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And if I can solve it because of a certain ability, that would be great. And if it doesn’t happen, I will say that I think Russia is ready. And a lot of people said Russia wanted to go for the whole thing. And they’ve — I think we have a deal with Russia. We have to get a deal with Zelenskyy. And I hope that Zelenskyy — I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelenskyy. So far, it’s been harder, but that’s okay. It’s all right. But I think we have a deal. both I hope they do it because I’m looking to save and you know we spend a lot of money but this is about a lot of humanity this is the worst I get the pictures the satellite pictures I’ve never seen anything like it of the fields after these some of these battles it’s horrible that it’s going for nothing we would have never had this problem you would have never had that war if I were president I guarantee you that and for four years you didn’t have it
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Well, I tell you what, we just had a big technical glitch. Oh, the power went off. It’s haunted. Woo. Welcome back to the show or welcome to the show. Top of this first hour. So that’s POTUS. And POTUS is talking about the Russia deal and with Ukraine and whether or not they can end this conflict. And of course, there’s also we’ve got some news on the China tariff front as well. So welcome to the program. We’re going to dive into it. Dana Lash here with you. Anybody else notice this is apropos of absolutely nothing. But anybody notice that you can’t say China anymore without saying it like Trump says it. It’s China. You can’t say China like a normal person now. You got to say it like the way that Trump does. I’ve noticed this too. It’s funny. So he’s talking about the situation with Russia, whether or not they can get Russia to come to the table and make a deal with regards to leaving Ukraine alone. And does that mean that Ukraine is going to have to give up land? That’s what they’re all figuring out right now. In addition to that, And I wanted to pull this up as well. I’m not quite sure how to interpret this. The headline that there’s potentially that potentially the president might be. diverting away from the original strategy as it pertains to China. And I saw this coming from a couple of different places, including Charles Gasparino, who’s, you know, he’s a pretty well-respected financial guy. He’s a big Trump fan. But the discussion is that the admin was looking at a way To mitigate some of that, the hurt that people have been feeling with China and the apparently they’re actively discussing tariffs. China has asked for Trump to just cancel all of the tariffs outright. If they if he expects to sit down and have any kind of discussion. In fact, the BBC, their latest headline. And of course, whenever someone from I love it, whenever they say, well, you know, sources within China, it’s the CCP. China tells Trump, if you want trade talks, cancel tariffs. They said there’s been no serious discussions yet, which which they’re trying to undercut claims from the Trump administration by saying that there’s no serious discussions yet. This the president was saying that the taxes. that he has so far imposed on Chinese imports would come down substantially, but it’s not going to be to zero because right now we’ve got 145% tariff on Chinese goods versus the 125, the response that China has on American products. And the Commerce Ministry was saying that the U.S. should remove all unilateral tariff measures if they really want to solve the issues. He goes, the person who tied the bell must untie it. Well, you tied it. You did this. This is the difficult spot that we find ourselves in because there are a lot of business. I know I have friends who are business owners. This is the reality of of manufacturing. Everybody wants to do stuff made in the USA, but the US doesn’t do everything that people need in order to have their businesses run. That’s just the uncomfortable truth. I know a lot of people who go out of their way to try to to resource it, to source it from places like Vietnam or Taiwan, etc., But China has been been able to has been allowed to grow this and do this for so long and establish such control, such a monopoly that it’s really difficult. There are a lot of businesses that are reeling from this. And it’s usually like smaller. It’s smaller businesses almost always. I have a friend, like I said, who has a business and they. Technically, they’re all the productions in the U.S., but they have to get inputs from China. And that’s the unfortunate truth of it. Nobody wants to do it, but they’re not able to actually source that here in the U.S. And believe me, they tried. The closest they came was something like what they needed, but it was three times the cost. Now, for all the people who say, oh, well, don’t buy it. Don’t have anything made in China. You have to buy U.S. made. None of those people buy it. They won’t pay the higher price. That’s why China has such control over everything, because people say one thing, but then they don’t do it. And I don’t blame them because have you seen? I mean, the economy is still trying to claw its way back. They can’t afford it. So, you know, there’s there’s the rub there. So this all we’re going to see how this pans out. But that’s kind of I don’t know. That’s it’s tricky for the administration. The way it’s been described by some of the detractors is that he’s looking for an offering. Gasparino said a face saving move. I don’t know if we’re at the point where he needs to be. And he’s not like a Trump critic, really. I mean, he’s a big fan of the administration. And he’s not the only one saying that. I have a couple of other friends that work in economics that are major Trump fans. They were waffling a little bit on the tariffs just because they did tariffs first without tax cuts. That’s their seriously only criticism. But with this, it’s kind of… You know, if maybe it’s the administration trying to fake out China, could be, you know, we’ll have to wait and see. But I don’t know how long some of these businesses can wait and see. I know. What do they say? Norway is expected at the White House today to discuss a trade deal. But so far, we don’t have enough deals getting made. And we have to have more of them being made. It has to happen and it has to happen soon before midterms kick into gear. And I think that meeting with some of these European countries, Italy and others, especially when we’ve been trying to chip away at Russia’s dominance with regards to supplying energy to our allies over there. It’s been so far. I think it’s I mean, it’s good to meet, but they got to get these deals finalized. Also on deck for today. a couple of other things, as it pertains to the economic agenda. So I am so happy to see this headline. This made my little heart sing. The president apparently has now rejected a proposal floating around amongst congressional Republicans to raise taxes to pay for his, quote, big, beautiful agenda package. The New York Post reports that Republicans So far, we’re dangling the possibility of murdering themselves. One of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard, murdering themselves, the establishing a 40 percent tax rate on people who earn a million dollars a year. Currently, it’s 37 percent. I think if Republicans raise taxes, I hope they I hope they fall out of power and are destroyed as a party and that something actually constitutional takes their place. I I mean, I they raise taxes. I’ll never vote for another Republican again. Let the country go to hell. I’m done. I’m not kidding. This is so asinine. Of course, I’m a little sour because everything they did to us in Texas just recently. But a 40 percent, so 40 percent of your earnings would go. Now, people who say, oh, well, I don’t make a million dollars. You know who does make a million dollars a year? Those small businesses that provide are the engine of the economy and provide most of you your jobs. Oh, yeah, they’re going to get smacked. There’s such an economic illiteracy. And sadly, it’s it’s some of the Republicans that are in D.C. are some of the stupidest people I’ve ever seen. they need to have a math test in addition to a literacy test for some of these lawmakers to get in there. Audio soundbite two. Trump is exactly right here. This is one of the best things he said in his administration. Listen.
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And then secondly, would you support a millionaire tax?
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I think it would be very disruptive because a lot of the millionaires would leave the country. You know, the old days they left states, they go from one state to the other. Now with transportation so quick and so easy, they leave countries. You’ll lose a lot of money if you do that. And other countries that have done it have lost a lot of people. They lose their wealthy people. That would be bad because the wealthy people pay the tax, okay?
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He is exactly right. I’m so glad that he slapped these people down that were proposing this. I can’t even tell you. I mean, oh my gosh. Because, so, I mean, anybody who runs a small business, you guys know this. Or, even if you don’t even have to run a small business, why the hell should you give 40% of your income, no matter what you pay, to the government? For what? For them to spend it on studying why dudes sleep with dudes? Oh, by the way, that’s a headline coming up. Yeah, we were paying for that. You guys didn’t know that? What? Yeah, we studied gay sex. With dudes. What? Literally not kidding. Or exaggerating. To find out what? I don’t know the answer to that question.
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What science did we uncover?
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Yeah, that one I’m not really quite sure of why we did. I mean, that’s just like one of the… I mean, that’s one of the things… That that we spent. This is how we pull this out. This is Washington Examiner. Oh, my gosh. You’re going to get so mad, Kane. I’m sorry. Sorry, everybody out there to do this to you. So during his four years in office with Biden, his administration approved six hundred million dollars in grants and the grants. Their descriptions, quote. Again, I’m not Dora the Explorer, guys. Do not have me entertained. Don’t make me screen time entertainment for your babies.
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It’s news.
