The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Dems Inflation Blame Game, CBS' Anti-Free Speech Weekend & A Fort Knox Audit

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

Democrats are beginning their inflation blame game against Trump less than a month into his presidency. Sen. Rand Paul suggests DOGE audit Fort Knox for gold. Minutes interviewed 2 communications consultants who were never actual employees of USAID and presented them as though they were longtime employees who were fired for lack of "loyalty”. CBS’s Margaret Brennan claims the Nazi Holocaust occurred because free speech was weaponized in Germany while German prosecutors are arresting people for insulting others. A German group called HateAid says free speech needs boundaries. Al Sharpton claims Trump wants to overthrow the government. Dana Loesch reacts to Trump pressuring Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate. Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to discuss Trump’s call with Putin, China’s influence, JD Vance’s owning the Europeans in Germany and more.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/DanaCode Dana10 for 10% off your entire orderByrnahttps://byrna.com/danaDon’t leave yourself or your loved ones without options. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off Goldcohttps://DanaLikesGold.com My personal gold company - get your GoldCo 2025 Gold & Silver Kit. PLUS you could qualify for up to $15,000 in BONUS silverHumanNhttps://humann.comSupport your metabolism and healthy blood sugar levels with Superberine by HumanN. Find it now at your local Sam’s Club next to SuperBeets Heart Chews.  KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best Native Pathhttps://GetNativePath.com/DanaNot just for skin - essential for healthy joints and bones! Get NativePath Collagen for up to 45% off + FREE shipping!Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANARelief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3 week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Tax Network USAhttps://TNUSA.com/DANADon’t let the IRS’s aggressive tactics control your life empower yourself with Tax Network USA’s support.  Reach a USA based agent @ 1(800) 958-1000 - Don’t fight the IRS alone

Donald Trump's favorability rating is actually higher than it ever was the first time around. Let me ask you. A recent poll by Marquette looked at several of the things that he has done or says that he is going to do. And 63% favor federal government's recognition of only two sexes. 60% favor deporting immigrants who entered the United States illegally. 60% favor expanding oil and gas production. 59% favor declaring an emergency at the southern border. Is there anything you are seeing that Trump is doing that you are in favor of that you think is the right thing?

Let me say as it relates to all of those issues, we're just at the beginning. Donald Trump's favorite. My other favorite part of this was Hakeem Jeffries trying to argue as like all the other Democrats do. Well, Donald Trump took office and he like, didn't immediately bring down the prices. So I guess it was all a lie. That's what I've heard all weekend to the point where I kind of wanted to bury my head

and my couch cushions. I was done already. I was already. I'm like, where do you got started? You guys are already in with this stuff. This is so dumb. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. Top of this first hour. A lot to get into the chats at Rumble. And then you also have, well, you know, you're watching us from somewhere. Channel 347 Direc TV.

the whole argument over when the money saving should start and when the inflation should go away. You know you kind of have to undo some of the stuff that Biden did in order to get to have the economy restored, right, Kane? I mean, it's not like the economy isn't this separate from the rest of the system and to, that moves completely unanchored from everything else. You're absolutely right. And we also only get reporting on the previous quarter, not the quarter that we're in. Right. So all the data that they're going by as far as prices and everything is based on Biden's last

quarter. So why is Hakeem Jeffries out there? Him, who else was it over the weekend? There were a couple of other studios. Amy Klobuchar. Oh, geez. The lady who eats her salad with a comb. They've been livid over this.

why didn't it immediately cut? Inflation is supposed to go away. The second Donald Trump is in office. Oh my gosh. And then when it doesn't, then they're saying it's a lie. It's a, how did someone put it? It is a mega lie.

I don't know what that means. Again, this is, as Cain noted, it's all, and that's just, that's not just conveniently right now. That's how the economy is always measured. You always go by the most recently tabulated quarter, and that's what this is. And so here in a couple of months we'll have some new information. But as it stands right now, this is the reality of the situation. You have inflation because of the economic policies of the previous administration. Trump's not even been in office for a month. And I think they're already doing quite a lot, honestly. And the left has to find some kind of way to blunt all of the activity that everybody sees on television. Because you got to think this makes the left really angry.

because Joe Biden, where's my story on this, Joe Biden officially has more vacation days. He took more vacation days than any other president in the history of this nation. If you had to guess how many days Joe Biden had been on vacation, how many would you guess? I would say it's close to 50% of the total of four years. Well, I mean, think about it. For a singular year, how many days of vacation do normal people get for a singular year? two to four weeks depending on your. Okay. Joe Biden, over four years, had 577 days off.

Good Lord. He took more time off. It was over 39% right almost at 40% of his presidency on vacation. That's a year and a half plus of vacation in four years. The average American gets 11 paid vacation days a year would have to work. 52 years to rack up as much time as Joe Biden took off. Bill Clinton, in comparison, had 345 days off, 12% of his presidency. Joe Biden, 39% of his presidency.

Barack Obama had 320 days off, 11% of his presidency. Ronald Reagan was the same thing, give or take by a couple of days, like 330-something days off, 11%. George W. Bush had over a thousand days off, 35% of his presidency. He had a lot. These are eight years of presidents. I will say this about W. And the reason I'm bringing this up is I'm going to bring this back to the larger topic with the Kim Jeffries.

But can I just make a side note about W? Because I have my criticisms with him. But can I just say to put it in perspective, a lot of the time that it was said that he was on vacation, he was actually at his ranch in Texas that he treated as kind of like, you know, how Mar-Lago is sort of, you know, the second White House. That's like the Western White House. Like Reagan had Rancho Del Selo. So he did a lot of work there. I mean, Colin Powell talked about how he and Condoleez-Rice were there and they were having cabinet meetings and they did everything possible. He went back and he actually did land work and stuff. So, but that is not noted in that tabulation. So I think if you did, it would be, a lot fewer days than that. And each of the presidents.

Prespective. Each of the presidents you mentioned in comparison to Joe Biden were two-term presidents. Joe Biden was one term. Did you almost call him Joe Burton? Because that should have stayed. It's a verbal typo. It stays. Yeah, it really should have.

It stays. But he's four years. The others that you mentioned are eight years. Those are the amount of days they took in eight years. Biden took 500 and something days in four years. Yeah. True. True. So he's been out of office this whole time. His ratio, I mean, George H.W. Bush was 37%. He had the most until Joe Biden. And it kind of makes you wonder, well, who is sort of running stuff? Who is running things? Who is actually the president of the United States? If the president of the United States was on vacation, that's like the million dollar question, right? And all of the screaming.

by Democrats as to, you know, oh, well, I can't believe you're auditing this or I can't believe you're cutting this and why has an inflation gone. I mean, honestly, the POTUS has done a really good job when it comes to getting started and getting things done. By the way, he only took 380 days off. So that was like barely, almost 26% of his presidency. So he was one of the, he's, he's right after Clinton. So he, of all the Republican president. he had the least time off. So just, and that was his first term. So just, just put that all in perspective.

Here is a headline that I have been looking into. And I kind of want to wait and see a little bit of what's discovered. I was unaware of this. Now, well, I wasn't unaware of Texas having gold, right? Because Texas has its own gold reserves. Did you know that Fort Knox, the apparently also has

gold in its reserves stored at Fort Knox. The last time it was fully audited was in 1953 I will say someone said oh no it was audited in 73 too. That's erroneous.

It was only a less than 6% examination of what they had and they were black and white photos. it was really weird. So I don't know. So they had, and I think that they had, didn't they have like Stephen Oonchin and McConnell go down there at one point?

Again, black and white photo. I don't know why it had to be black and white photos. It's really weird to me. But, yeah, they, so now Senator Rand Paul is demanding that the reserves at Fort Knox be audited. And I think Doge is, I think that they're going to do it when they finish going through the IRS. Because Musk had asked online, surely it's reviewed. at least every year, but it actually isn't. So Fort Knox in Kentucky, this was, so 36, they last fully audited it in 53, a full audit, full audit.

