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SPEAKER 05 :
50-50. The vice president just cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the big, beautiful bill in the Senate. So he came in last night as well because they thought they were going to be near… They thought they were going to be getting closer. So he’s kind of been, for the lack of a better word, to put it on deck this whole time waiting. So he just cast the tie breaking vote in this bill. So it passes out of the Senate. Now, remember, we also have to reconcile it with a few things in the House, but. At this point, it’s pretty much one and done because it passed by a little bit of a greater margin in the House than it did with the Senate. So welcome to the program. Dana Lash, with you, we’re at the top of this first hour, and we’re following all of this stuff as it happens. And if you just joined us, the vice president cast the tie-breaking bill. It was 50-50. And so with his vote, it pushed it over 50%. That threshold. And now that bill is going to they’re going to still has a little bit of a process to go through, but it needed 51. And the vice president was the 51st bill for the 51st vote for that bill. And so it’s going to go forward. So that is the latest. If you’re just joining us here, it’s our. Independence Day Eve Eve show. And we’re going to get you set up because I’ll be out until the 8th. And we’re going to get you set up for everything that you need to know today. So that just happened. Now it’s going to head back to the house because remember, they have to go through the reconciliation process. So there’s certain things that they kind of have to meet together. But then upon that, Katie, bar the door. Then it’s out there. So that is all of the latest that is just happening. And there was a lot of back and forth over this as well. Last night, I’m looking at some of the headlines. Last night, POTUS and Elon Musk kind of were trading jabs. Not kind of. They were back and forth. POTUS said that he was going to send Doge out. After after Musk and I just nobody likes to see allies fight. And I just think I really wish that POTUS would have brought that kind of pressure to bear on members of the Senate and the House and not on allies who merely just pointed out what the Senate and the House weren’t doing very cowardly. They weren’t doing so. That’s been a fight that’s gone on for good heavens, like for, you know. now weeks, but it kicked off again last night. So that’s been some of the latest. And of course, everybody’s always watching to see what happens with Tesla stock and what’s going to happen with fundraising. Musk said that he was going to form a third party last night if this bill ends up going through, which this bill is going to pass. It’s going to go through. I mean, it goes back to the House, but it’s going to go through. It’s just fait accompli at this moment. So it’s all done. So They had to cut a lot of deals in order to get this bill passed. We went over some of it yesterday, the deal that Lisa Murkowski ended up having to cut, well, that she wanted to cut at the expense of everyone else. I don’t think we got any kind of special carve-outs in Texas. Pretty sure a lot of you in your states didn’t get any kind of special carve outs, but that is some of the latest with it. So it goes back to the House. And then from there, they will have finish out the reconciliation process. They’ll have their final vote. Most of it will be procedural up until the final vote to pass it as is, which I’m sure it’s going to. I mean, I don’t. At this point, there’s been so much pressure that’s brought on lawmakers to just get something done. Doesn’t matter how good it is. Just get past it and find out what’s in it later that it’s you know, it’s all going to go through. One thing that I really wish that I don’t hear and it really kind of pisses me off when I hear lawmakers talk about this. Because they say, oh my gosh, if you don’t pass this, you’re going to get the biggest tax cuts in 60 some odd years. Well, if you guys would have written a better bill, it wouldn’t have been an issue. If you guys would have listened to what some of the more constitutional members of the House were saying and passed smaller chunks of this, it wouldn’t be the issue that it is now. The problem is there’s so much pork and wasteful spending that’s still in this. There’s so much Green New Deal. And you need to also reject the excuses that you hear from people who say, well, it’s reconciliation. can’t cut that they it only the bird rule only pertains to it if it’s not germane to specifically the budget so these people have no idea what they’re talking about so just disregard them I feel like there’s a bot army where they send out these talking points and they they’re just counting on you being too busy with keeping the country running that you don’t pay attention to some of the smaller stuff. But I wish these lawmakers, every single time I see them on Fox, I see them on TV, every single time they talk about, oh, well, we’re going to get these tax cuts. That’s great and all, but make sure you’re honest with people and tell them that the tax cuts expire in 2028 and that we’re going to be going into a presidential cycle. God knows what we’re going to have on deck at that point. But that’s one thing is for certain. Republicans are never more inclined to be more conservative or to cut taxes during a presidential, during a general election. So this gets kicked to 2028 when all of this is set to expire. And then so you’re going to hear the same talking points again in 2028. It’s going to be the biggest tax bill ever, et cetera, et cetera. And you’re going to see all kinds of heat being brought by the left and their press on the shoulders of lawmakers to pass something before the presidential election. So we don’t have to take a narrative hit and a polling hit going into voting. That’s it’s going to be the same thing all over again. So these lawmakers that get up there and preen. I just wish that they had the honesty. I wish they were being honest with you and telling you that these things were going to expire. No tax on tips that expires in 2028. Additional child tax credit that expires in 2028. Every every aspect of this expires in 2028. Every bit of it. It is a temporary gimmick to lower the cost of what they’re not even cutting that much spending. They would you would be able to get giant permanent tax cuts. if they actually cut some of the spending. And again, don’t tell me that it’s not germane to reconciliation because it literally pertains to the budget, so it satisfies Byrd rule. Reject it. All you had to do, all you had to do was pull back some of this. Where did the rescissions go? I keep hearing about this nine billion rescissions package. That’s DOA. I haven’t heard a single thing about that. We had a guy on who is advising the administration about pocket rescissions. Haven’t heard a single thing more about pocket rescissions. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just stuff floated out there to make you happy, to just get you to the next square so that you could tell this is coming. This is you’re going to have this type of relief. That’s what you’ll have. So it’s kind of hard for me to take seriously some of these lawmakers that criticize, you know, for instance, that man Danny guy up in New York, because budgetarily y’all ain’t that much different. Y’all ain’t that much different where it concerns the budget. Some of these rhinos out there. So it’s pretty interesting. And I just want I wish POTUS and Musk got along. And I really wish that the pressure that he would bring would be on these lawmakers that are dragging their feet and they’re not willing to do the hard thing. They don’t want to do the hard thing because then they’re going to have to expend some political capital or maybe they don’t have any political capital to spend. But either way, I just wish they were honest. The tax cuts expire in 28. They’re all temporary. All of it. So you’re only avoiding and it’s not you’re not getting your taxes cut. That’s the other thing. Promoting this as a tax cut is disingenuous. You’re not getting your tax cut. You’re just getting a continuation of the status quo from 2017. All of Biden’s big spending is in it. That’s why the tax cuts aren’t permanent, because they didn’t cut any of that stuff. And again, yes, you can, as it’s germane to the budget with reconciliation, you absolutely can use a number of gimmicks in order to stop that funding. Anyone who tells you otherwise, either A, doesn’t know the process or B, they know the process, but they’re counting on you to not know it. And they’re lying to you to trick you. That’s a rhino move. So all of this, just keep all of this on deck. We got a lot to hit. That’s our friends over at Super Beats. The Super Beats folks with the Super Breen product. Now, you know, Super Beats, it’s all about heart health. And blood, it’s all about heart health, all of that stuff, healthy blood sugar or healthy blood support. blood pressure support. The Superberine from the same makers is about metabolism and blood sugar support. 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SPEAKER 13 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 05 :
So apparently China has a coffee chain now that is going to give Starbucks a run for its money. Starbucks is under fresh pressure. They’re saying China’s biggest coffee chain opened U.S. locations with two dollar drinks. It’s called Luckin Coffee and it has apparently they say super low prices and a no fuel, no frills menu. And in China, it’s already very competitive with Starbucks. Or you could just get a really nice coffee machine and make it at home. You know, there’s also that option as well. This is a crazy story. So via CBS, a dad jumped overboard to save his daughter who fell overboard from a Disney cruise ship near Fort Lauderdale. And there’s tons of video of it. He jumped in to save his young daughter after she fell overboard. It was on its way back to South Florida. They had to have a dramatic sea rescue. And there’s, again, like I said, tons of video about it online. It was on Sunday aboard the Disney Dream. It was sailing between the Bahamas and Fort Lauderdale. And a child went overboard during the final leg. Her father leapt in immediately after her. He treaded water for 10 minutes, for over 10 minutes. They had the emergency alert sounded. The crew members launched a rescue boat and life preservers into the water. And they said that the ship was moving so quickly that it was crazy how tiny they became in the sea and then you lose sight of them. And they said that they slowed the ship, turned it around and deployed a tender with people on it to go rescue them. And they were able to get them out of the water. But no idea how she fell overboard, though. No idea how that happened or the age of her. But thankfully, everybody’s OK. They’re trying to say now. that the GLP-1, the fat jabs, could actually treat migraines too. This is via Gizmodo. They’re saying that people who have unresponsive chronic migraines experienced substantial relief after they started taking the GLP-1 drug, according to research from Italy. That’s interesting. Apparently, I don’t know how that reconciles with all of the side effects they say these things have, but that’s what this research says. A 92-year-old British man who was convicted of rape and murder in a 1967 cold case finally got convicted, actually. Can you imagine? Since 1967, a cold case, and they finally figured it out. The individual, 92 years old now, Ryland Headley, he was found guilty by the Bristol Crown Court in southern England. He raped and murdered a woman. And she was 75 years old when he killed her six decades ago. And the case was unsolved for 58 years. And he was told during sentencing that he committed a pitiless and cruel act. The Dalai Lama is going to pick his successor. And China is watching that one very closely. Kind of interesting. But they said he’s addressing a three-day gathering. It’s the Buddhist religious figures that are all ahead of his 90th birthday. So some international news there. And additionally, scientists reveal six attributes that mean you might be cool. Well, what is cool? How do you define cool? Doesn’t it change culturally? Doesn’t it depend on culture to culture? But they said there’s a new study, International Consensus, when it comes to what it means to be cool. They conducted experiments with about 6,000 people from around the globe, and they found that people have surprisingly similar personalities. And they said that they rated them on their taste, their personalities. They said cool people are way more extroverted and autonomous and adventurous. So that’s some of the stuff that fits into it. We have a lot more on the way as we roll towards the bottom of this hour. The bill, the latest with that fight. Alligator, Alcatraz and more. Stick with us. The folks who won’t make the program happen. Angel Studios. A lot. This is the other thing. A lot of people complain about Hollywood. I’m one of them because most of what Hollywood puts out is garbage. 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SPEAKER 13 :
Are there parts of the bill or amendments that you think cut too much?
