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Join us for a deep dive into the cultural and political debates dominating the headlines. Rich Zioli analyzes the Democratic Party’s internal struggles as a government shutdown looms, highlighting key discussions from their recent summit. Simultaneously, he critiques the changes in Disney’s upcoming Snow White remake, exploring the public’s rejection of certain Hollywood trends. This episode serves as a critical examination of how societal shifts are reflected in our politics and media, making it essential listening for anyone interested in the current cultural landscape.
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So even John Fetterman is coming out now and saying a government shutdown would be disastrous for the Democrats. John Fetterman from Pennsylvania. Welcome to The Dana Show. It’s Rich Zioli in for Dana again today. Great to be back with you as the Democrats have their party summit and try to figure out what the heck is going on here and can they save this country. absolute stinking, sinking, sinking ship of theirs. I don’t think they can. I’m telling you, it’s bad. It’s ugly. It’s bad. But not as bad as Snow White, apparently, the new movie that’s coming out. How Snow White became a Disney nightmare, an absolute Disney nightmare. So I was thinking about this because this is kind of a remnant of the pre-Trump woke era, but it’s delayed because it hasn’t been released yet. And if you think about how much has changed since Trump’s election in terms of… Well, as I’ve said, and I’m not the only one who said it, but Trump’s victory was the end of woke. But they made this stupid Snow White movie before Trump and probably never counted on him winning. It’s supposed to come out March 21st, so next week. But it’s already shaping up to be a gigantic disaster for the studio. And they’ve also… They’ve also canceled a bunch of interviews. There’s controversy because Gail Gadot is pro-Israel. And of course, they hate that. You know, the left in Hollywood hates that, obviously. So they hate that. But Rachel Ziegler, who’s the actress, and then there’s the whole thing with the… the the people formerly known as the dwarfs is they’re not they’re not dwarfs now they’re like the village people or something like that but not not the cool village people that sang ymca so it’s a whole mess and i just i’m thinking of this from the perspective of our culture because Trump’s victory being the end of woke as a dad who has two girls. And I was excited to maybe take them to see Snow White. There’s no way I’m taking them to see this. But they originally were going to have I guess that the dwarfs were going to be tall at first because they thought it was offensive to them. the dwarf community, and then they just replaced them with animatronic-looking, weird creatures that look like garden gnomes. They really do. They look like garden gnomes. And that’s not good either. There’s also not a lot of jobs for members of the dwarf community in Hollywood. So when there’s an opportunity to play a dwarf, if you are somebody who’s a dwarf, you’re like, yeah, sign me up. I want to play this. And there was a controversy when Peter Dinklage… came out and he was upset that they had dwarves in the movie. And so they replaced him basically with weird looking CGI. But the actress herself is really the cause of all of this because Snow White is a beloved classic, a beloved classic. And they were changing it to go along with the wokeism in America when they were filming this years ago. And you think about how much America has changed since then, even from then to now. Really, it’s remarkable. I mean, from comedy to movies to commercials, et cetera, et cetera, so much has changed since Trump’s election in terms of the, I mean, I think it was always there. I really do. I think there were a lot of people in America who said, we don’t want woke. We just really don’t. We don’t want it. And they were just kind of quiet about it. And they were exercising with their dollars and showing everybody with their dollars how they felt about things. But corporations weren’t paying attention. Corporations were doing things like putting a man, Dylan Mulvaney, as their female spokesperson on social media as an influencer. So the whole thing has become a giant mess. And of course, the whole issue about the prints… and whether or not the prince is rapey, the rapey prince, which went to the whole idea of male toxic masculinity. And I know it sounds silly in some ways. You’re like, all right, it’s a movie. Who cares? No, it matters in a big way because the studio has spent a fortune on this movie, and now it stands to all be an epic disaster for them. But I look at this as a gigantic rejection once and for all of wokeism in America. I think Snow White… which is now a total Disney nightmare, and they’re expecting just to lose a ton of cash on this thing, is so emblematic of where our culture is right now. An actress, excuse me, Rachel Zegler, won’t sing Someday My Prince Will Come in Disney’s new live-action remake of Snow White. The princess doesn’t need a man and will instead warble the girl boss anthem waiting on a wish. But it might be a long wait. Variety reported that This week, there will be none of the typical red carpet interviews for the film’s premiere at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood on Saturday, perhaps to avoid tough questions about the backlash that’s followed ever since Rachel Zegler Latina actress rose to fame in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and then trashed the 1937 classic. Trashed it up and down. So people were like, listen, we love Snow White. It’s a timeless tale. It was a great movie. It was a timeless movie. Parents watch it with their kids. They love the Snow White ride. Disney… kind of being the mothership of wokeism all these years, if you think about it, really being the mothership of wokeism. And Disney changed a bunch of their rides because they thought the rides were offensive. And then people turned around and said, hey, not for nothing, Disney, but you charge like a billion dollars to come to your theme parks. So you act all wokey, but yet it’s the most expensive place on earth. I don’t know if it’s the happiest place on earth. It’s the most expensive place on earth. I’ve taken my kids there, and all I can tell you is nobody looks happy when they’re waiting in line for two and a half hours to go on a ride that’s three minutes. And then you bring out – you take your daughters to the Bibbidi-Bob Princess Shop, and then there’s a guy with a beard dressed in a dress – to help your little girls become princesses. That was a real thing. That was a real thing at Disney World. And Disney doubling down on Woke over all these years, and then they wound up destroying the Marvel franchise, too. They had Marvel, which was a cash cow, and then they went woke with Marvel, and then Marvel was a disaster. And then it goes on to say that they’re also upset with Gal Gadot, because Gal Gadot has been an outspoken… advocate for Israel. And they don’t like the fact that she’s from Israel. They don’t like that either. So they want to try to hide her as well. Another ruckus was raised when the trailer showed the actors had been replaced by CGI characters. Well, the Hollywood Reporter reported Wednesday that the director claimed he was always planning on using CGI and not the weird bunch of hippie village people that they had walking through the woods. And the CGI looks awful. I’m telling you, if you go to a cheap garden store in your neighborhood and you go, hey, can I buy a garden gnome? It’s going to look like the dwarves from Saturday Night Live, although they’re not called dwarves because that’s offensive too, apparently. I don’t know why, but I guess it is. So I’m going to play, this is a clip for you. This is the actress Rachel Zegler. Perfect, perfect example of pre-Trump’s America and then post-Trump’s America. This movie being a disaster because it’s a rejection of woke. I think it’s going to wind up being a huge loss for the studio. And I’ll contrast that with the new Superman movie that’s coming out. James Gunn, who’s a director who had faced his own woke backlash at one point, was asked all these questions about, you know, how can Superman be around in America now? And he’s like, look, he’s an American hero. He stands for truth, justice, and the American way. And they’re like, I know, but America is so toxic. And they’re like, no, no, no, no, Superman’s our guy. All right, Superman’s our guy. So woke is not something they’re worried about with a new Superman movie. They might be a little worried about some of the CGI in the trailer, but they’re not worried about woke. Here’s Rachel Zegler, the actress who’s playing Snow White. Take a listen.
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I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. There is a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird, weird. So we didn’t do that this time.
