Ooh, I got something. Floor is for you. All right, so first up, we got a guy who jumped in a pond to flee the cops, and then he collapsed on the shore and he died. He died after he got out. This comes from the Tri-City Herald. Never at first I thought a Gator got him. Honestly, 43-year-old Justin Hogg, they, he was being served with a warrant for arrest. They drove down. They, he ju he was trying to evade it. Didn’t work out very well. And he ended up trying to, trying to flee. And then as he got outta the water, that’s when he collapsed. They took him to the hospital. I want to get to this story too. This, hang on, hang on, hang on, on, which is the one I had?

This one’s crazy. Oh, here it is. Alright, so a Florida man in a turn lane passed out behind the wheel of his car when 41-year-old Ferman Apopka was arrested. He had, he, the Lady Lake police, they found him in the turn lane. This was at US Highway 27. And he had tons of beer in his car and a ton of empty cans. And there was like 25 injury empty cans in there. And when they asked him about all of the beer in his car, he said he had only drank 25 beers since five o’clock. Now they arrested him at 10:00 PM Okay.

So. he was 10:00 PM in this turn lane passed out. they said what? And he repeated, he’s like, well, I only had 25 beers since five o’clock. 25 beers and from five to 10:00 PM That’s, that’s a lot. That’s an hour. Yeah. All but, but what I mean? He’s 41 years old. He’s five foot four and 160 pounds. Dude,

That’s a beer every 12 minutes.

Yeah. That’s insane. That is insane So. he was completely and totally right. At least he was honest with police about it. you know, he is like, yeah, I did it. What I mean? I, an accused Hit Run driver was arrested at a dance studio in Bre County, a 24-year-old woman. She was involved in a hit and run. She hit a motorcycle with such force that it became lodged under her car. 24-year-old Rebecca Tate. And she kept driving. She kept going. It happened early Sunday morning and it took West Melbourne police several days to locate her. She wasn’t arrested at the scene ’cause she fled, but they took her under custody at a ballroom dance studio and the crash left behind a mangled motorcycle.

It was crushed in her by her vehicle. And the rider, John Powell, was left critically injured in the middle of the street. So she just kept going. So she’s, she’s got, apparently she’s a professional ballroom dancer, but she couldn’t dance away from this. So she’s got a slew of charges and the whole thing was captured on surveillance video nearby, which you just kind of gotta figure that that’s, you know, it’s gonna be caught on something. This, let’s see, a Florida woman stole a $2,400 baby bird by stuffing it in a bag. Oh my, this says, if I can get this, because Safari’s not wanting to work with me here.

So apparently $2,400 Baby Bird stuffing it in a bag. I’m gonna try to open this up, but I’m not having a lot of, I’m not having a lot of, want me to grab Please Success because safari’s the worst, absolute worst browser on God’s green Earth. But. anyway, she ended up ultimately getting caught. It’s my Fox eight is the story. And she was captured on video doing it, and she was browsing the bird section. And I just think that when people are like looking at, you know, they’re browsing, they’re taking their sweet time like this, it just sort of feels, it just seems suspicious in the first, you know, just seems suspicious to me. But it showed her browsing the section, then she picked one up and stuffed it right into her bag.

9:52 AM at Everything Birds, which is a store about 16 miles west of Tampa. And the store was getting ready to open and the store owners said that, you know, they, they, they wanted the, the birds safe return because it requires formula. It can eat on its own yet. So they’re investigating the incident. And $2,400 Baby Bird. That’s crazy. Absolutely crazy. Let’s see, we, I’m not gonna be able to open this last thing, I don’t think I’m gonna have to probably restart my whole thing. A seven foot alligator did bite an elderly woman while she was walking her dog in South Florida. You gotta be careful with this stuff. This happens a lot.

And this is like this third elderly like attack involving an elderly woman. An 84-year-old woman was walking her dog in south Florida. And the Gator, which was seven feet, three inches, apparently shot up out of the pond in North Fort Myers. Bit her on the leg. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, her dog was uninjured. She had to get some stitches apparently. And they Florida Fish and Wildlife, they had to go, they had to go and get the gator because you know, you’re attacking people.

