The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - 2020 Georgia Case DROPPED, Dems' Fight Club Schumer & Sen. Mark Kelly's 2028 Play

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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A lot of breaking news, even though it's Wednesday and it's the holiday rush. So I'll get ready for Thanksgiving. And, of course, everybody is urging politeness. Please be polite when you're flying or when you're traveling. Please be polite. All right. That's the message. Dress, you know, don't dress like a schlub. Put on some decent clothes and nobody needs to see in your pajamas and then don't fight and try not to get drunk on a plane.

It's not that complicated and be nice to people, especially the people working there because they're working and, you know, you're not. So I think it's a pretty simple message. It's a shame we have to give that message. But, I mean, part of the problem is that the airline, the traveling experience is not really. much fun anymore between the TSA and the and the fondling and the groping and then the seats that are so tiny and narrow and they don't give you any snacks and a lot of people are hangary and you can't bring your water through security. So, you know, by the time you get on the plane, you're a little bit, you know, you're a little bit cranky. People have been known to even call

people names like Piggy, for example. So I'm just saying, be nice and there you go. That's how we'll do it. But this is a big deal right out of Georgia to start the show here on the Dana show on this Wednesday. The state of Georgia moving to drop all remaining charges in the 2020 election interference case against the president and his co-defendants, quote, the political persecution of President Trump by disqualified district attorney Fawney Willis is finally over. This case should never have been brought. A fair and impartial prosecutor has put an end to this lawfare.

That statement by Trump's lead Georgia defense counsel. see steve saddow this entire case from the initiation of the district attorney's investigation in 2021 to the present is without precedent noted peter j scandalicus who took over the case after fulton county district attorney fauny willis was disqualified from handling it and of course you remember we all remember she was disqualified because uh her gumata came on the case and She was paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he was not qualified to try that case, or really any case outside of a traffic court, for that matter. Never before and hopefully never again will our country face circumstances such as these. It was political weaponization of the highest degree.

It was the political weaponization of the justice system, and we know that she was cooperating with Merrick Garland. We know that they were in cahoots together at the time. He turned general in the United States. they wanted to get Trump on anything. It was a ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous case. It really stemmed from the time that he talked to the governor of Georgia and said, I only need like 12, 13,000 votes. He wasn't saying go, go print him in the back room, go, go make them up, go stuff a ballot box somewhere.

He just said, I only need that much. Can we keep, you know, looking or make sure we have them? I mean, he was just kind of rattling something off. Like, I'm only down 12,000 votes here. but at no point was there any sense of oh please go and do something illegal on my behalf to make up that gap never so there never should have been a case brought and then of course when she brought on her boyfriend and then the whole thing with the boyfriend and it was the marriage and he was lying and then where he was living and all that came out with it too and it was just an abomination the entire thing she ran on a platform much like letitia james in new york state of going after Donald Trump. It was politicized warfare, was, I will, I will get elected, and then I will go after this guy. Forget all the other things.

Forget all the other criminals, forget actual criminals, I should say, people that have actually committed, you know, crimes. I'm going to go after this man so that we can stop him. And the thing about it, as I know that it was, it was for President Trump's perspective, as I imagine for anybody who has to go through this, it's got to be hell. but it helped get him the nomination and it helped him win it really did i think the great miscalculation of the democrats in 2020 leading up to from 2020 to 24 was if we indict donald trump if we get him behind bars in some way shape or form then what's going to happen is the party will rally around him

he's the easiest one to beat and then we'll win and even though joe biden was already showing very clear signs of dementia at that point. They figured it'll be layup. Beat him once before. We'll beat him again. We just got to make sure he gets the nomination. If you remember at this point in time, Governor DeSantis had a lot of momentum. Obviously, there was a sense within the Republican Party that maybe they should move away from President Trump. I read Selina Zito's book, Butler, which if you get a chance to read, maybe over Thanksgiving break as you're getting on an airplane to go, be nice to people. That's what we're all going to be nice. As my mother would say, be nice, baby. She talks about this.

Many in the party had moved away from Donald Trump. His poll numbers were low. DeSantis was on the scene and he was gaining a lot of momentum. I mean, he had his botched rollout on Twitter spaces. I think they were still calling it Twitter spaces at the time. They might have called it exit, but Elon had owned it and that was kind of a disaster. Then the East Palestine, Ohio, trained arraignment happens. Biden doesn't show up.

Trump does. and he goes there and he starts handing out bottles of water to people, looking presidential, looking like he's on the scene. And Selena Zito writes in her book, Butler, that that was really the moment where things started to change. And Trump started to gain momentum again that he hadn't had before. And then, of course, the rest is history. But from looking at this kind of dispassionately at the time,

as I do the afternoon drive show on Talk Radio 1210W PhD in Philly. So I'm covering this every day in the must-win state of Pennsylvania. And I kept thinking, the mistake they're making here is that they're banking on a strong economy in 2024. And I don't think we're going to have one because inflation is what we're being told at the time, if you remember, inflation was transitory. So it was just, it was here and it was going to be gone. And it was just a transitory thing. No big whoop, nothing to worry about. And I just, I looked at the spending.

I looked at the spending in that ridiculous, I hate to say the words, inflation. reduction act because it obviously only caused more inflation, but it was it was a deal for people that make solar panels and windmills. That's what it was. That's what it was. It was a handout to them. It was a green energy scam. I saw the spending, the COVID spending under Biden. And then, of course, the attempts by the Biden administration to ensure that we could not produce any energy anymore, you know, fighting to stop people from getting oil drilling leases, which they have every right into the law to do. And just every bad decision that I saw was just driving up.

And you saw, too, we lived it, driving up inflation, driving up the cost of living, driving up the cost of goods, driving up the cost of energy. And I said, the Democrats here are playing with fire, man. Because if they're so sure that Trump, if he's the nominee, loses, I think they're making a big mistake. Because the issue in this race is going to come down to the economy again. It's not going to come down to Trump. But I think the problem is in life, whenever you're obsessed with something in an unhealthy way, you don't you don't really look at things objectively anymore and their their hatred of him and their desire to stop him and their belief that everybody felt the way that they felt so because they hate him that means everybody else hates him it's like your drunk uncle this coming Thanksgiving who might hate him or your drunk aunt or mother-in-law why would I give you that example I'm just throwing it out there but the idea that well if they hate him so then everybody must hate him so all we got to do is just on the Republican nomination, and then he goes down in flames.

That was ultimately what drove Fawney Willis and Letitia James, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith. Pushed by the DNC, pushed by the Biden and Obama machine. Get this guy. Prosecute this guy. Doesn't matter on what. The what is irrelevant. The party will rally around him, and then he'll be the nominee, and then he'll lose. It was obviously a strategic cluster error of the.

the biggest order, like the mother of all cluster errors, but they couldn't see. They couldn't be objective about it. You know, and they're doing a lot of the same things now. I mean, there's a lot of the same mistakes they're making, again, this pattern of believing that everybody just hates Donald Trump personally, and they can't look at policy because of how they feel about him personally. And what 2024 showed is that's just simply not the case. There are people that they may not love the guy. They may not like what he says on truth. social for example they may not like a lot of things but they'll vote for him because they like his policies and then we have the russia ukraine peace deal announced ukraine agreeing the proposal

with only minor details to settle that's a big deal a lot of people myself included i like the idea of ending wars i like the idea of not starting new wars i like the idea of this president being a peace president and the trump doctrine being peace or economic strength basically translating like this you get rich we get rich everybody gets rich so stop killing each other and the only people who won't benefit from that are the people that have been getting rich over you killing each other which is the military industrial complexes in your various countries and ours and but otherwise we can all make money it's a very novel concept i know so stop being fanatical lunatics and just play nice in the sandbox and we can all make a little cashish a little cheddar cheese and it's working it's working

And it's a big deal that we now have this place where you've, you had special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, helping Russia now essentially present the peace plan to Ukraine and then presenting that to President Trump. It's a very big deal. We'll talk about that throughout the show today. But the mistake that the Democrats are making, and you see this with the seditious six, as they're known, these Democrats who put out that video saying defy an illegal order. this was a completely unnecessary video there was no reason for it nobody suggesting that any illegal orders are being given i personally think the timing of this coming out with the movie nuremberg and there's some audio clips today of some some of the real gems in the lunatic bin actually bringing up nuremberg it's almost like they're getting paid by the movie studio

to just give free publicity for this movie which i i've heard is good i don't know i mean i'll probably wind up seeing it at some point when it's not in theater anymore, but it's hard. I have kids. It's hard for me to go see a World War II Holocaust drama. It's tough to find with a job and kids. I'm just saying, and probably wait until it comes home on video, but or video, right, like when you can stream it. But the timing of this, and it shows you that with their nonsense about defying these hypothetical legal orders that are not being given, and then the backlash to this, bipartisan backlash against them. They don't see that their hatred of Trump is causing them to make really bad decisions.

