This episode paints a vivid picture of global dynamics with a dash of Irish cheer. As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, the conversation seamlessly weaves through topics like the symbolic nature of diplomacy, the influence of cultural dress-ups, and tackling immigration policies in various countries. Discover how global politics impacts local realities, and hear intriguing thoughts on how different societies perceive immigrant integration and rights. Packed with insightful commentary, this episode promises listeners an engaging journey through contemporary issues underscored by historical relationships.
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We consider America our big sibling. So it’s important for Ireland to be a peaceful, happy, prosperous country for the 40 million Irish Americans to have a place to visit, to come back to their home. So we wish for our relationship with the United States to continue. And we wish to be taken care of by the big bro. The United States should look after its little bro. And that’s how we feel with Ireland and America. There’s some trade disputes between the US and the EU. How do you think? We wish exams safe.
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I will say Connor is here to meet with the president. He’ll be meeting with him later this afternoon. We couldn’t think of a better guest to have with us on St. Patrick’s Day. We’re both wearing our green. This was not planned, but very festive. And as you know, I’ll be having a briefing later at 1 o’clock, so we’ll talk more about their meeting later. going over to meet with some other administration officials who are spending the day in Washington D.C.
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I’m here to raise the issues the people of Ireland face and it will be music to the people of Ireland’s ears because never on the main stage has the issues the people of Ireland face been spoke. Our government has long since abandoned the voices of the people of Ireland and it’s high time that America is made aware of what is going on in Ireland. What is going on in Ireland is a travesty. Our government is the government of zero action with zero accountability. Our money is being spent on overseas issues that has nothing to do with the Irish people. The illegal immigration racket is running ravage on the country. There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop, that have become a minority in one swoop. So issues need to be addressed. And the 40 million Irish Americans, as I said, need to hear this because If not, there will be no place to come home and visit.
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Sounds very familiar, doesn’t it? I was listening to this, and as you know, the… It’s Patty’s Day today. St. Patrick’s Day. Not with T’s either, by the way. No, thou shall not. Our culture isn’t your costume. Put your green beer down, you woke scolds. You don’t get any today. I’m going to be the enforcer, the gatekeeper, because I come by it honest, unlike you posers. It makes a lot of sense, right? So you’re like, that’s no fun, though. No, no, no. They do it to us. They do it to us. So our culture. Our culture isn’t your costume. So how about that? There you go. Well, we’re going to run with that today for this joyous St. Paddy’s. It brings me joy to do that. It brings me joy to gatekeep, so don’t think otherwise. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this first hour Monday. I’m going to try to get through most of every, because a lot of stuff happened, obviously. We’ve got everything with the Houthis. We’ve got Trend Aragua. We’ve got Democrats. I’ve got polling Democrats losing their minds. We’ve got trans, trans, trans. And then we got a packed show today because we got the Florida AG. There are restrictions. He is fighting the gun control. James Uthmeyer is fighting the gun control in Florida. We’re going to talk to him. Then later on, Stephen Yates is going to join us. Lots of stuff to dive in with him. So first and foremost, happy St. Paddy’s Day. I’m not in green because I love the color. Sometimes it works with me and sometimes not. And also everything I own is black. So I’m green in my heart today. There you go. How about that? So happy St. Paddy’s Day to everybody out there who actually does. You know, again, our culture is not your costume. So this Conor McGregor, a lot of people are speculating that he’s going to run for office in Ireland. I don’t like Republic Ireland or Northern Ireland. Difference. I mean, because it’s like the Republic of Ireland is having some some immigration. Everybody’s having immigration issues where they haven’t decided to take responsibility for their borders. Right. Think about this. I was I was looking at some of the requirements. for different countries as it relates to immigration. And we’ve talked about this quite a bit before. And the like for like in the United States, you know, it seems when you compare the United States as restrictions to the regulations, requirements and restrictions elsewhere, honestly, it seems super easy. ridiculously easy, very easy. And I mean, it just kind of shocks me that if we tried to do here in the United States, just an ounce of what other countries have already implemented, then we get the protests and people in the streets. And it’s, you know, apparently we hate everything. They conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration, riots, gnashing of teeth, the whole thing. So I was looking at some of these other countries like and I’m going to talk about Ireland’s coming up in a minute in Italy, for example. They have a restriction on what type of car you can purchase when even after you get citizenship, you can only get a car with so much horsepower in Italy. And this is even after you become a citizen and you’re on this road. I don’t know what it is like this, this probationary period for like three years before you can actually get like a nice. You can’t just move in your first year being a citizen in Italy, going by a Ferrari in that your car not going to happen. There’s a lot of restrictions over there. You I mean, for instance, getting your driver’s license over here in the United States. Can can you imagine if they tried doing that here in the United States? What if someone was immigrating to the United States and they’re like, no, you can only buy a little wimpy car. Sorry.
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Wait, that doesn’t sound like freedom.
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Can I be real? I don’t even know. I know cars enough to know what I like and when something sounds bad. Okay. Like I like them fast. I like them heavy. And I like them loud. I do like my car loud. Cain can attest to this. When I drive my car, it’s loud and obnoxious. And that’s the way I like it because this is America.
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You’ll even downshift just to make it louder.
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Whatever I can do to make it go one louder is exactly what I’m going to do. My car goes to 12. But I couldn’t do that if I were to immigrate. Again, I’m using Italy as an example because I found the car thing ridiculous. I could not go over there and have like a loud, fast car that you’re on this, you’re on this like weird probationary period. It’s bizarre. And in Ireland, there’s all kinds of, oh my gosh, there’s all kinds of restrictions on getting a vehicle. And, you know, I mean, if you’re a student over there, we’ve talked about some of that before. They’re very strict. They check in on you regularly. Are you doing what you say you’re doing? I can’t do a great accent, that short notice. But you get what I’m saying. But in the United States, people would riot and they would act like it’s a right thing. Now, let me ask this. What would it be like if I were to go? Like, say, you know, I wanted to go to Ireland and I wanted to extend my stay. And then I’m like, no, but it’s a right. What do you think they would say to me? They would literally, like, take one of their shillelaghs and whop me on the head with it is what they would do. That’s what would happen. If I were in Italy and I tried screaming about It’s my right to own a muscle car. They would laugh in my face and say, ciao, and I’m out. They don’t care. They don’t care about that. Only in the United States does this work. Why? Why? I mean, not that they’re having problems of a whole different sort. But in here, it’s like the campaign of shame to try to shame people into this. It’s fascinating to me. So we have POTUS. He is hosting. He’s hosting Conor McGregor. He’s been busy. We’re going to get into the auto pen fight. Again, a million things to discuss. We’re going to get into the auto pen fight. Now, in addition to this, he has also… I wanted to touch on… Sorry, I’m looking at my audio soundbite. Can I have… Audio soundbite five, because you know how Trump likes talking with the press. This was actually funny. The way he played this off, he got hit by a reporter. The way he played this off, I thought was funny. Watch this.
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Mr. President, you’re concerned about the situation in Gaza. What are the hopes now to get the hospital back?
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She just became a big story tonight. Right? Yes, sir. Did you see that?
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He’s like, she just became a big story. That was the nicest I’ve ever seen him be with the press. I mean, you know, like he could have been like you rat bastard and you know, but he didn’t. But I loved the look. The look was good. I think that the press likes everything that’s happening. They want to hate it. But guys, you know, they like it because it’s a he is a ratings bonanza for them. He is an absolute ratings bonanza. And they love that. They love the ratings of it. They love the attention of it. They get mad when you say it. So he’s putting both of these together. They didn’t quite know what to make of what happened overnight the other day. So the administration deported hundreds. Now, here’s how the AP puts it. And I get so mad at these headlines. Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants, even as the judge orders their removals be stopped. What does that sound like to you? He’s just picking up Nana’s and Tito’s and everybody and just sending them over the border. He’s just kicking everybody out. All these poor people. They probably came here legally and all that too, right? I mean, the article doesn’t differentiate, so can you know that’s probably the case? These are probably like innocent people who did nothing except for they entered illegally. That’s what they’re missing from this whole thing. I’m so aggravated by this. I’m so done with it. They get so… Constantly. So this was the headline. So he sends back… And this was great. In the dead of night, the orchestration on this was so nice. And then you have all of this drone footage. There’s drone footage of three planefuls of Trenderagua and MS-13 thugs. And they were sent, I like how Senator Eric Schmidt put it, to the beautiful prisons of El Salvador, Cane. This is some of the video that Juan’s showing you now. This is how El Salvador greeted them. They were running around the streets unfettered in the U.S. of A. When you send them to El Salvador, look what happens. They’re not even playing around. They’re like, nope, get him. Get him. Look at him. He’s like too dangerous to walk by himself. Look, they’re all kitted out. They’re ready to rock and roll. F-A-F-O. Come on. You know they’re begging for it. This is how El Salvador greeted them. Now that’s some red carpet treatment right there, Kane. This is how they greeted them. Look at him.
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Call it a camel carpet treatment.
