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Well, Graham Plattner won his primary yesterday. With a significant chunk of the vote, which tells you everything that you need to know about where Democrats stand on really anything. The fact that that's where 72% of the vote is what he ended up walking away with.
Okay, here's the thing that a friend of mine noticed. How much is that? Did he not buy his own name? Whatever. He doesn't own GrahamPlatiner.org, and so someone bought it.
I mean, that's if you're a politician, you buy every variation of your name, right? Before you announce. Before you announce, correct. You buy every variation of your name before you get Kane is just. Have you seen it?
Dude. Cramplatino dot org. Untrustworthy, unhinged, and unfit for Maine. Oh, this is good. They get into oh man, they got all the hits.
He's such a Nepo baby such a Nepo baby. And oh yeah, they get into all the hits with it. Disparaging military, liar and a fraud. What else we got? Oh, he, oh man, all kinds of stuff.
Oh, and they have his own posts and texts and everything up here. And videos. Oh, my gosh, there's also the video. Oh, man. Oh, man.
There's a lot up there. What a more first off, didn't they have like this like boring, you know, vanilla waiver couple that was trying to find an acceptable Democrat to run and they ran him and apparently nobody vetted him? They didn't vet him. Nobody vetted Graham Plattner. They did, just not thoroughly.
No, they didn't. I think they pretended that they did. They handpicked this guy. They had recruiters who recruited him, and they admitted that they paid for a background check. These people are the dumbest people ever.
And they admitted.
Well, yeah, we missed his Nazi tattoo and like all of the other Reddit posts that he had. I mean, it was just. We get it. The activists that were behind it pulling out this story. They had to admit that, yeah, they really messed up.
Why is it only showing me, though, in Spanish the article all of a sudden just only brings it up in Spanish? I don't understand that. Yeah, interesting.
Well, I don't know. But They I mean the crazy thing about this is that They They just didn't care. They just went through. They just went through with it. They didn't know about the X's.
They didn't know about the tattoo. They acted like, oh, well, yes, we were really. We were really trying to You know, we hand-picked him, we recruited him. We didn't know. We had an extensive vetting process, they said.
I'm not kidding you, but apparently we just didn't know. One of the. It was the Wall Street Journal. The reporter spoke to, here are the activists, Daniel Morath, Leanne Fenn, and Morris Katz, three activists who handpicked Platino to challenge Susan Collins. And they were asked about the vetting process.
And Moraff said, quote, We paid a nice firm a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back.
Some of what you've seen on the news we got back, other stuff we didn't. What? I don't even know. And they're like, did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial? No.
They had no answers for this. This is just cringe to death. Cringed to death, they did not vet this guy. You had a goofy activist that went out and they thought they had somebody. All they did was they go out and they go, Oh, wait, veteran?
Okay, we can use that. We can use that, sure. Uh-huh. That's all that that's how they did it. Is that not super embarrassing?
They're not very good at this. But he won, so he's going up against Susan Collins. And. I just hope we don't have to dump a ton of money into this race because it's, I mean, There are we got a lot of ground that we got to cover, and I just feel like the RNC is behind the game. But I think that platiner is actually going to be in some trouble.
Because looking at some of this I a lot of you have to remember a lot of the voting that Is being counted as support for platinum. That's a lot of early voting that happened before all of this stuff broke.
So I don't know. There there's also the theory that a lot of people Voted for Plattner in the Senate because he'd be easier for Susan Collins to beat. Because remember, he was up against the governor. Janet Mills. Who is running for Senate?
And they think that he would probably be easier to beat so that I don't know. We'll see. But. I don't know. He's But I we'll see.
It's going to be tough though. Susan Collins isn't even really a Republican. I mean she's Probably, maybe. I think she's one of the most liberal, if not the Liberalist. Of all.
I think in the Senate, she's super, super lefty. But we'll watch all this. We've got an Ireland as well. Ireland now. has All of the businesses in and around, not just Belfast, but in and around some other areas.
is uh oh they're shutting down early. I'm looking at some of the the I'm looking at X right now. because they're so far ahead of us in time zone.
So they're shutting down early. And uh oh boy. I'm just saying. They had a lot of hell raised yesterday. I don't know if you saw some of the videos and the photos.
And this, of course, was all: there's a bus on fire. This was all due. to the uh Su the Sudanese national. who was videotaped. in the middle of the road.
cutting off, trying to cut off the head. of an Irishman. And this guy, it was discovered, was in the country On an asylum, he was an asylum. He had a five-year I think it was his visa, it was for five years. He came over in February of 23.
