The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Did Caitlin Clark Turn Heel?

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

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Welcome to the program. I saw people giving shade. It serves shade. I saw people getting cranky over Caitlin Clark's answer during this press conference where she was talking about a game that they just lost. And I'll play her answer for you because she got asked about the whole trans thing. As you know, her friend and teammate, Sophie Cunningham, had said, you know, part of love is being. truthful and she doesn't think that men belong in women's sports and I just cannot believe the amount

of of rage that's being directed at this woman and here this was it was brought up to kately clark at this postgame presser listen this is cut 16 i think for us like you know it's not really discussion we really have in our locker room i think it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions but our focus is on basketball and that's what we talk about and how we can get wins and obviously we didn't do that tonight so So you need to find an area to improve in that way. Do you have any, you know, reaction to the... I'm just answered for you.

Well, I'll go over to the Zoom. Good. Why are people not happy with her answer? She just, all she did was Sidney-Sweeney. She just answered in the way that Sidney-Sweeney did when she was asked in that one interview about her politics. That's all Caitlin Clark did. You know, it's okay for people to not have a hot take on every single thing.

And clearly she was more angry. She was angrier at, like, losing than she was about anything else at that point. They, yeah, well, say what you were saying, came. Put that, you said it's like. They keep trying to make Caitlin Clark's comments something that's like not supportive of Sophie Cunningham, right? So they're trying to create that wedge. We see it all the time the way the media does is it's so obvious to us, but they're drawing a wedge between these two. At least they're trying to.

They're trying to because they know that their support their unity. first off that just, I mean, they're winning. That's why. They're winning the narrative battle. They're winning the PR battle. So all they can do is try to divide. I hope the Wright pays attention to that little scenario because it's happening right now within Republican politics. We'll get to that later. But they're trying to, as Kane said, they absolutely would love to divide them. They would love nothing more than to divide them so that they can, because they don't like Caitlin Clark. They don't like Caitlin Clark at all. Now they don't like Sophie Cunningham. Didn't all have her Adidas sneakers sell out?

Yeah. So they're winning this PR battle. What gets me, so what, hold up, so what, they were at the, what game was it where it was the opposing teams coach is another WNBA coach that had this t-shirt on? Let me pull this up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cheryl Reeve is her name. She had this t-shirt that said trans kids belong.

she's got to make her a little point here. And she apparently had a pre-game conversation with Sophie Cunningham. Why? Why are you sitting here talking about your political baggage with a player before the game? Right? Why are you trying to do this? She can say what she can say. And if you don't like it, you can F all the way off.

You are not owed agreement. You are not even owed an audience. If you don't like somebody's opinion on it, step off. It's not an opinion. It's scientific fact. Women are women, men are men. They are different. You can join the rest of us in meet space that believe in reality, or you can go and worship whatever, you know, sky mentality sits here and tells you that, oh, this stuff actually makes sense. It's just illogical.

Stupid. But she's like, there have been people supportive of her, they're supportive of her. Although I read, I saw on X that you can't have. a sign that says, you know, we agree with you, Sophie or something like that. There were, there were people who attended that game and they had signs wherein they were supportive of Sophie Cunningham, but because it said a name, they couldn't have a sign, but yet other people, there was another woman that had a sign that she was holding up and no one said anything to her where she was smack talking, Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. And that was allowed to stay? They're making the WNBA.

This is why people don't like women's stuff. I'm about to turn into Al Bundy right now, so bear with me. Oh, you guys, you men out there, you have no clue. You have no, God love you all, but, you know, I'm more Al Bundy than you, I promise. This is why nobody likes chick stuff because they never stop bitching. It is, ma-b, man, man, constantly. Weak men and this kind of stupid broad stuff. the same thing, right? It is the same thing. I cannot stand it. If you're going to do a whole league

and you're going to play ball, then play ball. Stop trying to one up each other. You realize that all of this got started because some jealous bees got mad because of a straight white girl playing basketball. That's how all of this started. Now everything, anytime anybody even so much as sneezes, it becomes a story. Well, I don't really don't like the way she covered her mouth. I am offended. good for you to be offended. That's probably the only energy that you'll use today is being offended. Tears. I just is so tired of it.

It just makes me not want to watch it. You got Caitlin and Sophie. They're just trying to play ball. They just want to play ball. And everyone else wants to sit here and fight and wants to cut the knees out from underneath them. Because why? Because they don't fit the narrative. They don't fit the stereotype.

