Speaker 1: You're doing me right to another complimentary and hey, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing. Welcome to Hot Mike's here in Maine,
Speaker 1: on an island in Maine. It tis I the bushman
Speaker 1: suffering from a terrible soccer to loss last night. We're
Speaker 1: all the biggest soccer fans in the world right now,
Speaker 1: aren't we, And experts too. Oh my god. The arguing
Speaker 1: over calls, It's unbelievable. USA, Belgium. We went through so
Speaker 1: much to have a complete team on the field. The president,
Speaker 1: you know, on the phone, calling Gianni Infantino, the head
Speaker 1: of FIFA, getting him to reverse the decision to give
Speaker 1: a red card. The fuller and Balligan he comes back,
Speaker 1: he plays, We're at full strength. Yeh. I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure it was worth it. I mean we got banked.
Speaker 1: We got spanked like little boys who've been bad paddled
Speaker 1: by Belgium's There's twelve million people that live in Belgium,
Speaker 1: less than New York and they just jacked us. So
Speaker 1: our guys were awful. I think Belgium had an ax
Speaker 1: to grind right. They were pissed about this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Remember their coach, Rudy Garcia spoke out and he was
Speaker 1: like this is an outrage, and they tried to appeal
Speaker 1: the decision and get another reversal back, so Baligan couldn't play,
Speaker 1: and it was going back and forth, and then you
Speaker 1: know they're complaining that they prepared up till twenty four
Speaker 1: hours before the match to play without Ballagan and who
Speaker 1: they might put in, and so then they had to
Speaker 1: change their preparation. Well, the USA had to change theirs too,
Speaker 1: because I didn't know our guy was in there, so
Speaker 1: they might have changed formations whatever. Anyway, Rudy Garcia, you know,
Speaker 1: was pissed. FIFA President Gianni Infantino was sitting there with
Speaker 1: his head blowed. But the worst is, you know, the
Speaker 1: masterclass in spanking the United States of America. One of
Speaker 1: the Belgium guys posted I think that the team posted
Speaker 1: on their official account overturned this. It was a four
Speaker 1: to one romping and I'm afraid like vindication felt all
Speaker 1: around the soccer world. Right. How about the Belgium team
Speaker 1: doing doing the Trump dance. I mean they're just yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, frozen there, Okay, they're doing the you know,
Speaker 1: the Trump dance, which I got a hand it to
Speaker 1: him is very funny. Uh, Harry, take it down and
Speaker 1: stop forcing it. It's okay, Bud Trump. He's like the cooler.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he can't see. He's the guy
Speaker 1: that showed up to Knicks Game four and they lost
Speaker 1: the Great American State Fair. Nobody there America two point fifty.
Speaker 1: The crowd size for the fireworks not good. The cooler
Speaker 1: holy shit. But isn't the greater sinner Gianni Infantino of FIFA, right?
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's like allegedly laundering official FIFA tickets
Speaker 1: through secondary sites and pocketing the cash. He's a Trump's ass,
Speaker 1: and you know, giving him the FIFA Peace Prize whatever
Speaker 1: the hell that is. You know, these are two guys
Speaker 1: for whom public service comes with fees, right. I think
Speaker 1: it was. I saw a meme that was like, you're
Speaker 1: trying to out corrupt a real estate developer from New York, Johnny,
Speaker 1: you have met your match. Oh my god. But the
Speaker 1: game itself so sad. I mean, like our defense was horrible.
Speaker 1: They couldn't cover any crosses. The crosses would come. Even
Speaker 1: when there was three defenders and one the littlest guy
Speaker 1: on the team, he finds his way over the top
Speaker 1: of them for a header into the net, the passing lanes.
Speaker 1: I felt this was like a man. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: how good Belgium, you know, is in soccer. But they
Speaker 1: shut down every lane like they were always in position
Speaker 1: to take away a pass, and the turnovers were out,
Speaker 1: I mean just a dozens. They just kept taking the
Speaker 1: ball from us like candy from a baby. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Who watched the game last night? Oh my god, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we forgot to show up through the game, says Jenny
Speaker 1: Jenny Lulu, we love you here in Maine. You're in Maine,
Speaker 1: aren't you, my love? So you're probably checking out the
Speaker 1: Grand Platiner News this morning as I was woke up
Speaker 1: to the Jake Tapper interview. We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: just a second. Yeah, they felt like, just like terrible
Speaker 1: rich Oh, English Dick is taking a shot here at
Speaker 1: the Trumpster Trump and embarrassment for your country. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, given the result, it would have been maybe
Speaker 1: better that he didn't. But look, I think the original
Speaker 1: sin Richard is what a terrible call. How in the
Speaker 1: world is it possible to make a call like that
Speaker 1: where you give a red card to someone for endangering
Speaker 1: another person's life and send them out in a major
Speaker 1: high stakes this only happens once every four years. Your
Speaker 1: best player can't miss a game unless it's really egregious.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't even called as a foul on the field,
Speaker 1: so it couldn't have been too egregious. And then Raphael Klaus,
Speaker 1: the referee, goes over and watches it with var video
Speaker 1: assisted referee and he watches it obviously in slow motion,
Speaker 1: where everything looks more dramatic and horrible, and so he
Speaker 1: then decides to not only call a foul but give
Speaker 1: a red card. That is a bogus system. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how you can operate like that, especially in an
Speaker 1: event that's every four years. There's just too much consequence,
Speaker 1: there's too much training involved. You better be absolutely sure
Speaker 1: of something. Dienne makes a good point. We have become
Speaker 1: the laughing stock to many. Here's the question does it
Speaker 1: does this experience? I was worried when the game began
Speaker 1: that I just didn't want the global communities experience in
Speaker 1: America to be tainted by this. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They're having the time of their lives in the bars
Speaker 1: of Boston and the you know, barbecue stands in Dallas
Speaker 1: they're in Kansas City. They're having the best time, and
Speaker 1: the videos are amazing, and the waffle house and the
Speaker 1: Land of the Free Song and the Sweet Caroline and
Speaker 1: Country Road and all these great, great moments. I didn't
Speaker 1: want any of that to be like that to me
Speaker 1: is the triumph of the World Cup. We still are
Speaker 1: way behind the rest of the world in soccer. Okay,
Speaker 1: the fact that we made it to sixteen, I think
Speaker 1: that ties our best effort. That's okay, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do. By the way, our best
Speaker 1: athletes have a lot of sports to choose from. Okay,
Speaker 1: some play baseball, some play hockey, some play basketball, football, whatever.
