I actually think the one in name is worse because he's just an outright pig. He's like a pig. I watched him a couple of times. He's like a pig. That's what he reminds me of. You know, if you come up with good names for people, I don't want to stick him with that one, although I think pigs would be very upset about it. I saw Trump yesterday having some fun with the Graham Plattner candidacy and then also making a funny joke about pigs. I laughed. And so did a lot of people at the room, but they were all Republicans. I don't think there was a single Democrat in that room. It is the Chris Plant Show. Michael Palca sitting in for my friend Chris Plant. Thanks for being here. Taking off this hour yet another busy hour with so many things to get into today. We're monitoring everything that's going on with the latest in Iran. Overnight, the president's sending in a swarm of Tomahawk missiles to try and get the Iranian leadership's attention, maybe return them to the negotiating table, get a peace agreement or at least an MOU, a Memorandum of Understanding. One of my favorite terms. Can we get an MOU on this? I wonder if relationships have MOUs. We need a Memorandum of Understanding, although I wouldn't trust the Iranians as far as I could throw one of them, which would not be very far. And we're also monitoring the Supreme Court anticipating there may be some Supreme Court decisions rolling today as you know, tis the month where Supreme Court decisions seem to come down every week. And that may make some big news, especially as it relates to, I don't know, birthright citizenship will be one that's held till the very end. But we will see. When it happens, we'll let you know. So there are things that are bubbling today. And yesterday, of course, we already reported on the congressional baseball game, the GOP won handily, 11 to 2, and Eric Schmidt is probably all bruised up today after his diving catch that earned him great respect and viral status online. So that was fun. But we had, as you heard it, President Trump talking in the White House yesterday in the Oval Office after the signing of the bill that signified the funding of the additional funding for DHS and ICE to do its job. Expect Tom Homan to be deploying a whole lot more people very soon, as he said he would be doing. But the president was taking questions from the press and he was kind of freelancing a little bit when he got to the discussion of or the opinion of Mr. Platner. And Platner, who has been everywhere in the last few days, he is very well rehearsed, it seems. At least to me, it seems this way. Platner very well rehearsed on what he is saying to people about his campaign. And I think this is the kind of guy that you would be foolish to take lightly. I think this is a man who we know is also a community theater actor, so he has taken some education, some lessons, some training in how to play a role. And you have to wonder, is he playing a role now? Kind of felt that way about AOC when we first started seeing AOC bubbling up. So is Platner educated into acting? Is that where this is coming from? Is that where this is going? He put out a new ad yesterday that I thought was really impressive. His campaign put out an ad that I thought is something that everyone should be mindful of. His campaign is focusing on, for me anyway, his campaign is focusing on the individual, the main rugged individual, if you will. They don't like to think of themselves as typical Republican or Democrat. And as we see the ranks of the Republican Party and the Democrat Party shrinking, people that are registered to either party, those are shrinking and the independent role is increasing, seems to be increasing at a very, very great rate. So I'll just give you a short ad from Platner. I hate to say this, I think this is a smart strategy. Some of the most powerful Democrats and Republicans in the country were in Epstein Island. It seems the only thing the party establishments can agree on is a love of Jeffrey Epstein and a hatred of May. I'm Graham Platner and I approve this message because together we will take back our government from the Epstein class. Now there's a whole lot there packed into 15 seconds. He is lumping people on both sides of the aisle together by saying that they were people that visited Epstein Island, that were friends of Jeffrey Epstein and they are on both sides of the aisle and I think we know that. And he is saying the one thing they share is a hatred of me. I'm an independent voice. We can take back our country from the Epstein class, which Michael Pearsley and I were talking this morning. We didn't know there was an Epstein class. But this Platner guy I think is going to be a formidable opponent for Susan Collins. And Susan Collins won her last election by nine points and she was expected to have a bigger challenge. A nine point victory is a big stinking deal. And the Democrats are out there with an interesting angle on this. James Carville, the crazy Cajun, Mr. Issy Economy Stupid, yesterday commenting on Platner and I think this is a really