The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Debt Limits, Pork-Filled Bills, & Biden’s Hidden Struggles

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Trump and Elon Musk slam Mike Johnson’s spending bill and propose raising the debt limit. Is this a Conservative position? Dana shares more of the pork slipped into the bill. The Wall Street Journal writes a bombshell piece saying that White House aides shielded Biden’s failing acuity since day 1 including avoiding reporters and scripting public interactions. The new Democrat talking point is that Elon Musk has control over Congress. The left can’t handle not controlling the Internet. Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy appear to be on different pages where it concerns the CR. Victoria Coates from Heritage joins us to discuss the importance of having an ally in the Middle East like Israel and how Israel and America can win.Please visit our great sponsors:All Family Pharmacyhttps://allfamilypharma.com/danaAre you emergency ready?  Stock up today at allfamilypharma.com/dana and use code DANA10 for 10% off your entire order.  Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaGive the gift of personal safety this holiday season with Byrna.com/DanaPatriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet a free smart phone with promo code FRIDAY.  Limited-time offer, or while supplies last.  PreBornhttps://preborn.com/danaEvery contribution counts.  To donate securely dial #250 and say keyword BABY or visit Preborn.com/DANA. ReadyWise https://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on your entire purchase.

this was the conservative play call we don't normally like what's called a continued resolution to see r but in this case it makes sense because if we push it into the first quarter of next year then we have a republican controlled congress and president donald j trump back in the white house will be able to have more say over the funding decisions for twenty twenty five now that would have been an easier thing to do but then we had circumstances outside of our control we had these emergencies that are required so we had as you know a record hurricane season we had helene and milton and they just did

massive destruction across our red states frankly in the southeast and the eastern side of the country and then we've had farmers who are in jeopardy of permanently going under they've had three loss years in a row because of binomics and inflation and other circumstances outside of their control and so when you cobble those two things together there's a desperate need for that aid and that's what adds another hundred plus billion dollars to the bill and that's where everybody's uncomfortable with it i am too we have a massive deficit and deficit and debt profit of course in this country. We can begin to address that and shrink the size and scope of government in January with Republican control,

but we've got to bridge the gap to get there and we cannot leave our small farms and ranchers and our inner people who are devastated by the hurricanes out in the meantime. So that's the difficult part about this. That's what people are really struggling with. And I am too, but we have a responsibility here. And that's the same old, same old. You talk about needing to cut all of that spending. Sean, this bill right here would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit. to the deficit, and the worst part is it's all for dim priorities. Why would you saddle Donald Trump with this terrible spending bill before he even gets into office? And Sean, the worst part is it dumps it right back in his lap in March. In March, under this bill, they'd shut the government

down again, have to do this all over again, have to raise the debt ceiling again later the same year. It's ridiculous. It's a horrible plan. I can't believe that Republican leadership ever cooked it up. Clearly, they didn't talk to Trump about it. And I tell you what? We need to have a serious look at who's leading this Congress because if this is the best they can do, I mean, it's just, it's total incompetence. This is a disaster. This is this. Well, this is, it's this stupid bill. And I, I mean, it's just, it's amazing some of the arguments that I've heard in favor of it.

Now, apparently, we're hearing about, you know, we have to possibly potentially just raise the debt ceiling so we can get what we want. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Welcome to the radio program, Dana Lash with you. I just want to dive. right into this just to get it set up because there's kind of a lot to fit in. But it's this, it's this fighting over the budget. It's this CR, this omnibus. And, you know, as we've been discussing on the program, we talked about this yesterday as well. The whole issue is overspending with the government. And when you look at, I think what was the last time when we were raising

when we like push to raise the debt ceiling, I think we increase debt by like $4 trillion or something insane like that. And you can't keep going that way. And I understand the difference between the deficit and the debt ceiling and all of that stuff. I get it. But I don't understand why you can't just allow us to hit the debt ceiling. And then from there, force cuts. And again, I get it that it takes, you know, if you're forcing cuts, it's something that you're going to have to go through the house on. I completely understand all of that. But the issue here is dispending. We just had members of Congress that are trying to, they slipped in this. They slipped in this omnibus, $174,000, like what, a 60% pay increase? I think was the percentage.

It was a 40% increase. 40% still. It was like 174,000. to like 240. Now again, why did they need that? Because they said it was a cost of living adjustment. It was a raise, but it was a cost of living adjustment. Okay, so here's the issue. It's a cost of living adjustment that's brought on by the incessant spending that we keep seeing from Republicans and Democrats. It's this excessive spending that's going, that's driving all of this, that's driving the deficit, that's pushing through all of this stuff. So why? Just again, I know it's going to take a longer bit of time, but just go through the house and let it take time. I'd rather it take time than consistently raise the dead ceiling.

And there are some people out there that are going to tell you it doesn't really matter that they're going to raise it anyway. Those are the people that also aren't going to give you anything to cut. They're not going to give you any solutions. They're not going to give you anything like this. And, you know, I got to tell you with Speaker Johnson, and that was audio somebody at one, right? Yes. Okay, so he wrote this damn bill. So how is it?

He's like, well, this is the conservative play call. You know, we don't normally like it, but in this case, it makes sense. You wrote it. You wrote the bill. So how? What is this? What is this nonsense? You wrote it.

You wrote the thing. So, you know, I got to tell you, this is pretty frustrating. And we're going to dive all into this because there's a lot of tricks. There's a lot of, you know, movement. And they're going to try to, I think, get away with a lot more than they should be able to get away with. And we can't, they're going to use military pay as a way to try to force you. They're going to use military pay. They're going to use, what are some of the other things that they're trying to hold hostage? There's like a whole bunch of stuff in here that they're trying to hold hot. They're trying to say, oh, well, it's going to be. Oh, yeah, the J6 committee. Like they can't, they're practically putting protections of the committee in here. Yeah. For some reason. Yeah. It's rough.

It's rough. And I'm, you know, I'm just so tired of hearing the same old arguments from a lot, from these same people. I mean, they also, one of the things, too, they keep, well, they're going to shut down the government and they're going to, you know, they're, they're, they're, bad Republicans. Let them do it. They've used the debt limit as leverage for every budget fight. Every budget fight. They've used the debt limit as leverage. and they always say, well, we've got to be able to pay our debts.

We're going to go in a fiscal crisis. And I get it. They're not going to default. They can't default. But you realize that you could actually divert some of this big government spending that you're spending on stupid stuff to maybe pay some of the – I mean, there's a process. There's a way to do it. But even now, Trump is saying that maybe we need to raise the debt limit. We're going to dive into the debt limit more here coming up.

But this bill – and there's a lot of momentum that's going against it, thankfully. Trump tweeted about it, but he also then said, we got to raise the debt limit or the debt ceiling, which I don't, I'm still against that. We're going to dive into that aspect of it more here coming up. But he was saying that he was going to, because some want a clean bill. A clean bill means that you can do a standalone bill to keep government open. And then you can do a secondary bill if you wanted to do disaster aid or for farming and, you know, all of that stuff. That can be something. something separate. But they always try to lump it all together so that they can play off each other. And the thing is, is you can pass the CR, and then you can come back and, and hit this again next year. Because this is going to come to a head again and what, I think they're still timing it out, but what, like June or something like that? Yeah. I don't think that they, they're still trying to figure out exactly when, but it's going to, this is going to come up to a head reconciliation in June. So it's not a done fight. And again, the last time they, they did this.

this was over a year ago. It was over a year ago, a year and a half. And since they suspended the debt ceiling the last time, we grew debt. It was, I said $4 trillion. I'm sorry, I'm way under that. It's $4.7 trillion. $4.7 trillion. That's why nothing is affordable.

It's why Congress is saying, well, we got to, we're going to have to give our at cost of living adjustment. We're going to have to do that. That's never acceptable. But there, I feel like they don't even, they don't want to fight. 1,500 pages, over 1,500 pages. Now, some say, well, you know, you can just, if you're going to have to do the debt limit, then pass just, you know, the continuing resolution.

That's what the CR stands for. Then just pass the continuing resolution and go from there. Yeah, but here's the issue. you know, you're still going to have to deal with the debt limit. And I mean, can you pass a clean CR and then allow the debt limit to be hit? Because if that ends up happening, I mean, Democrats, obviously, what I think you have maybe six months before the cycle starts, I think it's early enough that Republicans can get around it should they want to. But this is a big deal. It's a big mess.

