Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid!, 12 June 2026

Episode Date: June 13, 2026

We live in a weird time. No getting around it. Nothing makes sense and what's offered as facts don't withstand scrutiny.  "The center cannot hold. The falcon cannot hear the falconer." We're there. ...

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Starting point is 00:00:02 The password is incapacity. Here we go. Live from behind the corn phone curtain, it's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussin with America's only liberal transbilly elitist right here, right now, on the head-on radio network.
Starting point is 00:00:40 Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch, who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal, C.R. And now from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this, the 12th day of June, 2006.
Starting point is 00:01:20 This is the horn. Head on dot live is where you'll find this on the interweb tubes. That's where you go. If you'd like to be part of the merry, wacky, zany, real-time madcap multimedia extravaganza. that is the horn chat room in the old holler tree in the three hours in which this program is live Monday through Friday, 5 to 8 p.m. Eastern daylight time, time, time, time, and the great globe round, and I don't know what that popping is. And, of course, whatever time it is when you're listening to the podcast. If, in fact, you're a member of the podcasting contingent of the Horn Family Community Congregation,
Starting point is 00:01:55 well, thank you very kindly for joining us in that fashion. If you could take a moment, please, as some of you do, and leave us a remark, a review, a comment. It could just simply make us rock it up in the algorithms rankings and make it more likely that other people find the program and can participate and join in the merriment and the wackiness and whatnot. Check. No, I'm sorry. Sorry, maybe you're not hearing it, but I am. Every so often there's a click-pop. Yeah, I know the password don't threaten us with a good time, right?
Starting point is 00:02:46 I'll get to that. I will. Hi, I'm Roxanne. If you're listening live, it's Friday on the front porch. So please feel free to join in here in about an hour's time as we go over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree that we sublet from the Keebler elves, wherein we keep the extraordinary ordinary roundtable, around which we gather each and every Friday, to cuss and discuss the issues of the day.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Wow, that's weird. Every day there's something new. I promise I'm not making it up. Do me a favor. If you're hearing that periodic pop, let me know. I mean, it's nothing going on here. It's nothing going on physically outside. it sounds like it's something that's happening electronically inside the audio chain,
Starting point is 00:03:39 and I don't know what it is, but it is somewhat annoying. Brother Deacon, do you hear it? Just let me know, because I hate feeling like I'm, I hate being all alone, right? But anyway, every program here at the horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different. So thanks go out to our 12th day of the month subscribers. And that means thank you to Gary. Thanks so much, Gary, a long time member of the Horn family community congregation.
Starting point is 00:04:27 Thank you so very much. And, well, a reminder that Ralph's challenge from yesterday is still on the table. That would get us down to $4,850. We need to raise at least $300 this evening to stay under $5,000 for the deficit. It's terrifying. It's kind of mind-numbing. And, well, I don't know. Is it possible?
Starting point is 00:04:58 Could we work on a Friday on the front porch community made miracle? It sure would be helpful. Oh, it would be. Thank you, kind anonymous friend, who, uh, just met Ralph's challenge and a little bit more. So that means, in fact, we are down to 4845. 4845. Amelia, a member of the juvenile delinquent group.
Starting point is 00:05:31 You've got to stop eating Rice Krispies while you're using the board. It doesn't come through. Camel deacons tied to Bosnia-Herzikovina. I don't even know what that means. Something about soccer, I think. I'm sorry, football. You know what the late great coach, Bear Bryant said, a tie's like kissing your sister.
Starting point is 00:06:02 And that's always giving me the creeps. But, no, I guess this evening, not to give them any unpaid product placement or anything, but I guess what, a little bit after the program is over, U.S. side will take on Paraguay. I am entirely ambivalent about this World Cup. But here we are. And by the way, anonymous friend, Ralph says,
Starting point is 00:06:47 thanks, anonymous friend. Thank you, indeed. That's so cool. I saw that earlier today. Thank you for reminding me, George, and course gold. Game one of the College World Series. My Mountaineers, my beloved Mountaineers from Harvard on the Mon are in that match. They won game one of the College World Series 7 to 5 over Troy.
