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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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These are some real bangers today, so let’s see if we can get through these. All right, first and foremost, this is the headline at the smoking gun. Everyone knows what conch is, C-O-N-C-H. Let me just establish that. Florida woman charged with conch bonking. 40-year-old Florida woman was charged with felony battery because she attacked a dude with a giant conch shell, according to police. They said that Nikki Quarterman was very intoxicated when she got into a domestic argument with a 63-year-old victim. They’ve been in an on-off relationship. And she, after the argument, she undressed and broke everything. And then she grabbed a 10 to 12 inch dried conch shell and swung it at his head multiple times, threw it at him. He got a laceration to his hand when he tried to block it. And then she locked herself in the garage. She was taken into custody, posted $15,000 bond. She was arrested six months ago for pretty much the same thing, except no conch shell this time. So now she’s got all kinds of battery, DUI, assault, law enforcement, oh my gosh, everything. Her rap sheet is forever long. A Florida death row inmate says his morbid obesity will complicate the lethal injection, and he wants leniency. Or just use another shot. The needles aren’t expensive. You know, I mean, if it takes more, it takes more. He wants leniency. 48-year-old Michael Tanzi is morbidly obese, and he’s got some stuff I don’t care about because he’s a killer, an unrepentant killer. And so he says that it would cause needless suffering. Well, that’s kind of the… point. I want suffering. Maybe I shouldn’t say that, but I do. So no, gotta go, dude.
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Friend, you are somebody that is a hero who folks don’t know their name in the countries that you’ve affected with your strength on foreign policy. Dear God, my friend, I yield the floor for a question while retaining the floor. Excuse me, I’m going to say that correctly. I yield for a question while retaining the floor. I do not yield the floor.
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I ask my friend and colleague from New Jersey if he is familiar with Psalm 30, verse 5. Oh, Lord.
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Wow. You hear that giant sniff? I’m not saying that he probably had like a line of booger sugar right there on the podium, but I’m saying that he may have. That’s Cory Booker, who is tweaked out to the nth degree. I mean, I have seen actual tweakers on cops look less awake than him. Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you. Cory Booker, who is bright eyed and high, is I’m not saying he’s high, but I am. He’s on the floor of the Senate and he’s filibustering. Those eyes, though. Demized dough. You want to hear a funny story that’s about that is that I will bring back to Cory Booker’s eyes. All right. So picture it. It was like seven-year-old Dana, right? And my grandma, just keep watching his eyes because this is terrifying. If I saw that, by the way, in my bedroom at night, like the devil eyes coming at me like that, those are crazy eyes. What is up with the move of people who just think if they open their eyes more, it makes them more intimidating? It doesn’t. You just look nuts. So when I was about seven years old, my grandma got me this cheap baby doll, right? Just like as a nice thing. She’s at the dollar store, you know, it was probably made in China, you know, back before, you know, we really did not like them. Although we were, we were with them anyway. So she got me this baby doll and it was one of those where you laid it back and its eyes closed and you pulled it up and it opened. Well, this doll was psycho and its eyes just got like stuck open. And there was no way it was just a default. It was because of her, the plastic flesh of her eye cavity just hung over and it just wasn’t, you know, there’s a lot of, we would have had to do an upper eye lift and all this on this doll. And I just was at seven years old. I just was not technically able and equipped to do it. So I just had to deal with it. And my grandma was like, well, you can pretend her eyes are closed. You can’t tell a kid that. Pretend my doll’s eyes are closed. They’re wide open. She looks like a damn demon. It’s weird. So anyway, had this doll. Couldn’t get her eyes closed. So I sat her in the corner of my room. And I woke up in the middle of the night one night. And I remember looking across my room. And it was fairly dark. There was a street light outside that still filtered through the blinds. So there was a little bit of diffused light outside. And the way that the light, the diffused light was coming through those slats on my plastic blinds just hit that doll’s face and illuminated those eyes in a way that was more than unnerving. Dare I say it was terrifying. And it was like the eyes were illuminated from within. Right. This crazy doll. And I, you know, like any normal seven year old had normal seven year old thoughts. I’m looking at this. I’m like, this doll is possessed. This doll is going to cut my throat open while I sleep. Oh, my gosh. So I didn’t want to go to sleep. I wanted to watch that doll. And it was creepy. I ended up like trying to hide it out of my room. My grandma would, you know, she was babysitting me. She would put it back in my room and I, but I hadn’t really thought of that story until I watched Cory Booker on the floor with his coke eyes. And he’s filibustering. And is he trying to look angry? You know, when people do that, they’re like, I’m going to open my eyes real big at you in an attempt to be intimidating. And the rest of us are just like, no, you’re not intimidating. You are crazy, though, but you’re not intimidating. It’s the same thing. I just got that whole vibe. So he’s filibustering. They’re mad over Trump’s policies, essentially, right? They’re mad over Trump’s policies. I love the, I yield the floor while we’re chaining the floor. He’s a meme. Oh, man, I’m going to use these pictures forever. I want to apologize to all the subscribers to the newsletter over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, because I just found a bunch of pictures that you’re going to see a lot of for all of my headlines from here on out. I’m really sorry about that, but it’s worth it for me. All right, so he’s on the floor. He’s carrying this out on the floor, and he does look nuts. And they’re trying to… I think that they are trying to figure out – well, I think some in the party are trying to figure out, wow, everyone hates us. What can we do? Nobody likes us. What are we going to do? We’ve got to figure something out. And I think that they believe that these stunts somehow endear them to the American voter or even to their base. Their base wants them to get angry, but they don’t specifically state about what – or what to do with said anger. They don’t actually say it. I mean, man, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Good night. Good night. So he’s been, I think he’s trying to get B-roll footage. Have you seen the pictures of him? I mean, they’re amazing. They’re one of my favorite. Here, I gotta share this with you in Slack because we can use these photos forever. So what’s the point of a filibuster? What exactly do they think that they’re going to accomplish here? He’s on, is it hour 14?
