Explore the themes of transparency and accountability as we delve into claims of fiscal mismanagement within government bodies such as USAID. This episode also highlights the increasing influence of private entities, particularly in tech, in changing the dynamics of government operations. Adding a touch of humor and skepticism, the host challenges conventional political narratives, drawing connections between past and present political characters while humorously dissecting their stances on major issues like taxation and gun control.
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Now, President Trump ran for office saying, I’m going to review every single penny in the federal budget. Now, how are you going to review the spending in the federal budget without reviewing the spending? And that’s what Mr. Musk is doing. Now, many of my Democratic colleagues and some of the… the tofu eating walkerati at the usaid are screaming like they’re part of a prison riot because they don’t want us reviewing the spending But that’s all Mr. Musk is doing, and he’s finding some pretty interesting stuff. To my friends who are upset, I would say with respect, call somebody who cares. They better get used to this. It’s USAID today. It’s going to be Department of Education tomorrow. And really, here’s what’s going on. For four years under President Biden, The people in charge ask one simple question. Who needs to pay more in taxes? Who needs to pay more in taxes? Well, that’s not the question that the Republicans and President Trump are going to ask. Our question is, what the hell happened to the money? And that’s all that’s going on.
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All right, let’s drop this soundbite. So USAID, I saw a tweet the other day. It was a joke tweet. And it said something to the effect of, oh, I just lost my job at USAID. And I thought my job was to give everyone AIDS. And it’s crazy how I was. It was the joke. It was the joke. And they were saying it was crazy how long I was able to operate here under this assumption that my job was to give everyone in the USA. I thought it was funny because it was highlighting in an absurd way how no one knew what the hell was going on with this department. And I’m like, you know what? That could be true. And you don’t know because of all of the nonsense that we’ve been funding, you know, over the years with this. And now they’re, you know, they’re getting to the bottom of it. And I got to tell you, I’m a little pissed off that it’s taken this long to get to the bottom of it because you’re telling me that there was nobody else in government who figured out how to take control of all of this and start from the center and work out. I mean, really? I’m just curious. Just, that’s all? We weren’t able to, they weren’t able to do, to get into, which is essentially human relations for all of the U.S. government and the treasury system. It took them that long? I mean, am I being mean about this? I don’t feel like I am. But it’s just wild that it, That it took that long for that to happen. So welcome to the program, Dana Lash, with you. And we’re at the top of this first hour. And I’m pulling up my audio list here. So a lot of stuff happening in D.C. because we have… this ongoing cabinet hearings. And in addition to that, we’ve got the… Because we’ve got RFK and then we’ve got Gabbard. Then you have this stuff with… The USAID, which you’ve been hearing about. And we’re going to talk here in a moment about the army of nerds that Elon Musk has weaponized. I mean, the nerds waited their whole lives for a moment like this. And it’s actually a thing of beauty. I talked a little bit about this last night on social media. And so he’s weaponized this army of nerds to go after and gut all of this. The left is apoplectic still today. We’ll discuss. So we’ve got all those things happening. Then, in addition to that, you have all of this stuff with the tariffs and the… It’s not cemented, but it looks like we may be working towards some kind of deal there. And ongoing with immigration, etc. So it’s… There’s a lot of moving parts to cover. And I want to make sure we try to keep it as streamlined for you as possible because even when we’re putting stuff together, so much is happening that it’s a little over the top, Cain. I mean, it’s been a little busy here. And yes, we are all still, not all of us, but me, because Cain’s a robot and Juan is made of literally protein and granola. Juan is made of literally nothing but vitamins and protein and granola. For the love, don’t act like that’s not true. We know that’s true.
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couple beers in there.
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I’ve never seen him drink a beer.
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What?
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I’ve never seen him drink a beer. Look at you besmirching wands. Okay, that’s a different topic.
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He’s not besmirching. The guy enjoys a beer every now and again. What’s wrong with that? I don’t believe you.
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Look at him.
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I think he’s lying to me not to fit in. He’s too healthy. He’s too healthy. So a lot of stuff and we’re going to drill down all of it. And then in addition to that, I’ve got a couple of things I need you to watch out for. One of them has to do with this foreign pot company that isn’t just looking to try to take over state-by-state stuff. It is a foreign pot company that desperately wants to create for itself a monopoly in the United States. And I’m really hostile towards entities that think you’re stupid and that… exist only to enrich in themselves drive out their competition and they try to sell you with on the lie that it it’s really about freedom and it’s not so we’re gonna dive and that’s truly if we’re gonna dive into all of that a lot of stuff that you need to know and be aware of today So that’s how we’re starting out. So welcome, like I said, to the program. Dana Lash with you. Now, the hearing with RFK, he… So it’s not done. He got out of… committee. And they had, I’m pulling this up, they had Bill Cassidy who was speaking a little bit earlier. And Bill Cassidy was one who was actually against it. He was against RFK. And now it looks like he’s changing his mind. I’m still a little mad. I’m a little mad because I feel like there are a lot of pretenders out there when it comes to natural rights. And then they are completely eager to… you know, turn the other way. I think a lot of people would not like RFK Jr. If Trump hadn’t said, I like him and that’s my pick. Trump hated him. Hell, Trump didn’t even like him for a long time. I’m just pointing out how things can be confusing for folks. Trump himself did not like him. I mean, I don’t know if you guys remember, but he had like went railing on him. We’re saying that, you know, this guy’s the, he is so far left, et cetera, et cetera. And that more liberal than anybody running as a Democrat. This was just back in, you know, this was almost a year ago. It hasn’t even been a full year ago where he was blasting him on Truth Social. He even blasted him on Second Amendment issues on Truth Social. So I have all of those. And that was over at Politico. The reason I bring this up is because I’m so tired of people who aren’t who and I and I I’m not trying to sound like a jack wagon. But I got to tell you, I’m really tired of hearing from the drive-by class who do not pay attention to this stuff, who tell me that what I’m seeing and what we’re literally dealing with isn’t happening. I’m not going to be gaslit by the drive-by squad who doesn’t pay half as near attention as you and I do. For so long, it has been the policy of Health and Human Services to have doctors ask patients about firearm ownership and to cite the health epidemic of drug and gang crime as the number one reason to justify gun control. And if you think that laws have not been passed in numerous states and municipalities, literally predicated upon HHS, And they’re really weird manipulation of data to where they included 18 to 20 year olds as children so that they could drive up gun phobia with people. If you think that laws have not already been passed based on this, I’m sorry to say you have not been paying attention. New Mexico, California, Chicago, New York, even in places like Austin and Houston, Florida, elsewhere, lots of laws have been passed based on the claim from HHS that drug and gang crime, oh, that means that gun violence, excusing drugs and gangs, gun violence alone is an epidemic. And they have used that to pass a butt-ton of laws controlling your natural rights. That has literally been acting HHS policy for a number of years now. And so this is, it’s an issue because we have no assurances. It’s their current policy. RFK Jr. has made tons of comments that are absolutely worthy of being asked about. Do not be shamed, especially from some of these new cosplaying conservative influencers that are nothing but paid opposition control. That’s all they are. There are a lot of people that I’ve not seen in the streets. You can tell the real ones from the ones who are just getting paid because the ones who are just getting paid don’t ever get up off their fat asses and stop posting on X and do anything in the meat space. They never do anything. They just like moan and yell on on X. But I’m just pointing out that he has said some stuff in his past that have given me grave concern and make me think that this policy is not going to change. And not one. And you have to forgive my Portuguese, but I really hate elected officials, particularly today, because not a single one of these rat bastard Republicans had the balls to ask him about any of this. Not a single one of them. Not a single one of these senators that preen and act like they’re such Second Amendment supporters and they’re such due process supporters and they’re such free speech supporters, not a single one of them had the temerity to ask the most basic question, do you still believe the stuff that you said when you said gun owners were terrorists? I have a major problem with that. And I would expect that anyone who even sort of supports the second amendment or sort of supports your natural rights would have a problem with that too. And I get nearly violently angry when I am told that it is unpatriotic to ask those questions, which I’ve been told. I’ve been told that it’s not patriotic to ask politicians questions about their statements. I’ve watched people be called traitors. I’ve seen these dime a dozen, again, thirsty, over-inflated, over-made-up, cosplaying influencers that are going to go right back to the left in a couple of years tell other people who have literally litigated Second Amendment cases in court that it was traitorous or unpatriotic to ask questions of RFK Jr. Just get down, bend your knees, and open your mouth. That’s what they’ve been told. I’m not joking. I have a major problem with this because you and I, you all know, we’re a little rebellious. We like to ask questions of our elected officials. We don’t just take things and we just don’t accept things and go along to get along. And one of the things that you and I have in common that we definitely do not do is we do not just assume for the best outcome. We don’t assume the best outcome is going to happen. We don’t because we don’t trust the government, and rightly so. So not a single question has been asked about this. But all these same people are going to act like they’re such Second Amendment warriors when the time comes. They’re not. They’re selling you out. I find it traitorous to not ask, especially when given the opportunity. So this is a major issue. Not a single one of them have thought to ask this question yet. So we’re going to follow this. Also, coming up, Elon Musk has weaponized an army of nerds. And I don’t say that as an insult. I happen to think nerd is a compliment. I’m not saying geeks. Should we talk about the difference between that? But he’s weaponized an army of nerds to go and just start zapping all of these programs. And all the left is mad because it’s a bunch of like 20 year olds, early 20s. Not a single one of these cats are above 25. And they’re just going through and they’re basically demanding government officials. They’re zapping these programs. And then they’re saying, oh, if you’re in this department, oh, you can’t code. Get out. It’s hysterical. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a bowl of worms. There is no apple. You’ve just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair. So really, none of this could be done without the full support of the president. I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down. You know why I like nerds?
