The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - BONUS: Who Is Aleksandr Dugin, The Russian Influence Behind The Woke Reich?

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

Dana exposes Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian philosopher praised by Tucker, Bannon and Candace. Thomas Massie is suddenly so concerned about the USS Liberty.Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to break down the optics behind Xi’s first trip to North Korea in seven years, China dropping their rare-Earth element exports and more.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Webroothttps://Webroot.com/DanaMake the switch and feel the difference of truly fast, modern antivirus protection — for a limited time, you can save 60% with code DanaRelief Factorhttps://www.ReliefFactor.comDeclare your independence from pain with Relief Factor—start the 3-Week QuickStart for just $17.76Prebornhttps://www.PreBorn.com/DanaDonate today to help another Mother and Father experience hope. $28 sponsors one ultrasound and can help save a baby’s life. Or Dial  #250 and say BABYNative Path Grass Fed Collagenhttps://GetNativePath.com/DanaFor my special offer get up to 45% OFF. Try it risk-free with a 365-day money-back guarantee.Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaSave $5 on HumanN Cholesterol Health Daily at Sam's Club. Head to your local Sam's Club and do more to support your cholesterol health with the science-first brand. Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAVisit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAGhostBed has the cooling luxury mattress you need for the best summer sleep. Use code DANA for an extra 10% off sitewide.Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaIf you want to see how physical gold and silver could fit into your portfolio, download Noble Gold Investments FREE Wealth Protection Kit. Pocket HoseText DANA to 64000For a limited time, get two FREE gifts—a 360° rotating pocket pivot and thumb drive nozzle when you buy a new Pocket Hose Ballistic; just text DANA to 64000, message and data rates may apply.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. And make sure you check out Substack, chapter and verse, because there's always a lot of really good stuff up there. Like, for instance, Lorraine has a deep dive on Alexander Dugan, which I'm going to cover. We're going to talk about regularly on this program. We said we would. It's all part of the war for the soul of the right. And this is the kooky guy who is trying to, he's the big, he's the cook behind the multi-polarity push. and he's the one that all the woke rikers,

when they went to Moscow last week, they met with. The history on this is insane. Lorraine's piece is a must read on this, and you need to bookmark it. He's a guy who, Alexander Dugan is a pseudo-intellectual. When you actually listen to him, you're like, what? And realize he's not a real intellectual. But he's a guy that Bannon loves,

and you guys know I don't like Steve Bannon. And I've known him personally for 15 years. So I have a lot of real life insight into why I don't like him. There's some really good reasons there. And not just me, every single original Breitbart editor for Andrew Breitbart before he passed. There's a reason why we all think the same thing. Hmm, common denominator. Isn't us?

It's him. So Tucker Carlson said, oh, he's the most famous political philosopher in Russia. And Amazon won't sell his books. He's the guy who, I mean, he's literally a Satanist. I mean, he was, he's into mysticism, he's into the occult. He is, he's, you know, been in all, taking part in all these satanic rituals. And your scene's part of the post that Juan is showing you now. He's, he is, uh, a Nazi, he's always had Nazi sympathies.

I mean, this is all well documented stuff. All the receipts Lorraine has in this post, if you're interested, which you need to. But he, the background on this is crazy. this guy has been at this for some time. And all of the big players in the Woke Reich really, really promote this guy. So listen to this. He really began actively, like in the a aughts, like go back, go back 20 years. He began really trying hard. It's a sci-up on America. And remember what I told you in the beginning. You know, when we started the program, one of the reasons why, for instance, TPSA is so under attack is because it is the, largest pro-Christian, pro-liberty, pro-West youth organization in the world. And every single time that you've had a communist uprising or whatever, it all began by brainwashing the youth and then the youth would rise up. Go back and look at Nazi Germany in the early days. Go back and look at the Maoist revolution. I mean everywhere, South America. I mean everywhere. It's always happened that

way. In Albania, it's happened that way. Everything always begins with youth movements. And so you have this pro-Christian, pro-West, pro-liberty movement. And that is a big threat to tyrants who want to brainwash a populace. And you have to destabilize a country psychologically before you can conquer them militarily, especially a country like the United States. And so this is part of what Dugan does. You guys remember, go all the way back, I hate even saying his name. He is literally, like, please know that when I call someone something, it's because they've stated that they are If you're out there saying that you love Hitler and that you love Nazis and you think that they were amazing, that makes you a Nazi. So I feel like that that's deserved.