Through Paris to Dublin. And then in September, that's when he was granted this asylum, he was granted asylum, five years. But there were flames everywhere in Belfast last night. Furious protesters, they rioted. I mean, they were torching targets, people were clashing with police.
They even were apparently going door to door and kicking indoors.
Now They call it anti-immigrant unrest. They have every right to feel that way, by the way. They have every right to feel that way. There were multiple houses set on fire. Here's the difference between some of You know, the things that we have seen.
A lot of people talk about George Floyd and they try to make these comparisons. George Floyd was a drug addict. who was held up as an icon by people who hate the West. That it's always a proxy war for a way to undermine the West, right? Here you have a government that has allowed scores of people.
To invade a sovereign nation and attempt to colonize it. There's no attempt at assimilation. They've been victimized, they have been attacked, they have been persecuted, they have been bullied by these people who are treated as a protected class. by their government. And now after that video, that just was sort of the tipping point.
If the government is not going to protect the sovereignty of a nation, then the people will. And so they were going door to door. I w they look. Were they not warned? Were they not warned that something like this could happen if you allow the lawlessness to continue?
if you allow good people to continually be targeted. This is going to it's going to happen.
So that's What was, I mean, and they're being described as though they're anti, this is thuggery, this is anti. Immigrant. It's thuggery. You know what Thuggery is? Thuggery was trying to cut somebody's head off in the middle of the street and expecting an entire nation to be fine with it.
Thuggery was the stabbing of a mother to death not long before that. Thuggery is targeting girls in Scotland, for instance, and following them around after you sexually proposition them with a video camera. Thuggery is allowing a young man to bleed out because you're too afraid. of his assailant simply because of his skin color. That's thuggery.
This is a reckoning. And they were warned: enough is enough. And it's colonization. People act like that's a politically incorrect thing. People who are stupid act like it's a politically incorrect thing.
It is an absolutely 100% accurate statement to say. It is invasion without The uh con the munitions of conflict. It is a form of asymmetrical warfare, without firing a shot. All designed to subdue and subjugate an entire nation by playing to the excesses of their ridiculous progressive ideologies and exploiting those excesses. That's exactly what this is.
And so they say, oh, this is anti-immigrant. The intimidation is what has been done to the people who live there by invaders. That's intimidation. I read a story in Britain how they were saying that. Noting the number of people who take their prayer mats and they stop streets and they, you know, do their prayer to Mecca five times a day.
And people were saying that. You know, they're doing it in the middle of the road and they're shutting down traffic. It's not because they're devout, it's because they are. staking a claim. Making you uncomfortable and staking that claim, just like the men that took their prayer rugs outside of a Jewish school in New York.
Last month. It's not because there was no room in the mosques nearby. It was designed to be intimidating. It was designed as a form of intimidation. It was designed as a way to plant the flag.
And then they're the racists that are doing this and they act like you're racist for noticing it. They're trying to brainwash you. And you know what? You have the Marxists that are helping them. That's the alliance.
So it was burning in Ireland. Protesters were torching cars, they were torching homes even, and apparently they were targeting some of the people that are living there illegally. They were apparently targeting illegal immigrant communities. They've been telling the government They had the First Minister for Northern Ireland. I think we have this video.
This was the thing that she decided to do. After She, after the stabbing, after all of this, what cut is this? This is the. This is the first minister. Oh, it's a statement?
Oh, I thought we had a video of this.
Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, she said that she comes out, and this is the first thing that she did. She's the Michelle O'Neill, she's the first minister for Northern Ireland. And she's reassures the migrant community following the Belfast attack. Apparently we've got lawn maintenance right outside of the window again.
She reassured the migrant community following the attack. She says, I say to all our migrant community that we have no tolerance for hatred, for division. This is a society that is welcoming. Why is she making this statement? Why is she making this statement?
Someone had about damn near had their head sawed off in the street. And this is the statement that she's making. This is crazy. She said it was outright thuggery. She was angrier at the protest than she was the attempted beheading.
In fact, I can't find any harsh words that she had for the attempted beheading. None. And then you wonder why the anger and the rage is so hot. Either Ireland can deal with its issues or the people there sure as hell will. That's for sure.
