed him defeating Susan Collins. But I think the problem is the Democratic voters. I think that's the problem. We are looking for somebody who is, you know, who has no skeletons in their closet. We're looking for somebody who is perfect, and we're not going to find that. And when we, you know,

and I have to, I have to say, the more I thought about Lawrence O'Donnell's, what he was talking about and this whole notion of vetting and all this kind of stuff, the more I listen to it, the less I liked what he said. Because this whole, this whole extreme vetting stuff is what's, is, is, is the, the, the problem is, I think we're letting perfection, wait, is that, is that, is that what it is, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, see, but the problem I have there is, I don't think grand platinum was good.

And, and, and I think the, the vetting problem. that Lawrence O'Donnell alluded to is very real and it has a backstory that he didn't go into. Because, in fact, it was last August when Platner announced his campaign,

just an humble main oyster farmer. That wasn't true. Why does it matter if it's true or not? Who cares? Well, I, I think the truth matters. I think the truth always matters.

But here's the thing. Here's the thing. He launched his campaign shortly after, and I'm always leery of terms like this, and I put scare quotes around it, because any time you hear a term like this, the first thing that clicks in my mind is, loser, because that's what so many political strategists are.

They make a shit ton of money, and it doesn't matter if the candidate gets their ass handed to them. They still get paid. So, let's go back to about maybe this time of year, last year, there's a progressive strategist, named Dan Moraff. And it was Dan Moraf saying, oh, you got to run, Graham, you got to run, you got to run. I'll tell you what, Maine need you, Graham, because he was a progressive strategist.

But then here's the next thing that happened. Instead of vetting Graham Platner, he did a rush job on it. and sought out a so-called research firm for an expedited, cheaper review that would be accomplished within days. A deeper vetting would have found the dirty texts. A deeper vetting would have found Jenny Rassico because this stuff was out there. and the only plausible excuse for Graham Platner is that he was too fucking drunk to remember it.

And, gee, I was blackout drunk at the time. Isn't a great look for somebody who's going to unseat a woman from the Senate who has held that seat since 1996? She's been there that long? Yes. And she was elected on a platform of, I will only serve two terms. That would have been 2008 and she was gone.

But for some reason or another, the people of Maine just can't quit her, no matter how many times she fucks them. You know, she lost our sense of redemption in this world? What redemption? I'm not interested. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. He never ran from his past. He never said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He admitted he had a past.

He said he wasn't proud of it. We all have a pass. We all have stories. I... I'll tell you ready now. We don't all have rapes. You don't have the proof he has a rape. She never gave proof.

She never called the cop. She never said shit. She said she talked to her doctor and her friend. Okay. Right. That's still not proof. He forced himself on her about... He forced himself on her about five years ago

and had non-consensual sex with her. after she told him repeatedly to stop. She had previously told the New York Times that he didn't respect women and that she had cut off contact with him after finding his behavior reckless and unsettling. Why did it take three interviews for it to turn into he raped me? Why do we think that it took three interviews to turn into that? Because it did. The first two interviews was never raped.

It was only in the third one where she said, he raped. me. Well, redemption arc or not, he was going to get buried. And here's where I am as a pragmatist. My only concern is getting rid of Susan Collins. It had become abundantly obvious

he was not going to do that. I mean, Bernie is our progressive hero, right? Bernie was the first one to say, Graham, you got to get out. and then a member of the squad Rashida Taleb said, you gotta go. The Sierra Club, for fuck's sake.

Said, no, nope, nope, nope, nope. Because he sold this environmental bill of goods and they were like, ooh, yeah, I'll tell you, let's get behind Graham. If you are a political pragmatist who wants the Senate, you don't win Pyrrhic victories. because Pyrrhic victories, by definition, are not victories. And I got a couple of emails here.

And let me just say something real quick, Roxanne. I am not saying that I think he should be, he should continue to run. He clearly won't win. If he were to stay in the race, he clearly would not win. No question about it. I just wonder why is it that we,

why is it that we as Democrats are willing to, as a general matter, look for perfection, and that's gotten us in the, in the situation we're in, I think, as a general matter, when Republicans are not.

And I just wonder, And here we are, but there has to be a counterpoint to what the maggots are. I mean, you've got a guy running for Senate in Texas, Ken Paxton, who cut a sweetheart deal with a lawyer buddy of his, who was found guilty of fucking a little boy repeatedly and didn't even do a month in jail. you've got canckel's Caligula himself who was just yesterday or the day before forced to shell out because it had been pled into the court's account $5 million plus post-judgment interest for what he did to E. Jean Carroll

and there will be more where that came from because there's another 94 million. And the thing is, yeah, the maggots go ho-hum doesn't matter, grab them by the pussy. That is not political pragmatism for us to say, okay, well, we'll have ours too. And the fact of the matter remains, and there are several women who are vying for the spot in Maine, and I kind of hope to God they nominate one of them, because with a few limited exceptions, and they turn out to be like the former secretary of labor, who was getting

lickered up on the and of course maggot getting liquored up on the job and and and and having sexy time and telling staff there at the department of labor to show her what father father-in-law a good time and she eventually had to go it is and everybody who's been forced out of this maladministration has been a woman because it is entirely and wholly misogynistic and we're not talking about We're talking about squeaky clean. We're talking about not having creepy, skeevy behavior relative to women in your past. The Republicans in Florida sent a man to the Senate who was part of the biggest case of welfare of Medicare fraud this country has ever known, and he got a walk. Rick Scott, Skeletor. Bernie Moreno Senator from Ohio got caught with a man in his mouth

but he's a family values Republican somebody has to be better than these assholes and while like I said while you may get a woman occasionally with scandals most of the time it's not because she's out there sexually harassing people Tamara wrote in and said main character, nope, nope, candidate should be squeaky clean. They don't get the benefit of the doubt.

We could have stopped at Blackwater or tattoo or sexting minors anywhere. Because remember, yeah, he's a blackwater guy or was a Blackwater guy. That might have been a clue. I didn't know that. I mean, that's something to me that would be disqualifying. I heard that either to be honest with you Yeah He was a Blackwater guy

He was a mercenary when he got out of the military Let me clear this up before I get painted in the bad mind I'm not saying that It was a great guy I don't believe that at all But just some of the things that came out As this process unfolded On both sides made me scratch my head and go

Huh The part about the two interviews And the third one with political where she's like yeah he raped me but in the same sentence she said i vote for him i agree with his politics in what world if someone had physically abused you would you vote for them because you agree with their politics where what we that's the part that really throws enough it makes no sense well i think i think there is uh i think it's possible that a a rose will bloom from this dung and Tamara added

We owe that guy nothing A woman's word is evidence That's evidence And I tend to... I tend to concur I agree that it's evidence I want to share something though And I've referred to this a long time ago

It was back in the earliest days of this program When Reverbo Turned me on to a trilogy Written by a guy named Richard K. Morgan The three books are I can't remember It's the Takeshi Kovash Trilogy

And he's got some Every now and then They're these just nuggets of pure genius If you want to look it up Richard K. Morgan, make it personal I've read that passage on this program Numerous times But I ran across this passage

Just earlier today And I've read the book two or three times I mean, I love this trilogy, because it's one of those that you read it over and over again, and every time you read it, you get a little bit more out of it. Because a lot of times you can hide some truth inside science fiction or fantasy that's harder to put out there in more typical forms of literature. And the entire trilogy is, it's peppered with, a back story of revolution.