important point he's making. I think Platner might be just his ideas and the things that his courage and also his imperfections are imperfections that we can all identify with. He's just like you and me. His imperfections are things we can all identify with. That's the message they're going to sell. Very interesting to me. His imperfections are things that make him just like us. He's just one of us they're saying. Platner was on MS-13 Now last night with Jen Snarky on her little show called The Briefing and going over the fact that the President had called out Platner. And all of them are jumping on the bus here. All the Democrats are jumping aboard to prop up Platner. Under the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, you've had quite a 24 hours. You're clearly under Donald Trump's skin. You could see that we played a sample of that. I think he called you a thug. I don't even know. Repeatedly today we played some of it. And he said you are quote the worst than any human being that's ever run for office probably. What do you think when you heard that? Well coming from certainly the worst person to have ever run for office, I take it as an immense compliment. And Jen gave him the obligatory giggle. Oh I get it. I see where you're going here. Very interesting. And then over on the view yesterday we had some fun on the view yesterday because why not? The ladies on the view, the Harpy group on the view was making their comments known about the President. And they have a guest host because the ironically named Joy Behar who is in Europe for the summer doing some sort of a one woman show in France and in the UK. They have replaced her. I think it's Cheryl Underwood is there but also Sonny Hauston and the usual crew is there. But Cheryl Underwood wanted to give her analysis of the Platinum campaign and the thought of a Nazi being the nominee. I guess my question is is the debate more about the people of Maine electing this guy or saying it when you had, was it Mills, what's her name? Janet Mills. Janet Mills was still on the ballot. I just think that the stakes are too high and I think also it says something about the country that these are the type of people. It used to be no I'm not going to elect this person but most people don't know. Charles Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer. And they had Nazi rallies over at Madison Square Garden. And there are people that believe this stuff and unfortunately our country has pivoted to a way where I don't care what the guy is, can we control the House and the Senate so that maybe we can impeach. You have more faith in GC than I do. Not faith, I think what people want. They want to control the House and the Senate. Hopefully they can impeach the President this time and vote him all the way out. And vote him all the way out. That's what they want. They want to vote him all the way out. It doesn't matter that you might be electing a guy who has a Nazi tattoo. Did you know that Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer? I think that's pretty well known. But he wasn't running for the Senate. But does the end justify the means for Democrats? Is that what's going on here? It certainly feels that way. Especially when you listen to Sonny Hauston, Sonny kind of, she kind of let the real story be told yesterday. And a battle between Susan Collins and Graham Platner, I'm with Susan. Look, I don't think Republicans at this point can ask us to take the moral high ground. There you go. That is over at this point. So she's done with the moral high ground. Sonny Hauston says, we're not going to take the moral high ground anymore. We're done with that. We're done with that. And of course, the trained seals in the audience respond. That is over. It's a challenge. I'm sorry. Democrats have always fallen in love and Republicans have always fallen in line. Oh, listen to that. Whoopi finishes the line for her. Do you think they've worked this out in the pre-show? Yeah, they have about an hour of pre-show meetings. I know I've attended some of the view broadcasts. So listen, whoopi finishes the line even though it's not as true as they are claiming. Go ahead, Sonny. Repeat it. Always fallen in love and Republicans have always fallen in line. It's time for Democrats to stop that nonsense, put emotions on the side. Let's be strategic. Let's get some power. Let's take over the Senate. Let's take over the House. And let's write the ship. Let's get our country back. Now remember, if we go back a few years ago, you go back a decade when many people in the Tea Party movement, many people in the Conservative movement of the early part of the 2010s were saying, let's take our country back. And the left was saying, the Democrats were saying, what are you talking about? Take it back to what? And Joe Biden said, they're going to have you all back in chains. Remember that? Take our country back. Well, now the Democrats are jumping on to take our country back. Take our country back. This is the new mantra from the Democrats. I'm sorry. I am someone that believes