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Weird, weird, super weird. And they went on to go on about all the outdated norms and everything else. So it’s going to be a huge disaster for them. And while the song Someday My Prince Will Come is long stood as a Disney classic, the actress announced last summer at D23, the annual Disney Expo, that her Snow White is not going to be saved by the prince. She’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be. That attitude has upset David Hale Hand, whose late father, Disney animator David Hand, was a supervising director for Bambi and the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He said he won’t be buying a ticket for the new film. He said, quote, the original was the way it should be. From what I’ve read, the new film bears no reflection to the original story. It’s so far off base that it’s ridiculous. In fact, he believes it’s enough to make his father and Walt Disney roll in their graves. They’ve taken it and moved it into the politics of what is woke. They’ve taken a beautiful and beautifully drawn story and destroying what was Snow White. Why can’t they just leave it alone instead of coming up with a different story? Make it a totally different character if you’re going to do that. Yeah, make a totally different character instead of doing Snow White. And, of course, Snow White, who had white skin, you can’t have white skin anymore. No, that was really a thing. That was a thing. Well, we can’t have her be white. White skin is racist, apparently, so they got a Latina actress, and that wouldn’t be a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that they made a point of saying, well, Snow White is white, and we can’t have that with her white skin. Why not? There’s a lot of white people out there. Why can’t you have a character who’s white? I don’t understand that. I mean, I’m not talking about replacing black characters with white actors. Why are we taking the white skin and making it… Can you imagine if Hollywood did that and said, well, you know, the actor’s a little too black. So we’re going to tone it down. Not have such black skin in the actor. Like, that’s racist. That’s insane. It’s okay when you do it with Snow White, though, with a white actress. I don’t get that. And then they went on to say… This guy’s wife… took a lot of issue and said, David’s father took so much pride in the film and he would say, what have you done? It’s a question many people were asking after early filming shots emerged last year showing Zegler’s stand-in leading a line of dwarfs of varying sizes, races, and genders. The lead actor, Jason Acuna, known as Wee Man in the Jackass franchise, slammed the studio and said, you’re replacing jobs that people could have us as little people. It’s for dwarfs. Why are you hiring Snow White and the seven average people? Yeah, I mean, I feel bad. How many movie roles are out there for people of that height? You know, this is their thing. So instead of you could have had a job for seven people in the dwarf community, now you have no jobs for them and just bad CGI. Yeah. But I think Disney, you could look at Snow White, this movie, as the Democrat Party on the big screen, really. Just an out-of-touch mess, with no message, purposely offending people for the sake of being offensive, losing their audience, losing their brand. They’ve done this with so many products and movies and shows over the years. But America has said enough. America has said enough, which is why when the Democrats are meeting right now at their little party summit, there’s an internal battle brewing over wokeism. And what do they do about woke? They’ve gone so far down the road of woke that they don’t know how to bring it back because it’s become their core constituency in the Democrat Party. It really has. And they don’t know what to do because they can’t win. They cannot win. And then Trump, who’s the most anti-woke guy on the planet, maybe in the history of the planet, gets elected president, wins the popular vote and the electoral college. And this piece of garbage is supposed to hit theaters next week, but it was made pre-Trump. It was made in the height of woke. And now the studio is going to lose an epic fortune on it, which I say good. And the Democrat Party keeps losing, which I say good. But does this mean the Democrats will try to emerge as somebody who’s the non-woke Democrat? And if they do, can that person actually even get through their own primary process? We’ll talk about that as well as the Dana Show continues on a busy day today. Will there be a government shutdown? That is the primary question. And we’re still waiting on Russia’s answer to the peace deal that was laid out by the Trump administration with Ukraine. It’s a big show. It’s Rich Zioli in for Dana. Don’t go away.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Maha moms were all hanging out in D.C. and they were talking about a bunch of things. Well, it turns out sugar-free slushies can make young kids seriously sick, according to a new study. There’s an additive that they put in them called glycerol, which can trigger toxic effects in young kids. Glycerol can trigger toxic effects in young children leading to drowsiness, dangerously low blood sugar, and metabolic imbalances. It was a study published Tuesday in the Archives of Disease and Childhood. View the cases of 21 children with an average of three years and six months who fell ill within an hour of drinking a slushie. And a lot of them had a big drop in blood sugar. So perfect time to start reimagining all the crap they put in our foods. And are we feeling stressed? sooner than ever the burned out generations americans are feeling peak stress earlier than ever 25 of americans experience burnout before age 30 30 with Gen Z and millennials reporting peak stress at age 25? Financial concerns, politics, and work pressure rank as the top stressors. 83% of Americans believe entering adulthood is more challenging now than a decade ago. 72% expecting it to become even more difficult in the next decade. I think part of the problem is that they’re not adults until like… 40 now. Not everybody, of course, but a lot of them who would whine about that. Now, this is a fascinating story right now. As you look at America and just thinking about America being healthy and happy and everybody five, America is becoming a nation of homebodies. That’s right. Research led by a couple of people at the University of California, Los Angeles found that for a lot of us, we just like to hang out at our house, a nation of homebodies. American Time Youth Survey studied how people in the U.S. spent their time before, during, and after the pandemic. And with the pandemic, people started staying home more. And then that has persisted for a lot of people where they just don’t go out. Now, for me, I’ve always been a homebody. In fact, it’s funny because my wife and I used to have a sign in our house that said, let’s just stay home. We had that pre-COVID. We’ve just kind of been homebodies. I don’t know. It’s just, it seems to be the way it is. But COVID changed a lot in that sense. And if you think that cartels are nice, think again. Mass graves and ovens with charred bodies found at an extermination camp by a family searching for a missing person in Mexico. Yeah, heartbreaking handwritten note was found at the grizzly scene. Cartels don’t mess around. And these piles of personal items included 400 pairs of shoes, clothes, jewelry, and diaries. Just very, very sad stuff. Which is why I guess it also is a good thing that immigration accounts… for the entire U.S. population growth for the first time. What? Seriously? Our entire U.S. population growth, the immigration accounts for the entire, for the first time? Are you kidding me? Oh, man. All right, we got a lot to talk about here on The Dana Show. Democrats, can they save themselves? We’ll talk about it straight ahead.
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Rahm Emanuel may run for president. Man, this party’s in tough shape. Steve Bannon was the latest guy to go on Gavin Newsom’s podcast. I really wish people would stop normalizing this guy. It’s really starting to bug me here. He’s just using you. This isn’t like a cancel thing. It’s just, I mean, Newsom is going to try to use whoever he can on the right to normalize him. And the guy’s a monster. Let’s not forget what he did during COVID. There’s a picture of… They had these skate rinks on the beach in California and bulldozers took sand from the beach and they poured the sand over the skateboarding parks that they built so that kids could not go there outside in the sunshine and the fresh air and skateboard to stop the spread of COVID. Like that’s the kind of nonsense this guy did. And I just, I really worry right now that we’re normalizing a very, very dangerous guy because he didn’t become governor of California because he’s a dummy. He became governor of California. He’s a very, very smart guy. He also, in addition to shutting down his state for so long, in addition, I mean, they arrested somebody for swimming in California. By themselves in the ocean. It was a person swimming by themselves in the ocean. I mean, just like, who are you going to give COVID to? The fish? What were you worried about at the time? Like some rogue fisherman, merman, mermaid, merperson who’d swim up and maybe you’d get COVID. I was silly. So that brings us to what the Democrats are doing today. So the Democrats are all hanging out trying to figure out how to get themselves out of this mess that they’re in, which is that they have no leader. They don’t know who’s in charge. They don’t know what they stand for. They don’t know how to appeal to Americans. They just don’t know what to do. So you got guys like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro there. Shapiro’s there hanging out, and you’ve got a bunch of other people nationally But the question really becomes, who emerges from this as the new face of the Democrat Party? Or is it just somebody who emerges who is just the face of the Democrat Party and nothing changes? Nothing changes. Look, Chuck Schumer, when he was a Senate Majority Leader, he just… kept going with these crs there was never a battle to shut down when he was in charge it was just you’d continue with the cr and that’s what it was now democrats think they’re going to die on this hill of shutting down government i’m telling you it’s going to blow up in their faces there’s nothing bring it on as far as i’m concerned bring on a government shutdown fine with me you can shut it down for four months five months six months let’s learn to live with really what is essential and what’s not i’d love to see that what is essential and what’s not when it comes to government. President has the ability to determine life and safety and property and all those other things so he can figure out what’s essential, what’s not. Let’s figure this out. If you really want to doge this place, if this isn’t all just talk, you really want to doge this, then doge it. Start by saying to employees at various government agencies, departments, three-letter, four-letter agencies, you don’t need to come in here, you’re not essential, and then see how America does. See if America survives. See if America can get through it. And if America can, which I know it can, then the question becomes, do we need these people back? Because, I mean, you can feel sorry for them, but we’ve got to shrink the size of government here. And we always talk about doing this. This is our moment right now. This is our moment. And I think the American people are fine with this. I really do. I think the American people are turning around and going, yeah, you know, this has to happen. Like this has to happen. We got to get our house in order here. We have to do something. This government’s out of control. The national debt’s out of control. We got to do something on it. Now here’s John Fetterman. He knows how bad this would be if this were to happen. So let’s do this, Steve. Let’s combine… Cuts two and three here. Senator Pennsylvania, Senator John Fetterman. Now, before I play these, let’s think about who Fetterman is and what he represents. So he’s Pennsylvania United States Senator, the ultimate swing state of Pennsylvania, a state that you could argue is very close to becoming a red state. But you have a Democrat governor and a Democrat United States Senator. And you have a Republican United States Senator, Dave McCormick, and Trump won Pennsylvania. You have a lot of white working class voters in Pennsylvania. They used to be, that was the core constituency of the Democrat Party. But the Democrat Party at a time also had a guy who was the governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey Sr., who was a pro-life, pro-worker, not insane Democrat. And they wouldn’t even let the guy speak at the Democrat National Convention in 1992. Parties come very, very, very far from that point. They want to pretend like they can go back to those roots. So here comes Fetterman, a guy who’s outside of Pittsburgh. He was the mayor of Braddock, PA. It’s a rough and tumble, working class kind of town. Fetterman, he’s got his tats, he’s got his shorts, he’s got his hoodie, hoping you don’t notice the Harvard degree. And he comes from a life of privilege and a life of money. And that’s okay. I mean, hey, listen, I’ve heard the P word, privilege, a million times. I don’t know if anyone really comes from privilege. I think life is hard no matter what. But certainly Fetterman had a lot of advantages. Them being money, for example. But hey, he’s Mr. Blue Collar. He knows that he cannot win. He cannot exist in a party that continues to go down the road of woke, yet he votes with the Democrats to keep biological men playing women’s sports, which is stupid because the ground zero for all this was the University of Pennsylvania where the swim team had led a biological male on the team. But here’s Fetterman talking about what would happen if the government was shut down. Take a listen.
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If you shut it down, you will impact and hurt millions and millions and millions of Americans. And you run the risk of slipping us into a recession or even all kinds of other things. Democrats are going to have the choice to vote for whether you want the cloture or the final one. And if you refuse to or you withhold your vote, you are voting about shutting the government down. And so that’s always been my point. Now, it’s a CR that we all agree we don’t like and we don’t co-sign on all of those elements. But for me, it’s about we can’t ever allow the government to shut down.
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Here’s what I don’t understand about why you don’t like the CR in all seriousness. It’s literally continuing the spending that Biden signed into law when he was president. It’s the same spending. So what don’t you like about it? I mean, I understand why Republicans don’t like it. And for a lot of them, they had to hold their nose to vote for it. But what don’t Democrats like about it? This is your spending. I mean, Republicans voted to keep the Democrats’ spending going. So as conservatives, there were a lot of us who were like, well, wait, you did what? Why’d you do that? But every Democrat should be voting for this thing. This is your stuff, man. This is your money. It was your president who put this thing in place. It was your party that put this thing in place. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, well, he says, you know what? I think we’re all going to be a big fat no on this. Oh, okay. Why? Cut four.
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I think we’re going to all be no on cloture unless we get an agreement to, you know, propose at least this 30 day clean CR amendment and maybe a couple of others.