So we come to Richard Spencer, who is this, you know, white supremacist, Nazi lover. His ex-wife was Alexander Dugan's American translator. All of these connections. Guys, when you step back and look at all the connections here, you begin to see very quickly that none of this is organic. And remember, Spencer was involved in that unite the right thing. I wonder if Southern Poverty Law Center paid him, too. I'm curious. And so they love Dugan.

They love Dugan. And Alex Jones, he's hosted Dugan multiple times. And they all claim that they hate the globalists. This gets crazy. Mike Flynn, General Mike Flynn, apparently his family priest, Carlo Vigano, was associated with Dugan for years. Lorraine notes. Flynn also has connections through some of his lobbying firms. Some of these names are going to shock you.

They're really going to shock you. And so you've seen a lot of these woke Rikers shift with this, whether it's Gal Sharpton, whether it's Fuentes, whether it's all of this. They, and I think Gal Sharpton, I don't like saying her name, not because I find it reverent. It's just because I think she's trash, and I don't want it to infect my program. I don't want the algorithm to be infected with that level of stupidity. but the the shift to this multipolarity as they got closer to him that's when it started happening and she's like out there saying she's the bridge between russia and the united states and even talked about what i was talking about the russian orthodox church and you know western

christianity so all of this is all connected it is an absolute op and people need to see it you need to read this post that lorraine has it's not buying a paywall it gets into ryan morrow's piece as well and how Dugan and really Russia are trying to make Christians, particularly in America, question, is it faith or patriotism in your list of priorities, which comes first? And how patriotism has to go above faith and all of this other stuff, which gets into the Russian Orthodox Church, which weaponizes the church as a way to push the state. Right? That's the whole point of it.

And so this, you need to know who these people are and what they're ideal. are to understand how what is what is coming from this to really understand this and this this disconnect it's I mean it's in the white house it is absolutely in the white house and you have the red-green alliance where you have Islamism and communism working together to try to destabilize the west and a lot of these woke rikers out there I think they really believe this stuff some of them are just clickhors and they want the digital traffic that's it it. They're ideologically shallow. They're empty airheaded vessels. So it's kind of like a half and half sort of thing is really what it is. But they're they're really trying to do everything that

they possibly can to undermine the ideology of here in the United States. It's something else. You need to go read that post, though, if you haven't yet already. The other thing, speaking of the woke rites. So Tom Massey said he's going on, suddenly Tom Massey is so concerned about USS Liberty. all the time that Tom Massey has been in Congress. This man has not said a single syllable about the USS Liberty. And now suddenly, now that he was defeated by his own voters, which he blames as being, he's basically pulled to Hillary Clinton and called his own voters in what it basically deplorable, like Hillary Clinton has called them.

That's kind of what he's done. Really? He's never said anything about USS Liberty. Now all of a sudden, because it's a woke-wrack talking point, he wants to start pushing USS Liberty. Let me explain. We've talked about this once, but since he's doing this today, I feel like it's incredibly important that you are aware of what this is, right? This is insane.

So the USS Liberty was, I mean, it was kind of a spy ship, really. It was like a technical research ship for the Navy. And it went into the Mediterranean. This was during the Six-Day War. In fact, it was, I think, like two days in the Six-Day War, right? back in 67, back in 1967. And so that's when you had Israel that was attacked by a bunch of its Arab neighbors, right? You had Syria, you had Iraq, you had Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, so literally every one of its neighbors.