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Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. You know why I like nerds? Because they’re not dumbasses. By the way, I’m in a very George Carlin mood today, so please do not mistake me for Dora the Explorer and set your child in front of the simulcast that you might be watching, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble, because they’ll walk away with very rebellious tendencies and they might have a colorful vocabulary. That’s my only vice in life. Hands to sky. That said, you know why I like nerds? Because nerds are just who they are. And I don’t say nerd like it’s a pejorative. I think it’s just one of the highest compliments that you can bestow upon your fellow man. Because nerds get it done, right? If you got something that you need to figure out, ask a nerd. If something’s bothering you and you can’t, you know, you got to find a way around it, ask a nerd. Because the nerds know. That’s what they do. They eat. They maybe sleep or wait. And then they just do stuff. That’s what they do. Nerds figure it out. So Elon Musk. I should have played Beastie Boys Sound of Science, actually, coming into this. That’s what we should have played. We should just start this whole segment over, even though it’s live radio, because that would have been the right track to play. The group of nerds that he has assembled, they are going around. This is the funniest thing. They’re going around and firing everybody at USAID. They’re trying to figure out, they’re looking for redundancies somewhere. And they are dismantling, tearing apart all of the government waste. They have six dudes that they know of. And they’re all ages 19 to 25. Three of them are still in college. They got one guy, for instance… Who is going through a suite level clearance for their work. I’m looking at some of this. They can work on the agency’s top floor. They can access all physical spaces, IT systems, etc. And they’ve been going through and just slicing and dicing. One of them is a programmer. They’re all basically engineers at some point. They’re all nerds. And one of them wrote about it over at Substack saying, why Doge? I gave up a seven figure salary to save America. Yeah, because he’s going to have a ton of jobs after. Dude, you’re like 22 years old. You’re going to be able to have your pick of all the broads and cash in the world when you’re done. All right. So just you got to look at it as a stepping stone. You’ll have a different girl on your arm every night. All right. And you’re going to be loaded with cash. You’re going to be good. So they went and started going after you. I’m dying laughing at this because God love them. They’re such nerds. I think this one guy’s arms… I mean, I like to think that I’m big and I want Spongebob jerk arms. You know, like I… For my whole life, I’ve tried to work out to get like super cut and super giant. It’s not happening for me. It’s not in my DNA makeup. My metabolism is too fast. This guy has arms thinner than mine. This sweet little 19 year old baby face, little baby boy. He’s got arms thinner than mine. But you know what? He’s literally a grim reaper when you get him in this stuff and let him loose. He’s apparently been he interned at Neuralink. And he’s listed as an expert and he’s just going through and just jettisoning people out of this department. I love it. God love them. They’re all nerds. It’s all so great. And they’re going through and it’s making the left so mad. What do their 20-year-olds do? Look at that. pencil neck that they just made the vice chair over at the DNC. What the hell does this guy do? He can’t even spell words right. He doesn’t know how the government works. And he just gets up there and blows hot air out of his backside. And everyone’s like, oh, so great. Look, it said something. They’re actually doing stuff. I don’t even know what this one guy does. I was reading like his resume. He does super nerdy stuff. That’s all I know. Like there’s, I don’t even know half of what the software is. I’m not even going to pretend. So anyway, they’ve, I mean, they’re working. He’s got literally at his command a bunch of a nerd army. I mean, that’s America, you know, having a nerd army go through. It’s revenge of the nerds, totally. So they’re going through and they’re just slicing and dicing everything. And it is just a beautiful thing to see. And the left is livid. Oh my gosh, they’re livid. They’re so mad. And they don’t know what to make of the nerds. Have you seen them trying to figure this out? The best they can do is, can you believe these 20-something-year-olds have access to these sensitive things? Wait, you mean the sensitive things that you’ve been redirecting to communists in order to take down the U.S. from the inside? That kind of stuff? I got less of a problem with these cats. I don’t have a problem with this at all. Oh, they’re just mad. They can’t believe. Democrats, can I just say… For all the talk about youth vote, Democrats hate the youth. And I say this as someone who was raised in a Democrat family. I did not meet a Republican, hands to sky. The first Republican I ever met in my life was in college. I was, you’re in a Democrat town, Democrat family, everybody you know is a Democrat. I literally did not meet a Republican in person until I was in college. Isn’t that weird? Think about the lack of diversity there, right? So if you stray off of that ideological plantation, so to speak, the left hates you. They hate conservative youth particularly. But they don’t really like any of the youth. That’s when Kamala Harris was like, oh, they’re horrible. That’s why they’re in dorms, et cetera, et cetera. They just don’t like the youth. They use them as a means to an end. They know they don’t vote. That’s why they screwed them over when they promised everyone, oh, you’re getting free college, whatever. Oh, by the way, we changed our mind after y’all voted for us. Whoops. No, they’re actually being put to work here. It’s so great. And again, the left does not know how to deal with it. Because I think they’re half afraid that these nerds will come after them. I mean, God love them. They got acne and everything. Just God bless America. It’s amazing. I mean, they have their little suits. They have their little photos. It’s so great. I mean, I don’t mean to infantilize them, but I just find it… Incredibly ironic that for all the talk about the youth that the left gives lip service, you know, it’s these nerds are working for a smaller government, not bigger government. It’s a fabulous thing. So, yes, they they’ve been going through. And. Just gutting everything. And I mean, it’s a it’s a great thing. I kind of want to be a nerd now. I want to grow up to be a nerd, Kane. Yeah. That’s what I want to do. I think that’s great. So it’s a team of 20-something, these nerds. They said that with this, oh, they called them, the worst that they can do is to call them the goon squad. They went into, so Office of Personnel Management, that’s OPM, that’s essentially HR for the federal government. So if that makes sense, it’s basically, I think that’s right. It’s HR for the federal government, OPM, right? Yeah. And they were appearing in meetings and on calls where they made these workers go over the code they had written to justify their jobs. That’s per what? That’s per wired. So they said, and all these people are telling the press, can you believe that they’re actually testing us to see if we can do our job? Yeah, I actually can. Why is that such a shocking thing to you? Yeah, yeah, it should have been happening the entire time. It’s kind of wild that you think that it shouldn’t. So they said that they’re an OPM expert. is how they are listed. But I love what they’re doing because they’re going through and they found that if you control HR and you can get into the payment system for the treasury, then you can go through, find any government program that has not been authorized and you can just eliminate it. See, that’s the problem of doing all this stuff without any kind of actual explicit authorization. If you are like some kind of third party entity and you got a government grant and you got the goon squad, I love it, going in there saying, well, we don’t understand the point of this right here. Then guess what? Gone. And there’s nothing anybody can do about it. It’s a beautiful thing. I love that you had over 500 members Of Congress. You had all these legislators out there that didn’t do this. You know why? Because they’re not just a handful of tech bros. Tech bro nerds. The tech bro nerds are not beholden to anybody like these lawmakers are. They don’t care. They really don’t care. Now, what’s going to happen is if there is something that they eliminate that has been authorized by statute, well, then there’s a process that that entity that had their funding eliminated that they’ll have to go through. But that just is another loophole they got to go through. And I’m fine with that. I think that there should be such overlay of all of this stuff. But I love it. I mean, the oldest is 25 years old. Parents feel proud if your kids are one of the goon squad. I don’t even think that that’s like a… I know that the left means that as a pejorative, but it’s not. This department… And this kind of gets into one of the concerns that I had from the beginning. Because I love the idea of having this basically glorified auditor. I like that idea. But you also had to constantly think of the… process of going through congress because if it’s again congress controls the power of the purse and you if you’re going to eliminate something you got to go through congress unless unless it’s been by eo or it’s one of these oh here’s a government grant through whatever agency see democrats have done that for so long they never figured out or ever realized that that could be weaponized to work against them and now it is And it’s a beautiful thing. They’re all saying, like, what’s some of the stuff that they’re saying? Oh, Chuck Schumer’s been just going crazy. But not as crazy as what’s her face. Ilhan Omar, she’s going after USAID. She’s shrieking over all of this stuff. Listen to this. Audio soundbite five.
