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Trump tries to message his tariff implementation. The Trump Administration repurposes the controversial CBP One app to encourage self-deportations. Twitter/X goes down for millions of users Monday. Dana thinks the invention of the Internet has made people more hateful and absolutely stupid. Syrian government loyalists are accused of executing civilians as violence erupts. Congress continues to debate a new CR full of reckless spending in order to prevent a government shutdown on Friday. HBO’s new Harry Potter series features a DEI cast including Black actor Paapa Essiedu, as Professor Snape. Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser orders the removal of
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Illegal border crossings plummet dramatically in Trump’s first full month on the job. Another study proves a higher minimum wage is bad for businesses, customers, and employees. And Andrew Cuomo is officially running for mayor of New York City. I’m Greg Karambas. Join Jim Garrity of National Review and me each weekday for the Three Martini Lunch podcast. We’ll give you the good, bad, and crazy news of the day, and hopefully a lot of laughs too. Follow the Three Martini Lunch on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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What other disruption were you alluding to? Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can’t really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a hundred year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters. That’s true. And you can’t go by that. You have to do what’s right. What we’re doing is we’re building a tremendous foundation for the future. Tremendous foundation.
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There’s going to be a lot of talk of the economy, a lot of talk of what all these programs are going to be costing because we are in the middle of the, well, yeah, the middle of basically what is the second budget fight that’s coming up. And we’re going to talk about some of that today because that’s, well, that’s what Republicans are going to be fighting. They’re going to be dealing with that all day, all the rest of this week, because you’ve got to have that. I mean, we’ve got to have some kind of budget. We’ve got to have something. We haven’t had one. And when’s the last time? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I’m like thinking out loud here like, well, yeah, I think that actually was the last time there. Yeah, I think that was it. So it’s and everything that he’s talking about is going to be affected by this. And. We’re going to highlight some of that. We’ve got a lot to get into today as we get started. Welcome to the show, Dana Lash, with you. I wanted to play also, because it’s been kind of a busy news week, because you’ve had all kinds of stuff with regard to Ukraine, everything, and then, of course, the economy as well. One of the things that I thought Trump said, this is audio somebody at seven, because he answered a lot of… Oh, no, sorry, not seven. Did we do three? Because this is the inflation aspect of it. He… I think he’s starting to message. I don’t know if it’s too late him messaging this, but he’s starting to message on inflation, especially as you know, if it gets hit as it pertains to tariffs. Listen to this.
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You wouldn’t have had inflation. We had record setting inflation under Biden. It was a killer.
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And it’s one of the reasons I won the election. But you may get it again with these tariffs, right? I mean, one CEO said to me, my input costs have already started to go up. I’m going to have to raise prices.
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In the meantime, guess what? Interest rates are down for the last three, four days at good levels. I mean, you know, when you add interest rates, you’re talking about it’s gone down. I’ve been saying, let’s get interest rates down. You know, nobody ever gets rich when the interest rates are high, because people can’t borrow money.
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He’s right on that. He’s right on that count. I heard some – I think he’s better messaging than some of his surrogates on this stuff because I was listening to one of his surrogates this morning. I can’t remember what show it was on. But I just – I thought her – the way that she spoke about this was just a little off base because she was saying, yeah, people are going to go – if there’s going to be any kind of struggle, if there’s going to be any problem, people are going to go along with it. I’m thinking they’re not, especially if you don’t message properly. Yeah. They’re not going to go along with it because this is their money. Unless you message properly there, they’re not going to go along with anything. So this has been this has been a huge issue. And we’re going to try to figure out, you know, I don’t know what they got to get it together, though, because Friday’s the day because you have what is it? March 11th, I think. So also X is down. So we’re not going to be able. I know a lot. I’ve already fielded a million things that I did not do it. It has been like this all morning. Can correct. People are like, what happened to the I didn’t do it. I promise. It’s not anything I did. But so there’s going to be because I think a lot of people stream the show also on X and things like that.
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We’re on Rumble today. Just Rumble at the moment. So as soon as X gets back up, we’ll we’ll make that happen.
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We’ll get it all situated. So just some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. We’re also going to talk about the latest with Iran, all of that. Can we talk about the immigration, though? Let’s kick this off, because this is where we have Tom Holman. You were just listening to him discuss this. The CPB app, this is actually pretty brilliant. And… The, of course, I can’t bring this up either because this was a, this was a thread from Bill Malugin. So essentially, you guys know the CB, the CBP app, right? The CBP app, I keep having to say it very slowly. People are essentially now self-deporting. Well, you have to self-deport. So what’s happening is the app is being repurposed and they are going to Use it to for people who have this app and it’s already, I guess, updating this in this regard. It’s already updating. So they’re saying that with the app, you can self-deport. And if you choose to self-deport, then you actually. have the ability to come back into the country. And so that’s the latest, that’s what they’re doing with this app, which I think is actually pretty brilliant. But I don’t know how many people are going to actually take them up on that. I mean, I think it’s pretty brilliant. So this is something that was announced, I think it was yesterday, like late yesterday when it came out. And they are retooling the app. And then you have the option. And I was pulling up the screen. It’s on X. And of course, X is down. But I was pulling up the screen. And you can choose – you get an option. You have like a – not a pull-down menu, but you have this option. And they didn’t launch it. I wanted a – it’s not a new app. They reconfigured the Biden CB – I keep saying CBP, CBP app. So they reconfigured this app. And this is – This is the app where they can notify the government if they’re self-deporting. And you heard Holman, who has been handling all of this. And I don’t know whose idea it was. It’s a brilliant idea. But do you think they’re actually going to do it? I mean, that’s the million-dollar question. Are they actually going to do it? I don’t know. I don’t know. I would think that if anyone wants to re-enter the country illegally, that it’s something that they would want to do. But it’s the existing app, so they can highlight on it if they want to self-deport or not. And they can actually, as they come in, they can make an appointment with regards to, you know, at the point of entry, et cetera, et cetera. And they can make their appointment. They can notify, I guess, like get information as to the immigration judge if they so choose. I don’t. But is it going to incentivize people actually to do it? I mean, I don’t I just don’t know if I have a lot of faith in that stuff. Kane, do you think that people are actually going to self-deport with us?
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I don’t believe it. I think it depends on how deeply they care about getting actual citizenship. If they really do care, if they thought by getting in illegally and then they could just finagle their way into being a citizen, now they’re looking at this and saying, well, if I get caught up and don’t actually self-deport, I may have ruined my chances for life of doing that. So I think it depends on their seriousness.
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I just think it’s interesting that it updates automatically. So if you are, you know, in the country and you have this app, I just think I just like the fact that it updates automatically and that it’s not anything. I mean, it’s already I mean, if you already have it on your phone and it’s already on your it’s you know that it’s there and and you have verified departure view your departure. The language is submit intent to depart and you can submit information regarding your intent to depart the United States. So those are the options that you have with that now.
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And I can tell you, even if some of them, whatever, don’t bother self-deporting, the silver lining is still we were 40,000 to 50,000 people a month coming through via the app. And now that number has completely – so at least there’s that silver lining no matter what happens from this point forward.
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I mean, even if you have entered the country illegally, so I’m looking at the language that’s been put out about it. Forgive, there’s a lot of information here. It says that even, so you, even if you have, you know, you entered illegally or if you had your parole revoked after the ending of like, I don’t know if it’s like the Flores, if that’s what they’re talking about, or if you’re giving the chance, you can also get the chance to tell DHS if you’re self-deporting. So it doesn’t, they said that They implemented that way, that into it also, so as to incentivize not levying harsher conditions onto people like detention or the expedited removal. So they, even if they’re here illegally, they have an ability to make it easier on themselves, right? By doing the self-deporting, if it’s really about, as you were saying, injuring the country and, you know, becoming a citizen. So I think that’s actually really good. I think it’s really good. I think it’s a very good approach with it. And I don’t know, however many people, I mean, I don’t expect coyotes and drug cartel members to do it. Anti-Musk demonstrations, which I think are entirely astroturf, are growing across the United States, apparently. So they had a bunch of people outside of stores in London, in Portugal, in Malaysia. They, why? Because he’s not, they don’t have a doge. Why are people like protesting? They had demonstrations there. They had some here in the U.S. They had about 250 people that showed up outside of a showroom in New York City. And they held anti-Musk place cards. And they read, block fascism now. Musk must go. Musk is not elected. Do George Soros now. Yeah. Democracy must be protected. So they think if you’re cutting wasteful spending, fraud and abuse, then somehow that’s. Indian democracy. I’m so confused by these people. So they said that these activists, they had them, they 250 outside of New York, they had five arrested for disorderly conduct, violation of local laws, they had a showroom in Salem, Oregon, where apparently, they this showroom in Salem was shot up by this guy named Adam Lansky 41. And he apparently is also He’s being accused of causing major damage at the same store with Molotov cocktails in January. They set four cyber trucks on fire in a Seattle industrial neighborhood. Let’s see. This is terrorism. That’s all. This is domestic terrorism. If you’re engaging in this, this is terrorism. It’s exactly what it is. I love that they said that the cyber trucks that were fired, they said that they had to take precautions to limit hazard because of the lithium batteries. But they said it’s too early in the investigation to determine whether or not if it was arson. Are you serious? It’s, yeah. Too early? It’s not too early. The folks over at My Family Pharmacy, they, this website has saved me more times than I can count. I mean, my health, my actual literal health. I’ve been, I was sick over a holiday. It was like Thanksgiving. I had a host. I was getting strep throat. The urgent care was like a crazy, I just, I couldn’t even get into my ENT. All Family Pharmacy helped me out. I got my azithromycin. I actually, I got it overnighted. And it immediately started helping, obviously, with my symptoms and sickness, helping with the super sore throat, all of that. They have over 200 different medications. All of the antibiotics that they have, it’s all made in the USA. I don’t know anywhere else where you can say that, but you don’t have to worry about quality and safety with All Family Pharmacy. You can always be prepared. It’s simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They’ve got straightforward pricing. And their shipping is just two to four days. Overnight, also in a pinch. Your health is always within reach. So order from the comfort of home as well. I mean, they can deliver right to your door. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com and use code DANA10 for 10% off of your entire order. That’s all family pharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off, but you got to use promo code Dana 10 to unlock that discount. Dana 10 all family pharmacy.com slash Dana.