And that's where they make it personal part comes from. But this, listen, I think, I mean, I just read this and went, oh, fuck, that's where we are. And I think it applies particularly to progressive politics. I see where this is going. I've seen it before. What we crave is the. revolutionary momentum. How we get it is almost irrelevant, and certainly not admitting of ethical debate.

Historical outcome will be the final moral arbiter. And I recognize a lot of the so-called progressive movement in that. I mean, can you imagine this coming out, let's say this state, all state on the DL, until after the election, and by some miracle, the Platner managed to win, and then this came out? Holy shit. But the rose blooming from the dung is that, as noted yesterday, 100% of Susan Collins' nasty little campaign architecture

was designed to defeat Graham Platner by using the goddamn Manhattan telephone book. I know it doesn't exist anymore. The goddamn Manhattan telephone book-sized notebook of opposition research that they had on Grand Platner. That's all dust now.

You've got a couple of people who have shown the ability to raise literally millions of dollars who want that Democratic nomination who don't have rape allegations in their past. And I'd like to say that

it shouldn't be that much of a challenge to put forward a candidate who doesn't have rape allegations in their past. Now we have a real chance of beating Susan Collins, and that, to me, is all that matters. Am I wrong? I'm not, I'm not, I am not personally, all I care about, all I care about is beating beating Susan Collins. That's all I care about.

I just wonder if we as if Democrats care more about a person's dirt in their past to allow that to Trump

beating any candidate. And again, I'm not taking away from and I'm talking generally now. And I just have to say something. I'm not saying one bit that what Rassikot or is it Rassico or Rassikot? I've seen both.

I honestly don't know. I would say Maine being Maine, Rassico, probably French. Rastico, yeah. Yeah. Yes. Of course what she said is evidence. It's evidence. But it's not conclusive.

I forgot where I was going with this Oh I just I just wonder where Like I said in the beginning Where the presumption of innocence is That until Until a court That he is

He should not be labeled a rapist At least I don't think so Until a court finds him one And I just also I kind of along similar lines with what Jeremy said The whole the time, and you know what, I am, I am intimately, not intimately, that's not the word I want. I am extremely skeptical of anything that comes, of the timing of things in politics, number one, and number two,

I am, I am to the point where when I hear, you know, when I hear Lawrence O'Donnell talk about vetting and, you know, the way he talked about it sounded so establishment to me that I, I just, I don't, I don't want to be in a position or I am now in a position of anything the establishment says, particularly party apparatchiks. And like you said, consultants, and any, any consultant who has anything to say about how any campaign is run, I'm to the point now where I just assume that they're 100% wrong until somebody can show me that, or can show that anything they have to say is right. so well but but that but that leads okay let me if if i could of course let me let me provide counterpoint on that um you know the the opposite side of the coin of indict him and maybe she doesn't want to she would not be the first woman who does not want to be dragged through a rape trial because as often as not the woman is the one who is put on trial

and not the person accused of rape. And I think we all know that to be true. Very fair point. But second of all, he is not without recourse. Yes, I know New York Times v. Sullivan, Fallwell v. Hustler, et cetera, odd infinitum. But those things, you know, the whole public figure doctrine, that doesn't. that doesn't that that that isn't a blanket it is possible to get around that and so if he is absolutely rock solid i never done nothing nowhere no way even remotely like that he has

legal recourse he can sue her but the whole bit that we do here in regard to nitwit nero suing people and say uh oh but discovery you know the Titanic wasn't sunk by the part of the iceberg that the captain could see it was sunk by what was beneath the water that extended far beyond what was above it he has recourse in the end i agree with everyone else on this point that i just want to see her gone me, Susan Cullen. She sealed her fate when she refused to indict Trump twice and said, learn his lesson, and other things she's done.

She needs to pay for that in some way. If she's losing her seat, great. We can do more in the future? That's wonderful, too. I just want her gone. And unfortunately, me and a lot of people, you know, heard what he was doing on the surface. Again, not defending who he is or what he said he did, what he said, okay, fine, that's all great. I think we got hooked, by the way,

he seemed like he was talking in a common person and thought there's a chance here. And I think that's what hurts more about this than saying if he's wrong. Yeah, well, that's the fact that we liked what he was saying. That's the quote that I just read. The ends justify the means. I don't care who he is as long as he beats Susan Collins. Well, now we have the opportunity to get rid of the,

I don't care who he is or what he's done. We can just focus on the goal is to, beat Susan Collins. And let me just point out that if you want to beat Susan Collins for one of the most egregious offenses that she has committed in her miserable career as a senator, you defeat her and in fact convict her by her defeat of her betrayal of women. you can't make that argument with Graham Platner on the ballot. You can't.

I mean, listen, Graham Platner was out there saying all the right things relative to trans kids and trans adults. He was getting it right. It seemed like he understood at least that part. But it all turned to ashes when these allegations came out. that he didn't exactly deny forcefully. You know, his, when it first, when a Politico story first hit, he didn't, he didn't just come out and say, by God, it's not true, and I will soldier on in this campaign.

No, he used, huh, how about that, politician weasel words? And that's a tell. So now we actually have a chance, and it's, it's not tarred, and stained by allegations of texting underage girls or sexting women of age, or inappropriate sexual contact, or not having a meaningful understanding of consent. We have the possibility that Mainers will choose someone, and I do. I hope the fuck it's a woman. I'm so tired of privileged white men

thinking that they get to carry the banner because privileged white men. And see, I know, Third Way doesn't want me to talk about male privilege because it gives them the squicks. But it is what it is. The people with the power to talk about the harm that Susan Collins did, not necessarily to women in Maine, expressly because Maine still protects a woman's right to choose, but Susan Collins,

Susan Collins grievously harmed women in other parts of the country. Susan Collins stole rights from women in blood-red maggot states. Susan Collins stole rights from women in maggot states who can't get on daddy's little old Leah jet and fly off to Beverly Hills for a little bit of shopping on Rodeo Drive and a quick D&C. That's who she hurt. She hurt women in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina.