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So Bill Gates arrived in Washington, D.C. for a Capitol Hill hearing today on the Epstein and the Epstein case and also apparently the accusation that Epstein was using Gates' marriage woes. As blackmail material, leverage to keep him in line. And Gates was, this is like the second, third time I've heard him say this. He was telling everyone, I'm glad to be here voluntarily.
I'm voluntarily here giving testimony. I'm here to give testimony voluntarily. Did anybody force you to be here? Yeah, in a prepared opening statement, he told committee members that he never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct. I don't know if I believe you.
I don't know if I believe you. I'm still mad at him over the ticks. the ticks and all that other stuff. Oh, let's see. Diddy, I've just, I don't know, you got accused of sexually assaulting a child actor.
I'm not surprised by this. I'm not surprised at all. Yeah, it totally tracks. A court overturns convictions tied to the Whitmer kidnapping plot, the FBI plot, to try to get people to pretend that they were going to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, Big Gretsch. State appellate court vacated the convictions of Joseph Morrison, ruling the trial judge had provided flawed instructions to the jury.
So it's a technicality. It was a three-judge panel that determined the guy was prosecuted under a flawed interpretation of state law and that jurors were provided with faulty instructions before they deliberated. The prosecutor said in the buildup to the 20 election that they had disrupted a plot to kidnap Big Gretsch up there. And we call her, right? I mean, hell, she's Paul Bunyan size.
What am I supposed to call her? Like a little whitmer So they said that they raised repeated concerns, blah, blah, blah, technicality. And I think that, I mean, it was literally entrapment. That whole case was entrapment. Uh let's see.
Renton Police, this is in Washington, debut a body cam that Uh translates over 50 languages in real time.
Okay. Second. It's an Axon body cam with AI integration. Why do they need to translate 56 different languages in real time? Sanctuary cities.
Jeez, it's so stupid. Just arrest everyone. This bear. A bear wanders into I-78 and sends a New Jersey motorcyclist to the hospital with serious injuries.
Sounds like the bear just was done. Mm-hmm. It was like, I'm done with it. This is a motorcyclist, though. When I first saw this, I thought it said cyclist in one headline that I saw, and I was like, oh my gosh, a bicyclist, because I totally feel that.
But it was a motorcyclist. He was seriously injured Sunday night. He hit a bear. Or did the bear hit him? I mean You know, he was driving.
You know why? It's because Harley Davidson's gay. And their motorcycles ran into that bear. We're gonna talk. No, no, no, no, no.
Hold up, hold up. They're implicated in my woke segment coming up, right? He was riding on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle when a bear entered the roadway and was like, stop, you gay motorcycle. And that was, the bear didn't do that. But he did kill the bear.
They didn't say whether the bear was killed in the crash or euthanized afterwards. I could have saved him. Just saying. But yeah, I mean, you got to be careful riding your bike at night because you could hit a bear in New Jersey. I mean, and not like an actual bear, not like the ones that wear the plaid shirts with the sleeves ripped off, and they're big and tough looking, but they talk like this, not that.
A totally different type of bear. I felt like I really needed to explain that because it's 2026 and it's weird out here. A woman sues Outback Steakhouse for a million and a half dollars says she slipped on mashed potatoes. Yeah. Loudon County, Virginia.
What the hell goes on in that county? Is it something y'all's water? What is happening? She's seeking $1.5 million, according to court documents. Tracy Renshaw filed the suit.
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So, we are looking at what's going to be a matchup between. Graham Plattner The Nazi. Literally. and uh s uh Susan Collins. Which is going to be the weirdest thing.
Now, what gets me. is that Graham Plattner beat the Democrat governor. Of me? Janet Milth. He beat Janet Mills.
Now, you're Janet Mills. You're the governor. You run for Senate thinking that it's going to be A relatively not an easy win, but that it's something that you're going to come out on top of. You don't have a complicated Reddit history. You know, you don't have weird tattoos that of like S S guards.
You don't have texts where you talk about your weird tattoos and why you chose them because it was an SS card tattoo and how much you love SS. You don't talk about any of that. There's nothing like that. You're not like reportedly violent with your exes. And you, Ron.
And you don't. just lose. You lose Because you lost 72% of the vote. They chose a Nazi over her. She has to like sit there.
And think they actually picked A Nazi. Over me. Gina Mills, the voters did. That is oh, it's so sad. She's sad now.
She's so sad. Look at her. She's so sad. They picked a Nazi over her. She was like, Remember, I'm in this race too, guys.
