Join us this week as we unravel the complexities behind the California fire crisis, exploring the stark realities faced by residents and first responders. Amidst the chaos, we hear personal accounts of survival against nature’s fury and examine the disconnect between political rhetoric and actionable solutions. As flames threaten iconic locations like the Pacific Palisades, what are the underlying causes, and how do they relate to broader environmental policies? Our episode not only highlights the stark challenges on the ground but also critiques the political and bureaucratic frameworks at play. Can reforms in land and resource management prevent future
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My heart goes out, obviously, to the people with their homes, and I’m watching the small businesses around us go up in flames. This is people’s livelihoods, so it’s devastating. But what is most concerning to me is our first responders and our firefighters who are trying to battle this, there’s no water in the Palisades. There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants. This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. Not the firefighters’ fault, but it’s by the city. And I’m gonna be very honest, we’ve got a mayor that’s out of the country, and we’ve got a city that’s burning, and there’s no resources to put out fires. So if you look at your pictures,
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you don’t see the firefighters there because there’s nothing they can do and it looks like we’re in a third world country here we have well over 5 000 acres that have burned and the fire is growing we have no percentage of containment we have an estimated 1 000 structures destroyed and also no reported fatalities and a high number of significant injuries to residents who did not evacuate. In addition to first responders who are on the fire line, we have over 1000 personnel assigned and the cause of the fire is unknown. However, it is under investigation.
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Yeah, but the way that you hear the left talk about it, they act like it’s all because of climate change and all of this when, first off, that’s stupid. There’s a major seasonal wind that’s blowing through. And it’s this idea of why they always have to make it about climate change. You know, can you just maybe, I don’t know, contain the fire before you start pimping off it? It just seems like maybe contain it first. That’s a thought. Contain it first. And then… Then you can try to do your political pimping. But this idea that – because that’s all I’ve seen from anybody about this lately is, oh, it’s all climate change. It’s this. It’s – well, and we’re going to talk about some of the causes of this. I’ve got some flashback articles for you because, I mean, there’s definitely – you can definitely – Look at some of the headlines and come to a conclusion about maybe what some of the cause might be, but it’s definitely not climate change. So welcome to the program. We’ve got a lot of stuff to get into. That’s just some of the latest with you. How many separate fires are there out there? Yeah, I can’t, I can’t even, I can’t even, there’s several separate fires. And then they said that there’s, it’s now, it’s going down, the fire is now going down towards the Pacific Coast Highway. It’s like right near Malibu. There are a lot of people that we know. that have homes there that are being impacted. And, you know, obviously we’re praying for everybody there. I mean, it’s just terrifying. And those things, the fires because of the winds, I was reading that they actually can move at the speed of something. I read something like it’s a football field or a couple football fields a second. Yeah. That’s when those winds start gusting, that it moves as fast as a couple of, or like a football field a second, something to that effect. Because you’re talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of acres that are burning here. So pretty unbelievable, pretty unbelievable scenes that are coming out of L.A. And You know, like we said, we’ve got listeners in the area, and it’s just some of the video. I think one of the most viral videos currently that’s going through, and I think Juan’s getting ready to show some of it, is the guys that are in there. There’s two guys and a dog. And it’s… Yeah, this is what he’s showing us. So there’s two guys and a dog, and it’s in the Pacific Palisades. And they were able to get out to safety. But, I mean, it didn’t look like it. And you’re seeing that video right now. It didn’t look like it because that’s unbelievable. The fires were whipping around their house there in the Pacific Palisades. And it’s just… It’s a terror. It’s just truly… It’s terrifying. And they said that… Even if you’re planning, like they were apparently planning to evac anyway, and that the speed that the fires were moving made it to where it was, I mean, it was impossible for them to get out in a timely fashion. I mean, you’re watching it right now. That’s terrifying. Just whipping around. the home. And a lot of it too, you know, you’re on kind of, you know, rocky terrain and you’re seeing A lot of the brush, a lot of the low-lying brush and a lot of the… You know, in the canyons, apparently, California has had a big fight with people who’ve been trying to do some controlled burning to control some of the underbrush and all of this that you’ve seen. I feel so bad for the dog in this video, too. I mean, yes, the people, but that poor dog has no idea what’s happening. What is happening? Can you imagine how hot that is? I mean, it’s unbelievable. So… That’s one of the things that we’re following. Welcome to the program. Dana Lesh with you, top of this first hour. If you wanted to know where the Los Angeles mayor was, I’m pulling up this story that I was reading. It’s from the other day, a couple of days ago. Karen Bass is the mayor of Los Angeles. She’s going to be, she’s in Ghana. She’s attending the inauguration of Ghana’s president. She went with the director of the Office of Management and Budget. And yeah, they went to Ghana. They’re in Ghana right now, chilling. And in the meantime, Gavin Newsom got blasted. He was conducting, I guess, a photo op. I mean, he was there, I guess, with some of his staffers. And he was conducting, I guess, having a little photo op there. While he was standing outside looking at the fires. I mean, I’m looking at some of this now. I mean, it’s just it’s unbelievable. And he was also one of the people who has previously tried to downplay a lot of the debates as it relates to control burning and land management, etc., etc., etc., I don’t know how he or Karen Bass politically survived this. It is one of the, I mean, these fires that keep happening. Like, for instance, I have a piece here. Let me pull this piece up. This is from, it’s a flashback. This is a piece that was local media there. It was published in October this fall. The headline is Forest Service halts prescribed burns in California. Is it worth the risk? U.S. Forest Service directed its employees in California to stop the prescribed burning for the foreseeable future. They said that it’s meant to preserve staff and their equipment to fight wildfires if needed. And they had a crucial fall window for planned, controlled burns. And that was going to remove fuel and protect homes. And they said that some people were saying, well, is it going to increase long-term fire risks, which is a dumb argument. But, I mean, you have to be able to get rid of the fuel for these fires. I mean, that’s just all there is to it. This is something that they apparently they stopped. So that’s not the only flashback. I mean, I have a ton of them. But, you know, another example in terms of what they’re spending their money on. You were hearing a lot of these people, local media and people who celebrities in L.A. and in and around in L.A. They were saying that certain of the like the hydrants were dry or certain reservoirs are running dry. Why are they spending their money on in California? You know that you have to deal with this every fall and every winter. What are you spending your money on instead? Well, here’s the, from the California High Speed Rail X account, the Fresno River Viaduct in Madeira County, one of the first completed high speed rail structures. Oh, they got a piece of it built. Now it can’t go anywhere. It’s just a strip of it. Just a strip of rail. I can’t believe that they weren’t embarrassed when they posted this. They did 1,600 feet and it took them decades to do it. They spent 1,600 feet for a train that can’t go anywhere yet. Billions of dollars. You’re seeing the image right there, Juan, showing it to you. That was billions of dollars and it took over a decade to build. And it’s just that strip. You could not make this up if you tried. 1,600 feet of And what gets me is someone was trying to correct in the comments. They were trying to, like, save face and say, well, you know, it was $9 billion to build. And someone said, well, $9 billion, you know. They were really careful not, you know, to stick to, which is a lie, to stick to budget. And then California High Speed Rail bumped in. They said, to clarify, it’s actually $12.5 billion. So people, they were actually under, I mean, you can see the image. It’s the dumbest damn thing ever. 1,600 feet, $12.5 billion in a decade. And they built one-fourth of a mile of a completely unusable overpass. This is what California spends their money on. This is what they’re spending their money on. There’s tons of that, tons of these instances, all of the all of the California politicians that really made a lot of money off this. Just unbelievable. So this is you know, it’s these are expected to be catastrophic fires. They’re saying that it’s going to be, I think, something of what. were as bad as the 93 fires everybody keeps throwing out a different year i i don’t live in california but everybody keeps throwing out even californians keep throwing out a different year it’s just wild dry hydrants i mean you look at some of these headlines people are complaining about the dry hydrants they backed a seven and a half billion dollar water bond and that was back in 2014 And then what this was, this piece was last year. The LA Times wrote this piece. No water projects have been built in California. Don’t worry, they’re moving slowly. Like, oh, it’s happening. They’re just apparently not happening fast enough. This is what they’re dealing with out there. And then you hear the complaints about the insurance out there. So in the Palisades area, There are a number of people that have said that they had their home insurance policies canceled. And one of the reasons that insurance companies were canceling the policies is because one apparently was cited as saying that there was not being enough preventative work done to. potentially contain future fires. We’re talking about land management, et cetera. You keep having fires that are occurring in the same, you know, fairly close to each other places. And it’s, I mean, what’s being done? What’s being done about it? They’re allowing the overgrowth. I mean, these policies are getting people’s home insurance canceled. There’s a friend that was saying that his in-law’s home burned down back in 2010, and they were underinsured, and they couldn’t afford to rebuild. And then after that, a lot of people, there was a whole spate of cancellations, and then after that, there were more cancellations. I mean, Gavin Newsom is one of the absolute worst things that’s ever happened to Californians. I… So if you think this right here, Republicans need to get smart because 2028 starts now. You guys better be tacking this on his board because he’s running. He’s running in 2028. And you can watch California right now. Those are those plans that are enabling the disaster that you’re seeing in California. That’s what he wants to impart on all of the United States. So Republicans better be checking stuff while they’re talking about Greenland and all this other damn stuff. You better be looking at what’s happening to California because that could spread to the rest of the country, those policies. It’s our friends over at Super Beats, the Super Breen product. You guys are very familiar with Super Beats. It’s the number one beet product in the country. And Super Breen, this is like one of their newer products. It helps to support metabolism and blood sugar levels. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So a second winter storm is threatening parts of Texas with heavy snow. Yeah, and ice. Everything is supposed to begin. Why are they saying Wednesday? Because I was told that it wasn’t supposed to happen. I’m looking at the weather report right now. They were originally saying that it was going to happen on like midnight Thursday. But now it might. Don’t stop this. Now it might move in earlier. Shut up. No. So we got fire on L.A. We’ve got. Snow and ice. The headline is Dallas could see historical snowfall in upcoming winter storm. It could deliver more than a year’s worth of snow to Dallas. They say per AccuWeather that the city’s historical average snowfall is 1.6 inches. That includes sleet. This is going to bring two to three times that amount in hours from Wednesday night to Thursday night. between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Friday. That’s the 54% chance of seeing 3 to 6 inches of snow. If you think that that’s not going to bother you, guess what’s a major hub in Dallas that’s going to totally shut down? American Airlines. So get ready for flight fun. If you’re flying, you’re going to get screwed over. I’m just letting you know now, so I need you to go in there with the full expectation of that. A man was found frozen to death at a bus stop as a winter storm killed six, and Americans braced for the second round of bitter cold and snow. It’s winter storm Blair. That’s a perfect name for the storm, Blair. Memory is not exclusive to the brain. Non-neural cells also remember, according to a new study. So basically, things like your kidney cells can learn. and retain, I guess, that pattern that they’ve learned, so they technically have a memory. Horrific AI images reveal what men will look like, I don’t even want to see the women, in 30 years due to an ultra-processed food diet. They’re going to look like Chris Christie. That’s ultimately what they’re going to look like. These horrific AI images, like they’re honked over, they look bad. Juan’s getting ready to show you. Tell me that this doesn’t look like Chris Christie. It looks just like him. Yeah, completely just like him.
