The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - BONUS: The Iranians Are Choosing The Hard Way

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

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Welcome back to the program. We were telling you how vice president now is not going to be going to Pakistan to engage in negotiations because I don't think Iran's serious about negotiations. Not at all. In fact, you have too many leftists wanting America to fail. Cut six. This is Caroline Levitt earlier. The Iranian Navy is in the bottom of the sea. We have completely depleted their air force, their military, their ability for their leaders to communicate with one another inside.

this radical regime, yet the American media is still trying to say that the United States is in a worse off position than we were at the start of this, that Iran still poses a threat. It's all a bunch of nonsense. They are rooting against this president and therefore our country, and it's really despicable to watch. But people need to realize, too, that it was IRGC gunboats that first violated the ceasefire. They fired on a tanker in the strait. And that was on, there was a couple days ago. It was the second commercial vessel that was hit by one of their projectiles. They were trying to, they were, they were doing all of this again. So we responded. And then there was, the Iranian media was saying that IRGC, they instructed vessels to remain at Anchorage in the Gulf.

And they said, they're warning that any approach to the straight will be treated as cooperation with the enemy. I guess their cardboard guy came up with that. I don't know. Yeah. They were trying to act as though, that they who had control of the strait and they were firing on other vessels, except that's not in line with the ceasefire. Hmm. Remember what the Lebanon, the Lebanese leader had said after, well, no, this was their, their Iranian foreign minister after they had talked to Lebanon. He was saying, well, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passes for all commercial

vessels through the strait is declares. declared completely open for the remaining period of the ceasefire, et cetera. But yet, you still had their gunships, their gunboats, firing. Apparently, we also have the USS Gerald Ford that just arrived in the Red Sea cane. Yeah. It's been there for a couple of days now. A couple? Yeah.

Just a couple days. It just slid into the DMs right there. A couple of tours probably. Yeah, yeah. And, yeah, they, this is. I mean, they had it. I didn't think this deadline's going to come and go. I think it's going to come and go.

They have the blockade until they come to the table to negotiate. So way it is. But their speaker for the Iranian parliament, Mohammed Galabaf, is the one who said, I am ready for martyrdom. For the left.

He's not ready for martyrdom because he's not going to do anything. He's sending the IRGC out there to do it. This guy's not going to do a single. thing. You're not going to do anything. So the blockade's on. It's working and it's bankrupting them. That's the bottom line. Absolutely bankrupting them. And Carg Island used to be one of, if not maybe the, busiest oil ports, docks in the world. Busiest oil docks. And they had, open source intel had a satellite view. And this was, from two days ago, April 19th. It says,

Islamic regime oil business choked, no loading activity observed at Carg Island in the latest Sentinel 2 imagery. The U.S. naval blockade continues with the Wall Street Journal reporting Washington is weighing seizures of Iran-linked tankers worldwide. $438 million a day, Kane. The most that analysts say that they can sustain this is maybe 30 days. we're getting there. And they only have, I think, three weeks of reserve to be able to hold oil. At that point, the drills have to stop or something. Now, one of the things, so it's OSIN-T-613 is the account.

That's a really good account to follow. But you got, you get the impression, I mean, well, you got the impression from POTUS's interviews as of late that these are, you're not going to have any kind of successful negotiations. But they said that one senior U.S. official told Axios that absent and imminent breakthrough, fighting could restart within days. They said that everybody in the area has been preparing for it and that the U.S. military is just going to board any Iran-linked oil tanker and seize all of their vessels in the coming days. They're going to expand the pressure beyond. According to Wall Street Journal, it's what Wall Street Journal says. So remember the one Iranian flagship that we control the T-O-U-S-K-A, T-O-U-S-K-A, T-U-S-K-A,

Toska, was an Iranian flagship bound for Iran that left China. This is the one that we hounded for six hours. Because we said, turn around, or we're going to fire on you and board you. They chose the hard way. So we did. And there's video of it. Sintcom said that forces in the Arabian Sea enforce the blockade. They intercepted that M. V. Tuska heading to Bander Abbas at 17 knots.

And they said the issued repeated warnings over six hours and that the ship was not compliant. So UFA and UFO. They had Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Board the vessel. It is now in U.S. custody. This is the one where they found all the precursors for the ballistic missiles. Coming from China. Hmm. Do you think that maybe perhaps change some things as it relates to negotiations, Kane?