Starting point is 00:07:19 And Troy is, of course, in Alabama. Let's go Mountaineers. Yeah, they've had a real Cinderella season the Mounties have. looking for them. It'll be wonderful if they could win it. I know. I know. We're a maggot state, but
Starting point is 00:07:42 we also don't have a hell of a lot to cheer for here. And having a national championship baseball team to add to our national championship rifle team. Mounties remain the largest, oldest
Starting point is 00:08:07 major college football program never to have won a national championship. And that's not going to change any time soon. I'm pretty sure what with Rich Rod at the helm. Sorry, I'm a fan, but I'm not a dumb dumb. Oh, I understand now. Canada tied one each with Bosnia and Herzegovina. I'm not saying I want it to happen, but I would not be at all surprised. if we, the United States, make an early exit from the World Cup.
Starting point is 00:08:53 I won't be watching. I thought it was kind of touching in my conversation with Flavio yesterday that he, Flavio, a diehard football fan. And, you know, I think when you're born in Brazil, you're just automatically born a football fan. And he said he's not going to watch. He's not going to think about it. He's not going to post about it. He's not going to do a blessed thing about it.
Starting point is 00:09:25 Yeah, there we are, Micah, chiming in. We don't deserve nice things, saying, I hope we do make an early exit. That's kind of a, well, I don't know about the politics of the members of the American side. I'd like to think they're better than that, better than to be maggots. But unfortunately, they carry the mark of banished cane, as it were. Anyone from the United States does on a world stage unless they openly repudiate nitwit narrow. Any interest in basketball? If the Knicks win the next game, the only disastrous game this postseason is when nitwit, Nacho Niro came to sleep in the stands.
Starting point is 00:10:30 I thought we had laws against, you know, well, never mind. Right. Yeah, that's true. And when is that next game? Is that tonight? Tomorrow? I presume that they were heading back to, heading back to San Antonio for game. five it would be great it would be great Greg Popovich great coach great anti-maggot but in this case well
Starting point is 00:11:04 a different matter thank you so much our friends at postal wait ed said uh our friends said times are definitely hard right now but i hope you get out of this hole robin always appreciate the community you're integral to thank you so much that means that means a ton because we're we're all we're all in this together whatever however we define what this is thank you thank you thank you and ralps saying come on people don't make me sick kela and tegan on you oh my god hmm kela and tegan well that's that would be rough it'll be rough indeed okay thank you bill for it for keeping up with these sort of things for me uh yeah uh game five of the NBA finals is 5.30 p.m. Pacific daylight time, 8.30 p.m. Eastern daylight time. Yeah, let's just,
Starting point is 00:12:12 let's just end this and let nitwit Nero stew in his own. At this point, is there any avoiding just the simple, the simple thing? He's a fuck-up. He's been a fuck-up all his life. He's never not been a fuck-up. He's always going to be a fuck-up. He's always going to be a fuck-up. when he is dead and gone and in the dirt he will somehow manage to be a fuck up then too Which brings me to the password Namely a incapacity we have discussed at great lengths and speculated on the cause from way back in the first nitwit neuro mal administration on whether he's really all there, and I think history, once all the cobwebs have been sort of brushed away, you know how it is when you walk through a cobweb.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Or maybe you don't, but you just feel like you've got cobweb on you for the rest of the day, let alone walking through an active spider web. Then you're just sure there's a spider somewhere on you. but Jeremy Scahill reporting in a when he showed up for a podcast called Breaking Points he said that even the Iranians and I don't necessarily know if we need to say even the Iranians but in the Iranians are the ones who are dealing with him under the to the most serious circumstances. And according to Jeremy Scahill, in a podcast that came out today, he said a couple of weeks ago, the Iranian side added senior psychologists to their negotiating team to review the communications
Starting point is 00:14:50 that they were going to be sending to the mediators to give to Trump. and let's take a moment right there. I mean, because there's a profound degree, what the hell is causing that? It's like there's a loose connection somewhere, but if you're not hearing it, that's fine. But it misses with my rhythm a little bit. Okay, Brother Deacon Asa saying,
Starting point is 00:15:18 I hear nothing. Okay, thank you, Camel Cardinal, Sergeant Schultz. But, you know, the American people, are woefully undereducated on issues Iranian. And Micah telling me she's not hearing anything either. That's good. That's good. But things like that never bode well.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Ugh. Can somebody sprinkle some holy water or something on a, not on this, not on the, not on the roadcaster, but on something that can do a sort of. uh, voodoo, um, stand in for the roadcaster, um, or I don't know, give the, give the spirits a snack or whatever, because this is really annoying. I'm glad it's not going out over the air, but, um, what, uh, first Amelia, then the brother deacon, now Jeremy. Oh, my goodness. The, uh, the juvenile delinquent squad is apparently ready for this ready for this Friday program I'm not hearing you complain about a loose connection I don't know it's a loose can the fader seems okay