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Like after a night of drinking.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So coming up, Trump announces an investment into data centers here in the United States. Are those going to be H-1Bs? We’re going to talk about that. We’re also going to get into the fact checkers are freaking out over the fact checking business. And it is a business. We got that and so much more. Stick with us. It’s our friends over at Kel-Tec. Kel-Tec, the makers, oh, they invented the micro compact pistol category. They invented all of that. They’re unveiling some new stuff over at SHOT Show as well, which is going to be later this month. That’s a private industry event. But they have, you know, whether it’s the P-15, whether it’s the P-11, the P-32. I mean, they’ve really changed the way people conceal carry and they have, you know, an entirely new category of high performance KSG shotguns as well. The fold and have carbine family, the sub two K’s, all kinds of awesome stuff that they’ve come out with. And they’re going to come out with something new later towards the end of this month. And we’ll we’ll have it. You can also visit Caltech weapons dot com slash Dana and sign up for that Caltech insider campaign. e-newsletter, and I see all their social media posts, et cetera, and that’s where you can get updates on the latest. Innovation Performance Caltech, caltechweapons.com slash Dana.
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And so it’ll be 217 to 215, which means they cannot afford to lose a single vote. And they’ve already suffered the defection of Congresswoman Sparks from Indiana, who got so mad about the fact that she wasn’t put on the committee she wanted, that she has left the Republican conference and is an independent now. We haven’t even started deliberations yet. So I think we’re going to be in good shape to exploit some of the conflicts and contradictions going on within the Republican conference. I think you probably saw, John, that the enraged nativist racist mega base is upset with Elon Musk and the prologarps who want to bring in tens of thousands more cheap foreign laborers. And so that’s something that’s already starting to explode in terms of the republican politics but
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So that’s Jamie Raskin, who’s not saying anything that I haven’t talked about or that I think is like shocking or not predictable. But he’s hitting on something that is important. And that’s what I talked about this on Jesse Waters program last night. It’s the unity on the right. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. This is exactly how things will get gummed up if Republicans aren’t careful. you will have infighting, which we’ve already started to see some of it. And that can be, it can be helped. Look, it does have to start from the top down. It does, guys. It really needs to start from the top down. And I think that they need to get a handle on any kind of, everybody’s got to be on the same page. We’ve already seen two or three slips so far. Like one where, you know, you had Vance saying that he didn’t have to go and vote for this bill while Trump was on true social, saying all senatorship, stuff like that. Everybody needs to get on the same page. Don’t give the left an inch. But here’s the big thing. What Raskin’s alluding to right there is the difference between a party and a coalition. And I’m not going to lie, it’s uncomfortable. I have we’ve never grown up. We don’t have parliamentary style politics in this country. We use some of the maneuvers in the Senate, you know, and some in the House. But by and large, we have a party system in a republic and we don’t have to make coalitions with other groups. Well, previously, we really didn’t. We were just like, if you want most of what you want, then, you know, you you better come and vote for us or that’s you know, you don’t really have anybody else. But it’s twofold. We’ve we have people who aren’t used to coalition style building in politics. A lot of people talk about it, but they don’t really do it. And you have people who don’t know how to manage and lead coalitions. It’s a combination of two things. It’s very difficult to do because everybody wants their back scratched. And you end up getting people who agree on 80% fighting over the 20%. That’s Reagan’s infamous rule. My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy. And you really need to walk that walk now. especially now because it’s not all kittens and sunshine. I know the right wants to exhale and go back and go on vacation because in November, oh, we won it. Yeah, that’s it. That’s right, right? No, that’s when the work starts. I mean, a free republic doesn’t mean a free ride, right? Everybody’s got to pitch in. Just as I don’t like welfare welfare, I don’t like welfare activism either. I don’t like outsourcing activism to just a certain group of people. Everybody’s got to take hold. And if you don’t, then everybody shares the blame. So it’s difficult when you have not grown up with or are accustomed to coalition politics because you have all these different factions. You have the Make America Healthy Again faction, the Make America Great Again faction, the Libertarian faction, the religious right, the agnostic right, the pro-life, hardcore pro-life faction. You have the kind of like moderate Republican faction. You’ve got all these different groups. And what needs to be done immediately first and foremost are all of the things that they came together on. People got to remember why they came together to vote the way that they did in the first place. This is incredibly important. It’s, it’s, and it’s difficult. And a lot of people, one of the things that Trump’s chief of staff said, Susie Wiles, that she had said to, uh, I think it was Axios. She granted a rare interview to Axios and she talked with him and said that, uh, You know, she’s telling people she’s trying to get control on all the leaks. And there was a story that came out where she was telling people, don’t do this, that this is about self aggrandizement. That’s not how she put it. Don’t do it if it’s like if you’re just trying to enrich yourself or if you’re trying to be a star. She’s like mission first. I think that’s incredibly an incredibly important message to set right from that inner circle all the way down, because you have that faction in the right to. Everybody’s got to remember why they came together to vote the way they did in the first place. And when, like, for instance, the H-1B thing. This is where moves from the administration can make it difficult to keep the coalition together. Trump announced yesterday that they are getting this massive, what is it, a $50 billion? I can’t remember. It’s a $50 or $90 billion donation from this United Arab Emirates businessman who’s done a lot of stuff with the Trumps before. They’ve worked on hotels together. It’s not like they don’t know the guy. But the problem that it that it can create is these are going to be data centers in a number of different states. I think they said like Texas is one of them. There’s a number of different states. And well, it was going to be at least 20 billion, but I think it’s going to be up more than that, according to CNBC. Hussein Sajwani is the Emirati billionaire. He’s with Daymac Properties. He’s the one who’s going to be pledging the money to foreign investment to build data centers across the U.S. And Sejuani gave an interview. He’s a Trump associate. He gave an interview in which he said they’d been waiting to do this for a few years because they didn’t want to do it under the Biden administration because it’s just been I mean, Biden’s just very into business. So the first phase of the plan is going to take place in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. And Sajwani, he said that, you know, we’ve been waiting four years to increase our investment to very large amounts of money. He said this when he was meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He told the press this. So in addition to that, you have SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who announced plans to invest $100 billion in the U.S. and create 100,000 jobs over the course of Trump’s four-year term. So here’s my question. Are these H-1B visas? Because the data center is exactly what typically those are. And I ask this because America first means Americans first. American jobs first. We have a ton of people over here. And if you have foreign workers who are willing to come in on H-1Bs to work for less than what American workers are, and that’s what’s ultimately gutting the jobs in the sector. So no one’s talking about that. No one’s mentioned that. I don’t know if I mean, I don’t even think that there were any reporters that asked follow up questions about that. That’s incredibly important because the issue isn’t just illegal immigration. The issue is also an unsustainable amount of people that are allowed. A lot of it’s these H-1B, the tech where it’s not a specific special. I mean, it’s like a low it’s like low, low level software engineering, things like that. So that’s, I think that needs to be addressed. And the reason I bring that up is because the right just had a big old fight about this over Christmas. Do not think for one second that Raskin and his underlings within Congress aren’t going to exploit that. And it’s an easy thing to exploit. If I were on the left and I wanted to divide my opponent and weaken them through division, I would be hitting this six ways to Sunday. I would be running ads about it it would be mentioned, it would be on the lips of every single politician of my party affiliation. And then maybe I would find and hold a press conference with some of these exact type of workers who would work at these jobs, but have them be American workers and then talk about how American workers, they need American jobs and et cetera, et cetera. That’s what I would do. So this is where Republicans have to be careful, because it doesn’t help if you have leadership or anybody else give the impression that there are to be big, giant divisions within the right. There’s things that everybody came together on. And look, Republicans are historically weak on immigration anyway. I don’t want anyone to get over their skis and think that people somehow believe or anybody believes that Republicans have been contributed to this problem. That’s a lie. They absolutely have. So why would we do it more? It’s my question. That’s one of the things we’ve got to be careful of. To be very, very careful of stuff like this. That’s why everybody needs to get on the same page. You know, we need to start and the first things that have to be accomplished are exactly that which brought everybody together. Because it’s not just about Trump. Actually, it’s not even about