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SPEAKER 01 :
this was the conservative play call we don’t normally like what’s called a continued resolution of c r but in this case it makes sense because if we push it into the first quarter next year then we have a republican controlled congress and president donald j trump back in the white house will be able to have more say over the funding decisions for twenty twenty five now that would have been an easier thing to do but then we had circumstances outside of our control we had these emergencies that are required so we had as you know a record hurricane season we had helene and milton and they just did massive destruction across our red states frankly uh in the southeast and the eastern side of the country and then we’ve had farmers who are in jeopardy of permanently going under they’ve had three lost years in a row because of bidenomics and inflation and other circumstances outside of their control. And so when you cobble those two things together, there’s a desperate need for that aid and that’s what adds another hundred plus billion dollars to the bill and that’s why everybody’s uncomfortable with it. I am too. We have a massive deficit and debt problem of course in this country. We can begin to address that and shrink the size and scope of government in January with Republican control, but we’ve got to bridge the gap to get there, and we cannot leave our small farms and ranchers and our people who are devastated by the hurricanes out in the meantime. So that’s the difficult part about this. That’s what people are… are really struggling with, and I am too, but we have a responsibility here.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is the same old, same old. You talk about needing to cut all of that spending. Sean, this bill right here would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit, and the worst part is, it’s all for dim priorities. Why would you saddle Donald Trump with this terrible spending bill before he even gets into office. And, Sean, the worst part is it dumps it right back in his lap in March. In March, under this bill, they’d shut the government down again, have to do this all over again, have to raise the debt ceiling again later the same year. It’s ridiculous. It’s a horrible plan. I can’t believe that Republican leadership ever cooked it up. Clearly, they didn’t talk to Trump about it. And I tell you what, we need to have a serious look at who’s leading this Congress because if this is the best they can do, I mean, it’s just, it’s total incompetence. This is a disaster.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, this is it’s this stupid bill. And I mean, it’s just it’s amazing. Some of the arguments that I’ve heard in favor of it now, apparently we’re hearing about, you know, we have to possibly potentially just raise the debt ceiling so we can get what we want. It’s just the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Welcome to the radio program. Dana Lash with you. I just want to dive right into this just to get it set up because there’s kind of a lot to fit in. But. it’s this fighting over the budget. It’s this CR, this omnibus. And, you know, as we’ve been discussing on the program, we talked about this yesterday as well, the whole issue is overspending with the government. And when you look at, I think, what was the last time when we were raising when we like push to raise the debt ceiling i think we increase debt by like four trillion dollars or something insane like that and you can’t keep going that way and i understand the difference between the deficit and the debt ceiling and all of that stuff i get it but i don’t understand why you can’t just allow us to hit the debt ceiling and then from there force cuts. And again, I get it that it takes, you know, if you’re forcing cuts, it’s something that you’re going to have to go through the House on. I completely understand all of that. But the issue here is dispending. I mean, we just had members of Congress that are trying to, they slipped in this, they slipped in this omnibus, $174,000, like what, a 60% pay increase, I think was the percentage, a 60% 40% still.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s like 176 to like 240.
SPEAKER 18 :
Now, again, why did they need that? Because they said it was a cost of living adjustment. It was a raise, but it was a cost of living adjustment. Okay, so here’s the issue. It’s a cost of living adjustment that’s brought on by the incessant spending that we keep seeing from Republicans and Democrats. It’s this excessive spending that’s driving all of this, that’s driving the deficit, that’s pushing through all of this stuff. Why? Just again, I know it’s going to take a longer bit of time, but just go through the house and take let it take time. I’d rather it take time than consistently raise the debt ceiling. And there are some people out there that are going to tell you it doesn’t really matter that they’re going to raise it anyway. Those are the people that also aren’t going to give you anything to cut. They’re not going to give you any solutions. They’re not going to give you anything like this. And, you know, I got to tell you, with Speaker Johnson, and that was audio somebody won, right? Yes. Okay, so he wrote this damn bill. So how is it he’s like, well, this is the conservative play call. You know, we don’t normally like it, but in this case, it makes sense. You wrote it. You wrote the bill. So how, what is this? What is this nonsense? You wrote it. You wrote the thing. So, you know, I got to tell you, This is pretty frustrating, and we’re going to dive all into this because there’s a lot of tricks, there’s a lot of movement, and they’re going to try to, I think, get away with a lot more than they should be able to get away with. And we can’t… They’re going to use military pay as a way to try to force you. They’re going to use military pay. They’re going to use… What are some of the other things that they’re trying to hold hostage? There’s a whole bunch of stuff in here that they’re trying to hold hostage. They’re trying to say, oh, well, it’s going to be… Oh, yeah, the J6 committee.
SPEAKER 09 :
They’re actually putting protections of the committee in here for some reason.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. It’s rough. It’s rough. And I’m just… So tired of hearing the same old arguments from a lot from these same people. I mean, they also one of the things, too, they keep all that they’re going to shut down the government and they’re going to, you know, they’re they’re bad Republicans. Let them do it. They’ve used the debt limit as leverage for every budget fight. Every budget fight, they’ve used the debt limit as leverage. And they always say, well, we’ve got to be able to pay our debts. We’re going to go into fiscal crisis. And I get it. They’re not going to default. They can’t default. But you realize that you could actually divert some of this big government spending that you’re spending on stupid stuff to maybe pay some of it. I mean, there’s a process. There’s a way to do it. But even now, Trump is saying that maybe we need to raise the debt limit. We’re going to dive into the debt limit more here coming up. But this bill and there’s a lot of momentum that’s going against it. Thankfully, Trump tweeted about it. But he also then said we got to raise the debt limit or the debt ceiling, which I don’t I’m still against that. We’re going to dive into that aspect of it more here coming up. But he was saying that he was. going to because some want a clean bill a clean bill means that you can do a standalone bill to keep government open and then you can do a secondary bill if you wanted to do disaster aid or for farming and you know all of that stuff those that can be something separate but they always try to lump it all together so that they can play off each other And the thing is, is you can pass the CR and then you can come back and hit this again next year because this is going to come to a head again. And what I think they’re still timing it out. But what, like June or something like that? Yeah, I don’t think that they they’re still trying to figure out exactly when. But it’s going to this is going to come up to a head reconciliation in June. So it’s not a done fight. And again, the last time they did this was was over a year ago. It was over a year ago, a year and a half. And since they suspended the debt ceiling the last time, we grew debt. I said $4 trillion. I’m sorry. I’m way under that. It’s $4.7 trillion. $4.7 trillion. That’s why nothing is affordable. It’s why Congress is saying, well, we’re going to have to give ourselves a cost of living adjustment. We’re going to have to do that. That’s never acceptable. But there, I feel like they don’t even, they don’t want to fight. 1,500 pages, over 1,500 pages. Now, some say, well, you know, you can just, if you’re going to have to do the debt limit, then pass just, you know, the state, the continuing resolution. That’s what the CR stands for. Then just pass the continuing resolution and go from there. Yeah, but here’s the issue. You know, you’re still going to have to deal with the debt limit. And I mean, Can you pass a clean CR and then allow the debt limit to be hit? Because if that ends up happening, Democrats, obviously what I think you have maybe six months before the cycle starts. I think it’s early enough that Republicans can get around it should they want to. But this is a this is a big deal. It’s a big mess. And it seems like, you know, they’re going to continue having this fight and they’re going to continue dealing with this until they can start. They can cut spending. And like I said, we’re going to dive into that. Also, one of the other things I mean, I just happen to notice Argentina exited their recession. That was a huge win. I mean, just look at some of the parallels with Malai. We can do that here. It is possible. Also on deck, which we’re going to dive into a bombshell Wall Street Journal report. Absolutely confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt what everybody else knew that Democrats lied about Biden’s senility, that they knew how bad he was, which we all knew that they did. But now the media is like, hey, guys, you know, this is kind of a bad thing that happened. We’re going to dive into that because. This I mean, for the Wall Street Journal, of course, it’s they can write about it now because there’s no risk about them writing about it now. So we’re going to dive into that as well. And I am amazed. We have to have a serious discussion about some of the surveys that have come out about this killer, this Luigi Mangione, because apparently there were several surveys. And Gen Z doesn’t really think that, you know, they don’t really totally hate what the guy did. It’s wild. He’s raised six figures online. He’s raised six figures. His defense has raised six figures. This is insane. This guy’s a killer, but because it involved a CEO. If you’re looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, All Family Pharmacy has you covered. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 18 :
So Brazil traders are selling first and asking later as the pandemic is hitting their markets. Gosh, I forgot to tell you of the bird flu headlines, too, as well. This is it was they they they’ve been dealing with a collapse in their currency. Now their markets are in their crosshairs. Investors are losing faith in their ability to contain this crisis. And they think that the sell off has sent the real I mean, it’s it’s been it’s plunged to a record low. Everything stocks, local currency, everything, everything is a mess. So what happens when you’ve been not fiscally responsible? This is actually going to do less than inflation or against inflation. The Fed trims interest rates in the third straight cut this year. I really don’t think that this is going to do anything because I mean, they keep doing it incrementally and still it’s not having any effect, really. It makes you mad.