And it seems like, you know, they're going to continue having this fight and they're going to continue dealing with this. until they can start, they can cut spending. And like I said, we're going to dive into that. Also, one of the other things, I mean, I just happened to notice, Argentina exited their recession. That was a huge win. I mean, just look at some of the parallels with Malai. We can do that here. It is possible. Also on deck, which we're going to dive into, a bombshell Wall Street Journal report absolutely confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt what everybody else knew that Democrats lied about Biden's senility. that they knew how bad he was, which we all knew that they did, but now the media is like,

hey, guys, you know, this is kind of a bad thing that happened. We're going to dive into that. Because this, I mean, for the Wall Street Journal, of course, they can write about it now because there's no risk about them writing about it now. So we're going to dive into that as well. And I am amazed. We have to have a serious discussion

about some of the surveys that have come out about this killer, this Luigi Mangione. Because apparently there were several surveys, and Gen Z doesn't really think that, you know, they don't really totally hate what the guy did. It's wild. He's raised six figures on online.

He's raised six figures. His defense has raised six figures. This is insane. This guy's a killer. But because it involved a CEO. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, all family pharmacy has you covered, whether it's the flu or parasites, cancer support, or general well-being, all family pharmacy's online service makes getting the

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. So Brazil traders are selling first and asking later as the pandemic is hitting their markets. Gosh, I forgot to tell you the bird flu headlines too as well. This is, it was they, they've been dealing with a collapse in their currency. Now their markets are in their crosshairs. Investors are losing faith in their ability to contain this crisis. And they think that the sell-off has sent the real, I mean, it's been, it's plunged to a record low.

Everything. Stocks, local currency, everything. Everything is a mess. So what happens when you've been not fiscally responsible? This is actually going to do less than inflation, or against inflation. The Fed trims interest rates in the third straight cut this year. I really don't think that this is going to do anything. I mean, they keep doing it incrementally, and still it's not having any effect, really.

It makes you mad. It makes me mad because government spending hasn't stopped or even slowed down. It's actually increased. There is no justification until we get inflation under control to cut the rates. But this is what they're doing. Well, yeah. I mean, and this is, again, then we see why all of, we're having all of these issues, all of the stuff that we're dealing with in Congress right now and with this spending,

you know, the cost of living increase and all that stuff. But, yeah, they said, Jerome Powell told reporters that it was a, today was a closer call. He says, they're arguing that lowering rates could undermine their taming of inflation since it peaked at 9. 1 and 22. You know what else? Proves difficult and taming inflation? Like constantly printing money to cover your debts. That also does it too.

Okay, so here's the first bird flu. Bird flu headline. First bird flu headline. First severe bird flu case is confirmed in the United States. The patient was hospitalized. They said that there's no details. It's at a hospital in Louisiana. And they said that the patient had exposed.

to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks. That's per the CDC. So they said that it's, the general type in the patient's case is different from the one detected in dairy cows. I think that it's just all a way to scare people. And I get really, especially, you know, they try to use this to lock the country down again.

I will literally kick some people in the blinking teeth. I mean, no joke. This, okay, this is actually, funny. I saw this headline last night. Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, says raccoon and squirrel are among dietary preferences. He suggested that consuming raccoon was not uncommon at all.

It's actually not. But you know, the people who think that it is, you know, uncommon are like the city dwelling whole food eaters. I'm not trying to be mean about it, but... I've never had it. I've never eaten raccoon. I've eaten squirrel. My husband's eaten raccoon. I know I have family members

that would hunt them and eat them. I've had rabbit and squirrel, but never, never, never that. It's greasy, from what I understand. It's real greasy. I don't like that. And plus, they're cute. Like, I can look at a cow in the face and be like, you look delicious. But they eat trash.

They're trash pandas. Right. So you're eating trash meat. Yeah. Because you are what your meat eats. It's kind of like bug meat, like in the seafood arena, like lobsters and shrimp into those bottom feeders. So it's like scavenger meat. Yeah.

I don't like scavenger meat. That's what raccoons are. That's why it's greasy because it's dumpster meat. Ew, dumpster meat. Sounds like something out of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah, great. But yeah, I thought that was funny because you have media are freaking out about it and they think he's like a freak because of it.

Also, a couple of other things here to make sure that we're touching on because we've got to get a lot of this stuff. I'm coming back to it, but I have a whole handful of stories. people who are spending tons of money on that Luigi Mangione. Now, I told you that they raised six figures for defense, right? But they now check. So this assassin, this murderer, has received 158 cash deposits into his prison commissary account, 40 emails and 53 letters in the mail from his demented fans. And then, you know, I told you about the survey where Gen Z is like,

really, was it that bad? because, you know, the narrative about the CEO and all that stuff. It's just, it's wild, wild. And let's see. Apparently, KFC is considering, they open a new restaurant that's not like KFC. And it's called saucy. And it basically features chicken tindies and dips. That's all it is.

Would you eat there? Yeah, like canes. I know I'm like canes. Stick with us. We've got a lot more in store. Our partners, they help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile. The only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program. Oh, this is a good one. This is a good Christmas track. It is a Christmas track. Welcome back, Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this first hour. Okay, so if I seem like I'm real stiff,

I literally can't turn right or left. Your girl has a pinch nerve. Oh, no. It's bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, and I have a pretty high pain tolerance. It's probably about a nice 8. So we're just riding the lightning today.

We're about nodding up and down. Don't even. I can't even. I'm like, I almost shook my head and I died. I just died and came back to life. No yes or no question. 10s units, this pinch nerve laughs at them. It flicks them off.

So we're just riding the lightning today. So if I freeze up totally, just because my nerves made everything shut down. Because I'm way more animated usually. So there you have it. All right. So moving on. This, we've been talking about this CR. This, oh, I don't want to say what I really think of it because it's just a, it's a nightmare.

This is not anything that, what we voted for, nothing at all whatsoever. And I'm really confused. So audio sound by two. This is J.D. Vance, who was in the halls of Congress yesterday. And he was asked about he and, you know, POTUS elect where, you know, what are they thinking? This is what he said. Should Speaker Johnson be reelected? Quick question. Would you support a clean CR? Well, what the president believes is we should support a clean CR so long as it contains a debt load increase. That's the position of the president. That's what we're going to try to push for. Are you supporting a government shutdown then? Have good night, guys. Thanks. Did you speak to Speaker Johnson directly?

Did you communicate? You should be re-elected, Mr. Vance. Hmm. Why are we? Okay, so again, why would the debt ceiling increase? Somebody give me a good argument for it. I haven't read one. I don't have an argument, but I've seen the explanations for it with that conversation coming up in June.

that here's my my take on all of this. If Doge is designed to cut government spending, find the waste, get rid of it. Why do we need to increase a debt ceiling when we could literally cut to accomplish the same thing? Well, that's my, yeah, that's my whole point. Right. Like, why can't we just hit the limit and cut spending elsewhere to service our debt? Yes. Why can't we do that?

We have to do this at my household. I can't just vote myself a credit line increase. I mean, I keep, people keep telling me that there's chess a foot and that that's, that's, that's, that's what it is. And I'm like, okay, well, explain this to me then. Explain to me then why allowing Congress to just raise the, raise the limit. How that, why, how is that in any way? It doesn't make any sense. So, I don't, I don't know.

I'm, that's what I don't understand. Like, and he tweeted about this. Let me pull this tweet up. He tweeted about this, this, well, twice now. Last night and this morning. And he had said that, you know, this is not something, he doesn't want anything to pass. No spending bills until he's in office. And he also, with the way that he put it, it seemed like don't do anything until,

you know, don't do anything that can be attributed to my administration, right? I mean, that's, that's, I don't know. I dropped it in slack. So, yeah, he said, I'm confused. If Republicans try to pass a clean CR without all the Democrat bells and whistles that will be destructive of our country, all it will do after January 20th has bring the mass of the debt limit into the Trump administration. Rather than allow it to take place in Biden's.

And so that's, that was the big thing. So the fact that he and J.D. Vances, he just said, you know, the president wants an increase in the debt ceiling. He wants that to be raised. So you're saying that it's okay as long as it just doesn't happen under your administration? I'm confused. But where is the strategy to spend less? To cut spending. I, you know, I made this mention, I made mention of this yesterday in talking to Congress in the time. Thomas Massey. This is really the first test of this new administration. Is this right here? It's the first test, and it's a difficult one because you're going into a holiday season. You are going into potentially shutting down the government. You're going to hit a wall of bad press because they're going to do what they're going to do and they're going to argue that you're not paying military and all of this other stuff. And it's tough, but it's a test that this administration said they could handle, and it's

their first one. And the other problem that they have, you know, nonwithstanding the media assault and Democrats is Republicans, is dealing with other Republicans. I don't know how Doge is going to be successful if Republicans can't even take seriously the first test that will determine the strength of their commitment to reducing government spending. If they can't reduce spending here with this, or even pass just a simple CR and say, if you're going to hit the dead ceiling, then hit it, and then we're going to reconvene and we will, you know, go through that process of cutting.

you know, what needs to be cut and reshuffling, refocusing or redirecting what we already have allocated to servicing this debt. If they can't do this, don't expect them to listen to Doge. Don't expect them to listen to it. And then, in fact, what they could turn Doge into is just theater. Look, we have something that makes it seem like we care about this commitment to reducing the size of government and wasteful spending, but we're not actually going to incorporate anything that they're proposing into any kind of like useful legislation. So it's just, it's just like the appearance of being fiscally conservative without actually being fiscally conservative. Does that make sense? I, I worry about that. This is the first big

test. And I don't understand the whole idea of, the whole idea of, of raising the debt ceiling again. It's debt. It's debt we owe. We can't default on it. The United States is not going to default on it. But there is so much wasteful spending elsewhere. Why? I mean,

then redirect it. Now, I said, I made mention of this on X, and I had a lot of people like, well, you know, you can't. That has to go through the house. And yeah, that's the point. That's the problem with a lot of this stuff.