Because I know that they were very eager to find out what was on that vessel. Trump does enjoy the leverage. And I think there's a lot of leverage here when he goes into meeting with Xi. Exactly. So the Iranians looks like they're going to choose the hard way. Well, I mean, for them anyway. Not really for us, but for them for sure. and I this is what their choice was they could have they could have gone and and continue negotiations

and had not opened fire and actually honored the ceasefire but of course you know they chose to not do that so Trump is like now we're just we're not going to do this we're not going to let this play out I mean we're going to string it along for a couple of other weeks that that I mean the only reason why we played a delay game initially was so the Saudis could open that east-west pipeline bypassing the straight almost entirely So there we go. We'll see. And I don't, I mean, going to Pakistan, didn't they cite security reasons first?

I thought I read that they had. But I don't, Pakistan's not involved in this with any kind of good intentions. They were the ones who lied about Lebanon being included. And all these mouth breathers here were like, see, the president said, Lebanon. No, it was literally Pakistan that made that allegation. And then Lebanon's leadership had to get involved in say, no, no, no, Lebanon speaks for Lebanon. and the United States also denied reports that Lebanon was included. This is so dumb.

So, yeah, and Steve notes, there was no guarantee that Iran was even going to show up. There were a lot of clues that they weren't going to. The way that they talked and the way that they tweeted, it was like they weren't going to show up for this at all. So what's the point? That's just not full force why we can do it. That's how you successfully prosecute something. You don't have mission creep. You let our folks do what they need to do to, just.

save lives and resources and you use the least amount of resources, both human and otherwise, possible in order to achieve the objective. You do the work that other people are too cowardly to do. Because if it's not done by the time midterms happen, it's never going to happen. And it's going to be worse. It'll be worse for all of our kids to deal with. It's going to be, it'll be heinous. This is, this is it. This is the last exit on the highway. So we'll see how that's. goes. But they need to get out of his way. Democrats, so they have one candidate, one guy, he's in the Senate, Fetterman, who seems pretty popular. But it was interesting, the media decided to take a temperature check. Remember when Fetterman ran, we weren't fans? Remember that whole

nightmare? And you had Democrats saying, well, he had a stroke, so you can't talk about it. him and they really circle the wagons. Well, now they're uncircling the wagons. And this all, you can mark the time. It all happened starting October 7th because he decided he wasn't going to answer to the radicals in his party. So they did a temperature check with the state house, with Pennsylvania Democrats. Not a single one support his reelection. In fact, They had Brendan Boyle, who is rumored to be, according to Punch Bowl, I'm a Senate bid. And he said, quote, my focus right now is on 2026, but I would just say I'd be very surprised

if he ran in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Why? Because he won it last time. Why? There's another Democratic lawmaker also looking at a Senate run. Democrats are going to primary him out. They're going to try to primary him out of there. because they do not, he's not a radical.

John Fetterman is just simply not a radical. He was saying that he was the only Democrat that had supported Epic Fury, and he goes, now we're 48 days into it. None of this has been illegal. He was also asked, well, are you going to switch and become a Republican? And he laughed, and he goes, I would be the worst Republican ever. He says, I'm a Democrat. I appreciate his honesty.

Gosh, how weird is that to say? What did we just say? What is happening? Well, it's the whole fact that Democrats are no longer honest and haven't been for quite some time. And they don't have any moderates. They have no moderates in their party, except for him now. But he had said that he said, he goes, I've been the only Democrat that supported Epic Fury. We're 48 days into it.

None of this has been illegal. And he's citing the 2001 authorization of military force. That's what he's citing. And that's what lawmakers never changed, even though they want to call it. complain about it. He said that he was, you know, that POTUS was finally doing it. I do, I apparently Democrats, it's part of their, they're part of their platform that they want a terror regime in Iran to be successful. So they're going to try to primary him. They are going to go after him. They're already, they're already suggesting that that's what's

going to happen. Everybody was writing about this last night. It was that mediators everywhere. He, all of his Pennsylvania based congressional Democrats and other Pennsylvania, state house members they were asked, would you back him? They're trying to get as many people on the record as saying no as possible, while also, you know, giving a little bit of momentum to maybe some of the people that would potentially challenge him. He had this man, Democrats thought that he would be a puppet and they could have him in this seat and he would do exactly what they want. If you do not think that radicals have entirely eclipsed any kind of moderation in the Democrat Party, this is your complete explainer, one line. Why? Because they're going to

primary fetterman. He has been, I mean, he votes Democrat. I don't like the way he votes on everything. I don't. Sometimes he votes, he'll vote yes on a Republican measure. But he's a Democrat. But he's not nuts. How crazy is that? Democrats, they ran all the moderates out of their party. And now they're, now they're doing it again. They're having another, it's like a cyclical thing. They did it back, what was it? Like in 2007, they ran Zelmiller out and all the rest of those moderates. Then they did it again going into 2020 or actually 2016. And then now they're doing it again.