SPEAKER 09 :
Makes me mad because government spending hasn’t stopped or even slowed down. It’s actually increased. There is no justification until we get inflation under control to cut the rates. But this is what they’re doing.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, yeah, I mean, and this is again, then we see why all of we’re having all of these issues, all of the stuff that we’re dealing with in Congress right now. And with this spending, you know, the cost of the living increase and all that stuff. But yeah, they said Jerome Powell told reporters that it was today was a closer call. He says they’re arguing that lowering rates could undermine their their taming of inflation since it peaked at nine point one and twenty two. You know what else proves difficult in taming inflation? Like constantly printing money to cover your debts. That also does it too. Okay, so here’s the first bird flu. Bird flu. First bird flu headline. First severe bird flu case is confirmed in the United States. The patient was hospitalized. They said that there’s no details. It’s at a hospital in Louisiana. And… They said that the patient had exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks. That’s per the CDC. So they said that the genotype in the patient’s case is different from the one detected in dairy cows. I think that it’s just all a way to scare people. And I get really, especially, you know, they try to use this to lock the country down again. I will literally kick some people in the blinking teeth. I mean, no joke. Okay, this is actually funny. I saw this headline last night. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says raccoon and squirrel are among dietary preferences. He suggested that consuming raccoon was not uncommon at all. It’s actually not. But you know the people who think that it is uncommon are like the city-dwelling whole food eaters. I’m not trying to be mean about it.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ve never had it.
SPEAKER 18 :
You’ve never had it? I’ve never eaten raccoon. I’ve eaten squirrel. My husband’s eaten raccoon. I know I have family members that would hunt them and eat them.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ve had rabbit and squirrel, but never, never, never that.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s greasy from what I understand. It’s real greasy. I don’t like that. And plus they’re cute. Like I can look at a cow in the face and be like, you look delicious.
SPEAKER 09 :
But they eat trash.
SPEAKER 18 :
They’re trash pandas. So you’re eating trash meat because you are what your meat eats.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s kind of like bug meat, like in the seafood arena, like lobsters and shrimp into those bottom feeders.
SPEAKER 18 :
So it’s like scavenger meat.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
I don’t like scavenger meat.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s what raccoons are.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s why it’s greasy because it’s dumpster meat. Ew, dumpster meat. Sounds like something out of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah, great. But yeah, I thought that was funny because you have media are freaking out about it and they think he’s like a freak because of it. Also, a couple of other things here to make sure that we’re touching on because we’ve got to get a lot of this stuff. This… I’m coming back to it, but I have a whole handful of stories. People who are spending tons of money on that Luigi Mangione. Now, I told you that they raised six figures for defense, right? But they now check. So this assassin, this murderer has received 158 cash deposits into his prison commissary account, 40 emails and 53 letters in the mail from his demented fans. And then, you know, I told you about the survey where Gen Z is like, really, was it that bad? Because, you know, the narrative about the CEO and all that stuff, it’s just, it’s wild, wild. And let’s see, apparently KFC is considering, they opened a new restaurant that’s not like KFC. And it’s called Saucy. And it basically features chicken tendies and dips. That’s all it is. Would you eat there? Yeah, like canes. I know I’m like canes. Stick with us. We’ve got a lot more in store. Our partners, they help bring you the program. It’s our friends over at Patriot Mobile. The only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. Patriot Mobile, they have plans that can support any type of budget, any type. And you’re going to get exceptional nationwide coverage in all three major networks. When you switch, you’re going to support what matters. Your money is not working against you. You get seamless switching with a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. And right now with their Every Friday Matters special, when you switch, you get a brand new smartphone. You can keep your number or get a new one. The choice is yours. But it’s eligible only with promo code FRIDAY. So a free smartphone, limited time offer or until supplies run out. Terms and conditions apply. Make the switch today. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot.
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Welcome back to the program. Oh, this is a good one. This is a good Christmas track. It is a Christmas track. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. Okay, so if I seem like I’m real stiff, I literally can’t turn right or left. Your girl has a pinched nerve. Oh, no. It’s bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, and I have a pretty high pain tolerance, it’s probably about a nice 8. So we’re just riding the lightning today.
SPEAKER 09 :
What about nodding up and down?
SPEAKER 18 :
Don’t even. You can’t even. I almost shook my head and I died.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just died and came back to life. No yes or no question.
SPEAKER 18 :
Tens units, this pinched nerve laughs at them. It flicks them off. Wow. We’re just riding the lightning today. So if I freeze up totally, it’s because my nerves made everything shut down because I’m way more animated usually. So there you have it. All right. So moving on this, we’ve been talking about the CR, this whole, I don’t want to say what I really think of it because it’s, it’s just an, it’s a nightmare. This is not anything that what we voted for nothing at all whatsoever. And I’m really confused. So audio soundbite two, this is J.D. Vance, who was in the halls of Congress yesterday. And he was asked about he and, you know, POTUS elect where, you know, what are they thinking? This is what he said.
SPEAKER 20 :
Should Speaker Johnson be reelected? Do you support a clean CR?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, what the president believes is we should support a clean CR so long as it contains a debt limit increase. That’s the position of the president. That’s what we’re going to try to push for.
SPEAKER 21 :
Are you supporting a government shutdown then?
SPEAKER 01 :
Have a good night, guys. Thanks.
SPEAKER 21 :
Did you speak to Speaker Johnson directly? Did you communicate? Do you think you should be reelected, Mr. Vance?
SPEAKER 1 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 18 :
Why are we… Okay, so again, why would the debt ceiling increase? Somebody give me a good argument for it. I haven’t read one.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t have an argument, but I’ve seen the explanations for it with that conversation coming up in June. Here’s my take on all of this. If Doge is designed to cut government spending, find the waste, get rid of it, why do we need to increase a debt ceiling when we could literally cut to accomplish the same thing?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, that’s my, yeah, that’s my whole point. Right. Like, why can’t we just hit the limit and cut spending elsewhere to service our debt? Yes. Why can’t we do that?
SPEAKER 09 :
We have to do this at my household. I can’t just vote myself a credit line increase.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, I keep, people keep telling me that there’s chess afoot and that that’s what it is. And I’m like, okay, well, explain this to me then. Explain to me then why… allowing Congress to just raise the limit. How was that in any way? It doesn’t make any sense. So I don’t know. That’s what I don’t understand. And he tweeted about this. Let me pull this tweet up. He tweeted about this, well, twice now, last night and This morning. And he had said that, you know, this is not something he doesn’t want anything to pass. No spending bills until he’s in office. And he also with the way that he put it, it seemed like don’t do anything until, you know, don’t do anything that can be attributed to my administration. Right. I mean, that’s that’s.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know. I dropped it in Slack. I’m confused. If Republicans try to pass a clean CR without all the Democrat bells and whistles that will be destructive to our country, all it will do after January 20th is bring the mess of the debt limit into the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 18 :