It didn't in the first place. You realize that, right? There's a lot of wasteful spending that they would just write an open check to this bureaucratic agency or this one. And then you wonder how you end up getting, you know, spending $3 million to study lesbian obesity. Right? Or studying what it's like if squirrels are on crack. You know, I don't know. It's just this is part of the problem.

So we've got to get, we've got to get this situated. We really do because and to see the president. I don't want to see the president of the United States fold on this. Now, then you had this situation with Social Security. Oh boy. My Nana's going to throw something at the TV.

The Social Security bill, it's supposed to be headed toward a bipartisan win. It's going to be $196 billion added to the deficit. Now, it shouldn't be added to the deficit. This is what is enraging. The reason why they're adding to the deficit is because government,

spent it already. And now they're going to have to spend more. That's why. I mean, this is just madness. This is the worst math I've ever seen in my life. This is bad math. In addition to all of that, hold up, we got more.

Some of the other items in this, you know, almost 1,600-page bill in it, and this is something the Washington Examiner found, the State Department, their censorship office? Well, it buried in the spending bill. There is a provision that would reauthorize the State Department's global engagement center. Now, this thing was established back in 2016 under Trump.

I don't know if they knew it. It's come under immense public and congressional scrutiny because of the stuff that they're doing. They granted, I mean, they literally gave tax dollars to this global disinformation index thing. and these other outside groups that were trying to measure whether or not what you or other people said or some of the stuff that you read, whether or not it was considered disinformation. And they pretend to work under the work behind the veneer of disinformation as a way to suppress, you know, conservative voices. So the State Department sent a notification of Congress. They said they were going to, this was earlier in the month.

They said they were going to terminate the GEC because they didn't have any support from Republicans. They had an eight-year mandate. The GEC did. It had an eight-year mandate. And you have to reauthorize their funding. So it wasn't something that was just on auto. And this entity, by the way, if you remember, it was frequently featured in these House Judiciary Committee and House Small Business Committee hearings. And there were subpoenas that had been issued, Republicans issued subpoenas, and they were accusing this agency of orchestrating this huge campaign of suppression against right-leaning voices and that they were working alongside these very far left progressive entities to do so.

So this is all true. And so now slipped in to the bill by leaders in Congress is text that would save it. reauthorize its funding. Remember how I said you've got to reauthorize it and Republicans haven't been supporting it. So there were two different Republican committees that investigated and tore apart GEC, this global engagement center with the State Department that was involved in claiming that something is disinformation for the purpose of suppressing right-leaning voices. And they slip language into this bill that destroys

all of the work that these two committees did. And then we all have to pay for the investigation. I mean, this is crazy. I mean, if you remember, there was Jim Banks. He went after them because they were trying to say, they were trying to smear him because of Trump, and they were trying to say that he was like a Russian asset or something. And the GEC was found to have circulated all of this internal stuff.

And the Washington Examiner has been really good in reporting regularly on this. They were looking into, they had this internal memo that they were circulating, claiming they were looking into Jim Banks' associations to this and that as a way to smear him. See, it's just, they put it out there that they're looking into it as a way to just suggest without having to provide evidence of a formal accusation that a formal accusation would require. I mean, this is, this is in the bill. It's in the bill. It's a one-year extension, the one-year extension. And there have been a lot of deep dives into their speech suppression. That's act, I mean, it's in the bill.

It's in section 301 Global Engagement Center extension. And it says section 1287J of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 is amended by striking on the date that is eight years after the date of the enactment of this act. and inserting on the date that is nine years after the date of the enactment of this act. So it's literally just one sentence that's been slipped in here that extends this thing for a year. And we all pay for it. That's what we're looking at. This is unbelievable.

And there's a lot more in there too. I mean, you've got pandemic powers being expanded in this. that there's i mean it's this is a mess this is an absolute mess and there's no way to defend it and mike johnson wrote it how are you leader in the house and you're allowing this stuff to go in how is any republican including potus elect protecting johnson although i will say one of the things lorraine found is that johnson was supposed to be an event at an event this weekend with uh trump and tucker carlson and he's not now apparently his appearance has been canceled.

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that the sun does exactly what these guys said as far as circles the southern continent. Somebody spent $35,000 to take this dumb ass, barely illiterate product of incest to some mountain top so he could just watch the sky for himself. Was it Mike Johnson who did it? Sounds like something that Mike Johnson would do.

It was a flat earth. who went all the way to Antarctica to prove that the earth was flat, only to find out that it wasn't. Kane and I were having a fun debate about this. Are you a flat earth or in addition to hating old people? No, I'm actually, like I told you, just because I know it makes you laugh and kind of gets under your skin. But I'm keeping my mind open.

I mean, I think the earth is round, but I don't care. I've never been to space. I feel like there are people out there on the Internet that are like, my gosh, I have nothing left in life. So I'm going to cling to this one premise and my whole life's happiness and everything I do and my justification as a person here on earth is dependent upon me being right about this one thing. And I just, I'm like, I don't care. I believe it's round. I don't care. I'm not going to fall off it. I don't care. Yeah, I'm with you there.

Like, I'm keeping my mind open. Sure, whatever. What is there to keep your mind open about? It may, I've never been, have you been to space to look at the thing? No, but I've never been in a, I've never been in a wreck with a dump truck either. It probably sucks. I don't think that's the same thing. But my point is, I just leaving it open. I don't have the definitive proof with my own eyeballs that it's not. So you can't believe it unless you see it with your own eyes? Yeah. Anything?

Not anything. Stop doing that. I know what you're doing. I know what you're driving too. I can see it. I can hear it. I can feel it. I didn't do anything at all.

I'm just saying, you know. Stop it. If you don't, that's your measure as to whether or not something exists. Stop it. This is going to be a fun next two hours. This is going to be super fun. So I'm not even on a muscle relaxer for this pain in my neck. I'm just riding the lightning.

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Visit barnet.com slash Dana. Diversify your weapon array, get 10% off your purchase. That's B.RNA.com slash Dana for 10% off. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this second hour here on the program. And we've been going over this big bill, the omnibus, which I think they just need to let it hit the debt ceiling and be done with it because it's ridiculous. Just let it do that. done with it because the issue when we were talking about POTUS elect as well and he had tweeted out that he doesn't want this thing to happen basically on his administration so make it happen on Biden's administration and then he talked about raising the debt ceiling which I don't know why we

have to raise the debt ceiling when we should just hit it and then force that to make Congress actually implement some cuts and redirect spending to service the debt I mean that seems like the most obvious thing, you know, possible. But, you know, it's, you're dealing with Republicans in D.C. This is the tweet. Juan's got it up on the simulcast. If you're watching Channel 347, the chats at Rumble, where he says there, and you can read it, that rather than allowing it, it should, it should, don't let it go into the Trump administration,

you know, as opposed to, you know, allowing it to take place in the Biden administration. I don't think it needs to happen in any administration. And I just, like I've said, I think that. this is really the first test for the new Congress for this president, for this term, and it's a test for Doche to see whether or not they're actually going to implement or would they even listen to them. And that's a big deal because all of this is from, you know, insane government spending. I mean, you've got to think of it.

The reason why Congress wanted to vote for themselves a pay raise is because they keep spending money. they keep spending money. Like it's out of control. It's out of control. And they've used it as leverage. I mean, I don't know. I have people telling me that it's got to, you know, you do have to raise the debt limit.

I disagree with it. But it has been used as leverage. I don't know how long we can use that carrot in front of the donkey, but, you know, it would be nice. But it, it's, we've used it as leverage. And we've raised, the last time we raised it 18 months ago, we expanded, what, added $4.7 trillion in debt.

