In an era where military readiness and political narratives are constantly under scrutiny, Dana Lash tackles the ongoing leaks from the Department of Defense. She questions the motives behind these leaks and their impact on national security. From recruitment struggles to the challenges posed by woke policies, Dana delivers a piercing critique of the current military landscape, urging listeners to scrutinize the underlying motives and consequences of these developments.
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Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of the first hour for the radio program. We also have another rescissions package that’s apparently coming. This is also good news. Now, the first one, as you know, went through the House. That was the one that went through. That was the $9.4 billion. And the second rescissions package is also to take a look at some of these other recommended cuts, so to speak. And we’re still getting more details out of it. And we knew that there would be the OMB said that there was going to be more of these deals. We knew there were going to be more of them. Whether or not we get pocket rescissions remains to be seen because that’s something that’s going to happen. To occur closer towards the end of the quarter. I think it was Russ Vought that said on the 17th that there would be an additional there’d be another one. There’s going to be another one that comes out. But just when will it come out is the big question. Now, it could be we could have some Department of Education cuts in here. We could also have some additional – some non-educational cuts. Daily Signal had a – well, everybody’s got like – I think they’re all talking to different people because everybody’s got a different list depending on if you talk to The Hill or what leaks to Politico. But at least one of the things that we do know is that I think Department of Education is going to be – Because there’s so much waste, fraud and abuse in all of these things. And the Department of Education, that’s going to make the Randy Wine Gardens mad. It’s going to make them angry. This is going to… Now, as you know, with the previous rescissions, this is all approved spending by Congress. They already passed it through. And this is the president who is simply asking for there to be… don’t spend the money. Not necessarily even asking for a cut. They’re saying this money’s been allocated. We get it. Can you not spend it? That’s what the rescissions packages are. It is not often used. And this is going to be, I think it seems like we’re talking a lot about it now just because I don’t know if there’s been an administration where we’ve had it back to back like this before prior. However, there could be, we could have some cuts for energy, but definitely education is on that. Now that’s pretty much, we don’t really know the, we don’t really know the total. We just know that one’s coming. And I think also because we have the 9.4 with this, it’s NPR PBS. You have the agency for the USA ID. This is, Could be a number. I mean, education is pretty much all we know. So that’s good, though, because think about how much money we spend on the Department of Education. And so much of it is bureaucratic. I mean, I want to go back. Case in point, one of the things that they were spending our tax dollars on was the school to prison reduction, the pipeline. Now, you might think, Dana, that’s a great thing. Why would you cut that? And this has been up for debate in a number of states for quite some time. Why would you cut the school? Why would you cut something like that? That’s good. We need we need something like that. You don’t because that comes down to community. And number but that’s number one. Number two, it doesn’t work. And one of the places that we saw that didn’t work was the Parkland situation because they had received grant money. And this was when Arne Duncan was the secretary of education. They had received grant money for such a purpose. And did it reduce the school to prison pipeline? No, because what did they do? They just simply stopped reporting it. And when you can show a lowering of the number that that’s kind of the incentive for getting those funds in the first place. So I just I just don’t think it works. Well, I mean, I know I I know it doesn’t work. It’s not a don’t think sort of situation. So there’s a lot that can be done. And I said these are all this is all good. These are all good moves. So if we have another rescissions package, there could even be a third one. Although that’s just there’s a lot of whispers and gossip around that. I mean, you could just keep coming with these rescissions packages and then get in towards, you know, get in towards September, October, October. And then if you do that pocket rescission, then that’s something that would expire automatically anyway. Doing it small like this lessens the ability for Democrats to throw a wrench in it. Although I won a big giant rescissions package. I think everybody does. But I also think that in order to be able to work around Democrats, you have to keep it small and keep it piecemeal such as this. And this is what we’re seeing. So we’re going to dive more into this. And we’re also going to get into some of these other economic plans coming down the pike. Also, what’s this was this was circulating. This was late last night when this started circulating and it started getting a lot more airtime. Today, this is a Department of Defense. Who’s leaking? Who’s leaking this stuff? So Pentagon officials, apparently there was a letter that was circulating amongst the Pentagon. They’re trying to say that Hegseth was unfit to serve as defense secretary and that these letters have been circulating amongst high and mid-level military brass and civilian workers, quote, to let the American public know this guy has no clue what he’s doing. That is what one source said. told Daily Mail, Sean Parnell, who was the chief spokesperson for the department, said that this is stupid. It’s palace intrigue. People don’t care about it. It does seem like, you know, it is palace intrigue. And it seems like you’re still dealing with some insubordinate people within DOD. They said that the letter decries defense secretary for issuing orders and setting policies without considering or even hearing input from intelligence, security, and legal advisors. I’m not quite sure what policies they’re discussing, whether it’s renaming of certain ships or stopping DEI. Why in the ever-loving hell does he have to go and get input from anyone else? Because he’s the secretary of defense. These people are undermining military readiness and they’re undermining our unit, being able to function as a unit. I mean, personally, I think the whole damn thing should be burned to the ever loving ground and everyone should be turned out like Elijah Lovejoy on a rail and then hire it back piece by piece. Because if these people want to sit here and play around with military readiness, all right, we’re going to do it the hard way. Every single one of you is going to get bent over a barrel and savaged. Every damn one of you leaking like this from inside the military. Seriously? Leaking like this from inside Department of Defense? Circulating letters like this that make us look like a laughing stock? These people are no better than little soldiers for Mao. That’s all they are. I don’t give a damn how many stupid things they’ve got pinned to them like some North Korean dictators. I get so tired of this stuff. Why are these letters circulating? You got all these little Vindmans there. All these little Alexander Vindmans that are circulating these little letters. that are going after, I mean, this undermines military readiness. It undermines military uniformity. And they’re leaking it to the press. And it’s not just one, it’s several of them that are leaking to the press. Who are these pencil pushers here that are doing this? That’s what I’d like to know. Apparently, the anti-wokeness agenda is also an issue. It’s prompted what some are saying, suspicions amongst minority service members. People who are serving, minorities who are serving, they don’t care about ship names. Although I think pretty much everybody would agree that they don’t want a ship named after a pedophile. Talking about Harvey Milk. I mean, I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t want a ship named after a pedophile. Pretty sure that they wouldn’t want any kind of other DEI policies involved. And if they don’t like it, if there’s something that’s seriously happening that’s wrong, there’s a whistleblowing process by which you take it to members of Congress and you go through that way. But the one thing that you don’t do is put together these little burn book style from Mean Girls letters together and circulate them amongst the press. Some are saying, well, people are being looked at like they don’t think that Hegseth deserves his position, or they think that his, looking at some of these reports, or they think his anti-DEI or anti-wokeness, that it somehow signifies that they don’t deserve their position. If you think that, then maybe there’s a problem with you. I mean, if you think that by implementing a DEI policy that your position might be imperiled, then maybe your position should be imperiled. Good grief. So they said that I mean, because we’ve been we’ve been trying to turn back the tide on recruitment and this isn’t going to do anything. This isn’t going to help anything. How are you going to sit here? I’m going to tell you, I can’t tell you how many how many military leaders I’ve spoken to and I’ve sat at tables with and we’ve talked about. recruitment and we’ve talked about those sorts of issues and I’ve always said look your recruitment isn’t the recruit your messaging isn’t what you’re putting in a produced video and buying ad time on Fox or wherever for the recruitment the messaging for this comes by way of cobble it comes by way of stuff like this No one in their right mind is going to enlist in a military where you have a bunch of pansy ass candy pencil pushers that are within the Department of Defense or the Pentagon. And they’re leaking these little petty burn book letters about military brass, about the people that are over them because they were appointed by the president of the United States who was selected by people in a free and fair election. They’re going to have problems with recruitment until they can get it together. I want to see strong alpha men leading my military. I don’t want a bunch of little whiny bitches that are leaking letters to the press. No one feels confident. You want to make women feel secure in their country? Be a man and lead like a man and don’t do this little burn book letter, you know, leaking to the press nonsense. I get so tired of this. You want to make mothers and fathers feel confident when their children enlist and go into the military? Then don’t run things like this. Can’t get behind something like that. I wouldn’t want my kids serving under a bunch of candy asses up there at DOD and Pentagon. I’m not apologizing for my language for it either. I have a lot harsher words to describe people like this who threaten military readiness because they want to sacrifice our national security at the altar of wokeness. So we got a lot more to hit today. We also, just to let you know what else is on deck. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So they’re now saying that they may have solved the Stonehenge mystery. Can I just say that I’m one of the people who don’t care about this? It’s some rocks that somebody put up a long time ago. Great. Good job. I hope aliens did it. That’d be amazing. But they said researchers, they keep debating the origin of the stones. They said that there’s a group of smaller stones that are around the Salisbury Plain and Wiltshire. And then they were focusing on some of the other ones. But they were saying because they were trying to figure out how they got them all the way from Wales, which is pretty far away from where Stonehenge is. And so basically, long story short, they think that they’ve uncovered because they share these identical levels of different minerals with other stones at different sites. They think that they were brought here by people and not glaciers because they said glaciers would have left. Apparently, that’s a theory. would have left more… a more, quote, dispersed distribution of similar stones across the region. So you guys really haven’t solved anything. These things weigh over, like, three tons. They said it would have been an incredible feat of human logistics. And they… You know, it’s defined as a megalith. And the way that they were oriented there in the plane. But they said that… They think that they were on their way somewhere and basically it couldn’t have been transported by ice. It had to have been done by people. Really? It took you guys this long to figure that out? No. No. It was a glacier that decided to come in and orientate the stones in that fashion. This is stupid. Bruce Willis’ health battle worsens because apparently he can no longer speak, read, or walk, according to some of the news that’s coming out. This is incredibly sad. I mean, this was three years after he stepped away because he had a fascia that was diagnosed in 2022. His family has given… Some updates about it on social media. They said he’s now become largely nonverbal. He’s experiencing motor difficulties. But there hasn’t been anything about his mobility confirmed by his immediate family in recent months. And his daughter was attacked by for talking about, you know, how her dad was doing earlier. But I think it’s I think that’s what the family deal with it. Let his kids deal with it, how they feel, see fit to deal with it. Good heavens. Everybody got to get all upset over people they even related to never even met. New York singles are looking for love via PowerPoint presentations. Is that going to work, though? I mean, I don’t know. I was sold at LaserTank. It’s the world’s first laser tank that can jam and fry drones in midair. It’s pretty awesome. I want one. Stick with us. As We Move, our partners that help bring you the program. It’s the company that is based in Florida. It is Kel-Tec, the PR57 company. It is a pistol chambered in 5.7. It’s a rotary barrel pistol. It’s 40% lighter than other 5.7s that are on the market. And it was inspired by real world data and defensive needs. What makes it lighter is the rotary barrel. Also, the unique top loading design that replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for slimmer carry profiles in a 20 plus 1 capacity. MSRP is only $399. And again, made in Florida, Kel-Tec, a family-owned company. You can learn more about the PR-57, the rotary barrel chambered in 5.7, at keltecweapons.com. That’s K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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Obama was saying that we need to have a peaceful transfer of power. This is the same group of people that was trying to lecture President Trump on a peaceful transfer of power while they were actually trying to go behind the American people and say, hey, even though you voted this way, you got it wrong. You were actually a pawn of the Russian agent, knowing darn good and well that it wasn’t true. They were playing into the hands of the Hillary campaign because they couldn’t believe that President Trump and American people just took back the White House.
