The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Friday February 2 - Full Show

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

The immigration/Ukraine bill reaches another stalemate. Illegal migrants attack NYPD officers. The RNC spent $1.5 Million on floral arrangements, limos, and management/media consultants. Gavin Newsom ...says he was visiting Target and got blamed for a shoplifting incident to his face by a worker who didn't recognize him. Red State’s Jennifer Van Laar joins us to break down how the RNC is in trouble financially. Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to deport the violent migrants who attacked police officers. Biden tries to go after grocery store chains for inflation.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaJoin the Coffee Club today and get 30% off your first month’s subscription.Hillsdale Collegehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit today to hear a Constitution Minute and reserve your free pocket copy of the Constitution.KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSign up for the KelTec Insider and be the first to know the latest KelTec news.Nimi Skincarehttps://nimiskincare.comDon’t compromise. Use promo code DANA for 10% your order.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet free activation with code Dana.Wise Food Storagehttps://preparewithdana.comSave $50 on your 4-Week Survival Food Kit plus free shipping when you order today!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I've been saying this over and over again. The national government must do its job. This is not a responsibility that should be placed in the lap of all of these big cities. We're saying we're taking place in Chicago and Denver and Boston all across our country. Big cities are having to do the national government job. And those migrants who are here because they want to be part of the American dream, we say yesterday. But those who are breaking our laws, we need to re-examine. laws that don't allow us to deport them because they're doing violent acts.
Starting point is 00:00:35 We cannot create an atmosphere where you're going to bring violence in our city. Well, you should have thought about that before you instituted sanctuary city policies. I mean, that's kind of the, that's the whole reason why we're here, right? I mean, we're in this situation because of that. Welcome to the program. Happy Friday. My voice is a little rough this morning. We're on the struggle bus.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Yeah, so just bear with me. I appreciate the concern and all that stuff. But yeah, I'm on the men. I had a great event last night. But it was a lot for the voice yesterday. So we're suffering a little bit today. But we're going to get through it. It's Friday. And we've got a lot of stuff that we got to hit. So as we do all of that, this is still the number one top issue because it's, it's, nothing's been done. The border bill, and I wanted to go over some of that a little bit today. the border bill that it was the Senate that had introduced it, pushed it towards the House, and the House is under a lot of pressure to take this, just accept it, run with it. And the bill doesn't, it doesn't make sense. It's, the way that the media is presenting it is they're trying to say that the House Republicans have to pass this or Republicans aren't serious about immigration reform. But that's not, that's, I mean, the whole bill is not serious. immigration reform. I was reading what was released from it because the asylum system as well
Starting point is 00:02:07 is real. I mean, it's just weird. It's just jacked up. This whole thing is just jacked up. The asylum system, the whole, well, you know, if we get to 5,000, you know, illegal entries, then we'll shut it down only after we, you see what I'm saying? I mean, none of it makes sense. The way that the, I mean, they don't do anything about the overall system. They just try to make it, honestly just makes it easier to keep entering illegally. The other thing too with this, in looking at some of it, they had the
Starting point is 00:02:36 asylum program that remained in Mexico and apparently Democrats think that that's so mean because there's so few asylum claims. I mean, from 2017 to 2023, there were, I mean, out of all the asylum claims that were made, 15 out of every 100 people who claimed that they were
Starting point is 00:02:52 going to be tortured or something like that, they were returned to their home country. And they they they you I mean most people are not granted asylum most people are not they're not they're not granted asylum I mean that's just that's just all there's to it so you have all these people that are coming in and they they're they come in and they realize this even though they're not going to be granted asylum they still want to press the press the limit and stay in the country anyway and then that's how they ultimately game it and get through so the that was like one of that that that's like
Starting point is 00:03:26 one of the problems with the way that the system is set up up. This bill doesn't really look at any of this. It doesn't, excuse me, it doesn't really look at any of this stuff. It doesn't look at, like for instance, cleaning up the legal pathway, making, you know, being really stringent with H-1B visas, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, it doesn't examine any of this stuff. And it also doesn't encourage any kind of, I mean, really any kind of cooperation with Mexico because they think that what Mexico is going to be a good partner on this. Is that what they think because I mean when have they been a good partner on this at all except well you know the time they had the federal allies standing across the Rio and you know that's when they they were they were
Starting point is 00:04:09 helping that one illegal entrant that had drowned in the in the river but it wasn't due to our border people it was due to they were trying to cross during you know a very deep part of the river and additionally if they were trying to illegally cross I mean this just you know it's just something you're going to be able to do. So that's, this is the, this is the bill. And it's, it's, like I said, none of, I, I don't see how any of this is like good or decent with regards to immigration. It doesn't make any sense to me. Um, it's just, it's just kind of a mess. It's a mess. This bill's a mess. We're not going to get, and if Republicans don't pass it, they shouldn't pass it. They're going to get so hammered for it. And they're still going to, and then you, you have,
Starting point is 00:04:51 they can't message at all. They have no idea about messaging. They have no idea of how to handle any of this stuff. So that's just. just kind of, that's just, that's just, that's just kind of the way that it is. They have, they have no, uh, uh, they have no way to be able to handle any of this. They can't, they can't handle the messaging on it. So, I don't know. Nothing's going to, nothing's going to get solved this election cycle, I think. I don't think anything's going to be solved this particular election cycle. Because they don't have the, they don't have the, they don't have the political spine to do what's needed. And if they, if they, if they, if they, if they were to do what's required, they're going to get,
Starting point is 00:05:24 they're going to get beaten in purple states. because they don't know how to message it. And because all the parties are broke. That's just, that's just, that's just, that's just all there is to it. All the part, and then all the parties are broke. So we're going to, we're going to keep diving into this because in addition to this, we're talking about the parties being broke. The Republican Party, I told you yesterday, I gave a speech.