The last time anyone went there, less than 6% is what they saw. They had, there was a conspiracy that has been going around for some time that the gold reserves at Fort Knox are empty. makes me now wonder about the gold reserves in Texas. Are they, do they got gold in there? I'm just, you know, just kind of wondering. U.S. Mint Police, did you know that we have a Mint Police? I totally did not know that either. The U.S. Mint Police, they're responsible for protecting the reserve.

And it's actual, you know, gold bricks, like, or gold bars. So, yeah, they said that it was in 2017 when it was McConnell and Mnuchin. They went to the vault at Fort Knox. and they had some grainy black and white images of Mnuchin and that was it. And it's in front of what the public is told are golden bars. Now, he was the first, here's what's crazy. Steve Mnuchin was the first head of the treasury to visit Fort Knox and look at the depository there since 1948.

Again, the first head of the treasury. since 1948. That was back in 2017. They saw less than 6% of everything that was there. They didn't like really get a walk through. They didn't get to actually see everything. The last full audit was in 53. And then I don't know if you've seen the photos that are so grainy and you can't hardly, I mean, honestly, by today's standards, you can't even tell what you're looking at. And this is in 2017. So there's no reason for them to be like this. But it's just really weird to me. that they were released like that. I mean, that's, you know, if you're trying to hide, I guess, what it is, then, but they released

these back. I think CNN had them. And the image is so grainy. I mean, you could easily fake somebody out. I mean, Kane, you've seen this image, and I think Juan's going to show it to you. He saw the, he didn't see the largest stockpile of gold, and that's what was incorrectly said. He just saw, like, a little bit of it. And they made him put on white gloves and you supposedly held a gold bar.

But it's a photo that looks like it was done back in the 60s. And this was in 2017. I just don't trust it. I don't trust it. I mean, it's weird to me. This is literally the last. That's Steve Mnuchin, if you're watching the simulcast on Channel 347, Direct TV or on Rumble or YouTuber X. That's Steve Mnuchin at the gold depository in Fort Knox.

And again, that was the first time the head of treasury has ever visited it. since 1948, there hasn't been a full accounting, a full audit since 1953. Why was that picture taken in 2017 and it looks like it's from the 60s? Why did it have to be a grainy black and white photo? Is there like some unspecified rule that you can't use like modern cameras to actually capture what's in there? Or are they afraid that if you do that, then you're going to see that the gold's fake? I don't know. I mean, this doesn't help the conspiracy theory stuff. Is that not weird? it's weird so I think we need a full audit of this

that we need a full audit of a lot of things I've got more very depressing things of course as to where your money is gone not just through USAID but all of these other agencies now we're going to dive into that and some of the media malpractice over the weekend was stunning you guys stunning we're going to dive into

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That's not fair. So they said it had a depth of roughly four miles, the epicenter, was northwest of Toya, Texas, about 160 miles east of El Paso. They were detecting aftershocks within five minutes near the same location. And they said that they also felt tremors all the way and like all the way out far west as like Roswell and Carlsbad and, you know, out in New Mexico. Crazy. So I don't know. Cannabis cocktails are on the rise. I don't understand this concept. Now, I'm not a weed person. But my first. I feel like this is like a whole side topic.

My first introduction to weed was sitting behind old people at a Willie Nelson concert, hands to sky. It was the greatest generation, y'all. They were the greatest bad influence at a Willie Nelson concert. And they had, it smelled like somebody cracked open a kegher of Heineken. It smelled like a dirty raccoon fart. It was horrible. And I'm like, why would you want that in a cocktail, right?

Because wouldn't your cocktail smell like that? I just don't want like a stinky, drink. That's nasty. It's like the gummies where you just don't they smell like that? Well, my dog CBD treats don't really. Do the gummy smell it? I don't think so. I didn't really smell as CBD gummies, but I don't think that they have the TCH or T-H TLC in there. I don't know, whatever that. Thank you. T-HC.

Is that what you said? Is that right? T-L-C? No, it's T-HC. That's a band, isn't it? So they said cannabis cocktails. They are, so they're using cannibide oil. Okay. And then Tetris, Mers, Mers. those things in there and that apparently they're on the rise because people are getting away from alcohol. I just think that people don't like hangovers. That's like honestly, that's what it seems like to me. Is that, yeah. Apparently, I'm not reading this headline. Candles, according to one Danish

study, they say burning candles is the main indoor source of pollution particles. Your mom is the main source of indoor air pollution particles. Thank you. I'm going to burn my candles. My kids say that it's like a cult in our house. I don't care. I don't care because when we had the great ice storm of whenever that was, we had light. Thank you. But now they're saying that, okay, don't burn too many scented kennels. Can I also just say stop buying the scented oil trash from Bath and Body Works? That stuff is, I think, toxic.

The little stuff that you put in the walls there, one of my friends, it totally discolored her whole fireplace. She had a stone, and it totally changed the color of her fireplace. So I'm just saying some of the stuff, I think some of it's better. than others, but you know, don't like burn your house down. We've got a whole bunch of other stuff on the way, including auditing the gold at Fort Knox, media malpractice and some weekend drama. Don't miss. What does living better mean to you? Is it more money, a bigger house? Now think about this. What about how you feel physically every day? Life is so much better when you feel good. When you wake up, feeling great, you can do more of the things that you love and you're ready to take on the day.

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I think Doge is an unelected, unofficial, small group of young tech bros who are charging into different federal agencies, getting into their core computer systems, doing things with them that at least I don't know the full details of, copying and downloading reams of data. That's a lie. What does it matter that Doge has access to U.S. government computer systems? What matters is that the U.S. government has information about you, about me, are Social Security. information, our Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Benefit Payments, things that matter to us. Obviously, our tax filing. So wait a minute. So this is Chris Coons talking to whoever this turd is, 60 minutes, whatever.

It's Monday. Kane and everybody out there listening, everybody out there in the chat, maybe all can answer this question for me. Who are the elected group of people all in those departments that take our information? Are they elected? No, they're not at all. Wait a minute. There's a group of people in there right now that take our information that are not elected? Yes.

Oh. Well, what's the difference between those unelected people and the Doge people? Scientifically and logically? Nothing. Oh. Oh. So they just don't like this group of unelected people. Yeah, it's just political bias. Oh, so he's just being a turd. That's what it is. That's Chris Coons. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. I mean, technically, though, I voted for this. Nothing makes me happier than when you're like, Dana, guess what?

So, with the purchase of one Trump administration, you get a doge. And I'm like, what? And they're like, yeah, a doge. And what's going to happen is doge is going to rip war through all of these departments. And they're going to slice and dice and cut waste, fraud, and abuse. They're going to save you the taxpayer money. Now, see, that's my love language. When you talk about saving me my money, that's my love language.

I'm like, wait, what? That sounds amazing. I totally voted for that. I, you know, I couldn't vote for it enough because it probably would have been illegal. But at this point, I'm like, I feel like because of the taxes I paid, I should be able to vote as much as I want to. If I wanted to vote for Trump five times, I shouldn't be able to vote for Trump five times because I pay that much in tax. I think after a certain percentage, you should get extra. votes. Oh yeah. I'm going to roll with that until that's in fact, Republicans, you want to know the

quickest way to end withholding and like maybe have more of an accountable taxation system is you start saying stuff like that and proposing it a serious policy. The left will lose their minds. And the next thing you know, you've moved them to the center. But I'm very serious. I feel like I should get more votes. I'm specialer because I stress out more and I get robbed by the IRS. You all do too. I think if you are over, I think most of you would at least get two votes, right? Yeah. I would actually, I would make that in executive orders. This is why you can't have me as president.

You can't do that, Dana. I just did. Look, EO. Hold it up like Trump does. Show everybody. Make a meme template. There you go. So the media.

Can we talk about the media here? I didn't watch these things live because I have some self-respect. And I don't like to just, you know, defecate all. over my weekend. I'm just kidding. I did like pay attention to some of this. This was a 60 minutes thing. So 60 minutes. Can we this is the, I want to make sure I'm getting this. This is audio sound bite 10. Now, I want you to just spare a tear for the poor big government people that were getting paid off of your tax dollars as you listen to this. It's cut 10. People are really scared. I think that, you know, 12 days ago people knew where

their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills, and then all gone overnight. All gone overnight for Christina Dry and Adam Dubard fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration. They're not looking for competency. They're not looking for if you're good at your job.

