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You can’t be sarcastic with them because they write your words and the people are reading the words are much different. But I said, I’m never going to make it to heaven. I just don’t think I qualify. I don’t think there’s a thing I can do. But all of these good things I’m doing, including for religion, you know, religion is back now hotter than ever before. I have to tell you. But I said, even though I did that and so many other things, I named things, I said, I won’t qualify. I’m not going to make it to heaven. The New York Times did a front page story that Donald Trump is questioning his life and the meaning of his life. No, I was just having fun. I really think I probably should make it. I mean, I’m not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people.
SPEAKER 28 :
I mean, it’s hysterical, this prayer breakfast that he’s… He’s at a prayer breakfast, God bless him. He’s like, you know, I mean, I think I’m a good candidate. I just… You got to appreciate the New York boardroom style approach that he has to this stuff. You know, I’m like, I’m just… I feel like, you know, I’m a good candidate for it. First off, welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of the… First hour. I don’t know if there’s ever we should have Steve find at some point find video of it because I was at one of these prayer breakfasts one year, met with POTUS before. And he’s just like, you know, when he looks away from the prompter. It’s the exact same feeling that you get when you’re on the roller coaster. And like Screaming Eagle Kane, Six Flags and that rickety old thing, I can’t believe it. I cannot believe it didn’t fall apart. Like I wrote it twice in my life. So it’s the point where the roller coaster is like right up at the top and it gets slower and slower, right up at the top. And whenever he looks away from the prompter, it’s the exact same feeling because you’re like, where are we off road now? Where are we going? And was sitting there with my husband at this prayer breakfast, the same one a couple, a few years ago. And he had just gotten into a fight with Eric Swalwell, like literally the night before. I can’t remember what it was about, but he got into a fight and then he was making fun of him and his like manliness or lack thereof. And he looked right at me because we’ve known each other for a very long time. And he’s like, Dana, you know what I mean? You know, your, your husband’s a very manly man, but Eric Swalwell, he’s just, he’s just not, he’s just very flaccid. And I am dying because it’s, It’s like 9 a.m. and we’re at this prayer breakfast and I’m sitting at a table with like two pastors and I don’t even know who else. There’s probably some like nuns behind me. I don’t even know. And he’s up there talking about, you know, Eric Swalwell, he’s just a flaccid, sad little man. Don’t you think, Dad? I mean, you look at him and you just you’re not attracted. And I am just dying. And he kept doing it. I was sitting in the front. So he just kept looking at me, kept doing it. And it was on C-SPAN. I was dying laughing because he was just very… He’s not a very Christian man. I think everyone can do Trump’s voice now. Don’t you think so? I think it’s stuck there in that cultural crawl, for lack of a better way to put it. I think that everybody can do it. But it was just too funny. It was very funny. So he was at the prayer breakfast this morning. And… Usually always very well attended, but he’s he’s up there. So I just thought it was funny. He’s like, well, I think I’m a good candidate. In the meantime, he’s been dealing with Iran and he’s also been dealing with the situation with ICE and whether or not I don’t want I think what everybody doesn’t want to see is. pulling out ICE agents to accommodate the Democrat lawlessness. And I noticed yesterday POTUS had said that they were looking at, oh, well, you know, how about, you know, I just will pull these ICE agents out. And then the leaders of the city have to ask us to come in and deal with it. And I thought that that’s like a probably really bad idea. Let’s not do that one. Let’s keep them in there. Let’s make it look like we’re not bending the knee to anything. That sounds like that’s, let’s not bend the knee to anything. And this is what he’s talking about. This is cut one. They have to say please is what he was saying. And I think, I don’t necessarily think that he’s doing it, but it could be just him talking to try to put pressure on you. You listen and decide.
SPEAKER 08 :
So I want to be clear because it sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement here that there’s going to be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, one thing I say to my people, you know, we do a good job. We don’t get credit for it. I say they have to ask and they have to say please. When a city is going to ask and who has the mayor or the governor, I don’t want to go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana.
SPEAKER 28 :
See, it doesn’t sound like he’s making an actual adjustment. Does it to you? Because the headlines are Trump is bending the knees, pulling out, etc.,
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, no, the actual knee bending has been from Minneapolis because the actual jails, the police departments are now agreeing to when these illegals who are here and they’ve committed other crimes and they’re in the custody of the jail, they’re now giving these people to ICE where before they weren’t doing it. They were during the Obama administration, but they stopped doing it under Trump. Now they got them back doing what they used to do when Obama was president.
SPEAKER 28 :
Okay, I got to switch gears. What the hell is Kamala Harris announcing? Did you see this? No. She tweeted, she had a tweet out. I lost the tweet. But she had a tweet out where she was, well, not her. It’s like the, what is it, the Kamala HQ or something like that. Are you talking about Cut 29? Stop it. No. Yeah. No. Yeah.
SPEAKER 30 :
Madam Vice President, what’s going on with Kamala HQ?
SPEAKER 27 :
Well, I’m so glad you asked. I have good news. So Kamala HQ is turning into headquarters and it’s where you can go online to get basically the latest of what’s going on and also to meet and revisit with some of our great courageous leaders, be they elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, faith leaders, young leaders. I’m really excited about it. So stay engaged, and I’ll see you out there. Thank you. You know what’s so funny?
SPEAKER 28 :
She can do this without having a website. If she really wanted to stay engaged with all our letters, she could do it without having a website, right? It’s weird.
SPEAKER 15 :
Did she say that Kamala HQ is now headquarters?
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
What did the HQ stand for before?
SPEAKER 28 :
That’s… I don’t know. I think headquarters.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, that’s usually what it is.
SPEAKER 28 :
Did you see the past? So they had this video. It wasn’t a video. Wasn’t it just a GIF? They had this little thing when she had it on X, and you had to type the password into it, and it was the headquarters. Kamala HQ, I don’t even understand the purpose of that. What is she doing? What is she… What… Is she, why? I know every, let me pull up a couple polls here. Do you guys really care if she’s, because she doesn’t fare very well.
SPEAKER 15 :
Did she say what she’s running for or that she’s just going to be campaigning for just generally?
SPEAKER 28 :
No, I think she just… All she knows how to do is pretend to run for offices that she’s just selected for by Democrat Party leadership.
SPEAKER 15 :
She saw the billy that she got when she was running for president and then ended up in $20 million in debt after that.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
But she thinks it’s a decent way to make money, I guess.
SPEAKER 28 :
I mean, you know what it is. That’s why you got some of these people that run for office. You know, that’s why you… Because they make fat bank. They make fat bank off it. That’s why. I just… I… I’m pulling up this survey that I was looking at, and it was showing how she fares. I don’t know where they’re getting some of this data, because in a matchup with someone like Newsom, I think it’s just because maybe she has greater name recognition. I can’t imagine that, because Gavin Newsom, all he’s been doing is increasing name recognition. That’s why he does this little goofy podcast every day instead of being the governor of California. He does this podcast every day, and I think it’s all about him trying to increase name recognition so that he can compete there primary wise. And I don’t know, I can’t imagine them Democrats actually running her. I think that’s a pipe dream. Maybe they’re doing a fake out. She’s only like a couple of points ahead of some others. And then depending on where you draw the survey from, I mean, whether it’s California or wherever, I mean, they’re like neck and neck, but he’s pulling away from her in terms of favorability. I can’t even believe that’s the thing I’m saying with a Democrat candidate, but I don’t even know. So I look at this, if they run her again, She is so unlikable. This is what she doesn’t. And I think Democrats who like her don’t understand. Back during 21, she was I mean, Democrats didn’t even like her. Democrats did not like this woman. She came in last during the primary. You guys remember this? That’s why she was relegated to the far off side of the stage. She just she came in last. So she’s. It’s her online… I don’t even know what this is. Her online organizing project. Maybe she can organize some… favorability for herself because she doesn’t have it. Democrats didn’t like her. She came in last because they didn’t like her. She has a very high unlikeability. I don’t know how else to put it. I mean, I think the only person who has it lower is maybe perhaps Hillary Clinton, but that’s because it’s Hillary Clinton. You know what I mean? This is just weird. I don’t understand what they think that they’re going to do with this. I mean, you have the Josh Shapiros, you have the Andy Beshears, which I feel like Andy Beshear, who’s Kentucky, I feel like he doesn’t want to run. Granted, they have a tiny little bench because they have no idea how to recruit, but dear heavens. I just, yes, it would be easy to beat her, but also I would be bored to death. Guys, it would be the most boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring to death. But I think you’re right. I think that they need it’s about fundraising. But she doesn’t fundraise that well either. She’s never been a big money draw.
SPEAKER 15 :
They saw the excitement with her when she was running against Trump. And I think they see that now that the USAID money and everything else is drying up. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 28 :
Did you say you I took a sip of coffee. Did you say that they saw the excitement with her? Running against Trump?
SPEAKER 15 :
How did she get a billion dollars? Democrats were running away.
SPEAKER 28 :
It’s probably all George Soros. Democrats were falling down like they were fleeing a fire trying to get away from her.
SPEAKER 15 :
That was my point. What I put in Slack, they do these little tiny small money donation things through ActBlue and everything else. What it’s really just billionaires dropping dough and then they’re just piecing it out to make it look like they were small money donations, grassroots and the whole nine. They’re doing it here as well. But they did it with her when she ran against Trump. And I think they saw that opportunity. They’re seeing it again because the USAID money is drying up. Everything else that they’ve been tapping from the taxpayer as it relates to funds that go to these elections and things. Yeah.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
It’s done.