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This Ty Hill. Why? You have your, why didn’t you have your like what? Why you up? Hey, keep the window down Manny. Hey, keep your window down. Keep your window down. I’m gonna get you out of the car, as said. Matter of fuck. Get outta the car, gimme your As, get outta the car.

Gimme As. we break that window. Get outta the car out. Get outta the car right now. We’re not playing this game. Get out, get out, get out, get out. Get out. Get out. Get out, get out. What part of problem you in, listen to. Hey Drew. Hey Drew. I’m getting arrested. Drew, I’m getting arrested. I’m getting arrested. Drew, I’m getting up bro.

Apparently he’s on the phone with his agent, wasn’t he?

When we tell you to do something, you do it. I’m getting out. You understand? I’m getting up bro. You understand Not what you want, but what we tell you, I’m getting out. You in the confused, I’m getting out bro. Late too late. Alright bro. Take me late to jail bro. Do what you gotta do, bro. We’re we’ll, good. Good bro. It’s good. Hey, hey, don’t worry about it. I hung up

The phone. All right. So none of this had to happen. None of it had to happen. So that’s Tyreek Hill. He was dragged outta the car and arrested and he was apparently on the phone with his agent, like while it was happening as well. And there this hap this took place in Florida. The police described him as not being very cooperative, which doesn’t look like in the beginning That. he was, there’s a lot of stuff to unpack here. First off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Someone had said, I think it was actually him that did that. He said, didn’t he say? He’s like, well what if I like, what if I wasn’t Tyreek Hill or something that got, that got when he got pulled over.

I think we got audio of this. Yeah, like yeah, listen to this. Listen to this.

And I saw that you said if you weren’t Tyreek Hill that you, you feared this could have ended a lot differently. What, what do you think could have happened?

Yeah, like, so the crazy part about it is I hate talking like this man, but because I have a kid fan base, but the reality of it is, it’s the truth. If I wasn’t Tyreek kill worst case scenario, we, we would’ve had a different article, you know, Tyreek kill, you know, got shot in front of Hard Rock Stadium, you know, or that’s worst case scenario or Tyre kill, you know, put in handcuffs and taken in and booked, you know. But it’s crazy that you know, I, you know, me and my family had to go through this, you know, so,

So Hill’s a wide receiver for the Dolphins and they put out a statement as well. He was pulled over and apparently he was, he’s pulled over for speeding, wasn’t he? Like he was speeding. Construction zone. In a construction zone. I’ve been pulled over before in a construction zone. I’ll tell you about that in a moment. Juan is laughing at me already. I didn’t wanna hear it. I didn’t wanna hear it. I wasn’t even in a McLaren. That man was in a six figure car. I’m so jealous of his car. Anyway, I’m not even going to tell you the specs about how fast that thing goes, but you know, it goes fast, right? He was driving super fast in a construction zone, which is why he was pulled over and he I mean there were a lot of people who said that, you know, he was arrested, he’s detain his blood.

He wa he wasn’t he looking at it, I mean they dragged him outta the car ’cause he rolled his window back up. He had tinted windows, he was forcibly put to the ground by officers. If he wasn’t Tyreek Hill, I think the same thing would’ve happened. The same thing would’ve hap would’ve happened. He would’ve, I think that he would’ve been traded the exact same way because, and let me tell you just, and, and I’m a little white woman, I got pulled over speeding in a construction zone. I wasn’t going as fast as he was. I was going six miles over. I got pulled over on a Sunday and I was on my way to church.