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It is really, really a sad day in America. We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you gut the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power, that is how dictators are made.
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That’s actually it’s the Constitution and elections have consequences. If you don’t like it, feel free to leave. Just go ahead and go. Go on. Go on now. So I’m pleased by this. I can’t wait to see all the savings, Cain. All of the savings! And yes, getting rid of waste, you’re not eliminating the Constitution, you moron. If it’s not Article I, Section 8, it’s unconstitutional anyway. They literally were looking to see, of these organizations and the grants that they were giving, which ones were actually violating executive orders, etc. And USAID became one of their main focuses. It’s Musk saying that. Because the whole entire censorship ministry, for the lack of a better way to put it, like that Nina Jankowicz lady, that annoying theater broad, all of that was made possible by this entity, by USAID. I read something where it said Joni Ernst was trying to get receipts on this for six or so years, and they just refused to hand over anything documenting what they were spending their money on. And you had all of these, whether it was EcoHealth Alliance, yeah, the Wu flu people, uh-huh. All of these far left alphabet groups, burn, loot, murder, all of it. All of these entities got funded through this agency. They were handing out taxpayer dollars like crazy. And so all of this, they had the… the audacity to think that none of this could ever be taken from them. I mean, it was USAID. So you remember all of the money that was going to Gaza that we were giving Hamas? Guess who that went through? USAID. That went through all of that. Remember the pier that was being built off of Gaza and how we were sending all these resources through that and it ended up in the hands of Hamas and Hamas never actually distributed it to Gazans. Shocker. That was USAID. You know, the Haitian aid where people were looting all of the money that was being sent to help Haitians. That was USAID. All of it. Every single thing that you can’t track or you have questions on or that seems shady is legit all USAID. And the left is mad because Doge has kicked out the leg from under that stool. They have collapsed their ability to weaponize taxpayer dollars against taxpayers. God bless America. We have more to come. With everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border, spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation, it’s critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that’s why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver to help protect our savings. And I’ve partnered with the top-rated precious metals company GoldCo to make that happen. It’s a great company with a great reputation, and they could not have made the process any easier. And right now, Gold Co. is offering a free gold and silver kit that will show you how precious metals can help protect and diversify your savings. And for my audience, they’re offering up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver on qualified orders. All you have to do is visit danalikesgold.com to get started today. GoldCo has helped thousands of Americans place over $3 billion in gold and silver, and they can help you as well. Join thousands who trust GoldCo. Visit danalikesgold.com.
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Also know this is just the beginning. If Doge attacks USAID today, then you can be sure they’ll move on to another target tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe it’ll be the Postal Service or the IRS or even the Social Security Administration. They could be next. Or maybe our national security agencies.
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Horror stories with Chuck Schumer. He’s like, they’re really upset. You know, when I see people get this upset about cutting government agencies. I want to cut more and more and more. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Hey, sidebar. First, before I get ahead of myself, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat’s at rumble. I am not held responsible for those rowdy people. Or maybe I am. I would be in there, but then I’d forget to do the show. But the chat’s over there. Find us at Substack, chapter and verse. All good things. Yes, and you guys are so nice. By the way, I have a collection of remedies that you guys have sent in terms of getting over the flu. It’s like the last bit of it is like trying to hang on to my head, and it’s almost gone. You can tell I’m getting on here. So we’re coming back. But you guys have been very nice. And then I had one very sweet lady. Her name was Lillian, and she said, I know that you’re probably self-conscious about your voice because you mention it a lot, and I just want to say that I really like it. She sent me the nicest email about that. So that was very sweet. Thank you. It was very kind. So we’re recovering. We’re all getting better. Honestly, hands to sky, before I dive into all of this, I think I would have had it a lot worse. I did, according per my doctor. my little regimen of ivermectin before we went to SHOT Show. And I think that’s why I’m not on the floor. My husband, he went to urgent care because they were thinking he has walking pneumonia from all of this. And I didn’t get that. The rest of us, those who did get it were bouncing back. And I swear to you, I think it was because I had done that. And I also eat super healthy too. But I think it was because of all of that. So I’m just saying. And that was from All Family Pharmacy. And they’re not paying me to say this. But if they ever stopped advertising on my show, I would stalk them like a bunny boiler. And I would continue to buy all of their products because I had all my stuff here so fast. Cut that and send it to them. It really is like one of the best websites ever. I have no idea why I didn’t invent this myself. I hate myself now. Anyway, all right. I want to get to… I’m sorry if I love this as much as I do. Because when I went to sleep last night, you know how you go to bed and you have all like, some of you, maybe you count sheep. Some of you read. I always think weird, fantastical things. And like right as my husband’s going to sleep, that’s when I ask him the craziest stuff. And then his eyes pop open and he’s mad because I asked him a weird question. You know, like I asked him one time, like, what if I had, you know, 12 toes? Would you still love me? And then he was like, well, I’m like, no, on one foot. and like none on the other. And then he’s like, what is wrong with you? Why do you do this to me at night? So last night I was thinking, Because I had been reading some stuff for the show before I went to bed. So I was reading about the Nerd Squad and Doge. And I was reading about USAID and all of the… Just the litany of things. All of the different cuts that they’ve been making. And I started thinking like, well, what would I cut like immediately? And then I went down… I fell asleep going down this rabbit hole of everything that probably did not have any kind of statutory authority that I would just gut. It was a really nice way to fall asleep. I really enjoyed that. So I am… I probably almost to an excessive degree have enjoyed watching them lose their minds over this stuff. Because for how long… Cain, how long have they been operating like this with USAID? I don’t think people appreciate how mammoth this is.
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Yeah, it’s clearly decades. Decades upon decades.
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I think longer than we’ve been alive.
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Yeah. Well, it was implemented in the 60s, so I guarantee you a government…
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you know program like this would have been hijacked immediately oh completely i mean if i was a leftist i would have i would have done it you know i mean so they everything that you can think of all of the activist stuff the disinformation ministry um all of it i mean everything has gone through this so to target it like that i really feel as though the left didn’t think that the right was aware of it. And I love it. So they’ve, I mean, this is just, it’s glorious. They’re trying to say, and the most beautiful irony of ironies in all of this is the biggest complaint the left has is that the entity that’s coming in and saving all of our taxpayer dollars, Doge, they keep going, well, they’re unelected. It’s an unelected retinue of these people, these unwashed masses who are coming in and making these cuts. Okay, same argument. You’re talking about an unelected on, you know, no congressional authority agency that has been spending taxpayer unapproved taxpayer dollars on things that the voters don’t get to choose and have no say in. So you literally just kneecapped yourself with that argument. Yeah, I’m very, very excited about all of this. They said that, and I liked how John Kennedy said, Senator Kennedy said it was tofu eating wokorati at the USAID. I don’t know why he doesn’t come on the show. I think he hates me and I have no idea why. I think some people think I’m just mean and they won’t come on. I swear to you, I’m not. But does he sit around and just think of things to say like this or does it just happen spur of the moment? I feel like this is a discussion from like a scene from Pride and Prejudice. Are these, you know, the results of casual observation or is it something that you put in practice effort? No, it’s just, you know, I just make these little observances. But this is this is great. I have no I have no problems with this. No problems at all. Oh, but the left. Oh, the left. I’m telling you. It’s well. You’ve got audio somebody 12, for instance. This is they’re saying that this is stealing the democracy. All of these moves that have been made by the administration. They have they have no actual specific complaints. They just don’t like it. So thus it’s stealing democracy. Play this bald man on MSNBC.