SPEAKER 28 :
In the meantime, at a Fremont high school, a mother is upset because one of her her child was during it was one of these school protests of ICE got hit by an SUV. Let me read this. I know. This is Channel 6 out of Fremont. It says a mother of a Fremont high school student who was struck by an SUV during a student protest said she’s angry with school officials and believes they should have prevented the demonstration. It was at an anti-ice protest outside the school, and apparently the student, a female, is recovering at home with bumps and bruises. So she said that they were not informed enough to organize such a protest. I actually think that does raise a question as to what happens when stuff like this takes place at these stupid protests that these schools allow instead of educating kids. In many instances, the schools have been organizing it or the teachers have been organizing it. She said my daughter was allowed to make her poster in class to career class. She’s like, why are they not? Why are the teachers not paying more attention to what these kids are doing? So they had a potential walkout. The school’s trying to distance itself from it, saying, well, we heard rumors that this was going to happen. OK, you can’t you don’t got all these kids that are walking out so freely like this unless there is an absence of penalty. You guys know that we have more on the way. We’ve got to get into some of the stuff. I got some GOP stuff, but also the latest with China. Oh, my goodness. And also this Gavin Newsom has a knack of trying to hold press conferences on his failures. And he did it. over the high-speed rail. We’re going to revisit that because he literally held a press conference patting himself on the back for this. I’m not kidding. Our partners, the folks over at Super Beats, the Super Beats Chews, the Turmeric Chews, if you guys are unfamiliar with the Turmeric Chews, you need to go check them out. They’re known for their antioxidant properties, turmeric. But a lot of forms are really difficult for the body to utilize effectively. And so this is where Human, the company behind the Super Beats Heart Chews, and the turmeric chews, they’ve used a clinically studied complex that helps solve the issue by making this highly absorbable form. So the complex that they use is this turmeric curcumin complex, and it’s all about supporting your body’s healthy inflammatory response using this clinically studied complex. And it helps solve the issue of absorbability as well because of it. So it has significantly higher absorption than conventional turmeric extracts. It helps your body get more from every serving. It’s just, you know, like a light citrus flavor, no added sugar, no added additives at all whatsoever. Very easy to take to help support your body’s health. It’s great format. to fit effortlessly into your daily routine. By the way, they have a new package designed out, so the bag’s going all red. So you’re probably going to see the red bag and the white bag on the shelves simultaneously. It’s the same formula. It’s the same product. It’s the same ingredients. It’s the same company. There’s just a white bag and a red bag that are on the shelves simultaneously. It’s the same product. So you can find it at Sam’s Club, actually. Kick off the new year. I mean, we’re well into the new year now. It’s February. Come on. So kick off your month, right? Do something simple, delicious, support your overall wellness. It’s the turmeric chews. You can find humans’ turmeric chews at Sam’s Club. Pick up your bag today.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 28 :
All right, so first, this is a horrible story. An Olive Garden cook dies. He dies because he went headfirst into the deep fryer. Now, cops are saying that it was suicide. I don’t know. But he had burn injuries that he suffered after he thrust his head into a deep fryer. And what police are saying is it was a suicide attempt. It occurred at a Williamsport, Pennsylvania restaurant. Ooh, Steve, that’s like not Pennsylvania. Have you eaten at that Applebee’s? It’s in Williamsport. Was it Applebee’s or Olive Garden? Sorry, Olive Garden, yeah. It’s all the same thing. Olive Garden. They got the breadsticks, though. They got infinite stick. Unlimited stick. They said that the Pennsylvania State Police looked into it. I’ve never heard of a suicide, like somebody trying to kill themselves with deep fryer. Right. That’s really sad. I hope this dude… Oh, man, that’s so sad. That’s horrible. His poor family. Dude. All right, let me move on. We got Winter Olympics. They experienced a power outage four minutes into the first event. The construction hasn’t been completed, and apparently they had to cancel some of the skiing. Yay, it wouldn’t be the Olympics without a poo show. Woo! Public outcry over the $2,500 reward, Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother. It’s… 2,500, that’s $2,500. I’d put that up for my dog. Don’t try me because I’ll literally, like, I’ll John Wick you. Not even joking. Like, John Wick is a dog movie. AI bots now a significant source of web traffic. Completely. Absolutely the bots are. And let’s see. Got a couple of others. This, oh, a Doberman pincher named Penny wins best in show at the 150th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Penny the Doberman. She’s quite beautiful. Stick with us. We’ve got more in store. And it is a great way to defend yourself when you’re disarmed. So I always carry. We’ve talked about this before. I have no issue with it. I have no issue using lethal force. But there are times when you are barred from carrying by either state or local or municipal restrictions. And then they don’t give you any security. There’s a theater that I won’t go to in my area anymore because they don’t even have armed security, but yet they ban you from carrying on-premises. I’m just not going to do that. You’re a sitting duck. So I want to be able to always protect myself when I have to go for work or et cetera into some places where I cannot. And this is where the Berna gun comes in. I think this is a great idea also for college kids who are under the age of 21 and are not carrying pistols. You want to make sure that you’re able to protect yourself. The Berna CL compact launcher is the way to do it. If you have like a regular… um you know taser etc you have like one or two rounds in that but the cl has a 15 round shot capacity per cartridge and it it can deter threats from up to 50 feet away there’s no recoil and here’s the thing there’s no it doesn’t care about gun free zones because it’s not a gun so no permits no background checks it doesn’t care about all those restrictions you can do whatever with it you can literally buy it online and have it sent to your front door it’s about being prepared and having options to take care of your safety Like you have pistols and you have rifles, right? You have long guns and you have pistols and you have blades and different calibers. This is just another way of diversifying your self-defense kit. So visit bruna.com slash Dana and check out the CL, the compact launcher. B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Ready when you are. Make sure you’re following the podcast so you never miss an episode, especially when the news gets crazy. And while you’re there, leave a quick rating and review. It helps us get this show in front of more people who need some sanity in their day.
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And when this thing is moving and it’s happening and you’re not taking off your damn shoes and you’re not having to show your real ID and you’re just hopping on, you know, eat your heart out, Texas. That abandoned their high-speed rail project. By the way, that project that was announced a year after this one, $50 billion. They just pulled the plug on it last year. Why the hell wasn’t that a headline? They couldn’t get anything done there. Big red state of Texas. Supposed to show us how to do it. They couldn’t get a damn thing done.
SPEAKER 28 :
I’ve never seen anybody hold a press conference about one of their biggest failures. And yet, that’s what Gavin Newsom just did in that soundbite that you just heard. This was just yesterday. I am… I am just floored but also not over all of this because he’s talking about the high-speed rail. First off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. And we’re at the bottom of this first hour. We’ve talked about this before, the high-speed rail. that they had in California. I don’t know why he’s trying to slam Texas about this. I’m not quite sure. But he, I don’t know what the, it’s not even comparable. It’s not even comparable. So there was a New York Times piece that came out that really just like blew the lid off of this. And he’s been trying to, I mean, the rail that they have there, I think they only got like a stretch of it built. It was supposed to have been completed four, no, sorry, six years ago. Excuse me, I don’t know what the hell I’m thinking. It was supposed to have been completed six years ago. Yeah. When it first was pitched, it was supposed to cost $33 billion. Now, this was back in, like, what, 2008 or something like that, which was an astronomical amount of money then. Now, before you think that Gavin Newsom wasn’t involved in government, he was AG. He was mayor of San Francisco. He’s been involved at every aspect of government for the last 20 years, right? So… It was proposed and it was supposed to be $33 billion and they were going to have it completed by 2020. Except it’s only, what did they say? It’s not even a full 17 miles. I had someone, it was a listener that explained this to me a couple of years ago. And they were saying, well, they’re trying to act like X amount of miles have been built. But really what is happening is they got the pylons. And they’ve for certain areas of it and it’s like a few sections and it’s not even operable, et cetera, et cetera. So it was 33 billion and it was going to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. Voters approved it. It was on the ballot. And by the way, it wasn’t even supposed it wasn’t just supposed to be completed in 2020. The service was supposed to start in 2020. So how much do you think that the cost has expanded to now? If you had to guess.
SPEAKER 15 :
It started at, you said 33?
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, it’s $138 billion. Oh my God. $138 billion is what it ballooned to.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is Jerome Powell in charge of it?