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Right? Look at him. Look at him. No, you cannot. You’re not even free to walk down the stairs yourself. Let’s go. All of these in the dead of night. And also with El Salvador’s leadership that worked with the United States on that. That’s the kind of relationship that we need to have, by the way, with other countries. We need to have this type of relationship with them. To where we can say, hey, can you repatriate your thugs that… that illegally immigrated into our country. So two plane fools, while you slept, you didn’t even know it was happening. And then all of a sudden, ta-da, they’re there in El Salvador. I thought this was brilliant. And I love that they’re getting all of this footage of it. So it was over 250 of them. And they’re going to be held in the notorious prison. And it’s a mega prison and a federal judge is railing that the administration had a response to that, which we’re going to touch on here momentarily. We’ve got headlines for you and really quick just to let you know the rundown. Again, we’re getting into all of this overnight gift, the trend Iraq with the Houthis. We’re going to discuss the president and his post about the Houthis. And then all of a sudden now there’s a big argument on the right. I’m going to jump off my roof. We got the latest with Democrats because Democrats, their civil war, the media finally has to talk about it. We’re going to discuss all of that. We’ve got some trans headlines in Viro, all sorts of stuff. So you don’t want to miss our very good friends over at Preborn. Such a great organization. Pre-born meets women where they are and saves babies, empowers mothers. You want to talk about an actual organization that empowers people? That’s what pre-born does. Pre-born, like I said, they meet women at the most just critical point of their lives. And they give them ultrasound so they can hear their baby’s heartbeat. They save babies’ lives. In fact, up 50%. That’s the chance at life. that a baby’s chance at life increases by 50% when the mother hears her baby’s heartbeat. You can join this mission. Every ultrasound saves lives. $28 buys an ultrasound. $140 helps rescue five babies. Your gift gives the mother a chance to hear her baby’s heartbeat and save lives. And they partnered with pregnancy clinics in the highest abortion cities out there saving lives. And they stand as the gospel leader of the pro-life movement in 2014. 2024 alone, over 67,000 babies were saved from abortion. Nearly 9,000 women gave their hearts to Christ. And they have a four-star charity rating you can give with confidence. If you have the means, please consider a leadership gift to save babies in a big way. You can give now at preborn.com slash Dana. Again, $5,000 leadership gift sponsors Preborn’s Network for 24 hours, rescues 200 babies. Donate by dialing pound 250 and saying the word baby. Give securely also at preborn.com slash Dana. That’s pound 250. Say the word baby to help save lives today.
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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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At least 39 fatalities after tornadoes, wildfires, and dust storms wreaked havoc across multiple U.S. states. Just terrifying stuff. There were tornadoes that hit our home state of Missouri, destroyed a lot of where I went to school in Arnold, Missouri, and all throughout Jefferson County. There was also a lot of destruction in Maryland Heights, Tylertown, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma. I mean, a lot of destruction. They said that most of the weekend tornado watches, and they, I mean the National Weather Service, had mostly expired. But dangerous winds were still possible in the Carolinas, East Georgia, and Northern Florida as well. So keeping an eye on all of that. In Texas, the Crabapple Fire. Have you guys heard about this crazy wildfire near Austin? It’s in Gillespie County, Texas. Affected approximately 9,500 acres. Is only 40% contained. The increase in reported acreage, they’re saying it’s due to more accurate mapping. It’s not because the fire is growing, but they’ve got multiple agencies working on that 8,640 acre fire. It’s crazy. So everybody stay safe. People are seasoning and eating packing peanuts because… Well, this is why aliens don’t visit us. This is a new thing, apparently. I don’t know why, but there’s a company that claims to use edible packing peanuts. They’re not real peanuts, but apparently it’s vegetables. It sounds highly processed and disgusting. And then there are apparently some people are thinking that all of them are like them. So they’re not just eating the vegetable based. Yeah, that’s there actually was a I can’t. Bible sales have soared amongst Gen Z, 87% within five years. There is a newfound spirituality amongst Gen Z, according to new studies. A lot of it, they said, down to those born between 97 and 2012. Stick with us, because we got a lot of stuff to discuss. Yet, Trinidad and Tobago, the Houthis, the Autopen, stick with us. All Family Pharmacy is a great entity. I’ve used them several times, and I love the fact that I can get what I need to get when I know I need when I need it, and I can get it quickly, two to four days or overnight in a pinch if I need it overnighted. Your health is always in reach with All Family Pharmacy. What the cool thing about it too is, for instance, I give the example of what was over the holidays. It was like over Thanksgiving. I was hosting, I was getting strep throat. I’ve had it a million times. I know exactly what it is. Urgent care, the one that was around me was already closed. It was after 10 o’clock. I mean, it was just rough. And I ordered medicine from All Family Pharmacy, had it overnighted, and was able to start my medicine literally the next day. It was like almost 10. Actually, it was like after 9. I think the urgent care closed at 9. And that’s what’s so great. I had azithromycin. They have over 200 medications. They have antibiotics. They have ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, all of the stuff, too, that Big Pharma was telling you that you don’t need. They got it. But it’s all made in the USA. So you don’t have to worry about outsourced inputs from China or India or anywhere else. It’s all USA medicine. Simple, fast, affordable, no insurance, no problem. Straightforward, affordable pricing. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don’t wait. Be prepared. Protect yourself and your family today. Allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Code Dana10 to save 10%.
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Well, those strikes were retaliation strikes. So they launched one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent something to do it. This is not a message. This is not a one-off. This is an effort to deny them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping. And it’s just not going to happen. We’re not going to have these guys, these people with weapons, able to tell us where our ships can go, where the ships of all the world can go, by the way. It’s not just the U.S. We’re doing the world a favor. We’re doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping. That’s the mission here. And it will continue until that’s carried out. That never happened before. The Biden administration didn’t do that. All the Biden administration would do is they would respond to an attack. These guys would launch one rocket. We’d hit the rocket launch.
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So that is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, which I have to say, I. I like him better as secretary of state than I did a senator. He’s he’s this is the role that he was made for because he is a diplomat. And I think having I’m going to get to what he was talking about here. But I just my initial observation of him watching him handle all of this stuff. He’s a diplomat. And sometimes the art of diplomacy is sometimes viewed. And I get it in Congress as being a weakness. Because you don’t want to work with the other side, right? You don’t want to get too tribal. You don’t want to work with the other side. But this is an asset if you’re Secretary of State. He’s been a diplomat, but he has not given one inch of ground. And he’s got the ability to be nice and then what I call stern dad energy. You guys know what that is? You guys know that. Stern dad or stern grandpa energy. Where… they don’t have to yell at you or raise your voice, raise their voice at you. It is just the look and the lowered voice. And you’re like, Oh my gosh, like alarm bells go off in your head and, you know, batten down the hatches. He’s got that energy. So I think this is, he’s getting results. He is absolutely getting results and he is affecting the administration’s agenda of I mean, the speed with which he’s doing it and his ability to do it as a good diplomat. This is the difference between somebody who’s a good diplomat and a bad diplomat in this position. Like Hillary Clinton gave up everything. Marco Rubio is like now, of course, obviously, a lot of this is underpinned by strong foreign policy. So that’s incredibly important. So the Houthis. If you’re I mean, I think most everybody, most all of, you know, just, you know, for the fact sheet, they are an Iranian back. They’re basically Iranian. It’s like a it’s an arm of Iran of Iran’s government. And they’re a little terrorist group in Yemen. And they act like the gatekeepers of the waterways there in the Red Sea. So what ended up happening and they’ve been causing a lot of problems for some time. Right. They’ve been… This is… I think this area and the problems with the attacks on like they’ve been trying to disrupt for quite some time. I was trying to think when… This has like been our whole lives, right? This has pretty much been our entire lives that this has been happening. So you have this incredibly important waterway and… A significant amount of crude, all of that, comes through, goes through the Red Sea, go out in the Gulf of Aden, go around the whole horn of Africa. It’s very dangerous. What was the movie where the meme came, and it was the guy who was like, I’m the captain now?
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Oh, yeah, that was that.