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I’m fine with you guys shutting down the government if that’s what you want to do. I’m absolutely fine with it. But you are going to own it. You will. You’ll own it. Because the Republicans passed it in the House. The President’s waiting to sign it. A lot of conservatives are upset by this because it’s just keeping Democrat spending going. But if you guys vote no, if you shut down the government, it’s on you. Just be prepared for that. It’s on you. Here’s Democrat Senator Tina Smith. She’s going to be voting no. Cut six.
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No Democrat wants a shutdown. Shutdowns are also really, really bad. But we’re in exceptional times and a very challenging moment. And I think that it’s important also that Congress steps up and does the job that we’re elected by our representatives, by our constituents to do.
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Nobody wants a shutdown, but we’re in extraordinary times here. Okay. Hey, fine. Let’s do it. Shut it down. Because it’s not really a shutdown. That’s the thing. The government still is operating. Military is still working and whoever else the president deems essential gets to still work. And then a lot of bureaucrats go home. I think they’re playing with fire here. I really do. Because I think what the risk that they run is that you have a lot of these government workers home for could be months. And you turn around and go, did we need them in the first place? And then maybe they don’t have to report back to work, which is ultimately what Elon Musk, Doge, and the president want. So this could be their Jedi mind trick way of getting that. I don’t know. I think they’re playing with fire here. But they’re so terrified of giving the guy a win. You know what I mean? They’re so afraid of that, of giving the guy a win. And yet, this is on them if they don’t. So the meeting today, trying to figure out where does the party go on this, you’ve got certain Democrats who are watching and waiting just to get the call from the bullpen. Hey, you go in there and you jump up and you run in. One of the guys, of course, being Gavin the Hare Newsom. who sounds so much now like he can’t stand Gavin Newsom. It really is amazing. Gavin Newsom sounds like he can’t stand Gavin Newsom, complaining about how long it takes to vote and count the votes in California. Well, you’re the governor, fix it. Florida does all their voting in one day, and all the counting in one day, and it’s done, and boom, there you go. California, weeks. You’re the governor. If you have a problem with it, do something about it. Cut 18.
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california four weeks to count 60 million votes it’s ridiculous why it’s ridiculous it’s because it’s and by the way we’ve been having this conversation enough and it’s a con first of all we believe that every vote counts so we want to make sure every vote is counted because of the provisional ballots the fact we do all mail-in ballots the fact that we have such an such huge investments uh in making sure that we increase that outreach we want to make sure again every vote counts but you’re right the time right about something no the right absolutely uh the right is right and you are right
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You are right. You are. This is called telling somebody what they want to hear. That was Michael Savage, who was a guest on Gavin Newsom’s podcast. You are right. Just like he said with Charlie Kirk when it came to bio dudes and women’s sports. You know, you are right. You’re right. It is weird. It is weird. And he goes on and says something else to somebody else. The guy will say whatever he has to do to win. That’s who Gavin Newsom is. And my friend Susan Crabtree, who wrote a book called Fool’s Gold, which is all about Gavin Newsom and how he and the left have destroyed that beautiful state. And California is beautiful. I mean, I think from just a pure beauty point of view, combination with the beauty and the weather, I’d say it’s my favorite state by far. I really do. I love it. I love the weather. But it’s nuts. It’s crazy. And Susan Crabtree wrote this book, Fool’s Gold, about how the left has essentially destroyed this. And there was a story about how there was a bronze statue of Gavin Newsom in California. And it looks bad, man. It really does. It looks bad. Newsom said, as is customary, the effort was proposed by a nonprofit and funded by private donors, not taxpayers, to put this beautiful bust of Gavin Newsom with his beautiful coif of hair. Susan tweeted out and said, we 100% stand by our Gavin Newsom bronze bust vanity project story, which my co-author and I uncovered in our new book, Fool’s Gold. Team Newsom is afraid of the shocking revelations in the book, which is backed by more than 45 pages of endnotes containing more than a thousand open source reputable and verifiable citations with zero anonymous sources. And that is why they’re trying to smear this book. The simple fact is that no one No one knew that Gavin Newsom used a corrupt pay-to-play funding mechanism called behested payments to solicit funds from his own companies to erect a monument to himself inside San Francisco City Hall until we follow the money and unearth the obscure documents. Furthermore, Newsom’s team has thus far refused to answer whether his company’s got a tax break for funding this charitable statue. Just like Newsom’s wildfire, windfalls, and shady Chinese Communist Party ties, his statue is a scandal, and we stand by our reporting. It’s a statue, not a statute. But anyway… He wants to emerge as this reasonable guy. So he gets guys like Michael Savage on, Steve Bannon on, Charlie Kirk on, all these other people. And you’re normalizing this greaseball. You really are this slime ball. You’re trying to normalize this guy, and he’s gonna tell you whatever he has to say, whatever makes him sound normal, whatever makes him seem like the alternative to the craziness that you’re watching right now in New York City as you’ve got all these demonstrations going on at Columbia University and other places. And Andrew Cuomo’s no dummy. He’s gonna do the same thing. Andrew Cuomo, the LoveGov, who’s now running for mayor of New York City, he came out yesterday taking the side of Jewish students saying that it’s far too long that they’ve had to deal with this anti-Semitic harassment on college campuses in New York City, at places like Columbia. There was a time when Democrats would not have touched that. But Cuomo is another smart guy, and he may be a serial killer, just like Newsom when it comes to nursing homes, but they get it. They know how crazy their party looks on this issue. And it’s one thing to allow protests. It’s one thing to allow freedom of speech. It’s an entirely other thing to be harassing Jewish students. And Cuomo knows… The tide is turning here. All right. More to come here on the Dana show. It’s me. Rich is the only in for Dana. Don’t go away.
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I guess you could argue that the… idea of a shutdown by democrats would just wind up being such a disaster that they would essentially back down quickly and give in and but i don’t i don’t i don’t i don’t see it happening i think they’re just gonna they’re gonna double down on this so then the question becomes are they gonna regret trying to out hawk trump there’s a piece over at reason.com that i saw and i i liked what the author’s thinking on this was michael petty This guy, Adam Smith, no relation to Adam Smith. We’ll say he’s the lesser Adam Smith. This guy is a congressman from Washington. He’s a Democrat. Thinks Democrats should return to their anti-war roots and be open to negotiating with Russia. That’s amazing, right? And then you’ve got some Democrats who are coming out and saying, we got to also cut the size of government. which is not new for Democrats. It’s what they did when Bill Clinton was in there. They tried to do a balanced budget amendment. They tried to get that done. But this guy, this Democrat, coming out and saying, we got to stop being afraid to negotiate. You know, we got to stop doing that. And he’s the highest Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. So that was not a popular opinion among Democrats five minutes ago. So much so that when the war with Ukraine started and a bunch of Democrats signed a letter calling on Biden to do negotiations and a ceasefire, that letter disappeared really, really fast. Then you got John Fetterman coming out and you got John Fetterman saying, we can’t let there be a shutdown. This is going to be bad. We’re going to own this. This can really be bad. And then you’ve got a couple other Democrats. They’re a handful right now, but they’re saying we have to also, we got to go along with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We used to say this stuff all the time. That’s what we did. We used to say this all the time. So yeah, change is afoot, maybe. We’ll find out. A judge just made a big ruling on President Trump. We’ll tell you all about it. Hour number two, straight ahead.
