Craig Collins fills in on The Dana Show to unpack a striking story the media isn’t giving enough attention to: First Lady Melania Trump has quietly brokered a diplomatic deal with Vladimir Putin to reunite Ukrainian children displaced by war with their families. Eight children have already been returned in the last 24 hours—an unprecedented move by a first lady. Collins contrasts this real-world diplomatic achievement with the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision to honor a Venezuelan opposition figure in hiding, rather than recognize Trump’s track record of brokering peace deals. The show dives into the media reactions, Fox
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. It is amazing that one, President Trump did not get the Nobel Peace Prize and that it actually went to someone who’s in hiding. I’ll tell you why she’s someone that’s inspiring, but maybe not impacting the world as much as the leader of the United States is, as he’s ushering in peace deal after peace deal. All of that is stuff that I’d like to get to, but before I do any of that, by the way, at DLash, at DanaLashRadio, on X, on Twitter, great ways to stay connected to her, great job that she and her team does on social media. You need to follow that stuff. At Radio Craig C, if you want an occasional Yankee tweet from me, which is much less interesting. But anyway, before I get to anything on all this stuff that I plan to talk about today, Melania Trump, the first lady, has ushered in a deal with Vladimir Putin that will help reunite children that have been displaced by the Ukrainian war with their families. This is uniquely a good thing. This is the kind of thing that Democrat, Republican, all sides of the aisle can put down any version of fighting and say, yes, we’re supporters of this. This is great. Of course, they won’t do it. Democrats hate Trump so much they can’t at all say anything that happens is good if a Trump is involved. But let’s hear from Melania as she made a big announcement today about something that actually is good in the world that matters and seems to, in and of itself, maybe be capable of being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, if only it had happened a few days ago, so they could give it to Melania and not President Trump, instead of someone, again, who’s in hiding in Venezuela. But I’ll get to that. Here we go.
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…with each other for the benefit of all people involved in this war. My representative has been working directly with President Putin’s team to ensure the safe reunification of children with their families between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, eight children have been rejoined with their families during the past 24 hours. Each child has lived in turmoil because of the war in Ukraine. Three were separated from their parents and displaced to the Russian Federation because of frontline fighting. The other five were separated from family members across borders because of the conflict. including one young girl who has now been reunited from Ukraine to Russia. I have learned a lot about this matter during the past three months. Russia has demonstrated a willingness to disclose objective and detailed information reflective for the current situation. The Russian Federation provided biographies and photographs of each child involved in this week’s reunification, along with an overview of the social, medical and psychological services afforded to the Ukrainian children.
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Yeah, it was amazing. Amazing story. And again, the craziest part about this is that a whole lot of people in a whole lot of places will refuse to acknowledge the importance of this, the value behind something like this, and tell you that it’s nothing or it’s a lot of pomp and circumstance for something that would have happened anyway if Democrats were in charge, whatever the way to take away from it might be. But Melania Trump making a huge announcement, doing something that Fox News at least compared to, To another pretty important first lady out there in the world, let’s hear some of that audio of their reaction after Melania makes the announcement that she brokered a deal with Vladimir Putin that would return children to their families.
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Melania Trump’s announcement. This is huge for a first lady to be speaking with Vladimir Putin, who, by the way, under the Biden administration, could not do a deal with our president and somehow has managed to do this backdoor deal with the first lady of the United States.
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You’d have to go back to Eleanor Roosevelt to find a first lady who dealt with diplomacy and security issues like this. It’s extraordinary. I think there’s a connection between what we just heard with Melania Trump and what’s happened in Gaza. This administration takes every conventional wisdom and breaks it over its knee. The conventional wisdom in the Middle East was you can’t make peace unless you first make a Palestinian state. So Donald Trump comes along in 220 and gets the Abraham Accords. The conventional wisdom in Gaza was first you have to have a ceasefire for a little while and you get some of the hostages back. He turns it around. No, we’re going to get all the hostages back first all at once. And then you’re going to have a long ceasefire. And so this is the secret of the success of the administration in diplomacy is that they just don’t accept the conventional wisdoms and they break them over their knees.
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They do whatever they want, and they do whatever they want in a good way, which is exactly what the people on the other side of the aisle will tell you is horrible and terrible. This is amazing, though. And again, I guess a weird way to couch this is in talking about how Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. And I think the reason… that the person who was chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize is who she is. She’s someone who, again, is in hiding in Venezuela as a leader of the opposition party. Her name is Maria Corina Machado. She can’t do much on a world stage beyond what she symbolizes. You know, she’s a person who’s alive. She’s a person who’s in hiding. She’s a person who’s barred from any sort of political position in the country she’s in. And the reason for all that is, you know, people in positions of authoritative power. Now, that’s an inspiring story. Is it worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize when you have another person who’s in charge of a very important country on a world stage ushering in peace deal after peace deal? I would say no. Trump’s ability to have influence on what happens throughout the world is is singular. No one else has the kind of influence that the president would have, especially Trump, in the way in which he wields it, demonstrated by the first lady making a deal with Vladimir Putin. I think if Melania Trump is the first lady of a country other than the United States, it probably doesn’t happen. This probably doesn’t get done the way it occurs. But nonetheless, the fact that this becomes a byproduct of, I think, a very political decision by the Nobel Peace Prize group to choose not to supply something to Trump because they didn’t like the optics of it, which is a shame because they should be above that. And to be totally honest, I’ve seen a lot of takes out there. I think Drudge Report is one of the places that has it, or at least is using it as a headline. What will Trump do? Who will be, you know, hurt or harmed in his reaction and his fighting back in not being given the Nobel Peace Prize? Watch out, Norway, I think was one of the headlines I saw out there. Here’s what I actually believe he’ll do. Here’s what I think will happen. do even more to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize that you’re not being given. The best way to rub salt into the wound of those who are uniquely trying to push you out is to actually continue to succeed at the thing that they’re upset you’re doing in the first place. They want him to throw a tantrum, to be angry, to do something that they’ll decide is quote-unquote bad because that helps to say, well, see, this is why we didn’t give you the prize in the first place. It’s actually something that’s happened to me in a workplace before. And I wonder if it’s happened to you in some part of your life. People who dislike you for a reason that has nothing to do with how you treat them or how you behave and has everything to do with your political side of the aisle. They dislike you because from jump, they’ve decided, oh, this person can’t get along with them. I don’t like what they think politically. I don’t like what they do. In the case of the Nobel group, it’s Trump and just anything and everything that they think he is. So in that, they try to find a way to set you off to make you the bad guy, and then if you react at all. And here’s my own personal story. There was a situation I was working on with a news director at the time. The news director wound up like storming in to the studio that I was in and yelling at me and a guest about the way we were covering a topic. which I thought was insane, not just because we were covering it accurately. The topic we were discussing, which doesn’t matter, was about Stephen Colbert’s staff going to the Capitol building and insurrecting it. And we were joking when we used that word because it was funny to talk about it in the same context of what happened on January 6th. But it made a news guy very mad. And he stormed into the room and he yelled at me and he yelled at somebody else. And it was crazy. And like, it meant nothing. And then he left. And later on, I think a producer came into the room and said, hey, they just want you to know this. And all I said in reaction is, oh, I don’t care. That was my reaction. I said it like that. So you and I know I said, oh, I don’t care about any of this that’s going on out there. I’m going to keep doing my show my way with my guests and talk about the topics with the opinions that we have. And then it inevitably wound up in an argument between me and this person after the show in front of other colleagues. And I wound up hearing that like I was as much at fault as anyone else. And I was like, what are you talking about? There were like four or five moments where I was absolutely the cooler head in the room. And the person who’s like, all right, I’m going to let this go. I’m going to let someone storm into a room that I’m in with a guest, a radio show guest and yell at us, yell at me and the guest. Like they have the authority to do that when they don’t and not blow up and scream and yell. And I think that’s the mistake. If I’m being honest, anytime in your own life, where you allow someone to step across line after line after line, and you don’t do anything about it. I’ve noticed that people who react to those lines, like say I went in and stormed into the boss’s office and said, how dare this occur? I think there’s a chance that my position would have been better heard. So, again, to go back to Trump, to use this as a catalyst to actually talk about the news of the day and not just complain about my own things that happened years ago in my own life. But what I think is interesting about it is that if Trump reacts the way that media wants him to, they get to write off everything. They get to ignore every part of the success he’s had and the reason he’s deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize. And if he just continues to do the thing that they’re upset he’s doing, ushering in peace and doing a great job in the world, then they’ll have no argument for it. So what’s amazing is how you have to either react the way that Trump does all the time, which is be mad constantly in an effective way. in a way that almost makes people afraid of the level of anger you’ll have if you wind up in a position in which you can share that anywhere else in the world. They’re afraid of Trump. They’re afraid of Trump and how he would wield his own influence in society against people for whatever it is they say about him or do about him. That’s why they act this way. but then also taking the higher road all the time. If you take the higher road occasionally, you have to do it constantly, especially as a conservative, because people are desiring to attack you and desiring to find a way to make you seem like the bad guy. At least that’s what I’ve experienced in my own life. I wonder if you have too. All right, we’ll take a quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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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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Let’s do a quick five on the Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins. Radio Craig C. If you want to see me be sad about the Yankees being terrible this year, although