Rather than allow it to take place in Biden’s. And so that was the big thing. So the fact that he and J.D. Vance, as he just said, the president wants an increase in the debt ceiling. He wants that to be raised. Right. So you’re saying that it’s OK as long as it just doesn’t happen under your administration? I’m confused. But where is the strategy to spend less to cut spending? I, you know, I made this mention. I had mentioned of this yesterday with in talking to Congressman Thomas Massey. This is really the first test of this new administration is this right here. It’s the first test, and it’s a difficult one because you’re going into a holiday season. You are going into potentially shutting down the government. You’re going to hit a wall of bad press because they’re going to do what they’re going to do, and they’re going to argue that you’re not paying military and all of this other stuff. And it’s tough, but it’s a test that this administration said they could handle, and it’s their first one. And the other problem that they have, you know, nonwithstanding the media assault and Democrats, is Republicans, is dealing with other Republicans. I don’t know how Doge is going to be successful. If Republicans can’t even take seriously the first test that will determine the strength of their commitment to reducing government spending. If they can’t reduce spending here with this or even pass just a simple CR and say, if you’re going to hit the debt ceiling, then hit it. And then we’re going to reconvene and we will you know, go through that process of cutting, you know, what needs to be cut and reshuffling, refocusing or redirecting what we already have allocated to servicing this debt. If they can’t do this, don’t expect them to listen to Doge. Don’t expect them to listen to it. And then, in fact, what they could turn Doge into is just theater. Look, we have something that makes it seem like we care about this commitment to reducing the size of government and wasteful spending, but we’re not actually going to incorporate anything that they’re proposing into any kind of useful legislation. So it’s just like the appearance… of being fiscally conservative without actually being fiscally conservative. Does that make sense? I worry about that. This is the first big test. And I don’t understand the whole idea of raising the debt ceiling again. It’s debt. It’s debt we owe. We can’t default on it. The United States is not going to default on it. But there is so much wasteful spending elsewhere. Why? I mean, then redirect it. Now, I said I made mention of this on X and I had a lot of people like, well, you know, you can’t that has to go through the house. And yeah, that’s the point. That’s the problem with a lot of this stuff. It didn’t in the first place. You realize that, right? There’s a lot of wasteful spending that they would just write an open check to this bureaucratic agency or this one. And then you wonder how you end up getting, you know, spending $3 million to study lesbian obesity. Right? Or studying what it’s like if squirrels are on crack. You know, I don’t know. It’s just, this is part of the problem. So we’ve got to get this situated. We really do. And to see the president, I don’t want to see the president of the United States fold on this. Now, then you have this situation with Social Security. Oh, boy. My Nana’s going to throw something at the TV. The Social Security bill, it’s supposed to be headed toward a bipartisan win. It’s going to be $196 billion added to the deficit. Now, it shouldn’t be added to the deficit. This is what is enraging. The reason why they’re adding to the deficit is because government spent it already. And now they’re going to have to spend more. That’s why. I mean, this is just madness. This is the worst math I’ve ever seen in my life. This is bad math. In addition to all of that, hold up, we got more. Some of the other items in this, you know, almost 1600 page bill in it. And this is something the Washington Examiner found the State Department, their censorship office. Well, it buried in the spending bill. There is a provision that would reauthorize the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. Now, this thing was established back in 2016 under Trump. I don’t know if they knew it. It’s come under immense public and congressional scrutiny because of the stuff that they’re doing. I mean, they literally gave tax dollars to this Global Disinformation Index thing and these other outside groups that were trying to measure whether or not what you or other people said or some of the stuff that you read, whether or not it was considered disinformation. And they pretend to work behind the veneer of disinformation as a way to suppress conservative voices. So the State Department sent a notification to Congress. This was earlier in the month. They said they were going to terminate the GEC because they didn’t have any support from Republicans. They had an eight-year mandate. The GEC did. It had an eight-year mandate. And you have to… You have to reauthorize their funding. So it wasn’t something that was just on auto. And this this entity, by the way, if you remember. It was frequently featured in these House Judiciary Committee and House Small Business Committee hearings. And there were subpoenas that had been issued, Republicans issued subpoenas, and they were accusing this agency of orchestrating this huge campaign of suppression against right-leaning voices. And that they were working alongside these very far-left progressive entities to do so. So this is all true. And so now, slipped in to the bill by leaders in Congress is text that would save it. reauthorize its funding. Remember how I said you got to reauthorize it and Republicans haven’t been supporting it. So there were two different Republican committees that investigated and tore apart GEC, this global engagement center with the State Department that was involved in claiming that something is disinformation for the purpose of suppressing right-leaning voices. And they slip language into this bill that destroys all of the work that these two committees did. And then we all have to pay for the investigation. I mean, this is… This is crazy. I mean, if you remember, there was Jim Banks. He went after them because they were trying to say… They were trying to smear him because of Trump. And they were trying to say that he was like a Russian asset or something. And the GEC was found to have circulated all of this internal stuff. And the Washington Examiner has been really good in reporting regularly on this. They were… looking into they had this internal memo that they were circulating, claiming they were looking into Jim Banks’s associations to this and that as a way to smear him. See, it’s just they put it out there that they’re looking into it as a way to just suggest without having to provide evidence of a formal accusation that a formal accusation would require. I mean, this is this is in the bill. It’s in the bill. It’s a one year extension. the one year extension. And there have been a lot of deep dives into their speech suppression. I mean, it’s in the bill. It’s in Section 301, Global Engagement Center Extension. And it says Section 1287J of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 is amended by striking on the date that is eight years after the date of the enactment of this act and inserting on the date that is nine years after the date of the enactment of this act. So it’s literally just one sentence that’s been slipped in here that extends this thing for a year. And we all pay for it. That’s what we’re looking at. This is unbelievable. And there’s a lot more in there, too. I mean, you’ve got plandemic powers being expanded in this. I mean, this is a mess. This is an absolute mess, and there’s no way to defend it. And Mike Johnson wrote it. How are you leader in the House and you’re allowing this stuff to go in? How is any Republican, including POTUS elect, protecting Johnson? Although I will say one of the things Lorraine found is that Johnson was supposed to be an event at an event this weekend with Trump and Tucker Carlson. And he’s not now. Apparently, it’s his appearance has been canceled. Interesting. Our partners over at ReadyWise. They’re always ready even if you aren’t. Free and fast shipping on most orders. By the way, this is premium survival food for which you know the chain of command from start to finish. 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uh now turn it over to the flat earthers who would like to go first so obviously you all know jaron campanella of jaronism one of the most popular flat earth youtube channels all right guys uh sometimes you are wrong in life
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And I thought that there was no 24-hour sun. In fact, I was pretty sure of it. But I respect Will Duffy for being a stand-up guy, at least in the way that he kept saying it was true. I kept saying it wasn’t. He said, do you want to go? I’ll take you. And he brought me here. And it’s a fact. The sun does circle you in the south. So what does that mean? You guys are going to have to figure that out yourself. Don’t listen to my beliefs or my opinion. It shouldn’t matter to you. But at least you should be able to accept…
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that the sun does exactly what these guys said as far as circles the southern continent somebody spent $35,000 to take this dumbass barely illiterate product of incest to some mountaintop so he could just watch the sky for himself was it Mike Johnson who did it sounds like something that Mike Johnson would do It was a flat earther who went all the way to Antarctica to prove that the earth was flat, only to find out that it wasn’t. Kane and I were having a fun debate about this. Are you a flat earther in addition to hating old people?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I’m actually, like I told you, just because I know it makes you laugh and kind of gets under your skin, but I’m keeping my mind open.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, I think the earth is round, but I don’t care.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ve never been to space.
SPEAKER 18 :
I feel like there are people out there on the internet that are like, my gosh, I have nothing left in life. So I’m going to cling to this one premise and my whole life’s happiness and everything I do and my justification as a person here on earth is dependent upon me being right about this one thing. And I just, I’m like, I don’t care. I believe it’s round. I don’t care. I’m not going to fall off it. I don’t care.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I’m with you there. I’m keeping my mind open. Sure, whatever. What is there to keep your mind open about? Have you been to space to look at the thing?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, but I’ve never been in a wreck with a dump truck either. It probably sucks.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t think that’s the same thing. But my point is, I’m just leaving it open. I don’t have the definitive proof with my own eyeballs that it’s not.
SPEAKER 18 :
So you can’t believe it unless you see it with your own eyes? Yeah. Anything?
SPEAKER 09 :
Not anything. Stop doing that. I know what you’re doing. I know what you’re driving to. I can see it. I can hear it. I can feel it.
SPEAKER 18 :
I didn’t do anything at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m just saying.
