The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Friday April 26 - Full Show

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

Trump heads into another day of court. Biden proposes the highest capital gains increase in a century. Fox Business’ Charles Payne joins us on poor GDP numbers, inflation fears & Biden's outrageous capital gains proposal. For those who experienced, who was worse: Biden or Carter? It’s Lesbian Visibility Day. Palestinian terrorists fired mortar shells at a pier that is being constructed by U.S. forces to bring aid into Gaza. A heckler completely rolls “Morning Joe” calling them “fake news” as they covered Trump’s case. Why did Prince Harry give an award to a US combat medic? FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr joins us to break down Biden’s new net neutrality proposals, the divestment of TikTok and more.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Goldcohttps://danalikesgold.comGet your free Gold Kit from GoldCo today.Hillsdale Collegehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit today to hear a Constitution Minute and sign up for Hillsdales FREE Imprimis publication.KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSign up for the KelTec Insider and be the first to know the latest KelTec news.Lumenhttps://lumen.meUse code DANASHOW for $50 of your Lumen.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet free activation with code Dana.ReadyWise https://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on any regularly priced item.Zbioticshttps://zbiotics.com/radioGet 15% off your first order when you use code RADIO at checkout. 

I want to start by wishing my wife, Malania, a very happy birthday. It would be nice to be with her, but I'm at a courthouse for a reek trial. It's a weak trial. Terrible. But we're doing very well in this rig trial, and everybody knows it. Yesterday was a big day, but I do have to begin by wishing Malania. Happy birthday. She's in Florida.

I'll be going there this evening after this case finishes up, this horrible, unconstitutional case. So that was the president, this ongoing case in New York, which is so stupid. I haven't talked about it because I just would rather die. It is the dumbest damn case. And it's stupid. It's stupid. Look, here's, I've talked about this before.

You can dis, I don't care if people dislike, I just don't care. I literally have no bandwidth. None. I don't care if they dislike him. I don't care if people are. they, you know, I don't think he acted improperly, this is not what we're talking about here. What we're actually talking about here

is whether or not this guy, whether or not he violated the law. And I've explained this to you before, which is why I'm just not spending any more time beyond this talking about it, because I've explained it to you before. You know, the whole situation with this is that

they were accusing him of hiding of campaign fraud, right, of essentially trying to act with impropriety and act fraudulently with regards to the campaign. They were trying to manufacture this thing and make it seem like it's a felony when it's not. But remember the case, and we talked to Andy McCarthy about all of this with the case, is that in order for any of this to make sense, because the statute of limitations ran out

on that first charge, they had to try to, they contrived and were trying to make it as though he did something wrong in that he was using this smaller criminal action to hide. So even if it was a misdemeanor action, it could be ramped up to be that of a felony because he was taking it out. It was in commission of hiding another crime that they've never actually stated what the other crime was. Not only did they not state what the other crime was, but, They also couldn't even make the case that the first, what they were saying was a bookkeeping error that Alvin Bragg's office was trying to act as was this like, you know, major misdemeanor. They were trying to act as though that was still within the statute of limitations, which it wasn't. So then it's like, okay, sir, are you applying this retroactive?

If this is already past the statute of limitations, you, you're still trying to make it to where it can rise to that of a felony because it was done in commission of covering up and of their crime. I mean, that's literally, I know if your brain just got scrambled, that's literally what they tried to do in order to make this a case, which is why I, because New York is a cesspool. I can't say, can I say what I want to say about? It's Friday. Brennan Carr's still at the FCC. I got to get out of jail pass. Yeah. It's, yeah, he's going to be on later today. I'm not going to tell you what I think of it. There is no justice system there. There's a justice system there. I feel like I need to slip something on my coffee today. There's no justice system there. So I haven't, so to that point, I haven't been, I haven't been covering it because it just makes me mad. It just makes me mad. And you guys, I'm not going to sit here and hover. You guys, you can stream cable news all day if you, if you want minute by minute coverage, because I'm not doing it. But I do have a million other things I got to talk to you about today.

So first off, welcome to the program, Dana Lash with you, top of this very first hour on a Friday. And it's supposed to be sunny in Texas today and it's not. So whatever that's about. What's happening with our weather cane? It's the climate change. I have a story for you that no fewer than four of my girlfriend sent me yesterday. That has to do with climate change and wine. And I'm like, ladies, we just need to calm down.

You know what one it is. Kane, do you see it on the rundown? Literally four women sent this story to me. I did not find the story. Four literal full-grown women sent this story to me. Like, is this true? Like, they have to check it with me. Is this true?

Like, I don't, I'll share it. Apparently, like, we're going to have less wine because of climate change. That's what they're trying to say. It's so nonsense. sense. So we're going to break that down for you. But again, welcome. You can stream it all over the internet. And you can also find us over at Substack Chapter and First. Lots of good stuff that happens there. All right. So first and foremost, we talked about this a little bit with Grover Norquist when he was on the Cap Gaines tax, because now the details are coming out about this. Do I really want to, it's

Friday. I want to talk about happy stuff, Kane. I don't want to talk about this story. I don't want to talk about this. It's, yeah. Yeah, it's news. It's going to make all everybody out there in radio laying mad and they're trying to live their lives, go about their days. You know, people watching the simulcast, people in the chat, they're just hanging out. They're trying to live their lives. This is a dilemma. It's the biggest capital gains tax in 100 years. Now, because the budget's coming out and all of the details are coming out about this. Do you want to know what the rate is? you want to know.

I don't know what the rate is. They're looking at 44.6%. What? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Almost half? Yeah.

44.6%. In states like California, New Jersey, New York, and some others, the tax rate will be over 50%. I'm not making this up. To deserve that? What do they do? I feel like if you're going to be taxed that amount,

I expect every government worker to put on a show for me. I own you and I want to be entertained. I don't want to just be entertained. I want my mind blown by the level of entertainment. I mean, I'm just saying if you're going to be, if you're going to force this on me, I feel like if you, if you, I always roll my eyes and people talk about a civil war. You're getting me here though. And I'm not even joking. Like we went to war for far less than this back in the day as a throne tea in the harbor. The proposal they announced it last month now the details are coming out they're increasing the top marginal tax the top marginal rate on long-term capital games dividends up to 446.6% I mean goodbye investing good by tech good by middle class and the last time I noted because I was reading about this and I was asking if you saw on Twitter yesterday I was asking the radio I was asking the audience out there everybody who was worse. If you lived through Carter, I didn't, I didn't live through Carter. So who if you were around and you were old enough to be aware under Carter, I was curious as to people's thoughts on comparing Biden to Carter in terms of job performance. Oh my gosh. We had over a thousand answers in like an hour. It was crazy. Still going through them. And the last time that the caps, the cap gains tax was this high was back in the 70s under Carter. And they top they topped it out at 40%.

otherwise it's been like around 30 and it went as low as like during the 1920s at 20s it was as low as 13 percent but it capped out at 40 and that was an all-time high under carter in the 70s was at 40 percent and now you're looking at 44.6 percent so the and you guys know what capital gains are if you have uh stocks if you have any kind of investment you have an asset you have a home you have a business you have any any brick and mortar you know anything like that um that creates what they view as taxable income. And the lowest it was was really, well, look at the chart that's telling me from the U.S. Treasury, Kane, if you were to guess in the past 10 years, when was the cap gains tax the lowest?

What years would you say it was the lowest? The capital gains tax? That would probably be during Trump here most recently. And that answer is correct, Kane. That answer is correct. It was under former President Trump that it was at its, lowest peak and yeah, the lowest point. What's important to note is that we got record revenues into the Treasury after the tax cut.

What the narrative they're trying to make people believe is that somehow Trump's tax cuts cost $2 trillion, when in fact that's not how tax cuts worked. As a matter of fact, the tax cuts sparked more job growth and not public sector job growth. We're talking private sector job growth. And because of that, you created more taxpayers. And because of that, more money came into the treasury. Kane's so mad right now. I am.

He's going to throw his bacteria tea. He's mad. No, but you make a good point, though. And the other, and guess what also, I went back and I was looking because you can monitor investments for businesses, tech, R&D, particularly through the medical sector. And if you just had a guess, like what, in the past 10 years, the most investment in emerging businesses and technologies Kane, at what point did we

have in the past 10 years like the highest point of investment, you know, where we were really expanding our technology and progression in that as Americans came. What would you get? What is during the Trump years? Yes, sir, that is correct. Yes, that is correct. Thank you. Can I be very honest with you for a moment? Jeopardy. I've got my issues

with Trump. Everybody knows this. I don't care if he paid off a hooker. I want lower taxes. I really don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. can't say it enough get mad at me I don't care yeah can I just say one more thing about the New York thing one quick thing do they not know what campaigns are what is a campaign what is the campaign what is the point of campaigning okay yeah but if you're the candidate what's the point of campaigning what to put your message out there yeah and do what hopefully follow through after the fact of getting elected.

You're trying to persuade people. Right. You want to persuade people with your campaign. You're trying to persuade them to vote for you. Under Alvin Bragg, that's supposed to be considered meddling in elections. Did you know that? In order for any of this to make sense, it has to be like that. I'm not making the rules.