Starting point is 00:05:43 It was with the Dallas Jewish Conservatives, an awesome group yesterday, and was speaking about how, you know, the RNC doesn't have a lot of cash on hand. A lot of these entities don't have a lot of cash on hand. Some of them, some of these state parties are just, absolutely broke. And so as a result, you're going to be going into a very, very, very competitive season and the Republican Party isn't going to be ready. One of the things that we pay attention to in radio, and if you're watching the video portion of this, that's the video portion of the radio component. The ad buys. Kane, I'm going to ask you this because you actually probably know this
Starting point is 00:06:19 better than I do. How early do you do people, you know, whether it's an advocacy or if it's a political thing, do they do their ad buys? They're media buys. Media buys are done pretty early. Yeah, they're done early on just to see, they got to seed the ground. And they may not necessarily fill that order, correct? No, that's true too. They may just sit on the time. Yeah, it depends on what kind of free press they're able to get through the news. And then they determine how much they'll end up having to spend for that particular quarter. So let me share this piece with you, because this is one of the things I was looking at. And we're going to talk to Jennifer Van Laura with Red State about this. She's done some pretty amazing work. So the media buys. Democrats are sitting on, I think it's like
Starting point is 00:06:59 $200 and, it's a lot. It's a lot of money. I mean, millions, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. They're sitting on a lot. Republicans are sitting on $93 million. 90 or $93 million or $8 million or oh, maybe it's $9. I'm sorry, $9 million. I'm thinking $293 million with Democrats. Sorry, that's my bad. it's nine million. I can't breathe through my head. It's nine million. So that's yeah. And that's just the, that's just the national R&C. So the amount of media buys, and I'm going, you have to forgive me, because there's a lot of windows that I got to open up here. Democrats have been doing tons of media buys, particularly in very competitive swing states. And what we mean by media buys is just like I was talking with Kane, they'll book out, you know, radio time. They'll, for radio ads, television ads. And you have to do it fairly,
Starting point is 00:07:48 early in the season, but they've been doing it like crazy so that they can sit on the time and squeeze out any kind of opposition. And Kane, that's legal to do, yes. I mean, you can absolutely squeeze out because they're buying time. I mean, if you have the war chest to do so, exactly. You absolutely can. Exactly. So this is, it's pretty telling that Democrats have been doing tons and, I mean, millions of dollars of media buys already in some of these very competitive states. Now, keep in mind, they haven't, they haven't kicked out a single ad. They haven't kicked out a single, they, well, I take that back. They had one video, one video ad that they put out. And that was it. They haven't put out anything else. But they haven't, they haven't really started. And so I'm looking
Starting point is 00:08:36 at all of, I'm looking at a lot of these battleground states. They've done tons of media buys in, and they're still doing it. And millions of dollars, Republicans haven't done anything. So what's going to happen is when election time comes around and they get into all of this, it's going to be, you're not going to hear anything from Republicans are going to have any ads out there because they haven't moved. They haven't moved and they haven't bought any ad time, whether it's nationally or whether it's, you know, in one of these battleground states. This is, what the hell is going on? I'm going to tell you what. I was in a room of people who were ticked off at R&C leadership last night.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Oh my gosh, they were so mad, especially when I told them some of the stuff we're going to talk about today. They were very angry. This kind of goes in line with it. This is one of the things that they're supposed to be doing. They're supposed to be implementing a media strategy. Nikki Haley's not going to be the nominee for crying out loud. They have to be implementing a media strategy.
Starting point is 00:09:38 I'm all for letting everybody have their voices hurt, but you know they're going to have a nominee, is my point. They're going to have a nominee. You know, it's not going to be Haley. Fine. Go ahead, go through the... I'm all for letting everybody have their votes in, even if it's, you know,
Starting point is 00:09:49 pretty much statistically decided at this point. I'm all for everybody participating in having their voices heard. I love that about our system. But that doesn't mean that Republicans can't plan for a media strategy. It doesn't mean that they know they're going to have a nominee.