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah. Yeah. It’s now what they’re looking at. Now, here’s what here’s the kicker. So remember, it started as a high speed rail project that was going to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. Thirty three billion service started in 2020. Apparently, they only have a portion of it kind of. Constructed. Completely inoperable. The costable into one hundred and thirty eight billion. And the rail itself has been scaled back. So. They’re now looking at a reduced, what they say, Central Valley line between, I think it’s Merced, Merced and Bakersfield. That’s not gonna open until 2032 at an additional cost of 36.7 billion. Newsom had to actually sign off on 21 billion of that alone. Now, the area where the little rail is going to be only has a combined population of under 500,000. So that means they’re spending $22,000 a person just to get a little rail line between these two little areas in California. This is Merced, California. Between that and Bakersfield. Just a little bitty area. $22,000. Now, they would have two stops, Fresno and Madeira. That’s it. Now, the realization as to whether or not they’re going to have that line ever completed, now officials are actually throwing doubt on it. And do you know what Democrats have been doing under Newsom in California? They’ve been promoting legislation that would actually stop Any auditing of any records related to high speed rail from public scrutiny. It’s legislation that they have been actively pushing in their state legislature. I know. How crazy is this? They said that they’re trying to critics are saying accusing them accurately of trying to conceal all the fraud in this multi-billion dollar money pit. $138 billion. Guys, it was, again, just to recap, $33 billion. Service was supposed to start in 2020, and then now it’s $138 billion, and it’s never going to be done. And just to get the little Fresno, whatever, Bakersfield thing happening, they had to commit like $36 billion, $21 billion of that. Newsom had to sign off on himself. So part of the reason there was a French company that was involved in all of this. It was a French company that came in and they were going to help California build their rail, right? They’ve got rail systems in France and they’ve also worked on stuff in Japan, you know, etc., So this French company came in and this is, it was the France National Railway, SNCF. They came to California. They were bidding on the project. Then they got so frustrated after years of nonsense and hemorrhaging money that they pulled up stakes and left. In just under seven, they left, like it was a couple of years, they just left. They actually completely pulled out in 2011. They went to Morocco and within seven years, they built pretty much the same high-speed rail system that they were looking to build from Los Angeles to San Francisco. They did it in Morocco within seven years under budget. I mean, go figure. This is crazy. And you know what they said? You know what the French company said? They said, get this, this is the direct quote, quote, the region is less politically dysfunctional, end quote. They pointed to the exorbitant amount of fraud, corruption, spending. They had all these… state lawmakers and officials that were trying to get the rail to go here and there, it was supposed to be a straight shot, right? And it ended up zigzagging all over the place, going to places where it never needed to go. I mean, they pulled out of bidding. They just, they couldn’t do it. They said that it’s impossible to do and they went elsewhere. It was supposed to be a two hour and 40 minute train ride, but you know. SCNF was reportedly very angry. According to one of the leaders of it, Mr. McNamara said, quote, there were so many things that went wrong. So they went, by the way, Morocco’s bullet train service started in 2018. Still functioning. Is that not something? So he’s having a press conference where he’s bragging about this. This is insane. This was approved. You’re supposed to go from San Francisco to L.A. two hours, 40 minutes. It was supposed to serve downtown and some of the major cities in between. And. Never happened. It was set up for failure immediately. It was supposed to be. I’m going to send you a picture. It was supposed to be just a straight shot. And then it ended up going all of these other places. Which ballooned the cost. Ballooned it. So they said they can’t do it. The French company is never coming back. They’re like, we’re never going to, you know, we’re never going to go do it. It’s never going to happen. And the company, what Juan’s showing you right now, the red was how it was supposed to go. All the yellow and the blue are all of the stuff that they did. Now, you’ve got to keep in mind, see the area on the map where it says Bakerfield and Fresno? This region has a combined $500,000. They’re spending in that area $22,000 a person. They did a study. No one takes the train. No one is going to need it. No one needs it. But guess who? There’s a state official that lives in that area that has big pockets. And he wanted that rail because he wanted some of that too. He wanted some of that control. He wanted some of that rail there. That was per the New York Times, not me. It is insane. It’s crazy. But this is, that’s California. So going back to his little press conference here, Why is he bragging about this? Do you realize that if they actually ever did an audit, now remember these lawmakers are trying to pass a law right now in California to prevent any kind of public scrutiny of the high-speed rail project. Do you realize that if they had an investigation, I would imagine that they would discover massive amounts of impropriety and there would be people going to jail. There would be people going to jail. And lawmakers, Gavin Newsom has been trying to bury this. Do you know that they’re saying that as of right now, wrap your mind around this number. The rail costs $215 million a mile. Per New York Post and the California Post. Yeah. $215 million per mile. I’m speechless. And he’s slamming Texas for what? Yeah. Texas was like, look, I’ll tell you, we live in an area where we have one passenger train and there’s like five cars on it. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. It slows down traffic. Everything has to shut down. And this one little five little nobody takes it. It’s like some like local tourists will take it. Yeah, it’s usually empty. I have a friend who wrote it actually a couple of months ago and said there were only three people on it. It’s stupid. It’s a waste of time. Texas was like, we don’t even need this. Everybody’s got big cars and Texas loves building highways. They will build highways on highways. They don’t care. It’s like a Dr. Seuss story. They don’t need it. It’s something that they didn’t need. So they did the right thing. This is actually, this is a huge issue for Newsom. And I feel like he’s trying to get around it by throwing it out here like that. Like, let me have a press conference about it. Let me do this. And it’s making, it’s helping, it’s kind of shielding him. He’s trying to reset the narrative. I mean, it really is probably one of the most wasteful projects ever attempted in American history. And it’s all because of the corruption. And he’s part of it. He’s part of it. By the way, the federal government pulled $4 billion out of it. They had a grant, a federal grant for $4 billion that the federal government pulled because they, and here’s the report, they cited, quote, systemic failures in management funding and schedule compliance. And here’s the thing. They’re supposed to go through this mountain pass area, construction on which they haven’t even started. They have to build a tunnel for this train to go through. They have to build two tunnels, in fact. All they did was put some concrete pylons and some flat farmland and they were like, oh, there it is. We’re building. They haven’t even started blasting through this mountain passage to get that. That’s the hardest part of this whole project. They haven’t even begun. How insane is that? You know, in Florida, they spent $5 billion and they built 235 mile long high speed line from Orlando to Miami. It was financed privately. They did not spend any public money on it, and it was five billion, and it came in right under budget, and they didn’t spend any taxpayer money on it at all. So it’s interesting that he talked about Texas, but he didn’t compare it to Florida. Very telling. I was talking with Colin Plume over at Noble Gold Investments, and we were discussing how no one really knows what 2026 is going to bring elections, markets, wars. 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I think it was really inspiring how Mr. Levin just keeps on wanting to grow and learn more from the people around him, his peers and his advisor, his father even.
SPEAKER 10 :
Anya, how do you want to grow?
SPEAKER 24 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 25 :
Hey, it’s Vince. I’m running for Congress against this guy. Stop having a politician that’s worse than Biden. for discretionary funding. Instead, vote for me, a guy who’s not half dead. I’m gonna soak up the swamp, clean the house, and pick up those liberal tears at the same time. I’m gonna slap-chop the nuts out of the woke, making less blue-haired commies and more red-blooded Americans. Vote for me so I can represent you and the ones that can’t stand up for themselves.
SPEAKER 28 :
Vote for ShamWow!
SPEAKER 25 :
Okay, that’s a really effective ad, and I’m sold, man.
SPEAKER 28 :
Dude, I’m voting for him. Even if I can’t, I’ll cheat. I’ll do it the Democrat way, man. I didn’t say nothing. I didn’t admit anything. What are you talking about? I didn’t admit anything. I didn’t hear nothing, you know. I’m just saying. He’s, well, good for him. Yeah, good for him. Good for him. Getting out there and doing that. And I liked how he did a play on all of the stuff that he’s known for. That was very clever. That’s the Vince, say his last name again. Shlomi? Shlomi. No, it’s… Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it’s Shlomi. Okay. Shlomi. I’m checking. Because it sounded kind of… Yeah, I think.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is it Shlomi? Yeah.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, ShamWow Shlomi.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. It’s the ShamWow guy. That’s all I know.
SPEAKER 28 :
I’d just be going by Vince ShamWow, although that’s probably a brand, and it’s probably trademarked, and he probably can’t do that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Those are for people in Texas in the 31st District. You will have an opportunity to vote for the ShamWow guy.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he’s talking, I mean, so his last name, yeah, it’s Shlomi. Shlomi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it’s spelled a couple different ways. S-C-H-L-O-M-M-Y, S-H-L-O-M-I. So I hope that that’s pretty confirmed before people go to the ballot to look for the name. I don’t, but he’s going up against incumbent John Carter. No offense, but John Carter does look like he’s at retirement age. Yeah. Let’s just say that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don’t know. It feels like the guy could handle it, right? I mean, yeah, he’s got some history, but, you know, who doesn’t at this point? Yeah, you know, he’s going to slap chop the nuts out of the woke. That slap chop is great. I loved the slap chop, just saying. There’s something about slapping your vegetables apart that’s just… Satisfying. Only America would come up with something where you just slap stuff apart instead of chopping it like a plebe. We got more on the way. Stick with us. During the holidays, it’s easy for all the healthy habits to go out the window. Desserts, late nights, you name it. But now that the new year has begun, I have one easy suggestion to get you back on track. And it starts with Cove Pure. Everyone runs to new supplements, diets and workouts, but ignores the most basic thing. water. Even mild dehydration hurts your energy, your focus, and metabolism. And with all the garbage and tap water, you’re starting behind before you even begin. Cove Pure fixes that. Their ClearWave Reverse Osmosis Tech removes up to 99.9% of contaminants, PFAs, microplastics, pharmaceutical residue, fluoride, heavy metals. So you’re just drinking water, which is why we love it. and you can pick hot, cold, or warm water at the touch of a button and use size presets like 16 ounces to make hitting your water goals simple. It sits on your countertop, no installation or plumber needed. I have mine in my studio, and my team uses it every day. Make a New Year’s resolution that sticks. Improve your health with CovePure. Get $200 off for a limited time when you use my link today. covepure.com slash Dana. That’s C-O-V-E-P-U-R-E dot com slash Dana.
SPEAKER 09 :
NBC News broke the story today. I don’t know if you saw it, that the Democrats are already saying, if you bring President Bill Clinton and he has to testify, we’re bringing President Trump. What do you say to that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I think they might say that, you know, but they’ve already brought me. See, I’ve been brought. They had me indicted many, many times. many, many times.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the president had some surprising thoughts about former President Bill Clinton. It bothers me that somebody’s going after Bill Clinton. See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton.