Starting point is 00:16:59 but at any rate what I was saying is the American people are woefully uninformed about Iranian people the Iranian people Iranian civilization and I include myself in that maybe I know a little bit more, but not a lot. But for the most part, and it's deliberate, to the same extent that most American people didn't know much, if anything, about Vietnamese people during that conflict. Well, all I know is they've been a fighting and a killing of each other for a thousand years. and after we're gone, there's going to be a fighting and a killing for a thousand more. Well, I think demonizing a perceived enemy
Starting point is 00:18:04 is a long and shameful tradition in any warfare, and we're as prone to it as anyone. But here's the thing. Like Jeremy Skahill said a couple of weeks ago, the Iranian side added senior psychologists to their negotiating team to review the communications that they were going to be sending to the mediators to give to Trump. They did that because the Iranians believe that Trump is legitimately mentally ill and is operating in an impaired mental state. And they didn't say this as a joke. They didn't say this with any lightness. And, you know, it's not like the Iranians.
Starting point is 00:18:49 can't find highly qualified mental health, behavioral health, psychology, psychiatry practitioners to consult with. And given the fact that, you know, are we the bad ease, there are probably more than more than a few people with that kind of expertise who are willing to advise Iran. and it's probably a good thing because a madman with the American nuclear arsenal behind him is something that the whole world should be concerned about. And Scahill continued saying, The Iranian sources said we recognize that we're dealing with a mentally incapacitated individual, and we've had senior psychologists work up a psychological profile of what they think is going on with Trump's
Starting point is 00:19:46 brain, and so we started to cater our messages by running them past senior psychologists before delivering them to Trump. And they said, we started to then see some progress. They almost talked about it in a clinical sense, like they were dealing with a patient. Well, at some point in time, he is a patient. In fact, as we discussed yesterday, he was the patient of no less than 22 positions for his latest presidential daily checkup. Billable? What's brother Deacon and rustling? I heard some rustling. Now, these are more like electronic clicks and pops.
Starting point is 00:20:43 How many live shows is Brother Deacon listen to and monitored? He should get the first annual Concade Peacnic Prize for his efforts. Maybe we could get FIFA to give Brother Deakin the second FIFA World Peace Prize. They're listening to as many of these broadcasts as he has and not become a raving maniac. But really, we were talking 22 doctors. 22. And the thing is, the more doctors we listed, the more, every doctor we mentioned, and Sylvie set us a list a list of physicians, as several of you jumped in on it as we counted up to the top 22.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Well, as we listed them, every one we could make some sense, given what we know about this perverted old coot. For why the doctor might be consulted for him. And in fact, that story, the fact that Iran is tailoring their messages and their negotiations. Okay, thank you, Billable. I've heard a few sporadic pops, and it's not my audio playback. I appreciate that. I know I'm not imagining them. I was just curious as to whether they were going out over the air.
Starting point is 00:22:33 I'll probably hear, after I post the podcast, I'll hear by tomorrow. What was all that popping and clicking going on, Roxanne? I don't know, but, wow, that was a big one. One of the dogs upstairs barked on that. Strange days indeed, most peculiar, mama, as John Lennon's saying. But no, it's not just us. And it's not just the Iranians. Take, for instance, former assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University
Starting point is 00:23:29 Medical School, Dr. John Gartner, interviewed by The Daily Beast. who said that nitwit Niro's persistent, constant, lengthy monologues about his construction projects, those are his words, well, they disclose, quote, growing signs of dementia and malignant narcissism, and then making matters so much more worrisome. And it's about to get worse, he said. again Dr. John Gartner so now we've got Dr. John Gartner here for years
Starting point is 00:24:12 Mary Trump has been talking about his mental insufficiency oh who's the the former Yale psychiatric clinician who was warning us about him all the way back in the first maladministration and now this
Starting point is 00:24:46 and it makes me think of Todd but not in this way Dr. Gardner said tangential speech is one of the diagnostic criteria
Starting point is 00:25:03 for dementia and he explained to the Daily Beast that what nitwit Nero calls his my weave I'm doing the weave is actually
Starting point is 00:25:19 dementia. What he's obsessed with, Dr. Gartner said, is a function of malignant narcissism. He's obsessed with things that reflect glory on him. He's changing Washington, D.C. to Trump, D.C. And it doesn't matter, he continued, how much the White House denies it all. Reality is a different story altogether. And then added, it's only going to go downhill from here. It's like that Simpson's episode when he wanted to buy, when Homer wanted to buy a giant RV and a siren went off when they ran his credit. And Homer said, well, is that a good siren? And the salesman said, Homer, have you ever heard a good siren?