I'm just telling me what they're doing. I'm just telling you how they look at this. So this, you know, I'm telling you this, The capital gains on this. That's why all that stuff makes me angrier. And yes, Trump did create a lot of his own problems with the legal stuff. I'm not going to lie. But still, I don't care if somebody pays off a hooker.

I literally don't even care. Lower my taxes. Cut them. In fact, abolish the IRS. And I don't even care if you bury the hooker in your backyard. Abolish the IRS. I'm slightly joking. I may not actually be all the way joking.

I don't know yet. It was choked in my water. Did you? Yeah, well, I don't care. As long as you didn't do the ending of it, you know. I'm just saying, because I got standards. So, selling things like stocks, businesses, that's all cap gain stuff. Now, it gets crazier because we've got this, it's going to be a 44.6%.

Now, think about what happens and how this is going to hit middle class, too, because when you look at homeownership, which is the entryway into building wealth with these things, with, I mean, building not just wealth for you, but generational wealth. I mean, home ownership, you have a lot of, and this is important to the left, minority families, right? A lot of minority families, you don't have as much stock ownership, et cetera. So what are those assets that they do have houses? Well, what if your family, and that's, you know, your way that you are building your wealth, not with, you know, Wall Street, et cetera. And you leave that to your kid, I mean, they're going the step-up basis, they're going after unrealized gains, which are insane. That's the, that's your taxing nothing. Literally doesn't exist.

But the idea that it exists, you're taxing it. You're going to make it, they're making it to where people can afford to own anything, which is the point. We're going to talk more about this because we got Charles Payne, who's going to be up later on. I mean, think about what this is going to do to the middle class also. In addition to just investment into R&D, et cetera, et cetera. Now, also, as it relates to the trash baby Hamas lovers, college protests, George Soros, he's been caught, which you knew this, I'm not surprised, paying a lot of these left-wing activists.

He did this with the Black Lives Matter stuff. So George Soros is paying a lot of this. There's a piece that is out today getting into how his groups that he has, they're giving these people with these Soros-funded groups anywhere from $2,800 to $3,600 for working eight hours a week. and the organization tells its fellows to rise up and spark revolution. That's what they're telling them. However, you would like to take that. So we've got this and a lot more coming up. We've got Charles Payne.

He's going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour. Then later on in the program, because net neutrality, I thought we were all dead because of that. Brendan Carr, apparently we're not, is going to join us to. There's not, we've got to find a feel good story. I got to get a story about a manatee or something. We'll find something, I promise you. we won't leave you hanging. As we roll, our partners that I'll bring you free radio. It's the folks over at Hillsdale College. And Hillsdale understands education. And they understand also the risks to liberty, which comes with an undereducated populace. And there are small Christian classical liberal arts college in Southern Michigan. And they were founded to offer the type of education needed to preserve civil and religious liberties. And so to that effect, they've been putting out this free speech digest called imprimis. It's literally free for you. There's no cost or obligation. You just sign up. And they send it out.

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the dream of federal rate cuts. Why do they keep acting like it's a possibility? They're like, Oh, the dream of rate cuts is slipping away. No, it's not going to happen. Wall Street Journal's like, oh, the dream is slipping away. It's not going to happen. The Fed made the promise, though, last year. Oh, yeah, but do you believe your government when they tell you? No, they don't.

Yeah, you know. Investors are stepping away from expectations that the central bank can reduce rates in the coming months because they can't as long as government keeps spending. That's just the way it is. In highly sought after areas, this isn't uncommon, but housing in all parts of the country are going to see a drop in value to combat the monthly payment increases because of inflation. Not a shock. Let's see, beverage giants,

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So you're okay with this GDP report? Yeah, I think this GDP report, especially once you get under the hood, you take out some of those more volatile components. Consumer spending and investment look great. You got to love these politicians. I mean, if you take the bad stuff out of that, report. You know, it doesn't look too bad. That's Jared Bernstein talking about that. My first guest with us here at the bottom of this first hour, my good friend, host of Making

Money with Charles Payne, which you can watch weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox business. Charles Payne himself joins us via phone. My friend, always so good to talk with you. I just got to get, I really am interested in your reaction to that spent. You know, if you take some of this bad stuff out of that report, Charles, you know, it starts to look kind of good. It's, oh, my goodness. I mean, And it's, I've sparked with Jared maybe, maybe a hundred times over the last 15, 20 years. Golly. So I have not had the pleasure of interviewing him since he's been in the administration. And I don't know if I could have with a straight face because, golly.

You know what, though, Dana? They just, all they do is insult the American public, though. You know, because if your boss goes on TV the day before or somewhere and says, hey, we've got the best economy ever, where the envy of the world. and the next day you're making excuses. You've done, which one is it? And by the way, it is the greatest economy ever for wealthy people. What they have done to this economy pumping in so much money,

trillions of dollars in avalanche of cash that's still working its way in, still pumping in more money at this very second, we saw what happened with rates. We saw what happened with inflation. We saw what happened with rates. And rich people have assets that make big money. when interest rates go up. Poor people just have to pay higher credit card fees.

Exactly. It's crazy. That's a good point. Which gets into that whole capital gains thing now that all these details are coming out of this plan that was announced last month. The Biden administration now pushing, what is it? I think we're talking 44.6%. I mean, at the top, the capital gains push.

Yeah, do you see the details on it, though? It's worse than even that. Yeah, but no, the details why they justify it. it. Yes, because they're saying that it's, it's to like, to solve racial disparity. Right. To impose a minimum income tax, I want to propose a minimum income tax on wealthiest Americans on top of the capital gain stuff, right? And yeah, this minimum tax, they say the reason is for the preferential treatment of unrealized gains. Disproportionately benefits high wealth taxpayers and provides many high wealth taxpayers with lower effective tax rates than lower the middle income. Then I go

gender, geography, race, ethnicity. But essentially they're saying that this proposal would balance everything out. It really is absolutely nuts. And they go on the show how few black people have money in this and that. The asset table that comes with this, white families have 73% ownership and of homes, black families 46%, white families have 65% of stocks, black families have 39%. White families have 16% business ownership. Black families 11%.

The question is, beyond this being stupid, racist, un-American, is how does this even level of playing field? Confiscating money from someone else does zero for me. You're assaulting me. You're just pimping. All they ever does. Dana, they pimp black people and black children for every program out there. None of them are designed for black people or black children. Or success.

They're not, no, no, no, it's always a lowering of expectations. You know why? I say it's a success for them? because there's no success where you and I are concerned because we are thinking about it in economic terms. It is success for them because as long as government gets bigger and more powerful, that's their only game. But they know they can never, ever truly go out to the American public. Even now, where, you know, more and more people are sort of second-guessing capitalism and say, hey, we want to simply have a gargantial government that dictates everything.

So they do it under the guise of economics or the guise of environment, you know, whatever thing they can sort of use the leverage, but that's never the goal. So, yeah, for us, it's unsuccessful because it doesn't do anything economically. For them, it's successful because it gives them more power. That's a good point talking with our good friend, Charles Payne, host to making money with Charles Payne, that you can watch on Fox Business weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern. I was trying to figure out, I guess, is 87,000 agents, Charles, is that going to be enough to go and check everybody's unrealized gains to look for, the only way I can, I guess,

the white tax for unrealized gains? How are they going to do this? Yeah, well, you know, 87,000 is a start. This is why, I mean, listen, they're checking $600 bin mode at transactions, right? So it's a surveillance state. And by the way, crypto folks, they better take a look at the capital gain stuff. There's a lot of things in there for surveillance of crypto. Essentially, they're going to gut crypto.

The essence of crypto and the anonymity of crypto, they're going to gut it if they have their way. this so uh... and you think about it why did they always talk about crypto and criminals right criminals use crypto tech that uh i'm saying myself well what were they using yesterday dollars we didn't ban those right so oh that's a good point you're associated with crime and criminals because how did they get al capone they never got them on anything but taxes right taxes yeah so you sort of you know they set the stage for these things but i'm telling you there's a lot of i think a lot of uh crypto folks is leaping on this new capital against tax. I know they won't because they're very aggressive,

but they're also really, you know, sort of like, they feel like they've won. And, you know, these big governments, particularly in the United States, not going to let them win that easy, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think that. I don't think they are either. And I think you touched on something that a lot of people kind of overlooked, especially the way that they try to characterize crypto and, and those, I hope those people are paying attention to all this, talking with our friend Charles Payne because with this, so we got the capital gains. We're talking about raising the tax rate. You've got capital gains.

That's going to, I think gut, well, I mean, I think that's going to gut investment. I'm just, I was talking with Kane just on last segment about, you know, the investment into tech, into R&D, et cetera, when businesses are not being taxed to the nth degree, that's when you're seeing the greatest gains, for the lack of a better way to put it, in terms of technological progression, small business expansion, because that's, That's the soul, I mean, that's the, that's the soul of the small business and investment and how all of these other businesses get started. That's, what is that going to do, especially when it's accelerated to the extent that the Biden administration wants to push it, Charles? It's, it's, it's people get to become afraid, you know, I mean, you're starting to see it now.