And it's also causing them to align themselves with people like Zora and Mamdani in New York and other people who cannot get elected nationwide outside of New York City and blue places like that. So the good news is the case against Trump in Georgia is over. Excellent news. The bad news for Democrats, it helped elect Donald Trump president. The bad news for all of us is that we watch people who. so recklessly weaponized the legal system for political purposes. And that is something that is going to haunt this country for a very, very long time. It's the Dana Show. It's me. Rich is the only in for Dana on this travel Wednesday. Don't go away.

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Great to be with you this afternoon. I'll tell you, in Georgia, this is the big breaking news. It happened just before it came on the air today. The election interference case against the president dropped against the president, and more than a dozen of his allies and supporters, happened today. After the new prosecutor moved for all charges to be dropped, saying pursuing the matter would be unproductive. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee threw out the case less than an hour.

after Peter Scandalakis, who appointed himself as prosecutor, after he failed to find anyone else willing to take the job, this was after Fawney Willis was ousted. Remember, under Georgia law, there's this thing where if the prosecutor is removed from a case, then it basically, it kind of goes up for grabs in terms of who wants it, but nobody wanted it. Nobody wanted, because it was a bad case. Prosecutors tend to like to take cases that they can win. I mean, I'm not an attorney, but I've seen enough legal TV shows and movies to know that that's the case.

I don't want to take a losing case. This was a bad case. It was never any evidence. President Trump had any men's array to have the Georgia governor, anyone else for that matter, break any laws. It was really based on just this notion of, let's just create this. And then, of course, the infamous mugshot, which happened in Georgia, which for the president, you know, smartly used to his benefit with merch, pictures, still using. it hangs in the white house i mean he's no fool he knows that that helped get him elected it helped rally the base around him nobody wanted to take the job so after phony willis was was out

there's nobody left so then this guy the the peter scandaloccus appointed himself as prosecutor and he had to we failed to find anyone else who could take the case and that was when that happened too i remember that too because i thought to myself oh man this is this is this is definitely going to be over this happened back uh let's see if it's exactly when this happened this was um not that long ago but i think was maybe a couple a couple weeks ago maybe last week and the last week it was i mean it was recent the georgia prosecutor forced to take over the state's 2020 election interference case against president trump and more than a dozen of his allies after no other advocate was willing to sign on in the wake of fawny willis getting booted over the affair scandal

prosecuting attorneys council of Georgia executive director Peter Scandalis Scandalicus, excuse me, announced that he would appoint himself saying several prosecutors who were contacted and while all were respectful and professional, each declined the appointment and was his job to find somebody to take the case. So they got a lot of thanks, but no thanks. Hey, appreciate the call, but I am slammed. My golf game is super busy right now and I don't want this stink. of a losing case so then he took it on himself so now that it's officially over

because after he took it on and essentially now came out and said this case is is is done now George is dropping all the charges too so that's that's the end of this once and for all and thank God it's just it's a shame it ever happened it really is it's a shame it ever happened it's a shame we ever had to go down this road it's a shame that we ever had to deal the situation like this but funny willis destroyed herself destroyed her political career destroyed any chance of a political future and she and her her boyfriend became absolute fools and household names for all the wrong reasons all the wrong reasons so the judge just issued this decision a short time ago quote the case is hereby dismissed in

its entirety so that just happened within the last several moments actually i think it literally might have happened while we were on our first break Georgia drops the 2020 election case against Trump. And that's it. That's it. That's all she wrote over in its entirety. Scandaloccus is the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia. Acknowledge in his 23-page filing that the case is on life support.

An decision on what to do with it falls on me and me alone before concluding that the appropriate authority to bring charges was former special counsel Jack Smith. I don't like saying special counsel. that man was never appropriately appointed according to the United States Constitution which is ultimately what the judge in Florida would wind up ruling and saying that Jack Smith was not a special prosecutor

therefore any of his indictments or anything else with the case had to go and then of course President Trump won the election and all became a move point anyway but that was the correct ruling by the judge in Florida I'll get back to that but focusing on this for a moment Jack Smith dropped his federal version of the Georgia indictment following the president's victory, citing longstanding Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.

And also, too, after it was basically ruled that he was not really a special counsel. Quote, and I'm going to use the title here for the purposes of reading the quote from the guy in Georgia who's, you know, now the case is over. If special counsel Jack Smith, with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal, after reviewing the evidence in this case and considering the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States, along with years of litigation, and concluding as such a case would inevitably entail that it would be fruitless, then I too find that despite the available evidence pursuing the prosecution of all those involved in state of Georgia v. Donald Trump on essentially federal grounds would be equally unproductive. Trump's criminal defense lawyer lauded the decision and I shared that quote with you before

Willis brought state racketeering conspiracy charges against the president and 18 of his associates in August of 2023. By January of 2024, the case was secondary to a scandal tied to Willis' affair with Nathan Wade, whom she appointed his special prosecutor. The two

were forced to admit during courtroom testimony they'd been in a romantic relationship. and that she was paying the guy hundreds of thousands of dollars and they were basically shacking up at his place i mean the whole thing was a disgrace look i didn't agree with bringing this case obviously and i think i made that very clear but if you do bring a case you you have a responsibility to the people that are paying for this case that you bring it to the best of your ability that's your job meaning that if you become a county prosecutor and you decide to prosecute whether i agree with it or not you've got to bring your best people on job not your boyfriend unless your boyfriend is supremely qualified but even then still it's a huge

conflict of interest but in this case he was not supremely qualified this guy had basically dealt with traffic court and then it became a huge mess because they lied and then the money trail and whether or not she got some of that money and where she was when when she said she wasn't with him and where he was when he said he wasn't with her and then it was clear that there were real questions around money laundering with these two and the fact that she was paying this guy even though he was not the best guy for the job in Fulton County, Georgia to prosecute a former president of the United States on this very novel concept, this novel legal concept of election interference. To begin with the case was going to be a challenge for a season prosecutor

who knew election law and knew what he was doing, let alone somebody who had no idea what he was doing but was getting paid what six hundred thousand dollars by the county prosecutor's office and then of course after this whole thing blew up she was booted from the case in march twenty twenty four and barred from prosecuting the case by the georgia court of appeals she tried to fight to remain on the case she lost her appeal now in the motion to drop the charges the prosecutor the new prosecutor listed a series of reasons to dismiss the case, including that it could take upwards of a decade to get the trial with the president not set to leave office until January 2029.

Oh, wait until they find that he's running for a third term. Just kidding. I'm kidding. Relax. The prosecuting attorney's counsel of Georgia doesn't have the resources to handle such a sweeping indictment. And the racketeering conspiracy theory of the prosecution isn't viable. this is where it gets very interesting here and where i think we could have said from day one this case was a joke well jokes have an intended punchline in this particular case this

this whole thing was about one thing and that was getting don't trump and only getting don't trump so it was political weaponization overt acts such as arranging a phone call issuing a public statement tweeting to the public to watch the Georgia Senate subcommittee hearings texting someone to attend those hearings or answering a 63-minute phone call

without providing the context of that conversation just to name a few examples are not acts I would consider sufficient to sustain a RICO case excuse me I let's think about this too because the

Rico charged the Rico is what they used to go after the mafia they go after big criminal enterprises drug dealers they charged the president and these other individuals with Rico and this grand conspiracy and then had a subpar prosecutor make money off of his girlfriend to prosecute the case even though this was a joke of a prosecution to begin with and names like Rudy Giuliani and others who are caught up in this Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff. And people that had done absolutely not, I mean, nobody, nobody did anything wrong here. But to argue that this was a, was a RICO case, that RICO literally what they used to bring down

the heads of the five families in New York, like the Gaudies and the Gambinos, and then going after Trump in this matter. And suggesting that this was this orchestrated effort, they were all in on this, even a priest. they were all in on this and the evidence was Trump's tweet Trump's telling people to watch a Senate subcommittee hearing Trump's phone call

and that was it that was it I mean I mean it was bad the lack of evidence was so bad in this case but the other tell too that this was just purely political

was Fony Wilson's statements throughout you know Fony Wills from the day that she was running for office to the day that she was elected to the day that she gave this case up. Fawney Willis made it clear that this was always about getting Donald Trump. She said it on the campaign trail. She said it when she was out giving speeches and it rallies. And for the people out there who call themselves civil libertarians who believe that everybody's innocent until proven guilty, who believe that the government

should not be weaponized against people, this case was everything that should have set them on fire. It should have said to them, this is exactly why I became a civil libertarian so that I could fight to defend people who are wrongfully accused by their government and targeted for political purposes by their government. Where no crime has actually been committed, but we're targeting them based on the following criteria, whether it's race, whether it's their politics, whatever it is. It's not okay. And yet it was crickets. They were cheering her on. like they were cheering on Tish James in New York. Same thing.

