The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - A Looming Shutdown, X Crashes, & UFC Handshake Drama

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

Trump tries to message his tariff implementation. The Trump Administration repurposes the controversial CBP One app to encourage self-deportations. Twitter/X goes down for millions of users Monday. Dana thinks the invention of the Internet has made people more hateful and absolutely stupid. Syrian government loyalists are accused of executing civilians as violence erupts. Congress continues to debate a new CR full of reckless spending in order to prevent a government shutdown on Friday. HBO’s new Harry Potter series features a DEI cast including Black actor Paapa Essiedu, as Professor Snape. Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser orders the removal of Black Lives Matter Plaza. Conservative’s criticize UFC’s Dana White for shaking hands with controversial influence Andrew Tate. Randi Weingarten freaks out over Trump’s plan to end the US Department of Education. Dana explains how making Trump’s tax cuts permanent must be Republicans’ number one priority. Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to discuss US Army Soldiers arrested for selling secrets to China.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Goldcohttps://DanaLikesGold.com My personal gold company - get your GoldCo 2025 Gold & Silver Kit. PLUS, you could qualify for up to 10% in BONUS silverAll Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/DanaCode Dana10 for 10% off your entire orderByrnahttps://byrna.com/danaDon’t leave yourself or your loved ones without options. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://humann.comSupport your metabolism and healthy blood sugar levels with Superberine by HumanN. Find it now at your local Sam’s Club next to SuperBeets Heart Chews.  Tax Network USAhttps://TNUSA.com/DANADon’t let the IRS’s aggressive tactics control your life empower yourself with Tax Network USA’s support.  Reach a USA based agent @ 1(800) 958-1000 - Don’t fight the IRS aloneKelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its bestPreBornhttps://Preborn.com/DanaDonate by dialing #250 and saying “BABY” or give securely at Preborn.com/Dana.

What other disruption were you alluding to? Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can't really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a hundred-year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters. That's true. And you can't go by that.

You have to do what's right. What we're doing is we're building a tremendous foundation for the future. Tremendous foundation. There's going to be a lot of talk of the economy, a lot of talk of what all these programs are going to be costing because we are in the middle of the, well, Yeah, the middle of basically what is the second budget fight that's coming up. And we're going to talk about some of that today because that's, well, that's what Republicans are going to be fighting. They're going to be dealing with that all day all the rest of this week because you've got to have that.

I mean, we've got to have some kind of budget. We've got to have something. We haven't had one. And when's the last time? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I'm like thinking out loud here like, well, yeah, I think that I'm. actually was the last time there. Yeah, I think that was it. So it's, and everything that he's talking about is going to be affected by this. And we're going to highlight some of that. We've got a lot

to get into today as we get started. Welcome to the show, Dana Lash, with you. I wanted to play also, because it's been, it's been kind of a busy news week because you've had all kinds of stuff with regard to Ukraine, everything. And then, of course, the economy as well. One of the things that I thought Trump said. This is already something because he had he did a, he answered a lot of, oh no, sorry, not seven. Do we do three? Because this is the inflation aspect of it. He, I think he's starting to message. I don't know if it's too late him messaging this, but he's starting to message on inflation, especially as, you know, if it gets hit as it pertains to tariffs. Listen to this. You wouldn't have had inflation. We had record setting inflation under

Biden. It was a killer. You may get it again. And it's one of the reasons I won the election. But you may get it again with these tariffs, right? I mean, one CEO said to me, my input costs have already started to go up. I'm going to have to raise prices. In the meantime, guess what? Interest rates are down for the last three, four days at good levels.

I mean, you know, when you add interest rates, you're talking about it's gone down. We've been, I've been saying, let's get interest rates down. You know, nobody ever gets rich when the interest rates are high, because people can't borrow money. he's right on that he's right on that count i heard some i think he's better messaging than some of his surrogates on this stuff because i was listening to one of his surrogates this morning i can't remember what show was on um but i just i thought her the way that she spoke about this was was just a little off base because she was saying yeah people are going to go you know if there's going to be any kind

of struggle if there's going to be any problem you know people are going to go along with it i'm thinking they're not not especially if you don't message properly they're not going to go along with because this is their money. Unless you message properly, they're not going to go along with anything. So this has been a huge issue. And we're going to try to figure out, you know, I don't know what,

they got to get it together, though, because Friday's the day, because you have, what is it, March 11th, I think. So, also X is down. So we're not going to be able, I know a lot, I've already fielded it a million things. I did not do it.

It has been like this all morning, Cane, correct? People are like, what happened to the... I didn't do it, I promise. It's not anything I did. But so there's going to be, because I think a lot of people stream the show also on X and things like that. We're on Rumble today. Just Rumble at the moment.

So as soon as X gets back up, we'll make that happen. We'll get it all situated. So just some of the stuff, just some of the stuff that we've got that we've got coming up. We're also going to talk about the latest with Iran, all of that. Can we talk about the immigration, though? Let's kick this off because this is what we have to tell him home and you were just listening to him discuss this. The CPB app, this is actually pretty brilliant. And the, of course, I can't bring this up either because this was a, this was a thread from Bill Malugent.

So essentially, you guys know the CB, the CBP app, right? The CBP app, I keep having to say it very slowly. People are essentially now self-deporting. Well, you have to self-deport. So what's happening is the app is being repurposed and they are going to use it to for people who have this app and it's already, I guess, updating this in this regard. It's already updating. So they're saying that with the app, you can self-deport. And if you choose to self-deport, then you actually have the ability to come back into.

the country. And so that's the latest, that's what they're doing with this app, which I think is actually pretty brilliant. But I don't know how many people are going to actually take, you know, take them up on that. I mean, I think it's, I think it's pretty brilliant. So this is something that was announced, I think it was yesterday, like late yesterday when it came out. And they are retooling the app. And then you have the option and I was pulling up the screen it's on X and of course X is down but I was pulling up the screen and you can choose you get an option you have like um not a pull down menu but you have this option and they didn't launch it I wanted a high it's not a new app they reconfigured the Biden CB CB CB CB it's I keep saying CPP CBC app so they reconfigured this app and this is this is the

the app where they can notify the government if they're self-deporting. And you heard, you heard Holman, who has been, you know, handling all of this. And I don't know whose idea was, it's a brilliant idea, but do you think they're actually going to do it? I mean, that's the million-dollar question. Are they actually going to do it? I don't know. I don't know. I would think that if anyone wants to re-enter the country illegally, that it's something that they would, that they would, that they would want to do. But it's the existing app so they can highlight on it if they want to self-deport or not. And they can actually, as they come in, they can make an appointment with regards to, you know, at the point of entry, et cetera, et cetera. And they can make their appointment. They can notify, I guess,

that I get information as to the immigration judge if they so choose. I don't, but is it going to incentivize people actually to do it? I mean, I don't. I just. don't know if I have a lot of faith in that stuff, Cain. Do you think that people are actually going to self-deport with us? I don't believe it. I think it depends on how, I mean, how deeply they care about getting actual citizenship.

Like, if they really do care, like if they thought by getting in illegally and then they could just, you know, finagle their way into being a citizen, now they're looking at this and saying, well, if I get caught up and don't actually self-deport, I may have ruined my chances for life

of doing that. So I think it Depends on their seriousness. I just think it's interesting that it updates automatically. So if you are in the country and you have this app, I just think I just like the fact that it updates automatically. And that it's not anything. I mean, it's already, I mean, if you already have it on your phone, then it's already on your, it's, you know, that it's there. And you have verified departure, view your departure. The language is submit intent to depart.

And you can submit information regarding your intent to depart the United States. States. So those are the options that you have with that now. And I can tell you, even if some of them, whatever, don't bother self-deporting, the silver lining is still, we were 40 to 50,000 people a month coming through via the app. Now that number has completely. So at least there's that silver lining no matter what happens from this point forward. I mean, even if you have entered the country illegally, so I'm looking at the language that's been put out about it. forgive, there's a lot of information here.

