In this episode, we delve into the ongoing controversies surrounding Congressman Matt Gaetz and the challenges he poses for House Republicans. As discussions of his potential leadership within the U.S. Justice Department arise, we explore the skepticism from his colleagues and the broader implications for party unity. Further, we discuss the House Speaker’s strategic maneuvers and media narratives aiming to undermine Gaetz’s influence. Our conversation also touches on the significant issue of political bias within the FBI as whistleblowers reveal startling claims of misconduct and agenda-driven background checks. The focus shifts to how this distrust is reshaping traditional processes
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So beyond the question of whether or not Congressman Gates broke the law, and certainly there’s a presumption of innocence for anyone, a lot of House Republicans Your colleagues, the people you lead, have real issues with Matt Gaetz as somebody to lead the U.S. Justice Department. I’m sure you’ve heard them because I’ve heard them. I want you to take a listen to now senator, former House member Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma talking to our Manu Raju months ago about Matt Gaetz. He’s Gates.
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So this is our speaker of the House facing. He’s talking with Jake Tapper because they’re trying to drill down. And I think really kind of get into some of the drama with that as a way to undermine it, because they’re all looking at a way to undermine this for House speaker and for the House speaker in the in the cabinet picks and all of that stuff. And this is we’re going to see more and more of this. I saw a lot of these articles kind of. drip out over the weekend. I saw there was a couple of few interesting things that happened over the weekend. So we’re going to break everything down, get you set up this week. Welcome to the program. Top of the first hour to you. Top of the morning to you. Top of the first hour. Dana Lash with you. And you can listen across the country. Channel 347, DirecTV, also X and L Square. The chat is at Rumble. Does everybody feel like you’re taking kind of an exhale? Yeah. Doesn’t it? It feels, I don’t know, it’s very different. It’s, it is, and this is, it just feels like you can exhale a little bit. And I think that’s one of the other reasons why people are just like, we have no time for Democrats drama. We are not interested in Democrats drama. We’re not interested in their objections over anything. And I get it. Because I’m like that too. My gosh, we’ve been doing this for how many years? I’ve been on air since 2008. And I’ve been in activism since maybe a little bit before then. But it feels as though… I don’t know how to put it. I was thinking about this. Like they got spanked finally and deserved it. Like a real… This was the follow-up to the shellacking that they got under Barack Obama in 2010. And… It is well-deserved. But now we’ve got to get everything in order. They had that… One of the things you heard about that Speaker Johnson was addressing was this House… I was going to say it like that. House Ethics Committee report about Matt Gaetz and going on for AG. I think that’s going to be a tough thing to get through. I’m just going to tell you. It’s going to be a tough one to get through. The other ones I think are going to be a heck of a lot easier. But the… selections. And this was interesting. They’re bypassing some of the well, it’s not that they’re not doing background checks. It is that they are using a outside a third party private company to do background checks because they can’t trust the FBI. I don’t know if you read this story. This is over at the Washington Times. And they’re saying that They can’t really trust the FBI with doing background checks for the president’s nominees. And it was a whistleblower that came out and said this. It was very interesting. It was a whistleblower that came out and said it. They said that the allegations, you know, of political bias, this disclosure, and this is the proper way that they’re doing it. They sent this disclosure to the House Judiciary and apparently was made available to The Washington Times. The officials said that the reason why the Trump camp is now bypassing it and the left was trying to make it like they’re not going to vet anybody. They’re using a third party because the whistleblower says the process, the clearance process has been wholly contaminated. And this is their quote, contaminated by the political agendas of officials in the division and other executives within the FBI, end quote. And the process is also subordinate to the same executives that Trump said he was going to sweep out of the agency. So you have the FBI, which has been politicized. You have Chris Wray, who’s been obviously politicized. You have the deputy director politicized. Do you trust these same people to go through and say that they’re performing clearance? And do you just trust that they’re not going to just – feather up some kind of evidence as a way to discredit any nominee that comes forward. Think about this. This is the same FBI that was literally just months ago calling parents domestic terrorists at school board meetings. This was the same one that was using its authority to retaliate against people within its own agency if they had views alternate to that of the administration. So many whistleblowers have come out about this, which is why we know all of it. So the the FBI, they were saying, no, we are they were appropriate agency responsible for candidate background, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, we’re going to do it as expeditiously as possible. And they were really saying, you know, we are our role is purely fact finding. They lost all. All expectation of trust from the public. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that. Kane, do you trust the FBI? Do you trust them to do these background checks and to do them in a way where they’re not? I don’t I mean, I don’t I don’t trust that that every single individual in the agency wouldn’t try to, like, fabricate some kind of evidence.
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Do I trust them? That would be a hell no. Hell no. Hell no.
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I don’t. The way that the media put it over the weekend is that, well, the Trump administration is they’re just not going to background check anybody. That was the intimation with all of these accusatory headlines that I saw all weekend. I was collecting them. But that’s not what’s happening at all. They’re using a third party agency that I dare say would probably be even more expeditious, probably more thorough and also probably more. accurate with less of an agenda i mean think of it under the leadership at that agency they were refusing clearance to people who didn’t get the injection to military veterans to employees who didn’t get to who didn’t get covid shots to people who attended trump rallies and people that had uh christian beliefs according to the whistleblower These same officials are going to be adjudicating the president’s nominees. I agree. I don’t think that you can trust it. I don’t think that they should get any more taxpayer money until there’s a full audit. Yes, that’s a very dangerous, austere thing. But we didn’t put ourselves in that situation. They did. I am refusing this thought of going forward and acting as though it’s just business as usual. That’s what kind of pissed me off about the Joe and Mika thing. So did you hear they went to Mar-a-Lago hat in hand to beg for forgiveness? MSNBC, their ratings are cratering. CNN’s ratings are cratering. You have these people who host these television shows. They’re making $10, $15, $20 million a year. And the ratings don’t support the salaries of these people. Their advertising revenue doesn’t support the salaries of these people. We’re in a very interesting time with media where the shift from old to new is underway, and it’s not all the way complete yet, but it’s underway. On top of it, to further compound it, you have these legacy networks like MSNBC that are incredibly biased. Their bias is incredibly obvious and people are just turning it off. They’re not interested in it. There’s no deep thought. There’s no deep discussion on these networks. It’s just a bunch of people, just a bunch of just progressives complaining to each other. And they all exist in this vacuum. So no one’s watching. So they’re freaking out right now. There was a story that was circulating all last week. ABC is trying to find pro-Trump or like pro-conservative hosts for their panel. They make it a pretty toxic environment there. So I don’t know. I don’t know how successful they’re going to be. You’ve got to offer a big check, but your advertising doesn’t support the check, so I don’t know what they’re going to do. But you had Joe and Mika that went down to Mar-a-Lago, hat in hand. And I don’t even think they should have been granted an audience with the president-elect. I don’t even think they should have been given that much. These are people. This goes beyond disagreeing with him on a couple of policies. This isn’t, oh, well, you know, I’m I this this goes far beyond. Well, he doesn’t have a record on this. So what’s he going to do? I don’t know. Or maybe I don’t know if I necessarily agree with this move all the way. That’s not what they did. They literally said he’s Hitler. And not only that, but they castigated all of you for supporting him and saying that you were Hitler adjacent. You were also Hitler. Everybody can’t be Hitler. But you’re Hitler adjacent. They sold that. They told people that day in and day out. And now what they they think that they’re going to try to save their network and by butt kissing going down there and they think that that’s going to be all is forgiven. And that’s and that’s all that’s all it takes. They think they’re going to get maybe an interview because of that. There’s a difference between loyalty and submission. A very big difference. And they’re not the same. Submitting does not take knifing you in the back off the table, as we have seen time and time again. What they’re doing, this isn’t some performative loyalty. They’re going down and attempting to bend the knee, not because they feel that they’ve been beaten, but because they want something. It’s a move on the board. They’re going down to get something in return for it. But make no mistake, that’s not loyalty. That isn’t agreement. And submission builds resentment. And these people, they know they are very quick to stick the shiv and twist. So be careful of welcoming the people who are telling everyone that, oh, they’re Hitler. They’re just like Hitler or they’re fascists or they’re racists or whatever they’ve been saying about everyone. I just have a difficult time when you use language like that. And this is the problem with some of the language of the left is that I enjoy politics and I can disagree with people and I can get on with my life. I don’t define people by their ideological views. But when you start calling people Hitler and saying some of the stuff that the left said about, Last election cycle and even before then and before then we can go on. Not only does it get tiring, but that’s beyond. I can’t sit down and act like someone who was saying that I was Hitler or that I was a racist or a bigot or a fascist. I can’t sit at the table and pretend that they didn’t say that. That’s not we’re disagreeing over policy. That is you are you’re trying to wound me maliciously by accusing me of some sort of moral deficiency. And that can’t go forward unless that person pushing that offense recognizes it, apologizes and attempts reconciliation because that burden is on them. So until that happens, I’m not interested in any kind of compromise. I’m not interested in any kind of peace. I’m not interested in let’s go along to get along. Oh, hell no. And I think that people need to remember that. That’s what they called you. We’ve got a lot more to hit. We’ve got headlines on the way as well. Some of the other stuff also coming up. The cabinet officials, did you hear that they spent a billion dollars in political ads in all these swing states? And Harris didn’t even win a single county. Did you know that? It was a billion dollars. That’s what they spent in ads. Remember how I told you months ago that they were buying up all the ad time? That got them nothing. Wow. We’re going to talk about all of that and more. We’re also going to get into the budget cutting with the government. All of that. Lots of stuff as we move. No matter why you’re preparing emergency survival food, it’s crucial that your supplies last as long as you need them without compromising on flavor. It doesn’t have to taste awful. Check out my top recommendation for the best survival food available. And that’s Ready Wise Foods. Stocking up on ReadyWise emergency food means that you’re set for whatever comes your way. