Join the conversation as we dissect a fascinating mix of topics, from the ongoing battle over healthcare legislation to a shocking incident in Idaho. Understand the critique against billionaires amidst cries for more equality and democracy, juxtaposed with an insightful dialog on how political labels are being weaponized. Get a firsthand account of how current events are reshaping political ideologies on the left and what it means for the future.
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On healthcare and betraying a promise. It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the Cabinet Room when I was there with Finance where he said we can go after waste, fraud and abuse on any programs. Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz, I’m talking about White House healthcare experts, refuse to tell him that those instructions that were to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse all of a sudden eliminates a government program that’s called the provider tax. We have morphed a legal construct that admittedly has been abused and should be eliminated into waste, fraud, and abuse.
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So that’s Tom Tillis. Yesterday, they were actually all weekend, they were fighting over the big, beautiful bill that the Senate is now passing. Now, remember, everything’s got to be reconciled with the House. There’s still a little bit of ways to go, but we’re going to have some of the details on that because there were some things that came out and that, you know, I think that… really made a number of lawmakers obviously unhappy because of the still spending. I mean, it’s the same damn topic. You guys know what it is. They say they’re going to change something and they don’t actually change it because they don’t have the will to change it. And then you had people like Lisa Murkowski who were cutting deals for Alaskans. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, you had a number of other lawmakers that were cutting specialized deals for themselves So we all basically get the shaft on it. But these lawmakers were able to get were able to kind of like similar to the salt thing, you know. So it’s there’s a lot to still to go. And there’s some things to unpack. I think that the July 4th date, which is why we’re talking about it right now. Some of you have emailed to ask, well. what is up with the significance of passing this thing by July 4th? Like, why July 4th? And my answer to you is there is none. It’s just like this arbitrary deadline. I think that they wanted to just have the optic of being able to say, we got this stuff passed. We got it passed by, you know, the 4th of July. We were able to really do this. This is great. And honestly, I think it’s just to have that That talking point for that, you know, just to be able to say that, which to me is inconsequential. Who cares? Because we care about the spending that’s in it. I mean, obviously, we care about the amount of taxpayer dollars that are still going towards things like the Green New Deal. And all of the other big spending. I mean, we still had Green New Deal. We still have a lot of Obamacare era spending. There’s additional waste, fraud and abuse that hasn’t been cut. Because if you remember the Doge recommendations, that was one hundred and seventy something billion compared to, you know, the actual increase in spending that we’re seeing proposed here. So a lot of the criticisms that you hear about it are accurate. I mean, the criticisms are accurate. And I think that also a lot of the things that could have been done to change it, lawmakers to change this and to add actual accountability, just not happening. So welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this first. hour of the program. And we’re going to get into all of this. Get you set up. I’m going to be out from Wednesday for the rest of the week. Taking a few days. Need to take a little time. Cain’s out for the rest of the week. So we have nobody controlling the dump button today. I say that and Steve and Juan both get nervous. No one’s controlling it today. No one’s going to know what happens. So we’ll get in. We got a lot of stuff to discuss. Also, just some of the latest. So we got that The big, beautiful bill. You also have Ma’am Danny. And I’m never going to say his name the way I think that he wants it said. You have Ma’am Danny, who had a very interesting interview over the weekend. And he was saying that he’s tired of billionaires. He doesn’t think we should have them. Audio soundbite 10. Listen to this.
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Democratic socialist. Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist? Yes.
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I don’t think that we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country. And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
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So he’s against billionaires and he says it’s because there’s inequality that’s running amok. Whenever I hear Marxists talk about inequality, they act like it’s some kind of event that struck up on you. They act as though inequality just simply happens and that it’s not the conclusion of many, many choices that led to that exact point. When he talks about inequality, I always ask these leftists, well, what do you think inequality is? Like, what are you talking about inequality? What do you think inequality is? And I really just feel that they think, well, inequality is somebody has too much money. Okay, well, how do they get too much money? I had this piece, and I’ve talked about this before. It’s this… It’s this old – not old. It’s maybe like not even – maybe almost 10 years old. This piece that ran – this was a while ago where they were examining, as though it matters, but they were examining wealth. And this idea of generational wealth is – It’s fiction. It doesn’t doesn’t actually exist. There’s no I mean, generational wealth, this idea that we have these like old billionaires that pass everything down from generation to generation literally doesn’t exist. The last people really who did that were the Waltons. And then one of them ended up being a Marxist. So you see how well that worked. But this this concept that. Most money is old money is not accurate, and it’s illiberal. It completely ignores, you know, the digital boom, everything else, all of the other new businesses that have been able to be created, the technology that’s created new industries. And all of the money in the United States, like 99% of it is new money. It’s all nouveau riche. It’s all, you know, people like Zuckerberg’s and people like Gates and people like Jeff Bezos who… ended, who worked and literally created something out of nothing. They created everything that they have. And then there were people who were given some money and had a great start that they were given by their parents, as is their right in the United States. And they ended up, like they gave a little bit to the next generation and the next generation built upon that and made some great things. This idea from him on… The idea that we shouldn’t have billionaires, that you should be prevented from succeeding after a certain point or you should be prevented from accumulating so much fruit of your labor because that’s somehow unequal. Well, compare it to the amount of effort that’s put in to get that outcome. I mean this is the reasoning of someone who has never held – and I’ve told you this. He’s never held a job. He’s never worked a job. He is a failed rapper and his mom directed his music videos that will cringe you to death. So I would suggest that you do not go and watch them. But this concept, it’s so Marxist and this is – I mean for him to be doing as well as he is in Manhattan – is, I think, a very interesting changing of the guard in terms of ideology on the left. Very interesting. We’re going to talk more about this and dive more into it. But in addition to this, we also had this insane news that came out of Idaho yesterday. We had two fatalities and numerous others who were injured as this sniper. They named him. I don’t want to name him, but they named him. They did find him dead outside of Cordial Lane in Idaho on Sunday evening. He killed two firefighters. They have not been identified. Left a third critically ill. or critically injured, excuse me, after he started a brush fire to lure police out and bait the fire department. He was identified. One photo has been circulating, and his name is circulating. But they were able to recover his body before the blaze spread across Canfield Mountain. And the first fire was reported almost around 1.30 yesterday, mountain time. And when the fire and rescue responded, they were shot and killed immediately. while they were scoping out the scene. The third one was struck and he was described as fighting for his life after he was rushed to surgery before they announced that he was in stable condition after surgery. But they said that it was a total ambush and just complete pandemonium. And at one point, there was a notice from the sheriff, law enforcement, that had said, all right, if you’re in the area, you might want to go ahead and take this guy. I think we have like the audio that came in on this. Do we not? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and play this. Thank you.
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Well, people in that area need to be very careful because… The sheriff has also said that if anybody gets a clear shot at the shooter or shooters, that they should take them out. And this is going to make it very difficult for law enforcement to try to determine who is in their sights. Maybe there are some innocent people, and they certainly don’t want to take innocent individuals out.
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They have the authority to go out and shoot and kill the guy. If you see the shot, take the shot. And they deployed two helicopters. One of the big issues with the area is the, obviously the tree line, the foliage, a lot of ground cover. So it’s very difficult to kind of scope that out from the air. They were working really hard, but… They finally, I guess he killed himself. They’re still coming out with information. They had a press briefing yesterday where they didn’t give a lot of information out, but just horrible stuff. And they had the bodies of the two firefighters who were killed. They brought them out in a procession yesterday. Super sad. But there was one firefighter who said that he had two battalion chiefs that were down. He was heard over the radio saying, don’t come up here trying to warn everyone because they realized a little too late that they had been baited to come out to respond to that. It’s just horrific. Just absolutely awful. An awful, awful way to start the week with that kind of news. But thankfully, they were able to recover the body and still investigating all of this stuff. Like I said, I know I’ve seen photos and stuff of this guy’s name circulating, but I don’t I get really weird about that because, as you remember, after Parkland, there were a lot of wannabe copycat attempts. And after Columbine, they did a couple of studies and it showed that when people like this get their name in the press, it does inspire copycat events. And people, they want to model whatever crime that they want to perpetrate out on what they’re reading about in the press. In fact, the Parkland murderer, when he was being interviewed by police, that’s one of the things that he had said. And just horrifying stuff. So we’ve got a lot. We’ve got headlines to get into. We’ve got the latest with what’s happening in the Senate as we move. 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Like one got $440 because they had a tiny, it was under one inch and it was a scuff. Well, and the renter, the leaser was saying that it was there even beforehand. But still, they said there’s no recourse to dispute the charges and that they’re getting charged hundreds of dollars for minor scrapes and dents. That are detected by their new AI powered scanner. So it’s very interesting I’m actually surprised this hasn’t been used beforehand, but I don’t know I think that if you have I think there should be some discretion used I think when Evaluating those things but I can definitely see this being abused. Absolutely We’re gonna talk about this one coming up rap duo Bob villains anti-israel and it wasn’t just an anti-israel chant I mean this guy was like pro Hamas at Glastonbury and a big British festival and And he was screaming death to the IDF at the festival. And he was saying they were saying free, free Palestine, death, death to the IDF. And now he was supposed to come to the United States and tour. And now that’s not happening because they pulled it. They pulled his ability to come here. He’s had… his visa they’ve terminated uh his ability we’re going to talk more about this to come to the United States severe storms in Minnesota they had tornadoes up there thousands are still without power and uh they had tornadoes that caused a lot of damage in the western metro area I mean you don’t really hear about a lot of tornadoes in Minnesota so that was very I mean you hear it like in Missouri or Kansas and Oklahoma and Texas don’t really hear I mean I’m sure they have them but this is the first time in a long time that I’ve heard about tornadoes in Minnesota but uh They said that they thousands are still without power up there. The Defense Department is going to stop providing crucial satellite weather data. That’s kind of interesting. They said that they’re no longer going to provide it about, you know, with hurricane season, crucial information. They were operating satellites that were collecting information about conditions in the atmosphere and ocean in a group within the Navy called Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. They processed it. They turned it over to people who used it for all kinds of stuff. But they said that. I mean, they said that everybody else basically has forecasting capability. There’s not any reason why they still need to do this. But they said that apparently Space Force, it’s also about creating departments within Space Force and kind of moving some of those responsibilities over as well. A Colorado funeral home. homeowner was sentenced to 20 years after they stashed, this is gross, 190 decaying bodies. Oh my gosh, this guy’s in major trouble with this. I can’t even imagine being the family. They said this is not an ordinary fraud case. And the details warrant the maximum sentence. The individual received it, too. He was found guilty of stashing 190 bodies in a decrepit building and sending families fake ashes of their loved ones. John Halford, the owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home, was sentenced to 20 years. He was telling people that the ashes that they were receiving, that that was their loved ones, when in fact it wasn’t. And he was storing the bodies in this whole building. And he said, oh, I hate myself for what I’ve done. Probably not as much as the families that… Oh, my goodness. I can’t imagine. They said that it was a bug infested building in Penrose, Colorado, and some of them were piled incredibly high. They had to have FBI agents put down boards because they couldn’t even walk. They didn’t want to walk through the fluid. It was a biohazard. So. And families discovered it because they noticed they were able to reveal that the loved ones were not cremated and the ashes they received were fake. 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brown people from different backgrounds. The word socialism is weaponized as some kind of, you know, anti-American thing. And, you know, Senator Gillibrand and others seem to have fallen victim to that level of ignorance and miseducation.