SPEAKER 04 :
We’re going to have to see the final version. I don’t want to go too crazy with cuts. I don’t like cuts. There are certain things that have been cut, which is good. I think we’re doing well. We’re going to have to see. It’s very complicated stuff. Great enthusiasm, as you know. And I think in the end, we’re going to have it. What do you think, Caroline?
SPEAKER 05 :
I don’t want him. I don’t want to hear him say that he doesn’t like cuts. It makes me nervous. I mean, we like cuts. I mean, we like less government spending. Right. I mean, that’s kind of the thing. So I’m like when he says, I don’t like cuts. Oh, my gosh. No. POTUS, what are you doing? Don’t do that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I will say that, you know, I’ve been having this conversation about the Senate parliamentarian with the Oh, my gosh, a number of different people about this whole issue with the Senate parliamentarian, because you had still, you know, a number, for instance, Medicaid and people who enter the country illegally still being on Medicaid. That’s a major issue. And that’s, you know, the parliamentarian trying to argue that certain things. Oh, well, that we can’t take that out because that violates the bird rule that literally does not. You’re an unelected bureaucrat who was appointed by a Democrat. Stop it. Stop it. And these Republicans in the Senate need to grow some balls and stand up to this parliamentarian. They’re the majority. They literally have the power to stop her. And they’re just not doing it. They’re using her as a scapegoat. So the illegal aliens that are still on Medicaid, that’s because of a lack of spine by Republicans. It’s not the Senate parliamentarian. They’re using her as a scapegoat. They don’t want to do it, just like they didn’t want to take suppressors and SBRs out from NFA classification. They want they acted like, oh, well, you don’t have to pay a tax stamp because the idiotic parliamentarian was saying, well, it’s not germane to the budget. It’s literally called a tax stamp. You absolute waste of a meat sack. It’s called a tax stamp. That’s the only way that they could structure it so that it didn’t violate your constitutional rights. They had to protect it as a quote unquote tax because if they made you pay for it, they weren’t going to be able to defend it in court. If they made it just a fee, they weren’t going to be able to defend it in court. So this is their unwillingness to stand up to the parliamentarian. And I got to be honest with you. I know POTUS has to sell it. because you know he’s republican and it’s the republican party and it’s all on him but i gotta tell you man they did him dirty with this bill they did potus so damn dirty with this bill the amount of ridiculousness that is still in this bill that they’re acting like you’re too stupid to understand the process for them to remove is insulting this is why i want to pull my hair out when he fights with elon musk that is an ally to you Here’s this is I think that he’s measuring some of this wrong. He’s measuring this wrong. He’s wanting loyalty is not the same thing as having a subjugation is not loyalty. It’s not. Subjugation is not loyalty. You want to know what subjugation is? Subjugation is about those happy, greasy, fat rhinos that ran down there at Alligator Alcatraz. You know, the one that the governor and A.G. James Othmeyer just unveiled where they’re housing illegal entrants into this facility that’s surrounded by a swamp and, you know, presumably gators. And you had a slew of politicians, Florida rhinos that attacked them for their six ways to Sunday. You had the guy that was trying to get one of the state lawmakers trying to make trying to rob the governor of the authority to enforce immigration law so they could enact amnesty statewide. They criticized Trump. The Florida governor for enacting Trump’s immigration policies while pretending that they are like all quote unquote MAGA or whatever. And then they show up. They could not beat feet fast enough to get there all breathless and sweaty to get there to pose for a photo op because they want some of the shine from that achievement to rub off on them. They weren’t there for the fight. They actually fought and the ones that were fought against it. But oh my gosh, they can’t get there fast enough. They heard there’s cameras that are going to be there to alligator Alcatraz. Oh my gosh, they’ve got it. They can’t get there fast enough. Oh, they got to get there now. They couldn’t get there fast enough. And I just, you know, you got to appreciate those do-nothing rhinos down there in Florida that attacked the governor and attacked the attorney general nonstop about immigration. Nonstop. But they got down there. They got down there to get that photo. Did they not? Boy, I know y’all saw them. They were down there. You had all of them. The ones that we’ve tried to get out. We’ve tried to get on the show. They didn’t want to come on the show. One of them did. Randy Fine came on the show. I’ll give him that credit. But man, the rest of them, they actually, I mean, in fact, three of the people that were there opposed the creation of Alligator Alcatraz, which I thought was weird. Like, why then are you, oh, it’s right because there’s cameras there. That’s right. That’s because there are cameras there. Yeah, they had a number of them that showed up that actually had opposed Alcatraz. They said it was not feasible. They said it was not realistic. I’m just don’t trust me. I’m just reading their actual tweets. You know, it’s not a big deal. So but then, man, they got down there and they got a photo with it because they were hoping. In fact, Byron Donald’s even said, quote, it’s a pipe dream in quote. That’s Gulf Shore business dot com. What? How is that a pipe dream? It happened now. At least I will say at least Donald’s didn’t attack it for him to say it was a pipe dream, though. I thought it was a little bit off base. But these other cats out there, they were attacking it right and left. So it’s very interesting that they all ran down there so they could get their photos taken with it. Oh, you had all of them. You had all of them. I mean, it’s, you know, this I will say I got I got to tell you, like DeSantis welcomed these other Florida lawmakers there. And, you know, was just happy because he genuinely believes, I think, a rising tide raises all ships. I don’t. If you wrong me, I will come at you six ways to Sunday and try to knock you out. So this is why I should not run for elected office. But I thought it was very nice that he wasn’t as petty as I would be. Absolutely. I think without any argument. And I think some of you out there, too, if you’re being honest with yourselves, come on. So he just wants the job to get done and he just wants to get the ball down in the end zone. That’s all he cares about. So that’s a good thing. But back to the, you know, the back and forth with POTUS and Musk. I need them to stop fighting. I really need them to stop fighting. POTUS said that he maybe he’s going to turn Doge onto Musk. I didn’t want to tweet it, but I’m like, well, then hell, we know nothing’s going to happen because Doge wasn’t allowed to really cut anything, were they? I mean, they wanted to they identified over the one of the big problems isn’t the identification. It’s how to actually cut the spending without giving Democrats an opportunity to raise your taxes. That’s the big thing. That is like that’s the the the biggest aspect with this is how do you how do you then you can find waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s not the big issue. The big issue… Is how do you cut it? And I’m just like looking at some of the stuff on the kind of how do you cut that on the Senate calendar? How do you cut that? And then you go into Congress and then you’ve got to you’ve got to defend your cuts and then you’ve got to find other like big waste, fraud and abuse that you have to cut so that you can protect the decrease in the cut in taxes. And that’s, you know, the needle that they have to thread. The problem isn’t finding the waste, fraud and abuse. The problem is getting for these Republicans to actually vote. do what they said they were going to do on the campaign trail and vote to cut it. There’s a million different tactics they can employ. It doesn’t matter that it’s a reconciliation process. If they’re smart, they’re going to realize there are a handful of tactics they can employ, whether it’s withholding funding, whether it’s like, for instance, the rescissions. Where did the pocket rescissions go? We heard a great game. Where did the rescissions package go? Where did all that go? We keep being told we got to pass this thing because there’s tax cuts in it. All the tax cuts are temporary. They all expire in 2028. Next. So interesting. But I really wish that POTUS would bring as much pressure to bear on these lawmakers that are trying to do him dirty as he does his allies. And this is what I said. Subjugation is not loyalty. Elon Musk. I mean, if I were Elon Musk, there is no way in hell I’d want to buy Twitter. Why would you want to do that? You have more money than anybody on earth. Why do you need to do anything? Why do you need to prove yourself more? Why would you need to purchase a social media company for the free headaches? Like what? You’re paying for aggravation at that point. You are paying to get aggravated to death. You are paying for petty partisanship. Why would anybody in their right mind do that? You don’t need to do it. He didn’t need to do it. And he did it. He didn’t need to go and work with the administration and have all this bad press about Tesla. But he did it. So there’s an issue, like I said, the difference between subjugation and loyalty. Someone who throws in when they really have nothing to gain from doing so at all whatsoever. That to me is significant. And I think that those people need to be treated a little bit better than demanding, you know, subjugation like you would with one of these fat and sassy rhinos down there in Florida. It’s just a little different because those people are true allies and they’re not going to backstab you. They’re not going to tell you one thing and then let you wither out there as they watch you not be able to perform because they misdirected you. They’re going to be honest with you. And sometimes it’s hard to hear the truth. Sometimes it’s hard to hear it straight from those people. But that’s where a little humility comes into play. Like there are people out there that will tell POTUS whatever he wants them to hear or whatever they think he wants to hear because they’re all about their bottom line. That’s a lot of these lawmakers in Congress right now that are doing everybody dirty, including the administration with this bill. Telling them one thing, the reality is something way different. So I wish that he would bring to bear pressure on these lawmakers saying, With the same intensity that he does his allies like going after people like Thomas Massey doesn’t make any sense. First off, Thomas Massey is is incredibly popular in his district. And I’m not saying this as a way to be petty, but I’m just saying you need to make sure that you get more votes than the guy that you’re attacking in that district before you threaten to do something to him. I just that doesn’t serve anybody. You got to have people like Thomas Massey holding down the constitutionalist line. And for the people who go, well, what does he do? I would invite them to pay a little bit more attention to what happens in Congress if that’s a question they really have. This man proposes stuff right and left. He tries to push things through committee right and left. The problem, if you’re going to judge him by not having to go through, then you need to ask why won’t it go through? The stuff that he and Chip Roy propose are straight no chaser constitutionalist items that I think that a lot of people say that they want. I mean, they want lower taxes, if not an abolishment of the IRS outright. They want secure borders. They want more domestic production, manufacturing, more sustainability here, unleashing the energy sector. These are all things that people claim that they like. And then when you get lawmakers in D.C. that actually have balls big enough to do it, then people turn on them because it makes it inconvenient and uncomfortable for the rhinos like Lisa Murkowski and the Thunes and everybody else. That didn’t make any sense to me. And the people get mad at the very people who most embody what they claim that they want at the ballot box. So either people are getting misdirected or a lot of people are lying their butts off about how conservative and constitutionalist they are come election season. That’s the real truth of it. We got a lot more on the way. 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SPEAKER 12 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 10 :
You have to make a real effort to stay insulated from the facts and common sense. I joked earlier about the Trump show I’m addicted to. I really am fascinated. I can’t stop watching and marry that to the fact that there are 80-some million people that would vote again for him tomorrow.