Trump. It’s supposed to be about the voter and it’s supposed to be about American principles. When you that you have a greater chance of success and you actually can deaden the blows that befall the administration by actually altering and correcting the perspective on this. So, of course, they’re going to seize this and they’re going to try to exploit all of this stuff. But again, you cannot give they cannot got to focus on just what brought everybody together. And then after you accomplish that, everything else, because he’s got he’s got six months. Now, another case in point, you know, the Lake and Riley Act that passed. There were a number of Democrats. Actually, this is in, I’m pulling up my sub stack. I sent this out. If you’re a subscriber to my newsletter on sub stack, chapter and verse, you have this. This is one of the, and this is the reason why I wanted to put this story in here. This is the Democrats that changed their vote. A handful of Democrats changed their vote on the Lake and Riley that passed the House yesterday. That’s very significant. You had 48 Democrats, and it’s more than the number who voted for it last year. It’s going to be sent to the Senate at past 264 to 159. There were a number of Democrats previously who had opposed it, who changed their vote after election. So this is why I’m telling you he’s got six months. Midterms? Yes, they’re in two years. But how long is that election cycle, folks? Do you honestly think that some of these House members and some of these purple states, either Democrat or Republican, wherever they’re at right now, they’re going to run right back to the center in six months? You have six months to take advantage of this power, leverage it before all of these elected officials start getting too scared of their own shadow to do anything ahead of their midterm election. It has to be done now. This is incredibly important. So that’s why I know everyone wants to talk about Greenland and everything. And I’m not discounting that Greenland is, you know, you have a lot of natural resources and the situation of where it is. I just that has not been a national topic of conversation, nor has it been brought to the American people as a problem we should consider. America first didn’t mean expanding America. It doesn’t mean expanding government. That’s not the it’s not expansionism. That’s not what it is. I mean, it’s not like what I voted for. So I’m just saying focus on the stuff that everybody came together to vote for in the first place. That should be the only mission for the first six months. Get through that. Get through midterms. And then you can focus on all this other stuff. I don’t want to help rasking out. I don’t want these Democrats to be aided by mission creep. That’s incredibly important right now. You know, I made mention of it last night, too. One of the things that I think actually helps, even though I saw people making fun of him for it yesterday when Trump was talking about the low flow shower heads and all of that, we were kind of we were laughing about it here. You know, we were we thought it was funny. But do you know, that’s actually kind of important because that’s something that can immediately impact average everyday Americans across the country. People who’ve seen their water bills increase because of the stupid stuff. The stuff that’s supposed to conserve resources actually makes you use more of it and makes the resources more expensive. So that has immediate impact. That’s something that shows people, oh, there’s progress. There’s stuff happening. There’s things happening. So those are good things to do. But we got to stay focused because six months in the midterm start and elected officials are scared of their shadows again. We got a lot to hit, including the fact checkers freaking out. We’ve got that for you. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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There’s a lot of talk about Greenland, for example. And I know there’s a lot of freak outs, you know, and of course I would never support taking it by force. But I do think it’s a responsible conversation if they were open to acquiring it and, you know, whether just buying it outright. I mean, if anyone think that’s bonkers, it’s like, well, remember the Louisiana purchase? I think Alaska was pretty aggressive. deal to fifty million dollars i think it was it was record uh… it was uh… it was referred to as a sewers folly and now that was alaska now so i mean you know open having all kinds of conversations uh… is well and now i don’t think we need it’s not helpful to freak out uh… but uh… some things might work out some may not but that’s part of ongoing dialogue but he hasn’t even take office in two weeks and you know we really need to Pace ourselves if we’re going to freak out over every last tweet or every last conversation or press conference.
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I mean, dang. I’ve never seen anybody. I mean, I’ve seen people come back from strokes, you know, and be really healthy, etc. But he’s like the new and improved Fetterman. Dude. You don’t even know how to say that. You don’t have to keep saying it.
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He’s so correct that Democrats don’t like it.
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It’s just, you know, good heavens. He’s so accurate in that soundbite. Now, that doesn’t mean that we need the woke right to run up to him and make him the new messiah of the right. But, you know, it gives me hope in that some of the people with whom I disagree with on a lot of things, maybe they’re not that far gone. You know? Yeah. I don’t know. It’s real weird. I don’t know how to… Because I’m so used to being on the defense with Democrats. And then when they say things that I’m like, wait a minute. Which one of us had the health issue? Because you sound correct right now. What’s happening here? Stop being on defense. I know. No, I can’t help it. Well, I can be both at the same time, offense and defense. But what if you just won’t want to be on the fence? I don’t know how. We got a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. The fact checkers are losing their minds, you guys. Losing their minds! We got that and more. Stick with us. Folks who help bring you the program, partners of ours. It’s the non-firearm firearm, Burna Gun. What Burna does, the Burna Gun emits chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And it’s a great diverse option for self-defense when your options are limited through no choice of your own, whether it’s a gun-free zone or whatever it is. You want to make sure that you have a little bit of diversity and that you’re able to protect yourself so you’re not becoming a statistic. I have a lot of friends who live in areas where they really try to control what you can and can’t carry. And they’ve gone out and gotten the Berna SD, which is Berna’s most popular model. It’s a lot. It’s a model that a lot of law enforcement is incorporating as well to have a diverse array themselves. Five round capacity against chemical irritant projectiles. There’s different models. That’s just their most popular one. And the other thing is that it doesn’t care about gun for his own science. It’s illegal in all 50 states. No background checks, no permits. They can ship it right to your door. so it’s accessible to everybody. This is the perfect time, new year, new you, to reevaluate your self-defense options. Visit Byrna.com slash Dana. That’s Byrna.com slash Dana to get 10% off your purchase.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this second hour and been following a lot of things, including these raging wildfires out in California. Catastrophic. I mean, they said most of what is a Pacific Palisades, most of that area is gone. That’s how bad it is. And the wind gusts in some parts. are 70 miles, some 80 miles an hour, some 90 miles an hour, depending on where you are, I guess around whatever canyon. And I have friends who live in the area. Some have evacuated and they’ve said that like when they would just try to go outside and, even just to open the door to see where the smoke was, like the wind would almost rip the door off the hinges. It was that crazy. They always have wind in that, but they said this is really unusual, the winds that are just really pushing this around. So we’re praying for everybody there. We’ve got a lot of people in our listening audience out there as well. It’s a scary thing because it spreads fast. There were stories of people who were getting ready, who were doing what they’re supposed to do and they’re evacuating, but then the winds would pick up. And the fire moved in so fast that they’re not even they weren’t able to like get everything and get out or they were able to barely just get out. They said that they move. It’s like a football field a second or something crazy. I can’t even imagine that. I can’t even imagine that. That’s insane. So we’re watching all of this. Welcome back again to the program. I wanted to play some audio for you. This is flashback audio because one of the big, you know, I know everybody in California is dealing with all of that, but people in D.C. are immediately trying to politicize it. And you have the left out there, people like Bernie Sanders saying it’s it’s because of climate change and it’s because of this and that, which come on. But actually, there’s there’s audio that that’s out there and we have this. Where Trump was he this was a couple of years ago, a few years ago, he was telling Gavin Newsom back when he was president about the need for California to send more water downstate and incorporate better land management practices. Something that Newsom never did. They spent billions on a high speed rail project that went nowhere. Listen to this. This is audio somebody 10.
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And you have so much water. And all those fields that are right now barren, the farmers would have all the water they needed. And you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle. Because no place is like California. I go to Austria. The head of Austria tells me, you know, we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in California. We never have forest fires because they maintain their forests. and you have all that water that could be used to, that’s what they call water flow, where the land would be damp. And you’d stop many of these horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of dollars by the federal government, etc. So one thing I’m going to do for California, vote for me, California. I’m going to give you safety. I’m going to give you a great border. And I’m going to give you more water than almost anybody has. And the farmers up north are going to be able to use 100% of their land, not 1% of their land.