$4.7 trillion. I just, I mean, a clean CR. And I, the other thing, too, if you pass a clean CR, you're going to get it through the Senate. Because who are the two votes in the Senate that, because you're going to need all those votes? Who do you think is going to support it? Mansion and Cinema. they're both going to support this. They will support a clean CR. Make everything else like the disaster aid and anything for farming. That needs to be its own separate thing. It needs to be a clean

CR. And we need better leadership from Mike Johnson, which we spent a lot of time on him yesterday. A lot. So I don't know. This battle, I think, you know, who's been absent during this battle? Biden. Where's he been? He's president of the United States. Okay. We have all of this, you know, the headlines with drones. You're getting, you have this fight over debt and spending. And he is nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. It is stunning to me. This piece came out, the Wall Street Journal. where they finally are admitting that he's been senile this entire time. In fact, and I was, I mean, this is a hell of a headline. Over a daily mail, they have above the fold, like their main photograph. They have Biden, one of the worst incidents when he fell down the stairs over and over. Like he fell down the stairs three times four actually trying to get up them in one clip.

and it says Dudd from day one. That's the headline. So this Wall Street Journal piece, they, I mean, they knew from the get-go that he was struggling with his senility. They knew it from the get-go.

This bombshell report, the big lie, as it were. You know, was it Politi fact that said the biggest lie was the eating of the dogs and cats in Ohio? The biggest lie was the cover-up of Biden's mental acuity. The Wall Street Journal, this piece is just about as damning as you can get. How the White House functioned with a diminished Biden in charge. I mean, they, it's, this is something else.

And it gets into all of these counselors who knew it and how they controlled every, you know, every, you know, every. of his public events and the limitations around, they even had limitations over what kind of media he consumed, where he, what he would read. They said that whenever he traveled particularly, he always had a small group of AIDS that were right with him. And whenever he would travel, they would, they'd be right there with him too. And they said that even, they would shepherd him around in a manner. And these are like some people who apparently were talking off the record that had been, I don't know, I kind of wonder if it wasn't the press corps, members of the press corps

talking about this. But they were saying that the amount of handholding and the amount of shepherding him in public was unlike anything that they've ever seen. And they knew it from day one. I actually think that you could see it even before the election. Remember, they didn't have him out. He stayed in his, he didn't campaign. And there's a reason why.

I mean, the coronavirus and the pandemic, that suited them perfectly. Because then they didn't have to worry about him making a fool of himself in public. They didn't have to worry about him slipping either verbally or physically. And then all of the headlines that would emerge from that. But they said at events, AIDS would repeat. I mean, over and over again, instructions to him. Like how to enter, where to enter a stage, how to exit, where to exit. And it would be obvious to, you know, an average everyday person.

But with him, it wasn't so much. They said the protection, the protective culture was intensified. And they, I mean, everybody limited interactions with him. they said that it insulated him, not just from the scrutiny of the American public. And this is a big takeaway, that it also insulated him from his own cabinet secretaries, chairs of congressional committees, and other high-ranking individuals. So not only was he inaccessible to the average everyday, you know, a member of the public, but he's inaccessible to his, own staff to the people who are advising him. He's very well insulated. And they said that all of this, all of these strategies to protect him worked until the debate. It worked until the debate.

And the debate just blew it wide open. Which then, you know, makes me go back to that. Because in the beginning, they were hesitant to accept the debate. And then they did. I mean, they had to have known how he was how horribly he would perform and I was thinking about this last night when I was adding this to the headline so if you subscribe over at substack chapter and verse you get this out and I was thinking about this when I was compiling some of the prep for this morning they they knew that he was going to perform horribly at that debate they knew that the election for 24 was going to be won and lost at that one. one debate. And it was. I think that that's the night that Trump won. And I think it became

definitive. I think he won definitively at the McDonald's, the McDonald's thing. I mean, the assassination too, the assassination attempt he won. But I think it was really confirmed with Biden failing at the debate because it wasn't just so much about people getting behind Trump. You had to show that they couldn't get behind Biden. You had to show people that there is no other choice. It's not for the people who were kind of in the middle and were thinking, I don't like either of them. That, it had to be made evident to them that it wasn't just a choice between two people that they didn't like. It had to be a choice between someone who could actually function and someone who couldn't. And I think that played, I mean, he destroyed his own career, Biden did. But why did Democrats

allow it to happen. Why did they even consent to the debate? You know, they limited the audience. They limited everything. I mean, they kind of had to consent to the debate. But also, do you think that they were trying to put him out to rest, out to pasture this way? I've always wondered what his inner circle

or what really felt about him doing the debate because they had to have known. There was even at one point, and we remarked on this, I think we played it at the time, when Biden was, and it was before the first, it was before the second time he did it, when Trump was like, I don't even know if he knows what he says or what he said. I don't think he knows what he said. Remember that sound bite that Trump gave?

The first time Biden did it, though, they had them on a split screen, side by side. And there was, I mean, Trump kind of has a poker face for the most part. He didn't with Kamala Harris, but there he did. I think he was very disciplined in the first debate. But he had an expression on his face. If you go back and you, and it's on YouTube, if you watch Trump the first time that Biden kind of, it's, I mean, if you're really watching Trump, you can see it. He's got an expression on his face that reads like, this poor guy. He really does.

And I think that that is one of the reasons Trump didn't get nasty with him. Because I think he felt like Biden was maybe, Biden's a, he was always been a jackass. Let's not undermine that. But now in his sunset years, it sort of felt like everybody else was taking advantage of him because they wanted that access to power. They either wanted to rule through him or they wanted that power adjacency. And I think Trump recognized that when he was on stage. That was a really telling moment in politics. And then the second time Biden, you know, got lost in his own mind.

That's when Trump said, I don't even think he knows what he says. But they knew this. This should be the big lie. It shouldn't be the, well, you know, they were eating cats and dogs. They were eating cats and dogs. I literally had, was it three weeks ago? It was like right after Thanksgiving. The woman who was an illegal immigrant who was caught on camera in the middle of a residential street eating someone's pet.

That is literally from Ohio. That is video from Ohio. And that was a woman who was in the country illegally. into law enforcement cited by the local press of the story. It's not a lie, but what is a lie, the big lie, is all of these Democrats covering up for Joe Biden. Do you know how dangerous it is what they did? They put in to the White House someone who was already senile. And they knew it from day one.

We could see it even. And they lied to you. They lied to all of us, all of our faces. That is the big lie. They were so desperate for power that they put someone in whose mind is actually failing them. Someone who controls the nuclear football. Someone who can make the call. Push the red button. Send your kids and loved ones to war.

They put that guy in the White House. Do you know how dangerous that is? That's how bad they want power. They don't care how. And they don't care about the dangerousness of it. and they don't care what it costs. They want power. They have no idea how to keep it, but they just want it.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. An Oklahoma cannibal who killed a 10-year-old girl in a depraved plot is executed on his birthday. Yay! Kevin Ray Underwood, his fat backside was pronounced dead at 10.14 a.m. I love capital punishment for child predators and Ray Yes. Yay. It was their fourth execution of the year because Oklahoma knows how to get

stuff done. Oh, and it took place on his 45th birthday. So maybe Satan can have him blow a candle out in hell. Yay. Let's see here. Dana, you're so mean. No, I'm not. We got more. This is, oh, California. Oh, my gosh, I don't like this. California

squirrels. Squirrels are weird anyway. I don't like their teeth. And now they're turning cannibal in California. Of course they are in There are photos of them eating meat, y'all. And I mean, it's gross. Like one of them ate a mole.

That's nasty. Oh, why? Are you really going to put that photo? Oh, my gosh, it's a squirrel eating meat. They said they're supposed to be a vegetarian, but they engage it because they're jerks. You know that, right? Squirrels are the jerks of the animal world, squirrels and dolphins. And some goats.

They're jerks, though. Squirrels are, I've literally had one throw acorns at me. And I throw them back at it. him. I'm sure I look crazy, but, you know, they're, uh, they're wild, but they said that in California, they've never seen this behavior before and that they are eating actual meat, like they're, they're acting like predators. I don't like things that fly around in trees like that that eat meat. It's weird. You've got to get a handle on your phone. So this, um, porch, a porch pirate returns an item after a twerking video. What? So they said that police in New Jersey are

searching for two suspects. They were caught on camera stealing a package off of somebody's porch. They returned the item days after a video of them twerking and taunting during the theft emerged online. Yeah, that'll do it. They grabbed, uh, it was literally a package that contained four glasses and baby items. And then they

taunted the resident on their camera by twerking. And they returned to the victim's home because apparently they made them famous on the Weber Nets. I mean, those door bowl cameras, man, I'm telling you. The Vatican's on the brink of bankruptcy due to a dramatic decline in global donations under Pope I'm a communist Francis's leadership. That's not shocking. I mean, you know, there's got a lot. I mean, it's evident. People

don't want to give money to that because they don't think that it's doing the Lord's work. Stick with us. We've got more in store. 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 your podcast. Here's what if I were king for a day, I'm not and I don't aspire to be. Here's what I'd do. First, I would tell everybody to take their meds. Number two, I think President Trump is going to have to consider coming to Washington. I mean, let's face it, he's the president now. It's not President Biden. President Trump needs to sit out with Mike Johnson and John Thune and come up with

a new skinny CR. If the president wants to do something, something on the debt limit. We need to find out what it is and put it in the bill. And then the president's going to have to help Mike sell it in the house. Well, come January, I want Johnson's gots to go. But I do think that, and that's Senator Kennedy from Louisiana, I do think that he needs to, I think POTUS needs to, POTUS elect, you know, not talking about the guy who doesn't, I don't even I think Biden, does Biden know he's president? I don't know. He, I think he does need to say what is or what he's looking for. He needs to say, well, what, you know, in terms of a spending level, this is what I want. Because every, it just seems like very confusing. And you can't throw out something like, yeah, I'm okay with the debt ceiling being increased. You can't be, that needs to be contextualized. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this second hour. I wanted to make you aware of. of this narrative, and I made mention of this last night, that is developing.