now I won’t tweet about them for several months. All right. Amazon’s MGM will release the Melania Trump documentary. This was before the big news that she ushered in a deal with Vladimir Putin that will reunite children that are displaced in Ukraine because of the war there. This documentary had nothing to do with that. It was the lead up to Trump actually being inaugurated as the president of the United States after he was almost assassinated and killed. And I don’t know why I said and killed assassinated means killed, but turned his head and miraculously survived. A unique story about a woman who is married to someone who, you know, miraculously is alive today. And yet a lot of people will hate the fact that it exists. MGM will be putting that out in January, I think for a couple days in theaters at least. We’ll see how successful it is, we’ll see how much people talk about it, but interesting nonetheless, and of course crapped on by mainstream media. Amel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ has a sequel that’s coming out. I am a Catholic, I am a Christian, of course. I think it’s weird that the Passion of the Christ has a sequel, even if it’s called The Resurrection of the Christ, and that story is interesting. That’s a good story to tell in a movie theater somewhere. Just odd. This has been a long-sitting, gestating potential movie that eventually will actually happen. It’s going to have an all-new cast. They’re recasting all the roles. I guess Jim Caviezel didn’t want to play Jesus again, or I don’t know what happened there. But nonetheless, just odd. Hollywood makes a lot of sequels. The Passion of the Christ is one of those movies that you didn’t necessarily think would have a sequel coming out about it. I’m saying this as respectfully as I can, again, because I’m a Catholic fan. I’m not making fun of it. I just think it’s odd as a news story. All right. Other things out there. Area 51 crash mystery deepens as the FBI has joined investigations into tampering into the site. For anything you say that isn’t happening that you don’t want or that you don’t like in the world of the FBI, like we didn’t get enough information here or there. More alien stuff I’m always fine with. I don’t think it’s a distraction. People often say that Area 51 and alien stuff comes out when they want to distract you and push you away from some other story that you might pay attention to that is more valuable or more pressing in our society today. I can do both. I think that you can do both. I think we can all do both. I think when it comes to aliens and aliens specifically, I can pay attention to what the right hand is doing while also paying attention to what the left hand is doing. That is my promise to you. And that is my promise to anyone out there that we can all do this together. And then finally, one last quick story. Political bumper stickers are making people angrier in traffic instances. I guess road rage is going off the charts. If someone does something stupid in a vehicle and they have a giant Harris Walls bumper sticker, the odds of you getting mad go up. And the same is true for any of those idiots who see the Trump sticker on the back of your car. I just find that funny. I don’t think that’s as bad of a thing as people say it is. And if your car is plastered with political bumper stickers, I think you kind of understand that you might be making some people mad every single day all the time. And you don’t seem to care if someone gets into a fit of additional road rage because you cut them off like a moron and you have a ton of stickers all over the back of your car. I think that’s kind of an on-you thing, more so an on-them thing. Freedom of speech and everything, but you’re asking for trouble, I believe, in that situation, so I’m not surprised it happens. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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the dana show podcast your fast funny and informative news companion for those always on the move subscribe on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcasts this is the dana show uh my name is craig collins filling in thrilled to be with you d lash dana lash radio and x on twitter uh great ways to stay connected to her and everything’s going on uh in the world of dana and she will be back on monday let’s do this a few things So first, Speaker Mike Johnson was furious that it’s very likely that Democrats are trying to hold out in any sort of government shutdown until No Kings Day, which is a Antifa protest day, October 18th, in which a rally is supposed to happen in New York City or excuse me, in Washington, D.C., as well as New York City and other places where they protest no kings, which we don’t have. By the way, we successfully already have no kings. You can all just go home. It’s totally fine. But here’s Mike Johnson saying that the belief is the Democrats are just waiting to keep the government shut down until that day because they like the optics of the government being shut down during no king’s day, which is part of the reason that so many people hate politicians and hate the political system is this is easily believable. As a thing that Democrats could be doing just because they want to say out loud, even though it’s their fault, that it’s horrible that Trump is doing whatever they blame Trump for doing. Here we go.
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A very patient guy, but I have had it with these people. They’re playing games with real people’s lives. The theory we have right now, they have a hate America rally that’s scheduled for October 18th on the National Mall. It’s all the pro Hamas wing and the you know, the the Antifa people, they’re all coming out. Some of the House Democrats are selling T-shirts for the event. And it’s it’s it’s being told to us that they won’t be able to reopen the government until after that rally because they can’t face their rabid base. I mean, this is this is serious business hurting real people. Yeah. And I just I’m beyond words. I can’t believe they’re actually doing this.
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So two things I want to say in reaction to this. First, and I’m owning this, and you don’t care. I don’t know why I’m even holding my feet to the fire because no one who listens to shows like this where I’m just a fill-in guy even remembers probably what I say. But when Republicans threaten to shut the government down, my reaction is often, go ahead. I don’t care. It’s not going to impact my life all that much. It’ll reopen in a certain amount of weeks after it shuts down. The only thing I ever care about Is military men and women getting a paycheck still? Which doesn’t happen, even if the left will claim it does. You actually have to pass certain laws to make sure that the military individuals keep getting paid. It’s ridiculous that the politicians get paid if they shut the government down. They don’t actually get their checks stopped. But the military individuals who are serving our country do. That’s insane. That’s the only thing I ever really care about. Other than that, shut the government down, who cares? In all honesty, use it as a catalyst to fire a bunch of people we don’t need and clean up the bureaucracy that is our federal government. And I’d be thrilled. So when that is the stance, if it’s Republicans in charge, I keep the same stance when Democrats are in charge. Even as Mike Johnson says, the people are actually being hurt because how much they care about those people seems to ebb and flow with what side of the aisle they’re on. But as I say that there are aspects to this. that I do think are interesting because of what you’re selling more so than what you’re doing. And what I mean by that is Democrats often sell that they’re the party that cares more. I’m probably going to be a broken record about this today because so many stories feel like they lean into this narrative. Democrats tell you they’re the good guys. They embolden their supporters to feel as though that they’re good people and the people that they disagree with vehemently and maybe violently on the right are actually bad, horrible people. They’re sexists and racists and everything else-ists, and they’re the worst kind of individuals that exist in the bucket of deplorables, a version of a thing. And so they empower their side of the aisle to feel this way. And then when they play these political games and hurt the lives of people that they claim they care about, that hypocrisy does matter. Even if I don’t say that to me, I’m as worried about the government being turned on tomorrow when it’s turned off today. And that came out weird. I think I probably should have phrased that differently. But nonetheless, like it doesn’t really impact my life. It probably won’t impact your life that much unless you work for them directly. But nonetheless, like I think that that is interesting that what they’re selling becomes so obviously untrue. And then you have this also, Mark Wayne Mullen putting up on social media that no King’s protest day is something he was definitively told by Democrats is the plan all along. Just because, again, the optics are more important to them than doing the right thing and doing something for the people that they say they care about. They never care about you unless optically it benefits them. And then they’ll tell you way too many times why they’re doing something. And then get mad at you when you question if it’s actually for your benefit or for their benefit, even though they they celebrated it so much because they were trying to get more people to support them. Democrats who tout DEI. It’s my favorite example to use in a conversation like this because the DEI people that are out there could absolutely get what they want. Without causing all the different drama and confusion and questions and debate. If they just shut up about it. And I don’t want them to do this. I think you should get a job based on your merit and skill. Not what you look like. Not whether you’re a man or a woman. Whether you’re black or white. None of that should matter. If you’re the best for the job, hire you. But the DEI people could just hire the individuals that they think diversify their workplaces. They don’t have to tell us a reason why they did it. They could just do it and they could just say it was the best person for the job. And even if you doubted it, it would be harder to have that discussion than if they’re saying out loud, we’re doing this for DEI reasons. Because we don’t care about you and what you think matters. We only care about what you’ll do to vote for us, like what will motivate you to punch our side of the aisle for their supporters. So that’s why they do all this. So the no kings thing is another example of that. It’s another version of we have an opportunity to do something that benefits us from an optic standpoint, we believe. So we’re doing it in spite of anything we could do that might help actual people because we don’t care about them anymore. It’s like the fool me one shame on me thing, but 25 times deep fool me 100 times shame on you or me or everybody, because it’s just crazy that this is the kind of thing we talk about. But I believe this because of how likely it is that Washington would do this. But here we go.
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Yeah, Chuckie Schumer, make sure that the people you say you’re fighting for, which is a federal employee, goes without a paycheck so you will have talking points at this rally to talk to on Saturday. Chuckie Schumer! Good on you. I had a conversation with a Democrat colleague who’s wanting to open the government back up, by the way. He said, do you know what’s happening on the 18th of October? I was like, I don’t have a clue. He said it’s called No King’s Day. That’s a big protest against President Trump. He said, and our party isn’t willing to open the government back up until after that because they’re afraid that this large crowd that’s supposed to be here in Washington, D.C., protesting President Trump will chastise them. They’ll get thrown at the bus.
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That’s an oversimplification, too. I think it is not just that they’re afraid that the crazies on their side of the aisle will be mad at them. They actually want to lean in to those narratives. They’re putting the guy, the crazy dude in New York, as I keep calling Mandami, Mamdani, they’re putting him in a position of power. They want him to get elected because of all the things they think he represents that’s good about their party to them, which is actually horrible and terrible and communism to the rest of us. All right, let’s play this. This is audio of Tish James being quite upset that, you know, selective prosecution is a thing that’s happening to her. No, that’s not it. Actually, this is in February of 2020 when Tish James is very happy that she’s selectively prosecuting a President Trump. That’s what this is. This is her being a wild and ridiculous hypocrite, as they often are.