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So over the weekend, this was kind of an… I think it was Vegas Literary that sent this to us. Cops swarmed Mar-a-Lago because they heard loud pops nearby, but it was an elderly Florida man shooting iguanas with a pellet gun in his backyard. Remember, they tell Floridians to do that because it’s an invasive species. And so they actually eat them and they’ve come up with recipes. And so that’s… Pellet gun, does it make loud pops though? I think some people don’t know what a pellet gun sounds like and they just call it because they were nervous and everything that’s loud and… You know, sounds like that to them. I thought that was kind of funny. USPS honors Golden Girls actress Betty White with a forever stamp. She got Rose Nyland. She got the icon of American television. And she got the forever stamp. And that was announced on Friday. Maybe they can now take less of our tax dollars. That’s great. You came up with a Betty White stamp. Take fewer of our tax dollars, please. Please. That’s all we’re asking. There was a… Oh, my gosh. There was a plane grounded for five days in Portugal as 130 hamsters escaped cages, sparking a mass search for these cable-eating rodents. I didn’t realize that they chewed through wires the way that they do. Hamsters. They seem like… You know, hamsters. They’re like kids’ pets, and they’re kind of adorable for rats, in a way. But they said that they eat through power cables like crazy, and they said 16 are still on the loose, but they had a mass escape, so they grounded this plane while they figured out. Can you imagine flying it and it falling out of the sky because it’s some loose hamsters? Ate through all your power cables and caused the plane to short circuit and stop working? Jeez. A $12,000 surgery to change eye color is surging in popularity. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but they have colored contacts. And I also don’t know who needs to hear this, but I cannot stand when people get like lavender contacts and wear them. It doesn’t look cool. You don’t look like one of the Targaryens. You just look like a freak. It’s weird. Stop it. I’m not even going to say this right. Keratopigmentation. They said it could be dangerous. Patients say it’s worth the risk. Like this one man went in with brown eyes and he’s Hispanic and he walks out with blue eyes. Okay, no one believes you. Stop it. Stop it. Just stop doing this. Why would you spend that much money? People have too much time. And pharmacies are yanking cold medicines from shelves. Also, we may now have soda with cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. We’ve got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Kel-Tec, the P15, it stands for 15 pews. And with Kel-Tec, it’s great, a great nine millimeter, it’s the lightest, thinnest double stack nine millimeter that is on the market. And with it, you’re able to, I mean, great stopping power, but you’re able to have ultra concealability with us. And that’s one of the things I really appreciate as a lady, you know, I have great It comes with two standard capacity magazines. One’s a 15 round with minimal pinky extension. The other is a double stack mag that holds 12 rounds. Tritium and fiber optic front sight. Fully adjustable fiber optic. Two dot rear. Striker fire. Lifetime warranty. And it’s the lightest, thinnest double stack 9mm that exists on the market. Metal and polymer version. It’s compact. Ideal for concealed carry self-defense. And it’s from the inventors of the micro compact pistol category. So see it for yourself. It’s Kel-Tec’s P-15. Innovation, performance, and Kel-Tec. Learn more at keltecweapons.com. That’s K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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Political Congress, they end up looking at what’s happening tomorrow. We’re looking at the next 250 years. We want to give them credit for doing the right thing. Elon and I aren’t in this for the credit, but I think we’re going to build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven’t been made for most of our history.
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Are you expecting to close down entire agencies like President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example? Are you going to be closing down departments?
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We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above. And I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes, given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us.
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Interesting. Very interesting. So that’s Vivek Ramaswamy who’s talking about what Doge is going to be doing and what they expect to happen. And they also said they’re going to be wrapped up by July of 2026, if not sooner. One of my favorite, you know, you can put words together and they make beautiful, beautiful masterpieces. When you talk about government and then deleted. It’s amazing. Sounds amazing, does it not? Welcome back to the program. Your retired goth curmudgeon, Dana Lash, here with you. And heaven knows that I’ve had, and he’s been on my show, and we’ve talked. He’s been on a couple of times, and we’ve talked. I see him around at different things every now and then. But if they’re able to do this, if they’re actually able to do what they’re saying they’re going to do, then I will walk back my… Not my… I will walk back my… Any ongoing criticism I would have of previous past positions that he may hold. If you’re actually able to do this, Katie, bar the door. What? Dude. That’s, you know, I’m just saying, cutting government, deleting outright certain agencies. That’s, well, Kena and the movies, that’s how they become best friends. That’s how that works. That is how that works. Because that, that is something that needs to happen so badly. I also think we need to reduce the scope and budget for HHS. So the, I don’t know if you guys watch, you know, UFC or UFC house here, but they had the big UFC thing. fights that were taking place in Madison Square Garden on, it was Saturday evening. And it was, I got to tell you, I was watching the lineup when they were all standing there. Is the house speaker just like twee or what? Dude, Mike Johnson was standing there next to Junior and Eric Trump who are like 11,000 feet high. tall. Normally you would say tall. We just say hi now. They’re like, like sky. They’re very tall people. And then he’s with kid rock who actually really holds his own in height. I was looking at him standing next to Eric Trump. I’m like, dude, you’re actually, you are tall. And Mike Johnson, like they could have picked him up and carried him in there. Who is the guy that Mike Tyson thought was a kid and he wasn’t, he was like a 30 year old dude. And they were dying because they were saying that because Mike Tyson thought he was a little kid. He was like he gave him a kiss on his forehead and was pretending to box with him. And all these people were just dying laughing because they’re like, no, that’s actually.
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That’s Hasbulla, right?
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Hasbulla. That’s right. He’s actually he’s a grown man. He’s like he’s not in Hasbulla territory, but he’s awful close. I’m not saying that to be mean, but I mean, it was just funny watching. But did you see it? I was like, is he sitting? No offense to the speaker. Don’t nuke me, bro. But I was just, you know, it’s kind of interesting to see that there. And then RFK Jr. was there. Now, let’s just be lighthearted for a minute. I am fascinated by this because RFK Jr., for all intents and purposes, is still a Democrat. He got he was we agree with him on the coronavirus vaccine. I got other objections, but I just aside from all that right now. What culture shock is that for him? Think of it. Is that not a Trump had him on Air Force One? Is it or Trump Force One? I guess it’s not Air Force One until he’s. Yeah, I confirm. But I guess he made them all eat McDonald’s. Did you see this photo? I was dying. They were all sitting there. It was the Trump’s POTUS elect the speaker and then Elon Musk and then RFK Jr. is sitting there about to tuck into some RFK Jr. about to eat some McDonald’s. The look on his face was comical. And I was just thinking like that’s that has to be a culture shock for him. You go to UFC and then you you finish the night on Trump force one with McDonald’s. I think about think about your RFK Jr. You’re you’re Kennedy, blue blood, bougie Democrat and the Hamptons. And you’re at UFC and then you’re at McD’s. It is… It’s funny. It is funny. I was just… I thoroughly enjoyed that. But they… That was… They came in. They walked in with Dana White. And they watched, I mean, Jon Bones Jones. He did… That spinning kick that he did was wild. And the pop that it made, the sound that it made was wild. I mean, it’s a pretty epic fight. And then everyone’s doing… They’re all doing the Trump dance. Which… Does he because Trump does the same dance move. He just does the thing where he’s almost like, what do you call that? I don’t even know what you call it. It’s like skiing. It’s like you’re skiing the Trump ski. But that’s what it is. But everybody’s doing that now. And John Jones did it, too. Well, he was when he was in the ring. But he had and he was because he’s had, you know, John Jones has had his problems in the past. But this was audio somebody three. This was well, you get he actually let’s play one. Let’s play one first. This is part of his victory speech. Listen.
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of everybody’s cheering and so happy, I want to acknowledge Jesus Christ. I tell you what, man, I cannot take credit for a gift like this, man. I really owe it all to him. And I know that there’s millions of people around the world watching right now. And I just want to let you guys know that Jesus loves you so much. I also want to say a big, big thank you to President Donald Trump for being here tonight. Trump, check it out.
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What was that? He did the Trump dance. That was funny. But that is a a it’s a a good way to it was just lighthearted. It was after the crazy election. I think that was a good move that he made to go there and to attend. And you know that it was also a culture shock for the House speaker. You know, it was Speaker Johnson, very religious man, you know, from the southern part of the country. You know, this was I don’t know. Maybe you’re used to seeing, you know, UFC kind of style fights at your family reunions. I don’t know. Maybe depending on where in the South you’re from. But it was a very interesting culture shock. But it was nice, though, to see that after the hellacious two weeks that we’ve had in the election, it breathed a sigh of relief. And then you started fighting over the cabinet picks. So it was good to have something like that. Now, this ongoing battle over how to reorganize this existing infrastructure and which agencies to cut and how to go about certain bits of this, that’s going to be an ongoing fight as we go into the confirmations. And With some of this, this is Audio Soundbite 6. This is Trey Gowdy talking about the Department of Justice. Now, remember, Matt Gaetz was selected for AG. Now, Lorraine has a theory about the letterhead treatment. She thinks if your name didn’t go out on letterhead, then there is the expectation that you may not get confirmed. Because some of the pics went out on the letterhead. Some of them didn’t. And it’s always the ones that got any kind of head scratches. Those are the ones that didn’t go out on letterhead. I don’t know. I think it kind of makes sense, right? That is something I think he would do. But anyway, this is Trey Gowdy talking about this whole issue with the DOJ. Listen.
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Gates has never prosecuted a criminal case. Would you hire a surgeon who never held a scalpel, never performed an operation? Would you hire a babysitter without a background check, a lawyer who didn’t know which side of the courtroom to sit on? There are scores of qualified candidates, so why pick someone who resigned so you couldn’t read his background check? Justice is too important to play games with. Americans want a DOJ devoid of politics, not one just as bad, but on the other side. Yes, DOJ is in desperate need of an overhaul, but you don’t do it with a fundamentally flawed person. Without real justice, we aren’t a nation of laws. And without the law, we aren’t a nation of laws.