And some of these, certainly with small businesses, small business, small business, small business sentiment is, is just plunged. It's falling completely apart. And to, to your point. here's the one of the ironies is again and I say you know Biden keeps bragging about how great the economy is and of course he's always comparing it to Europe which the funny thing is he would like us to be more like Europe of course we're doing better than Europe here's a cautionary tell for every American particularly Germany but you know the thing is is we're where we are now with a certain system but also on there's certain taxes whose taxes are we operating

on the right now the Trump taxes You can, how can you say Trump taxes are unfair and at the same time say the economy is booming? How can you say that Trump tax, I'm going to hike taxes and get the same result? You just can't have it both ways. These are the Trump taxes that we're living under. And this is how helped to spur some of this record-breaking entrepreneur, at least people are filing for businesses, right? And things like that.

When people know that they can take a chance and if it works out, be rewarded for it, They're going to take more of a chance. The CEO of a major of Norway's fund, Norway's got this big fund. They struck oil. It's so funny because they won't invest in oil anyway. They've got this big sovereign wealth fund. It's a couple trillion dollars is the biggest one in the world. Maybe Saudi Arabia is right up there.

And I think it was the CEO there earlier in the week. So Europe just blew it. He says that they can never catch Americans because we work hard, and he's imploring them to do it. do what we do. And the irony is as President Biden is actually imploring us to do what Europe does. Ooh. Ooh.

While they're doing the reverse, and speaking of this, we're talking with our friend Charles Payne, just about the budget, the taxes, cap gains tax, all that. Inflation. That's the other thing. Because with the report that came out, all the promises that the federal government made, Charles, about cutting rates,

not going to happen. The government's not stopping spending, but I've seen a lot of people trying to spend I guess the ending of the stimulus spending. They're trying to say, no, no, no, government spending's moderating now, which it really isn't. That's just the end of the stimulus stuff, as I understand it. So rates, I mean, are we going to have another inflation scare? Where do we stand with that? We're in the midst of an inflation scare right now.

Now, we had an inflation readout that actually came in higher than Wall Street expected, but because of the GDP report that came out earlier, that shocked a heck out of everyone. prices exploded higher. And, you know, it's interesting because these economists, you know, they always try to sugarcoat things. So in January, we had these inflationary signals. They said, well, you know what? It was the weather. Like, and I'm always surprised when they think they're surprised when it gets cold in January.

Like, you mean they didn't factor it was going to be cold in January? Yeah, yeah. That was a surprise to the numbers? Okay. And so now they can't do this, right? It's been three months. And here's the problem. you can't put this much money into an economy. It's not organic.

It's economics 101. Too much money chasing too few goods and services is inflation. It triggers inflation, in this case, 40-year high inflation. And we're not just going to simply waltz away from it. What's going to happen is money is going to all of this cash is going to gravitate toward the 1%. Stanford University last February put out one of the most amazing papers in a sense that first of all it was Stanford, right? I'm like, oh, man. Yeah.

Explain how this money trickles up. By the way, this we, I've never talked about a trickle-down economy. It's always trickle up. The average person gets money, and they can't wait to go out and give it to someone who's a billionaire. One way or the other, we love to give our money to billionaires. It trickles up. We won't hold on to it. You know, we can't wait to give it to someone who's a gazillion times rich in us. But this, all of this money that 1.9 trillion over the next five years goes to the top 1%. In the meantime, as it makes its way, they're still in the economy. People are spending, we found out this morning that people are spending, but our savings rate is now down to 3.2%. Wow. They're near the all-time low, near the

all-time low. And it's a psychological thing that they do, and they give us a lot of money. They spark something. I equated to, in India, they have these, you know, a lot of these villages have these tigers, and every now and then one will have a confrontation with a human being and kill a human being, and they call them man-eating tigers or whatever. Once they get that bloodlust, they never lose it. And I feel like a lot of times in Americans, they gave us so much money during the pandemic, and people were waiting for these checks, running to the mall, and then they had to have more.

And we can't stop. They knew we wouldn't be able to stop. They did this on purpose. And if you're the president, you say, look at my GDP numbers. But that's what they call nominal numbers. In real life, people now are making more, but are making more nominally,

but it doesn't go as far. So net, net, we're losing, and we're losing big time. And those things that they say don't count, don't count food, don't count energy, don't count housing, don't count auto insurance, we have no choice. The bills never stop coming. We have to count them.

Last question for you. I know you've got to start doing your, get ready for your awesome show coming up. So what's next? I mean, what can we expect? You know, this is the ultimate showdown this November. And people don't realize just how important it is because essentially what we are going to be voting on as freedom, individual, and economic freedom versus a big government that knows all, does all. And a good study of this would be fascism in Italy, political fascism and economic fascism. You know, people associate that with the, you know,

with the, it's an economic system where essentially the state, it was sort of state-run capitalism, similar to what China does, but they also had a carve-out for wealthy individuals. I've just said the richest people in this country, also known as political donors, the George Soros of this world, are the ones pulling its strings for all of this stuff. So they want a world where the federal government still creates a tremendous amount of wealth, but it goes almost directly to them.

There you go. Goodness. We got a lot to deal with in November. Charles Payne. The good thing, though, Dan, is people feel this in their heart. They don't know what. They don't connect the numbers. They don't crunch the data.

They don't look at the data. They don't pull it apart. But they know. Some people know something is wrong. And that's a good thing for now. There you go. Charles Payne host of Making Money with Charles Payne, the best show on money and egotts. economics on TV. You can watch it weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox Business. My friend,

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Zionists. I've never murdered anyone in my life and I hope to keep it that way. I genuinely hope to keep it that way. I hope to not murder you too. Murder you back. I'm just saying. That's a Columbia protester. I love these people that run

their mouths and you know their backsides cannot cash the check that their mouths are writing. Oh my gosh. These people who could not busts. Is that a dude, right? that's a great neck check I don't really that's a great question

it couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight gotta see see its neck see its neck check its neck check its neck uh I don't see any

I wish you guys could see the forensic audit we're doing here of this video I don't see any Adam's Apple evidence although that's a little shady I can't really tell

yeah yeah yeah it's like I don't know I just feel I don't know see people aren't seeing it Juan was just a show us. Yeah. You gotta see them zooming in on the video. They're, they're looking at this, trying to look at this. It's like a CSI episode. Person's neck. Like what murder this part? Can you, can this dude, whatever, even, I'm calling it a dude. Can, can, can, unless I'm proven otherwise, you know, otherwise, show me your boobs and then maybe I'll think you're a chick. I don't know,

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15 million new jobs created in three and a half years. Unemployment hasn't been this low for this long for 50 years. Wages are rising. Instead of importing foreign products, we're exporting and exporting American jobs. Yeah, you are, aren't you? Exporting American jobs. That was Biden yesterday. What was he, where was he talking? Who's talking? That was a, oh, he made some campaign stop.

Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. They're exporting American jobs. I asked this question on X yesterday evening. And I was very, I genuinely was, I am very curious and fascinated by. the answers here. And you all out there gave me some really good answers. Because I didn't live through Carter. And I keep hearing, you know, I hear about how bad Carter is, was, and how bad his administration was. And you hear about the gas lines. And I'm very familiar with his foreign policy.

I've read two biographies on him. One was a little more neutral. One was highly critical. It's kind of, I think it's kind of hard to not read a super critical one on him. And it seemed as though there was this consensus that, you know, of modern day presidents, Jimmy Carter was the worst. And I was thinking, you know, is it because I have recency bias having, you know, a lot of us, most of us out there, I mean, I think some of you out there maybe were teenagers with Carter, and some of you were adults with Carter, but a lot of us were not. And, you know, we, Biden seems like the closest thing we have to something, to, to a president who is that bad on the economy and foreign policy. And I was trying to put it in perspective. Like, who was the worst? So for the people who lived through Carter, if you could compare

Carter to Biden, who would be the worst? And this is what I asked last night. And it has about 6,000 responses. I'm still going through the responses. And I've been bookmarking some of them, because it's been very interesting. Like, for instance, you know, on the issue of the economy, there were some really good points that some of you made. Like when Carter left office, for instance, and this was one that was interesting, double-digit inflation,

that was the thing that everybody talked about, double-digit inflation. And apparently when Carter left office, it was about 11%. And that was five presidents before Barack Obama removed from that equation food and energy. Now, under the same metric, Biden's inflation is closer to 18%.

That's interesting. And I mean, they did. Took food and energy out of that equation. And it's, some were saying that it was so bad under Carter, it required a Republican revolution to save the nation. And then there were others who were saying that, you know, the economic recession wasn't as bad as the economy today. There were more jobs or are more jobs available now, but the inflation is particularly devastating for younger generation.

Someone said Biden is a criminal Carter was just a commie, which I thought was interesting. We're going over if you're joining the program. I'd asked everyone last night for the people who lived through Carter, who was his worst, Carter or Biden. again, welcome to the program, Dana Lashed with you. Top of this first hour. Second hour. Thank you. It's a long Friday. Second hour, top of the second hour.