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Some breaking news right now. Protesters are occupying Trump Tower in New York City in support of that anti-Israel activist who’s facing deportation. Welcome back to The Dana Show. Glad you’re here. It is me, Rich Zioli, in for Dana today. You can tweet me at Rich Zioli, R-I-C-H-Z-E-O-L-I, at Gmail. I’m assuming at Rich Zioli on X. Protesters are occupying Trump Tower in support. of this anti-Israel activist. There’s a lot of cops. I’m seeing the pictures on Fox News right now, and they’re chanting inside Trump Tower. Trump’s not obviously there. He’s at the White House, but if he’s not at the White House, he’s going back to West Palm. He’s going back to Mar-a-Lago tomorrow, but he’s not going to be at Trump Tower anytime soon. But this is about getting attention, and obviously they’re getting a lot of attention. So that’s happening as we speak. The NYPD is out in full force. They’re arresting a lot of people. It is a private building, and so you can’t, you know just have a sit down in a private building like that and think it’s going to work out well for you you’re going to wind up getting arrested for trespassing and that’s what’s happening they are getting arrested their shirts there say stop arming israel Jews committing genocide. There’s all kinds of other things there. Again, I think this is the broader problem, which I’ve been raising about the deportation of this Columbia student, is that at some point, if Democrats are in charge, I could see them deporting a lot of pro-Israeli students and pro-Israeli people who are here on green cards or student visas because they view Israel as the bad guy in this, and they view Israel as a party committing genocide and all this. So at some point… We’ve got to be very careful about that, what doors we’re opening here. I’ll come back to that. There’s a federal judge that just ruled a short time ago. It’s kind of breaking news on this story. And I’m really sick of these judges who are not elected. These are federal judges. These are appointed. And they think they’ve got all the power in the world. So a federal judge has just ordered thousands of fired probationary federal employees reinstated. The order includes workers fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Order the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were fired last month from a dozen federal agencies. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump administration to reinstate employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of the Treasury. He also prohibited the Office of Personnel Management from issuing any guidance about whether employees can be terminated. How are we going to shrink the size of government if we’ve got judges that jump in here and are able to stop the duly elected President of the United States, who’s the head of the executive branch, from trying to shrink the size of the executive branch of government. Honestly, how are we ever going to achieve that if these judges keep stepping in? This is a federal district court judge. These federal judges have way too much power. They really do. They make a ruling. They have a district, and their ruling applies to the entire country. They’re not elected by anybody. Even within their district, they’re not elected. They’re appointed. They serve a district, but yet their ruling affects the entire United States of America. The president who is elected by the American people and who ran on cutting the size of government and who ran on trying to slash and close federal agencies can’t go ahead and do that even though he’s got the authority of the American people behind him and I would argue a mandate Because an unelected federal judge jumps in here and says, you can’t fire anybody. And I’m going to go further, and I’m going to say that the Office of Personal Management, you cannot issue any guidance about whether employees can be terminated. So we’re not even going to entertain the question about whether or not these employees can be terminated. At some point… The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court needs to get a spine and tell these federal judges to stay in their freaking lane. This is not their job. Their job is not to act as a check on the President of the United States of America. That is not what their job is. That’s not why they’re there. That’s not their job. There’s a federal system of the judiciary, but a federal judge, in my opinion, one single judge should not have the power to stop the president of the United States from doing what he wants to do with the executive branch of government. And if there’s an issue, well, the Supreme Court’s going to rule on it like the Supreme Court did last week. Because the problem is, too, is it’s like a ping pong game. One federal judge who jumps in and says one thing, another federal judge comes in and says another thing. Another federal judge supersedes what that federal judge said. Ultimately, you know it’s going to be fought out the Supreme Court. All it does is delay the process and cost us money because we got to pay government attorneys here to go out there and argue these things before federal judges who were paid for by the taxpayers. And the whole thing is a gigantic waste of time and money. Trump got elected on this. Let the guy do what he wants to do. 21 state attorneys general are also suing to block Department of Education dismantling. What’s their argument there? Trump said he wanted to shut down the Department of Education. What’s the argument of these attorneys general anyway from these states? What business is it of theirs if the state, what business is it to a state if the federal Department of Education shuts down? Whatever the state feels they’re losing out by not having a federal agency, well, then the state can take and expand and do whatever they want. That’s the beauty of federalism. So, I mean, if I’m the governor of one of these blue states where my AG is suing and the president is successful, and it would take an act of Congress ultimately, but if they’re successful in shutting down the Department of Education and I don’t like it, I can just expand my own Department of Education. I mean, that’s how it works in this country. That’s the way it’s supposed to work in this country. By the way, the White House has pulled the nomination of the CDC director, because he didn’t have the votes. But the good news is that Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya, they’re both moving through the process. They do have the votes and they’re going to get in. So that reform is coming big time at NIH. But the White House today pulled President Donald Trump’s nomination of Dr. David Weldon to lead the CDC. Withdrawal came just before Weldon was to appear for his confirmation hearing. They said he did not have the votes. He very, I guess he was a doctor. actually served in Congress from 1995 until 2009, had kind of kept a relatively low profile. But this is the article I’m reading here. But his skepticism of established science around vaccines made him a popular pick among allies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And as recently as 2019, he promoted the, quote, unsubstantiated theory that vaccines could cause autism. He co-authored a vaccine safety bill with former Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney. which sought to give control over vaccine safety to an independent agency within HHS. The bill, which stalled in a House subcommittee, would provide the independence necessary to ensure that vaccine safety research is robust, unbiased, free from conflict of interest criticism, and broadly accepted by the public at large. I don’t see that as a problem here. I really don’t see that as a problem. I think that the problem, you get 80-something vaccines on the vaccine schedule that you’re supposed to give a newborn baby. What a lot of parents are wondering is, does this all have to be at once? Are all these needed? Can we space these things out? These are the kind of questions that parents are asking. And by the way, another reason why Trump got elected, because parents are turning around and saying, we don’t know what to do. We don’t know where to get answers on these things. We can’t ask questions. We’re called a kook. And that’s just the end of it. And the minute you speak up and you challenge a scientific norm, as they say, and let’s think back to Gavin Newsom again, the monster that he is, putting in California a law that would take away the medical licenses of doctors. Take away the medical license of doctors who challenge the scientific norms that the state decides. The state gets to decide the science, and if you challenge that, you lose your medical license. It’s ridiculous. There’s a quote here from Senator Patty Murray, Democrat, chair of the committee Weldon was going to testify before, former chair, now she’s a ranking member, saying, in our meeting last month, I was deeply disturbed to hear Dr. Weldon repeat debunked claims about vaccines. It’s dangerous to put someone in charge at CDC who believes the lie that our rigorously tested childhood vaccine schedule is somehow exposing kids to toxic levels of mercury or causing autism. As we face one of the worst measles outbreaks in years, thanks to President Trump, a vaccine skeptic who spent years spreading lies about safe and proven vaccines should never have ever been under consideration to lead the foremost agency charged with protecting public health. That’s funny. I remember, I’m old enough to remember when Donald Trump was the guy behind Warp Speed, which led to the COVID vaccine, which many people now regret ever getting. I saw this, um… They sell these things, the spike protein, how to detox yourself from the spike protein. I don’t know if it works or not, but I saw a commercial for that today. Detox yourself from the spike protein. But you see, vaccines, like drugs, like food, like all these sacred cows, you’re not allowed to challenge those norms. So there had to be a sacrificial lamb here. And this guy’s head of CDC, it was going to be him. Bhattacharya and Marty Macari have way too much support in broad popular culture. Most people had never heard of this guy before. He’s not anti-vaccine. He has a lot of questions around vaccines, David Weldon. A skeptic. Isn’t it healthy to be a skeptic on pretty much everything in life? I don’t know. I think I’m a skeptic about everything. I just had a protein bar, for example. during the break, and I’m reading the ingredients on this frigging thing. It’s supposed to be healthy, right? Low carb, healthy. Protein blend, which includes acid casein, whey protein isolate, milk protein concentrate, milk protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, palm kern oil, peanut butter. Well, that’s healthy, unless you have a peanut butter allergy, in which case then this is a weapon of war. Polydextrose, palm oil, hydrolyzed collagen, partially defatted peanut oil, peanuts, a memorithral, monoglycerides, sunflower lecithin, cocoa powder. That doesn’t sound too bad. Medium chain triglycerides, almonds, canola lecithin, sea salt. That’s actually bad for you now too. I’ll explain. Shea oil, sucralose, Peanut oil, taco ferals, taco ferals, and sunflower oil. Well, the reason why sea salt they’re saying is bad for you is because of the microplastics, which are in the ocean. And the sea salt, so now they’re saying you got to use pink Himalayan salt. I don’t know. All I know is this, if I spill some, I’m throwing it over my shoulder. That’s all I know. And the sunflower oils, well, that’s a seed oil. Peanut oils are seed oils, and I keep hearing how terrible they are for you. And then Steak and Shake, that national firm, the chain, the burger chain, switched over to Beef Tallow to fry their fries in. But they may also have some seed oils. And so there was all this controversy about this. I think everybody should be skeptical about everything. I don’t think it’s wrong to be skeptical about anything. We were told for years that climate change was killing us. The world was going to be destroyed. We’re all supposed to be underwater right now and dead in some sort of underwater Atlantis. Yet we’re not. I also thought we were going to be in an ice age, which I was looking forward to, hoping the return of the woolly mammoth would happen. I thought polar bears were going to be extinct. There’s more of those nasty SOBs now than ever before. Freaking polar bears. Nasty. You ever come across one? Don’t. It’s not going to end up well for you is my point. It won’t end up well. What’s wrong with being a skeptic? on literally everything in life. What’s not to be skeptical of in my opinion, honestly, in this day and age, in this day in which we live in, give me the one thing not to be skeptical of on Earth, on planet Earth, seriously. You should be skeptical about everything because so much of what we think we know has been told to us by experts who are often wrong. All right. These arrests continue here outside of New York City and in Trump Tower, I should say, in Trump Tower and outside of Trump Tower. We’ll talk about that. Plus, where do things stand with Russia and Ukraine? Are we going to finally have peace? Let’s hope we have some peace. It’s a day in a show. Don’t go away.
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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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Yeah, so the first thing I’m going to start with is in my hometown of Philly where I broadcast a meat heist worth $55,000 thwarted in South Philadelphia. Look at that. Yeah, it appears a group of beef bandits made a big… I got to read this. This is not my pun. This is a stupid local news station pun. Made a big mistake during an attempted cargo heist in South Philadelphia early Tuesday morning. A truck driver was asleep on the 3300 block of South 7th Street when he felt things start to shake just after 2 a.m. He called the police after looking in the mirror to find four suspects loading boxes into an SUV parked alongside a pickup truck. They were trying to steal $55,000 of beef. It’s about 184 boxes. There you go. A lot of South in the ports, you know, there’s an old thing. Fell off the back of a truck. You know what I mean? There’s an old saying among my people. It fell off the back of a truck. But still better than this. Five men accused of blocking traffic with twerking. I don’t think men should ever twerk. I don’t think men should ever wear skinny jeans either or winter caps with balls on them. But five people were arrested Monday night after police said they blocked a downtown intersection with their dancing. Yeah, they were twerking. They should go to prison for that. Actually, they should go to Gitmo for that, in my opinion. In Erie County… An Erie County sheriff’s chief hit seven cars but wasn’t charged. Buffalo police are probing the sister-in-law’s involvement. A chief of the narcotics and intelligence unit at the Erie County Sheriff’s Office is often heralded when police agencies announce a major drug bust in Buffalo. The Bar Association even gave it an award a few years ago, but now those actions and the politically connected family members are coming under scrutiny after separate collisions which cost taxpayers about $60,000 in settlements. So you might say certain people get a break when it comes to these things. I don’t know. Oh, and I was just informed Trey Turner hit his first home run. Steve, thanks for letting me know that. And spring training for the Phils. Well, a major league baseball team selling a hat with vulgar Spanish word but didn’t get it before the internet got it the new era overlap pack collection unveiled on monday the concept behind the officially licensed hat design is simple but when you look at the image in spanish it actually says the word for boobs in spanish so that hat has to be pulled from the market i guess why i’m not quite sure i don’t know and um There’s a whole thing that’s blowing up right now on whether or not the Superman movie that’s coming out is going to have enough screen time of his dog Crypto in it. Animal Lovers saying we need more of Superman’s dog. I agree. We’re coming right back.