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You see, each and every day I wake up with a fire in my belly. I walk into my office. I sue the president and I go the hell home. That’s what I do.
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Yeah, look at me. I do it every day. Find a new lawsuit. Sue President Trump. That’s in February of 2020. She is now quite upset. that she might be in trouble for some fraudulent things that happened as far as her mortgage is concerned. Here’s the other part of this that I think is amazing. CNN covered this story by saying that it’s their belief that every American is actually committing the same crime, that if If Tish James is doing it, then everybody’s doing it, which, by the way, is always their M.O. They want to put you directly in the crosshairs of whatever the thing is they’re talking about so that you actually care more about it than if it’s just them. Because if it is just them, they know a whole bunch of people do not care. But so they have to tell you that it’s you, that you’re in trouble, that you’re the one who’s going to be next. And if you’re not next, then darn it. It’s only because you voted them back into power in the first place. But here I want to play this. This is CNN saying that we’re all committing this crime. The reason I find this fascinating is it sounds eerily similar, actually identical to what people in business communities were saying about Trump being held to some sort of weird standard in how he actually got better deals from banks because every business inflates their value and every bank’s job it is to deflate your value when coming to an agreement on how much interest you pay on your loans. Every company does that. So if every person in America is committing mortgage fraud in the way in which they go about talking about their net worth, then every business was committing business fraud in the way they talked about their net worth. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that for some this is a good argument and for others it isn’t. But CNN doesn’t care.
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aside for the for a second what tish james and again we’re still getting the details but if it’s related to this mortgage issue i mean this is something that everyone in america or many people at least if you’re lucky enough to be able to buy a house in america you deal with this right the federal government doesn’t go after all of these people um for doing this um does
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I love every part of that because you could just play the part after she says, you know, home mortgages and American people and turn it into business thing. And that’s exactly what conservatives were saying about going after Trump for any sort of fraudulent things they claimed his business was doing in getting sweet, sweet, delicious deals that they pay back. And they paid all of it back. So there was no victim in the Trump crime either. But I just think that’s amazing. I think it’s so incredible to say, because to me, I guess the last thing I’ll say before I take a break, that’s probably the thing that makes me the most angry when talking to anybody. And I try to bottle the anger as much as I can, because it’s not going to get us further to any kind of agreement to just get mad at someone. But when they say all the things I would say about a different issue, but they say it about something that’s uniquely Democratic. So they think in this one, you know, case, this defense makes sense. But then you repeat all of those ideas in another scenario. And they’re like, well, no, in that one, I don’t agree with it. And it’s only because it’s a Republican. They don’t actually have. people who do this, a version of morality and ethics that are across the board. What they have is a very fluid version of, if it’s a Republican, no. If it’s a Democrat, yes. And I feel great about this across the board. It is insane to see that happen, though. And I kind of think that’s the point. Oftentimes when you call some people, I have an uncle who’s very convinced of this, by the way, that Trump is like a genius who does everything to out the terrible things that exist behind the closed doors, behind scenes, which you might also believe is true. This is one of those moments that feels like it actually is a proof of that because getting Tish James in this way and getting media to say what they’re saying about it feels like that was the point all along. Just to demonstrate how the case against Trump was ridiculous and calling him a felon even now for Democrats is so stupid and so hypocritical that you can’t do anything other than laugh and get, you know, silently mad about it, which is what I do. Or I guess vocally mad on a nationally syndicated radio show filling in for the very talented Dana Lash. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. The New York football Giants put a beat down on the Philadelphia Eagles last night, which was shocking to a whole lot of people. The Giants are not typically good at football and haven’t been good for a very long time. 34-17 and the Eagles essentially playing like a football team that didn’t want to win a game. More so than the Giants playing as great as it seemed like they might have played. Although Jackson Dart did look good. There were times where he kept plays alive that I was uniquely impressed by. There was a scare where he might have been hurt for a bit there. And also the Giants have a very good young running back. So those things are true. But anyway, that beatdown only hurt so much. And then even more pain, I think, was thrown to any Philly fan because of what happened between the Dodgers and the Phillies. That was something. And I have the audio of this, actually. So there’s two outs, bottom of the 11th, bases loaded. force out at first base, ends the inning, you keep going. For some reason, if you’re the Phillies and you get a comebacker to the pitcher, you decide to errand throw home that would have been late, that was horrible, like everything about the play was terrible, and the fact that you even have several teammates pointing and saying, throw to first base, and it doesn’t go the way you want it to go, That probably hurts more than a middle of the NFL season loss for the Eagles from the Giants. Because I think, you know, fast forward several weeks and the Giants eventually will probably be like, I don’t know, three or four and ten. And the Eagles will be doing much better that late into the season. And you’ll totally forget about the fact that the Giants put the beat down on the Eagles. But here’s the play that probably really hurt a lot of Philadelphia fans even more.
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No balls and a strike. Pahes breaks his bat, Kirk ring, gotta find it, throws to the plate, oh my goodness, he throws it away, and the Dodgers win, and they are moving on to the NLCS, and a most improbable finish. And your heart breaks for Ryan Kirkering.
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No, it doesn’t. Your heart doesn’t break for a major professional athlete who does a stupid thing in a stupid moment. It doesn’t break for them. You think that the guy’s a moron. If you’re a Yankee fan, you’re booing people like Anthony Volpe every chance you get. And Volpe’s not making much money. But man, oh man, was he terrible. And I’m a Yankee fan, so I desire to talk about that, and I won’t. But man, the Dodgers getting a gift like that to go ahead and go to the NLCS, in which they’ll probably wind up winning and going to another World Series, is something to behold. Although the Cubs, interesting story. I’ll say this quickly about the world of baseball. You may or may not be paying attention at this point. I think the only reason anyone winds up being a bandwagon Cubs fan is because they’re always the lovable loser. They’re always the team that shouldn’t be winning and somehow is. If they were ever a dominant force in the world of baseball from beginning to end of the season, it felt like the unfair advantage team, people wouldn’t like them as much. But people bandwagon all over Cubs because of how uniquely terrible they are. And this seems to be the case again. They don’t do that for the Dodgers. So the Dodgers are not a team that will have that kind of support if that winds up being the matchup in the National League. And we will see because the Cubs get to play again. They did win yesterday, so they did force a game five. My New York Giants, my New York Yankees, excuse me, cratered like a bag of crap in their game four and lost to a much better team. And I know this isn’t a sports show, but I’m also tempted to say that I think Brian Cashman is the problem. I think you’ve got to fire the guy. I think that even Derek Jeter said in a post-game thing that Aaron Boone is not actually calling the shots. You’ve got a lot of people in sports that aren’t actually the leaders of their team, even if their role is manager or coach. You’ve got somebody else behind the scenes that’s actually doing it. So maybe that’s the universal way to discuss this topic. Maybe we can all get behind fire Brian Cashman, even if you don’t care about baseball and you aren’t a Yankee fan, because somewhere in your life, you’ve experienced someone who knows nothing telling you what to do all the time and screwing it all up. And that’s what essentially people are saying is happening for the Yankees. Aaron Boone is the Joe Biden of leaders of that organization. He is the manager in name only. And people are telling him how to make decisions and he makes those decisions and they go poorly for all involved. Terrible, terrible baseball, at least to me and anybody that’s a Phillies fan. Quick break. A lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Danish show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole lot of stuff out there to talk about. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected. This is a Democratic politician doing terrible in a debate, which we’ve seen time and again. But this is uniquely awesome, especially considering one of the people she’s trying to stand with. Seems to be a person who’s unapologetically totally fine with political violence. But let’s play some audio and then we’ll break this down a little bit more. But once again, Democratic politicians swinging a mess in the world of back and forth debate. And even a moderator who was being called like a far right individual who definitely was not that going back and forth with these politicians. Just asking very basic, simple questions that the left leaning politician had no ability to answer.
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Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. I just I didn’t hear an answer there on the endorsement issue. So I want to make sure. Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia? And were you aware of these text messages before they released? You have 30 seconds.
SPEAKER 12 :
In fact, it appears that it was the those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages. The day that they came out and I.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, look, I got to tell you something. And I got to be as honest as possible as I can in this and shoot the messenger if you want to. I’m a white guy about to be 40 at the end of this month. Literally on Halloween, I turned 40 years old. This white female politician, Spanberger, is running against a black female politician. The black female is the Republican. The white female is the Democrat. I might surprise some people with how that goes. But I love the attitude. that comes out of the opponent as she’s saying, when did you know and what did you do? I want to play that part again because it’s so good. And it’s the kind of thing that you might attribute to, you know, a certain race, a certain attitude, a certain way of speaking, any of that stuff. The left would also celebrate if it was someone on their side of the aisle interjecting like this in this way. Of course, they said that this politician was rude. How dare she try to say and do things the way that if it’s a Democrat who is of the same, you know, racial or I guess the same sex, they might celebrate the version of I don’t understand what’s going on here. They used to call Kamala Harris Mamala and they used to pretend as though her confusion with Donald Trump and her willingness to show it was a great expression of who she is and something to be celebrated. Wonder why it doesn’t happen here. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
In fact, it appears that it was those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages for many hours. I learned of these text messages the day that they came out, and I denounced them as soon as I learned of them. is murder and importantly um at this point as we move forward the voters now have this information information that was with withheld for them you’re running presumably for political reasons uh but the voters now have the information and by the way the moderator is also a black woman uh so she’s pushing back on winsome earl sayers and the things that she is saying i don’t know if i guess the the race card won’t be played by anybody uh because of the makeup of the individuals on the stage
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But I just I love this. And I think this is the kind of thing that if it were, you know, reversed parties the way we’re expected. And it’s a black female Democrat objecting to a white Republican woman or man in this way. I think that most media would be so thrilled with how this went down. They are not thrilled in how this went down because of how ridiculous it is.