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He’s not wrong. I mean, it’s he’s not wrong. And what did Gavin Newsom and Democrats do? Well, they didn’t really do anything. They they well, they spent twelve and a half billion dollars on sixteen hundred feet of rail that took 10 years to build that you can’t actually put a train on because it’s just one unusable overpass in the middle of a field, not even making it up. They spent a lot of money, billions upon billions of dollars on this rail project, which honestly was just a way for them to enrich themselves off the taxpayer. They don’t really do. I mean, they haven’t done a whole lot with regards to they did some controlled burns a year ago, which, by the way, I would correct myself. That was when Trump was out there speaking about this. But a little bit before when he went out there, they had some controlled burns in and around Malibu. but they apparently do not do them enough to what U.S. Forestry had asked. And a lot of this stuff, and this is really important to note, a lot of times there’s a difference between state-controlled land, obviously, and federally-controlled land. And apparently… This their water management obviously is a major issue, but these fires by and large start on federal land. I had a friend who made this point and then I was went and looked back at previous fires when they when they go and they look at and they come up with a forensic summation of everything. A lot of a lot of them start on federal land. And federal land, that’s a whole other issue. The land management on federal land in these areas. And apparently under Joe Biden, they were canceling right and left very important controlled burns. And this was just as recently as fall. I shared one of those stories with you. Forest Service halts prescribed burns in California. They’re worried about the risk. They’re willing to trade the risk for increased risk on wildfires. If something bad happens, they’re much less likely to be blamed because they can point the finger at Mother Nature. Wow. They were canceling some of what they were. One of the reasons that that was given, they were trying to what is like an environmental reason or they were trying some fish or what? I don’t even care. Gavin Newsom, there’s video of him bragging about how they altered their water. What is this like their whole system of getting water downstate because they were trying to save some damn fish or something like that? Yeah. I just, I don’t know. It’s amazing to me how so many years of Democrat administration in this state, every single time there is a wildfire that is beyond containable, You can always look and see some land management policies here, some land management policies. I read stories that people are looting. They’re not looting. They’re getting bread. That’s what we were told by all the people who can I just say the people who live in these areas when we had the summer, the hot summer series burn loop murder. And people were busting into stores. I was told by the left that this was just these people getting bread. So are they just looting these mansions in Pacific Palisades for bread? That’s what I was told. That’s what looting is. It’s not looting. That’s a very mean term.
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It’s mostly peaceful procurement, I think is what they call it now.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. Peaceful and voluntary procurement. Yeah. That’s what it is. Yeah. PIP. PIP. A little PIP. little peaceful involuntary procurement happening here that’s what it is we’re going they’re just out there pipping pip in there’s no m in it no there’s no m i don’t know what the m would be yeah peaceful involuntary procurement big pipping that’s it so they’re just out there getting bread that’s what i was told right that that’s what it’s i i The president currently and first lady are apparently going to… They’re at Cedars-Sinai for the birth of their first grandchild, apparently. Or great grandchild. The birth of their first great grandchild. So they’re… I guess they’re out there. So they’re going to recognize that grandbaby. That’s a great grandbaby that gets recognized. Just saying. I don’t know. This whole thing is pretty amazing. And… The insurance disaster is because so many of these homes were uninsured because of this type of stuff. One of the real estate developer named Rick Caruso, he called into L.A. local news. He said it was like a third world country. There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is on a foreign trip to Ghana, which she is. She’s there for the inauguration of their president. Is she ever actually in L.A. when stuff goes sideways? Wasn’t she out the last time that they had? Yeah, I thought so. I thought so. So, it’s terrifying. We’re praying for everybody there. But I’m telling you, I don’t know what they’re spending their money on. Well, I got some ideas. I gave you the example of one high-speed rail thing. How they spent maybe, what? It was $12.5 billion on 1,600 feet. The high-speed rail that they announced in 2010… It’s 2025. They have spent over $130 billion taxpayer dollars, and it’s been over 15 years, and they have 1,600 feet of an unusable overpass. That’s all they have. Okay. Wow. And this guy, he wants to run for president. So just look at, he’s their golden boy in 2028. It’s Gavin Newsom. He’s their guy. Look at California. Do you want that for all over the US in 2028? Because that’s what you’re going to get. I mean, you even have hardcore like celebrity Democrats that don’t like him out there. I want to switch gears because we’re going to be we’re going to continue to watch this stuff. But we’ve got to talk about the fact checkers. I’m telling you what, I have to admit, I did not know how much money these people made. Did you guys know this? They were making a lot of money on fact-checking. So, for instance, there were some… I don’t even want to say the name of the site. It’s like a bunch of Republicans that aren’t really Republicans. They just have Trump derangement syndrome. And they created a right-leaning website. And they apparently were hired by, I guess, Facebook. And they were acting as… fact-checkers for Facebook. And it ended up being something like over 5% of what they made. 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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 this comes from one of our listeners. It’s an Indiana woman. An alleged drunk driver found stuck in the snow. She berated her arresting officers, calling them the devil and saying they were part of the deep state. Yeah, that’s never a good way to try to argue yourself out of getting… She said she only drank three shots of tequila. Come on. Like, were they double shots? I mean, I feel like, you know, I don’t know if I’m going to trust her on that. I got to say, I got to be honest. I don’t know if I want to trust her on that. AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life. No, thanks. Tech companies are trying to race, trying to upgrade. They’re racing to upgrade chatbots like chat GPT to even take control of a computer to take action on someone’s behalf. I think people need to be really, really careful with this stuff. Just gotta say. They said that they’re trying to make it better and that’s the need. It’s a very ambitious goal. I’m telling you, this is going to turn around. It’s going to get out of control and it’s probably already out of control and we just don’t know it. When you read some of the editorials talking about need to contain this stuff and they’re from programmers in these really well-known engineers that have contributed so much to the advancements that we see in software programming, etc. It’s terrifying when you read some of what these people are saying. A major country has reintroduced strict COVID rules because of another Chinese virus. They said that a number of states are already trying to implement some of this stuff. Chinese government’s trying to manage what they say is the surge in cases. There are a couple of countries where they’re issuing warnings. And some of these, there’s, I think in India they are as well. This is wild to see some of this stuff. I mean, they don’t even know what it is, but here they’re already making the same mistakes that we’ve seen, that we saw what they did during COVID. Outcry is an Arizona tattoo shop tattoos a nine-year-old girl who wanted a picture of Trump on her neck. I mean, I’m not against tattoos. Why are you nine and getting a Trump tattoo on your neck? The artist shared video of the process and he said, do a more patriotic tattoo, maybe a flag on your arm or something. But she said, nope, she wants it on her neck. So that’s apparently she wanted to get it. Apparently they were able to, I guess she did it on her arm instead. She changed her mind. They traveled to Arizona where kids can get tattoos if they have parental permission. But, you know, if you wanted to chop off your willy and be a chick, then you don’t need to tell mom and dad. I mean, that’s how the rule is. So she got just a tattoo on her arm of a flag. She wanted Trump on her neck originally, but she ended up getting the still, though. Come on. That’s a little that’s a little much. Let’s see. A Los Angeles vegan chain abruptly closed all their locations. They got in trouble because they added meat to the menu. looking at their food and it looks gross. It looks like dung and some vegetables. Yeah, they they ended up the sage restaurant. They ended up having to abruptly shut all their locations. Stick with us. We’ve got more in store. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she’s searching for hope. And that’s where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey who found pre-born and after hearing her baby’s heartbeat, she chose life. Consider making a larger, life-changing donation of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000. Maximize your gift that can help women in unplanned pregnancies receive ultrasounds and even help place an ultrasound machine in a women’s center. Donate for the gift of life. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That’s pound or hashtag 250baby. or visit preborn.com slash Dana to donate online. Every contribution counts. So again, that’s pound 250, say the word baby, or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana.
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It’s not my expectation to have any conversation at any point today, but we are looking forward to the dialogue to come in the next few weeks and thereafter to find the common ground necessary to in order to get things done for the American people. House Democrats believe that we are not sent to Washington to invade Greenland Rename the Gulf of Mexico or seize the Panama Canal by force. We were sent to Washington to lower the high cost of living in the United States.
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Now you’re concerned about it? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. Where was this cat at when everyone was like, why are my groceries so expensive? They were acting like it wasn’t a big deal. But now all of a sudden they’re not. They’re not no longer going to be in power in a week and a half. So they’re now they’re concerned about the high cost of living. Whatever.