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So the Secretary General of NATO is meeting with President Trump right now in the Oval Office. And he thanked the president for getting European leaders to pay more. That’s what he was saying. And this obviously comes as we’re all waiting to find out if Russia is going to go along with the peace deal that was laid out, that Ukraine has accepted. And I think one of the things that obviously Russia is looking for is assurance that Ukraine will not become a NATO member. That has always been Russia’s thing on all this. So remember, Trump’s whole thing has been getting NATO countries to pay their fair share. It’s funny even saying that. You sound like Democrats. Years and years of them saying, you got to pay your fair share. You got to pay your fair share. Well, the European countries have not been paying their fair share for NATO. The United States has been essentially now the gigantic funder of all this. And that’s what the president has vowed to change. Now, they’ve said that he’s anti-NATO. I don’t think you can be anti-NATO if you have the NATO Secretary General in the Oval Office. That doesn’t seem very anti-NATO to me. And obviously, by asking European countries to pay more, what you’re doing is you’re saying that the obligation has to be, what’s the word for it? Fair. That’s right, fair. The other point of this, too, is that the Russia-Ukraine conflict, look, Ukraine is not in the, it’s not on our continent. It’s a European issue. And the United States has been helping and helping and helping while the European countries have been giving Vladimir Putin lots and lots of their money. A trillion bucks. A trillion bucks is what they’ve spent on oil and natural gas for Vladimir Putin. Giving him, giving him a trillion bucks for oil and natural gas that these countries need because they need it. That’s the bottom line. They need it. And the United States of America is not going to supply it. They’re going to buy it from Putin. So that’s happening right now. We’ll tell you what comes of this as the show goes on today. But obviously, this is a good sign that NATO is there. And what I imagine is going to come out of this today is an assurance that Putin will not have to worry about Ukraine becoming a member. The president’s saying that Putin agreed in principle to a 30-day ceasefire deal. That’s the breaking news coming out of the Oval Office right now. Putin agrees in principle to a 30-day ceasefire deal. And they’ll have 30 days to figure this out, work this out, and then come up with a, I guess, a pathway moving forward for a broader ceasefire deal that will go on past that. But what Putin has long said is he claims that NATO threatens Russia and the Baltic. He doesn’t want a NATO country on their border, another NATO country on their border. And that’s his big sticking point in all this. So I think what we’ll find out here is whether or not that’s going to fly. Now, the Democrats are going to be all over this trying to say that Russia – should not be setting these terms. Ukraine has to be a NATO member. And then if they have it their way, they’ll blow the whole thing up. But luckily they won’t have it their way. And hopefully we can get our way out of this situation with Russia and Ukraine without having to give them billions and billions of dollars more money. As this is happening right now, there’s a takeover that’s happening in New York City at Trump Tower. It’s a lot of breaking news today. And that’s happening as we speak right now. So we’ll find out about that. But let me share this audio with you. So if you think about the great economic news yesterday that we had, that we didn’t really – it seems like the media kind of ignored it. They didn’t want to give a lot of – Attention to it. Obviously, we keep hearing about tariffs and the potential of tariffs. I keep thinking that the tariffs are essentially now meant to be a gigantic bargaining chip slash negotiating chip slash leverage that is being used. It did save the political career of Justin Trudeau, though. The threats on Canadian tariffs now seem to have saved little Justin Trudeau’s political future. And I thought he was packing up and going back to Cuba. I really did. Glad he was packing up, going back to Cuba and getting out of here. But turns out now it looks like he may be staying. But a couple of clips I want to play. This is Secretary Besant. who said they need to make sure that the government stays open. I’m not so sure we have to really worry about this, Mr. Secretary. I don’t think we need to lose sleep over this. But nevertheless, cut 13.
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You know, I can tell you what’s not good for the economy is this government shutdown. I don’t know what Democrats are thinking here because they’re going to own it. And to the extent that it hurts competence, hurts the American people. We have had incredible Republican unity since January 20th. And the fact that the Democrats are in disarray, they’re flailing, and this is the best they can do, that I think this is the economic story for the next few days.
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First of all, I don’t know if it’s going to be bad for the economy. It’d be bad for the Democrat Party. It’d be bad for them politically speaking. Is it really going to be that bad for the economy, though? I mean, having less government, busting chops? Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says President Trump’s goal is to eliminate taxes for anyone earning less than $150,000 a year. That’d be huge. That would be wonderful. I mean, anytime you can get people to keep more of their money, great. But why 150, though? Because in some parts of the country, 150 for a family is not, it doesn’t go as far as you think. You know, on the East Coast, for example, California, places like that, it doesn’t go as far as you think. I’m curious why that’s the number. Really, the question should be, if you’re going to do that, if you’re going to eliminate taxes for anyone earning less than a certain amount, should it really depend on the cost of living in your area? Or should we just go to a simple flat tax method and everybody pays the same percentage no matter what they make? Because if you’re making less than $150,000 and it’s a flat percentage and there’s no deductions and there’s no loopholes or anything else, then you’re going to pay a lot less than somebody who’s making $200,000 a year. But they may be paying less than you now because they’ve got good lawyers and accountants who are able to get around all of the various taxes they otherwise would have to pay without them. But either way, this is what the goal here is, he says. Cut 14.
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How about no tax on tips? How about no tax on overtime? How about no Social Security? How about all those things? These are the kind of thoughts that will change America. I know what his goal is. No tax for anybody who makes less than $150,000 a year. That’s his goal. And that’s what I’m working for.
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All right. I’m all for giving people their money. I’m all for letting people have their money. This is a point that I was making when it came to this idea of you got Doge. All right, so you have Doge and you have this notion of we’re going to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. Great, good, eliminate. Get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse as much as you possibly can. Then they come out and they say, what if we give every American $5,000? And people said, oh, it’s going to lead to inflation because you’re going to put more money into the economy and people are going to go out there and start spending it. And, you know, that’s a bad thing. That’s a bad thing. I think the difference, though, in terms of that versus what happened during COVID when the government put out massive amounts of spending designed to put money in people’s pockets for the purposes of kickstarting the economy is the government was spending a ton of money and people got COVID money. Yes, they went out and spent it on a lot of different things, but the economy was not moving in the sense that you didn’t have as much transactional use of that money. You had a lot of people buying crap, a lot of crap that came from China, made in China on Amazon.com, but you didn’t really have a lot of people going out. back then. They would get money in the form of COVID relief money, and they would get their money to keep them going. But the federal government at the time was spending over a trillion dollars, and people were going, oh, I got money. I guess I’ll go on amazon.com and buy something made in China versus I’ll take my family on a vacation, because you couldn’t. Where are you going to go? During COVID, where are we going to go? We snuck out, we broke out. We wound up leaving New Jersey to go to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. I was waiting for, I don’t know, some sort of, I guess, SWAT team to jump out of the woods and pull me over on the road and pound my car. It never happened, obviously. But really, where are we going to go? See, you weren’t putting money back into the economy, essentially. You couldn’t go to restaurants. Couldn’t go to bars. A lot of restaurants have that stupid 25% capacity. Again, I’m talking about in a lot of places around the country. So like in Philly, they had a 25% capacity I walked by a restaurant in Philadelphia a couple months ago. I haven’t been able to walk, obviously, because of my foot surgery, but I could scoot past it now. But I walked past this restaurant, and it had closed somewhere around 2022, I think. And it had a sign on the door that said, 25% capacity, masks must be worn at all times, you must wait in line, you’ll be called in. And I said, my God, it was like dystopian, you know? You wonder why so many of those places went out of business despite the fact that they had COVID relief funds. So you’re getting money. What do you do with it? Well, people spend it. A lot of people spent it. Some people saved it, but a lot of people spent it. And the argument was you’re putting too much money into the economy. That’s leading to inflation, all this inflationary spending. I don’t think it’s the same thing if you say, we’re going to give every American citizen $5,000 of their own money back or $2,500 of their own money back. We’re going to cut so much waste, fraud, and abuse, and we’re going to put money back in people’s pockets. Because a lot of people are going to take that money, take the family on vacation, go out to dinner, go out to the movies, whatever. And now you’re recirculating that money throughout the entire economy. And that’s a good thing. Now you’re the waitress, the waiter, the server, whoever, and you’re talking about no tax on tips. Well, they’re getting your tips because you’re going out to dinner. And maybe you can’t right now. A lot of families can’t afford to do that. So that hurts mom and pop businesses. That hurts small business restaurants. That hurts a lot of different things. Maybe you’re saying, well, I don’t, I really love going on vacation. Can’t afford a vacation right now. Can’t do it. Gotta wait. Gotta be, now you get $2,500 back. Go, all right, let’s go on vacation. I mean, hell, I’m not a big fan of restricting what people can do with that money, but it would be great