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but the answer by the way is atrocious it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information
SPEAKER 11 :
Mr. Member, I understand what you’re saying about the voters, but for you, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we we asked you about you. We want you to give us an opinion. We don’t want you to explain how the political system works in its most basic sense, as if that’s an answer to this question. Are you still throwing your support behind someone who seems to be very happy with and even celebrating political violence just weeks after Charlie Kirk is murdered?
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15 seconds. Go ahead. We are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee. And it’s up to every person to make their own decision. I am running my race to serve Virginia. What is your decision? What do you think? And that is what I intend to do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. We just want to clarify, you know, what you’re saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney general.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m saying as of now, it’s up to every voter to make their own individual decision. I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say.
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I love it so much. We just want one moment. You know what would be funny? It would be funny to force these politicians to have to behave like this with an obvious question. And I don’t mean one about politics. I mean, like, make a video where politicians are standing in line at an ice cream store. And one after another being asked what flavor of ice cream they want. And they have to answer that question the same way they answer their political questions. So Abigail Spanberger would be saying, look, it’s up to everyone else inside this ice cream shop. What ice cream flavor they want, what they’re going to buy when it’s their turn to purchase. And then someone would look at this insane human and be like, yeah, but what do you want? What flavor do you want? You know, it’s it’s not my choice. It’s everybody else’s choice. It’s just insane. And the only way that they get away with this sort of stuff is because in politics, these rules have applied for forever. But you should you should apply whatever the version of back and forth question is to something that doesn’t matter. Like pretend it’s your wife asking you if you mowed the lawn, which is something that happens to me on occasion if the lawn has not been mowed. And it is definitely one of my jobs, and I’ll never let her do it. As a man, I feel uniquely horrible if I look outside and see the missus mowing the lawn. I think that Nate Bargetzi makes a joke about that, and I don’t know why that is, but it’s been my job since I was a little kid. My mom made me lawn mow boy, and I’ve been lawn mow boy ever since. That also felt weird to say in those terms. But nonetheless, if that happened, and I had the unfortunate situation of having to deal with an Abigail Spanberger in that situation, the answer to is the lawn mowed would be like, well, other lawns in the area have been mowed based on the decision-making of the people inside those homes. And if they did or didn’t mow the lawn, that was their decision. Yeah, but is your lawn mowed? You know what? I’m going to plead the fifth here. It’s uniquely terrible and sort of amazing to watch. The left can’t stand against other members of the left. They can’t do it. They’re terrified of doing it. The right does it all the time. All right. Another piece of audio I want to play. This is Kristi Noem talking about how they’re doing everything they can at the Department of Homeland Security to keep things as running as smoothly as possible, I guess I should say, whether it’s at the airport or anywhere, even as the government is shut down. This is part of a message that I think is playing at airports throughout the country.
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Hi, I’m Christine Ohm, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. It is TSA’s top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience as possible while we keep you safe. However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted and most of our TSA employees are working without pay.
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we will continue to do all that we can to avoid delays that will impact your travel and our hope is that democrats will soon recognize the importance of opening the government i got to be honest if there’s any way to make me madder at something it’s to send a message to me at the airport when the airport isn’t doing well if i’m on a delay if you know there’s a line that’s aggressively long if i go to the restroom and i see this message i’ll be like yeah I care about this more now. As someone who often says that the government shutting down doesn’t really impact my life, I don’t really notice it. And when it’s all turned back on, which eventually it will be, at the end of the day, most people who didn’t work for the government will never have noticed. And I said before, military men and women should always be paid. The politicians’ paychecks should stop. People in our military, their paychecks should never stop. It is broken that the system is the reverse of that, and not that. But as I say this, if there’s ever a way to curry more favor, to make me more likely to be on your team and not whatever team I’ve been on before, even though I’m on your team from jump anyway, me personally, it’s to do this, is to put a message in an airport where the airport is having a problem and say it’s Democrats’ fault that you’re not on your plane right now and that things are delayed because that makes me very upset and very mad. And then you got Spanberger trying to answer the question by saying that each individual deals with a delay in whatever way they deal with it. It’s amazing. That is uniquely terrible stuff. And I love when Democrats do bad in debates now, which happens more often. I know I’m just talking about this again before I take a break. I can’t help it. I love when they do bad in debates now because their logic is so insanely flawed and so ridiculous that it can’t stand up to basic questioning. You’re seeing this again and again and again. I actually had a debate recently. with a young woman about why Harris lost, which is a terrible thing you should not do with someone on the left. And you know what they’re going to say, sexism, racism, all that stuff played into it. But then you just start playing audio of the terrible things that Kamala Harris said and did in interviews where she seemed to fold and do as poorly as this politician is doing and just giving basic stances on stuff or trying to demonstrate how she’s not as crazy far left as she is. And the person that’s arguing with you just shuts up because there’s nothing they can say to someone doing that poorly in what is, quote, a friendly interview. And the biggest reason that Harris didn’t go on Joe Rogan and Donald Trump did is that Harris was terrified. of being challenged by someone who wouldn’t be friendly with her. Not that Rogan’s the arbiter of amazing journalism, but he absolutely would have crushed Kamala Harris, and that’s why she lost the election. She was a terrible candidate. I know I’m rehashing something very old now, but I can’t help it. Every time you see a new debate, you just think about that same thing. And of course, they’ll say somehow it’s sexism or racism or something, even if in Virginia, the person that might beat her is a black woman that might take the job from a white woman who’s running for that office. So I don’t know what you say that if the person who gets voted into the position of authority is a minority and a woman, is there a way that you still call it sexism or racism if they defeat someone who is not a minority and a woman? I don’t know. That’s a question you’ll answer. I can’t answer it. The left will explode as they try to figure it out. All right, quick break, a lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana show. A D lash Dana lash radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. You should stay connected to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. too. Cause some interesting stuff has been said recently. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that a cause of autism is Tylenol that is used after a circumcision and the internet blew up about that. I have audio. We can go ahead and play the audio real quick on this thing.
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There’s many, many other confirmation studies. There’s two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they’re given Tylenol. We should be paying attention.
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Yeah, we should. That sounds uniquely terrifying. By the way, there are studies. You can look them up. You can find them. Actual published studies out there in the world. NIH published one of them that talk about the negative use of acetaminophen after a neonatal circumcision, something you should not give a baby and may have given a baby and may have caused harm, whatever that harm might be. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being accidentally anti-circumcision is not something I had on my bingo card. in uh 2025 and not something that i think that i’m as angry as so many other people are about it uh because you know uh that’s a unique thing with the world of a man to talk about any sort of pain points there and what we can do to remove them i’m totally fine with that uh denmark is going to ban social media use uh for people under the age of 15 i don’t like government bans but i do think that if you’re a parent you probably shouldn’t be letting your kid on social media uh Before a certain age and maybe 15 is appropriate for that. Denmark is saying that social media is stealing your childhood. It’s causing you to care about a lot of things you shouldn’t, to be afraid of a lot of things you shouldn’t, to have so many issues in your life. And then, you know, things that you need to just not care about to be happier take a hold. And so I agree with that. And I think that as a parent, you probably should do what Denmark is doing. Nearly 70% of Americans are pessimistic about the economy, according to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which said that people don’t want to buy a house right now. I don’t know if all these people felt as similarly as they do right now, say, a year or so ago, when they were voting Trump into office around this time or a little bit after this month, because… Yeah, it does make sense for anyone to say they’re pessimistic about the cost of housing. But I don’t know if people feel as negatively about the economy as a whole as Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac are saying they do. I wonder if maybe part of this is a political place story. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says something out loud that everybody already knew. AI can be hacked. Of course it can. Anything on the computer can be hacked. He said AI can be trained to kill people, to do other things. You can remove any of the guardrails that might have been created by whoever first, you know, puts this AI out into the world. And yeah, we all already thought that. We all already knew that. That’s why I don’t want AI driving all of our cars and doing so many other things in our society because it gives somebody who’s a hacker or, you know, say a government who’s got a whole bunch of hackers an opportunity to cause a unique amount of harm throughout our society. You can’t hack me. I feel like that should be what I say when I walk around out there telling you that a human is needed in a bunch of different places in our society because you can’t be hacked. And that’s great. At least not, you know, by a computer. All right, quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. President Trump brokered in a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza. I continue to call it that because that’s what it is. But anyway, Trump brought this deal home, along with several people within his administration. Benjamin Netanyahu, among the many, saying that this doesn’t happen without the United States. Of course, it’ll be discredited. People won’t care that Trump, yet again, is successful in brokering peace somewhere. The most interesting headline on this was one I saw in Reuters, which said, “‘Trusting Trump. Why Hamas Has Gambled on Giving Up Gaza Hostages.'” Again, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza and its gamble to give up hostages. There are 20 people believed to still be alive, mostly young men who are likely members of the Israeli military. And there are 25 or so people that are sadly likely to be deceased. And their remains are supposed to be returned in the very near future from Hamas and the Gaza area to Israel. In exchange, Israel is going to release, I think, 2,000 or something hostages. people that are prisoners inside Israel, that are Gaza area Palestinian individuals. Whether or not these people actually are criminals or not, I don’t know. Some of them, it sounds like, are pretty bad, convicted of things like murder, and yet they’ll be released in exchange for the hostages. Something that you feel like could have happened a long time ago, but nonetheless finally happens because Trump is involved in actually brokering the deal. And it’s just sort of amazing. That Reuters is like, I wonder if the terrorist group can actually trust the president. That’s a unique level of hate to see, you know, the validity or the, you know, honesty of terrorists is more likely to be valuable than the honesty of our current commander in chief. Speaking of Trump, actually, and Melania Trump, the first lady, she made a big announcement about a deal she brokered with President Vladimir Putin. That’s right. Melania Trump negotiated a deal to help reunite children with their families that have been displaced because of the war in Ukraine. This feels like a universally important thing that like right and left, all sides should support this and should praise this and applaud Melania Trump doing something as the first lady that they would love if they saw a Democrat do it. Of course, they won’t do that. But here’s Melania’s announcement that she made herself.