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You know, I got to tell you, and that’s Mark Wayne Mullen who’s talking about that. I really do believe that they were shocked that he ended up winning. I do believe that. I think I think that they were shocked that he ended up winning it because they thought I think they believe that they had it in the bag. And also and this is just me speculating. It really feels like it was kind of a half-baked attempt that they were doing to try to destabilize his campaign and take the election. And I say that because it was so sloppy. It makes me think of all the different times things are weird before and you’re like, I wonder. Well, now we know. But to me, it kind of seems like a half-baked attempt. And I go back to that dossier because it was one of the stupidest things that’s ever been released. It was so stupid. It kills brain cells without having a drink with it. It was so dumb, the stuff that was in this dossier. And anybody I think that knew him, I don’t care if you like him or not. My gosh, this is what just galls me about people and the left. I don’t care if you like Trump or not. No one likes you enough or cares about your existence enough to obsess over the idea of whether or not you like a particular politician or not. Get over yourselves. Go touch grass. No one cares. But what galls us is we watch you freak out over him winning. And you say nothing about the dirty tricks that were implemented to throw off the election. My gosh, people. The fact that, for instance, that you work with, just for starters, an agency that should be registered as a foreign agent. Fusion GPS, right? And this is another reason why I feel like it was kind of half-baked, because the Fusion GPS, they were working on behalf, literally hired by and working for these Russian oligarchs to get the Magnitsky Act repealed. And that was the Magnitsky Act. What that did was impose sanctions on foreign people like these Russian oligarchs and intense entities that were participating in corruption because the whole point of the Magnitsky Act. This was, you know, a guy, this Russian tax lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, he was investigating this multimillion dollar fraud involving Russian tax officials. I swear this all comes to this tugboat is going to come to shore. So follow me here. It’s in the weeds a little bit, but you need to know this. So the Russian officials countered and they were accusing him of fraud, but he was actually the one who noticed the fraud. And so he was blowing the whistle on this stuff. And he got sick. They held him in custody. They beat him to death, etc. His friend is a guy named Bill Browder, and he’s an American businessman. He lobbied for officials to sanction Russian individuals that were involved in all of this corruption. And they ended up doing just that. Right. And so these oligarchs hired Fusion GPS to lobby lawmakers and get the Magnitsky Act repealed. And they’d been doing that for, you know, a number of years. It was Glenn Simpson, Glenn Simpson. And then they had Natalia Levitskaya, who was working for them on this effort as well. She might sound familiar because she was involved in some of this stuff as well with trying to get the Trump family. So they were trying to they were lobbying, trying to get the Magnitsky Act repealed. And Fusion GPS was hired by Perkins Coie, who was working, who was an agent on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. And they were all working together to try to get this, get some of this information. They thought they would be able to give, you know, give something. They’d be able to get something about Trump. Literally, the biggest thing I think that they got, Cain, was the the P tape that came from this. This is why I say it’s the stupidest thing ever. It’s like somebody went to a YouTube comment section in Moscow and like that’s that’s only peopled populated by Kremlin officials and then took all this stuff up and made this dossier with it. I kid you not. That’s what it feels like. And so the P tape was dumb. I’m not even going to get into details of that. The title should tell it all. But you honestly expect me to believe a guy who has almost to the point of OCD about germs. You think I’m bad about OCD? He was he was equally as bad. We’ve shared Purell before and we’ve kind of commiserated over how we think that so many things people are just can be gross. Anyway, I when I first saw that, I was like, I don’t believe that for a half second. That’s the that’s. The reason being is because that was like the first push of this dossier. You’re talking about a behavioral trait that is deeply ingrained in someone. And when I see information that counters behavioral traits that I know about people… That’s like psychology 101. That’s false. That’s immediately, you know that’s made up, right? That’s like saying, Cain likes to color pictures and he stays, he is very adamant about staying in the lines. Like he doesn’t want to get, he has to stay in the lines. He’s, you know, has to make it neat and tidy. It’s like me getting oppo information about Cain that, look how he scribbled all over this picture. You know what I mean? It just doesn’t make any sense. That’s like a behavioral trait that someone has. And so, Back to my point when I said that it was half-baked, if you’re putting out oppo on someone, wouldn’t you at least make it believable? Right? Think about all this other stuff that was included in this. Regardless of what you think about him, he’s very methodical about certain things to the point that it actually annoys people he works with. That’s a fact. And I’ve known the family for over a decade. I’ve known him a long time. He’s been on the show repeatedly. I mean, he’s very with certain things he can micromanage, like the interiors of his properties and things like that. The stuff that’s in the dossier ran counter to everything that people who are aware of know about his behavior, his tics or whatever. So that was like the first red flag. And that’s why I say it feels like it was half baked, because if you’re you’re hiring someone who is a British spy, what a crappy British spy is. That you’re going to go out and push stuff like this and you’re not even going to make it believable? I kept seeing stuff come out of this dossier and I’m like, well, I know that’s ridiculous. That’s absolutely ridiculous. That’s ridiculous. You don’t even have to go through and verify. That is so bad. And then the partisanship of some of the people in our intel agencies was so great that they actually were able to overcome reason. Because of their zeal. Like they just pole vaulted right over the wall of reason that protects people from acting like absolute jackasses. And they just like vaulted themselves into paranoia and ridiculousness because of partisanship. So that’s why I say I think it was half-baked. I think that they did just enough because they thought that that’s all it would take is just enough to kind of like destabilize his momentum and elevate Hillary Clinton. And so, like when they came out with the New York Times Trump Tower story, Natalia Levitskaya, the lady who’s working with Fusion GPS, she was trying to act like she wanted to meet with him. What was it about adoption or something like that, Trump Jr.? The story never, I mean, it never ended up happening. It didn’t stop sloppy Steve Bannon from calling Donald Trump Jr. literally verbatim a traitor, which is one of the reasons why he and Trump broke. But that was a completely fake story. That meeting never happened. She was never there. But the press ran with it anyway. And if you know anything about their family, they’re very friendly, but they’re also not stupid. They’re not going to invite someone that they don’t even know who’s with some shady firm, you know, into their residences at Trump Tower. I mean, that’s just not going to happen. I mean, it’s just so stupid. This is what I’m talking about. So it looks so bad because it was so half baked, which brings me to Barack Obama coming out. Oh, you know, he he got very mad. He fired back in this. He would he wanted to over Trump’s discussion about prosecuting him over the Russian hoax. He goes, out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with the response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. They said that they were bizarre allegations and it was a ridiculous and weak attempt at distraction, etc., etc. They said nothing undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 election, did not successfully, but they did not successfully manipulate any votes. Now you see how right there what they’re doing? Right there. Right there. That sentence right there. Quote, nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election, but did not successfully manipulate any votes. So that’s new from them. Because that has not been Democrats’ position. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, every talking head. They have all either been in the room and we’ve played the audio. I mean, we can spend all day tomorrow running through the hits if you’d like. But we’ve played it. They’ve always said that they believe that Russia did something to make it to where Trump won in 2016. Right now. This is why it’s interesting coming from Barack Obama. He, I think, designed this to give himself plausible, plausible, plausible deniability. So in 2016 and there’s I think this audio cane, if we can find it still exists out there. This was after Trump remarked about the DNC servers being hacked by Russia. And Trump floated the idea during a campaign speech that maybe Russia was trying to influence the election on behalf of Democrats. And it’s weird that he said that because it immediately made Democrats mad. And the very next day, Barack Obama responded to it. And he had said, quote, Trump should stop whining and start campaigning. That was his direct quote. And he then added that the our election system was too decentralized for anyone to steal the election. And so that’s why the election can’t be stolen. You know, it’s too decentralized. Russia didn’t do. Barack Obama went one further, though. He actually was denying the entirety of the story that Russia was even trying to hack the DNC servers. Remember, the DNC declined a forensic investigation from our government on this from Obama, Biden on this, which was interesting. And so he was the one who said he needs to stop whining, start or stop complaining, start campaigning. And I thought that was, you know, I just remember then. So whenever then after Trump won in 2016, when Democrats went out and said, oh, my goodness. He’s you know, he this it’s not fair. They cheated or whatever. I’m like, well, you guys, the leader of your party, your president at the time. said that there was no way that could happen. And then, in fact, when people brought it up, he specifically said to stop complaining about it and start campaigning. And that was in October when all of that happened. That was right before the election. And then Trump won, and I think they were all shocked. Because remember, the big thing, and this is what a lot of these documents get into, the big thing… was that he