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Well, yeah, because it it is a pretty un-American thing. I mean, it’s socialism. It’s completely antithetical to the way that our republic is set up and work that was established in the way it works. So that’s Jamal Bowman, who’s not the brightest bulb in the box. And they’re upset whenever those words, which are accurately used, whenever they are used to describe what it is the left does and the stuff that they that they promote in their policies. And I think it’s funny that they take such offense to it. Well, then don’t do it. I mean, if you’re taking offense to it, then clearly you see that it’s bad. So why then do you have phrases like democratic socialist and things like that? Like. made-up terms that people use as a way to sort of blunt the full effect of what that term means. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this first hour here as we roll towards Independence Day. And Things to still update you on, particularly as it pertains to the battle continually over the bill that’s in the Senate, the big, beautiful bill in the Senate that was able to pass through only because there were some Republicans, some rhinos that were cutting some deals. It was actually a deeply unpopular bill. I mean, I know a lot of people talk about, oh, well, the tax cuts. Yeah, but the tax cuts are all temporary. And I don’t look I what we pay in tax. I don’t want taxes to go up at all. I just don’t understand why, A, we couldn’t have done more and B, also why it’s only temporary. I mean, I know the answers to why it’s kind of rhetorical so that they can get the sort of score that they needed from the Congressional Budgetary Office. Remember, it’s like. prompt with AI. It only spits out what it’s fed. I mean, you have to, you know, like you would, however you prompt AI to return a desired query, that’s pretty much the CBO. I mean, so they can sit here and say, well, it’s not actually going to be expensive and here’s why. Because tax cuts are going to be temporary. The CBO doesn’t add a caveat into that when it spits out results. So it’s in Democrats and Republicans both do this. This is they did this with Obamacare to to try to to fudge some of the stuff with Obamacare. So the bill is there still again, it’s still being debated. We’re going to talk to Chip Roy coming up at some point about this going through the Senate. I just don’t understand the whole we got to pass it by July 4th. It’s just such a meaningless arbitrary date. I mean, even after all of the revisions that they had, it’s still a really bad bill. And the Trump tax cuts, and this was the other thing, I mean, they still could have fought over this and they still had time because the tax cuts from 2017 don’t expire until December 31st of this year. So you still had a handful of months there. They were they I mean, they really should have cut it into sections and then done each piece separately. But, you know, no one’s going to it’s D.C. I mean, it’s Washington, D.C. So we’re going to talk with Congressman Chip Roy about this coming up. So all of that to keep an eye on as well. We were discussing a little earlier the I’m going to pull this up. We’re talking about ma’am. I can’t I struggle say his name. Ma’am, Danny, this guy and more of his platform is coming out. And it’s weird. Have you noticed that the only republic are the only Democrats that seem to get behind him? And I’ve noticed this as well are really just only Democrats. New York Democrats. There’s really not a lot of people getting behind this guy, or at least, you know, you have your AOCs and you have your Bernie Sanderses and you have those types of people, but you’re not seeing a lot of other individuals get behind him. I think they’re incredibly nervous. They’re very nervous about getting behind him with this. And it doesn’t help that while this is happening in New York, you’re contrasting with Republican kind of failure, uh, In the Senate. One of the things with Mandani is that just to kind of give you insight as to those supporters, he was making a joke. Well, kind of making a joke. He had said this was what I think back like he had one tweet. He made a joke kind of about nine nine eleven. A Mandani supporter made a joke about him supporting nine eleven. And then the guy had to delete it because everybody thought it was real. some of the stuff that I think his supporters and this guy’s platform, the more that you read about it, I mean, the crazier it becomes. We had, I think last week, we were discussing the issue of he wants to tax all the white neighborhoods. Well, more taxes for whiter neighborhoods. And this was on top of saying that billionaires shouldn’t exist. I mean, they do, but whatever. I’m sure he wouldn’t have a problem if he was a billionaire. He wouldn’t have a problem with it at all. But he, the… Plans that he has been promoting out there, it’s pretty wild, including freezing rents on not just like property, like personal, like residential, but business, rent for businesses, etc. I don’t know how his plan is going to work. It sounds… like an elementary schooler wrote it. This guy has, I have no idea how he thinks that this is, any of this is going to work. Not only that, again, taxing the wider neighborhoods, he doesn’t think that billionaires should exist. He thinks that there should be additional because New York has a number of billionaires. He thinks that billionaires should essentially have greater, even more restrictions on the stuff that they do in Manhattan, whether it’s business, et cetera. I mean, this is like, he wants to treat people who are successful, basically make them pay a ton of sin taxes for being successful. I saw that the mayor of Boca Raton was saying, yeah, come on down, New Yorkers that don’t want to live under this kind of Marxism. I don’t think that Floridians want to welcome anybody that would entertain voting for this guy or that voted for this guy and then didn’t like how it went after the fact. Very interesting. Also, we had this story about this group that was in – playing this festival overseas. It was in Glastonbury. It’s their big festival that they have in Britain. And the U.S. government pulled the visas of these, they call them these British punk rappers, Bob Villain, because they went on this tirade and were screaming death to the IDF. We have some of the audio of it here. I mean, this was like, they played this huge festival.
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Free, free! Free, free! Free, free! Free, free! All right, but have you heard this one though? Wow, all those people chanting like lemmings.