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Stop it. If that’s your measure as to whether or not something exists, this is going to be a fun next two hours. This is going to be super fun. So I’m not even on a muscle relaxer for this pain in my neck. I’m just riding the lightning. This is, can you imagine? All right. We got a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. Boy, oh boy. Look, I’m going to tell you, I’ve told Pete, I’ve said this a million times before. I carry. every chance I get. And I have zero problem at all whatsoever in using lethal force to protect myself or a loved one. Unfortunately, you know, we live I mean, I get it that you have private property rights, and you have property owners that maybe don’t want you to carry and but they’re not going to provide you with any kind of security, right? Or maybe it’s, you know, a government building, or maybe it’s, you know, the municipality that’s like, like Los Angeles that wants to or Chicago that wants to ban something. You don’t want to be left defenseless and you don’t want prosecutors to use like unconstitutional laws as a way to remove or bar you from further exercising your Second Amendment rights. But you still need a means of protection. And this is where the burner gun comes in. Think of it as diversifying your weapons array. So you have a way to still protect yourself. And you don’t have to worry. Pay attention to gun-free zone signs because a Burna gun doesn’t care about that. Burna gun does not care about waiting. Waiting periods are inapplicable. They ship it. No background checks. They ship it right to your front porch. And if you’re unfamiliar with what the Burna gun is and does, the SD is their most popular model. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. Now, they have other models, but I don’t. I talk about the Berna SD most because that’s what I have the most familiarity with. And everybody I know that’s gotten a Berna gun, they’ve gotten the Berna SD. And in fact, a lot of law enforcement agencies are incorporating it as a way to be able to control threats and to have just a gradient approach, so to speak. Now, you can get a major discount on them. We get 10% off by going to Berna.com slash Dana. You can look at all of the models that they have. They have different projectiles, accessories, all kinds of stuff. And again, no background checks, no permits, ships right to your door. They don’t care about gun-free zone signs. Visit Byrna.com slash Dana. Diversify your weapon array. Get 10% off your purchase. That’s Byrna.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this second hour here on the program. And we’ve been going over this big bill, the omnibus, which I think they just need to let it hit the debt ceiling and be done with it because it’s ridiculous. Just let it do that. Be done with it. Because the issue when we were talking about. POTUS elect as well. And he had tweeted out that he doesn’t want this thing to happen basically on his administration. So make it happen on Biden’s administration. And then he talked about raising the debt ceiling, which I don’t know why we have to raise the debt ceiling when we should just hit it and then force that to make Congress actually implement some cuts and redirect spending to service the debt. I mean, that seems like the most obvious thing possible. But, you know, it’s you’re dealing with Republicans in D.C. This is the tweet. Juan’s got it up on the simulcast. If you’re watching Channel 347, the chats at Rumble, where he says there and you can read it that rather than allowing it, it should it should don’t let it go into the Trump administration, you know, as opposed to, you know, allowing it to take place in the Biden administration. I don’t think it needs to happen in any administration. And I just like I’ve said, I think that this is really the first test for the new Congress, for this president, for this term. And it’s a test for Doge to see whether or not they’re actually going to implement or would they even listen to them? And that’s a big deal because all of this is from, you know, insane government spending. And we got to think of it. The reason why Congress wanted to vote for themselves a pay raise is because they keep they keep spending money. They keep spending money like it’s out of control. It’s out of control. And they’ve used it as leverage. I mean, I don’t know. I have people telling me that you do have to raise the debt limit. I disagree with it. But it has been used as leverage. I don’t know how long we can use that carrot in front of the donkey, but it would be nice. But we’ve used it as leverage. The last time we raised it 18 months ago, we expanded, what, added $4.7 trillion in debt. 4.7 trillion. I just, I mean, a clean CR. And I, the other thing too, if you pass a clean CR, you’re going to get it through the Senate. Because who are the two votes in the Senate that, because you’re going to need all of those votes, who do you think is going to support it? Manchin and Sinema. They’re both going to support this. They will support a clean CR. Make everything else like the disaster aid and anything for farming, that needs to be its own separate thing. It needs to be a clean CR. And we need better leadership from Mike Johnson, which we spent a lot of time on him yesterday. A lot. So, I don’t know. This battle, I think… You know who’s been absent during this battle? Biden. Where’s he been? He’s President of the United States. Okay. We have… All of this, you know, the headlines with drones. You have this fight over debt and spending. And he is nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. It is stunning to me. This piece came out, the Wall Street Journal, where they finally are admitting that he’s been senile this entire time. In fact, and I was, I mean, this is a hell of a headline. Over at Daily Mail, they have above the fold, like their main photograph, they have Biden, one of the worst incidents when he fell down the stairs over and over. Like he fell down the stairs three times, four actually, trying to get up them in one clip. And it says, dud from day one. That’s the headline. So this Wall Street Journal piece, they, I mean, they knew from the get-go that he was struggling with his senility. They knew it from the get-go. This bombshell report, the big lie, as it were. You know, was it PolitiFact that said the biggest lie was the eating of the dogs and cats in Ohio? The biggest lie was the cover-up of Biden’s mental acuity. The Wall Street Journal, this piece is just about as damning as you can get. How the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge. I mean, they it’s. This is something else, and it gets into all of these counselors who knew it and how they controlled every, you know, every second of his public events. And the limitations around, they even had limitations over what kind of media he consumed, what he would read. They said that whenever he traveled particularly, he always had a small group of aides that were right with him. And whenever he would travel, they’d be right there with him too. And they said that even they would shepherd him around in a manner. And these are like some people who apparently were talking off the record that had been, I don’t know. I kind of wonder if it was in the press corps, members of the press corps talking about this. But they were saying that the amount of handholding and the amount of shepherding him, in public was unlike anything that they’ve ever seen. And they knew it from day one. I actually think that you could see it even before the election. Remember, they didn’t have him out. He stayed in his, he didn’t campaign. And there’s a reason why. I mean, the coronavirus and the pandemic, that suited them perfectly. Because then they didn’t have to worry about him making a fool of himself in public. They didn’t have to worry about him slipping, either verbally or physically. And then all of the headlines that would emerge from that. But they said at events, aides would repeat, I mean, over and over again, instructions to him, like how to enter, where to enter a stage, how to exit, where to exit. And it would be obvious to an average everyday person, but with him, it wasn’t so much. They said the protection, the protective culture was intensified. And they, I mean, everybody limited interactions with him. They said that… it insulated him not just from the scrutiny of the American public, and this is a big takeaway, that it also insulated him from his own cabinet secretaries, chairs of congressional committees, and other high-ranking individuals. So not only was he inaccessible to the average everyday member of the public, but he’s inaccessible to his own staff, to the people who are advising him. He’s very well insulated. And they said that all of this, all of these strategies to protect him worked until the debate. It worked until the debate. And the debate just blew it wide open. Which then, you know, makes me go back to that. Because in the beginning they were hesitant to accept the debate. And then they did. I mean, they had to have known. how horribly he would perform. And I was thinking about this last night when I was adding this to the headline. So if you subscribe over at Substack, chapter and verse, you get this out. And I was thinking about this when I was compiling some of the prep for this morning. They knew that he was going to perform horribly at that debate. They knew that the election for 24 was going to be won and lost at that one debate. And it was. I think that that’s the night that Trump won. And I think it became definitive. I think he won definitively at the McDonald’s, the McDonald’s thing. I mean, the assassination, too, the assassination attempt he won. But I think it was really confirmed definitively. with Biden failing at the debate, because it wasn’t just so much about people getting behind Trump. You had to show that they couldn’t get behind Biden. You had to show people that there is no other choice. It’s not for the people who were kind of in the middle and were thinking, I don’t like either of them. That it had to be made evident to them that it wasn’t just a choice between two people that they didn’t like. It had to be a choice between someone who could actually function and someone who couldn’t. And I think that played. I mean, he destroyed his own career. Biden did. But why did Democrats allow it to happen? Why did they even consent to the debate? You know, they limited the audience. They limited everything. I mean, they kind of had to consent to the debate. But also, do you think that they were trying to put him out to rest? out to pasture this way. I’ve always wondered what his inner circle, what really felt about him doing the debate. Because they had to have known. There was even at one point, and we remarked on this, I think we played it at the time, when Biden was, and it was before Biden, The first it was before the second time he did it when Trump was like, I don’t even know if he knows what he says or what he said. I don’t think he knows what he said. Remember that soundbite that Trump gave the first time Biden did it, though. They had them on a split screen side by side. And there was I mean, Trump kind of has a poker face for the most part. He didn’t with Kamala Harris, but there he did. I think he was very disciplined in the first debate. But he had an expression on his face. If you go back and you and it’s on YouTube, if you watch Trump the first time that Biden kind of it’s I mean, if you’re really watching Trump, you can see it. He’s got an expression on his face that reads like this poor guy. He really does. And I think that that is one of the reasons Trump didn’t get nasty with him, because I think he felt like Biden was maybe Biden said he was always been a jackass. Let’s not undermine that. But now in his sunset years, it sort of felt like everybody else was taking advantage of him because they wanted that access to power. They either wanted to rule through him or they wanted that power adjacency. And I think Trump recognized that when he was on stage. That was a really telling moment in politics. And then the second time Biden got lost in his own mind, that’s when Trump said, I don’t even think he knows what he says. But they knew this. This should be the big lie. It shouldn’t be the, well, you know, they were eating cats and dogs. They were eating cats and dogs. I literally had, was it three weeks ago? It was like right after Thanksgiving. The woman who was an illegal immigrant who was caught on camera in the middle of a residential street eating someone’s pet. That is literally from Ohio. That is video from Ohio. And that was a woman who was in the country illegally, according to law enforcement cited by the local press of the story. It’s not a lie. But what is a lie? The big lie is all of these Democrats covering up for Joe Biden. Do you know how dangerous it is what they did? They put in to the White House someone who is already senile. And they knew it from day one. 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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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An Oklahoma cannibal who killed a 10-year-old girl in a depraved plot is executed on his birthday. Yay! Kevin Ray Underwood. His fat backside was pronounced dead at 10.14 a.m. I love capital punishment for child predators and rapists. Yay! It was their fourth execution of the year because Oklahoma knows how to get stuff done. It took place on his 45th birthday, so maybe Satan can have him blow a candle out in hell. Yay. Let’s see here. Dana, you’re so mean. No, I’m not. We got more. This is California. Oh, my gosh. I don’t like this. California squirrels. Squirrels are weird anyway. I don’t like their teeth. And now they’re turning cannibal in California. Of course they are in California. There are photos of them eating meat, y’all. And I mean, it’s gross. Like one of them ate a mole. That’s nasty. Oh, water. You really going to put that foot? Oh my gosh. It’s a squirrely meat. They said they’re supposed to be vegetarian, but they engage it because they’re jerks. You know that, right? Squirrels are the jerks of the animal world. Squirrels and dolphins. And some goats. They’re jerks, though. Squirrels are… I’ve literally had one throw acorns at me. Yeah. And I throw them back at them. I’m sure I look crazy. But, you know, they’re wild. But they said that in California, they’ve never seen this behavior before. And that they are eating actual meat. Like they’re acting like predators. I don’t like things that fly around in trees like that that eat meat. It’s weird. You’ve got to get a handle on your phone. So this porch, a porch pirate returns an item after a twerking video. What? So they said that police in New Jersey are searching for two suspects. They were caught on camera stealing a package off of somebody’s porch. They returned the item days after a video of them twerking and taunting during the theft emerged online. Yeah, that’ll do it. They grabbed, it was literally a package that contained four glasses and baby items. And then they taunted the resident on their camera by twerking. And they returned to the victim’s home because apparently they made him famous on the Webernets. I mean, those doorbell cameras, man, I’m telling you. The Vatican’s on the brink of bankruptcy due to a dramatic decline in global donations under Pope I’m a Communist Francis’s leadership. That’s not shocking. I mean, you know, there’s got a lot. I mean, it’s evident people don’t want to give money to that because they don’t think that it’s doing the Lord’s work. Stick with us. We’ve got more in store.