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Tom Hanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s no title to it. Don’t bother, guys out there. I’m immediately going to the keyboards. It’s just that Tom Hanks movie. That’s what it’s called, that Tom Hanks movie. Now, Juan is showing you the map. This is the area that we’re talking about specifically. And this is the water. So you go in through the Suez, you go into the Red Sea. Now you see Yemen. And this is the Houthi operate in this area. Of course, you got a lot of pirates coming out of Somalia that are also operating in this area. This is such a crucial waterway. And they’ve been trying to block numerous ships for quite some time. And I think what they’ve they’ve gone after, like, for instance, anything that looks like an Israeli ship. There have been instances. There have been stories previously that we’ve had where they’ve gone after ships because they thought, oh, this is an Israeli flag or is that an Israeli decal? So you go in there. They’re. Going to try to bottleneck even more and disrupt the flow of shipments out of this out of this Red Sea through the strait around the Horn of Africa. And it’s going to be it’s going to be pretty chaotic. Trump had a he had a response to this, too. He was on not X. He did this on Truth Social. Yeah, he had it on Truth Social. And I’m pulling up his statement here. I’m not going to read all of it. But as you can imagine, some of it was in caps lock. So he had said that he gave that he said he ordered the United States military in this area right here. We got a lot of ships that come in. You have a lot of allies that come in from this area. You have a lot of Chinese vessels. You have a, you know, a number of German. I mean, there’s a lot, a lot, a lot of vessels that come through this area. And he said they’ve been waging an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism against American other ships, aircraft and drones. He talked about that. It’s been over a year since a U.S. This is what’s crazy. This is true. It’s been over a year. Since a U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden, the last American warship, he said four months ago, was attacked by Houthis over a dozen times. And they’re entirely financed by Iran. They fired missiles at aircraft, targeted troops and allies. He said, you know, it’s billions of dollars. It’s, you know, impacting the economy, et cetera, et cetera. He said they’ve choked off shipping in one of the most important waterways of the world, grinding commercial shipping to a halt. And then he talks about how our brave warfighters are carrying out aerial attacks against terrorist bases, leaders. And then he gets into caps lock. This is my favorite quote to all Houthi terrorist caps lock. You know, there’s a certain joy when he presses that button. Your time is up and your attacks must stop starting today. If they don’t, hell will rain down upon you like nothing you’ve ever seen before! Exclamation point. I voted for that. So, he’s basically saying, I’m going to stick a boot up your backside sideways and then all the ways. So, he said, beware. We’re not going to be nice about it, you know, in post. Now, I understand it. We have American vessels that are going through. We are looking at oil. There’s a lot of shipments that come through. I mean, oil is a big thing. I get it because it becomes a national security issue. It affects the economy. I get it. But not everybody’s on the same page. I’m sure you’ve seen some of this. Yeah, it does increase prices at the pump as well. So there are some who claim that this is Trump declaring war and it’s unconstitutional, which it’s not. He’s not declaring war. He’s just saying we’re defending our ships. And if you strike us, I mean, think about this. They have attacked the U.S. Navy 174 times. And our Navy’s over there just now. To help keep everything kind of chill so our vessels can go through, right? 174 times. Commercial shipping vessels attacked 145 times. This is only in the past 18 months. Now, you might ask, well, how effective are the Houthis, actually? I know, see, this is where I’m torn because in some instances… If you don’t have, if you’re not, how do I want to put this? Level yellow alert and ready to, you know, even just modestly defend yourself. It can go really bad sideways very fast. And having our defensive forces be so well prepared doesn’t necessarily, that’s not a reduction of their potential danger that they pose, right? The Houthis pose. So they said that they were trying to brag that they were attacking or that they were bothering a U.S. aircraft carrier. I move from attacking to bother. But the Navy was like, meh. And we barely noticed. They said that F-16 and F-18 fighter aircraft hours have shot down 11 drones that have been fired by the Houthis since Trump approved an order for all for airstrikes over Yemen. This happened Saturday night. Sidebar. How busy have they been? A. Rounding up Trend Aragua. MS-13. Overnight flights. El Salvador. Ta-da. And then this. Very busy. They said that the drones did not come close. The aircraft carrier in question was the Harry S. Truman. And one of the officials with DOD had said, basically he said, it didn’t really bother us. They shot everything down. That’s been a key role in a lot of the military action over there is the Harry S. Truman. Tracking showed at least one missile failed in flight and splashed down in the waters off Yemen. Our military took no action on that. That was not considered a threat, except by the Houthis. The Houthis were like, no, we’re big and bad. Their Houthi spokesperson said, the armed forces, with the help of God Almighty, I don’t think it’s the same God, carried out a qualitative military operation targeting the aircraft, blah, blah, blah. I love how these rat bastard terrorist groups have official spokespeople that they push out, right? It’s like watching kids play house, isn’t it? So they were kind of bragging about it. The Navy was like, meh, we didn’t really notice. The Houthis also put out, I don’t know, I guess this is trying to, it’s bad AI. I watch this. Kane, this is like the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. It is crudely, it’s like AI plus Corel, like CorelDRAW. And they put out The internet equivalent of bathroom graffiti. They posted this animation of U.S. draped caskets, like with the flag, floating around in the water amongst the destroyed warships. Now, I got a question. First off, I watched this. My first thought was who laid the flags on the casket? And like, why is this? I mean, wouldn’t they put the fire out by the ship? And like, why are all the caskets just in the water? That’s so stupid. Like, that’s not even realistic. You stupid terrorists don’t even get it, right? That’s the dumbest thing ever. Juan’s getting ready to show you. I found this offensive for how bad it was. It didn’t scare me. It just made me think they still don’t have Photoshop over there. They don’t even have real engine over there. I mean, for crying out loud, you don’t even have access to that. So this was, this is a screenshot from it, but it like bobs in the water and then the video pulls out and there’s all these other flag draped. Was this, were you, were you scared, Kane? Were you just quaking in your boots? No.
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After seeing exactly what happened and even some of the video footage of how, you know, we had some crazy weather over the weekend, but they got scorched.
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Yeah, they did. Yeah, they did. Some hellfire and tornadoes rained down upon them, courtesy of a storm called the U.S. Navy. That’s correct. See, this is what I want my military to do, is to protect my interests. Because if I’m buying gas, that’s my energy coming through. So that is where I do get that it’s a NatSec issue. I’m not total capital L libertarian with this. I’m not a nation builder either. I’m not an isolationist. I just don’t care about anybody else’s interest but my own. And I don’t care. This is geopolitics. I’m not here to wipe everybody’s backside, right? And by me talking about my own, I mean the U.S. of A. See, Juan’s showing you this right now. This is what the little crude hoothies cobbled together. I mean, I’ve got I’m made of questions right now. Who puts the flag? I mean, if they’re all dead, who puts the flags on the coffins? And then, oh, look, the warship with the settings. This is so stupid. I mean, this is just such hokey imagery. Again, clearly no one has access to real engine or even like anybody who understands reality over there. I don’t know. So people are saying that that that Trump is declaring war. And our friend Thomas Massey and I like Thomas Massey. I like him a lot. He made the point that there are five countries and five corporations that benefit the most from U.S. military activity to eliminate shipping disruptions caused by the Houthi near the Red Sea. China is first, followed by Saudi Arabia, Germany, Japan and South Korea. The corporations that benefit the most AP Maersk that now that’s the Maersk is the ship that was in that Tom Hanks movie. I don’t know why I remember that. Remember, that was one of their ships. Mediterranean shipping, BP, Shell, CMA, CGM. I don’t know who they are, but those are the people that they and I understand what he’s saying. He said that the shipping route is mainly used to get exports from Asia to Europe. The economic value to us is primarily in importing oil from the Middle East, but we can do our own. And so I get what he’s saying. He’s not saying that there shouldn’t be any action to protect ships. Sometimes I feel like X is a Rorschach test of people who have reading comprehension and then those who don’t. He is in a very artful way asking, why are these other countries not committing the same kind of defense to this area that we are? And I think that’s a valid question. Why should the United States? I only want to protect our interests. If I see a drone going towards a Chinese ship, I don’t care. Don’t even care. Why would we help with our military, a geopolitical foe in that area? Now, no one is, by asking the question, and this is where many drive-bys make up the logical fallacy of assuming that it’s begging the question, and it’s not. It’s asking the question. It’s not presuming that this is true, so we’re going to use this as launch pad to ask the next question in the sequence, the logical sequence. That’s not what we’re doing. The question is simply, Why are these other countries not committing the same amount of defense as we are in this area? Now, if we’re just protecting our ships, I think that’s fine. I think if German ships want to have protection, then maybe they should get some German vessels there to protect and German military there to protect. It should be Saudi Arabia, same thing. And we know the Saudis can afford it. So the prices, I would say that… And I get the argument that, OK, well, if we buy things from Europe, that’s going to make prices increase if we don’t have that area free of Houthis. And I get that impact. I also get the argument that, well, this just allows us to drill more of our own. OK, here’s the problem, though. There are a lot of steps that have to be taken in order to make that happen in the U.S. There’s a grace period. We’re going to come back to this because we’re out of time this segment, but we got a heck of a lot more on the way as we move real fast. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It’s stuff like this that’s made me take action and why I’ve bought precious metals like gold and silver. I’ve partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They’re a huge supporter of this show and they’re the best at what they do. And right now you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. It was a huge help, not just for me, but to all of you if you do this. And for my audience, you could also qualify for up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver. It’s a really great deal, so don’t miss out. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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Yeah, they were all about it. Why is he out there all of a sudden? Tim Walz is everywhere. We’re going to talk about this coming up because polling is out for Democrats and it’s disastrous. They’re all mad at Chuck Schumer. They’re also mad at Gavin Newsom. They’re mad at every they’re mad at themselves now. Second hour on the way. Don’t miss. Stick with us. Happy Paddy’s Day. Spring is here and it’s the perfect time to refresh your yard with fast growing trees. The largest online nursery in the U.S. with thousands of plants from fruit trees to privacy hedges tailored to your climate. They make landscaping easy. And plus, their Alive and Thrive guarantee ensures that your plants arrive healthy and ready to grow. I love how hassle-free the process is. You don’t have to get your car dirty. You don’t have to go to the nursery and have limited options and lug everything around with fast-growing trees. You can save 90% by planting yourself and your trees arrive thriving. There’s no heavy lifting whatsoever. You don’t have messy car rides. So if you’re ready to transform your space, as I am, now’s the time. With fast shipping, expert support, and top quality plants, Fast Growing Trees makes it super easy. Get up to 50% off. Select plants at fastgrowingtrees.com slash Dana. Plus, use code Dana at checkout for an additional 15% off of your first purchase. Visit fastgrowingtrees.com slash Dana and use code Dana. Offer valid for a limited time. Terms apply.
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including Democratic Senator John Fetterman, called it bizarre and reportedly mocked it in the Senate hallway. I will say that your punching looked better than some of your colleagues. Fetterman has been criticizing your party for undignified antics and a sad cavalcade of cell phones during the President’s address to Congress. What’s your response to Senator Fetterman?