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Like Lemmings, the state, they were supposed to come to the United States and tour in the United States was like, no, we don’t want that. So they revoked the visas for the members of that group after they they led the crowd in death chants. And that was a deputy secretary of state, Christopher Lando. He posted this on X. And said, yeah, this we’re not going to have this over here. I they were trying to they were leading these chants. And this was on Saturday when this was happening. I saw it was trending over the weekend and I was trying to stay off social media over the weekend. And I mean, that I mean, that’s wow, that that would count. So, of course, the left likes them, but they’re not going to be able to come over after this. They were supposed to. I think they had a number of dates here in the United States, a handful of them. And now, nope, not happening. Now, in addition to it over in what gets me is like, OK, so they I don’t know if this was in Britain. Some police were investigating it. So it was in Avon and Somerset. They’ve announced that they’ve opened up an investigation into what they called a public order incident. I just want to compare the reaction to from the British authorities into this. Compare it to do you guys remember the video of the little kid who got in trouble because she remarked and apparently she’s on the spectrum and she’s quite young and her grandmother apparently has very short hair and is a lesbian. And she was on video telling this female police officer that she looked like a lesbian because she had short hair and was similar in appearance to her grandmother. And they were trying to go after and arrest this little kid for hate speech. You guys remember this whole thing? Like they showed up at her house. They brought the police to their house. It’s all on camera. There are a number of examples of this. If the authorities over there hear you saying something that you don’t like, they show up to your house. If you post something that hurts someone’s feelings on social media, it’s actionable. But then you have these guys that literally get on a stage in front of thousands of people and are screaming death death to the idf and like hate like violence like they’re what they’re calling for is violence it’s not i you know i dislike these people and that’s the chant because it’s not as fun uh but they’re they’re screaming about actual like trying to incite violence and oh well there’s been an investigation open there’s an investigation that’s been open now oh yes a senior detective has been appointed to lead this investigation what the hell are you investigating I mean, if you if a little kid gets in trouble for saying that a short haired, you know, tomboyish looking female cop looks like her lesbian grandmother and they’re trying to get her for a quote unquote hate speech. Why is that such a different reaction to this? This is amazing to me. So, oh, no, now we’ve got an assessment. We’ve decided, this was their actual statement, following the completion of the assessment process, we’ve decided further inquiries are required and a criminal investigation has not been undertaken. Now, these are their rules. These are their rules. So what else do you need to investigate? The guy’s on camera saying this stuff. I’m just curious, according to their rules, what else is it that they need to investigate? It doesn’t make any sense. And so there was a really good piece that I and Hersey Ali had over at the FP. And the subhead was, it’s a brilliant strategy in its simplicity. You paint Israel as the nexus of evil, and then you paint every Jew who doesn’t renounce it as complicit, and then you force them to choose dignity or safety. And of course, she was going off on this. I mean, this was like on one of their main stages, broadcast live broadcast. on the BBC. And the best that they can do is, well, we’re having an investigation. Now, I’m a free speech person, but I can’t help but again, point out the drastic difference between entreatment of people. If it seems that you’re of this particular political persuasion or you’re of this particular ideology, you get an investigation. But if you’re anything else, then you get a police visit at your house. I just feel like that’s very, very lopsided. Our partners that help bring you the program, our friends at Patriot Mobile. It is the only Christian conservative cell phone service provider available. at all. And if you have not switched to Patriot Mobile, do not even know what you’re doing. Because your money, if you have not switched, your money is actually working against you actively. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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Because so many men have no idea about what women go through, right? We haven’t been researched, we haven’t been considered, and it still affects the way a lot of male lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice as if it’s just about The fetus, the baby, but women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that does the least of what it does is produce life. It’s a very important thing that it does. But you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it, if you want to, you know, whittle us down to a machine, if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s one of the most asinine things I think I’ve ever heard anyone say. older than me say, I can’t, it doesn’t even, that doesn’t even make any sense. And she’s the one who’s whittling down, that’s former First Lady Michelle Obama, she’s the one who’s whittling women down to being nothing but machines. And to say that, well, you know, that’s the least of what it does is life, that’s the whole purpose of the system. What is the purpose of having those organs if not for that purpose? What is the purpose of having ovaries if not for that purpose? What’s the role of the uterus if not for that purpose? This complete diminishment, this is not unlike how trans activists try to diminish women. And this is where they’re incredibly similar to third and fourth wave feminists to try to diminish the ability of women. Men cannot do what women can do. And here this woman is trying to downplay the major difference between men and women. The one thing that men cannot do, which is grow and nurture life. And they want to rob women of that distinction as well. Rob women of being able to celebrate that distinction. This is why I say they’re completely the same as trans activists. Because they want to rob women of our distinct capabilities. They want to rob women of our distinct capabilities and rob us of that distinct individual trait. When I heard her say that, when I was listening, the first time I saw that sound bite, I thought, do you think that’s the least? What is the point of the system then if it’s not to do that? What is the point of having all of that if not for that purpose? It’s just to have a uterus for fun? You go through all of that for fun? She tried to backtrack because I think as she was saying it, she realized how insane she sounded. That, well, you know, and it’s a great thing, but there’s no, no, it’s an amazing thing. It’s an amazing thing to be able to do it. It’s amazing that women have that ability. It’s amazing that women are set apart in that manner. So I, the whole thing and her, her approach to her perspective of it, that’s just shocking. No, it’s the least, no, it’s the greatest thing that a person can do. That a woman can do. That’s the whole purpose of that system. You know, it’s to be able to have that and diminish it. And how does that even sound to women who struggle with fertility issues? That she just downplays it like that. Oh, that’s like the least of what. Wow. Way to diminish what so many women have in their hearts and minds. Good night. I don’t know what she’s been doing lately. But she does this podcast, and I don’t know if she’s trying to join the commentariat or what it is, but every single episode that I’ve seen, or every, not episode, but clip that I’ve seen of her, it’s always her complaining about something. She’s complaining about, oh, well, the way that women are viewed. And no one talks about it. Everybody talks about it. I have grown up hearing bitching and moaning about this is what women endure. And I say this as a woman who’s gone through stuff. But, oh, my gosh. Well, you know, if you’re going to just try to whittle us down to being a machine, that’s what you’re doing. You’re trying to whittle women down to every bad experience that they have in life and use that exception as the universal. We have a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. Don’t go anywhere. Think about the last movie that you saw that inspired you and kept you thinking long after the credits rolled. Movies have the power to change individuals, communities and culture. And that’s why I’m telling you about Angel Studios. This is the studio that had the courage to bring the world the sound of freedom. So how can you be part of it? Well, you can join the Angel Guild. King of Kings, an animated story about the life of Jesus, is now streaming on the Angel app. And when you watch King of Kings, it’s going to move you. It’s beautiful, it’s powerful, and it’s unlike anything else that’s out there. It opened first on April 11th and broke records and earned an A-plus CinemaScore. So as a premium Guild member, you can watch King of Kings and access… fan curated films and receive two free tickets to every theatrical release and the best part is that you are part of deciding what stories get told next experience the power of king of kings a film that’s moving hearts and inspiring faith visit angel.com slash dana to watch now and be part of this life-changing movement by becoming a guild member that’s angel.com slash dana
SPEAKER 09 :
You mentioned the diversity of your district, including a lot of Jewish constituents. Mamdani has made comments that some have said veer towards anti-Semitism. His initial statement after October 7th, he criticized the Israeli government but didn’t criticize Hamas. He defended the use of the word globalize or the phrase globalize intifada. And he even said that the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu should be arrested or he would if he were mayor, Netanyahu if he visited New York City. Do these things concern you?
SPEAKER 19 :
Globalizing the Antifata by way of example is not an acceptable phrase and he’s gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward. With respect to the-
SPEAKER 17 :
No. Yeah. You think he’s going to have to? So Jeffries and all the other all these other Democrats, they are having a time trying to get this trying to kind of justify or defend this candidacy of this dude, New York, who’s getting a lot of attention. That man, Danny, welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. Dana Lash with you. And he was this was on MSNBC. Somebody 11 to that point. He’s refusing to condemn. The any of that. I mean, I think that this kind of clarifies it enough. Don’t you think? Audio somebody 11.
SPEAKER 14 :
Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights. And ultimately, that’s what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that to have meaning have to be applied to all people. And that includes Israelis and Palestinians as well.
SPEAKER 14 :
But do you actually condemn it? I think that’s the question and the outstanding issue that a number of people, both of the Jewish faith and beyond, have. Do you condemn that phase, globalize the Intifada, which a lot of people hear is a call to violence against Jews?
SPEAKER 11 :
I’ve heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me. especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti-Semitism in our country and in our city. And I’ve heard those fears and I’ve had those conversations, and ultimately they are part and parcel of why in my campaign I’ve put forward a commitment to increase funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%.
SPEAKER 17 :
So he didn’t answer the question. I mean, he’s good, but he’s not that good at dancing around it. I mean, Gavin Newsom is better at dodging issues than he is. And so he just makes it look awkward. And it’s really trying of your patience. So do you condemn it? Well, I mean, it’s not the language. That’s not what we asked if that’s the language you would use. We’re asking you, do you condemn that phrase? We don’t give a rat’s ass about the language you need. Do you condemn this phrase? Well, you know, and that’s not a part of what I am, which is, you know, my I mean, that was some Kamala Harris level salad right there that you guys just got. That was some that was some serious Kamala Harris type like dodging and ducking to try to not answer that question. And I mean, that’s the clarification right there. He of course, he believes this stuff. He absolutely endorses it because he’s not condemning it. I mean, he he all but shouts at himself. I mean, that right there is enough. He didn’t answer the question. He won’t answer the question. He thinks, well, you know, and then it’s what I’m definitely hearing from people in my voters in my area. OK, that’s not what we asked. Did you condemn the phrase? And I wish, you know, Kristen Welker would have would have drilled down on him a little bit more than what she did. She came back a second time. I was like, yes, but the issue is condemning. Do you condemn the state? And he still wouldn’t answer her. I mean, she should drill him on this. Well, yes, but you didn’t answer the question yet. And this is really the whole point of why you’re sitting here. Do you condemn it or not? Yes or no? I don’t want to hear about, well, I’ve heard from people or it’s not the language I would use. Do you condemn it? If it’s not the language you would use, then you should be able to condemn it unless you share the sentiment and you’re just too cowardly to use it. And you’re trying to convince people that, you know, you are. He’s trying to triangulate. He’s trying to act like he’s above the issue, but also part of it. Have some balls. Either say, yeah, I totally endorse that, or, oh, no, I don’t endorse it. But have the courage of a conviction to take a stand. Gosh, this guy is so sleazy. All the people that are falling all over him to be fluffers for communist government is just amazing to me. And what a dodge. Well, do you condemn it? Well, you know, I’ve heard from, that’s not what we asked. Do you condemn it? Yes or no? It’s really simple, really simple to answer this question. But that’s his candidacy. Well, I, you know, audio somebody 12. Listen, this is communism. This is communism. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 11 :
what the purpose is about this entire project. It’s not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism. And obviously raising class consciousness is a critical part of that. But making sure that we have candidates that both understand that and are willing to put that forward at every which moment that they have, at every which opportunity that they are given. We have to continue to elect more socialists and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism. There are also other issues that we firmly believe in. whether it’s BDS, right, or whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, I mean, it’s Little Hitler. Hearing him do this, I mean, he looks like Little Hitler with this. There’s more, but wait, there’s more. Audio Soundbite 14, listen to this.
SPEAKER 18 :
So the third holy grail of taboos in American politics, you have socialism, you have Islam, and then you have Palestine. And you are really going for the trifecta. Let’s go, baby. Let’s go. Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics?