if you could just encourage people to maybe use that money domestically. Like, hey, take the family for a week in the Poconos, down the Jersey Shore for a week. Although $2,500 is not going to get you very far at the Jersey Shore these days for a week, but you can try. You do it. And now you’re putting that money back in. And then you don’t have inflation. Because it’s not just simply a matter of people just buying a bunch of crap. It’s a matter of people putting money in the economy and then other people are going to take that money, get money, and use that money. Some people then will invest that money. Some people will spend that money. Some people will save that money. Some people will hire people with that money. And that’s a good thing. That’s how you get an economy roaring again, in my opinion. as long as you back it with cutting government. You see, that was the mistake of the Biden era was, I mean, they made a lot of mistakes back then, or whoever was pulling the strings of the Biden puppet machine made a lot of mistakes, is that they’re spending a trillion dollars, they’re putting all this money out there, And you can’t, of course the inflation soars, but the other thing is, let’s not forget what the Federal Reserve was doing back then, is it was printing money, this quantitative easing nonsense, money that we didn’t have, and it was just giving that money to people, but it wasn’t money we actually had. This would be concrete money because it would actually come from something, meaning that it would come from cuts that the government is making, identifying as waste, fraud, and abuse, and then giving that back to the taxpayers who were paying for the waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s my money. So give me back my money. Let me see what I can do with it. I bet you I can do better. I bet you I can make that money go further than you can. How much you want to bet? I bet you I can make that money go further than, I don’t mean you listening. I mean, the government can. Absolutely. Yeah, I was reading a story about, they were saying how a lot of people in this country right now are looking at the price of groceries and they’re trying to make cuts and they’re trying to think about what they want to do and how they’re going to get by and they’re happy that the price of eggs have gone down, but they know the price of eggs are going to probably go back up and they’re trying to make this. The other thing is that for a lot of people, it’s just simply a matter of scaling back on what they’re buying, which has a huge economic impact. Here’s what I mean. Go to the grocery store. And you’re buying ground beef, but you’re not buying steaks. Well, somewhere out there, there’s ranchers who are making steaks who are losing money. Butcher shops are losing money. As you start cutting back on the quality of products, or you decide that you’re going to do, or maybe you’re not doing takeout, all those things have downward effects. So I don’t know how anybody could really be against giving people their money back. I don’t mean printing money that has no value. I mean, giving people their money back instead of allowing it to be wasted by a massive federal bureaucracy that does nothing other than just completely wash it go away or print transgender comic books in Peru or create transgender lab mice in the lab. Ultimate fighting transgender lab mice. Sounds like a great cover band name, doesn’t it? No, I’m all for that. Give people their money back. It’s what needs to happen here. And if we can do that, we’ll achieve something really special. Because remember, behind all of this, behind the whole idea of the economy getting moving and why I think it’s going to be different this time is at the same time, the Biden administration was spending a trillion dollars of money it didn’t have. You had quantitative easing going on. People couldn’t go anywhere and really spend that money other than buying material objects, a lot of which are made overseas. But the other fact is that at the very same time, the Biden administration was also doing everything it possibly could to end oil and natural gas in this country. So energy prices were about to soar. They weren’t because people weren’t driving anywhere, back to the point about COVID where you couldn’t go anywhere. But then when people started to drive again, we realized all of a sudden we didn’t have enough oil and natural gas to keep up. The Biden administration was saying, oh, record, record, record supply. Not the case. Not the case at all. That’s why it will be very different this time. All right, more to come as President Trump meets with the NATO Secretary General. Putin agrees in principle to a ceasefire. It’s the Dana Show. Don’t go away.
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How do we fix the wounds dividing America? Pastor Alan Jackson has the answer.
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Well, I think the reason we’ve been silent for so long while our country’s been pilfered and pulled apart is all of our groups have gotten little pieces of the pie. And we’re afraid we’re going to have to forfeit our little special side deal, our side hustles. And so we just don’t say anything. But we would all be stronger if we’d come back to the truth.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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Well, you got to love a good Florida man story, don’t you? Especially when you have an unwelcome guest. Because I’ve always found Florida people to be incredibly hospitable every time we go to visit. I was actually supposed to be down there this week for spring training in Clearwater to see my beloved Phils, but… In this case now, this guy is in his house, looks around, sees an alligator staring back at him, left his patio door open to get some breeze, and a seven-foot-long alligator smashed a hole in the screen headed right for the kitchen. Well, can you blame him? That’s where I would go if I were an alligator. Anyway, he called 911, Florida Fish and Wildlife Trapper came, removed the gator, and then he had to clean up all the gator slime from his house, which I’m guessing is kind of like the slime that Slimer left in Ghostbusters. I don’t really know. This is also a thing in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, because my parents live down there, and you got to watch the gators coming in through the screen door. I mean, they smell delicious food, and they want food, and they’re gators. Why not? And who’s going to stop them? I mean, if I’m a gator, that’s exactly what I’m doing. But nevertheless, it’s also, you know, if you watch Dexter, if you watch the prequel to Dexter, which is Dexter Original Sin, I really did love that show. Dexter Original Sin, he buries bodies in the Everglades and the gators eat them until they don’t. Spoiler alert. I’m not going to give it to you, but. And this Florida man was charged for an interactive teller machine fraud in Jackson County, Michigan. What? A Florida man faces charges in Michigan for for allegedly committing fraud using an interactive teller machine. The first reported fraud case came in on March 7th. An interactive teller machine is an ATM with a video chat. It allows customers to conduct bank transactions without going inside. Well, police found that more fraud had been conducted on March 8th with a large amount of cash being taken from the machine. A 32-year-old guy, they arrested him before he could flee. And apparently he was using a phone and was using this through the interactive chat. And then he threatened the person and said, you better give me the money. And then they got the guy because it was all on. Wait for it.
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Mr. President, the Democratic leader funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11th CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.
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That’s funny. Oh, Chuck Schumer, you’re so cute. The same guy that would never even allow a vote on CRs. He would just push them through. Welcome back to The Dana Show. It’s hour number three here with me, Rich Zioli, in for you. The show’s flying by today. Great to be back for my buddy, Dana Lash, and great to be with you today as well. You can tweet me at Rich Zioli. President Trump today said that, what’s with Biden and the auto pen? What’s with Biden and the auto pen? This is a real problem, too, this whole Autopen scandal. I’m going to get into that in just a second with you as well. But one of the things I wanted to mention, too, as we’re watching all this, is the president and the head of NATO, speaking in the Oval Office a few minutes ago, just talked about why Greenland is of vital interest, not only to the United States, but also to NATO allies, because China keeps using the northern routes. where Greenland is, and they’re very concerned about that. So they said, you’re going to buy Greenland or what? And it’s certainly something that’s on the table. No doubt about it. No doubt. This auto pen issue though with Biden is in my opinion, the biggest political scandal of my lifetime. It really is. There’s this clip when Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is saying he confronts Biden about the liquid natural gas export ban. And Biden’s like, huh? What are you talking about? Well, I didn’t put any liquid natural gas export ban. Now, the problem is he may have and just forgot. Because wouldn’t you then, if you were President Biden at that moment, go back and say, who the hell put in a liquid ban on liquid natural gas export? It wasn’t me. Who did it? Find out who did it and then fire that person. But it’s also possible Biden forgot five minutes later that he just said he never put in a ban on liquid natural gas exports. See, Biden’s cognitive decline, his his mush of a brain, which the judge, the special counsel even said, you know, there’s no judge out there that would ever convict this guy because he’s just a he’s a crazy old man using the Uncle June defense from the Sopranos. I’m just a senile old man. I don’t remember anything. Well, Trump today at the Oval Office says, you know, let’s do this, guys. He’s signing thousands and thousands of documents with the auto pen. What’s up with that? What’s that about? The auto pen in the White House is supposed to be there for signing of, you know, you send a letter to the president. Dear Mr. President, I would love you to come to my daughter’s graduation. And of course, he’s not going to go. So they write a letter back. I’m so touched. I’m honored. Unfortunately, my schedule doesn’t allow it. And, you know, that’s what the auto pen’s for. It’s not for signing things like a ban on liquid natural gas. or pardoning Anthony Fauci and his little band of merry little gain-of-function minions. The auto pen signature appears on most official documents, though, which is a huge, huge problem. And in talking to Congressman Scott Perry about this, and he said the same thing, Pennsylvania Representative Perry, we’ve got to have an investigation into this. Congress needs to investigate this. We need to haul people before Congress and ask them the questions of who was responsible for getting these automatic signatures on these documents. Did the president know about it? So in the case of the liquid natural gas export ban, did Biden forget that he did it? Did he forget after he was told that