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Over the past two weeks, which kind of feels like it’s been two years, we have learned just how fragile our democracy is and how relatively easy it is for someone who’s determined and really well-funded to steal and corrupt it. If you were going to write a playbook for how to steal a democracy in less than 20 days, it would sure look a lot like this.
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Well, would it? How is this stealing democracy? I mean, I would think that stealing democracy is using an unauthorized fashion, questionably appropriated taxpayer dollars and using it for propaganda, et cetera. I mean, that’s just me, though. Now, in the meantime, immigration. Hmm. I like how Tom Homan’s been going totally ham on all of this, because remember the New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy. He said, I mean, the way that he said it, he’s harboring an illegal alien. Isn’t that what you got out of it? This is what he said. Let me read it to you. He said, quote, oh, we have it. Go ahead and play. I was looking at the transcript. We have 11. Of course you guys have it. Go ahead and play it.
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Tammy and I were talking about, I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there’s someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what, let’s have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
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Challenge accepted. First off, when he says, how did he put this? How did he say that? Someone whose status isn’t… how did he say it there? Oh, the status is not yet at the point that they’re trying to get it to. Can I just stop right there for a moment? Someone whose immigration status is not yet at the point they are trying to get it to. Yeah, that’s like, that’s, that’s totally not legal. Yeah. And I hear me out. That’s like saying that you go into a store and you take something without paying for it. The status of your ownership is not at the point that you’re trying to get it to. Do you think that you could use that? And you could use that excuse in any way? I don’t think so. Yeah, I don’t think so. So it sounds like they have, they’re harboring an illegal alien and then he’s challenging the feds to come and get her. So Tom Homan said, yeah, all right, we’ll look into it. Why would you taunt Tom Homan? Why? He’s the guy who like, I would imagine he’s kind of like my grandpa. How my grandpa was. My grandpa would wake up in the morning. My grandpa was a tough old bird. And he didn’t make coffee like normal people. He’d boil water and then put grounds in it. Like when he was not even camping. When he was in the kitchen. He just didn’t use it. That’s tough, man. I just get the idea that Tom Holman starts his day the same way. So the Murphy’s office, his staff freaked out when he said this. They’re like, wait a minute. Are you literally saying that you’re violating? What are you doing? So he’s been trying to backpedal this the whole time. And now they’re trying to spin it as, oh, well, there’s a witch hunt. They’re trying to get someone now. You literally outed them as being an illegal alien and said they’re living above your garage and now you’re mad. So now this is what they’re saying. Hold up. Let me pull this up. This is New York Post. They’re trying to say, no, no, no, no. You know, it was misinterpreted. what was everything he said it was misinterpreted um there’s nothing like this that actually happened oh wait that we call that a lie and there and even though he was literally daring the feds to come and get this person uh and they said no no no one’s ever lived in the home under those circumstances what other interpretation is there He literally said someone who isn’t here illegally is living above his garage. Pray tell, what other interpretation do we have? Well, we didn’t mean like, no, we don’t know. I mean, it’s a felony. You’re admitting to a felony. I don’t know. I feel like he, because isn’t he termed out? I think Murphy’s termed out after this. So he really doesn’t, you know, he really doesn’t GAF. He doesn’t. But and they were trying to also the other thing that he invited was the speculation as to the purpose of the person living above his garage because he clearly said it was a woman. So, Kane, if I if you hear someone saying, oh, yeah, we have an illegal alien female who’s living above our garage. What does that suggest to you? Yeah, but no, but what are they doing there? Good question. Is it like someone working in their house?
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She’s not staying there for free, is she?
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I don’t know.
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There’s got to be some sort of trade of services or money.
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It’s usually gas or grass, so I don’t know.
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Really avoiding that.
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Were you? I was trying to avoid saying that. I love that for you.
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Disappointed that you just did it.
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So I what was what’s the reason that that what other interpretation is there? They tell on themselves and they’re like, oh, it’s Phil Murphy. What do you expect? We have more to come. Also, our friend Steven Yates later on in the program. I am chomping at the bit to talk with him, not just about the Chinese, the China tariffs. He’s coming up at the bottom of the hour after headlines. But also what this means, the Belt and Road. I swear we legit were talking about this. What, two weeks ago? As to whether or not Panama would remain as a Belt and Road partner, and now they’re out, that’s… huge. I am just, oh my gosh, I’m so excited to hear how mad China could be over that. So we’re going to talk to him about that and so much more. We have a lot on the way. Headlines coming up as we move our partners. It’s the non-firearm firearm. It’s the Burna gun, B-Y-R-N-A. And it’s always good to diversify your weapons array. And with the Burna gun, you can do that. It’s a quick deployment, easy target acquisition, no background check. No permits, legal in all 50 states, and they can send it right to your door. It doesn’t care about gun-free zone signs either. The Berna SD is their best-selling model. When you compare it to a stun gun, which has one or two shots, the Berna SD is five rounds. And it can stop threats from up to 50 feet away with chemical irritant projectiles. So, you know, if you got to go to a gun-free zone sign because you’re a grown-up and you got to work a job and they won’t allow your gun, you want to still at least be able to protect yourself in some fashion. And this is where the Burna gun comes in. B-Y-R-N-A. Burna.com slash Dana. That’s where you can get 10% off your purchase and check out everything that they have. Burna.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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All right, so first up here, a boy swallows toy magnets and becomes the X-Men’s Magneto in a freak accident. It’s a power. I’d take that power. Would you take that power? Yeah, I’d do it. He, an eight-year-old, swallowed a magnet. It was a toy from Amazon. And, yeah, he ended up, now he has… These are two magnetic balls. They’re actually stuck. like in his system. And he thought, the story was that he, you know, thought he could pierce his tongue or something like that, ended up swallowing this thing and now there’s adverse effects. Of course, you’re not surprised. Also, you’re eight. Stop eating things. You’re eight years old. Like, you know, people should have, you should have known that from the get-go. You’re eight years old. Let’s see, this, oh, this is a crazy, U.S. Navy’s testing a new laser weapon that never runs out of power. Oh, I know. It’s an incredible new drone-destroying laser weapon. It almost looks like a fake photo. This thing is called Helios. It stands for high laser with integrated optical dazzler. I love it. And dazzler in surveillance. It was developed by Lockheed Martin, delivered to the Navy a year later. So it was in 2021 when it was developed, so it’s a little bit past. But they said it was designed to disrupt intel and reconnaissance sensors on enemy vessels, and it looks like a giant laser. It’s actually amazing. I want one. I feel like we should all have one. And a massage parlor accidentally set a client on fire. We’ll talk more about that coming up. We’ve got Steven Yates on deck as we move our partners that help bring you the program. It’s our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. Patriot Mobile has just the best coverage no matter where you go. I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never had an interruption in my service. and you have coverage you can trust they have nationwide coverage by operating on all three major networks you’re connected wherever you go and you have seamless switching you have a 100 us-based customer service team so you’re creating and maintaining us-based jobs you can keep your number you can keep your phone you can upgrade it’s just been so it’s never been easier to switch so visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Get a free month of service using promo code Dana. Make the switch today. That’s a whole free month of service. And defend freedom every time you call or text. That’s PatriotMobile.com slash Dana 972-PATRIOT. Oh, we’re playing air drums and air guitar. Sorry, we got totally distracted with us. Steven Yates was like, you know what? Panama sounds really good right now. So we suspended his usual intro. And now it’s a little bit Van Halen. It’s taken everything I have to not sing the chorus. How can you not? You guys know Stephen Yates. He is an expert on all things China. He served in not one, but two presidential administrations. The CCP hates him. He is a one of the I think the most reasoned voice on all of this. And you can find him at Yates comms on X as well as the senior research fellow at the Heritage Center. He joins us now via Skype. My good friend. Welcome to the program. So we I was telling Kane about this. We were just talking about this. You and I a couple of weeks ago about Panama, the Panama Canal and the presence of China. And we discussed how as a belt and road initiative. participant, it makes it a little tricky, but it got a lot simpler over the past week because now they’re out. So maybe China’s pull isn’t what China thought it was in that country.
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Well, Dana, number one, thank you for the bumper music. That always puts a smile on my face anytime some 80s thumpity-thump can come on. And, you know, it’s really amazing how fast The administration has moved on some of these things that were ideas in the campaign get talked about, all the best keeled experts say can’t happen are gonna blow up. And this whole issue of Panama, people say, Trump doesn’t understand, this isn’t what it’s being painted to be. Well, announcement of maybe some tariffs or other penalties or we’re gonna do this and a visit by the new Secretary of State and all of a sudden things are really clear. And so I think it’s a massive positive investment that Panama says they’re going to be out of the Belt and Road Initiative. For those who don’t know, that’s just a fancy pants slogan for how about you take some commie sugar from the People’s Republic of China, put human rights and democracy in the United States to the side. And I hope other countries in Central and South America will follow suit. They might also take that next leap and go back to having diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which helps to be a free and democratic and advanced state that might be able to invest in their manufacturing infrastructure. They could be a good trade partner with said United States. So I love what’s been happening so far. Just want to see more of it roll out.