in character. I am someone that believes that morals matter. But because of the state of this country, I lived in Maine. I would hold my nose and I would vote for Platinum. I would. So I believe in morals, but the end justifies the means. Very interesting. Is she right? Is she wrong? Triple eight, 630-9625, 888-630-9625. We'll get into that. We'll break that down a little bit. I also want to grab a call here and see if some of the phones are lighting up here. Let's go to Marco in Springfield, Virginia. Hello, Marco. Welcome to the Chris Plant Show. Hi, Michael. Thanks for taking my call. Of course. Good job. Platinum, those aren't imperfections. Those are perversions, number one. That's a great point. That's not something to take lightly. They're not imperfections. Those are perversions, especially using that one app that is known for some predatory activity. That's true. Great point. Exactly. There's a great encounter yesterday with Lisa McClain, who I think is a rising star. She really straightened out the Loudoun County Public School supervisor, who I think is an absolute disaster, along with those other clowns that were on that stage being interrogated. She was so great in her delivery and entertaining. I think she really made some great points. For you Loudoun County people who have kids in school, I have grandkids in that school system, wake up because you've got a clown representing you worse than Fairfax County. I don't know how these people get into the seats that they get into, but they're controlling the future of our country and just destroying young minds. That's a great point, Marco. I have some clips from that school, those testimonies yesterday regarding the leadership of the Loudoun County School District, and they are stunning in what they reveal. We will share them with you. Just a reminder to everybody, change begins locally at the school board. If you can't run for a big office, you can run for a local office and plant the seeds of change. Well said, Marco. Thank you. Taking a break here, it's Michael Peltke in for Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. It is the Chris Plant Show. Michael Peltke in for my friend Chris Plant. He should return Monday. I think he's probably chomping at the bit, as they say, and ready for the morning after what we anticipated is still going to happen, the UFC fight on the White House lawn. There's an incredible video out there. I know it's radio, but you can find it if you're on social media. There's an incredible video showing what has been assembled, and I assume it will be removed pretty quickly. It will be taken apart and removed, because that's what happens. This is a small arena for this event, for the octagon. I've never attended one of the UFC events. This certainly would be one ticket to have in your ticket folder, and the President of the United States will be there as well. So I'm sure Chris will have all the details on that going forward. Just around the corner, we will have, of course, the clips I talked about regarding the loud in County School District Superintendent and some of the men. Plus, we have to talk about Act Blue. This money laundering mechanism, in my opinion, that Democrats have been using for some time. When you donate to Act Blue, you don't necessarily donate to the cause you think you were donating to. You give them the money, and they get to shovel it around to where they think it can be best used, because you obviously don't know what's good for your money or where it should go. That's kind of the way the Democrat Party operates. So we'll see. And speaking of Democrat Party operating, I mentioned this earlier. We have to play this big gratch, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of the state of Michigan, and often mentioned as a potential 2028 candidate, I think mostly by her, was talking with the CEO of Oracle Systems, Clay, something, I can't pronounce his last name, a very important guy. And she forgot, apparently, that she had a microphone on, and as everybody in radio will tell you, when you're wearing a microphone, you have to assume that every stinking microphone is a hot mic. So you don't curse, you don't say something you want your mother to hear, and big gratch kind of screwed up yesterday. And I think this is blaped, Michael, but just have my back in case. Oh, I think it's not blaped. We're used to people saying F no, and then we're doing it anyway. Yeah, big gratch doesn't care about you. Democrats don't care about you. I'm glad you had that clip, Blake, Michael. I would have played the one that was not and gotten us all in trouble. As I said, I have more clips from hearings. We do have the Act Blue hearing that was entertaining as hell. And then the stunning statements out of the Loudoun County Virginia School District from the superintendent. Absolutely stunning. It's Michael Palca in for Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. It is the Chris Plant Show. Michael Palca in for my friend Chris Plant. Today, tomorrow, Chris returns on Monday. So much to get to