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I think it’s 17 now.
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Spartacus is still at it. Has he said anything about the Democrat-fueled targeting of Tesla consumers?
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Oh, no. No Democrat has, actually.
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Mm-hmm. 13 hours, he runs his mouth, and he hasn’t said anything about at all Tesla?
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No.
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No. 13 hours. Has he had this energy for the whole 13 hours? That’s a good question. I mean, he’s going to OD if he keeps it up. That’s why I’m asking for his… I don’t know.
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You get bathroom breaks, right?
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No.
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You don’t get any… So he’s got to wear what depends?
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I think you can tag team it.
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Oh, okay. So…
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I think he can do tag team. I mean, not to my knowledge. I don’t think that you can. But yeah, he’s for 13 hours. For what? We need more government money. Look at him. He’s mad. If you’re watching the simulcast, you’re looking at a photo of a man mad that the government doesn’t take care of him enough. That his sugar daddy government, oh my gosh, they’re just so great. Get out, he says in this image. Get out if you don’t like more government. If you don’t like more government, you can exit now. Does he look intimidating to you?
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No, he never has. But imagine being on the side of not wanting waste, fraud and abuse to be removed. Imagine being on that side of the argument.
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Yeah, I don’t. I mean, if it’s about saving money, all these people. I heard a soundbite from Elizabeth Warren this morning. who I think it was, I don’t think it was from yesterday, but it was a soundbite where she said that, you know, Elon Musk, he’s going to get his hands on your, she swear to you, hands to sky. She said, Elon Musk is going to take your social security and they’re going to spend it on tax breaks for billionaires. I have heard this phrase over and over again. When I heard her say it, that was it. That is one of the stupidest things that I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s, it looks, it, it, the reasoning is the reasoning of someone who only has one brain cell to their name. And they’re trying real hard. It’s one of the dumbest things that I’ve ever heard in my life. So just imagine. So you’re saying that Elon Musk, who has no capability to do anything except audit what he’s allowed to audit under a specific type of NDA with read-only access, he doesn’t actually access any sensitive information. He can see where the government is wasting money and spending money, and he can make recommendations as to what needs to be cut from everything that he’s taken in. because he’s not Congress and he can recommend it to Congress as is their right to determine whether or not they want to cut it since they’re the power of the purse. And then they want to use the savings to maybe pay off our debt. But Elizabeth Warren is insistent that it’s going to go to tax breaks for billionaires who, frankly, I think everybody needs a big fat tax break. I think we need a big fat abolishing the IRS. But we have a bunch of people who are absolute pansies in all levels of government. And that’s never going to happen because they’re more worried about them staying in office than they are you paying lower taxes or none at all because it’s unconstitutional. They care more about their seats than they do the Constitution. If you’re not voting to abolish the IRS, that’s an unfortunate stat. That’s a fact of your life. So this talking point, these talking points that I keep hearing, oh my gosh, Elon Musk is going to take all our money. He’s going to take all… First off, tax cuts don’t cost. You’re not paying for them. In order to allow people to keep more of their own money, you’re not paying them. You have to spend less. Less. Meaning we’re not going to be spending stuff on trans propaganda in Africa. Nothing like that. It’s just… Wild that these are the talking points get dumber with each passing year. Like we were talking about the guy who got deported from Maryland, the innocent Maryland dad who is literally a member of MS-13. And that’s why he got deported. And now all the capital libertarians are freaking out. Oh, my gosh. Trump is just pulling people off the street. Now, I call balls and strikes. The Atlantic was leading, leading the hysteria this morning, leading it. If that were the case, I would be one of the people criticizing it. But that’s not what’s happening. That’s not what’s happening. It’s just so disingenuous. So disingenuous. And they, I mean, look, they said, well, he’s not convicted of being a missearching. Why are we going to waste taxpayer dollars on court proceedings for someone who’s not in the country illegally? A gang member who’s not in the country illegally just to prove that he’s a gang member so progressives won’t protest him getting deported. I mean, I was explaining this to one of my kids over spring break, this idea that the whole, whether it was the Flores Agreement and the grace period for deportations for kids who were brought over unwillingly by their parents, like little kids. I question your innocence when you’ve been in the country for decades and you can file paperwork to go to college and get scholarships and for jobs and all of this other stuff, but you just can’t seem to get yourself You know, especially when Flores was in effect and you had any kind of deportation. I mean, you were excluded from that under the Flores Agreement. So why were people not taking advantage of that and going through and becoming starting the process in order to protect themselves when they were excluded from deportation as a result of that? It doesn’t make any sense. So I don’t have a lot of sympathy there. I don’t have a lot of sympathy. Audio 7×7, this is another representative who’s very upset. You can’t fire people. You can’t fire people if you’re trying to find efficiencies. What? Listen.