SPEAKER 03 :
When you grow up as someone especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, they elected terrorists, so don’t elect terrorists. I mean, it’s pretty simple to understand that basic reference. This is a guy who is a he’s a communist. And he I mean, he’s he’s trying to not be a little Hitler or he’s trying to act like he’s not. I mean, I don’t know how you say this stuff. This is like some scary. I mean, he said his goal is to elect more socialists. He wants to be I mean, just so everybody knows, Nazis were socialists. Nazi was national socialism, national socialism, Nazi. That’s literally where the origin of that comes from. I mean, this Marxist concept of seizing the means of production. Oh, my gosh. I he I don’t mean again, Nebo baby that’s never worked a day in his life and only became a citizen seven years ago. Why is it that people that come from totalitarian regimes that come from these these countries to the United States want to recreate that here in the United States? I mean, he’s an authoritarian. His answer is always government. We have to seize the means of production. We have to elect more socialists. And socialism and communism are just basically two different pieces of glitter on the same turd. I really don’t know how else to put it. It’s the same. It’s all the same thing. It’s all the same thing. There’s like everyone tries to act. Oh, well, there’s nuances here. It all ends the same way. Come on. It all ends the same way. And he had said, oh, BDS, that’s the movement against Jewish people. So he’s and he’s got all of these soundbites previously. This was a video that he was on video for a conference in 2021. And that’s where that soundbite comes from, where he’s he’s saying that we have to elect more socialist. And like his sentence, other issues we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS, et cetera. I mean, again, that’s that’s a. a Hamas born movement as well. It’s the boycott, uh, divestment and sanctions movement. And they tried to, uh, they target Israel. They target Israel for what Hamas does. The democratically elected Hamas in Gaza, they target them for, they target Israel for what the democratically elect Hamas does to Gazans in Gaza. Make that make sense. I don’t know. This, um, This guy, I mean, he would only play out of New York. I mean, obviously, you can’t have someone who would be as appealing to New Yorkers across the nation if you took him out of New York. But that’s not the point, right? So this guy, and I hear a lot of people say, you know what, that’s just New York, and it’s not going to change anything anywhere else. I really want to caution you against that. Let me give you a couple of examples. So One example, I think everybody remembers Wendy Davis, right? Wendy Davis in Texas and how like 10 years ago or so she was running. She was trying to run for governor. She was trying to run for a number of races. She didn’t have a shot in Hades of winning, but that wasn’t the point, right? The point was they were going to use this lightning bolt candidate who did not have a shot at all whatsoever in winning any of these races for which she was running, but they were going to use her as a way to seed the ground and register voters and raise money and start And having a repetitive footprint in the minds of voters in areas that normally would not consider candidates of that political persuasion. So they the goal was never to win and they knew they weren’t going to win. And she understood the game that was being played. Then a few years later, they had Beto O’Rourke, right, the Irishman whose dad wanted to appropriate a Mexican identity so that they could try to trick voters into thinking that his super white green eyed son, who was a slacker and apparently got in trouble for DUI and all this other stuff, that he was, you know, he was someone who was Hispanic in background, which he wasn’t. And they ran Beto O’Rourke. He kind of had to be a willing stooge in a respect. They ran Beto O’Rourke for the same purpose that they ran Wendy Davis. He was supposed to cede the ground, register voters, and raise money. And they were specifically targeting the district in which we live. We live in the last large urban red county in the entirety of the United States. And so it has been a target for the left for quite some time. I mean, it’s a reason why we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in school board fights here. Everything is a fight. Everything is a fight here down to like the most minuscule race that actually wouldn’t even cost anything in any other part of the United States to file or run or defend or whatever. But here it’s like a big ordeal. So they ran Beto O’Rourke to continue seeding the ground and to be repetitive. And it’s like all a psyop to get people familiar and to get them acquainted with the idea of possibly having someone in that shared space. It’s all a psychological thing. op that’s all that’s exactly what it is problem with Beto though is he like actually took it seriously like he didn’t fully understand the game he thought oh wow I guess I really can win not realizing that he was just a tool to get to the point of running a better candidate for them in that in that space and so they ran in once and then he did it again and then he kept trying to run races that he had no and then he ended up you know kind of shooting himself in his own foot because he was just he’s not he’s not an appealing candidate in that way So this is like… I use this and I apply this to Mandani in New York. Yes, it’s just New York. However… And nationally, one of the reasons why I think some Democrats are attacking him is because they want the appearance of there being disparate ideologies on the left when really they’re all kind of on the same page. But they want this guy in the minds of everyone. They want him in the minds of everyone talking about BDS. They want him in everybody’s minds talking about capitalism. quote unquote, Palestine. They want them in everybody’s minds talking about seizing the means of production so that, again, much like the way that they did with Winnie Davis and Beto O’Rourke, they want people used to this guy and this kind of ideology, not even him necessarily, but this ideology in that space so that it becomes less and less shocking when they hear it. It’s like the frog in the pot of boiling water. So you get more and more used to it to then at some point it becomes, oh, well, maybe it’s something for some voters to consider. That’s the end game here. We have a lot more on the way as we move towards headlines and the folks who will bring you the program. It’s the folks over at Relief Factor. If you are dealing with aches and pains every day, you’re not alone. 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SPEAKER 24 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 17 :
This is like the most unfrench thing I’ve ever heard of. They’re banning smoking in schools and parks and beaches. They want to protect kids. So they’re banning smoking because it is still very much a smoking culture. And so interesting. But they said that they have to do it to protect the younger generations. It’s going to be everywhere. Saint-Tropez all over France. They want to ban it everywhere. And that’s what they’re looking to do. And they said they would have fines punishable, punishable by fines up to one hundred fifty three dollars, essentially one hundred thirty five euros. Despite the French Ministry of Health saying that they would have a education period, they said, no, that’s already it’s from July 1st. So it’s already in effect for the first few days. Very interesting. So that’s changing. Let’s see. Delta is warning of continued disruption after the Atlanta airport. At the Atlanta airport after severe storms caused canceled flights and the evacuation of an air traffic control tower. They were dealing with some pretty hardcore storms. Severe weather battled their international airport over the weekend. They had hundreds of cancellations, the evac of a traffic control tower. Everything was still disrupted Saturday. They said that they were still experiencing some disruptions, obviously canceled flights, delays, all kinds of stuff. Then they had to have additionally 100 Delta aircraft that was required by federal law to be inspected after hail because they said there’s and they’re still dealing with cancellations as a result of that. Sometimes, you know, weather’s not what they could control. Tesla’s newly launched robo-taxi service experiences driving issues and traffic problems, according to new reports. The videos that are out there show the vehicles, these self-driving vehicles, braking suddenly, entering wrong lanes, driving over curbs, things like that. They said that one video showed a robo-taxi that drove, like, headfirst into oncoming traffic for six seconds. It’s kind of scary. And another one, they braked suddenly for no reason, and the passenger jerked forward, and all their stuff fell onto the floor. Yeah, it’s still… I would not want to be the guinea pig for autonomous rides. I just don’t want to be the guinea pig for things like that. Like what? Just… No, I wouldn’t. Like as a passenger. Like it’s one thing if you have… I think if you’re shipping or like a courier service maybe, but… I don’t know. Mega Millions ticket holder wins the record-breaking $348 million jackpot in Virginia. This stuff never happens to us, Steve. It never happens to us. $348 million. And they said the life-changing ticket was the largest in their history and sold at a convenience store 85 miles northeast of Richmond. I hope that person immediately is smart about it and hires someone to help manage their windfall and invest and does all that stuff. Smuckers, they’re removing all the artificial colors from their jams and all other products. This is all a part of making America healthy again. They said they are going to remove all the synthetic dyes from foods. sold to K-12 schools by the next school year. They said that the majority of their products were already free of synthetic dyes, but some still have them in them, including the sugar-free jams and the ice cream topping lines. So they’re doing a lot of those changes on that end. Coming up, Congressman Chip Roy. Stick with us as we move our partners that help bring you the program. All Family Pharmacy. Great website. If you need a bookmark, save it forever. I’ve used them so much. You can get your emergency kits. You can get your daily medications, your antibiotics, the whole nine yards. And they’re also offering a summer sale that’s 20% off of your entire order. No insurance required. Licensed doctors in all 50 states. They’re not gatekeepers to your health and the medicines that you need. I’ve used them for antibiotics to help with strep throat. And you can get your ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, all the stuff that you need at allfamilypharmacy.com. And Make sure to use code Dana to get 20% off of your entire order. And you can get fast shipping right to your front door. Most everything is like in two to four days, but you can get it overnight if you need it because they understand your health is important. And sometimes getting these medications in a timely fashion is critical. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and get 20% off promo code Dana 20. Make sure you use a coupon to save 20% allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana coupon code Dana 20 to save 20%.