he did it, in which case that’s why they never undid it, because the entire time during that election, I never could believe this. You’re trying to win Pennsylvania. It’s the must-win state, and you still have a ban on liquid natural gas exports from the oil-rich, natural gas-rich state of Pennsylvania. And I said a million times during the campaign, I said, I don’t understand this. This makes no sense. Why don’t you immediately push that away? So let’s assume… Biden, when he said that, Speaker Mike Johnson, I didn’t do it. It wasn’t me. I don’t know who did it. And when you rush back to the White House, immediately say or not even have to rush back. You just turn to somebody and go find out who the hell did that. I want him in my office as soon as I get back. So either Biden was lying to Mike Johnson. Biden forgot that he did put in the ban on liquid natural gas or Biden forgot that he told Mike Johnson he didn’t know about it and then meant to do something about it, but then just forgot to do anything about it. Either way, it just shows you the extent of the guy’s cognitive decline. A majority of official documents signed by President Joe Biden allegedly use the same auto pen signature, reinvigorating concerns over the former president’s mental acuity and if he actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents. Whoever controlled the auto pen controlled the presidency, said the oversight project by the Conservative Heritage Foundation. They control the presidency. We’ve gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of the presidency. All use the same auto pen signature except for the announcement that the former president was dropping out of the race last year. And it’s the coverup and the scandal of Biden’s decline. That’s what we’re talking about here. The coverup and scandal of Biden’s decline. And people probably kept it covered up because they were in charge. They were in power over this and they loved it. They loved being in charge and they loved being in power over the whole situation. So why would they change anything on this? Somebody should ask Gavin Newsom about that next time they go on his podcast. Oh, you know, speaking of California, I wanted to mention this story here about California. So Mel Gibson, the actor who is now the head of the President’s Commission on Hollywood. It’s like Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone. Mel Gibson is barred from owning a firearm. And this woman at the Department of Justice, her name was Elizabeth Oyer, former public defender, was appointed as the Justice Department’s pardoned attorney in April of 2022 under Obama, says she was fired last Friday because she refused to sign off on a recommendation to restore Mel Gibson’s gun rights. This is from Reason.com. The movie’s star and director, who supported Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, was designated as one of the administration’s three ambassadors to Hollywood, along with Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone. Now, Mel Gibson lost the right to own firearms because of a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. Now, the pardon attorney who resigned presented the episode as a conflict between public safety and political favoritism. New York Times framed the story the exact same way. But the incident also illustrates how difficult it is for people who’ve lost their Second Amendment rights as a result of criminal convictions, a category that includes, theoretically, the president himself, to regain those rights even when there are no grounds to think they pose a threat to public safety. So this was back in March of 2011. You know, Gibson pled no guilt, no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge involving his girlfriend. Got 36 months of probation, and the deal allowed him to avoid jail time, but his plea triggered an ancillary penalty under 18 U.S.C. 922G9, which makes it a felony for anyone who has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence to receive or possess a firearm. A lifetime ban. Now, those who advocate for this turn around and go, well, that’s because all these domestic abusers are going to go out and get a firearm and kill their exes the minute that they have a chance to do so. Well, that’s stupid. There’s no evidence to point to that. There’s no evidence to say Mel Gibson or any of the other people are dangerous. But if that’s the case, there’s lots of ways to kill somebody. You don’t just need a gun. I mean, it’s not like without guns, nobody ever kills anybody. People have lots of methods to kill somebody. If they really want to kill somebody, not being able to legally purchase a firearm is certainly not going to stop them because they could also, wait for it, illegally buy a firearm in this country. As Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted in an opinion she wrote, as an appeals court judge, the constitutionality of the latter prohibition is doubtful. Barrett dissented from a 2019 decision in which the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the application of that section to a manufacturer of therapeutic shoes and footwear inserts who had pleaded guilty to mail fraud. Mail fraud? You can never have a gun again because you pled guilty to mail fraud. History demonstrates that legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns, she wrote, but that power extends only to people who are dangerous. Now, I don’t know what it means to be a dangerous person. I mean, theoretically, we’re all dangerous, right? Theoretically, anybody can be dangerous. So you’re probably talking about somebody who’s imminently dangerous, right? Somebody you have to really worry about in the moment. I mean, I could be dangerous five minutes from now. Who the hell knows? Depends on my mood. But I’m obviously not going to be a violent person. So then again, define dangerous. What do you mean by that? You know, what do you mean by dangerous? The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruin added heft to that argument by clarifying that gun control laws must be consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation when they impinge on conduct covered by the plain text of the Second Amendment. 2023, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that Section 922G, this is the one that keeps Mel Gibson from having a gun and millions like him, failed that test as applied to Brian Range, a Pennsylvania man… who pleaded guilty to food stamp fraud. Look, I’m no fan of food stamp fraud, but, like, come on. You’re not going to let the guy ever have his Second Amendment rights back because of food stamp fraud? Stop. Based on similar reasoning, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last year overturned that Section 992G conviction of Stephen Duarte, a California man who had lost his gun rights because of a nonviolent criminal record. Without such judicial intervention, though, prohibited persons like these have little recourse. They theoretically can ask the Attorney General to restore their Second Amendment rights. The Attorney General has that discretion to do so, but it’s a whole big thing. It’s a whole big to-do, and good luck with that. And then that responsibility has also been delegated to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which Congress has barred from considering such applications. Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. I love that. One of my favorite t-shirts is ATF, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. Should be a convenience store, not a government agency. Although federal law provides a means for the relief of firearms disabilities, ATF’s annual appropriation since October of 1992 has prohibited the expending of any funds to investigate or act upon applications for relief from federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. As long as this provision is included in current ATF appropriations, ATF cannot act upon applications for relief from federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. That’s a whole lot of mumbo-jumbo translation is, you’re screwed. If the ATF cannot act on such applications, can people with disqualifying criminal records seek relief in federal court? No. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the 2002 case United States v. Bean. So what do you do? You got nothing. You got nothing. You’re just screwed because you made a mistake. You did something wrong for the rest of your life. So in this case, this woman, this pardon attorney, going back to this, said she was working, she was assigned to a working group charged with identifying people who deserve to have their Second Amendment rights restored despite criminal records that made it illegal for them to own guns. It was an unusual assignment for the office of the pardon attorney, which typically handles requests for clemency and recommends candidates for pardons or commutations. And she didn’t want to do it because she didn’t believe that anybody should get their gun rights back. Well, why not? Because lefties believe that if there’s any possibility they have of keeping you from ever being able to own a gun, they should immediately seize it and take it and be done with it. Because now you’re one more person that they can keep unarmed in this country, legally, of course. So that doesn’t surprise me in the least. But Mel Gibson and many others like him are not dangerous people. The article says, while the loss of that right might not matter much to someone with armed taxpayer-funded protection, like these judges and these politicians and everybody else, the same cannot be said of ordinary people who are legally barred from possessing firearms, even though they have never done anything to suggest they are inclined to violence. And that is the problem with this situation. More to come on The Dana Show. As we keep going here, the president says we don’t need anything Canada has. Don’t go away.
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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 don’t even know how to explain how friggin’ creepy this is, but you ever heard of the box demon? Yeah, so this is a person who would go up to Ring Camera doorbells, calling themselves the Box Demon. And it’s basically a homemade paper plate mask and carrying an empty box. The person would leave the package on the porch and walk away. they finally got this person this box demon police in north york pa they’ve spoken to the person as well as the homeowner adding that there are no public safety concerns so it’s very possible it might be just some weird box demon freaky thing between the two i’m not quite sure um the new super blood moon is coming out this weekend yeah march blood moon lunar eclipse set for friday night um but bananas that get really really old but not brown Um, they have a new way using a scientific breakthrough that can keep bananas healthy. Again, don’t mess with nature, man. I saw Jurassic Park. I know how this works out. It doesn’t work out well for us. Uh, Spinal Tap 2 gets a release date, and whiskey bottles believed to be from Prohibition era were found on a New Jersey beach. I guess Nookie Thompson was out there after all, enjoying some time. And finally… When it comes to all things we’re looking at right now, you know what I’m thinking. We’re thinking, can we get our hands on some of that whiskey before Canada shuts it all down? It’s The Dana Show. Don’t go away.