It says that even, so you, even if you have, you know, you entered illegally or if you had your parole revoked after the ending of like, I don't know if it's like the flora is that that's what they're talking about. Or if you're giving the chance, you can, or you can also get the chance to tell DHS if you're self-deporting. So it doesn't, they said that they implemented that way, that into it also so as to incentivize not levying harsher conditions. onto people, like detention or the expedited removal. So they, even if they're here illegally, they have an ability to make it easier on themselves by doing the self-deporting. If it's really about, as you were saying, injuring the country and, you know, becoming a citizen. So I think that's actually really good.

I think it's a very good approach with it. And I don't know, however many people, I mean, I don't expect coyotes and drug cartel members to do it. Anti-Musk demonstrations, which I think are entirely astroturf, are growing across the United States. Apparently, so they had a bunch of people outside of stores in London, in Portugal, and Malaysia. They, why?

Because he's not, they don't have a doge. Why are people like protesting? They had demonstrations there. They had some here in the U.S. They had about 250 people that showed up outside of a showroom in New York City. And they held anti-Musk place cards. And they read block fascism now. Musk must go.

Musk is not elected. Do George Soros now. Democracy must be protected. So they think if you're cutting wasteful spending, fraud, and abuse, then somehow that's ending democracy. I'm so confused by these people. So they said that these activists, they had them, They, 250 outside of New York.

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sent off your purchase. That's Hakeem Jeffries, who's head of the Democrat Party. Welcome back, Dana Lash with you. I'd say you could watch on X, but X is currently having a mental abortion right now, so I don't know what's going on. But you can find us on Channel 347 DirecTV. The chat's at Rumble. It's Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader, Hakeem Jeffries. I really don't think that he sounds like he believes what he just said, but I really got to applaud them for their effort to try to say, well, Trump just got into office. All of these things are his fault. Guys, guys, he literally, they are literally passing a budget. And I'm going to use the word literally a lot here. So bear with me because it helps me with the rage. They are literally, and by they, I mean Republicans,

actually passing a continuing resolution that literally continues funding the whole Joe Biden scheme. so basically they're taking Joe Biden's economy and they're allowing it to go for another fiscal year. That's what this continuing resolution is. Oh no, there's no cuts in it. No, there's no cuts. There's not even the permanence of the tax cuts from 2017. They're not even in here. The no tax on tips?

Nope, not in it. Nope. It's the existing framework that they're just letting, they're kicking the can down the road. So Hakeem Jeffrey's saying this. That's like literally your party's spending plan. So I'm still blaming you. That's how that works, you see. I'm still blaming them for this.

Just asinine. I told Kane over the week, or actually on break, and I had this realization, and this is part of it. Because there are people who read this stuff, or they see that sound bite. And they're like, oh, that's right. It's totally right. This is Trump's economy.

I'm already seeing it from, people. I can't even do math. And this is when I realized, you know what? I really do believe that the Internet is the greatest mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself. I'm not kidding. I think it is the worst mistake.

And I say this as someone who actually leveraged it to have the career that I have now. And I've definitely used it for a lot of good. Way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good than the bad. Very enjoyable bad. but way more good. Lots of the good. I fully recognize that.

I would probably not be sitting here behind a mic, hanging out with you on a Monday afternoon had I not had the internet. I tried arguing with you about it. You did. And I'm like, no, no, I still,

even knowing that, even being fully aware that that's my origin, I still think that it's the greatest mistake that's ever, that humankind's ever perpetuated against itself. And then I said, what would make the internet good for you? And I said, take the people out. No people.

What, that is the internet. Yeah, that's it. So you know, internet is bad. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, I think you got to look at, what am I thinking of the sum total of it. Okay.

You got to look at the sum total. Think about how they, I really feel like there are more dumb or dumb people now than there were. That I agree with. Or, or, hear me out. It's just that with the. internet you can see it more. Actually, maybe that's it. I don't know. I mean, I know that there were dumb people back in the day, whatever the day was.

You and I, and I would imagine most of our audience, grew up without the internet. We know what life is like without the internet. And now we- But then I got email in high school. Yeah, see, but you grew up. I used to enter chat rooms playing like Slayer. Like, like coded in there and it, like, so stupid. so cringed. But we understand that life can go on without the internet, which is why we can

recognize the internet for what it is. Right. Right. And it's why it aggravates us. We, my, we were a weird generation because we were like right in the middle of it. We had a childhood free of it. But then when we got to be teenagers, we had it. What was your first computer when you? I, IBM something. I don't know. It was secondhand something. And I played a lot of games. I had a friend that had a like an Of course I did homework. Yeah. But we got like a VIC 20. And then with the com. I don't even know what mine was. Remember the Commodore 64? I do remember that.

Had that. Mine was so old and it was like a great value version of whatever you just said. And I don't even know what it was. Don't even know. But it had a dot matrix printer and DOS and everything else. It was wild. Wild. The screen was green.

But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know, even though it was like fourth hand. I don't even care. It was mine. The first computer I used in school was a K-Pro. And it looked like a suitcase. Like the- Sounds like a K-pop band. The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard. And the keyboard would attach to the face of this like box.

Sounds like a kiboodle. And you would take the keyboard off. And then there would be a tiny little green screen there with a floppy disks right there. And I don't know. Gosh, floppy disks. I would have been maybe nine. My kids don't even know what those are. They're like, what are these weird things?

things. Remember the floppy disc? And the sleeves? Gosh. Those are the days. And then got into high school and Apple started being everywhere. Right. And then when I got into college, it was that the big thing in college was the

different colors of the Apple computers where you could get like the orange and the blue and the green and that. You could yeah, that's, we had some of those in college and the newspaper staff. But yeah, so anyway, long story short, internet, horrible. Great. Worst thing ever to happen to humans. Horrible. Horrible. It's so mean to us. And we're mean to ourselves with it.

But then I completely understand that there's some great things. But I think in some total, I would forego the great to get over the bad. And again, I say this is somebody who knows I am sitting behind the mic because of the internet. You know, I mean, that's how I got, I had the internet and we squatted literally in an old abandoned building off of Washington Avenue downtown St. Louis and did like a web zine. And it was and then got started that. I mean, that's, Seriously. Yeah. So long story short, you know, ignore the squatting part. That had nothing to do with the internet. But I just, I look at this stuff because I, you know, Hakeem Jeffries puts this out. And there are people who are like, well, it's Hakeem Jeffries. And their reasoning is, Hakeem Jeffries is a Democrat. And he's a Democrat with influence in the Democrat party. And he's elected. So what he says must be true. It's like believe by association. It's the weirdest thing. You're confirming your bias just by association alone. I mean, I don't know. The whole thing is, I still maintain that the internet is making everybody absolutely stupid.

Okay, so a few other things. And I think that's also extending to some of the, we're going to have to do some house cleaning. We got to do some house cleaning. So, I don't know how many of you were watching. I don't know. There were a couple of big debates that took place over the weekend. and one of those had to do with Syria. In 72 hours, you had 1,300 Syrians killed, and many of them were Christians.

And it's the Alawite, the Syrians, the terror campaign against these Alawite families, et cetera. And it was a big deal. And then all of a sudden there were some of these conservative, I don't say conservative. One of the things that the Internet, I think, contributes to is it doesn't matter if it's correct. what matters is how amplified it is. And the greater the amplification, that means somehow the greater the veracity of the claim, which is so stupid, but that's apparently how we're operating nowadays. So it doesn't matter if what you're saying is true. What matters is, well, are other people saying that it's true? Or how many people have repeated what you said? And I bring this up with

this Syrian story. Can you heard about this over the weekend? So this story, you had hundreds and hundreds of minorities, including Christians, and they're considered a minority in Syria who were killed. And this is the after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, right? They've had pro-Assad fighters, government forces, you've had jihadis. I think that it's fair to say that Bashir al-Assad is a bad guy. He's not the worst guy. we can allow, we are complex beings and we can allow for that thought. He's a bad guy, but he's not the worst guy.

And in Syria, Christians existed in Syria. They didn't have to pay from, to my knowledge, of Jizia, which is the tax on, you know, on non-believers. They didn't have to pay you. I don't, not my knowledge that they had to pay for that. And now with Assad out, you have jihadis. And we did say, you're going to have jihadis rolling through Syria. because you're going to create a power vacuum.