SPEAKER 22 :
keep your finger on the pulse with the dana show podcast delivering timely news with insightful analysis whenever you want straight to you on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back to the program you can listen coast to coast on a station near you also uh stream the radio program channel 347 direct tv the chats at rumble i was thinking i was sitting here thinking why in the world do we have this
SPEAKER 17 :
And maybe I’m, you know, in the dark on something, this self-imposed July 4th deadline with the bill that was in the Senate. Like, for the life of me, trying to understand why in the world was it – why was everyone trying to get it done by July 4th? Is it because it’s so heinously bad that they needed the cover of Independence Day in order to pass it, ironically? This is my first thought on that, because there is a big problem still with this bill. I don’t think it was actually made better by going through the Senate. We were promised that it was going to be made better. And we were going to see like there’s going to be more in savings. You’re going to have suppressors. You’re not going to you’re going to have all of that remedied. Well, actually, the suppressor issue, all they did was remove the fee for it. But it still comes. They removed the tax on it, but it’s still under NFA. So that’s. completely asinine to even have that structure and call it a win. And that was after the Senate parliamentarian was saying, well, technically, it’s not germane to the budget, so we can’t use it in this process. It’s a tax. It’s absolute. That’s the entire structure of it to protect it from as a gun control regulation. So some of the biggest critics of this bill are people I like, which is why I don’t feel like I’m, you know, wrapping myself in tinfoil because I don’t like this bill either. Congressman Chip Roy out of the great state of Texas, Texas’s 21st congressional district. He joins me on what he’s probably a beautiful front porch. He’s getting ready to enjoy this nice afternoon. Congressman, always good to see you. Am I is that right? Because I don’t understand why they had this like Independence Day deadline to get this thing to the Senate. What was the point of that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I wish I was enjoying it on a porch in Texas. I’m in D.C., and I’ve got my son with me, though, and I’m picking him up at an event, so I’ve got to go get him in a second. But look, and then I’m going to head to the Hill and go see what the Senate does, because I think the Rules Committee is meeting tomorrow. But you’re exactly right. This is an arbitrary deadline that has been set in place for political pressure. I understand why. I think the president wants to move this along, and so he sets dates that he wants to achieve those results. In my view, we still need to get the bill right. And right now, I don’t think the bill is right. I didn’t come to Washington to make deficits worse. And as much as I want the tax cuts to be extended, and I do, as much as that is important for the average hardworking family, it is, as much as I think that we’ve made some improvements on Medicaid, that we’ve done some good on the Inflation Reduction Act subsidies, We’re still far away from where we need to be. My read of the bill, as I understand it currently coming out of the Senate, is that it will miss the mark on the House framework by about $650 billion over 10 years. plus interest and if you add the interest in especially at higher rates it means we will add well over a trillion dollars to the deficit i didn’t come to washington to do that dana i also thought we should have gotten better results on the gun issues that you talked about the uh silencers obviously the short barrel issue but bottom line is we’ve got to get this right for the american people and the kids right now can’t afford a house right our kids they’re staring at mortgages The average age of the homebuyers going up because the world is looking at our debt and saying we’re not going to invest in American bonds like we used to because we’re 37 trillion in debt and we’re being irresponsible. So we’ve got to keep holding the line in Washington. And that’s that’s why these votes are important. Rick Scott’s doing a good job trying to make some changes in the Senate. So is Mike Lee. So is Ron Johnson. And hopefully we can hold the line. But I’m not ready to vote for this bill as it currently is.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. And that’s because it all has to come back to you all as well. You mentioned that it’s it misses the House framework. And what what I don’t understand about that is, is they for the tax cuts, the way that I read it in the in the bill as it as it was going through the House. They were all temporary anyway, with everything set to expire in 28. And they still could not get the cost down through the CBO, which I know was like AI, you know, you prompt it and it spits back exactly what you prompt it with. So I, you know, I get it that there’s kind of a gamesmanship there. But at the same time, they still couldn’t even get it under. And that’s even by making those tax cuts temporary.
SPEAKER 15 :
So that’s an interesting thing that we could nerd out on, and I’m not sure how much your audience wants us to dive into it, but let me just say in simple terms, I ask the people that I trust, people who used to work for President Trump in his world of economics, right, to go run through the numbers for me. And tell me, what is the actual result here? If you assume all tax cuts are eventually going to be permanent and extend in perpetuity. For example, in the House, we only have the no tax on tips provision for four years. We only have the reductions in taxes on Social Security for four years. There are other provisions that we only extended for four years. And by the way, the gimmick they just employed in the Senate was they just struck a deal on the salt. Right. The state and local tax deal. So they could give a benefit to the New Yorkers to protect those high tax jurisdictions instead of it being 10 years.
SPEAKER 17 :
They’re doing it for five in Alaska and Alaska as well with Murkowski.
SPEAKER 15 :
And they do all of this to make it cheaper, right? Because it scores in a shorter window. But just for the lay person out there, that’s fake, right? Because what happens is if you look at the total cost of this, do you think in five years, we’re gonna be able to say no to extending those tax cuts? Of course not. So you gotta score the whole thing to the perpetuity of the entirety of the 10 years. And so I look at this and I say, overall, this thing is going to increase deficits by probably a couple of trillion dollars. That’s not good enough. We need to constrain the spending further. We can do it on the map and the money laundering schemes and Medicaid. We can do it. For example, the Senate took out we had a tax on remittances for people who are here illegally sending money home to their home countries. That’s twenty five billion dollars. We could do it by making sure that we have all of the Inflation Reduction Act subsidies repealed. There’s still $400 or $500 billion on the table. So we could get our job done. We could do it the right way. We could extend taxes. And then we’d have an actual big, beautiful bill. But we don’t yet. And that’s the problem.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is the problem, and I think that a lot of people, they just want the immediate satisfaction of getting something and saying, oh, we got these cuts in. But do you, though? Again, it all sunsets, and then you’re raising the debt ceiling by what? I mean, $5 trillion. This is crazy. This is money that I can’t even comprehend.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, Dana, and this is the thing. I mean, I’ve been having some intense fellowship, as Speaker Johnson likes to call it, with the White House. And I get it. They want this done. The president wants it done. He wants the tax bill. He wants the debt ceiling so he can get busy doing his thing. And he wants to be able to get the border money. Tom Homan does. You know what? I do, too. So do you. But what I didn’t do is come to Washington to continue to rack up the credit card that is driving up interest rates, driving up the cost of housing, driving up inflation and making it toward the American economy is not something the rest of the world looks at as something that is strong and healthy. I know the president has a great agenda that will get things moving again. I want to accelerate that. I want the border money. I want to vote yes. But I can’t vote yes just because they say I have to. I can’t vote yes just because everybody says we got to get it done by July 4th. I have a responsibility to look at this objectively and say, guys, are you doing the right math? And I’ll just tell you right now, I don’t think the math is correct yet. So rather than forcing it through this week, we should have the conversations we need to with the Senate, see what they do, review the bill, find where we can find savings, find where we can adjust what we’re doing on tax policy and make the math actually add up.
SPEAKER 17 :
We’re talking with Congressman Chip Roy. You went after, I thought justifiably, the Senate parliamentarian and then also the majority in the Senate who could do something about the parliamentarian for the people who don’t know whether a lot of people they’re like, well, maybe this doesn’t affect me suppressor. But it still does. It’s you’re talking about a structural framework that’s that’s designed to enforce some kind of unconstitutionality on people with the suppressors and under NFA, SBR, short barrel rifles, all that. So I guess they’re trying to advertise it as a win because they weren’t able to get away with the with the fee that you pay the tax stamp. It’s literally called that to the government so that you pay them to exercise your constitutionally affirmed right. And that’s considered a win, even though it’s still under NFA, because the parliamentarian was trying to argue that it wasn’t germane to the. I mean, it’s a tax. So why can’t the majority congressman tell the parliamentarian to step off, you know, and long walk off a short pier?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, see, the point that I was trying to make is that we have the majority in the Senate. The reality is there’s a block in the Senate who don’t want to achieve all of the things that you and I want to achieve. They don’t want to take the hard positions. They would love to hide behind the parliamentarian. to not do the things that we all want them to do. That’s what’s really going on. Look, parliamentarian may be making some bad rulings, but then the Senate just needs to act. You can overrule. You can make better arguments. You can restructure the bill. You can draft it in such ways to make it work. But the bottom line is you can’t just keep punting and then going, oh, well, it’s the parliamentarian’s fault when you’ve got members of the Senate who are making policy choices. Right now, as we speak, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Tom Tillis, several others in the Senate are trying to offer amendments to strip away the improvements that we’ve gotten on the Inflation Reduction Act and the subsidies. They’re trying to strip away the improvements we’ve gotten on Medicaid. Because every Republican will always campaign on balancing the budget. Every Republican will look you in the eye, Dana, and say, oh, don’t shut the government down. Don’t worry about the discretionary spending. That’s peanuts. We’ve got to go take care of the long-term spending, the mandatory spending, entitlements. Well, we’ve got Medicaid on the table, and Republicans are running to the hills because they’re going back and listening to hospitals. They’re saying, we can’t do it without all that federal borrowed money. Yes, you can. We’ve got to restructure it so that only the vulnerable are getting cared for. The able bodied aren’t. You’re no longer enriching the CEOs of these fat cat hospital corporations. You’re no longer throwing money in insurance companies and you’re actually making states have skin in the game. That’s what Republicans are trying to do with work requirements and reforms. We should go farther. And instead, the Senate wants to retreat. I know that’s a lot. But the short version, if you’re listening out there and you’re taking your kids to summer camps or to school, that’s what I’m doing. I’m balancing all that as a dad. And I’ll just tell you this, if you don’t know what to do with all this stuff, it’s pretty simple. This bill, in my opinion, will raise the deficits in order to get some tax cuts that we want, some tax cuts that we don’t necessarily need, some reforms that are good, but some reforms that we’re leaving on the table. That’s the bill. You say, well, is that a compromise? In my opinion right now, it’s not a compromise worth taking because the deficits are too high and we can’t afford that anymore.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s a great point. I think that’s a great explainer of this. Last quick question for you, Congressman, as we roll into Independence Day weekend. How weird is it that we’re dealing with this bill and it’s Independence Day? I mean, the optics, I feel like, you know, some of the people in the GOP get it so wrong every every time it’s go. Where does this end? Because there’s going to be so much pressure brought to bear on Republicans to support this Senate to POTUS’s desk. Everyone’s going to be called like a squish if they don’t support what no like back in the Tea Party days, we would say is like, you know, to fail type stuff. So where does that leave us?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, first of all, it is the 249th birthday of the country. And we’re immeasurably blessed to be Americans. And I’m proud of it. I was supposed to be in Texas this week. I wish I were. But we also have a job to do. And if I need to be here every day until we get this sorted out, I’ll do it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, because they’re making you read through the whole thing. And they’ve never done that before. They’ve never. I mean, you’ve already read it. This is the first time they’ve ever wanted to read through a bill.