SPEAKER 05 :
What I don’t like is when celebrities, or really anyone, immediately discount someone else because they disagree with them. And it’s not because they’re disagreeing out of ignorance or an absence of information, but just because they have different. Different ideological markers, whether they like smaller government or what have you, and that drives the. dissent and i can’t stand when these celebrities discount all of that nuance and just think well it’s just because they’re insulated from facts f-a-c-k-s it’s because they’re stupid because they don’t know i can’t stand when celebrities do that do you know how self-aggrandizing that sounds how elitist like a self-appointed elitist that sounds everyone who does it’s like the same as everyone who doesn’t agree with me is hitler or something it’s just stop it Or how third and fourth wave feminists, everyone who doesn’t agree with me is a sexist. Or you’re just wrong. There’s also that. Because I don’t think that he’s not as rude. He’s not rude like some of the others are. But I don’t know if I was having polite conversation at an event and someone said that to me. I don’t think that I… I probably would react a little abrasively, I think. Because his sister is very open-minded. His sister Justine Bateman is very open-minded. And I don’t like it how the media is so eager to pit them against each other as a way to punish Justine Bateman for daring to be an original thinker in an era where original thought is demonized. But for her brother or for anybody just to say, well, it’s because they disagree. It’s because they’re insulated with facts. 80 million people, 80 something million people are not insulated from facts. They have a fundamental disagreement with you about the size and purpose of government. That’s not because they’re insulated from facts. I mean, if we really want to have the discussion about insulation from facts, then what we could say is that, well, you seem to be insulated from the fact that the founders disagreed with you on the role and size and scope of government and its power. They didn’t believe in all of the things that you support and vote for. They didn’t believe in the government having this type of ability over individuals’ everyday lives. They didn’t support any of that stuff. If you really wanted to have a discussion about who is and who is not insulated from fact. It’s just so snotty. It’s so incredibly snotty. I have another snotty celebrity coming up. Charlize Theron. What is what was her soundbite? I don’t want to hear it yet because we’re going to talk about it coming up. She’s mad over Trump’s deportations and somehow decides to mix in with it. Trans issues, because I don’t know why not. She’s she’s always been a little kooky. I think she adopted a boy. I think she adopted a young boy and is raising him as a girl. Hmm. Yeah, so we’re going to have this discussion as well. Also, Jaguar, their woke rebrand cost them so much money. Stick around. We got a lot of news for you. Next, our partners that will bring you the program. It’s the folks over at Burna Gun. It’s always good to have options. I mean, you have different calibers. You carry blades, you carry carbines, carry pistols. This is a great option for you. If you are in one of these areas where you got municipal restrictions. if you have you know private property restrictions gun-free zone signs whatever it is or maybe you’re a college student and you’re going to be living on your own and you can’t carry a pistol for self-defense but you need something this is where the burner gun comes in look i’m always going to tell you to carry and i’m always going to tell you to use lethal force the other thing Use lethal force if your life is being threatened. You should feel free to be able to protect yourself. I have no problem doing it. But one of the things I’m also going to tell you is to make sure you’re diversifying your weapons array. And the Berna gun has, I mean, they have several different models. I mean, they have rifles and all that. I think for this specific purpose, you need to check out the SD and the CL, which is brand new. The CL is 38% smaller than the SD. CL stands for Compact Launcher. And if you’re unfamiliar with the burner gun, it shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. There’s no recoil. It’s legal in all 50 states. No background checks, no waiting periods can be sent right to your door. And it’s super affordable as well. And it doesn’t care about the gun free zone signs. So if this is something that speaks to you, and I would highly encourage you, again, to diversify what you have in terms of weapons, check out the Berna gun, the SD and the CL. You can find them both at Berna.com slash Dana, B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana. Berna, ready when you are.
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I think he’s terrible. He’s a communist. The last thing we need is a communist. I said there will never be socialism in the United States, so we have a communist. I think it’s bad news. And I think I’m gonna have a lot of fun with him watching him because he has to come right to this building to get his money. And don’t worry, he’s not gonna run away with anything. I think he’s, frankly, I’ve heard he’s a total nut job. I think the people of New York are crazy. If they go this route, I think they’re crazy. We will have a communist in the… For the first time, really, a pure, true communist. He wants to operate the grocery stores, the department stores. What about the people in there? I think it’s crazy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Do you want an update to his… That man, Dami’s plans? How bad his plans are? Oh, my gosh. So he has… this plan that he talked about for his grocery stores, right? He had this plan where he wanted to have a government run grocery stores and I guess offered like, I don’t know, free or discounted food for everybody. It’s the craziest thing. The problem is he didn’t know when he was like reading this government website about funds available in subsidies. He did not. read it correctly. So his plan is even worse than you ever thought it was. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashley with you right at the top of this second hour. His plan for the city-owned grocery stores, he wanted to tap in to a $140 million bucket of subsidies for quote-unquote corporate grocery stores, but that money doesn’t exist. Oh. Oh, yeah. It’s not real. It doesn’t exist. So, okay. He thinks that it would cost $140 million. I mean, he would have to almost, and this is from Washington Examiner, it would require like 20 years for him to build a one government-run grocery store in each borough. Washington Examiner has the whole story. His whole plan is based on a huge misunderstanding of the current grocery subsidies. The money that he plans to use to pay for the city-owned grocery stores is actually money that the city doesn’t have. He actually thinks that the city is spending $140 million to subsidize private grocery stores. And he talked about this before. And one of the videos that he had out, he said, we’re going to redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. And then he did an interview. He said that this is how we’re going to pay for the entire agenda. And he said that… He said that that should be compared to the city’s existing program called City Fresh, where they spend $140 million subsidizing corporate grocery stores. So it would take less than half of the money the city’s already set to spend and actually deliver results. So the City Fresh, what New York has, it is the food retail expansion to support health. So F-R-E-S-H. You know what it means? It’s literally just a bunch of tax breaks. And regulatory, a suspension of certain regulations in certain areas that make it easier for grocery stores to open up in what they call quote-unquote food deserts. It literally is not like a pot of money. It’s a bunch of tax breaks and suspension of regulation. He thinks that that… means the amount of money that it regulates is the amount of money that they actually have in a pot somewhere that he can just go stick his hand in. I am not making this up. The subsidy includes tax breaks, building taxes stay at pre-improvement levels for a few years, land taxes are abated, they have some tax breaks for building the store, some transfer taxes are cut, et cetera, et cetera. Zoning relief, regulatory relief, all of that’s included. And they save the grocery stores about a few million a year. Wow. And I don’t know how his brain thought that that meant that’s 140 million in hard cash. What they said is the city’s economic development corporation estimated that grocery stores have of their own money invested 140 million thanks to that city fresh program. He is counting the $140 million that grocery stores invested of their own money, private money, as government money. It’s literally described, quote, the amount of money invested into New York City’s economy through Fresh. So the money was invested by the, quote, unquote, corporate grocery stores and not by the city. He is one of the stupidest people who has ever lived. Oh my gosh. He literally does not understand this. And he thinks, he thinks that he’s, he just read that. Oh wait, 140 million. That’s probably hard cash somewhere that I can get my hands on. But what he doesn’t realize or what he misunderstood is Is that this is the money, the amount of money that’s been invested into New York City’s economy by these stores through this program. It’s not money for him to take. Like every other communist, this guy is also illiterate. Not just like in terms of reading comprehension, but mathematically illiterate as well. Oh, my gosh. But this is what happens when you’re a nepo baby who has never, ever, ever worked a job. And the closest thing to working a job that he’s ever come is when he was a failed rapper and mommy directed his rap videos. Not even kidding you. And they’re so cringe, I could die. I don’t understand how someone who is a millennial and should have a little bit better sense is that cringe. But