Trump makes a midterm pitch against socialism at a rally in Texas in front of Enes Kanter Freedom. Zohran Mamdani goes on Theo Von’s podcast to define socialism.The Justice Department has launched an investigation into a Democratic group in Texas after a viral video showed an operative detailing how they are paying people to vote in the midterm elections. Scott Jennings dunks on CNN about energy production. Gavin Newsom wants to sign a bill forcing companies to dig for slavery ties and make them public. Craig recaps the highlights of Trump’s midterm campaign speeches.
How much would the Democratic Socialists’
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. So much stuff out there to talk about. So many things to get to. And yet I do really love one report that came out that seems to indicate just how expensive it would be for the Democratic Socialists of America to get everything they want. $49 trillion over the next decade. The White House released a projection of just how expensive everything would be. And even Charles Barkley has been saying that he thinks this is uniquely dumb. He said a bad word several times. which I still have to take out of the audio. I haven’t done that yet, and I’m not going to risk getting in trouble on this radio show with the fanciness of all the audience here, so we’ll play that later. But suffice it to say, every single one of the topics that Sir Charles talked about that he’s heard from the Democratic Socialists, he described them as… Pretty stupid. And then he used a bad word. And honestly, he also describes himself as an independent who often votes Democratic. So there’s not a lot of him trying to say or pretend that he’s anything other than a Democrat. He just really doesn’t like the rhetoric out of the socialist crazy part of the left, which to me feels like all of the left. It doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of the left left that actually thinks opposite. Also, President Trump spoke and said a lot of hilarious things as he is one to do this. I think probably the most viral moment is when he saw a former NBA player and hopeful WNBA player Ennis Cantor in the stands, and he talked about how he would love to see him in the WNBA because of the stupidity of the policies that would allow Ennis Cantor to potentially be a WNBA player. Here we go.
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But the choice in this election is very simple. You can vote for the radical left, Democrat, communist to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $4 trillion, annihilate your borders, shut down Oklahoma oil and gas. True. Boo. Mutilate your children, your transgender children. Have men playing in women’s sports? No. Where’s freedom? I saw a man here as the largest human being. Where the hell is freedom? Stand up, please.
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Stand up, Dennis. Look at this guy. Look at freedom. Giant dude.
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I mean, in all fairness, this guy is a monster. He dreams of playing against women. He wants… In fact, he’s willing to say that he’s a woman in order to play against women. And I don’t think he really believes that, but that’s okay. These are minor details.
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Okay, that’s fantastic. He’s like, these are minor details. That he isn’t actually a woman, doesn’t want to be a woman. He just wants to proudly enjoy himself playing against people that won’t be capable of playing well against him. And then also demonstrating the stupidity of the left’s opinion. The left, their ideas crumble as soon as they’re actually put into a place of reality, which I think is fascinating. Here, you know, my other favorite piece of audio, because I still have more Trump stuff that I want to play. But I do love this. And if I didn’t say it, Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show. I don’t even realize if I did. I started so quickly and other things. Theo Vaughn asked Zoran Mumdami. what socialism means. And Theo Vaughn got the clip of the week, a guy that’s just sort of stumbling in the dark, it feels like. I don’t dislike Theo. I think he’s funny. I think he’s harmless, although he has definitely changed his opinion politically from supporting Trump to not supporting him, thus having Zoran on the show and asking him a layup of a question like this. But it’s a horrible answer. From Dami as as far as what does socialism mean to you? And then I’ll tell you what it actually means. I just you better understand it. But this should be terrifying to anyone who hears it. Here we go.
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I want to talk a little bit about socialism, right? It’s a buzzword, right? Because socialism. Will you define socialism for us? Because people say it a lot and don’t know what it is. And sometimes those people are me.
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I’m so happy to be with those people right now.
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Socialism to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that.
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So there’s a couple ways to go about this. I kind of want to play it again, though, mostly because I had it so loud at the beginning, because it’s a terrifying answer. But there’s a couple things we can do. We can dissect what he said and why what he said is awful. Or also we can demonstrate the parts of the definition of socialism, communism, all the things that the Marxist left wants and how it’s much more than just giving everybody a dignified life via the how they do that. But here, let’s play one more time.
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I’m so happy to be with those people right now.
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Socialism to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that.
