In a session filled with humor, insight, and practicality, Dana Lash hosts an engaging dialogue with Colonel Allen West at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas. They debate on pressing issues such as the military’s evolving ethos, the complexities of applying military solutions to border security, and the political landscape of Texas and Florida. Adding to the mix are nuggets of advice on getting things done with ease and managing administrative entanglements through products like Grainger.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s Florida Man. All right, so first up, we had Florida woman Amber send us a story, and I am not reading it. I don’t even know how I began to read it. Well, let’s see. So we’ve got… Oh, boy. A Florida man was arrested after hitting a police officer in the face with a snowball. They got enough snow, I guess, down there to make. Now, if it was on the beach where he did this, there’s going to be a sandy snowball. That would hurt. So he was arrested. He hit an officer in the face with a snowball. It was a snowball flight that escalated into chaos. And this 22-year-old man who threw the offending ball was arrested. It was in Tallahassee, and there were people throwing snowballs at cars passing by on Madison Street. Citizens were complaining. Fox 35 Orlando says that then police had to respond, and authorities said you can’t throw stuff, including snowballs, into a moving vehicle. That’s a felony. But then when the participants… when the police arrived the snowball people turned on the cops and they began throwing them throwing snowballs at the police one hit someone’s cruiser another one got hit right in the face they had to give them warnings over the pa system apparently it was a crowd it’s described as a crowd they ignored commands to disperse and the snowballs were flying so police were like All right, you brought a snowball to the fight. We’ll bring pepper balls. And they didn’t cause any injuries, but they did use pepper balls. You’re just sitting over there smiling so much about that. I don’t know how to. I mean, yes, you shouldn’t throw snowballs at passing cars, but I just think this whole thing is hysterical.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think it’s hilarious that snow in Florida and then this is what happens.
SPEAKER 06 :
They decide it’s combat. It snowed. It’s time for combat. Oh, no. We had that one yesterday. So, let me… Oh, gosh. I don’t want to read this one that Florida Woman Amber sent. She’s the one who I think… And I know she’s cackling right now. She tries to look for the most offensive stories possible.
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Oh, no.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, broadcasting live from SHOT Show in Las Vegas. And he cracks me up every single time we talk. My very good friend, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. Oh, now you’re standing up. Colonel, come on. Well, yeah, I have to stand up. He told me he goes, play back in black because I’m black. And it almost, at first I thought he was saying a lyric, and then I stopped and looked at him. It was a riot. It’s good to see you. And you’re dressed in black. And I’m dressed, because I can’t dress myself. It’s easy. It’s good to see you.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s good to be seen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Looked nice and rested. I’m all good. We were talking, and everybody knows Alan West, because you have your own program that you do, and you do a great job. I can’t catch all, I can’t catch it. I only watch a few people. You’re one of the people I actually do watch, but I can’t watch every episode. That’s humbling. I like your commentary.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
I like the way you approach stuff, and it’s just very matter-of-fact. But you and I were talking, because we were getting into some of the deportations and the illegal crossing. The Marines are heading to the border. We don’t know exactly where yet.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
But what you were telling me is that… what they really need to be focusing on is that Big Bend area, which is incredibly mountainous. That terrain’s difficult because that’s where you said the real baddies are coming in.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s where the people, the gotaways, the people that don’t want to be detected and caught. And as a matter of fact, when you go out there and you talk to the Border Patrol in the Big Bend sector there, Alpine, Texas, and and what have you, they actually put carpeting on the bottom of their shoes so they can’t be tracked.
SPEAKER 06 :
To hide their tracks.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. So these are some serious actors out there, and you know those mountain passes. That’s not easy terrain.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it’s not.
SPEAKER 08 :
So while we’re focusing on the kids and the women and everyone that’s coming across in Del Rio, Eagle Pass, whatever, the bad actors are coming out there in West Texas.
SPEAKER 06 :
How do you even begin to enforce that in that area? I mean, drones seem like it’s the easiest thing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you’ve got to have drones. You have to have aerial surveillance. You have to have bodies on the ground because, you know, this is just the same as, you know, us being over in Afghanistan or these type of places where you have that mountainous record.