here we are. I mean, he’s 30-something years old and he’s never, ever worked. Ever. So I don’t know. It’s like, I think the guys in the movie Stepbrothers, John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell, had like better ambition than this guy does. So he had no idea what he was reading. And he literally went out in front of the nation and pitched this plan based on his inability to understand what he was reading on a government website. But what’s more is apparently he does not surround himself with anybody that corrected him. Nobody was like, dude, you’re reading this wrong. That is not what that means. There’s not $140 cash sitting somewhere in a bucket for you to get. Okay. That means that’s how much money has been reinvested into the city through the city fresh program by the stores, right? And he thought, oh my gosh, that’s money I can take somewhere. So now we’re back at square one. He’s proposed big O government grocery stores. Where is that money going to come from? By the way, this is another reason why you don’t hate the press enough. Of the press, only one entity, only one entity actually wrote about this. That is Washington Examiner. All of the New York press, nobody touched it. No one in New York had the idea of going, wait a minute, this guy literally messed up and he does not know what he’s saying. So are we going to write about the story or not? No, no, shh. This is so embarrassing. But these people can’t do math. He doesn’t know how to do math. You know what’s also embarrassing? Can I share with you the Jaguar story? Did you guys hear about Jaguar? So I guess when did they come out with that ad? Was it like a year ago? Remember the ad that they came out with? It was people that were in like monochromatic colored onesies. Like red and yellow and purple. And they had like these… they did this ad where it had like a dude in no dress, trans, and they were all like in red and yellow and pink clothes. And they had their, like some of them had their eyebrows completely, you know, makeup off their faces. You had no idea it was a car ad. They came out and they’re like, we’re different. It’s Jaguar. Create exuberant. That’s not even an actual sentence. It’s not an order even. Create exuberant. What does that even mean? Live vivid. You mean vividly? I mean, there’s a reason why you can, you know, conjugate verbs and you have different ad adverbs and adjectives so they did this ad their sales have plunged plunged in europe jaguar sales dropped by over 95 percent in all of europe in all of europe For the entire month of April, they only sold 49 cars. Their Europe sales plunged from 1,961 units in April of 24 to 49 in 2025. And this is from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. This is the ad that they did that Juan’s showing you. I mean, you don’t even know it’s about a car. You don’t even know what this is about. They’re like copy nothing. And it’s just these Jaguar. You have no idea what it’s about. Jaguar was a cool brand. It was like a heritage brand. It was like old money heritage brand. And then they decided to twink it up. And I don’t even know what this is. I mean, it would make that’s cringe. It’s so cringe. Like here’s our typical old guy and he’s trying to be Andy Warhol. This is just so tired. Look, we’re trying to look weird. We put foundation on our eyebrows to make it look like we don’t have any. Look, we’re all sitting awkwardly and we just ran the tape backwards to make it look like we walked awkwardly. They try so hard, it makes me hate it. You don’t even know what this is an ad for. You wouldn’t know unless we were telling you. Yeah, they are, oof, their sales, their rebranding was disastrous. Disastrous. So their whole effort at rebranding killed their brand. It killed it. And you could say, well, they went woke. It was like even a soft woke. It was just tone deaf. It was tone deaf. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So Home Depot is going deeper into the building supply business. A $5 billion acquisition that they made of GMS. That’s of Tucker, Georgia. They distribute specialty building products like drywall and steel framing and things like that and supplies that are used in residential and commercial projects. It’s a subsidiary of Home Depot’s SRS distribution. They got in. So that’s interesting. So some moves being made right there. this let’s see oh so uh you know the the spare and uh the redheaded spare the whinging spare in his briefcase suitcase whatever girlfriend she’s in a lot of trouble because she has all of these like it’s a weird assortment of really runny jam that’s not actually jam uh she has a really runny spread and some other stuff like a rosé and all the stuff that she’s doing well all of her products are actually like sourced not even in the state of california Her raspberry jam is made on an industrial state 2,000 miles away from where she lives. It’s actually the same thing that provides the Bridgerton stuff for Williams-Sonoma. So it’s mass produced. She’s just white labeling it and charging three times the amount that you would be able to just get either direct from Amazon or through from like wholesale from the distributor itself. Wow, wow, wow. Rosie O’Donnell is mad because she didn’t get an invite to Jeff Bezos’s wedding. So she has been running her mouth about it. And she said that she called on Oprah for attending it. I don’t know. Maybe people are grown and they can do whatever they want to. It just sounds like a lot of people are mad that they didn’t get an invite to it. That’s what it seems like. Rosie O’Donnell, like, did anyone wake up this morning and go, wow, I wonder what Rosie O’Donnell thinks about Jeff Bezos’s wedding. Was that anybody’s bingo card at all whatsoever? Because it sure as hell wasn’t on mine. Yet here I am. No, I think she and others have been seeing people criticize them for it. What gets me is they try to say that it’s, oh, it’s just so tone deaf to just be that ostentatious. Have you seen the way that they’re ostentatious with everything else that these people do? You can be ostentatious in other ways, like wanting the state to exert full control over you. And to cut off any opportunity because you’ve made it. Now you’re going to cut off opportunities for everybody else. That’s pretty ostentatious if you want to have a discussion as to what that word means. Cracker Barrel fans are heartbroken as the chain is getting rid of its old-timey decor. So they’re going for a more sterile, soulless makeover, trying to remain relevant. So they’re changing a lot of stuff, apparently. They said a lot of people are criticizing it. They’re opening the walls. It feels like colder and more industrial modern. I mean, I guess they’re getting rid of their rocking chairs and everything else. That’s so lame. Like, stop. You know what? A lot of what people are… When they do these refurbishments or these redecorations, it ends up being like a soulless imitation of some Instagram garbage is what it is. It’s just brain rot as decor. Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told that they’d won life changing sums in a lottery error. They apologized. They were apologized to. Players were told they won large sums in the Euro jackpot because of a coding error. I mean, lots of money. You’re talking millions and millions and millions of dollars. So they had to break the news to them. And they said, we’re so sorry. We’re sorry. And I think they gave him like a free ticket or something like that as a consolation. Is that really a consolation? It just seems like you’re rubbing salt in the wound. Honestly, we have a lot more on the way, including but not limited to the latest with the bill. We also have some culture stuff as well. Hollywood whining and getting involved. Stick with us more in store next.
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Did you get any clues on the floor about what time this night we’re at?
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Oh my God, I just want to go home. I’ve missed our entire trip to the beach. My family’s going to be back before we get on that. So, and again, I’m going to vote no. There’s no drama. The votes are going to go. In fact, the only interesting votes are going to be on the margin, whether that’s Collins or Johnson and those. But all the Democrats, we all know how that’s going to go. And I don’t think it’s really helpful. Thank you, sir.
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I think everybody is John Fetterman right now. He was mad because he’s like, we’ve missed our whole vacation. Because you had Schumer who wanted to make it to where, well, they actually wanted to read the bill. So they were working to actually read. They were reading the bill yesterday, which I don’t know that they’ve ever done that. Have they ever done that where they sat and they read the bill? I’m not quite sure. So welcome back. Dana Lash with you. And we are at the bottom of this second hour. I think everybody’s John Fetterman at this point. I wanted to play this as well. This was funny from Audio Summit 7 from Trump earlier when he was down there talking about alligator Alcatraz. I just thought this was funny. This is the detention facility in which they’re putting in criminal illegal entrants. Listen to this. Twenty seven. Sorry.
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Is this a dream come true for you, sir? Well, I was thinking about that, I must say. It was meant more as a joke, but the more I thought of it, the more I liked it, if you want to know the truth. And they were seriously, they were actually crocodiles. They were crocodiles from Africa. They are a step beyond. But no, that was really meant as a joke, but a lot of people liked it. And a lot of people think we should do it, frankly.
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He was saying, oh, you got to run. You know, if you’re running, you got to run like this. Then he was doing a zigzag because you got to zigzag, zigzag. That’s hysterical. That’s, yeah, and that’s audio. Yeah, listen to this. This is audio sound by four. Listen to this.