today, trying to have some fun with it, but also pointing out some pretty serious stuff. House hearings, which, you know, for so many of the people that are asking questions, the House hearings are all about getting the right content for your campaign, the right video clip for your TikTok channel or your YouTube channel or your Instagram or social media, any social media channel. And so I watch some of these House hearings to see if there's actually anything being brought forward that will yield any results. And yesterday, there was a hearing that discussed Loudoun County, Virginia, and the school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, which has a history that's pretty disturbing as it relates to allowing men pretending to be women into the locker rooms of young girls. And I think it's a pretty simple call. I think it's a pretty simple Q&A. I mean, you can ask about it, but when you think about it, it really doesn't take a NASA scientist to realize that the boys' bathrooms should be for the biological boys and the girls' bathrooms should be for the biological girls. And if you're so woke that you insist that a biological man or boy can be a girl, then you should create a third option, bathroom-wise, to protect the children. And yesterday, the Loudoun County, Virginia, school superintendent, Aaron Spence, was in front of Congress being asked some questions, in front of the House in this hearing being asked some questions. And this guy is not in the right job, in my opinion. Dr. Spence, yes or no, should biological men be allowed in locker rooms with biologic women or girls? I think that's a pretty simple question. Mr. Spence, biological men, boys, in the locker room with biological women, girls. It's a simple question, yes or no, right? Transgender women should be allowed in women's spaces. Yes, so biologic men should be able to go into locker rooms and shower rooms with biologic girls. The federal law requires it, yes, no it doesn't, yes it does. No, Title IX does not impact quite the opposite. Title IX requires you to protect women and girls. So that is the interesting question. Is Title IX excluding the trans folks or are we accepting their madness? This guy is trying to lean on what he interprets to be a federal requirement. And then there was the series of questions asked by Chairwoman Lisa McClain who cornered this guy. Just a fantastic back and forth. Let's go through it. This is going to be frustrating to you, but I'm not going to be frustrating to me. It's going to be frustrating to you. I'm not going to speak on the specifics of any of the individuals. Okay, you want to speak some hypotheticals? I'm willing to speak in general. If you don't want to speak specifics, that's cool. No, no, I'll give you a whirl. I'll give you, you don't want to speak specifics. I'm willing to speak in general and say... Okay, great, let's speak in general. That based on our policies, we would never discipline students absent of violation of disciplinary policies. I'm going to give you your world, right? Since you're afraid to speak in specifics, even though your guidelines are specific. I'm not going to speak about a specific student incident. Okay, just out of curiosity, why not? Because I'm not at liberty to share your knowledge. You're choosing that too. About student disciplinary matters. This isn't a can't, sir. You're a highly educated individual. Well, he's got degrees, he's got diplomas. I love the fact that Chairwoman McLean says, this isn't a can't, meaning this is a won't. This can't is choosing. Choosing not to answer. You know you can speak on specifics. This is a won't, but I'll give you your world. Let's speak in hypothetically. So hypothetically speaking, there are three boys in a locker room. Hypothetically speaking, what usually happens in a locker room? People change in a locker room. They undress. It should be a private space. Hypothetically speaking, right, sir? Mr. Spence, you paying attention? I am. Okay, great. So hypothetically speaking, is that correct? Hypothetically speaking. Super. Great. I'm going to simplify. Hypothetically speaking, students change in locker rooms and should be able to change in a locker room. It's kind of a private space, right? Yeah, that's why we don't have windows in locker rooms. That's why we don't have full-length picture windows in locker rooms. And in some, we have dividers. I love this woman's energy. Yeah, good. I'm glad we agree. So let me get this. In what universe, hypothetically speaking, would it make sense to you for a biological female, or anyone for that matter, to come in and begin videotaping me? And then the three boys that hypothetically in your world got videotaped, got a 10-day suspension, and the perpetrator, you know, the biological female in the boys' bathroom that's supposed to be a safe space, which you say is completely unacceptable to film in safe places. Could you explain in what realm, what universe, hypothetically speaking, that that biological female would receive a lesser sentence? The person that does the filming