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I’m going to be releasing Edan in about two hours from now, or sometime today, let’s say. And again, they thought he was dead just a short while ago. His parents are so happy. They’re so happy. So it’s, as you know, Edan’s the only American citizen that’s captured. And held hostage by Hamas since October 7th, 2023. And he’s coming home to his parents. Which is really great news. I mean, to me, it’s big news.
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Big news indeed. There’s a lot of stuff happening today. The way that we were going to start the program. I mean, we have ideas in mind as to how we’re going to start the program, but there’s a lot of stuff happening. Whether it is the trade deal with China, whether it is the India-Pakistan, the negotiated ceasefire, A lot of stuff underway. And then, of course, you have the executive orders. You have the executive order as it relates to medicines and price controls, which I have to have a big discussion about that. A lot of stuff to hit this very busy Monday morning. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. And we’re at the top of this first hour. And. I mean, where to even start? You also have this hostage, this American hostage, the last American hostage who is now being released and I guess on his way going to end up in Tel Aviv, where his mother’s apparently Waiting for him and then he’s going to be coming back to New Jersey. So lots of things to discuss. It was a very, very busy weekend. And one of the big things that I want to take away from this is that and let me go back to the particularly the trade agreement with China. All we heard for two weeks and we ourselves were kind of wondering, but we don’t want to we don’t trust China with anything because repeatedly it was said over and over again that, oh, well, China’s not talking to the Trump administration and the Trump administration was saying, yes, we’re actively talking to China right now. And leftists were even questioning it. And now they are. I think the trade deal with China is a very good thing. So there’s some good news. There’s some stuff that I’m a little about and ever more pressure on Congress to act with the executive order. So where to start? I think we start what you heard the president talking about just a moment ago, the hostage release, which is I mean, when you still think of how long people I mean, these these this guy has been held is unbelievable. And I’m wondering what Hamas wants out of this. It’s I mean, it’s very good news that Eden Alexander is going to be freed. And maybe, maybe. And again, I’m speculating. Maybe Hamas decided that it was going to cut a deal with the United States so that it could make it so that it seemed like it was, you know, amenable. Right. Like they can negotiate. They can make deals. Or maybe they were trying to get one over on Netanyahu and make it look like, well, look, Trump can get hostage released, but Netanyahu can’t. There’s a couple of different ways to look at this. And this is I’m so glad that we have Stephen Yates on today. You know, he joins us every Monday. He worked in the Trump, the first Trump administration on foreign policy. And everybody so far had cooperated. Israel said that they made zero concessions for this to happen. And I know they reduced the size and scope of their operations in Gaza, but they said they have not – they didn’t compromise on anything. The United States apparently didn’t compromise on anything. So – what is Hamas’s, what is their motivation behind this? Because it’s kind of uncharacteristic. And by kind of, I mean entirely, right? Entirely uncharacteristic from Hamas. So what are they getting out of this? For what? Isn’t that horrible? A hostage is released and we have to go, okay, for what? Why? Why are they releasing him? What are they getting out of this? Hamas doesn’t do anything without having, trying to get some kind of advantage. And I’m kind of wondering if it’s not the optic of making it seem making Netanyahu seem incompetent in regards to negotiating hostage releases compared to Trump, because that would be a big win for them over him. So it’s. It’s interesting to see. And we’re going to talk, like I said, to Stephen Yates a little bit about this later. The big I think the other big thing of good news is the trade deal with China. So what? So rolling it back, what was it, 119 points? So we’re taking it back to I think it was what, a 20 percent? for the tariffs. China’s taking theirs back. We’re rolling ours back. It’s a very good deal for us. It’s actually only, I’m pulling up my notes here, it’s only like 10 points above the status quo previously as to what it was. And we’re keeping a percentage in place Because of fentanyl. So that’s why there’s that residual percentage in place against them because of fentanyl. So that makes that makes sense. It’s a big, big, big win for the United States on this. And I mean, the markets responded as well. This is what do we want, 11 or 12? I mean, we’ve got Scott, we’ve got Secretary Besant. Yeah, let’s do 11 because he’s talking about this 90-day pause. This is the Treasury Secretary on this just a little bit ago. Listen.
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And what we have is a 90-day pause on the reciprocal tariffs. Both sides de-escalated by 115 percent. So we are both at 10 on the reciprocal tariffs. The fentanyl-related tariffs, which President Trump Put on in February are still on and over the next 90 days We have a mechanism to meet with the Chinese trade delegation again. We will be discussing tariffs non-tariff trade barriers currency and their subsidies of labor and capital and how we can open up China to American businesses and rebalance what is our most imbalanced, unbalanced trading relationship.
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And the markets responded. They went gangbusters. They did. I think what futures were up over a thousand points this morning. They said that it was better expected, better than expected. This is per CNBC. And I also saw Wall Street Journal. They were saying that they We’re even expecting more near-term relief for investors with CNBC saying it was a major breakthrough. Now, I meant to say 30. It’s the 20% duties on Chinese imports related to fentanyl that’s in place. The 10%, 125 to 10%, and that’s the reciprocal tariff. So with the 20 and the 10, it’s a 30%. that remains on China, the 10% reciprocal, and then you have the 20% for the fentanyl and every market insider. And apparently when you hear the administration talk, I don’t think it’s gonna stop there. I think that this is, it’s not the end goal. I think it’s still progress towards China actually responding and getting involved. and reducing, if not ending, the fentanyl coming into the United States. We shall see on that. But that’s incredibly significant. So they were talking after all, Cain, because we were here not all last week. Oh, they’re not really talking. Or China says they’re not really talking. They were. They were completely having this back and forth. So this was this is incredible. I mean, it’s good. I mean, you had stocks everywhere. Go Asia, Europe, everybody. I mean, it’s Europe’s stock index gained a percent. Germany’s, I think, had a high for the past year. I think Hong Kong was like plus 3%. So huge, huge news. And a great thing to start the week with, really. A great thing to start the week with, indeed. So this is all incredibly significant. And like I said, yeah, China was talking to them this entire time. So that is going to be a major relief for a lot of businesses. And a lot of people I think were being because I saw some of the discussion. I think there are some folks who don’t own business or never have been in manufacturing that don’t quite get it. And they were kind of harsh on some. I read a couple of op eds like last week and they were kind of harsh towards some of these businesses. And I know you’ve seen it as well. With manufacturing and with these small businesses, it is very, very difficult because of China’s dominance to decouple from them almost entirely. I mean, it’s really – it’s a tough thing to do because they’ve been allowed to basically – I have not a monopoly, but have such a sizable footprint that it almost suggests a monopoly. But they’ve been allowed. I mean, that’s been allowed for forever. And domestic prices here are policies here haven’t helped with offshoring of manufacturing, et cetera, et cetera. So it’s it was very difficult. I know we have some friends, actually, their businesses. They try to do everything here in the US. There are certain things that they that no one else makes except for China or like Vietnam. And it was it’s I mean, one of them was considering they were if it if there wasn’t any progress, they were probably going to go out of business. And so now this is huge news because now what do you go from 145 to 30 and it’s only 10 above what the status quo was. It’s only 10 percent above status quo. So that’s that’s incredibly workable, incredibly workable. So now we’ll see if that 20 percent works towards reducing the fentanyl flow. So huge, huge news. A lot of stuff happening this morning. Now, in addition to that, because we’re not even goodness, the plane. We’ll talk about this a little bit more in depth coming up. I know you guys have heard the story about the plane from Qatar, right? So let’s rewind just a little bit. Air Force One, which can correct me if I’m wrong on this. I thought they said it was like 40 years old.
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Yeah, it’s in need of an upgrade.