SPEAKER 11 :
He’s not the one to talk about anything. I mean, this is a guy that doesn’t seemingly want to own a suit, own a suit. I’m not really sure. But I don’t show up in hoodies when I’m going on the floor. And so the idea that you would say that we could not have a moment in which an influencer asked us to do this.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, I’ll be perfectly honest with you and tell you that when she asked, she doesn’t show up in hoodies on the floor and he doesn’t show up with. Size 18 lashes on his eyes on the floor. Where it looks like he went and robbed a spider of their legs. Welcome back to the show. Top of the second hour. Really, nobody needs above a 14. Thank you. Ladies know, guys are like, what? It’s like difference in tools, right? Welcome back to the show. Dana Lashley with you. Top of the second hour. Democrats are at each other’s throats. I’m here for it. I love watching Democrats fight. Put that stuff up on Worldstar. There are like so many accounts. Let’s just like have them body each other in a Twitter account. That’s all we need. They’re all mad. They’re mad and they’re now lashing out. We’re at the… What level would this be like of stages of grief?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m trying to think they keep moving those goalposts, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, they yeah, they do. We I don’t know what stage of grief we’re at, but all I know is that Democrats are are angry at the world and they’re now going after each other. So I wanted to highlight. Just some of this. Because it’s so adorable. So excited about it. So their party has hit new polling. They got new polling. The party’s hit a new low. A new low. In fact, and this is from NBC, who love them. They said, quote, unlike in Trump’s first term, Democratic voters, just say Democrat voters, say two to one that they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done. They also noted that only 27 percent of registered Democrat voters have a positive view of their own party. It is the lowest positive rating NBC has recorded since 1990. Only 7 percent. 7% of registered Democrat voters say they have a positive view of their party. Wow. Wow. That made one pollster say, with numbers like these, the Democrat party is not just in need of a rebrand. It needs to be rebooted. Now they attribute… these lower poll numbers to fed up Democrats. According to data, after they watched their party lose to Trump in 2024, now they’re saying that they’re mad if… Some of them, they feel like their party’s not holding the line. Some of them, they feel like they’re more interested in fighting with Trump than delivering on what they voted for. And then some say they just want to fight. So… It is. It’s it’s pretty wild. In fact, Pete Aguilar out of California said, quote, When Trump wakes up in the morning and says you’re doing the right thing, Senate Democrats, we don’t feel that that’s the right place to be, is what he said. That was his direct quote. Oh, I love it. I love it. Now, contrast this. Contrast this with this polling. Highest approval ever that he’s ever had Trump. More Americans say the U.S. is on the right track than in any time in the past 20 years. Also an NBC poll. Oh, look at that. Same NBC poll or another one. Same outlet. They said that the he’s still now the only problem here and I’m going to come back to this in a minute deals with the economy. But they said that according to the survey, they said that people are supporting his trade policy, 41% that oppose. They, a lot of key, they said 56% on the border, positive, 56% positive. Government cuts, 47%. Only 29 were opposed. Even like on Ukraine and NATO, he has some pretty good, he’s got pretty good polling. The only thing, And NBC notes that this is the first time that he’s lost a majority on this issue in an NBC poll is the economy. I have warned you guys over and over again. This is what it’s going to come down to. This is what Democrats are going to exploit to take back because they’re and they could. I want everyone to know Democrats could absolutely easily really take the House and midterms. And the Senate. They want to do it through the economy. I know. You’re like, wait a minute. How? With the same party that was lined up? Yes, because voters are fickle. It’s not something that they don’t look at the whole body of work and judge it. It always comes down to what have you done for me lately? 56% disapprove of Trump’s handling on the economy. That’s the first time they noted he’s lost a majority on this issue. He has not won over a majority of Americans on this yet. This is why I keep hammering the point home that they need to be out front and center messaging on tariffs, messaging on tax cuts. And I, again, I really think that the sequencing was wrong on this. I think you should have done tax cuts first. And then if you were going to do tariffs, then you do tariffs. But you have to have consumers need a shot in the arm. They’re overburdened. They’re overworked. They’re overtaxed. You can tariffs without a reduction of government spending and tax cuts will be an additional tax. That’s just the fact of the matter. Just like guys have schlongs. That is how this works. We don’t trans the language of the economy to suit one side over the other. So that’s the realism of it. So now, if they’re going to get tax cuts done, since they didn’t do it in the proper order, they need to be messaging on that hardcore. And Trump needs to be beating the brains out of the heads, politically speaking, of House members and Senate members to get this stuff done. Otherwise, midterms are gone. You can say hello to President Newsom in 2018. That’s not an idle threat. That’s just prognostication. That’s all that is. So the good news is that he’s got really good approval on all of these other issues. But the bad news is that he has not won over, at least according to this poll, and it’s a pretty decent poll, the economy. Well, so Lorraine says that the stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Democrats are at anger. So they’re at step two. Great. Great. Great. We still got bargaining depression to go through before they just accept it. How long will that take? I’m just wondering. Just wondering. So this is important to, again, hit. Democrats, or Republicans rather, desperately, desperately, desperately need to get on the messaging. Now, with all this, you’ve had Schumer who… has just been taking, he’s been throttled by his fellow Democrats because when they pass that CR to fund government, and I don’t know, I’m going to interrupt myself. I have no idea why Democrats were so mad about voting for the CR because it’s literally theirs. There are no changes. There are no cuts. What they did is they moved around certain quantities of cash to make it look like there was a modest cut, but there has not been a cut at all whatsoever. Tax cuts aren’t permanent. There’s not a single damn Doge cut. In fact, all of the cuts that Doge recommended, they’re still funding them until September. All the stuff with USAID. You know the headlines that you see? No, it’s all still getting funded until September. Nothing has changed. So I don’t know why Democrats were screaming and crying because they still got their whole Democrat framework all the way up until September. You know, and Republicans were saying, well, we got to wait until we have, you know, we have to have 60 votes in the Senate to make sure this happens. That’s why we can’t do this now. So they’re going to wait till September when they still don’t have 60 votes. That was only ever an excuse. I hope you guys realize that you got played by the GOP establishment with us. Just so long as we all recognize what happened, we can move on. I, you know, I wasn’t screaming into the wind for nothing. So. Schumer, though, he was like, yeah, I’m going to go ahead and back this bill. And Democrats are mad. They weren’t mad when they literally voted for it back in what? Remember, no, actually December. It was like in December when this one passed. And remember, in December, this was after the election, everyone said, no, we can’t do this bill. We can’t do the CR or have a budget bill. We got to do a CR. We’re going to wait until Congress, the new Congress is seated. That was the excuse in December. Do you remember September? The excuse before that was we can’t do anything before the election. We got to wait. There’s always an excuse. Always, always. So I wanted to play this. I want to get moved so I can play this other stuff. I want to set this up. Imagine, if you would, you find out that your minor school-age daughter was forced by a school in Deerfield, Illinois, to change in front of a male student who pretended to be trans. And that teachers held her and other female students in the locker room after a gym class. And made them do it. Listen to these parents. This is a middle school in Illinois. Deerfield School District 109. This was on Thursday of last week. Listen to this.
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Hello, my name is Nicole Georges and I’m here to demand that the locker rooms and bathrooms at District 109 be designated as biological male and biological female, as there already is a gender neutral option. The girls want their locker rooms and bathrooms back. They want their privacy back. This is why I’m here tonight. My 13-year-old daughter’s well-being and mental health and privacy is at stake. This nightmare began on February 5th when my daughter was using the girls’ bathroom and was stunned that a biological male student was using it as well. She came home frightened and was extremely upset. I asked her to talk with her teachers and find out more information. She was told by the administration that a student can use the bathroom as well as a female locker room because they now identify as female. I was sent an email to the teachers involved and received a call from Principal Weagley. He verbally reiterated that under Joanna Ford’s direction and the legal counsel that the student could use both the locker room and bathroom. I expressed that the school was in clear violation of federal policy. The Trump administration issued an executive order restricting biological males from participating in sports and accessing female locker rooms.
SPEAKER 10 :
that day i filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of my daughter with the department of justice it has now been referred to the department of education a federal complaint has been filed with the district to protect the students unbelievable so the girls did not want to have their privacy violated they all together agreed they were going to refuse to undress in front of this male student and then the principal kathy van trees forced them into her office questioned them March them to the locker room and force them to get undressed in front of the boy. Force them. Now, Illinois passed laws protecting this. I think it’s sexual abuse. I think that Kathy Van Trees, I read this and she sounds like a predator to me. This is sexual abuse, forcing the girls into a locker room. How is that not unlawful detainment? Which is kidnapping. How is that not an unlawful detainment charge? There need to be charges filed. And these teachers, every official who took part in this should be dragged out of that school by the hair on their head. This is what you go scorched earth over. Can you imagine if that was your child? I would have beat her ass myself. I would be in jail right now. I’m not just saying that as a joke. I literally would have beat her ass if that was my child. And I know a lot of you out there feel the same way. This absolute trash principal marching these young girls in there and making them strip in front of a student. Did she have a fetish for it or something? What kind of school official does that? That is sexual abuse. That is absolute textbook sexual abuse. sickens me. We have a lot more to come. And we also have Florida’s Attorney General. We’re going to ask him about something. How would that fly in Florida? James Uthmeyer is going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour. So we’ve got a lot to hit as we move our partners that will bring you the program. What does living better mean to you? Is it more money, a bigger house? Now think about this. What about how you feel physically every day? Life is so much better when you feel good. When you wake up feeling great, you can do more of the things that you love and you’re ready to take on the day. If pain is affecting your life, see how Relief Factor can help change that. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, Relief Factor supports your body’s response to inflammation. And it doesn’t just mask pain for a short time, it helps to reduce or even eliminate it. and it’s safe to take daily. In fact, the longer you take Relief Factor, the more effective it is. Over 1 million people have turned to Relief Factor. Feel better every day, and you’ll live better every day. Trying Relief Factor is easy. Get their three-week quick start for only $19.95. That’s less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That’s 1-800-4-RELIEF, or visit relieffactor.com.