You have the minority Shia Muslim sect. They held a lot of these top positions within the government. And now the Alawites are no longer in power. There have been revenge killings. There's been a lot of highlighted or a lot of targeted killings of Christians. And they had the three main Christian churches, apparently. They all issued a joint statement condemning the violence and massacres, targeting innocent civilians.

and it has been just, it's been a mess. Rubio said in a statement yesterday that the U.S. condemned the radical Islamist terrorists, including the foreign jihadis who have been murdering people, including the ally, the Kurdish, the Jews, the Christian communities, offering their condolences to their family and interim authorities must hold all of this. You know, they must hold them responsible. I do say that you, there is, it's understandable that when you take out someone who, who wasn't punishing people for being Christian. Again, a bad guy, but not the worst guy,

that when you allow jihadis then to come in, yeah, Christians and everybody else who aren't jihadis are probably going to end up being killed. It's almost like everybody saw this coming, you know, and we were talking about it. I don't know why it was like such a great mystery or why it's people are shocked that, oh, now this is happening.

You know, the stuff that everybody was talking about leading up to this. But what ended up happening over? I don't know what was going on with the right. You had people going out there, I guess, trying to run defense for Iran. We're going to dive into this a little bit more and later on with Stephen Yates. But the defense of Assad, I've seen this bubbling up a lot. It's either you have to believe that he is a great guy or the enemy,

and there's no room for what I had just laid out, that he's a bad guy, but not the worst guy. And through this forced perspective, you either have to adopt that he was great or you have to think, I mean, it's either or there's no middle ground. There's no, I mean, there aren't any really better angels in this. But again, part of the problem of the internet, people can read a thread on X and they think I'm fully informed about the issue or they'll ask AI, which AI is still getting a lot of things wrong. And then they think I'm fully informed on. the issue. You're just asking, you're just regurgitating something that confirms your bias and then you're reading it online and you're spitting it out there. We're going to talk more about this because somehow this got blamed on all the Jews. I don't know. It became a Jewish issue. How did that even happen? We're going to discuss all of this coming up. We'll get some house cleaning to do as we move. It's our friends over at pre-born. This is a great organization that does so much to help moms and

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It's not a criminal. It's a crime. It's not a crime, which is why they're so frustrated because they really want our local law enforcement to go out and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers as well as the robbers. They want them to go and round people up on civil accusations.

And so that... Okay, I've got a number of issues here. First is, why did you use the word illegal? Number one. Like, it's not... She's out here. That's what's her face. Jasmine.

I don't like the fact that her last name's Crockett. How you doing, Davy, this memory that way. But she says that it's not a crime to enter illegally. What? You just... It's not a crime to enter criminally. but you just use the phrase illegally. And it is.

You can say it isn't, but it actually is. It's a statute. It's a real thing. You know that they don't believe this. They just don't want there to be penalties for it. That's the big difference with us. They just don't want there to be any kind of existing penalties. This stuff, I know we've been saying this now since Trump won,

but I really feel like Democrats have. no idea what to do. They have no messaging, no cohesion, no unity. They have no, I don't really think if you've got all of them in a room that they would even understand what their party's purpose is. What is your purpose as a party? And it can't just be, oh, hit Trump. I mean, you can't. People need more than just that. They need more, a lot more. I would like for there to be multiple healthy parties because I like choices as a consumer, as a voter. I like to have choices. And I don't want one side to get so dumb that it allows the other side to get dumb because they feel like they don't have to strive for any kind of higher level because that's,

they're just measuring. You always look great if you're measuring yourself by the lowest common denominator. So I don't think a Republican should contrast themselves against Democrats all time. How about you measure yourself against the Constitution and not Democrats? Because everybody looks, anybody can look good measured against them. Measure yourself against the Constitution. Is it constitutional? What I'm doing? Is this vote constitutional? Is this proposal constitutional? Is this CR constitutional? Is this budget constitutional? That's the only litmus test. And I really feel like Republicans are not learning this giant lesson here. So coming up, the latest in Syria, we're also going to talk about some of, there's a rot on the right, and I'm just mystified over some of this.

We're going to touch on a little bit of it here coming up in the second hour. Also, they've gotten politically correct with Harry Potter. Yeah. I think I can't wait for a samurai movie. Although I think who was it that did this? It wasn't Ubisoft. Who was it that did it? It was the Assassin's Creep people that messed up. We should just take a page. Let's just do a samurai movie and just cast entirely like blonde-haired, blue-eyed people. You know, I mean, who cares, right? That's apparently what it is anymore. We're going to discuss that because the casting for this new Harry Potter series is just mind-numbingly stupid. So we've got to have this discussion all. So let me pull this up because we got a lot for you. We got to get into some of the with Gaza, the latest with Gaza, the lights out, on, out, off, on, kind of back and forth. We're going to get into that. The budget battle, Trump Collars Doge. Mike Johnson apparently splits from Musk on some of this stuff. We're going to highlight all of this and more.

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people are well aware of that fact. And that is who they are going to blame. Yeah, I don't think that it works that way because first off, it's very easy. And we said, this last hour to claim that Republicans are in charge of everything, so therefore everything is their fault. When everybody knows that the mechanics move a lot slower than that, number one, number two, they're passing a continuing resolution that literally continues funding government exactly the way that Joe Biden and Democrats ordained it. It changes nothing. There are no cuts included, no tax cuts, none of the no tax on tips. You're not getting any of that. it just prolongs the existing framework of Biden's whole fiscal thing for the next fiscal year.

So what she's saying there, it's still what Democrat, this is why people like myself are so mad at Republicans right now, because they're continuing Democrats' economic policies. And that's what the CR battle is over. And they have this, they have this resolution that they've got to move on by, I think it's what Friday? And they've, I don't know whether or not they're going to actually, I mean, I don't know. They're not going to, they're supposed to be taking it up. Johnson unveiled the funding bill that they had pushed through.

They're trying to have this stopgap measure that keeps government funding going for, I think, what, until September, until fall. But I don't know if that's something that, because there's such a narrow majority. And again, can I just point out, and I'm going to complain one more time about this, this is why. some of us were very critical of POTUS picking out of house for his cabinet because we have two seats short right now that are not filled. You have Mike Walts's seat and you have Gates his seat and Florida can go as fast as Florida is going. They're trying to go as fast as possible, but you have constitutional processes that you, according to each state's constitution, that they have to follow to fill a seat. And so you have two seats that are open. They could be Republican, but they're not there.

Waltz is in the cabinet. Gates tried to get in the cabinet, but the reported ethics baggage that he has is going to probably prevent future political office ever for always. But those two seats being open, you barely have, you have the narrowest majority in the house in the past 100 years, the narrowest majority. And so whether or not Johnson can get this stopgap, and it's still trash. but whether or not he can get that through to avoid a shutdown without having to have Democrats, that's going to be really problematic. He's going to have to have Democrats to vote to get it to pass. And that means that there's going to have to be, it's going to be even dumber than what it is already.

So there you go. He said he's going to bring it to a vote. It probably come tomorrow, runs out Friday. And they said that they don't know. They don't know. They haven't negotiated this stopgap. with Democrats. So I don't know. They have to be able to pass it. Trump said that if Johnson gets the bill to his desk, he'll sign it because he doesn't want to shut down less than two months into his term.

So this is something that Republicans are, they have to deal with and strategize around because, I mean, they've been handed this ticking time bomb of an economy. And everyone, I heard this morning, there were a number of talking about talking heads that were saying that, no, no, no, we're not really going to have a recession. if we don't do anything to stop the government spending and balance some of these things, then yes, we absolutely are going to have one. That's not really up for debate. I think the debate is the severity of it, but not whether or not it actually manifests. So they've got to get their financial house in order.

And Democrats are not really in a mood to help them. They are petty and vengeful. They don't look at this as though they need to do something to give them. relief to the voter. They look at this as how can we make them look so bad and pinch people so that people feel the pinch and then we'll be motivated to vote for Democrats because they think that we're going to do it differently or somehow better, which you know they won't. So the CR, they have an increase in spending. They slowed the rate of growth that they try to mask off as a cut. And it's just a garbage. It's a garbage CR. It mean, there's nothing good about it. Thomas

Massey's already pretty much said that he's a no-go on it. And so that's one Democrat. And he's consistent if, you know, for any, he's consistent on everything that he puts up, I will say. But he's saying that this is a no-go for him. So they're going to have to, I don't know what they're going to do. But I really think that missing the opportunity to include tax cuts, permanent tax cuts, and I have my own issues with the no tax on tips because I'm like, well, what about the bussers? What about the line cooks? What about, you know, all these folks?