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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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I actually saw this, I think, in a documentary a while ago. But now they’re saying that it looks like Noah’s Ark has been found, a boat-shaped mound. I mean, it could also be like a filled up crevasse. They said it was found in Turkey. It was underwater 5,000 years ago, the same period as the biblical flood. A team of researchers found it. They said it’s 18 miles south of Mount Ararat, uh, Yeah, 18 miles. It’s the fossilized remains of a wooden vessel is what they’re saying. It’s called, I can’t pronounce this, the Drubner Farmation. That’s exactly what it’s called. Sounds exactly right. 538 feet of geological structure made of iron ore called limonite. And so that’s what they’re saying. They think it could be a Noah’s Ark, which is totally believable. very fascinating looking thing uh secret service shot an armed man in a confrontation near the white house in a classic case of fafo uh the police had reported that it was a suicidal individual it sounded like suicide by cop is what it sounded like uh possibly traveling to dc from indiana they took him to a hospital condition was unknown at that time a u.s run system alerts the world to famines and it’s gone dark they said after trump Slashed foreign aid. Do you really need a giant US-run system that alerts you about famine in other foreign countries? Seriously. I mean, we kind of know where the… And it’s not an issue of famine. It’s an issue of dictatorial control that eliminates access to food. The book, The Myth of World Hunger, is fascinating. Wrote in college. Still relevant today. Also, the… Oh, they’re trying to do measles cases. Oh, measles cases jump 35% a week. Found in 12 states. Everybody freak out because it’s measles. Measles, measles. Everyone freak out. You know, just… Every single week, it’s something. What was it last week? It was measles last week, too. Bird flu. The week before that, bird flu. That’s right. Everybody’s going to die of bird flu. Now they’re saying U.S. measles, it’s jumped by over a third. This is kind of the same fear-mongering that we saw with Rona. However, like I’ve said, I don’t think all vaccines are bad. I just don’t like experimental government injections that are really therapeutics and they’re cosplaying. They’re trans vaccines. They’re trans scenes, Cain.
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Oh, there it is.
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We just created something. Yeah. So I just, you know, I mean, use common sense. But I don’t believe that the government knows better than you. I thought it was your body or choice. Or is that only when it has to do with not wanting to be responsible for an unplanned pregnancy? Okay. One of the, oh, this is heartbreaking. One of the last U.S. survivors of Pearl Harbor has passed away at age 102 years old. Jesse Mahaffey, one of the last survivors of the USS Oklahoma. He passed away March 1st in Alexandria, Louisiana, at age 102. He was only one of two survivors of the Oklahoma known to be living. According to the president of the California Chapter of Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor survivors, by that same tally, only 14 who survived the 1941 attack are still alive. 14. 14. That’s just, I just want to extend their lives as long as possible because that’s, when that generation, that greatest generation and those veterans, when they’re gone, you never, obviously, you know, you never get them back, but what a piece of living history and just a It’s a great ingredient in our human DNA here in the US. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. I’m always going to carry and I have zero problem in pumping a baddie full of lead, especially if they represent a threat to me or my loved ones. But I also realized too that a lot of people need different tools for different things. You have blades, you have your firearms, you have your pistol, you have your rifle. I mean, everybody’s got different stuff. For those people, like some friends of mine who live in areas where even if they get a license to carry, they can’t carry hardly anywhere because of municipal or private property restrictions. This is where a Berna gun comes in key because you don’t want to be completely defenseless in high crime areas. And so the Berna gun shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. When you compare it to regular stun guns, they only have like a couple of rounds. Berna has five. They have different models, but the Berna SD is their most popular model. It’s their best selling model. And it’s a good option for self-defense. There’s nothing wrong with diversifying what you have in terms of weapons. You can go and check out all the different projectiles and accessories. And if you go through Burna.com slash Dana, that URL is the way that you will knock 10% off. So evaluate what you have for self-defense. And if you need to diversify, visit Burna.com slash Dana. B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana for 10% off your purchase.
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We have the Republicans on the run on three core issues. They are on the run in terms of the economy. In fact, Donald Trump and Republicans are crashing the economy in real time.
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That’s Hakeem Jeffries, who’s head of the Democrat Party. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. I’d say you could watch on X, but X is currently having a mental abortion right now. So I don’t know what’s going on. But you can find us on Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble. It’s Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader, Hakeem Jeffries. I really don’t think that he sounds like he believes what he just said, but I really got to applaud them for their effort to try to say, well, Trump just got into office. All of these things are his fault. Guys, guys, he literally they are literally passing a budget and I’m going to use the word literally a lot here. So bear with me because it helps me with the rage. They are literally and by they I mean Republicans actually passing a continuing resolution that literally continues funding the whole Joe Biden scheme. So basically they’re taking Joe Biden’s economy and they’re allowing it to go for another fiscal year. That’s what this continuing resolution is. Oh no, there’s no cuts in it. No, there’s no cuts. There’s not even the permanence of the tax cuts from 2017. They’re not even in here. The no tax on tips? Nope, not in it. Nope. It’s the existing framework that they’re just letting, they’re kicking the can down the road. So Hakeem Jeffries saying this, that’s like literally your, your party’s spending plan. So I’m still blaming you. That’s how that works. You see, I’m still blaming them for this. Just asinine. I told Kane over the week or actually on break and I had this realization and this is part of it. Because there are people who read this stuff or they see that soundbite and they’re like, oh, that’s right. It’s totally right. This is Trump’s economy. I’m already seeing it from people. You can’t even do math. And this is when I realized, you know what? I really do believe that the Internet is the greatest mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself. I’m not kidding. I think it is the worst mistake. And I say this as someone who actually leveraged it to have the career that I have now. And I’ve definitely used it for a lot of good. Way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good than the bad. Very enjoyable bad, but way more good. Lots of the good. I fully recognize that. I would probably not be sitting here behind a mic hanging out with you on a Monday afternoon had I not had the internet.
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I tried arguing with you about it.
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You did. And I’m like, no, no, no. I still, even knowing that, even being fully aware that that’s my origin, I still think that it’s the greatest mistake that humankind’s ever perpetuated against itself.
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And then I said, what would make the internet good for you?
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And I said, take the people out. No people.
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But that is the internet.
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Yeah, that’s it.
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So you know, internet is bad.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Well, I think you got to look at, what am I thinking of? The sum total of it. Okay. You got to look at the sum total. Think about how they, I really feel like there are more dumber, dumb people now than there were.
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That I agree with.
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Or, or, or hear me out. It’s just that with the internet, you can see it more.
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Actually, maybe that’s it.
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I don’t know. I mean, I know that there were dumb people back in the day, whatever the day was.
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You and I, and I would imagine most of our audience, grew up without the internet. We know what life is like without the internet.
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But then I got email in high school.
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Yeah, see?
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I used to enter chat rooms playing Slayer. They’d code it in there and it’d go… It was so stupid. It was so cringed.
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But we understand that life can go on without the internet, which is why we can recognize the internet for what it is.
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Right. And it’s why it aggravates us. We were a weird generation because we were right in the middle of it. We had a childhood free of it, but then when we got to be teenagers, we had it.
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What was your first computer when you… IBM something.
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I don’t know. It was secondhand something. And I played a lot of games on it.
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I had a friend that had like an Apple.
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Of course, I did homework. Yeah.
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But we got like a VIC-20. And then the Commodore 64.
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I don’t even know what mine was.
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Do you remember the Commodore 64?
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I do remember that.
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Had that.
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Mine was so old. And it was like a great value version of whatever you just said. And I don’t even know what it was. Don’t even know. And it had a dot matrix printer and DOS and everything else. It was wild. Wild. The screen was green. But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know, even though it was like fourth hand. I don’t even care. It was mine.
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The first computer I used in school was a K-Pro. And it looked like a suitcase.
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Sounds like a K-pop band.
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The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard. And the keyboard would attach to the face of this like… Sounds like a caboodle. And you would take the keyboard off and then there would be a tiny little green screen there with the floppy disks right there.