Another person runs for office. I will get Donald Trump. I will find something. And when they get them on inflating the value of Mar-a-Lago and other properties, a joke, a victimless crime, where nobody ever said that they would not do business with Donald Trump again. None of the people were victims. Nobody ever alleged they were taken for a ride. Nobody ever complained. Nobody.

not the banks not the insurance companies nobody in fact they all said they would happily do business with them again where were the civil libertarians then crickets but the good news is here on the dana show on travel chaos wednesday i'm be nice to everybody on planes wednesday pre thanksgiving extravaganza the case is officially dropped in georgia finito goodbye farewell It's the Dana Show. Don't go away. It's the folks over at Superbeats. You guys are familiar with Superbeats and Human. What makes the story different is where it began.

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Well, we got some pardons. We got pardons for the turkeys by the president. and it's rich zioli and for day and it's great to be with you today on this crazy travel Wednesday hopefully good luck and godspeed where you're going and be safe and obviously if you're taking a flight please listen to what's the secretary transportation said and just be nice to people I mean being nice is really not that hard really not that hard I just don't think the airlines make it easy on any of us I really don't they've made the travel experience like when they show those videos of people who are traveling back in the day when they get all dressed up in suits

and everything. It was an experience. It was a luxury. It's very much the difference between taking a train in Europe versus the United States. I did a trip to Italy years ago with some listeners of mine out of Philly. And I went up taking the train with my parents for the day. We just kind of snuck out and went over to Venice. And it was just a different experience. It becomes like a thing to do versus here. It's just like the last thing you want to do, get out of train or in many cases a plane and everybody just gets cranky because the whole process is brutal it's brutal it really is and i think i think i think traveling in general especially if you have kids and i've got three of them it kind of brings out the worse in people

you you end up getting just just i don't know nasty with people and you know you get frustrated because the kids get cranky and then a kid screaming on an airplane There have been times I've contemplated. Do I need a parachute? I mean, that's how bad it's been. I remember when our kids were really young, too, and they were pretty good on flights. We had a flight at Hawaii once to see my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. That was a long flight.

And they said, well, give your son Benadryl and mental help, and he had a reverse effect, so he wound up being up the entire flight. I've seen parents who will buy everybody in the rows around them drinks if their kids are screaming and crying the whole time. And I've also seen some people just be so nasty to each other, too. In general, it's just not the best experience. So there is some of that, no doubt about that. But it does be driving.

In my opinion, long drives with kids are tough. We drove down to Myrtle Beach, from Jersey to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to see my parents a couple years ago, and that trip was a long trip. And that was during COVID, too, and nothing was open. So we had to wind up going to, like, remember back then when you would go to a place, a McDonald's or whatever, and they bring the food out to you,

depending on where you were living. Because I had to go through a couple blue states to get to Red State Freedom. Like, well, Blue Jersey, for example, and Pennsylvania until I could break free into the boundaries. But first, Delaware and Maryland, and then finally you get down to Virginia,

you're like, oh, this is so much better. At least it was. I don't know how it was going to be going forward. But I would just say this, so I'd say that the traveling today, the good news about it, at least, is that gas prices are down. That's the good news. And that's the effect of the president deregulating energy. And the effect of that is going to be felt in the economy without question. The question, though, is how long until we start feeling it in food prices?

Because that is something Democrats are capitalizing on the issue of affordability. And in the next hour here on the day of the show, we'll talk about that. and why it is that they're going towards people like socialist commie, kook jobs like Zoron, Mam, Donnie, and the president who I think artfully played him in the Oval Office to prop him up as the leader of the Democrats. And you know, the first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight clubs. So why are the Democrats not shutting up about Democrat Fight Club? I'll tell you all about it.

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It's the big travel day today on Wednesday. It is The Dana Show. It's Rich Zioly from Philadelphia and with you today. And great to be in for Dana. I appreciate you being here as well. We had a breaking news in the first hour of the show. I'll just recap it if you're just getting here. Where you been?

The case against the president in Georgia, the Fugazi, as my people call it, election interference case officially dropped. It is over. It is over. And that is a great Thanksgiving gift to the president today. And really a gift to anybody who believes in the rule of law and is against the political weaponization of our justice system. So that's great. That happened earlier when the guy who became the prosecutor because nobody else would take the case after disgraced former prosecutor, Fawney Willis, was thrown off the case and literally nobody else wanted the case and the way it works under Georgia law is they have

to essentially get another prosecutor to want to take it and nobody would the guy was in charge of finding somebody took it himself then he announced today that he there was no case there was no case to be had the the RICO case was flimsy he recommended the state drop all charges and within less than an hour actually after he wrote that the state dropped the charges So that's it, it's over, and there you go. The president getting a huge gift this Thanksgiving, well-deserved, too, well-deserved. But I just want to say thank you to Fawney Willis for helping elect him president. And thank you to Letitia James, and thank you to Merrick Garland, thank you to Jack Smith.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, because your idiotic pursuit of the weaponization against him with this imbecilic idea that if he becomes, the nominee, then he will lose because he just can't win again. What's wrong? Because it turns out people can separate the man from the policies. Hey, look, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm worried about midterms because I'm worried about the affordability issue. And I think that people have very quick response time expectations these days. We live in a time where we get everything on demand.

and we want it, and we don't even like seeing commercials anymore. And it's bad with kids, too. Like, I was watching a Christmas movie with my five-year-old, and a commercial came on. She goes, Dad, fast forward through this. And I said, I can't. It's on something called television. But it's just, we're at that place of instant gratification,

the idea that we have to wait for prices to come down. But prices didn't go up overnight. And a lot of it was tied to energy. And a lot of it will come down because I do believe the deregulation, the reform of the permitting process, getting drilling going, and making the cost of fuel, which is dependent upon everything in the supply chain for the economy. If you're not watching Landman, I don't know what to tell you, because Landman's great. And season two, the second episode, he's in the car, he's in his truck, I should say, and he's

listening to the radio, and these guys are talking about how the price of oil is going down and how concerning it is for the economy, and Billy Bob Thornton's character is saying, yeah, except that means that means that gas prices go down. And when gas prices go down, that means that eventually people have more money in their pocket, which means they spend more money on things,

which helps the economy. And then when diesel prices go down, which then follows after oil prices go down, then the price of food goes down, and the price of everything else goes down, and then the joke is that the guys on the radio or essentially saying everything he's saying, but after he says it.

Because he's the oil guy, and he gets it, and he understands all that. I understand that you understand that, but there are a lot of people out there who don't understand it and they're impatient and they say it's not, the economy is not where it needs to be yet. And much like how there are people who can separate themselves from their feelings about President Trump in a negative way to focus on policy, there are people who will, even if they feel positive about the president, they will distance themselves from him politically or at least inside internally on their feelings. There's nothing really to separate politically in the sense that he's, I mean, he's a lame duck. He's not going to run again. He can't run again. But his approval ratings will go down.

And that has ramifications, obviously, in politics in every area of life. I do think these are going to get better. I really do. I'm not saying that with blind optimism, but I think that the mistake the White House makes, and I've said this before, is not acknowledging the pain. J.D. Vance has done a very good job of that. J.D. Vance has done a very good job of saying, please be patient with us. We're getting there. We know it's not fast enough for a lot of people.

We know that it's going to take some time. But what you can't do is the mistake that Biden administration did in the first term was to turn around and say, everything's great. You go to the grocery store, whatever you're paying, it's fine. It's really good. You feel good about it. You can spend a lot of things. You can't spend what people are paying money when it comes to food.

And they just can't spend that. Either they feel like it's expensive or they don't. Either they have money or they don't. It's not one of those things you can spend. And I don't think it's ever a wise idea to believe that people are dumb enough to fall for that. And that's exactly what the Biden administration did. They just kept telling everybody things were great. People like, but things are not great.