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I think that if ever there’s a movie done about Trey Gowdy, Matthew McConaughey’s going to have to shave his head and bleach it out and do that draw like that. I think his point is interesting about resigning the seat so you’re not under the purview of the House Ethics Committee any longer. And therefore, that doesn’t have to be made public. I think that is significant. And I do think that that’s worth taking into consideration. I agree with him on this. And I don’t agree with Trey Gowdy on everything. He and I definitely disagree on the Hunter Biden gun thing. And there’s a few other things we disagree on. But I think that that’s a pretty astute argument. point to make. You’re trying to hide the conclusion of the stuff that’s in this report. And I’m not going to say that he did it or not. I’m just telling you what the facts of the matter are. because I haven’t read all of the evidence, and I don’t think anyone else has either, but I think it would be smart… It’s always smart to make sure that you acknowledge all of the evidence and all of the actual facts that exist in a situation like this, as opposed to pretending that they don’t exist. It’s not that there wasn’t anything there to investigate. It’s that the biggest, apparently, objection from the feds was that they were… cautious that they couldn’t prove beyond reasonable doubt that he knew that the girls in question were underage. And that was sort of the big concern that they had, which is why they didn’t press charges, but not that they felt that there wasn’t anything there, apparently. So I don’t know. I mean, whether it’s true or not, but I do think that he makes a good point about qualifications. And it’s one thing to deliver soundbites and to debate with people on the House floor. It is something entirely, when you are in charge of an entity like the Department of Justice… You have to know the ins and outs of all of this. You have to be a pretty seasoned pro at this stuff because there are people that are in that agency that are always going to undermine you. And there’s no point in putting someone in charge of that agency when they’re just going to be undermined by the deep state within because the deep state is going to know more about the standard operating procedures than you do. and or rather the person put in that position. And I think that that’s, to me, is one of the biggest objections. With a certain of these agencies, You really do have to be careful. I think you want someone that can outmaneuver these people. And I don’t think Gates can do it. I don’t know about all this other stuff with the ethics. I just know that there was a lot of investigations and that he was very mad at McCarthy, that it didn’t go away. And I know people who were on the House floor who said they saw stuff. And they’re just saying. So I don’t know. I’m not going to weigh in on innocence or guilt because I’m not trying the case. But I will say, you want someone who is mean, but who also knows how to maneuver through all of this stuff at the DOJ and is not going to get outwitted by deep state. That is my objection. And I don’t think he can do that. Now, some people might think that he can. And that’s fine and good. I just don’t believe that that’s the case. And… Mike Johnson even, let’s play audio of somebody at 18 really quickly. Speaker Johnson even acknowledged this because he’s talking about this committee report on Gates. Listen.
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I have no idea what the contents of this report would be. I didn’t even know about it, Jake, until the middle of this week when it was announced in the press. What I have said with regard to the report is that it should not come out. And why? Because Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress. He is no longer a member. There’s a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the House Ethics Committee’s jurisdiction does not extend to non-members of Congress. I think that would be a Pandora’s box.
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It could be interpreted, which is which is the view I think that he’s promoting, that it’s a sign of strength to resign your seat like that. Or it could also be it is a maneuver designed to protect oneself from further damage. or more wider public knowledge. So just saying this, all this stuff is important to consider because part of your responsibility as a citizen isn’t just protecting your government when the opposition is in charge. You also have to do it even when your side is. We’ve got a lot more to hit as we roll towards the conclusion of this first hour. Burn a gun. This is what I’m talking about. You know, in New York, there are a lot of places where you can’t carry. I have a friend who lives in New York. who actually works in the legal profession, lives in Manhattan, has to live in Manhattan, and is tried for, I think it took them two years to get a license to carry. And then they can’t carry anywhere in New York. It’s crazy. But they want to make sure they protect themselves because the cops are stretched thin and they can’t be everywhere. My friend got a Burna SD. Burna is a non-firearm firearm. If you look at regular, like, stun guns, you get two shots. The Burna gun and the most popular model, the Burna SD, shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can stop threats up to 50 feet away. It’s illegal in all 50 states. It does not care about your gun-free zone signs. And there’s no background check, no waiting period, and they send it right to your door. And my friend got a burnout SD because my friend doesn’t want to end up on the news as a statistic. My friend has to take public transportation. My friend has to go out in the streets at night. And my friend is barred by the state, by Manhattan from carrying like anywhere. But so this is a great option if you want to diversify your self-defense tools. and get something to where the government tries to disarm you. And you can at least have, I mean, a way of protecting yourself. It’s the Burna SD. Now, they have other models. I would encourage you to go to their website and look at all the other models that they have. They have different accessories. They’ve got all kinds of stuff. And I would suggest that you go and take a look at that because you might want a different model. But they have everything that you would want. It’s the Burna gun, B-Y-R-N-A. And all you have to do is visit Burna.com slash Dana. and check out everything that they have. It’s berna.com slash Dana. And make sure, again, the Berna SD, that’s the most popular model that they have. And, you know, it has five rounds. So check it out, berna.com slash Dana.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, if we’re going after the guy that’s picking tomatoes or the nurse at the local hospital and we’re not going after the convicted criminal, then our government has failed us. You know, our country was built on those fleeing persecution. And it would be it would be just absolutely terrible if we don’t protect those that are doing it the right way. Legal immigration should never be mixed with these hardened criminals.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that’s true. And it shouldn’t be. I don’t think everybody is fleeing persecution, but there’s a process for legal immigration. The fact that we have to say this over and over again is just my second. I’m talking to toddlers. It’s like talking to toddlers and you’re talking to the left.
SPEAKER 04 :
But it’s like Trump’s plan was to go after the people picking tomatoes. He’s articulated time and time again that he’s going after the most violent of those who have entered the country illegally.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Tony Gonzalez is I mean, he he he’s kind of a he’s a very much a moderate. He’s he’s he’s kind of a gun control guy anyway. But I’m not surprised that he but that’s the thing. I mean, I don’t know that Trump has ever said, yeah, we’re going to go after the people who are coming over here to for agro workers, agricultural workers. We’re going to target those. We’re going to. He’s never actually said that. He’s just saying he’s talking about illegal immigration, trying to diminish it down to just a tomato picker. First off, that’s stupid hyperbole, number one. But number two, they’re trying to, in a very weak way, do this emotional appeal to make you think that, you know, well, I guess there’s a difference. Like your illegal immigration is different if you come here to do this as opposed to this. Right. That doesn’t that’s not how this works. Doesn’t work that way. We got a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. Stick with us. Patriot Mobile. It’s the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. And Patriot Mobile, they they provide great service. Number one. I mean, that’s incredibly important. But also your money isn’t going working against you whenever you go to the ballot box and whenever you pay your cell phone bill. Patriot Mobile. Again, they have super affordable plans. They can tailor make something for you. It doesn’t matter if you’re single. It doesn’t matter if you’re a business, how big, how small. It doesn’t matter. And you can take advantage of their Every Friday Matters special. So they’re giving away a brand-new smartphone when you switch your service. It’s a great opportunity to get high-quality service. And you’re supporting a company that aligns with your values. So you get great nationwide coverage. Switch and support what matters. And switch with a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. Get a free smartphone. Offer is eligible only with promo code FRIDAY. Limited-time offer. or until supplies run out. Terms and conditions apply. Make the switch today. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. It’s good to be with you at the top of the second hour. And, of course, getting this week started. It’s actually kind of fallish in Texas today, so we’re in a good mood. And we might actually have cane sugar back in soda. I don’t know. We’ll see. Welcome. You can find the chat at Rumble347, DirecTV. It’s the channel X everywhere else terrestrially. Can we just talk about, first off, before I get into the King Sugar stuff, Brendan Carr tweeted over the weekend and the president-elect announced he is the new head of the FCC. He’s not just on the commission. He’s also the CEO. He is now the head boss, the head honcho, Brendan Carr at FCC. So that means a lot of things, in fact. That means that the makeup of the board is not only changing, but I’m wondering if they’re going to put the skids on that Soros deal, acquiring Odyssey and all of that now. Or is it a done deal? Hmm. Something to explore. But censorship? Nope, not with Brennan Carr. And also, someone had said that our get out of jail free pass got a major upgrade. Yeah, it did. It got 50 plus resistance to BS. That’s what it got. That’s exactly what it got. But can we talk about the sugar? So that’s good with FCC. The cane sugar. So RFK Jr., You know, I’ve got my issues, but, you know, there it is. My thought is I don’t know why. Why does the government have to be cajoled into or why do companies have to be persuaded to go to cane sugar? It just tastes better. It tastes better. So there’s been like discussion on whether or not, you know, if it’s a caloric difference, glycine, all of this other stuff. I don’t know. I’m not going to get into the I’m not I’m not going to get into the food science of it. I just think it tastes better. The whole idea of having. cane sugar because they use corn sugar and corn sugar is cheaper than sugar and corn farmers. It is true. There’s heavy subsidies. Big corn is a thing. I’ve gotten a lot of heat for criticizing Iowa and all of that before because of big corn. Ethanol, all of that. It is a big thing. It is. I mean, this is it’s Atlas shrug completely. You’re you. You’ve got to support this industry. So you’re going to demand that we put it in everything from soda to fuel. It’s weird. Oh, it makes it cheaper. And we’re technically subsidizing this industry. So it works. I don’t know. But cane sugar is just better. But I think that is this something that you want the government to micromanage? I always go back to that question.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s something I want the government to make sure companies aren’t putting problematic ingredients in there. I don’t think this is a you’ve got to use cane sugar. It’s more of you’ve got to stop using this crap you’ve been using.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, did you hear what you just said?
SPEAKER 04 :
What?
