Badlands Daily: 7/7/26 - World Cup Wussification, Midterm Polls & Petro's Colombia Bombshell
CannCon and Ghost open with a spirited breakdown of Team USA's rough World Cup exit, turning a soccer flop into a broader riff on masculinity, culture, and why Europe just can't stop flopping (literally). From there the guys pivot through sponsor shoutouts before diving into the Platner scandal roiling Democrat primaries, a fresh batch of midterm polling that has both parties spinning their own narrative, and Gavin Newsom's latest legislative threats over ballot security. The back half goes full geopolitics: NATO summit optics in Turkey, Meloni's quiet chess game in Italy, and a wild, still…
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