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Yeah, that’s… I mean, it’s amazing that it happened, you know, honestly, as quickly as it happened, I think. And now these tariffs, I think it could go up to 25. I know 10% right now, the export tariff with China is what he was talking about. And I don’t think it… We had this big deep dive as to whether or not Canada could withstand something like this. The CCP’s economy definitely cannot withstand a trade war with the U.S. And I kind of wanted to get your insight into that because they talk a good game. But really, I mean, they’ve been kind of we’ve talked about this before for the past year. I mean, they’ve been sort of teetering on a knife’s edge with us economically.
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Yeah, this is where sort of reality comes clear here. that the talking heads and experts and people from academia that say they know don’t. The fact of the matter is China can’t possibly survive a trade war with the United States. It’s not like it would be a picnic for us, but we make real things. We have real innovation. We have bounced back from terrible times. We don’t wanna have them now, but America is resilient, has the capability to do a lot for itself. And the fresh breath of life that’s being given by deregulation and getting waste out of our way, opening up to energy. There is more than just the idea of a revival in America and China cannot stand up with that. They have at best, basically taken what we have oh so willingly given, but dusted it off and maybe done some things on top of what they’ve taken from us. But they can’t do this on their own. Now, I think it’s really, really important for us to continue to follow through. But there’s one thing I’d really like to drive home about these tariffs. President Trump has made very, very clear that this first 10% is tied to real action on the manufacturing and import of fentanyl. As you and your audience know, that is something that matters a lot to me. I’ve lived a long time and been around a lot of politics and heard people give lip service to things. Finally, one person and only one has been willing to step forward and put some skin in the game. There are families who have been able to identify the individuals and factories that the fatal dose came to their families. They have lawsuits that have judgments in the millions of dollars in the United States that the Chinese are not enforcing. If any of this tariff money goes to help those families, and I’d say in full disclosure, I’m not one of those families. We do not have a legal judgment. But anything that is done to use this tariff money to restore some sense of wholeness to the lives of those who’ve gotten these judgments and make the Chinese have to pay. All I can say is God bless President Trump for being honest about doing this and doing it right out of the blocks.
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We’re talking to our very good friend Stephen Yates at Yatescoms on X. And that is a very I mean, it’s a very personal issue to you. We’ve talked about this before. And I love that that that this action is being taken. I I was looking at their retaliatory moves. China announced today that they hit back. These are the headlines that are coming out from CCP friendly or aligned entities. Oh, they announced these, you know, some retaliation on select American imports. But when you compare, and which I was doing actually this morning, I mean, there is no comparison. We’re looking at what I think 20 billion of, they’re targeting 20 billion of the country’s annual imports from the U.S. That’s 12% total. And then you have the 450 billion that’s being targeted by the U.S. in Chinese goods. There is no comparison here.
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There really is not. And so that’s why I just hope people hold firm. I mean, I don’t think the president is diving into a trade war. I think he’s doing what people should see by now as a pattern. He is setting negotiations. He’s finding a new floor. And after we achieve that new floor, he’s going to push for more. And it’s basically to rebalance our economic relationships, make us less dependent, especially less dependent on China. And that’s a process, not an on-off switch. And it needs to be strategic. And so I think that they’re moving in the right direction. We should hold strong in this. And I hope that Congress steps up and speaks up in backing this move. This used to be basically where the middle and a lot of the left was. And President Trump has kind of educated the right into recognizing you can’t have free trade with totalitarian economies. And you can’t be overly dependent on said totalitarian economies. And so this, I think, is an important adjustment. And we have to hold the course. I think President Trump will. I hope the American people support it. Even if we have to pay a little bit more for a season ahead, we paid a lot more under Biden and we didn’t get much for it. This will net a better place for the United States and the world and at home.
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Do you think it’ll escalate? Because I know he started at 10 percent, but he said it could go up to 60.
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Well, I do think it will escalate. So say the Chinese come and they want to play nice, nice. They make some kind of a move. They buy some time, but then it doesn’t end up delivering. President Trump this time around has a sense of urgency I haven’t seen in any leader ever. And he may sense that you gotta go at the beginning of your term, midterms will come, you’re kind of a lame duck going through. He’s pushing pedal to the metal on this stuff. And if there isn’t much delivery in a reasonable period of time, I think he’ll up the pressure. And I think America,
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has a lot more leverage than we’ve realized and president trump’s just starting get the use of it the associator press was trying to argue that i’m looking at this piece that they have when they were looking at some of the top imports that we have from china cell phones computers accessories things like that shoes actually i didn’t know that was an eight billion dollar thing shoes that’s crazy but they said that oh well china’s uh is much better prepared because back in 2018 You know, we had something like this that kicked off with the administration. But the Associated Press is saying, oh, China’s way better prepared. They have all these measures that go beyond tariffs and they cut across different sectors. That’s not what I’m seeing, though, especially when I watch the dollar perform after, you know, with Canada and Mexico. And we were told it was going to take the economy next day. Didn’t happen. In fact, the dollar was outperforming. Canada, elsewhere. I wanted to kind of get your thoughts on that, because I get that the CCP wants to show that their country is in an unalterable position, and they’re getting an assist from some of our American Pravda. But I don’t find that they’re in a better place this time. If anything, it seems more tenuous.
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It’s definitely more tenuous and all it would do if they create hardship. Well, number one, the items that they’re identifying are not ones that are vital to our survival. Whether we like it or not, Americans of my children’s generation have many more pairs of shoes than say my grandfather’s generation did. And if there happened to be a shortage on some knockoff Air Jordans for a time, I think that the Republic will survive. And we might be able to get them from places like Bangladesh and Indonesia and even Mexico for that matter. So all they’ll do is accelerate decoupling and safe shoring if they really wanna go down that route. And I think they have a sense that they’re at risk of that. So there’s gonna be a lot of posturing. We have to be ready for that. uh and i don’t really care if there’s some trade going forward i mean for me personally i’m fine to have no trade with china there’s a big world out there we can live without them but the rest of the world might not have my tolerance for that but we have got to at least move away from strategic things nothing that our nation relies upon our food supply medical supply technology supply and certainly our military supply chains can have nothing to do with this country
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I wanted to get talking with our friend Stephen Yates last question for you on this. You know, I when when he was senator, there were things I didn’t agree with Marco Rubio on and things I would give credit and give praise for and or criticize, you know, balls and strikes. I really think that he has come into his own. As Secretary of State, and I kind of wanted to get your assessment. This is like his for I mean, he’s not even been in the job for a week. And already, I mean, he was in Panama, he was meeting with officials there. And then boom, now we have this. And I kind of wanted to get your assessment of how he started already his tenure there at Department of State.
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Well, I’d have to confess that over the years, I’ve kind of liked Marco Rubio. And there were other people running for president when he ran for president. Many of them I liked too. But over the years, I’ve kind of liked a lot of the things he had to say when it came to foreign policy. I wish some of the other senators might have said some of the things he was standing for in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and otherwise. And he certainly has had a fast start. But I mean, look, every one of these cabinet officials, if they’re getting confirmed, and hopefully the rest are getting confirmed ASAP, These guys are hitting the ground running. I mean, less than a couple of weeks and he’s already overseas doing consequential things that people said couldn’t be done. He’s definitely a valuable articulator of what Trumpism means in our hemisphere and in foreign relations. And even with this AID controversy, I think he’s been a valuable voice that helps explain the president’s agenda in a way that That makes it stronger and better understood. So all that, I think, is pretty high marks getting out of the blocks. Now, I hope he gets good, loyal people to fill out that Christmas tree, the State Department, because that is not usually a happy home for anyone conservative, much less MAGA. So we’ll see where that is going.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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Well, this is a Florida woman. A stripper was busted for battery with a banana at a 7-Eleven. This feels like a punk song. Her name. There’s a lot of vowels in here. Kaltavia Turner. Got into a verbal altercation. She’s 22, looks 80. Got into a verbal altercation with a 30-year-old woman. They began exchanging derogatory comments. And then she, Turner, became irate, picked up a banana from the cashier, threw it in the victim’s face. They said that the airborne fruit struck the employee on the cheekbone and left a minor abrasion. First off, if I was a cop responding to that, I would be like, it’s a banana. Yeah. you know, get over yourself. Come on. But then I would also be like, listen, Castlevania Turner, this is, you know, no, this is wrong. You can’t be coming up acting the fool like this. They said that she is an employer at a gentleman’s club, Kane, called Baby Dolls. What? Gentlemen? Yeah.