Look at this grocery store receipt. J.D. Vance is very good at the empathy factor in this. I don't mean the phony Bill Clinton empathy if I feel your pain. I mean the legitimate saying to people, it's going to get. take time. We didn't get in this place overnight. It's going to take some time. And a lot of this is absolutely 100% tied to the price of energy, which caused food prices to surge because it doesn't just affect what they put into the tractor, but it's also the cost of feed. And I mean, I'm not telling you anything. You don't know. But a lot of this is stuff that when people

are thinking about, they just go, I don't know, I just, I was told things we're going to get better. And things aren't getting better. Democrat sees on the affordability issue, obviously, by highlighting all the things you can get for free from the government and it doesn't work and you know that and I know that unfortunately there's a generation out there that did not grow up with the Cold War like we did and for them even the movie Red Dawn all they got was the crappy remake

they didn't even get the original I mean they watch it and they should everybody should like I was watching Fox News the other day and you know the actor who played Ivan Drago was on when Rocky Balboa beat Ivan Drago in the Soviet Union of all places. And if I can change, you can change. We all can

change. That was a pivotal moment in the Berlin Wall falling and then obviously Cuba falling apart because they didn't have the Soviet Union's fake money to lean on anymore. And it doesn't work and socialism doesn't work. But the problem is that we've done a terrible job. No, let me rephrase that. They've done an excellent job. They being teachers and unions and college professors and universities they've done an excellent job convincing young people at socialism actually can work it just hasn't been tried correctly it's the argument used to have in college with your hacky sack buddy he'd be like you know it it could work if they just tried it right just hasn't been tried right you know what do you mean like russia you name russia china you name all these countries

and they're like yeah but they had murderous dictators but that's the point you can't have that system without having murderous dictators just not enough people to feed so they got a they got to kill a lot of them to feed them. I mean, I know it sounds harsh to say it, but it's the truth. That's why it doesn't work. There's just not enough mouths to feed. There's not enough people to make them money to take care of everybody. But they don't want to hear that and they've not been taught that. So when a guy like Mamdani comes on the scene and says, we can make things affordable for people by making things free, people are like, well, why not? There's all these rich people out there. And they hear Bernie Sanders yelling about the oligarchy every single day, every

single day, every five minutes. Every time Bernie opens his mouth, he says oligarchy. He can't say anything without using the word oligarchy in it. Like, he probably gets up at a restaurant, asks where the bathroom is, and then yells about the oligarchy on his way to the bathroom. He's literally the crazy old man who just yells oligarchy. It's like an oligarchy Tourette's that he has. Just yells it all the time.

But they believe this stuff and they believe there's all this money out there. You just have to go chase it down. And they also don't understand the concept that, well, people who have money can leave. They don't have to stay. That's another benefit of having a lot of money is you don't have to stay where you are. You can leave. You could go someplace else and live there, even if it's outside of the United States of America. Now, look, I don't believe that this country is going to elect a socialist president anytime soon.

I think the Democrats may end up nominating one this time around versus 2016, 2020, and 2024. And here's what I mean by that. In 2016, if all things were left to their own devices, Bernie Sanders would have become. become the Democrat nominee for president, but the Democrat Party and their process by how they select candidates is very different from the Republican Party's process. The Republican Party truly is an open primary process. Now, granted, if you're the president and you're in power, you can control the levers of that to make the primary, a whole lot less competitive in terms of your reelection. And every president does that, obviously, because you control

the state party chairs, you control the machine, and that's, you know, and also, too, The state party chairs and the county chairs, they all want invitations to the big, fancy political events. So they're going to be with you anyway. So it's very difficult to beat an incumbent in a primary to begin with. But with the Democrat Party, even when it's an open seat or an open White House, the superdelegates still control the process. So they made sure Hillary Clinton was a nominee in 2016. They made sure Joe Biden was a nominee in 2020. You probably remember the day.

They all dropped out on the same day, except for Elizabeth Warren. And her job was to keep Bernie from winning. So she was there with her socialist nonsense to buttress Bernie. And then Joe Biden wins. And then in 2024, of course, a closed convention. Not a single Democrat got to vote for their party's nominee for president of the United States. Not a single one. It was a joke of a roll call vote at the convention.

It wasn't an open convention. 2028 may change things, though, because AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the heir to Bernie's mantle, is definitely running for president. She's got a scam right now where you can you can get a turkey and it's supposed to go to charity that actually ends up going to to essentially like her not her campaign specifically, but like Act Blue or one of those other things that are connected to her political ascension. Let's put it that way. And she may very well end up being able to seize the nomination. And the reason for that is because there are Democrats right now who are fighting to house Chuck Schumer. And they're calling it Democrat Fight Club. The New York Times did a big piece on this. And I actually talked about it yesterday on Fox News. I was on there on America Reports with Sandra Smith, and I was talking about this because

the first rule of Fight Club is, you don't talk about Fight Club. These Democrats won't shut up about it. And they're telling everybody who will listen, how they are going to take down Chuck Schumer and take down the establishment. And in doing so, that frees up a lane now for a socialist like an AOC to actually win the nomination without the party stopping her, but I still think the party is going to try to stop her because the interests of a socialist don't align with all of the oligarchs, the superdelegates, the money people, the corporations that all lavish the spending on Democrats, it doesn't line up with them. And they are wise enough to know that, wow, maybe a ma'am Donnie can win in New York and maybe

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That's right. 30-year-old Austin Seabert of Toledo, convicted of spraying with narcotics and then shipping to the Grafton Correctional Institute. It disguised it as an Amazon order, and it was laced with drugs, and there you go. So, of course, the central theme of Hillbilly Elgy is the impacts of narcotics addiction on J.D. Vance's family. and the broader culture. Is it hillbilly?

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travel wednesday some audio for you as well so let's start with the president joking about the turkeys that he pardoned and the names he wanted to give them besides their their actual names cut one turkey that's going to be saved the turkeys being pardoned today go by the names of gobble and waddle when i first saw their pictures i thought we should send them uh well Well, I was going to, I shouldn't say this. I was going to call him Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Chuck Schumer, at the heart of what I was talking about in the last segment about Fight Club, where these Democrats are now going after him, try to take him out. He's the biggest turkey in Washington right now after the shutdown. And what's crazy about it, of course, is that it was a shutdown for absolutely no reason. Unless you factor in New Jersey and Virginia, which I am factoring that in. And I think a lot of people outside of watching those two gubernatorial races may not really get the impact of that. But I lived it.

I lived it on the ground every day in New Jersey in the gubernatorial election where I really thought we had a strong chance of winning. The polls were showing it was a one-point race. We had a great candidate. But the shutdown, the impact of the shutdown on the snap benefit recipients. And there's like 830,000 of them in New Jersey. And many of them work. They're not all just deadbeats. That was an issue that we just really couldn't factor in.

The second was the president canceling something known as the Gateway Tunnel Project. It was going to be the expansion of the rail tunnels into New York City from all along the Northeast Corridor. And the Democrat candidate for governor, the now governor-elect Mikey Cheryl played up big time on that, going to train stations, having her people hand out fly. how the president's making your commute worse. And so you're getting already cranky commuters because we've been talking about that throughout the whole show. People get cranky when they commute.

So keeping the government shut down going until after election day. And then, of course, you ended on the Sunday after the election when you won Bull, Virginia, where you had a lot of government workers who may not have come out for that election. They may have just stayed home. And that was what I think it was all about.

I really do. And I think a lot of this, a lot of this is performative in the sense that I don't I mean they want Chuck Schumer gone for a lot of reasons I don't really think it's over the shutdown though I think they were all in on it I think they were protesting too much they knew what they were going for here they had to find a reason to get Democrats who were very disaffected out to vote in places like Virginia and New Jersey and it worked the shutdown worked in that sense achieved nothing except those two big gubernatorial victories

and I absolutely 100% believe played a huge part in it and that's why I when the election was over and they won. On that Sunday, they announced the government's reopening and they're like, oh, man, we're so mad that we had to keep the government shut down and achieved absolutely nothing except winning these two major races. Now, I really did laugh, though, when the president made the joke about the pardons for the turkeys. This is my favorite cut two.

Terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. He used an auto pen last year for the turkeys pardon. so I have the official duty to determine and I have determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid as are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned other than

where's Hunter? That's because Hunter got the real deal pardon, the one in ink. He had you because otherwise he would sing like a canary. That was always the thing about Hunter Biden. And to this day, I think you have to realize that was the reason they were able to get Joe Biden out of the race. Joe Biden did not want to get out of the race. He never would have gotten out of the race. He's a snarky, stubborn old codger, stubborn politician. He wasn't going anywhere. But they had the goods on him with the Hunter Biden laptop, which of course we all know was real. And they knew what he was doing in the White House when Obama was president and Biden had the Ukraine portfolio among other things. And he was making money off of it. And they knew all this. And I remember when the Pod Save America bros or an op-ed essentially saying to Joe Biden, you can go out a hero.

After decades of serving America, or we will destroy your legacy, it was a very, very not at all, not at all subtle warning. We know you're corrupt. We have the receipts. And we will make sure everybody knows you're corrupt. And God only knows what that means for you. And remember something, too, back when Biden, when they thought Biden could win reelection against Trump and they were working at the same time, this is why today with the state of Georgia dropping all the charges against the president in the 2020 election interference Fugazi RICO case, they were going after the president, the current president, the former president of the time, Trump, in every possible legal venue they could, and they were trying to get Hunter off in every legal venue they could. That's when they had that first plea deal with all the tax stuff wrapped up in the gun evasion so the judge could not reject the plea agreement from the Department of Justice. It was only Hunter's own stupidity that that plea agreement was rejected because she asked some questions like could he be charged in the future for being a, say, unregistered foreign agent.

And his attorney said yes. And Hunter being an arrogant dope said, well, I can't accept this then. But at the time, they thought Biden could win. they thought Trump would go down. They figured he'd get the nomination and lose. And they just wanted all the Biden stuff to go away. Then as Biden's popularity went down and the economy got worse, they realized now that they needed that to hold over his head if they had to get him out of the race,

which is why they ultimately charged him again in Los Angeles. And that was over the tax stuff. And then they charged him separately on the gun stuff. And there was not going to be a plea agreement. They would delay it, but it was always there in their back pocket. if they needed it. And that's ultimately how they got Biden out of the race. Otherwise, he would have went down to the wire. But they were able to use that against them. And someday I'll be proven right on that point, just like I was proven right in the fact when I said

Biden would never be the candidate. And I predicted a few days before the debate that the debate was entirely designed to set him up to show America that he could not run, that he lost his frigging mind. And that was obviously the case there as well. So the auto penstock. and whether or not anything ever comes of it, I don't know. I don't think so, but I do think that it's good to get it out there so that everybody knows. And I give James Comer and the Oversight Committee, I give them enormous credit for raising this issue and bringing it to light. Because while you may not be able to reverse those pardons, it's good for everybody to know exactly how the president of the United States was not functioning, and how the vice president

at the time had a constitutional obligation to do something about it and didn't, because another name that's being mentioned for 2028, which I think would be a gift, is Kamala Harris, of course. I mean, she's polling higher than Gavin Newsom's oily, slick hair in California right now. She's probably going to run. I think that be a disaster for the Democrats, but hey, bring it, go for it, and do a Kamala Harris AOC ticket while you're at it. Sounds great. No, look, I don't want to discount the effect of the, of Kamala Harris and, or AOC, excuse me,

and young people. I think there's a very strong, just like young people with socialist candidates in general. I just don't think there's enough of them. And America is not ready to elect a socialist, thank God. But no, I mean, that's the reality is that it's the same thing with the policy declarations that Biden issued. The biggest one being the decision to end the export of liquid natural gas, which, if you remember, Speaker Mike Johnson, said he confronted President Biden about that. And Biden didn't know what he was talking about. And at the time, we all just dismissed it as Joe having one of his Joe days.

But then you got to wonder, if the staff was going rogue and issuing pardons to anybody they wanted, were they also issuing policy proclamations like you can't export liquid natural gas? Because the Joe Biden that at one time was smart enough to become the chair of the Judiciary Committee to keep getting elected senator to ultimately become vice president of the United States of America, ultimately become the Republican, the Democrat nominee for president. that guy never would have issued a ban on the export of liquid natural gas when the must-win state and the 2024 election was Pennsylvania. Home of liquid natural gas.

The state's biggest source of energy and source of the economy as well. Never would have done that. But I do think people in his administration went rogue, just like they went rogue with the pardons because they figured, we, why not? Guys, not running the show, we can do anything we want. So that day that Mike Johnson asked President Biden about and he didn't know about it, it's probably true, he didn't.

So exposing all this stuff is very important to do, and I'm glad that they're doing it, and I hope they keep doing it. I really do. I hope they keep doing it. Let everybody know the days of them covering things up are over. And to that end, we got to get to the truth of what happened in Butler. We need to know everything that's going on with the FBI. Secret Service, what we're not being told.

Now, there were rumors the president was going to fire the FBI director, Cash Patel. He shot those rumors down personally. That doesn't mean, though, that Cash is not on his way out the door. But this is what the president said, cut three. And there would be nothing like it. Are you planning to replace Cash Patel? No, he's doing a good job. Cash Mattel?

No, he's doing a great job, I think. I think that there, I think, I think that there, is still the problem within the Justice Department and the DOJ, which you just have a lot of people there that are still working to undermine this administration. And just like how it takes a long time to turn an economy around after years and years of purposeful but negligence spending and years of just destroying America's energy independence, running it into the ground, it's going to take a long time to bring that up. It's going to take a long time to really flesh out all these deep state swamp creatures who worked against Trump all those years and are still working

against them in a lot of ways. But it's inexcusable, in my opinion, that we don't know the full accounting of Butler and what happened with that attempted assassination of President Trump. The fact that they told us that the guy, the shooter Thomas Crooks, he didn't have a digital footprint. Then it turns out he does have a digital footprint. He had a big digital footprint, actually. And then all the evidence that was in burn bags, you know, and Susan Crabtree, at Real Clear Politics has done an amazing job of exposing all this and how there's a lot of um really lack of morale within the secret service over all this because they still don't have the answers and they feel like they're being scapegoated and that's not okay not okay all right we still got to talk

about what else is not okay which is democrats with their phony you can't follow an illegal order video which every person the military knows not to follow an illegal order but why are the democrats doing it i have theories on that as well and there's some new information around that as well again the breaking story from earlier in the show today on the Dana Show is that the case against the former or the current president now in Georgia back when he was the former president is officially over. That's right. State dropped the charges today after the prosecutor said this this is going nowhere. So great news for President Trump on this pre- Thanksgiving Wednesday edition of the Dana show with me, Rich in for Dana. Don't go away. So as we head into the holidays,

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They were having dinner at a Texas roadhouse in Miami Thursday night when he reportedly saw photos on her phone of her hugging another man and holding hands with him. He stormed out of the restaurant, leaving the woman by herself. Then he returned to her apartment to give her back some of her belongings. The boyfriend meant to leave her items on an air conditioning unit outside the apartment and then go home. However, he realized he left his car keys with the items. so we had to go back. She'd already picked up the items and brought them inside. And when he tried to enter the apartment, she tried to shut the door on him.

He eventually made entry, spotted his keys on her bed. And then she grabbed the machete and said, you are not going anywhere, you son of a bee, you're going to pay. And went into the closet and pulled out a machete. As the boyfriend attempted to grab his keys and make a run for it, she swiped the machete at him, slicing his right elbow while she shouted, I'm going to kill you, you son of a bee, fearing for his life, the boyfriend escaped the apartment and ran back to his car. He drove to the hospital. He was treated for a deep laceration to his elbow. Now, I don't know if they had any leftovers from the Texas Roadhouse experience.

I don't know. And I don't know the status of those leftovers, whether or not he was able to grab those two, whether or not they're still in her apartment. And now just kind of rotting in the fridge, that I don't know. All right. Now, this is back to Florida men here. Two, actually. Florida men.

Two elderly men ended up in handcuffs after they allegedly went on a scenic nature walk, hoping for a lucky stroll with a happy ending. According to the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, special investigations division responded to an ongoing complaint of lewd and lascivious activity that was happening with and the DJ Wilcox Preserve near Old Dixie Highway in Fort Pierce. Deputies launched an undercover operation to begin monitoring the area. The sheriff's office said that within minutes, an elderly man, 82 years old, approached an undercover detective, exposed himself,

and proposition himself for sexual gratification. And then moments later, another elderly man, 87 years old, approaching an undercover detective, and proposition himself for sexual activity. And both gentlemen were booked on counts of exposure of sexual organs. I'm going to go on a limb here and say that they were also taking some pharmaceutical, had a little pharmaceutical assistance as well. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go on record with that too

So whether or not they'll get charged with the legal possession of a ag or anything like that That I don't know I don't know the answer to that and a Florida man set his own home on fire I feel like we've done this story a million times here on the Dana show Set his own home on fire after shooting towards a neighbor's house According to police in Tampa They responded to the same neighborhood in Friday after a man was shot Investigators are working to see if the incidents incidents are related they responded to this.