Speaker 1: The rest of the world has one sport that you know,
Speaker 1: there's the National Pride and they're training their people for
Speaker 1: So okay, should we make more of an effort in soccer, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'd like to. This is more fun competing on the
Speaker 1: world stage than anything else. I've enjoyed it in a
Speaker 1: huge way, and I was worried that this would, you know,
Speaker 1: dampen people's experience. I don't think that's the case. I
Speaker 1: think people were pissed at Trump and they were like,
Speaker 1: just stay out of it, dude, why do you have
Speaker 1: to be involved in absolutely everything? Personally, I was happy
Speaker 1: that he made it. My own personal opinion is I
Speaker 1: was I'm glad he called that guy and said, what
Speaker 1: the what kind of shit call is that it was corrected?
Speaker 1: If you can if something's an outright And every former
Speaker 1: referee that ever you know, refed any games in the
Speaker 1: World Cup, and all former coaches got together and said,
Speaker 1: this is a shit show. This is terrible. It was
Speaker 1: an why wouldn't you overturn something that's evidentiary? But again
Speaker 1: it's just you know, most people, the prevailing thought for
Speaker 1: them was stay out of it. Why do you have
Speaker 1: to be involved in everything? And I get that. I
Speaker 1: get that. Bib says the rules should apply at the
Speaker 1: same all the same to the teams and officials coming
Speaker 1: in and where they have to sleep. And I think
Speaker 1: you mean like for better or for worse understood. I
Speaker 1: got you on that one too, Jenny Lulu. It was
Speaker 1: a total shit call that should have been overturned regard wardless.
Speaker 1: I get that too. English Dick had a tremendous game
Speaker 1: England over Mexico. Wow, even with a man down. Bullshit, Billy,
Speaker 1: it's the rules that everyone else accepts them, except for
Speaker 1: when they overturned the red card for Rinaldo and the
Speaker 1: qualifier to get into the World Cup. So it's been
Speaker 1: done before, just not in the World Cup. English Dick,
Speaker 1: Am I correct? I believe I am correct? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just you know what is your boy? Peters Morgan? I
Speaker 1: have to say about it like this, Well, Karma did
Speaker 1: its thing with that game. I'm afraid, so I'm afraid
Speaker 1: so it came back to bite us. In fact, we
Speaker 1: just looked like we looked like a high school team
Speaker 1: out there. We just looked awful. England is on fire.
Speaker 1: Who's with me? I'm team Norway all the way. I
Speaker 1: love this guy, Earling Holland is the best. I love
Speaker 1: everybody going on. I love the wigs that people are wearing,
Speaker 1: all the blonde wigs all over the place. Nobody's having
Speaker 1: more fun than Norway. Last night I had all my
Speaker 1: old friends that I we're now in our fifties, but
Speaker 1: all these people I grew up with were over at
Speaker 1: my house last night. And it's embarrassing. But is it
Speaker 1: as embarrassing as my naked butt on the dock here
Speaker 1: in Maine? I think it's more embarrassing we did it, true,
Speaker 1: brou I don't true. True. A few cocktails deep on
Speaker 1: that one. There's my friend Nina in the front and Khaki,
Speaker 1: which is a great name, and Ben and Marnie in
Speaker 1: the back, and Jamie l My Carston and my friend
Speaker 1: Brew we were going to change it to Brew in
Speaker 1: his honor, and his son Jack next to me in
Speaker 1: the back. Middle there who's who's a young Marine? Love
Speaker 1: that guy? And uh, I mean, have you been doing
Speaker 1: this thing? It's so stupid, isn't it? But I mean
Speaker 1: they're ruined all over the world. It's pretty awesome. So
Speaker 1: I'm all in on Norway my team. So we got
Speaker 1: some drama here in Maine. As have you guys been
Speaker 1: paying attention here to the Graham Platner situation. Graham Platner
Speaker 1: running for the United States Senate seat against Susan Collins,
Speaker 1: who will be going for her sixth term in the Senate.
Speaker 1: She is, I believe, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee,
Speaker 1: which means she's a woman who has a lot of power,
Speaker 1: and for a state as small as Maine to have
Speaker 1: that kind of seat at the table is a pretty
Speaker 1: cool thing. But Graham Platner is according to vell Porter
Speaker 1: here he's finished. Yeah, I think so too. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any way he stays in this race. And
Speaker 1: for all this guy's problems, you know, being a drunk
Speaker 1: and violent person, allegedly an accused bigot, you know, a
Speaker 1: guy that's sent some very shady texts. It's interesting that
Speaker 1: people are glossing over the fact that he's a crazy
Speaker 1: ass socialist at the root of it all. But apparently
Speaker 1: who cares about that. We're going to focus on the
Speaker 1: other things. Three women who have dated Graham Platner have
Speaker 1: said he could be demeaning and physically threatening to women.