SPEAKER 06 :
What do you like about him? Well, I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me, he understood me. He was the one that said very famously that you don’t wanna run against Trump when there were 18 people. There was 18 people, including me, total. And he kept telling them, you don’t want to run against Trump. Run against anyone. Don’t run against Trump. And Hillary sort of laughed at him.
SPEAKER 28 :
I need him to stop talking nice about Bill Clinton. I just need it to stop. Stop talking nice about Bill Clinton. Just stop it. Honestly, the reason being is because I they let’s remind everybody what happened during 2020. Right. You had POTUS now who was targeted by the Clintons that ended up having to pay a big whopping fine because they lied to a FISA court so that they could spy illegally. surveil people who were working with the Trump campaign. And then they almost compromised a CIA asset against Russia because they were trying to say that Carter Page was a Russian asset when he actually was a CIA asset against Russia. And then the people who get so uptight about outing Valerie Plame were upset because that got outed or weren’t upset because that got outed. They tried to undermine and upend a free and fair election. So no, I don’t care if they said something nice about him. They tried to rob voters. There’s no nice. There’s no nice about this at all whatsoever. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this. Is this our third hour? No, sorry, second hour. I feel like we’ve been on air for a million hours. It’s a weird day. It’s a very weird day. So The I and you know they’re they’ve been saying this because of all the stuff with the Epstein files and everybody’s been talking about the Clintons with they have to go and testify the stuff that’s coming out. Can I just say why are people still acting like Steve Bannon isn’t an embarrassment to the movement. This is a guy who took a reporter named Michael Wolff a well-known snake in the grass and just let him traipse through the White House and overhear conversations and shocker shocker he wrote this horrible book where he was trying to go after the administration and all because Bannon wanted to see his name in print. I mean I’ve seen socialites that wanted to be famous less than Steve Bannon. And that’s true. This guy’s fame hungry. He doesn’t do anything. Everything, he gloms onto stuff and then acts like he created it. He did it with Sarah Palin. He did it with Andrew Breitbart. He tried to take credit for Trump’s ascendancy. He was just there. He didn’t contribute to anything. And somehow he convinced Jeffrey Epstein. Was this before or after he was arrested on a communist party, communist Chinese assets boat? He got arrested on a communist Chinese assets boat. A guy who works with the CCP. Yeah, but whatever. We’re going to sit here and act like America first and all this stuff. You know, a guy is literally like stabbing Trump in the back six ways to Sunday and working with the CCP. But OK, maybe if you ask Kiss him enough, you’ll get another cocktail invite. Zoom more often. So anyway. You’ve got now he’s his name and all these other people’s names are in this Epstein list. There was the thing where he did this interview with Epstein. He was trying to coach him. He was trying to rehab his image. This is even apparently after the pedo conviction. still working with him, still trying to rehabilitate his image. I just don’t see how in any way that is defensible. I just think if you’re palling around with this guy now, then you’re sanctioning Epstein and everything else that went on with that. I mean, took pictures with him, made sure he got a lot of pictures with him, you know, over the years, exchanged emails or emails where they were talking about undermining Trump. Of course, this is Bannon, the same guy who called Donald Trump Jr. a traitor and promoted the Fusion GPS oppo about Trump Jr. and the whole story, the meeting in New York and Trump Tower, that whole thing, called him a traitor. But we’re going to sit here and act like he’s still like, you know, America first or whatever. Okay, sure. Whatever. Asinine. You know what? There are people that it’s not about America first. It’s about them first and whatever they can do to promote that to that effect. So to that point, these emails that have come out, there’s a lot of them. People are still going through them. None of this looks good. None of this looks good. It all looks bad. And… The I think there was one where he was going off on he was talking to Chomsky and he was going off on Israel. He’s like, I don’t he doesn’t like Israel. He said he didn’t like it. Somebody had suggested that they have a meeting somewhere there. And he’s like, never Israel. No. So I guess there goes the. What was it, the story that he was with Mossad? I guess there goes that whole narrative. Very inconvenient. There are a lot of people. I just, you know, I’m trying to figure out how everybody can sit here and go on and on and on about Epstein, but then you’re not going to say anything about, you know, Bannon being involved with Epstein to the extent that he was, which was pretty deep, even knowing everything else. Everybody goes after, what is it, that Prince Andrew dude? They go after him. I mean, are we, like, are we picking and choosing who we’re going after here? There’s more coming out about all of this, but the emails are pretty bad. There was a apparently now he’s being accused that he had like bodies buried on his Zorro Ranch out in New Mexico. This guy, he was everywhere, knew everybody, had a lot of a lot of compromising stuff. And the stuff with Bill Gates, the stuff with, you know, the the Andrew Windsor or whatever his name is, Bannon, the Clintons, pictures of Bill Clinton at some of these. Oh, my gosh. You can just smell that. It’s just greasy and disgusting. So I don’t know. I I look at all this stuff. I’m like, oh. There definitely are some people compromised. It hasn’t been Trump, but it has been one of the dudes that he excommunicated from his inner circle, likely for good reason. Just FYI. Speaking of excommunicado, have you seen all of these Washington Post reporters losing their minds? So just to give you some insight, Jeff Bezos, he’s cutting costs at Washington Post. They’ve been hemorrhaging millions of dollars a year. Just hemorrhaging an astronomical amount of money. The reaction to this has been stunning. I wanted to pull up this from one of their staffers who was let go. One of their staffers says, it always bears repeating. This is not ultimately a financial decision. Jeff Bezos is worth over $250 billion. He can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. This is, at its core, a political and personal decision by Bezos to destroy the Post. Because one-third of their staff across all departments are being laid off so it’s not just the newsroom. My thought is this. If it’s not financially solvent, he can save his money, right? He doesn’t have to keep funding this ridiculousness. I mean, it’s not even really all the time journalism. I mean, if you have to be propped up, are you successful anyway? I mean, if you have to be propped up, there’s questions as to whether or not You’re successful if you can’t stand on your own. Clearly, they’re not standing on the work alone that they’re doing because the advertising dollars isn’t supporting it. But why does Jeff? I mean, what gets me is that they think that this is a welfare project. They think that this is that it’s supposed to be a welfare project. They aren’t owed continuation. They aren’t owed this. I mean, good heavens, why are they so eager to be subsidized by somebody else’s money? These are deadbeats, people who’ve never built anything in their lives that are demanding everyone else subsidize their dreams. That’s what this is. They’ve… They’ve been hemorrhaging money. The guy who owns it, he’s going to be acting in the best interest of business. Just because he has the money doesn’t mean he owes you a living. To do what? It’s activism. You’re doing activist stuff. You’ve been doing activist stuff and trying to present it as journalism. I mean, he’s there to make money. That’s what business is. He’s not there to subsidize a bunch of leftist propaganda activities. So, I mean, it’s kind of like they’re admitting that it’s a drain, that it’s a financial drain. He can afford to lose many millions, so they’re admitting that it’s a drain. How is that good business? to just waste money like this, to just hemorrhage money. Well, it’s not. It’s rhetorical. It’s not good business. It’s not good business to hemorrhage money like that. This is stupid. These are people who literally never built anything, ever. You know what’s interesting? I was looking back at some of this. Do you know the Washington Post? The editor had said before that they had never been an independent newspaper. The Post editorial page on its first day of publication, it was December 6, 1877. Their whole existence was about promoting the Democrat Party. That was their whole existence. And so the very first thing that they did in this editorial is they wrote how the Post will aim to be a thoroughgoing newspaper, always abreast the times. it will be democratic in politics and modern in style. Now, by the way, this is from page 4, Thursday morning, December 6, 1877. They said it will be democrat in politics and modern in style. They write, the Democratic Party controls 25 of the most important states of the union today and is in a position to prevent bad legislation. They add, the Post will do what it can to uphold the Democratic majority in the house and the majestic Democratic minority in the Senate and it will bring about the political Millennium, which is due in 1880. That’s what they wrote that was in 1877 their editorial page on their first day of publication. So they were outed as a propaganda entity. They’ve also by the way, They’ve never won or they’ve never endorsed a Republican for president. Interesting, is it not? They have never, ever endorsed a Republican for president. And they’re mad because Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to continue subsidizing those. Yeah, it’s journalism-ing. And then you got this, Bernie Sanders. Listen to him. Quote, if Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie and $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don’t tell me that he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Which home did he tweet that from?
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, I know. He is an 84-year-old treasury drain who’s mad because the guy responsible for, like, how many percentage points of the GDP does Jeff Bezos constitute? At least probably one. He doesn’t want to waste money on a financial drain. Bernie Sanders doesn’t know anything about running a business. Remember, he ran a zine, like, what was it, in the 60s? And his wife bankrupted a school. So why is that human drain on the treasury mad that someone who’s more successful than him is going to spend his money in business in a smart fashion? What a joke. He’s recognizing that the Washington Post is failing. You know, they could learn to code. What’s funny is you could be suspended on X if you said that four years ago. Speaking of Bernie Sanders, he spent over half a million dollars just last year alone on private jets. That’s a lot. That is a lot. According to a new story, New York Post, Bernie Sanders spent almost $600,000 actually on private jets. Wait a minute. Oligarchy what? He was on the, now here’s what’s funny. He did this while he was on his political tour. What was his political tour called? Fighting oligarchy tour.
SPEAKER 15 :
Brought to you by oligarchs.