SPEAKER 09 :
You can’t use this. You’ve got to use this. But I’m not going to tell you to do it, but you can’t use this anymore.
SPEAKER 04 :
But it’s stuff that we know is harmful for you. Obviously sugar is too, but the point is we’ve been using high fructose corn syrup and that actually exasperates the issue.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you feel like it’s still an error to make the government mandate this stuff instead of giving the market time to to develop the demand? Because I feel like we are too lazy and too impatient to wait for the market to generate that demand organically, so we try to fast track it with government mandates.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it starts with government subsidies in the corn industry. When you talk about why we have high fructose corn syrup in everything, it’s because it doesn’t cost the companies to actually put it in there. It’s a byproduct of what these, the big corn, the stuff that has actually been subsidized by the government. And so now they have this high fructose corn syrup that’s extremely cheap, if not free in some cases. And so they’ve added that as their sweeteners to the ingredients because it’s cheaper. So if we do stop those subsidies, I agree.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think we should just get free Nutella.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that’s actually, I’d be up for that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And Ammo. Just put it all together in one. Just give me all the things that I like.
SPEAKER 04 :
I can see a podcast happening.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right? I’m saying. Yeah, cane sugar just tastes way better. I get so torn on this, but I will always err on the side of limited government. So when we went to Italy a couple of years ago, everyone told me, and it was the first time we had gone, everyone had told me, your mind is going to be blown at the difference in quality of food. And not just because we romanticize food. how good the food is or that it’s, you know, quintessential Italian food. And it’s, you know, you, you romanticize it because you’re there and this, you know, amazing because the country is beautiful, but they have government mandates that so that they don’t put preservatives in their stuff, even their wines, like the sulfites and all the stuff that you find in wines here. And I’m not encouraging that you do this. And I’m not saying that, you know, I rarely drink, but when we went over there, my husband and I would, we’d have a bottle of wine at dinner. And in the past, I could maybe have like a glass and a half because my whole head would close up. And you get hot. You’re reacting to the sulfites and all the preservatives that they put in wine. Did not have that like the entire time we were over there. So one of the things that my doctor thinks is I have an actual, which I’m raging about, gluten sensitivity. I think I’m just going to keep eating gluten. I’m like, no, we’re not doing that. We’re not doing that. That’s the most ungen X thing I’ve ever heard of. Shut up. But I did not… Like you feel tired and bloated and you’re… My sinus is like I notice like inflammation. I notice it. And I didn’t have any of those issues over there with any of the food because they are very… It’s to the point where I could never condone such oversight here in the United States. But they are very strict with what they allow in their food with the dyes and the types of sugar and all of that stuff. And even in some of the restaurants… If you like say that you have an Amatriciana sauce, well, it better be actual Amatriciana or you’re going to have the food police come and tell you that you can’t put Amatriciana. It’s wild. I could never condone something like that, that sort of oversight. But I have to tell you, it made eating easier. Because you just knew that you didn’t have to research every single thing and take hours out of your life every week to research every single ingredient that you were consuming. It made it a hell of a lot easier. But then I’m like, as much as I would love that, do I want to trade liberty for ease? And that’s how I look at everything. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Here’s how I look at it. Government is, we have laws where you can’t hurt somebody else, which would be a violation of their rights. This is a situation where government stepped in.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but you’re removing the free will. We freely eat this stuff. No, I get it. We’re not freely signing up to get hurt by anybody.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, but if those ingredients aren’t disclosed or if there are some things that the full amount of the danger that these ingredients actually impose aren’t publicized, this is what I’m talking about. The government is in place to prevent those things from hurting people. Now, I get that, and that’s why we have laws. They’re not forcing people to use certain ingredients. They’re just making sure you can’t hurt someone with certain ingredients, and I see it as less big government but more of them in that role.
SPEAKER 09 :
It does. I will say it makes it easier. I mean, everything, everything over there. It was so simple. The most simple of ingredients you could ever imagine. And you had no, I had no issues. I had like no sensitivities with any of the pasta, nothing. Oh my gosh. It was so good. And then of course you have to walk every week on average, like 10 miles a day. I think I’m the only person who actually went to Italy and lost weight. And I ate like a man. I can sit down and I can eat like a dude. It is nothing for me to sit down and I can hold my own, man. I don’t know. It’s weird. So I think going back to the high fructose corn syrup, do we want to say you can’t do this or do we want to remove any – burden or obstacle that companies might have in using because the reason that they used corn was because it was more it was cheaper they started using corn syrup is because it was cheaper and you got to subsidize big corn Can we stop subsidizing big corn? Number one. And then what do we have to do to make sugar as affordable? I mean, my gosh, you can get Mexican Coke with real cane sugar. How come I how can we call it Mexican Coke? Why is that? You know what I mean? Like why?
SPEAKER 04 :
Mexican Coke really means something. It means two different.
SPEAKER 09 :
Didn’t they only make it there for a while? That’s why I got the name. Yeah, so I’ve got questions about this, and this is a huge issue. And I’m not trying to get into the weeds with it, but HHS controls 20% of our budget. Obamacare, the scope of it, is crazy. This is a major, major position, and… These, you know, these battles over this, I think it won. It’s like one battle at a time, but it comes down to your building a foundation of how much power the government has in ratio to how much power the people have. And I don’t know, like I’m I get real torn on this stuff when it comes to food. Because I think that people should have the freedom and it’s the responsibilities on you to make sure you’re eating properly, not the government. And you do your due diligence. However, what complicates it is that we’ve had years and years and years of subsidizing this or that and this stupid government mandate making this ingredient more expensive. And then they have to do all this other Rube Goldberg machine of trying to offset the increase in price. So instead of sugar, it’s corn syrup to try to make it more, et cetera, et cetera. And then it’s impossible to choose certain things knowing that it’s impossible to make them healthy and to have it mass produce and massively consumed and have it be healthy because of all of that stuff that goes into it. So, I feel like you already have a strike against you, and it’s already harder for you to try to fight against that and say, well, let’s let the market organically make it happen when the market itself is constructed to not organically allow it to happen, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER 04 :
Currently, the market is it’s cost prohibitive to eat healthy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it totally is.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know what I mean? And I think that’s the biggest obstacle. I think that there is a sign. And this Doge department has talked about ending subsidies of all kinds, even for the oil industry, which I agree with. So if they do end up ending these subsidies, I think we’re going to see more of a smaller gap between what is less healthy and what is actually healthy to eat in price in the near future. At least that’s what I’m hoping.
SPEAKER 09 :
Now, one of the other big changes – well, we’re going to see what this means at Department of Defense because Stars and Stripes, which is kind of a – is it Military Times or Stars and Stripes? It’s left-leaning. Like one of them is owned by like a private entity that’s super far left and all this stuff. But they’re mad because there’s stars and stripes. They’re saying Pete Hegseth, nominee for defense secretary, has made it clear that he believes men and women should not serve together in combat units. And if confirmed by the Senate, he could try to end the Pentagon’s practice of making all combat jobs open to women. My whole point in this is that the military is not a social experiment. And treating the military like it’s a social experiment has destroyed recruitment. It has obliterated readiness. And it has actually made us less secure. You’ve diminished the effectiveness of our fighting forces by treating them like social experiments. I think that his position is complete common sense. Complete common sense. The only way I can make the objections make sense is if the true objective is to, as I said, diminish readiness. There’s no point to it. We have a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up, too, as we barrel towards the bottom of the hour. ReadyWise wants to make sure that you’re ready. Always, they want to keep you ready. Visit ReadyWise.com. Use promo code Dana20 at checkout for 20% off your entire purchase. They got free and fast shipping on their orders. 72-hour food kit. Buy one, get $100 value for $50. This is premium survival food, U.S. ingredients packed in a U.S. plant. So you know the chain of command of your food at all times. And you’re going to get all the calories you need, all the carbs you need that can sustain you for, you know, throughout the rest of your day, comfort in crisis and beyond. It’s great for emergencies. It’s great for camping trips. And it’s essential. I mean, they’re easy to cook, delicious meals for any survival stash. And it’s a smart choice to add to your prepper pantry. 25-year shelf life as well. Think about the natural disasters that have happened. We’re going into colder seasons. I mean, no one’s forgetting the big ice storm that took place here in Texas a couple of years ago. So that’s one of the reasons why we ended up getting ReadyWise stuff. Visit ReadyWise.com. Use promo code Dana20 at checkout. Get 20% off of your entire purchase. That’s ReadyWise.com. Promo code Dana20 for 20% off.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh my gosh. Australia, what is your problem? So a reptile park in Australia is warning people To keep their eyes… I can’t hardly talk about this story. It makes my mouth numb. I just have such a terrifying fear of spiders. I’m not scared of anything except this and crickets and some goats. To keep your eyes peeled for a large deadly spider species as summer approaches down there. It’s the funnel… It’s a funnel web spider. Actually makes my mouth numb. I don’t like this. It’s one of Australia’s deadliest spiders. I’m not looking at the camera right now because Juan’s showing a photo of it and I’m not going to look. And the mating season for the arachnids is coming up. Why do you not stand out when there’s the flamethrower? I don’t get that. This is a great time for you Australians to do that. The funnel web spider can kill a person in as little as 15 minutes. 13 people have been killed from this spider species. They said that they created the anti-venom in 1981 so they’re able to save people. Only if you do it within 15 minutes of being bitten, though. Otherwise, you’re… They said they have to have 150 spiders just for one… I don’t even like saying the word. One vial of anti-venom. Go out there with flamethrowers and just… As they’re floating through the sky. Juan said he killed a massive… I just don’t even like it. It’s not a fun… You killed a big spider this morning? No. I… I don’t care how little they are. Like, I don’t mind snakes. I don’t mind all this. But that…
SPEAKER 04 :