Let's play Audio Soundbite 10. This is Eric Fartswell, who is, what's so funny? That's not his last name. I said Swallow well. Swallow well. He's talking about, they're trying to invalidate Elon Musk and diminish the authority of the voters with this new narrative. Listen. including Cassidy Hutchinson.

The other thing that's happening in your body, why are they taking orders from Elon Musk? Why is Speaker Johnson? Who's the Speaker. Is it Elon Musk or is it Mike Johnson? It's Speaker Musk right now. Is he co-president or is he speaker? He wants to be Speaker this week, but he invested, you know, 200 plus million in the last election. And now he thinks that he owns these guys and then that he can tell them, you know, how to vote, when to vote.

And what I've told my Republican colleagues, and I told some of them this today, I said, if you go along with this and you let Elon Musk shut down the government by tweet, he's going to own you the entire Congress. The next two years, you're going to have to sit around and wait for him to send a tweet to see if you're allowed to vote on a bill. Oh, that's so stupid. First off, they had no problem when it was George Soros. Yeah, they had no problem when it was like Ted Turner, Warren Buffett. They had no problem when it's, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jack from original Twitter.

They had no problem when it was any of these cats, particularly Soros, buying up DAs and counties across the country. Oh, but now suddenly someone levels the playing field. They're still mad because they can't control social media. They're mad because they can't control X and because it's been so showy the equalization of, I don't even know how to put this. it because it's been such a show the takeover of x and the switch from suppression to just you know free discourse for the most part they still have some algorithmic issues because it's you know it's a decade of that stuff that it makes this one thing look super dramatic when these are the people that control broadcast news Hollywood academics oh it's

the White House still and the Senate still, but they're trying to invalidate the authority of voters by saying that it's all just one guy, that it's all just him. They have to have a boogeyman. They are desperate for a boogeyman. And I'm going to tell you, Trump isn't going to be a boogeyman for them much longer. I think that Trump probably maybe up until his last year in office,

they're going to fight him, but then they are planning ahead, because Musk, his authority, and influence is going to outmeasure Trump's. I don't care how rich a president is. Once they're out of office, once they're termed out, that's kind of it. Same thing with George, you know, how George W. Bush was. After his second term, gosh, he was the devil until he wasn't. Same thing with Reagan. It's just like, it's like that with every single Republican president.

But they're looking at Musk like, oh, we got to pay attention to 28 and beyond because he's, you know, relatively young. and he is going to be influential in the political sphere and be involved in it long after Trump. So they're gearing up to do one of two things. They're going to, they're trying to invalidate this, all of the support that these, that Musk has received and that these policies have received. And they're going to try to make it look like it's just one guy. So it's invalid because it's not representative of all the people. people and then they're also trying to gear up to go after it because they see him as the boogeyman.

They're going to go after him and try to tarnish his influence and reach for even when after Trump is out of office. So it's a one-two thing. They're mad at him because they're livid. They're so livid over X. I don't know that they'll ever get over it. Because by and large, X, I try to explain people the different social media platforms and how they're used. so few people are on X when you look at Americans at large. X is where narratives are fought. X is where you have politicos and media people, maybe some sports and A&E,

but it's where narratives are fought. It's where stories are either defended or defeated. It's where this stuff is established. This is where the pressure is really exerted. Facebook is where things are merely affirmed. and shared and really it's a different, different audience because it functions differently. And Instagram is somewhat similar.

Instagram is more of an affirmation of the individual as opposed to the group where Facebook can be a more group over affirmation of the individual. And Twitter is where all this stuff is battled out. And so they're mad because that was their main tool. That was their big tool of all of the social media entities that are public square. It's X that's the most because it's immediate. Absolutely immediate. It's real time. It's where Facebook is more like a message board. I mean, unless you get into a live comment situation, X is like a real live chat 24-7. And it can also kind of function as a message board.

And it's, because of that immediacy, it is a way more powerful tool for, uh, pressure and waging advocacy campaigns, I think, in my opinion, because I'm on all of them. And I just note that that's kind of the difference. And I think that's also why too few people are on X. X is brutal.

It is. If you're in, I mean, Kane, don't you think? So I think that's like a way more brutal than Facebook and Instagram. I mean, if you look at just an open discussion as brutal, then yeah, I guess. Well, no, not open discussion.

Like, the people who are conservatives, I hear this from so many people. they will, like our listeners even, they'll open accounts on X so they can watch certain things and read certain things, but they don't want to tweet because they're like, oh, we see the pressure that the left, you know, what they try to do and how they get the bots to go after people who, you know, if they were to share something about what's happening in their school district or if they were to disagree with. That's true. You know, and they see that. And they're like, oh my gosh, they don't, I think it's easier for the bots on X still. still to the I still don't think that they have that problem solved but they see that and people freak out that and I understand it it makes them nervous because X is like the Thunderdome it is

and so that and that's why not that's why more people I think are are on Facebook as opposed to X because it has a way it can it has a way different purpose now it's not to say you shouldn't you know do it because it's just very easy to mute people you got to you got to ignore stuff but they the left used to control that I remember when it first started I used to know I used to you know be friendly with people who were friends with Jack and you know we were always nice to each other we obviously were at opposite ends of the political spectrum from one another but in the beginning you didn't have all the suppression and no one talked about algorithms and that stuff didn't exist and then after conservatives got so successful,

you can't tell me that Democrats haven't been involved in this for over 10 years. They've been pressuring X to suppress conservatives. I bet if lawmakers wanted to go all the way back to win, like 08, even, if they wanted to go all the way back to, you know, Obama's early term, even before then, I think that you would, that's when you would start to see Democrats making overture. to these tech execs like Twitter to try to suppress people on the platform

because conservatives were so successful. So successful. I remember once I hosted, co-hosted a money bomb and we raised like half a million dollars for a lawmaker in like one afternoon. I think that, you know, five years ago, you wouldn't have been able to do that as a conservative

because they would have just suppressed, throttled you to death. And it's weird. And they're still wrapping, unwrapping that onion, getting to all those layers of algorithms. I can definitely see it, for instance, on my account. And this was after Parkland, what I, I had someone who, one of our listeners got mad at me because whenever I would type the word gun on Twitter, I have to take the you out and put an asterisk in. And there's a reason why. Because they were saying, you know, you don't have to be afraid of the word. And I wanted to punch the person in the face, but then I remembered that they didn't know. So when I type, and I can see it, and I've taken screenshots, when I type gun or guns, or even if it's like gun, gun control like gun hyphen control and I go and look at my impressions that's like how many times someone runs across that tweet I've been kind of capped at like the follower level but my impressions go down to like 120 something now one of my average tweets will have thousands and thousands

of impressions any time I say anything about gun guns gun control anything that has the word gun in it, gun hyphen, oh my, it's like it disappears from the platform. And I know that they're unwrapping all, but that's because, and that's not just me either, and it's not just that word. That has been weaponized and applied to so many different conservatives on that platform for a host of issues like trans stuff. That's why you see a lot of people put asterisk and things, because they don't want that algorithm to kick in and suppress them. Like, for instance, Libs of TikTok has to do it whenever she talks about like a grooming, groomers, certain trans issues. Like there's whenever you see those words with the asterix in it, that's because those accounts have one of those algorithmic punitive layers on it.