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All right, so the biggest thing that actually is socialist, Marxist, communist, all the things that Soren Mamdami is and what he’s shown us in New York via the opening of state-funded grocery stores is taking over the means of production. He wants to take over so many different aspects. of the private sector, so many different things where companies are benefiting from creating their own organizations. They intend to make money. They intend to pay people at the top of their food chain a lot of money. And here’s the thing, because I believe a lot of… Young people who support the basics of what Mamdami just said think that a better villain is the government than the 1% that they talk about and vilify all the time. They think if we want to give a very small group of people a tremendous amount of financial power… We should give that power to a group of people that are also part of our government and not people who’ve built things on their own. That’s a belief within the left, and it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Because the easiest way to argue it… Is to say to anyone that’s saying that is, all right, you obviously believe that the 1% are terrible people, the people who create jobs via making a bunch of money, and I’m sure they’re keeping a lot of it for themselves, all those things. You think that’s all bad. You think the organization of power around money is uniquely harmful to our society. Why would you enhance it? by making that group even smaller, giving them governmental power that they don’t have without trying to pay for it, but also beyond that, allowing these people who already think they’re elite, the government people, who don’t have to earn it, they don’t have to go make money or convince you to buy something, they can just take things from you, give them even more power and capability. Because every time we’ve seen this movie… In the world of our society, it goes horrible for everyone that’s not the elite within the organization, and in this case, the government, that are given control of everything. They will start doing their version of eating a feast in a tower in a castle somewhere. Well, the rest of us have nothing to eat. That’s the version of life they’re asking for. The reason this is so terrifying or so obvious to me… that this is the plan, is that they already think they’re elite. And a lot of people in the world of our government actually, unfortunately, are. They’ve enriched themselves via their connection to, you know, control certain aspects of knowing in advance how stocks are going to go. Insider trading, one of the biggest reasons that they get massively wealthy and then just… You know, bribes, payoffs, all that stuff. But the people within our government, especially at higher levels of government like Senate, House representatives, you can see the ridiculous wealth of every one of those individuals already. So many of them are already the people that we absolutely do not want in any way, shape or form to get more control and more of our money, especially since, again, I’ll just say this one more time. They can just take it. Like, I know it’s overly simplistic for a lot of people listening to this show today, a lot of people who understand a much deeper version of this discussion. But for anyone out there that doesn’t, anyone out there that wants to play this audio somewhere where maybe people weren’t listening to the amazing show that is The Dana Show, and they should be… You’re making your problem that you think exists in the world, the people you blame for your ability or inability to succeed, you’re making it far worse by giving even more power to the government instead. They’re not the good guys in this story. They’re absolutely the worst of the bad guys. But it’s just amazing. So, again, to say it, I guess, beyond the simplicity of how this is a terrible, terrible solution to a problem that does in some ways exist, there are a lot of people that can rightly say that, say, you know, wage disparity in our society has gotten worse than it used to be. And they can say that, you know, lack of unions or this or that or all these different problems exist as to why that’s true. There is another component to it. And a component I get in trouble a lot of the time when I say out loud, you don’t have to accept whatever salary you are offered by whatever company you work for. You don’t have to. If you have the skills, if you have the capability, if you have the desire to want more in your life, you can go get more. You can get two jobs. You can do whatever it takes to make the amount of money you want to make. You don’t need a union to represent you to do that. We can all do it on our own. And yeah, if you don’t get the job, if you get fired, if you get… You know, move for somebody else who will take less. That’s a problem in society, but that’s not a problem that you necessarily get to fix via the government. It’s just so crazy to me. Because I do, I’m a 40-year-old man, and I might be talking about this differently than you expected, and I do have a lot of friends. who still fall into the 30-something, 40-something bucket that don’t have their house, that don’t have the car they want, that don’t have the salary they want, that complain. And they often tell me that the biggest problem is that they’re just not being given enough by the people that they deserve it from. And so I say that’s fine if you believe that. The right way to solve that problem is not to tell the government to do it for you. And that’s usually when the conversation ends. But I’ve got a lot to talk about beyond this. I just, I can’t understand, too, how Theo Vaughn is this good at getting the best clip that I don’t even think he knows the best clip of the week. Zoran Mamdami defining socialism as the government helping you live the life you want to live, the dignified life you want to live by taking away from everybody else and giving to you and not just taking away from everybody and giving to themselves instead. 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. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. You know what? It is funny. I’m just going to throw this out there again on this show. I don’t know how often I mention this here. Some of the other places I work, they call me Craig Collins filling in because they hear me on this show and they hear me say that all the time. And I don’t know if they think it’s real or fake, but I enjoy the fact that some people might think my last name is filling in. Because it would be if Dana let me on the show. Well, she does already let me on the show. She takes off. But if you let me on the show even more, if I change my name legally to Craig Collins filling in, I’m doing it. I’m doing it immediately. No problem at all. Actually, if they tell me that I can’t be on anymore, unless I change my name, I’ll do it too. I just really like being on this program, and I think Dana’s incredible. Ah, enough kissing up. Let’s do other things. $25 a head, $500,000 spent. That’s 20,000 votes. There is a Texas majority pact that has… leaked a lot of audio. They’re a rogue employee. They claimed all kinds of stuff. But it seemed as though they’re getting people to show up at events. They’re paying the money and they’re expecting them to vote in the election for Talafrico. They’re essentially buying votes at 25 bucks a head. You got to charge more. First, for your vote. And then second, you probably don’t want this to be something that becomes public. But in both ways, it’s hilarious. Will Cain, who’s doing a great job on Fox, I think he covers a lot of stories that people actually care about quite often. I was discussing this in his show the other day. Let’s play some of that audio.
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Joining me now is town hall media correspondent who published that viral video, Kyle Wilson. Kyle, it’s good to have you on the show today. Boy, that man basically just said it out loud, a roundabout way of buying votes.
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Right. And of course, it’s not unexpected that the PAC would say, oh, he was one rogue employee. But I think he laid it out. And you’ll see a lot of things on their website or what they’ll say to Fox News or to other media. and sort of gloss over all of these things but what they laid out is that they are paying people to go out and vote and this is not unprecedented in 2024 this same organization it’s called relentless they um they were in arizona georgia michigan pennsylvania etc and they claim credit for over 47 000 democratic votes in these 2024 states so This seems to be something that they’re spending a lot of money on because they want the return of those additional votes in Texas and other states across the country.
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Can they make a viable argument, Kyle? No, we’re not. We’re not paying them for their vote. We’re paying them to come in and then learn about the process and get some information. Can they not make the claim, this was just instructional?
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Well, I think that’s what they’re trying to do. And I think it can sort of be a wink and a nod. But if the Department of Justice is going to look into this and they’re going to be serious about it, I think that they will get to the bottom and show what was really going on. Look at these these different organs.