Arachnophobia?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, no. That’s not even proper, what I have. That doesn’t even cover it. Does not even cover it. I literally can climb on the ceiling from the ground. I can fly up to the ground like a cat and crawl on the ceiling from fear. I’m not even kidding you. Oh, let’s see. You call it involuntary euthanasia. We call it murder. The assisted dying bill, they’re saying, could open the door to involuntary euthanasia or murked. Just saying. That’s… Gunfire struck a Southwest plane on the tarmac off of Dallas Love Field. Officials say, I knew this was a matter of time. There’s a gun range up there. It’s an outdoor range I like going to. And I’ll go up there to do trap and skeet and all that. And it’s like right by Love Field. And I’m always, whenever I have my shotgun and I’m looking at the sky and I can see planes, I’m like, really? I mean, I know it’s a shotgun, but it’s still, I’m like, there’s something that… Doesn’t add up, but it’s a great place. But it wasn’t from that range, by the way. It was from, if you guessed gangbangers and drug dealers, you’re correct. You’re correct. Residents woke up to police outside of their front doors as a herd of cows took over a street in the UK. It’s a gang of, what do you call a gang of, I know it’s a herd, but what if they’re like there and they’re malcontents? What do you do? Yeah, they’re there. A cow murder. They had to go and because they were everywhere. They had to tell people to stay in the doors. We have a lot more on the way. A lot more on the way. Cabinet picks. The left melts down. And Pennsylvania. Stick with us. Black Rifle Coffee. The best coffee that you can get. You don’t need Starbucks coffee. Get Black Rifle coffee because it’s just better coffee. It’s just superior. It’s veteran run, veteran owned. They hire veterans in active duty and they are absolute coffee nerds. They’re very, very particular about their roasts right now. They have a great roast, the Freedom Roast. It’s smooth, full of flavor. And if you’d like to get your freedom on, you can get it on with the Freedom Roast. In fact, if Washington had been around, if he was around today, drink Freedom Roast. I’m pretty sure I can say that having read three of his biographies. Black Rifle Coffee, their Freedom Roast, available in ground, whole bean, 12 count rounds. And you can save 20% using code Dana. Also check out the Black Rifle Coffee Club. When you subscribe, you get free shipping, automated orders right to your doorstep. Whatever roast you want, the frequency of shipment, you never have to worry about running out of coffee again. And they have so much over there. Premium coffee to people who love America. That’s what it’s all about. Whole bean cake up, ready to drink, apparel, kettles, grinders, mugs, and more. BlackRifleCoffee.com. Don’t forget to save 20%. using code Dana and get Freedom Roast. Get your freedom on with it. It’s great. Great coffee, smooth roast, and taste other top shelf roasts like the Just Black and Silencer Smooth. 20% off again using code Dana at BlackRifleCoffee.com.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’ve been going over all of the ongoing cabinet picks and just, it feels like it’s just kind of calmed down. Everybody’s like a little chill. And maybe it’s because we’re also going into the holiday season. Are we really? We are. We’re there. We’re like a week away from Thanksgiving. And are we, I think, has the left stopped lecturing you about how to behave at the dinner table, at the Thanksgiving table? I don’t know. Audio 7 by 9. John Fetterman, he’s saying maybe the left needs to stop having their meltdowns.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, Senator. John Fetterman. Senator, always good to see you. You have said that Democrats shouldn’t be, quote, freaking out over every single thing Trump does. Are you freaking out at all about any of these cabinet picks, I wonder?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I mean, there’s some that I would absolutely be excited to vote for, like my colleague from Florida or California. the representative from New York, of course. And then there’s others that are just absolute trolls, just like Gates and those things. And that’s why, you know, Democrats, you know, like Trump that gets the kind of thing, I mean, he gets the kind of thing that he wanted, you know, like the freak out and all of those things. And he hasn’t even been it’s still not even Thanksgiving yet. And if we’re having meltdowns every tweet or every appointment or all those things, I mean, it’s going to be four years.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, he’s right. I love it. He’s like, I mean, you’re an absolute troll. You’ve got to stop freaking out. He’s right, though. They have to stop freaking out. This does them no good. It does them no good. I mean, they’re… I don’t even… They’ve got bigger things to worry about. I mean, they’re trying to cause World War III, it seems like. Like with the latest round, we’re going to talk to Stephen Yates about this coming up next hour. But as to whether or not Ukraine can blast targets inside of Russia with U.S. missiles and Zelensky is like, oh, the weapons will speak for themselves. I’m going to tell you what, if that short stack drags all of us into World War III, all our kids into World War III, I will personally kick his ass. I’ll find a way to do it. I don’t care. I’ve been told that illegal immigration is allowable, so I will illegally cross the border over there and kick his ass. I’m not dealing with this. And the fact that the – see, I’m torn because I feel like the Biden administration – is mad at their own party and Jill wore red. And I don’t know, I kind of wonder if he didn’t vote for Trump himself. But then at the same time, it seems like they are putting the pedal to the floor on this issue with Ukraine and U.S. long-range missiles. Because that’s considered, that’s been at least described as an escalation from the non-U.S. point of view. And I’m just saying it seems like it’s a little bit war ink trying to go full throttle ahead of the change of power. I mean, that makes me wonder if they’re just fast tracking it and doing this with such speed because of that, for that reason. Junior had said that it was the military industrial complex that wants to make sure they get World War III going before the new administration is installed. I mean, clearly, you can see the difference in what the American people want and what this administration is doing. They don’t want an escalation of anything. They don’t want to be involved in it. We’re going to talk to Stephen Yates about this more coming up. But not just with that, but also the issue of immigration. I had… Let me pull this up. There was this story over… This is what it was in Boston and some of these other states, these sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. And the Boston mayor, for instance, was saying that she was not cooperating with deportations and that she thinks that her city might be able to reverse or override parts of federal immigration law somehow, which is. wild to think that. You have ICE, and Bill Malugin noted that in Boston, ICE’s office there has been arresting illegal immigrants who were charged with child rape, and they’re releasing them for local custody because they’re refusing or ignoring ICE’s detainer requests. This is just fomenting lawlessness and disorder. That And I can’t believe there was no follow up on that in their interview that they had. And she’s not the only one like this. She’s not the only leader. You heard Pritzker saying, no, no, no, you’re not going to come. And this is all based. This is all predicated upon that false narrative of massive deportations, which when it comes to people who are here illegally, yes. They had this story. This was this morning. Jose Obara, the illegal alien from Venezuela, who’s charged with Lake and Riley’s murder. Apparently, he and his brother, they said that they were picked up. They had a humanitarian flight to Atlanta back in September of 2023. And they got the flight and Ibarra’s brother picked them up from the airport in Atlanta, drove them to Athens. And that’s where he murdered Ibarra. Riley this year. So they were they had gone to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City where they were housing a huge population of illegal immigrants and they got a humanitarian flight to Atlanta, which means it was a taxpayer subsidized flight. How do you get a humanitarian? I would. Yes, I’m here illegally. I would like one flight, please. How does that work? I mean, what about the what about the people who like live here? They want to go fly and see family. Can they go to that hotel and ask for a free flight to please? That’s wild. So we’re just flying people who are in the country illegally, flying them around on the taxpayer dime. Or whether it’s not directly booked by the government, the government funded third party NGOs. That’s just. I mean, we funded. Think about it this way. As taxpayers, we financed the flight that enabled this murderer, who was in the country illegally, to fly to Georgia to kill Lake and Riley. We paid for his way there. I hope that all of this with NGOs is one of the first things that they cut with Doge. The amount of money these entities get is unbelievable. I mean, how is this? This is horrific. And then it brings us all as parties into this. It was the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, and they said it’s about $220 million to provide accommodation, $220 million annually. So they leased it. It’s been leased for three years. They’re helping to provide accommodation to illegal immigrants, et cetera, et cetera. By the way, Pakistan owns that hotel, I think. I remember it was like a foreign entity that owns the hotel. very interesting i hope that that’s one of the things i think these third-party ngos they get they i hope that this is one of the things that they cut they receive so much money and there’s no oversight there’s no oversight and how it’s spent there’s no oversight and i mean you’re you’re encouraging the further deluge across the border using our tax dollars this is just wild And I would be curious as to the full amount of tax paying dollars that goes to this. Catholic Charities is one of the biggest recipients of it. I was looking at some of the stats on it. They’re some of the biggest recipients of all of this. They said that in San Antonio, they got, let’s see, because DHS, when they were allocating taxpayer dollars, and this was over this past summer, They said that $380 million went to various entities nationwide through their shelter and service program. And that’s administered by FEMA. And they work with Customs and Border Patrol on that. They gave $17 million. And again, they announced this in August of this year. They gave $17 million to Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio. They received in April, just in April of this year, Catholic Charities had received $10 million already. And then the Archdiocese of San Antonio received $17 million. People were questioning how that money was being spent after whistleblowers were saying, well, they’re purchasing tickets, airline tickets for people who entered illegally. I remember when we flew in through Miami. When was this? I think it was this past summer, spring or summer. And while we were there, we were going through because we had to go through customs in Miami. And there were a string of people. And from what. I was told, and I don’t want to get anybody in trouble because it was, I think it was somebody like-minded from TSA. And because I know it’s important to the left, they were Hispanic. And I think that they did not agree with what was happening. But there were a, there was a group of illegal immigrants and they all had the, the lanyards and like the badges where they have their, or not the badges, like giant neck lanyards where they have their, their materials and a pouch that they wear on their neck. And they were being led through. the airport, and I guess being put on a plane. And I’d seen videos of it, and I’ve seen photos of it. I never saw anything like that in person. But we were watching it happen, and we had a huge long line to go through customs, right? And these individuals were led right on through to a special entrance. The rest of us were just waiting for about 40 minutes in line to get through customs. It’s pretty wild. Pretty wild. And I was thinking, well, who bought their tickets? Who buys the tickets? Who organizes all this? Who provides the transportation when they get to their destination? How do they even know where to go? Who facilitates all this? It’s these NGOs that are receiving millions and millions of dollars. And in fact, Henry Cuellar, he was ranking member at the time of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. And he was one of the people apparently that helped set up the program. And he was saying, well, it was never designed to subsidize travel for people who are here illegally. And it was never designed to purchase here. Maybe that was your intention, but maybe this is why you don’t do this kind of stuff. You had no safeguards on it. It was used as nothing more than just a constant stream of disposable income for these agencies. I mean, we were paying for food, shelter, toiletries, all kinds of stuff. We were paying for that. Our veterans get less. We’re paying all of that. We don’t put our veterans up and, you know, nice swanky accommodations when they’re at the VA or anything else. But my gosh, if you’re here illegally, you get the treatment. Kane found to the charges. Do you remember the story? We covered it at the time that it happened. There were these two Iranian nationals that were trying to access a military base in Virginia back in the spring. Well, apparently the DOJ dropped charges against them. They dropped any kind of charges against them. Well, yeah, that’s different, Cain. If you’re an old lady and you walked past the Capitol building on January 6th, you’re a terrorist. But if you’re an Iranian national who tried to produce false credentials and were lying to the people that were keeping you in the holding area and you were trying to repeatedly gain access to a military base, then that’s totally fine.
