Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 6 July 2026

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

So there you are: all ready for the evening and then . . . Graham Platner. DAMMit!  Oh, well, at least you have the boys' soccer team, Oh. Oops.

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this evening. I have not heard any further from him, but I did message him to see if he thought he was still going to be able to do that. And, well, fingers crossed. So if he does show up, your humble hostess will have to bail. That having been said, I hope your holiday weekend was good. I did as much as I possibly could to ignore the embarrassing madness, the self-congratulatory baloney that was taking place in D.C., although the goddess of irony, in conjunction with the weather gods, apparently was not that deeply committed to ignoring it, not as deeply as I was, for the most part here.

Saturday night and Friday night it was largely just a matter of hanging out with the fur babies because they well because the fireworks make them very very very unhappy so and of course I had big plans for the smoker all of which

got thunderstormed right out of existence and I'll probably be firing the smoker up later this week because it's out there. It's, you know, not going to just give up on a couple of lovely pork shoulders. No, no. But anyway, it should be a checking the calendar here, it should be a relatively ordinary week. Not a lot of, no, there's really nothing.

on the on the on the threat board and so that's that's a good thing so apart from apart from the the tarping well that's that's that's that and that applies just to today uh yeah i was uh actually i was a couple of minutes late to air simply because i was trying to get caught up on the latest madness coming out of uh name as well as checking for any updates on what will be going on at 8 p.m. Eastern daylight time, namely the match between the U.S. and Belgium. We'll get into all of that in fairly short order. But every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude,

and this program is no difference, so thanks go out to our subscribers and contributors via PayPal on this for the 6th, 5th, and 4th of the month this past weekend, that is. And that means thank you to Michael, formerly of Madison, now in Chicago. Thank you to Charlene in Rokes Island. Thank you to Don in West Tennessee. David, thank you very kindly out in Oregon. I hope the new job is coming along most nicely. And thank you to Kevin.

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That's it. $98, and we will have met a $1,500 challenge to get us funded all the way to the midpoint of July. This being, of course, the month that was renamed by the Romans. Let's see. Sixth, seventh. What would that make this? Septilus? Yeah, it was Septilus until Julius Caesar came along, and then they named it after him.

and, well, his grand-nephew Octavian's birthday was in August, hence Augustus, and that made Octilus become August. Well, you know, I've said in the past that there is a possibility that the same way that Caesar, which was just a family name, became a name for being a royal person, well it became a word for monarch and so i don't know maybe in the future i sure hope not if they decide to name the month of june after nitwit nero it will be disgustus ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha yeah see what i did there disgustus uh-huh yeah oh well

I tried and well thank you thank you uh Jeremy noting no holes some change

so we are down to $96 and 67 cents 9667 courtesy of Jeremy thank you Jeremy um

I I don't think I've got canopy money, Lee, in New York. There's a hole in the roof, dear Henry, dear Henry. A thought, can you consider adding a canopy to reflect summer light off the Horn Studio? What a lovely idea. And then, of course, going back over the weekend,

you might recall the note from Sylvie, July 5th, early. George, Martha, and Ignauts. Birds, birds. July 5th, early, part two. Hellfire! What does a crow have to do to get a morning's peace? I knew I should have kicked that damn dig out of the nest. George, for shame, how can you talk about murdering your own son?

That's it! If anyone wants me, I'll be at the crow bar. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, honey, this early? Besides, it's too early in the seasons for fermented apricots, and you promised me. Bullshit! I'm out of here!

Flapping, diminishing into the distance. Feed me! We have to find the sparklies! Oh, dear, I knew I should have married that handsome raven. Oh, my aching head. Exeunt. Oh, yeah. A lovely little radio drama.

courtesy of our very own Sylvie. Thank you, Sylvie. And what else? Let me see if... No, so I tell you what, we're just going to go straight to what appears to be the most looming disaster.

And like I said, it comes out of Maine. Well, before we go there, let me just do a couple of... Yes, yes, $96.67 is the balance. So, yes, that's, that's, 67 cents is the loose change. Someone wanted to know. Anyway, Maine. Well, before Maine, before Maine.

The American football team, U.S. men's national, the U.S. men's national team, which has yet to perform at the level of the ladies. seeing as how the USMNT has no World Cup to its credit. Well, they wear these Wears Waldo jerseys. I don't know if they'll be wearing them tonight. But, yeah, they wear these wears Waldo jerseys. They're just awful to look at. And there's another where's Waldo, though.

in America today. Only it's, where's the turtle? Where in the world is Moscow Mitch McConnell? I don't know. Maybe we need that acapella group, too. Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? Yeah, never mind. Anyway, nobody knows.

And the speculation is running wild that he is no longer with us. that he is, well, he's a turtle, so he's crawling slowly along the celestial plane, pining for the fjords, turtle croaking with the bleeding choir eternal. But here's an interesting thing, I don't know if you're aware of this. I wasn't until a day or so ago. You know, Mitch was found non-responsive by EMS, who were talking, told to bring advanced life support systems with them. So it was basically a rolling emergency room when they got there to his residence.

And despite the claims of John, people like John Thune, that, oh, he's just up in bed and chattering away. He's just, well, he's a veritable chatterbox. He's eager to get back to work. Well, it turned out that two days after the event in question, which would be somewhere around June the 16th, his loving, doting bride, Elaine Chow, who you may recall is probably not in the good graces of nitwit Niro, being as how she quit on him right after January the 6th, and apparently was at the center of the discussions of whether,

to post haste replace him under the 25th amendment with Mike Pence. Remember that? I know. Long time ago. Well, she exited. Sylvie's radio script reminded me, you know, exaunt all. Yeah, Elaine Chow, exaunted. Um, stage Asia.

That is to say, of course, she comes from a very wealthy, uh, family in China that is connected to the Chinese Communist Party. Um, and guess where Elaine Chow is or apparently has been since two days after the stroke slash heart attack slash death in question? Uh-huh. China Yeah, China. China, where no one can reach her. China, where no one can make her do a damn thing. China.

And just for those keeping track, apparently Elaine Chow being the long, the longtime bride of Moscow, Mitch holds his power of attorney and particularly holds his medical power of attorney. In other words, she's the only person on planet Earth who can pull the plug if, say, Moscow Mitch, is in fact in a persistent vegetative state from which he will not recover. So that means,

and this is an area of law that goes back to, here's a name from the past, Karen Ann Quinlan, don't take a handful of codeine and knock it back with some smyrnaw. Don't do it. Yeah. So absent anyone to be able to exercise

Mitch McConnell's wishes for him It means that he must be kept alive If necessary By heroic measures If you ever find out what Well if you know what heroic measures include You know that most people Would not want those

And that's why many people sign off on Well Medical Parenthood powers of attorney. Well, why, one might ask? Why indeed? And the answer to why is because Moscow Mitch needs to be presumed alive, because by being presumed alive, he is still presumed to occupy the seat of the senior senator from Kentucky stand. And there's a specific period of time in which Moscow Mitch must be presumed alive. He must be presumed alive until August 3, 2026.

Apparently, that is the date at which a special election would not need to be called for someone to fill his seat until the special election. or until the general election, I should say, the midterms, you know, November. Andy Bejir's in the dark, he's the governor of Kentucky. The Kentucky legislature took away his power to appoint an interim member of the Senate. One can presume that was done at the behest of Moscow Mitch. Remember, the title of his memoir was The Long Game. And I would not be at all surprised to find that somewhere amongst his private papers,

all of this had been gamed out completely, because you see a special election could wind up running contrary, especially in the political climate we have right now, could run contrary to the wishes of Moscow Mitch that his seat remained Republican all the way up unto the ending of the world. It's funny how this isn't getting the coverage that it deserves. But here we are. Here we are.