She hurt women in Indiana and Ohio. She hurt women in Missouri and Texas. in Oklahoma. She hurt women in Idaho. She hurt women in Montana and Wyoming and North and South Dakota. That's who she hurt. And that is a monumental betrayal because she may be a senator from Maine, but she is a senator of the United States. And every time she cashes her goddamn paycheck, it is a paycheck written not by the people of the state of Maine, but by the people of the United States. The women she betrayed in Alabama pay for her salary. The women she betrayed in Texas, pay for her salary.

And that is what the campaign must be about. And it could not be that way with a cloud of sexual deviance or sexual creepiness or sexual impropriety hanging over the head of Graham Platner. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, he's done. It's a gone story. The story now is, who does Maine choose? Who can carry that banner? Carry that message.

Bring that fire. And I hope none of them have anything to do with, what was his name again? Progressive strategist Dan Moraff. I have a feeling that dude may be wanting to look for a job. Oh wait, you're the guy who didn't bother to find out that there was a bunch of creepy sex stuff in Grand Platner. No, I'm going to pass on hiring you, motherfucker. I don't care how progressive you are. And, you know, there's shame to go around. You know, Bernie is not a

bathe in arms. Bernie has a huge machine behind him that could have gotten in on, hey, slow down, Dan Moraph. Let's take a minute. Let's do the job. for real because it's not like it would have taken a lot of digging you know Robert Penn Warren in all the Kings men has the boss Willie Stark say there is always something and and this comes as a response to the question what if you know he tells me go out and get some dirt on the judge well what if there isn't any dirt and he says there is always something from the stench of the stent of the dite to the stink of the shroud there is always something

man is born in sin is conceived in sin and dieth in iniquity there is always something and the question is how bad is that something and whoever main chooses whomever they choose the republicans will start out by saying well that's the most liberal communist ever to run for the united states senate since since teddy kennedy who's practically Che Guevara and you know it we all know it look at this shit hemorrhage they're having over a decent

38 year old man in Texas they're so desperately afraid of James Talariko who doesn't have any of this shit swirling around him I mean they had a shit hemorrhage because he said at one point in time that on some particular

date, he was wearing a pink scarf. And now they're calling him James Tallas Sissy. We have to understand the nature of our filthy, shameless opponent. And that opponent, while nominally Susan Collins,

that opponent is the maggots. And their filth. And by having sent grand platinum packing we at least every time and i've seen it happen a dozen or more dozens of times on social media some some barking grunting maggot uh particularly maggot women will say well they only care about they only started caring about graham platner uh when they it's like bitch go brush your hair sit the fuck down

sit this one out you you still can't admit that you support a credit accused, rapist, and someone who has been a judge as sexual abuser by a federal court, a circuit court, and the United States Supreme Court. Shut the fuck up. And I like having that opportunity. Sorry, didn't, I guess I went off on a rant. I apologize.

No, I think it's okay to rant. I, you know, I think I may have opened up a can of worms. That's a good thing. And again, I'm not saying that I think he should, I just want people to understand, I'm not saying I think that he ought to stick it out and he should continue to be the nominee. I'm not saying that at all. All I'm saying is it seems like accusations are enough to convict. But in many, in many ways, that is as it has always been. But my thing is the Republicans aren't that way. Sorry about that. Sorry, I just called.

It was unexpected. The Republicans aren't that way. And is it possible that us being how we are is an obstacle to us winning how we need to win? Or winning what we need to win? I don't know. I don't think it is. I mean, this is a, this is baked into the unique American political process. Even historians now, 250 years later, still get into heated, bourbon-soaked arguments where sleeves get rolled up over whether or not Thomas Jefferson,

raped his enslaved sister-in-law because Sally Hemmings was the half-sister to Martha Jefferson, Jefferson's wife. She really was

because old Mars Paa Jefferson had gone down to the quarters and he got hammered with that left and right but back then he had he had you know southern enslavers

who came to his defense because they knew they themselves had done been down to the qualdas. This is, I mean, there is nothing new about it. Jesus Christ. Oh, warning, Steve, I'm about to go there. Julius Caesar was accused of being, was accused of being the boy toy

of the king of Lydia, who then left his entire, country to wit his estate to the to the people to the Senate and the people of Rome he was also let me down he was he was also said to be such a loythario that he was banging every every patrician wife in Rome and one of the things that pushed Cato the younger past the breaking point was when he was absolutely certain was that Julius Caesar was engaged in some conspiracy to become the king of Rome, that he insisted in a meeting of the Roman Senate that Caesar read aloud a letter that he had just received.

Because he thought, sure, it would prove the conspiracy. And I insist that Gaius Julius Caesar read it now before us. conscript fathers and Caesar was like ah you know Cato I don't think you wouldn't really want me to do that I insist you're a traitor Cato I'm telling you you don't want to do that it's proof that you're a traitor and goes

all right all right and he unrolls the letter and it says my dearest Gaias how I have longed for you these days that you have been away your name has been on my lips with every passing moment and I will never ever be able to forget

the passions that we shared night after night while you banged me like a cheap Asian gong signed Servilia Who was Cato's sister? Tada There is nothing new under the sun

And this has been going on Ma, Ma, where's pa? That was Warren Gamaliel Harding, wasn't it? Fathered a bastard child in the White House? Really? Yeah. Well, I didn't know that.

And, you know, the Soviets were so good at this because they understood three fundamental foibles of human behavior. Sex, drugs, booze, and those were the foundations of compromise, and they used it to devastating effect. And then there's Jay Edgar Hoover. It is said that after he became president,

one of the first things that John Fitzgerald Kennedy wanted to do was fire Jay Edgar Hoover's passing for white ass, because he had. If the one-drop rule applies, Jay Edgar Hoover was several drops over the line, sweet Jesus. You know, quietly dressing up and drag queen, not drag queen, cross-dresser that he was. And he said, I'm going to fire Jay Edgar Hoover. And word got back to Jay Edgar Hoover.

And he just showed up with a little vanilla file folder and showed J.L. F. Kennedy photographs of John F. Kennedy fucking this woman, that woman, they other woman, the next woman, some other woman, and said, are you sure you want to fire me? And John Kennedy said, you know, I'm really not. In fact, I'm sure I don't. Exactly. What about a J. Edgar Hoover story had been put to bed. Did I mishear that?

I could have sworn that came out that wasn't actually true. It was just something passed down through legend. Which part? That he was a cross-dresser. Oh, no. That has not been put to bed. I thought it had been apologies. I thought I could have sworn I heard someone.