SPEAKER 28 :
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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 now they’re saying coffee is so good for your heart and there’s a healthy way to drink it. I know it goes back and forth. We all have whiplash. Cardiologists are cautioning patients with atrial fibrillation against caffeine, but now they’re transforming their advice because they say that it’s actually can be good for you. Coffee. Just don’t put like tons of sugar and stuff like that into it. Did you really need that explained to you? In addition, I know we’re really short this break because I went really long last segment, but I’ll make it up to you. But tech stocks plunge, AI fears are taking hold. We’ll talk more AI coming up. Stick with us. Folks who make it possible are friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that’s in existence. Patriot Mobile not only wants to save you money. but they want to make sure that your money is not working against you at the ballot box. But they give you the best premium prioritized service on all three major U.S. networks, so you’re getting reliable coverage everywhere. It’s backed by a 100% U.S.-based customer support team. You get unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming, everything that you want from a top-tier carrier. And every bill helps to fund organizations that stand for religious liberty, life, and constitutional rights. It’s not just a phone service. It’s a movement. Be very smart as to how you spend your money. Work with like-minded companies, especially when it’s the only like-minded company in existence for the service, Patriot Mobile. Take a stand and make the switch today. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Use promo code Dana to get your free phone. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, 972-PATRIOT. Promo code Dana for your free phone.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is now up to Labour MPs to do the right thing. I know there are many of them who are horrified by what has happened. We saw that in the House of Commons just yesterday.
SPEAKER 01 :
They might now expect the Prime Minister to take responsibility, but we know he won’t. He will have to be dragged out of Number 10. So, I am making them an offer. If they want the change they know the country needs, come and speak to my whips and let’s talk seriously about a vote of no confidence to force the moment.
SPEAKER 28 :
So they’re having a bit of a pickle over in the UK right now because the far left has, how do I put this? They’ve been compromised by associations and promoting of one MP and associations with Epstein and all of this stuff has come out in these emails, et cetera. But now it’s imperiled Keir Starmer. I was actually a little worried about our ally across the pond because I thought, golly, because I know that people are flirting with the idea of returning to the EU and There’s been a lot of discussion about that. So I’m just hoping that this just tanks all of it. There’s a number of things that I want to talk about with our next guest. You guys are familiar with Mr. Matt Mowers. He is with the EU-U.S. Forum. He’s a founding board member and he also worked in the Trump administration state department the first time around. Now, I know UK is obviously not part of the EU, however. It is. It does affect all of this affects everything else. Matt joins us now via video. Matt, always good to see you. I just I kind of wanted to get, you know, your quick thoughts on that before we start talking about this other stuff, particularly as it relates to the to the United Nations and POTUS and the EU and Gaza. But I mean, does Starmer out is because for people who don’t know. He basically appointed a guy who’s pretty cozy with Epstein and he’s incredibly compromised. And this is just one of many scandals to say nothing of the grooming gangs in Rotherham that have also compromised Keir Starmer. Is this it? Like, what does it take to get this guy out?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I mean, look, you know, Lord Mandelson, who he had appointed as ambassador to the U.S., was a total snake in the grass from the beginning. I mean, this is a guy who in 2018, 19, 2024 was attacking Donald Trump. Keir Starmer then chooses him. hand selects him to become the ambassador of the U.S. after Donald Trump gets elected. And then, of course, you know, Mandelson’s out there saying, well, I didn’t really mean it. I’ve had a change of opinion, which we all knew was just a bunch of happy talk as an intent to try to then weasel into the good graces of the United States. And so, like, when you put someone like that in that type of position, someone who clearly is willing to to, you know, mislead and lie about how they feel. You know, it’s not surprising that they’re caught up in this situation now. I mean, you know, the president likes to use that poem often at rallies that says, you knew I was a snake when you took me in. You know, it’s the same thing with Keir Starmer and Lord Mandelson. He knew he was a snake when he took him in, yet he chose to do it anyway. And whether they knew about the extent of the relationship with Epstein or not, it seemed like it was a wide open secret in London. So I’m not sure how they wouldn’t have. I mean, MI6 is pretty good based on anything I’ve ever been able to tell from my time in the State Department. I think they would have known this. But this is just another litany of the problems for Keir Starmer and the Labor Party. You look at their approval rating right now, they’re down to about 20% support in polls, 20%. Reform Party, Nigel Farage’s party is significantly polling higher than them right now. And it’s because you do have frustration with this double talk coming out of the Labour Party. They said they were going to actually try to make some market reforms. They haven’t. They said they were going to actually start protecting free speech. They haven’t. They’ve actually been rolling back on all the issues that the voters of the UK care about. And at the same time, then they get themselves caught in messes and scandals like this. It only adds insult to injury.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, it does. And I it’s interesting because he was very Mandelson was very, very hostile towards POTUS. So that was a very deliberate pick. That was a thumb in the eye that Starmer made when he selected him to be the ambassador. I mean, I there’s no other way to read that. Of course, it blew up in his face. And I’m trying not to, you know, enjoy the schadenfreude on this because, you know, I heaven forbid. But still, I mean, what a horrible I mean, miscalculation to get over your skis like that. How petty.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, my gosh. I mean, and it shows the hubris, right? The fact that they thought they could take a guy who had been so vocally opposed to the president and his agenda, make him the ambassador to the United States. I mean, this is supposed to be the special relationship. This is the one where you’re supposed to choose the person who you think is going to be able to embody what’s needed. And by the way, the UK needs the United States a heck of a lot more than the US needs the UK these days. You know, it’s a it is a single economy right now. We want to get a trade deal done. The president’s announced the tenets of a trade deal. But at the end of the day, the UK really needs the US right now. And, you know, by sending someone like that as the ambassador to then having to recall them, you know, not not smart, not smart.
SPEAKER 28 :
Not smart at all. Huge black eye on him. And it looks like the momentum against Starmer, who I can’t stand. I cannot stand this man. Looks like it’s building. So, you know, it’s nice to see as we start the new year. We’re talking with Matt Mowers with the EU-US forum. OK, in Spain. Their prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, they have all of these measures that they have been aiming at social media. And this is very similar to the European Union targeting X, France targeting X, all of these European nations. With Pedro Sanchez’s government, they sent out this thing to Telegram warning people about using Telegram. I saw this the other day. They are pushing these regulations that I mean, they call it a protection, but in reality, it’s the creation of a surveillance state. I was really hopeful because I know conservatives have been gaining a lot of ground in Spain, but I feel like it’s slow going. Give me your latest assessment as to what’s happening with this nation right now.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, it’s amazing. I mean, Spain, out of all the countries in the EU, is probably one of the harder ones to turn. It’s just got such this history with the far left political parties in the country. But it’s not surprising that they’re going to be among the forefront of those codifying what a bunch of other countries are already doing on free speech, right? I mean, you look at what Germany is doing. You know, we’ve often talked about what’s happening in the Netherlands. UK, we talk about even though it’s not in the EU. really clamping down on free speech, monitoring private communications in groups like WhatsApp and others. Now, as you talk about Telegram. And so it’s not surprising that they are trying to do whatever they can to utilize political power, government power to restrict the free speech of Americans. citizens who are just trying to express their opinion. And I go back and I think about the polling that the EU-US forum did about a year and a half ago now, around the time of the EU elections, and nearly 70% of respondents, and Spain was one of the countries we polled, said that if you, nearly 70% said that there were too many free speech restrictions already at that point. let alone now, where you’re continuing to see this erosion of free speech, where you’re continuing to see politicians and governing authorities try to tell you what is appropriate speech and not appropriate speech. And it’s all a slippery slope, right? I mean, it starts with, you know, they bring these broad definitions of hate speech.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
In many parts of the European Union, you can’t say illegal immigrant. If you use the term illegal immigrant, that’s a term of hate speech.
SPEAKER 27 :
It’s a legal term.
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s a legal term. It’s fascinating. We did about a million dollars of advertising in the lead up to the EU elections. Our lawyers said you can’t use the term illegal immigrant because it violates hate speech laws in too many European Union countries right now. It was I mean, it was it was dumbfounding. And so, you know, you this has been ongoing for a long time. Spain is now just, you know, the tip of the spear on a lot of it. But given their their infatuation with the left wing parties there, I’m not surprised that’s going to be the one of the first places they truly try to codify these restrictions on free speech. But that’s why we have to be so vigilant, because others will follow suit.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, you know, they’re all pretty interconnected. They all go to the same, you know, hangouts in Brussels and they like to swap lousy left wing ideas and indoctrinate and bring them back to their home countries. So that’s why we got to remain vigilant in all this.