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Only gentlemen attend.
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Yeah, gentleman’s club. What was that, what’s that movie, that horror film about that possessed doll?
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Is it?
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No.
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Chucky?
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No. Oh, shoot. I’m not going to be able to move until I do this. Horror movie doll. Oh, gosh. What is it called? Not Megan. It’s an older one. Oh, Annabelle. That’s what I was thinking of. Oh, Annabelle. So when you’re talking about the gentleman’s club called Baby Dolls, do you mean like Annabelle? So or Chucky, you could also add that. Anyway, she was busted. She also stole a lot. She was already on probation. So she violated it because she stole a whole bunch of stuff from Walmart, almost a thousand dollars. And so she that she was charged with a felony. And then she got in trouble because she did not perform her 75 hours of community service or pay her court fines. So she was already free on a thousand dollar bomb when she got in trouble for the banana battery. She’s just a mess. This chick is a mess. Also, let’s see. A Florida man steals a woman’s purse with a one-month-old kitten inside. The kitten was recovered safely. Everybody’s fine. Why are you keeping your kitten in a purse? There’s, you know, also that. And then a Florida man decided that he was going to steal a vehicle from a car lot. It was in Vero Beach. He had his loan denied. And so he said he spent his last 50 bucks on the Uber there. So he decided to steal the car. It was a 2024 Hyundai Tucson. And they said that the man, Jason Vargasco, was angry after he was turned down. He decided to leave the lot when he found the keys in the ignition. And he got in trouble because guess what? The car had a GPS locator. And they were. Yeah, he did get in trouble for that. Yeah. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you about the Florida woman who had a first date commemorative brick that she threw in her ex’s house. Yeah, I’ve seen the amazing changes Relief Factor has made for so many people. And I’ve seen it firsthand through my husband, Chris’s pain relief from using Relief Factor. Thank you so much for having me. It helps reduce or even eliminate it. 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I wanted to put this on your guys’ radar because it’s not just specific to like a couple of states. This is something that’s coming to you. You’ve heard me talk, especially when I’ve talked about Florida or rhinos at all. And Texas is kind of in the same boat. Texas has a really good activist network that is really fighting hard on all this stuff. Florida is still developing theirs. And that’s not a slam on Florida or the pushback that the state has. I point that out. That’s the difference between Texas and Florida in terms of dealing with rhinos. Because Florida, if you remember, literally just very recently was a swing state. And so they’ve they’ve been able to really hone their messaging and they’ve really pushed good limited government policy and they’ve been so great at it. And so they went from being a swing state where activists struggle to get a toehold to now. I don’t want people to think that there’s no reason to worry. Oh, because they got a super majority in the Florida legislature. But as you know, not all Republicans are the same. And so that’s one of the reasons why we’ve been focusing on this. And also, Florida is my backup state. Like if Texas falls, you know, Florida was my backup. And then all my Florida friends are like, well, hell, Dana, Texas was our backup state. I’m like, well, we got problems. But I feel like the fight is a little bit more intense. I don’t want people to get apathetic and feel like they don’t have to fight. I feel like activists are in a little bit of a better position in Texas than they are in Florida right now. Because, yes, you have special interest money in Texas, but there’s a lot of special interest money also in Florida. And you’ve got the presence of Big Sugar. And then, of course, you have this company that I’m talking about, a Canadian company called Trulieve. Now, it’s important because… This is sort of like the testing ground for this company. If they can get a state like Florida to give them special accommodations, which if you’re a capitalist, you’re against that kind of cronyism and special treatment. If they can get Florida to do this, they’re going to be able to get like any state to do this. And that’s kind of the point. Trulieve is a Canadian company. It’s a foreign company, which is also… Another weird thing for people who have been talking about tariffs with Canada, why would you want to empower this Canadian company? Trulieve, the last election, when they were voting on amendments and ballot initiatives, things like that, Trulieve literally spent millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase the codification of its monopoly in the Florida state constitution. Now, for those of you outside of Florida, pay attention. I promise you this is coming to your state. If it’s not there yet, they’re already putting the feelers out. I promise you. So in Florida, they operate under the guise of legalization of marijuana. Now, this is not a debate about the legalization of marijuana. That’s what Trulieve wants you to think. It’s not about that at all. It is about having a foreign company. by changes to a state constitution to benefit itself. I have read the full ballot language that they had when they were trying to amend the constitution this last time everybody went to vote. They usually have a synopsis that you read when you’re at the polling place and you’re voting. The full ballot language, and I’m not going to read the whole thing because it’s long. I’m not going to read the whole thing on air. I’ve linked it before over at Substack, is really troubling for the people who say that Trulieve was not trying to purchase the monopoly. God love them. They either did not read the ballot language or they’re being paid to lie to you. And there are and I would name them, but I feel like it’s old news and it’s kind of already public. There were a lot of cosplaying conservative influencers who were paid handsomely six figures to advocate for true, true relief. I mean, even POTUS’s campaign got some true relief cash. He didn’t really get involved in all of this, but I’m just telling you, they’re putting their feelers out. Every state, federally, that’s what they want to do. Now, Trulieve, again, a Canadian pot company, what they wanted to do is… purchase a monopoly, change the state constitution so that Trulieve could have a Trulieve owned and run network of their chosen participants to be able to conduct business in the state. They wanted to destroy their competition. They still do. That was the whole purpose of it. And they spent so much money. For instance, the guy that I had on yesterday, the Florida senator and all of his amnesty guys, Trulieve also is a big amnesty supporter. They’ve paid all those guys. If you would like to see the hard documentation of the publicly reported financial data on that, it’s in one of the most recent posts on this that I have over at Substack. You can go and read it for yourself and you can see the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Trulieve has given to people like Ben Albritton, Alex Andrade, Wilton Simpson is a huge recipient. He’s the guy who’s Ag Commissioner there in Florida that they want to run immigration. Trulieve has purchased a lot of influence and access, and a lot of people have not been honest about it. And they actually got in trouble. They had a letter sent to them because they were refusing to cooperate with E-Verify. Now, you remember E-Verify, which was passed in Florida. It was passed but purposefully not funded by the traitors of the amnesty rhino wing in that state. And they got a lot of cash from Trulieve. So they passed the E-Verify, but they didn’t fund it. Twice they refused to fund it. So Trulieve was sent a letter because there are people who are saying, you guys need to pay attention to the hiring practices of Trulieve and all the stuff that they’re doing. Trulieve has a very long, bad history. I think the husband of the founder has gotten in a lot of trouble as a felon. They’ve been accused of violating all kinds of different laws in a number of different states. They… I mean, there’s nothing good about it. They have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to, I mean, tons of politicians, tons of influencers. It’s a very troubled company. They have a very bad history. But the point is, is that they have been trying to act like if you oppose what Trulieve wants to do, then you oppose the legalization of marijuana. And there are two separate issues. their issue is they want to create a monopoly they control and destroy all competition. It has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana, which by the way, like all of the medical stuff and like the edibles and some of the other stuff, like they already signed DeSantis and all those other, some of the other Republicans in Florida already signed that into law. But they’re trying to make the play that it’s about the legalization of pot and it’s not. It really isn’t. Now that said, I am not like a marijuana person. I am a I hate big government person. And so I don’t want anyone to think that I’m like a big pot cheerleader. I just don’t care. I don’t want the government to tell me or to tell anyone what they can do, what they get. If people want to be stupid and and and and heat themselves off of this mortal coil by doing things dangerous to themselves. Is that mean if I say that’s not my problem? I got a lot of other issues, right? I got a lot of other things I’m dealing with right now. I don’t want to be in any state kind of stuff. But and I reject because people are like, you’re a libertarian on this. I reject all of that. I just don’t like big government. And I don’t trust a government who says that they want to measure what is best for your for things like this to consume. Because I’m against big government, I’m also against all of the other side issues that big government promotes, namely big corporatism. And that’s what this is. This is exactly just more big government. with a company like Trulieve. Now, they’re trying to do this in other states, and they are really trying to worm their way into the Trump administration. In fact, the lady, Kim Rivers, I think is her name. It’s her husband, I think is the one that got in a lot of trouble. Oh, she’s got all kinds of pictures of herself at the vice president’s inaugural dinner in DC last week. She was at the candlelight dinner. She’s got all kinds. I