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But it’s news. This is literally exactly how it’s described. Quote, men who have sex with men, according to the… This is the examiner’s review. They exclusively got the grant records. $600 million in grants. We spent $600 million, over a half a billion dollars, studying… men and gay sex i am literally not exaggerating that is what we did and the benefit to society after all that is um i don’t know what exactly we’re 600 million dollars lighter I don’t know. I really don’t know. So the fact that POTUS slammed this down, my heart sank. I was so excited because I’m not happy. Now, this also, a couple of things, and I’m going to talk about this coming up at the bottom of the hour. There’s more on this because now Mike Johnson was defending paying people to have kids. And it makes me think that these are these rhinos that are proposing these policy ideas to him, because I’ve never heard Trump talk about stuff like that. And he doesn’t really have a great historically because he’s been on my show. I’ve known him for over 10 years and he’s been on my show before some of the grifters in his periphery began spilling poison in his ear. And we’ve known him for a long time. But he actually I mean, we’ve talked about it before. And he’s not a fan of of entitlement. in the welfare scheme. He’s not at all. That’s why I believe that it’s these people that are in his periphery that are pitching this stuff to him just like this. So I’m super excited about that. We’re going to talk more about what Mike Johnson was defending here coming up. Also, real quick, Let me roll down this. Oh, the latest with students being targeted at college campuses. Oh, boy. It’s ramping up because the temperature is getting warmer. And a Southern California mayor says he wants to purge the homeless by giving them all fentanyl. Yeah. Wait. We got that coming. If you’re navigating restrictive gun laws, the Burna gun is a great addition to diversifying your self-defense plan. It’s like having another tool in your kit. You know, you carry knives, you carry different calibers. There are times when you cannot carry your firearm and you still need to be ready. It’s compact, easy to use, and a deterrence against threats. The Burna gun isn’t a replacement. It’s an option that you’ll be glad to have and backed by 22,000 five-star reviews. It’s illegal in all 50 states. You don’t need a permit to own one. There’s no waiting period, and Burna can ship directly to your door. The Burna Gun is a good choice for diversifying your self-defense array. For those times when you’re barred from carrying, you deserve an alternative to protect yourself that’s always at the ready. Burna Gun fits that bill. Your safety won’t wait, and neither should you. Explore your self-defense options. Act today and visit Burna.com slash Dana. That’s B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana to get 10% off your purchase.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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All right, first up. Apparently, they’re trying to dim the sun over in Britain. Yeah, so this is from, I don’t know. I guess you can. I mean, this is, I saw a joke about this the other day and I thought it was, I thought this story, I’ve ignored it because I thought it was fake and it’s not. So they’re doing, they say it’s for climate change, that they’re trying to help the earth for climate change. That’s the whole, that’s the thing. So they’re wanting to dim the sun, dim the sun, and their experiments to fight global warming. And in Britain, they’re going to get the go-ahead in weeks. So, they’re going to screw with the environment to stop humans from screwing with the environment? What? It doesn’t make any sense. But that’s, you know, it’s Britain, and they’re run by socialists. So, I don’t know. Think what you will. A single psychedelic dose shows a cognitive boost lasting weeks. What do you mean by, like, psychedelic? Is that, like… Like hippie stuff? Like acid and mushrooms and all that? Yeah, pretty much. Listening to me talk about drugs is legit. It’s worse than listening to Biden talk about guns.
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I have no idea what I’m talking about drugs. I just know like, you know, I know what some of my family members grow out in the woods in southern Missouri. And I know, I’m joking. Or am I? And I also, you know, I know what, you know, the hippies have done, right? I mean, I watched Dazed and Confused just like everybody else when I was growing up. So they said that long lasting effects suggests psychedelics promote meaningful, enduring changes in brain plasticity and they can treat depression, PTSD and Alzheimer’s. This isn’t actually anything new. I have a really good friend, actually a group of very good friends who are combat veterans who they tried. They were tired of all of the side effects from heavy prescription medication to deal with. with after they came back from combat and they did psychedelics under doctor’s guidance and it just changed their lives. It absolutely changed their lives. China is planning a nuclear power plant on the moon. Unfortunately, all of their stuff is made in China, so they’ll never get there. So we have a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It’s stuff like this that’s made me take action and why I’ve bought precious metals like gold and silver. I partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They’re a huge supporter of this show, and they’re the best at what they do. And right now, you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. It was a huge help, not just for me, but to all of you if you do this. And for my audience, you could also qualify for up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver. It’s a really great deal. So don’t miss out. Visit DanaLikesGold.com to learn more. That’s DanaLikesGold.com.
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But look, this is life and death for the House Republican Party, because they have to have a strong economy in 2026 if they’re going to have a chance to keep their majority. If we have a bad economy next year, Republicans will not keep the House. So the Senate doesn’t feel the same pressure, which is unfortunate. But I think from the standpoint of President Trump, it’s very clear that he has to have a Republican House and Senate If he’s going to make the last two years of his term successful.
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Get it, Newt. Sing it. Former Speaker. He gets it. He gets it better than any other Republican right now. He does. He does. He came around during the Tea Party days. I told you guys this. We went round and round over New York’s 23rd Congressional District. But he was like, you know what? I think there’s value with the grassroots here. And I get what they’re trying to do. He was the first and only Republican for like a year. I’m not kidding you. That actually sat at the table with us. grassroots because we were out there primary literally everybody you blinked you blinked wrong at the Constitution we’re going to primary you it was crazy I don’t think we’ve I don’t think I slept there for like two years but when he came to the table and sat down And started talking to everybody. I mean, he really was. I have a lot of respect for him for that. He was very genuine about it. He gets it now. And I’m telling you, he’s warning you. He is warning the GOP. You better get it together. I know I kind of sound like a broken record. But I want to keep it in the forefront of your mind. Because I don’t want everything that everybody went through for the past eight years to be for nothing. You know, you get called names, people punching the face. If you wear a red hat, you are your integrity is impugned. All these false stories about people, people getting doxxed, all this stuff. I don’t want it to have been for nothing and for everybody to have lost it because Republicans just can’t get it together on the economy right now. And the reason for that is because you do have some big spending Republicans. You got some Bush League Republicans in there. Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. What do I mean by that? Well, I was very excited when Trump, and I mentioned this last hour, smacked down that stupid millionaire tax that some of the other rhinos were floating. It is rhino. It’s absolutely Republican in name only. I mean, that’s something that’s not up for debate. This is literally Bush League stuff. And so this plan, I’m so glad that he that he that he shut it down uh soured on that millionaire tax and he said no you get people to leave the country and he’s absolutely right now i hope that he has the same response to the welfare plan now i saw this last night so it’s back in the news and it has to do because mike johnson was talking about it right so mike johnson you know speaker of the house After it was announced that POTUS was mulling over this idea to pay $5,000 to mothers so they would have more babies as a way of combating the declining birth rate, Mike Johnson also went out and talked about this. And if you get my newsletter, you got this this morning. The view had brought it up. Now, let me start with this and then we’re going to lead you full circle. The view first brought it up on their program and the view actually said it was absurd. Now, the view would love it if Biden had brought it up. You know this. They would have loved it if Biden had brought this up. They would have loved it. So they said, oh, well, the administration, the idea. Now, again, it’s all been speculative. Trump has not said anything about it himself. But I sure as hell can name you five Republicans, including three commenters, one of them a podcaster who has. And I’ve sidebar. I one of these podcasters, I went on their program and debated this issue and they never aired the episode. That tells you everything. So the view they talked about this and they said, oh, well, it’s they’re trying to get a new baby boom. And Whoopi Goldberg said that she was insulted because clearly they don’t know the cost to raise a child, et cetera. And they said they don’t seem concerned about the increase or, you know, all of this stuff. And Mike Johnson was asked about this yesterday after we were off air. By the Hill. And he blasted it. He said, well, it’s the view is an absurd program. He said every creative idea that the president in this White House have come up with, they pan immediately no matter what merit it may have. True. But this idea literally has no merit and they’re not coming at it. Their criticism isn’t coming at it from a conservative perspective. They’re coming at it from a tribalist. I hate Trump perspective. That’s how they view it. And he added. He added this. He said, quote, We are the Republican Party. We are pro-family. We’ve always been. OK, let’s discuss this. I’ve heard a lot of people on the right make the same argument. It begs the question that expanding welfare itself is pro-family. That’s how you correctly use beg the question. You’re not posing the question. You’re assuming that the result is true because the premise is also true, and that’s not the case here. Now, this all has to do with this $5,000 grant or $5,000 in just cash they want to give that has been floated around to pay women to have babies, right? That’s welfare. We have that. It’s welfare. And it’s similar to what Viktor Orban did in Hungary, which didn’t work. I’ll get to that in a moment. But it’s welfare. If you reduce the tax burden, if you reduce government spending, if you deregulate, you do not have to do this. The bottom 50% of Americans, as I said yesterday, they pay an average of $822. That’s from the latest IRS data. Unless you’re only returning $5,000 taxpayer dollars to people who paid $5,000 into the system or more, this is wealth redistribution. We blasted this exact same formula under Obama-Biden. If the average 50% and under taxpayer pays $822, where does the $4,178 come from for their child payment? You. Me. That’s exactly what it is. Now, these are the arguments that I’ve heard. Oh, well, relax. They can implement it as a tax credit. Do you know what a tax credit is? Because that’s not what a tax credit is. Based on what income? Again, if the average amount that the bottom 50% pays is $822, how do you get a $4,178 credit that same year? That is not how tax credits work. To Mike Johnson’s argument, oh, but we’re the pro-family party. Again, it begs the question that expanding welfare itself is pro-family. So the only way that you can think that you’re the pro-family party by expanding welfare is because you think welfare works. I want you all to take a look around our United States of America. We’ve done welfare for how many years, Cain? Has it worked? Welfare does the opposite of pro-family. It is the opposite of pro-family. Why? Because welfare makes the American family codependent upon the government instead of independent of it. Big difference. So how is that pro-family? How is it pro-family to make the government part of your family? Why isn’t it also pro-family to eliminate or reduce taxes? Why is it not pro-family to deregulate? Why is it not also pro-family to cut government spending? These rhinos want you to assume the burden by surrendering your family’s independence to the government so they don’t have to cut spending. This defense that I hear, oh, it’s a pro-family, it outsources godly stewardship to the state also, while giving the government a total free pass for expanding itself and burdening other families. It’s a veneer. It’s a veneer that hides the further diminishment of the family unit through dependency upon the state. Well, the other argument I hear, well, we should want people to have more children under any circumstances. regardless of whether or not the parents or mother and father can afford them. That is a cheap sentiment that is betrayed by the callousness of turning children into commodities. It’s shameful. It’s wealth redistribution. Oh, here’s the big argument that I see. Well, Hungary did it and it worked. I’ve heard people talk about this. When I went on that one podcast or show, they used Hungary as an example. And I’m like, wait a It didn’t. And again, if you get the Substack, my newsletter, you got all the receipts on this. Hungary’s total fertility rate rose slightly after they implemented and they were paying their people a lot. It rose slightly from 1.23 in 2011 to 1.59 from 21 to 22. These were after the payments for them to have babies, but it started declining again. to 1.36 by 2024. Their original goal was 2.1, talking about the total fertility rate, kids per family. That’s far below the 2.1 rate that they wanted, and the decline is still trending. Now, why is this? It’s like they didn’t bother looking into the reasons why people weren’t having kids. The number one cited reason for women, for families in Hungary, was the economy. It was inflation and economic stability. There is a micro trend amongst younger women to stay child free. But then when you break down the reasons why they wanted to stay child free, it also has to do with the economy. So it’s the economy in total. That’s why. And when you don’t do anything about the economy and you just spin, spin, spin, guess what? You exacerbate the problem and you make it worse, which is exactly what Hungary did. Now, some people say, oh, just chill out. Trump is pitching ideas. Well, I actually don’t think that he’s pitching them. I think that people are pitching them to him like that millionaire tax that he swatted down. So it’s only been as reported. So I would be careful with that. However, I thought the purpose of elected leaders, everybody. The purpose of elected leaders proposing ideas was for the voters who elected them to provide feedback to said ideas, right? I mean, that’s part of what our republic is and our free society that incorporates democratic processes, yes? So I suppose the people who propose this, they just want everybody to stay silent until after the proposal becomes law. Like at which point is it considered acceptable to actually voice concern about publicly discussed policy? You know, Obamacare was just once a pitched idea, too. I mean, this whole thing, I told you the story about Davy Crockett yesterday. It’s not yours to give. So how do you make it more that that comes into play? It’s not yours to give. How do you make it more attractive for families to have children? I think for starters, you don’t just target mothers with this payment at the expense of dads because it reinforces the progressive argument that fathers are irrelevant and replaceable. Second, you cut taxes. It would even be better to abolish the income tax outright in the IRS, but there’s not enough people at balls in D.C. to do that. got to reduce taxes, you got to cut government spending. It is asinine to think that paying women $5,000 to have babies is good for the economy when it’s a multi-billion dollar taxpayer drain. And lastly, deregulate. Make us an energy powerhouse, which POTUS has already taken steps in doing. Reduce corporate taxes because it is insane that our corporate tax rate, which also dictates business climate, is higher than that of China’s. You’ve got to make the country a business-friendly place because that’s how you actually finish making America great again. We’ve got a headlines on the way as we move our partners that help bring you the program. It’s our friends at Tax Network USA. We’ve it’s the month of the government theft organization. Yeah, it’s extortion, but it’s, you know, it’s legal in this case. IRS, biggest collection agency in the world. If you owe back taxes, if you have unfiled returns. Do not, do not wait for them to come to you. You need to reach out, but don’t do it alone. Turn to the folks at Tax Network USA. 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Go on.