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So old jet and the… That poses a number of different issues because you can only retrofit things and you can only upgrade and modernize certain things for so long. And it needs to go. I mean, I think that that’s Democrat, Republican. I think it’s pretty safe to say that it needs to be updated. Now, remember, during Trump’s Trump’s first term. This was something that he had actually put an order in on that everybody agreed on. But then I think it was Boeing that it was already over budget and it was late, like over budget by some millions and already a couple of years behind schedule. And so he was I think it was in January. He was at the Palm Beach International Airport checking out a potential plane to use. In the meantime, and now the story from Qatar comes up. Now, I think it’s a bad idea to take anything from Qatar, number one. Number two, well, reasons being A, for optics. So you have 1A, optics. 1B, I mean, it’s just optics. None of it looks good. And these are also people that fund Hezbollah. They help with Hezbollah. They help with Hamas. I mean, Qatar’s where Hamas chiefs live. I mean, they have a very cozy little relationship with him. I just think that’s problematic on a number of different levels. But number two, and maybe perhaps this is most important. Do you trust that? I mean, do you trust the president of the United States flying around on a Qatari jet, a jet that’s that’s being supplied by a country that I would best describe as a frenemy, not an ally? Do you trust that? I mean, what if there’s like a remote detonation or some kind of device on the plane? I don’t trust that. I don’t want to gamble anything like that. I got a million objections to it. So we’re going to discuss this coming up. We have a headlines on the way. Also on deck for you. Democrats, some real they’re tripling down on. I’m not even kidding you. Look, felonious criminal illegal aliens. We’ve got this. We’ve got some culture. We’ve got all kinds of stuff. GoldCo is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form. No commitment. Just free information. And then they’ll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kit straight to your door. No shipping fees. No strings. just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can fit into your financial plan. I’m a big believer in doing your research, and this kit is a great place to start. So I’m really excited to be partnering with Goldco because not only do they support my show, which I truly appreciate, but they’ve made the whole process of buying precious metals Super straightforward. Because if you’re a fan of the show, Gold Co. is also going to tell you how to qualify for unlimited free bonus silver on eligible orders. If you qualify, you can even get a free half ounce silver Ronald Reagan coin. Totally free. Don’t wait. Take that first step towards protecting and diversifying your savings with Gold Co. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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All right, so Elon Musk’s rocket, you know, because he tests different rockets, and sometimes you’re successful, and sometimes you’re not. That happens. This is crazy, though. So they’re saying that his last rocket that he launched, they were doing a test, and it exploded in the atmosphere. It created a phenomenon that they never saw before. The booster separated as planned, but four minutes later, it was reported that it exploded in midair, And then Starship itself detonated about 93 miles above the Earth shortly after. Now, the second explosion was so intense that it ripped through the ionosphere, the electrically charged layer of the atmosphere that plays a role in radio communication and satellite signals. That’s never happened before with a rocket explosion, that it caused such a catastrophic event like that. Now, they said scientists observed the gaping hole remained open for about 30 to 40 minutes before the ionosphere naturally stitched itself back together. And that’s fascinating. So, yeah, that never happened before. So that was something very interesting that they got to view. A 4.1 magnitude earthquake was reported in Tennessee, felt all the way in the metro Atlanta area. That is unusual. That’s not the New Madrid fault, right? That’s not that fault line, is it? Maybe. Close. So they said it was just after 9 a.m. It was confirmed that it happened. The epicenter Greenback, Texas. And that’s about 126 miles north of Atlanta. And they said everybody like in and around that area from everywhere was was feeling it. And yeah, 4.1 that they felt all the way in Atlanta. So that was that’s wild. The rental boom is collapsing and there’s a little panic. Owners are rushing to sell at deep discounts. They’re rushing to sell their rental properties. A number of people buying second homes plunged to its lowest level since it happened. They said sky-high mortgage rates, maintenance costs, and return-to-office push. That’s fueling all of this, which makes sense. So cargo thieves are attacking the U.S. supply chain, too, at alarming rates. We’re going to have more on this coming up. And stupid dim tricks. Stick with us. A lot more in store. Our friends over at Super Beats, a great Texas-based company, and they make a lot of really good stuff. But with Super Beats, you guys are familiar with the heart chews. Super Boreen, a lot of people are talking about healthy metabolism and supporting healthy blood sugar, and this is where Super Boreen comes in. It’s plant based, doctor formulated. It has a unique form of berberine and Italian fruit extract that gives it an additional antioxidant, additional level of antioxidant cardiovascular support. And the berberine is unique. It’s been clinically studied to deliver nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. It’s highly concentrated, so you get all these benefits in just one easy-to-swallow capsule a day. And the grapeseed extract that’s included in the Super Brewing, that provides for greater tolerability if you’re concerned about any potential GI distress. Visit Sam’s Club and restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Shoes and expand your routine with new Super Brewing for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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My message to the mayor is he said he didn’t want to protest yesterday. Then what about the several times during the week he showed up? So that’s what people don’t know. He and his staff are out there this week. We’ve had to send people out there to break up protesters there. The mayor and those protesters brought a bulldozer last week.
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Whoa.
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Not only this time, but other times protesting. We’ve heard intelligence that they’re going to continue to protest.
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Wow. The. Stunt that they pulled. This is this is crazy. The stuff that these Democrats pulled in Newark. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you are at the bottom of this first hour. So if you if you miss that. So what ended up happening is that a bunch of Democrats stormed an ICE facility. And the Department of Homeland Security was threatening the arrests of these House Democrats who were at this New Jersey ICE facility. They had stormed it. There’s all kinds of body camera footage of it. It’s the Delaney Hall Detention Center. And on Friday, they stormed the gates of it. This is a secure facility that’s located in Newark. And they were advocating for These detainees that DHS and Juan showing you some of the B roll. This is like that’s what’s happening there. That’s a Newark, New Jersey. That’s a congressperson just shoving people through. That’s assault. Sorry. But the DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, said that the people who are held here are murderers. They are terrorists. They are child rapists and MS-13 gang members. That was her direct quote. So a bunch of members of Congress, Democrats, chased a bus that was full of detainees who were entering the security gate. Then they stormed the gate and they broke into the facility. I was told, Cain, this is an insurrection. Yeah. This is an insurrection. And DHS said it was, you had Monica McIver, who’s a congressional woman. She’s the heavyset broad with the white and red shoving into people. She’s from New Jersey. She said that she was manhandled, but I did not see anyone manhandling her. I saw her using her immense weight to just blast through security. And it showed them she was pushing and elbowing officials and And DHS said they posted on X. They said you should meet who they’re fighting for. You should meet the people that are held here. So, for instance, they have a man, Chinchilla Cabrera, who is in custody and he is executed. A known active member of MS-13. It’s been confirmed. Ramos Marin is wanted in Brazil for homicide. He has an Interpol red notice. He is in custody without bond. I mean, these are like several. This guy, Saravia Santamaria of El Salvador. He is a verified MS-13 gang member. And he also has the tats with the little MS-13 symbols on it. They also have Adonis Estevez. He is from Dominican Republic. He has multiple felony convictions of drug distribution, including fentanyl, drug trafficking, resisting arrest, possessing illegally possessing weapons. Maximo Nunez, a 58 year old Dominican Republic, again, like drug trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, these are the people that they have another individual who was a child rapist in MS-13 that’s held in this facility. Another one who raped a woman. I mean, there’s you get the idea, right? Do you want me to? I mean, I can sit here and go on for the rest of the segment, but you get the idea. Those are the people that are held here. And Democrats decided that they they wanted to advocate for these people. And I mean, it’s really shocking that they keep deciding that they’re going to champion known criminals over innocent Americans. Now, this. I mean, there’s tons of these. I mean, and these guys are from all over. So those are the people that are held here. And this is the facility that Democrats decided to storm. And they have body camera footage of members of Congress actually physically assaulting ICE officers. One of the members of Congress, Democrat member of Congress, quote, full body slammed a female ICE officer on video. Oh my gosh. And they have all of the video evidence of this. They posted some of it, some of what Juan showed you, showing total chaos. And they said that three members of Congress specifically, this was on Thursday, they had Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver and Bonnie Coleman. They visited Thursday and then I guess they had the storming on Friday. I don’t know. I’ve never seen anything like this. I’ve never seen congressional members storm a facility for like a jail for criminals and then try to free the criminals and assault criminals. the authorities that were there to protect the citizenry against these dangerous criminals inside. This is insane. I mean, I think that… I don’t know how you can have these people in Congress. Now, I know that their voters determine whether or not they recall, but I think every one of them, if you’re on video body slamming authorities like this because they are housing rapists, child rapists and murderers and rapers of women and people who beat women and people who kill cops in this facility. then yeah, if you’re, that’s criminal trespass, that’s assault. I mean, there’s, I think that they need to be charged. You have people who didn’t even go in the Capitol on January 6th who were arrested. And there were some people who went in the Capitol on January 6th because they saw security agents. They saw security opening the doors and ushering people in and they didn’t know. They walked in and they walked into Statuary Hall and they just kind of looked around and left. They were arrested and charged. Some of them were detained for months. So are these people who actually went in to cause an insurrection? I guess they thought that this was the modern day Bastille and they were going to storm it. They need to have the full weight of the law thrown down on them. This is insane. Now, the Newark mayor was saying that. I mean, he was in defense of them. That’s the thing. Because you had him… He brought a bulldozer to the… Last week, they said they brought a bulldozer to the facility. And I… I just… You can’t tell me that these voters are in support of this. Their mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested and he was vowing to shut down this facility. He was going to shut down this facility because I guess he wanted all of these criminals to be able to run around on the streets with everybody. I don’t know. He’s a gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey as well. Yeah. Oh, there’s like so much more. Audio soundbite 17. This was him. He was saying that, oh, he was arrested. They treated me with dignity, but it was humiliating. That’s the least of your problems. Listen to the stooge.
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Well, I mean, I just want to first say that the guys from Homeland Security were very respectful. They treated me with dignity, and I appreciate that. You know, while I spent my last few hours in the holding area inside of the, I believe it was the detention facility that they have here in the city of Newark, you know, that Homeland Security has. You know, it wasn’t unbearable, but it was definitely, you know, a humiliating experience and uncomfortable for me overall. But, you know, in the end, those guys did the best that they could to.