SPEAKER 05 :
That is a good point.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s why you need to have military down there. This is not just a law enforcement type of thing. And we send our military to provide security on everybody else’s border.
SPEAKER 06 :
We built a pier outside of Gaza. Oh, no. And we had some of our men injured.
SPEAKER 08 :
How did that work out?
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, so well. Yeah. Like everything Biden does.
SPEAKER 08 :
Feed Hamas. Feed Hamas.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Let’s give them supplies that they’ll just sell back on the black market. Yeah. That’s actually a really good point. Because they know how to do this. And they know that terrain. They know. That’s what they’ve trained in. They know it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and so to have the Marines down there or get someone like the 10th Mountain Division out of the United States. Absolutely, that’s their whole thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, that sounds fun.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my gosh, the 10th Mountain Division, Kane, get them out there to handle it. Because that’s, you’re right, nobody ever talks about it. Every now and then it comes up, but honestly, because it’s a scary area when you think of it. It’s beautiful, and then you realize, ooh, cartels, ooh.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, sure. You go out and you talk to the folks there in Alpine, Texas, and they will tell you, yeah, we always have these folks that are transiting across our ranches. We see them all the time. I was out there one time eating at a restaurant, and the restaurant owner said, yeah, we see the illegals just come right across, and they just continue on. And it’s always single military-age males out there, and those are the ones we need to be focusing on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Isn’t that the area where like two or three years ago there was a couple jet skiing in the lake in that area, the Big Bend area? Like on the border. Or no, in the Rio. They were actually in the river. And he was shot and killed.
SPEAKER 08 :
The husband was shot and killed by cartels? Well, absolutely. Because the cartels on the other side, guess what they have? They have observation posts. In the military, we call it LPOPs, listening posts, observation posts. And so they’re looking across and they’re making sure that no one is paying attention to their infiltration routes and things of this nature. And they have scouts that are out just as well. So that’s why this is a military operation. And President Trump has the right perspective. and putting our forces down. This is not a violation of posse comitatus.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is protecting your border. I’m so glad you said that.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s not. We’re not employing the military against American citizens. We’re employing the military against invaders.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because, you know what, what you just said, let me stop on that for a minute, that’s huge, because the states, so I remember when Jan Brewer in Arizona was trying to, and the DOJ came down on her like a ton of bricks to stop her from enforcing security and border enforcement, dealing with border enforcement in her area. But she had the right to do that as a governor. So it was weird for the federal government to say, you can’t enforce this because it’s a federal government matter. Well, then the federal government, then that you just… gave the argument, well, then you can send the military. That’s the whole point.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s a federal issue. The whole point is that in Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution, which is known as the Guarantee Clause, the federal government is supposed to protect every state in the union from invasion. So if they don’t do what they’re supposed to do, Article 1, Section 3, Clause 10, Clause 3, says exactly what states can do when the federal government fails so that they can secure themselves and they can do it with impunity. It lays down every means of resource. So if the federal government does not do their constitutional duty, the states have a right to do that. And it was just amazing during the Biden administration that they tried to bring the hammer down and, of course, during the Obama administration as well.