This is just servers. I mean, I say this is somebody who worked as a server for years going through college. That aside, why Republicans are missing the opportunity to say Democrats are refusing to provide leave? Why can't they relieve? Why can't they turn the messaging around on them? Why do they constantly have to be on defense? This is what aggravates me so much with Democrats or with Republicans. they're always on defense, even when they should be on offense.

They are the ones who should be out there right now saying, can you believe that Democrats do not want to get this? They don't want to have any of this done. Democrats don't care if their government shuts down. I mean, they don't care. They just think if it hurts Republicans and it hurts Republicans. They don't care who else is hurt in the process. So they're not going to be.

real amenable to working with Republicans on any of this. But why are Republicans not out there messaging this and weaponizing it themselves? Democrats don't want to give you no tax on tips. Democrats do not want to make the 2017 tax cuts. They don't want to make them permanent. They want you and then run through the list of, again, they want you to fund this stuff through USAID. I mean, my gosh, they haven't even gotten some of these departments that they've suspended within EO made permanent through congressional action. All they could, I mean, Democrats can come right in and reconstitute them in 28 if the, if Congress doesn't act. So this is all a major, it's a major issue. And I'm just not, I don't know.

I'm, this, it's a mess. So we're also, and yes, we are aware, by the way, of all of the, what is wrong with the internet today, Kane? I mean, if not knowing right now, of course, I will speculate and wear a tinfoil hat. Aliens? X has been hacked. now Rumble's been hacked. Has Rumble been hacked? Well, I don't know if it's been hacked, but it did crash and just like X crashed.

So I don't know what the explanation is for that. It seems odd that everything else seems to be up and running and without interruption, but X and Rumble are somehow out. Interesting. Again, the Internet is a garbage place. I'm just saying. Yeah, so we can't because usually we stream on there and we have the chat. They've had some difficulties in Rumble today.

But how, I mean, you don't think it's something like that. I mean, we did see a lot of people going after Tesla showrooms over the weekend. I know. I mean, that's the only reason why I think it. I mean, sure, it could be just technical malfunctions, but. Or it could not be. Or it could not be. Yeah.

Have you guys heard about this situation? Let me pull this story up while we have it. Have you guys heard about the story regarding the Harry Potter? Casting. You guys heard about all this? So I guess they are redo, I mean, I don't know why they've got to redo this series or do anything like this, but they're shooting this series. This is from Deadline, Hollywood, and then they have a thing with Forbes also. I'll write up over at Forbes.

And I'll, I think you have some of this may have gotten into some of your prep last week. So essentially, so it's an HBO series. It's the HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series. And it features younger versions of, I guess, like Harry Potter's parents and Snape and all of this other stuff, right? And it gets into the background of all of this. There's a lot of discussion as to the, the casting. Because they're saying that the casting is basically DEI and now one of the headlines, for instance,

this is G.B. And they said Harry Potter fans fume at what they're calling blackwashing as HBO's closing in on an actor to play Snape. They're saying it's horrible casting. And this is because I guess John Lithgow is playing

Dumbledore, which if that That's true. That's a horrific casting. I like, not look, I like him, but not as that character. So apparently, Snape is being played by a black actor. Now, I don't think in any, you know, realm where you don't talk about the physical attributes of a character and that doesn't play into the character. I don't think it's important. But with this, it seems odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa Es Sadiou. He's been cast as Saffiris Snape in this series. He was in gangs of London. He's been in a couple of things as well. I don't know why that they would change the...

I mean, again, it's like casting a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person as a samurai. You know, it's like if you're going to... It's like imagine you do... Imagine you do a real life casting of, say, samurai champ blue, and you have like all blonde, blue-eyed white people that you have cast as the characters. It's just weird. You know what I mean?

It's weird. It's like, it's like, I don't understand the purpose of it. When you change the character that much. And by the way, the guy that they have that they've cast, he's kind of a cool looking dude. Snape is not a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow, greasy hair, you know, blonde, black stringy hair, pale-eyed, pale, pale, pale, sickly almost. I mean, he's, he's, characterizes a weak goth, for the lack of a better way to put it. And they cast this fit-looking black actor as Snape, and I'm sorry, but it's not working.

it is not working. Other than the fact that the character is very explicitly described in the series as not black, but the guy doesn't look like a dork. It's not going to work for me. You know who they said should have played it? And I agree with this casting proposal is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been a great Snape. He would have been a really good Snape.

Am I wrong? I mean, can you see this guy? You see this actor. he looks too cool and he's again Snape is a pale sickly sallow blonde or black stringy or blue eyed dude Apparently he got better And he got fit

Because he's described as none of those things In the book So I don't the whole thing is weird I just don't I don't I the casting is dumb This is just bad casting So they said apparently it's going to go worse because the casting decisions just get you know they so they cast this guy and now everyone's saying the backlash is racist which i think is lazy it's super super lazy and i don't know i i i i don't know

i don't think that that's going to work it's like again it's like casting um oh i don't know christin chennawis as moulon right exactly it's like it's like it's like actually casting Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. It makes the same amount of sense. You know what I mean? It's just dumb. It's like, you know, hiring, I'm trying to think, who's the guy who plays Thor, Chris Hemsworth,

and having him play Black Panther. You see what I'm saying? It doesn't make any sense. Would you have Chris Hemsworth as Black Panther, a leader of Wakanda? Would you? No. You know you wouldn't.

So why is this casting choice okay? At some point, the character description does matter. And do you know why it matters with this case? Because the whole death eater lore is kind of, I mean, it intimates that it's Nazi-esque. I mean, it intimates. They use words like mudbloods and they talk about it. It's like very 1930s kind of stuff. 19-40s, very much so.

You rob it of that, that dark storyline, that fear by, ignoring the character's background and physical description. It was for a point. Our friends over at Keltak, Great Florida Company, although they have now a Wyoming facility too that they've opened. And I think I'm pretty sure that this was one of the first rollouts of their new expansion facility. And it's the awesome PR 57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5-7. Now, I have not fired this, but I have handled it quite a bit when I saw it all at Shacho. It is so light. I thought I was going to throw it through the ceiling when I picked it up. I don't know why. 40% lighter than the next lightest 5-7s. So I have 5-7s. There's none that I could actually realistically with my frame carry. I could carry this. It's

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It was, looks like it was a whole city block. Was it more than that? Because they had the street signs made up, as you could see from the video. So it said Black Lives Matter on the street sign. And then it had this, I guess it looks like a whole city block. I thought it was maybe it might be bigger. Might be bigger. Yeah, I think that looks bigger.

I think it's probably a couple blocks where in the road they had painted out in the actual road, Black Lives Matter. And so D.C., they started dismantling this. It's known as checks notes. Black Lives Matter Plaza. It's near the White House. So there was after the, I think it's what, been there for four and a half years. And now apparently, it's being described as Mayor Muriel Bowser's decision to remove it, I guess, to ease political tensions.

How much did it cost to put all this in here? Because the street sign, I didn't know about the street sign, so that cost. Do you think that Black Lives Matter paid to have that street sign made? I think that Taxpayers paid for all this. Do you think that Black Lives Matter paid to write Black Lives Matter on the streets? No, they didn't. Do you think that now Black Lives Matter is paying to have this removed? No, no, they're not.

So they just pocketed the money, bought all these mansions, and then that's, you know, there you go. We're stuck with the bill. That's just, was there somewhere. you could that taxpayers can send an invoice so they cleared out the homeless encampment's done there too but then they're taking this it's not a mural it's just i don't know what it is but the dc mayor apparently she okayed the removal to east tensions with the administration uh and i don't know what if funding had anything to do with it i don't know how you continue to fund this but uh they said that it's just north of the white house where they're taking taking the pain off so they said i don't know what they're

I guess this is just going to be a regular street now. Is it still going to be called Black Lives Matter Plaza? Are they renaming that as well? That's a good question. I think they've taken it all now. Even the street. What was it before Black Lives Matter Plaza? Regular street name.