Speaker 1: His own wife said he was texting sexual messages with
Speaker 1: other women, so he's a bit of a horned dog.
Speaker 1: Jenny Rassicote is the woman that came forward on Monday yesterday.
Speaker 1: She said that Graham Platner when they were dating, they
Speaker 1: were kind of newly dating, that he entered her home
Speaker 1: without her permission. He and can I say, are the
Speaker 1: R word he are? I don't know if we can
Speaker 1: on YouTube, but he assaulted her in that way while
Speaker 1: he was heavily intoxicated, and it was nearly five years ago.
Speaker 1: They were in a casual dating relationship. Watching the interview
Speaker 1: with Jake Dabbery's a little weird about it, just the
Speaker 1: way he like, you know, he's allowed to say, you know,
Speaker 1: the R word on his TV, but the way he
Speaker 1: was it was awkward. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just want to find out more about you said
Speaker 2: he was he was forcing himself on you. It was
Speaker 2: getting violent. You were pushing him off, you were kicking
Speaker 2: him off, needles and sewing equipment was falling all over.
Speaker 2: And walk us through the process where you decided that
Speaker 2: the safest thing you could do was just.
Speaker 1: Let him. And then of course she said, yeah, he's big,
Speaker 1: he's strong. And what I did was I she said,
Speaker 1: I complied. I felt like he was drunk and too
Speaker 1: strong for me, and so the safest route for me
Speaker 1: was to comply and let it happen, which is so sad.
Speaker 1: And then she went on to say something very interesting,
Speaker 1: and that is shows you what a crazy political environment
Speaker 1: that we live in, you guys. I mean, she said, look,
Speaker 1: people in reaction to Tapper asking that there are people
Speaker 1: who will vote for him anyway, regardless of what he's
Speaker 1: done here, because this election is so important. What the
Speaker 1: seat right, the balance of power tipping the Senate towards
Speaker 1: the Democrats is so important that you know, people will
Speaker 1: put aside facts like this. I mean, you can make
Speaker 1: the argument they have on the other side of the aisle. Anyway,
Speaker 1: do we have that clip, Harry where she speaks coming
Speaker 1: to you from the coast of Maine. Not that way
Speaker 1: the woman the actual interviewee. She says basically, she says,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I have friends who feel that way.
Speaker 1: I have friends who feel like, I'm sorry, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how she remains friends with these people,
Speaker 1: but like, I'm sorry that you were sexually you were
Speaker 1: sayed by this guy, but like this election is too important,
Speaker 1: and she's like I She even says, I understand in
Speaker 1: our political environment if people feel like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just too much at stake. Since it was a few
Speaker 1: years ago, maybe he's changed and he's still a better candidate.
Speaker 1: And she said I'd vote for him as well if
Speaker 1: I didn't know, didn't have this personal experience. Yikes. As
Speaker 1: for Platner himself, he said, these allegations are troubling, They're
Speaker 1: serious and false. Any accusation of non consensual behavior is
Speaker 1: categorically untrue. But then he says this regardless of the
Speaker 1: inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality
Speaker 1: it will inflict. We are taking the time to reflect
Speaker 1: on the best path forward. What's odd is his potential
Speaker 1: co senator down the ninety five turnpike. Elizabeth Warren called
Speaker 1: for him to step aside. She said, step aside and
Speaker 1: address these allegations privately. Hannah Pingree, who lives a mile
Speaker 1: down the road for me on this island. She's the
Speaker 1: Democrat candidate for governor. And there's pictures of Hannah, you know,
Speaker 1: arm in arm with Graham Platner out on the trail.
Speaker 1: She reacted quickly, and she said, the allegations are deeply disturbing,
Speaker 1: and I believe Graham Platner should step aside as our
Speaker 1: party's nominee. The pod Save America. Guys, we are pretty liberal.
Speaker 1: They want him out. Don't think he should run. Roe Conna,
Speaker 1: powerful congressman from California, said Graham should be out. Planned
Speaker 1: parenthood not good when you're the Democrat running for the
Speaker 1: Senate seat, and planned Parenthood says they want you to
Speaker 1: step aside. So his support is caving. And this guy
Speaker 1: was like heralded. He was like the wild fun outsider
Speaker 1: everybody wanted. You know, he was the oyster oyster farmer,
Speaker 1: and like I said, he's pretty wild socialist. You know,
Speaker 1: he rants about genocide and you know he's dsa friendly
Speaker 1: and all this is. But there's no way I think
Speaker 1: he can continue on here. He's got until July thirteenth
Speaker 1: to withdraw from the race entirely. That would be Monday,
Speaker 1: So he has to make a decision. If he does,
Speaker 1: the Democrat Party has until July twenty seven, they've got
Speaker 1: two weeks to replace him on the ticket. He still
Speaker 1: thinks that he's got the leverage whether he's the candidate
Speaker 1: or not, to pick who that person is. You know,
Speaker 1: it just makes me wonder about the world we live in, Like,
Speaker 1: is this call for him to step down? Is this
Speaker 1: about morality? Is this about doing the right thing? Or
Speaker 1: is it about power? For example, like Elizabeth Warren, would
Speaker 1: you be saying if the polls were showing that he
Speaker 1: was fourteen percent up on Susan Collins And by the way,
Speaker 1: she's spending way more money than him. She has a
Speaker 1: pac money, which of course sets the Democrats socialists of
Speaker 1: the world on fire with anger that you know that
Speaker 1: Israel has funded about twenty percent of her campaign. Why
Speaker 1: you know, I mean without supporters in our Congress, Israel
Speaker 1: gets one step closer to what the the DSA followers
Speaker 1: and socialists of the world want, and that is a
Speaker 1: wiped out Israel joining our enemies. I mean, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: so what she takes money from APEC, but she's got
Speaker 1: a lot more and she spent a lot more. So
Speaker 1: is this about morality? Is this about doing the right thing?