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If I were king for a day, I’m not, and I don’t aspire to be, here’s what I’d do. First, I would tell everybody to take their meds. Number two, I think President Trump is going to have to consider coming to Washington. I mean, let’s face it, he’s the president now. It’s not President Biden. President Trump needs to sit down with Mike Johnson and John Thune and come up with a new skinny CR. If the president wants to do something on the debt limit, we need to find out what it is and put it in the bill. And then the president’s going to have to help Mike sell it in the House.
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Well, come January, I want Johnson’s guts to go. But I do think that, and that’s Senator Kennedy from Louisiana, I do think that he needs to, I think POTUS needs to, POTUS elect, you know, not talking about the guy who doesn’t, I don’t even think, does Biden know he’s president? I don’t know. I think he does need to say what is or what he’s looking for. He needs to say, well, what, you know, in terms of a spending level, this is what I want. Because it just seems like very confusing. And You can’t throw out something like, yeah, I’m okay with the debt ceiling being increased. That needs to be contextualized. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this second hour. I wanted to make you aware of this narrative, and I made mention of this last night, that is developing. Let’s play Audio Soundbite 10. This is Eric Fartswell. What’s so funny? Nothing. That’s his last name. I said Swallowell. Swallowell. He’s talking about, they’re trying to invalidate Elon Musk and diminish the authority of the voters with this new narrative. Listen.
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including Cassidy Hutchinson. The other thing that’s happening in your body, why are they taking orders from Elon Musk? Why is Speaker Johnson? Who’s the Speaker? Is it Elon Musk or is it Mike Johnson?
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s Speaker Musk right now.
SPEAKER 19 :
Is he co-president or is he Speaker?
SPEAKER 07 :
He wants to be speaker this week, but he invested, you know, 200 plus million in the last election. And now he thinks that he owns these guys and then that he can tell them, you know, how to vote, when to vote. And what I’ve told my Republican colleagues, and I told some of them this today, I said, if you go along with this and you let Elon Musk shut down the government by tweet, he’s going to own you the entire Congress. The next two years, you’re going to sit around and wait for him to send a tweet to see if you’re allowed to vote on a bill.
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Oh, that’s so stupid. First off, they had no problem when it was George Soros. Nope. Yeah, they had no problem when it was like Ted Turner, Warren Buffett. They had no problem when it’s, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jack from original Twitter. They had no problem when it was any of these cats, particularly Soros, buying up DAs in counties across the country. Oh, but now suddenly someone levels the playing field. They’re still mad because they can’t control social media. They’re mad because they can’t control X and because it’s been so… Show show we the equalization of I don’t even know how to put this. It because it’s been such a show, the takeover of X and the switch from suppression to just, you know, free discourse. For the most part, they still have some algorithmic issues because it’s, you know, it’s a decade of that stuff that. It makes this one thing look super dramatic when these are the people that control broadcast news, Hollywood, academics. Oh, the White House still and the Senate still. But they’re trying to invalidate the authority of voters by saying that it’s all just one guy, that it’s all just him. They have to have a boogeyman. They are desperate for a boogeyman. And I’m going to tell you, Trump isn’t going to be a boogeyman for them much longer. I think that Trump probably maybe up until his last year in office, they’re going to fight him. But then they are planning ahead because Musk, his authority and influence is going to outmeasure Trump’s. I don’t care how rich a president is. Once they’re out of office, once they’re termed out, that’s kind of it. Same thing with George. You know how George W. Bush was after his second term. Gosh, he was the devil until he wasn’t. Same thing with Reagan. It’s just like it’s like that with every single Republican president. But they’re looking at Musk like, oh, we got to pay attention to 28 and beyond because he’s relatively young and he is going to be influential in the political sphere and be involved in it long after Trump. So they’re gearing up to do one of two things. They’re going to they’re trying to invalidate this. All of the support that these that Musk has received and that these policies have received. And they’re going to try to make it look like it’s just one guy. So it’s invalid because it’s not representative of all the people. And then they’re also trying to gear up to go after because they see him as the boogeyman. They’re going to go after him. and try to tarnish his influence and reach for even when after Trump is out of office. So it’s a one-two thing. They’re mad at him because they’re livid. They’re so livid over X, I don’t know that they’ll ever get over it. Because by and large, X, I try to explain people the different social media platforms and how they’re used. So few people are on X when you look at Americans at large. X is where narratives are fought. X is where you have politicos and media people, maybe some sports and A&E, but it’s where narratives are fought. It’s where stories are either defended or defeated. It’s where the stuff is established. This is where the pressure is really exerted. Facebook is where things are merely affirmed and shared and really it’s a different audience. Because it functions differently. And Instagram is somewhat similar. Instagram is more of an affirmation of the individual as opposed to the group where Facebook can be more group over affirmation of the individual and Twitter is where all this stuff is battled out. And so they’re mad because that was their main tool. That was their big tool of all of the social media entities that are public square. It’s X that’s the most because it’s immediate. Absolutely immediate. It’s real time. It’s where Facebook is more like a message board. I mean, unless you get into a live comment situation, X is like a real live chat 24-7. And it can also kind of function as a message board. And it’s… Because of that immediacy, it is a way more powerful tool for pressure and waging advocacy campaigns, I think, in my opinion, because I’m on all of them. And I just note that that’s kind of the difference. And I think that’s also why too few people are on X. X is brutal. It is. If you’re in… I mean, Cain, don’t you think so? I think that’s way more brutal than Facebook and Instagram.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, if you… look at just an open discussion as brutal, then yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, no, not open discussion. Like, people who are conservatives, I hear this from so many people, they will, like our listeners even, they’ll open accounts on X so they can watch certain things and read certain things, but they don’t want to tweet because they’re like, oh, we see the pressure that the left, you know, what they try to do and how they get the bots to go after people who, you know, if they were to share something about what’s happening in their school district or if they were to disagree with That’s true. You know, and they, they see that and they’re like, Oh my gosh, they don’t. I think it’s easier for the bots on X still to the, I just still don’t think that they have that problem solved, but they see that and people freak out that. And I understand it. It makes them nervous because X is like the Thunderdome. It is. And so that, and that’s why not, that’s why more people I think are, are on Facebook as opposed to X because it has a way it can, it has a way different purpose. Now, that’s not to say you shouldn’t do it, because it’s just very easy to mute people. You’ve got to ignore stuff. But the left used to control that. I remember when it first started. I used to be friendly with people who were friends with Jack. And we were always nice to each other. We obviously were at opposite ends of the political spectrum from one another. But… In the beginning, you didn’t have all the suppression and no one talked about algorithms and that stuff didn’t exist. And then after conservatives got so successful, you can’t tell me that Democrats haven’t been involved in this for over 10 years. They’ve been pressuring X to suppress conservatives. I bet if lawmakers wanted to go all the way back to when like 08, Even if they wanted to go all the way back to, you know, Obama’s early term, even before then, I think that you would that’s when you would start to see Democrats making overtures to these tech execs like Twitter to try to suppress people on the platform because conservatives were so successful, so successful. I remember once I hosted a co-hosted a money bomb and we raised like half a million dollars for a lawmaker and one afternoon. I think that five years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to do that as a conservative because they would have just throttled you to death. And it’s weird. And they’re still wrapping, unwrapping that onion, getting to all those layers of algorithms. I can definitely see it, for instance, on my account. And this was after Parkland. I had someone who one of our listeners got mad at me because whenever I would type the word gun on Twitter, I have to take the U out and put an asterisk in. And there’s a reason why, because they were saying, why don’t you know, you don’t have to be afraid of the word. And I wanted to punch the person in the face. But then I remembered that they didn’t know. So when I. type and I can see it and I’ve taken screenshots when I type gun or guns, or even if it’s like gun control, like gun hyphen control, and I go and look at my impressions. That’s like how many times someone runs across that tweet. I’ve been kind of capped at like the follower level. But my impressions go down to like 120 something. Now, one of my average tweets will have thousands and thousands of impressions. Any time I say anything about gun, guns, gun control, anything that has the word gun in it, gun hyphen, Oh, my. It’s like it disappears from the platform. And I know that they’re unwrapping all. But that’s because and that’s not just me either. And it’s not just that word that has been weaponized and applied to so many different conservatives on that platform. for a host of issues like trans stuff. That’s why you see a lot of people put asterisks and things because they don’t want that algorithm to kick in and suppress them. Like for instance, Libs at TikTok has to do it whenever she talks about grooming, groomers, certain trans issues. Whenever you see those words with the asterisks in it, that’s because those accounts have one of those algorithmic punitive layers on it. And they have to get around that by doing that. And I know they’re still fixing it, but that’s the stuff that the left did. This is why they’re so mad at him. They look at him and he’s not a conservative. He’s not even a Republican. He’s just a normie. He’s just being practical. The left doesn’t get that to their detriment. They are still thinking on party partisan lines and that’s going to be their undoing. You can’t build a coalition like that. But then you also have to learn how to run a coalition. We’ve got a lot more on the way. We’ve got Florida Man coming up. Oh my gosh, there’s like a million things. Hold up. Before we go, there’s a million things we haven’t gotten into that we still need to touch on because we have more… By the way, on the whole thing with the CR. Also, this is some of the stuff that our money is being spent on. Do you know that there’s going to be like a six-figure grant? This is the stuff that we grant money to. This zoo is studying how to apply an anti-racist lens for their zoo exhibits. I don’t even know what that means. We’re going to discuss that coming up. Florida Man is going to keep us sane.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 18 :