They're looking for peer loyalty tests. And if you don't give it, you will be punished. And they had to leave the building. And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving USAID across administrations from, you know, George Bush to Obama to the first Trump administration. And they were never able to walk back in the building again. The lady who's here, the lady that you're listening to. two. They were actually never employees of

USAID, although they were presented as such by 60 minutes. They were longtime employees, though. Christina Dry and Adam Dubard, they weren't with USAID, but they got the

money spigot turned off from USAID. He is worked with the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs. She was a speechwriter and a communications analyst. She worked through this group called Jefferson Partners to partner with U.S. aid. But the way that they had it presented was that these poor sweet big government people were with

USAID. And that's, and they, this is who it is. This is, I don't feel bad for these people at all. Do you? I don't feel bad for them at all. I don't feel bad for them at all because they're, they're, there, if you chose to have a career in government, if you chose to have a career spongy, off the taxpayer, I don't feel bad at all for your sob story. That is karma coming back, slapping you in the face for sponging off of the taxpayer. Make better decisions. Just like if you become a webcam girl and you go work for the taint bros, don't be surprised if your videos are sold and then these slack-jawed, bald, you know, sharia-loving Muslims over in Britain decide that they're going to pretend to be gatekeepers of cultural values. No. Make better choices in life.

Make better choices in life than working for the government. Make better choices in life. I mean, I don't, I get that they're trying to put out these as like sob stories, but it's, I don't feel bad for it. I feel bad for the families that can't afford to take a vacation. or can't even afford to get a second car or can't afford to get their water heater fixed or can't afford to buy everything on their grocery list because they're being taxed to death and then on top of it property taxes

also that the government can go and spend their money for these two people to sit there in nice suits and bitch on camera. They didn't know how they were, but, I mean, have you seen some of these government workers? I just this is not playing the way that they think it's going to play with the general public

if you look at and I think we had this conversation what can last year we were looking at the benefits and the salaries of government workers and comparing those to private sector and there's no competition. I mean government workers, they love voting themselves, big pay increases, all these benefits,

etc., etc. If you really want to have sympathy for someone, have sympathy for the common man in common woman that are having to work two and three jobs to make ends meet for their families that see eggs quadruple and price. Those are the people that you should really feel bad about. The people who did their civic duty and they voted a certain way and they voted to save themselves money and they voted to not be involved in all these international entanglements and

they, you know, they voted for in their municipal and their local elections and maybe they even canvassed and did everything that they were supposed to do. and they still end up getting screwed up by their government. Those are the people that I feel bad for. So Kane also has a theory. And we're going to talk more about the 60 Minutes stuff, including the Margaret Brennan, the whole free speech thing with Holocaust next hour.

Share it with me, because we were talking about the audit of Fort Knox. I get the sense. And I think Kane speaks for probably a good number of people who listen out there. I get the sense that you think there's no gold in Fort Knox or just enough for Stephen Nuchin to take a picture with in 2017. Right.

And the fact that it was black and white, were they foil covered bricks of chocolate? Like, we don't know. Why wasn't it in color that photo from 2017 with the gold, number one? But number two, I've been seeing stories of gold being flown in thousands, like 8,000 bricks of gold. Mm-hmm. coming in from the bank of England? From London into New York.

And so if this reporting is true, why is it happening all of a sudden? They're trying to say that it's, you know, they think the incoming tariffs, their, you know, businesses and others want to be prepared for that. When what if they know this audit is coming and they want to get as many gold bricks as they can so it doesn't look like Fort Knox is empty? So that we had some come in from the Bank of England. there was one guy who says, who was theorizing that every commercial flight from London

had like two to four tons of gold on it. And then that we're trying to have our gold holdings valued at a certain monetary, at a certain value. And it may not be the case because we don't let anyone. It is really actually odd. So everything, by the way, just saying is speculation. It's only because there isn't enough clear information, that's what we're left with, is speculation.

Well, yeah, when you don't, when you have a government that's not transparent, people are going to speculate in absence of information. We saw this with coronavirus. I mean, it's, you know, it is, I mean, it's a very real thing. We saw, we saw this happen. I just, I want to see Musk had proposed having like a walkthrough and live streaming a walkthrough. Although I probably wouldn't be able to see it because X doesn't work half the time. If I click on something, it just goes to who knows where. just things just need to work and we need to not deal it.

So like drama over the weekend. Did you guys see this quote? Let me pull this up. So Trump had quote, he quoted Napoleon and he posted it on his true social network. Sidebar, isn't it kind of weird that Trump has true social and Musk has X and they're in the White House together? Like, I can't believe the media in all of their attempts to pit them against each other. other have not tried to do more through truth, social, and X and pit the companies against each other more. Isn't that weird? Like, they missed that opportunity. They haven't done that. I mean,

I'm not saying I want them to do it, but that seems like the most effective way. If they were going to do it, why do, you know, because they're not the smartest. So he posted, he who saves his country does not violate any law. And that's attributed to Napoleon, right? And there were a lot of conservative Schiff said spoken like a true true dictator, Adam Schiff. They had Tim Kane who, why is he still talking? He says he has authority, but he has to follow the law. Oh my gosh, that's rich coming from the guy who was the VP for a pick for Hillary Clinton. And it's been, they keep saying that it's a sign that he's a tyrant or he's a, it's a sign that he's an authoritarian.

I think he just posted a quote from Napoleon because he was over there in France looking at Napoleon's tomb. I guess people missed that part when he was over there visiting the tomb and there were photos of that. Did they not put two and two together? This is so stupid. And all of the people who ran the last administration like a committee, you guys don't really have any authority to lecture any of us about any of this. A lot of drama over that this weekend. Now, Trump and Musk, I think they sat down with my friend Sean and they did a joint interview.

And they were asked about, you know, the media's attempts to try to pit them one against the other. And like I said, they've been trying to do that for quite sometimes. time. And Trump had said, you know, it's so obvious that they're bad about, they're just so bad. He goes, I used to actually think they were good at it. They're actually really bad about it, is what he had said. He said that they're not very good at doing this. And I do think it is weird that they haven't tried the truth social versus X thing. But I think that Trump likes the truth social as, like, what if Musk sells X someday? You know, then he's got, I don't know, I just think there's like an insurance

insurance plan. But that was a big, that was a big downfall for the media. That was a losing moment for them. The fact that those two did an interview together over the weekend. And they, they were unsuccessful in trying to get them

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Good heavens. I can't. I can't with us. Oh, all right. So that some of the stuff that we got coming up for you in the second hour, we have to discuss this insane soundbite, Margaret Brennan, blaming free speech, blaming the Holocaust on free speech. This is what status do as a way to try to argue against any dissent. So we're going to dive into that. We're also going to look at, well, we've got the left freaking out. But also, After J.D. Vance went off on European leaders, Germany tried to clap back. And now all of these videos showing them raiding people's homes because they shared memes that the German authorities didn't like. Wait until you see this. We got that coming up as well. Second hour next. Achieving vibrant youthful skin doesn't have to be complicated. With the power of native path collagen, you can nourish your body from within and enhance not just your skin, but also your hair, your nails. By incorporating native path collagen into your daily routine, you can promote a plump, radiant complexion, reduce signs of aging, and boosts your skin. And boosts your hair. your overall vitality, all without any unnecessary fillers or additives. Native Path collagen has only type 1 and 3 collagen, the most important types, making up 90% of your body's collagen. No artificial sweeteners, just pure third-party tested goodness. It's completely flavorless so you can just add it to