Some said that they believed that Carter was actually a Christian. I don't know. Like, the only Carter I know is the old Carter. I've never seen him give a speech. The only stuff that I've seen him, like speeches I've seen him give or old stuff on YouTube. Some were saying that he, they felt. that at least Carter was trying to kind of be decent back when decency was still something that Democrats valued. But and someone else said, Biden, Carter didn't hate us. I thought it's

interesting. Now, the foreign policy, like for instance, Carter opened up China. Someone replied to the United States and tried to kill farming before the climate hoax. And then, of course, there was the giving away of the Panama Canal, which who runs the entity that runs Panama Canal, China, CCP. And others said that Carter was an incompetent fool who still at least loved his country, but Biden's far worse. It's not even close. So it's really, it's fascinating to see the responses to this.

And a lot of people who lived, people who have the experience of having lived through Carter, it's they they don't excuse the bad job that he did but they think that his motivations and character are different than that of biden's and that makes that makes some sense this has just been it's been fascinating to read all of the responses and i'm still going through them and i mean i guess it's kind of also difficult to tell who would be the worst because we i don't believe have seen the full consequence of Biden's policies yet. Is that something, wouldn't you agree with that, Kane? I don't think we've seen the full effect of it yet. We'll see it in a decade will still be feeling this stuff.

And could you, and could a Republican revolution save the nation? I mean, is it just that simple? We have a blueprint for it. I mean, if we do, yeah. If we look back, we have a blueprint for it. We were talking on break about how Reagan, one of the first things he did was tax cuts. And I mean, that just kickstarted the economy. And for all the people who got mad at him, it was interesting because when I was going back, and I talked about this on air before and I've written some stuff about this, he incorporated a lot of the John F. Kennedy economic approaches in their, the art laffer approach with the tax cuts here that Reagan implemented. And, I mean, you saw government revenue surge because people had more of their own money. You saw investment.

you saw just an explosion in terms of business expansion, small businesses. And it very much was the old-time JFK sort of approach. Back when Democrats, you know, in the 60s, at least understood economic freedom. And they weren't completely compromised. But this has been very interesting. And I just, I wanted to compare the both of them because they seem very, very similar. You know, Carter historically to me and then Biden. But then also, one of the reasons I wanted to come.

compare them as well, we know what it took to get out from Carter, but is that enough to get out from Biden? And the destruction wrought by his policies. Is that enough? And government, someone else made a very good point. Government wasn't as big back then. So how much of the equation does that change? In your mind, Kane, doesn't that, I mean, I think that that changes the equation quite a bit. Absolutely does. So it mean, to me that suggests you need a little bit more than just a Republican revolution. Yeah, it's a larger problem to deal with today. And I don't know if we have the, as a, as a, if the Republicans as a party have the spine

to do what's needed to be done, you have to have serious austerity in order to really accomplish what needs to be accomplished in terms of just stopping this economic slide into oblivion. And so I don't know. see. But it's people usually say that they want cuts and then they get it. Like, why are Argentinians?

They're protesting that Javier Malai's economy. Economic shock, what do they call? Economic shock therapy. Have you seen that? I have. Everything he's doing is working economically. They're on the path to not only surpluses, but

this is what happens. This is what happens. When government's got its claws in society like that, and then you take the clause out. out. People are, they freak out. They don't know what to do. And there's going to be a period of time where you've got to get used to that. And then you're going to start realizing that, eh, we didn't need these government clause after all. They're used to being kept. That's really what it is. I want to change gears here because there's a lot more. Today's apparently a lesbian

visibility day. Yeah, because lesbians, as you know, are invisible. I had no idea. 364 days of the year, only being visible today, which then begs the question of why there isn't in existence a spec ops team of lesbians. Thank you. I mean, think about it.

Just hear me out. You send a highly trained, highly skilled just a group of invisible lesbians to deal with the cartels. They won't know what hit them. Like literally, they will not because they're invisible, you know.

Do the same thing with Hamas. You know how. easily you can sneak them in and out you don't need paperwork they can go right across borders they could go they could go into the kremlin if they wanted to invisible you just can't send them today because that's when they're visible so it's lesbian visibility day another thing is do they become just like visible all of a sudden or is it like a gradual thing as it nears towards you know 12 a.m. on lesbian visibility day that's a good question I've got questions Now this is not a, this is actually a real story right here.

Well, the lesbian visibility day is too. That's a real story. This is, this is crazy. We talk about the dangers of AI, right? And how AI can be abused and it's basically going to put everybody out of a job. Well, a guy using AI almost put another guy purposefully out of a job. A black Baltimore high school athletics director has been charged with using AI to generate a recording of the school's white principal going on a racist rant.

DeJohn Darien, 31, was the athletic director at Pikesville High School, and he was the target of an investigation that was looking at the mishandling of school funds. And as a way to retaliate, according to Not the Bee and several others, this is one of the local stories. In order to he, an act of retaliation Darian allegedly allegedly, doing a lot of heavy lifting there generated a fake recording

of the school's principal Eric Isworth spewing racial and anti-Semitic insults about staff and students. The recording was posted to an Instagram account and I mean it's wild. I'm not going to repeat some of the stuff

that was being said, but it is really bad. So the Baltimore County Police Chief and his department worked with the FBI and forensic experts from University of California at Berkeley, and they investigated the recording which was circulating online in January of this year. And they discovered that Dijan Dary and the school's athletic director had produced the recording to retaliate against the principal because the principal was the one who apparently discovered the mishandled school funds and initiated the investigation. And so Daring was arrested at the airport Thursday morning,

this week, according to ABC 13. And he now faces charges of stalking, disruption of school operations and retaliation against a witness. And he's being held on $5,000 bond. And all of this became, all of this started in July of last year. And that's when Daring became the athletics director. They fired this coach that had worked for Pikesville High School. He fired this coach without the principal's permission. And so then Daring authorized a payment of almost $2,000 to his roommate. and who was the JV basketball coach at the school. And Darien claimed that the basketball coach, a female, that she had been acting as assistant soccer coach.

And so she needed to get a little something, even though she apparently never actually did that during the season. And they said that the payment was suspicious, it bypassed the procedures that they have in place because it's all taxpayer dollars. And so he got mad and apparently used AI to do this. And that is crazy. That is crazy.

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A mysterious orange orbs have been spotted across the world. On the latest photo off of the UK coast. People, according to the British paper, The Daily Star, so I have to read this with the British accent. I've been apparently seen mysterious orange albs appearing in the sky all over the world and now the bizarre phenomenon has been filmed off the coast of the UK.

You have to read it like their news people do too. Footage of the bizarre bright shapes were shared on the UFO sightings footage page on Facebook yesterday. It was in Merseyside is where they were spotted. Is it aliens though? I don't know. Is it? I just feel like it needs to be aliener.

It's a word now. So we also have Walmart removing self-checkouts and going back to two traditional lanes, but not because it's a customer service issue. It's because people have been robbing them blind. They've been doing things like scanning TVs as bananas and all kinds of stuff, and just robbing them blind. So two stores, Shrewsbury, Missouri, Cain. It's a suburb of, a city suburb of St. Louis.

and another place, Cleveland, they said they're replacing kiosks with staffed checkout lanes so that they can provide more personalized and efficient service. But really, they're tired of you bringing up TVs as bananas. It's really what it is. That is actually fascinating.

So they're doing a way with this. The self-checkout makes me mad because it'll be like, put the item in the bag. Like I did put the item in the burgh. You give me enough room for my stuff. I just get so mad. Anyway, a 77-year-old Quincy woman survived a stabbing in her front yard and then decides she drives herself to the hospital.

This is in Quincy, Illinois. She was attacked and stabbed multiple times in front of a rental property that she owned. The step-daughter of the woman that attacked her, told the local news that her stepmother arrived at the property to repair the roof. When she was working, Thomas Delacour approached her from behind, said hello. When she turned to respond, he stabbed her. She drove herself to the hospital. She's recovering. The most serious injury was to a lacerated liver. Delacour was arrested, and he's in Adams County. jail. He faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. So that's pretty hardcore. This woman says she got brain damage because she drove over a Portland pothole and a $3.6 million lawsuit.

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Tell them Dana sent you. Elevate your commute, workouts, or downtime with the Dana Show podcast. Unleash the power of knowledge at your fingertips by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I thought somebody would think I was, and I just gave up. And I looked at my mom. I said, honey, you haven't said anything. She said, Joey, let me remember. True story.

She said, remember when they were desegregating Linfield, the neighborhood, and it was a you know, 70 homes, built a suburbia. And I told you, and there was a black family moving in, and there was people who were down there protesting. I told you not to go down there, and you went down. Remember that? And you got arrested, he was standing on the porch with a black family. Right.

And they brought you back, the police. And I said, yeah, Mom, I remember that. Are you serious? This is Joe Biden. You did an interview earlier today with this old lady. And it's true. welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of the second hour.

In his interview, he claimed, according to my friend Greg Price, that Biden claimed that he saved six people from drowning as a lifeguard, which is not true. He claimed that he received salacious pictures from women in the 70s that he had to hand to Secret Service, which is an absolute lie. Unless he's majority leader, which he wasn't, he didn't have Secret Service protection. You have to be in leadership in the Senator House in order to get that. And he wasn't. And he said that he would, then he said what you just heard, that he was arrested as a kid while standing with a black family on their porch as people were protesting desegregation, which is also false. And then he also said that he was a runner up in state scoring in football, which is also false. Keep in mind that Joe Biden actually was pro segregation. He was against the integration of schools. He was for, well, there's audio of him out there. What did he say, Cain, he did not want his children to be raised. He was for, he was for, uh, well, there's audio of him out there. What did he say, Cain, he did not want his children to be raised. raised in a racial jungle.