SPEAKER 28 :
And Spain looks I mean, honestly, I’m looking at some of the the regulations that they have that they’ve proposed. I shouldn’t say passed because one of them they wanted to criminalize the use of algorithms. that amplified certain content. I don’t even know how that’s enforced. I don’t even know how a country even starts going about enforcing that unless you’re talking about really bringing a heavy hand, unlike really what we’ve actually seen in Europe and even with Spain. I mean, that’s CCP level monitoring.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. Oh, and what? Now the government’s going to dictate what an AI algorithm is? Do they have the engineering capabilities and experts who understand how an AI generative computer is able to actually go through and determine what gets served up or not? They have no damn idea. I mean, it’s a bunch of government bureaucrats who want to regulate everything to death for political power. And this is why the US, despite the ongoing relationship with the EU that’s always going to have, and European countries that’s going to have, cannot be reliant upon the EU’s policy framework and regulatory framework. Because if we are going to be in a place where we want to out-compete China, especially with the development of AI, I mean, the truth is the Europeans are going to regulate it to death. There’s no way that they’d be able to outcompete China. Now, I think China, at the end of the day, is going to try to do too much state-sponsored AI generation as well. It’s going to hamstring themselves. But Europe’s going to be right there with them. It’s why the US is going to be on the leading edge of all these things. and really charting the way forward. But that’s why at the EU-US forum, we’d be concerned about CSDD, CSRD, these acronyms for these big, broad regulatory frameworks that say companies, even in the US, have to start complying with European Union laws to have access there. What if they start saying, well, hey, if you want to be a tech company, And this is what they’re doing. If you want to be a tech company that wants to offer a platform in the European Union, we’re going to set the AI algorithm now. We, the government, are going to actually tell you what you can and can’t do. It’s really no better than what’s happening in China. I mean, look, as American conservatives, we rightfully complained and bemoaned when there were tech companies that were having a separate set of rules for China, letting the CCP dictate the terms there. Yet we were allowing technology owned by China to actually be here unfettered in the United States under our free speech protections. Same thing’s now happening in the European Union. We’ve got to wisen up to it.
SPEAKER 28 :
Last quick question. The Board of Peace with POTUS and the United Nations. POTUS is serving as the inaugural chairman. No term limit holds veto power. And it’s it was supposed to be just about the Gaza reconstruction. You have 25 countries that have agreed to join up with us. What are your thoughts on this? Because there’s a lot of the reluctance has come from. major eu powers that’s where all of course that’s where all the reluctance has come i mean you have everybody from argentina to even you know hungary uae that’s all signed up for this but the major eu players are very very reluctant why is that
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, because it might mean fewer cocktail parties they get to go to sponsored by the government or the UN. I mean, look, at the end of the day, people forget that the United Nations’ goal is to actually advocate and bring about peace. Yet you look at who was on the Human Rights Council previously. You had Maduro-led Venezuela. You had Cuba. You had a whole host of other human rights abusers. And not to mention, it really didn’t do anything. You know, when they got involved is too late. It was riddled with scandal most of the time. And so, you know, what you see President Trump trying to do is bring new thinking, new alliances, new allegiances. And it’s not to say, you know, it’s actually, you know, some people say, well, it’s a step away from diplomacy. No, it’s step away from failed attempts at diplomacy. He’s bringing in new attempts at diplomacy that actually are catered to the current world order. I think anyone who looked back and determined the Security Council today, the way that is in the UN, which was developed after World War II, would say the makeup of the countries would look radically different right now. The leaders in the world look radically different right now. And so that’s what President Trump’s addressing. And not only that, he wants to ensure countries are stepping up to the plate and investing their money in the peace process as well, their talents in the peace process as well, because he doesn’t want America to have to go it alone in these places. And the truth is, America’s had to lead the U.N. to get anything done. He doesn’t want that to just have to be the case. He wants to bring others into the fold as well. Europeans are just you know, they’re more It’s such the mindset of the EU where they’re so wedded to process that they don’t really care about the result anymore. And that’s like the left-wing bureaucratic mindset. You know, it’s all about process. It’s not about results.
SPEAKER 28 :
That’s the greatest explanation of that. And that’s just so like old Europe as well. They’re expanding the welfare state. We were expanding defensive spending, which is a percentage of our GDP. Matt Mowers with the EU-US Forum. You can find him at Mowers, M-O-W-E-R-S, on X. Always good to see you. Appreciate your time. Thanks so much. Thank you.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 28 :
So, you know, in Florida, because the temperatures have dropped, they’re dealing with iguanas falling out of trees. And it is one of the craziest weather related things I can think of. And it’s an actual big ordeal. They put out notices because you can get hurt with a big old iguana falling out of a tree on you. We’ve got stories. And they’re not dead. They just like they’re like frozen. They lay on the ground and they’re kind of out of it. So now there’s a Florida man who’s turning frozen iguanas into tacos. He says, if you can’t beat them, eat them. This is something my husband would do. I’ve literally never eaten one. But, I mean, you know, I guess if I was starving. I’ve eaten alligator. I mean, he says it’s the chicken of the trees. It says, iguana has a mild flavor. When seasoned right, it’s surprisingly tasty, especially when tucked into a taco with all the fixings. Okay, I… You know what?
SPEAKER 15 :
I’m willing to try it.
SPEAKER 28 :
This is… Okay, this is where it gets gross, so… Because during the cleaning process, he discovered one iguana was loaded with eggs, over 20 eggs. And he’s like, oh, look, I prevented dozens more. I don’t want to deal with that. Okay? I don’t want to deal with that. I’m a girl. Look, I have field-dressed a deer. I’ve done all that. This is an iguana. This is different from regular prairie critter. You know what I mean? Like prairie critter I can deal with. This is just straight up. I feel I mean, it feels I don’t know. I feel like I’m in hell divers and I’m like eating the things I just shot. You know, I’m like, I don’t know, man. Anyway, so he makes tacos out of them. That’s one way to deal with it. Woo! I’m going to hear from every Florida person because in addition to having machetes, you know that they’re going to be doing this. Let’s see. A Florida man took a work for you to a dangerous level, tried to run a dude over. Okay, we got to resolve our differences differently. This is from Keys News. The man, he smiles in his mugshot, Monroe County. 50-year-old Jorge Garcia, he was driving a pickup truck And he swerved to hit a 38-year-old male. Turns out the male, they’ve had a workplace dispute. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. You can’t do that. You can’t be running people over with your vehicle. And, of course, it was all caught on security footage from a nearby gas station that backed up the victim’s allegations. Third hour on the way. Go nowhere.
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SPEAKER 28 :
Why do they not like IDs to vote, but they wanted you to show your papers for vaccinations? These are the same people they wanted. And the majority of voters, Democrat and Republican, there’s been so many surveys. It’s just just we’d be here all day. They support voter ID. Welcome back to the program. Top of the third hour. Dana Lash with you. Find us over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe, as well as the podcast. Was it Jim Crow to make everybody show ID and papers during the great vaccine fight? Interesting. You know, I had to cancel a whole bunch of stuff in New York when all that happened. Because there were places that wanted to have meetings and I probably ended up screwing myself, but I don’t care. It would have been worse if I would have had an experimental injection. And the places that I wanted to go to, they did not allow individuals in the building that were quote unquote unvaccinated. And it didn’t matter if you already had the virus, because I’d already had COVID. Didn’t matter because none of that came shaking his head. It’s true. None of that mattered. All of the… Like natural immunity isn’t a thing that they believe in. And you had to show, you had to download an app there. You had to download an app and put your ID in. And you had to use this app. Like if you wanted to go out to eat in New York, to go to restaurants, get a cab, whatever, you had to have an app to like show your injection status. That’s the dumbest thing ever. But that wasn’t Jim Crow. Is it Jim Crow? No. Do you have to show ID to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products? Is it Jim Crow to have to produce an ID if one wants to get a phony cane? I’m just saying.
SPEAKER 15 :
The irony is it’s the left that in New York they did that Lucy cigarette law that ended up. You know, people who were selling Lucy cigarettes and dying how he got killed.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, he got killed because they wanted stronger enforcement of Lucy cigarettes. That’s them.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s Democrats.
SPEAKER 28 :
That’s their history. They wanted. That’s what that’s what they fought for. I mean, very conveniently, none of those things are Jim Crow. But oh my gosh, you ask people to show an ID because they’re going to vote. Suddenly that’s Jim Crow. That’s Jim Crow all of a sudden, which is so stupid. The left has been doing this forever. They invented Jim Crow, so they think that they can now turn around and redefine it six ways to Sunday. And this is all because the House is voting next week on photo ID. They’re going to vote. Steve Scalise said the floor vote. They’re going to force it. It’s going to happen. Savex stuff. Voter integrity. Incredibly important. What is the problem with showing an ID to vote? I think if you’ve got a problem, I mean, this is something that is, you know, it’s a sacred process in this country. If you don’t want to show an ID to vote, then I’m questioning your motives. I feel like you’re going to be pulling some shenanigans is all I’m saying. I got a couple of other things to get to. I dropped some audio, by the way, if you want to grab that. It’s Kathy Hochul, who said something insane about firearms, apparently, because they’re pushing all kinds of restrictions. And I’ll wait for one to get that. In the meantime… Oh, wait, do we have… Okay, no, I’ll wait for us to get it. You just signal when we got it. I’ll wait for her to get it. In the meantime, you have Brandon Gill, who has introduced… He said that Islamic migration is transforming DFW. He said that there’s a huge problem with mass Islamic migration in Dallas and DFW. And he also is introducing a moratorium on Somali immigration. He said Somalia, which is true, it’s a predominantly Muslim country. He said, and people of Texas are concerned about some of this stuff. They had an Islamic group called Why Islam that visited Wiley East High School on February 2nd, handing hijabs to female students and distributing pamphlets on Sharia, per Texas Scorecard. Apparently, it was a visit that was not approved by the parents or really the school body itself. So the school addressed it. And they said in an email, quote, mistakes are made, we take full responsibility, etc., etc. Why was that even allowed to happen in the first place? You’d get in trouble for praying in school, but you can go and distribute hijabs and promote Sharia. Yeah. All of this, of course, now you have an Islamic complex, an Islamic center, East Plano, residential religious development in Collin County. That’s the epic city. They renamed it the Meadows. We’ve talked about this before with the governor. And then you have, for instance, you’ve had a guy who killed his daughters, according to Sharia, just down the highway from us in Irving. And then you have an Afghan national who was in Fort Worth, Mohamed Dawood Alokhose, who came out in support of Taliban, threatened to bomb last Thanksgiving the entire area. He was working as a private security guard as recently as 2024. Now, Gil has legislation in Congress that would pause Somali immigration for 25 years. I completely agree with this. Yes, the United States has every right to gatekeep. If your baseball team has the right to gatekeep players, your country has the right to gatekeep who comes in and comes out. Come on. And he’s correct when he talks about, particularly Somali diaspora, the welfare rates are significantly higher than any and all Americans. Crime rates are higher than even any other immigrant group rate. That’s wild. I didn’t know that. But they are. He said the legislation would not currently affect Somalis that have legal status in the United States. So those who were in the country properly would be exempt from the law, including apparently current green card holders, diplomatic and international organization visas. He says it’s not kicking them out just as we don’t want anymore. And he wants to cosponsor legislation to denaturalize Somalis engaged in fraud. I can’t believe that’s not an automatic thing. If you’re engaging in taxpayer fraud to the degree that the Somali diaspora was in Minnesota and other groups are elsewhere, that should be automatic denaturalization and deportation. Because people aren’t coming here for the American dream. They’re coming here to pervert the American dream. They’re coming here to pervert the American dream. And they’re coming here to deconstruct the republic. That’s really ultimately what it is. I want to play this audio. This is Kathy Hochul, who I can’t, I want you to just listen to what she says here. I’m just gonna lay it out with no comment right now. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 :
You will no longer sell handguns that can be converted into semi-automatic machines able to fire 1200 rounds a minute. Not here, not in New York.