One other piece of curious information. In the coming week, apparently, they're going to have a big evidentiary hearing out behind the Zion Curtain for the guy who's accused of having done the almost impossible shooting Charlie Kirk in the neck and exiting him from this mortal coil. I saw a new story earlier today that pointed out that his mama, Charlie's,

mama and daddy and Erica Kirk will attend the evidentiary hearing so they can look his alleged killer in the eyes for the very first time, which I find a little bit curious, because it's an evidentiary hearing. In a criminal prosecution, an evidentiary hearing, goes over things that the government, or in this case, the state of Utah, wants to present at trial in an effort to convict. uh what's his name tyler robinson yeah it's really not a big moment it can get kind of dull there might be some testimony taken mostly it's arguments from counsel for the prosecution and the stuff they want to introduce and counsel for the defense for stuff they think that should think should be kept out it's uh it's it's pretty much typical in any trial

These are things you have to have if you're going to have a criminal trial. So why are Mr. and Mizra's Kirk going to be there and Erica as well? One wonders if she'll wear her skin-tight leather pants and spangled blouse, or if maybe all three of them will be flown to Utah aboard Air Force 2, or whether the JD Egg will be sitting there next to her to console her. Mm-hmm. Don't know. But this is interesting in the course of reading about it.

Apparently, Charles James Kirk's daddy, who was described by chuckles at one point in time as, well, they're Republicans, but they're not like committed Republicans. Counting or not counting gang violence. down and to the left, down and to the left. Yeah. Mr. Kirk, Chuckles's daddy, was said to have been an architect

and was a lead project architect on Trump Tower? I don't want to get all Alex Jones about all of this, but well, damn, it gets weirder and weirder, and Trump actually met Erica before he ever met chuckles

because, of course, she was in a beauty pageant, so that means he probably went into the dressing room and leered at her in a state of undress. Just, like I said, a couple of things.

A couple of things. And then, well, there's the thing that pretty much rewrote the program for today. I was all set to get all hot and bothered about the U.S. men's national team. And, you know, I'm not going to get all hot and bothered. No. There was a good weekend of football to be watched. Poor Mexico. Poor, poor, poor Mexico.

I really wanted them to beat England. It did. But they pulled up a little bit short, giving up two goals early in the game, and then coming back to tie and then losing three to two, despite an absolute title onslaught against the English defenses, which were down a man because one of their dudes got a red card, who will, I think, be, you know, sitting out the next game because, well, those are the rules of FIFA, you see.

Well, there are rules, Donnie. This is not Vietnam. Right? Yeah. So, they'll be, one of their guys will be benched for their game against Norway. And that game was an absolute joy to watch. Erling Holland just humiliating his Brazilian counterpart and, you know, another big-time guy from the Premier League in England, Gabriel. Jesus. He dunk. I mean, if it was basketball, it would have been an epic dunk on Gabriel as he put a header into the net.

Holland did. but that's that's neither here here nor there yeah but that's not where we're going with the program at least not at the beginning

this evening no no no no no apparently where there's smoke there's fire

if one ascribes to that notion I take no joy in this none whatsoever. But a 41-year-old woman in Maine, Jenny Rassico, R-A-C-I-C-O-T, gave three interviews to Politico. Funny that it would be Politico, you know, Tiger Beat on the Potomac, over the past couple of weeks. And in essence, well, it's not in essence. She flat out said that Graham Platton, her raped her.

To be particular, she said that one night in late 2021, he was shit-faced and he entered her home in rural Maine. He was not invited and to use the dainty language

of the for-profit media forced himself on her as she repeatedly told him to stop. That necessitated this earlier from Graham Platner. Now you might recall the last time with the dirty sexting and all of that stuff, his wife stepped in to say, that's not Graham, and what goes on in our marriage is a matter of our marriage, and that's before we were married, and there's nothing to it,

and he's made mistakes, and he was having a hard time, He's got PTSD. He's having a hard time getting over his service in the Bush Gwatt, Global War on Terror. And by the way, I guess, happy birthday to George W. Bush. George W. Bush is actually younger than it went narrow. Dub turned 80 today. Uh-huh. and to his credit, Dubb isn't nearly as physically fucked up

as is Geyser disgust us. But back to Graham Platner, even though so much of the politics and so many of the nightmares we wake up to each and every day have their roots in Dubya's presidency. Can somebody find Sandra Day O'Connor's drave and take a nice, nice, long pee on it?

Thanks, Sandy. Thanks so much for choosing politics over the Constitution and the people of the United States, hon. Thanks so much. But anyway, Graham Platner made an announcement. I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations again. against me. Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false. Over the last 10 months, I have been deeply humbled by the faith manors that put in me. You have welcomed me into your homes, into your places of work, into your restaurants, into your houses of worship. You have

shown that a different kind of politics, one that puts the interests of people over corporations, is not just possible, but is inevitable. This movement we have, have built the largest volunteer base in the history of Maine politics, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots donors, and the supporters across the ideological spectrum, we were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, and a focus on defeating Susan Collins. So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful to political reality, it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward, for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.

Those were the goals when we launched this campaign, and they remain my goals today. On June 9th, 154,058 Maynors, the most in primary history, voted to reject a broken politics beholden to Washington and the dollar class. They voted for hope, for change, to take back our economy to take back our power and to take back our Senate seat. Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me, and I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated, and we will use every tool at our disposal to do so. As Maine goes, so goes the nation. As always, thank you. Okay, what do you make of that? a lot of people are thinking that that sounds like he's not bailing out of the race right now

but that depending on how things turn in other words how many more tongues of flame leap from the smoke he might and i'm not going to i'm not going to i'm not going to i'm not going to go after him I'm not. But I do have some observations to make. It seems like they're rather desperate to get him out of the race. Micah observing, the time to say this was weeks ago. Oh, there's always timing involved, Micah. This puts the Democrats in Maine in scramble mode.

people like Shelley Pingree and Troy Jackson who both ran for governor well both of their names are popping up as potential replacements

should Platner bail but I have some questions I do upon my faith I do where was the breathlessness I may get in trouble for this Where was all this breathlessness when Nitwit Niro

was running around talking about grabbing women by the pussy? I mean, that's pretty non-consensual. Where are the calls for his resignation? Now that he has been adjudicated all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States as a sexual abuser of women? Where? Somebody, anybody, tell me.

The maggots, this is a matter for Democrats. The maggots need to shut their fucking mouths because they have not a goddamn thing to say about this. Oh, and by the way, while we're at it. This, namely, Jenny Rascoco, about whom I know nothing, and I'm not going to trash, how dare I? You know? But she said she knew him for two years before the rape,

although forced himself upon her, is interesting language, sewing circle language, if you will, because I'm sure that the state of Maine, like every other state in commonwealth in the country, has a very specific legal definition of sexual assault. I will not say why was this not brought forward sooner? because I understand that rape is beyond painful to deal with, horrifying,

and that women are as often as not treated like shit for reporting a rape. So there's that. But it's curious how it is. Okay, I'm just going to say two words. Brett Kavanaugh. Christine Blasey Ford, as a teenager, had too much to drink and went to an upstairs bedroom where she more or less passed out, went to sleep. Choose the language you wish. She awoke to find Brat Kavanaugh a ruttin and a humpin upon her.

And if you recall, Republicans, maggots, From sea to shining sea, trashed her, called her everything but a child of God. And last I checked, 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, B, B, B Ratt Cavanon, his law clerk's squee and quay. are happily ensconced for life on the Supreme Court of the United States where he feels free to write opinions attacking the rights of marginalized people in this country,

be they immigrants or trans kids. Now, I haven't seen a lot of reporting on this, but I'm sure she will not get the treatment that Dr. Ford, God. Mm-mm. No. And while it should be a mention with each and every mention of the story itself, the fact that the sitting president of the United States has been credibly accused of rape over two dozen times

by two dozen different women, that number is even higher now when you take into account the little girls who say that he raped them. Jesus No, two wrongs don't make it right But this This looks Curious Most curious

Indeed And so the maggots are having a field day They need to shut the fuck up Among other things Over at a couple of right-wing Sewers Well, anyway outkick, I think, was one of them,

immediately jumping on it and swearing up and down that it's true. We'll have to see. But the for-profit media jumped on this like a duck on a June bug, and that always makes me suspicious. And I mentioned the trial in Provo, Utah. Five-day preliminary hearing began today, and I asked if the J.D. Egg would be. be with her, Erica

Kirk. No, it turns out. He isn't. Instead, she's accompanied by Trader Tot. Yeah, Junior. How about that? Again,

why? For a five-day preliminary hearing, why? Someone said, Huh, I didn't know they were close. And the former nitwit, Neuro, Petty fogger, Jenna Ellis said, oh, he was very close with Charlie, so of course he's going to support Charlie's widow. It's absolutely disgusting how people are spinning everything instead of just supporting Eric and remembering Charlie and demanding justice for them.