And it was mistakenly attacked by Israeli forces because they originally thought it may have been an Egyptian ship. Now, that's very plausible, and here's why. And you had 34 people killed. You had 171 wounded. Before it started, the Liberty was told to proceed, go into the Eastern Mediterranean. And there's been a lot of really great write-ups on this. And they needed to perform what they called signals of intelligence in this area. They were doing collection in international waters.

They were told, stay in international waters. It was like north of Sinai, the Sinai Peninsula. and they were told the closest allowable point was like almost 13 nautical miles from Egypt and about seven nautical miles from Israel, right? And again, day two of the Six-Day War. So it's completely crazy over there right now. And then when the conflict kicked off, they were sent follow-up messages. But here's the problem.

One of the things during the investigation that they discovered is that the message handling and the routing of the messages was a cluster foobar. It was completely ineffective. And the messages that they were trying to relay to the liberty were not received until after the attack. So you had the USS Liberty that legit just went right into the middle of a damn war zone, six-day war, all hell's breaking loose because of absolutely ridiculous communication. And also, they were told, I want to know who told that they could even get that close. No one's asking that question. Who is the person that gave them the order that they can continue? That's what I would like to know. They sailed right in the middle of literally an active war zone. I think because of poor direction and poor communication.

So the Liberty was apparently spotted by a number of different Israeli aircraft. And they were trying to figure out, okay, what is this boat that's advancing? What is happening here? Now, remember, day two, the Six Day War, they're being fired on by everybody. Liberty was, ended up getting 20 nautical miles from Sinai. They kept going. Then they kept getting closer. And then they had Israeli torpedo boats and aircraft dispatched to the area. And they were trying to figure out what was happening.

The, apparently multiple reports were sent to the USS Liberty about what was unfolding. But apparently it was not identified as, it was not identified as the U.S. vessel at the time. And there were different reports from other vessels coming through at the same time. And again, you are in the fog of war. It is complete chaos. Messaging is ineffective. The routing of the communication is jacked. So based on all of the information that was coming out in the investigation, they originally identified it as an Egyptian destroyer.

So they had a couple of jets that were given permission to engage. They did a strafing run and there were fatalities wounded. And this was like 90 minutes. And then there were several attacks that took place, right? Israel informed the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv after they figured out what was happening. And remember, the United States and Israel weren't even allies yet at this time. Israel was trying to get the United States to be its ally. You need to understand this.

They were not allies at the time. Israel was trying to get the United States as its ally, and maybe this intelligence expedition was a way of maybe checking that out. I don't know. Nobody knows. But the point is that they wanted the United States to be an ally. So you have to stop here and go, why the hell would they bomb somebody that they're desperately trying to get as an ally and have been doing all of this work up until that point trying

to get them to come on as an ally. When they realized what had happened, I mean, understandably, they were like, oh, my, gosh, they had apologies that were sent in by the Israeli Prime Minister. They immediately were investigating the chain of command. They had compensated all of the victims and all of their families. In the fog of war, and they showed that as soon as Israeli forces during the investigation, when they identified the liberty, they stopped the attack in a second. And there were a lot of questions as to well about the markings of the ship, et cetera.

There were a number of things that went in, and we can talk about that coming up because we're running short on time in this segment, but I'll get into it. But the transcript showed that all of the Israeli personnel that were communicating, they believed that that was an Egyptian ship. And that's what it is. And I'll tell you, a lot of people think that there are not friendly fire incidents, and there absolutely are friendly fire incidents that take place. I'll have you reminded of Pat Tillman. Pat Tillman, that was a friendly fire incident. It was covered up for a while. he was killed by members of his own platoon in 2004 in Afghanistan. Not on purpose, good heavens.

Friendly fire. This happens a lot. We had, and the cover-up, you've had Blackhawks in 1994 that were shot down by our own F-15s. I could sit here and give you an insane list. Every single conflict, we have had friendly fire tragedies. You know, in World War II, Normandy bombers accidentally. Friendly Fire incident killed some of our guys. In the Gulf War, there was tank-on-tank friendly fire.