They're running everybody out. You either have to be a radical pro-Shiah, terror regime, pro-Hamas, or get out. And they're really using that as a litmus. That's one of the reasons why they're so mad at him because he has been an ally with Israel. He has, I mean, it's, listen to this. This is when he was asked. He ripped into these Democrats, and he was defending POTUS on Iran. Listen. I've been the only Democrat that has supported Epic Fury. And now we're 48 days into it. And none of this has been illegal. Every single president in those 47 years have effectively dealt with the Iranian nuclear problem. I mean, I will always forgive him a hoodie. He gets a permanent hoodie pass.

I remember how they all, think about all the ways that they've tried to come at this guy. So they were even trying to divide him and his wife. Remember all the stories that they were writing about his wife? Oh, she probably doesn't like what he's saying about this. Oh, she probably has objections. And smartly, she did not give them any, any ammo. She knew, I feel like she knew what was happening. did not give them any ammo to use her as a cudgel against her husband.

So that's good. That's smart. She has not come out and undermined him. So nobody knows really where she stands on some of this stuff. And that's the thing. He's in the elected seat, not her. So I'll give credit to her for that. I'll give credit to her for that.

She has not been a drag on him. She has, she showed up. They went, they were at an event just the other day where he showed up in a suit. He was in a red suit. She was in a red dress. They looked lovely. I don't know. Federman, they're going to come for him.

And that, I don't think that they have any other moderates. That's it. They don't have any other. Oh, Juan's showing you the photo. Oh, he's in a tuck. Sorry, a red tucks and she was in a red gown. They look lovely. He cleans up nice.

Look how nice. He can wear a hoodie whenever he wants to. But his wife, the press really was trying to bait her and they'd turning against him. She didn't take the bade. So good on them as we move. The folks who helped make the program. grand possible. It is the good people over at preborn. You know, Mother's Day is coming up and preborn has a mission. You can help them reach their goal of 1,000 life-saving ultrasounds before

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Meanwhile, in Virginia, they're literally, I mean, it is one of the craziest jan- I don't know if you've seen the way that they have this map. The gerrymandering is nuts. Why can't you just do things in a nice, uniform fashion, cane? Why do you have to make crazy shapes out of districts? Stop it. Virginia is the blueprint for Democrats as they approach trying to control the rest of the nation. That's really what it is. And they're hoping that they pick up in midterms for additional seats with some of this.

Now, the referendum is expected to take Democrat, like a, what is it, like a 6-5 Democrat versus Republican, breakdown and shift it to a 10 to one split for the Virginia delegation. This is insane. It's insane. And this is what we're looking at. So they are asked to approve this. It's being called one of the most gerrymandered congressional districts legit in the country. And you already had a pretty fair map. Didn't Yon say when he was doing an interview that it was the fairest of all of the, it's like, it was assessed as being the fairest most equal map that could have been. And now you have Abigail Spanberger who wants to make it super gerrymandered. And it's going to be, I mean, they've spent, I think, what, $70 million in ad buys and canvassing in order to make this happen.

It's a lot. And they're taking. So what the map is doing is it's partitioning off, partitioning off, I mean, parts of the suburbs that get near towards D.C. and Richmond, and they're trying to loop them in with more Democrat voters than Republican voters. They're trying to dissolve any kind of Republican strongholds in the state. I mean, Barack Obama came into town for this. They've had everybody coming into town for this thing. They have been raising so much money.

Now, remember, Spanberger said last year, she said, I have no plans to redistrict Virginia. That's what she said. Well, clearly that was a lie. An absolute lie. Yeah, so they're trying to make it to where it's five Republican, six Democrats to one Republican, ten Democrats. That is just, that's not how Virginia. I mean, Steve's out there. That's not an accurate reflection of Virginia, Steve.