had been working to break through that firewall between the two different divisions in DOJ and FBI where it concerns investigation. So like if someone is being investigated, a foreign entity, if there’s someone in the periphery that is not involved in the criminality, but maybe just this is somehow like, you know how sometimes people travel in the same circles and That doesn’t necessarily mean that that person is going to be caught up in this investigation from these intel agencies or these investigatory agencies. But that was kind of all blown out of the water. And we know that they were meeting in the White House. You don’t meet in the White House without Barack Obama noticing. Because it’s not like Biden. This is not like, you know, he wasn’t like cheese brain Biden who had no idea what the hell was happening in his White House. Barack Obama knew and Valerie Jarrett knew. Not a damn thing happened in that White House without Valerie Jarrett knowing. And don’t think for a second that Valerie Jarrett did not tell Barack Obama everything that she knew when she would see something happen in the White House. He was her key to power access, and she was not going to let anything harm that. So she was his she was Valerie Jarrett was his Susie Wiles. And so to put it in perspective, so this idea that they had meetings there and Barack Obama had no idea is one of the stupidest lies. You would have to be a moron to believe it. And I know no one watching except for the drive-bys are morons. I know I wanted to unpack this because they’re trying to retcon this so bad now. So bad. And they know because what else do they do if they can’t cheat and win? Then how the hell else are they going to win? As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it is the folks over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
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I still think about Kamala. And how I think she would have been a good choice. I don’t care what they say. Because she would have done what Lincoln did. Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State. Team of rivals. Yeah, team of rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote the book about it. That’s what Lincoln did, surrounded himself with the people who would disagree with him, not the people who would, you know, take a knee and go, yeah, more tariffs, sir, more. It’s the madness of King George. And just the deterioration of the Republican Party. I mean, look, I’m just an actor. What do I know?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, exactly. That’s really the only line that you need from that. He thinks she would have been like Lincoln? Are you serious? Is he high? Is he triple vaxxed?
SPEAKER 07 :
Was he dumb or dumber there?
SPEAKER 13 :
He’s triple vaxxed. Yeah, that’s a great question. Dumb or dumber. I mean, either. Yeah, that’s a great question. I mean, the amount of faith required to believe something like that Is absurd. And I almost feel sorry for those people. I said almost. I don’t. But I said almost. The idea that she would have… What makes him think that she would have governed like Lincoln? I don’t know. I mean, I’ve got some smart aleck things I could say. But I just really feel like these people are really off from the pulse of what the rest of the country is thinking. Democrats didn’t even want her. Might I remind everybody that back in the 2020 primary… In the very early days of that primary, she polled consistently at the bottom. She was always either last or second to last, barely making the debate stage. That’s why she was always in the end, because they do it by ratings and by percentages of support. Second hour coming up. The ongoing Barack Obama saga with the collusion. I don’t think he’s going to extricate himself from this one. We still have a lot more coming up. Stick with us. Our partners that help us bring the program to you, the folks over at Super Beats. You’re familiar with the Super Beats hard shoes. You need to check out the Super Bering product. It’s doctor formulated and it has a unique form of high absorption berberine. The unique berberine in Superberine is clinically studied to deliver nearly 10 times higher absorption than standard berberine. And it’s easy to get at Sam’s Club. I mean, right now you can get $5 off of Superberine. It’s happening right now all the way through August 17th. And it’s a great way for you to get the daily metabolic support that you need. And your metabolism is linked to everything. Your energy, blood sugar levels, heart health, the whole nine yards. And this is what Superberine helps to support. And because it’s… concentrated. This means fewer pills to swallow. You get all these benefits in one pill. And it minimizes GI distress with additional ingredients like the olive fruit extract. I mean, this is also incredibly good for you. And you can find both the Super Breen and the number one best-selling Super Beets Heart Chews at Sam’s Club. So support your metabolism and blood sugar for less. And you can get $5 off Super Breen at Sam’s Club now through August 17th. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health.
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That’s a decision for the Senate Republicans to make, as Chair Aguilar just indicated, as Catherine Clark has indicated. Republicans are on the run. They have nothing good to sell to the American people. The one big ugly bill hurts everyday Americans to reward billionaires and wealthy corporations with massive tax breaks. It is deeply unpopular. And that is why it’s our expectation that during the August district work period, you’re going to see House Republicans and Senate Republicans running away from the American people because they are running scared.
SPEAKER 13 :
I never want to see a man in a light-colored suit jacket. That’s all I could hear was watching that. That’s Hakeem Jeffries. I’ll get to what he said in a minute, but I don’t know. Maybe I’m just speaking by myself and no other lady shares this viewpoint with me, but the last damn thing that I want to see is a man in pastel. The last thing I want to see is some, you know, wheat-colored jacket where I can see all the thread weaves in it with pastels. Oh, my gosh. Now, you might say, Dana, what if it’s Easter service? Is that acceptable? No, it’s not acceptable. It’s not acceptable. Wear gray. Gray is the pastel black. For Easter? For Easter. It’s a joyful color. It’s a pastel black. You know, and you can wear some stripes. Can do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wait, gray is a pastel black?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes, gray is a pastel. I’ll fight to the absolute death on it. It’s the black pastel. See, I just can’t do this. So much is happening there. Now, if he had not had, I swear to you, I’m going to get in the other stuff, but this is why you listen. You guys know it. I’m going to get to that stuff, but can we just, that jacket, is that like a striped jacket? Or is that like a thatch weave, sort of like linen? Either way, I hate it. I hate the pocket detail. I hate it to death. There’s something happening that is making it too busy. And that hue of tie, that is hospital gown pink. That is hospital gown salmon that was made probably with a discarded gown from the OBGYN’s office. That’s what that tie looks like. That tie is stirrups. That’s what it looks like. And then the chambray shirt, that chambray shirt that looks like, you know, it looks like a starched cotton. And it probably goes, it’s probably an all-season shirt, maybe, probably, you know, fall wear. It just, nothing is right with that. Who dresses that man? That man doesn’t have a woman in his life because no woman with scents in her head would let him walk out wearing that. I will say the shoulders at least fit nice, but the arms are too big. That’s why he looks like they’re inflated. He looks like he’s in an inflatable suit, like he went to Spirit Halloween and got him some suit arms. I hate this outfit so bad. I can’t hear anything else. Yes, I’m one of those people who has to turn something down to back in because it’s too loud and it makes it where I can’t see. I could not hardly hear what he said because that suit was so hideous. It’s so hideous. That suit is the sartorial equivalent of COVID. Okay, it’s out of my system. But no, don’t. No, pastels. If it’s Easter service, I’ll give you a pass. But unless you’re a toddler or it’s Easter, no. Don’t do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Can we not?
SPEAKER 13 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
I remember he said something, though.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, he did say something.
SPEAKER 07 :
Didn’t he say something?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, he did. What the hell was he talking about? Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour. Oh, that’s right. He was saying that, let’s look at the run-up. Republicans are on the run. They have nothing to sell to the American people. They don’t have anything? I mean, I think they do have some things. They’ve got some items to sell. Potions master. They got some items to sell. I think what I think he meant to say Democrats. But really, if Democrats were going to go out there with what they were bringing you, do you guys want needles and feces on every straight corner? You know how it was a chicken in every pot right now? It’s a turd on every corner. That’s the new thing that Democrats are offering. You know, needles and feces, high taxes. Everybody has to drive a crappy EV, which they just look uninspiring. You know, you either got to pick child’s drawing or you got to. It looks like an airport security car. That’s what you get. One of the two. There’s no in between. And you can sit here and tell me all day like my husband does. But Dana, the engine, blah, blah, blah. It looks like a no offense to nurses. But it looks like your shoes as a car. Like the old timey ones, you know, like from the 60s. It looks like that as a car. I’m not wrong. That’s why you’re laughing, Cain, because I’m not wrong and you know it. I could never. Oh, I could never drive in one of those. I am a snob when it comes to cars. Oh, my gosh. I’m going to get to the point in a minute. But I got to tell you, I will literally take an Uber. If someone were to pull up and say, hey, let’s go. I’m in this EV. I’m going to Uber it. Thank you. Go ahead and go. Because God help me. If I can’t get in that car, that will hurt my soul. I don’t want to bruise soul. All right, so Republicans have a lot to offer. What are Democrats going to offer? You want to pay higher taxes? You want more woo-flu? Do you want, I mean, good heavens, boys on women’s sports teams and taxpayer-funded abortion on demand all the way up until the moment of birth? Good grief. They don’t have anything to offer. And just being like, but I don’t like Trump, that’s not enough. Oh my gosh, what are they going to do? What is their messaging going to be in 28 when he’s not running? They, for 10 years, it’s been, but Trump, that’s all they’ve done for 10 years. What are they going to do for messaging when he’s not the boogeyman anymore?