Someone had set his house on fire and these charge now with criminal mischief, arson of a first degree structure, shooting out within or into a building, and fell in in possession of a firearm. So I wish the man, best of luck on this Thanksgiving. And at least, you know, gets an opportunity now to,

I don't know what, have a little turkey in prison. I'm not really sure what all these Florida people get otherwise. All right, in the next hour, let's get into this seditious six will they be going to prison as we now know that the fbi is looking into them for their actions it is the dana show to me rich zioli in for dana big show still to come don't go away guys we do so our partners that help bring you the program it's the folks over at burn a gun if you want to be able to protect yourself when local or municipal laws prevent you from doing so you need to diversify your weapons array and check out some of the stuff that they offer at burn a gun it shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away, easy target acquisition, no recoil. And Burner requires no background checks. It's illegal in all 50 states. It ships straight to your door. And in addition to that, they have several different models. The CL is the most compact one that they have. But you should definitely check it out. You can take

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I hope you and your family have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving and you enjoy it. I have some recipe ideas, which I'll get to you as well a little bit later in the show today. So, I tell you know, it's, it's crazy to me how we're at this place right now where we can't really see what the Democrats are up to with regards to that video that they made with this whole, this whole, you can't, you can't follow an illegal order, but then they also can't name an example of an illegal order being given. Look, I'm just telling you right now, this was entirely done to go and bait President Trump. Now, they know that Trump's going to push back. He always does. That's what he does. Maybe he should have just ignored it. Maybe he shouldn't have talked about sedition and all the other things and hanging and everything

else. But that's not how he plays. So he is who he is and that's just how he's going to be. They knew that he would take the bait and they wanted to be famous and they wanted everybody know who they were and they wanted to be the new resistance heading into this. But they also wanted to distract from a very important thing. And that is the president's positive approval ratings on foreign policy. remember for years democrats ran on the notion that he's hitler he's hitler he's a fascist he's going to bring about

war war three i still remember in the 2016 campaign back when hillary clinton had people who used to work in the old remember the old underground like missile silos and this one guy was like i'm i'm convinced donald trump's going to launch nuclear global thermonuclear war and so here he is bringing about peace in every area, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, the Middle East, countries we've never heard of before, countries most people can't find that a map. And it completely destroys the narrative, completely. So what do they do? They go down this road of saying, you must resist an illegal order.

Now, they can't name one. That's the thing. They can't name one. And Scott Jennings on CNN challenged a former Democrat spokesperson about this. What are these illegal orders you keep speaking about? What are they? Name one. And none of them can, by the way, cut nine. You said they want them to stop.

Stop what? They want them to stop speaking out. So you said speaking out against Trump. So you're saying that you believe that inherent in the video is that Donald Trump has given illegal orders. No, actually what I will say about this. Because what Abby argues is that they're just stating a fact. But you're saying it's speaking against Trump. Because they speak out against Trump in other ways.

Then you took the message the way they intended it. You took it the way they intended it, which is that Trump has given illegal orders, and you can't name one, and nobody else can't. He hasn't, and this other guy who was in the video, this guy, Jason Crow, I think his name is, he was, he was one of the guys who was, one of the members of Congress, he was on TV with Margaret Brennan, and Margaret Brennan was asking him, it's Colorado Congressman, name an illegal order, he couldn't give one. He was on another show, and he brought up Abu Ghraib, the prison torture scandal from the Second Gulf War, second Iraq War. And then he brought up Vietnam. Vietnam? Are you kidding me? But that's the thing.

They want us talking about this. They don't want us talking about peace. They don't want us talking about the president's positive foreign policy. They're happy to be famous. They're happy to be investigated. They're happy to have all these people. They love this. They're raising.

money off of this. They're launching political campaigns off of this. Let's not forget something about Mark Kelly, too. Mark Kelly was a potential pick for Kamala Harris for VP. Now, maybe it would have been better if she went with him and not that Midwestern doofist Tim Walt's tampon Tim. Maybe. I still think she would have lost no matter who she picked, even if she picked Josh Shapiro, she still would have lost. But the question, of course, of when when guys like Mark Kelly get burned and feel like, okay, I should have been the guy, I'm an average. I'm a former astronaut, military. I should have been picked for VP and then wasn't.

Well, he wants to be famous. And the FBI is seeking interviews with them over this video. What were your intentions? Were your intentions to have the military defy orders? They know exactly what they were doing. Just like with the Hunter Biden Russian laptop letter where they said this is all the chillings of Russian disinformation, all the earmarks of Russian disinformation, they give themselves enough wiggle room where they can say, we didn't say it was, we're just

saying if in case. So we're not saying there's been illegal orders. We're just simply saying that if any are given, well, then you've got to refuse him. But they know that. Every member of the military knows that. And they can't cite a single example. But that's what they want to do. They want to distract from this. Because at this point right now, according to CNN's Harry Anton, Donald Trump is at a higher approval rating on foreign policy than at this point in his term versus George W. Bush or Barack Obama. And let's not forget something. Barack Obama was Mr. drone strike. He killed four American citizens with drones. Nobody ever cared. I cared, but nobody else seemed to care. Nobody ever called those orders illegal. Nobody suggested that they

at least should have had a trial in absentia. They just decided, oh, they're terrorists. He signed kill papers, and that was it. And then he gave the order and they were dead. I mean, think about that. Barack Obama literally ordered the deaths of American citizens on foreign soil under the guys that they're terrorists and nobody cared. They're like, oh, well, if he says they're terrorists and they must be terrorists. So then, yeah, you can kill him. Okay. So that's not an illegal order.

So then what is in a legal order exactly? Like, what is? So then they bring up an example in Vietnam where a guy, a lieutenant, gave an order to his squad to murder civilians and they said no and then he wound up going to prison. All right. So we know murdering civilians bad. drone striking American citizens, not bad. Drone striking weddings in Pakistan, Obama did not bad, also not bad.

I mean, it was Mr. Drone strike. Nothing he ever did was bad. But what has Trump ever done? Well, he asked if they could shoot protesters in the leg. Did he, though? I mean, we don't even know if he really did or not. Okay, so asking a question, bad, drone striking American citizens to death, that's fine. That's okay.

That's not an illegal order. but asking the question if you can shoot a protester in the leg that is apparently just even the question okay all right um the drug boats well he's on shaky legal ground senator elissa schlockin said he's on he's on shaky legal ground well there's way around that you know congress should just give him the authorization to take out the drug cartels i mean i'm sure it probably exists in all the various nuances of of law and everything else but just to make it crystal clear have the House and the Senate pass an authorization giving the president whatever means necessary

to take out these drug cartels. And then there you go. Now you've cleared that legal hurdle and you don't have to worry about that and then they can't impeach you for it down the road. They'll just have to find something else to impeach you for if they ever get the majority again, which they certainly will, obviously,

because these people are just relentless. But there is a movie called Nuremberg out. And I know this because my wife and I went away on Friday night together. and we went to a cute little town on the Jersey Shore and it actually had a movie theater and there are not many

of those mom and pop kind of old school movie theaters left a lot of them is just big mega chains now you know what I mean and I thought oh this is great let's see what they have and they were showing two movies

one was wicked which of course I have to take my two daughters to if I go see it at all and then Nuremberg now I would have went to see it but my wife falls asleep in movies she has this problem

and I mean It's not a problem. I'm going to be careful here. No, she just, she falls asleep in the theater. So unless it's like a really riveting action movie or like a really riveting thriller, his chance she's going to doze off.

So I look at the trailer for Nuremberg. I'm like, and I probably like this as a history buff. I just don't know if she can make it, especially after we had dinner. We had a couple glasses of wine. And I'm probably going to pass on this. But I probably would have seen it.

But I actually think that the people behind that movie are paying all these members of Congress and Mark Kelly and they're, and Alyssa Lachin. They're paying them for promotion here. But it was a listener of mine in Philly, this guy, Johnny Cook, who tweets a lot along the show. By the way, you can tweet me at Rich Zoli. I can't say X-Me because that's just freaking weird. I'm sorry, but that's weird.