Starting point is 00:26:27 exactly okay bill will says I heard that loud pop too do you have lightning and thunder in the area or is the Appalachian fried power a scared chihuahua hiding under the bed neither of the above we clear now down
Starting point is 00:26:47 down on the new river gorge there was some whopping thunderstorms blowing through and probably blowing through right now but nothing here it's quiet it's pleasant it's pleasant it's hot. And apparently it's going to be sunny and beautiful tomorrow for Parkersburg pride.
Starting point is 00:27:09 Looking forward to that. Parkersburg puts on a really nice pride celebration in the city park. Your humble hostess, contrary to what that, Jesus, contrary to what that not a doctor from Ohio said in that. said in that clip we had what two nights ago when I was talking to David yeah but the you know the sun provides light and warmth and goodness and the sun doesn't want to cause cancer well you know there's any number of people who have died from skin cancer and no it wasn't caused by ill humors or demons or whatever that idiot in Ohio thinks it is and and I ain't in Florida but the
Starting point is 00:28:12 sun's plenty strong this time a year in West Virginia too so your umbelostus will in fact be coating herself from head to toe in SPF Avagadro's number it takes a lot because when you've got You know, sunscreen is a multiplier. So SPF 50 gives you 50 times your normal, your baseline resistance to UVs. And I, of course, am at zero, so 50 times zero is. But nonetheless, for the last six years, I've been more susceptible to sun damage. and sunstroke. So I will indeed be extra double plus super careful tomorrow,
Starting point is 00:29:07 but I am looking forward to it. It'll be our second pride together. Jeremy, I open these emails with some trepidation. I think part of billables early afternoon snack included edibles. Click. I've not heard one click or pop. Hmm. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:29:31 Maybe, maybe, you know what, I bet since he's at work. I think Billable is probably listening with a set of cans on his head, and that might make it more noticeable. Then again, you're working too, aren't you, Jeremy? You would know. Healthiest President Lee in New York says, it's so obvious. No president has been seen by so many specialists. No president has been given more brain tests. Signed, Lee, snarky in New York City. Yeah, what did Dr. Oz say? Oh, he enjoys taking those cognitive tests because he does so well on him.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Good morning. Can I take another cognitive test that I can brag about and tell people it's an IQ test? It's an IQ test, right? And again, they're probably telling him that it's an IQ test so that he won't get all freaked out and weird. er, they probably haven't told him that he's already deeply in the clutches of dementia. Because he'd just forget about it. You know, that's one of the things he has to look forward to once he's out of office is
Starting point is 00:30:55 every day is just going to be like an Easter egg hunt. I found one. It ain't funny. What the son wants, Lee in New York, says, does the sun want Venus to be hot enough to melt lead? That's one of the most fascinating pieces of video, I think, that the world has ever seen, namely the video from the Soviet space vehicle that entered the venereal atmosphere. Yes, venereal and lasted for a few seconds before the toxicity of that atmosphere completely. disabled it because you know if venus was just in a slightly further orbit well it would probably be
Starting point is 00:32:02 earthlike oh well thank you ralps i'm adding 25 plus two for my sister susie's cat dini a girl crossing the rainbow bridge thank you thank you ralps and please give susie our warmest regards It was a joy meeting her four years ago at the Horn Inn. Thank you. And so let's reset the tally. We're at 4810. Thank you, Ralphs. Yeah, Rye noting, only the best specialists.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Mike is saying, oddly, a rare true thing, he said most likely. Yeah, once in a while, you know. Blind hog. acorn but he says they tell him it's an IQ test because the real test name has too many syllables and plus it's it's Canadian and that would probably
Starting point is 00:33:39 throw him into a towering rage Edibles for lunch sorry Jeremy Billable says I'm not a juvenile delinquent like you I had a macaroni salad for lunch with turkey Swiss cheese cubes and tomatoes with green chilies that sounds delightful it was chicken salad here and the early, early introductory entree into food porn, there's a little place called Da Vinci's,
Starting point is 00:34:08 a restaurant up in Williamstown, West Virginia, right on our river across from Mayreta. And while it's an Italian restaurant, they're rather noted around these parts for their German pizza. And so I bake, and they also sell them frozen in some of the groceries. stores. So I put one of those in the oven last night because I wanted to try it and it was absolutely delicious. It's a pizza crust with thinly shaved corned beef and crout and shredded and shredded and Swiss. It's like a Rubin, only in pizza form. Dagum, it was delicious. Only here in Parkersburg. I hope this roadcaster is. getting ready to go sideways too.