SPEAKER 07 :
They’ve already been doing this with MAGA. They keep saying MAGA.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, they try to turn all of MAGA into the boogeyman?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. So then they’ll turn the entire electorate eventually into some sort of enemy.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Well, yeah, we’ll see. I don’t know about that one. So speaking of the left, we were talking about this insane story, which I’ve just been fascinated with this from the beginning. The had the Obama statement where he came out and said, oh, my gosh, these documents that undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential presidential election, but they did not manipulate any vote, any votes, et cetera, et cetera. And Obama is mad because of the accusation from POTUS. That and it’s not just the accusation, it’s also the documents that were released that we all know about. I mean, we knew we’ve known about this story from the beginning. And I mean, this is not anything new. I mean, the evidence that have been released kind of it just kind of confirms what we all suspected and kind of knew in the first place that. And now there’s a criminal referral involved in it. And the implications of this referral, the idea that, you know, they were meeting to workshop a narrative within the White House and they were meeting with Barack Obama. And we this is something that we’ve known. Golly, King, we knew this from the get go. We knew this in the early days. But now it’s like official official that everybody knows it. Right. So. The and the DOJ there, what they released just basically further confirm what we all know. I don’t know if they’re going to be able to establish, you know, a criminal conspiracy charge with us. But, you know, I’m sure that there’s going to be people to test that out. But the bottom line is that is that they, you know, this memorandum is on December 9, 2016, and that Obama presided over it and that they were discussing Russian interference in the election. They were workshopping a narrative. That’s the whole story of it. They said that Remember, and this was one of the memos that Obama came out with on December 16th that he was saying that there was no evidence of machines being tampered with during the election when Democrats immediately came out of the gate saying that Russia stole the election for Trump in 2016. This was undermined by a lot of by Barack Obama, a lot of the stuff that he did himself. And I’ve always said that I feel like he was sort of the face. He was the – you have good cop, bad cop. He was the guy going out there saying, oh, well, none of this stuff is happening while he knew very well that all of this stuff was working behind the scenes. But furthermore, he verbally shut down any real involvement with Russia being able to tamper with votes. I want to go – this is a flashback audio. This was from October of 2016, and it was right after – Donald Trump had a campaign rally where he had brought up the and I mentioned this last hour, the news story about Russia, like apparent Russian hacking of the DNC servers, and they declined a forensic investigation. And then Trump just sort of, you know, he does it as rallies. He’s like, well, you know, maybe, you know, they’re trying to cheat the system and maybe they’re trying to steal the election, etc., etc., And he just kind of threw it out there. I mean, legit the day later. This is what Barack Obama had to say. Listen to this audio and remember this. We got it on lock.
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There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even you could even rig America’s elections. in part because they’re so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. And so I’d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
SPEAKER 13 :
I think there was a dual purpose of him having this position. First off, I think he was trying to stop Trump from co-opting a narrative that they were secretly workshopping. I think that they wanted to be able to weaponize that and use it against Republicans. They wanted to stop him from co-opting that narrative, number one. Number two, him having this position publicly gives him plausible deniability. for when it comes out later that he oversaw the workshop of the narrative. What the documents show. I mean, it’s, you know, it’s very Machiavellian. I mean, sort of. But it was sloppy still nonetheless because, you know, your operation, your op is only as good as the veracity or how strongly you can make the case for its veracity of the material that you have. And they just had shoddy material. So, They knew this, and remember, that dossier, as they were trying to workshop this, as they were trying to exaggerate all of this stuff without any support, because they went around and said, oh, Russia actually interfered in the election and helped Donald Trump win. Everybody, every Democrat, the day after Trump won, it was a 180 from what Obama said just then. A total 180. And then now we have that they were fabricating this and shopping. And then it came out the FISA court. Now, this is something else, too. You can say, well, maybe Barack Obama didn’t know. Barack Obama had to have known. Because remember, the IG report said that the misleading with regards to the FISA court went all the way to the top. And that’s when you had Fusion GPS that was laundering stories, laundering just this bad op from the dossier in the press. So it could look like all of these reporters were independently writing about this stuff. And wow, where there’s smoke, there must be fire, huh, FISA judge? And then they took all the laundered oppo that was coming out in the form of stories. And we know this was true because it came out after a giant FOIA fight. But a lot of the names of the reporters were redacted except for a few. And this information, they took the reports, they took it to the FISA court. They bypassed all of the safety protocols so that they could get a wiretap on someone. And it was so sloppy. It was so sloppy that the CIA had to get involved because they were trying to go after Carter Page. And they said Carter Page is the guy that proves that Russia is helping Trump because he is a Russian stooge. Remember that narrative? That’s why they wanted to spy on Carter Page. And then they were going to try to leak it to the public that, look, we got a wiretap on Carter Page because he’s a Russian stooge. It got so bad that the CIA got involved and they said, all right, morons. You need to knock it off right now because Carter Page is not a Russian stooge. In fact, Carter Page has long been an American patriot and our asset in fighting Russia. So they essentially uncloaked this guy. Now, that’s pretty sweet. He was working in the Trump camp. Think about it, though. You got a CIA agent working in the Trump camp who’s actually an operative against Russia. And the FBI was so damn partisan. They were acting so partisan. Bruce Ower, on behalf of his wife Nellie Ower, Bruce Ower, DOJ, running it to his friends at FBI, going and getting this past the FISA judge. They had to get the CIA involved. Remember when they got all upset over Valerie Plame when her identity came out? Why was there nothing about this? Because it’s all situational. It’s the folks over at Burna Gun. I always believe in caring and I always believe I have no issue using lethal force to protect myself or my family. I also understand that we live in an area, we live in a world where you have municipal and local restrictions and private property restrictions. And to say nothing of college kids that are not yet old enough to carry handguns, but yet still have to live on their own when they go to school. This is where the Burna gun comes in. The Burna gun shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away, right? And if you compare it to regular stun guns, you’ve got one or two rounds in that. You have five rounds with the Berner gun, and there’s two different versions. They have rifles as well, but I think for this purpose, you need to look at the SD and the CL. The SD is the most popular selling model. The CL, brand new, just launched, called the Compact Launcher CL. It is 38% smaller than the SD, and everything’s proudly made in the U.S. of A. Burna is legal in all 50 states. There’s no background checks. There’s no waiting periods. There’s no permits. It doesn’t care about gun-free zones. And it can be shipped right to your front door. So it’s accessible for everyone. Do not allow yourself to be completely at the mercy of the criminal element. Visit Burna.com and get your hands on the new Burna CL or the SD. B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Burna, ready when you are.
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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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Interesting that Forbes has a huge piece on autism, and they’re saying it might not be one condition, but many, and also genetic. It’s a new study published in Nature Genetics, and it looks at answers rooted in both data and biology. Super interesting. I’ll make sure that… Actually, I think this is one of the things that’s linked in your newsletter for you people who are subscribed over at Substack. So stocks. Wall Street Journal says, why are stocks up? Why are they up? Nobody really knows, they say. Apparently, a torrent of bad news hasn’t been enough to sink the market. So the media’s efforts to rain all over everybody’s parade haven’t worked. Oh, no. Let that sink in. That’s so sad. Yeah. America’s last new car under $20,000 will be discontinued in 2026. And, of course, that was everything just froze. That was the Nissan. So it’s going to be… Nissans are good cars, but that’s going to be discontinued. Really, the last new car under $20,000? Yeah. Good grief. That’s insane. The last new car. That just still seems like an ass. It’s an astronomical amount of money. It’s a vehicle, right? I mean, you could get a house for that. Like, you know, back in the 50s, maybe. I don’t know. And let’s see. 37 peacocks were reported missing from a historic California hotel. Hotel California, and of course, the folks who make the show possible, our sponsor over at Relief Factor. It’s easy to manage everyday aches and pains with Relief Factor because they have developed a non-drug, a drug-free supplement, a way to do it to help these patients. manage your aches and pains naturally. My husband has sports injuries and he works out a lot and so Relief Factor helps with inflammation and it lets him lift weights without worry. They combine powerful ingredients like the turmeric, the omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, and a lot more to target inflammation and support joint health. It’s a 100% drug-free supplement designed to support your body’s own natural healing process. You don’t have to stay stuck living with pain. You can try Relief Factor’s three-week quick start for just $19.95. It’s less than a dollar a day, and you can support a veteran-owned company and see the difference for yourself. Visit relieffactor.com. or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That’s 1-800, the numeral four in relief.