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If it was humiliating for him, imagine what it was like for his voters. That are watching their mayor make a fool of himself for child rapists. I’m not exaggerating when I’m talking about the people who are in there. I’m not I’m not just like singling out one or two criminals that are here illegally, which is bad enough. No, there are a lot of them in there that have been, yes. That’s what’s even more insane about this. It’s not like there’s, oh, just some people who entered illegally, which is still a crime. So technically they’re still criminals. But then they were just angels after they got in and there’s one bad guy in there. And so we’re just going to use this one bad. No, they’re literally all of these are some of the most dangerous and violent crimes. Repeat offending criminal illegal aliens that are in this facility. And these are the people that this guy and these other Democrats are going out there championing. This is insane. Brings a damn bulldozer to it. And they brought up they said that the detention center turned away fire inspectors. So see, he was trying to use all these different agencies to get in there. He was trying to act like, no, no, no, we got to have a fire inspection. Oh, no, no. Now we have to have city officials examine the site. Oh, you guys are turning away local inspectors. So they brought a bulldozer. Oh, you’re turning away these local inspectors, etc., The group that’s operating it signed a $1 billion 15-year lease with the federal government for Delaney Hall. And they’re like, yeah, everything is legit. They’re just trying to get in there and cause problems. That’s crazy. And, you know, I mean, really, because now it’s a federal immigration processing center. It’s created tons of I love DHS because I think, yeah, well, we created a bunch of unionized jobs, annual salaries, one hundred five thousand starting point. It’s going to contribute 50 million to the local Newark community and. I know for the Democrats who like to talk about being pro-worker, but then they probably get behind every policy that offshores jobs and manufacturing. Yeah, those are all union jobs there. Just saying. Just saying. I mean, this is wild. Absolutely wild. These are the people that they keep wanting to celebrate. And what the hell is the matter with them? What is the matter with these people? This is like the stupidest stuff I’ve ever seen. They are continually… shooting themselves in the foot. I mean, just the optics alone are horrendous. These people, they act like they’re some sort of freedom fighters. They’re not freedom fighters. These people aren’t heroes. These Democrats are criminals, too, for doing this. This is anti-enforcement obstruction. Now, they were doing it in… uh colorado right i mean you’ve had stuff like this in colorado uh and you’ve had stuff like this in seattle for different kind of different reasons but good heavens yeah they brought a bulldozer not it’s not the killdozer either it was a baby bulldozer these people make me want to make a killdozer though i’m just saying they were trying to block access the city of newark so the mayor brought in i don’t know if you guys bill malugin has this um It was very ineffective. They brought in this tiny little bulldozer, and they tried to put it in the middle of the entrance to the parking lot, and it’s not even big enough to do that. Kane, the size of that bulldozer. Is that the only bulldozer this guy could get? You’re the mayor of Newark, and you can’t get any better bulldozer, like a bigger one than this? Come on.
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Right. You would think the mayor would have some connections.
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It’s almost like cars can go around it to enter into the facility. Wow. Yeah. That’s what he did. That was the mayor that you just heard that we played that audio soundbite of. I mean, and they were given multiple warnings to leave their property or be arrested. And you can protest. That’s fine. But you can’t break into the facility and then start body slamming agents. Yeah, that’s what you can’t do. Now, the… One of the things that the left has thrown up is they’re mad because they said these people who wanted you to wear masks for how long, they’re mad that ICE agents were wearing facial coverings in the video. Now, why would they be wearing that? Let’s go back here to the story from February of this year. Anti-ICE activists disrupt LA operations and they doxed the agents. They posted photos, names, addresses, and phone numbers of all of the agents in English and Spanish. Huh. So maybe that’s why ICE agents now are covering their faces because they have this kind of stuff that they’re dealing with. This is unbelievable. So I was told this was an insurrection. Are we going to have a commission to investigate this? Where’s the censoring? Where’s Mike Johnson on this? By the way, why haven’t you heard more about this? Why is it that you don’t know every aspect of the story? Where in the hell are the Republicans at exploiting every bit of this? Where is the worthless RNC exploiting every bit of this? These people, where are they on the board? Your body is a powerhouse. It heals, it builds, it keeps you moving, but as you age, those natural processes slow down, and that’s where Ancient Nutrition’s collagen comes in. It’s like backup power for your body. It helps you stay strong, radiant, and ready for anything. Ancient Nutrition blends ancient wisdom with modern science to create high-quality supplements. and their multi-collagen Advanced Lean features 10 types of collagen from real food-based sources. It’s powered by clinically studied ingredients that support fat loss, healthy weight management, and lean muscle building. You’ll love it because it can reduce your joint discomfort, boost your skin, your hair and nails, and plus, you’ll love how it tastes and how easily it fits into your daily routine. Collagen is real and it works and Ancient Nutrition’s multi-collagen advanced lean has you covered. Look and feel your best starting today. Right now, Ancient Nutrition is offering you 25% off your first order. Just visit ancientnutrition.com slash Dana promo code Dana. That’s ancientnutrition.com slash Dana code Dana for 25% off your first order.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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He could be impactful as a moral and ethical voice on that issue that we’re dealing with when so many people are being mass deported or fear it.
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Well, I certainly hope so. And from his comments previous to being elected the Pope, he has made clear what his values and his view of all of that is.
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So she’s saying that, Nancy Pelosi right there, saying that she hopes that Pope Leo will speak against deportations. Now do abortion. Where do you fall on that, Nance? Just curious. Now do the trans stuff. Do trainees. Let’s see where he falls on that. Go ahead. Go ahead and play that game. I just that’s so dumb. Stop. I mean, you have to follow laws and everyone’s equal under the law and before it. So, no, the pope doesn’t make policy in the United States and D.C. and the pope does not have any impact on. On that does not does not get to tell us what to do with our own sovereignty, with our laws, with border, etc. There is a legal way to come in. And the idea that you’re going to try to prostitute out religion as a way to justify the reckless and dangerous disregard of existing laws that help keep Americans safe and people who immigrate here legally safe is asinine. I mean, stop it. Just stop all that stuff. It’s asinine. No, they’ve been trying to milkshake duck the new pope who is for gun control. He’s a lefty moderate. I mean, you’re not going to get a conservative pope because didn’t Francis pick a lot of the cardinals that were choosing his successor? From what I understand, like most of them, you’re going to get someone who’s still in that leftist mold. But they were going after – apparently his brother is a big conservative pope. Or at least a right leaning dude. I don’t know if he’s conservative, but he’s apparently had some things to say about like Joe Biden. And he has these he called Nancy Pelosi a drunk. Well, I can’t even say what he called her. I like the Pope’s brother, though. That would be a good podcast. The Pope’s brother. How fun would that be? Stick with a second hour on the way. our partners that help bring you the program. It’s our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. Oh my gosh, I love these people so much. If you have not ordered from them or if you have not signed up to order from them, you definitely need to remedy this. Here’s why. All of the medications that you need, including the ones that the government tried to keep from you, like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which are great therapeutics, by the way. And when I caught the Rona naturally, they were incredibly helpful for me. But they have all of those. They also have your daily medications. You can get them fast. You go online, you order. It’s so easy. You can get it in like two to four days or you can get it overnight in a pinch if it’s like a serious situation and you need some medicine. Like for me, for instance, when I was hosting for Thanksgiving, I started getting strep throat. I’ve had it a million times. I know exactly what it is. And I’m like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? So I overnighted antibiotics to myself from all family pharmacy and started my regimen. And literally by noon the next day, I was fine. I was able to do what I need to do because I had a ton of family coming to my house. They saved Thanksgiving for me. I really have relied on all family pharmacy and I cannot recommend them enough. Also, Everything is made in the USA. All precursors, everything. You’re not getting anything from India or China, so you don’t have to worry about any of it. High standards of quality and safety. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Always be prepared. Protect yourself. Allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Coupon code Dana10 gets you 10% off.
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Now, I think, by the way, pharmaceutical, I have great respect for these companies and for the people that run them. I really do. And I think they did one of the greatest jobs in history for their company, convincing people for many years that this was a fair system. Nobody really understood why, but I figured it out. For years, pharmaceutical and drug companies have said that research and development costs were what they are, and for no reason whatsoever, they had to be born by America alone. Not anymore, they don’t.