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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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You can find my St. Patrick’s Day Spotify playlist, by the way, up on Spotify. And I always make sure to include it in your newsletter, too, for those who subscribe. All right, all right. Headlines. CNN poll. We talked about Democrat Party’s favorability dropped to a record low. Basement level? Basement? Root cellar? I think that’s a good way to put it. Starbucks is ordered to pay $50 million to a delivery driver burned by a hot beverage to go full on Moira Rose with it. They said that it’s a jury in, if you had to guess the state, it rhymes with Schmalifornia. Oh. Totally believable. $50 million, a delivery driver. He was burned by an improperly secured lid. Michael Garcia was picking up drinks at a drive-thru. He got disfigurement. Oh, yeah. Nerve damage to his genitals. Now, if the lid is not securely on it, I get it. That’s Starbucks. But we do need tort reform because does your… burned nibbit cost 50 million i check the lid every time i get it i do too check the lid that’s true what’s hard about that i mean did they apparently when the barista handed him the order the drink fell out of the container and onto him so how does this guy get 50 million dollars for getting a burned schmiener from starbucks how I’m trying to avoid upsetting anybody. We got some people who are better than I in our Pennsylvania markets. They’re very good people and I love them and I don’t want to offend them. All right, so I’m going to come back to the Gene Hackman thing. I don’t have enough time. Joe Biden, Ashley Biden is in a lot of trouble. So is Meghan Markle and the Harry whatever because they apparently donated $250,000 and it wasn’t disclosed. Uh-oh, James Uthmeyer, AG of Florida next. The folks who helped bring you our illustrious program. It’s our friends over at Kel-Tec in Florida, based in Florida. Great Florida-based company. The PR-57. It’s their new PR-57 rotary barrel pistol, chambered in 5.7. And this is like one of the, it’s a new, one of the new ones for them. It’s the first of its kind. I mean, this thing is so incredibly innovative. MSRP is only $399, so it’s super affordable. It’s the lightest, and this is why you need it. It is the lightest 5.7 that’s on the market. 40% lighter than the next 5.7. It has a very unique top-loading design that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for a slimmer carry profile. and you have 20 plus one capacity. It is actually perfect for everyday carry for everyone. You can’t say that about every 5.7. You can say that about the PR57 rotary barrel pistol from Kel-Tec chambered in 5.7. And again, $399. Super, super affordable. And it is, it’s incredibly practical. Really, I mean, it’s great handling. Mine just came in. I haven’t made it to my FFL yet. It literally just arrived. So I have to go get it and then go to the range. You know, it’s the same place. So it’s great. Visit keltecweapons.com to learn more. K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Welcome back to the program. And of course, we have our much-admired Patty’s Day hot playlist, which you can access over at Spotify as well. And again, if you’re just tuning in, good to have you. You can listen coast to coast. We’re in every state in the union. We’ve got the simulcast, Channel 347, DirecTV, as well as X, Facebook, Rumbles, where the chat is. Lots of stuff happening. I was super excited last week when I saw this. I retweeted it. I got very excited because Florida is my backup state. And I’ve told everybody this. I’ve got a lot of family and a lot of friends in the Sunshine State. Love vacationing there. I mean, they’ve got like some of the best places ever. Love the state. The gun laws kill my soul. And I… Realize that there, you know, when you have a Republican majority, super majority, not everybody’s a hard R, right? Not everybody’s super conservative. So you got some weird, questionable gun laws. I was very excited to see. This is like one of the first things that he did. The new attorney general had tweeted out. targeting the restriction, the age restrictions, Florida law, ages 18 to 20 to purchase. He says it runs afoul of our Constitution’s Second Amendment. Joining us now, Florida Attorney General James Othmeyer. And General, we’re so glad to have you on the program. And I’m so happy. that you are immediately like this is one of the first things that you’re looking at, because I’ve heard so many I’ve heard complaints from my family that live down there constantly and a lot of our friends. And I mean, it’s just it’s kind of crazy because Florida is such a free state. And I always thought that, you know, they do so many things great. But Texas has better gun laws than Florida. But you’re aiming to change that. Welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you for having me, Dana. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 10 :
So tell me about this. This is and this is just one of several things that you’re looking at the age restriction, first and foremost. And I love what you said. You know, you you you were intimating that if you can sign up for select for sign up for selective service. Why in the world could you not keep and bear arms as is your constitutional right? Because this all happened, I know, in the wake of Parkland. Is the appetite there in the legislature to do this or are you looking at this? I mean, I I understand the constitutional argument. Is that where you’re looking at this?
SPEAKER 05 :
you know i’m looking at it from both sides so i and i’m a few weeks on the job here uh… when i got here i i know the state has been defending for several years now it’s age restriction on firearms prohibiting eighteen nineteen and twenty year olds uh… from purchasing firearms and us with the state has been successful in the court systems but i’m a big believer in our constitution i believe we have to protect it at all costs And I immediately asked our team here in the Attorney General’s office to take a look at the legal analysis so that I could decide if we wanted to get out of such defense. During this process, late last week, Friday, the 11th Circuit en banc panel decided its opinion and upheld Florida’s law. Notwithstanding that opinion, I would be in the dissent there, and I do believe that there are Second Amendment infirmities with Florida law. When it comes to restricting the right to keep and bear arms, which is very clearly a right enumerated in our Constitution, any government regulation really has to be consistent with founding era regulation. And at the founding eighteen nineteen and twenty year olds were not prohibited from purchasing firearms indeed they were encouraged in oftentimes required to do so if they were serving in the militia um… so i do believe florida’s law has issues uh… i assume the eleventh circuit case will be appealed to the supreme court and i’ve directed my staff that we will not be defending that law if it is indeed on appeal when it comes to our legislature i know that there are numerous bills moving uh… one focused on this age restriction that would repeal the prohibition on 18 to 20 year olds again these are people that are at the age of majority they have the ability to enter into contracts there are many rights afforded to people at the age of majority they can serve in the military it seems difficult to me and constitutionally question questionable that these people could not purchase a firearm to protect their families or or go hunting uh you know it’s turkey season and i know a lot of Young people would like to partake in that, in the history and traditions that are associated with it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, exactly. I’ve never understood. We’re talking to Florida’s attorney general, James Othmeyer. I’ve never understood the argument, particularly from the left, that no, we can’t have 18 to 20 year olds actually be able to purchase, but we should lower the voting age. Those seem to be kind of crazy, contradictory arguments to me.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the left is filled with contradictions. And as you point them out, they don’t fight back with rational response. They just double down. The Democrats, they would love to take all of our guns away and nevertheless open up our ballot box so that we can wreak havoc on this country. But our founding fathers were smart guys. They wrote our Constitution with purpose. And it’s up to us as principled conservatives to defend it. And nothing frustrates me more than when Republicans get squishy on the constitutional text. I understand, you know, there are emotional times when some of these shootings happen. They almost always seem to be instances where the guns are not lawfully purchased or possessed. Nevertheless, the left, you know, they use those moments to do derivatives. And unfortunately, many people squish out is the term I like to use. And you won’t see that out of my office.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you very much. You know, in my view and many others, it’s just a complete erosion of due process. I mean, it removes due process. You have a penalty rendered and then you basically have to fight to prove yourself innocent in a court of law, which is I’ve never understood how that is in any way constitutional. I know that now Governor Ron DeSantis has said he would love to sign a law essentially repealing that he wants the legislature to repeal that. Is that how do you view that as attorney general? I mean, what is your position on red flag laws? Is that something you support, him repealing that?
SPEAKER 05 :
I do support it. I think, again, the due process issues that you’ve referenced have serious constitutional infirmities and the burden shifting analysis that occurs where guns are removed and you’ve got to go and you have the burden of making your case as to why you should get it back. i do believe there are legal infirmities here and uh… were were analyzing all the various gun bills that are ongoing uh… but that the one first and foremost i know the legislatures looking at is the age restriction in repealing that uh… and i i i think the fifth circuit uh… you know coming out of texas has an opinion on point here that is declaring such age restrictions unconstitutional. I think that court got it right, and I do think it sets up a situation where the United States Supreme Court will get to weigh in, regardless of any new legislation that might be passed.
SPEAKER 10 :
I wanted to ask you to again, if you’re just joining us, we’re talking to Florida’s Attorney General James Othmeyer, a great AG. He’s already like barely in the office and he’s he hit the ground running. I love that. I love these empowered AGs. You also noted and I am bringing this up. This was from a couple of different news outlets over a dozen people. illegal aliens detained and brevard. And the sheriff there, ICE, had been ramping up enforcement. This is a part, obviously, of that interior enforcement, part of the Trump agenda that I know the DeSantis administration wanted to implement. There was some pushback from some pretty squishy Republicans, as I understand it. But Florida’s been doing this for quite a long time. I know I’m sure you saw the MS-13 and the trend in Aragua. So it’s good to see federally that everybody’s catching up to what Florida’s been doing. Tell me about this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sure. Well, we hit the ground running. We called a special session and we were able to pass the most robust legislation in the country to combat illegal immigration. And immediately thereafter, we started working with the feds to get delegated authorities to all of our state law enforcement so they can help ICE and carry out detentions and deportations. We were the first state in the country, even faster than Texas, I might add. Yes, you to not only have our state law enforcement agencies get a 287g certified that’s the federal statutory provision that allows states to be delegated to help out our state law enforcement officers got this training and then every county sheriff those are the guys that are boots on the ground that are are engaging in the arrests like like you referenced there in brevard county every single one of our sheriffs immediately got 287g certified as well So we’re there. We’re working hand in hand with ICE and Homeland Security. If you’re getting into our criminal justice system, we’re going to detain you and we’re going to work with the feds to get you back where you came from. And we already have dozens and dozens of arrests occurring across the state. So we’re going to be there to help and we hope other states will follow suit. We’re certainly willing to work with them.
SPEAKER 10 :
I hope they do as well. I hope all these other states can. If you have all of these other states doing what the federal government hasn’t done. I mean, I know things are changing now with the new administration, but still it’s been the states that have been really, you know, under Biden and even under Obama, Biden leading the charge on this. And now we don’t have the Department of Justice fighting everyone like they were Jan Brewer back in the day. We’re talking with Attorney General James Othmeyer out of the Sunshine State of Florida. The FACE Act. This is one of the other things that you’ve been focusing on that’s been used to chill-free speech and silence pro-life protesters. You’re also using this to protect pregnancy resource centers. Tell me about this because there was a $10,000 civil fine that was actually collected from one of the Antifa activists on this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, you know, the left, the Biden administration, the Democrats, they use this statute to weaponize against the First Amendment rights of our pro-life advocates. So we’re turning the tables on them. If you want to go and intimidate people at one of these pregnancy resource centers, if you want to be hateful and scare people, we’re going to come after you. We’ll find you and we’ll hold you accountable. You know, in Florida, these pro-abortion groups, have just run amok for too long. You know, when it comes to changing our Constitution, they go out and they gather fraudulent signatures, and we’ve had a settlement with them on that where they were caught red-handed. We’re going to continue to investigate every effort in which they want to break the law and harass and intimidate peaceful pro-life advocates. And, you know, we’re not going to allow the left to weaponize law. We’re going to use that law to enforce it based on the letter of the text and protect the peace.