And they have to get around that by doing that. And I know they're still fixing it. But that's the stuff that the left did. This is why they're so mad at him. They look at him. And he's not a conservative. He's not even a Republican. he's just an normie he's just being practical the left doesn't get that to their detriment they are

still thinking on party partisan lines and they that's that's going to be their undoing you can't build a coalition like that but then you also have to learn how to run a coalition we've got a lot more on the way we've got florida man coming up and uh oh my gosh there's like a million things hold up before we go there's a million things we haven't gotten into that we still need to touch on because we have more, by the way, on the whole thing with the CR. Also, this is some of the stuff that our money is being spent on. Do you know that there's going to be like a six-figure grant? This is the stuff that we grant money to. This zoo is studying how to apply anti-racist lens, an anti-racist lens for their zoo exhibits. I don't, I don't know what that means. We're going to discuss that coming up. Florida

man's going to keep us saying. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. So a Florida woman who was busted for speeding in a school zone bit a deputy after they found drugs in her car. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a Claremont woman was not spreading holiday joy when she battered one deputy and tried to bite another. She got caught with drugs and a suspended license while speeding in a school zone.

23-year-old Lara Alexander was, well, she was looking at an iPad not wearing her theme belt and she was like blazing through the school zone and when they pulled her over she didn't have a driver's license and showed it was suspended already last fall and then she had

all kinds, she had like some dope on her she became competitive though she elbowed one deputy in the chest and then they got her in the back of the patrol car and they said she was aggressive and when the detention deputy came out to help get her out of the vehicle, she bit him in the arm. So now she's in trouble in addition to her traffic citation. She's got two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer resisting arrest.

She just sounds like joy. She just does, doesn't she? Police are, they're got this guy in custody who hijacked an Amazon truck wearing a good vibes only t-shirt. Well, it seems like apparently it was bad vibes. They say that this guy, 46-year-old Hassan Riken, hit an Amazon driver in the face while wearing a good vibes only t-shirt. And then he drove away with the truck. And they were able to arrest him. And, you know, he's got charges of robbery, carjacking, battery, et cetera.

No packages were stolen, apparently. So I guess people are going to just some minor delay. But, yeah, he's got a sunflower tattoo. and he was wearing a good vibes only shirt. That's, doesn't seem like that's going to be good vibes. This is crazy. Okay, so in central Florida,

they've got an issue with a certain type of, these weird, they're like the Friends Monkeys, the ones that were on, the one that Chandler had on the show. What do they call those? They're like Capuchins or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So officials are trying to figure out how many monkeys are actually terrorizing people, but apparently they're going, into people's backyards and their terrorizing parents at a school drop-off area. It's in central Florida and Volusia County. An elementary school principal literally had to warn parents because monkeys were running, like one or two was in the drop-off area Wednesday of this week and like they were going, like trying to go with the kids.

I mean, if you can kick it, you can defeat it. Stick with us. Third hour next. One thing that we haven't been able to change yet is starting to change is that you go to a grocery store. A dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, a pound of bacon, still costs more than it did before the pandemic. That's a lot of money for people. It's taking time to change that. So there's reason for frustration, but there's gigantic change inmate.

No, there's not. Let's just stop pretending. There's not. Stop it. This is so ridiculous. Welcome back to the program. Daniel Nash with you. That's Potatus, who is saying that we haven't been able to change as, you know, like the milk.

and bacon and stuff at the grocery store. Like you've changed anything else. You haven't. See, that's like part of the problem with all of this, you know, this approach to spending because what's going to happen is whatever, whatever they end up doing. And I agree with what others are saying. It's going to take, I mean, there's going to be some immediate things that you're going to be able to tell.

But also there, it's some of the other forms of relief that come from going, doing like a Javier Malai sort of approach, that's, that's gonna, I don't even know if you would be able to immediately see it even, you know, in 2028 with whatever, whoever gets elected there. But it's, everybody's afraid of austerity. I mean, you, when it comes to the debt limit, and again, welcome back, you can listen to Australia, Channel 347, Drag TV, Rumble. When it comes to the debt limit, it's about the debt that we already have accrued, not how much we can spend. So it has to be serviced. So why not hit that limit? And then take all of the big

spending, all of the money that we've been sending to Ukraine, et cetera, et cetera, and start allocating that towards the debt. And people are saying, well, you can't, you know, you can't just, it has to have Congress. You can't, you can't just, you know, implement a cut immediately. Well, they can send money to Ukraine, really, without having, you know, Biden can just unilaterally decide that he's going to send billions to Ukraine. So why? I could. and we just also unilaterally decide to service the debt. I know that's such an obvious question, Dana. I don't know.

It's where we are, though. But the austerity, I think everybody's afraid of, because we remember when Greece tried to do that, when Greece's economy went through the ringer, and they were implementing all of these austerity programs. They had to cut entitlements. They had to cut, you know, the social spending. And when they did, people rioted.

They rioted. And I think the left is the left is afraid to be seen as part of any kind of austerity approach. Because that does mean, you know, there are going to be some government programs that have to be cut and there's going to be a lot less entitlement, no social spending. But that's not what the government's supposed to be involved in anyway. If they're afraid of austerity now, it's never going to happen. I mean, I actually have my doubts as to whether or not it's ever going to. They're not even on the same page. Can I just point this out?

I don't care how unpopular it is. we voted we're taxpayers right we all voted for the same thing yesterday vivake ramaswami said that he wanted a clean CR he tweeted quote yes it is possible to enact a simple one-page continuing resolution instead of 1500 plus page omnibus pork fest here it is uh he's right I know I've disagreed with him on a number of things before he's right a one-page CR, a clean CR. He's exactly right. But then the POTUS elect tweeted, quote, if Republicans try to pass a clean CR without all of the Democrat bells and whistles that will be so destructive to our country, all it will do after January 20th is bring the mess of the debt limit into the Trump administration rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should and will be primaried. Everything should be done fully negotiated prior to my taking office.

But then he also said no more spending bills until after I take office. So I'm confused. They're not on the same page. Right? Kane, you read that the same way. Yeah, I look at it as so if they raise the debt ceiling now and they implement all this new spending on these new things that are in this pork omnibus bill, then Trump won't be allowed to do what's necessary in his first year in office. At least

that's the take that I think he has on it. So what he would like is just something clean, pass it on. Then when I get in office, obviously raise the debt ceiling so that when it comes time, I can implement what I need to implement to make this happen. So I think that's his thought. Now, you said it earlier. We need context for this. We need Trump coming out and telling us, like, hey, all of us are looking at this from a logical standpoint and saying, why don't you just use Doge that you've been bragging about for the last month and cut spending to find that new money? Why raise the debt ceiling?

He needs to contextualize it. Absolutely, because we cannot have miscommunication like this. I mean, if I were on the left, what I would do is I would hold up Vivek Ramoswami's post and then I would hold up Trump's post and I would say Trump just called Vivek's stupid. if I you got to think you have to anticipate what your opposition is going to throw at you that's part of understanding the strategy on this messaging that's I would immediately have that out there and I would be pushing that even though I know that's not what Trump intended to do but they're not on the same page and I would highlight that and I would use that the left

here's so here's the other thing to watch out for the administration needs to be very careful that they are all on the same page. And that their messaging is choreographed. And here's why I think that's so incredibly important. First off, we're in a sound bite culture. And the first headline is the one that sticks. Doesn't matter if it's false. It's the one that sticks.

Number two, you're dealing with, and I'm not saying this as a way to be mean, I'm just describing their personality. you're dealing with people who are very big personalities in this administration. They are not content to ride shotgun, okay? They are not content to be in the back seat. They are all very strong personalities. And everybody is very, very driven.

That alone is one of the biggest reasons why you need to be all choreographed and organized, because it is very easy if you are not for a malicious, press or Democrat opposition to come in, highlight any kind of daylight between where they are on any given issue and use that to drive division. And you know that POTUS elect and other people on his team pay attention to what is happening in the headlines. You don't want them to be manipulated or there to be a chance for them to be manipulated into a civil war in their side between all these strong personalities because people have their messaging

they're not on the same page. And if you don't think that that's a reality, then I dare say anyone who believes that it's not a reality did not pay attention to some of the stuff in the first term. So that is a big issue. They've got to be on the same page. This is not the first time either

because if you remember Vance and Trump like a week or so ago were on different pages where it came to that vote, that very important Senate vote. And J.D. Vance was saying, well, I'm helping POTUS evaluate cabinet members. And POTUS was like, shame on any senator who didn't show up and vote. I'm like, they weren't on the same page. Here is this second instance of them not being on the same page.

You got to be careful when you got a lot of cooks in the kitchen. You've got to be careful. And I'm saying this because I know how the press is going to act. I have been railing about the press since 2008 before. This is exactly what they're going to do. And they will absolutely. And you know, here's the other thing. And one more, each of these strong personalities have their own little team, right?