SPEAKER 04 :
I see. So citizens exercising their right to their, you know, air their grievances to their government, arrested in jail. Jordanian nationals.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, as you know, and as the left has repeatedly characterized it, sir. The J6 was greater than 9-11, you know. Worse than 9-11, the worst attack ever on our country. So no attack has ever been worse.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good Lord. On our country soil. I’m getting actually mad now.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nothing. I mean, that was what the leftist said, not me. I didn’t say this. Other people have.
SPEAKER 04 :
Still makes me mad.
SPEAKER 09 :
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I don’t know why you got to be doing like that, but stop it. The driver was attacked. This was in Ocala, Florida. Someone’s going to tell me it’s Ocala. It’s Ocala. I’m saying it’s Orlando. It says Orlando, but it’s on. It was the Ocala route, but we’re just going to go with Orlando. Authorities say this 37 year old jumped into a moving delivery van, scratched the driver leading to his arrest. And the truck had to stop. He somehow latched onto the driver’s side door, grabbed the guy’s shirt, scratched his arms and legs, and tried to punch him. The driver responded by punching his attacker. They said that the guy’s actions constituted his burglary. There was body camera footage. So he’s facing battery and burglary charges. Literally nobody knows why he did it. Nobody knows why. Like, why are you nuts? I don’t know. Okay. I, this is crazy. Okay. So this is a wild story. This is a Brit. It’s from the mirror, which is a British paper. Boy. So a Florida mom tricked a man who was sexting her 13 year old. Yeah. To meet him at a Popeye’s where he was shot by cops. Yeah. So she set up her own sting at the local Popeye’s. Love that chicken from Popeye’s. And she was confronting this dude who was sexting her daughter. And the woman became aware that her daughter was having an inappropriate text relationship. He was 18-year-old, Sari Roderique Banks. Jacksonville said their deputies confirmed it. They said she took her daughter’s phone. She set up a meeting with the subject. Banks said he was still messaging the teenager. He agreed to meet her. They arranged to meet on November 10th and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Apparently they said the mother was accompanied by her two kids and then they were confronted by an armed suspect who brandished the weapon at her. She told them when you hear shots tonight. Well, Banks is alleged to have told them when you hear shots tonight, you know what’s up. So she took her kids into the restaurant, contacted police. The officer pulled up in the back. The guy was still at the back of the business. He wouldn’t leave the business. He had his gun. They told him repeatedly drop his gun. He didn’t. And then he pulled it from his waistband like he was going to shoot the cops and they shot him. Yeah, that’s a bad idea. And you’re also a child predator. So, you know, I feel like there’s a double favor that was done here. There you go. There you go. Let’s see. This guy. No. Why do you do this? The Florida Dead keeps 200 exotic snakes in a converted garage and some of them even sleep with his kids. No, let’s not. Let’s not. It’s in Fort Lauderdale. The guy’s name. This is very fascinating. Socrates Christoforou. And they could strangle you. The snakes are big enough to where they could strangle you. Don’t know why you would do that, but he’s doing it. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about the lady who tried to commit hurricane aid fraud. Stick with us. Third hour next. Welcome back to the program. Top of this third hour. And our good friend Stephen Yates will be… joining us later on in the program at the bottom of the hour. You can also find us at Facebook. Find us at Substack, the newsletter, Chapter and Verse. Always good things. And Rumble is where the chat happens. And Channel 347, DirecTV. All good things. So the… Where to start? ABC is all in on the AG. I just saw this story hit about the House Ethics Committee talking about the AG, that whole fight. The media is going to be getting into it more and more. I’m just telling you, there’s smoke for some reason. What type of fire and how big the fire is what needs, I think, to be discussed. investigated or looked at. I don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff there. I’m not going to, as I said before, in the Gates case, I’m not going to litigate the, cause I don’t know. I know what people have told me. I know what other actual people on the floor have told me who’ve maybe seen stuff or heard stuff. I remember that whole Madison Cawthorn story when they were making fun of him because he said he got invited by other lawmakers to go to like some of this weird, these weird parties. And rumor was, is that, And this is just what one of the rumors were. And it came out in defense of him. Like it was Gates that had asked. I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s D.C. It’s weird. I think people think that D.C., that they’re lawmakers and that they are Republicans and that they’re not going to be weird. Some of the weirdest people I’ve met are in D.C. They’re lawmakers. They’re weird. They’re just, you know, no offense to anyone who’s a lawmaker, but… But this story, though, is there. I don’t want this to be used as a way to discredit everyone. And I think for all the time that some people laugh and joke over, oh, he’s playing 40 chess. I actually think this may be it. I said this last week because. Trump could. I mean, he didn’t put it out on the letterhead. Lorraine has her letterhead theory. It didn’t go out on the letterhead. It’s like, sidebar. So the town where my family’s from in southern Missouri, there was this old-timey theater across the street from a church. Like movie theater, like cinema. And then it got used for something. I think they turned it into a bowling alley or something like that. And then the church also has a… The white sign. It’s not… I guess it’s a marquee, like the… Because they ended up getting… So anyway, if someone kicked over, their name would go up on the marquee. Like, oh, well, we’re, you know, so-and-so, something like that. And they would be advertising the services, like the funeral services for… Long story. But the saying is… well, is their name on the marquee? If there was a rumor that someone had passed the rumor, the response would be, oh, well, is their name up on the marquee? Did they get as funny anyway? I the same applies here. All I’m saying is that I just I don’t I don’t know if it’s I don’t want to get in and litigate the the the particulars of this case, but because nobody knows that feds didn’t bring charges because they didn’t think they could prove that Gates or the others knew the age of these girls. But as I said, you need to have somebody as AG who is going to undermine deep state, not be undermined by deep state. And there’s a huge difference here. And I don’t think that he knows enough about the protocol to do it. That’s it. All this other stuff. You don’t want this to be used as the tool with which to see doubt in the minds of senators in the confirmation process with all these other people because of this one. And there are tons of good choices out there. But like Trump could this could be 40 chess. This could be Trump is just kind of letting him go through this process. And he he can maintain the appearance of standing by him, although it’s not going to go through because he didn’t. And maybe that’s why he didn’t put his name out on letterhead. Seems like the ones that aren’t on the letterhead announcing the nomination, seems like those are the ones that might be harder to get through. Just a theory, but still interesting and all the same. So did you hear that Hunter Biden has been hitting the Hollywood party circuit? Complaining about his New York page six had the story. He is apparently Doing because he’s out there living in Malibu he was at a party in Los Angeles last week and People said that he was trying to explain his history and problems to guests at a party in LA and he was complaining that he has 18 million dollars in legal bills with cases hanging over his head and he said that the stories about him were all setups and Do you believe that? No one does. So they remember he had a sugar brother. He had the sugar brother and the guy apparently went broke. He couldn’t he couldn’t pay for Hunter Biden anymore. Lorraine has a piece about it right now up at chapter and verse that he’s been looking for a new benefactor because the sugar brother was like, my money’s gone. I can’t afford I can’t afford Hunter Biden anymore. I can’t do it with him anymore. So $18 million in legal bills and all of the stories against him were set up. Sounds like he learned his lesson, didn’t he? No, he didn’t. He didn’t learn his lesson. He didn’t. Lorraine has her everything that’s happened in the legal world, even getting into the Eugene stuff and the business fraud case. And because now it looks like everything could go away. I still hope he doesn’t pardon Hunter Biden. No commutation, no pardon. None of it. None at all. But who do you think would be good going to the AG thing? If you had to pick an AG.
SPEAKER 04 :
I wouldn’t be against a guy like an Andrew Bailey, honestly. Yeah, I don’t think he wants it.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think he wants to stay in Missouri.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you’re probably right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think he’s got eyes for governor, but I don’t know yet.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. I just don’t want to pull, like obviously in this instance, if it’s Gates or whatever, he’s already resigned from Congress, but I’d hate to pull from another congressional seat.
SPEAKER 09 :
Don’t you dare.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m just saying.
SPEAKER 09 :
Don’t you dare. I’m just saying. You don’t need to pull for it. You’ve got so many others out there that are so good already. There’s tons of really good people that are out there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I do like Lorraine’s suggestion of Trey Gowdy. What about Armie Dillon? No nonsense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Why couldn’t she be AG? You don’t have to pull from Senate. Don’t have to pull from the House. That’s true. Don’t have to risk or gamble upon your very narrow majority.
SPEAKER 04 :
Still have to get that confirmation, though.