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and they should not and they’re also demeaning women but who would want these things and everything’s transgender everybody transgender that’s all you hear about uh now that’s why we won the election in record numbers but that’s right that’s uh everybody’s transgender welcome back to the show glad you’re here the dana show it’s uh rich zeolian for dana today again i’ll be with you back tomorrow for friday and out the week
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Newsweek had this article, which I guess is supposed to be an insult to the military and their spending. Here’s the headline. Let me read this to you. U.S. military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care. Let me read that. U.S. military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care. Okay. Now, first of all, if I’m serving my country and I need a little help in that department… which I don’t serve my country, see what I did there? But if I did, then I would say the government should give me my little blue pill or the white generic version of this. It’s not even a question for me in my opinion. The judge overseeing the case against the defense department’s firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care. First of all, gender-affirming care is one of those euphemisms the left used for chopping off body parts and giving hormone blockers to kids, puberty blockers to kids, which don’t, of course, actually block puberty. It just delays it. It messes with the kids, and they’re incredibly harmful, which is why they’re banned in European countries now, thank God, as is also these gender-affirming practices for children. While discussing military spending with the Department of Defense attorney for the ongoing Talbot v. Trump case, Judge Anna Reyes said the DOD spends approximately $5.2 million annually on medical care for service members with gender dysphoria. Comparatively, the DOD spends $42 million a year on medication for service members with erectile dysfunction. Hey, listen, a big part of the reason why men, I’m told, and I don’t know this for a fact, sometimes need help in that department is because of stress. War is stressful. Serving your country is stressful. I get it. I understand that point. Again, I don’t personally know if that’s true, but I’ve read that stress is a big indicator of this. But really what it comes down to is this is why the Secretary of Defense doesn’t want and the President doesn’t want transgender service members serving in our military. And I don’t think they should be in our military. This is not a social club. Military is not a social club. You want to live your life as a transgender person? Knock yourself out. You shouldn’t be in the military, though. Just like I would say that if you are… Physically unfit, you shouldn’t be in the military. If you are weak and fragile, you should not be. I could not be in the military. I’m weak and fragile. I’m constantly breaking things. But if you have a little problem in the area of, you know, woohoo, like, you know, that would be the stress of probably being involved in war and conflict and everything else. I get it. I understand that. But there’s also other issues, too, that lead to that age and cholesterol levels and sleep apnea. There’s all kinds of things that should do with it. One has nothing to do with the other, by the way. It’s like saying, well, you spend $42 trillion a year on blood pressure medication. What does that have to do with transgender affirming care? Either you think the military should be in the business of having transgender soldiers or not. You can’t equate that with what they spend on Viagra or any of the other erectile dysfunction drugs, not that I know what they are, but I’ve heard there’s other names out there too. But the Viagra spending was a stupid point by the judge to make. At one point, attorneys had to admit to the judge they never read articles which were included as evidence. The judge said that they had cherry-picked and egregiously misquoted studies put forward by the Pentagon on transgender people decreasing the lethality of the military. Just for the record. I would be more worried about soldiers who need help in that department of rising to the occasion, not getting the help they need, rising to the occasion, in terms of us having a strong fighting force, because those soldiers would then be even more stressed out and even more distracted, if you know what I mean. But one has nothing to do with the other. This is what I mean. This is another case of a dumb federal judge, like the federal judge who earlier today blocked the Trump administration from firing all these people in the federal government. I mean, this is not your job here. What does this have to do with anything? In response to this, the Pentagon saying transgender people decrease the lethality of the military, they do. People with erectile dysfunction, however, don’t. You could still be pretty lethal, but it’s also about other things too. Unicohesion and… There’s just, there’s a lot of other factors to this. But again, one does not have anything to do with the other. If, for example, somebody has trouble sleeping and they get a sleep aid, a sleeping aid or whatever, or they’re given, I don’t know, Valium or whatever it is, I don’t know. And you go, wait, you’re spending all this money on sleeping aids, but you’re not spending money on transgender affirming care? Okay, and? Yeah, and you spend all this money giving the military members golf lessons, but you won’t spend this money on transgender care. The argument is not about whether or not the government should be spending the money. The argument is about what it should be spending the money on. The government’s not turning around and going, you know, we really can’t afford this transgender care. They’re saying that they don’t want transgender soldiers in the military. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, said transgender people lack warrior ethos, are liars, lack integrity, are not humble, are selfish, and can’t meet physical mental fitness requirements. Well, that’s his opinion. You can disagree with that, but he’s the Secretary of Defense. I mean, you know, it’s like saying, well, I think if he had easily said that instead of transgender, if he had said weak people, physically weak people, lack warrior ethos, are liars, lack integrity… are not humble, are selfish, and can’t meet physical, mental requirements, be like, all right, well, that’s kind of mean. But that’s like your opinion, dude, to quote the dude, the big Lebowski. But that’s not the point. The point is that the commander-in-chief doesn’t want transgender people serving in the military. And I’m sorry, but… That’s the right that Commander-in-Chief has, and it’s something he also said on the campaign trail, and he got elected. Hegseth’s point about the integrity thing was that you’re going out there and you’re lying. You’re saying a man’s assertion that he is a woman and his requirement that others honor this falsehood is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member. Military service members must be reserved, or service must be reserved for those mentally and physically fit for duty. So the judge turns around and goes, you’re saying that people with gender dysphoria can’t be honest, humble, or have integrity. You think that’s demeaning to people with gender dysphoria? And the attorney said, I can’t answer that question. Well, let’s also break down what gender dysphoria is, which is a mental condition where you think you’re in the wrong body. You think, I mean, at one time that was considered to be a psychological illness. The question that, I think the better question would be, What do you do with people who have mental illness in the military? Because the military will not accept people if they have certain kinds of mental illness for the exact same reason, being that they could be a threat to themselves or to the people they’re serving with. I mean, I’m not trying to be mean here, but if you have people with severe mental illness… dispatched overseas, that’s not in their best interest any more than it’s in the best interest of the people that are serving with that person. And so I just, I think, again, this is one of those areas where you gotta turn around and you gotta say, if the American people knew what the president felt on the issue, and they did, and the president of the United States, in his capacity as president, turned around and said, this is what we’re going to do, then the president of the United States gets to make that determination. And I don’t think the fact that we have a lot of soldiers who need Viagra is really the issue. But if I was thinking about World War III with Putin and a potential nuclear con, I might have a time, you know, rising to the occasion, raising the flag, if you know what I mean. Now, on the note of Russia, by the way, Vladimir Putin has come out and he said, and this is what the president was echoing in the Oval Office earlier, Putin says Russia is in favor of a ceasefire proposal, but there is nuance. In his first public remarks on the proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said Russia is for it, but he wants his own security guarantees. Putin raised questions regarding a 30-day ceasefire during a press briefing in Moscow on Thursday. This is what the president of Russia said, quote, It seems to me it would be very good for the Ukrainian side to reach a truce for at least 30 days. And we are for it. But there’s a nuance. His concerns regard Russia’s Kursk region where Ukrainian forces push into last year in a surprise offensive. But in recent weeks, I’ve seen Russian forces retake significant ground. If we stop the hostilities for 30 days, what does that mean? Does it mean that everyone who is there will leave without a fight or the Ukrainian leadership will give them an order to lay down their arms and just surrender? How will it be? It’s not clear, Putin said. Putin said he also wants guarantees that during a 30-day ceasefire, Ukraine will not regroup. And he wondered who would determine if there were any violations of a ceasefire. These are all issues that require careful investigation from both sides. Putin suggested Russia should talk with Trump to discuss his concerns, while adding, but the idea itself is to end this conflict with peaceful means. We support it, he said. At the top of his remarks, the president thanked Trump for his attention to Ukraine’s settlement by saying, we believe that this ceasefire should lead to a long-term peace and eliminate the initial cause of this crisis. And you have the special envoy led by Steve Witkoff, who landed in Moscow today for discussions on the proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. Continuing efforts to press Russia to agree to a ceasefire and stop its brutal war against Ukraine. That’s what Caroline Leavitt had said. So that’s good. Peace is good. We should all want peace. Said things are hopefully going okay. And that’s a good thing. Oh, and speaking of Caroline Leavitt, by the way, you know, Caroline Leavitt was asked a question. Hey, do you think you should just level with everybody and just tell everybody that things are going to stink for a while? Anything is going to be tough for a while. A big part of this is psychological. You know, a big part of this is making everybody feel like the economy is going to be good and believing it’s called consumer confidence. It’s a good thing. It’s a very, very good thing. And that’s why when Caroline Leavitt was asked that question, I thought it was a really dumb question. But here’s what the Fox reporter asked her. This is cut 16.
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Is it time for the president to do an Oval Office address maybe and try to explain to people that it might be bad for a little while, but it is in fact worth it?
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I think the president has been incredibly clear, Jackie, on where he stands and what he envisions for the future of America. He wants to restore this great country as the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we have the ability to do it because we have the best market and we have the best workers and we have plenty of resources right here at home. What we need are these companies and these CEOs to recognize that, to trust in President Trump and to move their business here. And many of them already are.
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Yeah, and it’s also about consumer confidence. You want people to believe in the American economy so that they spend money and they don’t sit back and hoard it because that has real problems downstream in the economy. I mean, I’m not an economist, but everybody knows that. Tomorrow’s Pi Day, by the way. March 14th, 3-14 Pi Day. Plan to take the family out for pizza tomorrow night. I typically make pizza myself. I love making pizza myself. It’s one of my great joys in life. But, you know, if people stop ordering pizza or going out for pizza on Pi Day or whatever it is, then, yeah, you know what? The local pizzeria suffers. That’s the problem here. They’re already dealing with higher prices on everything that they have to buy. So you don’t want to sit there and go, oh, doom and gloom. You know who tried that? Jimmy Carter tried that. With the whole malaise speech, how’d that work out for the United States of America? How’d it work out for him politically? Not too good. And by the way, why should he? Here’s CNBC’s Rick Santelli about wholesale inflation. Cut 15.
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Headline expecting up three-tenths. Up zero. Goose egg. Unched. Boy, that is progress. We haven’t had a number that low. Well, we equaled it in July of last year when we had another zero. To find a lower number, you’re back to October 11th. October of 23 at minus four tenths.
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I’m not sure that saying that Steve Bannon calls balls and strikes is the right way. I think at the risk of Elon Musk tweeting about me, because apparently he likes when I say the word balls on TV, I will say that balls and strikes, when you’re talking about Steve Bannon, when he calls balls and strikes, he calls strikes balls and ball strikes.
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Wow, Dana Bash, you really enjoyed that, didn’t you? Hey, quick shout out to our buddy, Sergio Sanchez from 710KURV. He’s listening right now. Of course, one of Dana’s main fill-in hosts, along with myself, my man, Serge. What’s up, buddy? Thanks for listening. Appreciate it. Loved your text. Made me laugh. I don’t know if we can say those things on the air anymore in this day and age. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know what the rules are. I don’t know. Rush got away with it. I don’t know if we can. I just don’t know. I’m still going to try it on my show. I just don’t want to potentially get Dana in trouble by doing it on hers. But I’m definitely going to try it on my show, which is starting in just four minutes on WPHT in Philadelphia. But before I jump off and go to do that, let me just mention that Dana Bash really loves saying balls. She really does. Because she doesn’t have to mention that. That’s just awkward. You know what I mean? It’s awkward. It really is. The whole thing is just awkward. But not as awkward as Joy Behar. who’s whining that we’re apparently all snowflakes who lawyer up? Did you know this? Cut 19.
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Just to disagree a little bit, because I agree with you that he should have countered. The Pocahontas thing is just stupid. And by the way, there’s such snowflakes on the right. If you say anything about them, they’re going up to the lawyers in two seconds, you know? But he can call people any names that he wants.
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by the way he called her pocahontas because she’s not really native american therefore it’s not a racial slur you idiot the whole point of calling her pocahontas is that she’s not native american she was lying about it her entire life in her entire career that’s why the pocahontas thing is funny because she’s not it would be it would be i would agree with you be a racial slur if she was a native american but she’s not not even close to being a native american She’s no more Native American than that fake Indian they had come out and do the Oscars for Merlin Brando that night, who was also another fraud. Fugazi, as my people say. All right, listen, enjoy the rest of your day. Feel free to join me in Philly coming up next. You can listen free on the Odyssey app. I’ll be back in for Dana tomorrow. We’ll close out the week. Thank you for listening.
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