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with each other for the benefit of all people involved in this war. My representative has been working directly with President Putin’s team to ensure the safe reunification of children with their families between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, eight children have been rejoined with their families during the past 24 hours. Each child has lived in turmoil because of the war in Ukraine. Three were separated from their parents and displaced to the Russian Federation because of frontline fighting. The other five were separated from family members across borders because of the conflict, including one young girl who has now been reunited from Ukraine to Russia. I have learned a lot about this matter during the past three months. Russia has demonstrated a willingness to disclose objective and detailed information reflective for the current situation.
SPEAKER 04 :
Look, I got to be honest, reuniting kids with their families is something that the left is usually a big, big fan of. And in this case, since it’s Melania, they’ll find a way to hate it or at least ignore it. But it is crazy. Fox News had a unique reaction to it, though, calling Melania the most significant first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, which is high praise for sure. Melania Trumpson now.
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This is huge for a first lady to be speaking with Vladimir Putin, who, by the way, under the Biden administration, could not do a deal with our president and somehow has managed to do this backdoor deal with the first lady of the United States.
SPEAKER 05 :
You’d have to go back to Eleanor Roosevelt to find a first lady who dealt with diplomacy and security issues like this. It’s extraordinary. I think it goes. There’s a connection between what we just heard with Melania Trump and what’s happened in Gaza. But this administration takes every conventional wisdom and breaks it over its knee. The conventional wisdom in the Middle East was you can’t make peace unless you first make a Palestinian state. So Donald Trump comes along in 220 and gets the Abraham Accords. The conventional wisdom in Gaza was first you have to have a ceasefire for a little while and you get some of the hostages back. He turns it around. No, we’re going to get all the hostages back first.
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We’re giving them to you right now. Although it still hasn’t actually happened yet, it needs to happen soon. It’s supposed to be a product of the beginning of the ceasefire, which has started to have the remaining hostages return. But nonetheless, I think this is interesting. And the fact that Melania is at the forefront of a deal with Vladimir Putin that reunites children with families, something that’s easy for all of media to pray. You know what’s funny about it? And I’ll finish that sentence. Something that’s easier for all of media to praise. They fail at that. the moment where they could at least convince you that they’re not quite as biased as they obviously are a lot of the other times, when they have that softball version of a thing where, hey, why don’t you just say, good job, Melania Trump, and then keep going bashing Donald Trump all you want, keep bashing the President of the United States, but just give a little attaboy to the First Lady for doing something that’s universally good so you don’t seem like you’re so horribly one-sided and biased, and mainstream media fumbles that ball every time. They kind of act like the Philadelphia Eagles playing the Giants. That was mean. That was a shot I shouldn’t have taken. But it just seems to be the kind of thing where you could easily get the win and you choose to once again fail. All right. That did seem overly mean. I am a Giants fan, so I apologize to Eagles fans. No, I don’t. All right, another thing out there, Scott Jennings is reacting to the ridiculous narrative that Tish James is just like you and me and that the indictment that happened last night, the federal charges she’s going to face for fraud and all kinds of things are a reflection of what every American would do in getting their own mortgage and that this is selective prosecution, et cetera, et cetera. And before I even play Jennings, let’s remind you of who Tish James is She’s a human being that celebrated her selective prosecution of President Trump. She said she woke up in the morning. She sued Trump. She went back to bed. That’s how she got into a position of power as an attorney general in the first place. So she ran on selective prosecution and then seems to be upset when it’s not actually happening to her. But people are claiming it’s happening to her. Here we go.
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You see, each and every day I wake up with a fire in my belly. I walk into my office. I sue the president and I go the hell home. That’s what I do.
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Look at me. I’m so great. I find some way to sue Trump. And that’s what I do every single day. And that’s why you put me in a position of power. And wait, what’s happening to me now? I love that. Here’s Scott Jennings saying how ridiculous all of this is and how, you know, she’ll have her day in court, prove the things that are accused of her as being false, and maybe she’ll actually get away with them. And then, you know, obviously very much not like Trump, also potentially have someone say that this is usually a misdemeanor. We’re inflating it to a felony. You don’t need to tell us why you think it’s a felony, but just go ahead and tell us if Trump is guilty of it. That may not. actually happened to Tish James, which is a shame because you feel like not only should you have selective prosecution, you should also have the inflating of recharges to a ridiculous degree, which most legal people thought was insane when Alvin Bragg and others were doing it to Trump. But let’s hear from Tish on this.
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If Democrats like Slotkin are going to come out today and whine about selective prosecutions over Tish James, her entire career is built on the selective prosecution of one man. Yes, Scotty. Now, I also believe what Elliott said. There’s a process here. Everybody gets their day in court. Obviously, a grand jury saw enough evidence to bring charges. We don’t know what they are, but a grand jury looked at this and says, OK, there’s something here. She gets to go to court just like Comey, just like anyone else. But to me, it’s just not going to fly to boo-hoo over selective prosecutions on this particular person who promised in her campaigns, who went after him on things, as Jonah said, that had no business, no business ever happening, if not but for the man’s last name being Trump. I’m not going to… But how is that not a two wrongs make a right argument? I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. I’m saying she gets her day in court. I’m saying a grand jury saw enough evidence to bring charges, and I’m saying she gets to go to court and tell her side of the story, and then we’ll see what happens.
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I love when the Democratic pushback to what Jennings is saying is, how does it not appear that two wrongs make a right? Well, the reason that it doesn’t matter in that case is because you don’t care. Because you’d rather have your wrong be the only wrong that occurred. And if something actually happens that hurts your side after you’ve punished the side of the aisle that you’re so spitefully against, you want that part to go away. It’s the COVID thing all over again. And I think people remember this. During coronavirus and all the shutdowns, the amount of shaming that happened for someone who didn’t agree with the left on any of that crap. who thought maybe the vaccines were something you didn’t need to take, et cetera, et cetera. You name the issue, shutdowns, masks, all of it. All of the data that’s come out since, tons and tons of data, has demonstrated how those conspiracy theorists, those conservatives in your life were right about a bunch of that stuff. And you guys were wrong about a bunch of that stuff. And the Democratic response at the time is, why go ahead and adjudicate this all over again? Why run back through these issues just to find blame? Because you were saying people could die and that’s fine with you. Kimmel made those jokes. Jimmy Kimmel, who said and did horrible things after Charlie Kirk died, was murdered, assassinated, and still has a job that he shouldn’t have because he’s a piece of crap. That’s my own opinion of it, of Jimmy Kimmel. But anyway, he said that constantly. During COVID that if you’re on the right, you don’t want a vaccine. You don’t get any medical treatment. You get to die, which was just insane and constant. And these are the same people who then say, well, we don’t want to argue now that our side no longer has what we thought was a slam dunk argument. Now that we’ve been proven wrong, let’s go ahead and not discuss this at all. Let’s just let it go away. That’s the pushing the goalpost part. That’s the part where the Democrats do whatever they want, how often they want, in any way that they want. And then they hope when the time comes to wield the same power against them, that you choose not to do it. And if you choose to harm them the way they harm you, then they blame you for it, even though they started it, which they never want to remember in the first place. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Radio Craig C. If you want to follow me and what I occasionally say about the New York Yankees, that’s totally fine. I get in on that too. Several different Florida Man stories. Some of them amazing. This one horrific, but also ridiculously Florida. A couple in Florida is facing charges after they left their 16-year-old son on the side of the road. They said they didn’t want him anymore. At 16 years old, some parents might start to get frustrated with the young man, son especially, but I don’t know, any teenager might be annoying. The right approach is not to leave them on the side of the road and try to drive away. That’s not going to work out. Uniquely Florida about this story, they left him with a wad of cash and a bag of handguns. They’re like, here you go, son. You’re 16. You’re an adult, according to us in Florida. So here’s a wad of cash. And here’s just a bag of an assortment of handguns. We don’t know why you need so many. And in such a random thing, like not even in a box, man, like at least put them in a little safe or something. But now they just have them all in a bag and they’re handing them to this guy. I have audio of Josh Taylor, who’s the chief of staff for the North Port Police Department, talking about the ridiculousness of this story.