Yeah, I think it was. Trump had threatened to withhold D.C.'s funding if they didn't stop this nonsense. And so now they're stopping the nonsense. So nature is healing, you could say. Nature is healing. There it is right there. Yeah. Yeah. I, someone sent this to me, this mediaite piece. The headline is, this is disgusting. Conservative shred UFC's Dana White for warm welcome of accused traffickers, the Taters, to Vegas event. I don't even like saying that. I was blissfully unaware of these people for the longest time. I didn't know who they were. And then all of a sudden, I saw some of the grifting kind of people on the right pushing them. And there, there is that. mentality on the rights is one of the reasons why I hate the internet. I hate the idea of

influencer. I hate that term. And I think that there's a difference between an influencer and then just people who are who are in commentary or editorial writers because I feel like influencers are whatever is the trendiest. They push whatever is the trendiest and they will only, it's like the trendiest talking points, the trendiest topics, the trendiest. And if you're out there trying to push the limits of discussion and the depth of discussion, you really don't engage a lot in like the Forever 21 type of instant gratification, throw away thought, right? And I think for a lot of us, I mean, I don't think that fleeting influence lasts. I think that

you know serious commentary is what lasts so I don't know I always nothing makes me hate someone more than if they mistake me for an influencer I'm like no it's not even remotely the same and I know a lot of people in broadcasting that are like that and I think with a lot of this stuff

and I'm starting to see more of it on the right I see it on the left because it's kind of where it originated right like just this vapidness this shallow attempt to be like a pseudo intellectual or just outright laziness when it comes to thought and people just take something that someone else has and they repackage it and they repost it

and it just goes on and on and on. And you can say it's amplification and it is, but it also is misdirection and misrepresentation just as much. And so I think that plays into this story. So I saw, and I saw it because everybody was talking about it, the Tators. I don't even like saying their name.

It's like I don't want to. to say Candyman's name in the mirror three times in the bathroom, you know, because it'll pop up. I saw that movie. Or if you say Bloody Mary, when I was a kid, it was you got to say Bloody Mary in the bathroom. Yeah, three times. And a dark bathroom in front of a mirror in the dark. And, you know, she'll appear. So it's like, I really don't want to say the Tater's names because they're two brothers.

And I know that there's apparently a huge, there's a ton of accusations against them. apparently as Mediite reported and a million other there's like this ongoing sex trafficking rape accusation case the charges in Romania haven't been dismissed apparently still being investigated they were allowed to come to the United States for just like a little bit and then they went back to Romania but that's the whole situation where Florida said they're not welcome in Florida they're accused of a lot of things and the reason that they're accused of a lot of things and the reason that they're accused of a lot of lot of things is because they're on video literally talking about all of it. You can't say that you're innocent of certain things when you're on video talking about them yourself. No one made you do that. But anyway, from, I mean, what's been a reporter, there's there's there facing, like a lot of these accusations and they got this ongoing case, not just in Romania, but in the UK. And then one of the victims apparently, I guess it's a trafficking victim that came forward who was like 15 at the time. And there's video of him, whipping one of the taters, whipping this girl with a

belt or something. A lot of it's blurred out. So it gets kind of hard to tell. But like whipping somebody on camera. I have audio. The reason I bring this up is because what in the hell of conservatives? What is happening on the right that you lift up people like this? I mean, this guy talks about banging dudes. How is that, how are you upholding someone who is defending literally something? like banging a dude backside. How are you defending that as some sort of representation for conservatism or as like an example on the right? Don't, hey, if you're cringing right now, I did too.

I had to look at this stuff, not like him doing it, but him talking about it. Play that for me. Go ahead. Just give me that little video right out there. Because I think that people need to be aware of what is being promoted as the right type of masculinity on the right. Watch this. Sorry.

Ignore the construction. I'm rebuilding my mansion. You'll see when it's done. We'll do an episode of Chris. Just doing this area. Yeah, he's on his role. Of his brutalist. It looks like some kind of

eastern block building. Anyway, that's all going to be lit up and sacked logo. People. Broke boys don't know. Listen, I recently posted a question on Twitter. We have to show you the screen. Would you rather have sex with a transsexual,

which is a legitimate 10, or a woman, which is a legitimate one? And everyone's sitting there clicking woman, woman, woman, woman, because they think they're going to be gay if they do anything else, but they're not actually thinking about the question. I am so smart. I operate on so many levels higher than the average man. You people are not thinking about the question.

When I say a one and a ten, I mean Megan Fox with a . . . . . that's the tranny. What? Or Hulk Hogan with a . . . . . . . . that's the girl. So he's like defending the idea of banging. Megan Fox or Hulk Hogan. And I'm like. What in the world is happening with you? Like, he's a false choice.

He lands on the idea of being with the Megan Fox looking dude. Yeah, he wants to bang the dude. This is what he's talking about? And is it what? Is it a copyright issue? Is that what it is? Well, at the time that we were getting all this together, X was down. Okay, X was down.

So we couldn't actually download the video. So, but there's the video that's up there. So I don't know how these dudes are being elevated as some sort of representation of healthy masculinity. First and foremost, there's nothing healthy or masculine about it. From everything that's been reported, they make their money off of like pimping out women on only. Is it only fans? Or like sex cams. It's like sex cam girls.

And that's what a lot of the accusations against them are surround trafficking. And there are apparently a lot of people have come forward and the case apparently widened in Romania and it's ongoing in the UK. So it's not something that's like, you know, this is not. Not like the New York time or the New York lawfare against Trump, right? Like Trump didn't actually do anything. Trump isn't even on video bragging about doing stuff. I mean, come on. So I've, but I've seen people lift these guys up.

And I just don't get it. There's so much about it, A, that's cringe. There's, it's welfare. If you're making money off of pimping out women, you're an entitled welfare queen. You just have a penis. That's it. It doesn't make you any less of a welfare queen. you're still a welfare queen because you're living off of the work of someone else.

Like you're not even going out there earning your own money. And I don't know why, you know, some on the right have taken to lifting up single dudes who have no family, who have no commitments from any women who talk about women like this. And I think they're Muslims too, aren't they? So, okay, hi, Sharia. I don't even know what these people are thinking. I've seen a lot of people platform them and do interviews. And then when they are when they're criticized for it, they whine about free speech.

It has nothing to do with free speech. You have free speech. And then everyone else also has free speech to criticize how you use yours. So get over it. But these people, these like Tater Bros are not anything to be looked up to. It's glorified welfare. You're making money off of other women having sex. That's that and it's a, it's like welfare.

It's, it's, you're sponging off of these women and you're trying to trying to present it as being a masculine thing and it's not. Part of being masculine and part of being a real man is the code of chivalry. And to just dumb it down, you know, chivalry means you're a badass, but you choose not to be. You know, you can go out and you can war in the field, but then you can come back and you can sit next to a lady and have a polite meal, you know, in the king's court. I mean, that's kind of what, you know, to put it in layman's terms, that's sort of, you know, the chivalry. I don't see any of that here. I don't see any kind of, you know, courteousness or any, and people are, are acting like, oh, well, this is the answer to all the

accusations of toxic masculinity. And they, I don't see any, I don't, I don't see any daylight and how they treat any female, by the way. It's, I understand toxic masculinity. I'm married to a man. I'm raising young men. I get it. Um, I don't, I don't, I don't see any daylight. Um, I grew up probably disliking feminism more than the people talking about how much they dislike feminism today. I also know that there's first wave, second wave, third wave, and fourth wave. First wave, fine. Women can vote.

They can, you know, be able to actually inherit the property that they help build up with their families so they're not left destitute of widowed. I get it. But then the whole abortion on demand and now men are women, you know, it's kind of jump the shark. Targeting men and acting like real masculinity is toxic. Hopefully conservatives haven't forgotten what real masculinity looks like because it's not this. It's not pimping out women and bragging about the entire, like trying to glorify welfare off of sex.