mean, they very proudly spend, Thank you. hundreds of millions of dollars to buy market control. That is not conservative. It’s not free market, and it doesn’t have anything to do with legalizing marijuana at all whatsoever. Furthermore, they also support all of the other side issues that complicate this further, amnesty and giving driver’s licenses. They supported all of the lawmakers that were in favor of that because it best benefits their company. So this is, you know, just like I have more that I’ve written about them at Substack, but I want you to be aware of them because it is they have a lot of influence. There are there are influencers and people that I know that you all know. And even some talking heads on TV. have gotten a lot of money from them now how do we know this because they have to publicly report it every quarter and so you have websites including like open secrets where you can go and you can see you can just literally search trulieve and you can see and search by either Did they donate to a PAC, a group, a politician? And you can see all of the money that they have spent. A lot of these other influencers will create like third party companies or like shell companies that they accept payments through. And that’s pretty easy to track down too. There are a lot of people whose names you know that did not disclose to you that they were taking money from Trulieve. It’s an industry. It’s one of the things that actually sickens me about politics and even about commentary because it’s not just about commentary and activism and then being a lawmaker. Now, it’s almost like everybody, not everybody that I know, but a lot of people I’m aware of are getting like fat cash off of this. It is a very easy grift. You can very easily become incredibly wealthy. taking money from these special interests in that manner. And so that’s, I just want you to watch out for that because they’ve already started petitioning again in Florida. They’ve been sending out all kinds of mailers and stuff to people in Florida. I’ve been hearing from people, listeners in other states where they’re like, I feel like they’re, you know, they’re trying to get their tendrils in here too. And this is what’s been happening. They would love nothing more to be able, under the guise of legalizing marijuana, because they think that’s an issue that they can get everybody on board with, to purchase literal changes in U.S. law, a foreign company, to benefit itself. So that’s what Trulieve is, and that’s what they’re doing. And they’re very, very aggressive in promoting that control of the market. So just kind of watch out. With the things that you get, political mailers, I know a lot of people kind of look at them and they toss them. Just pay kind of attention. And if you get something like this, I would love to hear about it. Because there are some very good people who I think don’t get paid enough by their jobs. And they do this on the side because they care about it, who have been tracking all of this. And I just am very interested if you get stuff like this in your state, in your area. Give me a heads up about it. I’m very curious about this stuff and what kind of mailers you’re receiving because they’re already starting to paper everybody in Florida again with us. And voters already rejected at once because they saw through it. They’re like, wait a minute, this isn’t even about this. You’re not allowing people to like grow their own or legalize anything. You’re literally giving this company veto power as to who can participate in their select network. And then there are still fines for their… I mean, they’re literally using the law to destroy their competition. That’s not conservative. That’s not free market. And it has nothing to do with marijuana legalization. Trulieve is an evil company. It’s evil. And the people who run it are evil. That’s what you need to be aware of. So just kind of keep your eyes out, your eyes open about all of this stuff. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So Waffle House is adding a 50 cent per egg surcharge to customers’ orders, citing the impact of ongoing egg shortages and rising prices caused by bird flu. They said that they’re opting for a temporary targeted surcharge. They said that they hope that the price fluctuations will be short-lived. But they can’t predict, they said, how long that the shortage is going to last. But they said that from the USDA, their forecast is that the price of eggs are going to rise about 20%. And it’s the average dozen. It was like, what, 415 in December. It was 365 in November, according to BLS. So… Kane’s like not having it.
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Because they killed a bunch of millions of chickens too.
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There you go. I’m just saying. This is interesting. The Muskegon animal shelter will neuter your ex. For Valentine’s Day. So they had their, I think it’s actually funny when the animal sanctuaries or shelters do this stuff. So they have a program called Trap Neuter Return where they neuter cats and then return them to the respective colonies. You just do a $25 donation and you can name a cat after your ex and then have it snipped. Those are actually really successful. I got to say those the way that they do that stuff. Let’s see this large fire at a funeral home in Easter Green, which was deemed accidental or Greenwich deemed deemed accidental. Kane says it’s free cremations for all. You’re so mean. Look at you. Oh, schools have been shut down because tremors have been shaking Santorini, what’s called the Instagram island of Greece. Santorini has been, I mean, they’ve had lots of, lots, dozens and dozens of tremors. So they’ve closed schools. They’ve told people to drain their pools. And airlines have been announcing additional flights to help people leave. They’ve had 200 earthquakes just in the past four days. Strongest has been 4.9. Stick with us. We’ve got a lot more in store back after this. Achieving vibrant, youthful skin doesn’t have to be complicated. With the power of Native Path Collagen, you can nourish your body from within and enhance not just your skin, but also your hair, your nails. By incorporating Native Path Collagen into your daily routine, you can promote a plump, radiant complexion, reduce signs of aging, and boost your overall vitality, all without any unnecessary fillers or additives. Native Path Collagen has only type 1 and 3 collagen, the most important types, making up 90% of your body’s collagen. No artificial sweeteners, just pure third-party tested goodness. It’s completely flavorless, so you can just add it to about anything, your coffee, your smoothies, oatmeal, or whatever you want. And the best part is that Native Path’s peptides formula makes it more bioavailable, so it means your body will absorb it easily. Start your journey to healthier skin today. Get NativePath.com slash Dana and stock up on Native Path collagen and save up to an incredible 45% off plus free shipping. Every order includes a 365-day money-back guarantee. Don’t miss out. Head to GetNativePath.com slash Dana.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I was looking at, so randoland.us, they have like an ongoing list of all of the insane spending with USAID. And it’s pretty wild. Some of the stuff that they have found, it’s crazy. Like for, I mean, you guys have seen some of this stuff. Some of the things that they were finding, like in Afghanistan, how they had solar-powered streetlights in Afghanistan that we paid for that were promptly stolen. We were paying opium farmers two times the price of opium to grow corn, and then we were sending… sending it to get it inspected. So we would collect corn money. We would basically grow opium, bribing inspectors, and then selling it to the Haqqani Network. This is crazy. There was like apparently a shopping mall in Kandahar that apparently the construction contract for that was paid in full up front. When does that ever happen? And the contractor only poured a non-reinforced slab of concrete and then moved his entire family to Dubai with all the rest of the money. Yeah. I mean, that’s just, there is so much that, I mean, it’s just, it’s unbelievable. I’m like looking at like there, that was in addition to the 35 million prophylactics that we purchased and, That’s just in one part. I mean, this goes on and on and on. And I mean, there’s like no end. There’s literally no end. There’s no end to it. All of the, I mean, I’m looking at all of our taxpayer dollars that they’ve, you’ve heard some of it. You guys wouldn’t, I mean, I could, we could probably do three hours just reading. And not even get through. Like we were spending money on corporation grants in Mozambique. Excuse me. We were. I don’t even understand. This is just crazy. It’s a slush fund. A slush fund. Now you can see why they went in there. The other big headline. And this came from Secretary of State yesterday. El Salvador has agreed to an unprecedented and extraordinary deal regarding taking in people who have been deported. The this has all related to the threat and tariffs that were against Colombia because they were not going to accept deportation flights from the US. And then the State Department was going to suspend the consulate services in Bogota and Customs and Border Protection for inspection protocols on exports, etc. So now. Rubio, who’s been traveling through Panama and Costa Rica and El Salvador and Guatemala and Dominican Republic for this foreign to advance the foreign policy of the administration. So now Rubio said this was yesterday evening that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportees, not just from other countries, but also, quote, do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence. In the U.S., even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents. I mean, they are just El Salvador is like, no, no, it’s OK. We’ll take all of them. Yeah, they’re not El Salvador. OK, yeah, we’ll take them. That’s fine. Yeah, go ahead. Give them to us. We’ll have them. The president there agreed to take back all of the MS-13 gang members, all the Salvadorans who are in MS-13 and who are in the U.S. unlawfully, and even including members of the Trenda Aragua, that’s Venezuelan, and any criminal, illegal immigrant from any country. That’s a big change. I don’t think that’s ever been extended by any other country before. They had a… Yeah, I mean, what did you say? It’s going to be a boon to their prison business?
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It is. That’s something that they’ve been working on. And they don’t mind taking from other countries lawless people as well because they know that whatever the U.S. is going to pay them to do that, it’s going to be cheaper for us, number one. But number two, it’s like just a boon for them.