gets, say, hypothetically a one-day in-school suspension, hypothetically. But the victims that got filmed got a 10-day suspension. Hypothetically. What's your response to that hypothetical question? I love the way she has flipped the script on genders in this to point out the hypocrisy that is at the core of all of this. That if this is a girl's locker room, and a boy pretending to be a girl comes in and films, the boy pretending to be the girl gets less of a suspension than the girls who complain. It's just wonderful. And this guy is twisted. He is completely twisted and tied up in knots. Our school division would not discipline students' absolute violation of our disciplinary policies. Excuse me, what the heck does that mean? Excellent, excellent. Yeah, what kind of gibber jabber is that? So in what realm does that make sense to you? A violation of our disciplinary policy. So what realm does that make sense to you, sir? Our school division would not... That's a great answer to a question. I didn't ask. I didn't ask. I love that. That's a great answer to a question I didn't ask. This kind of gives me hope that Representative Lisa McClain, who is not taking any garbage from this guy, she kept bringing back to the facts a biological female pretending to be male. She over-courts confused boys in a middle school locker room and she was called to be trolling, perceived a harsher punishment, instead of answers, deflection, instead of accountability, talking points. Common sense is where we need to go back to it. Listen, we had great success in the last election with common sense going forward. I do think that one of the best that we saw in the 2024 election was Kamala Harris's for they, them, Donald Trump is for you, and we need to continue that. I know I've said that before. I'll continue harping on it because in the words of the late John Prine, it don't make no sense. The common sense don't make no sense no more. Well done, Representative McClain. Well done. Keep the heat up. And speaking of keep the heat up. I teased this earlier. I realize I hadn't played it yet. The Congresswoman from New Jersey, La Monica McIver, is facing a serious federal prison sentence if she is found guilty when she has been charged with allegedly assaulting ICE officers, allegedly interfering with ICE officers at Delaney Hall. Remember that wasn't that long ago. A couple months ago she was seen with that group of people and she pushed her way in. Well, the Congresswoman was confronted by a Lindell TV reporter last week. The same woman, earlier this week, actually this happened, the same woman who last week confronted Nancy Pelosi about Pelosi's denial of the National Guard on January 6th the way back when. Because we have the records on it. We have the receipts. Pelosi and the Capitol Police Chief said no, we don't want it. We don't want it. And then there's the videotape of Pelosi. And when confronted by it, Pelosi lost her mud. And it was fun video. So the Lindell TV reporter, I think her first name is Allison, confronted La Monica McIver as the Congresswoman was walking outside of the Capitol. She's in a public space. Here is a credentialed reporter from a TV network trying to ask a question about, well, you can hear it in the voice and in the questioning. Okay, you have repeatedly called Titi Fund and abolish ICE. If Democrats were to get their wish on that, who would enforce existing immigration law? How would that be? Go play with somebody else, not me today, okay? So here's a woman who went to a nice detention center who allegedly forced her way in, assaulted ICE officers, who's being asked if you defund ICE, if Democrats get their way, defund ICE, who's going to enforce our policies? Who's going to protect our borders? Who is going to deal with people in the country illegally? And the first reaction from the Congresswoman is, honey, go play with somebody else? Now, if this had been a male who said that to a female reporter, there would be an outcry, especially if it were a liberal female reporter and a conservative member of Congressman saying, honey, go play with somebody else. Maybe McIver just had to kind of throw her off, but no, she continued. Well, the American people would like to know how that would work. I advise you to go play with somebody else, not me today. Well, from what we've seen out of Dillaney Hall, the violent agitators are the real problem. Is biting a federal law enforcement officer appropriate in your opinion? A great question, because one of the law enforcement officers was bitten by one of the people who was kind of like McIver out there protesting and forcing their way in. And the human bite is really a nasty thing. It's dangerous. It could be, in fact, life-threatening because there's a lot of germs in that mouth. So is that okay? Is it okay to bite ICE agents just because you disagree with them? McIver? Yes, McIver. LaMonica McIver doesn't like this idea of being asked questions. Is that acceptable or is that a criminal offense? Do you stand with the violent agitators? You love wasting our time