Speaker 1: Or is it about data showing you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: so you might as well appear like you're seizing the
Speaker 1: moral high ground or you're doing the right thing. You know,
Speaker 1: in a situation like this, what did Donald Trump do?
Speaker 1: Everyone thought he was done the first time he ran.
Speaker 1: He doubled down and he won. So what about this guy?
Speaker 1: If he was accused of similar things, I think, different circumstances,
Speaker 1: but they were untoured allegations. Does Graham Platner double down?
Speaker 1: Can he win? I'm just seeing all these institutional people
Speaker 1: like Chuck Schumer and Kirsten gillibrand you know, two senators
Speaker 1: from New York and Planned parenthood. I see all these
Speaker 1: institutions people pulling away from this guy, and I say
Speaker 1: this isn't about ethics. This isn't about morality, This isn't
Speaker 1: about doing the right thing. This is about research that
Speaker 1: they have seen that says he can't win. I just
Speaker 1: think that's what it's always about. It seems I don't
Speaker 1: know where the people are who are running for the
Speaker 1: right reasons and running with some kind of personal ethos. Anyway,
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. I don't know this candidate, But
Speaker 1: we've seen men falsely accused, Billy, it's about the data, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, Yeah, we have seen we have seen
Speaker 1: men falsely accused. Sure, I just can't understand a person
Speaker 1: who would do that, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: who's that evil who gets together and says I'm going
Speaker 1: to make up an allegation that this person got super
Speaker 1: drug and forced themselves on me. By the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, it wasn't like a broke into the
Speaker 1: house the event and then left. I mean he slept over,
Speaker 1: he stayed there, and then the next morning she was like,
Speaker 1: do you know what you did? And he was like nah.
Speaker 1: Sounds to me like either a co problem or a
Speaker 1: bigger problem is that he's a total drunk and should
Speaker 1: probably be sober and maybe he is. Yeah, you're absolutely right, Billy,
Speaker 1: says Paula. It's all about the fact that he can't win.
Speaker 1: I think so too. I just really do. I think
Speaker 1: there's I think there's evidence saying no, someone in politics,
Speaker 1: this stuff goes flying around all the time, and it
Speaker 1: actually happens all the time. Yeah, it's amazing that. But
Speaker 1: there are people who are still like so political. They're
Speaker 1: in the fight and they want to and you know,
Speaker 1: they want them to stay in. So we'll see what happens. Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The morality and some type of code of ethics, you know,
Speaker 1: from our elected officials. It means something to me. The
Speaker 1: commercials that I'm seeing on the television here in Maine
Speaker 1: where I am there, and by the way, I mean
Speaker 1: last night USA versus Belgium it was Graham Platner versus
Speaker 1: Susan Collins. I mean every single commercial break was you know,
Speaker 1: attack ads against each other or support ads from each other.
Speaker 1: It was every single commercial break bar nun. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the attacks on Susan Collins was about all
Speaker 1: the money these senators and congress people have made, Like
Speaker 1: you know, you look at Nancy Pelosi. There's a report
Speaker 1: that says she came into office thirty some years ago,
Speaker 1: forty years ago, whatever it was, with a net worth
Speaker 1: of three million dollars, and she leaves with a net
Speaker 1: worth of two hundred and seventy five million dollars, with
Speaker 1: all that access to information and insider trading abilities, and
Speaker 1: that Congress is exempt from from the rules we all
Speaker 1: play by, you know. And Trump, of course, is a
Speaker 1: whole different story. But Susan Collins, one of the attack
Speaker 1: adds she's made a shit ton of money and they
Speaker 1: all are, but none like Trump. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: handover fist. The crypto business. We saw a report about
Speaker 1: one point four billion dollars made there, not for everyone else,
Speaker 1: though the investors all took a bath, like in mistakes
Speaker 1: in the Vodka and the Boy. This is about the fees.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a graph you can see right here.
Speaker 1: Look at that. This is the Trump crypto family gains
Speaker 1: versus investor losses. Look at this, it's exactly the same number,
Speaker 1: two point two nine billion dollars the Trump organization made
Speaker 1: in crypto so far. And then you look at the
Speaker 1: investors they've lost two point to eight billion dollars. How
Speaker 1: does that work. It's all about the fees. Whether you're
Speaker 1: selling or whether you're buying, there's a transaction fee built in,
Speaker 1: and all of that goes to the Trumps. So they
Speaker 1: make money on us when it's down. They make money
Speaker 1: when you're getting out, they make money when you're getting in.
Speaker 1: World Liberty Financial, their crypto biz, brought in more than
Speaker 1: five hundred and ninety four million, while cic Digital, another company,
Speaker 1: generated six hundred and thirty six million, mostly from the
Speaker 1: royalties tied to celebrity coins. So his the coins that
Speaker 1: he sells, he also people buy. He also reported almost
Speaker 1: two hundred million bucks from selling stable coin and more
Speaker 1: than five hundred million from World Liberty token sales as well.