SPEAKER 02 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. That’s POTUS, who is announcing that he has an EO, Pharmaceutical and Drug Companies, this soundbite that you heard here, he was saying, you know, research and development costs are what they are. He’s like, not anymore. But we have this reduction in the cost of prescription medication. I’m kind of… I don’t know how I feel about it. And the reason I don’t know how I feel about it is because I feel like a lot of this problem began with Obamacare. I mean, a huge part of the reason why we have this issue is… because of obamacare and i do think that we you know essentially with these other countries we were subsidizing their r d i get that but at the same time remember with obamacare which republicans always said that they were going to repeal they promised us they were going to do it they never did it the excise taxes on all of that stuff contributed so much to the increase in the price of drugs it’s crazy And I feel like not enough people really get into that. I mean, you had the excise taxes. You had the pharmaceutical tax. You had even the medicinal device tax. You guys remember that? I mean, everyone was warning like, okay, what is this going to mean? I mean, you’re… I mean, there were all of this contributed to we were still paying for R&D for everybody else. But here domestically, I mean, we had like what I think that there was a there was an Iowa State University study back in 2018 that found that the excise taxes from Obamacare were reducing research and development costs. the spending on that by about $34 million per company. Now, in 2013, it was 34 million per company that was adjusted to about 40 million in 2023. And that was a huge cut. There were like 80% of these companies that were surveyed, they’d said that they, you know, as a result, they were delaying or canceling some R&D projects. And And then, of course, you had like the excise taxes on devices. Like one of the corporations, the Stryker Corporation, which is a huge medical device, a major device manufacturer, they were estimating that the taxes cost them about $100 million in 2013. Adjust that to 118 for the latest available data for 23. So that’s a reduction in innovation for those devices. That contributed to a major loss of jobs. We had over 29,000 jobs between 2013 and 2015, particularly specifically in that industry that included research and development staff and all of that. That completely directly impacted the capacity for innovation. I mean, think about it. You have less of a budget for R&D domestically. That means you… What if you need something like an advanced stent or diagnostic tools? All of that is impacted by this. It actually impedes medical progress. That’s what Obamacare did. Those are all the taxes in Obamacare. We talked about this. I… talked about that so much back in 2010, 2009, 2010, when all of that was being debated. And then right even after it was signed, we saw effects of this immediately. And the Democrat defense of it, remember their defense of it? I remember Nancy Pelosi going on CNN, the State of the Union on Sunday mornings, saying that, well, the Congressional Research Service was saying that You know, the impact of these taxes is actually minimal, which was a lie because the Congressional Research Service only only tabulates the exact information that you get it. It’s like how you feed AI, right? You can feed AI certain prompts and AI is going to give you a result based on what you prompt it with. The same thing with this. They’re going to only tabulate exactly what you give it. no matter how misleading. So they were using that as a way to deflect the legitimate criticism that all of these taxes that were incorporated into Obamacare were going to drive up the cost of prescription drugs. They were going to stifle medical innovation. They were going to stifle research and development. I mean, you were going to see less diagnostic tools. You were going to see less innovations with devices. I mean, it’s insane. It is absolutely insane. And why nothing has been done, I don’t know. So my point with this, I don’t know if this is like an in run around Congress because they just they’re not doing anything. And I’m getting angrier and angrier as the weeks go on about this. But the real issue was caused by this bill. And well, there was an issue that preexisted and then it was confounded further by this bill and the gutting of these budgets. It’s. It all of the options that could have been done and Republicans had a handful. They had like five different alternative health care bills during that time. So for the people who are arguing that they had no other substitute, that’s a lie. These people have no idea what they’re talking about. Ignore them because they clearly didn’t pay attention or actually follow the news. The they had five they had five alternative options. Republicans did. Two of them actually were pretty decent. The others were better than what Democrats were proposing. Two of them actually included being able to have insurance companies compete, purchasing insurance across state lines, having it not married to your employer so that you could have portable insurance and have it wherever you went and you just didn’t have to get it through your employer. Republicans, they didn’t really – I don’t think they really wanted it because they didn’t fight for it. I’ve seen them fight for big-ticket spending items for special interest stuff harder than they fought for that. So – They promised they were in. Can you remember all of every single one of these fools ran on a campaign promise of repealing Obamacare, which included all of the taxation that helped drive all of this up? But they haven’t done it. And it’s not on deck right now either. Wasn’t done last. It wasn’t done the last eight years and hasn’t been done now. I’m getting really aggravated at their their inability to act. But I also think, too. And again, you can like what someone’s doing and still have some reservations about a couple of different things. You can like what someone’s doing and still have a couple of criticisms because we are not British. So we don’t you know, we’re not communists. We don’t have hive mind. Part of being a boardroom negotiator and part of being a good leader is being able to get these people in Congress to do what you need done for the voters. So you don’t have to rely on executive order after executive order after executive order. is being able to use your skill set as a negotiator and make the art of the deal with these people in Congress. And so far, that’s not happening. Because all of this stuff, the best way I heard it described is that these executive orders are a sugar high. And then, God forbid, if Democrats get into office in 2028, every bit of this is gone. And you are not only, you’re not even right back where you were. We’re not even right back where we were originally. We will be in a worse off position. And that is a very, very real thing. So as it pertains to the medicines and that, I would love to see cost reduction, but anything but a full on overhaul is a bandaid over it. And it’s not gonna be permanent relief. And there is a potential that it could be worse later. And Republicans, I don’t know, for the past 20 years and maybe it was under Bush because Bush used a lot of I mean, he made the appeal to big government. Right. If if voters couldn’t get it done, well, then let’s just have government do what voters want, not what voters can’t do, but what voters want, not what Republicans can’t do, but what Republicans want. We’ll just have big government do it. And I think in the past 20 years, a lot of Republicans became very OK with having government do things for them. Let’s have government do what the market should do. Let’s have government do which what we could actually do by stimulating the market with good legislation or repealing bad legislation. And that’s the issue. And it’s so I’m I get nervous about this stuff. I get nervous about government involved in price controls. It’s a huge it’s a huge issue. It’s it. You have to have something from Congress more on this. But I will say, you know, the excise taxes under Obamacare, I mean, they were heinous and it was all what they what what gets me is they they all said, oh, well, all of these taxes are going to are going to pay for the expanded coverage. By making it more expensive and by reducing your options and driving up the cost of medication, you’re going to make it more. Do you see how stupid it was? These people never heard of math before. They clearly never understood cause and effect. I mean, there are clear, measurable, disastrous impacts that Obamacare had on the very thing that that right now the administration is trying to figure out how to remedy. It’s a big deal. Can we play, this is funny, Audio Soundbite 3. This is a funny soundbite just from this morning. POTUS talking about a friend of his. Listen.
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I mean, I’ll tell you a story. A friend of mine who’s a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. Highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, President, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me President, so that’s nice respect, but he’s a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn’t even know how he would know this, but because he’s got comments. President, could I ask you a question? I’m in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it’s not working. He said, he said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on?
SPEAKER 02 :
I love it. He’s like, they’re taking the, what did he say, the fat shot drug? Because it’s not working. That’s actually hysterical. That is actually hysterical. I mean, it’s, there’s, It’s the whole idea. I’m actually surprised that we’re even getting any kind of innovations with stuff in the United States because of all this. Oh, oh, this. Let’s see. I do somebody. Well, we did for I because I want to come back to this. Do we have time to or should I hold on the the white bag of or the bag of white powder?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we should get a couple minutes for that.
SPEAKER 02 :
OK, so just you guys know. Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, they were caught on video on their return from Kiev and they were in the Ukraine or in Ukraine. And they had a bag of white powder on the table. Macron quickly pockets it. Another guy hides the spoon. And apparently so the I guess Zelensky is what a big booger sugar enthusiast. I mean, I don’t know. We’re going to talk about this because this is like someone says, oh, it’s a Kleenex. Someone says the resolution of the picture says it’s a Kleenex.
SPEAKER 07 :
Is it?
SPEAKER 02 :
I don’t know. It’s kind of hard to see.
SPEAKER 07 :
How many spoons do you use with Kleenex?
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So a supercomputer reveals the exact date that Elon Musk’s doomsday prediction will come true. It’s not a prediction. It’s just fact. Everybody knows at some point the Earth’s going to be destroyed by the sun because very, very gradually the planets are adjusting and getting closer and closer to the sun. That’s just something that your vehicle emissions don’t contribute to. That’s just the state of the way things work in the universe. But researchers from NASA… And Toho University in Japan, they’ve used supercomputers and mathematical models to forecast what that would look like. And so they suggest that life on Earth will become impossible, impossible by the year. I don’t know. It’s a very long time into the future. We’re looking at like a million years into the future, over a million years into the future before that happens. And it’s not because the sun grows hotter and brighter. It’s that we get closer to it. Is the issue. So and then you’ll have gradually reduced oxygen levels. So I had a smart teacher when I was in junior high that didn’t buy into all this BS and actually just told us the facts about it. You know, in actual education, it’s pretty amazing how that works. how that works. Let’s see here. Oh, bear with me because Safari is a horrible browser and I just lost everything again. It is. How many times do we have this happen? I want to find the people who made Safari and I just want to beat them to death. You know, figuratively speaking, of course. Let’s see here. We also, by the way, the released hostage, the American hostage, is officially back in Israel. That came out when we were on break. That was confirmed when we were on break. Also, rich Americans are using their second as the economy falters. Well, they’re renting a lot of them out, which makes sense. That’s smart. They say the worst time of exercise for a good night’s sleep is four or fewer hours before bed. That’s what I’ve heard from every fitness instructor, everybody. They always say you’ve got to go in the morning because doing it before bed, you’re not going to reap as much benefits and it’s actually worse for you. A Swedish security chief has resigned over sensitive photos on Grindr. Oopsie. Don’t show the sensitive photos. I immediately saw Juan going down to that link. I’m like, no, Juan, no. No, you can’t do it. I mean, I’m not surprised. Maybe it’s because they’re Swedish. I just wasn’t. And the guy looks like he’s, you know, I mean, see, I don’t know. I mean, he’s just… I’m not a fan of his face. Anyway, we have a lot more on the way. We get Steven Yates, who’s going to be on this second hour. We got a lot to hit him up about. Stick with us. 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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In addition, yesterday we achieved a total reset with China after productive talks in Geneva. Both sides now agree to reduce the tariffs imposed after April 2nd to 10 percent for 90 days as negotiators continue on the larger structural issues. And I want to tell you that a couple of things. First of all, that doesn’t include the tariffs that are already on. that are our tariffs, and it doesn’t include tariffs on cars, steel, aluminum, things such as that, or tariffs that may be imposed on pharmaceuticals because we want to bring the pharmaceutical businesses back to the United States, and they’re already starting to come back now based on tariffs.