The officer did not care. He, that man did not care that I was on my way to church. He didn’t care. And they, I re I remember I get pulled over, you know, he is lecturing me about speeding. I had to go to like, I had to go to like traffic school and all this stuff. Oh I totally did. Yeah. How that’s where you going six miles over? Well

You don’t go to traffic school for

Six miles. I went to traffic school six miles over. Yeah, I didn’t get the friendliest guy wearing the badge so great at all. Okay. Didn’t get the nicest guy. Anyway, you know, I was going a little over whatever don don’t know, maybe he had a quote to fill and he lectured me the whole way. and I, remember when I handed him my driver’s license and I, you know you always have your hands on the wheel, et cetera, et cetera. and I kept my hand on the door for just like a second and he was like, ma’am, hands on the wheel like for a second I, my hand rested on it. I’m like, oh geez. There was an, I’ve been pulled over twice the other time I got pulled over. I did not have my sticker. I had my sticker that you put on your windshield, but I didn’t have it like a fix like your, you know, your tag.

It was literally in my, ’cause I threw it in there and I was in a race and I was taking a kid, one of my kids to school and I got pulled over and I didn’t. I rolled my window down but, and I rolled it down. I just wasn’t even paying attention. It was like that much of it was up and it was in Grapevine, Texas and the cop that pulled me over and even though I had my thing in there because it wasn’t affixed to my windshield, I still got a citation. And he told me, he was like, I need that window all the way down. I mean it was like up that much ’cause I just did it real quick and you know, I had my hands up all that stuff ’cause I was carrying and I, you know, all this and but wasn, so it doesn’t matter if you’re tyreek killer, not Tyreek Hill, do you realize that traffic stops are where most of the time when cops are, when something goes sideways, it’s outta traffic stop, number one.

Number two, why did he didn’t need to roll his window up? Everybody knows that you don’t roll your window back up, especially if you got a tinted window. Cops need to see what your hands are doing, et cetera. Some people were saying that cops escalated the situation. I don’t know, I think you could maybe make an argument for the third dude who came in if you wanted to. But all of this could have been avoided if he’d have just kept his damn window down and his hands on the wheel. Am I wrong on that? I mean? That’s if you dislike the way things are, the time to contest it isn’t at that moment with cops. That’s not the time to contest it. And he was speeding and you know that you’re not supposed to speed in a construction zone. And, we have Florida listeners that are in that area who have messaged and they’ve tweeted and they’ve put Facebook comments and they’ve actually emailed me and they’re like, there are signs that tell you don’t speed in the construction zone.

’cause the fine is like, I can’t remember what they said. The fine was, the fine was hefty. He’s gonna have a hefty fine from this. So it’s like you have the signs there, you know that you’re not supposed to be speeding in a construction zone. You know, he, he was slow in producing his stuff, you know, it’s like he hesitated, rolled his window back up. You just don’t do that. You just don’t do because they don’t know what you’re gonna do. They don’t know. Are you supposed to get, are you supposed to get special consideration because you play football? don don’t know. You just, you, you can’t be driving like a bat outta health or a construction zone in traffic and to have a, you know, your tinted window. I, you know, the tinted windows. I don’t really have a problem with.

I, I don’t know. Listen to this audio. Soundbite two. He says this is, who’d you say Drew Rosenhaus who says this could have been different if he wasn’t famous? Listen. Oh wait, we played that one. but wasn the one we played, I, I don’t think it would’ve been, I don’t think it would’ve been any different. I, and didn’t the cops say they didn’t know who the hell he was? Two of those cops had said after that they had no idea who he was at the time they were doing their job. They had no idea who he was. They had no idea what he was, you know, they were just trying to figure out, you know, look, you’re speeding in a construction zone and apparently he was going pretty damn fast and you all saw the traffic in that video. I mean you saw a lot of traffic there. I mean that’s just not the, not the smartest thing to do.

But you don’t roll your window back up. You don’t roll your window. Think of, look at it like this way. What if, but wasn like your brother or your husband or what if your wife was conducting the traffic stop and the guy rolls his window back up? You don’t know what he’s doing in there. You don’t know. And consider that the majority of these situations where there’s an officer involved shooting happened at traffic stops. Tell me who escalated what, when that window rolled up, you tell me what the escalation was. ’cause I’m thinking if you’re rolling the window up when we’re doing this, that’s escalating. You’re escalating. I don’t know you. This cop didn’t know him. He didn’t know him.