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Talking with Colonel Allen West, if you’re all watching the simulcast, Channel 347, DirecTV, or if you’re listening across the country, I had a conversation with someone in Army Futures Command a couple of weeks ago, and they were talking about recruitment. And everyone seemed a little hopeful, you know, after maybe, you know, the election. This actually was before the election. I need to modify that. It was right before the election. And everyone was being very hopeful. Like maybe, you know, if this goes the right way, then, you know, we’ll be able to deal with military. And, you know, we have a problem with recruitment and messaging. And I spoke up and I said, well, respectfully, if I can be very frank, I’m like, I don’t know if messaging is your problem when you got guys at the Air Force wearing skirts and lipsticks and they’re, you know, like the top of the food chain up there. And then you got other military leaders that are leaving our men and women to die at Abbey Gate. And you got others that are making them withhold, defending themselves and the people that they’re serving with. And then we get unnecessary fatalities. I’m like, that’s kind of what our young men, including my military age sons, and one of them is on the fence about it. That’s what they’re seeing. And they’re like, wait, if I serve and give my all to my country, is my country going to be there for me? And they couldn’t answer.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, of course he couldn’t answer that because he couldn’t give you an honest answer because he’s still in uniform. But it’s not a messaging problem. It is the actions that they saw in the previous administration that you just articulated. When people can understand their pronouns better than they can understand their task and purpose, you know, the purpose of a military, and even Colin Powell said this, is to go in and kill people and break stuff. That’s just the bottom line. You know, when I was in the military, I wasn’t trained to make, build roads and all this stuff. I was an artillery officer. I was trained to blow things up and blow people up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can I say that you have one of the most badass stories I think I’ve ever heard?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, stop.
SPEAKER 06 :
Everybody knows his story, right? He was saving lives. Yeah, you were. You were out there saving lives and they tried to come at you for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, that’s what a commander’s supposed to do. A commander’s supposed to look after his troops, because guess what? If they know that you got their back, and you’re out there, you know, hooking and jabbing with them on, you know, patrols and combat operations, they’re going to fight tough.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think Denzel could play you in a movie about your life.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don’t know. He looked pretty good in that Gladiator 2.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, I just, I feel, right? Like, if I was casting, I’d be like, okay, Denzel’s going to play Colonel West, and then we’ll fill everything else out. We’ll get, you know, maybe Angela Bassett for, you know, your wife, and, you know, get everything. I see, like, I’m really the casting director.
SPEAKER 08 :
You already casted out?
SPEAKER 06 :
I already got the movie done. You sure? It’s already done in my head, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
You think Denzel can pull off the salt and pepper flat top?
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s what I’m worried about. I don’t know if he, I think he could. I think he could. Yeah, he might be able to do it. But, I mean, you get it. And from your, how different is it from when you were in active duty to now?
SPEAKER 08 :
Totally different.
SPEAKER 06 :
That fast?
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s totally different. Yeah, it doesn’t take long. It takes, you know, the policies that come from a certain administration can change the course and direction of a military or any government agency. And that’s what we saw in these four years. And so we have a military that’s atropied. You know, if you don’t use your muscles… You know exactly what happens. So we have a military that is not trained up in the skills that it’s supposed to be trained. That warrior ethos that Pete has talks about.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was going to ask you about that.
SPEAKER 08 :
We’ve got to restore that. And that’s for men and women. Look, I understand this. I believe in fairness and all this stuff. But we do not have men and women competing against each other in figure skating.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that’s a great point.
SPEAKER 08 :
So if men and women can’t compete against each other in figure skating, how the hell are you supposed to tell me that men and women are equal on the battlefield? That dog don’t hunt. And so I think that we need to get people that have that perspective and understanding. Because there’s nothing fair about if you and I have to go mano a mano.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Oh, no. You’re going to whoop me.
SPEAKER 08 :
And you can’t change the standards.
SPEAKER 06 :
I can yell louder, but you’ll whoop me. And I’m 64. What?
SPEAKER 08 :
And I guarantee you, if I still lay the punch on awesome Dana Lash, it would probably break your jaw.
SPEAKER 06 :
I can dodge, but at some point, I’d get hit. I’m quick, but at some point, I’d get hit. I get it.
SPEAKER 08 :
So let’s get back to normality.
SPEAKER 06 :
You mentioned Hegseth. What do you think of him?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think he’s going to do a great job. I think the most important thing for Pete Hegseth is to surround himself with a stable of stallions. That means the deputy secretary, the undersecretaries, those type of folks really have to be strong to be able to implement those policies. And you’ve got to root things out seven or eight levels deep. You’ve got to get rid of all these people.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because this is multi-decades of entrenchment.