It's me, Gina Mills. I'm not the crazy Democrat. And they said, no, Gina Mills, we want the Nazi. With the Totenkoff on his chest. The guy tubens it.
And John Porter John's. We want that guy. Mm. They can understand. I'd be sad too, man.
If I was Janet Mills, I'd be sad too. That uh what is the website? Graham Plattner. Yeah. He did not secure that.
I don't know how you can go to that website. And think Wow, the Republicans are really going to hold back. I think he really believed his own hype. Oh my gosh, he's going to be completely destroyed, I think, in the primary. But I think it's going to cost some money, for sure.
I think it will cost him some money. That's going to be a very interesting. Everybody's going to be watching the Tallarico versus Paxton, and then they're going to be watching the. Uh Plattner versus Collins. Senate race.
Those are the races that they're going to be watching. Just fascinating stuff. You know who's not going to be running in a race anymore? Oh yeah. It's uh Jasmine Crockett.
We got a couple things from her. Here, by the way. Um but wait, before we go there, can I play? Is this Platiner's where he's talking about redemption? Yeah.
Can we play cut six? Good sixteen. Why would you need redemption? I thought you were innocent. Go ahead.
Love and redemption. Wait, what? Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. It's a journey. I've made mistakes and I made mistakes that I regret that I live with.
that I continue to learn from. Wait, I thought you said you didn't do anything wrong. Far from perfect. I thought he said he didn't do anything wrong, so why would he? Why would he have to have redemption?
I'm just Fascinating. This is, by the way, what POTUS said about Graham Plattner. This is cut 33. Oh boy. Let her riptator chip.
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, I 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. By the way. Listen to this real quick before we talk about Jasmine Crockett. This is cut 32.
Same thing. POTUS, watch. Inflation to come down between that. When the war is over? Yes.
It's coming down. I know you can't. It's going to come down like a rock. And. Uh again, we're taking out maintenance.
which I'm just announcing today for the first time. But we've been taking out millions of barrels. A boil. millions of barrels. Every night, took out oil.
But now I'm going to tell you because they just figured it out.
So now that they figured it out, I can tell you. It was very hard for me. I wanted to say it so lambly, but I didn't want to ruin it. But it was very hard. But millions of barrels of oil has come out.
That's why it said $85, $90 a barrel instead of $250. But We have The greatest military in the world, the toughest military in the world, just the best in every way, nobody even close. There's no military that's even close. I rebuilt it during my first term. I'm using it now.
When This conflict is over. Todd said, please go into conflict, right? As opposed to the World War. He didn't like the World War, but it's sort of a conflict. It's a military operation.
When it's love it. Love it. By the way, Lorraine reminds us too that Janet Mills fought Trump over men and women's sports. Do you remember when they had that press conference and he was like, Yeah, you, Janet, you're never going to win another race again? Oh.
We all remember that. All right, let's get cut nine ready. Jasmine Crockett was reacting to the Carmelo Anthony. Verdict? And I'm going to lay this out on the table.
And you just, here it is. Here's the video, cause oh boy. Black women Especially black women who have. Black. male children.
Live in fear and agony every single day. Of fear and agony that I promise you. The Metcalf's probably never Spend a day. Living that way. And we're gonna have to have just some real conversations about race in this country.
So It was okay that he got stabbed to death because he's not black. Is that What I heard, right? Oh, here she is giving you her. Her Expert opinion on how the knife that That Carmelo Anthony used to stab Austin Metcalfe to death wasn't actually a deadly weapon. This is cut eight.
Listen. Awful forest. Was it a switch? I don't know what he had. It was like a, it was, it seemed like it was a multi-tool, almost like a Swiss army, like with the, yeah, like with the little scissors and everything, and whatever.
So it was small. There you go.
Well, I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn't even think it's a deadly weapon. If it was one of the little, like, I don't know. Like, I knew.
Well, that's why he went to his coach and was like. But I don't think I hurt him that bad. Wow. Uh Are you kidding me? He had a knife he took a knife to a track.
Me He had a weapon. It was uh described In the court documents, a partially open pocket knife. But what does that matter? He stabbed him. He stabbed him.
Well, it didn't really stab him if it wasn't like a knife knife. It's not really like murder, murder, right? Because as you know, like it has to like be a weapon like for it to like be murder. That's her brilliant reasoning.