That's what? And now all she gave was an answer about, yeah, I think that women's sports should be protected. Men shouldn't be in women's sports, the end. You know, way to tell women that they are completely worthless and without value, there's no better way to do it than to be like a man could just do what you do. Just like that. Can do the same thing better than you even. That's the opposite of empowerment.

That's the opposite of feminism. It's the opposite of protecting women. And don't put a penalty on all women. what some of these other broads do, right? Don't put a penalty on all women for that. It's because clearly, as you can see by the two players in question, they're not all like that. But nobody wants to watch this stuff because it's all petty and catty. I mean, good night. We see enough of that day to day. All I know is that all women anything I've never liked. I don't like chick flicks. I don't like rom-coms. My idea of a chick flick is deathproof. With Zoe Bell, that was a great movie.

movie. It's a Tarantino movie. I think it's fantastic. There's a great Second Amendment speech, right smack in the middle of it. It's epic. It's so good. Zoe Ball. She does all of her own stunts, too. It's amazing. Kurt Russell's in it. I mean, has a great soundtrack because it's Tarantino. You know, great, I mean, great stunts, a lot of driving. It's awesome. But that's a chickflit. That I can do. But all this other stuff, all this heavily, I just, this just puts women in such a bad light. I mean, it's 2026 for crying out loud. I mean, should not the female sex, like when you get together, especially the left, have you not progressed past those? Folks who help make the program possible. It's our friends over at Burn a Gun. I have told you before I'm always going to carry. I have no problem using lethal force to protect myself or my loved ones.

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It is an incredibly shocking thing. And if you're unfamiliar with Hassan Piker, congratulations. You are blessed. you're absolutely blessed right he um is the nephew of what's his face chunk who co-hosts the young turks i mean the guy's 60 so young is really doing a lot of heavy lifting there i mean i was a teenager and they were still or i was in my like i was 20 and they were like young turks and i'm like okay that made since then but you know now you're like you know a lot of years older and you're still yeah i don't think that works

So he's an NEPO baby in addition to being an anchor baby. And he's, I mean, he's fundraised with some of, I mean, I'm just trying to do like my mental rolodex. He's fundraised and campaigned with some of these major Democrats that are running for office, particularly if they're Islamic. But then when everything happened with the video footage that we saw last week of these Moroccans running into Suda, which is part of Spain, and there's a lot of, there's been, by the way, and we talked about this a little bit Friday, there has been a territorial dispute between Morocco

and Spain, going back to like the literal like 1600s, right, where Spain is always viewed Suta, that area, as being part of the Spanish crown and that apparently, like, I guess Portugal recognizes it as such. and Madrid's like, well, because we predate Morocco by 11,000 years. This is ours. This is ours. This is our area, et cetera. And Morocco's like, no, this is, these are your occupiers, your colonists here.

And Suda, if you were unfamiliar, just with the geographical location, it's like right there at the Strait of Gibraltar. It's connected. So it's not an island. It's not like Lampedusa in, which. we talked about Italy's island. That's actually between Malta and North Africa. That is an island in the Mediterranean.

This is actually still connected to Morocco, but it's considered a Spanish enclave and Spanish territory. But they've been fighting over this for several hundred years. But apparently, according to people like Javier Bourdim, it's the Jews. And apparently, according to people like

Hassan, Nepo baby, terrorist, Inkerbaby, it's, well, cut eight. Listen. Earlier, you mentioned Morocco, what do you mean Israel caused that Israel and America got the Moroccan government to send like 40,000 people into Spanish administered territory?

It's not even on some conspiracy either. Like the New York Times is openly covering it as such. You know what I mean? It was so, it was a, it was classic Israel in the way that they did it, in the shameless way that they took ownership over it, that even the New York Times was like,

okay, well, now we have to investigate what's actually going on here. Yeah, if you're confused, that's what it's like trying to understand

a mental abortion. First off, that is, he and Javier Bardam think the same thing. Javier Bardam went out and said, oh, well,

it's, you know, you know who made this happen. It's, clearly it is because of the Jews. That's what they, and, and Hassan Piker's also incorporating the United States

into this. I'm just so tired of this. Just, the stupidest people. It is not that at all. It has nothing to do with it. This predate, it predates like 48. It predates everything. This, this fight that they've had has been centuries, centuries, centuries in the making. They've always, they've had this territorial dispute for such a long time. I don't even know. Who was the person that really started kicking this off? what are they saying? Oh, I guess they were talking because Netanyahu made a statement about Spain and their opposition to Israel defending itself from Hamas and Gaza. And so I guess from there, because Netanyahu, who said Spain would pay a price, they decided to just completely jump into the conspiratorial waters of Lucas, Nanyahu that did it. I love this argument that Israel is like, again, God like Mithos,

That they're so powerful. They control everything from space lasers to everything else, but yet they couldn't, there were a lot of problems that precipitated and contributed to October 7th that they could have gotten ahead of. You can't have it both ways. You can't have it both ways. I mean, what about the other people who, they, there were other countries that criticized Spain, but they're not Jewish, I guess.