He doesn’t. And look, I love that people play football. That’s all great, but I’m gonna tell y’all something. Not everybody knows who you are. I literally don’t know who this man is either. I know absolutely jack crap about football. I do not know who Tyreek Hill is. don don’t know. I just know that a, a guy is, look at all the construction stuff in the video that Juan was just showing. You got the signs that tell people to slow down. You got the warnings, you got damn lanes closed. You can’t be driving like a bat outta hooter there. And apparently he was going fast. He wasn’t doing what I was doing on Secon Road six miles over in Jefferson County, Missouri. He was going fast and then he rolls his window back up and he is not complying.

Steve is dying at me right now because I don’t know who Tyreek kills. I’m sorry. I don’t know if football baseball’s different. don don’t know football because the big, now the big debate is well who escalated What? And people are trying to erase bait on if, how are you race baiting? These are Hispanic cops pulling this man over. How are you race baiting? That’s so stupid. That’s so lazy. Stop. Just in, in situations like this, you don’t be rolling your window up and you just be polite and you get you, you, you handle it. That’s it. You handle it. And you said what? There’s body cam footage that play that is that footage. I don’t think we can play the audio on it.

I, yeah, I don’t think we should play the audio ’cause I not been able

Hear this just

Yet again. But I pulled the body cam footage of just before the actual, you know, now I’m watching it stop. And it looks like that you can see him go right past the cop pretty quickly. All these cones in the road, everything, you know it’s construction area. Yeah. And this is just to show that oh he

Flew. Oh he’s flying.

Right? It’s just to show you that there wasn’t like

Some, he is flying in this video

Targeting of Tyreek thing. This was literally cops

Doing their job. I would’ve pulled him over too.

Yeah, it’s cops doing their job.

Look at all, look at all the lane closures in that footage that we’re showing you on the simulcast. Look at that. The cops gotta go I mean he was flying. That’s wild. You can’t, you look, you gotta, you can’t be doing that and I mean that’s a great way to get pulled over in these zones. But to race bait about it or act like it’s a racial thing. you know, I mean the posted speed limit was apparently 40 and I think, what was he, he was going like 60 or something over. Yeah. Was somewhere north of that. Yeah, he was over like 60 miles per hour. I don’t think he was going a hundred miles per hour. I don’t think he was going that fast. I I saw some of the reports that were saying he was going, that he,

Yeah I think people were just saying hundred to make it sound like he was just going fast.

No, he was going fast. He was driving like a bat outta hell. But it went a hundred miles per hour. It wasn. That’s stupid. That’s just as dumb as race baiting. But it is. He was like, well he thinks that he would’ve been shot if he wasn’t a famous football player. But again the cops were like, we didn’t even know who he was. He said he rolled his window up ’cause he didn’t want people to see that he had been pulled over. Maybe you should have thought about that before you were going 16 to 40 when there were people doing construction work. Like do you, and you saw in some of the footage there were construction workers in the street. you know, I guess it’s okay for, you know, what about them do they, do we care who they are? Is it, are they just, you know, are they worth nothing because they’re not famous football players?

I don’t know like whose life was being gambled here? I think it’s self-indulgent for him for Tyreek Hill to say that this would’ve ended differently if he was not a football player. I think that’s self-indulgent. I think it’s selfish. I think it’s self-indulgent and I think it’s, I think it’s, that’s stupid.

The truth would be it would’ve ended up differently if he just would’ve handed his stuff over and been like, you know, I’ll pay my ticket. Thanks guys. Yeah, see you later. Yeah, that’s how it would’ve been different. And

Yeah and if he just like kept his window down, this could have been, this could have ended. So I think he escalated it personally. He did. You can pe I mean, look, there’s a lot of stuff to, you know, to, there’s a lot of bad policing if you wanna criticize policing. I stayed on a stage with a bad cop. don don’t need to be lectured by a single damn person about bad cops. I sat next to a fat ass bad cop named Scott Israel in Florida. So I will not take lectures from anybody on that. He escalated the situation Tyree Hill did. And to sit here and make it out like oh this would’ve been different if I wasn’t. you know what? It would’ve been different if you would’ve not been gambling with those construction workers’.