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Here’s the problem for Colbert. His contract is a payout contract through a transaction where there’s a change of control. Only a moron would tell the president to F off before he gets his check. OK, so what’s going to happen now, in my opinion, is tomorrow CBS, his boss, will fire him and they will litigate for the next five years his payout. Fire who? Stephen Colbert? Kevin O’Leary was right. I mean…
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s what ended up happening. Welcome back to the program. Bottom of the second hour. They keep… Oh my gosh. Was he even on air last night? Good question. I don’t watch. I don’t watch either. Nobody knows. Nobody has any idea because nobody watches this show. I saw they had this editorial over at The Guardian, which was just horrific. It was just so lame. It’s cringe. It said, losing Stephen Colbert in the late show is a crushing blow, whatever the reason, says a journalist that uses way too much conditioner in her hair. You know, it’s the little things. How in the world is that something to be more? Apparently, no one else thought the same. And that’s why this idea that of canceling the left is lamely trying to use this against the right by saying, well, I thought you guys didn’t like cancel culture. The right had nothing to do with this. Once more, it had to do with his show not making what it’s supposed to make in ratings and also not being able to justify the ad rates to say nothing of him being insubordinate and going off on his bosses, which nobody could do in any position. And if you disagree, try that and see how long you’re employed after. So that’s not what cancellation is. And as Kane noted, yeah, it’s the free market acting. So the left wants you to think that you have to support the stuff that they like. Otherwise, you’re canceling it. No, we have free association. We’re able to do these things. You’re not canceling someone over a 20-year-old tweet. He got fired because he wasn’t doing the job. He wasn’t doing the job. Of course, that job, that’s something the left struggles with. So maybe that’s the disconnect. You know, maybe that’s what it is. Who knows? So welcome back to the program. So let’s see here. I wanted to get into this headline. Democrats might be in trouble coming up in midterms because they have some pretty rough financial numbers. 26 midterms still. Is it kind of a little early? I don’t know. It’s going to be a fight for Republicans, but Democrats are having a problem with money. Here’s why. The RNC ended the first half of this year. This is over at CBS even. CBS even had to write about this and acknowledge it. The RNC ended the first half of 2025 with over 65 million in advantage over the DNC. Yeah, that’s how bad it is. For the first six months of 2025, the DNC took in under 69 million and the RNC’s total receipts were over 96 million. The NRCC, and that’s the National Republican Congressional Committee, they deal with Congress. NRSC deals with Senate, National Republican Senatorial Committee. The NRCC, 32 to 29 million over the DCCC, Democrats version. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen that happen, I have to say. Have you? No. I literally have never seen where Republicans have already outraised Democrats. That’s something that is unfamiliar to me. It’s pretty amazing. And each individual candidate is doing quite well, too, especially in some of these purple districts. Of course, I think they’re getting, you know, some of their cash, you know, maybe outstate or whatever. But still, this is pretty amazing that it’s this. Right. That’s pretty unbelievable. They the idea of money being a measure of popularity is true. The idea of money being a measure of who voters prefer is true. And I think voters are being pretty outspoken and who or where they’re they’re more aligned with. And that’s on top of the very, very low polling numbers of Democrats. They only have what, 19 percent approval rating right now. And that also, they’re actually low even with their base. That’s pretty damning. I don’t know. They’re not going to be able to win with the message that they have been going with over and over again. They’re not going to be able to do this. They’re not going to be able to do stuff like, I just saw another headline. I mean, depending on where, like Memorandum, for instance, is such a garbage site. But it’s a great way to measure… kind of where the where the left is thinking so they’re all focused on the trump epstein fiasco they’re really rolling and pushing through that now i think that a lot of that’s damage that trump and some of the gop did to themselves quite honestly however uh the press focusing on that instead of focusing on their own issues they they want to offset their own issues by focusing solely on these things very interesting they’re not raising any money at all None, none. So and then if they keep making these deals, that’s going to be significant. So the 15% tariff Japanese imports, it’s their investment agreement. This was after lowering the Philippines deal from 20 to 19. That was announced. Was it yesterday, right? Was it yesterday or day before? I know all the days are, yeah. So that was significant. And we’ll see if we can get some other ones in. I know that there’s still some ongoing negotiations with a number of other more important countries that are valuable to us in terms of trading partners. So these are, you know, these are all, and of course, The press wants to kind of down, they want to downplay all of it. They don’t really want to, none of these are good news. They just kind of want to gloss over it. I mean, I think that that’s a good trade deal. And I like having that alliance with Japan. That’s a very important ally for us in that region, particularly. It involves the reciprocal tariffs. So Japan’s investing $550 billion into the U.S. And we received 90% of the profits. And the tariffs are also going to add lots of new American jobs. And then Japan is going to further open their country to trade with cars and trucks, rice and other agricultural products. So very big deal. I mean, that sounds like a nice deal. I don’t have any complaints really to you. I don’t. They said he thinks it’s the largest deal that they’ve made to date so far. And that they have 15% reciprocal tariffs. That’s part of the deal. We get the 550 billion dollars and then all the other agricultural stuff, including, you know, vehicles and cars and trucks and all that stuff. So these are you know, these are good. It’s a very good deal. So this this comes because he was imposing tariffs. So he said he was going to impose tariffs on South Korea and Japan. And that was going to kick off, I think, the beginning of August. And yeah. And so I guess now we’re waiting for South Korea. We got Philippines. We got this maybe South Korea and Taiwan. We really I think it’s very important that we have a good deal with Taiwan because they’re the chip headquarters, the chip manufacturers. So these are all good deals. In the meantime, the press is like, but. But Epstein. Now, I agree. I think the Epstein thing is important because I think it showcases the two-tier system of justice. And I think Republicans and POTUS messed it up in the way that they messaged it the past couple of weeks. That being said, the press can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, which is troubling. Very troubling. Oh, and then they’re focusing on MSNBC. Trump escalates deranged anti-Obama campaign. Wait a minute. Wasn’t it an anti-Trump campaign that he was reacting to? Yep. That’s like blaming the victim for being raped. Well, how short was your skirt? He was reacting to being targeted. We’re not going to do this. This is not, this is not how we’re, we’re not doing this. This is asinine. A couple of other things to touch on. This, I had a couple of other, oh gosh, this is the one I wanted. Listen to this story. This came out of New York Post. I thought I misread this when I saw this. Heavily armed Mexican soldiers accidentally cross U.S. border and surround Americans while looking for drug traffickers and gun runners. Kind of a big deal. They had more than a dozen heavily armed Mexican soldiers. They were searching for drugs and guns and they surrounded two American volunteers scouring the desert for lost illegal immigrants on Monday. Two volunteers at the humanitarian group Battalion Search and Rescue. They aid in searching for lost illegal immigrants in the southern New Mexico desert. So they’re aiding and abetting then, correct? Sounds like it. They came across 18 confounded soldiers with the Mexican army, according to Border Report. The soldiers had no idea they’d crossed the border. Kane. Yeah. Uh…
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I think it’s kind of obvious now.
SPEAKER 13 :
What?
SPEAKER 07 :
That we have a border.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we got a border. What do you mean that they had no idea that they crossed the border? We had no idea that we crossed the border. I mean, it seems like that you would have an idea. I don’t know what part of New Mexico they crossed in. Because technically you could have some parts of that where you absolutely could. Because the Rio runs… know i mean geographically speaking but i just think if you’re in the military you know because you have you know your you you know exactly it’s something that you can easily make a determination on but they had no idea they crossed the border they had no idea so they crossed and they surrounded these two uh one of the aid workers had to whip out their phone and show them their gps tractor tracker which confirmed they were in the us Because they surrounded the two and asked what they were doing in Mexico. I don’t even know how far over into the border or into the U.S. they were. They said that if they had encountered them in Mexico, it would have been a different thing. But we were on they were on U.S. soil. That is something else. They recorded the encounter. The soldiers had, you know, the badges and all the other proper insignia on their uniforms. They had two Mexico plated vehicles. Their vehicles were littered with bullet holes. Oh, my gosh. So they you know that they said it’s not out of the ordinary. Claudia Scheinbaum had agreed to send 10,000 National Guard troops to the border to help combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking between the two countries. I just think it’s kind of wild that you just accidentally crossed that far into the interior. That’s what I find interesting. Our partners that help bring you the program, it’s the folks over at Angel Studios. We always complain about Hollywood, but how many people actually do something about it? That’s the thing. How many people, beyond canceling a Netflix subscription, actually do something about shaping what Hollywood does? A lot of people think that they don’t have the power to do that. That’s incorrect. Angel Studios is doing it, and you can join that fight. Angel Studios is putting out the content that people really want to see, stuff that celebrates American exceptionalism. And our values and doesn’t just doesn’t beat on America for like 120 minutes straight. They’re they’re creating experiences beyond just making movies. They bring families together. They’ve got so many different titles. They’ve animated offerings. They’ve got dramas, whatever you can think of. They have it. And it’s all unapologetically American as well. It’s uplifting. You’re not going to feel so depressed like you want to go jump off your roof and break your legs to nothing’s after you go and watch it. It’s actually uplifting, and it’s like, you know, feel good, like back what the movies used to be like. You can join and help them by becoming a premium member of the Angel Studios Guild. You can become a premium member. You get free tickets to every theatrical release and so much more. Just visit angel.com slash Dana and join over 1 million Americans taking back control of their entertainment. Join the Angel Guild. Help fund the future of storytelling that reflects your values. You get to help greenlight stuff. And you get those free theater tickets, ad-free streaming, and so much more. Become a premium member today at angel.com slash Dana.