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Before November, the economy was great.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, it was great. What happened? Well, since that time, Trump ain’t even in office yet. We can’t. He’s not even in office yet. That’s Hakeem Jeffries. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I mean, I think… I don’t want expansionism. I didn’t vote for expansionism. I voted for America first. And I feel like right now, if it’s not anything that we voted for, it’s not one of the animating issues around which everyone coalesced, then it needs to be kicked to the back of the list right now. However, I do think it’s been funny to watch. I’m torn because I keep thinking, gosh, this is… It’s just like, let’s focus. But I also think it’s funny. I think it’s funny because after Trump started talking about it, I don’t know what the Danes thought they were doing. But King Frederick, wait a minute, has he been the one? Hold up, hold up, hold up. Is this the guy who got in trouble with his wife? Hold up. Oh, it is. So the Danish king, if you don’t know this, and the only reason I know this is because of the trash British tabloids. So Frederick got caught like two years ago. In staying overnight at his Spanish lady friend’s apartment. I think they were in Madrid. And they went out and had dinner and did all this and they went back and he didn’t leave her apartment till the morning. Well, they’re old friends, you know. How many of you married out there that would fly? How would that fly with? Yeah, just yeah. Uh-huh. Anyway, his wife is Australian, but she speaks the language and she’s very well revered in Denmark. Anyway, so they’ve had some drama. So Frederick, he’s the king of Denmark. His mom abdicated the throne. I think her name’s Marguerite. So he took over. And after Trump started talking about all of this, he decided that he was going to change the coat of arms to more accurately reflect Greenland and their important position to the country. So what they did is they made the bear bigger. The Danish coat of arms features a bear, which is the symbol of Greenland, and the ram, and a symbol of the Faroe Islands. And now the bear’s bigger. At first, it was just tiny little bears, two little bears in the bottom left panel. And now it’s a big, giant bear. And they’ve got the two dudes with the clubs standing. I just am fascinated by these. So they updated their coat of arms. Like, oh, look what we did. We made the bear bigger. Yeah. That will show you, Trump. It’s not probably the most accurate Danish accent, but it’s the best I can do under the circumstances. So I do you think that’s going to he’s that just seems silly. Is that silly? It’s as silly as what Trump is saying, I think, because I don’t give a rat’s ass about going into Greenland right now. Just like me. Just can we just like make reciprocity a national thing and lower tax, like get rid of taxes? That’d be great.
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I see his point on national security. If you’ve got Russian and China ships roaring around up there in North America, where there would be a national security concern. I don’t see it, and I don’t think he’s ever articulated it as us going in and invading Greenland.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, when the hell did it ever happen that it was a priority? Like, all of a sudden, we’re like, okay. We all voted in November, right? We’re going to secure the border. We’re going to build the wall, right? Yeah. We’re going to build the wall. We’re going to make groceries affordable again. We’re going to make America healthy again. We’re going to bring back Mexican Coke for everybody, not the booger sugar, but the soda. And then he’s like, yeah, okay, best I can do is Greenland.
SPEAKER 17 :
The Pawn Stars.
SPEAKER 19 :
And we’re all scratching our heads like, what the hell? Greenland wasn’t, I’m checking notes, wasn’t on the list.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I know that the Article 1, Section 8 of our Constitution definitely lays out the responsibilities of our federal government.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think if you’re going to make that argument, they’ve got to make the case and prove it to the American people.
SPEAKER 17 :
And that was my next point. If he’s not contextualizing why, because we’re a small government. Why are we expanding government? This is expansionism. Yeah, this is expansionism. So he’s got to contextualize why this is important and why this falls under the purview of the executive branch here as it relates to Article I, Section 8.
SPEAKER 19 :
I sure as hell don’t want Canada. No offense, Canadians. We got some of you that listen. I like you guys. And I like that Pierre Polivare. I like him a lot. But I don’t want Canada. I don’t want it. There’s nothing I want up there. Nothing I want. I don’t want the damn liberalism. I don’t want the crap health care. I don’t want all those damn liberal votes. I don’t want Canada. Don’t want it. Don’t want the cold. Don’t want the bears. Don’t want it. None of it. I’m with it. I hear you. Don’t… They’ve got good syrup. And Canada’s not a victim. I mean, Newfoundland. What?
SPEAKER 17 :
They’ve got good lumber and good syrup.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don’t care about the syrup. I don’t even like pancake syrup. I don’t even like maple syrup. I don’t like it. It’s weird. What the hell are you saying? It’s tree… juice it’s weird you don’t like maple syrup no no i’d forever hate i’m gonna be looking at you through don’t like i would i’ll eat a pancake plain i won’t put nothing on it i’m not looking at you the same now for some reason like give me a fruit compote you know but i don’t want no syrup on it’s weird it’s like would you like some diabetes I’m going to pour some diabetes juice all over your pancake, all over your carbs.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. I’m not so sure that maple syrup gives you diabetes, does it?
SPEAKER 19 :
It has sugar.
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s like all sugar. Yeah, but it’s not like bad refined.
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s made of sugar and crack.
SPEAKER 17 :
Of all the sugars that exist, it’s not the worst one out there.
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s pretty bad, though. You don’t need it. You don’t need it. It’s just, why do we eat it? I don’t get that. What the hell do we do some of the stuff that we do? We drink nut milk. It’s weird. It’s not milk. It’s just dirty nut water. That’s all it is, right? Like, it’s all weird. It’s all weird. Why do we do? We are so weird. No wonder the aliens stay hidden. Hell, I wouldn’t want to be like these. Oh, I want these people to be my friend. Have you seen us? We’re weirdos. No. I mean, I’m a human and I’m like, just no, thank you. Anyway, back to this. I just love this little Danish king, this little lightness loafers looking feller who’s like, I’m going to change the coat of arms. I give you to bed. It is bigger now. You can’t take Greenland’s base bigger. Someone asked, by the way, we have a Lorraine informs me. We have a good kind of a raid happening in the show chat, which happens in Rumble, by the way, which you can join. Someone asked if Greenland is Greenland’s going to get named Mara Igloo. A little he cave? I don’t know. A little he glue. It’s a he glue. Woo! I mean… I just am not interested in the expansionism. But I do think it’s hysterical that they’re like, oh, yeah, well, we change our coats of arms. Most Americans are like, the hell is a coat of arms? What? What is that even? Like, oh, you made the bear bigger. Nobody knows what that means except those people. Right. Like, that’s not going to do it. That doesn’t create a magical force field around Greenland. Oh, we can’t touch him because they made the bear bigger on the coat of arms. There’s no more Vikings anymore. Stop. No one’s afraid. Good heavens. But I don’t want, I don’t really think, I don’t care. And renaming the Gulf of Mexico, is that going to make the IRS go away? Because if it does, then I’m all for it.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m just interested to find out.
SPEAKER 19 :
We should call it the Gulf of F off is what we should call it. What?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, if we’re going to rename it, why not name it the Gulf of America? And by the way, how much work does that actually take?
SPEAKER 19 :
I want to name it something scary so no one wants to come through it. Like the gulf of, there’s straight up monsters here. That’s the gulf of it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Gulf of death.
SPEAKER 19 :
The gulf of death. Just saying. What were you going to say?
SPEAKER 17 :
I was going to ask how much effort really goes into renaming it. Are we really wasting a ton of time because we decided to rename the Gulf to Gulf of America?
SPEAKER 19 :
And who do you go to do that? Is there an old man who lives up in a mountain somewhere and you’ve got to climb all the steps and be like, I would like to change the name of this Gulf. How does that work?
SPEAKER 17 :
I think you just declare it, and then the agreement of others makes it so.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, then why can’t we just constantly declare stuff?
SPEAKER 17 :
I think we do.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don’t think that’s how that works.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think there’s a lot of declarations over the years, and a lot of them go against science.
SPEAKER 19 :
So you’re telling me the next time I’m fishing out in the Caribbean, if I come across an island that no one else is on, minesies? Why not? I mean, until their military shows up.
SPEAKER 17 :
I don’t know. Well, if it’s somebody’s, then yeah, I guess so.
SPEAKER 19 :
But what if it’s, is it somebody’s? I mean, you’re talking about squatting.
SPEAKER 17 :
If it’s nobody’s, then you got to deal with, you know, entities like China.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m all for saying that the Gulf is ours.
SPEAKER 17 :
Pirates.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, pirates aren’t as cool as they used to be.
SPEAKER 17 :
No.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m all for saying that the Gulf is ours, right? Because it’s ours. Like, we’re all over there and we’re bigger than everybody else. So, you know, step off. But what does that accomplish? Wasn’t it the Gulf of Pensacola at one point? I don’t know.
SPEAKER 17 :
Was it? I didn’t know that. I thought it was named the Gulf of Mexico, and that’s their first recorded naming of that area.
SPEAKER 19 :
Just call it the Gulf of your mom and just use that as an insult to every tyrant, every foreign tyrant.
SPEAKER 17 :
It would be a waste of time if government was doing what you’re saying.
SPEAKER 19 :
I just don’t know what that does. Again, if you’re like Dana, do you know that all you have to do to accomplish all these things that you voted for is just change the name of the damn Gulf. Woman, just do it. And I’d be like, okay, I’m convinced. I want to see that magic happen. I’m totally convinced. But right now, you know, I just don’t know. I just don’t. But I sure as hell don’t want Canada.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. I don’t want them.