And Junior responded, well sad. Still want to know why they repaved the area where he was shot. And apparently the conspiracy theories are. about Chuckle's death or even getting traction inside nitwit Nero's own circles.

So I guess we've got Junior there to keep her safe. Or maybe keep her quiet. Curiouser and curiouser said Alice. You know it's interesting. Back on June the 10th or so

during the first Graham Platner blow up Well, none other than Old Serpent Head, James Carville leapt to his defense. Yeah. We're not going to go

into the lengthy podcast clip. Old Serpenthead saying, and by the way, this was an interview with Chris Cuomo, make of that what you will. Yeah, first of all, four combat deployments.

In all the deployments, you know what all four have in common? These were wars that Susan Collins supported. I mean, them deployments would have some kind of effect on your mentality. That's the larger issue. He's dealing with this from Susan Collins' war. And maybe it would be a good idea in the United States Senate to have a veteran who has struggled with mental issues and put him on the Veterans Affairs Committee

because he's not the only veteran. He's not the only combat veteran that's profoundly affected by what happened to them during these hell wars. Ah, yeah. Jesus. Had a note. Had a note from Joy in Ann Arbor.

She said, I'm only pragmatic now politically, no emotions. Now, if Platner drops out, what is the way forward? Mills, okay, then I'm team Mills. See how easy it is? I just want Democrat numbers. I don't give a shit about anything else. I don't give a shit about personalities or who did what to whom.

I don't give a shit how anyone feels about it. I just want Democrats elected. It's the only way. And if we want to have anything resembling the Republic that we just spent the last weekend celebrating, joy is 100% or 200 proof. Right. Correct. Absolutely. So, shall he? Pingree, Team Pingree.

Janet Mills, team Mills, or Grand Platner. I'm glad that I do not have to vote in that election. But you got to wonder, it was just a week or so ago, a little over a week, when Platner Well, he shared his ideas for an anti-corruption agenda he wants to introduce in the Senate, including the Collins rule.

That's what he called it, the Collins rule. It said that any senator would have to recuse themselves from any vote decision or oversight activity involving an agency from which their spouse's firm receives government contracts. What he said along the way was that Susan Coffin

funneled more than $76 million in federal contracts to her husband's lobbying firm. And she said, it's a lie. A man I have never met held a press conference and accused me. Why does she sound like Bobby now?

Of criminal conduct. That is outrageous and false. And she kind of walked into a little trap that Platner had set because he said, I didn't say she did anything criminal. I said what she said did should be criminal because the policy document noted that no existing law forbids a U.S. Senator from being enriched through winning contracts

from agencies the Senator overseas. Nope. No spouse is prevented from being enriched through winning contracts from agencies the senator overseas. Hiring your spouse is banned. Arranging for your spouse's firm to receive millions from agencies you oversee is apparently fine. This is plain corruption and we will not stand for it. And he added, We're taking this fight directly to Susan Collins and her billionaire donors and we won't

stop until power is returned to the working people of Maine. for her part Collins's campaign said she has not funneled any money to Tom Daffron her husband well he's been the chief operating officer for an outfit called Jefferson

Consulting Group and Platner's campaign said that that outfit has benefited by around $76 million he was a registered lobbyist in 2006 and 2000 he and Susan plighted their

troth and declared their undying love for one another in 2012 after she'd been a senator for something like 16 years funny how access to power makes love bloom or deep and abiding friendships Har Har Harrow Crow had never heard of Clarence pubes

on the coke can Fappy Thomas. Another reason for Republicans to shut the fuck up about any of this. Anita Hill? Anyone? But love and abiding friendships bloom with access to power. Har Har Har had

never heard of Fappy Thomas before Fappy Thomas got onto the court and then he became Harha's black friend. News Center, Maine said in its accounting, Plattner's campaign pointed to a list compiled by searching the USA Spending website of contracts awarded to Jefferson Consulting

by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, State, Interior, and Veterans Affairs. That's quite a list. $55 million came from two contracts with USAID. Roughly three quarters of that $76 million. News Center Main went on and said the Collins campaign did not dispute the total amount in contracts but said it was the Obama administration, not Congress, that was responsible for Dolan. out those funds between 2009 and 2016. The funny thing is, the power of the purse still rests with the Congress.

They appropriated the money. The Obama administration gave it out. You've got to wonder if that might make Susie Q a little nervous and sorry, but, well, forgive me if I think back to Gary Hart. or, you know, it wasn't sexual, but the Canuck Letter in 1972. Plattner said, my entire life I've heard from the political system that all of these very obvious mechanisms of corruption aren't actually corruption, that when we see people appropriating funds, when we see procurement systems in place, that the money comes from appropriations from the Senate and from the House,

that somehow these things are entirely divorced and it's just sheer coincidence that people who are connected. to those in power wind up receiving lots of extra money. Obviously that's false. Any normal person can see that if you're directly tied to the power of the United States Senator and you yourself benefit from it and that Senator's household benefits from it

then there's obviously some form of connection there. He wants an outright ban of stock trading by members of Congress and their spouses. That was downright cute because the question was put to ordained Southern Baptist minister, pastor, brother Mullah Moses, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, who said, well, it's awfully hard living up in here, up here in D.C., and it's hard for a member of Congress to get a raise.

And can't we at least let their families trade stock so they can make up some of the losses? They got two homes to manage. No, really? He said that. It was precious. And for anyone paying attention, Susie Q, every time a piece of bipartisan legislation has come up that would ban congressional stock trading. She said, oh no, and voted against it. In fact, there is a thing called the Stock Act.

It's a law in existence. and she has flouted it dozens of times because she doesn't like to report within the 45-day filing window her hubby's stock trades. For instance, hubby earlier this year, bought a Pfizer corporate bond worth between $15,000 and $50,000 on February 3rd. She finally got around to disclosing it in late March. I mean, Plattenor's got a lot of good ideas.

And some of those ideas are the kinds of ideas that would give your average garden variety multi-millionaire maggot the turtle squirts. That's not a Mitch McConnell reference, by the way. Because Platner wants to overturn Citizens United. He wants to permanently ban former members of Congress from lobbying the Congress. No, you know, there's no window because, you know, well, you know, you stay out for two years and then you become a high-paid lobby. He said, no. Platner's plan says no, not at all.

He wants to prohibit candidates for office, from federal office, from getting pack money from corporations. And way back around the 25th of June, he said the establishment has rigged the system with legalized corruption and poisoned our elections. with billionaire money and a politics that enriches the powerful as the expense of working people. We're taking this fight direct to Susan Collins and our billionaire donors, and we won't stop until powers return to the working people of Maine. And I kind of wish when this latest allegation came out,

that he would have said, cool, I'll be happy to discuss it with her in public. Bring the cameras. But otherwise, I'm going to keep on campaigning. That was not, oh my goodness gracious, no, that was not what he said. Now, let's check out his statement one more time. You judge his credibility. To directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me.

Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false. Over the last 10 months, I have been deeply humbled by the faith manors have put in me. You have welcomed me into your homes, into your places of work, into your restaurants, into your houses of worship. You have shown that a different kind of politics, one that puts the interests of people over corporations, is not just possible, but is inevitable. This movement we have built, the largest volunteer base in the history of Maine politics, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots donors, and the supporters across the ideological spectrum, we were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, and a focus on defeating Susan Collins. So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality, it will inflict.

We are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins. Those were the goals when we launched this campaign, and they remain my goals today. On June 9, 154,058 Mainers, the most in primary history, voted to reject a broken politics beholden to Washington and the daughter class. They voted for hope, for change, to take back our economy, to take back our power, and to take back our Senate seat. Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me, and I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated, and we will use every tool at our disposal to do so. As Maine goes, so goes the nation. that old saying there

Hannibal Hamlin and such like here's here's it I mean okay I said a thought of Gary Hart because way back when Gary Hart said follow me I got nothing to hide and so the media followed him and a woman jumped on his lap for about 1.2 seconds the photo the the photographers were ready click click click click click and there went Gary Hart's hopes

and perhaps America's too. Just saying. Graham Platner, for his part, is free to say, hey, indict me. Indite me. Let's fight this out in court. Let's go. I'm ready.