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I think you get it. I can actually jump in. I probably should have jumped in sooner. To be honest with you, it’s just amazing that this is the kind of thing that leaks and that it’s not even more significant than twenty five bucks per person, because we I mean, I guess the best way to say it is the accusation that the left cheats to win elections. gets so much stronger when you have audio of a guy who, of course, the super PAC says he went rogue, is literally talking about how they’re trying to buy votes. Like, there’s nothing more amazing than, hey, do you think that stuff that the right has claimed that the left pretends is nonsense might be anything other than nonsense? It might actually be the truth. Let’s look over here. where this one version of a group of people trying to support a campaign are literally trying to pay people to vote. They’re not even doing the version that I think President Trump did recently, and this was in response to a lot of Democrats that are doing it, which is they promise you money. Trump said he’s giving everybody $5,000, and I got excited about that. And most other people thought it was a joke and stupid and terrible, and it might not happen. I still don’t care. I still wanted to, at least for a little while, plan to spend my $5,000. Now, granted, if the Republicans don’t win the House and the Senate, he’s not going to fail to keep a promise. He just doesn’t have to give you $5,000. If you know what I should say more on this show or anywhere else, let’s see if Trump told the truth by letting Republicans win the House and the Senate and then see if we get five thousand dollars. Like, let’s test the theory. If you think it’s a lie, if you think it’s the third or fourth time he’s offered you money, which it may or may not be true. I’m not saying that, but let’s let’s do the version of scientific experiment where we go ahead and all vote for Republicans. And we all write on the ballots, if that’s what you want to do, crazy lefty that you might be, if this is what it takes to vote Republican, just write in the ballot, along with all the names, looking forward to my five grand. And then once we all get $5,000, we’ll all be a happier society. That’s basically socialism. To be honest with you, it’s just the wrong direction. It’s to all of us and not just all the government. It’s your version of a basic income, a guaranteed basic income that only happens one time, not forever. But I don’t know, like a lot of Democrats have made the same promise that if you do this, we’ll forgive student loans or we’ll, you know, do reparations or any version of we’ll just write a big giant check for anyone that votes for us. So why not go ahead and test the theory when it comes to Trump? Because the Democrats have never delivered. They have failed every time. They have not forgiven student loans. They have not done anything. They claim they will do. So give the other guys a shot. I hear is Trump also talking about the Democrats and communism and, you know, vote for more money in your pockets kind of stuff and how stupid it is. Let’s let him say it.
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Or you could defeat the Democrat communists and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime, more Oklahoma oil and gas, and no amnesty for illegal aliens.
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You know, when he says less crime, I feel like that’s one of the ones that people don’t pay enough attention to. No matter where you live, but especially if you live in a big city in this country, you have seen a reduction in the amount of crime, the amount of violent crime. We’ve actually seen a significant reduction in the amount of fentanyl and other illegal drug overdoses in our country. And there are things you can point to. This might be part of it, getting people out of the country that are here illegally that commit bad crimes, you know, crimes beyond just being here illegally, which was the thing they pitched us at the beginning and the thing that ICE, by and large, says it’s actually doing. You can’t deny they might be connected to each other. But we’re seeing less people die young in the last couple of years because less people are dying from accidental overdose of some sort of narcotic. And that’s just one of a few things. Those are actual hard stats. That’s not just a guy on the radio who might be politically on a certain side making something up because he feels like it. That’s that’s a reality. And where is it coming from? What’s making it occur are kinds of questions that more people should be asking. And I will be honest, I think the Trump administration should be doing a better job of bragging about. They say this every time about both sides politically, when they’re in office, that there are successes, that they’re not discussing enough, and they need to shape those better. It’s usually the big overarching message all the time is, we are winning, let’s just tell the American people better how that’s occurring. I do think, if ever, that we’re actually even remotely true, that right now it probably is. And the biggest reason why is also the outing of fraud. and the clawing back of money from a ridiculous amount of organizations, including a bunch of medical fraud that’s been found all throughout the country, and people are trying to prevent it from happening again, like what happened in Minneapolis and Minnesota, as an example. But that’s not it. California, New York, a bunch of other places, they found this, and they’ve prevented this. Government waste is one of the most expensive parts of our lives. And fixing a lot of that, which sounds like something that they’re constantly doing, is the kind of win we want, baby. We want more of it. We want it all the time. We want it twice on Sunday as far as the getting as much money back as we can or at least preventing it from being stolen in the future. This would all be great. Also, one last piece of audio before we take a break. CNN statistician Harry Enten was forced to admit that Vice President J.D. Vance is far and away the current leading candidate from any polling to be the next president of the United States. It’s like a double-digit lead on anybody else in the field. And, of course, they hate him. They hate him because he goes about doing things, say, the same way that Trump does from a government perspective, from a governing perspective, but it doesn’t necessarily sound the same, which is something they hate even more. Let’s hear a little bit of this.
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…headed to Texas today. You know who was there just yesterday? Vice President J.D. Vance, who’s been out across the country campaigning for Republicans and maybe also just saying possibly… Not so much for 2026, but possibly a White House run in 2028. With us now, CNN chief data analyst, Harry Atten. So say Vice President J.D. Vance wants to be president. How’s it looking right now?
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To win the Republican nomination, I do have to say at this point, he appears to be the heir apparent, or at least the closest to it. You could see it right here. Just take a look at the national polling. Top choices to be the 2028 GOP nominee. Vance is doubling up on the field. J.D. Vance at 44 percent, Marco Rubio, who’s in second at 21 percent, and then John Jr. down here at 8 percent. But he is doubling up. Yeah, I’ll be honest about this.
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It does seem logical that the vice president… I do like Rubio better. I think Dana does, too. I don’t want to speak for her, but I do. I think Marco Rubio is even more interesting as a political candidate than J.D. Vance because of how Marco Rubio goes about saying certain things even differently than J.D. Vance does, but either of them… certainly seem to be far and away ahead of anyone on the left. So that’s that’s amusing. And once again, CNN doesn’t usually like to talk about it, but at least Harry Enten is willing to say these things out loud and then just walk off the stage and probably get elbowed by a few people he works with at CNN. I imagine there’s got to be some form of, you know, like what it looks like when a bunch of people in a rec league are trying to get the same rebound. I feel like that occurs. And I feel like it’s probably even more embarrassing than the way that guys like me look in the rec league. Because I can’t imagine that CNN has a lot of really capable people in the world of elbowing each other. I feel like it’s very weak elbows. It’s just very poorly done. Maybe one of the only people that’s really throwing them hard is Anderson Cooper. And I don’t know why I think that. I just think that. I think it’s a hidden level of strength there. But all right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on Dana’s show.