Verbatim. That's literally what he said. He was a major, major anti-all. Yeah. So to try to see him retcon history in his position as it pertains to civil rights is stunning because there's an audio of him. I mean, you have recorded votes. You have the stuff that he said, interviews, all kinds of stuff.

I mean, my gosh. Yeah, there's certain things that have been saved by history, even pre-internet. And that's, I, I, it's, it's crazy that he's trying to redefine all of that. I'll tell you. If you get the newsletter, I'll pull this up, over at Substack chapter and verse, especially if you get the prep stuff, there's one, there's, there's some stuff in there in particular. I had, let me pull this up. I was so aggravated when I was compiling the headlines.

So it starts with Hamas and trash baby protesters. But I don't know if you saw this. So the Gazan terrorists fired mortars at Biden's little floaty pier, right? So they fired mortars. The construction, they said that the construction was going to begin. It actually has already begun. And that is Ajean's France press. They said that the peer to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza and that they,

remember, it was the international pressure. They were saying that, oh, Gaza needs this aid. Well, hold up. Then they ended up taking fire. So they were mortars that were raining down on this pier that's being built by our troops. off the coast of Gaza. Now you have some Israeli forces that are there because the, even though this was advertised as a direct line to get aid to Gazans, the U.S. was demanding that the IDF be involved because they

wanted the IDF to protect the construction of the pier and to protect the deliveries, which, just think about this for a minute. International pressure is demanding that the country that was attacked provide aid to the territory that attacked it and also protect the people that are delivering aid to the territory that attacked it. Just keep that out there. So it's the platform is 270 feet wide, 270 feet long. It's going to get shipments of food and other aid. It's transported from, I guess the aid's coming in from Cyprus is where they take it into. And so they said that the construction began Thursday and that even though

they were firing, Ghazans were firing mortars at the pier it was unaffected by the attack. Now this is where a lot of the conflict in some of the reporting comes from because some agencies say, well, this was Hamas that attacked the pier. Others say

no, it was just a random Ghazan group that attacked it. Nobody knows. Maybe because everything's Hamas. I don't know. But they said that they were unaffected by the attack. There were some mortars that landed in vicinity of this area and this is, you know, this is the delivery site. That's where it came in.

They said, no troops were on the ground in Gaza. And aid agencies have already been expressing concerns about their safety. They're like, we have no idea how this is going to be safe. Because they keep getting bombed by Gazans. And so they said that they're trying to still finalize how the security and aid deliveries themselves are going to be negotiated. And they want to make sure that aid workers aren't harmed, et cetera, et cetera. this doesn't sound like it's getting off to a great start, does it, Kane?

So now that pier is coming under fire. Nobody was wounded, but I could have probably told you that this was a bad idea. I think we all could have said, you know, this seems like it's going to be a bad idea if you try this. If you build this pier in a war zone and you're demanding that the entity that was attacked provide aid to the entity that attacked it. and that just assumes that this aid is going to go to the people who need it, which it does. And as we know, two times before it went into the hands of Hamas. It's always gone in the hands of Hamas.

They run everything. And this was after that World Central Kitchen, the Israeli air strike. And they said that they need Israel to ease obstacles and aid and to the delivery of aid. Well, it hasn't been Israel. That's been a pro. God, God, these people. I'm just amazed at seeing some of the stuff that I'm seeing, not just in college campuses, but in commentary, period. It is truly stunning.

Truly stunning. And so, I don't, I mean, I don't, maybe, maybe people could tell Hamas to cease fire. I mean, again, think of it. The terrorists are now attacking the entity that it attacked and is being forced to deliver aid to the entity that attacked it. You can't, you can't make this up. You can't make this stuff up. So yeah, they're getting fired upon. And officials say that the peer is going to be operational by next month for the delivery of AIDS.

So here's the question then. What happens if, you know, AIDS starts coming through and they start attacking with more than just some mortars? Or what if the mortars strike, you know, you're as good as you is where you can land your punch? I mean, what if the mortars actually do strike troops? What if they strike American forces? what if we have American fatalities? You know, what if they attack the people who are delivering eight? Because this, again, this is stunning to me.

I don't know why they just don't go, why they don't scoge the whole damn thing down and be off of Egypt's coast and then go through Rafa and do aid that way. Why they got to go, right? The smack dab in the middle of a damn war zone. This is stunning. Okay. I don't know why they don't do it that way. but think about just the logistics involved and then you're in a war zone.

Terrorists are firing rockets at you. They're shooting at you. They're trying to bomb you. They're raining down mortars on you. So what happens if people, they start getting fired on, is IDF going to get slammed if they defend themselves? What happens if it's American troops that aren't technically boots on the ground, but they're there helping to process and helping to deliver aid. And this, again, all is based on the presupposition that aid goes to the people who need it,

which we all know it doesn't because twice it has not. This is so stupid. This is just, it's crazy. But this is what they want. There's been new evidence challenging the Pentagon's version of events about the attack that took place at the Kabul airport and our eventual withdrawal from. Afghanistan. So I can't,

this is CNN, Kane. The right-leaning CNN? Well, the C and the CNN doesn't stand for the conservative

news network, does it? No, it sure doesn't. Well, this is apparently new evidence that they found that undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which

released last week into that ISIS suicide attack outside the Kabul airport during the 2021 withdrawal. And it was it was the attack that left 13 dead, 170 Afghans who were trying to flee

the Taliban takeover of Kabul. And remember, we had moved from Bagram Air Force Base, which was not in the middle of a high-density city center, and it was more easy to protect, more easy to control entrance and exit. We left Bagram and then relocated to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in the middle of Kabul. And it was just, I mean, it was impossible to, it was impossible to secure. It was impossible to even get people there and out safely. It would have been

better for them to have left through the Backroom Air Force Base. And that comes by way of people who have been over there and who know the area, who actively served there, have been in both places. Everybody that I know who had ever served in Afghanistan and has been at Bagram and is familiar with Hamid Karzai, I've not heard a single one go, why? Oh yeah, it was way better that they went to Kabul. They're all stunned. They're like you're, they could have easily, people who needed to get out would have had an easier time actually going to Bogram, they said, and then, and then having Exfil there as opposed to trying to leave through the chaos that was Hamid Karzai International Airport. So remember the claim from the Pentagon was that it was one explosion.

right? They insisted that it was a singular explosion and that troops that reported coming under fire and returning it, they were confused in the aftermath, etc. Some apparently had blast concussion, obviously. But there was video captured by a Marine's GoPro camera that has not been seen publicly in full before. And it shows there were, there's a lot more going on than the Pentagon apparently ever admitted. And they said that it wasn't just one z's and twosies. It was a mass volume of gunfire. So they took fire. And now they're saying that, uh, there's a lot of people are, are challenging the credibility of the Pentagon on this.

I mean, basically they left our servicemen there to deal with total chaos. And it was not well managed. and the officers on the ground were doing the best that they could. But remember, they also had their hands tied, rules of engagement and all that. And they said that the scene outside the airport's Abbey Gate was gruesome, even before the blast. And that the Afghans who assisted the near 20-year NATO presence, they had a weight in trash and knee-deep sewage. There was that drainage canal right before that Abbey Gate and that this little walkway went over. and it was like a moat of sewage.

Wild. Just wild. If you look at Ariel of Kabul, of that Harmie Karzai airport in Kabul, you can see how crazy it is and how densely populated the areas around it. And so I kind of feel like the CNN piece is also trying to lay some blame on our service members by saying that,

well, by intimating that maybe they shot some people because of the chaos following the blast. But it also sounds like they can, came under fire from terrorists, including an explosion. I don't know. Am I reading too much into that cane and assuming that? Because I kind of feel like they're trying to point fingers that are servicemen. No, no doubt. As a matter of fact, I think that's what they lean on in order to shelter themselves from the responsibility they clearly shoulder.

Because I get the impression from this piece, although reading between the lines in this piece, I'm getting something else. But I feel like they're trying to defend the administration by casting dispersion on the character of the service members on the ground, but then trying to act like they're giving them, you know, an out by saying, well, you know, it could have been just, you know, blast concussion or confusion after the explosion. But, you know, they, but there were some civilians that were shot by whom? Because one of the things that apparently also came out is that they were not, it wasn't just an explosion from terrorists. They were being fired at by terrorists. See, and you wonder why people aren't enlisting. Because your incompetent military

leaders who haven't won a war since, send their people out to the meat grinder like this with zero support, strict ROE, and they make them endure and implement horrific operations where there's not really a clear objective. They increase the likelihood of terror attacks and casualties because of they don't understand logistics. They don't understand tactic. They don't understand tactic. They don't understand strategy. And you wonder why people don't want to enlist because of stuff like this. Afghanistan literally is like the avatar for decreased enlistment. It's why, I mean, good grief.