Now you can see why she got redistricted out. Democrats didn't even want her because she's too crazy. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. You know what? These are the same people, by the way.
They get, they're so, they're so insistent that Carmelo Anthony was defending his life. These are the same people that went.
so hard on um Kyle Rittenhouse for defending his life. Right? They didn't want to give, they didn't want Kyle Rittenhouse to defend his life because he's white. That all these people while I don't think that the murder itself Stemmed from a racial animus. I think everything that happened after absolutely did.
And all of these people, they went so hard. Remember, in Rittenhouse, when he. Fired his rifle in self-defense. One of the guys attacking him was literally a convicted domestic abuser. Like, didn't he beat up his mom or his grandmother?
I can't remember which one it was. I think it was the grandmother. The other guy literally had just gotten out of jail because he was a convicted sex offender. Those are the people that were attacking him. And it was all on camera.
They were trying to kill him. And they did not want Kyle Rittenhouse. to be able to defend his life. And then you have Carmelo Anthony, who walks into this tent uninvited. And according to all of the eyewitnesses, he started it and refused to leave.
He would not leave the tent.
Now, remember the witnesses that went before the jury. Over half of them were black witnesses, since the left is now trying to make this a racial issue. Over half of them were black witnesses, and they all said the same thing. Carmelo Anthony was the instigator, the agitator. He refused to leave our tent.
He started this. This is like, it reminds me what happened in the days after Mike Brown. And going to trial, and everyone tried to act like that was a big giant, like witch hunt. And they ignored the fact that Bob McCullough is one of the biggest far-left prosecutors in all of the Midwest. And he couldn't even get a conviction on this.
They ignored the fact that you had, you know, Eric Holder's independent forensic report. You had three different independent forensic reports, and then Eric Holder even investigated and the way that the process was unfolding. They couldn't even get anything on it. And then you had the witnesses that went before the grand jury. I think all of the witnesses were black that went before the grand jury and they testified exactly what that's, I mean, what they told the jury is exactly why the jury ended up not convicting the officer in that case because.
Mike Brown was in the wrong. He was fighting with a cop and all the forensic. He had gunpowder residue on his hand in a manner completely consistent with wrestling for the gun and getting your finger in the trigger guard. That's exactly what he did, which is why they found the residue on his hand the way that they did, and a mark on his hand from the fire, from the pistols firing. All of that.
This is crazy. And they want to discount all of this stuff. and make it a racial issue now. And instead, maybe find out why was this young adult male. Why did he feel like arming himself with a knife and then just going and starting problems at a track meet?
I mean, watching the way his mom is handling this stuff and his dad, I mean, the mom is handling this stuff. I mean, you have clearly, he gets it from some of his parents. He was not raised right, and that's incredibly unfortunate. You had a ton of other black students there that had no problem. They were there, and they were horrified at what they were seeing.
Oh no, but Carmelo Anthony's family got to make it about race because those parents could not raise their child properly. And now everybody's got to suffer because mom and dad are deadbeats. Mom and dad could not raise their kid to grow up and not stab anybody. Mom and dad could not raise their son to be a gentleman. Mom and dad could not raise their child to not go to a school, their young adult male child, to not go to a school with a knife and start problems with an opposing team.
All of the other black students that were there. had no issues.
So nonsense. How sinful is that that they're out there pushing this race angle? This young man wanted to start problems. He wanted to start Problems, and he was pushing it because he knew no matter what he was going to do. He was going to come out on top because he had a blade.
And then they try to make it a self-defense issue. How is it self-defense when you are the antagonist? You seek the conversation, you refuse to leave. And you keep trying to escalate it. One of the things the witnesses said is that And Lorraine has a really good write-up of this, by the way, up at Substack.
And she gets into the blade as well because it was a long blade. I mean, I think it was under four inches. But I remember it was from looking at the court documents. It was long enough to where it pierced right into his heart. I mean your heart Is Yeah.
It's protected. That's pretty serious to get that far into your chest. into your chest cavity, bypassing bone and hitting your heart. It literally pierced his heart.
So it wasn't just like some all-purpose tool. That's just ignorant. But all those other witnesses And I hope, by the way, I hope the family, I hope they never find out, I hope they don't target these other witnesses. Because I feel it was some there were some very brave black students. who spoke up too and said no.
That is exactly not what happened. This is what happened. And they bravely and honestly told the jury, this is what we saw. And one all corroborated the other one. It's just so unfortunate.