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Gosh, floppy disks. My kids don’t even know what those are. They’re like, what are these weird things? Remember the floppy disk and the sleeves? Gosh, those are the days. And then got into high school and Apple started being everywhere. Right. And then when I got into college, it was that the big thing in college was the different colors of the Apple computers where you could get like the orange and the blue and the green and that you could. Yeah, that’s. We had some of those in college and the newspaper staff. But but yeah. So anyway, long story short, Internet, horrible, great, worst thing ever to happen to humans. Horrible, horrible. So mean to us. And we’re mean to ourselves with it. But then I completely understand that there are some great things. But I think in some total, I would forego the great to get over the bad. And again, I say this as somebody who knows I am sitting behind the mic because of the Internet. I mean, that’s how I got – I had the internet. We squatted literally in an old abandoned building off of Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis and did like a webzine. And it was – and then got started. I mean, that’s seriously – yeah, so – Long story short, you know, ignore the squatting part that had nothing to do with the Internet. But I just I look at this stuff because I, you know, Hakeem Jeffries puts this out and there are people who are like, well, it’s Hakeem Jeffries. And their reasoning is Hakeem Jeffries is a Democrat and he’s a Democrat with influence in the Democrat Party and he’s elected. So what he says must be true. It’s like believe by association. It’s the weirdest thing. You’re confirming your bias just by association alone. I mean, I don’t know. I the whole thing is I still maintain that the Internet is making everybody absolutely stupid. OK, so a few other things. And I think that’s also extending to some of the we’re going to have to do some house cleaning. We got to do some house cleaning. So I don’t know how many of you were watching. I don’t know. There’s there were there were a couple of big debates that took place over the weekend. And one of those had to do with Syria. In 72 hours, you had 1,300 Syrians killed. And many of them were Christians. And it’s the Alawite, the Syrians, the terror campaign against these Alawite families, etc. And it was a big deal. And then all of a sudden, there were some of these, I don’t say conservative. One of the things that the internet… I think contributes to is it doesn’t matter if it’s correct. What matters is how amplified it is. And the greater the amplification, that means somehow the greater the veracity of the claim, which is so stupid, but that’s apparently how we’re operating nowadays. So it doesn’t matter if what you’re saying is true. What matters is, well, are other people saying that it’s true? Or how many people have repeated what you said? And I bring this up with this Syrian story. Kane, you heard about this over the weekend. So this story, you had hundreds and hundreds of minorities, including Christians, and they’re considered a minority in Syria, who were killed. And this is after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, right? They’ve had pro-Assad fighters, government forces. You had jihadis. I… I think that it’s fair to say that Bashir al-Assad is a bad guy. He’s not the worst guy. We can allow, we are complex beings and we can allow for that thought. He’s a bad guy, but he’s not the worst guy. And in Syria, Christians existed in Syria. They didn’t have to pay from, to my knowledge, a jizya, which is the tax on non-believers. They didn’t have to pay. I don’t know. Not my knowledge that they had to pay for that. And now with Assad out, you have jihadis. And we did say you’re going to have jihadis rolling through Syria because you’re going to create a power vacuum. You have the minority Shia Muslim sect. They hold a lot of these top positions within the government. And now the Alawites are no longer in power. There have been revenge killings. There’s been a lot of highlighted or a lot of targeted killings of Christians. And they had the three main Christian churches. Apparently, they all issued a joint statement condemning the violence and massacres targeting innocent civilians. And it has been just it’s been a mess. Rubio said in a statement yesterday that. that the U.S. condemned the radical Islamist terrorists, including the foreign jihadis who have been murdering people, including the Alawite, the Kurdish, the Jewish, the Christian communities, offering their condolences to their family. And interim authorities must hold all of this, you know, they must hold them responsible. I do say that you there is it’s understandable that when you take out someone who wasn’t punishing people for being Christian again, a bad guy, but not the worst guy that when you allow jihadis then to come in. Yeah, Christians and everybody else who aren’t jihadis are probably going to end up being killed. It’s almost like. you, everybody saw this coming, you know, and we were talking about it. I don’t know why it was like such a great mystery or why it’s people are shocked that, that, Oh, now this is happening. You know, the stuff that everybody was talking about leading up to this, but what ended up happening over, I don’t know what was going on with the right. You had, uh, people going out. There’s, uh, I guess trying to run defense for Iran. We’re going to dive into this a little bit more and later on with, uh, Steven Yates, but the, um, Defense of Assad. I’ve seen this bubbling up a lot. It’s either you have to believe that he is a great guy or the enemy and there’s no room for what I had just laid out that he’s a bad guy, but not the worst guy. And through this forced perspective, you either have to adopt that he was great or you have to think. I mean, it’s either or there’s no there’s no middle ground. There’s no I mean, there aren’t any really better angels in this. But again, part of the problem of the Internet, people can read a thread on X and they think I’m fully informed about the issue. Or they’ll ask AI, which AI is still getting a lot of things wrong. And then they think I’m fully informed on the issue. You’re just asking. You’re just regurgitating something that confirms your bias. And then you’re reading it online and you’re spitting it out there. We’re going to talk more about this because somehow this got blamed on all the Jews. I don’t know. It became a Jewish issue. How did that even happen? We’re going to discuss all of this. All of this coming up. We’ll get some housecleaning to do as we move. It’s our friend’s. Over at Preborn, this is a great organization that does so much to help moms and babies, particularly saving babies. And every life is a gift. 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SPEAKER 06 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It’s not a criminal. It’s a crime. It’s not a crime, which is why they’re so frustrated, because they really want our local law enforcement to go out and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers, as well as the robbers. They want them to go and round people up on civil accusations.
SPEAKER 02 :
and so okay i’ve got a number of issues here first is um why did you use the word illegal number one like it’s not she’s out here that’s what’s her face jasmine i don’t like the fact that her last name is crockett how you doing davey this memory that way but she says that it’s not a crime to enter illegally what are you just it’s not a crime to enter criminally But you just use the phrase illegally. And it is. You can say it isn’t, but it actually is. It’s a statute. It’s a real thing. You know that they don’t believe this. They just don’t want there to be penalties for it. That’s the big difference with us. They just don’t want there to be any kind of existing penalties. This stuff… I know we’ve been saying this now since Trump won, but I really feel like Democrats have no idea what to do. They have no messaging, no cohesion, no unity. They have no… I don’t really think if you got all of them in a room that they would even understand what their party’s purpose is. What is your purpose as a party? And it can’t just be, I hate Trump. I mean, you can’t… People need more than just that. They need more, a lot more. I would like for there to be multiple healthy parties because I like choices as a consumer, as a voter. I like to have choices. And I don’t want one side to get so dumb that it allows the other side to get dumb because they feel like they don’t have to strive for any kind of higher level because they’re just measuring. You always look great if you’re measuring yourself by the lowest common denominator. So I don’t think Republicans should contrast themselves against Democrats all the time. How about you measure yourself against the Constitution and not Democrats? Because anybody can look good measured against them. Measure yourself against the Constitution. Is it constitutional what I’m doing? Is this vote constitutional? Is this proposal constitutional? Is this CR constitutional? Is this budget constitutional? That’s the only litmus test. And I really feel like Republicans are not learning this giant lesson here. So coming up, the latest in Syria. We’re also going to talk about some of there’s a rot on the right. And I’m just mystified over some of this. We’re going to touch on a little bit of it here coming up in the second hour. Also, they’ve gotten politically correct with Harry Potter. Yeah, I think I can’t wait for a samurai movie. Although I think who was it that did this? It wasn’t Ubisoft. Who was it that did it? It was the Assassin’s Creed people that messed up. We should just take a page. Let’s just do a samurai movie and just cast entirely like blonde haired, blue eyed people. You know, I mean, who cares, right? That’s apparently what it is anymore. We’re going to discuss that because the casting for this new Harry Potter series is just mind-numbingly stupid. So we got to have this discussion. Also, let me pull this up because we got a lot for you. We got to get into some of the, with Gaza, the latest with Gaza, lights out, on, out, off, on, kind of back and forth. We’re going to get into that. The budget battle, Trump collars Doge. Mike Johnson apparently splits from Musk on some of this stuff. We’re going to highlight all of this and more. Stick with us. Second hour on the way. We love gold. Although the URL is DanaLikesGold.com. I’m like, like isn’t strong enough. It’s my best friend. We’re going to go get portraits at JCPenney. Do they still have those? You can get your free 2025 gold and silver kit today, could qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver, maybe even more. Gold and silver have stood the test of time. And right now, remember Trump’s first term, gold surged 53%, silver was 51%. So what does that look like 2025 and beyond now that he’s back in office? Protect your wealth with gold and silver today. You can request their free 2025 gold and silver kit today. Learn how to diversify and safeguard your savings with time-tested safe haven assets. Experience matters when protecting your wealth, and GoldCo is the company that I trust. They’ve secured their financial future with gold and silver. They’ve helped so many people do this, and they’ve been with this program since the beginning. They know what they’re doing. Visit danalikesgold.com. Join the thousands of people who’ve called GoldCo the number one rated gold company. And you can get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit and also qualify for up to fifteen thousand dollars in bonus silver, possibly even more. That’s Dana likes gold dot com.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, right now, the House is controlled by Republicans. The Senate is controlled by the Republicans and the presidency is in the hands of the Republicans. So it is their job to make sure that the government has the resources it needs in order to continue to function. And I think the American people are well aware of that fact. And that is who they are going to blame.