This is part of the fog of war. This is why war is hell. But to fabricate baselessly conspiracy theories on this, to advocate an Islamist, Marxist, red-green point of view to destabilize the relationship between the free, I mean, the leader of the free world and the only ally in the Middle East, well, there's a purpose to that. And it flies in the face of all available facts. We have more on this.

Of course, Thomas Massey, who's never spoken about the USS Liberty ever in his life and is only doing this because now the woke rike is the only place that he has to go. Now that his own voters rejected him. Suddenly, and now he's going to do the insult. I've never seen a man who is so intelligent, be so stupid. We'll talk more about this. I know we've got to get moving because we have headlines. Our partners that bring you the program.

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So this is the craziest thing. So a woman who's 28 years old says a debilitating migraine, her symptoms are fixed in 15 minutes when she eats this nostalgic candy. Now, Kane notes that it's the mineral content in the candy. And she said that it was, what is the damn candy? Because the article takes you, doesn't even mention it. It's a UK candy, but it's like fun dip here.

It's like the powdered candy. People magazine, you're garbage. Fire your stupid, right? You know how the fizzy powder. Well, what's in it is an alkaline, right? Which is a mineral. And when you do the mineral, when you take the minerals in during a migraine, you're actually helping and relieving your migraine.

It's the same with caffeine because she talked about enjoying a Coke and something else, a Coca-Cola, and it helps. her migraines. It's the caffeine and the Coca-Cola. It doesn't. Yeah, well, it does. I mean, people tell you have coffee or like a, yeah, something like that. So we also have a, a teen was en masse after an assault on a SoCal Chipotle or, if you're Al Sharpton, Chipotle worker. I'm never going to get over that. Over. Surveillance video showed her throwing food. Oh, my gosh, 18 years old. Just beat her ass and get it done with. This was my daughter. I would have gone in there, grabbed her by the ponytail, and swung her like she would.

She's a makeshift ceiling fan. This girl would never, ever act up again. Where's your mom, girl? I mean, it looks ridiculous. And so I guess she was upset with her order, and that's how she decided to act. Very Hunter Biden discover her. I'm just saying, oh, man. Half a million dollars worth of bourbon was stolen from a Philadelphia warehouse, say officials.

An investigation is underway. 10,000 bottles of it were stolen. and it's like over $500 something thousand dollars. It was 1,800 cases of noble oak bourbon stolen from a supply store and what they're saying is a coordinated cargo theft operation. And so every one of the cases contains six bottles so that brings the total number of stolen bottles to 10,800.

That also seems like very difficult to steal. That is like a whole, yeah. Apparently now there's 2,000 gallons worth of, water used after a Tesla cyber truck crashes and sets fire along a road out west. So, wait, are we, can't ask this question. Are we measuring how much water we're using now? For fires? For fires? Okay. I've got a lot of questions about that. A lot of questions about that. Okay. That's, didn't realize that was the thing. Also, this, this is interesting. This comes from Red State. cancer has been winning for too long and now these GLP1 studies are offering hope.

So there are a number of studies that have come out from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, their annual meeting. They found that GLP1 drugs may slow or stop cancer from spreading. They tracked over 12,000 patients who had stage 1, 2, or 3 cancer. They have various forms of cancer. And they started taking a GLP1 or different class of diabetes medication. their diagnosis and some of and in fact the ones that were dealing with lung breast colon liver they were 38 to 50% less likely to see their disease spread to the next

stage that's crazy that is crazy because you hear so much bad things about this right but then I read another story where it said that it actually helps people who are like addicts like drug and alcohol addiction this is wild So maybe they're getting a bad rap unnecessarily? I mean, the bad rap, there's some truth to what is the bad rap, but we all know sugar feeds cancer. So if you're going to actually take that portion of it out of the equation, of course cancer is going to suffer. Thank goodness. I wonder if you could just like have something that makes you not crave sugar.