And the passing for White part cannot be put to bed because it's absolutely true. His grandfather was a black man. I could have sworn the first person in history to walk her in and say, Mama, where's Papa? Was Eric when you realize he was

a bastard son? No, that's Warren Gamaliel Harding. And from Tamara who's offering up some good thoughts on all of this. Why not ask for better? We have Mom Donnie

and Lander, and they're popular. We like them. And I don't think there's going to be any mom Donnie getting blackout drunk and doing shit he doesn't even

remember stories. I don't think it's going to happen with Lander either. Again, I can't answer this. I think what's happened in this case, particularly with this guy good, bad, indifferent whatever it is. It's almost like a tick, or a, it's almost falling back into that same feeling when when Kamala lost, that kind of shattered by it.

Like I said, this guy said all those saying all the right things. And people kind of said, okay, put that aside for now, what's going? It just kept getting worse. So it's the same heartbroken feeling where someone that actually kind of caught your ear just kind of disappears for, in his case, good reasons. But I think it's that same general thing. sting. No, we want the things he was talking

about. He just can't be the one to talk about them. He can't lead that fight. It doesn't mean those issues are gone. They're very much present and we know, you know how we know they're present? Because the centrist Democrats

with their pockets full of APEC cash are rallying the troops to say that, oh, we're proud capitalists and we're not like those progressives democratic communists, you know, they are. They're one iota away from just agreeing with nitwit Nero and calling everybody who has the word socialist associated with them fucking bomb-throwing commies.

And again, that goes back to something that has just pissed me off for the longest time. And, you know, he's old enough to know better. if Bernie would have simply said, I have an FDI, New Deal Democrat in the vein of F.D.A. and John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. There are people all over this country that would go, oh, yeah, I'm here because my ancestors didn't starve to death in the Depression. They were saved by New Deal politics. And as much as I hate to say it, because I'm not. Not a, look, hell, socialist?

Sure. Something more? Me? Uh-huh. But you've got a country that has been indoctrinated and inculcated for way more than a hundred years. From the very moment that Marx and Engels published, there has been a spasm in this country caused by the word socialism. Yeah.

And the American people have been indoctrinated and inculcated from, you know, one generation unto yea verily the next, that socialism means they're going to get my Bible. Well, unfortunately, the Republicans. When everything in the Bible is socialism. It's where they got the idea. Go ahead, Jeremy. I'm sorry. I was going to say, I guess it isn't so much Republicans. It is conservativeism and maggots. They've been really over the last 40 years, especially particularly the last 20 years,

where they take a normal word like socialist, communist, and they tweak it in a really small way by adding ism to it. It's like homosexualism or transgenderism. Isom is a scary word when attached to a normal word, and it freaks out the donkey-eared Republicans, and they turn on it when they hear ism attached to it. And you know what? I mean, you can say the same. You know, I can say, she's a Catholic.

But the little Southern Baptist, pink little Southern Baptist ears will perk up if I say, she believes in Catholicism. Exactly, yes. The isom changes the word completely. They have learned that isn't the new scary boogabooga boogie man. Yeah, and it's really sincerely not that new. You know, look, in the new,

in the New Testament. Paul says, and they held all, talking about the early church, and they held all things in common. Well, all you got to do is put an ism on that, and you get communism. No.

And then you get the, and then, you know, you get the meme of little Kevin trying on aftershay for the first time and screaming. Yep. And communism,

which is, it's exactly the way they, that's, exactly the way they pronounce communism. Uh-huh. Communism. Yeah. Communism.

I mean, this sounds really shitty for me to say, but I know my people. I'm actually glad that Steve brought this topic up. I think it helped air out a lot of the mixed feelings. I understand that we're all pretty much in the same place. We want to see Collins gone. We want a good candidate. We want that candidate. But we all want to see her gone in the end.

That's what it matters, more than anything else. Yeah, because the bottom line is. truth, not truth, we want her going. The bottom line is, we can't take the Senate without beating Susan Collins. Mm-hmm. Otherwise, you know, a 50-50 Senate with the JD Egg as the president thereof. There's no majority at all. There's no majority.

And I just, you know, I just want us to look past the initial, emotional, emotional. aspect and honestly do something Mitch McConnell has made a lifetime and a career and been very successful doing. Play the long game. Play the long game. I mean, the guy may be dead, but right now, because he doesn't like the way he was played for a fool by Trump and by circumstances after Trump left office, the way the indictment worked out.

He may be dead, but he is still fucking Donald Trump. Because he holds the chair of Senate Appropriations. And the entire maggot caucus of the Senate is frozen right now. I mean, they can do

little bits here and there, but if it involves writing checks, it's got to come through appropriations. The $350 billion $350 billion liquor bill that Whiskey Pete

Kegbreath wants to run up goes through appropriations that has no chair and it's like that line from a caliber the king without his sword the land without a king only in this case

it's a Kentucky without a vegetable the Senate without a vegetable let me ask you something on a completely Okay. Different note. Not completely different, but somewhat different note. What, you're, I, I, you have a good political sense. I hope.

What is your, yeah, you do. What is your hunch about what's going to happen in the House and the Senate? I actually tell you, I was very skeptical coming into the call to coming into the porch tonight about what would happen with the Senate. I feel a lot better. So, but the House. I don't see how, I think we're going to win the House. We'll probably win 20 seats, but I think we're going to win the Senate too.

It's entirely possible, and unless nitwit Nero and Leon Scum figure out a way to monkey up the elections, it's almost a foregone conclusion that we're going to have a healthy majority in the House. and nitwit Nero has made that likelihood greater by going ahead and declaring, I hate the Iranians, the deal's off, I quit, I'm out of here, they're scum, they broke my heart. I mean, really, you're fredo, you broke my heart, right? And so, you know, gas, let's see,

I put a couple of pennies in the gas tanker earlier today for $3.89 a gallon, $3.90 a gallon. That's down from the $4.50 I was paying. But here's the fun part. The strategic petroleum reserves are almost dry. It's been a dodge. It's been a con. And if this shit goes on,

the American people feel it at the pump and no amount of explaining away. No amount of fucking ballrooms or Trump phone. or crypto or any of that shit is going to change it. And again, I go back to what I've been braying all along. The midterms are critical, but another date to watch is January the 20th, 2027. I sincerely believe he's operating on borrowed time.

Yeah. I have a friend of mine who told me he thinks that, that particularly if the Republicans lose the House and the Senate that he thinks Trump will resign. Basically, like, I'm out of here. To hell with this shit. I'm out of here. But it still has to be timed right. Right. No, I understand. I understand. And by the way, I just got this note from Sherry. Thank you very much. Platner's Reddit posts were highly racist, anti-LGBQ, and sexist. Also, the accuser's friends that said she told about the rape at the time. said they were going to come forward if she didn't.