SPEAKER 28 :
Where can I get this fantastic gun that fires, a pistol that fires 1,200 rounds a minute? Where can I get this? I’m like Googling. Apparently it’s in New York somewhere. Yeah, where can I get this 1,200 rounds a minute pistol? Where can I get it? This, I’m just going to say fabulous pistol. Where can I get this fabulous pistol? Holy wow. 1,200 rounds a minute. So she’s, these, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER 15 :
A belt-fed pistol? I don’t know.
SPEAKER 28 :
I really, I don’t know. Maybe it’s like a plasma pistol and she just doesn’t understand it. Just, you know, auto reload. I don’t know. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Do you realize what you’d have to do to do 1,200 rounds through a pistol in one minute? I think you’d burn your hand. You could even have a switch on that damn thing. It still wouldn’t do it.
SPEAKER 28 :
So, and she’s been calling for stricter laws. They want to, they’re going after, which we’re going to dive into here coming up, the 3D printing. They’re going after all of it. But I just want to come, this is, people who have no idea about firearms are the ones that want to, they want to ban everything. I’m trying to, what does that pistol even look like? What does she mean semi-automatic machines? What the hell is that? Where do I get these fabulous pistols? I can’t even imagine the mag that you would have to have. Like a drum mag wouldn’t do it.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, it’d have to be belt fed.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah. Yeah, it would have to. A belt fed pistol. How does that, how do you carry that?
SPEAKER 15 :
You don’t.
SPEAKER 28 :
I mean, I guess you could like feed it. you know, like a, I’m thinking like a bandolier, you could, you know, like feed it like off your belt, maybe. Like you’d wear it as like the belt and then it just like would feed, I don’t know. I’m trying to think out loud. That’s, wow. What is, I’m wondering what the manufacturer of this pistol is. Nobody in the press asked for that. Ma’am, can you name the, who manufactures that pistol? Ma’am, what kind of, what kind of pistol are you talking about? Is it, is it select fire capable?
SPEAKER 15 :
And what kind of rounds? Like, what kind of rounds? That matters, too. Because how are you going to feed the next, you know, there’s certain rounds you can’t feed that fast into any weapon.
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah. So I’m, I guess all mine are under that 1,200 per minute threshold. That’s a real bummer. And she’s talking about converting into semi-automatic machines. What does that mean? A semi-automatic machine.
SPEAKER 15 :
Wait, she’s worried about a semi-automatic being converted into a semi-automatic machine?
SPEAKER 28 :
I don’t know. I literally don’t even know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Save that for today in stupidity, Juan.
SPEAKER 28 :
She, I don’t know. I am without words. It was in her State of the State address. So this is something that she made yesterday after radio. And she was talking about the Glock switches. By the way, all of this is done. You can’t aftermarket, you know, do that. I mean, you can’t take a semi-auto and flip it to full auto. I mean, all of this stuff is already regulated. And the fact that lawmakers pretend that it’s not is an insult to the intelligence of Americans. This is so stupid. I’m just wondering like how she’s talking about, you know, she calls unmodified pistols, quote, semi-automatic machines. And that’s what she’s still none of it makes any sense. None of it. I really need people in government to just stop talking entirely about firearms, whether they’re in the administration or whether it’s Kathy Hochul. Just stop entirely. It’s not helpful. I have a whole thing in the Washington Times about this, by the way, that I will link in your prep email. I’ll make sure that you get access to that for you subscribers. They need to stop talking about it. Ellen DeGeneres is fleeing the U.S. Well, she fled the U.S. for the U.K. because of Trump. She’s been in the Cotswolds for a year. Now she’s coming back. To the U.S.? Yes. $27 million mansion in California. She’s saying that apparently she thinks that Britain is becoming unsafe. Actually, I think that they just couldn’t take the rain in the mud in Cotswolds because they purchased two different properties over there. They bought a house out there, and then they didn’t like it, so they went to a different one, and now they don’t like that, so now they’re coming back to Montecito. Hmm.
SPEAKER 15 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 28 :
So a human skull donated to a Michigan Goodwill. Apparently now police are looking for the woman responsible. They just want to talk to her. Apparently it was dropped off at the thrift store last week. And it’s. Yeah, you can’t. It’s illegal. That’s why they’re like, hey, you dropped off a human skull wrapped in a shirt. They said that there were no. uncharacteristic holes or visible damage, and they turned it over to a medical examiner. They sent it to an anthropology department. Could take up to 90 days. What do you got to do? Like, look and be like, it’s a skull, all right. So they just want to talk to the person responsible. That’s pretty baldy to drop off a skull to a Goodwill. Like, somebody could use this in their everyday decorations. I don’t know. But they just want to talk to her. They’re not saying she killed anybody, but they want to talk to her. Let’s see. Personal protection pups. Demand has increased. The shocking rise of personal protection dogs. My whole caution with this, it’s a whole piece of the Guardian by this woman who does not know how to write a lead to save her life. So I’m going to spare you. I mean, good heavens, Elle Hunt. Learn how to journalism. But I think that a lot of people are getting these dogs and they don’t know how to take care of them. If you’re getting a personal protection dog that’s a working dog, that’s a high-energy dog, you’ve got to be able to devote a lot of attention to that and a lot of training. Smoking laws. They’re trying to make cigarettes unaffordable. $17 for a pack of cigarettes. People will pay it. That’s not going to work. They’ve tried this six ways to Sunday. So right now, they’re looking to add more taxes to this. So in Seattle, they cost like $15. At Washington, they’re looking at House Bill 2382. They’re going to slap an extra $2 in taxes on cigarettes in Washington. So you’re looking at paying $17 for. That’s insane. That’s insane.
SPEAKER 1 :
$17.
SPEAKER 28 :
That’s just.
SPEAKER 15 :
Back in the day when I used to smoke. I paid less than that for a carton.
SPEAKER 28 :
That’s crazy. But people are still buying it. They’re still buying them. We’ve got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Back after this.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m trying to wrap my mind around this headline.
SPEAKER 28 :
It’s from the New York Post, and it says, New York City politicians are demanding action from Mandani, blaming ambiguous city snow removal rules for delayed cleanup. What is ambiguous about snow removal? They’re having a hell of a time. This is cut 17. Apparently, they’re not actually removing.
SPEAKER 11 :
We are in front of a lander shul. And the snow patrol is clearing up over here. Big mounds of snow. But instead of carting it away, they’re spreading it out equally on the entire road. So hopefully it’s going to melt quicker. But look at this. It’s almost like three inches over here. But it seems like it’s like 15 degrees tonight. So this is all going to become a sheet of ice. Yeah, yeah. Liberalism is a mental disorder. It’s not much like Mamdani. He wants to make this place a socialist. He wants to spread the snow equally. Everyone equally gets the same amount of snow. What do you got to say? You’re looking fine. You’re looking fine.