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I don’t think that it works that way because, first off, it’s very easy, and we said this last hour, to claim that Republicans are in charge of everything, so therefore everything is their fault. When everybody knows that the mechanics move a lot slower than that, number one. Number two, they’re passing a continuing resolution that literally continues funding government exactly the way that Joe Biden and Democrats ordained it. It changes nothing. There are no cuts included, no tax cuts, none of the no tax on tips. You’re not getting any of that. It just prolongs the existing framework of Biden’s whole fiscal thing for the next fiscal year. That’s so… What she’s saying there, it’s still what Democrat. This is why people like myself are so mad at Republicans right now, because they’re continuing Democrats economic policies. And that’s what the CR battle is over. And there they have this they have this resolution that they’ve got to move on by. I think it’s what Friday. And they’ve I don’t know whether or not they’re going to actually I mean, I don’t know. They’re not going to they’re supposed to be taking it up. Johnson unveiled the funding bill that they had pushed through. They’re trying to have this stopgap measure that keeps government funding going for I think what until September. Until fall. But I don’t know if that’s something that because there’s such a narrow majority. And again, can I just point out and I’m going to complain one more time about this. This is why some of us were very critical of POTUS picking out of house for his cabinet, because we have two seats short right now. They’re not filled. You have Mike Waltz’s seat and you have Gage’s seat. And Florida can go as fast as Florida is going. They’re trying to go as fast as possible. But you have constitutional processes that you according to each state’s constitution that they have to follow to fill a seat. And so. you have two seats that are open. They could be Republican, but they’re not there. Waltz is in the cabinet. Gates tried to get in the cabinet, but the reported ethics baggage that he has is going to probably prevent future political office for always. But those two seats being open, you barely have, you have the narrowest majority in the House in the past 100 years. the narrowest majority. And so whether or not Johnson can get this stopgap, and it’s still trash, but whether or not he can get that through to avoid a shutdown without having to have Democrats, that’s going to be really problematic. He’s going to have to have Democrats to vote to get it to pass. And that means that there’s going to have to be, it’s going to be even dumber than what it is already. So there you go. He said he’s going to bring it to a vote. It’ll probably come tomorrow. It runs out Friday. And they said that they don’t know. They don’t know. They haven’t negotiated this stopgap with Democrats. So I don’t know. They have to be able to pass it. Trump said that if Johnson gets the bill to his desk, he’ll sign it because he doesn’t want to shut down less than two months into his term. So this is something that Republicans are they have to deal with and strategize around because, I mean, they’ve been handed this ticking time bomb of an economy. And everyone I heard this morning, there were a number of talking heads that were saying that, no, no, no, we’re not really going to have a recession. If we don’t do anything to stop the government spending and balance some of these things, then, yes, we absolutely are going to have one. That’s not really up for debate. I think the debate is the severity of it, but not whether or not it actually manifests. So. They’ve got to get their financial house in order. And Democrats are not really in a mood to help them. They are petty and vengeful. They don’t look at this as though they need to do something to get relief to the voter. They look at this as how can we make them look so bad and pinch people so that people feel the pinch and then we’ll be motivated to vote for Democrats because they think that we’re going to do it differently or somehow better. Which, you know, they won’t. So the CR, they have an increase in spending. They slowed the rate of growth that they try to mask off as a cut. And it’s just a garbage. It’s a garbage CR. I mean, there’s nothing good about it. Thomas Massey’s already pretty much said that he’s a no-go on it. And so that’s one Democrat. And he’s consistent on everything that he puts up, I will say. But he’s saying that this is a no-go for him. So they’re going to have to. I don’t know what they’re going to do. But I really think that missing the opportunity to include tax cuts, permanent tax cuts. And I have my own issues with the no tax on tips because I’m like, well, what about the bussers? What about the line cooks? What about, you know, all these folks? This is just servers. I mean, I say this as somebody who worked as a server for years going through college. That aside, why Republicans are missing the opportunity to say Democrats are refusing to provide relief? Why can’t they turn the messaging around on them? Why do they constantly have to be on defense? This is what aggravates me so much with Republicans. They’re always on defense, even when they should be on offense. They are the ones who should be out there right now saying, can you believe that Democrats do not want to get this? They don’t want to have any of this done. Democrats don’t care if their government shuts down. I mean, they don’t care. They just think if it hurts Republicans, then it hurts Republicans. They don’t care who else is hurt in the process. So they’re not going to be… real amenable to working with Republicans on any of this. But why are Republicans not out there messaging this and weaponizing it themselves? Democrats don’t want to give you no tax on tips. Democrats do not want to make the 2017 tax cuts. They don’t want to make them permanent. They want you and then run through the list of again, they want you to fund this stuff through USAID. I mean, my gosh, they haven’t even gotten some of these departments that they’ve suspended within EO made permanent through congressional action. All they could I mean, Democrats can come right in and reconstitute them in 28 if the if Congress doesn’t act. So this is all a major it’s a major issue. And I’m just not I don’t know. I’m it’s a mess. So we’re also and yes, we are aware, by the way, of all of the what is wrong with the Internet today, Cain?
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, not knowing right now, of course, I will speculate and wear a tinfoil hat.
SPEAKER 02 :
Aliens?
SPEAKER 08 :
X has been hacked. Now Rumble’s been hacked.
SPEAKER 02 :
Has Rumble been hacked?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I don’t know if it’s been hacked, but it did crash. And just like X crashed. So I don’t know what the explanation is for that. It seems odd that everything else seems to be up and running and without interruption, but X and Rumble are somehow out.
SPEAKER 02 :
Interesting. Again, the internet is a garbage place, I’m just saying. Yeah, so we can’t, because usually we stream on there and we have the chat. They’ve had some difficulties in Rumble today. But how, I mean, you don’t think it’s something like that. I mean, we did see a lot of people going after Tesla showrooms over the weekend. I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, that’s the only reason why I think it. I mean, sure, it could be just technical malfunctions, but… Or it could not be. Or it could not be.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. Have you guys heard about this situation? Let me pull this story up while we have it. Have you guys heard about the story regarding the Harry Potter casting? You guys heard about all this? So I… Yes, they are redo. I mean, I don’t know why they’ve got to redo this series or do anything like this, but they’re they’re shooting this series. This is from Deadline Hollywood. And then they have a thing with Forbes also. I’ll write up over at Forbes and I’ll I think you have some of this may have gotten some of your prep last week. So essentially, so it’s an HBO series. It’s the HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. And it features younger versions of, I guess, like Harry Potter’s parents and Snape and all of this other stuff, right? And it gets into the background of all of this. There’s a lot of discussion as to the casting because they’re saying that The casting is basically DEI. And now one of the headlines, for instance, this is GBN. They said Harry Potter fans fume at what they’re calling blackwashing as HBO is closing in on an actor to play Snape. They’re saying it’s horrible casting. And this is because I guess John Lithgow is playing Dumbledore, which if that’s true, that’s a horrific cast. I like I not look. I like him, but not as that character. So apparently Snape is being played by a black actor. Now, I don’t think in any realm where you don’t talk about the physical attributes of a character and that doesn’t play into the character. I don’t think it’s important. But with this, it seems odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa Esadu. He’s been cast as Sephiroth Snape in this series. He was in Gangs of London. He’s been in a couple of things as well. I don’t know why that they would change the… I mean, again, it’s like casting a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person as a samurai. It’s like if you’re going to… It’s like imagine you do… Imagine you do a real-life casting of… Say Samurai Champloo and you have like all blonde, blue eyed white people that you have cast as the characters. It’s just weird. You know what I mean? It’s weird. It’s like it’s like I don’t understand the purpose of it. When you change the character that much. And by the way, the guy that they have that they’ve cast, he’s kind of a cool looking dude. Snape is not a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow, greasy haired, you know, blonde, black, stringy hair, pale eyed, pale, pale, pale, sickly almost. I mean, he’s he’s. Characterized as a weak goth, for the lack of a better way to put it. And they cast this fit-looking black actor as Snape. And I’m sorry, but it’s not working. It is not working. Other than the fact that the character is very explicitly described in the series as not black. But the guy doesn’t look like a dork. It’s not going to work for me. You know who they said should have played it, and I agree with this casting proposal, is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been a great Snape. He would have been a really good Snape. Am I wrong? I mean, Cain, you see this guy. You see this actor. He looks too cool. And he’s, again, Snape is a pale, sickly, sallow, blonde or black stringy or blue eyed dude.
SPEAKER 08 :
Apparently he got better.
SPEAKER 02 :
And he got fit. Because he’s described as none of those things in the book. So I don’t… The whole thing is weird. I just don’t… I don’t… The casting is dumb. This is just bad casting. So they said apparently it’s going to get worse because the casting decisions just get… You know, they… So they cast this guy. And now everyone’s saying the backlash is racist, which I think is lazy. It’s super, super lazy. And I don’t know. I… I don’t know. I don’t think that that’s going to work. It’s like, again, it’s like casting. Oh, I don’t know. Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. Right. Exactly. It’s like actually casting Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. It makes the same amount of sense. You know what I mean? It’s just dumb. It’s like hiring, I’m trying to think, who’s the guy who plays Thor? Chris Hemsworth. And having him play Black Panther. You see what I’m saying? It doesn’t make any sense. Would you have Chris Hemsworth as Black Panther, leader of Wakanda? Would you? No. You know you wouldn’t. No. So why is this casting choice okay? At some point, the character description does matter. And do you know why it matters with this case? Because the whole Death Eater lore is kind of, I mean, it intimates that it’s Nazi-esque. I mean, it intimates, they use words like mudbloods, and they talk about it’s like very 1930s kind of stuff, very much so. You rob it of that dark storyline, that fear, by ignoring the character’s background and physical description. It was for a point. Our friends over at Kel-Tec, great Florida company, although they have now a Wyoming facility too that they’ve opened. And I think, I’m pretty sure that this was one of the first rollouts of their new expansion facility. And it’s the awesome PR-57 rotary barrel pistol. chambered in 5.7. Now, I have not fired this, but I have handled it quite a bit when I saw it all at SHOT Show. It is so light. I thought I was going to throw it through the ceiling when I picked it up. I don’t know why. 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. So I have 5.7s. There’s none that I could actually realistically with my frame carry. I could carry this. It’s that thin and it’s that light. Now, they achieve this in two different ways. They have the innovative rotary barrel that makes it, helps to make it the lightest 5.7 on the market. But They also have eliminated magazines. So it has a very unique top loading design and it replaces the traditional mags with the stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity. And all the people that don’t know anything about guns, when they say clips instead of magazines, you know, they’ll actually be accurate by accident for once. So there you have that. It’s actually great for everyday carry for everyone. It’s engineered for simplicity and simple reliability. And the MSRP makes it uber affordable at only $399. It’s the first of its kind. Kel-Tec PR57 Rotary Barrel Pistol Chambered in 5.7. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec. K-E-L-T-E-C Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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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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SPEAKER 02 :
So, what I think you’re watching, do we have this on the monitor for the folks? What, what… What we’re watching is this removal, I guess, of the Black Lives Matter Plaza. So it wasn’t just like a crosswalk. It was looks like it was a whole city block. Was it more than that? Because they had the street signs made up, as you could see from the video. So it said the black it said Black Lives Matter on the street sign. And then it had this. I guess it looks like a whole city block. I thought it was maybe it might be bigger. Might be bigger. Yeah, I think that looks bigger. I think it’s probably a couple blocks where in the road, they had painted out in the actual road, Black Lives Matter. And so DC, they started dismantling this. It’s known as, checks notes, Black Lives Matter Plaza. It’s near the White House. So there was, after the, I think it’s what, been there for four and a half years, And now, apparently, it’s being described as Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision to remove it, I guess, to ease political tensions. How much did it cost to put all this in here? Because the street sign, I didn’t know about the street sign, so that cost. Do you think that Black Lives Matter paid to have that street sign made?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think taxpayers paid for all of this.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you think that Black Lives Matter paid to write Black Lives Matter on the streets?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, they didn’t.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you think that now Black Lives Matter is paying to have this removed?