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That’s right. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. We got to rock. I love that intro. That was great. For about another half hour or so, thrilled to be with you on the show. At DLash, Dana Lash Radio. And X, a great way to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to occasionally see me, probably a lot over the next couple weeks, hopefully, a tweet about the New York Yankees. They did pretty well in their wildcard round against the Red Sox, which is uniquely enjoyable. I’m not sure they’ll do as well now against the Tampa Bay Rays. But we’ll see. If they get through that round, I think there’s a pretty good chance the Yankees wind up in the World Series, where they probably will lose again to somebody from the National League, because the National League just seems to have all the teams of destiny. The American League does not. A couple of quick things not about baseball. The White House plans travel for Trump. And I think J.D. Vance, that includes at least 17 states ahead of the midterms. A whole bunch of campaigning is going on. A lot of gems will be dropped because this is when President Trump enjoys his job the most. He is a guy that likes to be in campaign mode, whether it’s for him or someone else. He also made a joke about how he was told he might not go to Oklahoma for one of his appearances on this trip, promoting others. And he didn’t like that answer. And he’s the president of the United States. So he’s like, there’s got to be a way for me to get from where I am. And I think he was in Texas at the time to Oklahoma. And they said, well, sir, there is one way. We don’t know if you’re going to like it. And he definitely liked it. Here we go.
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And they said, sir, I think we’re going to have to cancel Oklahoma. The weather is terrible. You can’t take the helicopter, sir. You can’t take the plane. I said, what can I take? Well, it’s a very long drive. And I said, how long? They said, could be long, sir. I said, how fast does the beast travel? They said, we can go close to 100 miles an hour. I said, get your asses in that car. We’re going to Oklahoma.
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I love that, man. And I’ll be honest with you. If I was the president, it’s not even like a Trump praise specifically. It’s just the praise in general, the capability of that job. I would take road trips if I had to do anywhere. I’d be like, yeah, they’re going to shut down roads for me, man. I’m going to go the best road trip of my life. Plus, if you’re starting out in Texas, you can swing by a Buc-ee’s at some point. It would be cool to see the Beast show up and refuel at a Buc-ee’s. And then I wonder what they’d get inside. I don’t know what the Secret Service guys would need to eat. I don’t know what anybody else would get. They’d all love the bathrooms and how clean they are. I think it’d be a great trip and a heck of a photo. I know the president of the United States prefers himself to McDonald’s, but while he’s in Texas driving around in the beast, he could hit up at least one Buc-ee’s. All right. Another thing out there that Trump said on the campaign trail was about Tallarico, how he’s going to go vegan again. He’s going to go transgender mutilation. He’s totally fine again. His own church has continued to out him as someone who will do this. All the things that he’s claiming he’s now flip-flopped on, all the radical opinions that magically in October, before a midterm election vote happens a month later, he suddenly doesn’t believe. His own church, his own pastors have all on the record been caught saying, oh, he’s going to… He’s going to go right back to those radical roots the second that James Talafrico can. Here’s how President Trump talked about it.
SPEAKER 12 :
They say first, that’s what they’re going back to. He’ll become a vegan again. He’s got no choice. He can’t stand me. But he’ll become a vegan again. He’ll go into transgender mutilization again. Yeah, he loves that stuff.
SPEAKER 17 :
Or at least he talks about it quite a bit. James Talafrico is the type of radical, crazy person that also thinks you’re dumb enough to be told for two months. out of the course of the entirety of his political career, that he doesn’t think the things, that the rest of the time he’s been a politician, he has had as his trademark stuff. There’s audio and video of him arguing in a political session here in Texas about the things he claims he doesn’t support now, like transgender mutilation of kids and saying that that’s somehow gender-affirming care. It’s one of many things. that I think some of the left don’t like that he’s now saying he doesn’t believe in, but a lot of them just wink, wink, nudge, nudge, think that he’s just saying it to get elected, and then he’ll go back to being crazy, which of course he will. Fox News is one of the places that reported most recently some of the polling out of Texas. I think a lot of the left throughout the country is hoping for a Tallarico win because they want to convince people that that means that the entirety of our country is radically left and crazy if this type of politician can win a race in Texas. And I will admit that Paxson is not the best candidate. A lot of people were saying that for a while. Cornyn was a terrible candidate. I liked the third guy that ran in that race, and it’s actually the person I voted for in the primaries. Wesley Hunt didn’t work out for him, but I think that he would have been a better candidate than both of the individuals that wound up getting a runoff shot and Paxton getting the chance. But I’ll say this, and I’ve been saying it a lot recently. There are a lot of conservatives out there who will complain that the conservative party isn’t aligned, that they don’t get as many things done as they should get done, because even when they wield power, they can’t use that power effectively like the left can. You’ve probably heard that narrative before. If you’re a conservative, especially if you’re someone who describes yourself as a non-MAGA conservative, one of your frustrations might be the lack of continuity within the party, a lack of hive mind thinking, which I actually think benefits this party compared to the other one. But some of the people that they’re trying to replace are the individuals for the holdouts to these votes that matters most. Like Save America Act, when you think about the people who would most likely say no on the Republican side, and J.D. Vance recently named them all, and you can name them, John Cornyn was among them. He is the current senator out of Texas who is being replaced. And the best thing about Ken Paxton… Anyone in Texas would say this is that he often won his fights that he took on as attorney general against the radical left, whether it was politicians like Biden or anyone else doing crazy things. It was, you know, fights that were happening here within the state. Paxson has been incredibly effective at not only understanding what side most Texans are on on certain issues, but then wielding the appropriate power to get the job done so that that remains the law of the land here in this state. And so you want to send people like that to the Senate so they can be as effective at a Senate level. You want them to be, you know, someone who does not wilt when it matters the most. There’s a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle who would love to have a job, whether it’s in the Senate or, you know, Congress or anywhere else, where they can enrich themselves, get a lot of sweetheart deals and then vote on all the easy stuff. A lot of people who fall into that category of like, yeah, I’ll vote here, I’ll vote there. But then when it gets tough, I’m going to shy away because I think that might help me stay in my position of power longer. And that’s no longer the way it works in politics. Most of us do want someone who stands with us in the most difficult issues, the ones that we think are the most important, where people don’t like save America. Again, getting us to a place in this country where your ID matters to vote seems like an easy thing for people to want to do.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don’t understand how it’s difficult.