If that's like part of your treatment, if you're going through that. But wow. So can you imagine? And they also had a separate study out of the University of Pennsylvania where they were saying that women between a certain age were less likely, they were studying, again, cancer study, and they said that women, the people, women who were taking GLP1 were 30% less likely to develop breast cancer in the first place, between ages 45 and 80. That is unreal as we move. And we've got our friend Stephen Yates forthcoming as well, our partners that bring you

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bottom of this third hour and you can listen coast to coast as you all know or watch the simulcast youtube facebook all that good stuff uh joining us now our very good friend mr stepyate's at steve deviates on X, and you know he has served in not one, but two presidential administrations. He's also a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and he is an expert on all things China. So China probably hates him. And he also gave testimony about fentanyl recently, which was very powerful, my friend. By the way, your words were so incredibly powerful. And I hope, I hope members, I hope our lawmakers really took that to heart. So welcome back. Good to see you. And thanks for joining us. I wanted to ask you, getting into some of the stuff, because

Xi Jinping, we may mention of this earlier, he's making a big state visit to North Korea. Now, I just really signifying the closeness between their attack dog and the person who holds the reins. I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on this because what are they, I mean, what do two baddies hope to accomplish? What are these two bad guys going to talk about during this state visit? Well, some of it is performative and rhetorical, but those things kind of matter. And what I mean by that is Xi Jinping is going over there to North Korea. And they're talking about the cooperation North Korea has had with Russia in the war against Ukraine. And they talk about North Korea has a nuclear program that is still in existence and moving ahead.

China has the world's most rapidly developing nuclear infrastructure, weapons and civilian. But basically, rhetorically, they're talking about this China, Russia, North Korea kind of confects. and people can laugh it off to a degree little rocket man talking big and Xi Jinping coming over to talk to his one ally in the world. But they are up to a lot of no good in the world. And whether it comes to missiles or other kinds of things, they're disruptive. And I hope the president's watching this because, you know, there's an awful lot that was said about the summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping of the Communist Party of China. But China has to have a lot. hasn't really done very much to be a problem solver in the echo of that.

And I think that needs to matter more. I was rating the economists, which I don't normally read, but they had a very compelling headline because they were discussing the China and Russia are both kind of battling it out to see who has the most influence over North Korea. And I just, that struck me as odd because I didn't even think of Russia having any, being even competitive against China in terms of influencing North Korea. Well, there is definitely some degree of competition. I think the economist overdoes it from time to time.

They spend a lot of time in their very liberal academic environs. And if the great prize of the world is North Korea, then that sucks to be in that world. And so they definitely have a degree of assistance that they give North Korea. North Korea wouldn't exist today as an economy without access to. China, their labor crosses over. I mean, in a prison state like North Korea is, if you're illegal, we're migrating out to go to China and work and come back, the state has to know about it. And you have to be allowed to do that in some degree.

And then the North Koreans that went along with the Russians to the front lines in the Ukraine exercised me. They're getting real-life war experience. And so they're getting something out of it. They might even be getting money out of it from Russia, for all we know. And then there's the munitions sales where some of the Chinese munitions might be laundered through North Korea. And into Russia, I don't imagine it's at scale. But there's definitely more to it than just sort of getting together and talking.