And that may have been what finally pushed her. Thank you, Sherry. I appreciate that. And all of these things, you know, all of these things don't, you know, if you've got a history of racist posts, then it becomes harder and harder and harder to say, yeah, but I've seen the light. You know, this isn't Andy Griffith in a face in the crowd. although that bear that's a film that always bears watching

I get news for it you said I seen the light you're disqualified anyway in my book but that's exactly what Platner was saying all along I didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo on my head that was a joke on poor English for grace sake oh okay okay okay fair fair

I speak hillbilly what am I supposed to do Can I ask? Let me ask you. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Jeremy. Can you say yes, but you're not speaking hillbillie. You're speaking American. You don't say I seem very often. You're talking about something you saw.

That's something I enjoy about this program, Robin. Direct English, for the most part. Yeah, with a smattering of hillbilly and redneck and thoveren. No, good grammar, good syntax matters to me, especially, well, I'm doing it on the fly, so I do screw up. Yeah. I like to use, well, sometimes I masturbate a word into a sentence whether I know what it means or not. Did I tell you that, go ahead, Jeremy, I'm sorry, I interrupted you.

My last interruption, sorry, Steve. I seen what you did there, Robin. Yeah. Have you ever heard me use the word tookin? Because I have. Yeah, I've heard, Tuckin. Long, long ago, we had a handyman. He was a good guy.

He was a bit of a mess. But every time he opened his mouth, it was an opportunity. It was a learning experience. Because I found out by knowing him that there was a different conjugation for the verb to take. that included Tuckin and have Tuckin and had Tuckin. And that crept into my vocabulary.

He's also the guy who would from time to time say, well, I don't think I can work today. McArpenter's Tunnel Syndrome is acting up. I like that one. True story. That has a lot of logic to it too, because you think, you know, like,

you think it has a logical sound to it yeah it's amazing i had the same thing i've never been a carpenter before though it's i don't know how it happened and by the way a really good observation coming from darrell and houston socialism the idea of socialism is used as a majority by everyone in the capitalist establishment but the root objection and hatred of socialism and communism comes from religion is the opium of the people. It's always referred to as godless communism. Religion is the easiest way to persuade and control the ignorant and stupid.

Exactly. Just remember how much hell and damnation. Barack Obama called down upon himself in a speech in what? San Francisco? In which he said, these people cling to their guns and their religion. And all of a sudden America, is a flame from every pulpit with preachers, you're damn right, we cling

to our guns and our religion, because our religion is our salvation and our guns is our protection from tyranny. Yep. And maybe the lesson out of that is that the maggots will always,

always use those tactics in lieu of actual meaningful conversation about policy, especially if it's policy that affects working people. And that has to be the conversation. You want to get past the whole socialism thing?

Well, it's too late to say don't use the word. But you know what? Some maggot voter who is paying a third of their income for child care, it might actually respond to the idea that maybe the public would not go down in flames if she could just get care for her kid while she's working the two or three jobs it takes to keep her and her family alive, even if it's a two, even if it's a double earner household, husband and wife, or wife and husband and husband, or non-binary and non-binary, you get to math.

but but you have to get past these these bogeyman words let them scream communism to the high heavens

but you know what I like driving on roads that are actually paved and okay this is a fun little story just to sort of add into the mix here in

almost level west by coal Trump Genia stand at my alma mater no less this is precious well our governor

fatty patty the pill pushing Trenton troll declared a year or so ago that we're going to create something

at West Virginia University called the Washington Center I'm sorry wrong accent to push back on the woke ideology that has infected our schools and helped return higher education

to its true poipus I know it's funny so the West Virginia legislature appropriated $3 million Now it doesn't sound like much on a national level, but $3 million,

that's some genuine jed clamping walking around money in West Virginia. That could go a long way to bring in clean water to a few thousand people in the southern part of the state. Or maybe be spent finding the missing foster kids that are measured in the hundreds that we have. Woke ideology. So they spent the $3 million they have created. the Washington Center for Civics, etc. at West Virginia University, my alma mater. And they were going to teach things the right way.

Fatty Patty Patty said, we said we wanted to teach students how to think, not what to tank, and we wanted to ensure that the values it made America great a thought with honesty and pride. Uh-huh. And they offer classes in Western civilization and wokenness and the new right. Well, the Washington Center is open, y'all.

It has one student. One. Not one, not 100, not 100, not 100, not 100. It has one in a student body of some 30,000 souls. one and I wonder how much they had to pay that kid now that is a student teacher ratio to write home about

that's yeah and at the same time let's remember he's gone now but E. Gordon Gee and I know you know who he is Steve yep he was president of the Ohio State University back when Jim Jacket Off Jordan was looking the other

way while the team doctor was fucking young wrestler boys. Yep. I mean... Just passed by now. Give Steve his Cowbell. Student to teacher ratio, something right home about

I did give... I gave him his Ramalama ding-dong. Oh, I didn't hear. Better? I didn't hear... I didn't hear it. I didn't hear it. I couldn't hear it. But I agree that I acknowledge that you did. Okay. Well,

Thank you. I have something else I have to. Can I tell you something really quickly? Yes. And the reason, you just mentioned the Ohio State University. When I was back in Columbus, I was actually there last weekend. They actually sell shirts in like the various memorabilia shops. It's a shirt that just says the on it.

I thought that was hilarious. Yeah, that's delightful. and by the way I had a conversation with Victoria I think earlier today because this is an event that's going on I think through September and Columbus isn't all that far

from Parkersburg the idea and maybe you've been there Steve the idea of going to the Ohio State Fair I've honestly never been But from what I understand, the Ohio State Fair is literally one of the biggest fairs. It might be in the country, I don't know, but it's certainly one of the biggest fairs in the region.