Y'all ready? But instead, we get politics talk. On the other hand, maybe there's a reason for all of this because maggots in the Senate are getting really nervous. Tim Scott, from whom we have not heard in a very long time, has anybody seen him with his girlfriend lately? No, no, okay. in a private meeting Scott warned his maggot pals how bad the polling is right now for maggots

and how the how nitwit Nero is just hemorrhaging approval the story came from the hill Tom bobble throat cotton of auk andstan showed data to his Senate colleagues noting that independents are fleeing the maget party in droves

and that they're moving toward Democrats. The Hill reported that the senators left the meeting visibly shaken. Whitt as, I don't know if he's from the south, but that's one of the southern sounding names. Whitt as, a maggot pollster, said, we know the party in power tends to lose

house seats in a midterm election, but the number of seats lost is highly correlated with the president's popularity. When presidential job approval is above 50%, the average loss of House seats for his party is 14. When it's below 50%, the average loss of House seats for his party is 32. But there are very few people at this point who are predicting that Democrats will not gain seats in the House. And there may be a bloodbath in the Senate, too. Because, well, now they're fretting about Iowa. They thought they had themselves a nice safe state, what with, you know, Joni Ernst retiring after saying,

well, you all got to die sometimes, you bastards, years within the last year or so. And now, apparently Democrats are thinking they can get her seat. an Iowa political analyst appeared on Joe Trippi's podcast. Laura Bellin runs a site called Bleeding Heartland. She said, it's the most exciting election cycle in Iowa that I've ever covered. Both the race for governor and Senate is competitive. Telling Joe Trippie on his on the ground podcast, the Senate race when we talked last time

that was viewed as a likely Republican hold and now the election forecasters have shifted it to lean Republican and I agree with that rating but just this week we saw a poll that showed Josh Turek a little bit ahead so I can tell you that Republicans are sincerely worried about Ashley Henson in that Senate race Turek apparently according to none other than a fox poll

is ahead of Henson she's a maggot supported by Nittwit Nero 50 to 46 and he's a hell of a candidate. So if they can't, if it turns out they can't hold Iowa, well, no wonder they're trying to build on, politics is filthy. No wonder they may be trying to build on their successes with allegations of dirty sexting against Graham Platner. Why I doubt the rape claim, Lee in New York says, as I recall, there was a previous claim weeks ago.

I believe the accuser was Republican when one victim comes forward. Usually others join in because it lends credibility to the first public victim. This is a drip, drip, drip. ODD. When Christine Blasey Ford came forward, others spoke up and could not even be interviewed by the FBI. If Platner stays on the ballot, when will the next accuser show up? Day after tomorrow. and Jeremy says,

I make of it that he tired of the accusations that he said aren't true, and so far no one has been able to give a reasonable proper of any of it, reasonable proof, any of it happened, but it's doing its job and getting eyes on it like it's here to see. Doubt. And Kevin says it's just frustrating seeing Collins remain barely viable by these own goals. Kay in Kentucky

Hey Kay, it's been lovely hearing from you today Collins funneling money She didn't funnel money to her husband She funneled money to a firm run by her husband So they could end up in his pocket That's completely different Yes And thank you Ralphs for knocking out the loose change

And thank you Kind anonymous friend for finishing the challenge It's zeroed out Ralph's No More Holes challenge has been met. And that means, and what a thing to say, we are fully funded

through the 16th day of July. Huh. So, we'll stay after it. That's enough for this evening. Thank you, thank you, thank you. But maybe we can finish July

fully funded, which makes life so much simpler. And so, oh, okay. The Camel Cardinal says, Brat Cavanaugh, what an absolutely preposterous comparison on your part between Justice Beirbong and Graham Platner. It clearly stated in Justice Beirbong's personal daytimeer that he did not rape anybody on that particular day.

Shame on you for suggesting it otherwise. On that particular day. Yes, shame on me. But I do think it would be beneficial if there could be a concerted effort to say, and by the way, you maggots need to shut the fuck up. You've got an opinion on your... Graham Platner as quick as you denounce your orange daddy who is an adjudicated sexual abuser. Supreme Court said so.

And then, well, dare nitwit Nero to sue the outlet. And by the way, just a little something on that. I guess we could call this the Cave Report. Guess who just caved? Uh-huh. The ladies of the view. at Brendan Carr, the little punk-ass bitch over at the FCC, threatened ABC Disney and said that he was going to investigate the view

for violating a rule from 1934 for equal time for political candidates. And so according to a report from Cinephor, since then the ABC talk show hasn't featured a single political candidate running in a competitive mid-term race. The inquiry itself has been enough to force the network to hedge which guests appear on the show, a notable departure from the view's previous booking decisions. Trump's FCC, led by its aggressive chairman,

aggressive, his lickspiddle chairman, has been one of the most visible regulators of American communications in a generation. The simple threat of regulatory action is now enough to impact how media outlets behave. Yeah, Brandon, now do Fox News. Oh, wait, never mind. And the story goes on to note that within the last few weeks,

there was a plan to bring on Zoran Mamdanian. He wanted to bring his two congressional candidates. Dari Elisa Avelia Chevalier and Claire Valdez, Valdez, onto the show, and ABC took a powder. We'd like to have you on mayor, but we can't bring on those other two. because we might get in trouble. Among other reasons, the show's staff noted that it was proceeding cautiously with political candidate bookings while the FCC's equal time inquiry was progressing.

So, well, it's worth remarking upon the words of Carr himself, saying that he'll pull licenses and whatnot. He bragged about what he had done to the fourth estate in this country. MS now reported that while speaking at CPAC, Carr said, look at the results so far. PBS defunded, NPR, defunded. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN is going to have new ownership as well. Yeah, well, thanks to the Supreme Court, if we get a Democrat in the White House on January of 2029,

that president can fire all them turds. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And meanwhile, back to the mailbag, I mentioned enjoying seeing notes coming in from K, there in Kentucky Stan. She said earlier, I think it's obvious by Kentucky law if they wait until August 3rd to announce he's dead and they have a special election this November. Any sooner, and Governor Bashir gets to appoint a replacement to finish Turtle's term. Also, Elaine Chow going to China, doesn't do anything to refute that she's a Chinese spy and proves that no. No one cares about that. Scumbag. Well, the thing,

the thing, though, Kay, is that the, uh, the, the, the,

the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, has taken

Bashir's ability to appoint a temporary replacement away from him. And then, and yeah, here we go. USMNT, FIFA, and Orange Asshole.

FIFA revoking a suspension off an obvious red card from a member of the host nation because the president asked them to no that's not corrupt at all also the women's team is still far superior and they're not maggots yeah erika kirk kirk and company cases what the hell kind of are they trying to keep them from being presented at trial why else would they be there oh lord i'm becoming a conspiracy theorist well they just wanted to stare down the judge and really i do i imagine that's the purpose i said i couldn't imagine wanting to sit through five days of evidentiary hearings.

But they're there for a reason. The presence of Trader Tot and Erica Kirk is a matter of intimidation. They want the judge to understand that Erica Kukakakakak Kirk has millions of weirdo followers, any one of which might decide to end the life of the said judge there in Provo. That's why. the little shades of, well, the soccer team. Fascists always behave the same way. K. Platner accusations, well, thanks for ruining my night.

But if he's guilty of rape, he needs to be thrown under a prison somewhere, and fuck George W. Bush, and hopefully Dick Cheney's resting in piss as he looks up at us. Uh-huh. And see, that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats are responding to the Platinum. news by saying, well, if he did it, fuck him forever. Republicans, maggots, will say,

well, it didn't happen, and if it did happen, it probably had a good reason and how was she dressed, and she had it coming. And Cynthia in the Bay Area says, if I lived in Maine, I would vote for Platner. Absolutely, certainly. I would

rather he didn't have the questionable past, but even if the worst of it were true, people can change. I did. Once upon a time, I was a conservative repiglican. Oh, Cynthia, I never knew. Talk about a poster child with a troubling past. I even voted for Nixon and felt terrible when he resigned.