No. That's insane. So I don't know if anybody's ever seen the map, but like all the top tails of all the districts are just northern Virginia. And all the seat that the district seats would be in Nova. like areas. So like people that live in like the sticks way down southwest have a seat that's like closer, a further away from them than New Jersey. Yeah. That's insane. That is crazy. The one I put in Slack is the current map and they're just looking to jack that all up. I mean, the way that they're trying to do it is really crazy. They, they really want to give themselves

a huge advantage. But without, I mean, they've won local races, but, you know, some of your congressional races, it's not necessarily the same, but that's what they're doing. They're trying to say, well, you know, if Texas redistricting stands, we're just going to, well, Texas redistricting, we also picked up a ton of voters, and they all voted Republican. That's the difference. They voted Republican. Your voters vote Republican, and what you're trying to do is dissolve those strongholds and dice them up with Democrats to reduce their strength and reduce the Republican vote. I mean, it's actual disenfranchisement is really what it is.

That's disenfranchisement. I mean, that's pretty important. Have any of the Hobbit-footed brothers, do they, nobody, did any of, did Gail Sharpton, have they been talking about any of those? Did they even know about any of those? These people who are like, we're America first. We're America first.

We're not talking about any American issues. Every day it's about to Jews, but we're America first. Have any of those grifters? talked about any of this. Apparently, Republican areas, though, are outperforming blue locations. So that's, I was looking at some of the local reporting on this. They had they, they said that a lot of the turnout so far. It's encouraging. I don't think they want to get out over their skis on this, but it's encouraging. But I think this is like one of the most important, in terms of elections, this is one of the most important narratives because you're talking about taking states that really helps swing

things towards Republicans and dissolving everything and breaking absolutely everything down to where you construct, you manufacture this like weak win for Democrats. That's exactly what this is. Can you imagine if all the people that were bitching and moaning about Israel were actually talking about any of this, just how successful Republicans? might be, but they're mad because their multipolarity scheme was found out. But we'll follow it. We're going to see now, apparently, so is the VP, he's now just going to the White House and he's not going to Iran, correct? Or he's not going, sorry, to Pakistan for these negotiations. So bear with us because

it's all developing. But apparently the VP is no longer heading to Pakistan. for any of those. He's not going to. And in the meantime, by the way, can I just point out that the top story at Daily Mail right now is Tucker disowning Trump. He has not said one thing about any of the gerrymandering stuff, not a single bit. It's literally been months of the same BAM show that they do. It's the same show every day. To juice, to juice, to juice, to juice, to juice every day. Alexander Dugan, that's all they do. Imagine if they really, these people are posers. They don't give a rat's ass about America. They don't care about America. They're America last. They're Qatari first. America last. Islamist dollars first. America last. That's why they haven't talked

about any of this, any of the stuff with midterms or any of these localized municipal elections, not a single one. So yeah, Vance is not going. So what does that tell you? I just think. King's eyebrows went all the way off his face up to the same. So if I'm the president, right, and of all the things that have been going on in the last 48 hours in, in relation to how Iran is responding to peace talks. You know, I would make the verbal and public effort to say my VP is going to go and continue this, you know, olive branch of peace idea. And then I think Trump somehow in the last 24 hours has just decided, you know what,

I'm not going to put my VP in a place where there could be some potential nefarious things going on. So, you know, because I think we're going to have to do something this week or this weekend that may be pretty devastating. Well, and I think, too, now remember one of the things that I was telling you about, let me pull this story up. One of the things that I was telling you about had to do with the seized tanker. And apparently, excuse me, the tanker that we ended up confronting was actually all the way out. It navigated through the strait and was in Gulf of Oman.

We ran that thing down. And what this cargo ship, the big, question is what was on it. I don't know if you saw it, but CENTCOM released actual video of them running it down and then getting the choppers out there and boarding the ship. That's pretty hardcore. Now, here's the big thing. I'm going to drop this in slack because this video's good. They're saying that it was taken into control by U.S. Navy Marines, that it was loaded with ammonium percolate. Percolate. I was trying to get the lower part out. Ammonium percolate, sodium percolate, sodium chlorate, oxidizers, and propellants, propellant chemicals. These are the inputs for manufacturing of ballistic missiles. And apparently, it was from China. Now, this is what I was talking to. about in the first hour, depending upon what was on that seized cargo ship, that's going to be a

that could be used for leverage in these negotiations. So, and apparently it's not the first one. So they seized this ship. It's in our custody, our possession. And it looks like, I mean, they had been violating, they violated the ceasefire when they started firing on ships. and then they wanted to pretend that our blockade no our blockade was no we're going to have a blockade until you start negotiating

that's it so they have no other recourse but again remember these are people like they're made one of their leaders one of their z-listers because everybody else keeps getting marked said well I'm ready to die from I'm ready to be a martyr for my cause that's like crazy radicalism

You can't negotiate with crazy radicalism. You just simply can't. So you've got to remember what's driving this. Yeah, it was this tanker. They had two million barrels of Iranian crew that were coming from Carg Island. Apparently, though, nobody's been loaned up at Carg. That's been, we got that on lock, apparently. So these are all, this is all significant.