SPEAKER 08 :
Multi-decades, many layers. I mean, people call it the deep state. I just call it a bureaucratic administrative state. So, you know, the president has issued an order about all these DEI offices closing. And so what are they trying to do? They changed the name of the office like you just saw with the ATF. So I think that you have to really go in there and say you’re out.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that’s hysterical, by the way. They just, because Trump gave this order, they’ve got to get rid of all this DEI in government. And they’re like, oh, we’ll just change the position. No one will ever know. We’ll just change the title on the website.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was born in the morning, not this morning.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly. We’re talking with our friend Alan West and his last two books, We Can Overcome an American Black Conservative Manifesto and Hold Texas, Hold the Nation. Let me ask you about that, too. Hold Texas, Hold the Nation. Yeah. So two very interesting states that I’m watching. So Florida and Texas.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
And everyone always says, oh, you got a super majority. That’s great. You should be able to do everything as Republicans. We’re learning that you can’t. I mean, so in Florida, the weak Republicans, those are the ones that wanted gun control and all this other stuff. They’re fighting DeSantis and Trump because they think that they should be able to wait till March. to go into office. We don’t have that time to spare. And then in Texas, they just guarantee that Democrats can be on committee chairs. And so basically everything that we do with the Republican supermajority is going to have to get approved by Democrats.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s amazing to me because in the state of Texas, the state house has 150 seats. You’ve got 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats. Pretty easy, right? Yeah. Well, instead, you got 36 Republicans that went over and joined with 49 Democrats to select a speaker. And now you just had a rules package that passed that gave the Democrats all of this power on committees to include being able to kill legislation.
SPEAKER 06 :
Why? Why did they do that?
SPEAKER 08 :
People are just cowards. There are some Republicans that are just cowards. And I can understand why you would. Donald Trump won Texas by 15 percentage points. Ted Cruz won Texas, his Senate seat, I thought it was going to be so close, 9 to 11 points. So why do we think that we need to go and be kumbaya with these people that they’ll slit our throats? I mean, figuratively and literally.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
If they could. So I think that you’re going to see a lot of Republicans. This will be their last legislative session in the Texas statehouse.
SPEAKER 06 :
How long is this damage going to last? Because I know the big fight was to oust Dade Phelan as speaker, but it seems like now we replace Dade Phelan with Dade Phelan 2.0.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, Dustin Burroughs, which is just one of his cronies. And everyone was cheering when Dave Phelan said, I’m not going to run for Speaker. I said, it doesn’t matter.
SPEAKER 06 :
Something’s up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, something’s up. And so I think that you really got to clean house and look at those 36 Republicans that voted with the Democrats to select this guy to be our Speaker. Because by their own rules in the Texas State House, they’re supposed to select a Speaker out of their caucus.
SPEAKER 06 :
Will you come back and take over the party in Texas, please, for the love of all things holy?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’ll come back and do whatever God and Dana Lash tells me to do.
SPEAKER 06 :
So if I pray to God, like, please make Colonel Allen West come back. See, that’s a selfish prayer. It’s not, though, because I’m begging him to use the power of his servants for his glory. So, you know, can just make that happen. Ask boldly. Ask boldly, Colonel. Ask boldly.
SPEAKER 08 :
You got me.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, sister. Amen.
SPEAKER 08 :
Amen, sister.
SPEAKER 06 :
Colonel Allen West, I’m so happy to see you here, my friend. It’s always a pleasure. I’ve got to tell people, he’s one of the realest ones in this industry, in politics. I wish he’d go back into it, honestly. I get why you don’t like it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I’m the chair over in Dallas County, so we’ve got some good things we’re doing there.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s Dallas County. I mean, no offense. It’s not my county, though. I want you where I can, in my county, where it can be better for me. Terrence is a good county. I know. It’s a great county. Both French, you’ve got a good guy. Both great. But maybe take over the whole state party.
SPEAKER 08 :
I already did that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know, but do it again.
SPEAKER 08 :
You want the brother back?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Bring the brother back.