Starting point is 00:10:02 They know that they're going to be entering into general election season. Why the hell are they not doing anything? Why am I seeing all these articles about chunks of time, millions of dollars being spent in these battleground states by Democrats who are implementing
Starting point is 00:10:13 this media strategy and all we get is crickets and defenses about buying flowers from the RNC. I'm so done with this garbage. I'm about ready to rip everybody's hair out. I don't want to give another damn dime to that backwoods, ridiculous organization. This is why you got to donate directly to the candidates. It's so infuriating. But this is what we're dealing with. And they're broke because they are spending that kind of money. They spent more money on flowers than they did on get out the vote texting. Do you know how important get out the vote texting is? Get out the vote texting. and other apparatuses like that helped tank the 2012 election
Starting point is 00:10:47 because Republicans didn't have it together then either and it helped tanked it. They really did. We're going to get into all of that. Budweiser is going to launch a, well, it's a $7 million Super Bowl commercial
Starting point is 00:11:02 that they're paying with the Clydesdale's. They're going to trot the Clydesdales back out so hopefully you forget about Dylan Mulvaney. Is that going to work, Kane? Are you going to forget about the guy in the bathtub with the beer cans? I would be more inclined if they said, hey, we've got a new formula.
Starting point is 00:11:22 I got a new recipe for the beer. Then I'd be inclined to actually give it a shot and try it. Yeah. So I don't know, but that's what they're going to do. It's going to be $7 million, $7 million, and they're going to be coming out with this ad. It's going to air on us. I'm not into Super Bowl. I'm not into football.
Starting point is 00:11:42 I'm not going to lie to you. say that I am. I'm not. I don't care. But they said that they're really excited about it. I guess they think that this is going to be their big comeback. You really think this is going to be Budlite's big comeback? The Clydesdills are going to come out. You know what? They could shoot Dylan Mulvaney out of a cannon at this point, and I don't know. Hey, now you're on to something. Well, I don't know. Maybe that would actually. I'm going to something there, I think. But like not with his permission. But I'm not surprised to see a business, you know, give it a go. I mean, this is what they're doing. You know what they could do?
Starting point is 00:12:15 They don't even need $7 million to do it. Drag your dummy executives on camera and have them apologize to all everybody that they offended. Wow. They could save so much money. Dude, they could save so much money. I would go out and buy a brew right then. I don't drink it because it's what I washed my beer glasses in. But to support, I would go and do it. I would go and do it. I can say that ever since InBev bought it. Dude, we're from St. Louis. We can talk all the smack in the world. We came up right. We're from St. Louis. Like, I live blotie. on the brewery. I could smell the hops and barley every night. I drove past Clydesdales on my way to work. I mean, we know. But after InBev, oh, man, everything's off the table now. All right. So we got
Starting point is 00:12:54 we got a lot of stuff that we're hitting today. We got some cultural stuff. The latest, White House is blaming. We were talking about the Iran thing, the Islamic resistance. We were talking a little bit about that yesterday. We'll have some developments. We're also going to get into 2024. We've got the border. We got the RNT. We got all kinds of stuff. so you don't want to miss. A lot of stuff that we're hitting today this Friday, getting you set up for the week. And then later on, we're going to talk to Jennifer Van Laar about, well, you're going to get really mad over the story. And I just don't know what to tell you. I'm really sorry about that. It's going to, it's going to explain where all your donor money to the R&C has been going. I still sound like chill but tough, right? All right, as we move, I just want to go to the range and blow some holes through stuff.
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Starting point is 00:15:24 EV to drive. Remind me to come back after that because I hate all over them to death. And you car people out there are going to die laughing at me, but we're going to talk about it. Anyway, another blow for EVs. Ford's redesigned America's best-selling SUV. The new $44,000 explorer gas only. The poor-selling hybrid. was ditched. How sweet is... I'm so stoked about that. I mean, you know, people aren't buying it.
Starting point is 00:15:46 If they're buying it, that's fine. But if they're not buying it, don't force it on them. Let's see. This, over 500 journalists were laid off into... Journalists, really? That's a word we're using. Over 500 journalists were laid off in January 2024 alone. That's according to Politica.
Starting point is 00:16:01 They say the job cuts come after it. You know why? You absolute blockheads. You know why? Because you guys voted for a dude who decided to jack up taxes and guess what happens in an economy when inflation's running rampant,
Starting point is 00:16:14 wages aren't keeping up with the cost of living due to economic policy. Everything's more expensive. You have advertisers and all of these companies, they cut their advertising budgets first. That's what ends up happening. And then they cut advertising budgets. They cut anything that's non-essential. They start laying off journalists.
Starting point is 00:16:31 They start laying off all this. And when you're losing out ads and people are cutting distro with subscription and everything else, like what do you? what do you think is going to happen? Duh. I mean, this is exactly what happens. And because they probably weren't that good. Brad Pitt is circling is, uh, in a, he's going to be in a a Quentin Tarantino movie. I'm very excited. It's, yeah, well, Tarantino always said this is going to be his final one. And he's, he's sticking to it, Tarantino is one of my absolute favorite film directors that has ever existed. Uh, and, uh, anyway, Brad Pitt circling this role in his
Starting point is 00:17:04 in Tarantino's film called The Movie Critic. It worked on in Glorious Bastards together once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is one of the most brilliant movies ever. It was so great. So it looks like it's going to be called The Movie Critic, his 10th and apparently final film. He's always said he was going to do 10. I mean, he's had his whole career mapped out. I remember when he was out promoting deathproof, which is my favorite chick flick. He was out promoting death proof. And he was saying that he has, you know, a timeline. He wants to do, you know, this many films, and he doesn't want to do more than that. And I think he's going to stick to it, but this should be pretty good.