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What kind of throw was that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Was it a throw?
SPEAKER 13 :
Is it a toss?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think it was an arm fling that had a ball at the end of it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Was it a shrug? I mean, I’ve dropped things with more energy than that. I don’t understand what that was. That was the saddest little ad I’ve ever seen. I mean, if you’re going to do it, go all out and do it, right? Don’t half bake it. Go all out. That was so sad. That was sad.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s like if you went out and did a video all about sports. You’re just all about sports.
SPEAKER 13 :
No one wants me to commentate on sports.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s just so funny to watch him. Look at my athleticism, guys.
SPEAKER 13 :
Look at my athleticism. I can barely lift my bingo wings up to fling this picture. Yeah, vote for me. I couldn’t vote for a man that throws like a girl. Couldn’t do it. There’s just something wrong with that. You know what I mean? It’s like, I don’t know if I could vote for somebody that misses a high five. It’s just like that. It’s like little things, right? Do you have a list of things that would just stand in your way of actually supporting someone that have nothing to do with policy? I do. Like, if they have bad hygiene, I can’t. Like, if you look dirty, I’m not going to vote for you. That’s just gross. It’s gross. Like, if you can’t take care of yourself, you can’t take care of anything else. Just, like, little things, you know? Like, if your car’s dirty, and the inside, if you have a messy, nasty car, I could never vote for you. It’s gross. That’s just, like, little… You know what I’m saying? 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From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free. Palestine will be free.
SPEAKER 13 :
They’re at Yale and they’re screaming. These Jewish students are attending a lecture and all of these terrorists are outside screaming at them. Yes, they are terrorists because of what they were just yelling. When you are saying from the river to the sea, you’re talking about the eradication of Israel. That’s what that means. And if people don’t know that that’s what that means, maybe they should remove head from butt before chanting it. Everybody out there with their picnic blankets in the street. Stop it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. What gets me is that this is okay to the left, but do you remember that Nick Sandman kid? What’d that kid do when he was in D.C.? You guys remember this? Let me take you back for a minute. You remember that Nick Sandman kid, that teenager? He was on a field trip with his class, and they were in D.C., and there’s always protesters in the Capitol, like all the time. You can go to the National Mall Any day of the week, and you will come across a ton of different protesters for a ton of different issues because everybody likes to go there and protest. I can’t tell you how many protests I’ve spoken at and have attended and have covered in the National Mall. Right, Kane? I mean, any day. It’s not just, it’s not, there’s always protests there. And so there were, who did you, you had what, the black Israelite activist group? Right. That were protesting. And then you had this American Indian that was protesting and he has a very interesting background. He’s kind of a jack wagon. And these adults were screaming in these teenage kids faces as they were waiting for their little bus to come pick them up and take them back to their hotel after their field trip. And all he did, he was very composed and all he did was smile. And half the country lost their minds. He had the most gracious response of a young man I have ever seen in my life. And half the country lost their minds. So that so that was bad. But this is OK. What you’re seeing at Yale. How many of those people that are out there screaming from the river to the sea have even actually been to Israel or Gaza? My guess is not many. The progressive youth can be some of the dumbest people ever. Look at, what is it, that hog farmer that’s over at David Hogg that’s over at the DNC. They had the chair, by the way, of the DNC reach out and smack him. David Hogg is so out of his league. He actually thinks that you can be in the DNC and then also play favorites in a primary. People who aren’t even in politics know that that’s not what the DNC or even the RNC does. They don’t get involved in primaries because they’re there to elect Republicans and Democrats, not diminish Republicans and Democrats. He has no idea what he’s doing. It’s so far out of his depth. They after Parkland happened. And I read reports that he wasn’t even there when the shooting took place. And I know that some of the fathers of some of the victims are very angry because they felt that he leveraged it to sort of advance himself without, you know, and did nothing to help. I mean, just horrible to everybody. But they had that PR firm that Anita Dunn works at that was there the next day coaching their gun control group of activist teens and all of that. That’s a fact. I mean, they were there when I did the town hall. They were there backstage at the town hall. I thought it was all weird. But I digress. If you’re standing outside of a college campus screaming at Jewish students just because they’re just walking to a lecture, what is your damage? Everybody out there with their… their little bullhorns and screaming. That’s not the only, I mean, they’ve been doing it again at Harvard, Yale, others. And I don’t know for the life of me why these universities don’t find the value in making sure that all of their students feel safe. You have the Harvard president who’s upset. They don’t like, they want to be able to get our taxpayer dollars and then do whatever they want. Audio soundbite nine, listen.
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What they are indicating is that they want to directly review who we hire on our faculty. That has implications for what kinds of views can be expressed on campus.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow, you know what’s so crazy?
SPEAKER 03 :
They also want to be able to tell us who we need to fire. And they also want to intervene in our admissions processes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow. You know what’s crazy about the implication of that is when you take taxpayer dollars, yes, we can tell you that. If you take my money, I absolutely am going to get in your face and I’m going to tell you how to live your life. I exert control over where my dollars go. Oh, you better well believe it. I have every right to march up in there and demand to see the investment of my stolen dollars to your glorified welfare grifting backsides. Absolutely. You got a $53 billion endowment. I think all Harvard’s federal funding should be stripped. I think federal funding to all of these universities should be stripped. The biggest problem was when you had the government that got involved in loans and making the loans. Of course, they did that back in what was it, 2010? Yeah. All these damn Democrats, they all voted for it unanimously. They wanted the federal government to be in charge of handing out student loans. That’s what they did. They coalesced everything at federal control. And guess what? Prices exploded. Well, yeah. You got a guaranteed stream of income. You’re going to ask for whatever you want. What does cause and effect mean? How does cause and effect work? I don’t know. It’s just mind boggling. So yeah, when our federal dollars go there, we have every right to demand, okay, what is this being spent on? Who are you hiring? Of course it is. Now, like I said, I think all of them should be. The places where these protests are the worst have the biggest endowments, Cain. 53 billion for Harvard. What is it like? Almost that for Yale. Columbia. I was looking at, I mean, billions of dollars in endowments. Why do they need taxpayer dollars? If you don’t take taxpayer money, do what you want. You know, you can be as you can be as not to fight as you want to be. I mean, you know, within reason. If you if you want to be a big, giant, flaming Nazi with your private money, you can go ahead and you can fly that freak flag and we’ll all avoid you. But if you’re demanding to take our dollars, then we’re going to be all up in your business telling you to stop being a scum of the earth Nazi. How about that? And yes, that’s what I mean. All of these people out there screaming that that’s what they’re they were screaming for genocide. That’s what that chant is. It’s a chant for genocide. So, yeah, they’re terrorists. There’s no delineation here. You had the majority of people in this area that voted for Hamas. Yeah, you are who you vote for. You’re damn right. If you have a problem with that, then maybe stop voting for terrorists. Super simple. Now, can I tell you about this situation with J.B. Pritzker? This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. He actually he wants to run for president. He thinks that he can. He needs to have a glow up before he does that. He announced that the state is going to take punitive actions, get this, the state of Illinois is going to take punitive actions against El Salvador for holding one of their own El Salvadoran citizens in their custody. What? His statement? Quote, The United States Constitution guarantees due process. We are witnessing Donald Trump erode our fundamental constitutional rights in real time, and we have to restore the balance of power. We’re going to do everything we can to stop the Trump administration from ripping apart our most basic rights. What do you mean, like being able to have national sovereignty? So now we have a Democrat governor. Is this a Hatch Act violation? We have a Democrat governor that wants to interfere in foreign countries’ affairs. and lobby on the behalf of incarcerated, confirmed, known, indisputable woman-beating gangbangers. Are you serious? Hey, Kane, you got family in Illinois. Is Illinois all better now? So he doesn’t have anything else to do, J.B. Pritzker?