I didn't change my stripes for another five years, and by the time Reagan came along, I was a liberal Democrat. I changed. And given the need for Democrats to win, I would vote for Platner. If he turned out to be a pig down the road, then go after him. We can police our scum. Democrats are so much better at it than the pigs, even to a fault.

yeah that's true that's why I said you know indict if there's any truth to this indict him indict him you know

a grand jury process is not adversarial his accuser can march right into that grand jury room and testify at length about what happened there will be no cross-examination there's nothing scary about it and

well the grand jury would probably return a true bill what do you think and by the way we're coming up on the halfway point of the program I would think that there might be some conversational interest

in sharing some thoughts feel free you don't have to agree I'm conflicted as fuck and Micah relative to the ladies of the views says why am I not fucking surprised yeah so yeah

844 843 4676 844 844 the horn and that'll get you right onto the stress line you can also jump in via the Discord server best the way to do it is to go via the

if you're not already a member of the old holler tree. Just go to the chat room and reach out, and somebody will clear you to go on into the voice portion. Yes, absolutely. Lee in New York says, for finishing, Ralph's No More Holes Challenge.

Yes, that's absolutely called for. Thanks for the reminder, Lee. Oh, well, good, good callback, Lee. the view did have a Republican running for office. Sitting at the table was a vice president couching his remarks. He's been campaigning since January 21st, 2025. Couching. Well played.

Well played indeed. And, well, there's somebody on the stress line. Let's find out who that somebody is. Hey, welcome to the program. Hey, Rachan, I hope your independence day went better than mine. Mine was nothing to write home about it. It was nondescript at best. What happened?

Well, this didn't actually happen on the floor. I kept it non-political. Everything was going okay until the next morning when my brother, Bob, uh, started spouting about congressional corruption and all this. Okay, so you're good with Donald Trump. doing it. Well, you can't prove that. Typical maggot response. It got so heated that I

looked down at his need. Well, the sexual abuse is already, the sexual, but the sexual abuse part's already been proven. The Supreme Court said, yep, that's what he is. Right, but I didn't get into the sexual part of it, Roxanne. I kept it, you know, I kept it to shit I knew would I knew

would be factual but would piss him off and the more dependent it and this is always the tell with the magnet well that's your opinion you have the right to it what's unsaid is until our lord and purer passes

the law making it illegal but I looked at it his knees I looked at him and I said well it's good to see you have your Trump brand knee pads on and he got a little pissed.

I didn't finish the rest of that joke. You know, mentioning an actual product that Trump has branded you know, and since he's been fucking a lot of maggots lately, my advice to the maggot crowd is make sure he's not using

the Trump-branded condoms because if there's a lubricant, They taste like shit. And if they're the unlawfulicated ones, they leak like a White House press corps. So, I guess. He was getting rabid pissed with me. I was getting more than a little strident.

I just had enough. And I have some good news. Yes. Christine was with me. We ended up on the floor, on the floor. I ended up sliding out of bed and couldn't get back up. Christine tried to help me. She reached for me and her knees went out from under her.

Oh. And she couldn't get up. And so we called Bob. He came over. We picked us up off the floor. we spent the day in the motel room. It rained after the fireworks went off of the big show. And Bob's usual gathering happens later,

but it started raining, so he decided for safety reasons, to delay it until next Saturday. So we're going to do that. good news I've got, and for all the cat lovers in the Horn Family Community congregation, I know many, including Shorty and others,

she's beside, I talk to her about, you know, I'll bring her, get the cats to the vet and things like that. And I said, Christine Ely, you are going to regret

if you give them up because there's so much part of you right now and we need to distract you and to keep you entertained they one of the girl Bootsie she ended up

stealing a rib from Christine and and the ribs that Bob's friend made for the fourth like a heart of action they were were good.

They were good. I'll bet. And unfortunately, I haven't been able to eat any of them because my stomach is just given me all kinds of grief. But to say my

fourth was quiet in an understatement. I kept away from the newsfeeds and the radio because I knew the dump would be all over it. self-aggrandizing himself.

What I object to is his opening of McDonald's right at the gates of Arlington, but only with one golden arch. Right, yeah. As far as the Senate race in Maine, I hate to be an optimist about this, Roxanne, but I think we saw the pre-surrender message, because we heard similar. word from Al Franken, and I think Al could have thought that.

He was trying to until his back sprouted daggers. Yeah. It's amazing how those crop up. Those pesky daggers. You can't see them coming, and you can't get them out. Can you know who's right there? No, I ain't touching them. Yeah.

And my brother's rather anti-earned. Slavic things. I've said some nice things about some Muslim families that have helped me over the years. And he's like, well, they're all liars. I should have said, well, Christians are too.

They've been saying Jesus is coming for 2,000 years and he hasn't gotten the sight yet. But I figured at that point, he would have just walked off the lefty in Muncie. so I didn't but Roxanne I am so proud

of of this regardless of what happens you're always there and I am grateful for that as am I and I hope to do this again in 50 years I'll be 111 but

Yeah, if you ask after me then, you may find me a most grave lady, as Shakespeare said, slightly different. Really? No longer talking but silent in the grave? Yeah. Well, isn't that what Mercutia said, ask after me on the morrow and you shall find me a most grave fellow? Yeah. I just changed the gender. But, no, I confess, I had no stomach for any of the theatrics on Saturday.

It was a disaster, and one of the funniest things, you know, Nitwit Niro is so, so, so obsessed with crowd size. Oh, my God, I wonder if he saw the crowd size in Tehran for Ayatollah Khomeini, funeral. Good Lord. It was huge. It outstripped the rednecks and maggots

who went to the Great American State Fair by orders of astronomical magnitude. Good. And of course, people had to be hesitant. People had to be,

I mean, the weather was horrid. On top of being blazing hot, people had to be exited from the premise, premises, try to find somewhere to wait out the storms because they were epic. Shit didn't start until 11, 12. I caught like, ah, probably three minutes of the fireworks.

I just happened to tune in, and dear God, the multimillionaire for-profit media got on their knees and absolutely slurped nitwit Nero's fucking boots. It was just disgusting. But I just, just as the guy. They were probably using Trump brand. They were probably using Trump branded condoms when they did it right then. Well, what, I mean, I guess, I hope.

But the goddess of irony arranged things just so that I would tune in just as some of the fireworks were going off. to a rendition of that song originally recorded by Toby Keith, in which he sings joyfully about, And we'll put a boot in your ass, you brown people. Brought to you by the USA. We're going to bomb your babies and murder your grandmas, courtesy of the US of A. It was sickening.

Of course, Toby's all dead now. So it was performed by some other, it was performed by some other, Chud. Maybe, maybe, I don't know. I can't, I can't keep up with these maggot country music chuds. I, was it the guy who sang, I just want to kiss, my fish? Was it that guy? I don't know. Uh, these sister kissers all the same thing with me, right?

and they, they will worship their Lord and pure just as as let's just they can. I mean, Bob was like,

well, what about Biden? What about this? Can you prove that? And you know they're losing the argument when they call that shit. Oh, sure. I mean, and look, let's,

you know, I don't make it a point to lecture the progressive side of, no, but I do get weary of seeing progressive-oriented people saying, well, Biden was just as fucked up as Trump is. Were you paying attention or were you 10? Biden had a stutter. This man has frontotemporal dementia. He has congenital. He has congenital. congestive heart failure, he has ballooned like a star getting ready to go to collapse in on itself. I mean, he snoozed during his own fireworks extravaganza.

And I believe that if he's alive when he's scheduled to leave office, he'll be older than Biden was when he left office. Yes. But Biden was too old. And again, and again, today's W's birthday. W. It is 80 today.

W. W. is actually, uh, not quite a month younger. He's about three weeks younger than nitwit Nero. There's no comparison. Far be it from me to pray. But he can still speak in complete services.

Yeah, far be it from me to praise him. but he's at least cogently among the quick. I mean, he was having a grand old time at Barack Obama's presidential center dedication. I thought that was cool. I thought that was really, really cool.

I think the opening of President Obama's Center was absolutely cool. And the fact that the living former presidents were all there.

And big and what... And that the barely alive present one wasn't? Well, not only that, Roxanne, but they never even mentioned

Trump by name. No. And that's got to call him. I mean, that absolutely has to unravel nor if you're not praising me. I did it. I didn't mention the fact that it went near demolished a historical place

without so much of the body relief of anybody who is supposed to watch over that, but they're not doing anything about it, and they won't until he's dead. I like that the federal courts told him, you've got to take your name off the Kennedy Center because the Kennedy Center is a memorial to an assassinated president and you know why he's tying himself

to these things like the Kennedy Center or Arns and National Cemetery which I think is trying to attach himself to that is an abomination on the old decency because he refused to serve in Vietnam. He refused to put himself at risk. Meanwhile, he was playing football in college.