Starting point is 00:17:35 So Brad Pitt's attached to it. I think that Brad Pitt does well in Tarantino film. Let's see, Musla is seeking Tesla shareholder votes on moving in corporation to Texas. I started seeing this yesterday. So they said they're holding their share. They held their shareholder vote. They want to move to Texas from Delaware. I didn't know they were incorporated in Delaware. I didn't know that.
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Starting point is 00:19:20 Check out the best highlights from every show and Dana's absurd truth podcast posted daily from the Dana Show. This particular crew operated on mopeds and scooters. They were doing organized retail theft. They were doing snatches on the street, iPhones, iPads. clothing, so on and so forth. One of them that they are still seeking has 10 charges on one day because he's part of a pattern that's been going on. And I'm looking at the dates that their arrest started, which is probably close to when they got here. They've only been here a couple of months.
Starting point is 00:19:51 So what the detectives are telling me is they have crews here that operate in New York do all they're stealing, then go to Florida to spend the money and then come back. And I'm like, well, why don't they just stay and steal in Florida? And they said, because there you go to jail. Yeah. Oh. because you go to jail in Florida. But you don't. If you're in New York, you get a wrist slap and no bail. And then you're free to walk out.
Starting point is 00:20:15 You're free to leave. Isn't that nice? Did you see that jack wagon who put up two fingers? The memes were interesting. This is when I wish I could take the memes and put them over the radio airwaves because the memes were hysterical. There was one of Joe Biden putting a medal around that dude's neck. And they caught the other guy.
Starting point is 00:20:36 guy and they let him go too. So, I mean, there's no law and order. As I said this yesterday, and I brought this up again when I gave my speech last night because this is the, none of these dudes are here legally. Five dudes, not a single one of these dudes are here legally. Not a single one. Every damn one of them got into the country illegally. Okay, what happens? You do something like that in Mexico? If an American does it? Yeah, you got five Americans. Let's say five Americans
Starting point is 00:21:07 illegally entered Mexico and beat up a cop in Mexico City. Yeah, they would kick you out in a heartbeat. Or they may send you to the cartel, either way. I mean, yeah, you'd probably. Well, yeah, probably. I mean, either way, it's not going to end up well for you. It's not going to go good for you.
Starting point is 00:21:23 It's going to end up horribly. Five suspects, arrested, charged, robbery, felony assault, allowed to walk away. Allowed to just walk. And nothing's going to happen to him. Nothing's going to happen. All five, they were all, I think the oldest was, what, 24? Youngest was, there's two 19-year-olds and I think the oldest was 24.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Refugees. Refugees, my ass. They're not refugees. Not even refugees. I ain't gonna, I'm, oh, man, I don't even, don't even start. Oh, my gosh. I just get so, you know why I get so mad about this? Because there are, there are people out there legitimately, like, you know, whistleblowers
Starting point is 00:22:01 that are trying to blow the, whistle in the cartel or people who are trying to do other stuff that that are and are actually fighting for against oppression of their people in their country of origin. And those people are targeted. And, you know, I briefly told you the story of a woman that I had met and again, worked with like tequila sourcing and all this other stuff. And was saying that when she was a child, her family had to seek legitimate asylum in the United States because her dead.
Starting point is 00:22:32 dad was in business, his brother, inadvertently, not on purpose. And I don't think he had a lot of free will to do it. They had their construction company used to help launder money for the cartel. And the dad was trying to get out of it. So they killed the dad because the dad wasn't going to go along with it. So they killed her dad. They shot up her house. They shot up her house. Then they blew up her house, blew up their cars, all of that. She said she remember seeing bullet holes in her slide, her swing set, bullet holes in her swing set. Like they didn't care. And they had to
Starting point is 00:23:05 literally flee in the cover of night her, her, her mom and two of her siblings. And then they ended up killing her uncle to leave, to leave the country and seek asylum and try to get asylum into the United States. That's a legitimate asylum
Starting point is 00:23:21 claim. These dudes, these are not, these are not refugees. They're not seeking anything. It's so, it's so assenine. Republicans got to stop being afraid to talk about it the way it needs to be talked about. You want good people to come in the country. You do.
Starting point is 00:23:39 I mean, we could sit here and have discussions about falling birth rates and all this other stuff that the right finds so uncomfortable because they don't know how to message it and they get cowed by the left. But you want to be able to have good people come in the United States. I want more people like me who want to be left alone, don't want to have the government steal half their wealth, and they just want to live their
Starting point is 00:23:58 lives, raise their kids, live a good life. know, have some dogs, have some guns, you know, live the good life. That's what we want. I want those type of people. I don't want these dudes. But the way that they have the system set up, you're not getting the good kind of people. You're getting these dudes. And then you let them walk after they whip up cops in New York City.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Good grief. That's insane. Now Eric Adams is like, I guess it's time to look into deportation. Dude, I was told that was racist. Kane, he was told he was half racist. His white half was racist for thinking that, agreeing with that. See, I mean, you're... We were told that was racist and that we were...