SPEAKER 11 :
Illinois hasn’t been all better for quite a long time.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I mean, it must be if he’s going to try to now interfere. He thinks he’s governor of El Salvador, too.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the crazy thing is they have the highest, like one of the highest sales tax of any state in the union. It’s unbelievable.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, they absolutely do. But how is this not… Where’s the criticism from… I mean, this is… You can’t have a governor go down and try to intervene in another country’s affairs. You just… That’s not… You can’t do that. I mean, he is, but you can’t. You’re not supposed to do that. Trump administration pushed back. They said that it’s El Salvador that’s their right. They have the… They have the ability to do that. So Pritzker has asked the Illinois State Board of Investment and the retirement system, teachers retirement system to review any investment in companies controlled by El Salvador. OK, get back to us on that. He is a South Park skit. He is a walking South Park skit.
SPEAKER 11 :
Here’s the problem, though. It’s not even beneficial for companies to go to Illinois and do business. It’s not financially a positive thing for businesses. Already, Illinois is anti-business. So what are they going to do? Reject more businesses?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, good job with that, guys. Yeah, go ahead and go do that. Good job. I agree with you. He’s trying to make, this is his sloppy, fatty way of trying to barge into global affairs and put his name on a national level. That’s what he’s trying to do because he wants to run in 2028. Okay, can you imagine this primary? You’re going to have Newsom. You’re going to have Klobuchar. You’re going to have Big Gretch. Maybe not Klobuchar. You’re going to have Newsom. Josh Shapiro, Big Gretch, Big J.B. Pritzker, maybe Andy Beshear, Wes Moore. Those are all the people that are going to be running in the primary for Democrats coming up in 2028. They’re going to need two podiums for J.B. Pritzker. Dana, you shouldn’t make. I’m doing it anyway. Get over it. This guy has come at good people. He’s come after good people, pro-life people. The guy’s gone after nuns for crying out loud. Like, no, I’m not going to. I’m not going to stop. And now you’re trying to position himself as an instigator in another country’s affairs. That’s just… Didn’t they try to go at Trump over that? Just saying. Just saying. So that’s his way, I guess, of elevating his name. There’s more on that Florida man story we had yesterday where we talked about this guy that tackled this girl because he thought she was egging his house. Well, more information now. My whole point was, if my whole point first off was, yeah, you know, if you’re a kid and you’re caught egging somebody’s house, can I tell you a story? When I was a, I shouldn’t tell this. My mom already knows it. So when I was a little kid, we lived in Festus, Missouri. And it was me and my mom. And I got into a fight with a neighbor kid. And I thought, I mean, he was a nice kid, but I thought he was kind of soft. A little light and loafer, but nice kid. And he ran back to his house. And our house was up. We lived on a hill. And all of the houses were like, you know, on a gradient on a hill. And so we had a retaining wall that separated our backyard. And you would go over the retaining wall. It’s kind of dangerous. And you would drop down like, you know, five feet or whatever into their driveway. And then that was their house. And he went over and dropped down. We got mad and I yelled at him and he went and told his mom. And his mom looked at me through the kitchen window because I could see her from my backyard. She was watching dishes. And I don’t know what I don’t know what got into me. I was you know, I I deserve what happened. I flicked her off. Right. I’m going to tell you something. I. You know how you think that animals in the wild don’t move as fast as they do and then you got a rhino charging you, right? You’ve seen all those Nat Geo things and everybody’s always shocked about how fast that rhino can go. I never thought a mother could move that fast in my life. This woman, I mean, I blinked and she wasn’t at the sink anymore. It was like a horror film. She popped up. I had no idea where she went. I literally looked around. She popped up over that wall. She had a flip-flop in one hand and she was coming to beat me to death. I deserved it. I started screaming like I was getting burnt. My mom comes outside and my mom, you know, I was like, my mom’s going to defend me. And then the neighbor told my mom what I did. And then I have both of them mad at me. And I’m like, oh, my gosh, it’s like a horror film times two. It’s like Annabelle. But there’s two Annabelle’s. It’s terrifying. Oh, I got beat. Oh, I got if you think that flip flops don’t hurt. I am here to testify that, yes, they do. If a mom wields them. Oh, my gosh. I deserved it. So I’m like, well, if she was egging somebody’s house, then, yeah, I probably would have gone out there. And, you know, if she’s on my property, I don’t know if I would have tackled her. But what gets me is that there was a witness there that was recording it. And I’m like, if I also if I was a saw a grown man tackling a girl. Yeah, I don’t. probably shot him to save the girl i wouldn’t know what was happening uh goodness you know i mean you want to go protect the kid i said probably not definitely uh variables but so it turns out the reason she was on his porch cane is she was selling candy oh there it is oh this dude’s gonna get dragged and if you can’t tell the difference there’s another video that appeared that was released last night and she had a candy bag you didn’t see it in the original video Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 11 :
Can you imagine how this girl feels now about every time she does maybe in the Girl Scouts or something for church?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
She’s going to be a little lucky.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I get it that he had a new baby at home and that his house has been targeted. I get that. But dude, come on. We got a lot more on the way as we roll towards the bottom of this hour. We got headlines coming up. I’ve said for years now that our media is just garbage. Legacy Press is garbage. How does the average person know if a news story, if the source is accurate or if it’s biased? Ground News can be a great solution for that. Ground News can show you the stories and the sources of the day and then they give you details about their sourcing. how reliable the reporting is and who owns them and keep you fully informed on any potential political or motivational leanings. So, for instance, you could use Ground News to read about the Trump administration suing the state of Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports. The Huffington Post said, quote, Trump’s newest political power grab is targeting Maine. The Toronto Sun said, quote, DOJ is to sue Maine over trans women competing in female sports. So same story, but two very different headlines. Is it a power grab by the president or is it in the hands of the DOJ? You can sign up for your Ground News account today and get access to the mobile app. the website, the browser extension, and exclusive newsletter so you can stay informed on the news and the bias. Visit groundnews.com slash Dana today to get 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan and get access to all of their news analysis and features. That’s groundnews.com slash Dana for 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan for a limited time only. Groundnews.com slash Dana for 40% off.
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And not only that, there was actually a discount or you didn’t have to pay a deposit on the fee. This is like how it works. I couldn’t believe it. So we didn’t know anything about the racial identity of the kids until they started to look.