SPEAKER 09 :
True. Lorraine says Trey Gowdy would be a good AG. He could get confirmed easily because of his history in Congress. So he would get confirmed easily. It’s just that hair is so severe. He’s got that Tilda Swinton do, you know. I’m not saying it to be mean. He’s a fascinating character. He is. But he has Tilda Swinton’s hairdo. And you guys know it. Look at him. Google Tilda Swinton. And look at her and be like, well, I’ll be damned if that ain’t Trey Gowdy’s hair. Just saying. Just saying. It’s like when you look at Joy Reid and you’re like, that’s Simple Jack’s hair. What in the world is happening? Just saying. Let’s put it out there. I’m not saying anything that’s not, you know, what to mean. A few other things to touch on. We got Steven Yeats coming up. Here’s one other thing that I wanted to point out real quick, and then I want to talk about the Pennsylvania stuff. So here’s one of the issues that I think, I hope that Trump and his inner circle are watching out for. Because this was a problem in 2016. Remember last hour I was telling you the difference between loyal and submissive? There’s a difference. There’s loyalty and submission, and they are very, very different things. And people who are submissive may not be loyal. they can still stab you in the back. And the reason I say this is because there was a huge problem in 2016 with leaks. people who wanted to be gatekeepers in his inner circle, they would leak to the press if something was happening, as a way to try to manipulate POTUS’s behavior, because Trump likes positive press coverage. That’s a currency of his. And I felt like there were some people that should have been working with him instead of against him that leaked as a way to use the press coverage to manipulate his behavior. And I feel like there are people trying to sow discord already. This is the third story that I’ve seen on this. And I don’t know. I can’t imagine that this is anybody that is like in his family or inner circle. But it said that Musk had and this is New York Post had a massive blow up with Trump aide Boris Epstein at Mar-a-Lago. And it was apparently during a dinner. And they said that they, I guess, disagreed. They didn’t really exactly say what they disagreed on. But Epstein, who was a special assistant during the president’s first term in 2017, apparently they got into a debate on an issue and it got pretty acrimonious. And then Musk lashed out at Epstein about tipping off the media. And apparently dinner guests witnessed the argument. And Epstein was told, well, he told Musk, you don’t know what you’re talking about. And they apparently were, you know, arguing. Now, this is why I say this. Last week, NBC ran a piece and it was cited by New York Post. And it said that they were a source in Trump world said that Musk is, quote, behaving as if he’s co-president and making sure everyone knows it. End quote. Now, Musk, Axios reported, and this is the third piece, Axios had said that Musk thought Epstein had too much influence over Trump’s picks, including the Gates pick, because that was Epstein, apparently. And I guess that’s where it is. So I just feel like someone is trying to undermine Musk. That is and I don’t think it’s Trump. I think Trump is he’s I think he’s evaluating candidates. But I think someone is trying to. It sounds like somebody that is adjacent to him is too big for their britches and they’re trying to gatekeep and they don’t. They think that Musk’s influence is a threat to their influence. And so they want to gatekeep and they’re leaking to the press. That’s not loyalty. That is not loyalty. You are actively undermining the president-elect by doing stuff like this. You think that you’re helping? Maybe. Actually, I don’t even know how anyone could leak and think that you’re helping. That sounds like someone’s trying to undermine one of the allies to the president. And I’ve never gotten the impression that Musk was acting like he was co-president or anything of that sort of view. Never got that impression. He has always deferred. He’s always stood back. I’ve never gotten that impression. But it sounds like someone is they think that it sounds like somebody is trying to make some dumb picks and Musk may be objected to them. And they’re worried that Musk’s influence is greater than theirs. And so they want to gatekeep and they want to make Musk look bad in the press. That’s what it sounds like. So I’m just saying that’s not loyalty. Loyalty and submission are not the same thing. So someone could act like they’re a loyal aide, but if you’re leaking to the press, you are a traitor to your cause. If you’re leaking to the press, you’re a traitor to your cause. Because that’s not how this stuff is solved. It destabilizes the whole thing. And we don’t have time for this. Right out of the gate like this? Come on. Get it together. There’s always, there’s a problem on the right that’s different from the left. There’s this, the right operates under this delusion of opportunity scarcity. And they are always the left. It’s like they want more people to sit at the table because I guess maybe because they’re hive mind and they think that, you know, they’re greater the numbers, the greater the power. I feel like that’s like the difference between the right and the left, because the right acts like, oh, if we get too many people at the table, there’s less for me. As you’re seeing with stuff like this, I don’t get it. It’s a weird, weird mindset. We have more to come. We got headlines on the way. I’m just saying, be careful of this stuff.
SPEAKER 04 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 09 :
So apparently some woman, a 26-year-old, ran the New York City Marathon drunk and said she would do it again. But she said that she likes to push herself, but she doesn’t think that she’s going to break any records. Okay. Yeah, all right. A commercial plane had a near miss with a UFO near New York. according to a Pentagon report. I’ve got a lot of questions about this. Now, Cain, how many times have we seen stories like this just drip out in the past, like, you know, several months, past year? This Pentagon report says it was a near miss with an unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomenon near New York. According to the Pentagon’s latest report, they said there’s hundreds of new instances of UFOs and it’s… It was released Thursday. The Empire State’s close call was about 757 cases of unidentified phenomena or the UN. I know I’m just saying I got questions because it can’t all be drones. You know, I mean, that’s like the first thing you think of like, oh, well, it’s drones. Maybe it can’t all be that. Let’s see. Oh, my gosh. Netflix. So everybody is really mad watching the fight with Paul Tyson fight. They said it was 60 million households for Netflix and Netflix couldn’t handle it. Did you watch it on Netflix? Did it buffer and all that? Oh, really? You had it. Oh, they’re all shit. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. There was a lot of problems with connectivity during that time. So it was pretty much everybody. Yeah. Service crashed or something happened.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
This story, this is the funny, this is so ridiculous. These people told insurers that a bear damaged their car, but it was a person in a bear costume. Yeah. Four residents from L.A., they were arrested this week after an investigation from the California Department of Insurance revealed that they allegedly used a life-size bear costume to stage attacks on their vehicles in an attempt to secure a six-figure payout. The four men, whose names I cannot pronounce, were charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy. It’s Operation Bear Claw. They gave their claims to the insurance company and they said that one of the bears entered their 2010 Rolls Royce and they had video footage of it. But it literally, they said, we watched the video, it’s a person in a bear costume. It’s not an actual bear. They recorded someone in a bad bear costume attacking the car. And they thought that they said this was the they said that a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife reviewed the three alleged bear videos and concluded that it was clearly a human in a bear suit. Stephen Yates is up next. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 08 :
the fact that we obviously know about these these hacks means that those particular hacks probably have been addressed in one way or another. But one thing I can say with great confidence, having worked in the intelligence world for some time now, is that I promise you they are out there in ways that we don’t know about. So my hope is that the president made it very clear that this kind of behavior is not tolerable and that he backs that up. And quite frankly, that Donald Trump, the next president, backs that up with action. uh you know uh as teddy roosevelt said the big stick right we’re pretty good at hacking networks too and i think it’s really important for the chinese to understand that we’re not just going to name and shame the hackers and complain about it that we but that we are going to go into their networks and give as good as we got i suspect that in this realm they need to see that we are capable of inflicting a lot of damage uh if they continue i’m all about reckonings
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s our representative Jim Himes on CBS’s Face the Nation talking about Big Stick 2024. Why isn’t that a slogan? Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this third hour. On this and so much, our good friend Stephen Yates. You can find him on X at Yatescoms. Notice I didn’t trip up and say Twitter. Senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. It’s only been a year, but it’s so good to see you via Skype. Welcome back, my friend. Always good to have you. So what is this? So now we’ve had the election. Everybody can kind of exhale. But there is a new leadership now coming in, coming into view. What do you think China’s reaction was to all this?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, the first thing China did was go after poor old Joe Biden at the APEC summit. The guy was trying to hide in the corner. It seemed like they put him out there behind the drapes. And when he sat down with Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping gave him a list of orders of don’t mess with me, big China on Taiwan, and don’t try to tell us anything about this international system and human rights. And, you know, so otherwise, you know, get off my lawn kind of stuff. And I didn’t really heard what President Biden said in response. But first thing, Xi Jinping did was to go after outgoing President Biden, maybe just for fun.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s so glad that you mentioned that, especially the photo, because I was looking at this. They always do these weird class photos and they did one for APEC. And I don’t understand. They all had the brown scarves, which OK. And Biden, the United States was all the way in the back, all the way stage left, all the way.
SPEAKER 05 :
So audience right, house right, stage left.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Normal. I mean, you’re the United States of America. I remember Trump got so much grief one time for one of these things because he pushed his way up to the front and stood right in the middle and made everything, which I thought was hysterical and accurate.
SPEAKER 12 :
Ultimate boss move, America back kind of action.
SPEAKER 09 :
This was that people might try to brush it off and say that it wasn’t meaningful, but especially with CCP and some of these other more tyrannical regimes, everything is stagecraft with them.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely true. And I think all the people that were at the APEC meeting, including Xi Jinping, they might talk tough right now, but they know not just a change of tone, but a change of substance is coming. Now, I might be overly optimistic about it because I have big hopes and I have big interests in some tough policies coming into place. After all, I think there’s a lot of accountability that is necessary. Stealing things on economics and trade is one thing, but killing Americans with COVID and killing Americans with fentanyl, to me, you can’t have normal relations with people like that. And holding a thousand plus political prisoners in Hong Kong, you can’t have normal trade and negotiations with a government that does stuff like that. So I hope a big adjustment, a change of winds is coming. And, you know, President Trump ran on that. So I trust that his econ team will join the national security team in carrying that out.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah. Xi Jinping had laid out four red lines the U.S. must not challenge in his meeting with Biden just came out this morning. These four boundaries. That’s the wrong guy to be handed boundaries to now. I mean, he’s gone in January.