SPEAKER 02 :
We need antibiotics. More production of that in the United States. Too few actually do it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That is POTUS just… He had a marathon of a presser this morning. It was a little over an hour. And he was announcing as well more details about this trade agreement with China. And we talked a little bit about that in the first hour just to give you some of the publicly available details. So it’s like, what, 10 points above status quo, what it was, 30 percent in place still today. 20 as punitively for fentanyl and then 10 retaliatory. So a lot better than 145. And already markets were responding. I am so hesitant to say like I the mark. I like the markets reacting. But is it? successful for us. So let’s ask our very good friend Stephen Yates. You know him. He’s on the show regularly. He’s a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He’s a foreign policy expert specifically on China, having worked in not one but two presidential administrations. And he knows where all the bodies are buried. And I actually may not be joking. And he joins us now via video. So good to see you, my friend. And I’m just… I’m not a cynic, and it’s not that I doubt the administration’s ability to get something done. I just doubt China in all of this. Would you classify this, just I know we’re in the early stages of it, as a successful result? so far?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I would put it this in this way. President Trump is attempting an historic reset with trade, with all of our partners around the world generally, but with a specific priority placed on rebalancing with China. I support that. I think it’s very, very important. I think that’s a long term initiative. It’s not a one and done kind of thing. And if that’s the measure of these talks, I don’t think that’s what they were shooting for, swallowing the elephant in one bite. But some of the overly exuberant ways of talking about it could lead people to believe that’s what happened. All we have at the moment is an agreement to start a process. And there was a reset in the sense that there was the phase one trade agreement in Trump 1.0. that the Chinese interlocutors made clear to Secretary Besant that they ignored during the Biden years. And apparently, Team Biden didn’t really press them at all. So the Chinese didn’t see a reason to uphold it. So we’ve sort of reset the talks to the baseline where they were left off. at the end of Trump 1.0, plus the fentanyl tariffs, plus this 10%. That’s sort of mathematically where we are, but it’s kind of an odd thing for the president to start out with a very specific number of 10%, and then to say, but it doesn’t count this and it doesn’t count that. It’s already too complicated for ordinary Americans to understand, other than they should know. This is going to take a long time. China is not known for quick, decisive, transparent, measurable action. We’re likely to see delays, frustration, maybe even obfuscation. All those would be really good reality checks to add to the celebration. But I support the idea of trying. I support the idea of opening the talks. I just don’t like the idea of trying to say that concluding a joint statement that we’re going to talk actually changed anything.
SPEAKER 02 :
Now, that’s a very good point. And I’m it amazed me when I was reading the Treasury secretary and you alluded to this when they said that, you know, after POTUS left his office after the first term, the Biden administration just chose just not to enforce the agreement. And then the Chinese delegation, quote, basically told us that once Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. It that was it just I don’t know how that wasn’t just top of mind for the Biden administration, because I mean, I don’t know why they would have opposed that in any way. It’s beneficial for the United States, at least. And it would have been it would have been a nice little victory point for them. And they just chose not to do it.
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Well, in a way, even though I don’t have a lot of respect for the source coming from the Chinese side, which is known to say influence more than to inform from time to time. However, it might be one of the more honest expressions of what dealing with the Biden administration was. A lot of Americans now are famously publishing books trying to revise the narrative they tried to sell for four years. But it could be that our adversaries and competitors saw this more clearly from the get-go and were lucky that the Chinese didn’t take as bold an action after that assessment as, say, like the Russians did after taking that temperature and then going with a full-scale invasion against a neighbor. So in a way, it might be a little dose of honesty from an unlikely source.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. And I saw as well that China was pulling the story up that China is set to apparently unleash their own economic stimulus package. We’ve talked about their economy before. I don’t even know what that would look like with the CCP. That is just more government involvement. What does it even look like? And I don’t even think that would that would assist them in this regard.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, there’s a lot of layers to what reality is in China economically. In some ways, one of the biggest lies about China is this whole notion of one China because there is no one narrative for reality inside of China. There are hundreds of millions of people whose lives don’t reflect what we see in the news, in movies, tech, or whatever else. They’ve been permanently left behind. Then there’s parts of China that are very aggressive and militant. And then there’s others that seem kind of entrepreneurial. And it’s all mixed up under one giant poo bear known as Xi Jinping. And so we deal with what we have with these guys. But they definitely have banking problems, property market problems, labor shortage problems. I was talking with an expert from inside China today who was saying that they had something in the order of magnitude of, like, 50,000 to 100,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs just in one part of China. And so they have significant structural challenges that this agreement isn’t designed to address and won’t.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. We’re Last question on this, and I’ve got a couple of other things I’d like to ask you. Does this do anything to help tensions perhaps between China and the United States? Because I know a lot of the rhetoric was really ratcheting up every time it went up a couple of percentage points, the tariffs. Does this assist with that at all? And does it mean – do you think it would ever – the Chinese could ever be prevailed upon to do actually anything about fentanyl? Or can they withstand this, you know, the 20 percent extra punitive tariff that’s on them as a result of it?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, they can withstand that for a good while, I think. But I think what they were hearing in Geneva was at least a little bit of a confession that this has affected China more than has been reported. And so whether that results in real policy change, It’s hard to sort of internalize, but these authoritarian regimes can stomach a lot more pain than the kind of purveyors of hysteria that tend to be in our media. So I think that this move sort of calms a lot of the irrational nerves. on Wall Street. It wouldn’t be my first target for trying to soothe things. I would put Main Street way ahead of that. But it’s not for nothing to try to calm some of these purveyors of hysteria down. It also puts a little bit of juice on our allies and friends to hurry up and go ahead and conclude your agreements. We’re at the beginning and sort of framing things with China. You don’t want to wait for that to get too far down the road before you lock in an advantageous deal of your own. And that actually helps us in the long run share that benefit with allies.
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Yeah. Speaking of some of the allies here, you and I have talked quite a bit about India, India-Pakistan tensions. The ceasefire, the latest negotiations that they had, this was towards the end of the week. Talk to us a little bit about what… I don’t think that it could threaten to destabilize any kind of favor that we have built up in the Middle East, particularly with the Abraham Accords. But what does this… How is this going to affect U.S. not just interest, but how is this going to affect what we’ve been trying to do in the Middle East with regards to Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas, et cetera? Now that we have India and Pakistan, which I’m fully I fully believe that India can handle it themselves. It seems like another one of those instances where it’s like stay out of their way and let them deal with what they need to deal with.
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Well, you’re not wrong to have a little bit of an inkling that what happens in South Asia doesn’t stay in South Asia. There are a lot of Indians and Pakistanis who work and reside long-term in the broader Middle East. A lot of these countries that are transforming their economies there are doing so on a workforce that comes from South Asia. And sometimes those agitations don’t just stay bottled up in India-Pakistan. And it’s never a small thing when two nuclear powers start exchanging missiles, explosions, or other kinds of conflict. There’s also the challenge of proliferation, that as these things continue to spiral, that things could get sent to other regions of the world that are destabilizing. So it’s not good, but I would say that we have a lot of good capital with Prime Minister Modi. Pakistan has always had governance challenges, but I would put this right back at the feet of Xi Jinping in Beijing. Pakistan is a client state of China in the national security, since they wouldn’t have nuclear weapons but for North Korea and Chinese leakage to them. And China very much helps a lot of these conflicts get fueled, whether it’s Russia against Ukraine, Iran’s proxies against Israel, and of course, Pakistan challenging India. So go back to the source in some ways. Celebrate your trade negotiations for a moment, but never lose sight of where the origin of this chaos really is.
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You brought up something incredibly interesting because over the last, what was it, 20 years, it was reported that we gave 32 billion to Pakistan, 15 billion of it was military aid, and then Pakistan gets pretty much all of its military equipment from China. So we’re just basically giving billions of dollars to China.
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That’s the old diplomatic memo of we’re minting our own currency and trying to buy peace and stability. But when you’re dealing with a lot of these unstable areas, it’s just money goes and the challenge doesn’t ever really seem to move the needle. And so I think that’s part of this big reset. If we can rationalize some of these supply chains, rationalize manufacturing in a way that is away from China and away from unreliable partners, it helps our other partners and allies have greater independent capability to balance, contain, and deal with these things. That’s the idea. That’s the goal. I support that moonshot. I hope it lands.
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Last quick question for you, our good friend Stephen Yates, the plane from from the Qataris. I know it’s it would be a temporary loaner. I just am not down for the president of the United States flying on any aircraft that is in possession of an entity that finance the deaths of Americans. Not for it at all. Is this I mean, I would I think that this would worry you.
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Well, so just number one, I don’t want there to be a gift from the government of Qatar. But at the same time, I color me extremely jaded that these news stories have a reality life longer than three or four days. I mean, if it turns out that what this is is a Boeing aircraft, and Boeing screwed up on trying to manufacture the new Air Force One, But here’s a Boeing aircraft where they screwed up delivering it in final form to Qatar. And it’s a matter of something that hasn’t even really gone anywhere. And it’s coming back. And Air Force One is whatever the president is on. But in terms of security and infrastructure, any vessel is going to get stripped to a skeleton. and replaced with everything. So I’m not actually materially concerned on security on this, because there is no such thing as giving a luxury jet to the president, have it function as Air Force One. But it’s just kind of one of those weird things. Is it in the possession of the royal family of Qatar, and are they giving it as a gift? Or is this a plane that never really made it somewhere? I just am not ready to bite on the bait that went out there first yet. But I would concede, It doesn’t look good, smell good or sound good.