Starting point is 00:24:43 What is it? Betraying the spirit of whatever is on the Statue of Liberty, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't even care. But that's what we were told, correct? So is Eric Adams a giant big old racist now? Assume so. Meanwhile, don't look at the RNC for messaging. We're going to deep dive on this with Jennifer Van Lark.
Starting point is 00:25:04 coming up, but I got to get some of this out of my system now. Do you know, they spent, let's just compare, let's just compare. They spent money on the most absurd things possible. Why is it that the people with the champagne taste and the beer budget, they spend money on the stupidest stuff. So case in point, they had, let's see here, oh, floral or This was just, I think, for one cycle, $70,328. And I get that flowers are expensive right now, but for real, that much.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Now, compare that to how much they spent out and get on the vote texting. Get out the vote texting, $86,000. They spent over half a million on donor gifts. Over a quarter of a million on office supply. What are you buying? Are you going to a rifle company, paper rifle company to buy your office supplies? Where are you going? Where are you buying your supplies at?
Starting point is 00:26:06 The spending is stupid. They spent over $80,000 a month on management consulting. I don't even know what to say to this. I don't even know what to say to this. They also spent, I mean, just the money that is being wasted. And this is important because whenever you say, why doesn't the, I had somebody mentioned this to me last night. Why doesn't the GOP run an ad on this?
Starting point is 00:26:33 Well, this is why. Because they're broke. This is why. When you don't see ads on your TV, it's because of stuff like, this. That's exactly it. I mean, I, it's, it's amazing to me that they have been allowed to get away with us this long. And it's amazing that people just, I can't believe this isn't a bigger issue. I mean, I honestly, I don't know what, what they're, I don't know what we're going to do going into November. You're already seen the, they're going to try to switch the polling. The polling, I think,
Starting point is 00:27:02 in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2020 and 22 was stupid and bunk, because it predicted a bunch of stuff that didn't happen, right? Although I will say less so in some of these last elections, less so in 2022. Because then they decided to be a little bit more honest. But I think that they're trying to lull you and do a sense of complacency so that you don't organize and you don't volunteer and you don't donate. Because that's what it's going to take from everybody out there. I was trying to impress up on this, this in my message last night. This is what it's going to take from everyone out there because you can't expect these groups. They can't, I mean, good grief. They're spending all their money on florist arrangements.
Starting point is 00:27:43 They don't have time for this. They don't have time to go out and do what needs to be done. That means you're going to have to do it. You're going to have to pick up the slack. And it's that important of an election where you can't say no. That important of an election. And so we're going to talk to Jennifer about that because I don't even want to see like the latest quarter. I don't even want to see that. A couple of other things. So we were to we were getting into some of the culture stuff. We got some of the Biden. We got some jobs jobs data in.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Why were they trying to act like it was good news, Kane? I'm really on the struggle bus with us. I feel like there was an organized effort on social media to act like this was so great. The economy, look how much better it's doing. According to what measure?
Starting point is 00:28:28 Are they not? I don't think the hiring was the lowest for the month on record. Why are they trying to act like, oh, we got some jobs. Also, I encourage people to look at the breakdown of these jobs because they count government jobs as jobs created. And for me, that is a lie and a complete misleading of what's happening in our free market. Wasn't there, and wasn't there more, there were more public jobs created
Starting point is 00:28:57 than private? Yes. So more people taking from the tax base than contributing to the tax base? Yes, That is correct. And we also had, I mean, layoffs surged. And then we also had, and this was Wall Street Journal, companies had announced the highest level of job cuts last month since early 23. I don't understand how they're trumpeting this as a huge success story. Because all the headlines that I said, so when I wake up in the morning, I look and I see what's trending.
Starting point is 00:29:33 and I go back and I kind of look at what I have slated. I usually try to slate the show the night before, and then I go and look in the morning and see what's changed for the things that I have slated. And because we knew that these numbers were coming out. And I'm like, oh, we're going to have to talk about jobs numbers. And I just left it blank. I'm like, I didn't know, because I knew what was coming.
Starting point is 00:29:51 And then I go and I look at the headlines. What did they say? Oh, outsized job growth, blah, blah, blah. All the headlines were celebrating. major growth for Bidenomics. Bidenomics makes a comeback. Like we never went, it never actually had a, like a heartbeat. I don't know what they're talking about.
Starting point is 00:30:15 And all of those headlines were what was being pushed. And there was an organized effort on social media to really push that out there too. So that was what was trending. So if you looked on Facebook, if you looked on X, wherever, TikTok, that, anything related to jobs trending were all of these headlines and they all had the same info. They all had the same talking points. They're trying to convince you that you're not broke. I mean, sure, you're, you know, can't barely afford the roof over your head and you're
Starting point is 00:30:43 probably eating bugs. But, hey, you're not broke. Strong economy. But it's not a strong economy. I mean, you know that. You can feel it. But there's an economic surge all right. It's not what they're saying it is.