So, you know, that's where this, that's actually, I don't know who first started popularizing it, but that's where it all came from. because Netanyahu had said Spain will pay a price because they are opposing Israeli defense against Hamas in Gaza. And so now they are all so that they can defend Hamas. They're all accusing Israel of, and now apparently the U.S. of sending these people over. And apparently there was no conflict over this land, over this territory ever until just now. That's what they want you to believe. They want you to think that there's never been any kind of conflict here at all whatsoever.

it was just completely fabricated out of the ether by Israel and the United States. I have a bridge to sell you if you're stupid enough to buy that. It's idiotic. So no, that's not. Morocco, by the way, also has like almost non-existent border enforcement. And they've used that as a leverage against Spain in this ongoing dispute, right? That's all this is. and there were hyper-localized factors that contributed to what you saw.

And it's a territorial dispute. That's what this is. That's it. And everybody has warned Spain about this for forever, not just Israel, the United States. Going back to Trump's first term has warned Spain over this. They've warned all Greece, Germany, all of these European Union nations about all of this. So don't sit here and try to weaponize it now after the fact. And then single else, everybody else out and just be, oh, well, we're, we're just going

to target Israel because they're Jewish. So I'm so tired of this. I am so tired of this simple-mindedness of all of this nonsense. And then, like I said, Javier Bardem. Javier Bardem is Spanish. So he's immediately, he thinks he's edgy because he goes against, I guess, the dominant viewpoint. of, I guess, Spain in their sovereignty in that particular area, although Pedro Sanchez is like, I'm not doing anything about it.

Let him come. I don't care. I mean, didn't they just grant amnesty to something like 50,000 of these illegal immigrants that came in from North Africa? So this is just empathetic sepacu. That's all they're doing. That's all this is. And so he's in Dune, too.

I forgot. Javier Bredem's in Dune as well. He said that he went after directly and said Spain has been Europe's loudest voice against Israeli and U.S. war crimes. Shut up. It's not a war crime. You absolute rat bastard. It is not a war crime. The war crime is what all of these terror groups have been doing for decades. And you cheer it. People like Javier Bardem love to watch people die so long as it's by the hands of the terror group they sent for. And then they'll blame everyone else. If my words are harsh, I can make them harsher because they should be. If people are triggered over it, it's because they're facing the truth and the demons within them are writhing. That's why. I don't know who engineered this crisis, but let's look at who defends from a destabilized Spain. That's the stuff he says.

You know who? I'll tell you right now, Lunchbox, who's behind the destabilization? It's your own idiot socialist president. It's your own idiot socialist mentality and ideology that contributed to this and keeps contributing to it. You have no respect for your borders. You have no respect for your people. You have no respect for your culture. You have no respect for law and order.

You think that greatness somehow is measured by how flat you can make yourself when you lie prostrate before the people who seek to colonize and subdue you. That's what this is. And then you act like it's somehow virtuous if other people don't commit the same empathetic sepacu that you do. That you're the virtuous one and they're the baddies. When really you're the baddie and you help perpetuate this mindless murder machine

with your rhetoric. I mean, this is it's and then he went back also and said, well, you know, I mean, who publicly called on them to and they make up these quotes and attribute it to it to different leaders and to the United States. No one in the United

States called for this. No, this has been again, this predates the United States by the way. This predates our founding. This has been going on since like 1580 something. This is so stupid. Anything that they can do to simp for a terror group in Gaza. Anything they can do. Anything they can do.