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I guess that’s the concept. This is not a nice business. I guess that’s the concept. If you, you know, snakes are fast, but alligators are big. We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator, okay? If they escape prison. How to run away. Don’t run in a straight line. Run like this. And you know what? Your chances go up about 1%, okay? Not a good thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s funny. You got to run. You got to zigzag, zigzag. They’re already that’s all ready to go. It’s climate controlled in there. They have AC in there. They have air conditioning in that thing. So last night, the Senate going back and forth over the big, beautiful bill and a little bit ago, J.D. Vance had cast the tie breaking vote for it. Now, one of the things that I’ve been telling you, I really wish that these lawmakers would be honest. And I get it that they’re trying to score a win. But I think you need to be honest now so that you can prepare for it going into the general election in 2028. Not just that, but in midterms, because the tax cuts, they’re not permanent. And then that’s going to be at some point that, well, that’s going to come up in 28. Everybody’s going to be talking about that. What plan do Republicans have? My concern about lifting the debt ceiling, raising the debt ceiling to the extent that they’ve done it. And now this goes back to the House and they have to go over certain things where they send it to Trump. So it’s not all the way there yet, but it’s, you know, fait accompli. It pretty much is. My issue is that by only making tax cuts temporary and that was a this is not something that is unusual. It is a tactic that they used so that they could get the a certain CBO scoring, because as I’ve told you this before, and a lot of you asked me about this. The Congressional Budgetary Office only tabulates exactly what you give it and it doesn’t look into the motivation. So if you say, OK, well, here’s and here’s this bill with tax cuts set to expire in 28, it reads that like a cost or a gain. That’s how it looks at it. And so it reads, even though I agree with you, tax cuts are not a cost, government spending is, it reads tax cuts as a cost to itself, itself being the federal government. And therefore, you have to present more cuts to federal spending in order to offset that. So they made it temporary, expiring in 2028, so they could get a more neutral reading from the Congressional Budgetary Office on this. Now, This is not the first time that this tactic has been used, and it is not only used by the right. It’s used by the left. In fact, this is how they were trying to get Obamacare. Obamacare, they were trying to say, was under a trillion dollars, and it really wasn’t. And the reason that it really wasn’t is because the way that they prompted the CBO to spit out a score. They did all of these, you know, this fuzzy math and all of these tactics to try to get a readout that said it was under a trillion dollars. But in reality, it wasn’t. So. This same thing with the tax cuts that are in this, you’re going to have tax cuts for four years. I mean, it’s not a lot and it’s not a cut. The only new things are like no taxes on tips and like an increase in child tax credit. But everything else is just a continuation of 2017. And that wasn’t even set to expire until December of this year. So we had time. It was a completely arbitrary deadline of July 4th because they were trying to rush this stuff through. So there isn’t actually a cut in here. It’s a continuation of 2017, which also wasn’t permanent. And you might remember if you listen to this show with any regularity, that was my biggest criticism of the president’s bill back in 2017 is that the tax cuts that were included were not permanent. And that really needed to be so. I think the corporate tax rate needed to be lowered a hell of a lot more than it was. And then I also think that these deals that Murkowski and others signed, insane. I mean, it should have been smaller. It should have been separate bills, but it is what it is. And like I said, this goes back to the House. You’re going to see raising the debt ceiling, higher deficits, I just don’t. The government has never spent less when you give it more. Does that make sense? It doesn’t spend less when you give it more. When you raise the debt ceiling, the government doesn’t start spending less. And the whether it’s corporate tax rate, all kinds of stuff. I mean, the individual tax provisions. Again, I want to just note that they are, again, all temporary. Really would have loved it if it had been made permanent. But for that to happen, they would have need to cut so much. And remember, these are the same Republican senators who refused to stop the parliamentarian from ruling that they could not remove illegal immigrants off of Medicaid. So that’s you’re also limiting the value of itemized deductions. There are some tradeoffs with this for sure. You still have a lot of green energy stuff, a lot of green energy stuff that’s in this. The there need there’s there really should be more. They’re really I mean, there’s there’s there should be more cuts. There should be more exemptions, more deductions, all of this. If you’re not going to get rid of the IRS altogether. So I’m not happy with it. It’s just the way it is. I mean, and it’s weird that, you know, this is what Republicans are celebrating as a big win while also simultaneously criticizing the illiterate Marxist in New York who didn’t know how to read a government website and then thought he could just had a grab bag of one hundred forty million dollars in cash to pay for state run grocery stores, which, no, you can’t. That’s not going to work. By the way, I wanted to share with you this piece. This is from City Journal in New York. I know you’re going to gag, but just bear with me. I thought this was interesting. It says that Mamdani turned his campaign into a lifestyle brand. With today’s influencer-driven economy, young voters couldn’t resist the quote-unquote vibe and voted for what Mamdani was selling them. What? Can they actually say what he was selling them? What is he promising you? What is this guy actually promising you? Can they even say it? I mean, it’s not enough to have a bunch of Instagram followers. It’s not enough to have your little viral videos and your camera filters and all of this stuff. He had an entire agency behind his run. He has an agency behind his run. It’s called Melted Solids. And they’ve worked with Bernie Sanders and all that before. And this is what gets me. They’re all about focusing on narrative authenticity and cultivating a vibe. Gag me. By the way, the irony. Hiring a PR team to focus on authenticity. and cultivating a vibe. If one is authentic, wouldn’t one argue that the vibe has already been cultivated, right? I’m just trying to understand this. This is so ridiculous. So he’s, like, advertised as a candidate of choice for the culturally fluent. So they’re going to try to make socialism cool. And they want this to… The sub-battle to this is they want this Mamdami guy, they want him to be the… yardstick for Democrats coming up, right? They want him to be the yardstick for all the Democrats coming up. They want him to be, are you as leftist as this guy is? He’s the new measure of vibe. What does a vibe get you? Can a vibe pay your bills? Can a vibe pay your mortgage? Can a vibe pay your rent? Can a vibe pay your medical bills? Can a vibe buy your groceries? I’m so tired of this nonsense. Ooh, the vibe. But the other thing too, he, the left usually had to tell people, no, we’re not Marxist. We’re not socialist. Do you remember when Bernie Sanders was running and his past, like being a Democrat socialist came out and everyone was talking about democratic socialism and how it’s a stupid made up term. And the left had to go to great lengths to convince people, no, we swear he’s not socialist. We swear it. He is just a regular old Democrat. You remember how hard they had to, they like bent over backwards, like him and Elizabeth Warren and everyone else. No, no, no, they’re not these words. They’re just Democrats. Then you have Mandani that gets out there and he’s like, hell yes, I’m a socialist. Hell yes, I believe in state-run everything. Hell yes, I want to tax white neighborhoods more. I mean, all of the efforts that the left has made over the past decades to try to convince you that they’re not what they are. And he just kind of blows all their cover. There is a certain satisfaction to it. And he’s doing incredibly well with women, young, progressive women. There is a major problem with white communist women. And as Juan told us on break, we can’t call them Karens because a British court ruled that that was a smear. But they are. When I hear the word Karen, I think of white Marxist women. That’s what I think of. But that’s who’s driving this. They’re going to be the death of us all. That damn third and fourth wave feminism. They’re going to be the death of us all. But that’s what’s driving his popularity. These bras out there are like, oh my gosh, it’s so cool. I also love cultivating vibes and like authenticity and stuff. Like, yeah, like let’s have state-run grocery stores. I don’t know where money comes from. What? That’s his whole base. That is his whole base.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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So a, no, I don’t really want to do this one. Oh, I don’t want to do this one at all. A nurse found drugs in a Florida man’s back door during surgery for a stab wound. Just going to leave it like that. Florida man involved in what police believe was a drug dispute ended up behind bars because during surgery, because he went in to seek medical attention because he was stabbed. It was at St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Hospital last month. The injuries required surgery. Forty three year old Michael O’Neill was had a nurse was. Well, she found that he had been using. his prison wallet, for the lack of a better phrase, to store drugs and drug paraphernalia. It was a smoking gun piece. And they said while in surgery, she located it. And it was round tinfoil with cocaine, along with a glass crack pipe and a lighter. I can’t even deal. And he posted $5,500 bond was released from custody. Plead not guilty to the charges. I don’t know how you can plead not guilty to these charges. This was not his first arrest either. So next story. Moving on. Let’s see here. We’ve got a Florida man’s cross necklace blocks the bullet from piercing his heart. This is coming from WFLA. He was shot in the chest. He credits a cross necklace for saving his life. 20-year-old Aiden Perry told his friend he was showing off a firearm. He accidentally fired it because he’s a moron. It ricocheted off his gold necklace and became lodged in the fatty tissue of his chest. The doctors say that his necklace saved his life. So I think there’s probably something to be said for wearing big gold chains maybe. But it ricocheted. It had to just hit perfectly. They said if he hadn’t been wearing it, it would have pierced his lungs or his heart. So maybe maybe he got it as a Christmas gift last year from his dad. So just say and maybe that maybe that’s a giant sign to this dude. Just FYI. Also, let’s see here. A. I got drug trafficking, drug trafficking. Uh, we also have a guy in Zephyrillis, Florida, an argument that began a man opened fire on a garbage truck while chasing it through Zephyrillis. And, uh, this was early Friday morning that led to the guy chasing it while firing shots in a collision that sent two men to the hospital, another to jail, according to Zephyrillis PD. They went to Advent Health Zephyrillis. The man showed up, he had a gunshot wound to his right forearm. Uh, He was shot by, I don’t really care about the backstory of this, but a guy just was running after a garbage truck and just firing all crazy. You had to know. His name is Quinson Croson. You have too many sounds in your name, sir. You got to give one of them up. Nobody’s allowed to have that many consonants. I know it’s America, but come on. A man in whitey tighties is pepper spraying his sleeping neighbor over noise complaints. Another one. It is shockingly not a village’s story. It’s Lauderhill. They said that this man was arrested. He broke into his neighbor’s upstairs apartment. Pepper sprayed him in the face while he slept because apparently he was snoring so loud and being loud that the guy had lived like right below him. He could hear him. So he couldn’t startle him awake. So he ended up climbing up. into his apartment, and he pepper sprayed him in the face. It just feels like maybe he could have used your phone instead. Just the thought. We have a lot more on the way here as we roll towards the third hour of the program, including some of the details, the scoring about that bill. We also have some of the latest with WNBA and some of the childishness that’s happening there. We’ve got some culture as well for you. We’re going to get into all of that and a lot more as we roll out more of the program coming up.