It's one of the worst ops I've ever seen. And I'm a civilian. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. Man, this is the worst disguise I've ever seen. A Florida man in Tampa decided to put on his best dress to go. and steal himself a boat on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Clayton County Sheriff's Office. Just after 3 p.m., deputies were investigating a stolen boat in the O'Kalusa Lodge in Lakeport.

They said deputies were surveying the area cane, and they spotted the suspect, identified as Joshua Kolkota at 33 years old. He left his house as a lady to disguise himself. He did not want to be caught by the police. And he was arrested for the stolen boat, the theft of a John Deer Gator vehicle, and he was out of He also had two warrants out on his name. And they're working with the Seminole Police to help identify some of these other stolen items. He is in the worst wig ever and that dress is heinous. Let's put that out there.

That is one ugly man. It was unconvincing. I don't know if one can put that picture up on the screen. Well, Juan's getting it. I mean, that haircut is heavy and is in need of some serious layering. I am not convinced. And what is up with them icy highlights? Like what, I actually do, I don't, I don't, man, I don't know.

That's it. If you're going to try to dress as a woman to disguise yourself, like, be convincing. You know, like, we ain't asking for a lot. You gave your face that day. A Florida man passed out in the turn lane, starts singing to the radio, and he's arrested for suspected, really, you think? D-U-I. Also, in Tampa, Florida man was found passed out behind the wheel of his truck in the middle of a turn lane, and Mary County Sheriff's Office, when they arrived on the scene, he broke into song. David Boos, he was unresponsive when they first got there, and then as they awoke him,

he began to sing along to the radio and quote showed signs of impairedness really deputies ordered him out of the truck they asked him this is the best no it's not it's bad but it's funny they got him they asked him to get out of the truck and they go how much did you have to drink that night tonight and he said quote not enough the deputy responded i would disagree with that when they asked him to perform a field sobriety test he denied and he refused to provide a breath sample at the jail but He was clearly inebriated. And yeah, it didn't go well for him. We have our third hour on the way. We got culture. We got some stuff in D.C. We got 2024 November. Stick with us.

And by not taking it on an expedited basis, sort of taking it under regular order here, they've already created a significant delay here that means that this election case, however they rule, can't go to trial probably before the fall. And now we come to exactly what they're considering here, which is the question of whether a president has absolute immunity. And then there's a second question here, which is whether anything that Donald Trump is accused of would actually constitute a presidential act implicated in the immunity question. Yeah. Just making sure you're okay. Do you need, is everything okay? We hear someone yelling. Yeah, it's fine. We have a heckler here outside. You know, I've got to say they obviously have been following the David Pecker testimony.

They're yelling fake news. And they obviously want viewers to know that Donald Trump lied about JFK's assassination, tried to blame Ted Cruz. He's yelling fake news also because Donald Trump lied along with David Pecker. He's so affected. They worked together to lie about. Kane's dying because there was a troll that literally just rolled the whole MSNBC morning show crew.

That guy, what exactly? Was he saying something fake news? Yeah, you're fake news. Your fake news. At first, I didn't know what he was saying when I heard it. I'm like, what is he saying? Yeah, you're fake news.

That truth is painful to the media. And they were just like going on trying to act like he wasn't back there. That guy, I feel like deserves a medal, really. You know, I just, first off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. we are at the top of this third hour and apparently we got tornadoes rolling through Texas it's super easy to be on air and focus

when you got all your kids out there in tornado land but anyway so everybody be safe out there right and this I was thinking about this you can listen to the show by the way coast to coast you can stream it simulcast which you're watching the simulcast simulcast with the radio show you can catch on 347 direct TVX all the other platforms I really, you know how some people you can get stickers made up or like cards made up or how people put ducks on people.

What is that? When people put ducks on people's cars, have you guys seen that? What is that? It's like a thing. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. Steve, you know what that is? Hang on.

I got to, because it's not a Jeep thing either. I don't think. Like, apparently, okay, so, well, maybe it's just a Jeep thing. Apparently, if you get a duck, it is a show of respect for your car from another Jeep owner. Jeep owners have their own world. Yeah, that's true. There's like, you do the Jeep wave and all this stuff. They have their own thing.

And I love it because I Google this and somebody goes, why do people keep putting ducks on my car? Usually it's like nice for it. It's a Jeep thing. It's called Jeep ducking. Really? It is. You know what, Kane? Be careful when you say that.

We got a lot of bad things that are happening in this world. So if somebody, if a grown man wants to place a proper doctor, on another grown man's Jeep. Let him. Okay? Let him do an act of kindness. Let the bras have their moment, okay? Although this sounds like a chick thing, if I'm being real.

Like, I don't care if y'all have guys do it. But y'all guys did not come up with this. This was a chick that did this. Yeah, it seems like it. Now, is there a law that it would violate? I don't know. There's no law. I don't think so.

Yeah, so I don't see if there's an issue with this. Apparently, they are badges of pride for the Jeep folks. I used to have a Jeep. I had a jeep for a long time. And you put them on the dash for other people who drive jeeps to see. So if you get ducked, then you put the duck on your dashboard. It's like a... Got it.

Yeah, it's like a, I don't know. It's like one of them sticks. It's like getting a bucket sticker, right? How many books you read? How many ducks you got, right? Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if someone leaves a duck on your Jeep, it's like it's, it means you've been ducked

and somebody likes your Jeep and wanted to make you smile. Kane's favorite topic is the ducking. No, it isn't. It's called ducking, Jeep ducking. Okay. Ducking. Have we not exhausted? No, it's a new word.

We're learning it today. It's educational. This thing? Yeah. We haven't exhausted this yet? No, we haven't. Okay. And apparently, sometimes if you sell your Jeep, the ducks go with it.

Oh, really? That's a new one. I don't know. Is that like Kelly Blue Book? Like it adds value? I don't know, but can I also say that if you've got all the ducks up in your dash, I'm going to immediately assume that you are a hoarding cat lady with like 50 cats, and you're a hoarder because it looks something like hoarders would do.

Have you seen the images of it? Right. Of like a million people that have like a million ducks in their windshield. They could afford to give a duck or two. It just looks like you look like a hoarder. I mean, a couple is okay, but you don't need it from end to end lined up. That's a little much. You know what I'm saying?

That seems like that's a lot. And you can't take turns at that point or they're falling out at the side. Yeah, but I don't know. But yeah, if you get a little duck like that, that's what it means. And they're actually called Jeep ducks. People pay to get this done. Anyway, I would do this with like little inexpensive metals. So if I see someone being like the real MVP that day, I would give them like a, a

great job citizen metal. You know what I'm saying? Like that guy, I'd be like, sir, sir, can I speak to you for a moment? And then on my phone, I would play like some award music, like pomp and circumstance or something like that. And as that played, I would bequeath the individual. I would lay the medal around their neck. Great job, sir. It's your citizenship medal, good citizenship.

And I'd walk away. Maybe Olympic style theme as you're putting the medal right on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'd have it ready to rock on my phone. Yeah, I like it. I don't know how many, because it's every, it's not often, but every now and then I see something where I'm like, yeah. Good job. And it's usually something like this.

But yeah, that guy out there, oh, fake news. And he just, he rolled the whole morning show there. He got Joe Scarborough all upset. And Joe Scarborough had to, like, like, he was talking like that dude could hear him. Wouldn't he? Yeah. Well, I just, this guy's probably up. That kind of tall tall, blah, that, blah, blah, yeah, but...

Like the dude could hear him. Yeah, dude couldn't hear him. Come on. This is ridiculous, y'all. So it looks ridiculous. So anyway, I'm just saying, I would like, like, a citizenship. And, you know, you could put them on your rear of your mirror when you get one. Right.

Right? Yeah, like, and you're walking in the parking lot and you see one of those medals, and you go, wait a second, you double take. That person performed a good deed. that's a good citizenship medal so I'm just saying I'd probably do or like that union worker

audio we played yesterday and the guy was like you know what would you tell Joe Biden he's like yeah I tell him to blah blah blah I can't even say it be like sir and then play the music lay the metal around his

around his head you're a good citizen well done sir that's it right a good deed deserves a good recognition dost thou agree radio land Yes. I'm actually not even joking. I think I actually want to do this.

We should always acknowledge good deeds. That's how we get more good deeds. Yeah, but I'm one of the kids who has to have a sticker in order for it to count. Like I need a visible measure of it so I can not brag personally, but it can look like it's something, you know? You know what I mean? Like if it's, if you can see it, I don't need to brag about it. it's like all the emblems and stuff that you get with dark tide right you get your skull frame if you kill like however many hundreds of thousands of bad dudes and i got a skull frame right i don't need to brag that i've killed a lot of stuff i got my skull frame that does it for me so see that's what the metal does it does it for you speaking of metals i wasn't going to go this route i start juan's like great what is she doing now does she give me this element do i have these assets i'm sorry uh let me pull this up It just made me think of it. It just, I ended up saving it because I thought maybe I'll talk about this.