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The story was these people kicked him out of the car and gave him two bags. And once, through the course of that investigation, talking with him, we were able to figure out what was in those bags. There was the loaded weapons, and I believe there was a magazine as well. The report indicates that the child was handed these bags and said, you’re the chosen one, good luck. So that’s all.
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I gotta be honest, a part of me would be a little bit motivated if someone handed me a bag of handguns and said I was the chosen one. But that’s probably the wrong thing to take from this. And I’m a gun guy. I’m definitely very happy with the guns that I have right now. Of course, I don’t think you could fill in on this show and not be a pro-gun person because Dana is so prolifically awesome in her own discussion and opinion of guns in her history and understanding the very important value of the Second Amendment. But no, teenager, side of the road, bag of handguns, probably not a good move. Uniquely Florida, though. A Florida man robbed $7,000 worth of lottery scratch-off tickets from a convenience store. So he goes in, he demands the scratchers, he leaves. Now, two things he did were wrong. The first one is he didn’t know how to play scratcher tickets the pro way, which you don’t scratch any of them. You just find your local grocery store or something and you scan them. That way you don’t have to do anything other than scan to see if you won. He didn’t do that part. He actually played all $7,000 of these tickets Then he tried to bring the winning tickets back to the same convenience store that he stole them from. That’s uniquely Florida. That’s like, hey, bygones be bygones. Today’s a new day. What I did yesterday doesn’t count anymore. I’m here to, you know, take my sweet winnings from the stuff I stole from you the other day. That gets you arrested. That’s usually not a good move. Another Florida man that made the news was naked and chasing Walmart workers inside a Walmart and in the parking lot of a Walmart. He was then found later in the wooded area near the Walmart, agitated and paranoid. Every part of that story 100% checks out in the world of Florida. First thing first, you show up at a Walmart and there’s a naked guy. You probably think to yourself, man, there’s a lot of other Walmarts. that I can go to. I don’t know why I’m staying here. But if you’re the employees, you’re stuck dealing with it, calling the authorities. The naked dude is harassing people. I don’t know if any of it was sexual in nature or if the naked thing is just an accident. That’s always a confusion of mine. I always want to ask the criminal, and it’s probably not the right way to go about it, but I can’t help it. When nudity got into the equation for them, like the person who’s arrested on the side of the road, traffic ticket, and then all of a sudden they’re naked. When did they decide that they were taking their clothes off? Was it an in-the-moment thing? I was this a premeditated nakedness that came about from like, you know, planning. If I ever get pulled over, I know it’ll make the situation go away. I’ll just get taken. But that feels like a byproduct and a question because I don’t think in my own life I will ever be, you know, naked accidentally. I’m pretty sure I won’t ever be naked accidentally. And in a situation like this, where like when you’re arrested, you kind of want them to ignore it. Like, and sir, you’re naked. You’re like, why does that matter? Why can’t I be naked all the time? That’s how these people seem to behave. And that is a problem. And then finally, one last Florida man story. A Florida guy stole a woman’s purse. He found out that she had a one-month-old kitten inside the purse instead of any valuable stuff, which is just a weird thing to do. It’s not a purse puppy. Dogs are better than cats, by the way, even if this kitten was probably adorable at one month. But you open up the purse, you’ve stolen the thing, and then you wind up, you have a brand new pet. That’s a unique way for, say, adoption centers to try to get more of their pets adopted. Just put them in purses and leave them out on the side of the road and see if people say that doesn’t sound right. Don’t do that. Don’t write your hate letters to me. Please, PETA, don’t say anything to us. I’m kidding. But anyway, maybe it’s a nice adoption thing. Put the puppy in the purse, hold the purse out and be like, look, you get a dog in a purse. And maybe that way we get more pets adopted. That’s fine with me. And apparently a thing in Florida. All right. Well, sort of. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLash, RadioNX on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her and everything that she has going on in the world. And honestly, her and her team do a great job of anything on social media. So you should stay involved. Producer Steven and so many other people involved in helping make that awesome. um there is a big story out there and i do think it’s interesting and dana has even tweeted about it so d lash a dana lash radio and x on twitter how to find out what she thinks about some of this before she gets back to the radio um but pete hegseth made a big announcement today uh that’s Very confusing to a whole lot of people involving allowing Qatar to have a Air Force training base in the United States on U.S. soil in Idaho. Here is the announcement of that thing, which, again, is confusing a whole lot of people on both sides of the aisle.
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No one other than President Trump could have achieved the peace that we believe will be a lasting peace in Gaza. And Qatar played a substantial role from the beginning, working with our folks to ensure that came about. So I want to thank you for that historic peace. I look forward to joining the president as that gets done. uh it’s already been delivered but as that’s formally signed as well and i’m also proud that today we’re announcing or signing a letter of acceptance to build a qatari emiri air force facility at the mountain home air base in idaho the location will be uh host a contingent of qatari f-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training increase lethality interoperability it’s just another example of our partnership and i hope hope you know
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Yeah, I got to be honest. That makes no sense to me either. Dana did tweet out, I feel like if you sponsor Hamas, you shouldn’t get a base in the U.S. What am I missing here? She is absolutely right about that. 100% right about that. Qatar was instrumental, I will say this, according to Israel and everyone else, along with the United States in ushering in the peace deal between Gaza and Israel and Hamas, essentially, more so than Gaza. So I think that there’s something interesting about this being a fallout component likely to that kind of agreement and what Qatar got in the process of all of it. But yeah, this is the kind of thing that U.S. should not have have at all allowed to happen. Would we have unique capability to prevent it from being anything horrible? I think we would. We would have the capability if it’s on U.S. soil and surrounded by U.S. military. The odds of Qatar doing something bad with a Air Force base they have here are hopefully low, but it’s just surreal as a sentence. You know, in all honesty, it’s a strange thing to say and think is happening. And a lot of people on both sides of the aisle are very confused by it. I wonder if that’s what it is, though, if it’s a level of arrogance and deserved arrogance. I’ll say this. We deserve to be arrogant about our capabilities, capabilities as a military force in the world. You know, so much so that you might be able to say out loud, all right, you can build a base in our country and we’ll still screw you up if you ever try to hurt any of us because of how capable we are and how much we would have insight into whatever it is you’re saying and doing inside that facility inside our country. But it still feels like a thing you should never do. It feels like a bending of the knee that’s just strange. And so I don’t get it. And I think a lot of people don’t get it. And I think that Dana specifically is quite right in saying that if you wind up on the wrong side of certain issues from the United States and begrudgingly eventually wind up somehow facilitating something that’s supposed to help us, At the end of the day, the reward for you can’t be this gigantic. It can’t be this monumental. And you can’t have the potential to use it for negative reasons, which I think that people who influence Qatar might hope it’s capable of doing. The amount of individuals… or country leaders, or world leaders, whatever you want to call it, terrorist leaders of groups like Hamas that hope they have some avenue into that facility in the United States is through the roof. And so it’s just interesting to open that Pandora’s box ever so slightly and to believe in our capability of keeping it from being something that harms our country more. But yet that is something that I think If you were in charge of our military in this country, you might think you’re literally incapable of being defeated even by a force that’s on our soil of our own doing because of our capabilities as a force beyond that. So I don’t know. I hate to say that this is a we’ll see moment because it’s not. It shouldn’t have happened. I don’t think it should happen. It feels like, you know, the kind of thing that we shouldn’t surrender on. And yet I wonder if 10, 20, 30, 50 years, 100 years, 200 years from now, it has any impact whatsoever on our society or if we’re fully capable of managing and controlling an organization that’s not us having a facility like that within our country, which I think we probably are. I’m still not happy about it. All right. Another thing out there, Speaker Johnson. has said that he is furious that it’s very likely the Democrats are holding out the government shutdown until no King’s Day, which is October 18th in Antifa involved rally in D.C. and New York and other places. Here’s part of what Mike Johnson said to I think this was Fox News earlier today about the likelihood that this is why Democrats are still refusing to open the government.
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A very patient guy, but I have had it with these people. They’re playing games with real people’s lives. The theory we have right now, they have a Hate America rally that’s scheduled for October 18th on the National Mall. It’s all the pro Hamas wing and the Antifa people, they’re all coming out. Some of the House Democrats are selling t-shirts for the event. And it’s being told to us that they won’t be able to reopen the government until after that rally because they can’t face their rabid base. I mean, this is serious business hurting real people. And I just, I’m beyond words. I can’t believe they’re actually doing this.
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Yeah, I can believe they’re doing that. That’s not remotely shocking to me at all, in all honesty, because Democrats always care more about optics than anything else. They don’t care about who’s helped or who’s hurt. They only care about convincing you that they’re the good guys and the other side’s the bad guys at all costs, at all times, even if it makes them very much the bad guys in doing that. But nonetheless, I do think it’s interesting, and I know that Mike Johnson is saying that, you know, you’re toying with Americans’ lives. This is something very often that the left will say if the right threatens to shut down the government. So it does fall on deaf ears to me to consider one side of the aisle suddenly more concerned than they appear to be when they’re not in power and using this as a way to wield any sort of control of the government, even, you know, ever so slightly. And yet a part of me also knows that the Republican Party doesn’t usually run on a platform of we’re trying to fight the Nazis and the other side is the Nazis and all this other crap that they say all the time. By the way, Trump ushered in peace in Israel. Apparently Hitler is in charge of that. because they call him Hitler. I love the Babylon Bee and others who had headlines like that. Hitler responsible for peace in Israel is a unique headline. The Democrats seem to basically be saying themselves all the time if they are even paying attention to and not fully ignoring that story. But nonetheless, I just can’t get over the fact that that what really strikes me as important here is that the people who vote on the left believe their side to be the good guys and the good guys are behaving in bad faith and bad again, as they always do, because they are, in fact, the bad guys. And now they’re going to pretend as though they’re just doing it for some other reason. Another thing out there, I thought this was interesting. And this is something I actually hope becomes a byproduct of the government shutting down. The funny thing about the right and fighting to have the government reopened is we’d also like to fire a whole lot of bureaucratic people that don’t need their jobs. And so if that can be an end result of shutting down the government, working with skeleton crews and then being like, you know, we don’t need so many people. I’m good with that. And Russ Voigt seems to also think that this is totally fine. Let’s get some people fired, baby. Here we go.