Starting point is 00:35:22 But there's other real and potentially terrifying news as we come to the end of the week, namely NITWAT Nero raving once again that we're on the verge of a deal with Iran. Because Iran, through its news agency, announced the terms that they think, are the elements of not a close of the war, but an opening gambit toward seeking an end to the war. How many times in the history of warfare, I'm talking about the worldwide history of warfare, how many times has the loser, we destroyed them? dictated the terms of the peace. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:57 Well, the Iranians leaked the details, and nitwit Niro was incensed, and either he or that attack blonde who walks around with the wireless printer and I think does some of his triping for him. Oh, he goes. He was pissed. The terms that Iran leaked out to the fake news
Starting point is 00:37:30 have nothing to do with the terms that were agreed to in writing. What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth. Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there's no such thing as dealing in good faith. All caps. Amazing. Also, their totally rebuffed drone attack last night against India,
Starting point is 00:37:55 ship leaving the hormone straight is totally unacceptable unacceptable they better get their act together and fast what you ever wonder what would happen if somebody disabled his uh caps lock button i'm sorry i think that would be hilarious by the way just apropos of nothing um i saw um yesterday i think it was a video breakdown of the trump phone You remember the Trump phone, right? It was going to come in at $500. It was going to be gold. Well, the people who ponied up money for one still haven't gotten one.
Starting point is 00:38:42 But some media outlets were provided with something passing itself off as the Trump phone. Yeah. You might recall that when they introduced it, it'll be made entirely in the United States. This isn't political. this isn't about making money. Sure. And eventually they changed the fine print to it'll be assembled in the United States.
Starting point is 00:39:21 Well, over at NBC, one of their technology correspondence. Yeah, there it is. Jeremy said, I was wrong. I just heard a strange buzz. I don't know what this is. The funny thing is, Brother Deacon AC yesterday was telling me, you know, you sound. The program sounds so much better up there. And, well, thanks for tweaking the goddess of irony on her little pink tomato nose, brother Deacon.
Starting point is 00:39:57 You even? No, they got hold of a Trump phone and immediately recognized that it looks exactly like a phone made by HTC in Taiwan. And so then they found a hardware software specialist who assisted them in a total teardown. And when I say tear down, I mean tear down. They first compared the two phones side by side. They look identical, except for the tacky American flag and the tacky gold-ish case. The Trump phone comes preloaded with tripe social. but then they did a CT scan of it and you could see the innards and it was identical to the HTC phone
Starting point is 00:41:02 and then they took it apart piece by piece micro processor by microprocessor by tiny little board by tiny little board and then they swapped them out and they matched perfectly so that when they turned the Trump phone on. Instead of saying Trump mobile, it said, HTC. So, uh, yeah, the rube's got conned again. It's, yeah, okay, stranger and stranger. Uh, there's brother deacon Asa now. Yeah, it's becoming apparent now. There's some occasional interference, something akin to your mic clipping. Sorry for blaming it on your, the voices in your head earlier. Yeah, at one point in time, it does. It is. It's like clipping, but I'm at, you know, I'm at unity gain on the, on the channel here. And this hasn't been happening previously. I mean,
Starting point is 00:42:19 this is brand new and it's annoying as hell. But at one point in time, the little LED meter for my microphone sort of froze in place. Not good. Not good. Not good at all. Lee in New York says of the Trump phone. They only work in pairs. String to connect them, not included.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Don't forget the 11-stripe American flag, Lee says. But anyway, back to Iran. What got hit, what got nitwit narrow so wrought was the fact that the mayor news agency, that's an Iranian news outlet. They said, listen, here's what's in it. We'll tell you. And it's the same story all over again, $24 billion for cleanup, $300 billion of U.S. taxpayer money.