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Yeah. And it’s also crazy that I think what the plan that they commissioned to replace the 40 year old Air Force One. And I get it. You know, you need to redo it. But he like ordered that back in 2018. And it’s not even going to be ready till 2029. Didn’t they turn it around for Reagan in like five years?
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Well, that part is just thoroughly disgusting to me. And if this story does anything else than just make people sort of choke on the idea that the president of the United States, whatever you think of the individual in the office, should have the most modern, comfortable, and safe aircraft possible ever known to mankind. Full stop. I don’t care who it is. And we should make it and we should do it on time. And if we can’t do that, we’re sort of a sort of a kangaroo country again. That doesn’t make any sense to me.
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It’s abysmal. We shouldn’t be in that position. Stephen Yates at Yates comes. Always appreciate your insight, my friend. It’s invaluable. Thank you so much. I hope you have a great rest of your week. Good to see you.
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Thank you, Dana. Take good care. Thank you.
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Burn a gun. I always tell people to carry. I always carry and I have no problem using lethal force to protect myself or my loved ones. And there are instances, though, where you can’t. I mean, you’re you’re denied your constitutional right of self-defense either because of municipal restrictions or private property restrictions. Well, there’s a way that you can still protect yourself. And you diversify your weapons array. You do this already with knives and different calibers. So why not incorporate the Berna gun as part of it? Now for this purpose, they have rifles and all kinds of stuff, but I would suggest the Berna SD or the Berna SL, the Berna, or sorry, CL, the Berna CL compact launcher. It’s like basically similar to a Glock 43X, right? It’s about the length of your phone. Then you have a red dot. There’s, you know, quick on holstering made in the USA. You have 15 rounds per cartridge. Now, you know, the burner gun shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. It’s effective and it gives you. some protection when the state or whatever is trying to disarm you. I have friends who live in New York and D.C. that carry this. And that’s the thing. Berna Gunn doesn’t care about gun-free zone signs. There’s no waiting period. There’s no tax stamp. There’s none of that stuff. They can ship it right to your door. And that’s important when you’re talking about making sure that you’re protected, especially in high crime areas where you need protection the most. So check it out. The Berna CL, their newest one, the compact launcher, the most compact one that they have, One of the smallest, it’s for maximum concealability and stopping power. And it uses, you know, compressed air CO2. And again, it shoots those chemical irritant projectiles. You need to check it out at Burna.com slash Dana. B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana. It’s ready when you are.
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So, uh, There was a big fight involving nachos. I can’t even believe some of these stories. I’m like, is this seriously an actual story that I’m reading right now? It is. A Florida woman was arrested after an alleged nacho-related attack. Port St. Lucie. It is a domestic incident involving nachos. nachos there’s and uh allison swan 39 was in charge with one kind of battery causing bodily harm uh i so wait is she she’s a lady and she has a wife i just want to make sure i understand this because sometimes the headlines are not okay so she got into a fight with her significant other and then attacked her partner and shoved hot nachos down her britches oh And the police had to be called. She was described as, quote, drunk. Really? I’m so shocked. I mean, look at she looks totally Tober in her mugshot there. And the after she did that, she barricaded herself in their bedroom. She sounds pretty abusive. Like she beat the other woman, beat her partner and then excuse me, and then shoved. you know, this hot food in her drawers. So, good heavens. Remains of an elderly Florida man was found in a bear days after a deadly attack. 89-year-old Robert Markle. This is so sad. He was found dead around 100 yards from his home. And he had been reported missing. And the disturbances that he reported to police earlier that apparently had been caused by bears. He was in a bear. A bear ate him. Horrible. Third hour next. GoldCo is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form, no commitment, just free information. And then they’ll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kit straight to your door. No shipping fees, no strings. just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can fit into your financial plan. I’m a big believer in doing your research, and this kit is a great place to start. So I’m really excited to be partnering with Goldco because not only do they support my show, which I truly appreciate, but they’ve made the whole process of buying precious metals Super straightforward. Because if you’re a fan of the show, Gold Co. is also going to tell you how to qualify for unlimited free bonus silver on eligible orders. If you qualify, you can even get a free half ounce silver Ronald Reagan coin. Totally free. Don’t wait. Take that first step towards protecting and diversifying your savings with Gold Co. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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End quote. The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality. They say Ukraine attacked Russia instead of the other way around. And expect us to believe it. At home, they attack heroes who have defended our nation in war and against cyber attacks as traitors.
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So Al Gore, he’s alive still. Who knew? He kind of reminds me of, Al Gore reminds me of Britain’s Prince Andrew. In a way. Not just because of the jowls, but just the overall vibe. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lashley, at the top of this third hour. So I don’t know why he… Al Gore was not a prolific fundraiser, and I don’t even know why he’s out there… Even like why they even have him speaking at all. But there he is. And he’s his soundbite there that you just heard. He’s essentially arguing that Trump, when he looks at Trump, he sees parallels to early Nazi Germany. And I just think that people need to stop going back to the Nazi will just because they don’t like somebody’s policies or they don’t like their politics. It doesn’t mean that they’re a Nazi. But it does mean that he’s a giant pervert who once apparently asked a masseuse to release his inner chakra. Winky, winky. That’s so gross. Can you imagine? Yeah. I can’t stand Al Gore. I think he’s just one of the dumbest people. He was a tobacco farmer. Wasn’t his family tobacco farmers? That’s like where his money came from. Anyway, so I’m not a fan. And his wife, I will forever dislike, Tipper Gore, because she was the reason that they started putting explicit lyrics labels on albums and why so many people had a hard time going and purchasing music. And I worked at a record store for a while when I was in school, and that was really fun to… You know, after all of that, I that was like I was in elementary school when that all happened, when that originally happened. Remember, she was like the ultimate Karen. She was the woman who went out there and was like, oh, this music. And so I just don’t like the gores at all. Any of them. I’m not a fan of any of them. I don’t even know why he’s. I mean, Bill Clinton doesn’t even give as many remarks as Al Gore does. I don’t know. I guess he’s got. Guess he’s got got to pay for those massages somehow. Anyway, that’s so gross. I made myself sick. I actually could just vomit all over this mic. That’s so horrible. He’s so gross. So a few things still to come that we have to touch on. Can we hit we have some. Well, it’s not really a red state rhino ism story, but it is a rhino story. I have some red state rhino ism. But one little story that I want to touch on, and there are a few folks that have been, there’s a story up at Ammo Land about this. So you guys heard about the Hearing Protection Act, right? So the Hearing Protection Act was legislation that is supposed to stop classifying suppressors as NFA, National Firearms Act items, right? And apparently a congressman out of Tennessee named David Kustoff, K-U-S-T-O-F-F, is pushing not to have the suppressors removed as an NFA item. He just wants the tax stamp lowered. He just wants a $5 tax stamp. So he doesn’t want to remove suppressors from the NFA. He just wants it to be a $5 tax stamp instead. And that actually could kill all of this because I don’t know why they have – why suppressors are so regulated. And the people, the lawmakers who talk about them, they sound like the stupidest people in the world when they talk about these suppressors. It’s a little asinine. But I have no idea why this guy is trying to fight having them removed off of that. Like if you – And over in Europe, you can’t hunt without them. You’re considered completely gauche and horrible and a fud. That’s what you’re considered if you go over there and you hunt without them. And so here it’s called HPA, the Hearing Protection Act. It’s still in the House Ways and Means Committee. And the person holding it up is David Kostoff. So the tax stamp is 200 currently. So he would just lower it to five dollars and not remove them from the NFA, which was established in 1934. And it would not remove all of the other stuff either. I don’t even know why they’re trying to water this down. It doesn’t make any sense. And there’s a lot of lobbying that’s being done. With with regards for this, with regards to this. So I don’t know. I it just I’m not I’m not quite sure why they’re trying to fight this so bad. But to even it doesn’t remove them the language from it doesn’t remove it from the NFA entirely. And you still have a five dollar tax team. So, I mean, how is that? Oh, so you’re paying what? One hundred and ninety five dollars less. That’s supposed to completely make the abridgment of your freedoms. OK. I don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff that’s happening. And the red state rhinoism or the rhinoism in particular, it’s not just… I mean, they’re not just coming from blue states or purple states either. I mean, this is a Tennessee representative. And if you’re pushing to not have the NFA not apply to this entirely, then what is the purpose? You think that that’s going to be enough for people? Oh, well, I’m so glad I don’t have to ask the government for permission. I’ll just pay $5 instead of $200. That’s a good trade. It’s not a good trade at all. And I don’t know what his I don’t know what this guy’s motivation is for doing this. Trying to water this down. I mean, this will be the closest that they ever get to it ever. So if it doesn’t if it doesn’t work, I mean, I just don’t see it happening in our lifetime. I really don’t at this point. So lowering the fee instead of totally removing it from the NFA is asinine. That’s an anti that’s a gun grabber position. So this is something that we’re going to keep an eye on. And I will have a piece coming out over at my Substack, chapter and verse, which you should subscribe to if you don’t already. I will have something over there for you on that so you can watch that as well. Also, did you guys notice something about Mother’s Day this past weekend? That it was called Mother’s Day? And I did not hear anything about birthing persons. Where did that go? It’s almost like the people pushing it realized after the fact that it was bad and maybe they shouldn’t do it. And it made a lot of women angry. Right. Because that was a big thing. Just literally the last Mother’s Day, they were still pushing this. Remember how you had the World Health Organization and all of