Speaker 1: So it's all tokens, it's all crypto. It's all this
Speaker 1: great the traditional business. I mean, he's he's in heaven
Speaker 1: here because the traditional business made money, but nothing like
Speaker 1: the phony business. You know, seventy seven million from mar
Speaker 1: A Lago. That's pretty nice club, I guess, twenty five
Speaker 1: million from the golf club in Northern Virginia. All these things.
Speaker 1: The latest, though, is the tungsten mining in Kazakhstan. This
Speaker 1: is incredible. Remember, Hunter Biden was villified, villified for serving
Speaker 1: on the board of Barisma, a Ukraine energy company, for
Speaker 1: making three million dollars. What does this guy know about
Speaker 1: energy in Ukraine? Well, Eric and Don Junior are on
Speaker 1: the board of an investor group or part of an
Speaker 1: investor group that is benefiting from tungsten mining in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 1: The United States cut a deal with Kazakhstan to allow
Speaker 1: us to mine for tungsten, which all I know is
Speaker 1: that stuff that's on the front of my putter, to
Speaker 1: the great benefit of the US investor group, which includes
Speaker 1: Don Jr. And Eric. Again, Biden was excoriated for this,
Speaker 1: and maybe because he was such a doing it, maybe
Speaker 1: he did it meekly, maybe he didn't do it big enough.
Speaker 1: And then even in our we just had this big
Speaker 1: semi semi quincentennial two hundred and fiftieth celebration, which started
Speaker 1: out with a group called America two fifty. It was
Speaker 1: a bipartisan commission established in twenty sixteen to put on
Speaker 1: a bipartisan party for America. When Trump got back in,
Speaker 1: he took the power away from America two fifty and
Speaker 1: started Freedom two fifty, which was a different organization that
Speaker 1: ran through the National Park's Foundation, which is a charity.
Speaker 1: And if you put Freedom two fifty in a charity,
Speaker 1: then you can protect all the people, keep their identities private.
Speaker 1: You don't have to show who's giving the money for this,
Speaker 1: So all your donors and the amounts that they give
Speaker 1: are anonymous. And that's how we put on the show.
Speaker 1: And America two fifty went their allocation, which was one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars to begin with, went down
Speaker 1: to twenty five million dollars and the rest went to
Speaker 1: Freedom two fifty, which we can't account for. And the commissioner,
Speaker 1: the guy running Freedom two fifty, went over to Davos
Speaker 1: for the big conference in Davos and asked foreign investors
Speaker 1: in foreign countries if they'd like to be part of it,
Speaker 1: you can donate to Freedom too fifty and tell us, please,
Speaker 1: how would you like to see this celebration go. So
Speaker 1: foreign investor foreign countries participating and giving money and being
Speaker 1: involved in the celebration of America. That doesn't that isn't right.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the guy running the website for
Speaker 1: all of the events, so when people showed up and
Speaker 1: there wasn't very many of them, but whoever did show
Speaker 1: up gave their information and all of that was collected
Speaker 1: to go into the political database. So it was extremely partisan.
Speaker 1: I got a problem with all this stuff, as you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to see our country be every time
Speaker 1: something someone extreme gets power and goes in their direction,
Speaker 1: it gives rise to someone else extreme. And that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing right now with the DSA. Like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: because MAGA, the MAGA experiment got off the rails. Now
Speaker 1: we have to go and witness the rise of the Dssay,
Speaker 1: the Democrats Socialists of America. We need them, that's the answer.
Speaker 1: Where the fuck is the middle? If I may be
Speaker 1: so bold as to swear in front of my dear friends,
Speaker 1: where is the middle? The promise of MAGA was a mistake, right,
Speaker 1: I mean it started as focusing on manufacturing at home
Speaker 1: and the trade and balance and inflation and anti immigration. Okay,
Speaker 1: these are things that people were rallied for, and you know,
Speaker 1: got behind the message they're taking our jobs. We got
Speaker 1: to focus things here. People were into that, but it
Speaker 1: has not helped the working man, and it has deepened
Speaker 1: the pockets of the very rich, chief amongst them Trump
Speaker 1: twelve hundred new millionaires per day in the United States
Speaker 1: last year, twelve hundred a day. We are four percent
Speaker 1: of the world's population, and we have fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the world's millionaires. Four percent of the population and fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the millionaires. Too many people can't afford a home,
Speaker 1: let alone a vacation. You know, this helps give rise
Speaker 1: to something idiotic and unsustainable and self cannibalizing, like socialism.
Speaker 1: And here we go. The DSA right now sees the
Speaker 1: rich getting richer and the wealth gap widening, and the
Speaker 1: Democrats know it's not going to work. Like the established people,
Speaker 1: like the Hakim Jeffreyes of the world, they know this
Speaker 1: isn't going to work, and this is going to destroy
Speaker 1: their party because it never has worked. Look at the
Speaker 1: collapse of the USSR in nineteen ninety one. East Berlin
Speaker 1: was you know two years before that, North and South Korea.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work, Cuba, it doesn't work. It's a fool's errand,
Speaker 1: and it has shaken the Democrat Party to the corps.
Speaker 1: And like every fervent, you know, cult like movement, it
Speaker 1: has a charismatic leader and Mom Donnie, Mom Donnie, is
Speaker 1: he's got Trump qualities man. He is the new Trump,
Speaker 1: except he wasn't born in the USA, which means he
Speaker 1: can't be president, but he can still be king anchor,
Speaker 1: and he is definitely enjoying that role. And this guy's
Speaker 1: on a path to destroy New York City already my hometown.