It's none of those things. It's, it's not rejecting the Christian principles on which the nation was founded. It's not that. They went out to, I guess, Vegas and they were caught shaking hands. They were photographed shaking hands with Dana White, which I think is a really bad look for UFC. by the way and for for i don't think anybody needs to be prayed around with these fools i mean it's just cringe it's almost like if you it's like the wayans brothers if they did a whole skit mocking a subset of one of one of be hard asses they would dress up like this and they would do this it feels almost

like we're getting punked in a way but there are some people that are so burnt out from the accusations of toxic masculinity that i guess they find this empowering which i don't find it empowering. I find it debasing. It's just debasement. To push back against toxic masculinity isn't to embrace progressive principles. I don't believe in toxic masculinity. There's no more toxicity in being masculine than there is toxicity and being feminine. I don't believe in the patriarchy anymore than I believe in the majorarchy, although I could say that the matriarchy is probably a little bit more established. But this whole pushing of them as though this is some sort of like

representation of masculinity in the sphere of conservatism or on the right is so misguiding and it's such a debasement and it's an insult to men. Men are so much better than these boys. Men are so much better than this and they have, there are so many better examples of strong actual men than this. than this. So I get it that people want clicks and I get it that they want traffic and I get it that in this oversaturated world of whatever that, you know, people are trying to carve out a niche for themselves. But engaging in this like click bait debasement is not the way to do it. We'll have more on it.

But I just, I saw that piece out. I'm like, oh boy, I like said one thing about it. But it's still, it's cringe. And I just, we haven't talked a lot about it. It's like this cold. cultural thing that's happening on the right right now. But I think it's maybe time that we do start talking about it because I just see some horrible representations of what some people think masculinity looks like. And that's not what masculinity is. There are so many awesome dudes out there who deserve to be like recognized and elevated and talked about and used as like the measure of what it is to be a man and not dudes, these dudes who, I mean, get a shirt that fits and you know, stop like sponging off of like women's sex work. I just, it's like, well,

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A Florida woman was attacked, well, she attacked a man with a Pringles can, say deputies. That sounds like a song. Oh, my goodness. This is in Florida WFLA. A woman, Florida woman was accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles. Orange County Sheriff's Office. They got called to the 7-Eleven for a reported fight. And a man told deputies that Shannika Sardall hit him in the eyes with a Pringles chip can.

And then she ran off. So they said he had a significant cut on his right eyebrow, and he was actually bleeding. They did find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession, and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So no hitty with Pringles. Don't do that. She kept the Pringles, though. Yeah, I'm sure it was probably confidence.

It's probably taken into evidence. I mean, if they do all that, you know, I don't know. A Florida woman murdered her roommate and then poured Mountain Dew all of herself to prevent the police from getting DNA. That doesn't work that way. They did also find a bloody knife and the cell phones and all this other stuff. So yeah, that Florida woman's probably going to spend decades in prison, and she wasn't able to actually hide any of the evidence either. Lame.

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is super mad because something's being discussed that would actually limit her power and her influence. And that has to do with the education plan from the administration, i.e., having it all go back to the states instead of being consolidated and centralized in Washington, D.C., welcome back to the program. We're at the top of this third hour, Dana will I share with you. She was super, this woman shut down. She was part of the, the, the, reason that school shut down for like almost two years because randy winegarten pushed for it so spare me i don't believe that this woman at all cares i think it's just about preserving her power and access to power that's it i don't think it's anything else i don't think it's anything else because you can't sit here

and say that what she has pushed for these have turned out to be successful for kids or that it has turned into a super successful means of education I mean, she's part of everything that's wrong with education right now, all for having the states handle it. We absolutely do not need it consolidated out in D.C. That's just so assinine to me. There's no authority for the federal government to do any of what it's doing as it pertains to education. And if people feel so strongly about it, then instead of demanding that everyone else pay, you pay more, right?

I mean, I got major problems with it. I have major problems with an educational system that is more about political propaganda than actual education. I just, and especially what they've been, you know, you've seen these fights. I mean, good grief. We had the fight with our public school board here and the town in which I live. We were the first one to go to the ballot box over it. And just to watch the way that the system tried to weaponize everything against innocent parents was truly stunning. So after like all of that, after witnessing all of that and hearing what my friends have gone through in other parts of the United States, no.

And then looking at test scores, looking at everything that happened over lockdown that she encouraged, that she pushed for, that she demanded. Hell no. It's a joke. This isn't about education. It's about propagandizing. That's all it's about. It has nothing to do with education. So she's angry.

She acts like it's costing people opportunities if you let parents have more direct access. in the state. All I hear is that this old broads out there saying that she apparently knows more about your children than you do and that she has more of authority to influence them than you do. That's not how it works. So I'm glad to see that the administration is doing something about it. Again, though, executive orders only matter until he's out of office and then they're irrelevant. People know those, right? It's why it's so incredibly important to get these congressional members on the same page. Mike Johnson is dramatically split from Doge, come the reports over this weekend. He was on TV on Friday, and he was saying that the efficiency-driven approach was necessary to trim government excess.

And then critics, though, were saying that the cuts are abrupt, and as a result, they're having a lot of a major negative impact on, a lot of things. And they were, I think they were also worried about how some of the austerity was going to affect them. That's what it sounds like at the ballot box. So he was on, he was saying that it's going to be corrected, was the phrase that he used, somewhat like a shift from the Musk-Doge approach. He was saying that the, talking about the abrupt cuts, people were saying, it's having an effect on critical federal programs and it's costing dedicated workers. And it's costing dedicated workers their jobs. So what, the federal sector is the only place where dedicated workers are not allowed to lose their jobs? Private sector, it's okay. Federal it's not. I, it may sound callous.

And if someone, I guess, wants to have a weak constitution and be offended over my tone on it, then they're free to do that just as I'm free to disregard it. But if only these people had been as loud, when the federal government was shutting down private sector businesses for COVID, locking people out of their workplaces, enacting economic eminent domain, and making it to where people couldn't earn a living and arresting those who tried. And that actually did happen. I know people personally who were arrested for trying to simply work. Shelly Luther being the first.

And now she's an elected office as a result. salt. But the must says he's being efficient. Johnson is saying, okay, well, yeah, maybe it was too fast. I just, I don't, he seems soft on it. The, he said it's going to be correct. I don't know what that means. But to me, it was kind of a signal for, I, I just don't think that they have the spine to do what's needed. I mean, I like the stuff that that POTUS is coming out with and I like the EOs, but none of that's going to matter when he's out of office in 2020, because it's all going to go away.

Democrats are going to get rid of it. They're going to get rid of it. They're going to, with an EO, undo all of his EOs and then have their own implemented like Biden did with the border when he got into office back in 2020. So I don't know. I mean, Johnson, to me, was signaling some separation there. Did you read that the same way, King? Because that's how I got it. Johnson was trying to make it look like, okay, well, he's like way more, I don't know, I don't want to say energetic. That's not the right word about it than Johnson was. And he was suggesting to like sensitive sectors, there might be a concession where people are rehired. I think this is, so you're undermining then in your teleghing that you're undermining what Doge is doing. What is the point of any of this?

My gosh, can't you people get a damn spine? Grow a spine for once in your ever-loving, lives, Republicans, stop being pathetic, grow a spine. If they don't get this, if they don't make these cuts now before filing for midterm election starts, guys, they're never going to make them. The coalition will be gone, and you can say hello to Gavin Newsom for president in 2028, because they're going to rehabilitate him. It'll be him or Andy Bashir, maybe Westmore, but it'll probably be either Newsom or Bashir, or both. Shapiro, perhaps, but there's too many people on the left that have a problem with him because he's Jewish. So I don't know. It'll be either Newsom or Bashir. And that's what and that that will happen and it'll happen just the way just like that.