Well, I got that idea. I mean, look, I don't want to take anything away from the Buckeye State. there's you know fairs are expositions for farming and animal husbandry and such like and um and ohio has it takes a back seat to no one um where that's concerned especially when you when you factor in the the the Mennonites and the Amish and whatnot

I got I got to imagine that maybe there's some really kick-ass pickles there nobody makes a pickle nobody makes a pickle like the Amish but there's a downside to it because apparently

the Ohio State Fair will be will include something look it up check me on this something called freedom trucks and it's some sort of maggot something or another

it's not enough to keep me away because one of the things I mentioned to Victoria was that and every summer I start talking about this food porn on incoming I miss

and there will be people who go, yep, I miss the classic real deal, beer battered, dipped, fried in hot grease, corn dog. I love those things. Not those state, and that's literally the brand, state fair, frozen concoctions that are wrapped up

in some sort of shitty wallpaper paste, kind of cornbread kind of thing that you can just throw in the microwave. No, those are disgusting. They're crispy on the, they're blazing hot when you get them and they're crispy on the outside. And all they need is some yellow,

a good dowsing of yellow mustard. Oh! And I haven't had one in decades because they were replaced by those shitty frozen corn dogs. Yep, I agree with you 100%. But I'm thinking maybe there's a fighting chance of getting one of those

at somewhere like the Ohio State Fair. I think you're probably right. I think you're probably absolutely right. That and probably deep-fried butter. Yes. And I got to think if we do it in West Virginia, they've got to be doing it in Ohio. There's a church at the West Virginia State Fair down at Fairly,

and every year, and I hope they're still there, they've got a little block building that's all their own, and all they do for two or three. weeks is constantly make homemade, deep fried donuts. And they serve them up with nothing but cinnamon and sugar, and they put them in a brown paper bag and shake them. That takes off some of the excess grease. And you can destroy yourself with a bag of those.

That sounds delightful. Yeah, the uninitiated do things like eat a bag of donuts. and then get on the zipper. Uh-oh. I had a... You're talking about deep-fried donuts. I had an emergency low last night. I gave myself too much insulin with my meal,

so I dropped below 80 headed towards 70. And I got myself a deep-tri-not deep-fried, but recently made still warm apple cider donut. It was so good. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I love her so much. I mentioned the corn dough.

to Victoria. She said, fuck the mustard. I'll raw dog a corn dog. Yeah, no kidding. I was just going to, I didn't want to say anything, but I'm like, ah, you can keep the mustard. A nice hot, a nice, super hot, crispy, crunchy corn dog. Ah, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And be, yes, yes.

And being an Ohioan, you might be familiar with these people. there's a company out of called DeRousseau's Italian sausages I've never heard of them D-I-R-U-S-S-O-A-P-S-O-A-S- and you know how Italian sausages are always kind of curved

Well, these guys have somehow mastered some Eldridge art of making an Italian sausage that is straight and oh my God their truck

there will be a whole griddle with like a hundred of these sausages just simmering in this proprietary tomato sauce that they make and they've got I don't know where they get their bread from but this ain't this ain't no wonder bread hot dog bun and they put it on there with a little bit of the sauce and then they throw on some shredded mozzarella kill me now Oh, that sounds good.

Oh, God, they're so good. Let's see. Let me look and see if I can find out. Where are they out of? While you're looking that up, can I ask a totally different question? Mm-hmm. Why do you think, this goes back to Trump, and he's basically allowing this housing affordability bill to get to go into law, at least it appears he is.

Why do you think he's doing that? Do you think he knows that, do you think anyone's told him that if he, do you think he thinks that if he just doesn't sign it, it just goes away? Yes, I'm so glad you brought that up. This dumb, this is how fucking stupid it is. He is, because it's a nothing, Bill. It's nothing to me. And I won't sign it unless I get to say that. He doesn't realize that.

And I don't know. you just can't argue. Well, look, I know, you can't argue with a dementia patient. And so he thinks that somehow or another it won't become law? I think I can't figure it out. If he really doesn't want that to become law, or if he just wants to be able to, he wants to, he wants to, he doesn't want to sign it, but he doesn't really, he's not really quibbling with it becoming law.

He wants to, so he, you know, if it becomes law, I can almost imagine him you taking co-opting the issue. Well, look at what I said in. Yeah, look back at the Epstein Transparency Act. He fought it and fought it and fought it and fought it and fought it.

And then when the Congress passed it, it was like, well, I'll sign it into law. Well, this is a proof majority. Yeah, this is kind of the opposite of that. Because he keeps saying, because he thinks it won't become law if he doesn't

sign it. He knows nothing about the presidency, Steve. Not a goddamn thing. And what he did know about the presidency has been consumed by the spirochetes. Yeah, you're right. But you don't think anybody is there telling him, look, if you don't sign this, it will become law.

I mean, I just... Well, I will refer you. I will refer to you to my previous remark. You can't argue with a dementia patient. Okay, okay, fair enough. My grandmother, I've told this story before, in the latter stages of her slow, long goodbye, was convinced that if the United States adopted the metric system,

we would have to change clocks and calendars too. We wouldn't know how to tell time or what day it was anymore because nobody would know the metric system. system. This was a woman who taught school for 65 years. And in previous, you know, when her mind was right, she never would have said anything like that. But by that point in time, she was a dementia patient. And said, Grand, no, no, it just applies to weights and measures. It has nothing to do with the calendar.

Yes, it does. It lives sadly in my memory. Yeah, and like you just said, you can't argue with a dementia patient. You know, this is a guy who thinks he's taking an IQ test when they give him the Montreal cognitive assessment more often than they give it to most 80-year-olds. And so you just let him believe what he's going to believe. Let me ask you a question. At what point does this become abuse, what people are doing to him? At what point does it become abuse, and at what point do you begin to feel sorry for the guy? Oh, I'm never going to feel sorry for him.

Yeah, I know. As soon as I said that, I'm like, well, I'm never going to feel sorry for him. But you understand what I'm saying. I mean, at what point is this abuse? I mean, it probably already is, but the thing is we have to fall back on longstanding corollaries of this program. To wit, if he drops trowl and. pulls down his ditey and starts playing with his little mushroom in public, they will declare, the loyal maggots will declare that he is brilliant because no other president

has ever had the courage to do that before. If he bites the head off of a live bat, they'll say, wow, you know, Ozzy Osbourne only did a chicken. Look how great he's making America. Because, again, we're talking about a cult. We're not talking about people who are capable of... Look, the conversation we had about Graham Platner earlier, the maggots can't have one of those. The only thing they can do is follow the dear leader's orders.

And that's how you get rid of Cassidy, and that's how you get rid of John Cornholio, who was 99.9% in Trump's corner all along, but you can't be only 99.9%. You have to be north of 100%, and you manifest that north of part by constantly abasing yourself. And even when John Cornholio said, oh, we're going to name a highway across Texas, the Trump highway, it didn't matter. he had been insufficiently loyal and that is forever unforgivable. By the way, DeRousseau's Real Italian Sausage is out of Youngstown.