SPEAKER 17 :
for us to get here, actually, if I’m being entirely honest. It just makes no sense to me that it’s gotten this hard, and yet apparently it has. And we need to find a place where we can fix that problem, and we need the politicians in charge who can get it done. And most Americans agree, as you hear often when people talk about this, overwhelming support for the idea that we actually have IDs to vote. This is not something that most Americans actually don’t like, regardless of what side of the aisle you’re on. But most of this data from the recent polling says that Tallarico is just a little tiny bit in front of Ken Paxton, a razor thin majority, a razor thin edge. When you look at some of the net positivity ratings for them personally. Among Democrats, 52% favor Tallarico to 44% that might see him somewhat unfavorably. Paxton’s much worse. And actually, that’s general numbers. That’s not Democrat, Republican specific. I have that in a second. General numbers for Paxton, 40% favorable, 58% unfavorable. So by and large, there are a lot of people, certainly a lot of Democrats that make that number worse. Republicans, though, are six times more likely… to view Paxton as unfavorable than Democrats are with Tallarico. 32% of conservatives see Paxton unfavorably. Only 8% of Democrats see Tallarico unfavorably, and he is an insane person. And again, I’ve always thought that this was a win of the conservative party, that we don’t have the hive mind, that we don’t all think the same way, and then thus demand everyone think like us. One of the biggest reasons that the radical left functions the way it does is because their party is so good at indoctrinating everybody. at getting everybody to think the same thing, they don’t usually hate their own. The only time they do is if their own speak up against them, the Fettermans of the world, or even the pundits of the world like Bill Maher, or occasionally, however rarely, a Jon Stewart. When they say something that the left doesn’t like, the left attacks them, which is amazing to watch happen, but it does occur. The right is more comfortable with the diversity of opinion thing. And then you would think, especially when people argue that one side is woke and one side isn’t, it’s kind of amazing which one they pick for both of those. But also GOP enthusiasm. According to the recent Fox News polling, more MAGA than non-MAGA Republicans are likely to vote and describe themselves as interested in the midterm elections. 64% of MAGA to 50% of non-MAGA Republicans. 76% to 65% are excited to vote in the Democratic side for DSA versus non-DSA. So you see a lot more enthusiasm on the left, according to a lot of polls that are flawed. And I do want to play this one more time. before we take a break and move on to anything silly, before we get out of here. But I do think that the Harry Enten piece on CNN, where he talks about the amount of data that we have that seems eerily similar to data we’ve had before that claimed that you were going to see a giant blue wave and a bunch of Democrats win positions of power, and then the reality that that doesn’t actually happen, like, fool me one, shame on me. Fool me a lot more than that. Well, you know. The whole rest of it. Shame on you. But here, let’s do this because I do think it’s kind of interesting. Fool me one. Shame on you. Fool me four times. Shame on my stupidity is I think what I was trying to say. Here we go.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, you know, we’ve had really good Democratic polls coming out from Ohio, Michigan, Iowa. And, you know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me four times, I just have to ask the question, could it happen again? Because just take a look at this. Okay, Midwest polling misses. GOP outperformed September polls by the major 2024 races. That is, President and Senate in the states that had a Senate race. In Iowa, where the Democrats have been getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by nine points back in 2024. Ah! How about Ohio? Six points. How about Michigan? Five points. And I will note that the leads that the Democrats have in all of these races right now are under how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024. So you look at this and you go. You know what? Maybe we should just hold on a second here because we’ve seen this dance before and it was not a dance that Democrats like when the votes are actually casting count.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, they might exaggerate their position of power. They might do it on purpose to try to get Republicans to sit out and not vote in elections because they think they’re not going to win anyway. And we need to ignore that. We need to show up and vote and vote in record numbers and make sure that we, you know, use our voice. To be honest, the biggest, most ridiculous thing in general is about any conversation about politics here in the United States is that there’s a bunch of people who just don’t vote and they have opinions and they seem to share them on social media. When it comes vote time, they just don’t show up. We should be a place that has like almost a hundred percent voting record as far as people showing up and voting in order for everybody to complain as much as they do. Cause, cause that’s kind of an important aspect. Yeah. of doing this whole thing, that you actually use your voice and attempt to get what you want done. And just, I’ll throw this out there. I was at Texas Faith Fest last weekend, a lot of conversations happening, couched around the world of Christianity. I’m Catholic, so there was a reflection of my faith there. And one thing that a lot of people were saying from a political standpoint… is that people of, say, the Islamic faith, they vote in record numbers. It’s almost 100% of people who identify of a certain faith show up and use the power to vote in any election they’re allowed to be a part in. Maybe not allowed to be a part in, I’m not sure. And it’s interesting to see how some societies push people to do something, and there might be some negative that comes from that here in our society if more and more people use a voice that seems disconnected with Western values themselves. But it’s sort of interesting to see that people who want to slowly take control of some of the things we think are most important and most dear in our society are doing something that a lot of us are neglecting to do, which is use your voice to get what you want to actually be happening in the world and in at least the country. All right, quick break. I will try to end on some lighter things on The Dana Show. More after this.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in at D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X, a great way to stay connected to everything she’s doing. And fancy people like Producer Stephen make her sites, her social media pages, very worth the visit. My social media page, try it, at Radio Craig Z. You’ll probably see more videos soon. We’ve been delaying putting a lot of videos up for a morning show that’s relatively new at a Dana affiliate KSEV radio in Houston, Texas, because the, the coast and I literally met each other a few weeks ago at the start of the show. We had never met until we started doing a radio show together. We like each other a lot. So that’s part’s been good. And a lot of the show has been a lot of fun, but we’re still figuring some stuff out. but there’ll probably eventually be a bunch more videos for me on the internet that honestly, you don’t have to care about. This is, this is just some filling guy talking on the fancy Dana show. All right, let’s play a bunch of different audio. Let’s actually start with Scott Jennings being awesome. He dunked on everybody about the gas argument and conversation around diesel fuel and other things on CNN. Abby Phillips show who often exposes how stupid she is. And I think it’s the reason that Jennings even has a successful podcast is that he’s the voice of reason on an otherwise terrible television show. Here’s a little bit of what Jennings said recently about gas prices.