SPEAKER 17 :
But I envision Trump having his daily list like this to-do, this honey-do list every day from his day one. You know what I mean? And I think like number 12 on that list is probably renaming the Gulf. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 19 :
I do think it’s funny that Denmark decided to immediately give Greenland a whole bunch of money for defense. Right. I don’t know if you guys saw this, but hang on, let me pull this up. This is hysterical. So Denmark, after Trump was saying all this stuff, they boosted Greenland’s defense after Trump started talking. So they sent a package that they said was in the double-digit billion amount. In Kron, the Danish defense minister, Trostland Poulsen, I know. I’m doing the best I can with the Danish. I can’t do it. Everything sounds like that guy from the Frozen movie. It’s a double-digit billion amount. It’s only a fate. So they said that they were planning all of a sudden a stronger presence in the Arctic, is what they’re saying. So they’re including increasing staffing at Arctic Command in the capital of Nuuk, which is right where Junior went. I can’t do a Danish accent. Nuke. I can do like 10 accents really well, and that’s about it. This is not one of them. They said that it’s going to be about $12 to $15 billion, or krone. And it was the day after Trump was trolling about it on Truth Social. So now all of a sudden they just decided, oh, we’re just going to boost the defense here. That’s all. I don’t know. But… Is I’d not say I what if that was the goal? Everything is so stupid and crazy. What if it was the goal? Because if that was the goal to get these nations to spend more on their own defense, then why not just threaten all of them with with taking them over? And then they’ll be like, oh, we’ll spend all these NATO nations will suddenly start contributing more to their self-defense so they don’t have to be our welfare children anymore. I’m just saying, you know, I don’t know. I don’t know. I just I just let’s just accomplish what we need to accomplish now and then later, you know, but changing the coat of arms is hysterical, is absolutely hysterical. All right. We’ve got we’ve got more on the way as we roll towards headlines. And as we do so, our partners that help bring you the program. So friends over at Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile is the only Christian conservative cell phone provider in the country. And I mean, I don’t know if you haven’t switched yet. Maybe you just really love funding gun control and DEI. I mean, some people do, right? I don’t know anybody that calls themselves a conservative that does, but some people do. Maybe you just love spending a lot of money and overpaying for the cost of service. I mean, you could be spending a heck of a lot less with Patriot Mobile and get a plan tailored to whatever you, your family or you, your business need. And you don’t have any of your money that goes towards DEI or gun control or anything else. I mean, you support the issues that are important to you that you vote to protect. I mean, you know, it’s up to you, but they make it super easy. It’s seamless switching with our 100 percent U.S. based customer service team. And right now you can get a free month of service. using promo code Dana. You can keep your number, keep your phone, or get all entirely new everything. It is up to you. It’s never been simpler to switch. So visit patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Get a free month of service using promo code Dana. That’s patriotmobile.com slash Dana 972-PATRIOT.
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So I’m trying to understand. So this is an NBC2 local affiliate out there in Florida. Cape Coral man was arrested after he claimed that his house was poisoned and attempted to break into another house. How do you poison a house? The victim was seen trying to open a lock sliding door on the back of the home. The victim said he confronted the guy, told him that he was armed. And that’s when the intruder ran away from the scene before officers arrived. The guy, Antonio Cruz Aparicio, he was attempting to gain entry into a home. He was yelling for help, saying his house was poisoned. They actually had a tasing to get him under control. And they found his wallet at a separate residence. So He got charged, a couple charges, burglary, resisting with violence. Yeah, that’s kind of freaky. Just, I didn’t even, I mean, obviously, they probably did a mental health check on him. This, let’s see. Oh, I got a couple of other ones. This is, oh, a Florida woman was arrested after she accidentally texted a sheriff’s department instead of her drug dealer. That can happen, I’m sure, to people like Octavia Wells, 41 years old. She sent a text message trying to get fentanyl before leaving town. Apparently, though, she accidentally texted a narcotics investigator within the sheriff’s office. And, oh, boy, the investigator adeptly engaged her in conversation, masquerading as her drug dealer, arranged to meet with her. She went to the gas station. thinking she was meeting her drug dealer, and instead she was met with a team of investigators, and she was taken into custody because they charged with a whole bunch of stuff. And I don’t know if buying with the intent to distribute was part of it, but I don’t know. This, let’s see, there’s a Lee County man that got in trouble for slashing tires following a road rage incident. 37 year old Matthew Tobler. He, uh, was slashing tires of a vehicle, uh, according to Lee County Sheriff’s office. And he was making obscene gestures, hand gestures at nearby motorists. And when, uh, A victim said that he, why would you approach the vehicle? There was an incident, a vehicle, a victim approached the Tobler’s vehicle. He got out of the car, began threatening him with a knife and then started slashing his tires before leaving the scene. So they were able to take, I mean, why, what the hell is wrong with, what is, I’m going to tell you what people can’t drive. That is for sure. I’ve got some stories. I actually have a story that happened to me over Christmas that I’ll share when I’m able to share it. But yeah, people cannot drive. And let’s see. And Saudi Arabia is pressing a Floridian. Well, a man in Florida to give up his U.S. citizenship over critical tweets. It’s a Florida retiree. He made social media posts critical of the crown prince. And Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the same kind of, you know, speech. Interesting. Stick with us. Third hour on the way. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she’s searching for hope. And that’s where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey who found Preborn and after hearing her baby’s heartbeat, she chose life. Consider making a larger, life-changing donation of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000. Maximize your gift that can help women in unplanned pregnancies receive ultrasounds and even help place an ultrasound machine in a women’s center. Donate for the gift of life. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That’s pound or hashtag 250 baby. Or visit preborn.com slash Dana to donate online. Every contribution counts. So again, that’s pound 250, say the word baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana.
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My heart goes out, obviously, to the people with their homes and I’m watching the small businesses around us go up in flames. This is people’s livelihoods. So it’s devastating. But what is most concerning to me is Our first responders and our firefighters who are trying to battle this, there’s no water in the palisades. There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants. This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. Not the firefighters’ fault, but it’s by the city. And I’m going to be very honest. We’ve got a mayor that’s out of the country, and we’ve got a city that’s burning, and there’s no resources to put out fires. So if you look at your pictures, you don’t see the firefighters there because there’s nothing they can do. And it looks like we’re in a third world country here.
SPEAKER 19 :
This is crazy. Apparently, according to the L.A. Times, by 3 a.m. this morning, all the fire hydrants in the Palisades area were dry. And it’s burning. That’s according to the chief executive and chief engineer of the L.A. Department of Water and Power. So Rick Caruso, who you just heard speaking there, who… karen bass won over him uh going for mayor of la he’s a big developer in los angeles he’s like all there’s no water i mean you you it all the amount the money that they spend in california and they’re right by an ocean and they have no water welcome back to the program dana lash with you at the top of this third hour and that’s that’s the story la times has uh The excuse from L.A. city officials, they’re blaming what they say is tremendous demand. Yeah, that’s what happens when you don’t properly manage your land and then you have a big fire that breaks out. They said that the one fire in the area alone, how many thousands acres did I say that was over?
SPEAKER 1 :
11,000.
SPEAKER 19 :
11,000, like 11,000 acres. It’s now 11,000 acres big. I’m trying to just imagine that size of a fire. Imagine it. I think it was over 10,600 acres, so basically 11,000 acres. I’m just trying to imagine the size of that. And they’re growing still. And yet by 3 a.m. today, all the fire hydrants per L.A. Times in the Palisades were dry. And they’re getting criticized justifiably. They said that they don’t have enough firefighters. The city officials are being criticized for, quote, chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and public safety, end quote. I mean, this is unbelievable. Yeah, the first tank that they had ran dry Tuesday. The second, the first tank that they had, they have three large water tanks. They have about a million gallons in each of them. The first one ran dry 4.45 p.m. Tuesday evening. The second at 8.30 p.m. Tuesday evening. And the third was dry by 3 a.m. this morning. And they said that they’re not able to, they’re out today. And they spent a lot of time on DEI and doing all kinds of stuff that nobody ever needed. K-Notes, and this is a couple of different sources on this, they had the fire department funding. Their funding was cut by Karen Bass by over $17 million in just the most recent city budget alone. And they… were focusing on all of these DEI initiatives. They were tweeting out, like their fire department and their other city officials, they were tweeting out how, oh, well, yes, it’s very important that we need to make sure that we’re prioritizing hiring black firefighters, et cetera. Like, why don’t you just prioritize hiring firefighters? Thank you. Who gives a rat’s ass whether they’re black or white or whatever? People are burning to death. And everybody’s freaking out over identity politics. Bass actually wanted more money cut. Isn’t that crazy? She cut $17.6 million from the city’s fire department budget for the 24-25 fiscal year. This is according to the New York Post. And it was supposed to be, the Post added that she actually wanted a $23 million cut. Wow. Wow. And now you can kind of see, you know, they don’t have enough firefighters. They don’t have you know, they have no idea where their tax dollars are going. They and looking at this, let me pull up another. The tax dollars, people are like, oh, where the tax dollars go. They spent it on. Well, of course, after they helped create all of the riots, they had to spend it on policing housing. Big city budget goes to housing. Communication investment for families, whatever the hell that means. They’re actually in the red on sanitation, fire, street services. You know, the stuff that your tax dollars are actually. This is why people don’t like property taxes, by the way. Property taxes are communist, anti-American, and any Republican that does not go on record and