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The devil wants to isolate us all. And you don’t leave them on that island of being victimized. And I really enjoyed that. I think you help people find their way to the place of grace. Jesus is a redeemer. And you are pictures of redemption. And I think that is so important.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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A Florida man was accused of stealing a necklace and then tried to get away with it by hiding in a shed. It didn’t work very well for him, if you were curious about that. According to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, a 39-year-old Florida man walked into a pawn shop, asked the clerk if he could see a necklace, then he snatched it from the clerk’s hand and ran. Took it right out of his hand. Deputies say witnesses provided with a description. They were able to find him. He ran through a backyard. Blah, blah, blah. Hit into shit. Oh, my gosh. The video is hysterical. He doesn’t run very fast and he’s a rather large man. So, I mean, they had aerial of him the whole time. And the funniest thing is he’s crouching down. He’s looking around buildings. He ain’t looking up. He didn’t look up and see what was in the sky watching him wherever he was because he’s a moron. Of course they got him because he’s an idiot. Like, can you imagine creeping around, sneaking and dodging and, you know, hiding behind, not even looking up at all? Can’t even imagine. All right, here we got another machete. Machete. Florida man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill everyone on the Epstein client list with a machete. Wait, so you’re saying that there’s unnamed government officials here? He went on a furious social media rant and he was arrested by federal employees. Terrell Bailey Corsi said he would use a machete to butcher people who were on the client list. and he was in an online battle with Grok. He literally was arguing with the AI, and they said he was making threats from his accounts. He said, quote, everyone involved, if I see them in real life, I will kill on sight with a machete so everyone can see the blood and gore of the moment. I will kill everyone on the list on sight, and they absolutely deserve it.
SPEAKER 06 :
He’s a poet.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, wait a minute. They said he threatened three unnamed government officials. So did he like name them or not? Because if he’s like speaking generally, you guys just gave us a lot of stuff away. Right. I’m just saying. If he’s just speaking generally.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t think he’s speaking generally or else they wouldn’t say three.
SPEAKER 13 :
They said that. Yeah, they said that he threatened three unnamed officials. And that’s I’m just sorry. I’ve got a lot of questions. I got a lot of questions about this. So he was arrested for it. But none of the people on the list are arrested. Just saying. Let’s see. A Florida man was arrested for setting a pillow on fire at a hotel, of course. Boynton Beach. He damaged the room. Leroy Struthers, 43. He was arrested and charged with first-degree arson, preventing or obstructing extinguishment of fire. That’s a whole thing? I’ve never heard of the extinguishment, Cain. If thou are preventing, obstructing, if thou are obstructing the extinguishment of a fire, that is a charge. Wow. And criminal mischief. Yeah, they saw the smoke coming out of one of the rooms, and he ran past a police officer, but he set a pillow on fire. They arrested him, took him into custody. I don’t even know. I can’t even read this one. I’m not going to read that one because it had to do with people getting naked on a beach. Oh. Let’s see. No, not that one. Oh, there was a Florida woman who was following tourists, pepper spraying them and then stealing their washes. Yeah, you got to be careful about being flashy with stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s not going to help tourism.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, a Florida woman fought off an alligator that dragged her underwater. Florida teen. This is pretty amazing. 15-year-old girl survived a terrifying encounter with a 10-foot gator in Pond Creek. Okay, that is a name if ever I heard one. Pond Creek. We can’t determine if it’s a creek or a pond, so we’re going to call it Pond Creek. Walton County Sheriff’s Office said the gator bit her leg and dragged her underwater, and she fought back. She was successful at it, although she had injuries, obviously. She said she had to punch it in the head as hard as she could. The alligator let go but tried to grab her again, was shaking her violently. She was able to break free, but she sustained severe injuries to her leg, but her leg did not need to be amputated. That’s pretty amazing. They said her quick thinking… was crucial to her survival. So she was punching this thing and doing everything that she could to lessen its grip. Good night. They didn’t say how it happened. I don’t know if she was in the water or what, but being alive. We’ve got a lot more on the way. Third hour coming up. Stick with us.
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Well, you know, I’m an eighth generation Texan. My family has been here since it was Mexico. I love this state deeply. I know my party wants to turn Texas blue. I know Republicans want to keep Texas red. But I honestly think the best color for this state is purple.
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Because competitive elections keeps all politicians on their toes. It forces elected officials to serve everybody, not just the most extreme elements of their party in a primary election. Unfortunately, President Trump is attempting to rig the next election here in Texas.
SPEAKER 13 :
This is the stupidest stuff I’ve ever heard. I can’t believe we have to address this. This is James Tallarico, who is a barely educated Democrat in the Republic of Texas. And he apparently doesn’t think it’s gerrymandering when they do it and do it horribly. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this third hour. And this was a court case that, I mean, this has been a fight. In Texas for quite some time. So there have been four coalition districts that were identified by the Department of Justice as unconstitutional because of the way that they were racially gerrymandered. And this is a DOJ. They sent this letter. Civil Rights Division sent this letter to Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton. and all this stuff they you have like galveston county and several others there’s been a lot of weirdness going on in texas elections for a long time um true the vote which was established here has been fighting this for over a decade um texas has 25 of republicans hold 25 of texas’s 38 house u.s seats congressional seats democrats only have 12. so they’re trying to change that one seat is currently vacant and they’re trying to target that one also for And these lines are drawn like every decade, every 10 years they redraw these lines. They can do it at other times, too. But we’re going into a special session and this is going to be one of the things that they’re discussing in a special session. And Trump isn’t the only person to talk about this. In fact, these districts that the DOJ defined as being these unconstitutional coalition districts, it’s Texas’s ninth. That’s Harrison, Fort Bend counties. Democrat Al Green holds that. They’re all Democrat seats. You have Dallas and Tarrant counties. I’m in Tarrant. That’s held by a Democrat. Harris County, held by a Democrat. That’s 29th District. 18th District, that’s Harris County, also vacant, previously held by Democrats. So I’m Tarrant, but Texas 33 is not my district. I have a Republican congressperson, but they have part of that district is a Democrat congressperson. And when you’ve got coalitions, you always get Democrats and all those things. So They Democrats did this. They absolutely butchered this in the beginning. And now we’ve had these congressional redistricting. Now they’re trying to correct it. It’s added to the special session. I think they were going to do it anyway without getting the DOJ to send a letter. They’re saying that these are outdated race based considerations that gerrymandered these districts. And they did. And so this is a court ruling. This is from 2024. It’s Petaway versus Galveston County. And for people getting mad over Trump about this, I mean, again, this isn’t a Trump thing. This is something that was established in the courts. And I mean, you could get. You know, you could get a significant pick up a significant number of seats for Republicans. And that’s why Democrats are so angry about it. So you have this guy here. What is this? Where is this? He’s trying to act big and bad. Where is this? This is audio soundbite audio. No, this is a slot gun on this. So this is Louis Slotkin audio somebody 13 trying to go big and bad. If they’re going to go nuclear in Texas. Oh, I’m going to go nuclear. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I mean, look, I think it’s pretty rare. I don’t know if it’s unprecedented what they’re trying to do in Texas. They’re trying to pick their voters, right? They’re trying to redraw the lines in the middle of a decade so that they have more seats, right? It is very open and obvious. In Michigan, we felt so strongly about gerrymandering and how bad it is when politicians get to draw their own districts that we passed a constitutional amendment, wildly bipartisan, right? My swing state, we voted on that four years ago, And it was or maybe six years ago now. And it was deeply popular. And now we have a citizens commission that meets every decade and draws the lines. And it’s much more rational. It’s also competitive. Right. Make sure you have politicians who compete. But I will tell you this. If they’re going to go nuclear in Texas, I’m going to go nuclear in other places.