Speaker 1: His latest is he wants to remove landlords who don't
Speaker 1: upkeep their buildings. Problem is he's also imposed rent control, right,
Speaker 1: he's putting them in all this. So you're saying, let's
Speaker 1: say rent control is at four thousand dollars a month
Speaker 1: for rent, Okay, you can't raise that, but because of
Speaker 1: the way the supply chain and other things are, you
Speaker 1: means you have to fix your building and operate your
Speaker 1: building for for that person, let's say three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month, and then you can make one thousand in profit.
Speaker 1: Problem is, to fix a building and that are old,
Speaker 1: you need to raise rent. You got to spend five thousand,
Speaker 1: So rent's got to go up fifty five hundred or
Speaker 1: spend four thousand, and rent goes up five thousand. But
Speaker 1: if rent he's got him screwed. You can't raise the rent,
Speaker 1: so now it's just coming out of your pocket, which
Speaker 1: means you can't make money. It's a total scam and
Speaker 1: his way to centralized housing, which is going to eliminate
Speaker 1: competition and bankrupt New York City. It's just unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: by the way, Dac is the new AOC. Take a look,
Speaker 1: Alexandria Casio Cortez. You're already out of favor and out
Speaker 1: of style. Baby meet Dac Darieliza ave La Chevalier, who
Speaker 1: is going to be the next congresswoman from New York.
Speaker 1: This is a woman who called Joe Biden a r
Speaker 1: a p I, a grape, a grapist. She's on records
Speaker 1: saying f you Kamala Harris Gay repeatedly stated Israel does
Speaker 1: not have the right to exist. There she goes she's
Speaker 1: never had a job. By the way, she wants to
Speaker 1: abolish prisons, police, and prosperity. In one fell swoop, she
Speaker 1: has no job but a seven year sociology master's degree.
Speaker 1: God almighty, So she took her seven years to get
Speaker 1: her sociology degree, but she never went to a history class,
Speaker 1: or she'd know the success of socialism. Republicans may be
Speaker 1: tempted to, you know, to embrace this inner erosion and
Speaker 1: enjoy it and celebrate what's happening on the other side.
Speaker 1: But you know, for right now they're multiplying. Every country
Speaker 1: in the history of mankind faces this problem of like
Speaker 1: autocrats and autocracy, Trump, Mom, Donnie, people like this, rulers
Speaker 1: who get totally power drunk. Gavin Newsom is a real
Speaker 1: version of that. The way he's fixed election law in California,
Speaker 1: the way a conservative superintendent of schools got elected. So
Speaker 1: what did he do? He appointed someone with more power
Speaker 1: from his administration so a conservative person could not do
Speaker 1: the job that they were elected to do. He's another
Speaker 1: example of that. He's selling it like he's not his
Speaker 1: only message, which is why he's falling in the polls
Speaker 1: and the DSSA is rising. His only message is Trump
Speaker 1: is a terrible person. He's a dishonest person. But Gavin,
Speaker 1: everything we see about you, you are the Democrat version
Speaker 1: of that. All the grift that you have siphoned money
Speaker 1: from Palisades fires and you know how into your wife's NGOs,
Speaker 1: your wife's nonprofit, you know, filming organizations, you know, teaching
Speaker 1: boys to be you know, I don't know what that.
Speaker 1: It's the most insane She's these you know documentary films
Speaker 1: she does all over the state, masked in feminism, and
Speaker 1: he pumps money into into those And of course the
Speaker 1: election law is insane. He is the father of harvesting
Speaker 1: ballots in the state of California. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: we have a system, I guess that can just be
Speaker 1: abused and anyone can be made supreme and endow themselves
Speaker 1: with ultimate legal authority somehow, how do you do that
Speaker 1: without risking despotism. If you let someone else, you know,
Speaker 1: do whatever they want, they're going to do it. But
Speaker 1: recently we had these votes in the Supreme Court, and
Speaker 1: it kind of made me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1: The the US Constitution shined a little bit right. The
Speaker 1: US Constitution was built on three branches of government. The
Speaker 1: highest authority was given to the branch with the least power,
Speaker 1: no army at its command, no police force, and no
Speaker 1: power to legislate or to tax, and to spend nothing.
Speaker 1: Supreme authority held by a body with no power other
Speaker 1: than the power to say this is the law, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. And because of that brilliant innovation, the US
Speaker 1: Constitution is the longest lived constitution on the planet. An
Speaker 1: America's system of constitutional law has been copied all over
Speaker 1: the world. It's successful. I think of those justices. If
Speaker 1: you want to say the most power person in the world,
Speaker 1: it isn't Trump. From what I just saw from that
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, it's Chief Justice John Roberts because in all
Speaker 1: of the majority decision, not all of them, in the
Speaker 1: majority of the majority decisions, he was the one who
Speaker 1: authored the opinion. I think that guy's got a lot
Speaker 1: of power. Speaking of the Supreme Court judges, though, I
Speaker 1: have an issue with a remark from Megan Kelly in
Speaker 1: response to the male in voting rule member Judge Amy
Speaker 1: Coney Barrett, who is a Trump appointee, a conservative judge,
Speaker 1: she voted with the liberals, I guess, in a five
Speaker 1: to four decision that allowed ballots to be counted after
Speaker 1: election day. Megan Kelly said, Amy Coney Barrett is a turncoat.