SPEAKER 13 :
mixed race which they are um and like contending with like the hair thing is already like a thing and like lots of advice especially from like black parents i listened to this whole interview and he actually messed up and said that there was a discount for adopting black kids and then he kind of caught himself and was like well i meant you know like there’s no deposit oh my gosh And then he went on about, like, fixing hair and that. That’s just a weird… That’s a… What a… That is so weird. You know he wants to run. I forgot to include him when I was listing the names of Democrats that want to run in 2028. He’s one of them. Why? I don’t know. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Why? Why would he be? Nobody knows. It’s crazy. So… It’s just a total normal way of talking about starting a family, I guess. Yes, well, you know, we didn’t have to put a deposit down on these black kids that we got. So I’m really… The way that he talked about it, and I listened to the whole thing, and I feel like he recognized how callous it kind of sounded while he was discussing it, and then he was like, I need to shift this into sounding a little bit more like a human. But the way that he made them sound like commodities, like kids are commodities. I don’t know. He’s just not a good candidate. He’s not. He wasn’t a good mayor. And he wasn’t even a good secretary of transportation. He was horrible. He wasn’t even there half the time. Oh, my gosh. We’re at the bottom of the second hour. I’ve got some odds and ends to get to as well. And we’re also going to we got to talk about this red state rhino hunting thing. Actually, let’s do this first. Because it has been a hot mess. A hot mess in Texas. So yesterday we told you about the moves… in the Texas legislature to raise all of our taxes, right? Well, apparently now they’ve got a bill. It’s moving in the Senate. Less than 24 hours notice for the hearing that happened today. And it was in the Senate Business and Commerce Committee. And it’s basically like a Chinese social credit scoring system that’s in Texas. It’s Senate Bill 1460. Donna Campbell wants to have the Texas Ethics Commission And this is Texas scorecard. The she wants to allow Texas the Texas Ethics Commission. She wants to give them the unilateral power to put us on an ethics violation registry. So it targets like doctors and lawyers and realtors and carpenters and plumbers and anybody who requires a license to work. You could have your entire livelihood put under risk under Senate Bill 1460. Now, for what? Well, for instance, one of the cases that was brought up before the Senate was a case of a 71 year old woman and an 82 year old man. The Texas Ethics Commission was going after them because they had handmade yard signs on their lawns and it didn’t include the required disclaimer. What they were doing is not even political activity that you can regulate under the law. But the Texas Ethics Commission decided, no, we’re going to accuse you because you didn’t put a disclaimer on your handmade signs. We’re going to accuse you of breaking the law. And the fines can be, it’s up to their discretion. It’s pretty much unlimited. This woman, you know, she’s an elderly woman. She’s on a budget. So she had made her signs herself She was hit with a default judgment because she didn’t have a car to apparently drive her to her hearing in Austin and If you try to appeal I mean, they’ll lawfare you. They will lawfare you. So if Senate Bill 1460 passes, and again, Texas Scorecard had a real good write-up of this. You also had Tony McDonald with Tarrant County GOP. They you could be dragged in front of the. I mean, I am. This is wild. This is like and this is if you require a license to work, period, you’re going to be targeted with us. Be careful about your political expressions. Be careful about, you know, I this is this is a heinous idea. This is some of the stuff that they’re doing in Austin. This is some of the stuff they’re doing down there. I have no idea why she thinks that this is something that’s needed. I don’t I don’t get it. She’s from New Braunfels, Texas. So that’s a little south of where we are. I this is just a touch of what some of these people, these rhinos are trying to push in Texas’s state capital. Like, for instance, over at and Michael Sullivan noted this and he’s over at Texas Scorecard. The you have Burroughs who Justin Burroughs, who is speaker of the Texas House. He’s getting a lot of justified criticism. They’re pulling in. They got they pulled some pro-life legislation from the hearing schedule for some reason. And that caused the Planned Parenthood of Texas to go out and say, oh, that’s great. HB 2197 has been pulled. They’re not going to hear it. That’s great. I have no idea why a pro-life legislation was pulled. I don’t know. But par for the course. I think we’re going to start keeping a ledger of names of all the people that we talk about for these problems with red state rhino hunting. The other thing too is in Florida, you had, what’s his name? Alex Andrade. He’s the guy who got fired from being the attorney for the city of Milton. And he was pictured with a black eye after he reportedly got into a bar fight. He is a really short tempered dude. I mean, he doesn’t have a lot of, doesn’t have a lot of, apparently smarts or patients. He was on a little internet show where he was talking and he had, he was, it sounded like he was making fun of people with autism. And he was going after, and Drady’s mad because a lot of, I guess a lot of the stuff that he proposed, a lot of big spending has been, you know, rejected by the governor or other conservative, actual conservative lawmakers in the Republican legislature there in Florida. And he was joking because it came up that, oh, well, somebody said that Ron DeSantis must have Asperger’s. And it was like a joke. And he was like, well, you know, that’s what I’ve heard. And then he’s been all day on social media defending it. If you’re mocking Trump, This stuff, if you think it’s funny to weaponize Asperger’s, to weaponize autism and speculate about people and make a joke of it and use it against people because you’re mad that they are more conservative and successful than you are, you have a soul deficiency. That is it’s heinous. I’m not playing the video. It’s out there. I was floored when I saw that. Just so you know, he’s the guy who threatened to fight my husband and all this other stuff. I can’t believe this guy. People voted for him. He is like he sounds like a really vengeful, dangerous dude. Right. It’s just like he’s like he gives me the heebie jeebies. He really does. He’s like one of those people. If I was at a bar and Alex Andrade was at a bar, I would cover my drink. Actually, I wouldn’t be at a bar where he was, but I really would cover my drink if I was near him. I’m not kidding. He gives me that kind of vibe. He freaks me out. Anyway. So, moving on. Can we talk about one other bits and pieces? What did you do? Steve did this. I have to address it now. I feel like… Before you, you know, I’m not getting into like entertainment gossip or anything like that. I hate that stuff. But I do think that this is sort of symbolic of the grifter culture. That ginger who came over here and is trying to be Prince of Montecito. What’s his face? Hairy ginger. And then his wife, who was on that game show, she had like a D-list role on some Canadian sitcom. And I don’t know, was she on like one season? I don’t know. Nobody ever watched it. Nobody knew who she was until she started dating Despair, right, from the UK. So that Meghan Markle lady, she… She is doing a cooking show on Netflix and I’ve never seen… I only watched five seconds of it and I thought she was going to cut her wrist by trying to zest a lemon. This girl has never been in the kitchen in her life. She has no idea how to do basic things. You can look when somebody’s chopping up vegetables or if they’re doing basic things, you can tell if they’ve cooked or not. I mean, she was just like with the zester using this. You’re supposed… I was dying. I was like, she’s going to cut herself. Watching her put stuff in a hot pot and then having long hair hanging all over the food. It was just so gross. And so Audio Somebody 21, Steve wants to torture me. She didn’t make the Times list of cool people, but she did get invited there because her agency probably bought her access. I have to play this. This is one of the goofiest things ever. Palate cleanser. Go ahead, Steve. Kill us.
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all things to be talking about for Time 100. Let’s talk about flower sprinkles. But let’s, because I think it speaks to the tiny moments of joy that are so effortless and just create a little bit of magic that we’re all craving. What in the hell word salad is this? There’s many little flower petals that are dried. I started putting them on salads. I started putting them on scrambled eggs. It didn’t actually matter. On a yogurt parfait. I feel like she’s selling me a used car. The level of charm that you find people have when they see these tiny little dried petals is something I can’t fully wrap my head around, but I appreciate that there is a love for.
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People who have this sort of elocution are so incredibly fake. So I’m elevating it by putting dried flower petals on all of my food. And just, you know, it just came. It adds a little bit of magic. You know, it elevates things. Okay, let’s talk about… I’m going to be mean for a minute, and bear with me. You got that image, right, Juan? Mm-hmm. Let’s talk about the linen outfit. Sidebar. You’re going to… I had to… Look, I had to listen to J.B. Pritzker and read an article about J.B. Pritzker. You’re going to give me this. Okay. So first up, let me go into total chick mode. All my ladies out there are going to appreciate this. I get it that there’s this like beach casual aesthetic that permeates Californian culture. I think when you’re showing up to an awards event, linen is a great material. I love linen. It’s breathable. It doesn’t really matter if it’s sprinkled, but you don’t and it can be baggy, but not too baggy. Right. These pants, I want to burn them. When you’re short-waisted, you don’t wear high-waisted pants, and you don’t wear grandma’s drapes as trousers. It’s too long. It’s too wide-legged. It emphasizes the wrinkles. It drags the ground to the point where your pants are dirty. please dear heavens if you want to elevate something elevate your influence so that you don’t have to buy off the rack and designers will give you their stuff so you don’t have to walk out looking like a timu version of kate middleton please dear heavens okay i’m done i got it out of my system you were you had no idea what was happening there did you because you’re a man rightfully so nope You just can’t wear big baggy stuff like that. I mean, the jacket was baggy. The shirt was baggy. Everything can’t be baggy. Pick one thing. I don’t get it. But it’s just grifterism.
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She’s not on the list. Why was she there?
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Oh, because her agency probably bought her access. Probably Netflix. They’re desperate and promoting that boondoggle that they call a cooking show where she makes like somebody got like a chemical burns from her homemade salt scrub. I mean, it’s the stupidest stuff ever. People are broke and she’s like, let’s make candles. Shut up. Let’s like be able to afford eggs. Not everybody was lucky and had a daddy that worked in Hollywood that paid for your schooling and paid for you to have access to all of this. And then you consider marrying above your station to be female empowerment while also pretending to be duchess in a country that does not recognize nor give a rat’s ass for such titles. Spare me. Good heavens. She’s the one who chartered a private plane to fly down in Texas when they had the school shooting and have a camera crew videotape her laying flowers. And then she went back. A stunt. Unbelievable. All right. So we have more to come. I don’t like her. We have Florida Man on the way. And then Matt Mowers is going to be joining us later on. And then Steve also has graced us with some Dylan Mulvaney audio. Dylan Mulvaney, that dude, that twink, he wants to leave the U.S. Okay, bye. Go on now. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It’s stuff like this that’s made me take action and why I’ve bought precious metals like gold and silver. I’ve partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They’re a huge supporter of this show, and they’re the best at what they do. And right now, you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. It was a huge help, not just for me, but to all of you if you do this. And for my audience, you could also qualify for up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver. It’s a really great deal, so don’t miss out. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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Americans of every background should be elated that Elon Musk’s doge is finding millions of dollars of wasted taxpayer funds.
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The Doge team has found hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent spending. I mean, Social Security payments made to people who have been dead for a long time. Unemployment benefits being paid to people who aren’t born yet. To me, those things would be, I would imagine, celebrated pretty much universally.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions.
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It’s time for Florida Man.