SPEAKER 12 :
Boundaries to him are like, how do I get from this helicopter through this treacherous lawn?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
How do I walk on the treacherous sand? Yeah, it was totally wrong memo for the meeting if they really meant anything by it. But it’s outrageous that a leader like that of China would feel like you can get away with something like that. Right. It used to be the United States was feared and respected. And we could set the tone for, you know, these are the rules of the road. That’s how we guaranteed freedom of navigation in high seas. It’s how we extended the peace after World War II with a few bad interruptions. But, you know, this is just a sad state of the world that Trump is going to inherit, that only his Americans inherit. It’s not just on him.
SPEAKER 09 :
I would think that we’re talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comes On X. I would think that if China had any ambitions about moving on Taiwan, which is, you know, we’ve had all these discussions the past four years, although they’ve seemed like 20, about military readiness and the Pacific, etc. I would feel like their ambitions towards Taiwan have to be thwarted at least for the next four years, maybe two years at least, because things are going to turn around, you know, we’re hoping economically for the US, we’re going to be in a better position, perhaps with military leadership and readiness. obviously these are all things that they’re watching and they have to take into account. So are they over there kind of kicking the ground going, well, guess we got to wait. Guess we got to put it on the back burner for now. I mean, it’s weird to think of it in those terms, but they surely can’t feel emboldened now because it’s not just the U.S. I mean, conservatism is like moving in parts of Europe now.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, the one thing that they study a lot and they seem to respect in some form is power. And when they were trying to sell this narrative of China on the rise, America on the decline, and you’re going to have to make a deal with the new boss on the block before it’s too late, I think the sands are shifting on that. People see that China’s model is faltering a bit internally. It’s still a dangerous place. It’s still a big economy. But they see with the popular vote being convincing, an electoral mandate for a leader they know also understands power. And so whether President Trump chooses to negotiate or to use leverage, they know it’s not going to just be meeting after meeting the way it’s been for the last four years. And so I think that they have to be recalculating. They’re certainly sending a lot of their minions to D.C. to try to ask for meetings with irrelevant folks around town, sometimes myself included.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Speaking of meetings, one last thing on this, and I’m going to ask you about the Ukraine and long range missiles are long range missiles here. When Biden, for those who don’t know, when Biden was meeting with Xi Jinping at that at APEC, there was at one point where he was talking about the relationship. And the word that he used was alliance. But he stopped himself from finishing the word entirely and said, or the most important relationship in the entire world. He had said like his brain made him say alliance. And then he like tried to edit it as he was talking. Just wanted to get your quick thoughts on that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I mean, it’s just, you know, these slips. I look forward to a time when we have real leaders who can complete a thought and maybe complete a policy, too. and complete a negotiation that nets positive results for American interests. I mean, for too many people, they see politics as a performance art, and we as consumers of media and these performances might like them, might even subscribe to a tribe. But it’s really easy to forget there’s real lives and real interests at stake. I mean, for me, you know, it’s personal. I mean, my daughter lost her life and I want to fight every single day for real results to change this for future American families. And there’s lots of other Americans that have these interests. So I’m kind of sick of the performance, especially when it’s a bad one.
SPEAKER 09 :
Amen to that. Amen to that. I wanted to shift your gaze to this, the latest with these missiles in Ukraine and Zelensky. And is that Is that viewed if we’re if we’re allowing Ukraine to hit targets inside of Russia using U.S. long range missiles? Is that in your view an escalation? Because some are saying that Biden, the Biden administration is trying to kick us off into World War Three before the new power gets into office in January.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, just a few base thoughts. I mean, number one, if this was a good idea for the last two plus years, it would have been done. So it obviously isn’t a good idea. Number two, the United States should not be in the business of micromanaging a smaller country’s war with a big neighbor. And so it shouldn’t be the United States that’s calling the shots. It’s not supposed to be our war. It should be Europe’s war, if anything. And we can be supportive as an ally, but we shouldn’t be in the business of saying, hey, we’re going to be the head coach up in the box of the stadium calling plays down to the field. But it obviously is provocative. It’s obviously in the transition period. And if you’re acting in good faith for a peaceful transition, you don’t do stuff like this. The only question I have is whether Joe Biden knew what was happening or whether it was the system that’s been running the country that called this shot after Joe Biden may have meant it when he welcomed Donald Trump back.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s a very good point. Well, we’re going to see what happens now as we go into this. What do you think of Pete Hegseth over at DOD?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I’ve known Pete for a long time, going back to a television show that he used to be a commentator on. He’s got a breadth of knowledge that people might take the entertainer side of him. They think it’s shallow. It’s not shallow. I think he one time… took the draw from one of those life straws out on the streets of New York. That’s not a faint of heart to prove a concept for a product you’re selling. So, I mean, there’s a lot I like about the guy. The job he is being called to do is monumental. And so I hope that there’s a big, strong team coming to him because I think the transformation necessary in our Pentagon to save America and rebalance the free world is huge. But I like him, and I love that the president was willing to roll the dice on an appointment that bothers the establishment.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s a very good point. Very good point. Stephen Yates at YatesComzoneX. Always good to see you, my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for giving us your time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you, Dana. Take care.
SPEAKER 09 :
Of course, you too. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this third hour of our broadcast. And we’re just starting the week out. And as we move towards the, well, we’ve got today and stupidity still yet to come. As we move. So this is video that Juan is showing of all of these world leaders at the G20. And they took a group photo without Biden. They couldn’t find him. And they’re trying to get the world leaders to stand there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Where was he? They’re telling Biden. They’re telling him to wait for Biden, guys.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 06 :
They’re telling these world leaders wait for Biden and they’re not doing it. They’re like, nope.
SPEAKER 04 :
He lame ducked out of that photo.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, he did. So he wasn’t even there as they were taking a photo.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh my gosh. Wow. Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
That is like his whole term in a nutshell. That’s his whole term. That is shocking. That is just shocking. They didn’t even… They’re like, we’re not going to wait. We’re just… And they walked off. The world leaders walked off. That’s crazy. But why did they not have him up there doing a photo? If he was there by the palm tree, why did they not take him… I’m confused here. Please let Peter Doocy ask this. Please let Peter Doocy ask. I can’t wait. I can see it now. They go in for their White House press conference and you’re going to have Karine Jean-Pierre who walks up on the podium. She’s going to take one look at Peter Doocy and just know. That he’s going to ask, why didn’t Joe Biden take a photo with all of the other leaders at G20? Why was there no effort to put him on the stage? He was over, you know, standing on the side. Like, why didn’t they get him up? That’s just wild.
SPEAKER 04 :
Imagine being Biden and seeing all the world leaders standing on the risers. And he’s like, oh, look at all those guys over there.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s like missing your bus when you’re a kid. And you see all your bus drive away. And all the kids, and you’re like, well, damn. That’s just like what happened. This is crazy. So I don’t know. I am. That’s. We’ve been asking this for four years. This is his whole term in one video. Where’s Biden? Where’s Biden? What’s he doing in his campaign and his campaign? Notice how Kamala Harris has has. Where is she at? She’s just gone. She isn’t even bothered to make herself visible. She’s just gone. Nobody knows where she is. Have you seen her at all? I haven’t seen her. I don’t know where she… I mean, she’s still in the Senate. Nobody knows where she’s at. Nobody knows. I, um… I’m still trying to get over the memes of, I got to drop this in Slack. The memes of the RFK eating McDonald’s on Trump Force One are hysterical.
SPEAKER 05 :
Those are so good.
SPEAKER 09 :
His face is not, his face reads not a happy camper. Juan, if you can, you’ve got to throw this up because it’s hysterical. We were talking like one of our previous hours about the culture shock that he like probably is experiencing right now. I mean, he’s a Kennedy and he goes to a UFC event and then he’s on Trump Force One eating McDonald’s.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can’t have a cheat meal.
SPEAKER 09 :
That is one of the memes. I am. That was his actual expression. And then there’s like a there’s like a crying face behind it. That was his actual face. That was the face that he was making. And he’s tucking into some kind of hamburger. I was looking at it. I don’t know what it is. And he’s got look, look what he’s got right by him. He’s got a Coca-Cola right by him. And, you know, he’s like, I can’t believe we’re eating this because he’s very I mean, he is very much he hates he hates all the fast processed food. I I’m telling you, his expression was hysterical. You had to think when he’s like, well, what are we going to eat? And they’re like, bro, we’re going to eat McD’s. We’re going to have Mickey D’s. And he’s probably thinking, are you blanking kidding me? What? What? Like it’s, you know, can we at least like, how about some chicken? Just some fried chicken. Maybe do that. McDonald’s? Look, I know it’s bad for you, but some of it’s good. It tastes good. I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to lie and pretend. Some of it tastes good. Chemicals taste good.
SPEAKER 04 :
My son sometimes brings home food from work.
SPEAKER 09 :
It smells horrible after 30 minutes.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was Trump’s job for a little bit at McDonald’s, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, Trump was, you know what? Trump not only drove a garbage truck, but he also was the fry chef at McD’s. And it’s great that, like, older people that had to work two jobs to make ends meet can now find themselves in the White House. I mean, you know, there’s still hope for you, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Just bring the food home from work.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you know, just bring it home. Extra salt on them fries. Do you think, I wonder…
SPEAKER 04 :
extra nuggy yeah get it get an extra nug in there all right that ain’t stupidity cane all right believe it or not it’s adam schiff for brains this is cut 17 around look at that um so adam schiff is talking about how his russia collusion hoax remember he was pushing that for so long and then it nothing ever happened with it he’s still standing behind that listen to this
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, first of all, it wasn’t an overstatement. There is evidence of collusion. The Trump campaign manager was meeting with Russian intelligence and giving them internal polling.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my gosh. So you mean this never happened? So the transition team doing the standard transition team thing? Yeah. OK, thanks.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s their transition team. They’re doing transition team stuff. That’s what they do. Anyway, that does it for us today, folks. Have a great rest of your Friday. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Find us at Substack, Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe.