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This summer, the world’s game comes to New York, New Jersey. MetLife Stadium will host an epic quarterfinal matchup on July 5th. Teams will be revealed soon, but one thing’s clear. You won’t want to miss this. Be there when it happens. Grab your tickets now at FIFA.com slash tickets. MetLife Stadium. The world is watching.
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What’s your reaction? You guys famously tangled in the White House.
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I admire Elon’s leadership on rockets. I will take care of the finances.
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This is so I mean, I think that that’s I think it’s kind of petty to discount him. Just because of the rocket. Just, oh, he can do rockets, I’ll do this. I mean, you don’t have to be an economist or an investment banker to know that spending money you don’t have is bad. Spending money that you don’t have, raising the debt ceiling, these are all bad things. So why are we saying, well, he could just, I mean, he’s built a pretty sizable business. I think that his opinion is worth a listen. Welcome to the show. The radio program, Dana Lash with you. You can listen terrestrially. You can watch the radio program, Channel 347, DirecTV as well. And the… Senate bill. This is what we’ve been kind of like going back and forth on for, you know, they’ve been going back and forth on it. They’ve been Chuck Schumer said we’re going to read we’re going to read every single page of this. And which I’m actually I wasn’t against because it’s like the first time, you know, don’t threaten me with a good time. Right. You’re going to sit here and you’re going to you’re going to read a whole bill. Finally, you’re going to read a whole bill. But they did not terminate the Green New Deal in it. They did not. I mean, they still have all of the wind subsidies. They still have all of the solar subsidies and all of this stuff. They’ve got, you know, every bit of it. And they’ve had 12. I mean, they’ve had a lot of time to deal with us and they just haven’t. For some reason, just because they’re spineless. This let’s also I got some other audio here that we’re going to play because there’s a bunch of stuff to go. We’re going to talk more about where’s this other audio. Here it is. Getting into this. This is this is audio soundbite three. Listen to this.
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What happened to Elon Musk? nothing you know he’s upset he’s that he’s losing his ev mandate and he’s obsessed yeah he’s very upset about things but you know he could lose a lot more than that i can tell you right now hey elon elon can lose a lot more than that hmm so that’s disingenuous because
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He’s always said that he wants all the mandates to go away. He does are not mandates, but all of the subsidies. He doesn’t want subsidies for EVs. He said, yes, I want it all to go away. I don’t want to have subs. I don’t even want to have subsidies. You have to remember, he also has a lot of people on his board that elect to take this stuff, too. And he’s like, I don’t want this stuff. It all has to go away. He’s been very, very consistent on that. So to say that this to imply that this is he’s mad over subsidies isn’t accurate. That’s not in any way accurate. Why are they doing this? I wish Trump would go after these rhinos that are in the Senate and in the House as hard as he does some of these allies. Because, you know, as we were talking last hour, Musk is an ally and there’s a difference between loyalty and subjugation. And he didn’t need to get in this fight. He didn’t have to get in this fight. And he chose to anyway because he really believed in what was happening. And I just think that, you know, you give those people the benefit of the doubt because they’re not there to try to get something off of you. They’re there to actually contribute. And I just, you know, I think that that deserves a little bit of attention. All right. So a few other things to get into this. Where’s this? I have me find my other story on this because this I have too many windows open is my problem on my giant four and a half foot wide screen. And it’s a it’s a Tuesday before a long break. This whole issue with the WNBA. I don’t know if you guys saw some of the scoring on this. They had it was trending last night. So they were ranking players in the WNBA and Caitlin Clark’s all-star ranking. Got a lot of people talking about player bias. She was ranked ninth among guards by her peers, which is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen. The way that they, they’re like, oh, she finished first in the fan vote. And in the players vote, she was ninth. Because they hate her is why. That is pure jealousy. Pure jealousy. Have you ever seen them? How many players they send out to guard the ninth best guard on the court? They send out a million people to guard her. A million. They actually go after her. Someone said they guard her like she’s Prime Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I’m so tired of the hate from this. She’s a once in a generation player. I’m so tired of the hate that she’s getting. It makes me, there’s rivalry and then there’s this. There’s rivalry and then there’s just blind pettiness. You know, like even other players in the NBA, those men would give each other their due. Women are bitches. They will not give them. I’m going to tell you, every place I’ve ever been, I’ve only had one issue with a dude. Everything that I’ve ever seen in the workplace has been from women. It has been from women. They’re nasty. They’re petty. I don’t like them. They’re aggravating. Look at this. They can’t all celebrate that she’s bringing all these eyeballs in. So they got to rank her really low because they’re jealous bees is why. The ninth best guard. Every time I’ve ever seen her on the court, they’ve got a million people around her. A million people. And you would just think that they would, instead of wasting all this energy and all this time doing this, you think that they would be able to celebrate it. Like, oh my gosh, we’re getting eyeballs. We’re getting, you know, we’re getting this. We’re getting chartered planes now. We have merch opportunities, you know, all of that. I mean, it is crazy. She’s number, she’s one in fan favorites, ninth amongst players. I will, you know, I wish they’d guard her like she was the ninth best guard in the league. They ought to guard her like she’s the ninth best. Then if she’s the ninth best, then don’t send everybody to guard her. Just give her that ninth place treatment. She’s I think that the WNBA allows this. And I think that part of the reason why they allows it is because they that why they allow it is because they want they they’re misinterpreting this as getting the same kind of eyeballs that a regular rivalry would get. And it’s not the same. This is just as nobody likes to see somebody getting beat up on just for the sake of getting beat up on. Like they’re mad at her because she’s white and she’s not a lesbian and she’s not whatever. I don’t know whatever these Marxist broads think, but they’re mad at her because she’s just good. And she came in good and she’s been. And the only time anybody pays attention is when she’s on the court. This is not unlike policy in real life, by the way. Where the people who succeed and put in all the work are sidelined and kneecapped, overburdened and overregulated. It’s a lot of problems. A lot of problems with it. So that’s the latest. Ninth place. I feel like I need to be a male basketball player, though. Here’s why. Did y’all see the payday this dude’s getting? payday. Everybody’s talking about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, but they’re not talking about Shia Alexander. He got a four-year, $285 million super maximum contract extension. Steve, is that like an actual thing, a super maximum contract extension?
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Yeah, there’s a difference between a max and a super max. So essentially you get paid out for as long as you possibly can in your term deals in the collective bar. It’s a CBA thing, but you can raise the amount of money because there’s no salary cap, but you can get paid that many times per that many years.
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Wow. Wow. See, I need to be a male basketball player then. We could do that. I could learn how to play ball. I won’t be very good. I mean, I can play ball. I’m just never good. I couldn’t even make varsity in school. I did, like, soccer and track and everything else, though. But, yeah, 285. I will literally stretch my bones, and I will pretend to be a dude for that kind of money, man. I mean, just on the court anyway.
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SGA put in one of the most impressive seasons in basketball history ever. He had the finals MVP, the regular season MVP. He took Oklahoma City to their first ever NBA title. I mean, it was impressive. Wow.
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Wow. Two hundred and eighty five million with Oklahoma City Thunder all the way from 2030 to 31. That is the richest annual salary for a player in the league’s history. Holy cow. I’d say so. I wouldn’t even know how to spend all that money. I wouldn’t even know. So clearly we are in the wrong industry. We need to be selling. We need to be we need to be like working in basketball. All right. I had to get into this. So Lululemon fired a lawsuit, filed a lawsuit against Costco, and they said the company is selling dupes of some of its crappy products. Lululemon stuff is just made so horribly. I’m sorry. I don’t understand the worship of this brand. I mean, there’s like Beyond Yoga and others that are just like much better quality. And there’s stuff on Amazon that’s like much better quality than this brand. Lululemon, they filed this suit in district court. They’re saying that they unlawfully traded on their reputation and sweat equity by selling unauthorized and unlicensed apparel that uses knockoff and friending versions of its patents. Like what? It’s their little Kirkland brand that they have. Kirkland’s a good brand. What, they’re your leggings? Are you going to get mad because someone else is selling leggings? Leggings. But I got to say them the way my grandma did. Leggings. They said, well, they’re making duplicates. Our scuba hoodies, our defined jackets, and our ABC pants. You know, other people use the scuba, like a neoprene type material to make products, not just Lululemon. In fact, uh, There are entire brands based off of that material that make those. It’s not just Lululemon. And you’re mad over a windbreaker? They’re like, what are high-tech men’s scuba full zip? And they said Costco’s is $19.97. Lululemon’s is over $100. Huh. So… Lululemon wants a jury trial. And they got into a fight with Peloton as well. And they ended up becoming a partnership afterwards. They resolved it amicably. But I mean, I don’t know. I just I think that it I just think that I don’t think they’re infringing. I just don’t look at it as an infringement. It’s a stupid windbreaker. What do they think that, well, they’re using the scuba material. There are so many brands that use that material. Veronica Beard makes stuff out of that material. Leisurewear and others. But it’s our popular, but Costco’s. I mean, I was looking at them and they have like their high-tech men’s scuba falls up. Costco’s been having to take them down. I mean, I don’t think that it looks the same. I mean, it’s just a it’s like a windbreaker. I’m looking at some of that. It’s just like a windbreaker. Why are the it just doesn’t even. So they have the Lululemon. There’s their neck is different. You can have a similar color. The zipper’s different. There’s all kinds of stuff that looked at the pants are different as well. To me, it just seems like they’re I don’t know. I get making sure that you’re protecting your IP. But this also just seems kind of dumb and petty. And again, Lululemon, I maintain. I’ve never seen seams fall apart faster than Lululemon where it’s just like it was stitched by squirrels in a sweatshop. I don’t know.