SPEAKER 15 :
We, well, here’s the thing. We know what we need to do. We just gotta have the backbone to do it. But what we can’t do is just jam it through for an artificial optic. And with all due respect to the White House and with all due respect to my Republican friends and leadership, let’s get this right. I think we’ve set a structure that can create a path to success. The American people, conservatives, Republicans, want us to reduce the debt, reduce deficits. They want their tax cuts. They want to be reasonable. They want to make sure that we get good policies. They want fairness. They want the able bodied to have to work. These are all the things we’re trying to do. Let’s secure the border. Let’s do the common sense stuff. There’s a lot that’s good in the bill, but there’s a lot that’s bad. Too many games, too much pork, too much spending, too many gimmicks. We need to get rid of those things, do our job, eat some of the hard boats, right? Go back to your hospitals and say, we’re going to have to figure this out. But there ain’t no free lunch. And too many Republicans want to pretend there is. And I’m not going to go along to get along on this. And I didn’t come here to, you know, hold on to my election certificate for the sake of it. I came on here to win. So that’s what I intend to try to do.
SPEAKER 17 :
There you go. Congressman Chip Roy, God bless you, my friend. Have a wonderful Independence Day. I hope you get back to the freedom of Texas to celebrate some of it and safe travels.
SPEAKER 15 :
We’ll do it. God bless you and Chris and everybody. Take care.
SPEAKER 17 :
Take care.
SPEAKER 24 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 17 :
So this is interesting. Miami New Times has a story about former Congressman Matt Gates. According to the New Times, quote, they said that a TikTok user recorded him scrolling through his text messages and saw his laptop screen on a plane. They were on a plane. The Miami New Times reports, quote, showing his contract with a firm associated with Trulieve to provide administration related guidance. In response to a comment on the video, the user posted the photo with the caption, quote, gigantic font, no privacy screen on his phone. nor on his laptop, end quote. The file, says the Miami New Times, on his laptop, titled PYG of Council Agreement LP. and this is per the New Times, states that the former Florida representative will provide legal representation, consulting and administrative related guidance. And it discusses, quote, non-refundable payments on the commencement of representation and that he’s going to get apparently six figures. And it doesn’t it says he appears to be entitled to additional super success fee. So very interesting. Very, very interesting. That whole story that’s on the Miami New Times. A Florida man was headbutted by a shark while surfing. I’ve never heard of that. That’s in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. They are the shark bite capital of the world. But even this kind of goes above that. Surfer Darren Kay, he was surfing near Ponce Inlet, and he was literally struck in the face by a leaping shark. in a bizarre collision. And the crazy thing is that it was captured on video. It shows the shark breaching the water as he’s riding what’s known as a fish surfboard, which is already also kind of funny. It’s kind of ironic, right? He goes, you’re riding a fish and the shark tries to get your fish. And he kind of brushed it off. But yeah, it jumped up and literally leapt out of the water and hit him right in the head. So he’s fine. I mean, and they think the shark’s fine. I mean, it’s just kind of a weird… kind of a weird thing to have happen. But I would imagine that that does happen. At least he wasn’t bitten. So that’s, you know, there’s a good thing. Let’s see. Florida man who allegedly forged his deceased mother’s checks and expressed a dislike for his aunt. This family sounds all manner of messed up. I think we may have had this last week. But it’s a law and crime story. This guy stole thousands of dollars from his late mother’s estate. And according to the sheriff’s office, this has been going on for like over a year, apparently. And I guess it’s sad. I mean, the way that this happened, I guess some of his family members found out. Also, tomorrow, I’ll save this one. A guy convicted of free 19 sharks was pardoned by POTUS. We’ll get into that tomorrow. Stick with us. Third hour on the way.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is the Democratic Party a left of center party?
SPEAKER 04 :
I think you’ve just hit the I think this is the identity crisis that they have. I think it’s just a collection of people that don’t like Trump. Right now. Right. And that’s that served them well in 20. But imagine trying to create a big tent that had AOC and John Kasich in it. Right. You know, or how about or Liz Cheney and AOC? You’re sort of going to rip a hole in the middle. Right. As you’re trying to stretch that tent.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wow. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but he is actually not wrong with that assessment. I mean, it’s just the Democrat Party is a bunch of Marxist and people who don’t like Trump. That’s it. I mean, they can’t and they can’t even articulate why they don’t like him. They just don’t like him. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour. Would you believe that in a new survey, apparently. Secretary, mayor. former secretary former mayor new mom whatever poop bitty juice would be a contender i’m trying to wrap my mind around this he would be a contender for a presidential ticket on the democrat side he’s narrowly leading harris according to this hypothetical democratic presidential primary it’s 16 to 13 percent what gets me is that he’s ahead of gavin newsom in the survey how is that even possible How in the world is that even possible? Doesn’t make any sense. He would be ahead of Josh Shapiro out of Pennsylvania. Gavin Newsom. I mean, I’m not even going to get into some of the other maybe more palatable to Democrats nominees or different governors, people like Andy Beshear, etc. 23% of Democrat primary voters said that they were undecided in this new survey. It’s an Emerson College survey, and I’m shocked at this. Buttigieg leads the Democrats at 16 percent. Now, it’s just 16 percent. I told you guys he wanted to run for higher office, right? The question for the poll— was this. Looking ahead to 2020 Democratic presidential race amongst the following candidates, who would you support for the Democratic nomination? And they give you Buttigieg, Harris, Newsom, AOC, Josh Shapiro, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Gretchen Whitmer, Andy Beshear, Pritzker, Wes Moore, Amy Klobuchar, Rahm Emanuel, someone else, and Undecided. Undecided is 23%, so Undecided is number one, followed by Buttigieg. How in the world is that even possible? I don’t even know how this how in the world is this even remotely? How is he elite? He was a really bad secretary of transportation, a really bad one. You guys remember how he left? Like he took a quote unquote maternity leave. After he bought his babies, they I can’t remember how long many months he was out. The big scandal was that during a supply chain disruption, because remember, this was all you know, everybody’s kind of coming out of lockdown. So during a supply chain disruption, they could not get a hold of him. And then you had all of these issues at the ports and people protesting. And then the ports were shutting down, were closed with COVID stuff. And then you had the Longshoremen strike, all this. He was MIA because he was on quote unquote maternity leave and no one could get in touch with him. That was a huge, it was in Time Magazine. It was a huge scandal. I know the conservative institution that is Time Magazine. I don’t even know why they keep pulling for Harris. Why do they keep bringing her name up? I mean, there is no leader of this party right now. Newsom’s trying very, very hard, but he still has not. He still has not made it to the top of the mountain there. But I look at this and this is a weak field. Even amongst the left. They will kneecap themselves in order to satisfy. These inconsequential identity political markers like out of these. I mean, I’m just kind of shocked that Josh Shapiro, who is a leftist and I would never support him for any elected office. But with Democrats, he at least is more palatable to me. You would think to, you know, a Buttigieg or Harris, like even Andy Beshear. He doesn’t even come in and like the top five for this. which is wild. But he’s, I think he came in, where did he come in at? Oh my gosh, he was only at 2%. He was tied with Pritzker and more. And again, Bashir is another person that would never vote for him. But if you’re a Democrat and you’re trying to be competitive, and you know that Republicans have a strong bench, you would be thinking at this point, well, how can we manage a race against a strong bench. They kind of did a Hail Mary pass last time by switching out Biden with Harris. And they did not, I’m sure that a Shapiro and a Beshear did not want to jump on the landmine. That was going to be an unwinnable race because you can’t change You know, this is not ACDC. Right. This is not like, you know, they found a Brian Johnson. OK, this is not Van Halen where they brought in Sammy Hagar to in place of David Lee Roth. I mean, it’s Kamala Harris coming in for Biden for Joe Biden. When you switch something out like that, that late in the game, that is such a signal of no confidence. That’s just an unofficial vote of no confidence to everybody else. And so nobody has confidence or the expectation of success by getting behind such a ticket. So now, I mean, I’m looking at this and I was looking at the crosstabs of it. This is their bench. What a weak bench. This is a crazy weak bench. This I mean, that’s all they have. That’s it. That is all they have. They don’t have anything else. I was looking for when they look at their the people surveyed the it’s pretty even in terms of Democrats or Republicans surveyed. And it’s a pretty sizable amount. So I thought, you know, looking at the data that this was, you know, it was kind of a legitimate that was a pretty legitimate survey. That’s why I’m still my jaws on the floor with Pete Buttigieg. This is the weakest bench I’ve ever seen that they would downplay. Again, if you’re on the left and you want to be competitive and you’re looking for palatable candidates, you would look at an Andy Beshear. You would look at a Josh Shapiro. Maybe even a Wes Moore. But those are the people that you would look at because they’re way more palatable than the other insanities that are suggested. Like Amy Klobuchar, really? Rahm Emanuel has been trying to remake himself as a moderate. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but in the past several months, he’s been working very, very hard at doing that. Newsom is just up there because he has name recognition. He knows how to pick petty fights and keep his name in the press. He knows how to do this. He gets headlines by not having to do anything, by having other people come on his podcast. And then they’ll say something, they cut that out and send it out. He doesn’t even have to do anything except have somebody else just go on his podcast and talk. It’s a great way for him to keep his name up there without having to do anything political or expend any kind of political capital. So this was I mean, it was actually like a very I thought a very even poll. And with this, this is audio some by seven. This is just again, Gavin Newsom. I just don’t think this is this is appealing to average people. middle-of-the-road Democrat voters that are searching for some kind of normalcy within the party that they can get behind. I think if you had a moderate candidate, they would flock to them. And I don’t think that Gavin Newsom, well, this is just an example of what they have. This is Gavin Newsom talking to Terry Moran. So you have two people grinding axes against each other. Listen.