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We tracked down exactly which agencies here on this Friday afternoon are now sending these notices of reduction in force, effectively layoffs, firings to their employees. And I just heard from a spokesperson over at the Health and Human Services Department that they are among those agencies, those departments that are going to be moving forward with agency rifts. I am told that here from the agency that it’s going to be across multiple divisions and that under the Biden administration, that the department had become bloated. This is the spokesperson. HHS continues to close wasteful and duplicative entities, including those that are at odds with Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda here. And so
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Yeah, that seems fine with me. To be totally honest, if we lose some bureaucratic positions that are, you know, just taking our money that don’t need to exist, that part I think I’d consider a win. And I consider it a win no matter what I’m told or what else you say about it, because I would like to see us spend. way less money on the government in general anyway. And I know I’m not alone in feeling that way. So I just think that’s kind of an interesting byproduct of all of this. And part of the thing that makes you think maybe this is why it’s happening all along. Maybe the trap was set. The Democrats stepped into the trap and now we get to fire some people. That doesn’t seem so bad. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. I am still fairly dumbfounded at the idea that there will be an Air Force military base of some kind, a training facility for another country, a country that has close ties to terrorist groups here in the United States. And I know that the conspiracy theorists are saying it’s because of a golf course. I imagine it’s really more because of our unique belief in ourselves that can make you arrogant. at times, although I think that arrogance is justified, that arrogance is justified, and I think the odds of Qatar actually harming us by having a facility in our country are actually quite low because of the capability of our military. It doesn’t mean I have to like it to think that it’s something that may never actually have the worst case scenario play itself out. It just seems odd. It just seems like something that’s a step too far, a willingness that might have been a condition of brokering peace between Israel and Hamas that the United States never should have done. And I know that I’m not alone. And a whole lot of people on both sides of the aisle are saying something very similar to that right now. I quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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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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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on The Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her even when she has a day off. She is tweeting some reaction to some things going on in the world. So stay connected with her right there at Radio Craig C. If for some reason you want to follow me as well. I love that people follow me. I’m nowhere near as prolific as her. But thank you anyone that supports the show and hears me on it that jumps in. All right. Some quick stories. Bob Ross paintings are going to be auctioned off in support of public TV stations that no longer have federal funding because they’re ridiculously one side and bias. I love the fact that these public stations don’t want to just sell advertising and make money the right way and have, you know, a programming that enough people actually pay attention to. So the advertising is value. Instead, you want to sell Bob Ross paintings. If anything would make me rethink my advertising budget in 2025 or 26, if I’m already planning on that one now, which many are, it would be watching a station I’m advertising on have to sell paintings by Bob Ross to make enough money to keep operating. That might make me think you don’t have enough viewers for my, you know, ad to be valuable enough as is. So God forbid they try to do it that way and have engaging content that people pay attention to. Instead, they’re going to crack open the vault and see what they have in storage that they can sell off for some amount of money. Speaking of like a weird money related story, though. There’s another one out there in Canada. Marine Land is a theme park in Canada that says it needs emergency funding now. And apparently it has no Bob Ross paintings to sell. So it’s very upset about that. It either needs that funding or it’s going to euthanize 30 beluga whales. I’m not laughing because I think that’s funny. I’m laughing because of the prospect of that as an either or scenario that this organization is putting out to the world. It sounds like a mob. It sounds like we’re killing these 30 whales if you don’t give us money now, a kind of a thing. It doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that usually a theme park would go about saying or doing in a more measured way. It’s you either give us funds immediately or we have to off 30 beluga whales that don’t deserve it. And we’re going to like send parts of them. down to the world, very mafia style, just so you know the bad thing you did. That feels like what’s going on here. But Canada is actually saying that they’re, you know, hard up for cash. At least this one amusement park is. And it’s an either or scenario that you never thought you’d see coming by people that claim to be scientists and, you know, theme park operators and not necessarily members of the mob. Montana had a car crash, or I could actually call it a cow crash, that was unique and feels very Montana. 120 cows tipped over. They were inside a cattle hauler truck in Miles City on Sunday afternoon on I-94. It caused backups. It caused problems. Cows got everywhere, apparently. The cows survived, which is good. That’s a good thing. But a lot of them got into the community, into the town. And here’s my favorite part of when you know you’re living in Montana and not, say, like in New York City. A bunch of cowboys got on their horses and corralled all the cows because they were called into action and capable of acting in a place like Montana without actually being then requested and called from, say, some neighboring community that’s not inside their big city. They got it done, baby. And they got it done fast. The cows were removed quickly. That doesn’t happen in some places. One final story, and I just found this funny. Ferrari’s stock has tumbled after the big debut of its electric vehicle because surprise, surprise, no one wants an electric Ferrari. You do want a sweet, delicious, amazing sports car. You want it to sound and act like a sweet, delicious, amazing sports car. And you need gasoline, baby. For that to happen, you don’t want fake sounds and dumb electricity. But the electric sports car that was finally unveiled by Ferrari that they said people have been long clamoring for apparently was overshadowed by the fact that their organization is doing terrible and their stock is tumbling. By 2030, it looks like the outlook for Ferrari would be even worse, which makes me sad. There were so many movies that focused on Ferrari recently, Ford versus Ferrari and whatnot, and Ferraris are just cool vehicles. You want the place to succeed, but you definitely don’t need an electric one. All right, we’ll take a break. After the break, I’ll play you audio of a Democrat failing at a debate, because it happens all the time, next on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. You would think that it’s easy for a politician, Democrat or Republican, to distance themselves from somebody within their party who seems to think that violence politically is totally fine, is totally okay. That was not, in fact, the case during a debate yesterday in which a Democratic politician was held even so smallly, like so barely to the fire. Her feet were they dabbled in the fire and she failed incredibly to give a positive or valuable answer to this question or any answer whatsoever. to a question about Jay Jones and text message controversies that you may or may not know anything about. The long and short of that is Jay Jones essentially showing that he’s totally fine with his political opposition being shot and killed or people on the other side of the aisle, party-wise, being killed for their political beliefs. That’s totally fine with him. A controversy that’s caused some issues. Abigail Spanberger really, really struggled and just straight up refused to answer this question asked of her. Here we go.
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Thank you, Ms. VanBurger. I just I didn’t hear an answer there on the endorsement issue. So I want to just make sure. Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia? And were you aware of these text messages before they released? You have 30 seconds.
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In fact, it appears that it was those who released the text messages and held them for years. So the public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages for many of us to do about. I learned of these text messages the day that they came out.
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Okay.
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Already, I feel like I need to paint the picture here for anyone who’s unaware of this. I know this is a national show. If you’re in Virginia, you’re probably very aware of these politicians. If you’re somewhere else, you might not be. But the other lady who is speaking, the political opposition, the Republican politician, is a black woman. The person who’s being asked the question to begin with is a white woman. If a black mine, if a excuse me, minority woman defeats a white woman in a position, you know, in a race somewhere in the country, I don’t know how the left will handle that because they want to call it sexism or racism. But the person who defeated the individuals they want to win would be subject to more of the things that they claim to be issues in our society. So it’s hard to fathom how someone who is, again, a black woman beats a white woman and somehow race and or sex is a is a byproduct of the reason for the loss for the Democrats. But that’s what they’ll say. Somehow, some way they’ll go there. But I just love the attitude to, by the way. I know it’s a hallmark or a stereotype or whatever you want to call it of black women occasionally to be able to execute these types of questions in a way that maybe no one else can say them tone wise or whatnot. But you hear it there. And I think that if if it’s the left and their party that’s acting this way, they’d praise this. They said that the Republican was, you know, upsetting people and interrupting a lot and that Earl Sayers, excuse me, is someone who, you know, didn’t behave professionally. But I feel like if she were, again, a Democratic politician, they’d love every part of this. And they’d call her Mamala 2.0, but let’s continue.
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And I denounced them as soon as I learned of them. And importantly, at this point, as we move forward, the voters now have this information, information that was withheld for them, presumably for political reasons. But the voters now have the information and it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.
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Can you hear the shaking in her voice? By the way, it’s not because of the interruptions by the political opposition that’s on the stage with her. It’s the fact that she knows she’s absolutely terribly avoiding this question. She’s not doing it in a smart way, in a good way, in a way where it feels like she answered the question, but she didn’t. She’s absolutely struggling because she refuses to say the words that are evidently true. She does still endorse a political candidate who seems to be totally fine with murderers. That seems to be something that is absolutely okay. with jay jones and it’s something that she should distance herself from but can’t i want to play it again because i want you to hear the shaking in the voice when the best thing you can come up with is the voters get to vote now and even though you asked me a question about what i think the voters should do my answer is that they get to vote and they choose what they want to do and other than that i don’t want to say anything i learned of that
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And importantly, at this point, as we move forward, the voters now have this information, information that was withheld for them, presumably for political reasons. But the voters now have the information, and it is up to voters to make an individual choice based on this information.