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This summer, the world’s game comes to New York, New Jersey. MetLife Stadium will host an epic quarterfinal matchup on July 5th. Teams will be revealed soon, but one thing’s clear. You won’t want to miss this. Be there when it happens. Grab your tickets now at FIFA.com slash tickets. MetLife Stadium. The world is watching.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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Oh, boy, a Chris Brown lawsuit. I can’t think of anything else I’m more excited to talk about than a guy who constantly gets himself in trouble with his own actions. Oh, my goodness. TMZ says Chris Brown, the tequila attack lawsuit was settled. I didn’t even know he had a fight. Doesn’t he just always fight? I think the bigger question is to ask when he’s not in trouble. But blah, blah, blah, demissive prejudice. Can’t refile it. Moving on. I just pampered celebrities. Older patients are overprescribed. According to Medical Economics, they’re saying that cutting back is safe, but results might be tricky according to the paywall that just blocks the content. But they said that I believe people are overprescribed everything. I absolutely do. I think people are on too many medications as it is right now. Guinness Book of World Records. Now here’s something. The Jenga blocks. So a guy with stacking skills with cards and Jenga blocks has earned four world records. And he’s known as the card architect. His stacking skills broke four Guinness World Records in a matter of days. He stacked 3,149 Jenga blocks on one single block placed vertically. Who has the time to do this? This guy does, I guess. So he claimed the title for tallest house of cards built in eight hours, and it was 62 layers. Can you imagine getting to your top layer and then you mess one thing up and it all falls apart? That would be really… Good for that guy. Have goals in life, I guess. Yeah, that’s his tower that he made. That’s on a single block. That’s actually super impressive. Also, I think he might be a witch. I don’t know. Just saying. That’s not normal. Massachusetts police are using crackers to capture a loose pig. That sounds like there’s a free pet running around. Orleans Police Department said that the pig named Pua had ambushed its pen and taken itself out on a guided tour of New Orleans. They responded to the scene. They’re trying to get the perpetrator in a pursuit. They were trying to lure it with its hawk, Pua. That’s so stupid. That’s its name. The name of it is… Are you serious? They called him Pua. But I’m like, what in the world? But the pig, they said, was on the run. And they were trying to lure it with crackers. I mean… I want that pig to run free. Run, pig, run. And let’s see this. Associated Press. This story. Pull this up. So this is China’s humanoid robots are generating more soccer excitement than their human counterparts. So they have robot playing soccer players. Juan, would you play a robot in soccer? No, I wouldn’t either. It’s kind of, but they’ve been playing in China and they look honestly, it’s like they have autonomous three on three matches and it’s empowered entirely by AI. They look kind of clunky and awkward. I mean, it’s not like they’re fast moving, you know, and they can stand up on their own after they fall over. Clearly during the match, they still had to be carried off the field on stretchers by staff. That’s just so funny. I don’t know. And they’re a little bitty. They’re not like the size of people. They’re like little robots. But we have a lot more on the way. Josh Hammer, who is the editor-at-large over at Newsweek, he was one of the people who was rescued in that op by the Florida governor. We got him and more coming up. Stick with us.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this third hour. A reminder, I will be out from tomorrow until July 8th, but you can still find us Facebook, YouTube, Substack as well, chapter and verse. I really like the idea of alligator alcatraz, and I was trying to think what we could have that would be similar in Texas. We have some gators when you go out east, but I think everything else is just like… scorpions and dirt i don’t know i think that’s all we have that’s not very scary i don’t think uh there’s a lot to talk about with my next guest because he uh was one of those individuals who was rescued uh into when you had jay collins florida governor ronda santa senator jay collins and everyone grable rescue everybody went over uh were helping americans that were trapped due to the conflict from Iran to Israel. And my friend was over there with his family. And then he comes back and now he gets alligator Alcatraz in Florida. Josh Hammer, who is the editor at large over at Newsweek, joins us. His book, Israel and Civilization. You can see it behind him. Always good to see you, my friend. Welcome back. Let me start with that, because, wow, that was pretty harrowing. Tell me about your experiences with that, because you were one of those individuals who had to be evac’d.
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Yeah, so Dana, we were there for primarily personal reasons. So my wife was born in Israel. She was raised here in Florida. We went over initially for her cousin’s wedding. We had a surprise 60th birthday party. It was very kind of innocent, anodyne stuff. Eventually, I did try to tack on a book event at a think tank in Jerusalem for my book, Israel and Civilization. It was initially really just a purely personal trip. And it was on the fourth or fifth night that we were there that we woke up at 3 a.m. in the morning, in the overnight hours, to the sirens going off outside. And, you know, you wake up there in the middle of the night and you’re very confused. You’re kind of groggy. You rub your eyes. And my instinct is to hop on Twitter to see what the heck is happening out there. And what we learned was that the sirens actually at the time, typically Israel does these sirens for incoming missile fire. This was actually a rare instance of a preemptive warning to the Israeli people that the IDF had launched their operations inside of Iran and to be on high alert for any potential retaliatory response. So long story short, that day came and went, that Friday, and many of us expected that Friday night is the Jewish Sabbath, Shabbat, and many of us expected that the Jewish Sabbath is when the Iranians would strike. And sure enough, Around 8, 8.30 local time, I was quite literally in the middle of my Sabbath prayers to welcome in the Sabbath. Then we had to – the sirens went off outside. We took my wife and daughter. Our six-month-old baby was with us, Dana. So we rushed to the bomb shelter. That’s essentially what we did for the next three or four days was to live on edge, knowing that at any moment the sirens could go off, at which point you have roughly 90 seconds, maybe two minutes if you want to stretch it out a little bit. to get your butt to a bomb shelter now there are a couple things to bear in mind here one is that first of all most importantly is a terrible way to live an absolutely terrible way to live on pins and needles knowing that the world’s number one state sponsor of jihadism could be raining down 2 000 mile atmospheric ballistic missiles at any given moment Second, these bomb shelters were constructed primarily to deal with these lower-level rockets and mortars from Hamas, none of these 2,000-mile ballistic missiles. So too many missiles were getting through. Too much damage was being called. And that is when I decided that I had to get my family the heck out of there. We had to get out of Dodge. So I did a little research. I came into contact with Jay Collins, an amazing state senator from here in Florida who was on the ground. He was on the ground, former Army Green Beret, volunteering to get Americans home safely there. And we ended up being part of the first 300 people evacuated there. We took a bus to the Jordanian border, did a night in Amman, Jordan, flew to Cyprus, did a night in Cyprus by surprise. Then flew on this DeSantis chartered flight to Tampa International Airport where the governor DeSantis actually met us at 5, 530 in the morning. That was a surprise as well. So Dana, I know the governor a little bit as I know you do as well. He saw me. And he surprised me by then asking me to join him at this impromptu press conference after not having slept for essentially a week there. So I did the best I could. And we got home. The whole thing took about three and a half days. It was about a three and a half day ordeal from when we left the home to the bus evacuation to get back here in South Florida. It was a long, long time. And to your point, thank God that we are all safe and home.
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And we are all glad that you’re safe at home as well. Good heavens. Three days talking with our friend Josh Hammer from Newsweek. His book, Israel and Civilization, you can get it where books are sold. Because one of the things that I thought was an interesting point that was made is that when the IDF was striking very specific targets in Tehran, which, by the way, I don’t know how you are a IRGC warlord. And you know something is going to happen. Everyone on social media knew something. Something is amiss. You stay in your high rise apartment in the middle of a city that you’re just like advertising that come work me now. And I was so impressed because the strikes were so precise, like just this one little window was blacked out. Of course, the building’s fine. And that’s where this one baddie was. You know, and here’s another guard and his high rise. I mean, it’s amazing the precision. And then you contrast that with what Iran was doing. And it was like they were just lobbing missiles over randomly to hit wherever. They didn’t care if they hit civilians. They didn’t have a specific target. They just wanted to inflict damage.
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Yeah, it’s arguably, I mean, it’s arguably even worse than that. I was actually reading an essay just this morning by Madi Friedman, who lives over in Jerusalem and is a great writer and reporter on these things. One of the facilities in Israel that took a direct strike from one of these missiles is arguably Israel’s number one cancer research facility.
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Oh, my gosh.