So a Florida woman who was busted for speeding in a school zone bit a deputy after they found drugs in her car. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a Claremont woman was not spreading holiday joy when she battered one deputy and tried to bite another. She got caught with drugs and a suspended license while speeding in a school zone. Twenty three year old Lara Alexander was well, she was looking at an iPad, not wearing her seatbelt, and she was like blazing through the school zone. And when they pulled her over, she didn’t have a driver’s license. It showed it was suspended already last fall. And then she had all kinds. She had like some dope on her. She became combative, though. She elbowed one deputy in the chest. And then they got her in the back of the patrol car and they said she was aggressive. And when the detention deputy came out to help get her out of the vehicle, she bit him in the arm. So now she’s in trouble in addition to her death. Traffic citation. She’s got two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer resisting arrest. She just sounds like joy. She just does, doesn’t she? Police are there. They’re there. Got this guy in custody who hijacked an Amazon truck wearing a good vibes only T-shirt. Well, it seems like apparently it was bad vibes. They say that this guy, 46-year-old Hassan Raikin, hit an Amazon driver in the face while wearing a Good Vibes Only t-shirt. And then he drove away with the truck. And they were able to arrest him. And, you know, he’s got… charges of robbery, carjacking, battery, etc. No packages were stolen, apparently. So I guess people are going to just some minor delay. But yeah, he’s got a sunflower tattoo and he was wearing a good vibes only shirt. That’s doesn’t seem like that’s going to be good vibes. This is crazy. OK, so in central Florida, they’ve got an issue with a certain type of these weird. They’re like the friends monkeys, the ones that were on the one that Chandler had on the show. What do they call those? They’re like capuchins or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So officials are trying to figure out how many monkeys are actually terrorizing people. But apparently they’re going into people’s backyards and they’re terrorizing parents at a school drop off area. It’s in central Florida and Volusia County. An elementary school principal literally had to warn parents because monkeys were running like one or two was in the drop off area Wednesday of this week. And like they were going like trying to go with the kids. I mean, if you can kick it, you can defeat it. Stick with us. Third hour next.
SPEAKER 12 :
One thing that we haven’t been able to change yet, and it’s starting to change, is that you go to a grocery store, a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, a pound of bacon still costs more than it did before the pandemic. That’s a lot of money for people. It’s taking time to change that. So there’s reason for frustration, but there’s gigantic change being made.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, there’s not. Let’s just stop pretending. There’s not. Stop it. This is so ridiculous. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That’s Potatoes, who is saying that we haven’t been able to change the milk and bacon and stuff at the grocery store. Like you’ve changed anything else. You haven’t. See, that’s like part of the problem with all of this, you know, this approach to spending, because what’s going to happen is whatever whatever they end up doing. And I agree with what others are saying. It’s going to take. I mean, there’s going to be some immediate things that you’re going to be able to tell. But also there it’s some of the other forms of relief that come from. going, doing like a hobby or I’m a lie sort of approach. That’s, that’s gonna, I don’t even know if you would be able to immediately see it even, you know, in 2028 with whatever, whoever gets elected there, but it’s, everybody’s afraid of austerity. I mean, you, when it comes to the debt limit and again, welcome back. You can listen to Australia, channel three 47 drag TV rumble. When it comes to the debt limit, um, It’s about the debt that we already have accrued, not how much we can spend. So it has to be serviced. So why not hit that limit and then take all of the big spending, all of the money that we’ve been sending to Ukraine, et cetera, et cetera, and start allocating that towards the debt? And people are saying, well, you can’t just – it has to have Congress. You can’t just implement a cut immediately. Well, they can send money to Ukraine really without having – You know, Biden can just unilaterally decide that he’s going to send billions to Ukraine. So why couldn’t we just also unilaterally decide to service the debt? I know that’s such an obvious question, Dana. I don’t know. It’s where we are, though. But the austerity, I think everybody’s afraid of because we remember when Greece tried to do that. When Greece’s economy went through the wringer and they were implementing all of these austerity programs, they had to cut entitlements. They had to cut, you know, the social spending. And when they did, people rioted. They rioted. And I think the left is the left is afraid to be seen as part of any kind of austerity approach, because that does mean, you know, there are going to be some government programs that have to be cut and there’s going to be a lot of a lot less entitlement, no social spending. But that’s not what the government’s supposed to be involved in anyway. If they’re afraid of austerity now, it’s never going to happen. I mean, I actually have my doubts as to whether or not it’s ever going to. They’re not even on the same page. Can I just point this out? I don’t care how unpopular it is. We voted. We’re taxpayers, right? We all voted for the same thing. Yesterday, Vivek Ramaswamy said that he wanted a clean CR. He tweeted, quote, Yes, it is possible to enact a simple one page continuing resolution instead of 1500 plus page omnibus pork fest. Here it is. He’s right. I know I’ve disagreed with him on a number of things before. He’s right. A one-page CR. A clean CR. He’s exactly right. But then the POTUS elect tweeted… Quote, if Republicans try to pass a clean CR without all of the Democrat bells and whistles that will be so destructive to our country, all it will do after January 20th is bring the mess of the debt limit into the Trump administration rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should and will be primaried. Everything should be done and fully negotiated prior to my taking office. But then he also said no more spending bills until after I take office. So I’m confused. They’re not on the same page. Right, Cain? You read that the same way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I look at it as so if they raise the debt ceiling now and they implement all this new spending on these new things that are in this pork omnibus bill, then that’s Trump won’t be allowed to do what’s necessary in his first year in office. At least that’s the take that I think he has on it. So what he would like is just something clean, pass it on. Then when I get in office, obviously raise the debt ceiling so that when it comes time, I can implement what I need to implement to make this happen. So I think that’s his thought. Now, you said it earlier. We need context for this. We need Trump coming out and telling us Like, hey, all of us are looking at this from a logical standpoint and saying, why don’t you just use Doge that you’ve been bragging about for the last month and cut spending to find that new money? Why raise the debt ceiling? He needs to contextualize it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Absolutely, because we cannot have miscommunication like this. I mean, if I were on the left, what I would do is I would hold up Vivek Ramaswamy’s post, and then I would hold up Trump’s post, and I would say, Trump just called Vivek stupid. If I… You have to anticipate what your opposition is going to throw at you. That’s part of understanding the strategy on this messaging. I would immediately have that out there and I would be pushing that. Even though I know that’s not what Trump intended to do, but they’re not on the same page. And I would highlight that and I would use that. The left… Here’s the other thing to watch out for. The… Administration needs to be very careful that they are all on the same page and that their messaging is choreographed. And here’s why I think that’s so incredibly important. First off, we’re in a soundbite culture and the first headline is the one that sticks. Doesn’t matter if it’s false. It’s the one that sticks. Number two. You’re dealing with, and I’m not saying this as a way to be mean. I’m just describing their personality. You’re dealing with people who are very big personalities in this administration. They are not content to ride shotgun. They are not content to be in the backseat. They are all very strong personalities. And everybody is very, very driven. That alone is one of the biggest reasons why you need to be all choreographed and organized because it is very easy if you are not for a malicious press or Democrat opposition to come in, highlight any kind of daylight between where they are on any given issue, and use that to drive division. And you know… that POTUS elect and other people on his team pay attention to what is happening in the headlines. You don’t want them to be manipulated or there to be a chance for them to be manipulated into a civil war in their side between all these strong personalities because people have their messaging. They’re not on the same page. And if you don’t think that that’s a reality, then I dare say anyone who believes that it’s not a reality did not pay attention to some of the stuff in the first term. So that is a big issue. They’ve got to be on the same page. This is