So Vivek has his own team. Musk has his own team. Trump has his team. And then some of his team have their own little team. there are people not all but you know there's always an exception there are people within some of these that you know they get very uh proprietary right they get very you know they don't they don't want their guy taking a hit and they don't want uh they also would love to be able to uh be seen as being influential or having you know power adjacency and they're not all trained i think to deal

with media siops. Does that make sense? So the more people and the more of their little groups that you have there in the kitchen, the chances that, you know, somebody's not going to be on the same page, and then the press is going to exploit that increase. This has to be about team discipline. They have to be on the same page. And I dare say that because regardless of whether you agree with it or not, potis elect has seniority and he is a lot. Potus elect. elect, I think it's the responsibility falls to everybody else to make sure they're on the same page with him. Not that

he's on the same page with them. So I agree entirely with what Vivek says here. I think he's a thousand percent correct. But I still think he has to make sure that he is on the same page as Podoselect and not Potus elect being on the same page as Vivek. So they've got

to get this because this is the second time in a month. They've got to and that's we're not even, we don't even have the team in yet. New Congress isn't even in. so we got to get this under control because right now they're at i mean i i don't know says you can do a clean c r trump says it's dumb to do a clean c r okay so what are we doing what is it i mean heaven knows you know the the house being the power of the purse heaven knows that johnson's not there offering any kind of serious alternative except for the

pork you know crapnebos that he proposed right before christmas so you know that's out I it's so frustrating not as frustrating to spending tax money though to study identity politics at the zoo oh that's actually a real headline though uh it sounded like something i was joking about no it's actually a legitimate headline uh hold up let me i got to share this this is so stupid there's a half a million dollar grant that's supposed to help this zoo um apply for uh an anti racist lens. I don't even know what that means. Tax dollars, our tax dollars, for a zoo to look at identity politics. So the, I'm going to pull this up. This is at the American Alliance of Museums, and it's like DEA on Roids. They have some definitions. And this comes from Randoland, which is a great

account for following, like a lot of this, like, you know, wasteful spending. So the, museum, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, they gave a grant and it actually ended up like going to a zoo even. And it's almost about $700,000.

And they wanted to explore diversity, equity, access, and inclusion DEAI. Oh, now it's DEAI. Oh yeah, you know. Hold up. DeaA. So that's diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion.

So they're working with the Association of Science Technology Centers and the two alphabet groups are apparently looking at how to implement these DEI practices, I guess. And it's just so goofy into their museums, zoos, et cetera. Why? Why? Why are we doing this? Why is this still a thing? They had this, pulling this up. They had this, it went through the endowment of the arts, this grant that they had, that was, I mean, that's like one of the things that they put money towards. Not only a grant for a zoo to study things through an anti-racist lens.

There was also a almost a million dollar grant to an organization to provide outreach and engagement, non-traditional holistic supports, whatever, and alphabet affirming interventions for youth and family, hundreds of youth and family. That was a grant that went through the NIA. I mean, the good news is that in private businesses, the DEI stuff looks like it's falling apart, falling to the wayside.

The bad news is that it's so ingrained in government already that a lot of this grant money being allocated is still being funneled towards those DEI programs. programs. So they have not caught up. Government is behind business in this. Yeah, zookeepers can apply equity, inclusion, and anti-racist practices to zoo structures, policies, and programs. The big recipient through the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences was the Woodland Park Zoological Society. What does that have to do with the zoo? Why do people have to have their money taken to make zoo workers less racist.

Why are Zoot? Are Zew workers racist? And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So, galley, another health scare. Of course, it's in L.A. A dangerous diarrhea causing

super bug is spreading in Los Angeles. They said it's a drug-resistant strain of Shigella. Sounds like a bad name. Like, that's Shigella's purse. Uh, it's actively spreading in the U.S., scientists warn. It's a, ew. Like, it's resistant to almost every antibiotic thrown at it.

And where is it? I mean, I'm like, okay, how do you get it? They said, no, not, that. Oh, contaminated food or drink, also sexually. So quit being skanks. Oh, and it's specifically with kind of like dudes and dudes. Oh, yeah. Let's, so we really don't know.

Uh, let's see here. Alberta leads a new poll on whether or not Canada should become the 51st U.S. state. No thanks. And let's see, DMV apologizes for Cybertrucks license plate. It was supposed to be. I can't say that. I can't say that. We've got Victoria Coates coming up.

Make some common sense of the crazy headlines with the Dana Show podcast. You're on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or your favorite podcast platform. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this. third hour. And of course, you can listen coast to coast. And you can watch the stream at Channel 347, direct TV. We're also on X. The chats at Rumble. And of course, don't forget YouTube and Facebook. One of the things that we, I think this was yesterday the day before yesterday we were

talking about when the story hit was Israel closing its embassy in Ireland. And the shock that was from that. We kind of dove into some of the history there between, you know, Ireland and Israel and World War II and some of this other stuff. And I've noticed an increase in questioning from people who don't seem to understand the mission or purpose of what the United States's alliance with Israel serves and how important it is to have an ally, you know, in the Middle East. And it just is kind of, it's wild to me that that would even be questioned, but it is, which I think it's important that this book came out, actually just this week. the battle for the Jewish state, how Israel and America can win. And it's authored by Victoria Coates, who also previously was the former Deputy National Security Advisor to POTUS elect. Victoria Coates is vice president of Catherine and Shelby Cullum Davis Institute for National

Security and Foreign Policy at Heritage. And she joins us now via Skype. Victoria, congrats on the book. It came out just this week a couple of days ago. This is something, I mean, I don't know. I'm trying not to be naive, but am I wrong in noticing like a increase in questioning, I guess, as more people become politically aware or active, and people are trying to, they're asking questions that I thought were, I had obvious answers. You know, the United States is partnership with Israel. There are only ally in this part of the world in the importance of that relationship, which is what your book, examining it through October 7th, really gets to.

Well, Dana, great to be with you. And I think, you know, the reason I wrote the battle for the Jewish state is precisely that. I think a lot of Americans do wonder, you know, what is the nature of the U.S. Israel Alliance. And I hate to date myself this way, but when I was born, the alliance was 20 years old. It's now 76 years old. So that is a historical arc that takes a sort of scrappy startup country to being one of the world's great powers. They're in the top 20 U.S. News and World Report list of most powerful countries. And so, you know, I think that does require a reexamination. I've heard all those questions that you've heard. And there are strong answers to them. And that's what do you find in the battle for the Jewish state is the history of the alliance, why the

alliance matters, what the heck happened after October 7th? How did we find ourselves in this war, too? And why it is a war on both Israel and the United States. I think it's a great way to put it. We're talking with Victoria Coates on Skype via Skype. And you mentioned October 7th in which there were American hostages taken, which we don't really hear about a lot at all, really, from this administration. And in fact, I dare say that it like slipped down the issue of priorities for not just politicians, but maybe even the attention span of voters as we went into the election season. I mean, you have terrorists that are holding hostage Americans still. That's incredibly important. I mean, and especially from the same administration that flubbed Afghanistan messed up, you know,

they withdraw in Afghanistan. There, there, do we even, did this administration even have a response to that? I mean, I'm just shocked that we still have American hostages. No, it is shocking. And it's disgraceful. And President Biden really stopped talking about them after Christmas of 2023 when there were some deals to get some hostages out. Those were good photo ops for him. So he talked about them then.

But then he stopped because they became an inconvenient truth for them for the administration trying to elevate the Palestinians, trying to rehabilitate Hamas, trying to pressure Israel into a negotiated ceasefire with terrorists, but not only do we still have American hostages, four of whom we pray are still alive, but we lost more Americans on October 7th, Dana, than in any terrorist attack, the second most deadly terrorist attack after 9-11.

And so it's a really dire situation for the United States. And furthermore, what we've seen since then are not pro-Israel demonstrations on our political, in our city streets or our academic campuses, we've seen pro-Hamas demonstrations. So this is here at home. You also touch on how this is not just some simple regional squabble that you can send some diplomats to and they can have a peace negotiation. It's not going to get solved that way because it is, you know, it's like a holy war plus

a cultural battle, you know, plus a military battle. And after, you know, Assad left, Syria's, that regime's collapsing in Syria. Iran was really hit, really hit hard. And that really highlighted that Shia Sunni fight in this part of the world and how you have like one faction that hates Israel really wants to establish itself as the powerhouse. And then you have these other factions who don't hate Israel. They're willing to work with them. We got the Abraham Accords. That really kind of is like the power struggle.

And Israel's sort of in the way of this like Russian, Iranian Chinese dominance in the area. Is that like just like two myopic of a view of that? this because it seems like it all kind of boils down to that at least partially well i don't think that's too myopic but and i think it's a really important point i was actually in israel and then in bahrain an abraham accord's country as the fall of syria was happening week before last and it was really interesting because the gulf countries they only wanted to talk to the israelis and find out what was going on and how to keep a lid on this situation because those sunni gulf monarchies are deeply concerned about the radical Islamists who are part of the now governing body of Syria.