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three hundred to five hundred million dollars in estimated damage live human tissue that had to be preserved that’s gone all this data that’s been collected for years if not decades gone they had a hospital in in in bear shava the largest city in the nega of the desert in southern israel there thank goodness that wing of the hospital they had actually had the foresight to evacuate it to the bomb shelter already there but i i mean talk about indiscriminate fire there i mean it’s just absolutely appalling horrific stuff there and To the other side of the equation, as you said, this really was a brilliant tactical operation by the IDF and arguably even more so than the IDF by Mossad, by their intelligence services there. Look, Mossad, between this and the Beeper operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon last year, they’ve really done a lot, I think, to restore their credibility after the catastrophic intelligence failure that was October 7th there. And Mossad has the entire country of Iran essentially on a grid. They have Israel has incredible human intelligence on the ground there inside of Iran. And it’s really just mesmerizing stuff. I mean, it’s frankly kind of spy movie material.
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If it really makes the mind real, I’m going to be so upset if this does not become like a Tarantino ask and glorious bastards kind of thing. I just don’t know if I’m going to ever be able to forgive anyone in moviemaking.
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No, totally. I mean, it’s really incredible stuff, right? I mean, Mossad, again, for a very long time, Mossad, I think, had this total just badass reputation. And it was really damaged on October 7th. And we should not be afraid to say it. It was unequivocally damaged. They did a lot to restore their credibility with the Hezbollah beeper operation. But frankly, what I think went on in Tehran during that 12-day war, not just Tehran, but all throughout the nuclear sites there, a lot of it, Dana, frankly, makes the beeper operation look like child’s play. And then you kind of throw in the B-2 bombers and the massive ordnance penetrators there. I mean, look, I’m a sports fan. I think of what happened in that 12-day war as essentially being the old kind of Kobe Bryant to Shaquille O’Neal alley-oop, where Israel kind of lays the groundwork. They take out the air defense. They take out the missile launchers. They start bombing Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan. They take out the nuclear scientists. They do all these incredible stunts. Like, apparently, they had a prank phone call to the heads of the IRGC Air Force and said, you guys, at an emergency meeting, have to go congregate in this room. And obviously, they did. Yeah. And then they blow up the whole room there. So, I mean, they laid the groundwork quite nicely for America to kind of come in there for the final coup de grace, the final death blow. It was a brilliant tag team operation. I think in many ways, Dana highlights the U.S. Israel relationship.
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One more question in this realm that I want to look at domestically. What are your what are your thoughts on Syria potentially signing on to the Abraham Accords? I’ve been pretty amazed at everything that’s happened in the past. I mean, let’s just say six months because. When you had the new regime come in, I mean, you were you’re choosing between the lesser of two evils here. We’re like, we don’t know much about this guy, except he was a literal jihadi. I mean, this guy was a jihadist leader. And OK, he’s coming in. But then they it was a really weird response. He closed airspace to Iran. No Iranian military commercial use of their airspace. And then when POTUS went over and was speaking to leaders in the Middle East, and he was talking about easing up sanctions on Syria, and then MBS gets up and applauds. And then now they look like they’re indicating towards signing with the Abraham Accords. All these other Abraham Accords signatories were applauding this. And now it seems like… Iran and any of that regime that may have had any remnants of sympathy or support left have been completely iced out. And I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on all that.
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So Syria has been one of Israel’s foremost arch enemies since modern Israel was founded in 1940. I mean, Syria is up there with the worst of the worst as far as the recurring enemies of Israel, literally going back to the country’s founding. They invaded in 1948. They invaded in 1967, 1973. They’ve been on the wrong side of Israel time and time and time again. And you’re totally right, by the way, that this guy who called himself Al Jalani now he’s calling himself Al Sharar, literally a former Al Qaeda jihadist. So I was among those who was deeply skeptical, again, probably the lesser of two evils. I agree with that. I mean, this was a major blow for Iran that Assad was gone and went to go exile in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, probably the lesser of two evils. But I was very skeptical. And I’m not going to say that I’m ready to fully eat crow because a lot of bad stuff is still happening inside Syria. There was this horrific slaughter of Christians at a church in Damascus. There’s a lot of stuff happening that that that a normal or remotely normal country should not be happening there, let alone a regime that has still some ambiguous ties to HTS and various other foreign terrorist organizations. Having said all that. This would be a big freaking deal, a big freaking deal if Syria were to normalize, become part of this Iranian containment alliance that is the Abraham Accords. The news that I saw just a day or two ago was that apparently Syria is ready to renounce and forego its claim on the Golan Heights, which is He disputed land between Israel and Syria. Israel got that back in the 67 war. Syria has never formally let it go. If they’re finally willing to let the Golan go almost 60 years later, Dana, that is a big, big deal there. So, again, if Donald Trump can get that done, it’s another example, I think, of Donald Trump just doing what no other president, frankly, could do.
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Why is it seeming like things are moving on the right track in certain areas there? And then here domestically, you have Mandani, this guy who has he’s refused to condemn the globalize the infantada phrase. I mean, he endorses it. He dances around it. Every interview that I’ve seen and a guy, a nepo baby who’s never worked a job in his life, who only became a citizen seven years ago, who’s a failed rapper and his mom directed his videos, who clearly has a religious problem with certain people. This guy could be mayor of New York.
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I mean, it’s just so appalling that I sometimes struggle to know even what to say on this on this topic. I mean, Dana, I grew up in New York. I grew up in the suburbs there. Most of my family still lives in the area, not in the city. Thank goodness, but in the suburbs. But I mean, New York’s days, in my opinion, are clearly way, way, way different. In the past at this point there, to me, that seemed obvious by the time that COVID-19 came, by the time that the George Floyd 1619 riots came, by the time that the whole Zoom work-from-home culture started to pick up there. But you’re just going to see an astounding exodus of human capital, political capital, economic, financial capital. I mean, I think you’re looking at a world where literally the New York Stock Exchange, like the actual physical bull on Wall Street, that bull could essentially proverbially get on its hind legs and start walking southward, start walking to the Sunshine State here in Florida or the Lone Star State in California.
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Do you want that though? Because you escaped to Florida from all of that New York. Do you really want that though?
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So here’s what I will say. On the one hand, no. On the other hand, Dana, I used to live in Texas, too. I used to follow Texas politics super closely. I remember poring over the 2018 Texas Senate exit polling data. That’s when Beto O’Rourke came within about two and a half, three points of knocking off Ted Cruz. Thank God that didn’t happen, obviously. And I remember seeing a very crazy thing in the crosstabs that poll, which is that native Texans, if memory serves, according to the CNN exit poll that year, actually voted for Cruz at a lower rate than non-native Texans. A lot of people do actually vote with their feet. This is actually a real thing that happens. So it’s a mixed bag. I’m not entirely sure which way it ultimately shakes out there. But yes, let’s be very careful there. And DeSantis is talking about an entry tax for New Yorkers. I’m definitely down with that.
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Only for New Yorkers. Like maybe if Texans come there, you know, no entry for them. Josh Hammer, always so good to see you, my friend. I am so glad that you and your sweet family got back safely. Thank you. I can’t imagine how terrifying that was and that you’re able to share some insights on that. So we’re glad that you’re back stateside and safe and back in the good sunshine state of Florida. The book, make sure you check it out. You can see it, Israel and Civilization, a really great read. And I think you need it for historical and future perspective. Josh, God bless. Happy Independence Day, my friend. Good to see you.
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Happy Fourth of July. God bless you, Dana. Thank you.
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But if I’m honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? The book I know says, I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. In as much as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me. The book that I love says, learn to do good, seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Speak out for those who cannot speak for the rights of the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and the needy. My book says, whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.
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But what he misses, what he misses there with us, And this is Raphael Warnock, who just goes to show you that even the devil can quote scripture. What he misses is that it’s voluntarily it’s voluntarily done and it’s voluntarily done for edification. Welcome back to the program. I’m so you know what? Everyone’s like, oh, Jesus was a socialist. No, he wasn’t. He actually fed people. People would be he he questions what book they’re reading. I question if he’s ever read the good book. I mean, good heavens, 2 Thessalonians 3.10. I mean, if any would not work, neither should he eat. The Bible is incredibly clear. In Grace Canceled, I have an entire chapter that dives into the scriptural destruction of socialism. I mean, you realize, by the way, that simply by saying thou shall not steal, there is the presumption of private property ownership, which completely just guts Marxism. gut socialism. I mean, the scripture is full of discussion about working and making sure that you are contributing and that you are doing good work. And I do not think that Raphael Warnock has read the Bible. But if he really wants to get specific, let’s look at life. Let’s look at coveting. Let’s look at life. Let’s look at look at theft. Let’s look at all of these things, especially life. He would find himself most precariously opposite, as I would think that he is on most things. This is a guy who endorsed abortion up until the moment of birth. All right, so today in stupidity, we’ve got a real banger for you. It’s another annoying Hollywood celebrity, right, Steve?
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Everyone’s second favorite South African, Charlize Theron. She tried to tie in deportations and something else, cut 26-1.
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We’re moving backwards fast. Immigration policy is destroying the lives of families, not criminals. Women’s rights are becoming less and less every day. Queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased, and gender-based violence is on the rise.
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What does she mean women’s rights are becoming less every day? That’s not even a full sentence. Folks, happy Independence Day to you. God bless. I’ll be back on July 8th.
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