SPEAKER 08 :
No. No, they’re not.
SPEAKER 02 :
So they just pocketed the money, bought all these mansions, and then that’s – there you go.
SPEAKER 08 :
We’re stuck with the bill.
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s just – was there somewhere you could – that taxpayers can send an invoice to? So they cleared out the homeless encampments down there too, but then they’re taking this. It’s not a mural. It’s just, I don’t know what it is. But the D.C. mayor, apparently she okayed the removal to ease tensions with the administration. And I don’t know what, if funding had anything to do with it. I don’t know how you continue to fund this. But they said that it’s just north of the White House where they’re taking the paint off. So they said, I don’t know what they’re going to, I guess this is going to be a regular street now. Is it still going to be called Black Lives Matter Plaza? Are they renaming that as well? That’s a good question.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think they’ve taken it all down.
SPEAKER 02 :
Even the street. What was it before Black Lives Matter Plaza? Regular street name.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think it was.
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Trump had threatened to withhold D.C.’ ‘s funding if they didn’t stop this nonsense. And so now they’re stopping the nonsense. So nature is healing, you could say. Nature is healing. There it is right there. Yeah, yeah. Someone sent this to me, this Mediaite piece. The headline is, this is disgusting. Conservative shred UFC’s Dana White for warm welcome of accused traffickers, the Taters, to Vegas event. I don’t even like saying that. I was blissfully unaware of these people for the longest time. I didn’t know who they were. And then all of a sudden, I saw… some of the grifting kind of people on the right pushing them. And there, there is that mentality on the rights is one of the reasons why I hate the internet. I hate the idea of influencer. I hate that term. And I think that there’s a difference between an influencer and then just people who are, who, who are in commentary or editorial writers, because I feel like influencers are whatever is the trendiest. They push whatever’s the trendiest and they will only, It’s like the trendiest talking points, the trendiest topics, the trendiest. And if you’re out there trying to push the limits of discussion and the depth of discussion, you really don’t engage a lot in like the forever 21 type of instant gratification throwaway thought, right? And I think for a lot of us, I mean, I don’t think that fleeting influence lasts. I think that… you know, serious commentary is what lasts. So I don’t know. I always, nothing makes me hate someone more than if they mistake me for an influencer. I’m like, no, it’s not even remotely the same. And I know a lot of people in broadcasting that are like that. And I think with a lot of this stuff, and I’m starting to see more of it on the right, I see it on the left because it’s kind of where it originated, right? Like just this vapidness, this shallow attempt to be like a pseudo-intellectual or just outright laziness when it comes to thought and people just take something that someone else has and they repackage it and they repost it and it just goes on and on and on. And you can say it’s amplification and it is, but it also is misdirection and misrepresentation just as much. And so I think that plays into this story. So I saw, and I saw it because everybody was talking about it, the taters. I don’t even like saying their name. It’s like I don’t want to say Candyman’s name in the mirror three times in the bathroom, you know, because it’ll pop up. I saw that movie. Or if you say Bloody Mary and when I was a kid, it was you got to say Bloody Mary in the bathroom. Yeah, three times in a dark bathroom in front of a mirror and in the dark and she’ll appear. So it’s like I really don’t want to say the Taters names because they’re two brothers and. I know that there’s apparently a huge, there’s a ton of accusations against them. Apparently as media reported and a million other, there’s like this ongoing sex trafficking, rape accusation case. The charges in Romania haven’t been dismissed. Apparently it’s still being investigated. They were allowed to come to the United States for just like a little bit. And then they went back to Romania. But that’s the whole situation where Florida said they’re not welcome in Florida and They’re they’re accused of a lot of things. And the reason that they’re accused of a lot of things is because they’re on video literally talking about all of it. You can’t say that you’re innocent of certain things when you’re on video talking about them yourself. No one made you do that. But anyway, from I mean, what’s been reported, there’s all there’s they’re facing like a lot of these accusations. And they got this ongoing case, not just in Romania, but in the U.K., And then one of the victims, apparently, I guess it’s a trafficking victim that came forward who was like 15 at the time. And there’s video of him whipping one of the taters, whipping this girl with a belt or something. A lot of it’s blurred out. So it’s kind of hard to tell. But like whipping somebody on camera. I have audio. The reason I bring this up is because what in the hell, conservatives, what is happening on the right that you lift up people like this? I mean, this guy talks about banging dudes. How is that? How are you upholding someone who is defending literally sodomy, like banging a dude backside? How are you defending that as some sort of representation for conservatism or as like an example on the right? Don’t. Hey, if you’re cringing right now, I did, too. I had to look at this stuff. Not like him doing it, but him talking about it. Play that for me. Go ahead. Just give me that little video right out there. Because I think that people need to be aware of what is being promoted as the right type of masculinity on the right. Watch this. Sorry.
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Ignore the construction. I’m rebuilding my mansion. You’ll see when it’s done. We’ll do an episode of Chris.
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Just do an audio here, not a video.
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Yeah, he’s on his rooftop of his brutalist. It looks like some kind of Eastern block building. Anyway. That’s all going to be lit up in s**t with gattie logos. Broke boys don’t know. Listen, I recently posted a question on Twitter asking… We have to show you the screen. Would you rather have sex with a transsexual, which is a legitimate 10, or a woman, which is a legitimate 1? And everyone’s sitting there clicking woman, woman, woman, woman, because they think they’re going to be gay if they do anything else. But they’re not actually thinking about the question. I am so smart. I operate on so many levels higher than the average man. You people are not thinking about the question. When I say a one and a ten, I mean Megan Fox with a d***. That’s the tranny. What? Or Hulk Hogan with a d***. That’s the girl.
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So he’s like defending the idea of banging. Megan Fox. Dude. Or Hulk Hogan. And I’m like, what in the world is happening with you?
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Like, it’s a false choice. He lands on the idea of being with the Megan Fox looking dude.
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Yeah, he wants to bang the dude. This is what he’s talking about. And is it what? Is it a copyright issue? Is that what it is?
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Well, at the time that we were getting all this together, X was down.
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Okay, X was down.
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So we couldn’t actually download the video.
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So but there’s the video that’s up there. So I don’t know how these dudes are being elevated as some sort of representation of healthy masculinity. First and foremost, there’s nothing healthy or masculine about it from all everything that’s been reported. They make their money off of like pimping out women on only is it only fans? Or like sex cams. It’s like sex cam girls. And that’s what a lot of the accusations against them are surround trafficking. And there are apparently a lot of people have come forward and the case apparently widened in Romania and it’s ongoing in the UK. So it’s not something that’s like, you know, this is not like the New York time or the New York lawfare against Trump. Right. Like Trump didn’t actually do anything. There’s Trump isn’t even on video bragging about doing stuff. I mean, come on. So I but I’ve seen people lift these guys up and I just don’t get it. There’s so much about it. A that’s cringe. There’s it’s welfare. If you’re making money off of pimping out women, you’re an entitled welfare queen. You just have a penis. That’s it. It doesn’t make you any less of a welfare queen. You’re still a welfare queen because you’re living off of the work of someone else. Like you’re not even going out there earning your own money. And I don’t know why, you know, some on the right have taken to lifting up single dudes who have no family, who have no commitments from any women who talk about women like this. And I think they’re Muslims too, aren’t they? So, okay. Hi Sharia. I don’t even know what, what these people are thinking. Um, I’ve seen a lot of people platform them and do interviews. And then when they’re criticized for it, they whine about free speech. It has nothing to do with free speech. You have free speech. And then everyone else also has free speech to criticize how you use yours. So get over it. But these people, these like tater bros are not anything to be looked up to. It’s glorified welfare. You’re making money off of other women having sex. And it’s like welfare. You’re sponging off of these women and you’re trying to present it as being a masculine thing and it’s not. Part of being masculine and part of being a real man is the code of chivalry. And to just dumb it down, you know, chivalry means you’re a badass, but you choose not to be. You know, you can go out and you can war in the field, but then you can come back and you can sit next to a lady and have a polite meal, you know, in the king’s court. I mean, that’s kind of what, you know, to put it in layman’s terms, that’s sort of, you know, the chivalry. I don’t see any of that here. I don’t see any kind of, you know, courteousness or any… And people… are acting like, oh, well, this is the answer to all the accusations of toxic masculinity. And I don’t see any daylight in how they treat any female, by the way. I understand toxic masculinity. I’m married to a man. I’m raising young men. I get it. I grew up probably disliking feminism more than the people talking about how much they dislike feminism today. I also know that there’s first wave, second wave, third wave, and fourth wave. First wave, fine. Women can vote. They can be able to actually inherit the property that they helped build up with their families so they’re not left destitute if widowed. I get it. But then the whole abortion on demand and now men or women, it’s kind of jumped the shark. Targeting men and acting like real masculinity is toxic. Hopefully conservatives haven’t forgotten what real masculinity looks like because it’s not this. It’s not pimping out women and bragging about trying to glorify welfare off of sex. It’s none of those things. It’s not rejecting the Christian principles on which the nation was founded. It’s not that. They went out to, I guess, Vegas, and they were caught shaking hands. They were photographed shaking hands with Dana White, which I think is a really bad look for UFC, by the way. I don’t think anybody needs to be parading around with these fools. I mean, it’s just cringe. It’s like the Wayans brothers. If they did a whole skit mocking a subset of wannabe hard asses, they would dress up like this, and they would do this. It feels almost like we’re getting punked in a way. But there are some people that are so burnt out from the accusations of toxic masculinity that I guess they find this empowering, which I don’t find it empowering. I find it debasing. It’s just debasement. To push back against toxic masculinity isn’t to embrace progressive principles. I don’t believe in toxic masculinity. There’s no more toxicity in being masculine than there is toxicity in being feminine. I don’t believe in the patriarchy any more than I believe in the matriarchy, although I could say that the matriarchy is probably a little bit more established. But this whole pushing of them as though this is some sort of like representation of masculinity in the sphere of conservatism or on the right is so misguiding. And it’s it’s such a debasement and it’s an insult to men. Men are so much better than these boys. Men are so much better than this. And they have there are so many better examples of strong, actual men than this. So I get it that people want clicks and I get it that they want traffic. And I get it that in this oversaturated world of whatever that, you know, people are trying to carve out a niche for themselves. But engaging in this like clickbait debasement is not the way to do it. We’ll have more on it. But I just I saw that piece. I’m like, oh, boy, I said one thing about it. But it’s still it’s cringe. And I just I we haven’t talked a lot about it. It’s like this cultural thing that’s happening on the right right now. But I think it’s maybe time that we do start talking about it because I just see some horrible representations of what some people think masculinity looks like. And that’s not what masculinity is. There are so many awesome dudes out there who deserve to be like recognized and elevated and talked about and used as like the measure of what it is to be a man and not dudes, these dudes who, I mean, get a shirt that fits and, you know, stop like sponging off of like women’s sex work. I just, it’s like welfare, right? We got a lot more on the way as we move. Our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that’s out there. They don’t use your money to go against all the nonsense that you vote against every time you go to the ballot box. Patriot Mobile. I know where the founder lives. It’s super helpful. You know, be like, I know where you live. No, for real, though, in a nice way. 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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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A Florida woman was attacked. Well, she attacked a man with a Pringles can. Say deputies. That sounds like a song. Oh my goodness, this is in Florida, WFLA. A Florida woman was accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles. Orange County Sheriff’s Office, they got called to the 7-Eleven for a reported fight. And a man told deputies that Shanika Serdahl hit him in the eyes with a Pringles chip can. And then she ran off. So they said he had a significant cut on his right eyebrow, and he was actually bleeding. They did find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession, and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So no hitting with Pringles. Don’t do that.