Starting point is 00:31:00 And another good point was made by Stephen Moore. cut 13 we do have time to play it yes let's listen to one if you want to play cut 13 this is his explanation too as to maybe why you were seeing maybe uh some more jobs numbers ticking up yeah this is this is an important thing i haven't i didn't see the numbers for this recent report because i haven't been able to look through the report but i've looked through the last three or four and what you're seeing is that there's been a big big leap remember we talked about this last month of multiple job holders people who have to work two or three jobs just to maintain their living standards.
Starting point is 00:31:34 So that's a tough thing for people. So they're trying to say, oh my gosh, look, look at all the jobs that created. Yeah, but it's like my third job. Three low-paying jobs. Yay, but it's jobs created. And that's all they tell you. And they don't put it into context. They don't tell you, oh, that's, yes, three low-paying jobs because there's not
Starting point is 00:31:55 enough to support a higher-paying position, yes. And these are supposed to be successes. this is, Republicans should be hammer. Oh my gosh, I'm going to pull my hair out if I have to say that one more time. You know what? They'll probably adjust these numbers down
Starting point is 00:32:09 in about 25 to 30 days from now. Oh, you know they will. It's going to be, yeah. Where's the, where's the GOP messaging on this? I swear,
Starting point is 00:32:16 you stick my boot at these people's backside. They should be all over this. I mean, you should have, they should have memes ready to go. They, but they don't. They don't have anything.
Starting point is 00:32:26 Okay, we're going to, I'm going to get mad here. And I don't, my voice won't hold up if I start getting super loud and sassy. so we don't want that, right? We don't want that. I still sound like chill but tough, right?
Starting point is 00:32:36 I don't want to, I'm going to get myself all worked up later when Jen's running down these numbers for us and having help us all. As we move, our partners at help bring you free radio, it's our friends over at Wise Foods. I mean, I don't know. You don't know what's going to happen. All I know is this. When emergency strike, the last thing that I want to worry about or ask about is where my next meal's coming from. And that's where Wise Food Storage comes in. When you visit Wisefoodstorage.com and type in Dana and the search
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Starting point is 00:34:14 Maybe some Punksitani Phil write-in votes in 2024. But what this weather did not provide is a shadow or reason to hide. Glad the groundhog, Darily Spring. Do they drug that rat? because he was real chill in that guy's arms. That's that tree rat. Punks of Tony Phil. I like him.
Starting point is 00:34:48 I like all those animals. He looks cuddly. Doesn't he? You say tree rat, but he's literally a ground hog. Whatever. Yeah. Okay, a ground rat. Whatever.
Starting point is 00:34:57 It's like a type of rat. Look, I like him because he's fat and he's snugglable. And he's chill. Yeah, he looks chill because they, you know why? Because they learned their lesson. They saw de Blasio, Merck that one. He yeeded that thing right on the concrete. And they were like, you see what happens?
Starting point is 00:35:12 So he, do you know where this, do you know where this rat lives? No. No. Well, it's not just any hole. Oh, yeah? It's called gobbler's knob. Oh. Do you know that?
Starting point is 00:35:25 Steve probably knew it. You know, Steve, well, Steve's on the East Coast, so he knows all the weird East Coast stuff. You all got weird stuff out there. Got a rat that comes out and at the knob and what is he, if he, what, drops a deuce on the shady side of the treats, winter for five more weeks or something? Isn't that what it is? That's in Yinser country out there. That's from my uncle lives out in Johnstown. Yinser country.
Starting point is 00:35:48 I love it. I love it. And then how it goes or wait, wait, wait, is if they, and you know what happens, it's only magical if they wear the top hats. He's just a regular rat, but they got to put the top hats on because science. Top hats make everything fancy. You know, if you just have like, you know, umbrose, wife beater, dirty flip-flops, that's basic. you put a top hat with that you're styling that's
Starting point is 00:36:13 fancy what john fetterman does no i give him a pass i'm giving him i know i'm not gonna make fun of john fetterman as long as he keeps doing like nice stuff a tuxedo hoodie is fire i'll give it yeah i mean it's like you know he's casual but he's also here to be formal you know so punkson he felt what did he do he saw so it's an early spring yeah he didn't see a shadow right
Starting point is 00:36:34 and if he was to see it then we'd have six weeks of winter i want to know No, what high as I'll get out Pilgrim came up with this. Like, who sits there and goes, look at that rat coming out? What are you, a science question or now? Yeah. If you see, if it sees its shadow, it's like, it sounds like a drunk bet. If it sees its shadow, we're going to have winter. I'll take you up on that.
Starting point is 00:36:58 I'll take it out. I bet you that's exactly how it got started. I mean, some of the best traditions in the country got started like that. Bet you two pints, he won't see his shadow. I bet you two pints, he's not going to see his shadow. Well, he just defecated on the side. outside of the tree, so it looks like there's going to be spring. There it is. So I want a groundhog. Can you have them as pets? Is that possible? I'm curious. I'm legitimately curious about this.
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Starting point is 00:38:35 using code Dana. Save money on high-quality coffee. Rosed right here in the U.S. of A. It's black rifle coffee.com slash Dana. We're checking out. The woman says, oh, he's just walking out. He didn't pay for that. I said, why are you stopping?