SPEAKER 13 :
You’re in Michigan. Why don’t you stay in your lane? Make a sandwich. Good grief. I mean, if I wanted to know what some barely literate Democrat from Michigan thought, I would go and ask her. But shockingly, I didn’t. And I don’t think anybody else did either. That’s the last thing we need is some of these Northeastern people to start coming down here and trying to tell people what’s up in a state that they clearly have no idea what happened. And the gerrymandering was what was done. The un-gerrymandering is what is being considered now in this special session. And they’re mad. Democrats are simply mad. They’re just mad about it. But this is, you know, they had a long time coming for this. Notice how quiet they were when they were just like absolutely playing a game of Twister essentially to redistrict the way that it has been for the past decade. And by the way, redistricting usually happens anyway every decade. So that’s what you have to do to accurately reflect the population. So they’re… You’re trying to deny this process. This is the process that we’ve always had in this republic. Why are you trying to deny it now? Oh, because you would lose seats. Maybe if you guys, I don’t know, were better lawmakers, maybe if you guys actually had better policies, you wouldn’t feel the need to run your mouths like this. Maybe you would already have people who were voting Democrat and you wouldn’t even have to worry about gerrymandering because your support would be so strong. But but as it is, they had to butcher some of these districts into ridiculous and ridiculous ways in order to keep Democrats in them. It’s the dumbest thing ever. And now you got all these people. I saw somebody. Who was it? I saw an elected Democrat official. It was in Texas. Lawmaker retweeting some like Australian commenter or commentator. Somebody who’s like, I guess, a pundit in Australia about Texas. If I wanted to know what some socialists from Australia say. If I wanted their opinion, I’d ask for it, but I don’t. Again, neither do you. So they’re mad. They’re upset. So Gavin Newsom’s like, well, two can play at this game. So now they said that they’re going to try to redistrict in California. I don’t to get smaller seats because that’s exactly what you’re going to have to do. Genius. Golly, these people don’t think, do they? Go ahead. Go right ahead. You go ahead and you whittle your seats down because you lost so many damn people because your horrible policies. Go ahead. Y’all go. I don’t let them do it. Let them do it. And California, though, the difference is that they actually have an independent commission in California that determines their districting. And they are not allowed to have any kind of partisan influences on their work. So it’s actually a lot more difficult to do in California than it would be in another state. But yeah, if they’re going to redistrict, they’re going to end up losing seats for that. So all the people that are running their mouths about this, it was racially gerrymandered in the beginning. And you had a lot of weak Republicans in Austin that never wanted to do anything about it. Well, now it’s OK. You ought to see some of the ways that these districts are done. It is asinine. It is really silly when you look at the way they’re drawn. Doesn’t even make any sense. It doesn’t make any sense at all. So this is just simply correcting it. And also, you know, you’ve got a lot of conservatives that have been moving in, too. So, you know, and Democrats cannot stop any of this. There’s nothing they can do. They can sit here and run their mouths about we’re going to go nuclear. Right. I mean, I don’t think that you guys can do anything more than what you have been doing for the past several years, burning and looting neighborhoods. you know, attacking ICE agents. I think Democrats have a lot of problems on their hands right now they have their you know, their preferred demographic literally targeting ICE agents and trying to kill them and throwing stuff at them and shooting at them and all this other stuff. So you know, maybe they should be focused on keeping those of their of their, their base in check. Just seems like instead of complaining about redistricting that happens every decade anyway needs to be done in this particular case. So but like I said, there’s nothing that they can do. There’s nothing they’re going to be able to do to stop any of this. This is the way it is, because it’s going to happen. And it should happen. You know, that’s, you know, all that’s all it is. So a couple of other things. I was looking at this piece from James Rosen. who’s a friend of mine. You guys might remember James Rosen. He was one of the guys who was targeted by the DOJ under Obama-Biden because he had written, as he always does, a story about some well-known missile launch that they were testing in North Korea. And somehow, because he had been critical of the Obama administration before, they decided to actually spy on him. And they wiretapped his parents and all this stuff. This was part of that story where Obama, Biden, they were surveilling reporters, including reporters from the Associated Press, people like James Rosen and many more. It’s pretty, pretty wild. But this story that he came that he found, this was from an intelligence report that was declassified, came out of DNI. And it had information that because, look, every country is going to have an oppo file on every big leader in every other country, even your allies. That’s smart to do. That is the way of it. That’s just how this world works. People who don’t like it are not fit for that job. But they had apparently information that the Kremlin had and they were waiting on in the event that Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. I don’t doubt that they had like business stuff on Trump or something like that. But the stuff that they had on Hillary Clinton, it makes all the more sense in the world. Listen to this. So it said that they actually had. Remember the DNC server that was hacked? They actually had communications that Clinton was suffering from. And I’m quoting this. She intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness. She was placed on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers, and while afraid of losing, she remained obsessed with a thirst for power. Hmm.
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Hmm.
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Now, I wouldn’t doubt some of this was published on WikiLeaks, too, because there were a lot of stuff that were published. Remember a lot of the stuff that was published on WikiLeaks? That’s how you got the emails from Sid Blumenthal that were criticizing Chelsea Clinton. And remember, that was like a big story at the time. They’re like, oh, my gosh, it’s so mean. So interesting. Interesting.
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SPEAKER 07 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 13 :
So apparently rent prices are falling fast in America’s most pro-housing cities. What the hell’s a pro-housing city? What does that mean? Like, are there cities that don’t want you to live in a house? They want you to live in a, like in a forest?
SPEAKER 07 :
Those are anti-housing cities.
SPEAKER 13 :
I don’t know. They said that rent prices are falling some by almost 45 percent. And that includes the top 65 metro areas in the U.S. Oh, pro-housing policies. What does that mean? What does it mean? You’re not going to have you would think that a pro-housing policy means that you’re going to abolish your property tax. Yeah. And if you haven’t done that, don’t call yourself pro-housing. It’s stupid. It’s a dumb word. If you have property tax, which is absolute unconstitutional theft… and it’s communist, then you’re not pro housing. Sorry. By the way, any Democrat that doesn’t or any Republican that doesn’t exuberantly back removing property taxes has a Marxist tendency. So that’s going to be like one of my defining questions. And then the second one going forward is what are you going to do about it? tired of people like just paying lip service and then doing nothing dillards is moving from oh they’re moving away they’re moving to texas they’re moving from delaware to texas citing legal concerns i didn’t even know that dillards was based in delaware uh rings flying spy flying spy drone monitors your home in the air coming soon and it can even recharge itself and stalk burglars i’m I’m all about embracing drone warfare. I would love to be a drone operator. Oh, my gosh. Like recruit me. I will sit there. I will just drink Mountain Dew Livewire and I’ll have me some.
SPEAKER 07 :
You’re talking about the ones with weapons, though, right? Those are the ones you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, yes. But, you know, also just like for starters, surveillance drones. I have such a steady hand. I could get right in there by you and just like right by your head and just fly as you’re walking to commit a crime. Just right by you. This one, though, it can stalk burglars. It even recharges itself. It’s pretty awesome. Would you get a drone? The thing is, everybody’s going to have these and they’re going to be annoying.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s the step up from like your home security camera. This one actually hovers over your house and it’s like perimeter.
SPEAKER 13 :
But what if you’re in a subdivision? See, this is where I’m like, no, I’m not forever been having a drone. I’m only for me having them. Not lying.
SPEAKER 07 :
That doesn’t seem fair.
SPEAKER 13 :
I don’t care. It’s just about me. See, this is why I’m like, I can could never run for a like an office because, you know, I’ve got I’ll be a tyrant. I’m not kidding you. Just I’m I say that somewhat jokingly. But no, think about it, though. Is it going to be annoying if you have a subdivision? And a lot of these houses have like zero lot lines and everybody’s got a drone. You know what I’m saying? Like, it makes sense if you’re rural and you live out in the country and you need to go and patrol that gravel road that, you know, that makes some sense. You know what I’m saying? I get that. But, yeah, they’re going to have a flying security cam. I’m going to get one. I’m totally going to get it. And although we have cameras all over our property now and we can talk through all of them and they have night vision, I can see your cigarette label on your car in one in the morning. from my oh yeah my cameras are crazy every now and then just a mess of people i talk on it or i’ll if it’s at night and people are walking i literally will make ghost sounds on it i will literally do this it’s not see again not the best hershey’s let’s get to the more important stuff uh hershey’s is uh increasing candy prices because they they’re saying that coco costs are increasing didn’t we have something about that though cocoa beans because something was happening with like the the yield or the harvest or something and those prices we’re gonna i’ll pay it i don’t care because it’s chocolate i will totally pay it don’t even not even gonna not even gonna argue it not even gonna argue it we got more on the way including domestic we got the latest with some of the dni stuff stick with us
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I understand the personal pain that Hunter Biden is experiencing on all sorts of fronts, but I don’t think it’s constructive right now to engage in this backward looking finger pointing when our Constitution, our democracy is under threat while Donald Trump’s policies are raising prices on American families when they just passed a bill to provide tax breaks to billionaires while cutting funds for people’s health care. That’s what I’m really focused on, getting that story out loudly and clearly.
SPEAKER 02 :
Senator Chris Van Hollen, thank you.
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And the reporter, I don’t know enough about this to ask a question. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen. Frozen face. Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you. It’s not looking back. By the way, the subscriber of the newsletter, a lot of the stuff goes out on the daily. The chat’s over at Rumble, Channel 347, DirecTV, the stream. This is not looking backwards. I mean, it’s the smart thing to do. And also, you’ve got to deal with it. That’s your Frankenstein’s monster. Y’all ran defense for him, remember? How dare you say that that baby is not helping you, that precious baby? Infant, mid-50-year-old infant baby Hunter, right? You guys were protecting the president’s child, his child. Never forget the way that they reported on this. And then people who didn’t know no better were like, is he like seven? What is it? You know what stood out to me too when watching one of his interviews? When Gavin Newsom cusses, it comes off as funny. Rigid and fake. I mean, I know I think he does, but he’s trying to look hard and like he doesn’t care. And it just looked contrived. If you want to see somebody who’s really in their element with cussing like a sailor, that’s Hunter Biden. Right. He’s he was at least he’s authentic with that. It just strikes me as so funny because every other word out of his mouth, Steve was like, I can’t I’m just drowning in F-bombs right now. You’re going to edit all that stuff. But he’s – I mean, they’ve all been pretending to act hard and they cuss and all this stuff. And here you have Hunter Biden who’s like, eh, blank this, blank that, blank this. No, you guys got to deal with him now. He’s your problem to deal with. I hope he is a thorn in their side. It’s too funny. He just doesn’t care. He doesn’t care. So that’s something that they’re going to have to deal with. I – I do think and I mentioned this earlier that I a lot of this comes down to them trying to keep some kind of influence after. Because they they’re usually what are you going to do at that point you got to be a kingmaker right he’s it’s not he’s not like really holding he’s not leading the party he’s not even visible out there we’re in a populist era and populism relies on being able to see. You know, a lot of these a lot of these elected officials. So I don’t know, you know, remains to be seen. So DNI is there. They’re they made it official. They’ve referred that for a criminal investigation. We’ll see what happens there. But, you know, we talked about that pretty exhaustively earlier in the program. And we’ll see. Although I I don’t know how quickly they’re going to be able to get over a lot of this stuff. One of the things that Lorraine brings up is that Bondi is going to have to overcome the presidential immunity hurdle that SCOTUS put up for some of POTUS’s cases. So we’ll see how that all we’ll see how that all goes down. But it’s do you think anything’s going to come of it? I mean, we’ve been told that nothing’s going to come from this. You know, we’ve been told this. So I… I don’t know if anything’s going to come of it at all. We talked to Andrew McCarthy about some of this, and as much as he thought that they were all guilty and that they had all acted with great impropriety, there’s just certain things that are not actionable for a number of different reasons. I don’t know. The other thing I noticed, too, is that – where is this? I think we have this audio. I was looking at Speaker Johnson earlier. Because Speaker Johnson was asked about some of the Epstein stuff. Right. Don’t we have this? I thought, yes. Audio soundbite. No, that was that was this is Jeffrey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you play this for me? Because he was asked. Thank you. Thirty thousand. That’s right. He’s he was asked whether or not Republicans are avoiding releasing these files. This is what he said.