Oh, okay. I've never heard of it. If you ever see their wagon at a festival or something, get one. It's that good. Not to check it out. I wonder where I would see one. Probably the Ohio State Fair. Because there was a fair that I used to go to when I was a kid up in my grandparents' county. um they the the the the the county that my grandparents were from its claim to fame was it was the world's

largest county fair i don't know if that obviously i don't know if that was the case right but i used to go to there and get funnel cakes and waffles and you know all that kind of stuff used to love it all the the uh and that and that thing they do with a drill bit where they make one long, one long flat potato chip thin french fry out of one potato and then deep fry it? That I've never seen before. Oh, it's, yeah. I mean, it's not curly fries, you know, like from Arby's. No, this is the whole potato with a broad bit on it, on a drill, and they fry the whole potato,

and it's one long continuous you know potato slinky oh interesting I've never seen that before since you mentioned fairs I feel it needed to be mentioned that sadly tonight if you haven't been in the great state fair yet tonight was your last chance to get a warm drink overpriced sandwich and get baptized at the same time

it closes tonight damn I guess that'll never come off my bucket list But then again, it never went on it. And I'm already baptized. So, you know, as a Southern Baptist, we believe once saved, always saved. So there's that. I have somebody at my door. I will be right back.

Okay, that's fine. Oh, and this is not particularly, and apparently Brother Deacon Asa wants to go to war. Don't listen to these heretics. The mustard is plain necessary on a corn. I agree. Can you get a real corn dog up there? canoodlia, Asa? I mean, he showed me a

package the other day, a picture of something I guess is being test-marketed up there. Craft dinner ramen. Ramen noodles only with Kraft mac and cheese sauce on it.

Now, now, that's crazy talk, Lisa. Next we're going to try to tell us that the guitar is the original American instrument. No, no, no. You know what? You know what? Crazy talk he gave me the other day? But Burger King sells Putin. Yes, we do. In Canada,

McDonald sells Putin. I know it for a fact. They do it in Montreal. I love it. Damn. It kind of makes me want to go over to Tudor's Biscuit World and see if they can improvise something along those lines. I don't care where it is.

In the Quebec province, probably most of Southern Canada. If you go into a restaurant, It could be a Sunday shop. They offer Putin as a sign. I guarantee it. It doesn't matter who it is. Coffee shops.

Poutine as a site. Part of the culture. Oh, I love me some putine. And, okay, the fries from Secret Sandwich Society are the best around here. I get those. I can actually buy Ellsworth Creamery from the Ellsworth Creamery cheese cards from Wisconsin. And then all I got to do is find the brown gravy. I'm in like Flynn.

And thank you, Christopher. Christopher just jumped in and took five bucks off of Routes' Democrats better to pick the right candidate challenge. And thank you for the comment, Christopher. Thanks for the rant, Roxanne. It's worth so much more than I have to spare this week. Oh, no, that's so sweet. I worry when we're like on the front porch and I just sort of go off and lose my mind for a little bit. I do.

upon my soul I do Oh and John Hey John The Minnesota State Fair has entered the chat We have deep fried ranch and walleye Check out the new offerings at our fair this year Deep fried walleye Oh break my heart

But then again I'd have to bring my own homemade tartar sauce Uh pickle pie new this year Cracklin corn ribs Oh, that looks like what is referred to as elote. Just stripped off the cob, but it looks yummy. Corn cob quarters dipped in tempura batter and then fried, brushed with seasoned butter and topped with bacon, ranch, green onion, and candied jalapenos.

Served on a bed of pork rinds, let's just have seen, John. What? Longganisa cheese curd lumpia? Bumpia? Homemade Filipino longanisa, pork sausage, combined with garlic and Wisconsin cheese curds stuffed and rolled in a lumpier wrapper and deep-fried served to the side of sweet chili sauce. Oh, mercy.

Does anybody exit the Minnesota State Fair alive? And more importantly, will Marcus Bachman be there doing his thing with the corn dog? French. You haven't covered the milk? French Shunuts Sunday, Korean barbecue bow buns, surf and turf burgers, butter brew mustache pretzel Oh my god Bowbelly

Pork belly on a bow bun Blue Moon Crunch Shaved Ice Walking chopped Italian Grinder Holy shit Shok Shooka lamb meatballs

Ferd would be all over those Dubai Whoopi Pie I'm about done with the Dubai Dubai chocolate craze Chirisohmanchego croquettes honey brisket battered potato there it is

oh wait what a mung corn dog from the mong people pork mung sausage flavored with ginger garlic fish sauce chili and lemon grass made in collaboration with cramarchics skewered dipped in a cornmeal batter and fried served with a side

of oh come on don't do that to me Oh, quas sobs sauce. Dear heavens, this is filthy food porn. Tacos de mole. Jamaican jerked chicken loaded fries. Oh. So you mentioned, Marquis Street Street, you know, whatever.

Yeah, super straight, Bachman. You haven't, you haven't covered the most important story of the day. It's heartbreaking. Christy Noem has filed from divorce from her cross. Yes, I did have that in the stack. Yes, I did. Somehow her... No, everybody's heartbroken, sadden over it.

Mm-hmm. And she never know nothing about the bimbophication. Right. She's an innocent victim. Never knew nothing about it. Mm-hmm. Oh, my God, this is... Oh.

Apple... Oh, you mentioned an apple cider donut? Apple donut ham grinder. What are a... I gotta do to get to the Minnesota State Fair? Oh, there it is, elote tauts. Deep fried tater tots tossed in tajine and

topped with an elote style sauce made with roasted corn, diced peppers, cheddar cheese, crema and cream cheese finished with goatea cheese and more tahine. Oh, Victoria would be on that like a duck on a June bug. Good Lord, John, you know how to hurt a girl. Strawberry Crunch mini donuts? Get out of town.

Oh, it goes on and on. When does this website and golly Moses Minnesota's original apple fries apple fries fresh cut apples fried

tossed in cinnamon sugar and served with a side of caramel oh and for those of you that it might matter to this is sleazy and nasty

but if you remember the old school apple pie from McDonald's unpaid product placement it's briefly back.

You know, the one that had the interior that was hotter than lava. And it was deep fried. And it was deep fried. And the outer crust, Steve, remember it was almost like an egg roll wrapper? Yep. It's back for a limited time. I can feel my artery is getting a little bit harder. I know.

And Cynthia says, please don't hate me. I pulled a rib-eye from my freezer earlier, and I have cooking, I have it cooking suvied right now. It was one of those I bought on sale and given the Trump hell we've been through. It's time I treat myself. Food porn. Go girl, go. Absolutely. And then I guess you're going to reverse sear it. Yeah. Well, one last serious thing, because you mentioned it yesterday in yesterday's program by email Steve. after the slaughter

of Lorenzo Salgado Arroho by ice goons well now the maggots are trying to deport the three key witnesses to the murder yeah the new republic had the story Juan Praano

CEO of the League of United Latin American citizens said that the witnesses are all undocumented immigrants they were all they were all abducted by the ice goons despite having no criminal records and they're being pressured to sign self-deportation orders. They're currently in detention. These men hold the key to what actually happened.