And they were trying to make this. They were trying, the family was trying to turn this into something. they were trying so hard. I just find that like to stand outside the court trial and scream, it's racism, it's about race, to scream that. What is the matter with you?
And you know this dude had photos of himself all over, with knives and guns and all kinds of stuff. The photo that Lorraine has up on her piece over at Chapter and Verse is I mean, that dude looks demonic. That is an evil influence. He's going to have 35 years behind bars.
So she notes that the jury rejected the defense's request for a sudden passion mitigating factor. And uh Just Wow. He ended up having a public defender.
Now, how is the mom, how are they buying a new house and a new car and all this stuff? But they could not afford, they could not stop and purchase an actual decent attorney. For their son? What does that tell you? What do you think this young man was reacting to?
Because it sounds like, quite frankly, his mama doesn't care. She's gonna scream racism from her brand new car as she drives back to her big old new house. She's going to cry racism. Bought all those things but you couldn't afford an actual attorney. You have a public defender for your child, and you're going to call yourself a mother?
Reason your son's losing 35 years of his life is because you're a shoddy, horrific parenting lady. Shame on her. I mean The sad thing is, too, is that he did this.
Now he's going to go to prison for thirty five years. And what's going to happen? His heart's going to harden even more. Thirty-five years when he gets out. He's gonna be what?
Late forties, fifties? By the time he gets out, what's that world gonna look like? He's going to be so far removed from it, and his heart is going to be so hard. What is that? Because I don't think that he's going to have any kind of comfort from his family while he's incarcerated.
I bet they just move on with their money and they don't even look back. Clearly, they were already doing that during the trial, which is why he was left high and dry with a public defender only.
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Okay, I immediately have to go with this first. Let me pull this up. This first one that I saw. This, I'm going to get to the burglary on burglary, but I need to talk about the guys who. Just go through it.
A Florida man, he crashes SUV, then he carjacked the lady that stopped to help him. Before he then drove to Chick-fil-A and stole a french fry from a child. The hell? Busy day. Uh Is it It's a 46-year-old Florida man.
He crashed his SUV, and then the woman who stopped to help him, he carjacked her.
So then he takes her vehicle, he's driving to Chick-fil-A. Cory Coddingdon, what a name. And then he grabbed a French drive from a kit. He drove to the nearby Chick-fil-A. Witnesses said that he was covered in blood when he got out of his car.
And a guy goes, Are you okay? And he replied, Does it look like I'm okay? And then he walked up to a kid and just took a fry right from the kid and then said he wanted a milkshake. The child got a new order of fries for free, but apparently Cody Coddington was not done. He then walked to a gas station where cops confronted him.
He was combative with cops. They took him into custody. He was arrested and taken to hospital for treatment. They got a ton of MDMA, aka Molly, on him. And I love this r this These people that were there just trying to eat their food at Chick-fil-A, they go, We're not from here.
We don't see this every day. That was their direct quote. Oh my gosh.
So he got charged with all kinds of stuff, including aggravated assault. Carjacking, petty theft, and leaving the scene of a crash. And I think there were additional charges of like fighting with law enforcement, et cetera. On this Florida man, okay, this is. He was arrested for burglary while he was on his way to court for.
Burglary. I mean, you know, yeah, there's something that's, you know, Cape Coral. The man who was accused of burglarizing an R V in Cape Coral. Uh he was while en route to court for a prior burglary. Apparently, the guy attempted to break into a family's RV Monday while they were inside.
He tried to open the lock door multiple times before he disconnected the R V from its power source. The family said that the man was wearing women's clothing.
So it sounds like he was dressed like Peg Bundy. He was wearing leggings, a tank top, and a small backpack. By the way, ladies, when you're wearing leggings with heels or like as pants, you look like Peg Bundy. Stop it, Google it. You know, I'm right.
They found 34-year-old Devin Turner. He was on his way to court searching for clothing to wear. According to the body camera video, officers determined that he attempted to unlawfully enter an occupied dwelling with intent to commit theft. His previous date was for burglary. Oh, by the way, he also had lots of math on him.
He also had meth when they arrested him, so he got that charge as well. Seems like he's going to have a lot of charges that he has to deal with, just saying. A uh Florida Man was brutally dragged for using chat GPT to to text his date. How many people have done this? I know South Park had a whole episode on it.
So, um, this guy apparently. The woman said that she felt like I hate stories like this because they don't use people's names. And that's just their avatar. I really don't give a rat's backside what happens to someone named Healer Moonchild.