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Well, well, well, a Florida USPS worker. This is probably why none of my packages ever get to my house and why it takes me. It literally takes a month to send a piece of mail from my house to St. Louis. I’m not even kidding you. That’s how long it takes. A USPS worker was arrested this month in Melbourne, Florida, because she decided to stop off at a house party during her route and drink a bunch of vodka. And then later in the mail truck, apparently she was caught driving the wrong way in traffic. Dude, that’s a probable cause affidavit via Click Orlando. Caitlin Dye, 33, was arrested on April 12th on a charge of DUI. They literally, Melbourne police, they called and said, yeah, there’s a USPS truck driving the wrong way down the highway. And the driver is literally just throwing plastic cups out of the vehicle. So the officers responded and they saw the mail truck driving west on East University Boulevard. And then it made a U-turn to head the other way and it was swerving in and out of its lane and then went back into the opposite lane. They pulled over the mail truck, and they said that Di appeared to be confused and disoriented. They did a field sobriety exercise, and of course she did not do well in those. They questioned her, and she said that she was delivering to a home, and she was invited inside for a party, and she took some vodka shots before she left, and then she got pulled over. So they asked her why she was swerving in and out of traffic, and she goes, oh, I was tired. I was taking a nap. And she said that she threw the cup out of the vehicle because she was swishing her mouth out with water so she wouldn’t smell like alcohol. She was booked in a Brevard County jail. I mean, there you go right there. Woo boy. Now we got another guy wrestling another gator every dang week in Florida. You can go wrestle a gator. So Jacksonville, Florida. Let’s see. During Easter dinner, they had to call a gator trapper. A family did in Jacksonville because there was a giant gator in their yard. A woman was getting ready to take her dog out when she noticed a seven-foot alligator right by the slide door of her patio. And she said she was just finishing up Easter dinner with family and she was she needed to get the alligator off the property. But she had to get some help. And that’s when Mike Dragich arrived and shoeless. And he wrestled this gator into a garbage can. And it’s actually hysterical looking because it kept popping up and hissing at everybody. It couldn’t get out of the can, but it kept popping up to hiss. And nobody got bit. Thankfully, they called Florida Fish and Wildlife and they were able to take the gator. But yeah, you got to be careful. I wouldn’t be able to let like my dogs out or well, we could probably kill one. Wick is hardcore. Wild raccoon attack. A Florida woman speaks out because she suffered one in her backyard. They’re not pets. She said as soon as she opened up her back door, it bit her on the leg. It was like Monty Python screaming and a crazy raccoon. And she couldn’t shake him off. And he chased her into a corner. And they had to call. She had to go to the emergency room. Animal control had to respond. Thankfully, the animal tested negative for rabies. But it was very aggressive. They had to relocate it. Man, crazy raccoons biting ladies’ legs in Florida. Stick with us, third hour on the way. Of course, our partners that help make this show possible. That’s our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. This is a great… entity it’s a great website any of your all your medications are covered over at all family pharmacy everything you want they got the ivermectin they got the hydroxychloroquine they got all of it all the stuff that remember when the system was trying to keep it from you therapeutics when they actually i took ivermectin and i’m telling you it helped me when i had covid I didn’t get a vaccine. I got the natural thing. And it really helped me. And of course, the system was trying to shut everybody’s access down to that. And it makes you wonder, well, what else are they trying to prevent you from getting to? That’s a whole other topic. Anyway, you don’t have to play by the system’s rules. All family pharmacy doesn’t either. It’s simple, fast and affordable. They can get you your stuff right to your front door in two to four days overnight in a pinch if you need it. They have maintenance medications, no fast shipping, no hassle, no gatekeepers. And everything is made in the USA. You don’t have to worry about where your stuff is manufactured. You don’t have to worry about quality and safety because it comes from the United States. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Be prepared. Protect yourself and your family today. Allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana10 to save 10%.
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Troops fighting in the unit that many of you will lead are capable, truly physically capable of doing what is necessary under fire. They need to be fit, not fat. Yeah. Sharp, not shabby. Yeah. Especially our leaders. Yeah. And that’s why we’re reviewing how the department has maintained standards in the past. Get it. Especially the last four years. Get it. And whether those standards have dropped.
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Formally or informally. Get it, SecDef Hegseth. You have to practice saying it that fast. Try saying it that fast. You can’t. You got to go real slow and build up to it, SecDef Hegseth. See, I just messed up. Look at that. SecDef Hegseth. You know who that was. Fit, not fat. You know people were just, you know the woke scolds were going, they were all sad that he said that, but thank heavens. Right? I want tough, fit, gonna go out there and crack some knuckles type folks i’m on military so they’re there what they’re there to do unleash their full potential that’s all we’re saying welcome back to the program top of this third hour it’s been a fast day top of this third hour and uh we are uh here at the The Dana Show. Matt Maurer is going to be joining us here in a little bit. I wanted to play this audio, too, from Ketanji Brown Jackson. Because they’ve been arguing, making their oral arguments before SCOTUS in this Maryland case, right? With parents that don’t want their kids to learn about nudie stuff when they’re in third grade. Seems right, right? I want you to listen to what she says here in this audio soundbite 18.
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And I guess I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with. You have a choice. You don’t have to send your kid to that school. You can put them in another situation.
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First off, that is such a disingenuous argument, and I can’t stand her vocal fry. This is such a disingenuous argument. You’re not burdening a parent’s religious exercise. That’s not what is at issue. What is at issue is whether or not young children should be exposed to sexually explicit age-inappropriate material. If you were to do this in any other setting, that might actually constitute something of an abusive nature. But somehow it’s supposed to be sanctified because it’s presented in a quote-unquote educational setting. I mean, I would like to know what educational value a second grader can garner from learning about pegging. Don’t Google it. Well, Cain, I mean, I need to make the point. Did you just do a Baptist face palm at me?
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You did. I don’t know if that’s what it looks like.
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But still, am I right? I’m right.
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Yeah, I mean, you are.
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I needed to illustrate that.
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Some truths are hard to hear.
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That’s right. Because as jarring as it is to hear, imagine how jarring it is when you’re a second grader and you open up a book at school and it features two dudes. Well… You get the idea. Or a girl who’s pretending to be a boy. And I don’t even want them learning about regular straight sex. I don’t even want them learning about that when they’re that young. That’s something for parents to determine. And it needs to be in the context that parents choose. You cannot just ambush little bitty kids with sexually explicit inappropriate material. That has nothing to do with religious exercise. That has nothing to do with whether or not a parent disagrees or agrees with it. It has to do with whether or not you think exposing children to sexually explicit material constitutes as a form of abuse, which I do. I mean, why are strangers so obsessed with showing kids pictures of people having sex? Because all of these books that are being discussed in this Maryland case, every one of them does that. If you were in a supermarket and some stranger was trying to show your kid pictures of people having sex, you would call the cops. So why is it any different without your permission in a school setting? That’s the whole point. That’s what we’re all asking. That’s the whole point. I mean, it’s an elementary school kids. I’m not exaggerating. These are little kids. Goodness. When I was a little kid, I thought that literally a stork brought children. A giant bird brought children. Yeah. Um, I don’t know when I stopped believing that, but I, I just remember when I was younger, that was the story. And that’s the kind of age that these kids are. And even older, like I still think even if it’s in junior high or high school, because these, these, these books that they’re talking about, they’re not educational books, they’re political expression. It’s not a book that talks about the, uh, you know, clinical attributes of this or that. It’s, it’s a book that it’s literally for the purpose of, uh, really glorifying not even glorifying that’s not the right word it’s like egregious sexual exploitation and they’re trying to pass it off as being educational to like first and second and third graders that’s it doesn’t matter where your politics are i think that everybody would be like yeah that’s really inappropriate for kids it’s inappropriate for junior high kids because here’s the other issue Not every educator is the same. And you might have some of the stuff presented to kids in a really inappropriate or inarticulate way. And I mean, with some of the stuff you’re playing, I mean, that’s just that’s not educational. And that’s brainwashing. And it’s just it has nothing to do with education. I don’t even understand. It doesn’t matter. Parents have the final say. I think parents have the final say all the way up until their kids are 18. Parents have the final say. So this is not an argument over battling people over material that they may agree or disagree with in a classroom. It is about whether or not you think that sexually explicit material is age appropriate for kids in school. Like explicit stuff. One of the books that was in the library down the road from us. I mean, it’s a junior high library. Showed oral sex. Graphic. multiple pages. And one of the pages, it was just that. Like someone actually drew it, shaded it in, you know, put all this in. It’s one full page showing just that. And a 13-year-old pulled it off the shelves. How is that educational? You tell me. That’s just, it’s just, it’s a sexual fetish and they’re demanding gratification at the expense of your children’s innocence. I think that if you’re pushing these books on kids, I don’t say this as a talking point. I don’t say this as a soundbite. I don’t say it to be intentionally provocative. I, with a thousand percent of my soul, believe that if you are pushing these this type of material on kids, I think that you might actually be a pedophile. Because only pedophiles do stuff like that. That’s how bad the stuff in these books is. It’s not even you can’t even say it’s a sophisticated graphic novel. I mean, there’s literally some adult drew pictures of children participating in oral sex and they put it in this book. I am not minors. I’m not kidding you. Again, you’re in the supermarket and somebody is like, hey, to your kid wants to show him nudie pictures. You would call the cops. But in school, it’s OK. And then because it’s school, they’re telling you you have no right to object to it. That’s insane. That has nothing to do with political disagreement. It had to do with religious disagreement. That is age inappropriate, period. So why are I mean, it is people aren’t wrong when they say, OK, groomer, because that’s exactly what this is. You’re you’re desensitizing people to the stuff. At that age. Why don’t you go ahead and sit him in front of a television and have him watch porn? Same thing. It’s literally the same thing. Why don’t you just bring in one of those TVs on the wheels and just show him some porn? I mean, you wouldn’t do that in school. Or you wouldn’t do