Starting point is 00:43:33 This isn't like the Obama JCPOA. where we gave them back their own money. This is American taxpayer dollars going to basically pay war reparations to Iran, which we owe, although I would prefer it to be taken out of the hide of the shithead salute snappers, who said, yes, sir, who are, and prosecuted this illegal attack. But the details that Mayor put out makes, well, it makes for a pretty damned humiliating situation for Cankel's Caligula. You might even say shameful. It's, like I said, how often does the loser get to dictate the terms of the end of the war?
Starting point is 00:45:09 In fact, this morning on my former filthy morning habit, well, they talked about it, some. And looks at what he says and laughs. It's a different entity completely. So here's how yesterday played out. President Trump once again threatened new military strikes on Tehran before announcing he had once again called off the attacks. Since the U.S. and Israel launched the war in Iran back in late February, The president has publicly delayed or canceled planned military action at least eight times. Trump claimed progress in negotiation as the reason for backing off the strikes yesterday.
Starting point is 00:45:53 We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran. And we're going to be subject to finalization of documents which should get done over the next few days. We probably have a signing maybe in Europe. And it's a great thing. All right. The president offered a few other details, and he has claimed a deal could be imminent several times in recent weeks. Later last night, Trump put it like this, quote, we ended the war with Iran today. Tehran, however, is at least publicly telling a very different story.
Starting point is 00:46:31 Iran's foreign ministry spokesman told state TV that the country has not reached a final decision regarding any agreement. And no signing date is set. Axis, meanwhile... That just keeps happening. It just keeps happening. Yeah. Axis, meanwhile, has details of what is in the agreement. President Trump says he's ready to sign.
Starting point is 00:46:52 According to a diplomat from one of the mediating countries and a U.S. official, the memorandum of understanding would extend the ceasefire for 60 days, including Lebanon, during which time nuclear negotiations would be held. On the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway would be reopened immediately without tolls with the return to pre-war shipping volumes within 30 days. In return, the U.S. blockade would also be lifted. Iran would also be given temporary sanctions waivers to allow it to sell oil for 60 days. Axis reports the tentative agreement was reached on Wednesday night after hours of negotiations
Starting point is 00:47:34 between a Qatari mediator and Iran's foreign minister, with the mediator coordinated by coordinating by, phone with Trump on voice Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner. Okay, I think we made Michael Wise, I think we made a mistake here. It's Friday, people get tired and so I guess Alex just put in an old script. Not old script. Because we've read that 12 times before and a couple new details though now. You have Netanyahu obviously is fighting for his own political life, being
Starting point is 00:48:11 called a weakling saying he follows Donald Trump around. He's getting hammered literally from the left, center and right in Iran, even though the left, center and right in Iran, is all sort of center-right right now, at the very least. But again, Michael, maybe you can give us some insight. Why do we keep hearing the same thing over and over and over again when the Iranians have rejected this deal time and again, and hardliners in America have rejected this still. I mean, I just want to read you, Iran's mayor news agency put out their version of this deal. Now, again, underscore, we don't know that this is the thing that Actus is reporting. We don't know if this is going to be the memorandum of understanding.
Starting point is 00:48:52 But in their version of the deal, they get $300 billion in reconstruction money, $24 billion in a cash infusion, half of which will come before the negotiations begin. Remember, Joe, this isn't a deal. This is an agreement to keep talking, an extension of a ceasefire. There's nothing in here, again, the Iranian version, that talks about the missile program or financing or arming terrorist proxies like Lebanese Hezbollah. I mean, this would be an utter humiliation. I could see why Trump would want J.D. Vance to go to a signing ceremony instead of Donald Trump, if this is any pale shade of what this thing is going to look like. Look, I think he knows he's being had.