And it kind of gives you a little insight as to why would the VP, ooh, now remember, it was all real fluid anyway. They weren't even announcing until like a day and a half ago that he was going to even go over there and negotiate anyway. So yeah, according to open source intel and others, including some analysts, a Saudi analyst, they were saying that the cargo on the seized ship that it was from China. And it was all the chemical precursors necessary for Iran to produce fuel. They were trying to run up through that blockade. so and Trump said we caught a ship yesterday that had some things on it that weren't very nice I'm that's his actual direct quote I love it so very interesting this gives some in this is a bad

look for China by the way that is upset over being boxed out of this straight it's a bad look for China. So really, I mean, you have to think of it, too. All of this conflict, at this point, it's just letting Iran kind of run it out because they can't really do anything else. What else are they going to do? They're going to run out of money. How much was this costing, like how many hundreds of millions was this costing for them a day? Oh, yeah.

You mean barrels? Yeah, yeah. No, millions of dollars from losing out of not being able to. It was like 13, 14 billion a month that they were losing. Yeah. Trump is not going to extend. He's not going to extend any deadlines. This is it. This is up to Iran to make this decision. That's going to be it. All right, folks, it's Dana. And if you know me, you know I'm a total foodie. I love cooking. I love quality, flavorful, fresh ingredients. And my newest discovery is fresh pressed olive oil, which has made it to where I cannot have basic hobo storebought olive oil at all forever anymore. It's richer. It's more vibrant. It just makes everything better from salads to dipping fresh bread, it's just that good. So why does freshness matter? Because olive oil isn't just oil. It's actually a fresh pressed fruit. And like anything fresh, the flavor and

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So a Florida man fell asleep at a green line. and when the cops interdicted him, he had gave him a fake name, and of course he still had a suspended license. It was five in the morning. Five in the morning. And the, is this in Missouri? It makes me wonder, because it said

it was in Wildwood and it was off 44. Oh, there it is. So a Wildwood police officer was dispatched to the intersection of 301 and Stite Road 44 in Missouri. And there was a guy literally parked at a green light. and he was clearly not aware.

29-year-old Daniel Valencia of Miami was asleep behind the wheel. His passenger was also asleep behind the wheel out completely. And officer woke them up, asked for license and registration and insurance, and then Valencia gave him a fake name and a fake date of birth. And that never works out. And, I mean, you literally, they can write there, get the database. and run your everything. I don't know what he thought he was doing.

So he was driving with a passenger, both unconscious, well, the passenger was out, and his license was suspended. And he was taken in Sumner County Detention Center and I guess posted $500 bond. But literally, like, how do you fall asleep at a green light?

How are you so, you know, a green light? That doesn't make any, it doesn't make any sense. A woman, this is, a woman is accused of bashing a man on the head with a picture frame at Kiki on the River in Miami. Okay, her eyebrows. I like a full eyebrow, but, mm, sometimes enough is a lot, you know. 24-year-old woman was arrested. She slapped this man upside the head with a glass picture frame at a popular Kiki on the river Mediterranean restaurant in Miami. And her name is Sophia Mayer of Miami. And apparently she and her party were scored it out

when the attack occurred. They said they, the establishment said that they were an unruly party. So clearly they reached out to law enforcement. I mean the brows. They reached out to law enforcement. And the man was apparently distressed holding a cloth to his head. He was trying to control the bleeding. You know, when you get, I mean, it was apparently bleeding everywhere because it was a, you know, a forehead cut. And so it was all captured on surveillance video. She was arrested on charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. She bonded out at 2,500.

And she also has a protective order against her. This means she's a total prohibited person as well because she's got a protective order against her. And she's got that felony. So she is, yeah, she's definitely, hmm. A man rescues kittens while walking his dog after seeing a woman abandon them like she was dumping garbage. I'm not a cat person. I'm actually legit allergic. super allergic to cats.

This is horrible, though. This guy, Peter Carey, watched this woman dump five kittens out of a cardboard box while he was walking his dog in Florida. And he managed to rescue them. And apparently they already all found a new home. But five, he said small baby kittens. That was a gator snack.