Lives by going 60 in a 40 in a construction zone with traffic. How about that?

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So a bunch of apple juice but wasn sold at area like different Walmarts and Aldi’s, BJ’s and Walgreens. they said that there’s an apple juice recall because of elevated arsenic levels according to the US Food and Drug Administration. Great value apple juice, that’s the Walmart brand. Refresco a few others. Now Apple seeds have I mean they have a level of arsenic in them naturally already. But apparently they said that they’re, they had no reported incidents but something something, it goes beyond their whatever. don don’t know. Just check their website. Just look at their ’cause that apparently I don’t drink A lot of it’s just all sugar. Who drinks apple juice?

I didn’t even give apple juice to my kids. It was all sugar. An apple. Yeah, just eat an apple if you want apple juice casket controversy has been solved. This is a wild story. So this is McComb daily. A casket controversy was solved in this town. they said that there was apparently somebody in a casket in a local park in a photo that surfaced online and no foul play was involved. It was an open casket with a floral arrangement and somebody sitting at a nearby picnic table. And they said that it was a funeral director from New York who was transporting a 97-year-old from New York to Mount Olive in Detroit.

She was a warned resident who passed in New York and apparently they wanted to say their goodbyes prior to her burial and I. Guess that’s what it was. Like they said it was like a, they wanted to honor their don don’t know. It was, I don’t really care. It’s some dumb family that decided to do something. I don’t give a rights ass about. Move on. I don’t care. I’ve already lost. I wanna talk about the lobster roll. Chris Sun Nunu apparently saved a choking contestant at Hampton Beach Lobster roll eating competition. Yeah, don don’t, I’m still not a fan of ’em. But lobster rolls are delicious. And can I just say that I just think it’s cruel to have a lobster roll eating competition because that should be savored and not like mowed through.

That’s my beef or my lobster. That’s what the problem with it. The nation with lowest birth rate is rocked by the soaring sale of dog strollers. This is in South Korea. It is a big thing in South Korea. People and their dogs and they, they, they’re dealing with a low birth rate and they’re saying all these people are treating dogs like kids. Dressing them up, walking them around in strollers. and I will say, I had a stroller for Rocco when he had back surgery and he couldn’t walk and to get him around from room to room So, he wasn’t alone. It was just easier. Instead of picking up, you know, all 30 pounds of him picking him up every time we put him in a stroller.

And he was happy in there and you know, it was just, it worked out. ’cause he couldn’t walk very well. And. we had to rehabilitate him. Let’s see, a croissant shaped lamp bought on Temu. Is it Temu or Temu? It’s Temu. Temu turned out to be an actual croissant. Yeah. So on social media, somebody on TikTok said that they bought a croissant lamp and she said that she came home from work and there were tons of ants on the package. And then she realized it was actually a croissant covered in resin temu, the cheap Chinese brand. She said that’s what it, that’s actually, it’s like one of those, it’s like a lamp.

It’s a lamp that’s like shaped like a croissant. So it’s like a globe. And apparently it was literally an actual croissant. Is that not something that she did? She did you, did she read that in the don Don’t know. Syphilis is at its highest level since 1950s. Quip being skanky, they said here’s how to fix it. I’ll tell you Quip being skanks super easy. But

I do wanna ask you about this CNN report. It shows Harris voiced support for cutting funding for ice and for using taxpayer money to fund transgender surgery for detained migrants in 2019. Does the vice president still support those positions and do you expect her to address them tonight?