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She kept the Pringles, though?
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Yeah, I’m sure it was probably confidence. It’s probably taken into evidence. I mean, if they do all that, you know, I don’t know. A Florida woman murdered her roommate and then poured Mountain Dew all over herself to prevent the police from getting DNA. That doesn’t work that way. They did also find a bloody knife in the cell phones and all this other stuff. So, yeah, that Florida woman’s probably going to spend decades in prison. And she wasn’t able to actually hide any of the evidence either. Lame. All right. We got a third hour on the way. Steven Yates is going to join us. Did you hear about the three Chinese folks, CCP members in the army arrested for spying? This website has saved me more times than I can count. I mean, my health, my actual literal health. I was sick over a holiday. It was like Thanksgiving. I had a host. I was getting strep throat. The urgent care was like a crazy. I just couldn’t even get into my ENT. All family pharmacy helped me out. I got my azithromycin. Actually, I got it overnighted. And it immediately started helping, obviously, with my symptoms and sickness, helping with the super sore throat, all of that. They have over 200 different medications. All of the antibiotics that they have, it’s all made in the USA. I don’t know anywhere else where you can say that, but you don’t have to worry about quality and safety with All Family Pharmacy. You can always be prepared. It’s simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They’ve got straightforward pricing. And their shipping is just two to four days. Overnight, also in a pinch. Your health is always within reach. So order from the comfort of home as well. I mean, they can deliver right to your door. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com and use code DANA10 for 10% off of your entire order. That’s all family pharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off, but you got to use promo code Dana 10 to unlock that discount. Dana 10 all family pharmacy.com slash Dana.
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is why so many people are so mad about it because they’re just taking opportunity away from kids that don’t have it. So billionaires, kids are billionaires. They have it. They go to private schools. Everyone else, 90%, go to public schools. Don’t take away their opportunity. So let’s stay on the facts. Sorry.
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No, do not apologize. I’m really angry about this. No, because this is what people need to hear.
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I taught kids in Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, New York,
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Randy Weingarten is super mad because something’s being discussed that would actually limit her power and her influence. And that has to do with the education plan from the administration, i.e. having it all go back to the states instead of being consolidated and centralized in Washington, D.C. Welcome back to the program. We’re at the top of this third hour. Dana, let me share with you. This woman shut down. She was part of the reason that schools shut down for almost two years. Because Randy Weingarten pushed for it. So spare me. I don’t believe that this woman at all cares. I think it’s just about preserving her power. And access to power. That’s it. I don’t I don’t think it’s anything else. I don’t think it’s anything else. Because you can’t sit here and say that what she has pushed for these have turned out to be successful for kids or that it has turned into a super successful means of education. I mean, this she’s part of everything that’s wrong with with education right now. all for having the states handle it. We absolutely do not need it consolidated out in D.C. That’s just so asinine to me. There’s no authority for the federal government to do any of what it’s doing as it pertains to education. And if people feel so strongly about it, then instead of demanding that everyone else pay, you pay more, right? I mean, I got major problems with it. I have major problems with an educational system that is more about political propaganda than actual education. I just and especially what they’ve been, you know, you’ve seen these fights. I mean, good grief. We had the fight with our public school board here and the town in which I live. We were the first one to go to the ballot box over it. And just to watch the way that the system tried to weaponize everything against innocent parents was truly stunning. So after like all of that, after witnessing all of that and hearing what my friends have gone through in other parts of the United States, no. And then looking at test scores, looking at everything that happened over lockdown that she encouraged, that she pushed for, that she demanded. Hell no. It’s a joke. This isn’t about education. It’s about propagandizing. That’s all it’s about. It has nothing to do with education. So she’s angry. She acts like it’s costing people opportunities if you let parents have more direct access in the state. All I hear is that this old broad’s out there saying that she apparently knows more about your children than you do and that she has more of authority to influence them than you do. That’s not how it works. So I’m glad to see that the administration is doing something about it. Again, though, executive orders only matter until he’s out of office and then they’re irrelevant. People know those, right? That’s why it’s so incredibly important to get these congressional members on the same page. Mike Johnson is dramatically split from Doge, come the reports over this weekend. He was on TV on Friday, and he was saying that the efficiency-driven approach was necessary to trim government excess. And then critics, though, were saying that the cuts are abrupt. And as a result, they’re having a lot of a major negative impact on a lot of things. And they were I think they were also worried about how some of the austerity was going to affect them. That’s what it sounds like at the ballot box. So he was on he was on. saying that it’s going to be corrected, was the phrase that he used. Somewhat like a shift from the Musk-Doge approach. He was saying that the, talking about the abrupt cuts, people were saying it’s having an effect on critical federal programs and it’s costing dedicated workers their jobs. So what, the federal sector is the only place where dedicated workers are not allowed to lose their jobs? Private sector, it’s okay. Federal, it’s not. It may sound callous, and if someone, I guess, wants to have a weak constitution and be offended over my tone on it, then they’re free to do that just as I’m free to disregard it. But if only these people had been as loud when the federal government was shutting down private sector businesses. for COVID locking people out of their workplaces, enacting economic eminent domain and making it to where people couldn’t earn a living and arresting those who tried. And that actually did happen. I know people personally who were arrested for trying to simply work. Shelley Luther being the first. And now she’s in elected office as a result. But the, Musk says he’s being efficient. Johnson is saying, okay, well, yeah, maybe it was too fast. I just, I don’t, he seems soft on it. He said it’s going to be corrected. I don’t know what that means. But to me, it was kind of a signal for, I just don’t think that they have the spine to do what’s needed. I mean, I like the stuff that POTUS is coming out with and I like the EOs, but none of that’s going to matter when he’s out of office in 2028 because it’s all going to go away. Democrats are going to get rid of it. They’re going to get rid of it. They’re going to, with an EO, undo all of his EOs and then have their own implemented like Biden did with the border when he got into office back in 2020. So I don’t know. I mean, Johnson, to me, was signaling some separation there. Did you read that the same way, Kane? Because that’s how I got it. Johnson was trying to make it look like, OK, well, he’s like way more I don’t know. I don’t want to say energetic. That’s not the right word about it than Johnson was. And he was suggesting to like sensitive sectors, there might be a concession where people are rehired. I think this is so you’re you’re undermining then in your telegraphing that you’re undermining what Doge is doing. What is the point of any of this? My gosh, can’t you people get a damn spine? Grow a spine for once in your ever loving lives. Republicans stop being pathetic. Grow a spine. If they don’t get this, if they don’t make these cuts now before filing for midterm election starts, guys, they’re never going to make them. The coalition will be gone, and you can say hello to Gavin Newsom for president in 2028 because they are going to rehabilitate him. It’ll be him or Andy Beshear, maybe Wes Moore, but it’ll probably be either Newsom or Beshear or both. Shapiro, perhaps, but there’s too many people on the left that have a problem with him because he’s Jewish. So I don’t know. It’ll be either Newsom or Bashir. And that will happen. And it’ll happen just the way, just like that. It’s not hidden knowledge. So to see Johnson splitting like this was incredibly unfortunate. Thomas Massey says he’s still a no on this continuing resolution that Republicans are trying to pass. That’s all that’s going to do is kick the budget ball down the down the path until September 30th. So you’re going to continue Joe Biden’s economic framework. You’re basically carrying on the fourth fiscal or the fifth fiscal year of the Biden administration. That’s exactly what they’re doing. It’s just more Biden administration stuff. They’re continuing it. because they think that’s easier than allowing the government to shut down. Democrats would love for the government to shut down because they always use a shutdown to their advantage. And Republicans are too terrified to message any other way. And now they’ve been made easy in their cowardice because they just let Trump do all of it. They just let Trump do all the messaging. And they really don’t come back, if you’ve noticed. There’s not really a lot of the lawmakers that come out and they will say, yes, this is great what POTUS is doing here. They’ll say like red meat platitudes, like, oh, he’s great. Yeah, POTUS. But they don’t actually go to bat for these reforms. When have you seen For as hard as Trump went in supporting Mike Johnson, have you seen Mike Johnson going anywhere near as hard in supporting these economic reforms that Trump wants? Not at all. Not at all. This is what people need to pay attention to. You’ve got these lawmakers out there that give lip service to what Trump says. And they’re like, yeah, POTUS. And then they do these like miles wide, inch deep, performative like acts of fealty. We’re going to propose $250 bill with your face on it or whatever. They do these performative acts of fealty. And in the meantime, we’re all like, guys, you see the economic waterfall that’s happening right now. We’re almost over the edge. You guys see this, right? I wish Johnson would have gone again as hard for these economic reforms as Trump went for him to get him