SPEAKER 12 :
So when you say those words, Terry, about Stephen Miller, you were right. Excuse my language. You were right. and he is wrong, and it’s wrong for us to operate under the old rules. Forgive me for being intense about this, but a lot of people are counting on us to do more and be better.
SPEAKER 06 :
I respect that intensity. That’s where we have to find our courage, right? We have to find it there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Now, remember, he was the one who wrote about Stephen Miller at the time, that he was a world-class hater, and then he did this rant, and then ABC ultimately ended up suspending him. So Newsom’s like, you were blank right to post that. You were absolutely right. Just the political acumen. I feel like his producers need to do a little bit better of a job with Terry Moran because this really, the only purpose that this is serving, it’s not getting Newsom a headline But it’s making it look like he’s kind of behind the ball a little bit because Terry Moran was old news. He’s old news. And he got fired by ABC and nobody’s standing behind him except apparently for Gavin Newsom. Just asinine, asinine stuff. So the fact that, again, when you look at that lineup, that weak bench, that weak bench, that’s as something else. Did you guys hear this is from Daily Mail? Not a publication that I like, but I thought this headline was interesting nonetheless. So apparently now in Britain, there was a ruling apparently calling a middle aged white woman a Karen is a borderline racist, sexist and ageist slur, says an employment tribunal in Britain. They the term somebody who is excessively like demanding or wants to talk to the manager. The judge goes, well, it’s a pejorative and it’s true. Seventy four year old Sylvia Constance. She is a charity worker. The ruling came in. It’s a case of a black charity worker who accused her bosses of targeting her because of her race and age. She said that they acted. She said that female managers in a complaint written on her behalf. female managers were said to have acted like the stereotypical Karen, having weaponized their privilege and more powerful positions against her. And the employment judge said, we note that the use of the slang term Karen is a pejorative and borderline racist, sexist, and ageist term. And, of course, all this really started gaining popularity under coronavirus during the lockdowns. So the hearing… So this woman, she… said that she was suspended over claims that she was bullying residents and staff, that the lady who, in this case, ultimately this charity worker who accused her bosses of targeting her because of race and age. Then you see in the complaint, like they were saying that she was accusing everyone else of being Karens. I’ve never seen kind of like a turnaround slap like this before. It’s very interesting. So they said that that, I do think it is used that way. I think sometimes you can use it jokingly. But it’s slang for just saying that someone is overly aggressively needy in terms of having a complaint satiated, for the lack of a better way to put it. But I have seen I mean, it’s interesting now that they’re trying that that’s been called racist, sexist and ageist slur.
SPEAKER 24 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 17 :
Microsoft is retiring the infamous blue screen of death where it goes, oh, it’s recovery. It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly. It’s a tormented mini Windows user over the past decades. It’s now being retired. They’re ditching it. It appeared, I mean, they’re ditching this feature. They want to streamline the unexpected restart experience. So they want a black colored screen. So that’s it’s a simplified screen that will appear during, quote unquote, unexpected restarts. And they’re going to roll it out this summer on all devices. And they say that it’ll reduce reboots to about two seconds for most users. They’ve by the way, they’ve used that blue screen. That’s been a thing since the 90s, the early 90s. That is how long that they’ve had that screen. So they haven’t updated it that whole time. F1 zooms to $55.6 million opening at the box office, $144 million globally. And then, of course, they had that Megan, the robot Megan, that bombed. It only had $10 million from opening weekend. That’s a bad start here in the U.S. But F1, though, is raking it in. They’ve been doing a lot of heavy promotion of it, though, as well. And, of course, it doesn’t. hurt when it’s about Formula One, you know, and then you get to go to all the F1 stuff. But they were… Formula One movie teamed with the filmmaker behind Top Gun Maverick as well. So it is the first major theatrical win for Apple Original Films. So this is… They worked with Warner Brothers to do this and they were sharing the marketing duties over it. So overseas it clocked in 88.4 million. So I think this kind of stuff is really important because it’s a measure as to where people’s interests are and their minds are especially. People want to have fun and they want to be able to root for stuff. That’s what a lot of this is indicative of. So very interesting. And it’s actually a legitimately original thing. So, you know, it wasn’t a rehash of something original. Paul Simon canceled. He’s touring still. He’s in his 80s. I really don’t care about this headline, but he’s canceling concerts due to intense back pain. Wow. OK. Beyonce sat in a car suspended in the air during her Cowboy Carter tour in Houston. ABC 13 said that there was a problem, a technical mishap. And so she just kind of, you know, they had to halt their show. Her car tilted over and then stopped. as she was floating above the crowd. And you could hear her say, stop, stop, stop. And they had to have personnel and security rush over. I mean, how do you get something like this wrong? I don’t even know, like, how do you make it to where this stuff, I mean, tilted over so she had to, I mean, they could have dumped her out. She could have fallen. I don’t know if she was, like, hooked on with a harness or anything after, but that’s, you know, goodness. Always, Sonny in Philadelphia, Rob McElhenney, has filed to legally change his name. He said that his name has always hindered him in business negotiations and that in other regions of the world, they can’t pronounce his original name. And it’s his company. He was his production company was behind Welcome to Wrexham. So he’s 48 years old. He says he’s going to change his name. I don’t even know why you would change your name this late in the game. So he’s going to go by Rob Mack. Instead of just Rob McElhenney, it’s going to be Rob Mac. Why can’t you just do that as a nickname? Because Rob Mac now kind of sounds douchey. Really. Rob McElhenney is fine. It’s like so easy to pronounce that name. McElhenney. It’s not hard. We have a lot more coming up as we roll towards the bottom of this hour. Stephen Yates joins us. Stick with us.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, we may once again have.
SPEAKER 17 :
Another deal or a deal? I thought we did have a deal, but now it looks like we have a deal deal maybe with China. We’re coming in from the Associated Press. The U.S. and China have reached an agreement to de-escalate trade tensions, but not a lot is known about this. One thing that we talked about last week is why is it that you’re still allowing so many students to come in on these visas? And why do we still allow farmland to be purchased by CCP, so on and so forth? I don’t know if any of that is a part of this new announcement. joining us for insight on this, as always, and he’s so incredibly good, our very good friend Stephen Yates. You can find him at yatescoms on X, and he’s a senior research fellow with the Heritage Foundation, particularly with China and national security policy, and he served in not one but two previous presidential administrations on this issue. Stephen, always so good to see you. Happy Independence Day. I know we’re a couple of days, a few days away, but still, the sentiment extends, especially now. We may… So this is not like… It’s the same deal, right? But it’s being presented as though we finally have a deal. But we know nothing, right? At least not it’s been made public.
SPEAKER 10 :
yeah i’m i’m a supporter of the president and i like the treasury secretary taking the lead on these things i’m not a super fan of every couple weeks saying you’ve got a new deal that’s pretty much what the last one was which is pretty much we’ve agreed to keep talking and we don’t want you to be blackmailing us with rare earths or magnets or some other things that we haven’t found a way to strategically decouple from you yet with regard to and so that seems to be where the This back and forth has been present, been very clear. He wants to deescalate tensions. That’s a that’s a good objective to have. But I think there’s still a long way to go to fill in these blanks. And so we await further word from the Treasury secretary or the president and the students and visas. And I think the president sort of with a truth post. kind of brushed that to the side for now. But I am also not a super fan of large numbers of people we don’t know going into kind of questionable research areas.