And then... Wait, wait, wait. He was playing... Wait, Trump was playing football in college? Yes, ma'am. Huh? Yeah. He played college football.

I don't know how good he was, or how often he got... on the field, but he made the team. Well, it's Penn. Their Ivy League, if you've got a pulse. And he couldn't go because of bones first, but he was just fine to play football. And during the fireworks, they ended it with the Star-Spangled Banner, the National Anthem playing.

I told Bobbitt, so you know, the irony is that the tune is an English drinking song and the because you have the poem is great. I'm like, the parts of the poem you know come from the national anthem. The rest of that poem is not a problem. Very. And by the way, I just checked in because it just made me want to eat dirt and run rabbits. No, Donald Trump did not play football in college. He played varsity football for one year at the high school level

while attending New York Military Academy. Okay. Where he was a, wait for it, tight end. Well, I thought he was a wide receiver. He played tennis and squash at Fordham, and then his daddy got him into Wharton. Well, my point is, this is the guy who was fairly out of flesh. in his younger days, but he suddenly got bone spurs?

Well, yeah, I mean, I guess he got the bones spurs from playing high school football. What? Yeah, right. Yeah. These all-national nightmares just to get in the Lerickson. 45 men and served in the office of the presidency, or I should say, 44. and then Donald Trump, because we're not sure if he's man or the blind. The maggots all think he's divine.

So I go with the 45. Well, I just got to really, I just got to really, you remember Joey and Giraffrey and Joey, too, the kangaroo. Right. I'm wondering how they... Well, I just got an incredibly disturbing note from Joey. Welcome to Merca. Joey writes, so last night about 9.30 at my home in Ohio,

I'm sitting in my house, reading a book in my living room, which is in the front of the house facing the street, when all of a sudden I heard an automatic rifle firing. It was so loud that I thought, somebody was shooting at my house. I yelled for my wife to get the dog and get down, someone shooting up the neighborhood. My wife just laughed and said, those are just fireworks. I screamed at her again and told her to get the dog and take cover. Then just moments later, all of a sudden, literally dozens of police and emergency vehicles began arriving with lights on and sirens blaring,

including two helicopters and two drones. Swat parked its bulletproof bobcat right in front of our driveway. Moments later, a friend of my wife, a friend my wife works with called her and explained what was happening as she had a police scanner. She said that the house at the end of our street had a hostage situation and three cops were shot and one who later died was in critical condition. We live in an upper middle class bucolic neighborhood. I walk my dog past that house every day in the morning, but not this morning as the entire area was yellow. taped off police line. Do not cross. At 1.30 in the morning, two sheriffs came knocking at my door, asking if everything was all right. I told the sheriffs in no uncertain terms, you're fucking knocking at my door. 13 in the morning and wondering if everything's okay. No, everything's not okay. We have more guns than we do people in this country, and we have a current president who recently passed legislation to allow mentally ill people to have weapons of war. And now we have a dead cop here in this neighborhood. I continued, most of you cops vote Republican, all the while in the neighborhood.

like this get shot up. Maybe someday soon they'll start to figure out that Republicans don't care about you or communities like this. They and I abruptly said, good night and shut the door. Good night to you, sir. Oh, God, silly. That's horrifying. And I understand his

set of it because of all the gunfire that's been going on around the motel. The cops aren't going to care until one of their own get killed, and then they're only going to care long enough to bury the box. Although you'll be glad to know that my maggot brother did laugh when I made a joke about gun bunnies in this country. And I, you know, the gravy seals, and he started laughing. I didn't tell them that the elite of the elite. The meat of the gravy seals were known as Neil Tyn Six.

but I did give attribution to the Joe, Crosan. So we'll be glad to know that Ambagos has officially laughed at our comedy here. Oh, well, good. I always like to give me a giggle. So that did make my day. Okay, so I got to ask you, because we have to talk about this at one. because it's a big story of the day. You know, I have never been a big fan of soccer, aham, football.

But I decided that I would actually, and it has nothing to do with the United States and everything to do with time zones. I'm not enough of a fan to be sitting up at 3 o'clock in the morning like the English were last night. But I decided I'd try to pay attention, try to learn the game a little bit, see if I could. Because for most of my life, it just looked like organized chaos. But, well, thanks to Ted Lassau, I developed somewhat of an interest. I understand a little bit of the vocabulary. Like Ted Lassau, I'm still trying to sort out what Offsides means. But I decided to watch some.

And it's turned out to be some exciting sports entertainment. And then, of course, because everything Trump touches dies, he ruined it. He just had to go and ruin it. I don't know if you're aware of this, but back in the match that the U.S. played with Bosnia-Herzegovina, one of our players, one of the U.S. men's national team players, our striker incurred a red card, which means, well, I love that old, old Monty Python bit, philosopher football.

The referee in that is Confucius, and it's the Greeks versus the Germans, I think, or the Greeks versus the English and Germans. And because they were brilliant, you know, there are these, nothing happens on the pitch because they're philosophizing. And I forget, I think it's one of the, it may be Hagel, perhaps, or whatever, commits a foul. And there's a line where the announcer says, Hagle argues and it's some long philosophical proposition

and the next line is Confucius say name go in book which I find hilarious But anyway One of our players Got a red card Balogun I think is his name He was born in Brooklyn I've heard the story

Yeah he was born in Brooklyn to parents who then to Nigerian parents who raised him in London, which qualifies him as a citizen of the United States. So he gets to play. At the first right, because his mother wasn't allowed to fly because she was seven months pregnant. They were afraid it would harm her and the baby.

So the doctors wouldn't let her fly. So, you know, so he gets a red card on a, a high spike collision and that meant he had to sit down and according to the rules of FIFA he had to sit down for the next game too

which would be this evening versus Belgium well whiny ass maggots for the most part maggots have spent the entire weekend pissing and moaning that well that wasn't a real foul yeah but it was a foul it was a foul

that was called it was a red card that was issued on the There was video review of it, and it all happened within the four corners of FIFA's goddamn rules, which say there can be no appeal. Well, yesterday, nitwit Nero started pissing and moaning, and so he reached out and strong-armed Johnny Infantino, the head of FIFA, the same dumbass, who gave, who gave Nitwit Niro the first ever FIFA Peace Prize, you might recall, and then Nitwit Niro attacked Iran. We treated the Iranian team like shit. We treated the Iranian team in a way, in a fashion that the Iranians never would have treated us in a similar situation

if they were hosting the World Cup, because among other things, Islamic law says you welcome the stranger, even if you don't like them. But anyway, anyway. So he called and intervened, and FIFA cited a nebulous thing called Rule 27. That's some catch that catch 27. And said, oh, no, he gets to play against Belgium. We're waving off the red card. We'll deal with it later.

And what struck me as, fought with problems is the Belgian team had a right to weigh in because they're the ones going to be affected by it. Right. They spent the, there's five days between matches, and they spent the intervening time developing a game strategy for a game without him in it. Because it changes things. And so NetWitt Niro, of course, earlier today, decided to unburden himself of his opinion on the matter when he should have had no opinion whatsoever, and none of it is still valid. Let's check in MS now with Vaughn Hilliard. Here we go. President Trump has once again angered Europe, along with anyone.

else who was hoping the World Cup might be a brief respite from anything Trump related. No such luck here. Because this weekend, the president personally called up the head of FIFA to complain about the suspension of star U.S. player Flo Balligan. After that call, in an extremely rare move, FIFA nullified the suspension. So Balligan will play against Belgium tonight, which is great. But this morning, Trump was also happy to take credit for it. And on behalf of all Americans, thank you for getting rid of that ridiculous red card.