At the same time, what China and Russia are doing, whether it's been enabling Iran to bust sanctions in the past, or it's fueling the Russian war machine against Ukraine, what they're doing together is dwarfing whatever North Korea's contribution could be. Yeah, we're talking with our very good friends, Stephen Yage. You can find him on X at Steve Yates. With that, too, this story of the rare earth exports to Japan. So Japan pushes back on CCP talking points. And the communist China responds by dropping these. I mean, companies have been kind of scrambling to figure out what to do. by 80% that's that is crazy so how was Japan I mean is that

is that significant enough to kind of rock Japan national security wise or how would you frame that for us well it's a second shock to Japan when it comes to critical mineral and rare earths this category of things that aren't that rare but they're very vital to some of the

high tech supply chains that we all depend on for military and national security but also our smart way of life. And it was around the 2010-2011 time frame when China first did this to Japan. Japan made some efforts to diversify and insulate against another shock. But obviously, the whole world's gone punch drunk

on dependence on China with supply chains, and it's only been COVID that mildly sobered people up. We really haven't adjusted as much as we should. We have done a lot of this damage to ourselves and having lunatic policies to get in the way of mining and refining things in our own country and among our allies. We've had willful blindness when it comes to China not playing by the rules. There's no such thing as free markets and free exchange with unfree countries like China. They don't buy capital at market rates. They

pervert market rates. They dump goods. They don't sell them at international market set prices. And so Japan is having a second shot adjusting to this. Now, on balance, I consider this a net plus because I want the whole world to sober up to what it means to be like 80 to 90% dependent on China for things that are vital. That's just insane in 2026. You can like China, you can have all the cheap widgets you want to play with made in China if you want. I don't, but other people might want that. But when it comes to something that's vital to your economy and your national security, it's really past time to sober up. So they're applying to play this game. It's not about economics. It's about using leverage. I don't think it's going to work against

Takehi's Japan. I think that they have a sense of self-worth and they are a responsible stakeholder. Maybe it accelerates investment in our hemisphere, even outside of the U.S. to be able to get to this. The more we have center-right governments in Latin America, the more market access we should have to labor and resources and processing in our hemisphere that would be much, much better and more reliable than what we've got with China. It really does feel like that it feels sort of, and maybe I'm reading this incorrectly just because of how the news reports things or how often it reappears in the news, but it really does feel like the pressure on Japan has really increased after the election of the new prime minister. And I was also reading, like, you know, I have all these religious temples that are

being targeted and they've had like 20-something fires. There's a lot happening to try to, I feel, if I'm just borrowing tinfoil from Kane, it seems like there are a lot of forces that are trying to destabilize that major U.S. ally, because they are a considerable threat to, you know, Chinese aggression, especially any kind of expansion towards Taiwan. Well, it's not imagining the first thing about communist parties, and we have to remind people that the communists are real. The Communist Party of China is still communist. People want to say, oh, no, it's more free market than America is. So that I just say, you know, that's horse hockey, whatever. But it is real. And in those circumstances, the most toxic examples in the world for the Communist Party of China are Taiwan and Japan. And not for nothing, they are related to each other.

I mean, Taiwan was 50 years, a colony of Japan. And a lot of reasons why Taiwan became an Asian tiger and had a successful infrastructure on which to build a free enterprise juggernaut after not being. so free enterprise under martial law was because of the infrastructure that Japan helped built. And so China can't abide the idea of a major economy and now a normal nation with real defense capability with advanced technology and an alliance with the United States, basically abiding by the rules of the road in the world. China wants to pretend as if they're the one upholding the quote-unquote rules-based international order as long as it's their rule.

Now, I can be just as selfish as an American saying, I'm for it as long as it's our rules. But the difference is we raise everyone else's boat when we're making the rules. We invest in other people, including the freaking ungrateful Chinese that we showered with trillions of dollars of investment and opportunity. And so did Japan. But China is very much engaged in political warfare against Japan, suggesting it could re-militarize and trying to bring back the ghosts of World War II. And the world has not been forceful enough back at China, where they have an economic nuclear weapon that they're threatening to use against all of us in destabilizing this first island chain, disrupting global trade and global markets.