SPEAKER 17 :
Exactly. I completely agree on that. And this, too, comes on the, I guess, as I feel like we’re in the denouement portion of you know, this Israel versus Iran. Did it surprise you that China and Russia were so tough, tough luck, Iran, bye, and just sort of, you know, clearly they weren’t really allies.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it didn’t surprise me that much. I was a little surprised how open they were about it. I mean, I thought that they would pull the old Matador-Ole move, but they would try to keep it on the down low. But to publicly say, you know, this… BRICS thing, I’m not going to go. I got a cold. I don’t know if it’s seasonal, you know, whatever. I’m not going to go. And then you want to close out this Strait of Hormuz. I got a lot of oil and natural gas. You’re not going to do that, right? And so it just really quickly became clear that Iran was on its own. To me, it was beautiful to see that this sort of alternative to America and its allies is basically a paper tiger for now more of an annoyance but at the same time they still have bad stuff so until the proliferation risk is lower until there’s some kind of a change in real government behavior out of Iran and we see Putin maybe have a ceasefire with Ukraine then we’re still kind of in the thick of this stuff
SPEAKER 17 :
Now, you bring up a really good point because we heard a lot about we’re going to close the straight over moves. And then all of a sudden that went away and nobody talked about it anymore. And I figured that there’s no way that they would actually be able to do that. But to see it just disappear so quickly as it did from headlines was was pretty stunning. So clearly someone from all of these other nations, be it Russia and China, probably as well, said, yeah, you’re not going to do this. It’s not happening.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think there was a golden fortune cookie that arrived when they cracked it open. It’s as Confucius says, this is going to stay open.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. Yeah. This isn’t closing. It’s not. I like that. That’s probably exactly how it was done as well. Oh, we’re talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates comms. So basically, the big question for everybody is what now with Iran, particularly like what now? OK, we. seem to have at least kneecap them in terms of nuclear, well, going towards nuclear capability. We seem to have kneecap them. But how long does that last with the current regime? And I feel like it places us in a weird spot because I put all the blame on Carter and Democrats for swapping out the Shah with this, you know, super beyond Marxist Ayatollah, you know, the Supreme Burrito over there in Iran. It’s switching that out. So it’s like, I feel everyone talks about the Pottery Barn rule. You break it, you buy it. I don’t want to buy it, but I feel like we broke it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I am really allergic to the Pottery Barn analogy. Colin Powell, I think, ruined that for me back in the Iraq situation. I don’t think it was true then. I don’t think it’s true now. We’re America. We’ll break things. And if you don’t like it, tough beans don’t tick us off. And so if it’s broken, then you put it back together. It’s not my region. And so with this, I think we have to be serious about the idea that no matter who’s in charge of Iran, unless there’s some… truly profound change, they can revive some elements of their surrogate network. Those have been degraded. We’re in a far better position than we’ve been in years, thanks to some of, whether it was the magical pagers that went off by the Israelis or the pretty incredible strikes they had into Iran, the Hezbollah attacks. I mean, really, a lot of good gardening has been done in the broader Middle East, but there’s still bad people. And the for the formal X account of the Ayatollah is still threatening to assassinate Netanyahu and Trump. So apparently he has not felt the full weight of this thumping in order to change his lingo to date.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s a really good point as well with that, because didn’t he? I read something where he’s basically putting out a fatwa on POTUS, so to speak, which I just I don’t know how he I mean, we don’t even know if he’s alive. I mean, really, we haven’t seen the guy. We just hear that he’s being moved from place to place. So he may not even be alive and they could just be doing, you know, like a Joe Biden presto change. We have no idea. But I mean, that doesn’t seem like it’s the position of a strong man.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, it doesn’t. And it’s whoever’s operating the social media account. And, you know, no matter what, they are living on borrowed time in the sense that their air defenses were proven to be very, very. And with the stealth. bombs coming. I mean, it was stealth in every respect. We didn’t leak and they had no detection, but also neither did China and Russia. So that alliance didn’t give them any early warning either. And so all the way around, I think they’re sort of like that, the feeling of being naked and exposed into the world. Yeah. Last question before we’re talking with our friend Stephen Yates. Syria, it looks like, well, it was a headline last week and it seemed to suggest that Syria is open to joining the Abraham Accords, which would be…
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s a that’s a big change for this region. And I can’t help but think, you know, back when we were all a little appalled that POTUS was meeting with, he was a former jihadi, the new regime leader in Syria. And I’m not saying that he’s a good guy, but I’m saying just for our own interests, it may serve us better than, you know, how it was, because after, you know, they closed air, they closed airspace to all Iranian aircraft. They didn’t have the Syrian air defense for help, for support. And then you had POTUS going over there when he was speaking to Middle East leaders and saying that he was going to lift sanctions on Syria, which MBS stood up and applauded because that meant a lot of Arab nations could now invest and there’s business opportunities, etc. So this seems like it was very, very structured for. for a long time in advance to box out Iran and the regime at every possible angle. Do you, is that a realistic thing for Syria to come on board? And how has that, I mean, it remains to be seen if it’s a force for good in that region, but it seemed to work in our favor so far.
SPEAKER 10 :
It has. And I think it is part of that broader Abraham Accords logic. And it’s also part of what I guess we’ll call the Trump doctrine of giving a lot of space to your reliable allies and partners in the region. And they have to sort of be the first ones responsible for trying to balance things out. And it was definitely to box in Iran to undermine those surrogates. And those Arab allies did not want Iran’s nuclear program to move forward either. So I think we have kind of a division of labor up to Saudi and other Arab allies to make sure Syria doesn’t become another. And it is. terrorist outpost. But for now, all of this are pointing to a different Middle East. And so I just take yes and thank you for the moment and see where we get.
SPEAKER 17 :
There we go. Well, happy Independence Day to you, my friend. I hope you have safe travels with any future travel that you have. And it’s always so good to talk with you every week. Thank you so much for your insight. We’re so grateful for it and for you. God bless.
SPEAKER 22 :
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SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, John, I talked with Joshua Aaron, who is the longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said he really wants it to be an early warning system for people about the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. So he says he does not want people interfering with those officers’ activity, but he does want people to be able to avoid them altogether if they want. You open the app. It looks like a map and users can tap the map to report an ice sighting in their area. And then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that sighting will get a push alert.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, they it’s like waves for ice. You know, like the Waze app that you can like find like traffic speed traps or traffic violation or traffic snarls and all this other stuff. It’s like that. But for ICE, it’s very odd. That was on CNN. And, you know, you keep hearing, well, why do they have to wear masks? Why do ICE agents, why do they have to wear masks? Maybe because you have CNN actively promoting ICE. an app that’s identifying their actual you know ice agents in real time especially like particularly when they’re when you have ongoing investigations underway i mean they have a 500 increase according to data uh cpb others in assaults because of stuff like this so it’s they uh And I mean, it is being promoted by CNN. I don’t know how you can say that that’s not being promoted there. I mean, basically, you’re announcing everyone in that area. Hey, this is where they are. And you’re helping people who are criminals evade accountability in the United States. So either you believe that everybody is, you know, the same under the law or you don’t. And if we’re going to start helping people evade the law, then you’re going to have good people. that are not going to want to follow the law because of the inconsistency in its application and that’s how you start getting a breakdown of the republic which i think is exactly what the left wants but i will promise you when you have people certain people who choose to not follow the law that is going that’s going to be a terrifying element for all these people promoting lawlessness because you’re going to find out between the difference between harmless and peaceful and there’s a major difference major major difference i mean this is insane uh and the developer i mean just I mean, the thing’s called ice block. That’s what it’s called. And to block lawful actions to bring people who are here illegally and committing further crime to stop it. So I don’t know. I mean, the assist. I mean, this is crazy. This is and it doesn’t help that you have, you know, law enforcement or, you know, elected officials in states like California and mayors, et cetera, that are helping to promote this stuff. You’re helping people evade the law. Yet these people are the loudest to scream about gun control, etc. Speaking of the law, I got to say this. This is actually pretty neat. So… After a lot of people who came here illegally, they in Southern California because of ice, there are apparently a lot of food cart vendors that have left. Well, a lot of teenagers that were pushed out of the market and that really like historically did this as a summer job. Now they’re coming back in to take the spots of these food cart vendors. Audio somebody 26 is actually pretty cool.
SPEAKER 01 :
This summer, me and my twin brothers decided that we’re going to open up our own bacon wrapped hot dog business called Glizzy Treat. Instead of doing nothing at home, we wanted to make some money and try to do something big. We invested $400 that we saved from working weekends at our family gas station to start it up. It’s a pretty big investment for us, but with some hard work and long nights, it will all be worth it. The first day, we were pretty nervous, and there was no customers for the first hour. Then things started to pick up. First, we sold one hot dog, then two, then five, ten, and at the end of the day, we ended up selling over 20 hot dogs, which is pretty good in my opinion. If you want to show us some support, we are located in Long Beach at the American Oil and Gas Station seven days a week from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Man, they got fresh peppers.
SPEAKER 17 :
And bacon-wrapped dogs. That’s amazing. What a great. I mean, I love stories like that. I love that. And I mean, that actually looked pretty good, you know, and they’re probably I mean, you can you can create a pretty awesome business from stuff like that. You find a need, you fill a need. You got people who need to eat. They’re probably tired of the same stuff all around them. You have a food cart opportunity. That’s a great idea. But apparently this is like growing in terms of occurrence. So that’s pretty cool. Very, very cool to see stuff like that. I love that. It’s the good old American way, right? That actually did look really good. And now I’m hungry. Officially, I’m hungry. Tomorrow, one of the things that we’ll dive into is apparently… Well, there is this ongoing investigation as to who was leaking that nonsense about the strikes in Iran. Oh, it only affected X amount or it really didn’t hamper their ability to try to become more nuclear capable. Well… Now, people are wondering who is leaking this information because now somebody is leaking that, you know, you have John Ratcliffe, who’s, you know, CIA and then CENTCOM. They are the U.S. CENTCOM commander that they’re kind of being sidelined from security briefings and some of these other meetings. Who’s leaking this stuff? Where’s this stuff coming from? One of the bad things about the Trump administration the first time was these leaks like this. You can’t have this kind of stuff happen. And we were hoping that this was all kind of battened down and we weren’t seeing it again. I don’t want to start seeing it now. We have a lot more this rest of this week as we get set up for Independence Day. Today in stupidity, real quick, Steve, what do we got?
SPEAKER 05 :
As Kane is taking his sweet time, having his own private time. So I’m hearing her for him. So I guess this isn’t just Dana Carvey, but this is SNL as a whole. So we obviously saw Biden’s decline pretty easily. Everybody could notice that. But here’s the excuse of how Dana Carvey had to cover Biden in his impersonation.
SPEAKER 07 :
I knew that he was compromised mentally. I mean, it was obvious. But it was a delicate thing in the comedy world. There were a lot of people did not want to do anything that would kind of ding him in like an awkward way.
SPEAKER 14 :
But it’s comedy.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s it. That’s the key. If I can do Biden, if I can make Biden funny.
SPEAKER 17 :
to everybody then then i am where i want to be and then to make it funny it had to be recognizable and so there’s certain things i did not include there you go of course there’s certain things you don’t include see that that’s like that’s cowardice though find us youtube facebook like and subscribe sub stack over a chapter and verse make sure you subscribe to that have a great night
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