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Well, I would say that it’s important that we we go in with a with a scalpel and not a chainsaw. Right. I would say that you don’t fire the workforce if you’re trying to find efficiencies. These are the folks who know where the efficiencies can be made.
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Yeah, it’s them. They need to go. That’s why. Oh, it’s them. The calls coming from inside the house, ma’am. It’s them. They got to go. And yes, you do need a chainsaw. Why is that a talking point? Is it because Malaya gave Elon Musk a chainsaw? You need a chainsaw. Oh, we need to just be very specific? No, we’re past that. I don’t think people realize how dire the circumstances are. They don’t realize how unbelievably dire the circumstances are, how fragile everything is economically at this point, how much debt we have. The time for surgical cuts was like 30 years ago. 40 years ago. Now it’s chainsaw time. And I think anyone who disagrees with it, respectfully, I think that you really underestimate the severity of the situation that we are in right now. Our partners that help make the program possible, our friends at Caltech, the PR57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7, one of the latest offerings from our friends over at Caltech. And this is incredibly innovative because it’s super… Super light and super thin. It’s like 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7 that’s out there. Two different ways they achieved this. The innovative rotary barrel, making it the lightest 5.7 on the market. And it has a unique top loading design that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for slimmer carrier profiles in a 20 plus 1 capacity. Built to perform, engineered for simplicity and reliability. Quickest and easiest field strip available. And this is something you actually can carry because it’s so light and thin. Also, everybody can afford it. MSRP. is only $3.99. So get the first of its kind, Kel-Tec PR57 Rotary Barrel Pistol Chambered in 5.7. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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A carjacker found out the wrong way when he tried to carjack a citizen who was lawfully armed and protected themselves. A man was shot and killed Sunday night in an act of self-defense because he tried one of several armed assaults in the area. The Hardyville Police Department got word of an armed suspect who was trying to carjack a DoorDash driver, and then he tried to run away on foot. They responded to the call. They heard gunshots. The guy, he tried another carjacking. He pointed his gun at the driver of the car, fired at least once. The driver fired shots in return, and the carjacker was struck. The driver was initially detained. That’s standard operating procedure. But, of course, they determined it was self-defense, and so they released him. Of course they did, because it’s self-defense. You just don’t carjack people, and you won’t get shot. There’s a consequence. They’re trying to still panic. Goldman Sachs lifts U.S. recession probability to 35%. We’re in it now, though. I don’t know why we’re talking about lifting anything. The expectation. We’re in it now. YouTube is about to eclipse Disney as the biggest media company in the world. That’s really sad because YouTube is horrific when it comes to broadcasting anything. They hate us. They’ve demonetized us multiple times. They have outright deleted videos of mine that they don’t like. It’s heinous. So I can’t. I mean, that just is the state of everything that that is the biggest media company. That’s kind of unfortunate, but they’re overtaking Disney. I don’t really care about this at all. I don’t. I’ve never watched the show. Kelly Clarkson is going to take over from Hoda Cobb on the Today Show. Nobody cares. Nobody watches. Nobody actually watches this. What is it? One of the Bush daughters and Hoda. And now they’re having Kelly Clarkson on. I thought she had her own show. I don’t know, maybe it’s just not, I don’t know. Does it mean I just don’t care? I do not watch daytime talk. At all. I could not. Even if I just couldn’t do it. I’d have to put on horror films all day. There’s no way I couldn’t do it. Listen to this. This is wild. A water shortage is threatening the world’s most abundant lithium reserves. What? This is the lithium triangle and mineral rich region in the Andean Plateau. It stretches across Argentina and Bolivia and Chile and it’s about half of actually more than half of all global lithium reserves. They’re saying that they don’t have enough fresh water to extract it. Because it’s a dirty, arduous process. I love all family pharmacy. First off, they made me well. And they made me well fast. And that’s all that you care about when you’re sick. Look, you know when you’re getting sinus infections or if you’re getting strep throat. You know what that’s like. I mean, especially you get it for like 30, 40 years. You understand what it’s like. And, you know, a lot of times if I’m going to big events, I want to take some ivermectin. 