If you combine the value of Taiwan and Japan's stock markets and what it would mean for China to actually threaten by sea or by missile either of these two places, it would make 1929 look like a cakewalk. That's terrifying. That's absolutely terrifying. Last, well, because they, because they'd also, Japan's defense minister in one of these pieces, I know that you had shared, they were rejecting accusations of new militarism by Tokyo and criticize China. So it's almost like the narrative is they're trying to accuse Japan of being the aggressor when it's China that's been expanding its military, China that's been sending the boats, you know, whether it's to Philippines or even all the way to South America. It's been China that's been the aggressor, but they're trying to point. finger at Japan. Everyone in America that has been subjected to the hypocrisy of the global left would know that the first thing they do is project their evils on us. And so that's what they're doing when it's the CCP versus Japan. And the CCP, it's militarizing. And I urge anyone to take a look at this cool cat who is the defense minister of Japan. Number one, he might be a future prime minister. You might want to get to know him now. But he also looks like a freaking movie star. He's got a complete killer look. He is right out of central casting to be a defense minister,

and that's probably also what scares the shorts off of the Chinese. There are a million memes of this guy. Oh, you're right. He's not a bad-looking guy. I thought he would be some dork. He's, yeah, the minister of defense, there are a million memes of him. So he seems he's pretty well liked by the Japanese there. And he has the out of virtue of being correct. So they're really getting, it's almost like they have an anime series of government leaders. Like you've got the all stars, right? It's like I'm watching Star Dust Crusaders, Jojo style, is their government. That's pretty amazing. He's one to watch. Our very good friend at Steve Yates,

always love talking with you and you providing the expert context for all of this. Thank you, my friend. God bless you. And wonderful testimony. We're going to make sure to share it as well on our newsletter. God bless you, my friend. Thank you. Much appreciate it, Dana. Take care. You too. All right, folks. So I want to tell you about something that actually works. This is the world's number one. expanding garden hose and their newest upgrade. It's the pocket hose ballistic. I like anything that has the word ballistic after it. I don't have time for cheap, stupid equipment that fails after one

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But what would you say to a Republican who says, James, if there was a Republican combat veteran who had a Nazi tattoo, a Totenkov tattoo, you wouldn't be so forgiving. What would you say to that? That's true. I would say you're exactly right. If that person was a four-time combat veteran, I'd say, I'd never vote for him or maybe it's her now. We have women in combat. But, but, you know, you can't, but I wouldn't vote. I wouldn't vote. I think the greatest change we face right now is some Donald Trump. By the way, being a veteran is not a get-out-of-geal-free cart. That doesn't mean that you can go and just act like a jack-wagon and treat people horribly, et cetera, et cetera, as grand planters, obviously very clearly done. Just as being any other variable does not

give anyone a get out of jail free card. And I find it ridiculous that Democrats spent D-Day weekend making these excuses for Graham Platner. Just absolutely insane. And people like Carville, that was probably the tamest soundbite, I think, from maybe the past week that we could play of him. Yeah, it's been a little crazy. It's been a little crazy. And, of course, everything, observance of Adida, which is I love the history of World War II. And just every year I always read about everything that, I mean, it's just there's so, there's so many completely amazing stories that took place in one day with thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of soldiers that made land and went in and knew, I mean, when they were approaching the shore, knowing,

but they were going to have to go through waist-deep freezing water with a 70-pound pack and bullets whizzing at you from the cliffs. And so many people not making it initially. And yet they trudged forward anyway. You could either stay there. And I think one of the quotes from the one of the stories I read is one lieutenant was telling fellow soldier, you can either stay here and die or you can move forward. And just the amazing feat we were able to accomplish.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Scientists found a fossil of a 120 million-year-old bird-like dinosaur in China. They said that it offers insights into micro-raptor movement. Wait, full stop. I don't like regular raptors. They're a little scary. I saw Jurassic Park and I all did too.

Microraptor? What is it, tinier and meaner? I don't like that. They said that it's a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur fossil discovered in northwestern China. I immediately don't believe anything that they've discovered over there, providing new insights into these small feathered predators known as micro raptors. I don't believe anything that. I just, that's how bad it is.

How bad is that? You don't believe a single thing that China has.