SPEAKER 28 :
Fresh, fresh, fresh. That’s hysterical. That’s what a mess. I mean, good night. That’s crazy. But yeah, they’re spreading. Everybody gets some snow. Look, everybody’s happy. Socialism. Yay. So they’re not removing it. So they’re actually taking it to other parts of the city. They’re not actually removing any of it. People are mad. People are saying it’s a dirty snow-covered dump. Famous people now are blasting Mandani for not doing anything, including, like, far lefties. They’re mad because, I mean, it is. It’s a mess. That’s like, I mean, you’re not even plowing the street. You’re creating, and it’s right, if it’s below freezing, that’s just a sheet of ice across the whole road. Man, and it looks bad, and it’s dangerous. Everybody knows this. I can’t. Someone said that they lived here for 15 years and this has never happened. The plows always worked around the clock to get the city back to work. I wonder what happened. Yeah, because they’ve never had an issue with snow. I’ve been in New York during like blizzards. I one time got stranded and I had to stay in Extranet because I was up there doing The View. I kept thinking with as much snow coming down, there’s no way I’m going to get out the next day either. And I did. Because I woke up and New York had it cleared out. It was cleared out. So now they’re struggling. Now they’re struggling with it. And other politicians have been demanded. They’ve been demanding for some action. They had politicians that were helping people like dig their cars out. That’s horrible. Like if you’re parked on the side of the road and they come and you’re just buried in, you can’t go anywhere. You got to dig out. Is it like that in DC too, Steve? It’s real bad out there, isn’t it? Is it still bad? Everybody’s weeding. Some of the, they’re saying that the, it’s not making it melt faster if it’s below freezing. Do they not know that? Like you’re not making it melt faster if it’s below freezing. You’re literally making a giant ice skating rink. What the hell is wrong with people? I know this, and I’m not an engineer, Cain. I’m not an engineer. I don’t drive bulldozers. I don’t drive snow plows. I don’t do street work. But even I know that if it’s below freezing and you’re spreading around snow and slush, guess what? You’re going to get ice. It’s going to be slick and it’s going to be dangerous. How is the city not liable? How are they not liable for any kind of injury or accident by doing something that stupid? Right? I’m just saying. I feel like there’s probably going to be something to that at some point. I don’t know. Maybe. A couple of other things. Eric Swalwell. Is in the hot seat. I told you how Bernie Sanders spent over half a million dollars on private flights. So now with Eric Swalwell, he is apparently in trouble. Because he’s been spending campaign cash. $200,000 on personal child care. Like his own person. You can’t be doing that. The FEC, dated from 2019 to 2025, his campaign reimbursed him for over $2,000 of childcare-related costs. The repayments were made out to his wife, Brittany, that total over $6,000. Why are you paying your wife to be a mom? That’s my question. Yeah, with… His donors might. I mean, if his donors, this is what happens. If you want to be stupid and donate to a Democrat, this is the stuff they’re going to do. They’re going to do this kind of stuff. So he’s has like one twenty two thousand dollars from for just three months of child care from October to December of twenty five. For three months of child care. Twenty two thousand dollars. What kind of child care is he getting? It doesn’t actually say. That’s a lot of money for that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nanny’s name is Fang Fang, if that means anything.
SPEAKER 28 :
Oh, man, don’t. He wouldn’t have his Chinese CCP mistress doing this, would he? So you’ve got him and you have Bernie Sanders spending donor money on private flights on his oligarchy tour. And then… So this pull this up. I have this under Democrats. So apparently the Charlotte rail murder suspect linked to an inmate release was approved under the Democrat governor. Now, here’s the story. You got Roy Cooper. He’s running for Senate. He’s a former governor, Democrat governor. There was a woman on the Charlotte Light Rail train that was murdered. And now there’s a lot of scrutiny of this prison release deal that Cooper’s administration approved. And apparently those people who were freed in that included this killer. DeCarlos Brown Jr. He is the guy, remember Irina Zarutskaya? He’s the guy who’s charged in the fatal stabbing of the 23-year-old on that light rail. She was on the Charlotte light rail. Everybody saw that video. It was horrific. She was stabbed to death. He’s a repeat offender, extensive criminal history. He was supposed to be under state supervision at the time of attack. And she was the one who was just terrified, cowering in her seat after he stabbed her and then she bled to death. And the records identified… that referenced his offender identification number, it was all tied to the NAACP versus Cooper settlement. So this guy, as a part of this settlement, this, he, I mean, apparently, it was a COVID-era settlement that authorized the early release of like 3,500 violent offenders, incarcerated individuals, and he was one of them. So Roy Cooper cut a deal that freed the guy who killed this young woman. After he was freed, he went and killed her. It’s that restorative justice. Restorative justice, yay. So he was arrested. He was on post-release supervision in February 2021. They had a preliminary hearing. They did the COVID settlement that was February 25th, 2021, 10 days after. Long story short, he’s pretty much unequivocally involved in that group of people that Cooper freed. Wow. So it’s true that he let thousands of violent criminals out early and then he hid what he was doing. He was trying to avoid any kind of at all whatsoever accountability for it. And he also was trying to argue that none of these people were violent. Clearly, especially after you see the brutal stabbing death of Irina Zerutskaya, he was. This guy was violent. There are others that are violent. So these, it was one of the largest mass prisoner releases in the country. One of the largest in our country’s history. And it’s on Roy Cooper’s watch. He signed off on it. He defended it and advocated for it. And by the way, do you know the people that were, in addition to this guy, just let me give you some of the insight into some of this other stuff. The people who were released had extensive felony histories, sexual offenses, kidnapping, Pedophiles. Crimes against children. These are the people that were released. And lawmakers have been requesting a public list and the state under Cooper refused to release it. They would not release which inmates were transitioned or set free basically under this agreement. So wait, this is a trend. You got Gavin Newsom fighting oversight and public scrutiny of the rail in California. And you’ve got this, Democrats, they don’t want any oversight. So this is all another fatality at the hands of restorative justice. It just, there’s, it gets worse and worse. Now, a couple of other things. We were talking about Ma’am Donnie earlier. Remember the Carhartt jacket that he had? Now he’s being ripped over it by local media ahead of the storm that left 16 New Yorkers dead. The city’s still a mess. He’s still wearing that Carhartt jacket for all of his press appearances. I don’t know if anybody saw this or not, but he is. He’s still wearing that jacket. He had these jackets specially made like the Tiger King with the EMS jacket. And now local media is calling him out saying, wait a minute, during all of this, while all this is happening, you had time to go and have these jackets made? Has the city of New York, has all the stuff embroidered on it? It’s just a bad look. I mean, people are dying out in the snow. You’re not even moving the snow. It’s a bad look. There’s no other way to look at it. It’s a bad look. I just… Kane, how long is he? He’s like, what, maybe two months into his term? Already it seems like he’s one of the most unpopular. He seems pretty unpopular. And he’s getting rightfully criticized. He also just visited a guy who got shot while charging at a cop with a knife. Check this out. This is cut 18.
SPEAKER 02 :
And as you said, I spoke with the Chakraborty family and I visited Chavez in the hospital. And there is… No family should have to endure this kind of pain.
SPEAKER 28 :
What did they think was going to happen? You charge a cop with a knife. What do you think is going to happen? And he’s going and of course, he’s advocating on the part of the violent criminal. I feel like this guy’s only going to serve one term.
SPEAKER 15 :
The pain will be too great for a second.
SPEAKER 28 :
I’m kind of getting that. We have more on the way. We also have today and stupidity coming up.
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SPEAKER 28 :
You know, it’s funny. I was looking at the story about how kids are conducting ice raids and roadblocks. And they’re getting in trouble for it, aren’t they? That’s what I heard, that the game was not it. But they were conducting raids in Roblox. I thought that was kind of funny. This is, what cut is this?
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25.
SPEAKER 28 :
Watch this. They’re in Roblox, and they’re going door to door, busting people. Look at that poor man. Look at how many are coming out. What is that guy? Why is he all beefy? Look at the one SWAT guy. He’s huge. He’s huge compared to all the other ones. That’s hysterical. You know what? Never underestimate kids. Ever, ever. Never underestimate kids. I guess some of them were protesting ICE and some of them weren’t. They did this in Minecraft, too. By the way, I saw a thing in Minecraft. They’re trying to get woke. It’s Minecraft. It’s literally a game about geology and fighting bugs. Why do people got to be just, you know, absolute D-bags about it? Just let games, leave games alone. Leave them alone. Have you seen that? They’ve been, yeah. That’s why a lot of people are giving up on some of this stuff. You don’t need any of that. You don’t need that stuff. Stop it. Just crazy. So they had, yeah, they were trying to get a little woke with Minecraft. Like, let’s be inclusive and all that. I don’t even know what that means. It’s a game. You can alter your appearance. You can do whatever. How do you get more inclusive than how it is? I feel like these people have never looked at Minecraft ever, if that’s like their thoughts on it. It’s just goofy. One of the things we’re going to be looking at later on this week is some of the other new polling that came in about midterms. And there was a couple of, everybody’s talking about SD9. I got a post coming out about that still. But there’s also this. Like I was looking, some of this, take it for what you will. I think it was really, I first saw it pushed by Cornyn’s people. But I’ve seen a couple of other things that sort of confirm this. The Tallarico guy, the lefty who was trying to say Jesus loves abortion in his latest interview and all this crazy stuff, he’s really competitive with both Cornyn and Paxton. And I saw Cornyn’s people pushing this poll and I’m like, technically it shows him only within the margin of error. That’s not good. It’s not good. And it was like plus three Cornyn, plus one Paxton. And I don’t know why Cornyn’s people would be pushing this as though that’s a good thing. How is it that Republicans in Texas are running that closely to this guy? We’ll talk about that later this week. All right, today in Stupidity Camp.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, Juan, it’s that Kathy Hochul cut. Holy smokes. We don’t know what kind of pistol this is, but Dana and I both want it.
SPEAKER 13 :
I want this fabulous pistol. I need it in my life.
SPEAKER 15 :
Listen to what she says.
SPEAKER 13 :
You’ll no longer sell handguns that can be converted into semi-automatic pistols.
SPEAKER 28 :
machines able to able to fire 1200 rounds a minute not here not in new york oh man where’s that belt fed pistol that i want yeah i need that in my life i need this fabulous gun in my life whatever this is i want it that’s what i need folks that does it for us today find us over at substack chapter and verse all good things i’ll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow