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The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right. No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that

country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history. I, I'm just rarely and left as speechless as I am by such a demonstration of ignorance as seen with Margaret Brennan in that soundbite, that exchange that she had was Secretary of State Marco. Rubio. And this all has to do with J.D. Vance going over to Munich and speaking to European leaders telling them that they're not doing enough in the name of liberty and then also criticizing them for their very real actual free speech infringements. And Margaret Brennan trying to rewrite history. First off, the only the re just does she not know that they literally banned free speech that the Nazis when when the Nazis ascended to power in the early 30s one of the first things they did in addition to going out and banning guns was they wanted to ban free speech that actually happened they had a number of different laws and edicts that did precisely this they it it was

the first an attack on civil rights and then you want to talk about a war on democracy. Well, there you go. I mean, there's reams of material that talk about the suppression of free speech

under the Nazis and the explosion of propaganda. It is one of the most amazing else I've ever seen anyone take in a broadcast forum. That is an embarrassing indictment of American education that a grown person who hosts a television show sits there and through that perspective

begs the question and asking Rubio about free speech. Like, do you realize also the other offense that was woven into that is that she's essentially equating J.D. Vance with Nazis. because J.D. Vance was criticizing Europe for not having free speech, and she's acting like, oh, well, if you're a free speech warded her, I guess that makes you a Nazi. Oh my gosh. That's, I don't know. I mean, maybe Kane, the reason that they burned books was so that people could breathe in the smoke and it was like the next best thing to reading them, says Margaret Brennan, wink. People are all up in arms over J.D. Vance speaking at that security conference. But you know what? Where was the lie? There was not a damn thing that he said. Was it harsh? Yes. And it was harsh, just perfectly harsh. And it was about 50 years to 50 years after when it first needed to be told. I mean, he wasn't subtle about all of this. One of the things he noted was that the threat, you know, talking about Europe and Russia is not really China or anything else. It's from within. And he's right. I mean, and they just had difficulty in processing that because no one has, no one has looked them in the face in recent

and said, knock it off. You're acting like a statist. I mean, they need to be blunt about this stuff. I'm like, why are we, you know, good. Why are we, why are we babying these people? So I don't know. The, I mean, to try to act as though those infringements weren't happening. Have you guys seen some of the stuff that's been, you know, taking place over in Germany, for instance, where is this? So this is audio sound like 14. German prosecutors. say that it is a, you're committing a criminal act if you insult someone. Listen, 14. Is it a crime to insult somebody in public? Yes, it is.

And it's a crime to insult them online as well? Yes. The fine could be even higher. Yeah. If you insult someone in the internet. Why? Because in internet, it stays there. If we are talking face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish.

But if you, in the internet, if I insult you or a politician. That sticks around forever. Yeah. The prosecutors explain German law also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats and fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they committing a crime? In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this. or just reposted it. That's the same for us.

The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail time for repeat offenders. This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. This is what they do in Germany. She's salivating over all of this. Do you see her? Oh, so you can. Yes, because we don't know if the quote is not real or not. What?

Do you see the absolute lack of respect they have for the individual? People are too stupid to make determinations about whether something they're looking out online is real or not. And as a result, you need the government to come in and make that distinction for you. You know, I think it's going to be a lot easier for the robot overlords to take over now, since we've had status that conditioned us to just taking over daily aspects of our lives for the past 50 years. I mean, quite frankly, is it going to be that much of a difference? Maybe without the political zeal?

Who knows? But that, I thought that was so telling. Did you see the German ladies a face? She's like, oh, yes, you know, because then they don't know of what they're reading. They don't know, oh, the people are too stupid to make that distinction. And you can see what Brennan's doing here. She's trying to set up this argument that, well, this couldn't happen over here now because the government controls all of it.

Do you see the government? That only makes sense if there is an agreed upon definition as to what, what is true and what is false. Because here in the United States, the powers that be were trying to tell you that, yes, you know, your immune system, if you get something and then you're inoculated because you've had it already, that yes, that's how science works and you've developed an immunity because you've had. Then that changed and they changed it to be whatever they needed it to be to justify mandates for injections and everything else.

Oh, well, all of a sudden, you don't get natural immunity anymore. That doesn't exist, or at least with Rona. It doesn't exist anymore. This is what these people did. I'm just, it amazes me that they think that this is the answer to prevent the sorts of mass hysteria that we saw during the rise of the Nazis in the 30s. but that was the government property. I mean, they controlled every aspect of it. They act like they're fighting some grand cause of,

we're fighting against hate. But think of it. These are the people that have codified hate. You get in trouble if you don't allow someone to hijack your language for cosplay. Oh, but there's more. Did you see that they raided a home? Someone posted a meme.

So you guys share images, right on Facebook. So imagine you share a meme. And remember, someone could say, oh, that was a racist image or that was the sexist image or the left's definition, they've obliterated the realities of what is or isn't with all the isms because they've abused the word ad nauseum. So keep in mind that all of this is on a sliding scale of someone else's standards that changes conveniently when they needed to be advantageous to them. So imagine you share an image on Facebook, like a meme that you find. And then the authorities determine that it's offensive.

Maybe you joked about a fat chick. Maybe you joked about, I don't know, like, you know, somebody being a DEI hire. I don't know. And then the police to raid your home and arrest you. This is what's happening in Germany. Audio something like 15. Listen. It's 601 on a Tuesday morning.

and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched a suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime, the crime posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time across Germany, More than 50 similar raids played out. Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.

Now, what's interesting, they don't show you actually what they're jailing people for. They just want you to take their word for it. Oh, they posted a racist cartoon. What? Do you know that even, so in Europe, people who are coming from Sharia-dominated countries, like Islamic jurisprudence, you know, countries, they're referred to as Asians. And there are, I mean, there's like stories, whether it's like on daily mail or guardian or wherever, where someone can literally post criticism about people coming from Islamic countries illegally

or trying to establish Sharia outside of Islamic jurisprudence in, you know, England or in France or wherever. And they're, they get cited for posting hate. or if they even note the fact that these people are coming from Islamic countries that practice Sharia, which is literally the legal system, and that it's incompatible with Western values on which, like the French judicial system or English, etc., is founded upon, if they talk about the conflict with that, that's considered racist. So it's weird that they're not showing you what they're arresting people for. Because I think if they did, you would probably object and be like,

wait a minute, explain the, explain this. But that's, I mean, for crying out loud, some of the offenses, I don't know if you've seen like some of the stuff that I remember even before the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, they were called racist and all kinds of stuff. And they were posting, you know, parody of the Islamic jurisprudence that guided these countries. And then also the extremism of some of the people who immigrated into these countries and the extremism. that they brought with, and these are all very real things. Fundamentalism. And it's called racism to criticize it. You can't even criticize it. You can't say anything over there. There's no free speech. This is exactly what J.D. Vance is talking about. You are killing yourself for your opponent. You are priming yourself for takeover. That's what this is. You're not allowing

free speech. You're actually, so her whole piece is discussing how you need to give the government entire control over discourse in your nation in order to keep things, what, peaceful in order to buy this veneer of peace? I mean, they're actively advocating against free speech. I mean, it gets, Germany's crazy. And they, we got more on this, because I have another audio somebody to play, because this is what they're trying to push here as it relates to speech. I think that this, last election, killed it in the crib, so to speak. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it's the non-firearm, firearm, the burn a gun. I always tell people, and I will always carry,

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Like, have you seen the size of Nevada that's actually privately owned? There's no comparison. So that's an interesting approach. It's something to keep an eye on. I'm kind of, let's pull this other stuff up here. So in addition to this, hang on, hang on, hang on. Okay, finally. apparently there's no relief ahead for high used car prices.

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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. Free speech needs boundaries. And in the case of Germany, these boundaries are part of our constitution. Without boundaries, a very small group of people can rely on endless freedom to say anything that they want, while everyone else is scared and intimidated. In your fears that if people are freely attacked online, that they'll withdraw from the discussion. This is not only a fear, it's already taking place.

Already half of the Internet users in Germany are afraid to express their political opinion, and they rarely participate in public debates online anymore. So this is the, I mean, it's literally called hate aid. And it's the CEO, what's her name? Is this the CEO, Josephine Ballon? Yeah. I, this is, this is all fallout from Vance's speech in Munich, where he went off on all these European leaders. And they all recoiled in horror because they couldn't believe someone was calling them out on their double standards.

Welcome back, Dana Lash with you, bottom of the second hour. My only disagreement with J.D. Vance on this is kind of a structural one, because I agree with him, except I don't think that Europeans, and it's not that I don't think, I know, when you look at the history of speech laws in Europe, they don't view free speech the way that Americans view free speech. We are so uniquely wild. And we are. We really are. God love us. I love us. I love America and I love Americans. We are so uniquely wild. When we say free speech, we really mean it. Over there, it's not the same. They don't have those laws. They don't have a culture of those laws.

And so now we're going back to this like, why my fallacy of speech and Nazism for the purpose of defending the Germans after they got scolded by J.D. Vance. It's just asinine. I mean, you have to think, you have to go back in order to actually see how anti-free speech laws and restrictions contributed to the rise of Nazism. You have to go back a decade earlier in the, like to 1920, 1921, where there were a number

of laws that were passed at that time that they, they wanted a total censorship of any kind of criticism of the press or any kind of government leaders. And there were tons of, there were a lot of publications, including Nazi publications that were shut down. And when the Nazis assumed power, they immediately shut down speech. They were shutting down publications. They were shutting down, I mean, literally everything that wasn't in line with Nazi ideology. And before them, the Weimar Republic, they were shutting down all kinds of stuff as well. They did even ban Hitler from speaking in a number of German states. But the problem is that it was used as a, like, a public relations tool by the Nazis. And they had, I think, like some of the stuff that

they created, there was like an image of the fire.com. The fire.org has, uh, a collection of some of the propaganda that was created during this time. And so what the Nazis were doing was saying, oh, the Weimar Republic is, they're, you know, they're silencing Hitler because they're afraid of what he's saying, et cetera. They're afraid to be challenged. And they used this. It was not an impediment. They used it as a PR tool for themselves. And then when they cease power, they just expanded on all of the anti-speech moves that had been made prior and really,

shut everything down even more. But this, it never had the effect. Censorship never has the effect that a government thinks it's going to. That is one thing that is not unique to any other nation, but free speech is unique to the United States. And this was this idea that free speech contributed to their rise is actually, it's antithetical to history. It helped it, this censorship is what actually help fuel it because they used it as a whole PR tool. I mean, for Cry Not Loud, they had a thing where he's supposed to have tape over his mouth. And they're like, oh, the, you know, the Republic is silencing him because they're afraid of his truth. And they made it, they did a number on people making it think that he was sharing some information that they really deserve to hear.

But the government was preventing. And it worked. It was the side that worked. I, there are a lot of people who are. I think are really ignorant of history. And I don't know why we always have to go back to Nazis with literally everything. But one of the things, like I said, the only thing I don't entirely agree with Vance on is the presumption that that Europeans both support and understand free speech the way that we do here in the United States. It is, again, a very uniquely American thing. They clearly don't.

And they have not had it as part of their governing doctrine. it has not been ensconced at the level that it is in the United States in any governing doctrine or document in European nations. It just, it has that. I mean, there's the semblance of free speech, but it's not like free speech, free speech here. You have protected, free speech is protected speech, speech that you can say without threat or fear of litigation. They don't have that. That is not an attribute that they have over in,

Europe. Everything can be litigated. Absolutely everything is litigated. It's wild, in fact. The way that they go and they, they, and it's obviously, most often used as a tool against more conservative, either members of culture or lawmakers over there. But this, it was a, it was a speech and a message that needed to be stated. And I think one of the reasons that, the other reason that it seems so shocking to some of them is that the moment Trump got into office, he just immediately started, started in on them. I guess that they thought there was going to be a honeymoon period or something. I don't know. But we don't have time for that. We do not have time for that. I mean, you've, it's not free speech to state that, yes, you can say whatever

you want to say so long as the governing authority approves. Well, that's, not free speech. We don't need to be managed as a people informationally. But the people who want to control speech believe that you do because they don't believe that you are up to the task to manage your information yourself. And that's ultimately what a lot of this comes down to. Never before was it so much more apparent than during COVID and COVID lockdowns. If you want to have a measure of whose speech was the freest. And in the United States, under the Biden administration, it wasn't great clearly.

But you ought to see what some of the penalties were for people in Europe if they were questioning, you know, vaccines, or if they were asking about adverse effects or natural immunity or anything like that. I mean, they were way more harshly treated. Even though I thought our treatment here was pretty damn harsh. Over there, it was even crazier.

So when Vance is saying that the threat really isn't going to be Russia or China, it's going to come within. I mean, you already have these European nations that have adopted a kind of quasi-Chinese democratic model on speech particularly. And that's not wrong. It's true. It's absolutely accurate. And so he's warning them, look, you are rotting from within and that is the biggest threat. And it's not wrong. But I also think that you can't, you can't.

establish a metric of freedom for to determine whether a nation can match us in terms of freeness especially when these nations that's not part of their culture and hasn't been part of their culture since their inception since the beginning so that's that is something to kind of keep in mind they're very it is a very different thing even the more conservative some of the most conservative europeans i've ever met are still different on speech and i've talked to a number of you know conservative MPs and the European Union and elsewhere. And they're very, it's very different. The levels of freedom that one considers to be acceptable freedom in speech. It's very different. So, I don't know, maybe we'll see, but this informational management, no, that's got to stop.

A couple of other bits of audio to get into. Where do we want to go from here? Because I've got a, we got 30,000 cuts. Ooh, you know what? Let's do, do, do, do. Let's go into some of the, I know we're going to talk about this with Stephen Yeats, but Audio Summite 19. So Zelensky, reportedly is a little mift. He has kind of been sidelined by some of this.

He apparently was not happy that POTUS spoke with Putin. I didn't realize that we had to go ask this comedian for permission. and that's not to say, and this is one of the things that I can see the left winding up already, is that it's an either-or that, oh, well, if you're, if you're sidelineing Zelensky, you're doing that because your preference is Putin. No, I think that POTUS just believes that there is a quicker and more efficient way to get everything tied up, and this is the most direct route to do it. Audio Soundbite 19, this is Zelensky talking about priorities. Listen. Do it without us.

Let me ask you about your phone call with President Trump earlier this week. It came on the heels of his call with President Putin. Does Mr. Trump's direct communication with Vladimir Putin before speaking to you unnerve you? No, no, we spoke about it, by the way, with President Trump. And I said that I know that we had already phone calls, yes, both ours. It's okay that he phoned him. Because I wanted very much that Ukraine is in priority for Trump. Wants to be a priority.

I think they've been kind of our priority. They've taken billions and billions of dollars, and we haven't gotten a return on the investment for that. Which, by the way, that's something we're going to discuss, is the taxation issue coming up. What did you get out of all your support of Ukraine? You know, we've got to get this tied up. The quickest way to do it, I think, is the way that they're approaching it right now.

We'll talk more about this with Stephen. it's coming up. Also, I didn't watch the S&L 50 thing because I just I'm not into old fart humor. I'm just not into it. I'm really not. I'm just like, hmm.

If you just put Bill Murray on for an hour, I'd watch it, you know, but otherwise I just don't, I don't care. Or Bill Hater, because he's hysterical. We're going to talk about some of the other stuff that happened over the week in cultural aspect stuff. And then we're going to get into some of the latest with Doe

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Driven to Lake County Jail. He posted $1,500 bond. I just, yeah, I don't know about that one. Let's see. This, ooh, a Florida man. He has a boxer, a dog. His boxer helped scare off two coyotes during a walk. So then Altamonte Springs in Florida,

they encountered two wild coyotes while they were out. He was out walking his dog. credits his dog for helping to scare them away. And he said that my dog bulldoze them back into the woods here. And thankfully, he had his dog on a lead,

but his dog like pulled him so hard. He like just creeped his face on the ground. Florida Fish and Wildlife said they were aware of the reported incident. And there are coyotes there. I just, yeah, so just be safe and be aware. That was a good dog. But yeah, that dude totally,

that dog dragged his dude. He dragged his owner. He's like, yeah, I'm going to go get these. This, oh, no, no. Well, there was a shirtless man that stole a police cruiser and then carjacked another SUV, all shirtless in a very wild chase, some of which was caught on video, dash cam footage and then body cam, which you can't play because apparently the guy only knows four words.

And it's all the S word, the F word, and another word, I can't say. so but the uh suspect 52 years old armando lopez uh he the officer's body came he was chasing the shirt shirtless lopez guy uh and uh tried to use a taser on him the dude was unfazed after he got tased he jumped into the patrol car took it sped away after he was tased shirtless and tased he fell on the concrete and got up and then got tased and still got in the car. Dang. He's going to scratch his mannipples right off on the pavement. And the dash cam recorded the guy's actions inside the vehicle. And yeah, he, man, he was. So yeah, he got taken into custody, as you can imagine. That's kind of wild. And then, I mean, it was detained because he tossed an

explosive device outside of a Florida restaurant. Don't know why. Well, there's reasons. He's mad at somebody. Okalusa County Sheriff's Office. No one was. hurt. There was no damage to the building, or significant damage anyway. The authorities have not released the suspect's name or a motive, but he has been detained. We have more on the way. Third hour coming up. Stevie Nates will join us too. Stick with us. Achieving vibrant youthful skin doesn't have to be complicated. With the power of native path collagen, you can nourish your body from within and enhance not just your skin, but also your hair, your nails. By incorporating native path collagen into your daily routine, you can promote a plump, radiant complexion, reduce signs of aging, and boost

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Don't miss out. Head to get nativepath.com slash Dana. What I'm thinking about and talking to, you know, my friends at democracy defenders and other lawyers about is could there be a nationwide class action lawsuit to follow up on last week's victories? against Musk, against the Trump administration, for this breach in computer security and the data of all American taxpayers. It could be a class action suit on behalf of all Americans. If the proud boys and the oathkeepers want to opt out,

and they don't want their part of the money for the contamination of their data, fine, they can opt out. But really, it's a suit on behalf of everybody, because that's our information. So where was this concern when it was our information, you know, prior to all of this, when Social Security numbers were leaking out and when the IRS was weaponizing their authority to repeatedly target conservatives every single year there was a Democrat in office because that's happened. And some of us can literally attest to that personally. Where was the concern then? You rat bastard traitor.

and that's exactly what Jamie Raskin is. I have zero empathy. I have zero courtesy. I have zero kindness. I have zero civility for these big government idiots that sit here and defend this stuff. They only, now he wants a class action suit because everything that Doge is doing up until this point is about limiting the slush fund of our dollars that they have access to. Jamie Raskin wasn't concerned when the IRS was going after your Venmo or anything else. They weren't concerned.

The IRS, you know, historically weaponizes under Democrats. They love going after conservatives and they love using the full authority of the IRS to persecute and harass conservatives here in the United States. They've done this repeatedly. Jamie Raskin was never interested in any of that then. Just fascinating to me. So, yeah, I don't have any. I don't, I don't have any empathy, sympathy. And I think that this is asinine and I hope it gets laughed out of court.

This is, they're so upset over all of this. I love it. And this is, Doge is supposed to end in July of 26. I mean, they're just supposed to go there, look at what needs to be cut, present their findings. These are our recommendations. And that's it. I mean, this isn't even, we're not even discussing keeping them around in perpetuity, which is exactly what Democrats.

Democrats who do if it was something that they came up with. Welcome back to the program. Dana last year with you were at the top of this third hour. And I can we play this audio somebody seven from Al Sharpton real quick? Because this is, geez. I was actually surprised that he even knew these two founders' names. I got to be honest. Yeah. Go ahead. One day our children's children will read American history. And can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they can stay in power. That's what we're looking at. We're looking at American history.

How is Trump overthrowing the government to stay in power? What part of we're going to audit waste, fraud, and abuse with the government is equal to the hysteria of he's overthrowing the government. Where's that at? Where's, but that's how sharped him. You know, my favorite is a Chippole, Signore Weaver. I almost didn't recognize him, you know, not fat and not in a juicy cout tractsuit. I almost didn't recognize him. Took me a second.

But that's people who think that I think they were dropped on their heads as infants. I have no, I don't know. I don't know what this says. I don't know. I don't know why. It's just total hysteria. This is not going to make anybody, you're not condescending. you're not convincing people that that's what's happening. People love the idea that government can be held accountable

because they've been held accountable and sometimes by an unaccountable government. You're never going to convince people that this is bad. This is the thing that independents and moderates and even people on the left are loving. The only concern that I've seen expressed are people act like these nerds that are going through this information that they like the one guy who Who was it? We played this like in our first hour. The guy who said that they're printing things out, that's an absolute flat out lie. They can't print anything out. They only have read-only access. And they're under NDAs. So that's already been made public by both sides, in fact. So I don't know where they're getting this lie that, oh, well, they're printing out information. They have only read-only access and secure areas. So what are they even talking about? They're lying to you to try to just so that you rise up and stop the audit and that you won't hold government accountable.

That's, it's all just trying, they're trying to emotionally manipulate you. People who don't care about your savings because they've spent it already. I just get enraged over this stuff. This is, this is, it's insane. Audio soundbite, two other soundbites, well, um, let's, did we, do we play four already? The Hakeem Jeffries. Okay. Let's play four, and then we're going to play Trump's kind of response to this.

So he Kim Jeffries is repeating this stupid talking point that I guess all Democrats have been trained to say like parrots over the weekend. Listen to him, deliver it here. Let me say as it relates to all of those issues, we're just at the beginning. And the core promise that Donald Trump made is that he's going to lower costs for everyday Americans. In fact, we were told that grocery prices would go down. on day one on January 20th. Costs aren't lower. In fact, costs are increasing. So you know when those measures, that economic measure comes out, that's going to be in,

when does the January, when does, when do January February come out? That's going to be like a month or so, right? In April. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you'll be able to see the moment that he enacted different economic policies and the effect that that has on inflation. Right now, the only information that we have to go through, as K noted, are its last quarter's report and that's based on Biden's administration. So Hakeem Jeffries is complaining

going off of Biden's, the report during the Biden administration. That's how that works. And he knows better, but he's just, he knows better. He's just trying to, I guess trying to appeal to people that he thinks don't know, doesn't know how this works. It doesn't make any sense. No, I think that the Trump administration's been making really, really good moves. The only thing that I don't like right now, and I saw this earlier today, and I'm going to just dive right into it, is this story that came, I think this is from Financial Times. I don't know how real it is, but it says the Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on the Tate brothers. I call them the Taint brothers. I don't care.

I have never minced my words. I don't have to. I think that these two cucks have set humankind back by several generations. I don't think it's manly to be middle-aged, balding, drooping shoulders, single, no children. There are these Muslim guys that have bragged about selling women for sex online. I mean, they have sex camps. That's what they do. That's where they've made all their money.

And I don't know how some, you know, hard-up fetishized people on the right decided to make these guys like some sort of icon of right-leaning freedom. I don't know. I don't know much about these dudes, except I think they're gross. And the videos that I've seen of them talking about themselves are so cringe. I have no idea how they get laid unless they just pay for it. I mean, we have an example, I think, that we can play. This is what I'm talking about.

They didn't teach you in self-defense? Here's a little move. When I grab you by your neck and you start annoying me trying to resist. And I just... And then I grab you. grab you by your neck again. Then what the f*** gonna do when your face is collapsed and your sheep bones broken. You ain't gonna do shit but cry. I guarantee I change the way you look at sex forever. You're gonna be crying. I won't cry. I bet you cry. His head looks like a job.

Cry. You're saying I wouldn't cry. You're challenging me to a fight. You're saying I can't hurt you. You're at your mind. I don't even have to fuck you. I don't get this sex part. That's a distraction. He's talking about women. My bick can stay in my pants. I'll just start beating the shit out of you. How about that? We walk in the bedroom. I start kicking your ass. No sex. No sex involved. But you cry then.

Perfected this and pimpsed. So this is one of the taint brothers that they're talking about. And I don't know why. Because there are people on the right that have like elevated this guy for some reason. I'm just going to. First off, I don't even know where these two came from. They, I guess, were born in the United States, but like have lived overseas for most of their lives now, I guess. So I don't even know why any.