SPEAKER 16 :
For my left of center friends at the table, does anybody here support building a single oil refinery so we can actually increase diesel supply? Because it doesn’t just come out of the ground and go right into the trucks. It has to be refined. We’ve seen a reduction in refining capacity here because that’s what Democrats have wanted. We’ve also seen it impacted by Russia, Ukraine. Would anybody here support building a single oil refinery to make more diesel? Is some of the consideration as to where you do it domestically?
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, here’s what’s amazing. You could have just said yes. Like, you don’t have to start to argue back because you’re making Scott’s point for him the minute you don’t say, yeah, we need more diesel, it seems like. Let’s refine some more. But wouldn’t you do it domestically at all?
SPEAKER 16 :
I’m talking about in the United States, what a policymaker would do if you were, say, governor of California or if you were governor of anything, would you say, you know what? We could help out the world if we got on top of building an oil refinery. Does anybody say yes?
SPEAKER 18 :
There we go. Right in this moment, even if we built a diesel refinery tomorrow, that’s not really what’s caught, what has caused diesel prices to skyrocket. It’s a big part of it. Well, no, not in the last. I mean, OK, here’s what’s really dumb.
SPEAKER 17 :
about the way this conversation is going now, too. And I do understand that the point she would probably rather make and maybe someone prepped her to make is that, you know, starting to refine more diesel doesn’t exactly fix what’s currently going on. It’s not like prices go down tomorrow because we announced we’re going to start doing this. One of the biggest things and a lot of people within the Trump administration will easily admit this to you and be silenced by the crazy people on the left is that Biden went after oil and gas and did a lot of things to reduce the amount of production. And there’s even crazy people on the left who claim that during the four years Biden was in office, production went up. But the very first year that Biden took office from Trump, production of oil and gas in our country plummeted. And, you know, a refusal to sign new leases, to do all kinds of things, to ramp up, to drill baby drill, which is what Trump ran on. All those things stopped for four years. And then they slowly, incrementally went back up. Not to the point they were at before Biden took office when Trump was still in office. That obviously didn’t happen, but it started to slowly go up and it does correlate perfectly with Biden being in the White House. And then the minute that Biden’s out, it skyrockets up again and is barreling back toward the highest numbers we had it at before. But this is not where we’re currently at because we’re still trying to fix some of the broken things that happened in the four years Trump wasn’t in office. But I love the way this goes, the back and forth version of, well, that’s not really the problem or it’s not really going to fix the situation because they don’t want to admit the easy part. Continue.
SPEAKER 18 :
We have today are probably the refineries that we have a few months ago.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, it’s also Russia, Ukraine.
SPEAKER 18 :
Exactly. That’s my point.
SPEAKER 16 :
My point is that domestic refining capacity would be good, right?
SPEAKER 18 :
Scott, is our refining capacity the same today as it was a few months ago when diesel was cheaper?
SPEAKER 16 :
Our refining capacity has been reduced over the last 20 years.
SPEAKER 18 :
Did you hear my question? I think we’re shutting down a refinery right now, if I’m not mistaken.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, it’s really interesting about this, too, because this can go back and forth, and I’m probably done with the audio, but I’ll tell you that what Abby thinks she’s doing is proving that the numbers have jumped upward in the last couple months because of something other than refining capacity, which if I were Scott Jennings, I actually wouldn’t argue. I wouldn’t say, you know, Abby, you’re wrong. That’s not true. It is true. Over the last couple of months, the price has gone up for reasons beyond just the capacity to refine oil. But if our capacity were greater, that number would go down from what it currently is, essentially meaning that we can have a solution to a problem. That doesn’t necessarily cause the problem in the first place. Sometimes what happens over here in the world of Russia and Ukraine can be solved by what we do in the United States. So my favorite part of this agreement or this disagreement and what Abby is trying to do is ignore the actual solution that Jennings is offering. If we ramp up capacity, the price of oil, diesel, whatever, it will go down. It won’t go down right away, but it will go down. The production of more, the demand of less compared to the amount that we produce means that the prices inevitably drops. This, regardless of if you want to say is the latest catalyst to some of the problem, is in fact still a solution. Go ahead a little bit. What it was a few months ago.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, the answer is yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, probably roughly, but I’m looking at it over 20 years. We’ve reduced refining capacity.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s not really what’s causing it.