I mean, I wouldn't be so, I mean, if Javier Bardem had been in the area on October 7th, I dare say he would be one of the people running across the fences and flip-flops to go and carry out brutality against the people that were living peacefully on the other side of the fence. And you know I'm right. No, that's the number of individuals. that cheer this and defend it. Now, what happened with Spain and Morocco, again, territorial dispute and has been going on for forever, it is mindless and mind-boggling to watch people try to make it out like, well, you know,

they said Spain's going to pay a price if they oppose Israeli self-defense and Gaza, this predates that. It predates their conflict. Explain that. This is so stupid. He's better when he says lines that other people write. And Spain is continuing to pay the price for their lawlessness that their leadership has encouraged. Europe is paying the price for the lawlessness that the EU encouraged. The removal of border checks under the Schengen Agreement and just the lawlessness that they allowed to infiltrate and then dispersed throughout the rest of the European Union.

that's why i mean that's exactly how so many of these the batta clan charlie eddo uh the christmas market uh terror attacks the stuff in britain before britain even left the EU all stems from this policy on lawless immigration or invasion i think that's the correct way to put it as we do move our partners that help bring you the program it's the folks over at ghostbet ghostbet is the best mattress that is out there, bar none. And Ghostbed helps keep you cool all night as well. If you're one of those people who just cannot get comfortable at night, you're tossing and turning, your back hurts, or maybe you're waking up hot. That's not you. That's your mattress. You're sleeping on a pile of hobo trash. Get rid of it. Get a ghost bed. Hot sleepers are some of their happiest

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It's kind of hard to, when your birth rates, you know, exploding. And it's like, you know, 4.5 per family to stop. There's no genocide. And when you have an entity that is taking, I think, ridiculous levels of care to unprecedented levels of care in any kind of modern or otherwise warfare to limit civilian casualties while Hamas actually exploits that. But have you ever, I don't like using AI. and I just reaffirmed why I hate AI.

Like I don't use AI to write our articles. We don't use AI. We don't use any of that. We don't use it as a buffer. And the reason why I hate it and I had it reaffirmed is I wanted it. I was actually testing it. Now, in full admission, I was actually testing it with the expectation I was going to get this result. So I asked Google's AI about, I said,

how did I word it? Like there's no genocide in Gaza. Google AI at first spit all of this propaganda at me. It even cited the quote unquote Palestinian whatever health ministry, which we all know is actually Hamas, right, Gaza and health ministry. That's Hamas. It cited actual Hamas and Hamas propaganda as a way to argue with me about there's no existence of genocide in Gaza. And then it even was citing thoroughly debunked Gaza numbers from again, Hamas, about the number of fatalities

following October 7 in Gaza. So then I would ask Grog. And Grock is like, I'm not kind of, didn't say it like that, but it's basically like, screw Google AI. They're stupid and partisan. It is wild the difference in what it told me.

And I ended up breaking Google's AI because I said, I asked it in a different window, I worded the question differently about genocide in Gaza. And then it was like, yes, there's no genocide in Gaza, blah, blah, blah. And then I went to the other window and I said, why is it that you're giving me two separate answers that cancel each other out? And then it would not respond. It would not generate an answer.

And it did this for like query after query after query after query. It refused, as you can see from the screenshot. This was just this morning. It absolutely outright refused to give me an answer on this. So it broke. I mean, it literally broke. That's because it's such BS. So Grock told me, Grock said, Google's AI mode and other AI systems trained on usual media slurry is classic pattern matching without consistency checking.

It regurgitates maximalist, quote, genocide, everyone is dying, demographic deconstruction framing in one response. And then it spits out the pre-war fertility and growth numbers in another without reconciling the two. and when confronted with a contradiction, it breaks. And so it confirmed that Gaza's total fertility rate is still incredibly high by every global standard. You're looking at three and a half to four children per woman, even after October 7th. It is super high. There's no genocide there. And it has been uninterrupted in the natural increase.

And of course, because you can't cite Hamas, you actually. have to like rely on whether it's British, whether it's American, like, see, things like that. You have to, you know, they, I mean, their population has doubled, tripled since they were given the strip. So, again, this comes back to why I absolutely hate using AI, because you can't trust it. Again, all of this stuff is programmed and it, the, it is just as biased as legacy press. and you can ask it different, you could ask it different questions, different ways, and then you start, you have to really work with it before you start to see it compromise itself, and then it'll just shut down. But I thought that this was, that was very interesting. Now imagine you're like a high school kid and you're just trying to get some answers.

Or imagine you're just a college student and you're trying to get answers. Do you see how they make it? Even in an era where we have information at our fingertips, never before has there been such an effort to deny that. the actual freedom of all information to people. It's a giant hack. Really. Now, as I was saying earlier, talking about midterms, a couple of things. We talked about the Texas Senate race between Tala Rico and Paxton a little earlier this week, or last week. Sorry, last week is when we were discussing it.