Okay. You're over there laughing. Healer Moonchild was very suspicious over this Florida guy texting her. And oh my gosh, this is written so poorly. I don't even know what the hell's happening.
Like, what is the gist of this story? I'm already bored to death. I'm five paragraphs in and I have no idea what the hell's happening. I read it, and apparently, either the guy is really thoughtful and articulate in his text, or it's AI. And that's what this girl is.
Her name is Healer Moonschild. Do you honestly think that anybody's going to be that thoughtful and talking to someone named Healer Moonchild? Healer Moonchild. If I'm that guy, cutting and running. Dude, I'm saying.
Cutting and running. Yeah, I am too.
Well, and people can't they find out like if you use AI? That's what I always don't they use that in classrooms and all kinds of stuff. They can find out whether or not you're actually using AI. Yeah, okay, that's what I thought. Let's see, we got a couple.
Oh, I'm not reading that one. Oh, so not.
Okay, uh, here's one for you. A Florida man was arrested because a ring camera showed him riding a tricycle up to a home and stealing their garden gnomes. Was it? Is that real? I swear to you, it's literally from CVS.
This is literally an actual real story. I am not joking with you.
Okay. North Fort Myers. A woman got a surprise because her lawn gnomes kept going missing, and they found out who it was. The culprit, according to Lee County Sheriff's Office. was a dude riding a tricycle.
And he tricycled up to her yard, got out, stole her lawn gnomes, and then rode away with the lawn gnomes. Yeah. That's some dedication. And he's on the ring camera. Why that is not shared with the world, I will never get over this.
I will never forgive this police department. I mean, obviously, they got the guy for theft, but the fact that they didn't make that video, like share it far and wide, never gonna forgive for that. Third hour next. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program our friends over at Patriot Mobile. It's the only Christian conservative cell phone service that exists.
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I'm not sure. But This is a synchronized walking. They have competitions for this. That's not synchronized. They had a horrible start already.
I mean, and it's just, this is like the worst ever I've ever seen. I've never even seen synchronized vlogging. This is the dumbest thing. If this comes to the US, I will riot.
So it's a Japanese thing. How? This is so weird. This is, they do, they judge them on this synchronized walking. They're not even really that synchronized.
Are those like skiing poles they're using? You know what? I don't even know if it is. This is like the people who ride a hobby horses. They didn't even get started properly.
They got started not even at the same time. And this is just bad. It's not very good. I'm an expert on this now, having watched it for 10 seconds, a whole 10 seconds, Kane. I'm pretty much an expert on the synchronized walking, and I'm going to say that no, they get a fail, they get an absolute fail.
Oh, and now they're going to walk around the other way? Oh wow, such talent. Less synchronized, yeah. I mean, like at least make it so much. What are all these people just sitting here watching them walk?
This is what is this? And they're not even that synchronized. I'm sorry, but they're not. They're not that synchronized. Is this sport?
Oh my gosh, I don't know. I really don't know if it is or not. But I find it all so weird. Anyway, I don't want to see that in the United States. I mean synchronized swimming, fine.
But Anything else, the hobby horse stuff, that's ridiculous. I mean, I think that sometimes people need to get bullied. Just saying. I don't know. This is just all crazy.
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So we had the story yesterday about smartphones reducing the birth rate.
So now we're looking at Gen Z is rejecting. $200 dates and choosing solo maxing. And they say dating apps are taking a hit. Wait, $200 dates? They think that dates have to cost $200.
Oh, then you have it. What do you think about dinner, movie? Or Uber, possibly, if you're doing drinks.
So, yeah, a date can be a $200 night.
Okay, how about you just like go and have some coffee? I think that's the case. Go and meet up and have a go to the park and then walk around, do something free. Look at that. I love that.
And then just test it out. And if you guys do, you know, go through the free thing and you like that, then maybe start at the park, meeting at the park, walking around. Yeah. Then go and maybe have some coffee. Yeah.
And then build to that. We're on the same page as that guy. Yeah. Solo maxing. That's literally the name of an anime.
Okay. So solo leveling, really, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like right there though, you know what I mean? I'm so tired of maxing.
Oh my gosh.
Just learn how to like do levels, right? Just do levels like that. Don't stop dating because you know, we can't have our birth rate take a hit because you're all weirded out over social media. Oh, I don't care about the Denver thing. I really don't.
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