We don't need to use this administration to settle political grievances or any other grievances for anyone else. So I don't know who's advised, because I guarantee you Trump doesn't know who these guys are. I don't know who's advising him to do this, but they need to be jettisoned out of Trump's orbit immediately. I mean, these two dudes are a cancer on the discourse of enlightened politics. They really are. And I don't know how anyone can hold up that thing as an alpha male, especially. someone that has like a really sketchily claimed MMA record like you like what fought one time in a league no one's ever heard of

please I just I don't know why everyone's like sucking up to these two no pun intended I really don't and I especially dislike it when I see cucks in the United States defend them yes I am using that language because that's what I think of them if you're defending this stuff as a measure of alpha you're a cuck at least as your wife let you watch I have to ask that because those are the only type of males that actually defend this type of stuff. This stuff sets back humankind. And I've had some of like their defenders say, oh, Dana, be quiet. You're setting women back. First off, I know you're emasculated because I make more money than you and I'm more successful than you are and your wife is not as attractive as me.

That's no, that's no excuse to get nasty online. Number one. Number two, don't call yourself a man if you defend males who sell women online in sex cam work and brag about it repeatedly in video online. sex can work and then threaten to sue the internet every single time someone criticizes them. That's not manly. That's being a female copulatory organ. And we have enough of those in this country on the left. So please dear God, don't start importing it from the, like not even the right from elsewhere into this country and claim that it's on the right. End of. We have a lot more on the way. We've got headlines coming up. All family pharmacy, I've been recommending them to everybody because I think what they do is makes it so easy and it's so important and they cut out

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Quick note. I get it that there are dudes out there that are like, we're so tired of hearing about toxic. I agree with you because I don't think masculinity is toxic. I think that the matriarchy can be just as toxic. But the reaction to that isn't to hold up a juggered buck tooth, surreal-loving, you know, cuck who literally sells webcam porn. That's not the option. I said what I said. All right, moving on. This headline, this headline, I tell you, a snowmobiler fell through ice on a pond. I don't, okay, I would not, there's not, never, no, never. Why would you go across that? This was in Michigan. First responders rescued two guys who fell through the ice

while snowmobiles. And it was at night. They had to take them to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia. Thankfully, they're both alive, but my gosh, one of the guys was an amputee who was struggling to stay up. he lost this leg in a motorcycle accident.

So, thankfully, they're okay, but golly. Like, be careful with this. There's no way I would take, unless I was, like, way up maybe in the Arctic Circle. Maybe, where I knew the ice would be a couple feet thick. There's no way. Let's see. This, why is the U.S. Coast Guard delivering cocaine to San Diego, and by cocaine, I mean, 17 tons of it? Yeah.

December through February, they said that the Coast Guard cutter, this boat offloaded, like 17 tons of cocaine, to appear in Diego is but 275 million wholesale in the U.S. And that they were operating in drug trafficking zones off of like around southern Mexico and Central America. Uh, what? Trafficking makes money. I'm telling you that's, oh, this is sick. Uh, let's see.

A, uh, this is a weird bucket list wish. A New York woman spent her 104th birthday in jail as a bucket list request. Yeah. She had a lifelong wish of going to jail. I don't know. And they made it happen. They let her sit in the jail, Livingston County Jail on Monday in New York, Western New York woman. She was even offered a private tour of the facilities.

She got to see the surveillance system and the booking chambers and all of that stuff. 104 years old. That was really nice that they made that happen for her. There's the photo. Look how sweet they are. I mean, you know that they had to be like, she wants what? For her birthday? What?

What is that? Apple and Google are restoring TikTok to their app stores. And a new move, this is per couple of different, including NBC and CBS. They said that in a response to new law that requires TikTok to divest from it from the CCP, they would return them both to the Apple and Google Play stores. And that they're restoring the app. Now, does this mean that because people who deleted it couldn't re-download it? Is that still in effect? the article doesn't say it doesn't actually get into that so you don't know but interesting

very interesting and use of a oh this is disgusting hey it's like a thing for the taint brothers use of a i leads to a jump in sex doll sales this is so gross let's just not let's not say we did talk about it all right so coming up we're going to have stephen yates on because we have to talk about the new 10% tariffs taking place against china plus Taiwan's detected an increase in maritime activity and military aircraft even. We'll talk about that as well and get his reaction to Europe's reaction to the not really harsh words from Vance. They were very real. We'll touch on all of that so that he's coming up next. Stick with us. Our partners that help bring you the program and our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country.

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972 Patriot. The Dana Show podcast. Your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program. I'm Dan Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. It's a very weird newsday. And, of course, you can listen around the country. And Channel 347 is how you can watch it on direct TV, YouTube, and Facebook as well. Kind of have a lot to talk about with our guest, Stephen Yates,

because we've had the whole European reaction to Vance's remarks. And then Taiwan is seeing aircraft in its skies. And we got tariffs with China, the 10% kicking in. So it's kind of a busy time. as you all know, Stephen Yates at Yates comes on X. He's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He joins us now. He had served in two presidential

administrations. He knows everything about foreign policy and we're going to get into all the latest with China. But while we have him, Stephen, always good to see you. I've got to get your reaction to the European freakout over Vance's remarks

when he was in Munich. It's been a little long time coming, I think. For some of those leaders, to hear some of the harsh truths about the state of their unions, so to speak. What was your take on this? Well, a couple of things came immediately to mind. I mean, number one, he literally made a grown man cry. And so I was waiting for Tom Hanks not to do his bad S&L thing,

but to just start yelling out. There's no crying in baseball. There's no crying in baseball. And, you know, it's just really kind of astonishing how, how fragile these Faberjee eggs are that we have so covered them in love and support over the years, that they basically need to be coddled with our money, our promise to protect, while they go make their deals. And if we ever say anything about, you know, what are we really,

what are these shared values you say we have and we speak up for them, then apparently it's fetal position and weepy eyes. but I thought it was delicious to watch. I thought that, I mean, really, Vice President Vance is frankly historic at this point. I mean, we're only a month in, and he's basically been put at bat 10 times and hit 10 home runs as far as I'm concerned, getting out there and preaching the word to those need to hear it, whether it's CBS or the Euro trash. Yeah, that's the CBS thing. That was the whole, I noted this earlier when we, because he had said it, one point, you know, in his address that the threat wasn't so much, you know, Russia and China, right at this moment. He was saying that it wasn't that those nations would not ever be a threat,

but he's seen right at this moment, you know, the threats are from within. And he was talking about some of the anti-speech. My only, my only, I don't think I even disagree with him on it. I just think that European nations are not where we are when it comes to free speech. Because we are beautifully, wonderfully, uniquely weird. And that. regard and that's what makes us so special. No, the American experiment was unique. We were the first to define ourselves by geography and principles. How do you bring them to that table? Because we were showing videos of Germany, German police like rating people for posting memes and things like this. How do we like, I mean, they don't have to adopt and be like, like us 100%. But it almost seems like

if you are not built on a structure of like real protected speech, then really are, I mean, are you protected from, you know, the, from extremists, like what we're seeing in Germany right now? I mean, it does kind of, you know, pose a good question. It does. And it should hammer home. Yeah, you don't have to be like us and you're not like us. I mean, if ever there was a great demonstration of that, it was that hockey exhibit where if our national anthem gets booed, you get slob knocked in the score and maybe some literal punches in the face. That's the real America as back moment. And you don't have to like it. You don't even have to like us. Right.

But we're going to, we are who we are. And darn it, the world is better off for it. And so you can cry all you want when you wipe away those tears, just like Jack Nicholson said, you're going to want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. And so you're going to listen. That's where I see. I like that.

Yeah. I mean, you don't, uh, you F with the Anthem UFO. That's kind of like, you know, kind of the rule. What we saw nine fights and, or no, three fights and nine seconds. We saw that hockey game that we were talking. I mean, it was so, Steve was actually. texting us over the weekend because he was he was watching the game about how different and weird it was going from this and kind of switching to because you were talking about the CBS stuff

and it seems like CBS has been this entire weekend trying to push back on Vance's remarks about the threat from within and free speech by claiming Margaret Brennan we played this audio earlier that the Holocaust really was allowed to occur because was, you know, speech was weaponized because it was too free in Germany. And I just, I mean, I don't consider myself a historian, but I know enough about history to know that even, you know, back in the 20s, whether it was the Weimar Republic or even the Nazis in 1933, passing, you know, serious anti-speech laws that, that were really shutting down, you know, holding anybody accountable that they obviously were using to their advantage. I just don't know how people in the news,

Stephen say this kind of stuff with with no check on history. They're defending this as a way to attack the vice president for his remarks. Like what? Mind blown. Yeah. Well, I think it really just comes down to cult-like behavior and mentality. If you are so seized by the cult way of thinking that shall not be challenged and you have just convinced yourself that you hate your opponent so much that you actually have

blurred lines and blurred vision with regard to what gen. aside actually is. What authoritarianism actually is what censorship really is. It's just out of pure vitriol toward anyone who is your opponent and anyone who might support your opponent gets the same treatment. They're just so blind that now it's just like when they got too fever pitched about the Me Too movement and they lost sight of real abuse that people need to respect when it occurs. If you call everything racism, then nothing is racism.