And it is close. I don't, I have everybody in their brother asking me, do you think that, is it how close is it going be, is there a chance that we could, I'm looking up some of the latest polls, by the way, is there a chance that we could actually lose? Are we going to actually lose this? Oh my gosh. It is, as Kane noted, it is within the margin of error. I mean, I don't, I don't want to say that, but it is. I mean, I'm looking at the latest. So right now, the spread has Tala Rico plus three within margin of error. Democrats have, there's only one, by the way, only one survey, and It's a UT poll that was done June 23rd that actually has Paxton plus one.

They have been in a tie since New York Times, Sienna had a poll. This was taken, I want to say at the end of that last month. So that poll was taken, sorry, June 19, June 27th. That had them as a tie after that because Paxton, Quantus, that was kind of a push pole. UT's poll was a little bit more evenly dispersed with Republicans and Democrats, which matters in this instance. But that had Paxton plus two plus one respectively. Now, the RCP average has Telarico plus 0.9. There was another survey that had him at plus five. This was the Texas public opinion research. Now, I will tell you this.

a lot of people don't like these surveys. I get text for these surveys all the time, and sometimes I would enthusiastically answer, but the last like 10 I've gotten, I'm like, I don't have time for this, because I'm either literally on air, I'm on a plane or I'm doing some kind of work or something, and I just don't have time for it.

This area, the area in which I live in and our district hates this stuff. We hate the polls. We hate doing these surveys. Because it almost seems like even if you answer properly, it's still going to be couched in a way to make it look like a negative. And the questions are always such push-pull questions, right? Like, why is it, why is, like, they'll ask you about, like, if it's Tolerico or Paxton.

Like, who's your favorite senator candidate? Why is it James Tolerico? Like, that's the kind of stuff that they'll, you know. So you immediately don't want to take part in it. You don't want to participate. So keep that in mind because a lot of this stuff is, is, These are phone. Some of it's cell phone, some of its home phone.

Like you're a landline. And the landlines, again, what we've talked about so many times, I mean, you're going to get immediately, you're going to buy a share survey pool right out of the gate because of who has a landline. The other thing, too, and there was a study done that was a, this was a while ago. So I don't know how much, how true this rings. I can't even pull the link up anymore because it's not up there. I'm going to try to pull it up on archive, but it was like eight years ago.

and there was a survey done that said when people get texts on their phone and they know it's a political survey, it's the left that usually answers it over the right. If that makes sense. So if you're more left-leaning, you will answer it. And it was like hand over fist over conservatives answering it. So kind of keep that in mind when you're looking at some of these surveys.

I think that this Senate race is absolutely winnable. But it needs everybody's going to have to, have to get over themselves to make it happen. And the GOP is going to need to put some money in the game. They're going to have to put some money in the game. Absolutely. And they need to be very careful about optics because voters, if this comes down to a Senate seat lost because of funding, they're going to look at everything that's being spent on ballrooms and everything in D.C. And then they're going to look at the Senate race and there's going to be a lot of livid people. So a lot of things to keep in mind here as we move the partners for the program.

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I've got a number of things to get into. Can we talk about the Second Amendment thing that happened over the weekend? Because this was a pretty big deal. I don't know if you guys saw, well, I'm sure everybody's seen this story, right? We always say that guns save lives because they do. Guns save lives. They absolutely do. This was in Idaho. The, at an in and out in Idaho, what was being described, I don't know if it's been officially classified yet as a mass casualty incident, this 24-year-old dude, and I'm not going to say his name, unless it's newsworthy, or unless there's like a, you know, Bolo, we're not going to say names because there literally is like that contagion effect that manifests in all of these mass casualty incidents. Every single one of these dudes has it written somewhere

and manifest or told someone that they wanted to be famous, you know, as like these other killers. So we don't say the name. But this 24-year-old, he went on this rampage at an in-and-out burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. And then he ended up, according to reports, self-inflicted, which by the way, and I'll talk about this in the context of the guy who was present with his firearm, that's part for the course for these guys. Whenever there is equal and opposite force that is present at any of these horrific tragedies, the assailant usually like 95% of the time they off themselves. The moment that they are presented with literal equal force. So that's what happened in this case. So and the guy, I've seen a ton of different video. This guy had a rifle. He began opening fire on a