Speaker 1: She's constantly siding with the left. That's the wrong way
Speaker 1: to look at it. I don't siding with the left,
Speaker 1: siding with the right. She's interpreting the Constitution as she
Speaker 1: sees fit. I don't like. I like the fact that
Speaker 1: people can vote against what you think they will, Like
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, for all the shit that they put that
Speaker 1: guy through. He has voted in ways that I guess
Speaker 1: would be surprising only given the politics of the person
Speaker 1: that nominated him. You know, same with Neil Gorsich who's
Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. He has voted in ways that
Speaker 1: are surprising and obviously, let me put it more clearly
Speaker 1: or directly, ways that would piss off Trump. I don't
Speaker 1: see that on the liberal side. I don't see that
Speaker 1: on the Democrat side. Kitanji Jackson Brown. Has she ever
Speaker 1: voted in a way that would make you say, oh,
Speaker 1: thinking for yourself, so do my oar. I'd like to
Speaker 1: see those Maybe I'm wrong, that's voting with your perceived
Speaker 1: politics and that's not good. By contrast, though, English, Dick,
Speaker 1: are you still there? I want to tell you something.
Speaker 1: You guys are in disarray. The United Kingdom is a mess.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on over there. Got You've
Speaker 1: got more protests and migration problems than we do. Although
Speaker 1: I would say it's an example for us to pay
Speaker 1: attention because we could be next. But your inability to
Speaker 1: effectively lead and to in the UK so afraid of
Speaker 1: being their leaders are so afraid of being called racist,
Speaker 1: they have allowed these r ap gangs all over the
Speaker 1: country and and it's a disgrace. I mean, what do
Speaker 1: we do in that case if it comes here? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Our politics are messed up, but I think
Speaker 1: we can get back on board, I believe it. And
Speaker 1: that takes independent people. I don't know it takes I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think our party politics are so divided that, like,
Speaker 1: how do you is it possible for a Democrat to
Speaker 1: vote for a Republican if it's a really good Republican. Like,
Speaker 1: what's the name of that governor in Vermont? He's really popular,
Speaker 1: Tony Scott, I think his name is. He's a Republican governor,
Speaker 1: but the Democrats love him. He's like a very rare
Speaker 1: example of someone in this country who's been able to
Speaker 1: bring people together. Ronald Reagan I think did a decent
Speaker 1: job of it, you know, in my lifetime. But I
Speaker 1: really want to see that again. One last day. Let's
Speaker 1: go out with this one. This one's a classic. You
Speaker 1: people are going to love this. This is from the
Speaker 1: Toronto Dyke March. Their name not Mine, their motto which
Speaker 1: they chanted in the streets. We're here, We're queer free Palestine.
Speaker 1: Is our demand. We're here, we're queer. Free Palestine is
Speaker 1: our demand. Free. That is a laughable work. And for
Speaker 1: your altruism, they will thank you when all is done
Speaker 1: by hanging you off of cranes and batting you around
Speaker 1: like a pinata. Because in the Sunni and Shia traditions,
Speaker 1: relationships are only permitted between men and women. Why are
Speaker 1: all you gay people marching free Palestine? It's crazy. The
Speaker 1: most compassionate scholars will preach some compassion shown to those
Speaker 1: who are committing a sin, but you know, be not mistaken.
Speaker 1: They see you as a sinner. They do. There are
Speaker 1: some progressive Muslims, perhaps, Mom, Donnie is you know?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: But they're a very small small group. And speaking of
Speaker 1: tying it all together the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: on his way out, Keir Starmer, gave an unbelievable quote.
Speaker 1: I'm really proud that we've got the gayest parliament. I
Speaker 1: don't think just of all time, but anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any parliament that is gayer then
Speaker 1: this one. I missed that guy, aren't you? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's incredible. Yeah. How much money does someone need? My god? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh there's Zach Christina. It sounds like from his first
Speaker 1: term the Trump family lost a ton, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's not gonna happen this time. Oh no, listen,
Speaker 1: that's a really good point, Christina. I think the reason why,
Speaker 1: first of all, the reason why Trump ran again one
Speaker 1: when he got in there, he admittedly didn't know exactly
Speaker 1: what he was doing, and the Republican Party felt like
Speaker 1: they had control of him, not him controlling them, so
Speaker 1: they put serious quote unquote serious people like John Kelly
Speaker 1: and James Mattis, you know, Matt mad Dog Mattis and
Speaker 1: John Bolton, you know, security advisors and things that all
Speaker 1: these people around him to keep Trump from his worst instincts, right,
Speaker 1: They were a security blanket for the country to keep
Speaker 1: him from his worst inclinations. And then he had pissed
Speaker 1: him off, and so he wanted to go and correct
Speaker 1: that by running again. But I'm pretty sure, judging by
Speaker 1: many people who I know who know him and what
Speaker 1: has been shared, that he saw so much on the table.
Speaker 1: He saw a position from which, if he changed things around,
Speaker 1: he could leverage a great amount of power and business
Speaker 1: and make a lot of money. And so yeah, he
Speaker 1: got rid of all the inspector generals at federal agencies.
Speaker 1: He appointed everybody in the Justice Department to be his
Speaker 1: own people. They're no longer career people, they're no longer
Speaker 1: independent people. And he saw from say, shit, I gotta run,
Speaker 1: I gotta do this again, because if done correctly, not legally,
Speaker 1: you know, if manipulated the right way, I left so
Speaker 1: much on the table. And so yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: where the MAGA party is peeling away. He's not running again,
Speaker 1: so you know, thanks for the support, but he's going
Speaker 1: to make a lot of dough on the way out.