It's not, you know, it's not hidden knowledge. So to see Johnson splitting like this was incredibly unfortunate. Thomas Massey says he's still a no on this continuing resolution that Republicans are trying to pass. That's all that's going to do is kick the budget ball down the down the path until September 30th. So you're going to continue Joe Biden's economic framework. You're basically carrying on the fourth fiscal or the fifth fiscal year of the Biden administration. That's exactly what they're doing. It's just more Biden administration stuff. They're continuing it because they think that's easier than allowing the government to shut down. Democrats would love for the government to shut down because they always use a shutdown to their advantage. And Republicans are too terrified

to message any other way. And now they've made they've been. made easy in their cowardice because they just let Trump do all of it. They just let Trump do all the messaging. And they really don't come back if you've noticed. There's not really a lot of the lawmakers that come out and they will say, yes, this is great what POTUS is doing here. They'll say like red meat platitudes. Like, oh, he's great. Yeah, POTUS. You know, but they, you know, they don't, they don't actually go to bat for these reforms. When have you seen for as hard as Trump went in supporting Mike Johnson. Have you seen Mike Johnson going anywhere near as hard and supporting these economic reforms that Trump wants? Not at all. Not at all. This is what people need to pay attention to. You've got these

lawmakers out there that give lip service to what Trump says and they're like, yeah, POTUS. And then they do these like miles wide, inch deep, performative, like acts of fealty. We're going to propose $250 bill with your face on it or whatever. They do these performative acts of fealty. And in the meantime, we're all like, guys, you see the economic waterfall that's happening right now. We're almost over the edge. You guys see this, right?

I wish Johnson would have gone, again, as hard for these economic reforms as Trump went for him to get him his speaker. I mean, that to me, if you want to have a discussion about loyalty, I think people don't know how to judge it. That is an example of what you would do to be. loyal to the person who endorsed you and made your speakership happen, is to not separate from Doge, to not to not separate. I read a story where it was saying that Trump was trying to kind of collar Doge in a way

and trying to pull them back a little bit with some things. And I don't know if he's getting some pressure. from other lawmakers now, to be fair, it was a daily beast piece that first started it. But his statement was that he wanted to replace the chainsaw with a scalpel. And that's apparently what POTUS had suggested. He wrote on True Social that he's instructed Doge to use a scalpel rather than a hatchet to go after the federal workforce. He said, as secretaries learn about and understand, this is what he wrote on true social quote, they can be very precise as to who will remain and who will go. We say the scalpel rather than the hatchet.

He goes, the combination of them, Elon Doge and other people will be able to do things at a historic level. So I don't get the sense that he's like collaring him, but scalpel as opposed to hatch it, Democrats are trying to use the newly unemployed federal workforce and they're trying to act like, They're trying to misrepresent that as Trump turning his back on the working man. And now these people are out of work as a result. I'm just trying to figure out how people thought cutting spending was going to go. Everyone loves spending everybody else's money, don't they? Government loves spending all of our money. I mean, honestly, the federal workforce is too big.

How do people think this was going to go? Do they think it was going to be kittens and sunshine? Do they think it was going to be easy? What the hell? No, it's going to suck. And some people will lose their jobs. And that's the unfortunate reality of it. And people need to start being honest with themselves.

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It was on Tiana's Bayou Adventure in the Magic Kingdom. The guy jumped out and decided to like wander around with this kid. The ride was paused for 10 minutes and then it was delayed further. And they said that they, it was all. I'll hold up for 30 to 40 minutes because they got out and were wandering around and looking at stuff. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to stay in, you absolute moron. This is also why I don't do amusement parks.

I don't like going and standing in line and having to be herded like cattle for what a ride that, you know, if you want a real ride. Just saying, go like whitewater racking or something. I don't know. A, let's see. Oh, no, I'm not doing that one. Oh, no, not doing that. I'm going to go back because some of these are just no. Ooh, ooh, ooh.

The Tasmanian devil. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it. We got to go back to this. This is from last hour. We didn't have time. Tasmanian devil gives a woman who went in to use the restroom in major surprise. They're actually way cuter than I thought they would be.

An Australian woman was awakened by the son of her dog's growling. She went up, opened the door for them to go outside, and then she was going to use the restroom herself. But there was a Tasmanian devil that ran into her bathroom, chased by the dogs, to take shelter. behind the commode. So she trapped him in there. They called it the devil. They trapped the devil in there. And they had to get basically a critter catcher out to come and catch it.

She said that it went crazy in there. Like it just kicked things off of the shelves, everything. So they were able to get it out and I guess rehome it. But still, they're very aggressive little things. Cute though. Super cute. rat populations are surging as cities heat up. Like probably no greater example of that than maybe perhaps in New York.

But they said scientists have published another study. Science advances is the journal. Duh. As temperatures climb in cities, where have populations grow. No, really? You mean it's harder if it's colder? Good grief.

Why is that a study that somebody spent money on? Good grief. And last but not least. This potus is being pressured to make Puerto Rico independent and save America $617 billion. That's a lot of money. He's being lobbied to make it an independent nation. Congressional offices are in possession of a seven page draft executive order on how the U.S. could help the island territory transition to independence. And they said that this is, I guess it's something that's being widely debated within the cabinet, but we'll see how this goes.

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Keep your finger on the pulse with the Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis, whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash here with you. We are at the bottom of this third hour. I was looking at this crazy story of these U.S. Army soldiers who were indicted for selling secrets to China. Their names Li Tian, Gianzhao, and Ryu Duan were all indicted for selling secrets to China.

Kane, if only there had been some signs that this was an issue. If only there had been some signs that these individuals, maybe perhaps, because this isn't the first suspicion, I think we have him. Joining us, if I can see him on my monitor. Joining us right now, Stephen Yates at Yates Combs on X. He joins us via Skype. And as you know, he's been in not one but two different administrations. And he is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

I know no one's more surprised by this than you are, my friend. These three individuals indicted for selling secrets. I mean, I would have never guessed. at all. Your thoughts? Well, it is sad. Now, on the one hand, I think that there's a much greater threat to our national security, homeland security by all of the advanced cyber attacks that Chinese entities engage in, whether it's salt typhoon and other kinds of massive efforts that go after our infrastructure and big data on Americans and all that. But good old-fashioned spook craft is going on.

I like that word. The Chinese Communist Party is the one that's ethnically profiling people going out there and making clear that if you're of what they say their ethnicity is, that you owe something to their mothership and should compromise the country in which you may have achieved citizenship. But I also, Dana, I would just say there's a systemic way that we could improve in this effort. And that's to stop wasting billions and billions of dollars on lengthy government applications for law-abiding of citizens when they go through and have these background checks for government jobs. But make very clear, when you are in a position of responsibility, you will be surveilled. It makes clear that you are free in your ordinary life.

But if you have the privilege of special access in government, you're going to be followed, you're going to be watched. And it's to keep America safe and keep America's secret safe. because that's where the security should be, but we've done it backwards for the last half century, and we have 100% record of missing things exactly like this until the stuff's already sold. You make a really good point. I know one of your colleagues at Heritage said there were over, and I'm looking at my notes here, over 1,200 cases, for instance, of intellectual property theft lawsuits brought by U.S. companies against Chinese entities. 224 reported instances of Chinese espionage directed right towards the United States.

69% after Xi Jinping assumed office in 2013. 30% involved the theft of military technology. That's insane. I mean, that's definitely the actions of a nation that might think that it was in a Cold War with you for sure. Absolutely. And my friends at the Heritage Foundation have put out a long-term report saying, that we are in a second cold war. People don't like to talk about it that way.

Understand they don't want to take on those kinds of big commitments. But really, my point of view is exactly as you are intimating, when people act this way towards our country, they have in fact declared this on us. And our only choice is whether and how we're going to respond. And so I think it's absolutely the case that we have this massive scale attack on us already. and this event it's all hands on deck for the Chinese Communist Party. And in many cases, they don't even have to pay people. They're just manipulating them into doing stuff against the United States.

And so I think it's a huge challenge for us, but we've got to be up to it. And hopefully the new administration is serious about it because we shouldn't forget. The last administration said it was the weather that was going to be the greatest threat to our national security. That's the greatest. That's the greatest geopolitical threat is the weather. And then don't forget white supremacist. you know, roving bans of white supremacists all throughout the country, talking with our friend Stephen Yates. Now, I hear about all these lawsuits that are brought by U.S. companies against Chinese entities for theft of IP.