that anywhere else. But that’s like the level of what they’re trying to do in school. It’s pornographic. And pornographic is, well, that’s like the least you could say about it. Yeah, if you set your kids in the living room and showed them porn, you would be arrested. Your kids would be taken away from you. You would be arrested. But they’re wanting to do just that in schools with young kids. That’s not a stretch. because I’ve looked at these books. I can’t even, in fact, I had, we had management send us an email saying we cannot show any of these images. And I can’t even describe them any more than I have for radio airwaves because I’ll get fined. Not kidding. And if we show the images on the digital stream, our videos will get taken down on YouTube because they file… They call it pornographic material. Literally. They call it pornographic material and they will pull your video down if you show images of books that they are putting in kids’ libraries. That’s how bad this stuff is. So you don’t even… I’ve seen some of it. And that’s why… I mean, I was left speechless and disgusted because… And I’ve listened to these parents, like some of the parents in Maryland. I mean, one of them was a one of their kids. They were it was a mother of a second grader. I was like, what purpose does this serve? You’re exploiting our children. It honestly, it’s a way to prey on kids. I just I can’t even believe we’re entertaining this as like serious discussion. It’s just it’s just crazy. Absolutely crazy. So a number of other things to hit because we’ve got Matt Mowers is going to be coming up a little bit. I wanted to tell you. Oh, I forgot to tell you this story. Southern California mayor says he he wants to purge the homeless by giving them all the fentanyl they want. OK, wait a minute. What? Lancaster mayor. And I’m pretty sure you don’t say Lancaster. It’s California. So probably Lancaster, right? Lancaster. Mayor Rex or R Rex Paris. What a name. You don’t get to have R and then Rex. Just pick one. He shared his views during a city council meeting. A resident took issue with the city’s attempt to address the homeless crisis by enclosing the homeless at an abandoned golf course near a residential neighborhood. Paris interrupted the comments and said, what I want to do is give them free fentanyl. He goes, I mean, that’s what I want to do. Give them all the fentanyl they want. And somebody told him, well, that’s not kind. He’s a Republican. He says he has no regrets. But he says that he was referring to homeless criminals who refused to be helped. Maybe not the best thing to say. He goes, they’re responsible for most of our robberies, our rapes, half our murders. I mean, I understand the concern about crime within homeless encampments because that’s a real thing. But at the same time, I just don’t think that that that doesn’t jive with the Bible. I got to tell you, I had given. Yeah, or the law. I mean, you’re supposed to be a good steward to people who are in need. And I think that some people who willingly choose to exploit the lack of need as a way to, you know, kind of grift. I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know. It just just is amazing to me. I just think that that’s not anywhere’s a hat and everything. He I don’t know. He said he had at one point said, I wish the president would give us a purge because we need to purge these people. He goes, is it harsh? Yes. He says it’s my obligation as the mayor to protect the families that live here. And it’s an untenable situation. I’m open to any solution. He wanted to also in 2018 ban neckties from the workplace. I just don’t think that Republicans need to make it easier for Democrats to try to unseat them. I don’t think that that was a necessary thing for him to say. I mean, it’s not a very biblical move. And I, you know, I mean, there’s and that’s not going to do it. That’s not going to take care of the issue because all of the conditions which created that problem are still there. That doesn’t that doesn’t solve any of the conditions that created the problem. In fact, it creates other problems and you’re just getting more fentanyl in. Like, really, we’re going to traffic in fentanyl. Come on, dude. There’s just better than that. Better than that. Also, we have this. I’m going to pull this up. I got a couple of things here. I don’t think I’m going to have time to get to it this segment, so I may have to save it. HBO is doing a Harry Potter series. And there’s a lot of issues because they’ve decided to recast. They’re casting some of these central characters. And there’s a little bit of an issue, not with the race, but because of how it works with the storyline. So apparently they, Severus Snape, who is this like pale black haired, you know, greasy looking dude. He’s going to be played by a black actor. And apparently, He looks exactly the opposite of Snape, who is described very particularly by J.K. Rowling as a thin man with pale skin and greasy shoulder length hair. Now, why does it matter? Why did all of that factor into the objection here? Because the Death Eaters are basically. I mean, they’re basically the Nazis of the story. They’re all about being pureblood. and looking a certain way. And you remove part of that moral decay from that character. And Severus Snape’s redemption was a huge part of the story. You also, in turn, undermine that redemption that redemptive arc there are other tons of black characters in harry potter i just don’t think that one that’s so integral and whose background played into his redemptive arc i don’t think that that’s one that you can mess with and our partners that help bring you the program it’s our friends over at home title lock home title lock it’s amazing how fast and how sophisticated and how quickly all of this this fraud can grow the speed at which it can grow When was the last time that you checked on your home’s title? I mean, that’s the legal proof that you own your house, and your house is your biggest investment. The problem in today’s cyber world is that scammers can steal home titles pretty easily, and your equity is the target. They can forge your signature on a document, and of course they got fake notary stamps. 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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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Five-minute EV charging is here, but not for U.S.-made cars, apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yeah, well, it’s not going to happen. It’s the cattle and the BYD rapid charging technologies underscore China’s dominance, they say. They stole everything. It’s a technological priority for Xi Jinping, though. Two of the world’s leading battery developers are locked in a technological race, and they’re trying to bring the charging time for an EV to five minutes. That’s about the same time it takes to fill up a gas vehicle. And I don’t know if that’s going to happen. I just don’t know if it’s going to happen. That’s a lot. And so now, and both of the people leading it, both of the entities leading it are Chinese. So see what I mean? That’s another reason why I’m just not with EVs. Crews have restored power to nearly all customers after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico. This, according from the Associated Press, power was restored to 90% of customers. This was towards the end of last week, some earlier this week, after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico earlier this week. They said 1.4 million customers, almost 1.5, had electricity less than 48 hours after they see the transmission of all of that, the company Luma Energy. And so everybody had their power restored, thankfully. So goodness, can you imagine? Especially like with it getting warmer and warmer. All right, we have more to come. A little short there, I apologize. But Matt Mowers with EU-US Forum joins us next. Can’t do it without the people who make it possible. And that is our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the nation with nationwide coverage you can trust and beyond. I’ve never had an issue. Even when I have gone internationally, I’ve never had an issue. And they fund the things that you vote for. To protect and by that I mean they help facilitate like for instance school board fights. They were instrumental in helping parents in my in my town come together and fight back and take over the school board after some pretty bad things happened. And you’re going to pay less. You have seamless switching 100% US based customer service team. Keep your number. Keep your phone upgrade. It’s never been easier to switch. and you can get a free month of service with promo code Dana. Visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Make that switch today and get yourself a free month of service with promo code Dana. That’s PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, 972-PATRIOT. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this third hour. And I was reading this piece in New York Times. European Union regulators said on Wednesday that Apple and Meta were the first companies to be penalized for violating a new law that they are looking to It’s intended to increase competition in the digital economy. Now, there’s new tensions now with the administration. They fined Apple 500 million euros, which is about half a billion dollars. Meta was fined 200 million euros because they said they broke the Digital Markets Act that was adopted in 2022. Basically, they’re trying to keep. these entities from using their influence, their their status as digital gatekeepers. So that so and they’re fighting against, I guess that they think it’s going to be a perceived monopoly. They’ve had some like weird, that’s like the just the tip of the iceberg. They’ve had weird relations, like particularly meta especially with some European nations, about content, about what should be banned, what shouldn’t be banned, things of that nature. On this and, of course, those trade deals, joining us now, Matt Mowers, founding board member of the EU-US Forum, and he is a former Trump administration State Department official. Matt, always good to see you. What do you make of this? Is this going to be a real headache between the Trump administration and the EU?
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. I mean, look, the Trump administration already came out and called out the European Union for doing this. And let’s say exactly what this is. This isn’t about trying to increase competition. This is about trying to stifle American companies and innovators. That’s all it’s about. If you look at the framework of the language that they passed out of Brussels in this digital markets legislation, what it does is essentially tries to create a framework that would only apply essentially to American companies because where’s the innovation coming out? The United States. Where are the ideas coming out of the United States? Where do the platforms exist? The United States. Europeans are wholly relying upon technology ideas and innovation coming out of the U.S. here because they’ve stifled so much of their own economy with the overregulation that they won’t. They now want to stop American innovators as well. And so this is nothing but the European Union trying to find a way to penalize American companies right now. And so we’re watching it closely at the EU-U.S. forum. And we know that the Trump administration is watching it closely because they’ve already come out and made a really strong statement on that.
SPEAKER 13 :
And that I mean, if you can’t I guess if you you can’t control it, then try to penalize it, I guess, is the next best thing. I mean, because I feel like this is the latest in the objections that they’ve had with Apple and Meta.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and look, we’ve seen this happen with the European Union on so many different issues, whether it’s those anti-free speech laws that they pass, where they’re cracking down on free speech and arresting you if you say something they disagree with. Whether it’s what you’re allowed to actually post online, they’re trying to regulate everything that ordinary individuals, individual citizens in the european union are able to say on any given day and now they’re actually trying to go after the companies which are providing the platforms to allow them to say them and and that’s exactly what this is and it the problem dana and i think we get this instinctively because we’re small government conservatives right but in the european union their mindset their elitist mentality is that if it’s idea that didn’t originate out of some sort of bland, boring, bureaucratic government office in Brussels, then it couldn’t possibly be an idea that’s good enough for their own people. That had to originate from some capital in a distant, faraway land. It couldn’t actually originate out of a hub of innovation or out of an entrepreneurial mindset. And so that’s what this is. It’s an ideological fight that’s happening right now. We’re seeing it play out across the board.