If you want to X me, we got a problem. But if you want to tweet me, like on the breaking news today that Georgia has dropped the charges against President Trump related to the 2020 election interference Fugazi RICO case, feel free. R-I-C-H-Z-E-O-L-I But his point was that too He said this movie Nuremberg's out I don't think this is a coincidence I don't either I mean they've been saying that he's Hitler

They've been saying he's a fascist But here he is making peace Here he is being called by Netanyahu The greatest friend to Israel And the history of the Jews and everything else And that doesn't work If you're telling everybody he's Hitler So they've got to come up with this story

About illegal orders And it doesn't matter if they can't name one They just go out there and say it and he reacts the way he does because it's what he does so he comes back and arrest them all and seditious conspiracy and everything else and then they start talking about hanging members of Congress

and the White House says he's not talking about hanging members of Congress and the president has to say he doesn't want to kill anybody and they get back on going down that road versus the road of peace I mean what we should all be talking about today is the fact that Ukraine and Russia seem to be although we've been down this road before

but they seem to be now finally at a peace deal that's a big deal But here's Joy Reed, pushing the, well, this is Joy Behar, excuse me, bringing up the Nazis in Nuremberg. And I don't know if, so she's on The View, which is owned by ABC, which is Disney. I don't know if Nuremberg is a Disney movie. I don't know if it's the same company or not, but either way, free publicity for them, cut eight. So, you know, there's a movie called Nuremberg playing right now, which I recommend to everybody to say. it's about the nuremberg trials of the nazis after the war after war two and following orders

is not a defense no it's not so the these soldiers have to pay attention see i said this last week on my show that i thought this was all about promoting this movie and i think it's all about promoting this movie i really do i think this is all about it it's like well nobody's really going to go out and rush out to see Nuremberg. It's the kind of thing you probably would maybe stream if it's free and if you had nothing else to do or you were a real

history nerd or something like that. And I'm sure it's a great movie. It's about an American Army psychiatrist who has to get to Hitler's men and Heinrich Himmler and Hyderick and you know, then he has to

you know, basically go down to Herman Goring and get him you confess to everything and it's supposed to be really good it's getting great reviews but i i would i mean russell crows in it but i'm still i still wouldn't most people wouldn't go see it now we're talking about this movie and you've got jory reed openly pushing this and she's literally coming out and saying right now go see the movie you know there's this movie nuremberg out there so i i don't think these things are ever coincidental i really don't i really don't it's so many pictures i guess it's not technically Disney, but who knows, maybe she's

an investor in the movie, or maybe these Democrats are, or maybe the studio paid them. It's a great stunt. If you think about it, and it certainly helps Mark Kelly with his presidential ambitions, as he says, he's not backing down, cut seven. As in, I'll tell you this, though, I'm not

backing down. I mean, we said something very simple, members of the military, need to follow the law. We wanted to say that we have their backs. His response, kill them. He's not backing down. Well, you may get backed into a conference room with the FBI, at least. That's for sure. All right, it's the Dana show. It's Rich in for Dana as we continue on this busy

travel Wednesday. Don't go away. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. Let me give a quick shout out to Sergio, our man, K-U-R-V-7-10, the great news talk 7-10. And our man, Sergio, also fills in for Dana. He's semi-attacks. Happy Thanksgiving, brother. God bless. Appreciate great hearing from you.

If you are impatient and I am very, very impatient, it may be genetic, and it's linked to 212 health conditions. That's right. Scientists identified 11 genetic regions linked to delay discounting, which is basically this idea I needed the immediate reward over delayed gratification. And 220 different medical conditions associated with it, including addiction, obesity, heartiness. disease and chronic pain, and all kinds of other things. So there you go. Impatience may be genetic,

I think so, but I'm too impatient to really read the rest of the story, so I'm just going to move on. An AI Christian singer, Solomon Ray tops the charts and stirs an ethical debate. You think? Not real. Solomon Ray became the top artist on the iTunes Top 100 Christian and Gospel albums chart last week. He is not human. Ray was entirely created by artificial intelligence. which includes his voice performance style lyrics and persona AI generated music is a new frontier I'm not a fan of this as a radio guy luckily they can't really do AI generated talk show hosts yet because we actually have to think for ourselves and think critically and AI is not there yet they could do that for liberal talk like they could do air America with

AI you don't need much intelligence to do it and nobody would listen so it could easily program that but it would be a failure just like Air America was. Speaking of AI, by the way, a tech CEO has said that the AI world means what is real and what is not real starts to evolve. And now changing how people cope with grief by creating chat bots with the personality of a departed loved one. Yeah. So you can have this grief bot who basically has the personality of your departed loved one and then you can chat with it. And I don't know, man.

I just feel like in the future, somebody dies, they will immediately have an AI robot come in and just take their place and maybe it'll be better. And it just depends on the person, I guess. But first, you have to find somebody. And to do that, AI is changing the game on that as well. And there's a new thing with AI where it comes into your life now and fools you into believing it's a real person when it comes to dating. And you've heard of the term catfishing, well, there's chat fishing where you end up talking to somebody online. You think it's a person. you think it could be the love of your life,

it turns out to be AI, and there you go. What turned out to be love is heartbreak. It's the Dana Show. It's me, Rich, is the only in for Dana. As we continue, don't go away. Brighten up your timely news consumption with the Dana Show podcast, where every update comes with a little dash of Not So Serious. On YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Travel Wednesday, I hope you and your family have an amazing Thanksgiving. It's Rich Zeolian for Dana. It's an honor to be here. And thanks for hanging out. It's been a while. So I appreciate being back here. Absolutely. Maxine Waters, who is deranged, obviously.

She had an important press conference. And she wanted to let you know what they're doing. Okay, what they're doing. She called the press conference for this. Very important press conference you understand. Cut 14. Thank you very much. I am so pleased that Robert Garcia is here and the mayor is here.

This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing, resisting this low-down, dirty, no-good, filthy president of the United States of America. I love that bipartisanship, don't you? Notice how whenever Republicans in the office, the only job of Democrats is to be just the resistance. And then when a Democrat wins, everybody's supposed to work with that president in the name of bipartisanship and purple. And if you say anything negative, you just, you want the country to fail, right? That is a little observation. I was out in California back in March.

I did the Prager You Book Club. I sat down with Michael Knowles and we did Animal Farm by George Orwell. It was great. Great chat. It's available now. It was a real honor to be asked to do that. Well, I was there in California, and I love the geography of California. I really do.

I love it. The politics are insane, obviously, and about to get a whole lot worse. But it's just, it's a beautiful state. We were there right after the wildfires. I mean, like, right after. And it's just heartbreaking to think, here we are. It's Thanksgiving, and they still have not rebuilt a single home, and they are just railroading all these homeowners and the games that are being played there,

and it's just unconscionable. It really is. Gavin Newsom's got a major problem on it. hands because his record as governor is awful it's abysmal he's destroyed the movie and tv industry in hollywood i mean it's got it's gone like people now they film in austin texas there was a story the actor glen powell was in the chad powers netflix show and also is in top gun maverick and he's doing a bunch of stuff he's in the new running man remake which i didn't see because i think it's probably pretty bad from what i've heard but he's very uh popular right now he said he

moved out of LA. He's in Austin. He's got his production company there, too. There's a lot of guys doing that. A lot of people are doing that. Austin, Georgia, not California. Gavin Newsom, with his COVID draconian policies, forced movie and TV industries to leave the state, the high cost of living, the taxes, all of it, the minimum wage, all of it. And it's been a disaster. And then the wildfires and how they handled the wildfires completely. And I shouldn't even say, wildfires because it's that's a misnomer they weren't wild it was arson and completely preventable just like the campfires were preventable back in 2017 2018 that era they knew that there were problems with pgw they had to end up paying all kinds of money not pgw PG and e whatever it is the pacific gas and electric they had to spend billions of dollars and admit wrongdoing on that but the mayor of los angeles karen bass says politicians are not to blame for people fleeing Los Angeles. Really? Who is out of curiosity? Cut 13. Yeah, but you know what, though? I think that's another part of our American culture.

Obviously, people in office are important, but there's no way in the world. It should be viewed as the mayor, the governor, Congress is going to take care of everything. It's all of our responsibilities. So what I've always done, especially starting off as a community organizer, community activist, it's always been about community for me and getting people involved. What? What is that even? Is that English? What is that?

Now, first of all, you got to understand something. Politicians are not to blame. Actually, the policies of politicians are to blame. Because they can make some, they can make a place a lot worse to live in. And then people leave. And that's the thing. That's the part of this that none of these these idiots understand. No, they don't understand this.