these other entities. And they were saying, oh, it’s birthing person’s day. And they were using that language. And now it’s gone. It’s like the earth is healing. The pendulum is swinging back. That was something that I noticed. I didn’t see that mentioned at all. I didn’t realize it until late yesterday evening. I was like, wait a minute. We’re not inundated with… all of the stuff about birthing persons. It’s interesting. So that quickly, I think they finally sort of realized it. I really do think the push for all of that is kind of dead. I really do. I mean, at least I hope it stays that way. It seems like it is. A few other things to touch on. I needed to get to this from earlier. This was a piece that Town Hall had The Labor Department admits hundreds of thousands of Biden jobs were fake. We knew that a lot of them were. But they had said, and this came out this morning, that the Biden administration claimed that they added 400,000 jobs between July through September of last year. But again, new data that was released just this past week shows that none of them ever existed. This is the second time this has happened. None of them existed. And we’ve seen under the previous administration, they kept saying, oh, no, no, no, no. We’re creating jobs. And they had these estimates that were, as we’ve noted, very quietly. And the days that followed revised down. So they said that that these jobs particularly, because you have BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that comes out with these reports every month. And they look at the estimate of the number of non-farm payrolls. They look at the revisions for the last couple of months. And they said under the previous administration, these were all like super abnormal, right? And the monthly job reports, they’re compiled from a survey of over 600,000 businesses, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, long story short, yeah, they were made up. We knew that. We knew that these jobs were fake. We knew that. And again, second time that this is happening. Remember last year, the middle of last year, when they kept saying that they added all these new jobs and instead of adding 800,000 jobs, we actually shed like about 200,000 of them. They just made up tons of stuff. I mean, it makes you wonder how real was anything under the Biden administration because they spent $2 billion trying to gaslight you. They spent $2 trying to gaslight you about stuff with the effort at misinformation. Remember the Ministry of Misinformation and all of this. Now we’re seeing that this is extended far beyond that. There was nothing organic or real. At all in the last administration. None of them. We also had a couple of things as well. We were talking about the Democrats and the riots, the storming of that Newark Center. There’s a story related that I wanted to make sure that I got as well, which… I was I was reliable. I was told we were all told that that was that kind of behavior is insurrection. But apparently, I don’t know. I guess it’s different because it’s Democrat. Also different. Democrat. Remember the Spivell in story. So this was maybe like six months ago. We were talking about the relationship that the Kelly’s and, you know, Mark Kelly, he’s a senator for. Well, he’s a former astronaut, now senator. His he had this relation to a company that was essentially a spy balloon company that was funded by China. Well, now this latest headline, former astronaut Mark Kelly started the spy balloon company that’s funded by China. More information is coming out about it. The reason why he came up because during the last. I guess when Harris was picking her VP, they were thinking about incorporating Mark Kelly under this. Remember? Now they’ve had all of this documentation come out proving beyond any questionable doubt that he was involved at this level. I still feel like they’re trying to make this guy a thing. Mark Kelly out of Arizona. Or am I being too… Am I… Because he keeps coming up. His name keeps coming up and they keep going to him for like fundraisers and different things like that. And that’s why I really feel like that needs this needs to be kept on the table, because as you know, one of the things that the Democrat Party is doing is I think they’re trying to establish who their bench is going to be, at least going forward. So they have some they can stake a claim on fundraising, et cetera, et cetera. This needs to all I think we need to mention the story at least once a week that it’s beyond any shadow of a doubt that this dude like was in business with the CCP with a literal spy balloon company. The senator and he’s been trying to read kind of reinvent himself as a moderate as well. I almost get the sense that they’re trying to maybe he’s on a short list for like a Newsom VP when he runs in 2028. The Wall Street Journal broke this story all the way back in 2021. Back in 2024, Fox had a report on it. as well and uh now they have like pdfs of certain documentation floating around on social media etc i just i think if you’re in business with the ccp i just don’t think that you should be disqualified from holding any elected office in the united states why are you in business with a major geopolitical foe of the united states that unleashed a virus that shut down the world killed a lot of people and then to say nothing of the fentanyl that they allow to just seep in They deliver to Mexico and seeps across our border. As we move, our partners that bring you the program, our friends over at Kel-Tec, great company, great all-American company. They got the PR57, the rotary barrel pistol, the lightest 5.7 on the market, 40% lighter than competition. It’s perfect for concealed carry. You can actually really concealed carry this 5.7. It’s awesome. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So three teenagers kidnapped, allegedly, kidnapped a wealthy man at gunpoint, drove him to a remote Arizona desert and stole $4 million of his cryptocurrency fortune in a sinister plot. Austin Fletcher, Bilal Ashraf, both 16. They’re from Pasco County, Florida. They teamed up with a third unidentified teenager who’s remained anonymous. They had their hearing Friday, just this last Friday. The third teenager is no longer in the States. They don’t know where he is. But, yeah, they’re going to face charges as adults. And it includes robbery, kidnapping, and extortion. Because, see, it’s only extortion if the government doesn’t do it. Now, if they were IRS agents, that would be totally okay. Just saying. Maybe they have a future at the IRS. It sounds like they’re getting a really bright start at it, Cain. You know, really, they are. Let’s see. I don’t even know where this town is. This is in New York. Cohoes? Near Albany? Okay. A resident reportedly had to restrain a chainsaw-wielding man in a clown mask. The guy was arrested because police got calls about two dudes fighting in the street. And apparently one of the men was walking down the street wearing a clown mask, brandishing a chainsaw. And when a neighbor goes, what are you doing? He came towards the resident menacingly with the chainsaw. And then the resident restrained him until the police arrived. Yeah, it seems like he had ill intent. Just going to jump out of it. It seemed like he had some ill intent.
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It wasn’t a kid’s birthday party he was going to?
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The chat is at Rumble, channel 347, DirecTV is where you can also find the stream. And don’t forget, we’re at Substack, chapter and verse the newsletter. So POTUS, I want to talk about this plane thing for a second because Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is happening with Boeing. These planes are, Air Force One is 35 years old. Now, that plane, I don’t know. Like things break over time, right? I mean, I don’t know. I just got some questions. When Trump first made the deal with Boeing about this 2018, he was in his first term. That’s when he had ordered apparently two planes from Boeing. That was about $3.9 billion because the planes that we have, the pair of them are 35 years old, actually over 35 years old. Now, I don’t understand how this happens. These planes were supposed to be completed and delivered, I think, what, 2021 and 2024. Apparently, they are so far behind that maybe 2029 is when they’re done. And they’re over budget already. In order to continue building them, Boeing wanted several billion dollars more. This was after they had already agreed to the $3.9 billion price tag that had been negotiated back in 2018. And this was all because, you know, Qatar had suggested they would allow use of one of their planes temporarily. And I… Don’t agree with some of the remarks that some folks have had. Well, taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for it. So let’s use the Qatari plane. And I just think regardless, I like what Yates said when he was on with this last hour that they’d strip it all down anyway. But still, the optics are bad. The issue is, why is it taking Boeing so long? So back when these when the current planes were first commissioned, that was like what under Reagan. Right. And that was in I think it was eighty five. I think that was in 1985 when it was first commissioned because the first test flight, it’s a Boeing VC-25A. Yeah, it was commissioned in 85. The aircraft itself was built in 1986. It was first flown in 1987. By the way, when you Google something, actually, I pulled this up because I Googled this this morning. It gives you a little AI summary. I don’t know if I like that because I want to double check it. So I did. All of this, by the way, is taken from a couple of things. This is, well, Boeing. It’s the Boeing thing. And then it’s also history link and a couple of other Britannica, a couple of other things. But it was. they built it. So they, a year after it was commissioned, they built it. They did the first test flight in early 1987. And then it was actually like delivered in 1990. So that was five years. Reagan had ordered these planes to replace the 707s that they had. Now Trump commissioned, this was a 747 that Trump commissioned in 2018. So I’ve got some questions here. And why is it taking them this long? Why is it taking them this long to do this? I mean, this is… Reagan announced the Air Force intent to purchase two new wide-body jets to replace the aging VC-137s, Boeing 707s. 86, Boeing was awarded the contract to build the 747s. 1987, the first one of the new 747s, which is now the current Air Force One, that’s when it first flew, was in 87. 1990… The first of the two new ones, it was the VC-25A that was delivered and deployed. And then the older aircraft were retired between 1998 and 2001. I actually have been aboard the ones that Reagan retired at the Reagan Library out in Simi Valley. I was actually – I took a tour of that jet. And – Yeah, when you look at that jet and you look at me being only a – I am a plane person in so much as Katy Perry is an astronaut. Yeah, there are some obvious differences that non-versed people can see, right? But – and I’m not just talking about the decor. I mean like with the equipment and some of the operations, et cetera. But they’re – I mean they’re huge. They’re really wild to tour. But five years. Five years. Five years. why is it taking why is now Boeing saying it could be 10 years before they have this thing done maybe 10 years may at the earliest again he commissioned this in 2018 at the earliest 2029 that’s 11 years and now it may take longer what in the world by that time it’s going to be outmoded why is it caner what are you saying why is it taking that long
SPEAKER 07 :
I was just, I just thought it was, I was curious because it’s weird considering that, you know, we’ve been to the moon, but now they’re saying we can’t go to the moon with even more advanced technology than we had back then. And it’s almost like this, like, okay, in the 80s, we were building planes at five years for, you know, Air Force One. Now it’s Tet, but we have better technology nowadays. So why does, what is happening? Why is this the only industry that seems like moving backwards?