Saturday afternoon, and it was very chaotic. There was one in an employee that dragged a wounded coworker across the lot. I mean, dudes, like, out in the lot. Now, I mean, it's in Idaho. I got to be honest with you, I would have immediately, we would have immediately popped out, used our doors as, like, barricades, and pop, pop, pop, that's, I'm not going to say we've trained for that kind of scenario, but maybe we have. We never know. I'll let you guess. But they captured, there was video from nearby vehicles and you can see people running, running away from the store, running across the parking lot. They were waiting for paramedics to arrive. And then there was a video showing the guy pointing, you know, his rifle at a blue Tesla, firing twice, etc. They say his families have been

cooperative with the investigation. They, at this point, they're saying that he acted alone. He was the only one seen in the video. And they've been treating and releasing people of the seven wounded in the attack. They've had two treated and released from the hospital. They have some that are critical as well. But just crazy. And they're still investigating the motive for this. And then while all of this was happening, you had an armed citizen who, this guy, Jordan Salinas, who's called the Fearless Patriot. And he was, you know, he's on Facebook. He talks about firearms. and he talks about, you know, the importance of, you know, proper firearm usage, things like that. He basically gives people, I guess what, encouragement and advice on, you know, proper marksmanship,

et cetera. He has all these training videos that he has of himself and, you know, like a lot of dudes do. Like a lot of people do. They put it up. He had, on October 7, 2024, he put up a thing that said, you know, train like your life depends on it because, God forbid, one day it might stay free. stay safe and stay frosty, right? And then he is on video. He's being credited with saving, helping to save the countless lives of countless civilians

at Twin Falls because he apparently gets out. He sees what's happening. He has his pistol. He gets out. The other guy sees him. The killer sees him. Now, what did I tell you when we started going into this? that more often than not, when you have these killers that are presented with equal but opposite force,

95% of the time, and I wrote about this in my first book, and this is all based on publicly available crime information, 95% of the time, the killers off themselves. The moment they see, this has happened numerous times before. There are a couple of mall incidents where this has happened. One up in Washington State some years ago, where a guy was in a food, court and the moment that he saw a law-abiding citizen with his firearm, he immediately turned his own arms on himself and oft himself in the food court. This happens, I mean, incredibly frequently. And every defensive training course that I've ever taken, this is always something that's presented

to us. That's why they're very, because in some states, you can get, you know, pretty hyper-vigilant, far-left DAs that will try to cite you for a felony if you're present. as opposed to being low ready, which they would cite as a misdemeanor. So you have all of that legal stuff drilled into you in addition to honing your reflexes and your training and your marksmanship in these stressful situations. And so, I mean, this guy, I mean, you could tell he was being very judicious. He had a lot of discernment. He was being very careful. His training kicked in. But what is being described is that the killer saw him and was like, oh, boy. And this guy knows what he's doing because he does know what he's doing. And the killer was like, oh, boy, here we

go. Now, the left has been trying to argue and say, well, he didn't do anything. He didn't, but they're ignorant because they have no idea how this works. I mean, the guy just turned into like, I mean, however he wanted to describe it, a force multiplier, whatever. But, I mean, he's being credited by law enforcement. He's being credited as well by a number of, of the witnesses who were there, who were like, he allowed us to get to safety. When he showed up and he was armed, he allowed us to get to safety. He's being called a hero. He's a healthcare worker and he cares for his brother who's in a wheelchair. He cares full time for his brother.

But he was, he'd been horseback riding. This guy honestly sounds, this is so American. He was just riding his horse that morning, you know, with this girl and then decides that, you know, they're going to go into the in and out. They're going to get some lunch. And they noticed immediately something was totally sideways. They saw all these people running through the doors. And at first, he told the New York Post that he thought that it was like a kitchen fire or something.

And then it wasn't until he heard the gunfire. And then he went on instinct. And he told the Idaho statesman that he, and he has an FN-5-7. Can I just say I love FN-5-7s? I have an FN-5.7. I love, oh my gosh, I love this pistol. It's an amazing pistol. It's absolutely one of my all-time favorites to shoot. I love it. So, and immediately when I was like, is that an FN? This guy's for real. So he has, and it was suppressed. And he had his FN-5-7. He gets out. He's, you know, immediately taking it everything. He's being very careful just in the footage that you can see, and there was quite a lot of it. And he exited his vehicle, gun drawn, and then he heard the, you can hear the gunfire start up again. And he's making his way towards the restaurant. He's

taking cover, like behind signs and shrubbery and things like that. That's when he spots the guy. and he sees the guy pointing his rifle at everyone else. And that's when he's like, okay, that's him. And he raised his pistol, he said, and he squeezed it off around. And he said it was the first time that he ever aimed his weapon at a living target ever. And this is something that was confirmed by the witnesses and law enforcement. When that guy realized he was getting shot at, he immediately, and by the way, also, there was an off-duty cop who was a customer at the restaurant, too.

they were both like, that's when he realized, okay, I'm not, you know, this is not going to happen for me. And he killed himself. So they diverted him. They took his attention and they saved lives. They absolutely, he absolutely saved lives. And when police arrived, he stood down and he knew exactly the drill. But everybody, they're like. yes, he diverted this guy without a doubt was saving lives. That's an amazing story.