Starting point is 00:38:49 She goes, oh, the governor. I swear I got a true story. My mom's great. The governor lowered the threshold. There's no, there's no accountability. I said, that's just not true. I said, we had the 10th toughest, $950, the 10th toughest in America.
Starting point is 00:39:05 She doesn't even know what I was talking about. By the way, it's the 10th toughest in America. Look it up. No one gives a damn bad back. And I said, it's just not true. There's still a stop. We said, well, we don't stop them because of the governor. And then she goes, she looks at me twice, and then she freaks out.
Starting point is 00:39:20 She calls everyone over, wants to take photos. I'm like, no, I'm not taking a photo. We've been a conversation where's your manager. How are you blaming the governor? And it was, you know, $380 later. And I was like, why am I spending $380? dollars everyone can walk the hell right out wow
Starting point is 00:39:37 he sounds like a true statesman doesn't he that's Gavin Newsom he's a he's just a total he so he gets blamed for a shoplifting incident and he gets mad and he's like I didn't do this but do you kind of did though dude
Starting point is 00:39:52 I mean that was I mean what he's he's he was surprised when the employees didn't intervene because there's know why what's the purpose of them nothing's going to happen to the guy welcome back to the the program dana lash here with you top of the second hour and uh that was california governor
Starting point is 00:40:15 gavin newsome you could see his video who's like on a zoom call if you were watching the simulcast of the radio program which you can watch channel 347 direct tv you can also listen to the radio program across the country yes i'm i'm on the men from the plague i'm doing a lot better but it's thank you for your kind wishes and everyone's like telling me i don't did not realize, can I just say sidebar real quick, y'all have so many different recipes for chicken noodle soup. What is happening? Oh my gosh. I've got like 50. I didn't know it was such a contested thing. I feel like putting everyone in a cage and having everyone fight it out to see whose chicken noodle soup is the best. We're just about at that point. All right. So that was Gavin Newsom saying he was,
Starting point is 00:40:55 he was at a target, you know, and there was a shoplifting incident and he got blamed to his face. and the worker didn't recognize him. Do you get the impression that he was mad that he wasn't recognized? I told, that was the first thing I thought. I was like, bro's mad that he didn't get recognized. Huh, look at that. And he says, she said, the governor lowered the threshold. There's no accountability.
Starting point is 00:41:23 Yeah, I mean, exactly, because you did that. And he's like, how are you blaming the governor? Yeah, you get to walk right out. I mean, he is literally the problem. He's been in, I mean, when he's, was mayor of San Francisco. He was pushing this stuff. I mean, good grief. They've lowered so, I mean, they've lowered the, uh, uh, what, so many felonies to, to reduce them to misdemeanors. And he's like, oh, someone steals a target with no consequences. That's the managers.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Managers problem. I mean, you literally, you, you, you were part of this. They increased the amount of theft. Like it used to be around 500. Now it's up near a thousand dollars. Yeah, it's like $860 something dollars that you can steal. Before they will prosecute. Yeah. So please. And you just get a risk.
Starting point is 00:42:07 Like you just, it's a misdemeanor offense. It's a misdemeanor. It used to be, uh, greater than that. And, and it was,
Starting point is 00:42:13 uh, I mean, you could get charged over it. And now they don't, they don't do that anymore? And they've, and so, yeah,
Starting point is 00:42:18 you're, don't you realize? I mean, you can go and steal 500, $800 worth of stuff and walk right out. And nothing's going to happen to you. I mean, that's not,
Starting point is 00:42:28 that's, that's why, one of the reasons why you're seeing what you see, like all these stores getting ransacked and everything else. I mean, that's not, you know, and you're expecting these employees, and probably he was talking to a part-time employee, are they,
Starting point is 00:42:43 is he like expecting these employees to intervene and stop and maybe put themselves in harm's way over something that the system isn't even going to enforce and follow up on? Like, he was mad that they didn't intervene and engage, but yet his policies, and the policies that he pushed, not just when he was mayor of San Francisco,
Starting point is 00:43:03 but when he was Attorney General of the state of California, he absolutely promoted and campaigned on these things. And he expects them to put their safety and their physical selves in the way on the line to enforce something that they're not even going to press charges on. Why the hell would you... I mean, golly, is that not the epitome of privilege? this trust fund baby and that's what he is Gavin Newsom is a nepo baby I'm gonna get tired of
Starting point is 00:43:34 these nepo babies he's a trust fund kid it's the Newsom's the Pelosi's the Hursts and the Gettys that run California particularly San Francisco remember back and this kind of makes sense this will enlighten you to how he can have this perspective with a straight face when was this this was um two years ago let me look this up I'm gonna make sure I got this right. This was two years ago. And this was when I think everything was still maybe three years ago. No, sorry, November 2021. So this is when everything was still kind of locked down, especially in San Francisco. And so they're one of the Gettys. And it was one of the billionaire daughters of the Getty family. They ended up. And this is when everyone else had, you had to wear masks in
Starting point is 00:44:24 California. And we had friends who lived in L.A. and San Francisco at this time. And my friend, who used to be a Democrat, now she's a moderate. But she was in San Francisco. This was like it, because she got in trouble for going to a park with her two-year-old son and she didn't have a face mask on. And she literally, someone literally said something to her. And they had to put, she had to put a face mask on at a park outside. San Francisco. I'm not even making this up. So anyway, keep that in mind. So it was at San Francisco City Hall and it was this huge Beaux Arts building, right? This huge rotunda, very nice setting.