Maybe I won't. It's one of those things that I saved. I'm like, well, if I talk about it, it'll be on a Friday when it's a little more cash. So that Ginger, Harold, from Britain, the guy who comes over here and acts like he's Prince, I don't know. That, you know what I'm talking about. Wing and Ginge. Prince Harry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Wing and Ginge.

him and his briefcase girl. Anyway, so he presented a soldier of the year award to U.S. combat medic. And he said, I don't understand why we're having a British dude give an award to a U.S. soldier. That was weird to me. But then he did this cringe video. Well, we don't need to play it, but if Wands freezes it, we'll show you. where he was standing, according to the Daily Mail, he was standing at the back door of his Montecita Mansion,

his Olive Garden McMansion. Relatable. Yeah. And he was wearing all his little medals on his thing. You know, like the North Koreans do. All his little medals on his thing. I don't even know what they're all for. He had a whole line of them.

I'm like, you're like British. No offense. You know, I love my British friends. But like you're in the U.S. and you're giving an award to a you're a British dude you're giving an award to a U.S. soldier

And I guess it was because the person who won it participated in the Invictus games which is something that he does and I don't I don't understand these like apparently his wife out there is out there selling crappy jam he's with all of his medals

we're watching you guys can't see it but we're what now you guys can't watch So he's got all his medals there. He's British. That's his back porch of his Montecito Olive Garden Mansion. Unlimited stick. And he's there giving an award to a U.S. soldier. Is that weird?

Or am I being just, or am I allowing my extreme dislike of him? It's weird. Color everything. And I think it has to do with him wanting to Americanify himself. Yeah, but he doesn't bring his Brit stuff over here to do it. I agree with that, 100%. Boy, those medals look impressive, though, didn't they? Like the North Korean.

do, you know, just where they, they have all their bling. The North Koreans tweet their, they treat their medals like a flare at TGI Friday, right? Like, how many pieces of flare do you have? Or like, office space, right? How many pieces? You have to have eight pieces of flare. And his wife, who desperately wants to get into politics, has been, she created, give me, indulge me for a moment, indulge me. She created the stupid company that has a weird name. and she's selling crappy looking jam with labels improperly attached to it

and she's been giving people baskets of wilted flowers, bruised lemons and bad jam and that's like her thing she doesn't even have any products but she came out with a company I get Hunter Biden vibes from these two like major Hunter Biden vibes

maybe they're not total well he's maybe she isn't but he did maybe snorting crack off a hooker's backside I don't know that's there's There's a joke in there. But it seems this is so cringe. It's so cringe.

They need to stop trying so hard. But anyway, if you guys didn't, if you guys missed the story, they were trying to get information about whether or not he was even eligible to be in the United States because of his past admitted drug use and the administration blocked questioning from it. Because he's special. See, he's special. S-P-E-S-H-U-L, special. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So I thought pandas were like funny, because they're a total funny chaos whenever you look on social media, right? If you see anything about pandas that come up, that's usually what it is. This is a story out of China where apparently pandas attacked a zookeeper in front of screaming onlookers. The pandas ran towards a zookeeper. She appeared with snacks. One of them bitter ankles knocked her to the ground. Then they were climbing over, burying her underneath them.

They pawn at her head. she's rolling side to side trying to get them off not happening and they say well these are highly unusual so they had to have another zookeeper go in and help her but yeah was it the snacks like what was it because aren't they supposed to be friendly I don't know they're adorable looking

aren't they supposed to be friendly? I think they're bears yeah but they're pandas yeah but they're bears yeah but they're pandas though can someone explain to me why happened or how, Nestle destroyed 2 million Perrier bottles because fecal bacteria was discovered in one of its wells. Oh, they said literally this article starts with it's Ivy Times. If you had a gold class of

Perrier recently, not to alarm you, there's a big chance that you probably drank some fecal bacteria. French officials demanded that they stopped using one of their wells in God, South of France, due to contamination concerns. Oh, that's so gross. Again, I just, I like good old Oaxarka water. I like, or if I have to do Aquapana or Fiji. I just, I need to know if it's human or animal. What are they talking about?

It's species. Does it matter? Yeah, because the difference would be a human's pooping in the well? Is that what's happening? It's France. I wouldn't doubt it. I mean, I don't know. Who knows?

Scientists forge an impossible material, a metal alloy with unmatched strength and toughness in all temperatures. It's actually pretty cool. They said that it's researchers in the U.S. It's super strong and tough. They can retain these properties at both extremely low and high temperatures, which is unusual. It's composed of a bunch of stuff I can't say and also titanium. And it's great for aerospace engines and other things that are awesome. Do you want me to tell you what it is? Nyobium, tantalodum, epineum. Sounds like adamantian. Yeah, it's basically that. It's it. It's made of Wolverine stuff. That's all you guys need to know. All right. City removes and preserves a Chicago rat hole after

after complaints from the neighbors. It's an infamous rodent-shaped sidewalk dent that was removed and preserved this morning. And it's called a Chicago rat hole. It's valuable to those people that live there. They don't got a lot in Chicago with all the crime and all that stuff. So let the people have their damn rat hole. Okay? Let them have it. It first went viral in Jam. January, and they made a makeshift shrine because that's what people do, including a frame photo of it, a cardboard coffin, and coins strewn across the sidewalk. People literally would wait in line down the block to see it. Chicago, stick with us. Craving a daily dose of intellectual adrenaline look no further than the Dana Show podcast, where curiosity meets courage by following on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lashed with you at the bottom of this third hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program. And if you're watching, you're watching the simulcast of it as well, Channel 347, Direct TV, also on X and everywhere else. So we're all supposed to be dead because of net neutrality. So I don't know why we're all still here. Let's go to our next guest on this. He's an expert on it.

And he has graciously given us a get out of jail free card, Brendan Carr, who's a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission. previously General Counsel for the FCC. And, of course, we have the passage of this plan for the administration now. It's basically an internet takeover. Brendan Carr, you first off, it's very good to see you. You've talked about this quite a bit. But, I mean, I joke about it. But, I mean, really, all of the hyperbole that was sold about net neutrality, we didn't die.

We were fine without it. Now it's being reinstated. And talk to us about this because this is a huge power grab from the administration. It's the government putting its hands on the scale. essentially. Yeah, good to be with you. Look, this is a power grab, pure and simple. And it's a story about two things. It's about 20 years, and it's about 117 seconds. For 20 years, there's bipartisan consensus, Republicans and Democrats alike, that the government should keep its hands off the internet. It should thrive by the statute unfettered by federal regulation, 20 years.

All of that changed in 117 seconds when President Obama cut a YouTube video, demanding that his then FCC chairman flip on this issue back in 2014. And since then, it's just been a matter of religion for the left. Whenever there's a president of their party, they go back to government control. And to your point, we were told, end of the internet as we know it. Speeds are up, prices are down. We're connecting right here without neutrality being back, something we couldn't have done back in 2014. So it's just all about government control.

Yeah, they keep saying that, oh, it's not about the government regulating prices. but I don't know how else you could you could say that it isn't. I mean, you're literally regulating the price of what broadband providers are allowed to charge consumers and high volume customers. I mean, that's exactly, it is the exact definition of regulating price. Yes, full on regulation. Title II was designed by the Roosevelt administration to regulate the Movel, Copperline, telephone monopoly. It's complete regulation. And even if they don't do rate regulation here, we've already seized that authority.

Remember last year, there was this digital. equity order for the internet where we do expressly bring pricing into the FCC's jurisdiction so that whether they do it here or there, the point is they have that power. And there's just no reason for it. They tell us, well, we need this for internet privacy. No, you don't. The Federal Trade Commission already has full privacy regulations. They say, well, we need it for national security. We don't need it for national security. We don't even have expertise in that area that Title II would help us get across the finish line. So the goalposts keep moving. They can't say end of the internet anymore because people aren't going to buy it this time. But now they say cybersecurity and national

security. But yeah, it's just about getting the government more power. I love the little name that they give it to as a way to sort of bait people into thinking it's very benign. Net neutrality. Oh, it sounds so, you know, it sounds so innocuous. It's neutral. It's part of the name of it. But it does anything but that. I know that there's going to be challenges to this. I you are as are you going to be one of the commissioners testifying before the house energy and commerce telecom subcommittee that's i think coming up on in may on may 7th i'll be up there yep yep we up there and so this um is that i mean is this what what how can this be repealed is this going to be taken act of congress what i can it be challenged or is it just kind of done

deal yeah this will ultimately get overturned so it's going to go to court uh the various providers that are regulated by it and whether whether it's the appellate court or the Supreme Court, this is going to get overturned. You know, these courts have been increasingly skeptical of agency overreach, particularly now that Justice Kavanaugh and others up on the Supreme Court. He's the author of something called a major questions doctrine, which is to say, look, we shouldn't assume that an agency, unelected like the FCC, has power that Congress, where the Constitution puts legislative power, just inadvertently gave us power and no one really knew about it.

But we just looked at the 1996 Telecom Act and all of a sudden we found power almost, you know, 30 years later that lets us regulate the Internet. So because courts are more skeptical of these claims, I'm very confident this is going to get overturned. In fact, President Obama's former top lawyers at DOJ filed in our proceeding and said, look, we love neutrality, but this thing is dead on arrival in the court. So that's most directly where this will end up. Thank heavens. I'm happy for that. The other issue that you're joining us to discuss about talking with FCC's Brendan Carr is the, TikTok issue. The for sale, well, if unless

TikTok or ByteDance appeal this, which I think that they are expected to do. I can't imagine, I would just be actually shocked if this works in favor of them selling it. Because it just, I don't see that happening. I wanted

to get your response to that being passed and what you expect, Bite Dance or CCP or TikTok. It's all the same thing. What you expect them to do. Yeah, look, the CCP made a bet and they thought that they could use TikTok to spy on Americans to take our data back to members of the CCP in Beijing and that the U.S. wouldn't have the capacity or resolve to do something. And so I'm really glad that we did.