his speaker. I mean, that to me, if you want to have a discussion about loyalty, I think people don’t know how to judge it. That is an example of what you would do to be loyal to the person who endorsed you and made your speakership happen. Is to not separate from Doge. To not separate. I read a story. where it was saying that Trump was trying to kind of collar Doge in a way and trying to pull them back a little bit with some things. And I don’t know if he’s getting some pressure from other lawmakers. Now, to be fair, it was a Daily Beast piece that first started it. But his statement was that he wanted to replace the chainsaw with a scalpel. And that’s apparently what POTUS had suggested. He wrote on Truth Social that he’s instructed Doge to use a scalpel rather than a hatchet to go after the federal workforce. He said, as secretaries learn about and understand, this is what he wrote on Truth Social, quote, they can be very precise as to who will remain and who will go. We say the scalpel rather than the hatchet. He goes, the combination of them, Elon Doge and other people will be able to do things at a historic level. So I don’t get the sense that he’s like collaring him, but scalpel as opposed to hatchet. Democrats are trying to use the newly unemployed federal workforce and they’re trying to act like they’re trying to misrepresent that as Trump turning his back on the working man. And now these people are out of work as a result. I’m just trying to figure out how people thought cutting spending was going to go. Everyone loves spending everybody else’s money, don’t they? Government loves spending all of our money. I mean, honestly, the federal workforce is too big. How did people think this was going to go? Did they think it was going to be kittens in sunshine? Did they think it was going to be easy? What the hell? No, it’s going to suck. And some people will lose their jobs. And that’s the unfortunate reality of it. And people need to start being honest with themselves. If they can’t handle this, can they actually handle living in a free republic? That’s a legitimate question that some people really need to think about. We love gold. Although the URL is DanaLikesGold.com. I’m like, like isn’t strong enough. It’s my best friend. We’re going to go get portraits at JCPenney. Do they still have those? You can get your free 2025 gold and silver kit today. Could qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver, maybe even more. Gold and silver have stood the test of time. And right now. Remember, Trump’s first term, gold surged 53 percent. Silver was 51. So what does that look like 2025 and beyond now that he’s back in office? Protect your wealth with gold and silver today. You can request their free 2025 gold and silver kit. 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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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Disney ride passengers are dumbfounded after a man jumped from a log to wander with his son, causing a 40-minute delay. People were very upset, understandably. It was on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure in the Magic Kingdom. The guy jumped out and decided to like wander around with his kid. The ride was paused for 10 minutes and then it was delayed further. And they said that it was all held up for 30 to 40 minutes because they got out and were wandering around and looking at stuff. You’re not supposed to do that. You’re supposed to stay in, you absolute moron. This is also why I don’t do amusement parks. I don’t like going and standing in line and having to be herded like cattle for what a ride that, you know, if you want a real ride… Just saying. Go like whitewater rafting or something. I don’t know. A, let’s see. Oh, no, I’m not doing that one. Oh, no, not doing that. I’m going to go back because some of these are just no. Oh, oh, the Tasmanian devil. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. We got to go back to this. This is from last hour. We didn’t have time. Tasmanian devil gives a woman who went in to use the restroom a major surprise. They’re actually way cuter than I thought they would be. an Australian woman was awakened by the sound of her dogs growling. She went up, opened the door for them to go outside, and then she was going to use the restroom herself. But there was a Tasmanian devil that ran into her bathroom, chased by the dogs, to take shelter behind the commode. So she trapped him in there. They call it the devil. They trapped the devil in there. And they had to get basically a critter catcher out to come and catch it. She said that apparently it went crazy in there. Like it, you know, it was like Just kick things off of the shelves, everything. So they were able to get it out and I guess rehome it. But still, they’re very aggressive little things. Cute though, super cute. Rat populations are surging as cities heat up. Like probably no greater example of that than maybe perhaps in New York. But they said scientists have published another study. Science Advances is the journal. Duh. As temperatures climb in cities, rap populations grow. No, really? You mean it’s harder if it’s colder? Good grief. Why is that a study that somebody spent money on? Good grief. And last but not least, this POTUS is being pressured to make Puerto Rico independent and save America $600 million. and $17 billion. That’s a lot of money. He’s being lobbied to make it an independent nation. Congressional offices are in possession of a seven-page draft executive order on how the U.S. could help the island territory transition to independence. And they said that this is I guess it’s something that’s being widely debated within the cabinet. But, you know, we’ll see how this goes. Apparently, it was drawn up by congressional office and leaders of the Puerto Rican secessionist efforts, not the White House. Stick with us. Stephen Yates is going to be joining us coming up at the bottom of this hour next. the folks who help bring you the program. It is our friends over at Super Beats. The Super Beats Chews brought to you by the makers of the Super Beats Hard Chews, a great product, and of course, the only beet product that I will recommend or take myself. They also have their new Super Boreen. It supports healthy metabolism and blood sugar levels. It’s one easy-to-take capsule a day. It has a higher absorption, so the clinically… researched berberine that they have in here actually is 10 times higher absorption rate than standard berberine. And that higher absorption means that you’re getting healthy metabolism and healthy blood sugar benefits in just one capsule. And that’s all you’re going to take every day. There’s no GI distress. There’s If you’re worried about berberine causing GI distress, the Superberine’s unique formula with the grapeseed extract actually improves tolerability. And now you can get both the new Superberine and the number one best-selling Super Beats Heart Shoes at Sam’s Club. Just visit Sam’s Club. That’s where you can get the Super Beats Heart Shoes for heart health support and the Superberine for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. We are at the bottom of this third hour. I was looking at this crazy story of these U.S. Army soldiers who were indicted for selling secrets to China. Their names, Li Tian, Jian Zhao, and Ryu Duan were all indicted for selling secrets to China. Kane, if only there had been some signs of that this was an issue. If only there had been some signs that these individuals, maybe perhaps, because this isn’t the first suspicion, I think we have him. Joining us, if I can see him on my monitor, joining us right now, Stephen Yates at Yatescoms on X. He joins us via Skype, and as you know, he’s been in not one, but two conversations different administrations. And he is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. I know no one’s more surprised by this than you are, my friend. These three individuals indicted for selling secrets. I mean, I would have never have guessed at all. Your thoughts?
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Well, it is sad. Now, on the one hand, I think that there’s a much greater threat to our national security, homeland security by all of the advanced cyber attacks that Chinese entities engage in, whether it’s salt typhoon and other kinds of massive efforts that go after our infrastructure and big data on Americans and all that. But good old fashioned spook craft is going on. And it’s the Chinese- The Chinese Communist Party is the one that’s ethnically profiling people, going out there and making clear that if you’re of what they say their ethnicity is, that you owe something to their mothership and should compromise the country in which you may have achieved citizenship. But also, Dana, I would just say there’s a systemic way that we could improve in this effort, and that’s to stop wasting billions and billions of dollars on lengthy government applications for law abiding citizens when they go through and have these background checks for government jobs, but make very clear when you are in a position of responsibility, you will be surveilled. It makes clear that you are free in your ordinary life, but if you have the privilege of special access in government, you’re gonna be followed, you’re gonna be watched, and you’re gonna, it’s to keep America safe and keep America’s secrets safe, because that’s where security should be. But we’ve done it backwards for the last half century, and we have 100% record of missing things exactly like this until the stuff’s already sold.
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You make a really good point. I know one of your colleagues at Heritage said there were over, and I’m looking at my notes here, over 1,200 cases, for instance, of intellectual property theft lawsuits brought by U.S. companies against Chinese entities. Two hundred and twenty four reported instances of Chinese espionage directed right towards the United States. Sixty nine percent after Xi Jinping assumed office in 2013. Thirty percent involved the theft of military technology. That’s that’s insane. That’s I mean, that’s definitely the actions of a nation that might think that it was in a Cold War with you for sure.
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Absolutely. And my friends at the Heritage Foundation have put out a long-term report saying that we are in a second Cold War. People don’t like to talk about it that way. I understand. They don’t want to take on those kinds of big commitments. But really, my point of view is, exactly as you were intimating, when people act this way towards our country, they have in fact declared this on us and our only choice. is whether and how we’re gonna respond. And so I think it’s absolutely the case that we have this massive scale attack on us already. And then it’s all hands on deck. for the Chinese Communist Party. And in many cases, they don’t even have to pay people. They’re just manipulating them into doing stuff against the United States. And so I think it’s a huge challenge for us, but we’ve got to be up to it. And hopefully the new administration is serious about it because we shouldn’t forget the last administration said it was the weather that was going to be the greatest threat to our national security.