They think that everybody is forced to stay. And then when they leave, they can't believe it. It's like, you don't want to stay in this socialist utopia we've created? Because it's never a utopia. Their policies do drive people to leave. They just will never admit that. Because to admit that is to admit that their policies didn't work. And so when people flee New York City, when people flee,

Los Angeles, wherever it is, and they leave these places, to acknowledge that it's actually politicians and their policies that drive people to leave these places, then is the acknowledgement that their policies do not work. And the socialist utopia fails. That's the truth. Now Newsom's going to run for president. Josh Shapiro's going to run for president, the governor of Pennsylvania. He signed a bill into law that is completely unnecessary. It absolutely is unnecessary, but it gives him a lot of grandstanding and I can tell you one thing about the governor Pennsylvania that guy has a fierce social media presence and you wonder yourself how does he find time all day to be governor

and to post so relentlessly on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and how does he do it the answer is he has a team of I don't know like a dozen people and it was uh it was like a mill I think a million is it a million dollars in all their different salaries again I don't know for sure so the governor's office can't sue me. I'm speculating, but crossing, no, Broad and Liberty wrote a whole piece about this. How many people Governor Josh Shapiro has dedicated to do his social media outreach for the office that the Pennsylvania taxpayers are paying for to promote himself as he grandstands everywhere? And I mean everywhere, including with people he'd like to run for president with, like Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer when he was at the Eagles game, the Eagles Lions game, and they

We were both there for that, mucking it up, taking pictures, posting selfies. But he signs this completely unnecessary bill into law, but he gets the grand standover. It cuts 16. We know that this is an issue that disproportionately affects black Pennsylvanians who wear their hair in protective styles like locks and natural braids or twists. And it can manifest itself in a number of different ways from someone getting fired simply because, of how they look or maybe someone getting passed over for a job because of the way they wear their hair that's unacceptable and in a moment it will be illegal what if i have a mullet and somebody doesn't want to hire me because of my mullet you know business on top party in the back

should that be illegal i'm just i'm asking the question and how are you ever going to prove that by the way how are you ever going to prove that i didn't hire rich zioli because of his mullet like I was going to hire Zioly, and then I saw he had a mullet, and I decided against it. This is one of those dumb problems in search, solutions in search of a problem, as they say, and that's what it really is. So he gets the grandstand and say that this is a thing. I'm not saying that there isn't a person who probably didn't get a job because of their hair. I'm just saying that it's not just simply just black Americans who are dealing with this.

I'm sure people that have Mohawks probably deal with this. A guy goes into a job in banking and sits across the table with a faced hat and a mohawk and doesn't get the job. Should he be able to sue for discrimination based on his hair? I'm curious. And then how do you prove that? Is there going to be a leaked audio recording of somebody saying, well, I would have hired him? He was completely qualified. But the Mohawk.

And the fact that he was also a straight white guy and doesn't meet our DE. policies. Other than that, it was perfect for the job. So silly, it really is. It's silly. We're going to see a lot more grandstanding now between now and 2028. We'll promise you that. Remember Kathy Griffin held up the bloodless or the bloody decapitated severed head image of Donald Trump? You remember that whole thing? She said she's lost a lot of friends over her TDS debacle. I think being friends with Kathy Griffin, even before that incident, would be a very annoying endeavor. She just strikes me as being one of those people that would probably be very annoying to be friends with. I think there's a lot of people who are comedians who are like that.

They're very insecure people, constantly on, like they never take a break. They're always on all the time. And you're like, my God, is this like, I'm paid to see this. Can you just be yourself? She strikes me as one of those people. and you know that she's just just yearning for attention you're like yearning a lot of these people actors and actresses are like this

comedians and other people and probably radio talks or host too always need to be the center of attention and are always on I see I'm the opposite I don't want any attention and when I'm off the air I am done and do not bring up politics around me if it's my day off and you come up to me and you want to talk politics

I will be politely say no thank you I'm not interested it. It's my job. I got to talk about it five days a week, sometimes on Fridays too. And I just don't like to do it, and I don't like to do it particularly over things like Thanksgiving, for example. My advice would be just don't discuss politics. Just don't do it. It's nothing good ever comes from it. There's never been a single person in the history of humanity. Whoever came out and said, you know, I went into Thanksgiving, being a liberal. But after several bottles of wine and loss of Cherokee and arguing

I have now seen the light and I've converted and I'm backing Donald it's never going to happen it can't happen so don't waste your time that's my advice but I'm not going to tell you what to do you do you I mean it's you know I just want you to be happy

I've just found in my own experience nothing good comes from that minds are never changed it's like arguing with people on social media too the only time I ever do it is if I feel like sparring kind of like Rocky when he fought Spider-Riko you know you're going to win it's not really much effort but it kind of keeps your mental skills up a little bit

so if I'm on vacation or something after a little while I might come back and argue with some idiots on social media just to just to kind of get my chops back a little bit before I go back on the air but beyond that I just don't do it but as far as her losing 75% of her friends I don't

believe for a second it's because of her TDS debacle I think if it's true that she even have that many friends that would be a miracle and secondly those people just needed an excuse and an off-ramp. So they gave it to her. Cut 17. I had some good friends.

I will say I lost about 70. I did. I did. I had some good friends. I will say I lost about 75% of my friends. And they never came back. And so I also, okay, I know I'm laying it on thick, but I also became addicted to prescription pills.

So I also tried to take my life. and I was in a 51-50 cycle for three days at Cedars. And so I actually, even though I was a pill girl, I go to AA meetings on Zoom every day, and I've made a lot of friends through AA. So I've been lucky about, like, getting some nice friendships going. But that's why we were joking before about the art of conversation. I kind of just live for that now.

I just want to, like, really talk to people. I feel bad for those people. And they're doing God's work, helping her with her addiction, but, man, I just, not all heroes wear capes, I guess, is what I can say, because this is, you know, anyway. Another grandstander, and this guy, Cory Booker, my senator in New Jersey, he loves grandstanding. I actually have a nickname for him. I call him Count Grandstangelo, Spartacus Booker, and the Tears of Rage Band. Because if you remember, a couple of his meltdowns, one was he had tears of rage, another was a Spartacus moment.

He loves the grandstand. also like to run for president. He's run for president. Got zero percent. But anyway, it's time to turn the page, he says. Cut 10. Because we're about to turn a page. It is a exciting page to me that the generation, that is my parents' generation, is leaving the stage. The torch is being passed before our eyes. A new generation of American leadership is coming up. What an exciting time to redeem the dream. And in the Democratic Party, I want to have a very tough conversation. And I wanted to be a competition of ideas about what our party is going to look like.

I'm one of those people that's saying is our party has failed. They've made terrible mistakes. And I want us to emerge in this moment, not focusing on party, but refocusing on people. What a bet's brilliant. I think that is brilliant, actually. The torch has been passed. through a new generation. That is brilliant. And why has anybody ever said that before? Oh, right. President Kennedy said it in his 1961 inaugural address. Let the word go forth from

this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century. Booker can't even grandstand with his original ideas. He has to plagiarize other people's ideas to grandstand. It's the Dana show. Don't go away. On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist. Follow Dana's absurd. Truth podcast for bite-size and formative episodes, perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. It's been great filling in for Dana today. Thanks for hanging with me. You can reach me at Rich Zioli show on all the various social media platforms. Hope you and your family have a very blessed and wonderful and safe. Happy Thanksgiving.

Don't forget if you're deep fried a turkey like I am. Don't, don't, it's got a thaw. It can't be frozen. Sometimes idiots do that. Also, don't deep pride in your. House, some of his sort of basics. The big story today, just kind of recapping that, is that a judge in Georgia dismissed the last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump, effectively ending efforts to hold him criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Now, this is a big deal. It's also a big deal because Georgia doesn't have the ability for the president to pardon himself

and the governors have the pardon power. So it was always seen as the more nefarious one. But that's over now. Great Thanksgiving gift for the president. All right. So have a wonderful time. Steve, thanks for your help today. Appreciate it very much.

And be safe. God bless. God bless our troops and all those who are serving first responders and police and fire and EMS. And everybody else who's working tomorrow while we're enjoying the day. Remember, don't fight with your in-laws. It's just not worth it. It's just not worth it.

Just try to enjoy the day. Your best you can, all right? It's Rich is the only signing off. for Dana here on The Dana Show, wishing you and your family a happy and blessed Thanksgiving. Thank you.