SPEAKER 08 :
Back in black.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know you guys are going to be totally shocked about this. TSA’s facial recognition tech is highly accurate, a review says. Someone else, though, said it was highly inaccurate. And I don’t know. DHS said that they had self-identified black volunteers that participated in it, and they had the lowest face-matching success rate of any demo with an overall accuracy of 98%, and that the technologies that they’re using to verify… They said that they’re trying to make… You know, when you go now, you can… A lot of them, they just take a picture of your face as you’re boarding, and now it’s supposed to… It’s not that accurate, though. They’re trying to make you feel comfortable, and they’re trying to say that it’s accurate, but isn’t this basically like the red light camera of identification? So, oh man, I’ve got questions. All right, moving on. This, oh goodness, your next Spirit Airlines flight, if you have offensive tattoos and see-through clothing, you could get kicked off. I don’t know why people, I don’t like the idea of dressing up like a hobo to get on a plane. Like, I don’t want to see your ripped sweats. I don’t want to see, like, you don’t need to be wearing leggings. Leggings ain’t pants, right? You don’t need to be wearing leggings. You don’t need to be wearing crop tops. You know, cover your ass for crying out loud. You know, you’re getting on a plane. Just, like, make it nice for other people. But they said Spirit Airlines might have to. The tattoos thing I don’t get. But, like, I guess if people are barefoot, they said, or if their clothing is lewd or obscene, then they. Oh, my gosh. If you’re barefoot and you try to get on a plane, I’m going to cut your feet off. You don’t even get a chance to put shoes on. We’re just going to cut them right off because that’s nasty with a capital. Nah, it’s gross. Also, let’s see. Quick headlines. Bucky’s is suing. It’s a Bucky’s fight. It’s a beaver fight. Bucky’s is suing North Texas, a North Texas based gas station chain over trademark infringement. It’s called Super Fuels. Super Fuels is also using a beaver. Well, they said it’s an anthropomorphic dog. It looks like a beaver. And that Bucky says it’s a complete copy of their Bucky’s Beaver. So the courts are going to duke it out in the courts. Oregon DMV is closing its East Portland location after complaints to the landlord included, quote, sewage smell, sporadic water pressure, and all kinds of maintenance problems. I mean, it is a federal government office, so it makes sense that it smells like Well, you know what I mean.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t even like the fact that they’re a DMV and they have a landlord. Like, they’re a government agency and they have some sort of landlord. Like, how do they not buy that building themselves?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that’s actually a good point. That’s actually a good point. Let’s see. The Associated Press says it’s going to change Mount Denali to Mount McKinley, but it’s not going to honor Gulf of America. The Associated Press.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s all right. I’m honoring it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, you guys can say Gulf of Mexico. I’m going to say Gulf of America. But I don’t understand the Denali McKinley thing. They said they’re renaming Denali to Mount McKinley because that’s apparently one of the that was an edict from Trump and EO. But they said that they are not going to honor anything related to Mexico or international bodies. And they said the Gulf of Mexico has carried that in for more than 400 years, etc., Oh my gosh, just call it Gulf of America, you dimwits. What’s the big deal? Just stop. They just want to fight. Additionally, let’s see here. Canada wants to help restart the Keystone XL pipeline. That’s very good news. As we’re unleashing energy and going to be resurrecting our economy, the premier of Alberta, Canada, said they would like to restart conversations with the Trump administration about re-approving the Keystone XL pipeline. Because remember… They decommissioned it, and then they began deconstructing the actual pipeline. They had to dig it up. They were digging parts of it up. So that would be great if we could get something like that back in action and reimplement that. And that’s actually, I think it’s been what, decommissioned now for a couple of years. But they were, I mean, it’s like one of the easiest ways to get crude down to Houston where it needs to go. And they’ve been very respectful of the land. This is just environmental nonsense. I want to switch gears here now with Cabinet. Audio Soundbite 18. Elizabeth Warren goes after Pete Hegseth over his drinking. Listen.