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That’s the greatest geopolitical threat is the weather. And then don’t forget white supremacists. You know, roving bands of white supremacists all throughout the country, talking with our friend Stephen Yates. Now, I hear about all these lawsuits that are brought by U.S. companies against Chinese entities for theft of IP. But whatever happens to those, like nothing ever happens to those suits. I mean, unless I’m missing it or they settle, you know, amicably quietly.
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Well, this is a massive lawsuit. principal challenge that the Trump administration is grappling with right now. And there’s everything on IP, but there’s also lawsuits say for companies that are known and proven to have manufactured the fentanyl that’s killed Americans. that there are cases with judgments. And so we have COVID that has gone through and now there’s a massive judgment against the government of China and entities in China about COVID. And the huge question is how do you get that money? And one answer is if you have tariff money, are there ways that we can repurpose that to help those who have been victim or increase resources to combat these threats. In some ways, you have to have laws crafted by Congress to do that. We’ve gone at light speed on executive orders. Congress is not yet caught up to light speed on a lot of this stuff. But that’s kind of where this argument needs to go. There’s a systemic way to deal with it, at least to start and we’re not there yet.
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Speaking of lawsuits, Missouri came out, won a $24 billion judgment against China in one of those COVID lawsuits. This was first brought on by former AG, now Senator Eric Schmidt, now current AG Andrew Bailey continued it. That’s huge. So it was a federal judge that ruled in favor of this. But now what happens? China wouldn’t show up in court. I mean, I guess you can say that, as you were talking about, the tariffs can pay for the 24. They’re still going to do this. There’s no deterrence to them at all, though, for them, rather.
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There’s no deterrence until there is a structural change to what we’re doing. Now, I think that part of the structural change has to be that we’re not going to conduct normal business with countries that allow this kind of behavior to be done with real, measurable material damage to Americans. This is not a theoretical debate where we see sort of grass growing on closed out factories, which is bad. That has hurt middle America for a generation or two. But this is one where we can actually count the bodies and we can count the economic damage in the billions. And so I don’t know when it’s enough. It’s been enough for me for a long time, but I don’t know when it’s enough for the rest of America to say, no mas, we’re not going to have normal relations with this kind of a country. And it will cost something, but we’re going to just have to manufacture elsewhere. I just spent last week in Argentina where they have rare earths that we can and should be using. They have satellite contracts that we should be getting. They have communications contracts we should be fighting for. But it’s China down there trying to sell their Huawei technologies. And we’ve got to wake up and do some things different in this hemisphere to then make us less dependent on China.
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That’s interesting. We’re talking with Stephen Yates at Yatescoms via Skype. That’s interesting because I know you were down there in Argentina. You were talking with Malai and Malai’s people. Are they amenable to the United States on this? Because I realize that we see things through our very American perspective and not every other country. From, you know, our values origin, not every country shares that. So their perspectives are a little bit skewed from what ours are. Are they at least open? Are they amenable to realizing at least that the United States is a way better ally than China ever could imagine to be?
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Yeah, well, they don’t have the same experience we do in the sense that, I mean, they certainly felt COVID and the overreaction to COVID was very damaging everywhere. And so down in the southern tip, it was felt that way too. But they are not having as many people killed by fentanyl and other kinds of evils like the United States. And they’re not suffering as many cyber attacks in a comprehensive way than we are, but it’s not because they’re not getting attention. And they would like to make the US their first best partner in almost all things. There’s a major defense opportunities that they’ve been going for. They almost were in a position of buying for God’s sake Chinese fighter jets to work to serve in their military. And it was only after very intense creative things that they were able to get F-16s from somewhere else to be able to try to bolster their needs. So in many ways, we need to get in the game. And that’s part of what Doge and the lethality arguments that Secretary Hegseth is making. We’ve gotta fix our manufacturing supply chain and actually be there for those that wanna be our partners and allies. And I would just place a premium on our hemisphere.
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That’s a really good point. If only, you know, I hope that some of these lawmakers have the spine to do what’s required. So far, I am entirely, thoroughly unimpressed by everything. I can’t say you’re wrong. I’m right there at rage mode. Like I’m just the flip the switch. It’s just so frustrating because everything that you’re saying makes so much sense. And if we could just do this and if we could just be self-sufficient with manufacturing and we just stop wasting so much money on everything else. We’re talking with our friend Stephen Yates. I wanted to ask you before I let you go, because it OK, Taiwan. Every time I see a headline that says China’s escalating, I immediately want to ask you, because it’s a gradual escalation to the point where it’s like the frog in the proverbial pot of water, boiling pot of water. It feels like they’re just very carefully just turning the dial bit by bit by bit by bit up until before we know it, here’s a conflict right on our doorstep. I mean, they’ve been trolling Australia. Now the military, they’re saying that they’re going to tighten the quote unquote noose around Taiwan. If the independence movement escalates, I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on all of this, because I just feel like this particularly is something so incredibly important to watch, especially now with Canada’s new prime minister and five eyes and all of this other. I just kind of want to get your last thoughts on this.
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Well, I lament the developments in the great white north so far. They’re in their leadership change. They want to go from Tweedledee to Tweedledum as far as I’m concerned. It seems like a winner. So I just hope and pray that the Canadian right can awaken and find a way to work with the Trump administration and we’ll see where we can go from there in North America. But the Taiwan situation is concerning to me. Now I’m one that said I’ve lived with this most of my life. The threats always been there. It’s not going away because it’s easy to destroy. It’s not easy to build things. and to do things peacefully and amicably. And I think the United States, again, we’ve gotta be able to provide to our friends and allies if they’re ready to buy defense articles to increase deterrence. And the United States has people who like to tell others to do more, but then we’re late in providing what they wanna buy. And then we’d wanna restrict them from developing things themselves. So we’ve gotta break that paradigm, and I hope we do it really, really quick. But with Japan, Korea, if they can get their politics straightened out, Taiwan, the Philippines waking up a little bit, there is some hope. that the deterrence can be restored there. But we’re in a dangerous couple of years, I would say. And I hope that the president can start conveying to China’s leader to just knock off this really irresponsible and offensive rhetoric. Now, will they listen? Probably not. But if they don’t like the first round of tariffs and the second round of tariffs, I think that they’re gonna hate the third and fourth rounds too. if they don’t try to change the way they’re dealing with the United States.
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Well put. Our good friend, Steven Yates, at Yatescoms is where you can find him. He also has his website. Everything is linked up there and we’ll also have it as well, our lower third and a YouTube too. It’s always good to see you, my friend. Always appreciate your perspective. Feels like even though we’ve won in November, it just feels more dangerous now than it ever has, right? So it’s good that we’ve got your reason analysis out there. We’re grateful for you. I’m so glad that you’re traveling the world talking to these people. We’re grateful.
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Hope springs eternal. Thanks so much, Dana.
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Good to see you, my friend. Stephen Yates is going to save the world. He’s going to save the world by going out there, being real chill, talking with everybody. You know, he’s a good one to have in your deck. All right. We got to move. We got Today in Stupidity on the way. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Make sure you go sign up for the newsletter, too, over at Substack. Chapter and verse. A lot of good stuff comes out there regularly. And of course, you can find us YouTube and Facebook. Lots of good things. So it was interesting. I don’t know what Democrats are going to do as they try to get their. baggage together they’re they’re so disorganized this is i i’m when i look at political warfare i’m always like where would i if i were leftist where would i attack the right and then that’s where the right needs to shore things up you know any weak spot you don’t want to make it you don’t want to give them any kind of opening and democrats are in such disarray that there’s no i mean good grief i wanted to this is what audio somebody 11 elise elisa slotkin was they asked her about gavin newsom running to the center on the trans stuff and she had no idea how to respond to this no idea we better learn because he might be your party leader coming up listen this is uh 11 sorry senator do you agree with governor newsom
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Well, look, I think you’ll have to talk to Mr. Newsom and his podcast, and we’re all talking about it now because it’s a good controversy. For me, I mean, I grew up playing three seasons of sports. In Michigan, sports is like our religion, right? I wouldn’t be here, I think, without the leadership training that I got in women’s sports. But for me, it’s like, let the local community figure this out, right? In Michigan, we have a process in place where if someone who’s born…
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That’s not what she asked. She was like, well, what do you think about his comments? And Slotkin did not want to answer. She’s she can’t answer because she doesn’t want to give any ammunition to any of Newsom’s camp, because if Newsom ends up ascending to power, Slotkin doesn’t want to be on the outside of that. So she has no you know, I can’t believe someone actually asked her that. I hesitate in giving them credit.
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I’m not surprised at all. The media sets it up for a narrative to be delivered. And if you want to hear the other Democrats over the weekend that said the exact same thing that she said.
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Well, it’s time for your Today in Stupidity, I think.
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Well, we can do that. Okay, let’s make this Today in Stupidity. Listen to some of this.
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We want to make sure that these decisions are made by the communities, by the communities, by the schools and others that are the ones close to us.
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We’ve got to make sure that it’s the local community. Even Adam Schiff says this.
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I’m a very young person, and I want those sports to be fair. I want those sports to be safe. And I have confidence that local schools and local communities can make those decisions.
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There it is. Again, it’s all about…
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essentially just pivoting it over to the local community so they don’t have to have a spine on this issue and to me that’s stupid very interesting indeed folks that does it for us today again find us over in substack chapter and verse i’ll be here tomorrow but then i will be out the rest of the week for spring break just i’m not i’m not doing anything spring breaky crazy just spend a time with family uh so uh tomorrow will be our last show of the week And then things return back to normal after that. So find us at Substack, Facebook, YouTube. I’ll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