And they've done that with Nazism and the Holocaust now to a fare thee well. I don't know when they finally touched that electrified third rail enough that they'll recoil and maybe reboot. But frankly, I don't know why CBS isn't fighting for its license at this point. I mean, this was some pretty bad, blatant stuff. And this is not the first swing and a miss. Yeah. I wanted to switch gears and ask you about Trump, Zelensky, and Putin. because it looks like there's more groundwork being made or more ground being gained by the administration now than ever under the Biden administration previously.

As Zelensky seems a little myth that it seems like he's being sidelined, what is the approach on this? And does he actually have to be involved every step of it? I mean, it seems like Trump is going after the most direct path to. We haven't seen this active and multifaceted approach to diplomacy in a very long time. It really puts to lie the idea. that President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement was isolationist. I mean, look where all these people are in the world right now. And so it's really about putting everything on the table, put your best athletes on the field to reset relationships and try to work for peace. And so, you know, look, Keith Kellogg, a friend of mine,

someone who served President Trump's first term and is a special envoy, he's practically been living in Ukraine for the last little bit, hearing from Ukrainians and their leadership and feeding things back into the President Trump team. And so there might be other members of the team in some of the meetings and some of the geographies, but no one in Ukraine with a straight face can say that they've been ignored. And yeah, you're going to have to have the power players at the table. I think it's great that Saudi Arabia is hosting this one. It really reminds Iran that they are not the boss of the block that we're going to be in this geography

and we're going to deal with geopolitics here out of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They're not a kingdom of saints, but they're our ally. And after we deal with this European thing, I bet some maximum pressure is going to be on the table, talked about there too, aimed at Iran and their proxies. And so I think that there's, you know, I don't like the multi-dimensional chess. I'm not even good at one-dimensional, two-dimensional chess. I don't believe that. Some of this is going on here, and it's not isolationism.

And I think some of the starting points in this are looking pretty good. Now, halting the Ukraine war, hard deal. No one should like where we are. But we are where we are because of three years of Biden-Harris policies. Our defense supply chain is where it is because of four years of Biden-Harris priorities. And so we are where we are. And I think we're getting our head around to where it needs to be. And I think more of our allies are starting to say, you know what, we can work with this.

Is it true that China, we're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Coms-on-X? Is it true that China legitimately actually offered to host Trump and Putin talking to it? Oh, they did. That is a real, because I'm like, is this fake news? They always tried. And so they basically, they forum shop and they try to act like they are the Middle Kingdom. That's literally what the words Zhong Guo, that's the name of China, literally means, middle kingdom. And so they always try to make themselves the middle, the middle, the country.

convener. They're the reasonable arbiters. You know, everyone else is fighting. We're just all about peace. You know, we might have a little free speech problem, freedom association problem, maybe a viral disease problem, little things. But otherwise, we're here for you guys to talk. So they've tried to do this. They did it on the cheap on the Ukraine thing before. I don't think, frankly, anyone takes them serious on that anymore. And that's another reason why it's good that this is being held in Saudi Arabia, because China doesn't think it's a lesser power than Saudi, and yet that's where the world's powers are getting together to sort out where they're going to deal with each other. Wow. I mean, that's, I saw that headline. I thought that was very,

very interesting. Also interesting, U.S. dropping website wording on not supporting Taiwan's independence. So this is from Reuters. They're saying that the department removed a statement on its website that it does not support Taiwan independence. So they were obviously, you know, the Taiwan was was very happy about this that's a huge that seems like that's a bigger story than just like a b side from roiders and this is not it doesn't seem like it's getting enough traction here but you obviously the ccps watching it they are watching and they've already given their official reaction about america tis tisks better return to 50 to 70 year old communiques and word salads uh now i am deeply deeply jaded with regard to department

fact sheets and sort of the press talkers, these things come and go sort of like a seasonal allergy as far as I'm concerned. Now, if the change was motivated by maybe the simple principle of our friends and reliable partners, let's talk about what we're for with them as opposed to what we're against. And with people that are adversaries, maybe those fact sheets should emphasize what we're against so they might wake up and do some of the things we're for. If it was that kind of editing, then I'm cool with it. But I don't think for a minute that U.S. policy has dramatically changed from what was there to what is now up there. I mean, you still have President Trump engaging the world leaders.

I have faith in where he's trying to go with these deals. But can I know where all the deals are going to go? And is a 1970s communique going to hold him back from what he thinks the deal needs to be today? I don't think so. And neither do I think a State Department fact sheet will hold him back if that's where people think that policy is coming through. I do think this topic needs to get digested a bit because I've heard all the August experts say, oh, no, we don't support independence. We don't support independence.

But look, I come from Irish and other descendants where we supported independence for almost everybody. And so why wouldn't we support people being independent from the CCP? Right. That sort of breaks my American brain. But I guess smarter people have said we have to, no, no, reassure the commies. We're not for that. Reassuring the commies. Last quick question for you on this.

Is this the changing on the website, and this might be a stretch, I'm trying to like thread this needle, because Taiwan had detected an increase in Chinese military aircraft near the island. that wouldn't be related, right? Like, oh, well, the United States said that they changed the wording on their website. Well, as a show of our displeasure, we're just going to have 24 extra aircraft up, you know, in Taiwan's airspace. What's your take on this? Well, I can promise the State Department has never acted so quickly as to change a part of their fact sheets online with regard to sort of real-time stuff happening in theater. I would be just joyfully impressed if it was, if they were snapping to it.

this point on that stuff. But I do think that it is caught with this notion. I mean, the Chinese have really pushed up what we call this gray zone pressure. It's been unrelenting. That is not peaceful. That is not stabilizing. That's not good neighborly. And we've already had the prime minister of India and the prime minister of Japan come through Washington. And we've had really strong statements about, against not just the classical military stuff, but also this coercion. And so I think, China's not listening. I think it's a good signal for the president to pick on. Maybe the State Department fact sheet on China would note that they are currently destabilizing the status quo and this non-status quo needs to stop being non-status quo. I like that. Non-status quo power needs to stop being non-status quo.

Our very good friend, Stephen Yates, at Yatescoms on X. He has all kinds of good stuff up on his timeline regularly. and we're grateful that you join us as often as you do because we love your expertise. There's nobody better. Stephen, always a pleasure. Thank you. Have a great week, my friend. Thank you, Dana.

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Defense Secretary Pete Huggseth said that Biden's IRS also targeted him. for an audit. This is what Democrats do without fail. The IRS is always weaponized and they use it to go after conservative sometimes multiple years, sometimes every year that that Democrat is in office. You, if you knew, if people felt empowered enough to actually speak honestly about it without fear of being targeted by the IRS, you all, your jaws would hit the floor when you realize the abusive tactics that agency uses and the way that they target Americans. It is stunning. Stunning. Maybe we'll have more on that in the future.

All right. Today and stupidity came. Juan, this is cut 27. It's our vice president from last term. Oh, oh, no. Kamala Harris. She has word salad.

She's still eating word salad. For those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant. And it's just the nature of it. I mean, look at this beautiful play, and everything that we know he ended, that he was suppressed, he had to suppress so much. But who knew and, you know, he took those risks. But this is supposed to be inspiring because there are always on Broadway. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty and everything.

Maybe she can inspire better recognition of an idea. I don't know. Wow. Wow. That does it for us today, folks. Sign up at Substack chapter and verse the newsletter. YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. Back with you tomorrow.