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Mr. Mayor, I understand what you’re saying about the voters, but for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?
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I asked you a question. You basically described the political process to me as a response to the question. Can you answer the question now?
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15 seconds, yes or no. We are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee. And it’s up to every person to make their own decision. I am running my race to serve Virginia, and that is what I intend to do.
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Thank you, Ms. Spanberger. We just want to clarify, you know, what you’re saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney general.
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I’m saying as of now, it’s up to every voter to make their own individual decision.
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Just try to envision like, because sometimes I have this with my wife, not this, not what you just heard, but the version of, hey, what do you want to have for dinner tonight? And the missus is like, whatever you want to have. But then there’s definitely a right and a wrong answer. We all know this. We’ve seen the jokes on social media about this. Just consider this with Abigail Spanberger as a thing. Like, hey, what do you want to have tonight? Whatever you want. People everywhere throughout this country are going to be eating food this evening. All kinds of different food of different options. And that’s food that they get to choose to eat based on whatever location they want to go to. Yeah, but what do you want? Yep, I definitely think that that’s a great question. And the best way to answer it is that people choose to eat food based on what they… You just go crazy if you had to deal with this all the time. And it’s just uniquely, uniquely horrible. For her part, Earl Sayers absolutely crushed her in another moment where it’s just ridiculous to think that what’s going on right now in so many different races, in so many different places, is anything other than pretending as though the American people are so incredibly stupid. that you can say and do whatever you want in any scenario, in any way, shape, or form, and they’ll just keep voting for you regardless, even after Trump actually wins the popular vote and shows that substance of arguments does matter more than Democrats want it to, they continue to swing and miss on so many of these things. Here’s another moment where I absolutely think Winsome Earl Sears did an incredible job of just crushing her opponent.
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If your little girl comes home and said she was forced to undress in a locker room with a biological boy, what would you say? Would you say baby?
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I love that the other politician doesn’t even look her in the eye. She’s like, I can’t even answer that question because it does seem as though Abigail Spanberger did side with a trans sex abuser who wanted to change in, you know, women’s rooms. That was a biological man, which is it’s just crazy. that this is the kind of stuff they do because apparently they’re terrified of their political side coming after them if they’re not far enough left and woke enough. And actually, you know what? I’ll play that audio again. Not the audio I just played, but something I played earlier in the show today. Because one more time I will demonstrate that yet another issue in which it seems as though The problem for many people is the No Kings protest, and not at all the fact that I think that many politicians would like to see the government open or not open or any of that crap. But No Kings Day, which is on October 18th, is a day that apparently Mark Wayne Mullen and others have been told Democrats refused to open the government before that day because if they do, the problem for them will be that the left will eat them alive, will be very upset about all the decisions that they’ve made, etc., etc., which is just crazy. And I want to play this audio. I’m trying to make sure to find it relatively quickly of Senator Mullen’s because… It is the typical kind of thing that you’d see from the left to, you know, in any way, shape or form, say that what’s happening right now, what’s going on, what’s occurring in this society, whether you think there’s the good guys or bad guys and whatever side of the aisle you think they’re on, they’re really just doing it for whatever optical thing they want or they think is best to achieve. I don’t think I can play the audio. I don’t have it. So I’ll try to find it for later and we’ll take a break in just a second. But nonetheless, he’s saying that because no King’s Day is coming up, Democrats think of it as a political win for the government to still be closed on that day, a day when in D.C. and New York and other places they will protest having no king in this country and claiming that Trump is a king when he’s not one. It’s the funniest protest because I feel like they can all just go home when they show up and they’re like, yeah, no kings here. And then you look at them and you’d be like, there are no kings here. Our political system is still working. There are still checks and balances. Trump still loses in courtrooms throughout the country on some of the issues that he’d like to do a certain way. It’s still not going the way you want. That happens, and they’re deaf ears to that. One last thing. I guess I’ll throw this out there again, too. Qatar will be getting its own Air Force facility, its own training facility within the United States, which is a very odd thing. There’s no positive way to spin this, even if I desire to do it, which I just desire to tell you the truth of what I think. I don’t care about spinning anything. But I’ll play this audio quickly of Hegseth earlier today saying that Qatar will get its own Air Force training facility in Idaho and how odd it is. And Dana actually tweeted about this too. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and Axe on Twitter, that if you stand with terrorists, that if you support terrorists, Your reward, if you do help us eventually broker peace between terrorists and Israel, isn’t that you get your own military base inside the United States. That’s that’s a disproportionate reward for whatever level of help you actually gave us. I’m paraphrasing. She didn’t say all that, but she’s absolutely right about that. That feels wrong. This is insane. Let’s play a little bit of this.
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We also value the close cooperation between Doha and Washington that led to the signing of the Gaza peace plan on October 8th. This historic achievement underscores what can be accomplished when our nations work together with courage and trust amongst other partners such as Egypt and Turkey. We further welcome today’s signing of the letter of acceptance establishing a Qatari Emir Air Force Facility and Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho. These steps strengthen interoperability, enhance joint readiness, and advance our shared defense goals.
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Yeah, it’s weird. This is a weird announcement. It’s a weird thing. Hegseth did echo it and say that it was something that was happening. And I don’t say this in a way where I’m judgmental. I don’t know why I need to clarify that for you, but I feel like I do. I think the arrogance of the capabilities of our military is a deserved feeling. The United States is uniquely good in that world. And so our belief that Qatar could have its own facility here in the United States and it would pose no actual risk to us probably is born from that level of arrogance, and it might actually be accurate. I do imagine that in the years to come, the odds of anything actually bad happening because of the amount of oversight we’ll have over that facility is probably non-existent. This probably will not actually… threaten the safety of the American people, which seems like it deserves to be said. Nonetheless, it just feels wrong. It just feels like the kind of thing we shouldn’t do, even if we have the capability to make it abundantly safe to have because we are who we are. It just still seems like the kind of thing we shouldn’t be doing. And a whole lot of people are saying exactly that. They’re very confused. about the announcement, the decision. I don’t believe it’s golf course connected, but I do believe it’s the kind of thing that we just think, like, what’s the risk? We’re too powerful to be harmed by something like this, and there’s no reason to even go about opening that Pandora’s box. But all right, quick break. A little bit coming up in a lot of time. Well, a little bit and a little time left. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in for just a few more minutes. Dana is back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you on a Friday show. Lots of different things to talk about with very little time left. Let’s do this first. The top trending Halloween costumes this year are mostly from a movie I haven’t seen, the K-pop Demon Hunter thing that your kids probably love and you may or may not know anything about, depending on how old your children are, but several. All of the top five, in fact, actually are costumes from that list. There’s other things in this list that I did not recognize at all, most of the things, which makes me feel old. This is the point where you’re getting older, that you realize you know less and less about the stuff the young kids are liking. I know what a Labubu is. I don’t like Labubus. I think they’re weird and dumb, and I don’t know why people like them. They’re the latest Beanie Baby, and they’re horribly unattractive. But the Labubu made the list, too. My favorite one on this list was Nightwing, which is the Robin character in Batman and Robin. After he grows up and stops being Robin, he becomes Nightwing. Apparently, that’s an all-time high. I don’t know why. I don’t know what’s going on in the world of DC, you know, comics and or superheroes and Nightwing specifically. He’s this high on the list, but he’s up there. My favorite, too, is when you look at a breakdown of certain states and the things that people are dressing up like there or even cities within those states. And you find Indianapolis in Indiana, Ricky Bobby, the Talladega Nights character is still in the top five and has been on the top five every year since. that you’ve been having Halloween for quite some time, which is great, as long as we’ve been keeping the track of this information, I guess. If you dive into parts of Texas, I also find some results uniquely interesting or humorous as far as that goes, too. Let’s see if we can find Houston, Texas, which is actually where I’m broadcasting from. I’m broadcasting from the KSEV Studios in Houston, Texas. All of them are K-pop demon hunters. We have failed to do anything unique, anything interesting. Let’s check out Dallas, which is where actually Dana typically broadcasts her show from. La Boo Boo is the only thing that seemed to throw off the top five coming in at number two there. But you can go on FrightGeist.com, which is sponsored by Google, and look up your specific city and see what the top Halloween trending costumes are there and see if you’ve even heard of them. Most of them probably not. Other things out there, people are sharing the strange rules their parents had growing up. No turning on the lights during a thunderstorm. No wearing clothing with faces on them was a weird one. We had to drink a huge glass of milk before we had anything else was one that’s out there that I like because actually I had something similar to that growing up. We had one drink cup on the kitchen sink and the entire family shared it and it was only washed twice a week. This was the water cup. If you want water, you can’t get your own water cup. You have to share this one. That’s gross. That’s weird. And then finally, my favorite one of the strange rules people had. No stepping on the bath mat with wet feet, even if the bath mat is designed to be stepped on with wet feet. Apparently someone was told no. to that whole situation. But what weird rules did you have? What weird things did you grow up with is a question you can probably answer for Dana on all of her social media pages and not explain it. Craig Collins filled in, told me to do this if you have to. All right, that’s it. That’s all for me. Dana’s back on Monday. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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