SPEAKER 13 :
We’re talking with Matt Mowers with the EU-US Forum. J.D. Vance has been traveling over. He gave a speech recently talking about climate change. He was in India, making some inroads, meeting the prime minister over there. I think, how is J.D. Vance perceived by the European Union? Because our media over here tells us that they hate his guts and they think he’s a horrible, crazy person. But it also seems like that’s not really, you know, the reception and the photos and some of the video I’ve seen, it doesn’t line up.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I mean, you talk to actual officials in Europe. If you get beyond the talking points, obviously, look, there is a cadre of folks who make a living out of Brussels who do not like what J.D. Vance has to say. Why? Because the ideas he’s promoting. free speech, open markets, lack of central control are the antithesis of everything that gives them control and power, right? So a lot of them don’t like them. But if you actually talk to the individual leaders in the countries, the ones that are actually responsive to their citizens every single day, they think it’s a breath of fresh air. They’re saying it’s about time someone’s willing to stand up and say that we need to get tough about our border control because we have too many illegal immigrants coming to our own countries, driving up crime rates that are putting in jeopardy the lives and livelihoods of our own citizens. that there are too many regulations coming out of Brussels that shut down family farming and are actually decreasing their stability of energy markets there by making countries more dependent on energy from Russia and technology from China, which doesn’t serve any of the people of Europe well and certainly doesn’t serve any benefit to the US-EU relationship. And so if you talk to the individual leaders in those countries, they think it’s welcomed that J.D. Vance is saying what he is. But if you’re a bureaucrat in Brussels, you’re probably not so thrilled.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, well, definitely. I mean, especially when he was telling them they need to wake up with regard to climate change. And I and they they bristle when he says this. But I mean, we’ve I mean, we’ve already woken up to this in the United States. It’s so interesting because in some respects, like I feel like, you know, in Europe, they reject more of the I guess. for the lack of a better way to put it, the woke trends and culture, I feel like they reject that. But yet at the same time, they embrace like climate change and wealth redistribution. And but even that now is falling out of favor, I feel like with the majority of voters in not just European countries, but the EU total.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, because it’s failing the citizens, right? It’s failing their own people these days, right? When you have environmental policies that make it impossible to actually increase your energy security or make it impossible to actually support your farmers in your own country that are providing the food for the people, that’s going to have such a detrimental impact on its own citizens that they’re saying, wait a second, these policies are failing us right now. When all of a sudden they have this kind of socialist economic system that isn’t making anyone wealthier, that isn’t actually lifting up anyone out of poverty, but all it’s doing is causing Europe’s economy to stagnate, especially those in the European Union. You want to see where the fastest growing economies are in the Eurozone? Many of them are outside of the European Union. They’re in Eastern and Central Europe. They’re places that aren’t beholden to what’s coming out of Brussels because they don’t have to respond to the whims of the bureaucrats in Brussels every single day. That could be the trend for all of Europe if they were to reject and turn back the page on these socialist ideas of wealth redistribution and the rest. But the problem is that would mean giving up political control. That would mean actually giving entrepreneurs and innovators the ability to provide for themselves and let their ideas flourish in the marketplace of ideas, something that is so anathema to anyone coming out of Brussels.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. So Italy was in last week. Maloney visiting with Trump talking about trade deals. Norway’s there today. I believe it’s Norway. That’s meeting with the president today to discuss trade deals. What what what do you anticipate happening with the with EU member nations and establishing these individual 70 some odd trade deals that we desperately need to get done quickly? The time is ticking on it. What are your thoughts on this? Are you optimistic that we’re going to be able to do these one on one, you know, and kind of like bring everything back to, you know, a little bit more of a reason position equal and actual open fair trade?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think we are in a lot of cases, right? In the cases of the individual countries that are able to negotiate, we will. And you’re seeing, I think it’s over 100 countries now that have reached out or in constant negotiations, whether it’s with the U.S. Trade Rep’s Office, Department of Treasury, Council of Economic Advisers, Commerce Department, all the different teams that are involved. And I was talking to folks at the White House the other day who are deeply engaged in all of these and I mean, they’re pulling 23-hour days, essentially, to try to get through all the details of it all because they’ve had so much outreach of all these countries trying to have a better deal with the United States, which was the intended effect. The two that are likely to get left at the altar because they’re digging in their heels are China, which we’ve seen how that’s been playing out for them now with over 120% tariffs on any Chinese goods, and the European Union. You know, the European Union needs to come to the table and actually get serious. They need to make a real offer. I mean, they’ve floated out some potential ideas about maybe tinkering around the edges. Forget it. The fact that they’re charging what they charge for American vehicles and we’re charging less than 10 percent on European vehicles is the reason why you see a lot of Audis and BMWs being driven around the United States and not many Fords being driven around Berlin. And that’s the kind of trade deal that Donald Trump’s looking to actually have right now. So the EU wants to get serious about it. They’ve got to actually come forth with something that’s an actual idea, an actual plan.
SPEAKER 13 :
I really hope so. I really hope they can make this happen because one of the things that was on the list was, and this sounds incredibly self-serving, was red wines and some of these great Italian wines. I don’t want to have that happen. I don’t want to have to pay triple for that stuff. It’s about me, Matt. It’s about what I want. That’s what it comes down to.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s right. Stock up now, Dana. Stock up now.
SPEAKER 13 :
Matt Mowers with the EU-US Forum. You do such great work and thank you for laying all of this out for us. We love talking to you. We’ll have you back. Thanks so much.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sounds great. Thanks so much.
SPEAKER 13 :
Now, that’s that. And that was, man, when I was looking at the price, the prices on that, too. Oh, my gosh. Well, perspective prices, I could say speculatively. We have a lot more on the way as we finish out this third hour. I’ve got a couple of other things that we’re going to hit. We’re going to save that for the coming up for this next segment. Look, we’re actually on time today, Kane. Are you excited? I mean, maybe I wasn’t for the other. the other quick five segments, but right now I can never shut up. But right now I’m actually on time. I feel so proud. As we move, because we got today in stupidity on the way, what does living better mean to you? Is it more money, a bigger house? Now think about this. What about how you feel physically every day? Life is so much better when you feel good. When you wake up feeling great, you can do more of the things that you love and you’re ready to take on the day. If pain is affecting your life, see how Relief Factor can help change that. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, Relief Factor supports your body’s response to inflammation. And it doesn’t just mask pain for a short time. It helps to reduce or even eliminate it. and it’s safe to take daily. In fact, the longer you take Relief Factor, the more effective it is. Over 1 million people have turned to Relief Factor. Feel better every day, and you’ll live better every day. Trying Relief Factor is easy. Get their three-week quick start for only $19.95. That’s less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That’s 1-800-4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com.
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SPEAKER 13 :
So I want to set this up for you. Bill Mulligan, who I think does great reporting. I think he has some of the best reporting about immigration and border issues. So California allowed this criminal, illegal alien, to go free. He killed two different people with DUI in just three years. I want you to listen to this. I’ll do somebody 13.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, Dana, good morning to you. This illegal alien had a lengthy rap sheet here in California long before he ever killed these two California teenagers. He’s got several felony convictions on his record, several convictions for driving without a license, but he was still out and about on California’s roads. And this young American couple ended up paying the price for that. And now their killer is getting an early release.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. He’s getting an early release. And, like, reduced sentencing, all of this. I just… Unreal. Now, keep that on deck and listen to this headline. So you remember the Maryland man that everybody’s like going down and trying to visit in El Salvador? When he was pulled over the final time, did you hear about the car that he was driving? It belonged to a human trafficker. Now, what was one of the things that was brought up twice in Abrego Garcia’s three separate interviews? Court appearances. This made it was in the second one and the third one. The fact that he was running with known human traffickers. So he’s in MS-13 and MS-13. runs people. They smuggle, they deal with human trafficking and exploitation. And he was running with them. In fact, he was driving the car that belonged to one of them who had a record for that specifically. And it was an illegal alien, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes. He was the one who owned the car and he is a known notorious human smuggler. Now you tell me, You’re going to go borrow somebody’s car. If they are, A, they’re here illegally. B, they are a known, evidentiary-based, known human smuggler. Are you telling me that you’re going to go borrow somebody and you don’t know that about them? Especially when they have a long record of it? The Tennessee Highway Trooper who stopped him, when he pulled him over, he was speeding and he was swerving in and out of lanes. And the trooper saw eight other people in the car with Obrego Garcia. Now, he began driving. Now, get this, Kane. He began driving three days prior from Houston via St. Louis to perform construction work. That’s what he said. But the report at the top, the trooper was very concerned about human trafficking because they had no luggage in the vehicle and all the individuals gave the trooper the exact same address as Abrego Garcia did. And they weren’t all related. And when speaking with a trooper, Abrego Garcia pretended to not be able to speak English. And then, uh, He gave him a warning for driving with an expired license. He gave him a citation for driving infractions. And he said, oh, no, the car is my boss’s car. Well, the boss was identified by DHS as Hernandez-Reyes, who pleaded guilty previously to human smuggling. So he’s been convicted. The guy who owned the car has been convicted of human smuggling. How is that guy still in the United States? He’s an illegal alien. He was convicted of human smuggling, but okay. And then DHS, they ran the car homeland security investigations in Baltimore. They ran it further and they flagged the vehicle as belonging to a target of someone they were investigating for additional, apparently a new case of human trafficking. And they said that, quote, vehicle is used by HSI Baltimore target in human smuggling slash trafficking operation. Vehicle makes repeated trips to southern border to pick up non-citizens, end quote. Now, he had gone from St. Louis to Houston and was coming back and was in Tennessee when he got pulled over in a car that they said was already flagged for this activity. You tell me. Today in stupidity came.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, it’s that one chick, Dylan Mulvaney. Oh, that dude? Yes, that’s what I meant. Cut 22, Juan. This is him. Boy, he’s threatening leaving the United States.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yay. I’m trying to move here permanently. There’s something about being here that makes me feel like people have been so kind, and the theater culture is amazing, and Percy Pigs are my favorite. So honestly, that makes the move worth it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Raise your hand if you care.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, I don’t care. Go, go, go then, please. So you don’t have to bitch and moan anymore about not being taken seriously because you’re cosplaying as a woman.
SPEAKER 10 :
And no hands were raised.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, nobody wants him to stay. Folks, that does it for us tonight. Make sure you go sign up at Substack, the newsletter chapter and verse. Lots of good stuff that comes out there regularly and you get a heads up of what we’re talking about during the day. And also find us Facebook and YouTube. Like and subscribe. Back with you tomorrow. Have a great night.