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Yeah. People have been saying, oh, it’s like a hell on earth. They’re talking about sending people. Well, then don’t do crimes anymore. It’s not like difficult. It’s not like you’re being forced to do it. Then just don’t do crimes. It’s not that big of a deal. But that’s a huge change. A very big change. Also, now they’ve advanced. I’m going to pull this up too. So this is the cabinet news. So this is just the committee news. So they haven’t approved her to be director of DNI yet. But the Senate did advance her progression, 9-8, that committee to approve her nomination to be DNI. So it’s going forward. So both her and… RFK Jr. are going forward with us thus far in terms of being moved out of the Senate Intelligence Committee. So that just came in. So that should all be very interesting to see how that, because again, that’s not just confirming her to be in that position. It’s just moving out of committee and then it has to go to the Senate and then they’ll have to vote, etc., etc. And then you’ve got all the procedural stuff for debate, etc., etc., So keeping you updated with that. Now, switching gears again. I told you there’s a lot of stuff. the wildfires in LA. I thought it was interesting. And I think Lorraine made this point too, the other day with the Grammys and they had all, they were talking about the LA, the wildfires out in Los Angeles, but they’re really didn’t have anything to say about the Carolinas and the devastation there. Because if it happens in Los Angeles, it’s, you know, it affects Hollywood. And so Hollywood’s very, you know, it affects us. So it’s very important to that effect though. Newsome has issued, this is very rich news. an executive order to maximize water capture during storms. He’s… Yeah, he’s just now doing that, Cain. He is just now signing an executive order to maximize the capture of water during winter storms. He said it’ll make it easier, like it was an idea he just came up with himself. Who would have thought, Cain? Who would have thought, everybody, that you could just capture that water? He just now thought of it. He thinks he’s a genius. He said in his statement, It’s more important than ever that we maximize every opportunity to recharge our groundwater supplies. As we anticipate rain and snow in Northern California, we’re preparing to use every last drop, blah, blah, blah. Now, of course, you have the environmental groups that are denouncing this order. And they’re saying that it’s very, it’s alarmingly like Trump’s order. as it relates to the federal directives on water storage, etc., and that it’s going to harm some dumbass fish species. You know how you protect a fish species, Cain? You make it a delicacy. You eat it. Think about it.
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I’m not against that.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, what is it? It’s the Delta smelt or whatever. It’s a bait fish, it looks like. I really don’t care. Is the world going to… I don’t care. You know, I don’t care. Bite a head off it. I don’t care. But they said that the environmentalist groups are very upset. It’s going to harm this vulnerable fish species. I mean, screw the humans. This vulnerable fish species… and the deteriorating ecosystem of the desert-y Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, if you’ve seen it. You know, I would say that the loss of wildlife and human life due to the wildfires trumps the delta smelt, and that’s the little fish, That’s in California. They said it’s a… I mean, this thing is tiny. It’s five centimeters long, for crying out loud. And they can’t… I was reading this article the other day. Why is this stupid fish so important? And it’s… If you were to Google it, it won’t tell you. It’s empty. I’m not even kidding you. I don’t even know. They said the delta smelt is functionally extinct. Okay, that happens sometimes. What does this do? It’s a critically endangered species and we’ve got to protect this little smelt. You know, there’s other states that have, like in Northern California, all the way down to Alaska has a smelt. I don’t know. Why? But they’re actually trying to fight water capture because of that. So you would rather… you know, the big environmentalists would rather all of the other animals burn. Have you seen like the dogs and the bear and all of these other animals that have been burned and singed by the wildfires because of improper land management? And they’re worried about this stupid little bait fish that’s five to seven centimeters long, seven at max, Cain. That’s Little bit tiny. It’s a bait fish.
SPEAKER 06 :
How do we have millions of sardines we can and tons of tuna and all these other fish and somehow the smelt is the one that’s having trouble?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t get it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Great question. I have no idea. Great question. Great question. No idea. But I just think that that’s like… He’s like now, just now coming out to do this. I mean, you realize that they had previously, when they had done water capture, they actually had to let it… They just let it drain out. There’s a video of it just being drained back out into the ocean. They just didn’t keep it. They would not have been in this predicament in the first place. But they were listening to all of these enviro-nuts who don’t care about the consequences of their unrealistic policies. You know, sometimes life… becomes inhospitable for a certain species, especially one that’s functionally extinct, like this dumb little bait fish, you’re not hating on the environment. You’re just saying that this is incompatible with life. So you got to pick. Then have everyone get the hell out of California. If that fish is so important to you, everybody leave. Leave the state to the smelt if it’s that important. But they won’t do that. So you can’t have it both ways, right? It doesn’t work both ways like that. But it’s just an unrealistic, completely unrealistic approach. I just can’t believe that he’s acting like that’s a great big idea. He just thought of it, guys. Executive order on water capture. I mean, did not Trump just say that? Like when he went out there to California to view all of the wildfire damage?
SPEAKER 06 :
Trump said it like eight years ago.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. Oh, but it’s a brand new thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
And the coddling is for the white boys. That’s what’s happening right now. I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned. When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don’t feel a way and why you can’t make me doubt who I am? It’s because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think she wears more makeup than both of them put together. I mean, if you want to have that. I mean, no one would. I don’t know. I don’t think that anybody would think that Jasmine Crockett. member of Congress there. I don’t think anybody believes that she would work hard. I think she’s a grifting racist and that she’s an embarrassment to Congress because everything that she gets up there, she gets up there and everything’s based in race. I mean, she doesn’t have any kind of, you know, any intellectual articulation of why she opposes a particular policy or issue. It’s just all race, race, race. And that is what vapid, miles wide, inches deep pseudo-intellectualism gets you. on the left anymore. These people have not learned. They have not learned. And I’m fine with them not learning because it means they’re going to get their asses kicked every single election. Totally fine with that. So I, you know, I just, the stuff that she says though, that’s racist. And who’s she talking about? White boy tears. What the hell is that even in reference to? You’re a grown ass woman and you’re talking like you’re in a movie. Shut up. You’re a member of Congress. I’m so tired of this. I’m so just tired of trash. Just absolutely tired of just garbage. So, I don’t know. She’s giving AOC a run for her money. I’ll give her that. Who’s more annoying on that party? Look, we’ve got our annoying people. But their annoying people, I feel like, are doubly annoying.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Their top ten are the top ten.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, and I think Chuck Schumer’s in there somewhere. But the shrill, loud ones definitely are. I think AOC and her, Jasmine Crockett as well. So we are, I feel like we’ll have the cabinet stuff, especially for DNI and HHS. I think that’ll probably be. What? Solidify this week. I think they’ll have that done by by week’s end. So both of those are advancing through and will we’re also following. I’m sure that there’s going to be because I told you yesterday as it relates to the tariffs and all of that. Now you have like what a one month pause. The president also announced that they’re expanding a maximum pressure campaign on Iran. This is a continuation of what he was doing his first term. So that of all biggest losers are Iran. So we’ll we’ll see how this works out for them. He’s going to be at Super Bowl. They announced that today, too. He’s going to be at the Super Bowl. Is he going to be in Taylor Swift’s box? Will he just go and take it over? That upside is that we won’t have every camera break and pan to Taylor Swift every single time Travis Kelsey farts, so…
SPEAKER 06 :
there’s are you watching super bowl i don’t i never pay attention i can’t even tell you who played in the super bowl last year i found it interesting that ai was going to be dominating the production of most of the commercials that we see during the super bowl this year so that’s to me is a curious thing i’ll check it out for that all right today in stupidity king all right cut 12 let’s go to joyless read when they say that trump was a threat to democracy they meant a threat to bureaucracy listen to this
SPEAKER 12 :
Over the past two weeks, which kind of feels like it’s been two years, we have learned just how fragile our democracy is and how relatively easy it is for someone who’s determined and really well-funded to steal and corrupt it. If you were going to write a playbook for how to steal a democracy in less than 20 days, it would sure look a lot like this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Again, she mispronounced bureaucracy. No one believes you, Reed, girl. She mispronounced bureaucracy. She meant to say that, but she said democracy instead. So sorry about your bureaucracy there, Joyless Reed.
SPEAKER 02 :
No wonder their ratings are in the tank and they have to cut the salaries of all their on-air talent because you have anchors like that that just drag. Folks, that does it for us tonight. I’ll be on Jesse Waters’ program later. And find us on Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. Substack chapter and verse. I’ll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