wanting them abolished is a Marxist. You can’t be a little Marxist. You’re either a Marxist or you’re not. Republicans need to grow some balls. I’m so tired of this stupid, moderate crap. Your property tax, especially in Los Angeles, they’re not going for anything. What the hell is this? I’m looking at, and this is according to their city controller, they… Personnel, cannabis regulation, an ethics commission. They have their city planning, communication or whatever, community investment, whatever the hell that is, welfare, housing, a library. That’s where they spend most of their money. Street services, fire, sanitation, public works, street lighting, things like that. That’s, you know, what you, the agreement is that you pay your taxes and then they handle that. That’s what they, they’re not there. They cut millions upon millions upon millions from those things. Those are at the bottom of the list of priorities. This is according to the city controller’s own data. This is wild. Absolutely wild to me. So what’s the point of it? What’s the point of it? I just, it’s, you know, I keep thinking of this. It came out, the Biden administration, they’re going to announce the final half a billion dollars for Ukraine. Meanwhile, what wildfires? What Hurricane Helene damage? What fires out in Hawaii? You know, what about the chemical spill in Ohio? I mean, what about any of those things? Nah. Nah. No need. So apparently Karen Bass is going to be arriving in LA. She’s coming back from her party in Ghana. Is she bringing water with her? She’s going to be back and then apparently, I don’t know if she’s going to have a press conference or not, but good heavens. This is what these policies get you. This is what happens. This is what these policies get you. And the governor of this state is trying to already put himself in position for 2028. I mean, I just I’m amazed at just the massive mismanagement of money. But that’s Democrats. They don’t even really know what started these fires. They haven’t even gotten to that point yet. They’re just trying to contain it. They have no idea. I mean, what if it was an act of terror? I mean, that’s how one of the previous wildfires started. Somebody, it was arson. They have no idea what you’re looking at right now that Juan’s showing you. That’s the list. All the stuff in the red is fire, sanitation, street lighting, public works. Yeah, the essential stuff. The stuff that your stupid property taxes are supposed to go for anyway. The green is what they double the budget for. And, of course, they had to do it with policing after they created an environment that required it. And then they added library, housing, all of this other stuff that’s unnecessary. There are people who are saying that they’re living… California after this. Apparently, everyone’s at the Beverly Hilton and a couple of different hotels there. I can’t remember. The one that’s across the street from the Beverly Hilton, I can’t remember the name of it. But all the millionaires and billionaires are hiding out in the hotels. They said all the hotels, the Peninsula. Peninsula’s booked. Beverly Hilton’s booked. The Ritz is booked. Four Seasons booked. Everybody’s booked. All the hotels and motels are booked because people are fleeing. And they said it’s all chaos. People bringing their pets in, their Gucci luggage. It’s all chaos. And everyone has the sentiment of enough is enough. Yeah, they’ll get over it. But this is what I hate to say it. And I’m not saying that it’s deserving of the fires. But when you vote for incompetent people that have no idea what they’re doing, you get incompetent people that don’t know what they’re doing when a time of crisis hits. They don’t rise to the occasion. They fall back on their highest skill set. And none of these people have them. I mean, this is sad to see, but this is the message that Republicans need to keep making. See what’s happening in California? That’s Gavin Newsom. He’s been there for how long? That’s Gavin Newsom. That’s what happens when you have generational Democrat policies. That’s what it is. I mean, I feel for these people. And then you have insurance companies that are canceling insurance policies like weeks before all of this happened. It’s like how in North Carolina you’ve got all these people that have to pay their property taxes. They have to pay all their property taxes in North Carolina, a couple of the counties out there, because they said, oh, no, we don’t even have a catastrophe exclusion for any of this. So these people aren’t going to be able to pay their property tax. And then watch. You’re going to have the government come in and seize the property from people. Government acquiring land just like they did in Hawaii. Property taxes, it’s a racket. It’s a way that the government can make sure they always get your land. We’ve got a lot more on the way. Just horrific. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 19 :
I feel like this is just like the cryptid community giving up. So they said that, no, all right, you know, yeah, they’ve been looking for Bigfoot, but now they’re going to instead look for Littlefoot. What? An expert reveals there’s an ape-like humanoid that could still be roaming the earth. I don’t know. A hobbit? Little foot. That’s literally a hobbit. What if it’s just like, oh man, nobody wants to see any of the stuff that I’m looking at. No, thank you. No, they have a full body rendering of it. Not in a nice way either. Like that lady little foot needs to shave her everything. Golly. Anyway, they said that, what’s the name for it? Homo florescensis. I don’t want no Homo florescensis. For four decades. He’s at the University of Alberta. I don’t know. Is it? They said that. I’m not even kidding. This is so goofy. I just don’t. Now, Bigfoot, I actually do believe. Littlefoot, nah. Maybe that’s its kid and it just hasn’t grown up. Maybe you’re seeing a baby Bigfoot and it’s not really a little. What? That actually, I believe that. Let’s see. Oh, this apparently, why did they throw? Oh, gosh. The people set world records for the stupidest stuff. We’re going to throw 100,000 teddy bears onto an ice rink and set a record. Because that’s apparently what needed to… Who cares? Yay. It’s like OCD activities and then they get records for it. I don’t get it. It’s weird. Let’s see. A monkey and a tutu escape from a home. Oh, okay. What kind of monkey was it? It’s a little monkey in a tutu. I love how the cops respond and they’re like, yeah, it was bananas. Uh, but he was able to slip away and this was in Jefferson County in the St. Louis area. Just saying, just saying if anybody, what was that? That documentary that was on Netflix just recently, the people who own those monkeys, it was one of those monkeys that slapped me when I was a kid. I slapped it back. Um, chimp crazy or something like that so a monkey in a tutu it was a missouri home cane it was in jefferson county i’m just saying uh they said that they returned it to its caretaker after careful negotiations blah blah blah snow coming that show is out of jefferson county in missouri yeah it is it’s out of festus that’s crazy town in which i was born out of festus uh let’s see a no this is a dumb story San Bernardino County man says his cats were killed after they drank raw milk that was contaminated with bird flu. Or all of this sounds nasty. Maybe you’re just nasty and you fed nasty milk to your nasty cats. How about that? Sounds like it. I’m going to go with that one because I don’t believe this bird flu stuff. I don’t say no. Put the masks on the birds. Guy’s name is Joseph Dranel. They spent about 2000 words just telling you a story about some dude whose cats probably drank bad expired milk and kicked the bucket. And they’re trying to make it a 2,000-word story about bird flu. This is why you don’t hate the press enough. This is why you don’t hate them enough. Bottom line. We’ve got a lot more still on the way. Because the DEI stuff, we’ve got to talk about that. If you think that didn’t have an effect with how they’re handling everything in Los Angeles, well, I’ve got a story for you that will cause you to think again. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 19 :
Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. The bottom of this third hour. We’re in Texas preparing for snowpocalypse. I was just looking at the temp. It’s going to be 40. It’s 40 degrees right now. It’s a balmy 40 degrees. been freezing and then the ice and that’s supposed to start tonight. So California is getting fire. We’re getting ice. And Texas is going to shut down and people need to stop freaking out over French toast supplies. Like I said, they all go on, they get their toilet paper. I said it, toilet paper. Every time I have say certain words, I kid you not, I get emails from people. Southern Missouri, get over it. Heard it from my grandmother all the time. But they go out and they get toilet paper. Toilet is how you say it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. It’s not toilet. It’s toilet. They go out and they get toilet paper and bread and milk and all this other stuff. Milk is another. And ice comes, shut everything down for a couple days. We’re ready, though. Yeah. If… You know, we lose power. We’re ready this time. I mean, we were ready last time, but we just needed a bigger generator. But we’re ready. We got the big one now. It can power like the whole hood, I think. But we’re ready to rock and roll. So I don’t know. I’m telling you. But in L.A., they’ve had over. I don’t know. Some people said they’ve seen hundred personally seen hundreds of homes burn. What were they doing just recently? Audio Summit 11. This is what they were doing. This is how the city was handling stuff. Listen.
SPEAKER 21 :
I’m super inspired.
SPEAKER 03 :
She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department’s future, one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity.
SPEAKER 21 :
People ask me, well, what number are you looking for? I say, I’m not looking for a number. It’s never enough.
SPEAKER 03 :
Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now. She’s already looking at ways to change that. She’s quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job.
SPEAKER 21 :
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team.
SPEAKER 03 :
The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. She’s a proud member of the LGBTQ community.
SPEAKER 21 :
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, wow, I didn’t even know that that was an opportunity for me.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, man, things that I would rather say right now that I can’t. I mean, you know, they could be focusing on firefighting and stuff, but, you know, it’s California, specifically L.A., We got to make sure that we include people who have sex a certain way in our hiring process. Like, are they, is it like a job for firefighters or are they also hookers? I don’t understand. Yeah. Like how, why does that have any impact on that? Why does that, why is that a consideration on the job? You know, my bosses don’t care that I love cilantro. They don’t care. They wouldn’t care if I dislike cilantro. It’s not a thing, right? It’s just a preference. This idea that this is somehow you have to include this into firefighting, I just, I don’t understand it. Does it make them fight the fires a better way? Does a gay dude fight a fire better than a dude who’s not gay? Is how well you fight fires predicated upon how you get it out privately? I’m curious. Is there something I don’t know? Is there a study?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I don’t think even straight people don’t have an advantage over gay people in that regard because that doesn’t matter to your firefighting skills.
SPEAKER 19 :
I am made of jokes right now. It’s taking everything I have. All of my self-restraint right now.
SPEAKER 17 :
All of them. The fact that we’re arguing this part of it to me is beyond absurd.