not the first time either. Because if you remember, Vance and Trump, like a week or so ago, were on different pages where it came to that vote, that very important Senate vote. And J.D. Vance was saying, well, I’m helping POTUS evaluate cabinet members. And POTUS was like, shame on any senator who didn’t show up and vote. I’m like, they weren’t on the same page. Here is a second instance of them not being on the same page. You got to be careful when you got a lot of cooks in the kitchen. You got to be careful. And I’m saying this because I know how the press is going to act. I have been railing about the press since 2008 before. This is exactly what they’re going to do. And they they will absolutely. And, you know, here’s the other thing. And one more. Each of these strong personalities have their own little team. Right. So Vivek has his own team. Musk has his own team. Trump has his team. And then some of his team have their own little team. There are people, not all, but, you know, there’s always an exception. There are people within some of these that, you know, they get very proprietary, right? They get very, you know, they don’t want their guy taking a hit and they don’t want, they also would love to be able to be seen as being influential or having, you know, power adjacency. And they’re not all trained, I think, to deal with media psyops. Does that make sense? So the more people and the more of their little groups that you have there in the kitchen, the chances that, you know, somebody’s not going to be on the same page and then the press is going to exploit that increase. This has to be about team discipline. They have to be on the same page. And I dare say that because regardless of whether you agree with it or not, POTUS elect has seniority and he’s a POTUS elect. I think it’s the responsibility falls to everybody else to make sure they’re on the same page with him. Not that he’s on the same page with them. So I agree entirely with what Vivek says here. I think he’s a thousand percent correct. But I still think he has to make sure that he is on the same page as POTUS elect and not POTUS elect being on the same page as Vivek. So they’ve got to get this because this is the second time in a month. They’ve got it. And that’s we’re not even we don’t even have the team in yet. New Congress isn’t even in. So we got to get this under control because right now they’re at. I mean, I I don’t know. Says you can do a clean CR. Trump says it’s dumb to do a clean CR. OK, so what are we doing? What is it? I mean, heaven knows, you know, the house being the power of the purse, heaven knows that Johnson’s not there offering any kind of serious alternative except for the pork, you know, crapnibus that he proposed right before Christmas. So, you know, that’s out. It’s so frustrating. Not as frustrating as spending tax money, though, to study identity politics at the zoo. Oh, that’s actually a real headline, though. It sounded like something I was joking about. No, it’s actually a legitimate headline. Hold up. Let me I got to share this. This is so stupid. There’s a half a million dollar grant that’s supposed to help this zoo. Apply for an anti-racist lens. What is I don’t even know what that means. Tax dollars, our tax dollars for a zoo to look at identity politics. So the I’m going to pull this up. This is at the American Alliance of Museums. And it’s like DEA on roids. They have some definitions. And this comes from Randoland, which is a great account for following like a lot of this like, you know, wasteful spending. So the museum, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, they gave a grant. And it actually ended up like going to a zoo even. And it’s almost about $700,000. And they wanted to explore diversity, equity, access and inclusion. D.E.A.I. Oh, now it’s D.E.A.I. Oh, yeah. You know. Hold up. D.E.A. So that’s diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. So they’re. Working with the Association of Science Technology Centers and the two alphabet groups are apparently looking at how to implement these DEI practices, I guess. And it’s just so goofy into like their their museums, zoos, etc. Why? Why? Why? Why are we doing this? Why is this still a thing? They had this… Pulling this up. They had this… It went through the Endowment of the Arts, this grant that they had that was… I mean, that’s like one of the things that they put money towards. Not only a grant for a zoo to study things through an anti-racist lens, there was also almost a million dollar grant to an organization to provide outreach and engagement, non-traditional holistic supports, whatever, and alphabet affirming interventions for youth and family, hundreds of youth and family. That was a grant that went through the NEA. I mean… The good news is that in private businesses, the DEI stuff looks like it’s falling apart, falling to the wayside. The bad news is, is that it’s so ingrained in government already that a lot of this grant money being allocated is still being funneled towards those DEI programs. So they have not caught up. Government is behind business in this. Yet zookeepers can apply equity, inclusion and anti-racist practices to to zoo structures, policies, and programs. The big recipient through the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences was the Woodland Park Zoological Society. What does that have to do with the zoo? Why do people have to have their money taken to make zoo workers less racist? Why are zoo workers racist?
SPEAKER 09 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 18 :
So, golly, another health scare. Of course, it’s in L.A. A dangerous diarrhea-causing superbug is spreading in Los Angeles. They said it’s a drug-resistant strain of Shigella. Sounds like a bad name. Like, that’s Shigella’s purse. It’s actively spreading in the U.S., scientists warn. It’s a… Ew. Like, it’s resistant to almost every antibiotic thrown at it. And… Where is it? I mean, I’m like, OK, how do we get it? They said, oh, contaminated food or drink. Also sexually. So quit being skanks. Oh, and it’s specifically with kind of like dudes and dudes. Oh, yeah. Let’s so we really don’t know. Let’s see here. Alberta leads a new poll on whether or not Canada should become the 51st U.S. state. No, thanks. And let’s see, DMV apologizes for Cybertruck’s license plate. It was supposed to be, I can’t say that. I can’t say that. We got Victoria Coates coming up.
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SPEAKER 18 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this third hour. And of course, you can listen coast to coast and you can watch the stream at Channel 347, DirecTV. We’re also on X, the chats at Rumble. So and of course, don’t forget YouTube and Facebook. One of the things that we I think this was yesterday, the day before yesterday, we were talking about when that when the story hit was Israel closing its embassy in Ireland. And the shock that was from that, we kind of dove into some of the history there between, you know, Ireland and Israel and World War II and some of this other stuff. And I’ve noticed an increase in questioning. from people who don’t seem to understand the mission or purpose of what the United States’ alliance with Israel serves and how important it is to have an ally in the Middle East. And it just is kind of it’s wild to me that that would even be questioned. But it is which I think it’s important that this book came out actually just this week. It’s called The Battle for the Jewish State, How Israel and America Can Win. And it’s authored by Victoria Coates, who also previously was the former deputy national security adviser to POTUS elect. Victoria Coates is vice president of Catherine and Shelby Cullum Davis Institute. for National Security and Foreign Policy at Heritage. And she joins us now via Skype. Victoria, congrats on the book. It came out just this week, a couple of days ago. This is something, I mean, I don’t know, I’m trying not to be naive, but am I wrong in noticing like an increase in questioning I guess, as more people become politically aware or active and people are trying to they’re asking questions that I thought were had obvious answers. You know, the United States is partnership with Israel. There are only ally in this part of the world in the importance of that relationship, which is what your book examining it through October 7th really gets to.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, Dana, great to be with you. And I think the reason I wrote The Battle for the Jewish State is precisely that. I think a lot of Americans do wonder, what is the nature of the U.S.-Israel alliance? And I hate to date myself this way, but when I was born, the alliance was 20 years old. It’s now 76 years old. So that is a historical arc that takes a sort of scrappy startup country to being one of the world’s great powers. They’re in the top 20 U.S. News and World Report list of most powerful countries. And so, you know, I think that does require a reexamination. I’ve heard all those questions that you’ve heard, and there are strong answers to them. And that’s what you find in the battle for the Jewish state is the history of the alliance, why the alliance matters. What the heck happened after October 7th? How did we find ourselves in this war too? And why it is a war on both Israel and the United States.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think that’s a great way to put it. We’re talking with Victoria Coates on Skype, via Skype. And you mentioned… October 7th, in which there were American hostages taken, which we don’t really hear about a lot at all, really, from this administration. And in fact, I dare say that it like slipped down the issue of priorities for not just politicians, but maybe even the attention span of voters as we went into the election season. I mean, we have terrorists that are holding hostage Americans still. That’s incredibly important. I mean, and especially from the same administration that flubbed Afghanistan, messed up, you know, they withdraw in Afghanistan there. Do we even did this administration even have a response to that? I mean, I’m just shocked that we still have American hostages.
SPEAKER 21 :
Now, it is shocking and it’s disgraceful. And President Biden really stopped talking about them after Christmas of 2023 when there were some deals to get some hostages out. Those were good photo ops for him. So he talked about them then. But then he stopped because they became an inconvenient truth for them, for the administration trying to elevate the Palestinians, trying to rehabilitate Hamas. trying to pressure israel into a negotiated ceasefire with terrorists but not only do we still have american hostages four of whom we pray are still alive but we lost more americans on october 7th dana than in any terrorist attack the second uh most deadly terrorist attack after uh after 9 11. and so it’s it’s a really dire situation for the united states and furthermore What we’ve seen since then are not pro-Israel demonstrations on our political, on our city streets or our academic campuses. We’ve seen pro-Hamas demonstrations. So this is here at home.