SPEAKER 02 :
That is the million-dollar question, is it not? The million-dollar question. That is a good point. Why is that? I mean, I… This whole thing, I’m just… It’s shocking. It’s incredibly shocking that it takes this long. And so now you kind of… That’s, you know, the reason why, you know, we’re in this situation and we’ve got the Qataris. And I think that that’s like… That, to me, isn’t that kind of a bigger story? I mean, that Boeing… was supposed to have these planes done and I think delivered by last year. And now they’re so behind schedule. They said that it was supplier engineering and manufacturing issues. And you had L3 Harris that is over, they were commissioned by the government to overhaul this thing apparently that was formerly used by Cutter’s government as like an interim temporary thing. They’ve been a contractor to Boeing before. They’ve worked on communication systems, etc. They’ve actually worked on some stuff for the replacement ones for Air Force One, too. I guess they’re competing to be a big supplier for the Pentagon. It’s a company that’s growing really quickly. They are obviously a lot smaller comparably to Boeing. I think they have like a third of their revenue. But I’m just shocked that it’s… that this is taking as long as it is and this is one of the things like with our military they’ve had these issues too with them and and and these sorts of these like manufacturing delays and by the time they get stuff it’s like entirely outmoded and i i’m just i don’t know they so they said that I think this was around the elections in November. There was a Boeing representative that signaled to federal officials that the manufacturer that Boeing, and I think this was over at Wall Street Journal. So Wall Street Journal has this story. They were saying that someone said that maybe 2029 at the earliest, but other Boeing representatives, when they were talking to federal officials, they were saying that it would be around 2035 when… They would be able to do it and they said that they have been struggling with and this is again per Wall Street Journal the plane’s complicated wiring says this piece complicated wiring and structural issues including some related to holes for doors cut into the lower lobes of the aircraft. I just feel like that is a problem that should have been easily solved. I think what in the world is what is this nonsense? What is this is crazy. So that’s the struggle? That’s the struggle, boss? Is this? They’re working with some of the, I’m just curious as to how this is different than any of the other ones. Now, there’s a, this is on CNN, but our Air Force, and CNN had this piece about, where they talked about their stealth fighter, the Frankenjet, that they stitched together. So they had two F-35s that were wrecked in accidents, and they’re now on duty and combat ready. These two jets crashed in the span of three years, and the U.S. Air Force turned around and rebuilt them, and now they’re back in action. Okay, so what is the holdup? What am I missing here? I am stunned. Now, Lorraine goes, to be fair, Boeing is the company having problems with door plugs falling out of the aircraft in the air. Oh, yeah. Now, do you think, and I’ve heard this floated before, is the Qatari plane threat just a way to put pressure on Boeing? Do you think that that could be part of it?
SPEAKER 07 :
You mean the Trump administration? I mean, it could be part of it. I mean, we’ve had now at least three years with Boeing tragically in the news, whether it be, you know, for failures of their equipment or the whistleblower who just got.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, I’m just curious. How is it that the Air Force, per this piece, can take and stitch together a Franken jet from two crashed F-35s? like just a little over two years, and they put them back, they deploy them again. But Boeing can’t go in to existing jets and deal with like wiring and whatever modifications are required.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s why I don’t believe it. We know things have improved since the 80s in regards to manufacturing and everything else. So I don’t buy it.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think it’s becoming a question, do you trust Boeing? And Boeing, this is like an all-American, it’s like an all-American company. When you think of American companies, that’s one of the ones that I think always comes up with people. And I don’t like iconic American things being viewed so horribly. But in this instance, I mean, it’s deserved. What the hell is happening there? What the hell is happening with that plastic white bag of powder? That McCrone hid. Can we play this video? So now Lorraine says it’s a tissue. Kane goes, what’s in the tissue? Kane is unconvinced.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, at first I thought it was a baggie because it looks like when you see it, it has like a base to it.
SPEAKER 02 :
So this is the video. Juan’s getting ready to go. It’s a John’s France press in this tiny little room.
SPEAKER 07 :
And there it is. At the head of the table, you see it right next to that glass. It’s right there by the glass. There’s a spoon, too, that gets grabbed up by the taller guy.
SPEAKER 02 :
And then you have Macron, you have Keir Starmer. So it’s still sitting there. All of a sudden, Macron sees it and goes, oh, boom, boom. I don’t think it’s cocaine. I don’t know. I don’t think it’s that. There are different photos that have been published that it looks like it is a tissue. I just can’t imagine. And the other photos that I’ve seen, I’m like, okay, yeah, I can see what it is now. Kane’s like, what’s in the tissue?
SPEAKER 07 :
But if it’s not my tissue, I’m not touching it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, isn’t that where Macron was sitting? Was it?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know. But all I know is I’m not stuffing a weird, not knowing where it came from tissue in my pocket.
SPEAKER 02 :
Because clearly they had water that they were drinking and they were sitting there. I am not one to defend any of these stooges, but I’m just saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
And Juan, didn’t you take a screenshot of it and a little zoom in on the whole thing, you think? Because the video’s a little blurry, but okay, I’ll concede it’s a tissue, right? Because I originally thought it was a bag of white powder.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s like a napkin or a tissue is what it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but there’s something in that damn tissue.
SPEAKER 02 :
And then Merz is the other guy. He hides the spoon. And the joke is supposed to be that Zelensky is a known cocaine enthusiast. And that nobody explained anything. I don’t know. They were on a train. They were in Ukraine. And this was just a couple of days ago. So and he takes it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t think I just don’t think that coincidence that cocaine rhymes with train.
SPEAKER 02 :
I think that if they were if that’s what it was, I don’t think that they would have invited cameras with anything still left on the table. I mean, they might be idiots, but they’re not like that stupid. I mean, at least those two.
SPEAKER 07 :
I was willing to believe the drama, though. You’re just kind of ruining it for me, actually.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, believe me. I want to believe every conspiracy theory that I hear about them. I want to believe that his that Macron’s wife is a man and that’s a wig. And I want to believe all these things. But, you know, I just I don’t have I just sometimes I just get tired and I’m like, I don’t have enough energy. Like, it’s hot in Texas today. I know I complain about it being cold all this week, but now I’m going to complain about it being hot.
SPEAKER 07 :
Like, this sounds hot.
SPEAKER 02 :
Huh?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know what? It’s going to be Wednesday.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it’s going to be lava. Yeah. Officially a lava. Yeah, it’s going to be where our spring is dead. We are already yeeted into the 90s. So long story short, I don’t think it’s they look always cracked out. I mean, McCrone has just short little eyelids. I don’t know. He’s got giant. He just looks like a guy’s all like naturally tweaked anyway. And Keir Starmer’s a socialist, so he’s weird-looking because of that. I think that ideology affects your face, so I don’t know. He looks weird anyway. Our friends over at Super Beats, a great Texas-based company, and they make a lot of really good stuff. But with Super Beats, you guys are familiar with the Heart Shoes. Super Marine, a lot of people are talking about healthy metabolism issues. and supporting healthy blood sugar. And this is where Superberine comes in. It’s plant-based, doctor-formulated. It has a unique form of berberine and Italian fruit extract that gives it an additional level of antioxidant cardiovascular support. And the berberine is unique. It’s been clinically studied to deliver nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. It’s highly concentrated, so you get all these benefits in just one easy-to-swallow capsule a day. And the grapeseed extract that’s included in the Super Brewing, that provides for greater tolerability if you’re concerned about any potential GI distress. Visit Sam’s Club and restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Shoes and expand your routine with new Super Brewing for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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One of the things that I just came across my feed is that Abbott, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, announced that the state apparently halted the construction of Epic City. And that was that 400 and something acre residential development that was going to be Islamic centered. And I think they were going to have like a mosque and I don’t know what type of schools or whatever they were supposed to have, but no other details about it. But that’s apparently what there were. I think there were questions about. Well, what the left always focuses on, like inclusion, et cetera, things of that nature. And also financing and making sure that it was all economically above board, which that kind of, it’s sort of suggesting that it wasn’t. I don’t know. We’ll look into it a little bit more tomorrow. In the meantime, today in Stupidity Cane.
SPEAKER 07 :
And Juan, this is Cut 24. It’s Al, release my chakra gore. Sickening to even say it out loud. But this is what he says in cut 24. Listen to this.
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End quote. The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality. Really? They say Ukraine attacked Russia instead of the other way around.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s not what they say.
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And expect us to believe it. At home, they attack heroes who have defended our nation in war and against cyber attacks as traitors.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Essentially, he’s trying to draw the parallel between early Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, which is something the Democrats do ad nauseum.
SPEAKER 02 :
Based on what?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly. Yeah, that does it. Folks, make sure you sign up for the newsletter, chapter and verse, over at Substack. Find us Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
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