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, this is stuff they were doing just a few months ago. Yes, it’s very important. I don’t care if the fire chief is alphabet. I don’t care. Can you, I don’t know, fight fires? It’s very important that we get a fire chief who likes tail. It’s very important. And that it’s a chick who likes tail. It’s very important. And this does what concerning the impact of fighting fires? Absolutely nothing. Then why is it an issue? This is what’s so confusing coming from my perspective as someone who was a teenager in the 90s and a young adult going into the early aughts. I was always told, like the rhetoric that we always heard is that what happens behind closed doors is none of your business and stay out of everybody’s private lives. But now it’s like the doors are flung open and they’re having a housewarming party in their bedroom and you’re forced to attend and applaud. That’s what it’s like now. And I just, it’s so hypocritical. And it is completely fair to bring these things up and point this out because the fact that that was like a huge goal for them. Do you know they don’t have enough firefighters? Adam Carolla was just saying what he’s reiterated the story that he shared a couple of years ago that he had tried to be a firefighter. And they told him that he had to wait. He was on a wait list to be considered because he wasn’t a minority firefighter. We don’t need any of you white dudes fighting fires. Oh, my gosh. This is so it’s just so weird. It’s so weird. I don’t know. I’m just that’s what they focused on. DEI is going to get everybody burnt up. People will burn to death because of DEI. That’s exactly what I just this is just so stupid. So stupid. I was looking at who voted where. So the Palisades… LA Times had a story where you can go and you can read and see on this map that they have. You go to remove paywall to get around their paywall because I’m not paying them for this stuff. But they were saying that the Palisades, it was pretty close. A lot of them voted for Karen Bass. But barely more of them voted for Rick Caruso. But Karen Bass ended up winning for mayor in LA. So… I mean, and of all the people who are very, very competent, you know, Rick Caruso, billionaire, very successful real estate developer, understands land management, understands all of it. You know, you would think that you would need somebody like that, particularly with wildfires that have been plaguing the area lately. But no, no, they went with Karen Bass, not even in town when all this stuff happens. Remember how the left lost their minds when Ted Cruz went on a previously scheduled spring break trip during ice again. And a couple of years ago, Karen Bass is legit like at an inauguration in Ghana while her town burns. So shut up. And then Cruz didn’t even go. He canceled his portion and stayed, which is stupid. Yeah. And he’s yeah. So stupid. So I don’t know. Meantime, in Seattle, another city being ravaged by progressivism, who would have thought their $20 per hour minimum wage law is forcing all the restaurants to close? There’s five more restaurants that are closing. They have a law where they demand that you pay someone over $20 an hour, $20.76 an hour. And the hospitality industry came out with a prediction that a ton of small businesses will go under as a direct result of that. And so one of those, Belgado Bakery, they posted a sign in its door. They said that they’re no longer able to service their customers. They’re not able to close that 20% increase in mandated wages and that they’re going to have to close their doors. And they’re just one of tons of other people, tons of other small businesses that are closing because they can’t they can’t handle it. That’s because it’s stupid. to demand 20 over 20 dollars an hour for this is so stupid and i say this is someone i started as a server i my first job was as a server and i worked uh every friday and saturday night and i made a lot of money in tips and i worked really really hard it’s an entry-level job and i never expected to be paid 20 an hour mandated that’s the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard You’re you’re making the market pay overpay for a lower skill set. And that’s it is people can get upset about it. But I mean, come on. This is dumb. This is how you get $70 hamburgers. Is this kind of stuff right here? Because people then bitch and moan about capitalism. They don’t they don’t account their cost into the capitalism when you are forcing businesses. And why stop at $20? When you’re forcing businesses to pay, where do you think that cost is coming from? The business doesn’t exist just to tickle your jimmies. They don’t exist just to, you know, make you happy. It’s a business. They’re going to pass the cost on. And why stop, like I said, why stop at $20, an increase in $20? Why don’t you give them $50,000 an hour if you really love the poor? If you love the poor so much, you’ll give them your salary. Notice how none of those people ever volunteered to do that. It’s killing businesses there. But people voted for it, and they’ll probably continue to vote for it. It’s all the rich progressives that can afford all this stupidity. In the meantime, we’re still watching all those those fires. They had they have video now of some of the like, I guess I don’t know. Are they going to close the airport there if the fires get too close? They’d have to, wouldn’t they? That’s crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I just now. Yeah. Just thought of that. A couple of the things I want to touch on as well to make sure that we’re getting everything everything in. This, I don’t know if I told you that Daniel Penny, he’s trying to get that father, Jordan Neely’s father had filed a suit against him in civil court. And Daniel Penny’s trying to get that case tossed, which he should. Jordan Neely’s dad was wholly absent for the entirety of his life. And he didn’t even come around until after Jordan Ealy’s death when he thought he could get a payout. That is the only reason that that suit exists. And I hope I hope they do toss it out. That’s. I mean, it’s it’s a grift. So we’ll watch that case as well. There’s also this story that happened. It was this was over the weekend. A victim was stabbed in the throat at Grand Central Terminal in New York. And she said no one came to her aid. Imani Ciara Pizarro got off the four train about 10 p.m., was going to her administrative night job at the Roosevelt Hotel, which was converted into a shelter for illegal immigrants. And she was attacked there. And she got sucker punched in the back of the head and stabbed in the neck. The suspect, 28 year old Brooklyn native Jason Sargent, was screaming at her, lunged at her with a knife, cut her throat, kicked her phone away. And she said a lot of people just froze. Police were nowhere in sight. She says I was running for help and there was no one there. Yeah. What about the story that I just shared about Daniel Penny? That is why nobody wants to help because New York punishes it. punishes people that step in and try to help. And they’re, I mean, you know, she should have just, by New York City’s reasoning, that she should have just let herself be attacked and killed right there on the street. She was like, I called out for help, nobody came to help me. That’s sad. But New York City does that. They go after the people who try to help. And this is what happens. I’m going to tell you, this is how you get vigilantism. Exactly how you get vigilantism. It’s a sad story, but this is what New York City created. People need to start changing how they vote. They really do, especially after this last election with so many people voting the way that they did. I mean, I don’t know if this is enough to make Los Angeles wake up. But something, I mean, what else could happen besides this other than the state falls into the sea? What else is worse? It’s burning up right now.
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SPEAKER 19 :
I was just thinking to myself, I know that I should have gotten that flamethrower at Texas Gun Experience. You know, for the ice. Oh, yeah. Because you can’t really get, like, melt here and all that stuff in Texas. They just don’t do that here. But I don’t like the ice, so, like, I could go out and, you know, burn some stuff.
SPEAKER 17 :
They do sell the pool salt, which I did buy a bag of that. Where’d you get that at? I bought it at, I think it was Lowe’s. I went to Lowe’s and Home Depot, so I think it was Lowe’s I got it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, apparently everyone’s like, I need all these things. And they just buy, like, people chill. It’s like for two days. Calm down. Like, calm yourselves. But I definitely should have got, you know, for the ice. I mean, think about it. Like, you could just go out there with that, you know, and just get rid of the ice. Because that’s always the worst. So I hope everybody stays safe out there. And we’re praying for everybody in the fires. We’re still praying for everybody in North Carolina and, oh, my gosh, everywhere else. But, yeah, I’m just… I had a thought because we were talking about the DEI stuff with the firefighting in LA and all of that. And one of our listeners, Adrian said that he’s glad to know that gay people feel seen in the LA fire department while the raging fires of hell consume, you know, all these houses everywhere. Do they have to wear like reflective rainbow stuff? Does that make it easier to spot the gay people in the flames? I’m just curious. I just still, I’m trying to wrap my mind around that one. Like what about people with four toes? Do they get, do they have like a special like outreach event to them? What if they’re left-handed? Do they get like a special left-handed outreach? Like this is all stuff that has nothing to do with fighting fires. Why are we, do you like skim milk or whole milk? Because we find out that you’re able to fight fires more effectively if you don’t drink skim milk. Like that’s like, you know, It’s just a bird. What did you say? There’s bird flu in the whole mill. Oh, for the love. Shut up. You know, I, oh my gosh. I don’t care about any of the new flus. I don’t care about any of the new viruses. I’m already, I’m getting fed up already. And we’re not even through the first week of the new year.
SPEAKER 17 :
Some of this is by design, I think.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, my gosh. I need the flamethrower. Do you think I’ve got time before any bad weather hits? I need to go. I need to shut up. Okay, first off, you’ve got today in stupidity.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, we do. As a matter of fact, just go ahead and play cut one because Raskin is not the smartest in Congress. Let’s just put it that way. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 20 :
And so it’ll be 217 to 215, which means they cannot afford to lose a single vote. And they’ve already suffered the defection of Congresswoman Sparks from Indiana, who got so mad about the fact that she wasn’t put on the committee she wanted, that she has left the Republican conference and is an independent now. And we haven’t even started deliberations yet. So I
SPEAKER 17 :
The reason this is so stupid is because we all know how Democrats operate. It’s intentional. They have all of these problems in the Democrat Party. The media doesn’t report on them. And then they want to act like they’re going to be capitalizing on some division that doesn’t exist. So it’s good times.
SPEAKER 19 :
Good times indeed. Everybody stay safe out there. We’ll have all the latest as well. Any developments that we’ll have up on the newsletter, Substack, Chapter Inverse, go sign up. Find us, like, subscribe, YouTube, Facebook. Have a great night, everybody. Stay warm, stay safe. Back tomorrow.