SPEAKER 18 :
You also touch on how this is not Just some simple regional squabble that you can send some diplomats to and they can have a peace negotiation. It’s not going to get solved that way because it is, you know, it’s like a holy war plus a cultural battle, you know, plus a military battle. And after Assad left Syria, that regime’s collapsing in Syria. Iran was really hit, really hit hard. And that really highlighted that Shia Sunni fight in this part of the world and how you have like one faction that hates Israel really wants to establish itself as the powerhouse. And then you have these other factions who. don’t hate Israel. They’re willing to work with them. We got the Abraham Accords. That really kind of is like the power struggle. And Israel’s sort of in the way of this, like Russian, Iranian, Chinese dominance in the area. Is that like just like too myopic of a view of this? Because it seems like it all kind of boils down to that, at least partially.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I don’t think that’s too myopic. And I think it’s a really important point. I was actually in Israel and then in Bahrain, an Abraham Accords country, as the fall of Syria was happening week before last. And it was really interesting because the Gulf countries, they only wanted to talk to the Israelis and find out what was going on and how to keep a lid on this situation. Because those Sunni Gulf monarchies are deeply concerned about the radical Islamists who are part of the now governing body of Syria. So yes, we’re all delighted Assad is spending Christmas in Moscow. Hope it’s nice and cold for him. very cognizant of the many atrocities he committed against the Syrian people. But that doesn’t make the Turkish backed HTS folks angels. And so you have quite the alphabet soup of former ISIS and Al-Qaeda alums in there. And the interesting thing is, as Israel claimed a little bit of territory in the Golan Heights adjacent to the space they already have, you had all sorts of people accusing them of being imperialist, that they were somehow trying to conquer the Levant. Well, news flash, nobody wants Syria. I mean, Syria doesn’t want to be Syria. And so, you know, the notion that Israel wants to take that territory over given just the intractable problems that country faces is ridiculous on the face of it. And I think the cooperation between the Gulf and Israel is only strengthening even after a year of war. And that’s a great and good thing.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, very good thing indeed. We’re talking with Victoria Coates, her new book, The Battle for the Jewish State, How Israel and America Can Win. I don’t know of any other country that’s worked – As hard as Israel has at trying to maintain peace and be peaceful and only responding when it is incredibly important to do so in defense of national security or, you know, of life of Israeli life. But yet that’s not how that’s not how it’s processed. That’s not how it’s laundered in the media. They’re always painted as the aggressor. And even the words from our own government. You know, have kind of, you know, hinted that, oh, well, they’re aggressive here. We need to stop the bombing of Gaza, for instance, when, you know, really they’ve only ever responded once they’ve been shelled. Then they respond to protect themselves. Is that ever going to change? I mean, when does that stop? When does reality set in? Well, I’m hopeful that it is.
SPEAKER 21 :
And the clarity the President Trump brings to this issue is being welcomed by every reasonable person in the region. And going back to the hostages for a minute, I also was in Israel when his Truth Social post came out about the hostages. This is something Joe Biden could have done 15 months ago. He could have said, let them out now or there’s going to be hell to pay. And he didn’t for 15 months. President Trump is saying that. There’s movement now from Hamas. Concessions are being made to Israel, not the other way around. So we could see them out now during the season of Hanukkah, Christmas next week, that would be a great and good thing. But that would happen only because President Trump had the clarity that he did. So I’m hopeful that as we get closer to the inauguration and beyond, that he makes good on what he’s been saying, that he wants this war to end, but he wants it to end in an Israeli victory. And we’re not gonna have another ceasefire. We’re not gonna let Hamas regroup and rearm.
SPEAKER 18 :
and attack again we’re going to end this vicious cycle of violence that’s been going on for really 50 years and the greatest victims are the palestinian people and you mentioned too you know just the way that that you know the current administration has responded to october 7th i can’t imagine if Israel had listened to the Biden administration and had not hit back at Hezbollah as hard as they did and sent them reeling. And I think really kind of started this domino effect that led to what we see with Assad now in Moscow. If they had not have hit back as hard, if they had not pushed back against Hezbollah, I mean, where would we be if they had listened to the Biden administration and not done anything?
SPEAKER 21 :
Would be back where we were in 2009 when Condi Rice, I mean, a Republican Secretary of State, abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel for violence in Gaza. Would be back where we were after the 2014 Gaza War when John Kerry withheld arms from Israel until they stopped fighting Hamas. After the 2021 Gaza War, you see where I’m going here. I mean, this is history repeating itself. And if, you know, after… I think Israel said we cannot afford to have this kind of a risk on our border anymore. We have to take decisive action. And no thanks to the Biden-Harris administration. You know, they’ve been slogging through the trenches now for 15 months doing the Lord’s work. And I think what they’ve achieved against Hamas, and importantly, as you noted, Hezbollah in the north, is going to be in the long term a huge good thing for the region and beyond. But as I said, sadly, no thanks to the United States in this case.
SPEAKER 18 :
Victoria, put it in terms that people can really understand. When they look at our ally Israel, what happens with a compromised Israel? What happens if Israel were to weaken and we don’t have that strong ally in that part of the world? Because obviously there’s going to be a blowback to the U.S. if that were to ever happen. What does that look like?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, it really would be a kind of a deadly weakness for us. The Middle East, you can try to pivot away from it, but it won’t pivot away from you. And the fact of the matter is, it is that crossroads between East and West. A lot of the world’s shipping goes through that region, and a lot of the world’s energy reserves are in that region. And so, especially as we take on our new stance as an energy superpower and grow into that strategically, You know, we want to have influence in that region where there are other significant reserves. Without Israel, we really don’t have that point of power projection and the collaboration between our countries on intelligence, on the development of weapons systems, notably missile defense. This is critical to the security of the American people. then i’d just say you know you would have trouble using your iphone eating a cherry tomato uh all sorts of things that they’ve achieved in the medical field without israel i mean it is beyond security they are the startup nation they are you know in an enormous tech hub and have become prosperous well beyond their size. And I think that is a great ally for the United States.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, definitely. This is a must-read book. I think that provides a lot of context that’s normally missing from this conversation nationally and internationally. The book is The Battle for the Jewish State, How Israel and America Can Win. Victoria Coates, we’d love to have you back. Victoria, thank you so much for what you do. Appreciate your time. Thank you. Merry Christmas to you, Chris. Thanks. Thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
Gosh, this is the most completely hypocritical song of this segment. Jiminy Christmas. Is that Andy Williams singing that? I mean, he’s a gem. He’s a gem. I want to know why Trump and Chip Roy are fighting now. Or actually, I just want to know why Trump is fighting Chip Roy. He is blasting him on Truth Social for some reason. I have no idea why. He had said that. He tweeted out, quote, Chip Roy is just another ambitious guy with no talent. By the way, how’s Bob Good doing? I had I hope some talented challengers are getting ready in the great state of Texas to go after Chip in the primary. He won’t have a chance. OK, first off, why in the hell is Trump speaking more harshly of Chip Roy than he ever has of Mike Johnson? Chip Roy is a conservative stalwart who has delivered on Trump’s agenda more than Mike Johnson could ever hope to. Go and look at the voting record. I’m not even playing. Go look at it. Bob Good was a conservative stalwart. People have to be strategic. Is it about uplifting your ego or is it about securing the country for voters? I didn’t vote for this. I didn’t vote for people to sit here and, you know, have giant ego circle jerks. I did not do that. It’s not what I voted for. I did not vote for petty infighting when we could be going after the left. I didn’t vote for that, nor did you. I mean, my gosh, people, I don’t know if you realize, but this administration’s got its work cut out for them. And everybody’s all pitching together to make sure that it gets done. But you’re not going to secure anything when you go after your most conservative fighters. I don’t care if they kiss your ass or not. Do they vote for your agenda? He does. Chip Roy does. He has backed that agenda to the hilt. He’s not an ass kisser. I’m not either. But we back the agenda that gets it done for voters. And that’s what it’s about. That’s all it’s ever been about. Why in the world is he doing this? Why? And no, Chip Roy is super popular in Texas. He’s not going to go anywhere. Bob Good is a conservative stalwart. We had a hardcore conservative who got replaced by a moderate. We lost a hardcore conservative who stood shoulder to shoulder with you on everything from lower taxes to gun rights to everything. And he got replaced by a moderate because people decided they got mad at Bob Good because Bob Good, I don’t care who you supported in the primary. If you’re still litigating the primary, you are a walking mental abortion and you are everything that is wrong with this country. And I hope you have a crap Christmas. And I hope it’s mean as I sound because I’m tired of this stuff. I’m tired of it. Some of these people need to get over their fetish over the primary. It’s weird. If you’re still litigating the primary, you’re anti-American. If you’re still litigating the primary, you’re a communist psyop. We all want lower taxes. We want to get rid of this DEI stuff. We don’t want World War III. And by God, you’re not going to get it done by having these petty ego fights. It’s not going to happen. We voted for good Trump. I didn’t vote for petty infighting. Stop it. Must have won it every time of the year. Kane, go ahead. Oh, I just hurt my shoulder again.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you know, you always accuse me of having a tinfoil hat only because I have 10 of them. But listen to the chicks on the view here. Oh, my gosh. Juan, play this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Who is in charge? Because I’ve been saying it for a while. Yes, you have. I’ve been saying that I think Elon Musk believes he’s president. I do. I’ve called him vice president. I’ve called him president because I don’t know what J.D. is doing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, the gist of it is they think that Elon and J.D. are plotting to get rid of Trump. Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
See, there’s where the narrative starts.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good Lord.
SPEAKER 18 :
I told you that narrative’s happening, right? They’re going to try to divide and conquer. I told you that. And you know what? Going after our own conservative stalwarts isn’t helping either. Folks, that does it for us today. Find us at Substack. I’ll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow to finish out the week.