But whatever happens to those, like nothing ever happens to those suits. I mean, unless I'm missing it or they settle, you know, amicably quietly. Well, this is a massive principal challenge that the Trump administration is grappling with right now. And there's everything on IP, but there's also lawsuits, say, for, companies that are known and proven to have manufactured the fentanyl that's killed Americans, that there are cases with judgments. And so we have COVID that has gone through, and now there's a massive judgment against the government of China and entities in China about COVID. And the huge question is, how do you get that money? And one answer is if you have tariff money,

are there ways that we can repurpose that to help those who have been victim or increased resources to combat these threats? In some ways, you have to have laws crafted by Congress to do that. We've gone at light speed on executive orders. Congress is not yet caught up to light speed on a lot of this stuff. But that's kind of where this argument needs to go. There's a systemic way to deal with it, at least to start, and we're not there yet. Speaking of lawsuits, Missouri came out won a $24 billion judgment against China in one of those COVID lawsuits. This was first brought on by former AG, now Senator Eric Schmidt, now current AG, Andrew Bailey continued it.

That's huge. So it was a federal judge that ruled in favor of this. But now what happens? China wouldn't show up in court. They're not, I mean, I guess you can say that as you were talking about, the tariffs can pay for the 24. They're still going to do this. There's no deterrence to them at all, though, for them. them rather. There's no, there's no deterrence until there is a structural change to what we're doing.

Now, I think that part of the structural change has to be that we're not going to conduct normal business with countries that allow this kind of behavior to be done with real measurable material damage to Americans. This is not a theoretical debate where we see sort of grass growing on closed out factories, which is bad. That has hurt Middle America for a generation or two. But this is one where we can actually count the bodies and we can count the economic damage in the billions. And so I don't know when it's enough. It's been enough for me for a long time. But I don't know when it's enough for the rest of America to say, no, mas.

We're not going to have normal relations with this kind of a country. And it will cost something, but we're going to just have to manufacture elsewhere. I just spent last week in Argentina where they have rare earths that we can and should be using. they have satellite contracts that we should be getting. They have communications contracts we should be fighting for, but it's China down there trying to sell their Huawei technologies. And we've got to wake up and do some things different in this hemisphere to then make us less dependent on China.

That's interesting. We're talking with Stephen Yates at Yatescoms via Skype. That's interesting because I know you were down there in Argentina. You were talking with Malian and Malai's people. Are they amenable to the United States on this? I mean, because I realize that we see things through our very American perspective and not every other country from, you know, our values origin, not every country shares that. So their perspectives are a little bit skewed from what ours are. Are they at least open?

Are they amenable to realizing at least that the United States is a way better ally than China ever could imagine to be? Yeah, well, they don't have the same experience we do in the sense that, I mean, They certainly felt COVID and the overreaction to COVID was very damaging everywhere. And so down in the southern tip, it was felt that way too. But they are not having as many people killed by fentanyl and other kinds of evils like the United States. And they're not suffering as many cyber attacks in a comprehensive way than we are. But it's not because they're not getting attention. And they would like to make the U.S. their first best partner in almost almost,

all things. There's a major defense opportunities that they've been going for. They almost were in a position of buying, for God's sake, Chinese fighter jets to work to serve in their military. And it was only after very intense creative things that they were able to get F-16s from somewhere else to be able to try to bolster their needs. So in many ways, we need to get in the game. And that's part of what Doge and the lethality arguments that Secretary Heggseth is making, we've got to fix our manual. manufacturing supply chain and actually be there for those that want to be our partners and allies. And I would just place a premium on our hemisphere. That's a really good point. If only, you know, I hope that some of these lawmakers have the

spine to do what's required. So far, I am entirely thoroughly unimpressed by everything that I can't say you're wrong. I'm right there at rage mode. Like I'm just to flip the switch. It's just so frustrating because everything that you're saying makes so much sense. And if we could just do this and if we could just be self-sufficient with manufacturing and we just stop wasting so much money on everything else. We're talking with our friend Stephen Yates. I wanted to ask you before I let you go because it, okay, Taiwan, every time I see a headline that says China's escalating, I immediately want to ask you, because it's a gradual escalation to the point where it's like the frog and the proverbial, you know, pot of water, boiling pot of water. It feels like they're just very

carefully just turning the dial bit by bit by bit by bit up until before we know it here's a conflict right on our doorstep i mean they've been trolling australia now the military they're saying that they're going to tighten the quote unquote noose around Taiwan if the independence movement escalates i kind of wanted to get your thoughts on all of this because i just feel like this particularly is something so incredibly important to watch especially now with canada's new prime minister and five eyes and all of this other i just kind of want to get your last thoughts on this. Well, I lament the developments in the Great White North. So far, they're in their leadership change. They want to go from Tweedle-E to Tweedledum as far as I'm concerned.

It seems like a winner. So I just hope and pray that the Canadian right can awaken and find a way to work with the Trump administration and see where we can go from there in North America. But the Taiwan situation is concerning to me. Now, I'm one that said I've lived with this most of my life. The threat's always been there. It's not going away because it's easy to destroy. It's not easy to build things and to do things peacefully and amicably. And I think the United States, again, we've got to be able to provide to our friends and allies if they're ready to buy defense articles to increase deterrence. And the United States has people who like to tell others to do more, but then we're late in providing what they want to buy. And then we'd want to restrict them from

developing things themselves. So we've got to break that paradigm, and I hope we do it really, really quick. But with Japan, Korea, if they can get their politics straightened out, Taiwan, the Philippines waking up a little bit, there is some hope that this durance can be restored there, but we're in a dangerous couple of years, I would say. And I hope that the president can start conveying to China's leader to just knock off this really irresponsible and offensive rhetoric. Now, will they listen? Probably not. But if it takes... They don't like the first round of tariffs and the second round of tariffs. I think that they're going to hate the third and fourth rounds, too,

if they don't try to change the way they're dealing with the United States. Well put. Our good friend, Stephen Yates, at Yates comms is where you can find him. He also has his website. Everything is linked up there, and we'll also have it as well, our lower third and YouTube, too. It's always good to see you, my friend. Always appreciate your perspective. It feels like even though we've won in November, it's, I just feels more dangerous now than it ever has.

Right. So it's good that we've got your reason analysis out there. We're grateful for you. I'm so glad that you're traveling the world talking to these people. We're grateful. Hope springs eternal. Thanks so much, Dana. Good to see you, my friend. Stephen Yates is going to save the world. He's going to save the world by going out there, being real chill, talking with everybody. You know, he's a good one to have in your deck. All right. We got to move. We got today in stupidity on the way. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast. Because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast.

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baggage together. They're so disorganized. When I look at political warfare, I'm always like, where would I, if I were left as, where would I attack the right? And then that's where the right needs to shore things up. You know, any weak spot, you don't want to make it, you don't want to give them any kind of opening.

And Democrats are in such disarray that there's no, I mean, good grief. I wanted to, this is what, audio somebody 11, Alisa Slotkin was they asked her about Gavin Newsom running to the center on the trans stuff and she had no idea how to respond to this no idea we better learn because he might be your party leader

coming up listen this is 11 sorry Senator do you agree with Governor Newsom well look I think you know you'll have to talk to Mr. Newsom and his podcast and we're all talking about it now because she's asking what you think controversy

for me I mean I grew up playing three seasons of sports. In Michigan, sports is like our religion, right? It's a, I wouldn't be here. I think without the leadership training that I got in women's sports. And, but for me, it's like, let the local community figure this out, right? In Michigan, we have a process in place where if someone who's born, that's not what she asked. She was like, well, what do you think about his comments? And Slokin did not want to answer. She's, she can't answer because she doesn't want to give any ammunition to any of Newsom's camp because if Newsom ends up, you know, ascending to power, Slotten doesn't want to be on the outside of that. So she has no, you know, I can't believe

someone to actually ask her that. I hesitate in giving them credit for that. I'm not surprised at all. The media sets it up for a narrative to be delivered. And if you want to hear the other Democrats over the weekend that said the exact same thing that she said. Yeah, well, it's time for your today and stupidity, I think. Well, we can, we can do that. Okay, let's make this today. Listen to some of this. We want to make sure that these decisions are made by the communities, by the schools and others that are the ones close to us in that. We've got to make sure that it's the local community.

Even Adam Schiff says it's a young person and I want those sports to be fair. I want those sports to be safe. And I have confidence that local schools and local communities can make those decisions. There it is. Again, it's all about essentially just pivoting it over to the local community so they don't have to have a spine on this issue. And to me, that's stupid. Very interesting. Indeed. Folks, that does it for us today. Again, find us over in Substack, chapter and verse. I'll be here tomorrow, but then I will be out the rest of the

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