Starting point is 00:49:32 He knows he's been abased by a regime that shouldn't exist by his lights, right? We were going in to do regime change. The Israelis certainly thought we were going to do regime change. We were going to arm the Kurds. We were going to install Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denying former president, as our preferred satrap. All of these plans came to dust, and he just wants out of it. I think Jonathan is right. He's got buyer's remorse.
Starting point is 00:49:56 He thinks he's been sold a bill of goods. He probably has been. And he just wants this thing over and done with. He's already looking at Cuba, right? But the problem is he can't sell this kind of thing. He can't sell it to his base. He can't sell it to the Hawks? I mean, can you imagine Lindsey Graham on Twitter?
Starting point is 00:50:13 If anything like what I just read you is the agreement here? I mean, this makes the JCPOA look like the Iraq War. I mean, Donald Trump ran against Barack Obama saying he just gifted all this money to Iran, pallets of cash. This is pallets of cash, probably with a little crypto action thrown in for the Whitkoffs and the Kushners on the side, too. I mean, I don't know how anyone can look at this. And I've been talking not only to hawks in this country, who are very pro-war, I've talked to Israeli, national security strategists, former Israeli spies who tell me this is a disaster for us. And why is it a disaster?
Starting point is 00:50:47 Prior to this war, Israel had freedom of action, right? They get bombed. Iran launches a missile at them. A terrorist blows something up. They don't ask our permission. They go in and they do what they have to. Now what happens? Donald Trump gets on the phone with every journalist and says,
Starting point is 00:51:01 Bibi listens to me. I'm the big boy here. The Israelis don't lift a finger unless I allow them to. This is not what Israel wants. This war for them, I think, has become like a pair of golden handcuffs. Yes, we help them bomb Iran. Yes, we help them, you know, get rid of at least most of the missile program. The Iranians took a beating. They've taken a beating with the economic penalties imposed by this blockade. But now the Israelis feel like, you know, they oversold and underdelivered. And, you know, Bibi has a problem, too, at home. Israelis do not feel like they're getting value for dollar for this thing. So he's facing a political revolt in his country. Is he really?
Starting point is 00:51:40 And there will be, obviously, John Heilman, a revolt in this country if those numbers are accurate. And I did notice that the president didn't talk about sanctions relief. He didn't talk about the so-called re-construction dollars that he'd been talking about for quite some time. And just look at these numbers that Michael just talked about. You're at about $325 billion that the Iranians would be paid just to go into negotiations for six months. I want to remind everybody the great meltdown among all Republicans regarding Barack Obama's pallets of cash was $400 million. dollars. I want to underline this. Maybe somebody can tell me how much more, as far as multiplying goes, $325 billion is than $400 million, right? What is it? A hundred times more? At least
Starting point is 00:52:49 100 times more. And let me, this reminds me so much of when people were talking about the Biden crime family and the corruption that Hunter may have taken a a trip on Air Force 2 once and introduced Daddy to a business partner when he was vice president. Comparing that to what's going on now. Remember those days? Our Burisma, Hunter, getting a $3 million fee, which you may have, I don't know, maybe made a million, a million and a half from it after it was all over, are selling his NFTs or selling his art for $50,000 or $100,000.
Starting point is 00:53:23 And now you've got $4 billion in personal wealth accumulated by the Trump. Trump's over the first 18 months of the second term? Yeah, I mean, it's convenient to have those numbers at hand. How do you think, okay, this is a dangerous thing to ask, but how do you think the maggots are going to take this? Because I'm willing to bet the maggots are shit in the bed right now. But 300. So, $12 billion up front, 12.5. billion dollars up front just to come in and sit down at the table. Golly. Art of the deal,
Starting point is 00:54:15 right? Jesus. You remember that the doctor in the previous story said, and it's just going to get worse. I wonder sometimes if in his increasingly rare lucid moments, he realizes his life would have been exponentially. better if he hadn't pushed the Peter principle to its absolute limit, you know, and risen to the highest level of his own incompetence. Actually, he's past the highest level of his own incompetence. The highest level of his own incompetence was sometime in the 1970s or maybe when he bankrupted a casino. It takes some real incompetence to bankrupt a casino. More people hearing the whatever the audio artifacts are. Yeah. Oh, there's a fun one. Yeah, it's almost like the processor is running slow
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