Speaker 1: The question is he's going to pardon himself, and he's
Speaker 1: going to pardon his family. He's going to pardon everybody
Speaker 1: in the organization for past activities and for future activities
Speaker 1: and all that. And then this very Supreme Court which
Speaker 1: faced him and made some decisions he didn't like, but
Speaker 1: showed that they are the ultimate authority guarantee. The Democrats
Speaker 1: are going to bring a whole bunch of this stuff
Speaker 1: their way and they'll have to decide if his pardons
Speaker 1: are legal, if they should stand given. You know, will
Speaker 1: they hear a case in which evidence is presented that
Speaker 1: it that it shouldn't. That's that's that will you know,
Speaker 1: remain to be seen. But I think it's pretty darn accurate.
Speaker 1: Analysis of this situation sounds like from his first term. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he lost a ton. I think that is absolutely correct.
Speaker 1: Uh here's genie. I was so shocked when Kamala lost
Speaker 1: the popular vote by so much. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's not what I saw or believed what happened. I
Speaker 1: felt used by the Democrats. They really screwed that up.
Speaker 1: Kamala is running again, I believe, you know why because
Speaker 1: like the donor class of the Democrat party can't stand Kamala.
Speaker 1: She blew a billion and a half dollars running for
Speaker 1: president and got beaten badly. But Democrat voters, not the
Speaker 1: big donors, the regular voters and especially female and double
Speaker 1: especially black female, still see her very very very favorably.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I think she could win. I
Speaker 1: mean not win, but she's got enough people filling her
Speaker 1: head that she could actually run again. Wouldn't that be crazy?
Speaker 1: Kamala is worse than Starmer, oh man, that's a toss
Speaker 1: up right there, English Dick, I don't know Starmer well
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Kamala in action. Yes we have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. We're finally agreeing. Here's Eric Baldwin, Canada.
Speaker 1: Canadian here, educated in the USA and made many great friends.
Speaker 1: I'm so sad about the direction your country's headed. I
Speaker 1: will not be returning until Trump is out of office.
Speaker 1: He's despicable. Oh, Erica, All right, Erica, I think he's losing.
Speaker 1: I think most people, even the ardent supporters, are having
Speaker 1: a hard time. There are some things that he does
Speaker 1: that no one that, if you'll see in the UK,
Speaker 1: Starmer and others and other elected officials aren't able to do.
Speaker 1: And that is stand up to this wave of you know,
Speaker 1: gangs that are mostly of Pakistani and other Islamic countries
Speaker 1: that have migrated there, and these men who are running
Speaker 1: around and the well documented assaulting of young white girls
Speaker 1: over there. They don't have the stones to stand up
Speaker 1: to what is going to be called, Oh I'm racist
Speaker 1: because I'm addressing a very clearly defined ninety five percent
Speaker 1: group who is doing something terribly evil. We'd rather not
Speaker 1: called racist. Their identity politics and wokeism is deeper than
Speaker 1: it is in the United States. The one thing Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has done here, which you cannot. You know, he's
Speaker 1: the only one with the stones to stand up or
Speaker 1: not give a shit about anything like that and plow
Speaker 1: right through it. I hope our next president is someone
Speaker 1: who will call it out and maybe do it in
Speaker 1: a slightly more you know, a delicate way or a
Speaker 1: little bit less inflammatory, that's all, but still with the
Speaker 1: same stones. Okay, thank you, Erica Baldwin. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I would love to see you come back to Kate Breton.
Speaker 1: Kate Breton golf is the best, Erica. Oh I played there,
Speaker 1: You're right, thank you. That was last summer so fun.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, really nice golf up there. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like it's Nova Scotia. It's Donning, beautiful little part
Speaker 1: of Canada connected to Maine. Okay, we did it today.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we got to do it. Sometimes we got to
Speaker 1: talk about our world and our politics. We got to
Speaker 1: do it. And tomorrow will be on something else. But Billy,
Speaker 1: you need to come play at the Booth Bay Country Club. Okay, Jenny,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll do that. I'm gonna go look up and
Speaker 1: see how far that'll take me. Will you be up there?
Speaker 1: I'd love to say hello. To you. I'm gonna work
Speaker 1: on it. Did you all see the veterans in active
Speaker 1: duty members marching in Philly last Saturday against this administration.
Speaker 1: I've never seen that many veterans together. Okay, Graham Platner.
Speaker 1: I think by tomorrow morning when we talk, he's going
Speaker 1: to be out. What do you guys think quickly?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: Last thing? This is eleven am. Normally we do twelve am.
Speaker 1: Is that a different difficult to adjust to? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that? Okay? For the summer summer hours? I could
Speaker 1: we could go back to twelve just means no no picnics.
Speaker 1: Eleven or twelve Eastern? Which is better? Let me know.
Speaker 1: We'll get the first five responses in the chat section, okay,
Speaker 1: and that will decide everything. Eleven or twelve. Genie says eleven,
Speaker 1: Joy says twelve. Marjoe likes eleven. It's twelve, it's eleven,
Speaker 1: it's twelve, it's eleven. It's literally up the middle eleven, eleven, okay, eleven, Okay, Joy,
Speaker 1: I love you. You gotta make the adjustment for us
Speaker 1: because we can't live without you. Eleven. It is see
Speaker 1: you tomorrowt eleven and we'll do it for the rest
Speaker 1: of the summer this way, Okay, love you so much,
Speaker 1: have a tremendous day. Major might a short conversation to
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