Listen, I think, you know, these old questionnaires are a complete distraction from the task at hand right now. I think the vice p and frankly what the American people are actually asking about, right? What the American people are concerned about and what they’re asking about is who’s gonna solve for border security

Oh. my gosh, what? That’s so, okay, that’s one of Kamala Harris. It’s her spokesperson, Michael Tyler. And ahead of the debate he’s refusing to walk back the decriminal, her position on the decriminalization of fentanyl and taxpayer funded transitional surgeries of people who enter the country legally. And how, how do you not have this come up with the debate? How do you not have it come up? Million dollar question. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you Of course. We’re gonna be watching this debate. You can join the subscriber event that we’re having. We’re having a live chat during the debate. I’ll send out an email to you subscribers.

It’s over at Substack chapter and verse. It’s the link in all of my social media profiles. And you can see it everywhere. It’s always in all of our videos and all of that. But we’re doing a subscriber event for the debate and Of course tomorrow we’re, it’s gonna be a Humdinger Juan Steve probably aren’t gonna sleep. ’cause we’re gonna have so much audio. It’s gonna be so crazy. We’re not gonna play bingo because I don’t think we can make the bingo thing big enough for one piece of paper. And a drinking game’s not smart. Yeah, no, the drinking, ’cause we don’t, we’re not responsible for killing you. So that’s not gonna, not gonna happen. But this debate is, this is her test.

I made this observation on social media. This is her I mean. ’cause she’s, it’s her big test. She has not campaigned really. She’s done a couple of very controlled events. and I am amazed that the media has been, well, I’m not amazed. I know that the media was going to be all in for like this, but consider Tim Walls now. Nobody really knows Tim Walls outside of Minnesota and he doesn’t do any sit downs. The only sit down that he did was when he was with her because she couldn’t do an interview by herself. And, but wasn a disaster. So nobody knows who he is. And name recognition is so important.

This will be an election that is gonna be studied in terms of propaganda. and I used to, when I was in, when I was in high school, my high school actually in the late nineties, they actually offered mid to late nineties a class called Mass Hysteria. I know, right? Go Fox High School. I don’t know if they still offer it or not, but they had a class called Mass Hysteria and I took it. I was a sophomore junior in, in high school and it was actually one of the most educational courses I ever took in high school. Legit, I learned a lot from that class.

You could take current events or you could take mass hysteria and I took mass hysteria because I was fascinated by, and it looked over, you know, everything from the cultural revolution, it looked at the Holocaust, all of it. And even in modern times, I, it was looking back, it was a conservative class, but wasn taught conservatively. So I don’t know if it would be offered or even be remotely the same anymore. But as I grew up, I could see everything. I saw how all of this played out because of this class. And some of this has to do with the way that she’s being not reinvented, but repackaged to be more, more palatable to America.

Because everybody knows that nobody liked her. Her own party didn’t like her, the media hated her. And now she’s, you know, the candidate. I mean, they just, the regime switched them out. So this is really her first big test. No, I don’t consider her previous debate performances when she ran in 2020 to be relevant because she was at the very, she was on a very crowded stage and she was at the very bottom. If you remember. She was always on the very end too, because that’s how they structure who is where if you’re leading, then you’re closer to the center or you’re right in the middle. And she was never leading. She was again, she didn’t even mirror first place, put booty juice, beat her.

So I don’t consider that to be consequential or relevant. This is really the first time the nation, it’s on a, B, c usually, which still, I think more is more progressive than not. But for something like this, it’s not so much siloed as CNN versus Fox or M-S-N-B-C versus Fox, I don’t know. New York Times poll has them very close as some of the surveys that we talked about. They’re, they’re close. Trump could really, and I think this should be his job tonight to put an end to once and for all the media’s attempt to rehabilitate her or recast her as a moderate or as someone who is unaffiliated with Biden.

Everything Trump does, every answer must be must be choreographed to tie her to Biden and force the perspective to see Kamala versus Kamala versus Trump than Trump versus Kamala. That’s how it’s gonna have to be. And that’s a tall order. I think if he’s focused, he can do it. But that’s a difficult task really for any candidate. But I think he can do it, but he can’t. He has to be, he needs to be folksy and he needs to be focused. Here’s the other thing, populism is a tactic. It is not a belief set. I hear people say that they’re populous and I think that that’s an incorrect phrase.