So I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete. And I understand sports really well, really well. Very big brain. And that wasn't a foul. Yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man who's highly respected. Not anymore. The top European soccer body says the move crossed a red line,

but it's fully in line with Trump's view of the world as a series of personal favors. And FIFA President Johnny Infantino knows how to play along. Of course, it's the same man who presented Trump with the newly invented FIFA Peace Prize just a few weeks before Trump started a war and lost out on the actual Nobel Peace Prize. I want to discuss with MS now senior White House reporter Von Hilliard and Miles Taylor still with us. Vaughn, the president basically gave us a readout of this phone call. But talk a little bit about what actually happened here, because I think for those of us who are just watching the World Cup,

enjoying the fact that the American team is actually great this year. The red card itself did seem overblown, but then you add even more controversy to the mix with the president calling up Infantino and saying, hey, can we take a look at this? Right. We should be very clear. It is widespread opinion that the red card should not have been handed out in the first place. But what has happened here is something that hasn't happened since 1962.

That was the last time a red card was issued during a World Cup, and ultimately a player didn't have to serve a suspension here. That is why the players and the dynamics of this are also important, because you have the president of the United States, openly admitting that he put in a direct phone call to Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, and said that he wanted a review of the decision to hand out that red car and suspend him. But what is so problematic here is the fact that last week during that match, you have Howard Lutnik, the Commerce Secretary, sitting next to Infantino. Andrew Giuliani, he is the head of the FIFA World Cup task force for the White House. He is also engaged on this matter here. And that is what led to ultimately the Belgium Football Association being very clearly stated in their statement saying that it did not receive any explanation for this decision and that they have concerns over the fundamental principles of ethics, fair competition, and interests of football as a whole because of the decision to let Flo Balligan play tonight.

The European Football Association, Alley, said that this is unpleased. precedent, incomprehensible, and unjustifiable decision. But just in the last few minutes, we have for the first time an on-the-record statement from Infantino, the head of FIFA himself, writing in part, yes, I regularly discuss matters related to the FIFA World Cup with the President of the United States. During our conversation, I explained that there was an ongoing legal process involving FIFA's independent judicial bodies and that the case would be decided in due course by the competent bodies. That is how FIFA system works. And it is a principle that I will always uphold. I've been told by a U.S. official that the U.S. government provided, quote,

additional evidence to FIFA's disciplinary committee. Exactly what that evidence is not clear. But it was suggested to me that the government and President Trump took issue with the use of slow motion replay, the VAR system, to analyze the ultimate red card that was handed out there by the referee on the field. We should be clear that FIFA's rules do not expressly stipulate that they cannot use slow motion replay, but in general should not in order to determine the intensity of whether a yellow or red card should be handed out. But even more so, I think the president made one very head-spinning comment for all the soccer fans around the world. And that was the fact that he didn't even know what a red card was before last week's U.S. matchup. Take a listen to more of what the president said in the Oval.

I spoke to Johnny, who's highly respected, who's produced the most successful World Cup in history by, they say, four times. He gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it meant much. Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game. All I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul. I related just that field. I didn't tell him what to do. I can't tell him what to do. And I don't believe he made the decision. I think it was a committee that made the decision. And they made the right decision. And so the Belgian Football Association has appealed this decision here by FIFA.

We're about six hours away from kickoff here in this matchup tonight, Alley. And the question is, will FIFA, which has not expressly articulated why they reverse their decision in the first place to keep Balligan on the field tonight, whether they will take up that appeal from Belgium and reverse course? This is a not just a sports match. And we have the answer to that question now. because FIFA did in fact consider Belgium's appeal and said

oh fuck off yeah nitwit and arrow blathering Dave about how well I didn't tell him what I wanted him to do no he's a wannabe mob boss you know a nice little football association

you got there, it'd be a shame of something happened to it. And FIFA has done what FIFA has historically done. They've let the beak of any pin pot dictator that they've had to deal with. And I'd say this with as much glowing respect as such a corrupt organization deserves, they rented office space in one of the Trump properties. I wouldn't be surprised. Prior to a World Cup... But the thing is, he is such an ineptly corrupt little punk ass.

I didn't even know what a red card was. But I looked at it, and it didn't seem to be a foul to me. Well, you don't even... What I do like about this World Cup, though, Runchand, there are countries that have come here who embraced their time here, dealt with actual human beings. My favorite story

are the Scots who sort of took over Boston. And drank it dry. And one common which is an accomplishment in and of itself. Or the Aussies marching through the streets chanting Aussie boys are on a benda, Donald Trump is a sex offender. That was

good. Yeah. I mean... But there's a larger problem here now. No, there's a bigger problem Dave. To wit, Mary Oly Engeland because well, one of their

boys last night. Okay, you're an old baseball. You're a baseball fan. You know some baseball history. I was about to say you're an old baseball fan, but you're not old. You understand. So when I mentioned the fact that Ty Cobb was one of the dirtiest players in all of the early years of baseball, you probably know what I mean.

Ty Cobb would sit with a file in the dugout sharpening his baseball. spikes. Ty Cobb was notorious for trying to break up double plays by going in spikes high with spikes that were like razor blades and cutting the living shit out of the shortstop or the second baseman in order

to break up a double play. Right. He wasn't about cheating. Well, the football boots in the professional game. They have cleats. They have spikes. They're not like track spikes or old baseball spikes, but they're cleats and they can be damaging. And this English dude goes in looking nothing so for all the world so much like Ty Cobb trying to break up a double play. And the ref saw it. The ref saw, you know, and he, you know, he caught the guy in the leg.

And the ref saw it and it's like, nah, you're fucking out of here, dude. Red carded him and he walked off and he, and he doesn't get to play tomorrow against Norway. And Erling Holland. So that ain't good. But does this now mean that King Chuckles over there in Buckingham Palace can pick up the phone and call? John Infantino and say

I say that I do I do think I don't think that was a foul and you know

unlike my dear dear friend Donald I actually do know the rules of the game

and that clearly wasn't worthy of a red card now do you think and I suspect the answer

to that Dave is no they'll take it like men yeah the ruling is made

we'll deal with That's a loaded statement. No, the rules are what the rules are. You know, there are rules, Donnie. This is not Vietnam. And they're English. They'll sell their own, despite the loss of one of their teammates for the game. And they'll play Norway that way.

And frankly, I hope Ehrlich Holland scores 1915. fucking goals against them. Just because I'm rooting for Norway. How can you not? Right. But we're facing Belgium, and I don't have any problem saying, but I hope Belgium stomps the living shit out of us. I mean, it humiliates us,

blanks us, shuts us out, four, five, six to nothing. That would please me greatly. because it would be the goddess of irony dispensing justice in a way that the goddess of irony only can let the dude play and let him get his ass handed to him

Rodchin you don't hear this kind of bullshit out of the women's team no but the voice let's be protected because they're delicate snowflake little flowers and the irony

of it is, is the guy that Donald Trump is praising the high heaven is the son of Nigerian immigrants who were living in England. Yeah. And we're visiting the United States when she was pregnant. Hold up, hold up, Dave, because, you know, this story has yet to fully play out. If the United States loses, expect nitwit Niro to start. start screaming that his parents were here for birth tourism because that's their thing now. Oh, there's a horde of Chinese communists coming here, not eight and a half months pregnant, to have their babies, so they'll be American citizens.

So if he doesn't, if Balagoon doesn't, uh, uh, it doesn't perform victoriously, you can, you can bet your ass that, I'm pretty sure Nitwit Nero by now has figured out that he's black. I called in a chip for that. Well, you know, fascist movements always are contradictory. Always. I don't care what country they crop up in. They're always contradictory.

We're here to protect women when they're only. go through committing horrible atrocities against women. And then you have, well, we're here to protect our culture, and they pick and choose what is culture. Oh, of course. Let us not forget that the Nazis gave us Santa, and they gave us the blow-up textbook doll. only one of which had a medical purpose,

and that was to keep the rates of gonorrhea and other social diseases down so their armies can fight. They also made great use of methamphetamine. So when it comes to citing their superpowers, I always look with a bitter suspicion and their leaders are never the top quality you've got a Lance Corpull born in Austria who claims to be German

you have an Italian who hated the sight of blood you had you have a leader Oh, no. Lost Dave.

I hate it when that happens. But back to the baseball analogy, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, racist baseball players would come in with high spikes for him.

It's just dirty. And so, if you, if you hold the U.S. men's national, the U.S. men's national team, blameless in this and say that the entire kerfuffle was created by assholes who really don't even understand the sport that much.

