Hour 3 - Evette gets Trump nod. Rainbow "Kind" pin hit. Biotech mosquito tests slammed. Mail drop box security warned. Graham Platner scandal rocks Maine. episode artwork

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Hour 3 - Evette gets Trump nod. Rainbow "Kind" pin hit. Biotech mosquito tests slammed. Mail drop box security warned. Graham Platner scandal rocks Maine.

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Hour 3 of The Charlie James Show on Monday, June 1, 2026, blended local election integrity warnings with explosive breaking political scandals and cultural pushback.Segment 9: Trump's Evette Endorsement & Co-opted SlogansThe MAGA Wave: Charlie evaluated how Donald Trump’s endorsement of Pamela Evette is altering voter models just eight days before the primary.The Rainbow Pin: The conversation turned to a new Pride Month pin featuring the slogan "Make America Kind Again" in rainbow colors, which Charlie critiqued as a progressive corporate attempt to co-opt conservative messaging.Segment 10: Biotech Mosquitoes & Citizen AutonomyThe Experiment: The discussion focused on the controversial release of genetically modified mosquitoes intended to suppress insect populations.The Pushback: Charlie argued aggressively that American citizens are being used as "guinea pigs" without explicit consent, demanding that local authorities block these biotech trials.Segment 11: Mail Drop Box VulnerabilitiesPrimary Security: With early voting underway for the June 9th primary, Charlie raised alarms over the security of unattended mail drop boxes used for ballots.The Call to Action: The segment highlighted potential vulnerabilities to chain-of-custody protocols and ballot harvesting, with Charlie urging Upstate voters to bypass drop boxes entirely and cast their ballots in person.Segment 12: The Graham Platner Sexting Scandal in MaineThe Controversy: The hour closed with a look at a breaking national political scandal out of Maine involving progressive activist and legislative candidate Graham Platner.The Fallout: Charlie detailed the unfolding explicit sexting scandal surrounding Platner, using it to highlight hypocrisy within progressive campaigns that lecture voters on morality while dealing with personal misconduct behind the scenes.

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00:00 Well that last hour flew by. Let's go to the phones. We'll talk to Dee and Thomas C. How you doing my man? I'm doing good my friend. How are you guys doing? Fantastic. What's going on man? I'll just be brief. oh I just want to preface by saying how much I appreciate you and JJ and all your crew for all the information that you bring us day by day. Well thank you. you're doing a fabulous job you guys. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. All right. 00:28 aren't uh... and this uh... governor's race yet uh... uh... you know we had uh... you know through the great bond uh... here say before the uh... early voting in the primaries that uh... uh... pam a bit and maybe uh... uh... looking toward uh... uh... a uh... henrik mcmaster son right now running mate yeah uh... which is seems to be more fruit fruit fruit coming to fruition now yep uh 00:56 I honestly believe that she shot herself in the foot on this deal. 01:03 oh I don't know if she shot herself in the foot or if Donald Trump shot her in the foot. Well, that's true. That's true. And he might have it intentionally. I don't think it did her any favors. Yeah. Oh, you know what? I was at that event, the Freedom and Farm Fest this weekend. Those were the words that everybody used. I don't think it did her any favors. Exactly. 01:32 But I will say this and I uh heard on your show earlier and uh I voted last week in the early voting in the primaries. And I voted for oh Ralph Norman for governor. I'm ecstatic in his choice of Adam Morgan as his running mate. Yeah, I'm too. I think it's a darn good pick. Yes, indeed. 02:02 It'll be a step up for sure. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you, Dee. And I'm gonna try to get Adam on. I didn't want to get him on today because I know like everybody was gonna be like, so just give a little break. I'll reach out to him. I already talked to him a little bit today. It's got a Lucy in Greenville. Lucy, welcome. Hey, Charlie. Hello. Great pride. I don't think so. Yeah. I have a dear sister in Asheville. 02:30 who had her 80th birthday and for one of the party favors she gave us these really nice pins to wear that said, make America kind again. ah And so I started wearing it cause I thought, you know, that's a good idea. Well, I came across an individual who said, we love your great pride pin. went, what? 03:00 and they said, oh yeah, those are all the colors for Grey Pride. Well, I didn't give that much. thought, oh, whatever. And then the more I looked at it, Charlie, on national news, a group of protesters had these pins on and it was a man and I think his wife and his daughter, and I think she was a daughter, you know. 03:29 uh... where he's here and and they were carrying a baseball bat and they were beaten up a reporter no really that can that hit make america it and it can't be uh... all i got the hypocrisy of that is not amazing i can't i can't not can all of his and i just don't know that 03:55 and i have been another sister who keeps wearing hers and i told her the story and she said i don't believe that but guess what she's also gonna vote in the republican primary and i said why you're a democrat no no no we're republican and he were independent we're going to tend it and i think okay well then tell me out of the people running 04:24 is voting for all the rhinos. Of course. Of course. That's the plan. The David Pascos and the, um, all the ones that do not need to be in politics anymore. Yeah, that's the plan. And you know what? They could have done something about it. Lucy, I appreciate it. Thank you for the story. Could have done something about it. Could have done something about it 19 years ago, but have done nothing because they don't want to. 04:54 So now we got, well, we got what we got. And I get all these people going, Charlie, you know what we need to do? We need to close these primaries. No, you got it opposite. Nothing's going to change until we close the primaries. no ...

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