You can be a fan of the tactic, but it is a way of delivering messaging about your principles and about your belief set. So you can be a conservative who likes populous tactics or likes populism, but I think to say you’re a populist just means you like you’re a tactic. I just don don’t, I don’t agree with that. The reason I bring this up is because too much populism is bad. Populism is like salt. Little bit is just seasons it perfectly. and I, say this again as someone who leaned on it heavily as one of the founders of the modern day tea party movement, because that got kicked off using populist messaging.

Absolutely. But at some point you have to realize that you can oversalt and then it becomes that you can, you can lose sight of the goal in the messaging, in the fog of messaging. And, and I bring this up because the left, and, and by the way, populism is not just something that the right can use. It is a tactic that is historically used by everybody. That’s why I’m like, I don’t wanna say you’re populist. The left has been using it quite a bit lately. They’ve been using it to try to battle the right to go after those blue collar voters to go after the rust belt to try to, to try to shore up that blue wall that that Biden lost or that, not Biden, but Clinton lost in 2016 and Biden really didn’t do much to restore it in 2020.

So they’ve been using a lot of it. You don’t wanna have populous versus populace. You wanna be able, and one of the great ways that you can shut populism when it’s all populism, and that’s what the left has been doing, is just that tactic. They don’t, what do they have to put in there? All they have is the way that they can say something, but they don’t have what it, they don’t have the, the substance, they don’t have the policy. If you ask them what are you gonna do about the border, what do you think about the border? Have you gotten a legitimate answer from the left, from her or any of her surrogates? All you get about the economy is we’re gonna tax the rich and then we’re gonna make it harder for investment into small businesses through taxing capital gains over what? Communist China taxes. You realize that our tax rate would exceed that of the CCP.

That’s not hyperbole, that’s truth. All they have are platitudes. They don’t have anything substantive that you can actually go, okay, this is how this would work. And here is the, here is the logical course of this. They don’t have that, they just have their messaging. So Trump has to just nick it with concise. Like, this is what I do. Boom, boom. That’s it. Very simple. And if he can deliver it in 60 seconds or less that it could be one of the greatest debate performances of his life. It’s all him. But he’s got it a hell of a lot easier than she does her word salad.

When she gets nervous. She has all these tells, everybody has a tell. And she what her, what she does is her brain will cyclically go back on these phrases to give her like, and she can say that because it’s like muscle memory. She can reflexively say it while another part of her brain’s like, okay, what do I gotta say here? And as, even if it’s a couple seconds that’s giving her a lifeline of a couple seconds to try to pull something out of her backside to throw out there, I feel like we’re gonna have a lot of that because no matter how prepared she’s going to be, and this is part of what it is to debate. When I, for when, when I would debate people, I would learn everything I could about that person. I would learn how to push their buttons. I would learn, I would watch their, I like a psycho.

I watched their facial reactions. I’d watch everything that they’ve ever done. What makes them mad, what makes them happy? What’s passionate, what are their tells? Everybody has a tell. And then when you learn through how someone speaks, if they’re choreographed, when they’re choreographed, when they’re on script, he’s got to throw her off that. So when he starts hearing her throw out these choreographed answers, he just needs to throw her off that in a, in a very concise short response to where she’s gotta tread water live on television. And that’s really ultimately all he needs to do. If he can press her buttons and make her raise her voice up to a shrill level, all the better.

But it, these debates are very much psychology and her, her path is hard. She’s gonna have a hard time tonight. Very difficult time tonight. In fact, CNN that’s what they’re saying too. Listen, audio sound bite seven

And, and amisha, let me say it, it’s not overblown to say this is the biggest moment of her political life. It’s an incredibly consequential one. And there’s still so much that people don’t know about her. Voters don’t know.

I’m telling you a lot that they dunno about her. Very interesting. Just saying I mean it’s, it, it, it’s gonna be a lot. It’s gonna be the first time a lot of America really gets to know her. Hmm. Are you gonna be watching?

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