SPEAKER 08 :
You may have seen a false headline in The New York Times and the headline was terribly misleading. It said House Republicans are, quote, adjourning until September to avoid a vote on releasing Epstein materials. I just want you to know and everybody here knows that’s an outright lie. It’s not true. And they were forced to modify their headline and update it today.
SPEAKER 13 :
The reason he was also asked about this and he had said that, well, the Epstein files may have been doctored by the Biden Justice Department. I think this is kind of a stupid line that he has. Who was in office before Biden? OK, that’s my point. Why would if you’re Johnson, would you open that up and say something like that? Who had the files? If Biden had them, somebody had. I mean, they’ve been there the entire. Do you know what I’m saying? Why just stick to? Yes, we’re going to get we’re going to work to get these unsealed. You know, the grand jury doc, we’re going to work to get this unsealed and we’re going to release as much as possible, barring the inclusion of anybody who any victim that is currently embroiled in an ongoing investigation or minors. That’s all they have to say. Why is that so difficult? Why is that so difficult to say? But don’t you think so? I when he was saying that, well, it may have been doctored by the Biden Justice Department. Well, why weren’t they released them before? Right. Why didn’t we have a lot of this information released even prior to that? I don’t know. Am I just being sensitive to him being sloppy and opening himself up to that line of attack, Cain?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know. I don’t think the claim of having the files during Trump’s first term ever was really made until later into the term.
SPEAKER 13 :
So I don’t know about… Well, they had to catalog everything for trial during his first term.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think during the four years… The Trump administration was expecting to win that second term in 2020 and didn’t and expecting to carry that work through. Unfortunately, the Biden administration didn’t carry that work through. As a matter of fact, they worked to keep it from being on. So now he’s just continuing the work he was unfortunately unable to finish and follow through on in his first term. And that’s the way I’m looking at it.
SPEAKER 13 :
If Johnson’s going to put something like that out, boy, oh, boy, you better not mess with something like that. People are tired of being strung along. That’s my whole they’re so tired of being strung along. So you better not be careless and throwing out something like that. Because you’re there’s going to be a revolt if people see if you keep, you know, giving people this kind of stuff. And then you don’t follow through with it. They’re going to be mad like this referral right now to the DOJ. If nothing comes out of this and something ought to, by the way, because here’s the other point that I didn’t make in the last couple last two hours. The stuff with the collusion and the abuse of the intelligence agencies and the collusion with the FISA court and being able to get a wiretap on someone, the Carter Page story, that we all know that there’s at least some kind of level of criminality in this. They worked so hard to hide it. But what’s more, everyone forgets that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC had to pay a pretty hefty fine because they violated federal election campaign law. They violated FEC law because they were laundering all of this stuff through Fusion GPS and they weren’t being honest about the purpose of working with Fusion GPS. They lied about it or didn’t even disclose it outright in their documentation that you are required to file Because that is what federal McCain Feingold, I think, was one of the worst pieces, one of the worst bills ever. It’s an assault on free speech. I believe that money speech and that you shouldn’t have these restrictions. But this is what Democrats did. Democrats literally ran afoul of their own FEC push, their own federal election campaign laws that they wanted. And they had to pay a pretty hefty fine for that because they were not honest about the working relationship. They thought they could work through Perkins Coie, that law firm, and that could be their agent. And they would have that one degree between them and that would protect them. And it didn’t. And so they got into a lot of trouble for not disclosing that. Further, there were a lot of questions as to why in the world Fusion GPS was doing all of this. I mean, it’s You know, they were working with these oligarchs and advocating on their behalf. But, I mean, this is a – it’s a research and intel firm. They do opposition research. That’s literally all Fusion GPS does is oppo research. And so it would have looked bad if – They didn’t have Perkins Coie as the degree. It would have looked even more obvious if they had not hired Perkins Coie to then engage Fusion GPS. Because if you’re just have that on your, you know, your disclosures when you file every quarter. Oh, here they hired a strategic oppo firm. That’s literally all they do. That would have looked really bad. So they had to have that interim there. And they got they got deemed for that. So we already know that there’s at least that there’s that level of wrongdoing to say nothing of the FISA judge that left her seat because they did not follow proper protocol. which would have prevented any of those surveillance warrants going out on Carter Page or anyone else to begin with, because it was all based, all of it. And this is what the IG report found. The entirety of the claim for those surveillance warrants was, again, entirely predicated upon the oppo that was in the dossier that was being laundered in the press. They couldn’t just take a Russian dossier to a FISA judge. So they peddled it and they threw it out like scrap to these were these thirsty attention seeking self glorifying reporters. And they wrote all their stories. And then they gathered up all the stories like there they were harvesting wheat. And then they took it to fit to the FISA court and said, Look at this. Look at all this reporting where there’s smoke, there’s fire, we probably should get a surveillance warrant, right? And because they had a three judge panel and they relied heavily on the one judge, they were able to bypass all the security protocols that were in place to protect and prevent what happened from what happened happening. So, yes, there’s a level of criminality there. There has to be accountability because how can you trust anyone in a position of power to not do that again? And to back to my original point that I made in my first hour, this is what galls me about the left. They hate Trump so much. that they don’t care that they are destroying key aspects of this republic, key structures, key infrastructure of this republic just to take him out politically. They are willing to sacrifice the Republic’s infrastructure that ensures freedom and fairness under and before the law when broken. They’re willing to destroy that just to go after this guy. They can’t even admit that it’s sketchy, such as their tribalism. That is a major, major problem. That’s why I reject insane levels of tribalism. Because your republic needs you to be honest. Democrats can’t do that. They love the ideology more than they love the republic. Because anybody with pure patriotism, anybody who’s truly a patriot would have been, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I’m sorry, you did what? You got a surveillance warrant based on laundered opposition research that was so discredited. The FBI wanted nothing to do with it. And it comes from this loser who is already considered a suspicious figure in British intel circles. I mean, the guy was working with the Kremlin for crying out loud. I mean, how much how sketchy can you get? All the while, they were literally working with a firm that was working for Russian oligarchs. They were working with a Russian agent and they were working with a disgraced British spy that had relationship with the Kremlin. They had the audacity to accuse everybody else of Russian interference. That’s the Russian interference. The Russian interference was fusion GPS and this whole nonsense to begin with. That’s it. So, yes, when you shake the very faith in the foundations of this republic to the extent that they did with this stunt, heads absolutely must roll. This isn’t anything that you can walk away from.
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SPEAKER 13 :
Wow, hardest hit is the flower sprinkles. I just saw People Magazine said that that ginger, the winning ginger in his D-list suitcase, girl, wife, whatever, the Duke and Duchess, They are not going to have their $100 million contract with Netflix renewed. I don’t even think it was $100 million to begin with. I think that included production and everything else. I don’t think they got a $100 million payout. But apparently it was reported that the deal was not going to be renewed. and because what did they get for it they got i think that harry that britain’s prince harry he did a ridiculously stupid contrived polo documentary that was boring as all get out uh was completely uninspired and unentertaining and then they got her the megan’s fake cooking show and you can tell that this chick does not know her way around a kitchen she does not know how to cook and And I’m just going to say she put up some glazed bunt holes. They’re little bunt cakes. And she put the flour sprinkles on them. And it just looks messy and stupid because the glazing is so dark. And also, they’re probably overcooked and dried. I mean, she has no acumen for this stuff at all. And I watched her try to grate a lemon. And I swear she was going to skin her hand. She had no idea how to hold any of the tools, nothing. So no wonder this deal was canceled because they are fake as all get out. So maybe she’s going to have to go back to, I don’t know, like her being an Instagram influencer. Just think they could have had it all if only they hadn’t been super jealous of his brother and his wife and they had played nice with everyone else. But grifter is going to grift. Today in Stupidity, Ken.
SPEAKER 07 :
I said bunt. Bunt.
SPEAKER 13 :
I said bunt. They’re bunt holes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, got it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I said it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Juan, cut 21 here. This is Jeff Daniels. This is what happens when Hollywood likes to dip into the old politics. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 21 :
I still think about Kamala. Good God. Why?
SPEAKER 13 :
Of course you do.
SPEAKER 21 :
And how I think she would have been a good choice. I don’t care what they say.
SPEAKER 13 :
Why is that?
SPEAKER 21 :
Because she would have done what Lincoln did.
SPEAKER 07 :
What’s wrong with him?
SPEAKER 21 :
Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State.
SPEAKER 07 :
You would have done what Lincoln did? Team of Rivals.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, team of rivals. Doris Kearns is a good one. Wrote the book about it. That’s what Lincoln did. Surrounded.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wait, wait, wait. Show me real quick. Show me. This is what he’s doing. He’s doing like this. He’s going like this. I still think of Kamala. It’s like he has an invisible puppet. I still think about Kamala and to her. That does it for us today. Find us at Substack, YouTube, Facebook. Like and subscribe. Have a good night. Back with you tomorrow.
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