So yes, we're all delighted Assad is spending Christmas in Moscow. Hope it's nice and cold for him. And very cognizant of the many atrocities he committed against the Syrian people. But that doesn't make the Turkish-backed HTS folks angels. And so you have quite the alphabet soup of former ISIS and Al-Qaeda alums in there. And the interesting thing is, as Israel claimed a little bit of, territory in the Golan Heights adjacent to the space they already have, you had all sorts of people accusing them of being imperialist, that they were somehow trying to conquer the Levant. Well, news flash,

nobody wants Syria. I mean, Syria doesn't want to be Syria. And so, you know, the notion that Israel wants to take that territory over, given just the intractable problems that country faces is ridiculous on the face of it. And I think the cooperation between the Gulf and Israel, is only strengthening even after a year of war. And that's a great and good thing. Yeah, very good thing. Indeed. We're talking with Victoria Coates,

her new book, The Battle for the Jewish State, how Israel and America can win. I don't know of any other country that's worked as hard as Israel has at trying to maintain peace and be peaceful and only responding

when it is incredibly important to do so in defense of national security or, you know, of life, of Israeli life. But yet that's not how it's processed. That's not how it's laundered in the media. They're always painted as the aggressor. And even the words from our own government, you know, have kind of, you know, hinted that, oh, well, they're aggressive here.

We need to stop the bombing of Gaza, for instance, when, you know, really, they've only ever responded once they've been shelled. Then they respond to protect themselves. Is that ever going to change? I mean, when does that stop? When does reality set in? Well, I'm hopeful that it is. And the clarity the President Trump brings to this issue is being welcomed by every reasonable person in the region. And going back to the hostages for a minute, I also was in Israel when his truth social post came out about the hostages.

This is something Joe Biden could have done 15 months ago. He could have said, let them out now or there's going to be held to pay. And he didn't for 15 months. President Trump is saying that. There's movement now from Hamas. Concessions are being made to Israel, not the other way around. So we could see them out now during the season of Hanukkah, Christmas next week. That would be a great and good thing.

But that would happen only because President Trump. had the clarity that he did. So I'm hopeful that as we get closer to the inauguration and beyond, you know, that he makes good on what he's been saying, that he wants this war to end, but he wants it to end in an Israeli victory. And we're not going to have another ceasefire. We're not going to let Hamas regroup and rearm and attack again.

We're going to end this vicious cycle of violence that's been going on for really 50 years. And the greatest victims are the Palestinian people. And you mentioned, too, you know, just the way that, you know, the current administration has responded to October 7th. I can't imagine if Israel had listened to the Biden administration and had not hit back at Hezbollah as hard as they did and sent them reeling.

And I think really kind of started this, you know, domino effect that led to, you know, what we see with, you know, Assad now in Moscow. If they had not have hit back as hard, if they had not pushed back against Hezbole, I mean, where would we be if they had listened to the Biden administration, not done anything? Would be back where we were in 2009 when Condi Rice, I mean, a Republican secretary of state abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution, condemning Israel for violence in Gaza would be back where we were after the 2014 Gaza War, when John Kerry withheld arms from Israel until they stopped fighting Hamas.

After the 2021 Gaza War, you see where I'm going here. I mean, this is history repeating itself. And if, you know, after October 7th, I think Israel said we cannot afford to have this kind of a risk on our border anymore. We have to take decisive action. And no thanks to the Biden-Harris administration, you know, they've been slogging through the trenches now for 15 months doing the Lord's work. And I think what they've achieved against Hamas and importantly, as you noted, Hasbullah in the north, is going to be, in the long term,

a huge good thing for the region and beyond. But as I said, sadly, no thanks to the United States in this case. Victoria, put it in terms that people can, you know, really understand when they look at our ally, Israel, what happens with a compromised Israel? What happens if Israel were to weaken and we don't have that strong ally in that part of the world? Because obviously there's, there's going to be a blowback to the U.S. if that were to ever happen. What does that look like? Yeah, it really would be a kind of a deadly weakness for us. The Middle East, you can try to pivot away from it, but it won't pivot away from you. And the fact of the matter is it is that crossroads

between east and west. A lot of the world's shipping goes through that region, and a lot of the world's energy reserves are in that region. And so especially as we take on our new stance as an energy superpower and grow into that strategically, you know, we want to have influence in that region where there are other significant reserves. Without Israel, we really don't have that point of power projection and the collaboration between our countries on intelligence, on the development of weapons systems, notably missile defense. This is critical to the security of the American people. But then I'd just say, you know, you would have trouble using your iPhone, eating a cherry tomato, all sorts of things that they've achieved in the medical field without Israel. I mean, it is beyond

security. They are the startup nation. They are, you know, an enormous tech hub and have become prosperous well beyond their size. And I think that is a great ally for the United States. Definitely. This is a must-read book. I think that provides a lot of context that's normally missing from this conversation nationally and internationally. The book is The Battle for the Jewish State, how Israel and America can win. Victoria Coates, we'd love to have you back, Victoria. Thank you so much for what you do. Appreciate your time. Thank you. Merry Christmas to you, Chris. Thanks. Thank you. on the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist follow dana's absurd truth podcast for bite size

informative episodes perfect for your busy schedule on apple or wherever you get your podcast gosh this is the most completely hypocritical song of this segment timid Christmas is that indy williams singing that i mean he's a he's a gem he's a gem I want to know why Trump and Chip Roy are fighting now. Or actually, I just want to know why Trump is fighting Chip Roy. He is blasting him on truth social for some reason. I have no idea why. He had said that he tweeted out, quote,

Chip Roy is just another ambitious guy with no talent. By the way, how's Bob Good doing? I had, I hope some talented challengers are going. getting ready in the great state of Texas to go after Chip in the primary. He won't have a chance. Okay, first off, why in the hell is Trump speaking more harshly of Chip Roy than he ever has of Mike Johnson? Yeah. Chip Roy is a conservative stalwart who is delivered on Trump's agenda more than Mike Johnson could ever hope to. Go and look at the voting record. I'm not even playing. Go look at it. Bob Good was a conservative stalwart. People have to be strategic. Is it about uplifting your ego

or is it about securing the country for voters? I didn't vote for this. I didn't vote for people to sit here and, you know, have giant ego circle jerks. I did not do that. It's not what I voted for. I did not vote for petty infighting when we could be going after the left. I didn't vote for that, nor did you.

I mean, my gosh, people, I don't know if you realize, but this administration's got its work cut out for them and everybody's all pitching together to make sure that it gets done, but you're not going to secure anything when you go after your most conservative fighters. I don't care if they kiss your ass or not. Do they vote for your agenda? He does. Chip Roy does. He has backed that agenda to the hilt. He's not an ass kisser. I'm not either. But we back the agenda that gets it done for voters. And that's what it's about. That's all it's ever been about. Why in the world? Is he doing this? Why? And no, Chip Roy is super popular in Texas. He's not going to go

anywhere. Bob Good is a conservative stalwart. We had a hardcore conservative who got replaced by a moderate. We lost a hardcore conservative who stood shoulder to shoulder with you on everything from lower taxes to gun rights to everything. And he got replaced by a moderate because people decided they got mad at Bob Good because Bob Good, I don't care who you supported in the primary. If you're still litigating the primary, you are a walking mental abortion and you are everything that is wrong with this country. And I hope you have a crap Christmas. And I hope it's mean as I sound because I'm tired of this stuff. I'm tired of it. Get over, some of these people need to get over their fetish over the primary. It's weird. If you're still litigating the primary, you're anti-American.

If you're still litigating the primary, you're a communist sci-op. We all want lower taxes. We want to get rid of this DEI stuff. We don't want World War III. And by God, you're not going to get it done by having these petty ego fights. It's not going to happen. We voted for good Trump. I didn't vote for petty infighting. Stop it.

Must have one of the time in the year. Kane, go ahead. Oh, I just hurt my shoulder again. Well, you know, you always accuse me of having a tinfoil hat only because I have 10 of them. But listen to the Chicks on the View here. Oh, my gosh. Juan, play this. Who is in?

charge because I've been saying it for a while. Yes, you have. I've been saying that I think Elon must believe he's president. What? I do. Well, you've called him vice president. I called him president. Because I don't know what J.D. is doing.

I hardly have to say. Well, the gist of it is they think that Elon and J.D. are plotting to get rid of Trump. Okay. See, there's where the narrative starts. Good Lord. I told you that. That narrative's happening, right? They're going to try to divide and conquer.

I told you that. And you know what, going after our own conservative stalwarts isn't helping either. Folks, that does it for us today. Find us at Substack. I'll be back buying the mic with you tomorrow to finish out the week.