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Secretary of Defense has to be ready to go 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Look, I understand there are people who have alcohol problems, but we cannot trust the safety of our country to someone who has demonstrated repeatedly using very bad judgment with alcohol and doing it in ways that truly have incapacitated him
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OK, so that’s such hyperbole. That’s so ridiculous. I mean, he did this show. It was for Fox Nation. It was like this, you know, special that they did. And he sat down with a bunch of veterans and they had scotch. Right. And they were drinking scotch and they were having a discussion. And it was, you know, bourbon. I was part of their part of the thing. This has been extrapolated and exaggerated and modified to now mean that he is drunk all the time, 24-7, and he just keeps a flask under his desk at Fox. And that’s such a lie. But that’s how they’re trying to misrepresent all of this. It’s so dumb. And honestly, I mean, he’s a veteran. He’s, you know, 40-something years old. If he has, you know, a beer or a couple of drinks every now and then, or maybe if he’s out, you know, with friends and family and, you know, he has a couple of drinks. As long as you’re not getting behind the wheel, why is this a big deal to Laya Watha? I mean, why is this such a big deal to Focahannes? Why is this such a big deal to her? Why? I mean, remember when she was like, oh, sweetie, would you like a beer? And then her husband acted shocked. Like, who are you and what did you do with my wife? I feel like she beats him with a broomstick when there was like no cameras. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen. Can I just stop for a minute? You remember that? Like, where’s the body language experts for that? That man looked like he was whipped, didn’t he? No, I mean, not like that way, like the bad way, like he actually got gets beat with sticks or something. He she officers like, oh, sweetheart, would you like a beer? And he like flinched. Do you see him? She’s doing him stupid and not put that video up on Instagram.
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I think he was blinking Morse code. If you look at the video.
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Yeah, he’s probably like, oh, me. He’s like freaking out. That was so weird. That was like not normal behavior. You know, like you can tell interactions between couples. What’s normal and what’s put on like, oh, hey, baby, one beer. I’ll get you one. Or I’m getting me one. You want one? But then she like makes a big like even the way she was standing in front of the camera. It was it was like this. I’m going to I’m going to act it out if you’re watching. Oh, and she’s like making sure she’s posed right before the camera. Oh, honey, would you like a beer? And he looks at her and he’s like, no, you dumb broad. I don’t drink beer. You stupid dumb woman. How long have we been married? You know I don’t drink beer. And she’s like, oh, I like a cold one. And then she’s like drinking it so awkwardly. It’s the weirdest, the weirdest stuff I’ve ever seen. But I’m telling you, that’s telling you. So she has no, man, that’s a big water bottle. Golly. All the little ones were gone. So I got the big one. I got the big one. What size would you like? Grande? Big one. I’ll have that one. So, she’s attacking him. Look, I don’t know how long they’re going to hold this up. I think this one and Gabbard will be held up. Everybody else… Actually, Gabbard will probably be held up less. But I think it’s just Hegseth because he’s charismatic. And I think because he’s charismatic, I think that’s one of the… More so than the drinking. I think it’s just because… And the drinking, it’s just social drinking. Why is that a big deal? I mean, for crying out loud. You know, I had a gin martini with dinner last night. You know, you got… Big deal. You know, responsible and moderation and social just, you know, when you’re at dinner, that’s not a big deal. I’ve I’ve know him and I know a lot of people who know him and I hear gossip like you would not believe if he was a drunk and he was abusive. I would have heard about it from all of my friends that work with him and that are in the same circle. So I’ve not heard that. So I’m just saying, I think it’s part they just, he’s charismatic and they don’t like that. I think that’s a part. Isn’t there a weird reason? Because he can say something because he’s charismatic and he’s a younger dude. I mean, compare him to Millie.
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It’s the difference between pandering and connecting. And that’s what they hate about the right. The left hates the fact that they can easily connect, even though they think that they dominate.
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Because we look normal. Because our dudes don’t lob off their penises and they don’t get into skirts. That’s why. I mean, hell, we look normal. Our men are normal. Our women are normal. You know, we don’t have like dudes in skirts, you know, in the Air Force going, it’s a man. Do you like my medals? Call me. Call me, Joan. Like, we don’t have that. Our people are just like, can we just get on with the job? Can we just live our lives? Can we just do our jobs? It’d be great.
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