And they've already given statements saying that Salgado Oroho, you know, the magazine, Hey, he was trying to ram us, when in fact it was the opposite. and of course the little pissant ice goon oh was a feared for him alive opened up on on Salgado and murdered him in cold blood and all three of the witnesses are like no it happened nothing like that

one of the abducted men Jose Trinidad Rojas 51 years old said that is a lie it is impossible for them to say that They were going to get run over. There were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides. All the witnesses said all of them said there were never any ICE agents in front of the van.

And even the Libertarian Cato Institute said, ICE appears to have lied yet again about killing someone. Unbelievable, but actually totally believable, given that they lie about events fully captured on video. Jesus. Everything matters. Everything matters. every election, every vote, every everything.

You are 100% right. And by the way, I wanted to mention something to you because I heard about it, and I'm going to try to go see it if I'm there when it's being performed. A little Marrietta College is an expensive private college, and they're premiering a new musical about Ohio Statehood. and the fact that there was a struggle, because, oh, yeah, well, you know, Ohio was a union state, it was a free state. There was no slavery in Ohio.

The Northwest Ordinance said that the Northwest Territories, which would include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, were to be free states or a free territory. When Ohio became a state, they had to, of course, come up with a state-cove. and you talk about votes matter. One of the founders, a man, I think his name was Cuthbert, they had relocated from Massachusetts to the Ohio Territory, the Northwest Territories, early settlers.

They set out from Massachusetts, Cuthbert, his wife, and their four children. They buried two of their children along the way, and he was gravely ill. and in the process of coming up with their initial state code a spasm broke out to deprive people of color of any rights whatsoever and the man literally had to get out of his sickbed and practically crawled to the meeting

to cast a vote for freedom and it's a musical so I'm going to try to go see it I think it would be really really cool yeah it sounds really really cool okay and a funny on the way out the door there's dr oz thanks Oprah

how can we ever thank you for giving us dr oz no thank you so much words words cannot express how America feels about having been given dr oz by you and dr phil

please no more you've done enough so you know he's the head of medicare and medicaid service and he put out a video telling Americans how to do a proper squat. And so he's walking around the yard and talking about how important exercise is and how you got to work them quadriceps muscles with a classic squat. And then he did the squat.

And he said, uh, sit back like your bottom is about to touch the toilet seat. And he lost his balance and stood back up. But the thing is, everybody who saw the video went what the fuck is wrong with his elbow because he's got some great

goddamn big bubo on his elbow and they said, Dr. Oz needs to take his elbow to a doctor. His elbow has a downstairs apartment. Oh my God. He and his buddies, Bobby and Kegg's breath really need to stop trying to exercise for the cameras. They all three look totally ridiculous and what's up with his elbow?

This sounds like Kegsbrot. Two weeks ago, the video of him pumping weights with Marines. It looks like it's one plate, maybe like a 50-pound plate, 225-pound plates, and, you know, beating them out like it's nothing, but it's fucking nothing. And I got the video here, and he's got these little bird legs on, and he's wearing some old man shorts and got a T-shirt on. Oz, are you on any interesting medications?

Because I feel like a training bra's in order. But anyway, here we go. Still, but you got to do squats right away. Don't lean forward. You want to sit back like your body was about to touch the toilet seat. And you're about to go back like that, touch. Holy fuck! It'll come natural.

Oh, my God. No, it looks like his elbow has the bubonic plague. He's got a ginormous knot on the outside of his elbow. is the outside of his right elbow you can uh if you want to go into the sewer that is x uh at hq news now you can find the video that that that that thing sticking out a good inch and a half two inches is it an albinus a pino no no no no he would think that goes with uh cruditase a good pino Yeah, exactly. I was going to say a good Pino.

God, these goons. Well, Daddy's got big old mobs. I guess I got to grow big old mobs too. Jesus, crimining. This timeline, it's exhausting. Yeah, it is. Everything about it. Everybody hear me?

Yeah, hey, Kevin. You know, that new ice, who's that new ice goon leader there? John Wayne Gacy. Whatever his name is. Oops, what happened? Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne. Oh, yeah, yeah. Mark wine.

You know, he's going to want to put a little, you know, make a mark for himself. So there you go. This is this latest incident here. but it's just it's sick as me the actual audacity and gall that we've

allowed these people to take on our country was Kevin talking it says that he is but I can't hear anything he is I hear him you know what you might you might want to check your you might want to check your settings on your phone Steve it sounds like

it sounds like your noise cancellation may be working over time because you didn't hear the Rinalama ding-dong either that's Kevin right there yeah I don't hear anything Steve you on a phone yeah

hold down your finger on Kevin's icon and we have his icon and then there's a pull in that you pull up the menu and go scroll down see if you accidentally have chicked off next to them mute or server muted because if you do that it's just for you only i can stop someone completely from talking okay yeah the voice settings were at zero so that's what happened yeah you can you can pull him up you can individually control people's volume or i can show up okay that's okay okay that's what it was okay okay thank you i don't know i don't know i don't know enough about this i know and just enough to be dangerous People said that about me, so don't feel bad.

And you know what we managed to do during this entire conversation? And I don't know if I'm proud or ashamed of you, Steve, but we didn't talk about the World Cup, and you didn't talk about how soccer isn't a sport. It's funny. Okay, I won't say what my dad said. I still a little saddened. You beat Steve right of the punch to say, what would Rome think about this whole situation with a platinum right now? You cut us off and beat us there.

I'm a little pissed about that. Well, you know, I mean, sometimes I just have to have to have to just plunge forward. Can't wait around for the prompt or the setup line or anything. But I got to roll out of here. Steve, I'm so glad you showed up this evening. It's been too long. Yes, it has. But it was good to talk to you about the platinum stuff because I want to get your input.

Well, I hope I wasn't a howling waste of time. I think it was overall constructive conversation even from the emailer. I think it helps a lot to see we're all... I think, yeah, I think Tamara nailed it. But just a reminder, $20 remains on Ralph's challenge. Thank you, Christopher, for getting us started.

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who on earth would enjoy explosive diarrhea? And, well, of course, if Dr. Oz comes toward just saying, And what you want to do is you want to squat like you're going to the toilet and, well, maybe do something about that elbow. Where'd that come from? I swear, I wonder if that thing has a face. And always, always, always, Wayne and Gina, it's all for you. Talk to you a little bit, Victoria. Have a great weekend, everybody.

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