The left is so desperate to invalidate it because they don't want you to know that firearms save lives. They want to scare people into being disarmed. The same people that are chasing students around college campuses want you to be disarmed. They have no solution for stuff like this. We don't know anything about the guy. I'm not going to speculate about his motives until more comes out. but, you know, obviously, nothing good. Nothing good motivated him to go do this. But I love the fact that there was a hero civilian there, and he, you know, did what he did

and was able to actually act and divert this guy. The other really thing that stands out to me, you know, the mall that I was talking about, there was one in Washington, and there was another one in, Idaho, the Boise Town Square Mall. This was back, I want to say this was like during COVID. It was like 20, 21. And this guy, the hero, said that that mall, he noticed that the killers deliberately went after soft targets. And he takes care of his brother, who's in a wheelchair, right? And he reasoned that, wow, if I'm out with my brother and we're in public like this,

and something happens, we're going to be the softest targets there. And so that scared him. him. And he used that concern and that fear to train and learn everything that he could and be, you know, a really good marksman and, you know, responsible firearm, Second Amendment participant. So he, that's, that's, he really wanted to get serious about it. It gets serious about defense. And it's, you know, I mean, it's amazing that he did that because he saved lives. He saved lives. and those people never get enough credit. You would think that the left, and especially the gun control groups that one has seen end to such violence, you would think they would be celebrating the responsible and correct

usage of firearms in a defensive manner, but they don't. They ignore defensive usage. Going back to what happened a few years ago under Biden and Harris, I know you guys, remember how you had the gun control groups led by every town, the Brady, group, they were pestering the CDC. You remember this. The CDC, under Obama Biden, the CDC, and the Obama DOJ did two separate reports about defensive usage, and they didn't publish it because the narrative wasn't what they wanted. What they discovered was that the criminal usage was the thing that was driving the homicide rate involving illegally possessed firearms. So they kind of hit it,

because it also exonerated and validated everything that people like me have been saying for years, defensive handgun usage vastly outweighs criminal illegal possession and usage. And so when the CDC had done their latest study under Biden Harris, and I think this was in the first year of Biden's term, they hid the defensive handgun statistics, the defensive handgun usages, the defensive usages involving firearms, justified homicide, or just justified usage period, because of the emails that we later saw and read from every town, the Brady group, all of that, they were telling the CDC verbatim that this is making it difficult for us to do our anti-gun advocacy. And so the CDC eliminated the defensive gun usage from their statistics, from their data

that they had made available. They eliminated that. They took it off offline. And we all noticed it and wrote about it. And they never once apologized for participating in. a cover-up. They never once apologized for their involvement in propaganda. Now, keep in mind, this was also on the heels of all the stuff with COVID, where the CDC torched its credibility further. And I'll have you know that while the CDC was busy bearing defensive gun usage

and the reports of this from its website at the persistent request of gun control groups, they were also simultaneously perpetuating the lie that they were barred because of the Hyde Amendment from studying, quote-unquote, gun violence. When, in reality, if you actually read the legal terminology of that amendment, they weren't barred from studying it. They were barred from using taxpayer dollars to advocate for or against the Second Amendment and take part in what is accurately termed activism. That was too much for them. I don't want our government doing anything like that for or against either, but for them it was too much because they expected you, taxpayers, all of us, to part with our taxpayer dollars and allow the CDC to basically be an extension of the gun control

advocacy. And when they were repped on the knuckles for that, they got mad and said that, oh, they're just not allowed to study this. When, no, they are. They're not allowed to use taxpayer dollars for activist purposes. And the left couldn't even admit that. They couldn't even agree with that. So all of these people, all of the

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but the person operating the controls was injured with possible burns transported to the hospital. But yeah, they were that I can't imagine. They would make me a little bit nervous about the other ones there as well. I don't like that. Those balloons freak me out like that. Let's see here. Moving on.

We've got Oh, Kane, this is for you because you hate old people. It says, a grandmother of Fresno juveniles and grandmother were arrested in an alleged robbery and assault spree. Oh, my goodness. Her name is Alita Morales, and she drove her three grandchildren, ages 15, 14, and 17 to confront another minor. And then apparently one of the kids recorded the confrontation while the other two apparently beat up the 13-year-old. The grandparents, the victim's grandparents stopped to intervene. but then Morales and the 17-year-old decided to use pepper spray on them.