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They have the highest standards. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don’t wait. Be prepared. Protect yourself and your family today. That’s allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana10 to save 10%. In the meantime… One of the other things that… Because I don’t watch a lot of TV. There will be some series. Kane and I were talking about this on break that we watch. How difficult is it for you guys to find stuff that you want to watch? like even on streaming services. Everything’s such garbage nowadays. It’s all garbage and it’s all super highly sexualized. And I’ve been, I’ve got some objections, but I’ve been, I like Taylor Sheridan’s storylines and I’ve been watching 1923. I watched the earlier one that was in the 1800s and that was great. And then, you know, obviously you watch the Yellowstone flagship. Not every not every series that you watch is perfect. Been watching 1923. Can I just say that I could go forever without watching the Timothy Dalton S&M stuff? How in the world is that in a Taylor Sheridan series? Why do we need that? It literally does nothing to the plot. We get it that Timothy Dalton is a weirdo. We get it. He’s a weirdo without trying to be a weirdo. He’s one of those people, right? You ever meet people that look creepy without being creepy and you’re like, you’re creepy. You know what I mean? And if they did something creepy, you tell your friends, I’m so not shocked because Timothy Dalton’s like that. He’s like a walking one-man horror show. You don’t need to have S&M scenes in every episode to reinforce the fact that the guy is… And he’s a sadomasochist and all this other stuff. You don’t have to do that. So I could do without it. And it’s a pain in the backside to fast forward through all that because I don’t want to watch that. Now, the series I like because of one actress in it. She’s the actress. I can’t pronounce her last name. Her first name is Julia. She plays Alex Dutton. So if you haven’t watched the series, it’s really good. We are on, what, episode six million of Spencer Dutton trying to get home. This, you know, wild Greek tragedy, 10-year journey, modern-day Odysseus trying to get back home to his ranch in Montana. I like the actor who plays him. He’s got good chemistry with the actress who plays Alex Dutton. And it is, it’s a good, it’s a good series. Helen Mirren is fabulous in it. Harrison Ford is really good in it. Is he really trying to be old and slow moving or is that him? That’s a good question. He’s really good in the series. He doesn’t really have to do much. He’s very good.
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I’m also no acting coach.
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No, but you, I mean, he sells it.
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I’m wholly unqualified.
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I can almost smell the tobacco on him. You know, like my grandfather was a cattle rancher and he’s, you know, old grizzled cattle rancher and, and he would smoke Marlboros and I could just, that’s what he reminds me of. Anyway, it’s such a, it’s a very good series, but right now Alexa Dutton has been trying to get to her husband’s ranch in Montana and she’s currently caught in a snow drift. In a car. And there’s probably going to be a Bigfoot out there that’s going to try to rape her. I’m just saying, because she’s been going through hell for this last season. You haven’t watched any of it, Cain. Have you watched any of the Yellowstone series?
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No, I’ve seen some Yellowstone episodes, but I got rid of Paramount like a long time ago. So I can’t watch it.
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The only TV shows that I actually watch are those people are people ask me, do you watch watch White Lotus? No. And there’s there’s one show that I was so not interested in watching. But Walton Groggins is in it and he’s a brilliant actor. And he apparently plays somebody who’s so over the top and crazy that I’m it’s like something gemstones. I’m interested in watching that just for his. He’s a great character actor just for watching him. I don’t know. But I don’t watch a lot. So I could do, like I said, with all the weird Timothy Dalton stuff, I could do without all of that. But I want more of the Spencer and Alex storyline. I want more of them and I want more Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. I don’t care about the whatever rainwater girl story. I don’t even care. Don’t care. Some chick out in the prairie. Just I wrap it up. It’s like such it’s filler. So I don’t know. That’s the only stuff because every now and then people will go, well, what is it that you’re watching? And I put stuff out if I’m like reading something or watching something, but I don’t watch a lot of a lot of things.
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