SPEAKER 16 :
So your answer is no, no more refining?
SPEAKER 18 :
I didn’t say anything about that. I’m just saying that’s not what’s causing the problem that we’re in. Refining capacity.
SPEAKER 17 :
So why not do it anyway? Because the point is that this is a political fight. that they do want the oil and gas companies to be less powerful because they don’t like who the oil and gas companies inevitably support, that all of this is just about politics. One of the biggest reasons over the last 20 years, as Scott Jennings is pointing out, that you pay more at the gas pump than we used to. I remember when I first got my license, I’m a 40-year-old guy when I was 16, and the amount of money you had to borrow from mom in order to go ahead and pay for a full tank of gas compared to today, it’s wildly different. And so that amount of time and the the failed opportunity to ramp up production within this country is one of several reasons that our prices are as high as they are and that we can’t mitigate those costs to a conflict between, you know, Ukraine and. Anyone else, the kind of Ukraine and Russia, excuse me, my computer distracted me for a second, a conflict between us and Iran. I know that’s the other thing that they’re trying to get Jennings to talk about that we’re not talking about. We can’t mitigate those risks. Iran can wield a unique amount of power over the world. by pulling down the amount of production of oil and gas in our country, or in the society, when we could fix that. Our refining capabilities could further circumvent any attempt to harm us at the pump. But we’re not doing that. And I think that’s the point that Jennings is most trying to make, is that there’s a solution to this problem that you guys hate politically. And you know you hate it politically. Here’s Trump also talking about super intelligence or SI. And then I have audio of Gavin Newsom. Very proud that he’s signing a bill on his own podcast. So stupid. Let’s start with Trump. Might not happen, actually.
SPEAKER 12 :
This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with super intelligence or SI. And that’s the official name in the United States. I’m signing a very powerful executive order. I spoke to President Xi. He loves it. And because when you say artificial intelligence, it’s artificial. This is extreme intelligence. It’s superior intelligence. It’s supreme also intelligence. But the word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest.
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s superintelligence. It is a thing that we, one, can’t fall behind China on, as most people on the right will tell you. One of the biggest arguments, the easiest arguments to make, that any restrictions we put into AI will only put us in jeopardy of being harmed by a country, specifically China, being way ahead of us on it. But here is Newsom also very happily signing his bill that requires large companies to operate that operated before 1965 to search their records for ties to slavery. So what’s crazy about this is these are two big things that have been in the news the last few days. And part of the reason I wanted to compare them is that Trump is being resoundingly attacked. for something he’s doing to help with AI and an eye toward the future and potentially make sure that we’re never at risk of being harmed by countries being superior to us in that capacity. And Gavin Newsom is trying to win support in California by penalizing any company that might be able to track any level of connection to slavery, even if it was over 100 years ago where this occurred. The companies eventually might have to, I think, pay something. But here’s Newsom.
SPEAKER 07 :
Before we get into my episode with Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, some news reflecting.
SPEAKER 17 :
By the way, the music is really stupid in this conversation.
SPEAKER 07 :
He got thinking a lot about a lot of issues, and I think he’ll get you thinking as well. I have a bill in front of me, privileged to have this opportunity, a bill in front of me that I’m signing quite literally. Right now, this is a bill that requires large companies that operated before 1965 to search their records for ties to slavery, going back to 1849. And then we make it public. These are insurance policies on enslaved people.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes. Accountability starts with the truth. Let’s make it public. Let’s find any company operating before 1965, going back to 1849, who might have some kind of connection to slavery. By the way, like that music sounds like a porn.
SPEAKER 07 :
Human beings used as…
SPEAKER 17 :
This sounds like the kind of thing, if you could just ignore Gavin Newsom’s voice, that you would have watched as a kid on the Scrambly channel where you couldn’t really see anything.
SPEAKER 07 :
Some news reflecting on our conversation. You got me thinking a lot.
SPEAKER 17 :
I don’t know. Also, the fact that everybody does a podcast now kind of drives me crazy. I know it drives Dana crazy, podcastist stands out there. Everybody does it. Every single person, it seems like, has their own show, at least in the world of politics. And I imagine a lot of the political campaigns pay for this as a marketing expense. But it’s just so dumb. You need someone and a few people, and Dana does this well, to just curate it. For you, because you’re not going to go sit down and watch a two hour podcast of every one of these people speak. You’re going to see like four total minutes of most of this stuff that you care about across the board. And that’s, again, a collection of things. But Gavin Newsom, very proud to sign a bill that just seems inherently stupid in California, as he is not attacked at all for that, of course, by most of media. They praise him. for making sure that a company that may be in 1870-something might have had some connection to slavery that certainly doesn’t have it now, but we publicize it to attack them, to try to make them less successful now, darn it, somehow, some way. And then Trump goes to the AI road, and everybody says it’s terrible, and he’s enabling the apocalypse. So the world, as we know it, is screwed, it feels like, but I also will not take the black bill. I won’t go the road if it’s screwed, so we all have to give up. I’m fine with continuing to fight. And again, one of my favorite movies, I feel like I mentioned this earlier, I’ll mention again, Rudy. The movie about the guy who had no physical ability whatsoever and yet still did get to play at least one game at Notre Dame after trying to walk on for a couple years. He maybe didn’t get the sack that’s in the movie. That doesn’t matter. He was on the field for a couple of plays. That’s good enough. And they did do the King’s Chair where they carried him off the field. That’s awesome, too. That’s my favorite movie, one of them. And so I’m a fighter, and most of us should be a fighter. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Quick Five on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X, a great way to stay connected to her and everything they have going on on this very fancy radio show. The Portland Trailblazers fired one of their play-by-play hosts, their play-by-play broadcaster, over tweets he put up when he was 15 years old. The tweets are from 2012 and 2013, where the individual, his name is Bray Bell, made jokes. I assume they’re jokes about certain things. One of them, probably the worst of them is I’m not racist at all, but not going to lie. Asian people piss me off. That’s the thing he wrote. Again, he was 15 when he wrote it. And I’ve said this to a lot of people. Twitter specifically, X, what it’s called now, for a while, really just you were successful on it. I didn’t ever do this myself, which is why my following is still as small as it is. But you were successful on it by just being ridiculous. And a lot of people knew all of it was chasm and no one really meant the things they were saying. The rules of 2026 didn’t apply to the early days of social media because no one ever really thought a lot of people would pay attention to it. I remember when Facebook first came out and I was in college, which makes me sound old to some. And it was fun to be on it. There were a lot of things on that first book, not mine, maybe a lot of other people’s, that they’re probably happy no longer can be found. And not just comments, but like the stupidity of getting drunk at a party and having a video of that on social media. That’s just not a thing that’s really out there for some anymore. But a lot of people, if you go back and dig far enough, you can find it. But how ridiculous to treat somebody like what he said when he was 15 years old, probably trying very hard to be controversial, deserves to have him lose his job now. And also the obsession. of individuals to try to comb through any social media you’re tied to, find anything that you might’ve said at any point in your life, try to take away a gig from you. And potentially if he’d even kept his job to have to like publicly apologize for it. He made a lot of comments about women and not just about Asian people, which I think that was a one-off that he put there. But he put a lot of things up about how some women looked like whores or sluts and whatnot and other things to that degree. But he was 15 years old. 16 years old and probably trying to make his seven or 10 friends on social media laugh and never thought it would be a thing that someday would cost him a career. And hopefully it doesn’t actually cost him a career, to be totally honest, because there is a ridiculousness to how this all goes. But that’s a big breaking story out there. Kanye West has a Russia tour that has been canceled because people were afraid he might glorify Hitler during it. And all I can say to that is, OK, I’m not usually a fan of cancel culture, but I’m fine with this. If you were weary of, you know, Kanye going throughout Germany and Russia and other places and. and heiling Hitler, then fine. And go ahead and cancel that. That seems okay to me. And then finally, one other real quick one as far as things go. A French high school student set fire, clashed with police in anger over the school’s conditions. This is amusing to me. It’s probably not actually going to work to get you the thing you want to just light a lot of stuff on fire and then yell at police. But it definitely seems like someone who wants the school to be in better shape. And who knows? Maybe if a bunch of the parents support this person, maybe it’ll go a little bit better than expected. But I do not recommend this. Don’t go one versus everyone and fight that fight on your own. 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 D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X. Great way to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow the idiot that’s filling in for her for the day, that’d be me. That’d be this guy. This person is insane. I like to end with some silly stuff, but I do have to play this. A reporter for the Maine Wire, which is essentially a social media slash investigative reporting group that has been successful being independent journalists. In Maine, I think they have like 80,000 followers or something on X specifically. But they’re like a lot of groups in a lot of cities now and a lot of states now who seem to be telling a more honest story than people who are reporting for actual news organizations, legacy news organizations in all these towns, all these communities. It’s their local Nick Shirley, to say it in a way that maybe a lot of people would understand. Somebody tried to kill this guy. You can’t really tell, since this is just radio for most of you out there, the part that’s most important, which is when the car revs backward and tries to back over a person. You can hear a little bit of that. But you can hear the exchange before when the guy sounds audibly drunk and seems to ask, why the hell are you outside with a microphone and a camera shooting a video in public? where you’re very much allowed to shoot videos. Like, how dare you do that is essentially the thing. And I think that’s kind of ridiculous that this is a question at all. We have somebody right now. How you doing, bud?
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You all right?
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Doing good.
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I’m invading people’s privacy here. Confidentiality, you realize that? I’m invading people’s privacy? Yeah. By being in public with a camera and doing a report? Yeah. Videoing across the road. Okay. That guy sounds drunk behind the wheel of a car.
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And when he says, what can I do for you? He drives away and then you’ll hear him floor the gas and try to back up into a reporter and kill him.
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And we have another person. essentially probably intoxicated there is no way to tell but what I will say is multiple people did get in cars they
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Yep, I’ll stop it right there because you actually can hear one of the camera guys start to immediately repeat the license plate number, which is smart to do. But that’s real. A guy tried to back into and kill some 20-something, 30-something people that are doing investigative reporting that is now more effective at telling you the truth than anything else out there is, which I just think is surreal. But as I said, I like to end on silly stuff. Thankfully, no one was hurt in that situation, including the moron behind the wheel of the car. But this one I like, and this is just a lighter topic before we get out of here. 7up had to recall 80,000 cans of zero-sugar drinks that they put out into the world because apparently they all had 38 grams of sugar in them. And I’m immediately disappointed they recalled them. This is the perfect thing to get a married guy like me, or a perfect thing to sell in the world for a married guy like me, so I can drink one of these sodas in my house at home and look at my wife and be like, see, zero sugar. And she can be proud of me. She’s like, good job, honey. I’ll wait a while. She calls me babe. Good job, baber. We actually have a unique nickname for each other. You’re drinking a zero sugar drink, and I’ll say thank you so much for the praise. I look forward to several gifts being given to me, and I’m actually drinking something with at least half the sugar. of the regular stuff. This is great. This is what most of us need. The sugary drink that claims it’s zero sugar with a wink, wink, and a nudge, nudge on it. You should never have, as I said, recalled this. It was going to be wildly popular once we knew about it. All right. I’m out of here. Talk to you guys next time. The Dana Show, DLASH, DLASH Radio to find more.
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