on the Hill. No. You wasted my time and everybody else's. Now, interesting. What we see in others, we recognize in ourselves. That's one of the axioms I live by. What we see in others, we recognize in ourselves. When McIver says, you guys love wasting our time. Hmm. Point a finger at me and three or pointing right back at you, madam. You guys love wasting our time. And she's about to take the, she has like a notebook or a folder McIver has in her hand. And she's about to swat the microphone. It's not a waste of time when millions of Americans are asking why Democrats are standing with violent criminals over American citizens. Can you, how do you justify them? Keep the mic out my face. Did you just bash my mic with your folder? Yes, she did. Keep that mic out my face. I want to diagram that sentence. I think it has some grammar issues. Keep that mic out my face. That's kind of what you people get is microphones in your faces all the time. Keep that mic out my face folder. Move the mic out my face. Move the mic out my face, not out of my face or away from my face out my face. They're not really smart people, are they? No, but they want you to know that they're very, very smart and they have control over you. Really interesting. Triple 8 6309625 is the phone number here. We haven't even gotten into the act blue clips. There's a mountain of fun in the clips from the act blue hearing that I cannot wait to get to it. We just need some time on this. But the phones have been very active today. Let's grab Eduardo in Temple, Florida. Good morning, Eduardo. How are you? Yeah, Mike, I'm doing a good job filling in for Chris. I'm going to bring up what's happening over there in Belfast with the Sudan illegal that killed. I want you to see this guy sitting on top of his neck after he stabs this guy over there. We can't forget Spain led 500,000 illegals in there. Do these people not understand that some of these people carry diseases like in Mexico? We had the return of TV because of those caravans that were going up the border. They don't even get that? You're bringing up a pretty sensitive and broad topic here, but it is important. There was a story out of Belfast, Ireland about a Sudanese man who attempted to behead an individual in broad daylight. There is video of it. They've got the guy, the perpetrator under arrest and there's been significant protest in the region, including some burning of buildings. The Irish people appear to be fed up with this. The question that I pose, because I think, Eduardo, that Europe may be a lost cause at this point. If you look at what has happened with the population of some of these immigrant classes, they were very smart in populating some of these countries, some of these cities, and then overpopulating and eventually getting a foothold to get themselves elected. I don't know if the UK will ever be the same. I don't know if Ireland has been overrun, but unless you stand up now and say we want assimilation, I think the horse may be out of the barn and it's too late to close the door. But we'll see. I know there's a lot of tension in the entire European continent over this. Sweden certainly has issues. And of course, Ireland, the UK, we could go on and on and on. It should be a good lesson to those of us here in America. Taking a break, it's Michael Pelkin. In for Chris Plant on The Chris Plant Show. America is hosting the World Cup and let's be honest, it's not quite the same. The goalie has just been ejected and given away a PK that could send it to overtime. What's this guy on about? 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The Moors from North Africa, Morocco came over in, I think, the 600, 700. I don't have the date in front of me, but they conquered the Iberian Peninsula. What is now Spain and then invaded France, what is known as Frankland at the time. And Charles Martel and the first Mayor of Injun King defeated the Moorish invasion of Western Europe at the Battle of Tours. He fast forward 1400 years or so and now through invasion by migration as opposed to force of arms, it appears that the Muslims are getting far more traction in defeating Western Europe now than they ever did. And they're also being invited in by the Europeans. So the source of their own demise is from my vantage point. Yeah, it's a troubling situation. And if people are truly interested in leaving a bad situation in wherever they are from and coming to a more prosperous country and assimilating, I don't have a problem with that. But it's coming to that country and refusing to assimilate while taking all of the advantages financially, geographically and forcing your way upon someone that causes me a problem. Not down with that, as the kids say. Thanks for the history lesson. It is accurate and terrifying at the same time. It's Michael Pelka in for Chris, Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there, integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time from startups to scale-ups, online, in person and on the go. Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com.