I mean, we're talking about the United States anyway. Although where sports is concerned, it's always been one of those things that's kind of depressing to me that the American, mainly American men can argue the finer. points of sport but at the same time just swallow whole political lies. I don't have a dog in the hunt as to whether the card

should have been issued but it was and those are the rules. That's all. And they kind of have to overturn every red card that's been issued to any

team that's getting ready to play in this round. They've more or less made it clear that red cards have no impact, at least not if they're offered to, if they're shown to Americans, right? U.S. Americans. These games have been hotly contested, but nonetheless, the USMNT is damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they win this game, it'll have an asterisk with it. and a sad orange face with a tear drop coming from it emoji. If they lose this game, it'll be, well, their concentration was broken by all of the dramas surrounding the red card that should never been issued.

Shut up, you babies? Yeah. So, unpaid product placement, the whole thing goes down at 8 p.m. this evening. They're playing in Los Angeles. uh... from jeremy damn it give davy a cowbell for oh i thought he was a wide receiver that shit's funny better late than never

Dave i don't i guess your phone died i'm sorry i hope everything's okay and by the way um lees his best wishes to joey and family and friends we care about the people and the animals hoping for better messages from the joey contingent of the horn community Yeah, Lee, definitely. And as to the red card, Lee says, I do not understand football soccer. I imagine his argument, red card is communist, we're a beautiful democracy, red cards are never allowed here, we must keep red cards out, it's an attempt to overthrow our government.

I'm an expert at all sports. Go San Antonio Bonespurs. And Jude notes, Giraffrey and the others, hearing of what occurred at the horns whimsically and finally focused, writer Terror was at his home. Aligning with you and yours, Joey. Thank you, Jude. That's awfully sweet. Yours is a wonderful soul. Kevin says World Cup. I've been watching and really following the matches, no politics. Fans for most part getting along.

I'm sure the local vendors and on the ground workers are going beyond trying to make our visitors enjoy their business. brief stays that you know when the United States isn't tormenting them see Iran but news of Trump interfering has me wondering do I even want to watch our match against Belgium the teams played so well and I'm not

surprised Trump didn't know what a red card was uh George and Corskulled west coast wherever venues in Seattle I'm thinking maybe it is I thought I heard Los Angeles oh well west coast wherever Los Angeles, Seattle, I mean, it's the same same.

No, not at all. What else? Jeremy added about a star collapsing in on itself to create a black hole. The most dangerous black hole lives at 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He consumes and destroys everything in his orbit. Yet just like this World Cup, everything he touches, dies. and from Routes Toby Keith's patriotic message celebrated on the 4th of July

yeah God via parade magazine he never apologized for being patriotic yeah but that's not patriotism to write a song talking about putting a boot in brown people's asses or murdering I mean I wonder how Toby Keith would have felt about the 200 Iranian girls

who were black it into a red mist because nitwit, Niro wanted to feel like a big man. Oh, and I think I saw this after the program closed on Friday. This is just the damnedest thing. When he cut the ribbon at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Madora, North Dakota, you know, they were taking pictures and everything. He was alongside former North Dakota governor and current interior. secretary Doug Bergum.

After he cut the ribbon, you know, the scissors were colored gold. And in the video, you can see him stopped for a minute and examine the scissors. And then just quietly slipped them into his pocket. Well, this led to a woman named Hillary Shea. she's a pathologist

working in neurological rehabilitation and she said because kleptomania jokes immediately broke out and she said no that's not that it seems like Donald Trump has become a little bit of a kleptomaniac recently

but quite honestly it actually looks more like a sign of dementia so in the book regime change Maggie Haberman and Johnson Swan have talked about the fact that Donald Trump would take things from the hallways and put them in his room. He would go in and take things from Melania's room and put them in his room. And they made it sound like it was a competition. But quite honestly, I'm not sure that's what it was. And then there's this clip of him taking scissors from the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Theater Roosevelt Presidential Library. When you watch Trump here in North Dakota, he admires these gold scissors.

then he walks over here, and then he tries to put it in his jacket in two places, but doesn't because he's afraid it's going to stab him. And then he goes and steals them. So let's talk a little bit about why this kleptomania is probably not what it looks like. Some people with dementia do develop behaviors that look like kleptomania, but in most cases, they're actually not in the psychiatric sense of the word. Instead, the stealing is usually a symptom of changes in the brain affecting memory, judgment, impulse control, or the ability to recognize ownership. Within the memory impairment, this person may genuinely believe that an item belongs to them or may forget that they already own something similar. And so they think that it's theirs and they

put something in their own pocket or purse just with the intention of taking it, thinking that it's theirs. There's executive dysfunction, damage to the frontal lobes can impair planning and judgment and inhibition, and that can make it harder to resist an impulse or recognize that an action is inappropriate, like pocketing a pair of scissors on a live broadcast. There can also be a difficulty with understanding ownership, not just from a memory sense, so not the I think it's mine, but sometimes just the concept of what is mine versus someone else's can become blurred. There is no real ownership at some point. There's also paranoia and delusions that can happen. Sometimes patients with dementia believe that others are stealing from them.

There also could be environmental confusion. So sometimes if you took someone with dementia out to a store, they might not understand that there are social rules surrounding like, hey, you've got to actually purchase that item. You can't just take it. Now, what are dementias that are most commonly associated with this? One of them is behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. because this condition causes loss of inhibition, causes impulsivity, compulsive behaviors,

and poor judgment, someone with frontotemporal dementia may really become this stereotype of a kleptomaniac. It is also common with Alzheimer's disease, more commonly because of the memory issues that happen within Alzheimer's disease. And sometimes Louis-Body dementia, especially when there are visual hallucinations and delusions can contribute to the this kind of kleptomania. So I do not think that Donald Trump is actually, psychiatrically speaking, suffering from kleptomania. I do believe it is just one more sign and symptom of dementia. And as always, Donald Trump has got to go.

You know, there are more and more of these professionals who deal with elderly folks suffering from things like frontotemporal disdemeanoral dementia and various other maladies. And they're all saying the same thing now. He's got it. There's no way around it. And from the brother deacon, I completely disagree with your U.S. Belgium game sentiment.

The U.S. should whip Belgium's ass and make it to the finals just to be humiliated by Vive le France. well you're there's a lot of there's a lot of uh assumptions in that one of which is that France makes it all the way they have to play Morocco and then they'll probably play Spain because Spain will play the winner of USA and Belgium we are not going to make it no it'll be a miracle if we make it out of this round And no, not past Spain. I don't know.

I think Norway's got a chance. They get past England, and they play probably the winner of Argentina versus Colombia, because I'm counting on Argentina to beat Egypt and Switzerland to lose to Colombia, the spies. It's been fun to watch. and I of course have my own biases regarding Belgium it was it was in

Belgium 14 years ago where I got mugged and let's see lost an iPad well never mind doesn't matter that was the little asshole who skipped away

and and the and the Belgian police weren't, well, they were about as useful as teats on a boar hog, but I'm not holding it against them.

And it'll be sweeter if Belcham wins this evening because they'll say, hey, you had to cheat, and you still lost. Aw, too bad. I hate rooting against my own country, but well, They earned it. And then there's what happened with nitwit Niro's speechifying on the 4th of July.

He said, and this is a quote, oh wait, since we're back to the football stuff. Daryl in Houston says, if the USMNT had any integrity, they would not play Balagun and would make a public statement that although they did not agree with the play, that the play deserved a red card. Nevertheless, the red card was issued, and they would stand by the clear rules of FIFA. That's exactly what should happen, Daryl, because otherwise the thing is tainted.

Forever. Asterisk. Because even in this story, people are going back to what? Brazil in 1962, when the Chilean government leaned on FIFA to withdraw a red card, For a Brazilian player, because of the draw to the stadium, that wasn't Portugal, Jeremy.

The match between France and Portugal, Jeremy says, almost turned into a WWE match with all the tackles and shoves damn near fistfight drama. Yeah, it got a little heated. But that was, again, not Portugal. that was Paraguay Paraguay yeah they didn't take it well but that's the thing you know

FIFA has basically and again I pointed this out it's worth remembering nitwit Nero did not get his start in television with the apprentice he got his start with Rasslin

Rasselin where, well, Rasselin is Calvin Ball. And this has been turned into Calvin Ball. And so now, you know, in Rasselin, they make up the rules as they go along. They're predetermined outcomes. Everything is dodgy.

It's sports entertainment, which means that, you know, preordained outcomes and whatnot. Uh-oh. Thank you.