What TikTok and their parent are saying now is they're going to go to court. That's the first step. They're going to try to challenge the law. They're not going to win in my view. And then to your point, what do they do? Well, right now they're saying they're not going to sell it. They would rather shut it down in the U.S. than sell it, which is funny because they unleashed their millions of followers into Congress. and use them as human shield to try to block this bill saying,

we care about our users. And now they're saying, actually, you know, we care about the CCP more than those users. We're going to leave you high in dry if it comes down to it. But there's still a lot to play out. Maybe that's posturing. We'll see. Yeah. And for the people who don't understand how important this is, because I've had, I mean,

these are actual conservatives that have told me, well, you know, I understand, you know, if it's a government official, but they don't really have anything to get on me. I mean, there's nothing that I'm, that they would find valuable with. my information. But that's not the point, is it? Because I feel as though all of this information is designed to inform. Maybe I'm not trying to be tinfoil hat wearing, but to me, it sounds like they're trying to just organize this giant sci-op operation. It doesn't matter if you're not a government official. Are you on Facebook? Are you on social media? Do you take part in politics? Then you're susceptible to the information that they would take weaponize and use against you to drive

division. I mean, that's a great psychological warfare tactic that they seem to be familiar. with and yet too many people here aren't aware of. Yeah, it's a couple of things. It's espionage, which is surveillance, all this data going back, it's foreign influence. And as you pointed out, once they have this detailed data, location, face prints, search and browsing keystrokes, on 170 million Americans. Imagine what they can do with that data. For one, they can train their own AI, which is sort of the next frontier of this, but they also have such a granular, clear picture of America that they can use it for all sorts of nefarious purposes. Yeah, that's a very good point. Well, we're going to be watching how all of this unfolds.

I mean, it's, we're in really, we're in such a weird time right now. I was, I keep talking about that Mission Impossible, the latest Mission Impossible film, which has, you know, the weaponized AI and they're in the middle of a conflict. And it actually, it's all AI driven, not to give any of it away. But I kind of feel like we're, we're past the cusp of that. But too few people in government are really aware of it. One last quick thing. What do people need to be looking out for? as these two issues separately, the TikTok issue, and then of course, net neutrality go forward. What should just average everyday Americans be looking for as this proceeds? Yeah, continue to weigh in because these are sort of isolated decisions you could say, but if you step back again, it's all part of a broader plan by the Biden administration, in my view, just keep exercising more and more control over the Internet. So we have to say very, very vigilant and not just look at these each of sort of isolated pinpricks. The whole mosaic here is concerning.

I think we got to try to turn the tide on that. And that starts in the courts. Absolutely. Brendan Carr with the FCC, always so good to see you. Thank you for weighing in on this and giving us the latest. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks so much.

Of course. And it is. That's what I've heard from so many people who are, you know, they're like-minded individuals. And they say, well, we're not, and a lot of them, not like I'm pointing fingers at anybody out in our audience, but there's some people in our audience that have actually reached out and said, well, what does it matter if they're tracking my information? You know, I'm not doing anything of importance. What does that matter? You don't think that you're doing anything of importance. But as you heard him discuss, and one of the things that I've been looking at is you can't be weaponized yourself and turned into this little divisive, little divisive bomb, just by nature of being involved, for instance, in your civic participation, being involved in politics, speaking out on social media. Because if your information, can be used to construct a sci-op operation by the CCP, they don't have to fire a single thing. They don't have to worry about any kind of invasion.

They don't have to worry about any kind of war. They don't have to worry about munitions and supplies and resourcing. If all they have to do is focus on an opponent and get them to divide and take each other side out, that's what this is. I mean, if you see some of the stuff that trends on TikTok for Americans and you see some of the topics that are pushed. And if you look at some of the bot accounts that are out there, just a handful of them. It's all about driving division and getting people to fight with each other. And a lot of it's on bunk information, but it doesn't matter because if it's said once online and is

repeated, it becomes a practicing fact. Whether it's a real fact, that's irrelevant. It's a practicing fact. And it can be used in informational warfare. And so that's ultimately what this is. And so people are at each other's throats, and you might think that, well, you know, I couldn't be weaponized. You can be. I mean, good grief. I've seen it. I've seen people arguing with each other over fake stuff all the time. And there's always a flurry of bot accounts.

It's one of the things that I didn't like about the engagement, the monetization of engagement on X that Musk is now changing because he realized, oh, gosh, this is bad because it benefited that kind of stuff. You could say you could throw a bomb out there, something that's intentionally provocative and super stupid and divisive. And people are making so much money on it. And it was a lot of these fake accounts that were doing it. Now he's taking that away because, you know, it makes sense. It was a trial and error. Now we realize this it's not going to work. But I just don't think that people understand that in a digital age where information is currency,

factual information, particularly as currency, it's never been more important to be hyper aware in a digital space. That awareness isn't just practical for meat space. it's required for the digital space as well. I mean, that's what I would do. That's very Sun Tzu, you know, to get your opponent to take itself, to take themselves out without you having to fire a single shot. The weaponization of technology is just the latest. It's just a modern SunZU application. And too many people are unaware of it.

Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. And what we have learned is that the IRS, in fact, has been using AI. to access bank accounts of American citizens without any kind of a search warrant or even without any specific claim that they have committed a crime. So this was something that was discovered by an undercover journalist, and what they found is that the IRS has claimed that they have access to every single person's bank account. This person also indicated that they've been working with the Department of Justice

and that they have absolutely no problem whatsoever going after the little guy to make sure that they are paying their taxes. This is such a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment that we have, Jim Jordan and I sent a letter to the IRS, demanding that they provide additional information about what they are doing with AI and what they are doing to protect the civil rights of American citizens. So that's Wyoming's Congresswoman Harriet Higman, who I was looking at this letter that she had sent from the Judiciary Committee with Chairman Jim Jordan on this, because that's the, I mean, that's what they've been saying is that they're using AI to actually. access your bank account without any kind of search warrant, without any even indication or any reason to justify suspicion that you've committed any kind of crime at all whatsoever.

I mean, it is, we're entering into a very Orwellian, 1984, Huxleyan, Brave New World scenario here with all of this. And they said that they were only using, and this was September of last year, the IRS was insisting that it was only using AI to, quote, help IRS compliance teams better detect tax cheating and identify emerging compliance threats and improve case selection tools. Now, that's what they'd said. They'd said that that's all we're using it for. We're not using it for anything else. We're not using it for any kind of nefarious purpose. They said it's just about restoring fairness. Really restoring fairness. I mean, I'll take you back to what Charles Payne and I talked about first hour, how they're actually going to tax. They want to tax unrealized gains

disproportionately so that they can give preferential treatment and what they solve racial disparity, racial economic disparity through the taxation of unrealized gains. So it's the white tax. You got your syntax. You got your white tax. Or is that a syntax too? Yeah. You know? Good grief. So don't talk to us about fairness. And remember. those 87,000 agents, you know, they had to hire all of them for something. So that's one thing to keep an eye on. The other thing, too, just to share this story. So you guys remember, we played this audio of this one Columbia protester who was talking about how they'd kill a Zionist or whatever. Anyway, he was saying that Zionists don't deserve to live in this video. And he did an interview

Thursday night where he repeatedly declined to apologize for the video. And CNN just left that out of their reporting. I mean, apparently he told CNN that he meant it and he wasn't going to apologize for it. And they just didn't include it. And the original story was found out. They didn't include it in their original reporting. Consider how they've reported everything else. They decided that this wasn't, they weren't going to include this in their reporting.

Oh, man alive. Media malpractice. I don't know. And the headline was what the pro, quote unquote, Palestinian protesters on college campuses actually want. And they did not include his refusal to apologize in it. But wait a minute. I thought, yeah, you thought wrong. Yeah, our media.

No wonder people don't trust them. I don't know. It's maybe the weekend will be better. All right. Today in stupidity, Kane. Yeah, we can only hope. All right, our president of the United States is Ashley Biden's shower. Yeah.

Anyway, he is talking to Coward Stern about the, well, I'll think he actually said anything truthful today during that interview. So this is the one I'm talking about. This was the one he said he was runner up in state scoring for football. But for example, I remember starting off playing Catholic League football. So you see what football. By the way, I don't think a lot of people know that you were a star receiver in high school. You were like the first string guy. You were the guy who caught the ball.

But this isn't true either. Runner up in state scoring, you know what the heck. They got two old men, one of them, an old woman and an old man. And they're very confused, clearly, very confused about stuff. Number one in state scoring, huh? I mean, at least all Bundy's, you know, football stats were real. Runner up in state scoring. Okay.

Good grief. Folks, that does it for us. Today, I will be back. Maybe I'll let you know on Facebook, federal jury duty behind the mic on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe and tornadic weather.