SPEAKER 10 :
I love the taking these bad things that the Biden administration did and then turning them around or finding the loopholes or finding the way to transform it into actually protecting you know, speech for those people out there who have been advocating for pro-life issues. Last question for you. We’re talking with Attorney General James Othmeyer, and we’re grateful that he was able to join us today. You know, I got to ask you about this question. I’ve avoided this topic forever. But now that you’re with me, I have to ask you about the whole Tate brother thing. For those people who are unfamiliar with this whole story, count your blessings. But, you know, you, your top lawman in Florida, you got to deal with this. I know that you said that there’s a criminal investigation into The Tate brothers. There is Andrew Tristan Tate. And I know that there’s like all kinds of sex trafficking accusations. There’s an investigation in the UK. There’s an ongoing investigation, as I understand it, in Romania that’s actually expanded. There’s like apparently more stuff that’s coming in. They were in Florida. A lot of news was made by Governor DeSantis saying that they weren’t welcome. They turned it into a PR stunt. Then they left. They’ve been complaining about it quite a lot. But while they’re doing that, you’re actually doing the work of saying, hey, there’s some stuff happening here that merits investigation. Where are you in that process?
SPEAKER 05 :
sure what what we are continuing to investigate even though they pretty quickly fled the state’s jurisdiction uh… but if if week we can show that they committed crimes on florida soiled and we will continue to pursue them that you know at all costs uh… you know people keep saying oh thank you for being courageous on the state brothers thing in the media it’s an easy thing these guys are charged with horrific things around the world but then on top of that they go public and they make jokes about being with girls that are fifteen or sixteen they make jokes about not knowing the age uh… you know of consent in in florida in the united states uh… when you have victims coming forward when you have public admissions when you have criminal investigations around the world uh… that there are clearly reasons why we as a state have a duty to investigate and protect our citizenry and we will continue to do that when it comes to human trafficking and preying upon your women and and girls that that are not at the age of majority like we will stop at nothing to protect them again rule of law we’re not going to go out and persecute anybody that did not do something wrong you have my word as attorney general we will never do what the left does there but if you break the law and you’re in this state like we’re going to come after you i just have to your point i’ve i and everything that we’ve known about them has been from stuff they’ve said on video i mean that’s it’s not i mean it’s all devices and things every time these guys open their mouths it gets them deeper in a hole
SPEAKER 10 :
I I’m just like, who’s your counsel advising you? What is happening here? But I don’t know how that got lifted up as some measure of conservatism going out and pimping women and living off of the pimping of women digitally and bragging about beating them or all. I mean, I just don’t know why we’re lifting up like middle aged single childless people that engage in and in like cam girl business. I just don’t know how that became like a measure of conservatism. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 05 :
That is not masculinity. That is that is weakness and sickness.
SPEAKER 10 :
Exactly. James Othmeyer, attorney general, Florida. We’re very glad that your attorney general. We expect great things from you and we’ll be watching eagerly. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Dana. I hope to come back soon.
SPEAKER 10 :
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, this man’s got some priorities, that’s for sure. A Florida man steals an ambulance. Got to say it like my Southern family ambulance ambulance finishes beer before being arrested. Say troopers. He’s got some priorities. Like I said, Michael Esquilin, 43, faces multiple charges out of Tampa, stolen ambulance on Saturday and quote, finished drinking a beer in full view of troopers before he was arrested. Yeah, he looks the type. How is this dude 43? What? Criminals look so old. Look, that’s why you should be law abiding because crime ages you. It ages you. So they said that he was fleeing to a loot at high speed. It was his like fourth DUI. His license was revoked. These are all charges. Grand theft of emergency medical equipment. Burglary of authorized. Oh my gosh, there’s so many. Resisting an officer without violence, etc. He immediately was arrested. He’s in the pokey. So that’s where he he’s off the off the streets. And oh, my gosh. Florida man is sentenced for setting an employer semi truck on fire at an Omaha airport. Oh, my goodness. So that’s a pretty big thing. He 27 years old. Kevin Katie was sentenced to five years in prison, three years supervised release for malicious use of explosive materials. Is there any other? So he he disconnected his semi trucks tracking advice. So his employer couldn’t track him. And then he parked it in an airfield. And, yeah, he legit blew it up. Firefighters had to come extinguish it. Third hour on the way. Stephen Yates joins us. Auto pin and a White House press conference fight. Our friends at Super Beats. You guys are familiar with the Super Beats Heart Chews. Now they have a new product. It’s called the Super Boreen. And it supports healthy metabolism and blood sugar levels. So your energy, your blood sugar levels, your heart health, all of it. And easy metabolic support. That’s what it also… It’s plant-based, doctor-formulated with a unique form of berberine and Italian olive fruit extract. Now this unique berberine, it’s been clinically studied to deliver nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. So that means you get fewer pills to swallow. It just is one capsule a day. That’s it. for metabolism support and support for healthy blood sugar levels. And there’s no GI distress. If you’re worried about berberine causing that, Superberine’s unique formula with a grapeseed extract improves tolerability. And you can get both, the new Superberine and the number one best-selling Super Beets Harchews at Sam’s Club. This is the only Beets product that I would ever consume or ever recommend to you. Visit Sam’s Club and you can get the Super Beats heart shoes for your heart health support and Super Breen for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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or talking about issuing preemptive pardons to these people. But was he aware of his signature being used on every single pardon? That’s a question you should ask the Biden White House. Is there any evidence on that that he wasn’t aware of it? You’re a reporter. You should find out. Sean.
SPEAKER 10 :
I actually like that. That’s true. That’s what you do. Oh, wait. I mean, if you started your career rewriting aggregate stories for daily call and i like daily caller but they i mean there’s an aggregation aspect of digital journalism that maybe investigative journalism you know isn’t your thing if you just get like stuff from producers i don’t know there’s a lot of people in the news like that they just like get handed packets by producers and they don’t actually go and investigate that has to change welcome back to the program dana lash with you top of this uh third hour on st patty’s day and uh Got a lot of stuff to discuss. Chats at Rumble, Channel 347, DirecTV. Don’t forget the podcast, which is the archive. So the question of, well, you’re a reporter. That’s what reporters do. Reporters are just like, we don’t know. We don’t know anything. They’ve forgotten how to report. They’ve forgotten how to investigate. They’ve… Or did they? They just didn’t want to. Because if it’s not there, then it doesn’t exist. If they didn’t investigate it and get evidence of it, then there’s nothing for them to report on. Then Democrats didn’t do anything bad. That’s kind of like my thinking on it, right? That’s sort of… Why wouldn’t you be interested in that? I mean, the story here is the auto-pin story. You guys are aware of this, right? The whole auto-pin. I’ve got a pin. The… I don’t know. Now they’re investigating… Because there was the question of, is Biden of sound mind, even like with the pardons? Is he of sound mind to do this? They found that he used an auto pin on Trump. like a good number of things, right? How many of the pardons did he use an auto pin on? Like a lot, a lot. Trump had posted and said that they are hereby declared void, this is caps lock, void, vacant, and of no further force or effect And apparently – so he’s saying that he didn’t – Trump says that Biden didn’t know anything about them. I don’t know if a president can revoke a pardon once it’s been issued. This has to do with Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. And I don’t know if there’s legal precedent on that. It just says, this just says, he shall have power to grant reprieves or pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. They have the issue of Bush revoking his own pardon over a guy, I think Red State had a story on Robert Toosey, a conviction making false statements to HUD. Bush revoked that. But that’s the same… president who issued that pardon who revoked it. So I don’t know the legal precedent of that. But Lorraine’s done. She’s looked at some of this and says that a lot of the signatures don’t look matchy-matchy. It is kind of weird. He did sign the pardon for Hunter. That wasn’t auto-penned. But I don’t know. The signatures are kind of weird-looking. You know? I mean… There’s a lot of like apparently some of the pardons were signed on January 19th, 2025. The signer certified that they were signed in D.C., except Biden wasn’t in D.C. on January 19th, 2025. So why did they say they were certified D.C.? One reporter said. that that day, that’s when Biden was in South Carolina. He was at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston with Clyburn. And he was doing that as, it was like a thank you visit to Clyburn because remember, Clyburn made Joe Biden. Clyburn delivered South Carolina. We’ve talked about that quite a bit. So I don’t know. I just, I don’t know about the precedent for that. And then it does bring up questions. Did he even know? Did he even? I mean, if they just had an auto pin and they’re just, you know, willy nilly signing everything. I’m just I’m just curious as to how that works. So but then the media being told, well, you know, you’re a reporter. Why don’t you find this stuff out? I don’t know. I don’t think that I think the question is whether or not Biden was aware of it now. I’m of the mind. I think you need hard evidence of those first that he was. And I do think you have to have hard evidence.
SPEAKER 08 :
How do you get hard evidence that he was? I don’t know. That’s the thing.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t know. But you can’t say because a lot of things use auto pen like mortgage. I mean, there’s like important. I mean, what are you going to say? What are you going to say? Do it.
SPEAKER 08 :
The location matters. If you say if you’re on a legal document, whether it’s a mortgage or just a simple. That’s the caveat. Sales. the location matters. You can actually legally get out of a contract if it’s proven you weren’t in the area that the document says you were in at the time it was signed.