And then there was a second event where they got, I mean, it looks like grandma's like the ringleader. She's like that mom from the Goonies, that old lady from the Goonies. That's what she is like, driving her kids around and go commit crimes and stuff. Good. So apparently there's another reported Bigfoot sighting. This is southern New England, and it's deemed credible. Hmm. A new report.

Bigfoot field researchers organization says an eyewitness reported seeing the creature in the Peshog State Forest in Voluntown, Connecticut in southeastern part of the state. I thought it was like only Mothman up there. Or is that more Appalachia? Anyway, they said that they collect Bigfoot encounters

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Who tweeted this out? Was it Clyde from any which wave it loose, Green? Dana, that's so mean. Is it Marjorie Taylor Green, who tweeted out a photo of herself with Tucker Carlson? And she, her new husband, Brian Glens, or her and her new husband. That's the guy that she left her seat for in the middle of her term to go and vacation in Costa Rica and then go to Vegas and get married. So it's that guy. It's him and then it's Joe Kent and his wife whose husband or sorry, his wife whose boss is Max Blumenthal, a Clinton toady who he was one of the guys who literally went to Iran.

to the funeral of the Ayatollah, her boss. And then when he came back, Department of Homeland Security took all of his electronic devices. Or her, when he came back, when Max Blumenthal came back. He was literally at the Ayatollah's funeral in Iran. And that's where everyone was like, they did the death to America and blink Trump and all that other stuff. So, and then you have Thomas Massey with his new wife that he married half a second

after his first wife passed away. Interesting timeline that one right there. So I feel like every single person, this is a story of what happens when you choose poorly, by the way, also with your spouse. Because if you don't think that, especially the ladies, if you don't think that women can mislead men,

I will have you look at two people in this photo. But they were like, oh, here's our new, they're going to, they tweeted this out and acting like they're going to start a new movement. I don't know how you're going to start a new movement. when you could not even bear to stay in office because you were so mad that POTUS told you you wouldn't win a Senate race. So stay in the congressional seat you were in. But you're going to lead a movement. Hoonger? Good heavens. Or the guy who literally got obliterated by his own voters after he

voted against everything they voted for. And then he went and was like, it's all the fault of the Jews. But yeah, we really believe that these people are going to quote unquote lead a movement. Are you serious? That's the funniest joke. I think I've heard. heard so far this month. It's a really good joke. I mean, it's still early in August, so I don't know. But I just look at this as like, it's not even the island of misfit toys. It's just the losers' table, right? I mean, that's all this is. They were at his little cabin, Carlson's cabin, I'm assuming up in Maine. I don't see any of these people leading anything. They couldn't even avail themselves of their own problems. And so that's why they, it's why

he had one voted out and the other one quit her seat. And then the other guy ended up having a security clearance is stripped. So, I mean, I'm really, it's not an impressive array of people. They couldn't lead their way out of a wet paper bag. So there we have it. I just find that. I just, the, the desire for attention and fame from that set is just really gross. It's just real cringe.

Anything that they can do to try to get themselves. Any attention. And by the way, someone who flips as easy as MTG does after she was like, oh, no, I'm super Trump. And then all, she gets told no once and she flips. That broad was never an ally. She was never an ally ever. Anybody who flips that quickly? No. There was never any loyalty there. It was all just advantage. It was all just something personal advantage. Now, tomorrow we're going to deep dive into Michigan's little primary between Abdul al-Said, and Haley Stevens and now how they're trying to run

Haley Stevens out by parroting some of the Thomas Massey rhetoric. See, it's the horseshoe theory. They're all the same. They're all the same. So we're going to dive into some of that and it's getting dicey. In the meantime, today's stupidity came. There is so much stupid. We could do

Mom Donnie making sure you have to have an ID before you can buy groceries in Mom Donnie's grocery store. But we'll pass that up. Let's do cut 20 because Kamala Harris, was talking. Let's hear her say some things. It's so unbelievable that they got rid of USAID. Oh, yeah? And you saw

the recent numbers. As many as what is, 600, 700,000 people have died. Complete life. Absolutely love. Absolutely. Because of withdrawing American aid. Wrong. For humanitarian purposes. That's not true. But you know what did die? when USAID dried up?

All the NGOs. Yeah. And yeah, but Democrats' actual efforts in their next election. Look at what they have like 16 mil on hand against 18.5 mil in debt. They're $2 million in debt. They just leverage their headquarters. Is it coincidence that USAID dries up and all of a sudden Dems are having money problems? Yeah, sure.

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