That's what she was trying to do. That's horrible. And he goes, I could not go through the rest of my day after seeing that and not do anything about it. And he said that he, I mean, it's surveillance video. caught it and he told police and apparently the families have

already been adopting them so that's good. Oh my gosh though. Like when people dump dogs, dude if we did not have laws against it, I would actually wait in the shrubs at like these old rural intersections Kane.

I'd be with you to support. I'm saying you know maybe with maybe some side armaments just saying I'd be absolutely waiting there and be ambushing anybody dumping any animals. There's people always want dogs. They want cats, too.

They always want animals. Let's see if... I'm surprised this as a man. A Florida man is accused of hitting multiple vehicles and a whole porch. The whole porch? Not part of it. Not part of it. He struck, and the vehicles were parked.

He apparently struck several parked vehicles in the porch of a home. Luis Campagnan, That sounds right. He was arrested process at the public safety department. Florida man, again, in Mexico, Missouri. The other one was in Wadwood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he, property damage exceeding $1,000 tampering with evidence, both felonies. He had four misdemeanors, also a DWI, and he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. And yeah, he was, he just ran right into everything and then try to get away. I always think it's important to diversify what you carry. You have different calibers. I have different calibers. I mean, depending on what I'm doing, sometimes I'll take, you know, I try not to carry anything under a nine, but if it's like a formal event or something like that, you know, ladies, it is a little bit harder to conceal carry. So I got to look at a 22. But sometimes you're just disbarred from exercising your Second Amendment rights altogether. In those instances, you need to be able to have a way to protect yourself.

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So what I do is I take the tears and I put it in my hair and it's almost like C-Salt's gray. That's. It's not funny. It is actually hysterical. And this guy is just. I don't complain that. Maxing right now. I don't even know what this is.

Who is this guy? He's a friend of that other fruitcake. The guy named after clavicles. No, that's clavicular, right? No, this one's not clavicular. This is his dumb G-H-E-Y friend. The name you're talking about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know who. Man, these. First off, let's just, what is wrong with them? I feel like they didn't have a father figure or any kind of male presence in their life. Number one. Number two, you idiot, they make actual sea salt spray for your hair. Like RNCO, Kevin Murphy, everybody makes it. Everybody makes a sea salt spray.

You don't have to, I'm going to cry max. That's just called crying. Stop putting other suffixes after it, you moron. Doesn't make it a new thing. These people who are like, no one cried until I was bullies. Now, crime's invented. Crime-axing. No, we are laughing at you.

We are, because you deserve it. You're clearly a participation trophy kid. Wow. He's friends with that dude. Didn't he, like, drug max and meth max himself up into the hospital, that other one? Yeah, that's a max. How was this in any way, any kind of positive role model for young men? Right?

I mean, if you regressed, like, that Buckley Carlson dude back to that age, that's who he'd be, right there. It's called Cry Maxine. I just like, put my tears in my hair. Again, they make literally a C-Salt spray that does all of that stuff. So if you were like smart maxing, you would know max that, right, Max? I mean, it's so stupid. You're really critical maxing right now. Because I feel like in absence of any kind of, um,

survival of the fittest, I need to perform this service for my fellow man. You know what I mean? That's actually more useful than most anything that's ever come out of the maxing community. Because we have taken out the cause and effect of natural selection. We've eliminated it. And so I feel like, you know, ridicule is part of that. And we've grown too soft as a society. And this is part of natural selection.

You should be ridiculed until you go back into whatever recess of darkness you emerged. Because this is stupid. That's dumb. and it needs to be said. Well, I'm going to tell you, you're going to see some different reactions with the markets here, depending on what happens today. I mean, everything was going crazy yesterday. It's been a while right. It's like even hard to even, it's hard to even figure it out for headlines. But with Noble Gold, let me tell you, these are advisors. They know this industry inside and out, and they have been advising on precious metals for well over a decade. These are people that you can trust

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on a U.S.-based employee's computers that captures their mouse movements, their clicks, and keystrokes, all to train its AI models and build AI agents that can perform work tasks. autonomously? No. No, we don't like that.

We don't, oh, that's bad. That's bad. No way. That's too invasive. That's insane. That's crazy. No, how would you, there's no way I'd be able to, no, not even happening. Let's see, scientists are intrigued by a nasal spray that reverses brain aging and mice,

and they say it may work on humans. Give me that mice spray. I want it. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Japan. prompting more tsunami alerts. That's a terrifying thing. I'm still, I think we're all still rock from the footage of the last mega tsunami that they had. And a runner celebrated too early in a devastating Delaware marathon upset.

And while they were pumping their fists, the other guy sprinted right past them.