SPEAKER 10 :
I agree. Just the way it is. I agree. I’m curious about…
SPEAKER 08 :
this there’s no way to prove whether or not he was or wasn’t I mean there’s a way to prove he was aware but there’s no way to prove he wasn’t aware there’s a video that I just saw actually I’m looking at it now where they somebody took all of his signatures and they’re morphing it to his actual real signature I could honestly watch that video for quite it’s fascinating I’m like all the auto pen ones are exactly the same and then the one for Hunter is obviously his signature in real life interesting
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s, I mean, I’m fine. Why isn’t the press interested in this? Oh, for the same reason they weren’t interested in any of the COVID stuff. Can we touch on this? The New York Times headline, I could just punch someone in the face over. I really could. I know that you guys saw this. The audacity of this piece from the New York Times. Quote, we were badly misled about the event that changed our lives. They said we were badly misled. Of course, it’s about coronavirus, the woohoo. Here is an actual sentence from this New York Times piece. Quote, yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the COVID-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Okay. Who treated us like kooks and cranks? The media. Yeah. The left and the media. Same thing. The media. The media. And obviously it has been unraveled. And now the media wants to claim that they were misled. We were badly misled about the origin. When you were leading the witch hunt against all of the people who were raising concerns about this, the New York Times now needs to separate itself from this. I mean, they literally had headlines where they were besmirching good people who are asking questions about the origin. They were asking questions about cover ups. They were asking questions about all of this. And now they want to play victim. Anybody who actually questioned the narrative that we were given in the press and asked about any kind of zoonotic origins, they were treated like witch doctors. They were treated like… just they were persona non grata. They can’t be allowed into the conversation. And not even on the origin. I mean, they went after people like Dr. Robert Malone that we had on, Dr. Tess Laurie. We had our videos pulled from YouTube, censored, because we asked questions on this program. I mean, it was censorship, and we know it was censorship at the highest levels. And now they want to act as though that, oh, well, we were misled. See, we got duped too. I feel like they’re trying to act like, no, we’re victims like you. We were so misled. What’s next? We were so misled. Women can’t actually be men. And men can’t have babies. We were so misled. Like, what’s next?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you heard what they did with the vaccine. The media was even putting out, well, no one was forced to take the vax. Nobody was forced.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, they weren’t. Here’s this headline. Senator Tom Cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins. If you looked up, like, fringe and coronavirus in the New York Times in their search option, I mean, there’s so many headlines that pop up over that. I mean, and this was a legitimate and taking something now that we we accept as truth because the evidence supports it. Everybody had evidentiary based suspicions in the beginning that were immediately discounted in favor of the political narrative that they wanted to spend, that they wanted to spend. And for them to try to retcon this and act like, oh, we were you weren’t misled. You misled people. You were the your reporters. And this goes back to what we opened the program with. You are the media. Your job is to your entire the purpose of your existence is to question government, is to question elected officials, is to question bureaucrats. That’s your entire existence. If there was misleading, you misled. You weren’t misled. You just swallowed it and took it at face value because it was easier for your political bottom line to do so. They didn’t want to fall out of favor with the powers that be by asking questions. That’s what the left does. And the left is, you know, the media is part of it. They don’t ask questions anymore. Merely asking a question is a sign of betrayal. Someone is not accepting the narrative. They’re not swallowing their narrative pill. They’re asking a question. That means they’re not on the same page. Thus, they are the enemy. That’s how it’s viewed. So questions aren’t even allowed. There’s no intellectual curiosity. Whatever they said went and you ought to accept it now or Now, because it doesn’t cost any political capital for them, they can act like, oh yeah, we’re one of you. We’re questioning this. We were all misled. No, you misled people. We were the people that you tried to mislead. And when you couldn’t mislead us, you wanted to impugn our characters and thereby taint any kind of association in the minds of anyone else that was still maybe making up their minds. I mean, they they went after the best doctors in the world, the best medical experts, the best professionals. They persecuted the media story after story about these people. Now they want to act like they’re one of us. No, you don’t get to do that. Badly misled. Spare me with all of this. There’s there’s that’s what I think that that exchange was a very good exchange. And I like Levitt’s response. You’re the reporter. That’s your job. You investigate this stuff. The bigger question is, why isn’t the press interested in investigating things from the government? Remember the olden days of the old gumshoe reporter? That’s gone. Nobody wants to ask those questions anymore. Everybody just wants a stupid, insipid hot take. They want a part of that attention economy. But they don’t care about investigating anything. You know why? Partly because there’s no rewards in it. There’s no rewards in it. The only reason the New York Times is doing this now is to save their ass. That’s it. They’re trying to act like, oh, no, no, we’re still reputationally clean. You can still trust us. You can still subscribe. But we know that they were part of the problem. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it’s our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service, and they have the best nationwide coverage. In fact, traveling internationally, I’ve never had an issue with any of my coverage from Patriot Mobile. They operate on all three major networks, so you’re connected wherever you go. And when you are doing business, especially with cell phone entities, you really need to pay attention to where your dollars are going because all of these other entities that you pay money to, they all have these packs and they’re spending lots of money either on gun control or wokery or some other nonsense. But that’s not Patriot Mobile. You get seamless switching with Patriot Mobile. They have a 100% US-based customer service team. keep your number keep your phone get new numbers get new phones it’s all up to you it’s never been easier to switch or upgrade so visit patriot mobile.com slash dana have your money support your values every time you make a call every time you text every time you tell someone deservedly that they’re wrong on social media you can also call 972 patriot and Get a free month of service. You only get the free month of service, though, unlocking it with promo code Dana. That is the key. Patriot mobile dot com slash Dana nine seven two Patriot free month of service with promo code Dana.
SPEAKER 08 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s quick five.
SPEAKER 10 :
A man was set on fire in Times Square, surprisingly, leaving him horrifically burned. He was apparently a dude, torched a guy in Times Square early Sunday. It was a horrific attack. He used an accelerant off of a food cart. Golly, the guy, oh, that looks horrible. He looks so, oh my God, I didn’t want to see the photo. The search for the attacker continues. He apparently knew the victim. grabbed something containing flammable liquid off a nearby cart, used it to torch the 45-year-old man just before 4 a.m. I mean, the guy was standing on the sidewalk, shirtless, huddled in a blue blanket. I mean, he is burned pretty bad. And they had him in an ambulance. The footage also showed cops talking to a female companion of the victim, but they’re searching for this person. It’s just horrible. New York City we’re gonna have to do New York City man a guy was caught in a viral video calmly eating a raw dead rat on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight guys zombie movies begin this way this is literally how it happens he’s on a Bronx sidewalk and he picks it up and just starts gnawing on it um It is one of the, I can’t, dude, I can’t even. I’m done with this story because it’s so, I mean, the video, someone was recording it and they zoomed in and it’s horrible. I got to move because I’m going to get so sick reading this story. I’m not even kidding you. Apparently walking backwards could be exercise that you need. They’re saying that there’s a benefit. I don’t know. I mean, maybe for balance, but there’s a million things that you can do for that, right? Coming up, we got Stevie Nates is going to be joining us. Don’t miss. Gold prices have surged over 40% since January 2024, consistently reaching new highs. According to Goldman Sachs research, the upward trend is expected to persist due to strong demand from central banks. It’s stuff like this that’s made me take action and why I’ve bought precious metals like gold and silver. I partnered with a great company that makes it super easy to buy. Easy, transparent, and simple. And that company is Goldco. They’re a huge supporter of this show, and they’re the best at what they do. And right now, you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit jam-packed with critical information about buying precious metals. It was a huge help, not just for me, but to all of you if you do this. And for my audience, you could also qualify for up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver. It’s a really great deal. So don’t miss out. Visit danalikesgold.com to learn more. That’s danalikesgold.com. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. At the bottom of this third hour now. This day’s gone fast. St. Paddy’s Day’s gone fast. And of course, Channel 347, DirecTV rumbles where the chat is. I always love having our guest Stephen Yates on because he’s always from some weird bunker. somewhere, probably like he’s probably like in some sort of like dwarven mine, like the Mines of Moria or something like that. That’s what I imagine. You know, he tells he’s a very important guy and he knows a lot of people. Stephen Yates at Yates comms on X, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He joins us now via Skype. Good to see you, my friend. I’ve got it immediately because I know we always we. For those who don’t know, Mr. Yates was in not one but two presidential administrations, and he is the leading expert on China, geopolitical foe, all of this. And I also, I mean, he follows other foreign policy stuff. I’m really eager to get his opinion on this magical delivery that happened overnight to that beautiful El Salvadorian prison. Two planefuls of Trend Aragua and MS-13 gangbangers that were taken to their beautiful new accommodations, Stephen. I mean, luxury accommodations, as we all know. Just wanted to get your quick thoughts on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, number one, since we’ve had a lot of talk in recent weeks about people saying thank you in foreign policy, this is a time when all Americans can actually say thank you sincerely from all of America to one of our near abroad neighbors for actually stepping into the breach and sort of stepping over. the absolute insanity of low level left wing judges and weirdos in the media and others that wanted to say, let’s keep the murderers, rapists and gangbangers and let’s give them constitutional rights here. the president of this beautiful country with the world’s best prison for bad guys, he basically said, oh, too late, we’ve already got him. And I just thought it was one of the most beautiful pieces of diplomacy that actually honors the slogan of making America safe again. And contrast it with busing and flying people into major cities around the United States without even notifying governors that it was happening to America. And none of these judges were blocking that. Right, right. To this. This was just, again, I just say thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Juan is showing everyone on the simulcast. This is how El Salvador greeted them. Now, the difference is, in the United States, and you can see they sent out all these, I mean, this is crazy. All of these military vehicles, they had two planefuls of these guys. In the United States, they were walking around freely on our streets. El Salvador would not even let them get freely of their own will off of the plane. They escorted each one of them down the steps. That’s the difference. Is it because El Salvador recognizes how dangerous these guys are? I mean, what is what’s the difference? That’s crazy.
SPEAKER 04 :
that’s right well and the other thing is i mean they know that you have to establish control and dominance when you’re dealing with wild murderous insane gangs so yeah they had them cuffed and shackled they had them one-on-one walked they had them pushed with their face down because you don’t get the dignity of holding your head up high right now this every element of this has been thought through and these guys all deserve all of it
SPEAKER 10 :
why can’t other leaders be like El Salvador’s leader? I mean, we had to threaten Colombia with tariffs and I mean, granted it was in an afternoon, but we had to get mean with them. Why can’t every other country just be like El Salvador was like, we get it there, but we’ll repatriate them in our beautiful accommodating prison. We’ll do that. What, what’s, what is the difference with, with El Salvador’s leader and everybody else?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, El Salvador is to law enforcement and security as Argentina has been to countering inflation. The two leaders have done things that people said could never be done, weren’t possible. And they ran on getting a mandate to do exactly this. Each of their countries were out of control in these various areas. And they haven’t really given to licks what anyone wanted to say about it. They knew that their families, their neighborhoods, their very country’s future depended on doing this. And they’re dead serious about it. And so in this case, public security was a number one. And so we have an example of a leader who was elected with a mandate, did it. And now they see it works and people can actually go out to the public square in El Salvador. They can resume family life and church life. They can actually be a functioning community and a country. Now that they have this and they’ve done it so well, we can outsource some of this. And it’s not like we’re outsourcing our criminals. These were people that were never meant to be in our country in the first place. This is outsourcing what Venezuela should have been doing to a country in Central America that’s ready to step up.
SPEAKER 10 :
I want to switch gears here, talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comes On X and ask you about the Houthis in Yemen, because you’ve been saying everybody needs to watch Yemen. You’ve been saying that for years. And now we have this Iranian-backed group, the Houthis, which are threatening to destabilize that whole very important waterway going out of the Red Sea in the Gulf of Aden. We have our response to it, Trump’s response. I mean, I thought if you’re going after our vessels… And you are endangering an artery of energy. And I get the people who say that, well, we just need to do more here domestically. And I completely agree with that. But in the meantime, you can’t just like cut off one of your arms while you… I get it. But the Houthis… I feel they put this video on. I know you saw it where they had these like it was like a choral draw level like graphics of these coffins with the American flags on them floating in the water. It was just real goofy. But then when I read one reply or one quote from one of the naval commanders regarding that Harry S. Truman, they were saying, oh, well, the Houthis, other kind of they tried to attack. We didn’t even notice. How are they really grade them? Like, what is their threat? Are they really able to destabilize that much there? That’s the first part. And the second is the U.S. isn’t the only entity there policing that area, are we?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, but there are layers of things that are happening with this. First and foremost, that great neoconservative known as George Washington, I think the original restrictionist, was an advocate for America actually exercising power at times to deal with things like piracy. And if you read some of the debates among the founding fathers, this is why we had the birth of the Navy early in our country’s existence. And so at the very, very least, this is a vital waterway. What the Yemen forces are doing at the very least is piracy. I would argue it’s also terrorism. And there’s this problem of the links to Iran. But at first, is America going to punch back when someone engages in piracy or worse against our forces. And so we know it happened. There can be any amount of bravado or dismissiveness from someone in the armed forces. They’re free to take whatever posture they want. But if you’re a commander in chief, if you got a mosquito that’s biting you, you wanna swat them with something bigger so the mosquitoes go to a different host. And so I think that this was prudent use of force. I don’t think this is going to be invade, occupy, nation-build territories. We’re not playing in that ground. And it does kind of remind Iran, you’d better start dealing or these proxies of yours are running out. And once we get somewhere with Gaza and we get the Houthis in a box, well, then we’re gonna be looking at not war with Iran, but we’re gonna have that maximum pressure back up. So I think there’s a lot of things going on at once with this. But this, I think, is quintessential Trump. It’s like when he launched cruise missiles to kill Russians in Syria. it’s not a war, but it’s using warfare to let people know where American interests are.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I don’t see the problem with, you know, striking back at these rebel forces, Iranian-backed rebel forces for trying to harm our ships or our supply routes. I mean, that’s one of the reasons why we have our, again, and you made a great point talking, going all the way back to the founders of the Barbary Pirates. I mean, there’s a reason, you know, the shores of Tripoli, the whole, I mean, that’s historically based to have that. There are some who brought up and I understand what they’re saying, although I don’t entirely agree with it, because I think we should be protecting, you know, our our ships, our security, our people. But some are saying, well, you know, China, they ship through there. There’s Saudi Arabia where the Saudis are helping to police this. Where’s China? We shouldn’t do anything that helps a geopolitical enemy that helps out China without them. I do agree with that, with the China part of it. What do you say to I think Thomas Massey brought that up on X.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, I don’t think he has a complete picture on this with all due respect or maybe not all due respect. The Saudis actually are doing a lot. The Emiratis are doing a lot. And these are allies that are working with the United States to get us out of wars we’re already in. on terms that are acceptable to our national interests. And so from time to time, we’re still there and anyone that wants to take a quick geography lesson and look at what the shipping route is to go around the Horn of Africa and back up to the United States versus going through those troubled waterways and coming out just going across the North Atlantic. I mean, it’s simple math and when you’re shipping trillions of dollars worth of goods, it adds up. And so we don’t have to do everything just about the money, but it’s not like we’re absent our own interests in this. And like I say, we’re not engaging in invasion, occupation, nation building, any of that stuff. So I thought this was reasonable cooperation with those allies, but I’m very open to the idea to press those in the region. who have the wealth and have a closer, more proximate interest, yeah, they should be doing more. We say that to the Europeans. We should say it to our friends in the Gulf, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
I wanted to bring up this headline as well. This will be my last thing I bring up with you, our good friend Stephen Yates. This surprised me. First off, it surprised me that the EU invited Xi Jinping to this summit. They were marking the 50th anniversary. I get it that EU-China diplomatic ties. I don’t know why the EU is trying to normalize anything with Xi Jinping. But they declined it, according to Financial Times. Why did they decline that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, there might have been a little bit of a protocol game where they send a different official. I haven’t really been able to run the ground to who exactly went or did they just skip the whole thing altogether. I think though the lead in still holds, there’s too many people in Europe who keep playing these weird games about somehow America is attacking democracy and freedom and retreating from the world. And so maybe we should make friends with China. Oh, you mean the people who have made Russia’s invasion of Ukraine literally more feasible and protracted over multiple years helped Iran and Russia get around sanctions? Oh, you wanna warm up with those guys? Yeah, that’s big thinking from Europe. So there’s still a lot of that stinking thinking that’s got to get cleared out over there. But they’re definitely balancing and they’re playing this game of the U.S. is going to pick on us on some things, going to cut us out of some things, and we’re going to engage with China sometimes. So we’ll have some sorting out to do, but I wouldn’t fret too much about bureaucrats actually doing much. Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
I just saw that and I thought, ooh, that’s interesting. I’ve got to ask Yates about that. Stephen Yates at Yates Comms. Always so good to talk with you, my friend. We are so grateful that you’re so generous with your time with us every week. Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, Dana. Take care.
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SPEAKER 10 :
I just want to karaoke for the rest of the show. We have a really killer… Of course, we’ve got to play our good friends House of Pain, Jump Around, Hat Tip, Danny Boy O’Connor. We’ve got to… I mean, it’s St. Paddy’s Day. You’ve got to… There’s so many great tracks, because you know we love music here at the show. Like, you know, there’s the ones that everybody knows, U2 and the Cranberries and Thin Lizzy, but we like to… And, you know, obviously House of Pain. We like to play some of the B-side tracks, too. So if you want some, like, really good… Because we are actual music aficionados on the show. And you can go to my Spotify list, Dana Lash Spotify. And I’ve got everything that you’ve ever wanted and things you didn’t even know that you wanted for St. Paddy’s Day. And DJ Fun Uncle Steve, you can attest to that, can’t you? I don’t even know what he said. This is like a sitcom.
SPEAKER 08 :
Did you say so lit?
SPEAKER 10 :
I said absolutely. Oh, okay. All I heard was so lit. Oh my gosh, I love it. All right, so this… Some of the stuff we’re going to get into this week, we’re going to be looking at, we’re going to be watching the economy, watching, obviously, the stuff unfolding at our very important waterway with the Houthis. And we’re going to get into some of that. There’s a bunch of stuff I wasn’t able to get to today. We were running out of time, so I’ll make sure that I include some of it tomorrow. Also, find ye self over at Substack, chapter and verse, the newsletter. I’ve got a bunch of stuff primed out, ready to start kicking out for you later today. And, uh, you don’t want to miss that. And of course, Facebook and YouTube as well. You got to find it. Uh, this, I didn’t, Oh goodness. I didn’t even get to get to all of this stuff. Uh, One quick story, one really fast story. I think I’ve got 30 seconds to share it. Daily Mail piece. You guys know all about the Amazon rainforest, blah, blah, blah, lungs of the earth, save the trees. Okay, they literally had to cut a road into it in Brazil for the COP30 climate summit that they’re holding in November. They literally had to cut a road through the Amazon rainforest for the COP 30 climate summit. Climate summit. Cut a road through an Amazon rainforest.
SPEAKER 08 :
Seems antithetical to their cause.
SPEAKER 10 :
There’s a satellite image of it. They just cut a giant road through it, through the lungs of the earth, so to speak. That is environmentalism in a nutshell. There’s conservation and then the performative environmentalism.
SPEAKER 08 :
What earth lover made that decision?
SPEAKER 10 :
The climate change people. They did. Yeah, they did. Today in stupidity, Cain.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. Looks like the talking points have gone out. Remember constitutional crisis? That’s a couple weeks old. Now, meeting the moment. Meeting the moment.
SPEAKER 11 :
New hotness alert.
SPEAKER 08 :
Listen to this.
SPEAKER 11 :
The strength that we have is in this moment. Listen to your constituents. Center them in this moment. But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment. This is the moment.
SPEAKER 21 :
I think about what’s happening in this moment. What’s important is that we meet this moment.
SPEAKER 10 :
So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment? Wasn’t this a country song too? Didn’t you and I sing in this moment or something like that?
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s just unreal how every, it’s so cookie cutter and distributed yet people fall for it.
SPEAKER 10 :
They can’t even like come up with new words to convey the same thing. It’s all right. Happy St. Patty’s Day, everybody. Again, find us, Substack, Chapter Inverse, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. I’ll be back with you tomorrow.
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