Starting point is 00:45:04 And it was Ivy Getty. She's this very rich member of the Getty family. They flew John Galliano in who was this designer who used to work with Alexander McQueen and all of this stuff. He went away for a little bit because he got drunk and went on an anti-Semitic tirade at a cafe and it was captured on video. And then so he kind of had like this fall from grace. and he's been away for a decade. Now he's coming back. And so he did her gown and all her bridesmaids' dresses. And they took photos of it. You're all sitting at home, right? You can't go nowhere. You're all sitting home because it's locked down. Your businesses are closed down. You got to wear diapers on your
Starting point is 00:45:38 face when you go out. But they're flying in John Galliano to do her dress and all this. And they had everybody at this wedding. They had everybody at this wedding. And some of the people at this wedding included it was all the the circle that they run in so they you Gavin Newsom and his wife were there other Newsom family members were there they had the Pelosi's were there I mean all of them because they all know each other and they all kind of grew up together and every everything else was locked down and they had all of these people sitting in this rotunda and they did not have face masks on none of them I mean none of them had face masks on they had a huge event the night before And they all party, nobody had face masks on.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Again, you still couldn't eat out in a restaurant, but whatever. And then the next day, they had the big wedding and then the big party. And then it just, and again, no face masks, everything else. And Newsom was, he was at all of these events because he's pictured at all of these events with his wife. And he was like right in one of the front rows, or in the front at least, at this wedding. That all happened when you all had to have your kids. do remote learning when everyone businesses were shutting down things were closed you couldn't do you couldn't go anywhere you couldn't fly anywhere you can do nothing they did that
Starting point is 00:47:01 so just understand the perspective that this dude has and that event by the way that he went to that came after the french laundry thing remember that was right after things locked down and he was pictured without a mask at french laundry so he's done this repeatedly so that's the perspective he has. He has grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth. And he's never had to ask for anything. He's been bankrolled by his family. He's a NEPO baby. And he's got the benefit of coming from two wealthy families and they know all these other wealthy families and they get to do whatever they want. And there's no question, no nothing about it. And so that's, it gives you a little insight how he expects you know, minimum wage or part-time workers at Target, due to his policies, they have to allow
Starting point is 00:47:52 shoplifters to walk. And he's outraged that they didn't put themselves in harm's way and do what he could have done easily with policy. Does that give you some insight into this guy? Why in the hell would anybody consider? How do Democrats claim to be on the side of the blue collar dude and support somebody like this? I mean, how in the world, he is everything that is wrong with excess, And it is every, we did not want an aristocracy in the United States. They have tried to make one. It is some aristocratic BS. Why would anybody want this dude?
Starting point is 00:48:30 I had a question last night from somebody who was like, oh, I think it's going to be Michelle Obama. I think she's going to run. She's not going to run. First off, she's messed the filing deadline in a number of states. It's not going to happen. But secondly, she doesn't want to do the work. And thirdly, it's Newsom.
Starting point is 00:48:53 It's Newsom's turn. Andrew Cuomo was going to be the guy that they were going to run. But remember with the nursing home, the deaths with the coronavirus and all of that that, that he helped cause that, you know, pretty much ended that. Ended his political dreams. That was it. And so now Newsom is their fallback guy because it was going to be Cuomo Newsom. Now Newsom is their fallback guy.
Starting point is 00:49:15 They don't have anybody after Newsom. I asked to Rueblood. full of people last night. I said, can any, who can name me besides Gavin Newsom? Name me the next in line for the Democrat Party. And every, and these were smart, like successful business people, you know, activists. And they all looked at each other. And they literally didn't know. They were like, wow, we've never actually, we don't know. Nobody. I, and I even threw out, well, what about Big Gretch? You know, that female Paul Bunyan up in Michigan. What about her? That's right. And, and, and that That's not, you know, I just threw that out as like a help.
Starting point is 00:49:53 But, you can you can't think anybody either, can you? There's nobody. It's, you can't, can't think anybody. No. No, but I mean, I've, I've had that Michelle Obama theory for a while. And, I mean, Democrats have only proven, they'll change the rules to accommodate whatever it is they want to do as they lead into an election or a committee, whatever it is. They've already proven.
Starting point is 00:50:14 They changed the bylaws in case they need somebody to step up. So they've proven they'll do it. So it's all speculative. up to this, you know, up to November because they, they can change the rules to accommodate whatever it is they decide. Yeah. Yeah, it's, uh, it's something else. It is absolutely something else.
Starting point is 00:50:31 So I, I, they really started hurting themselves after, um, who was it? Uh, I was trying to think of the, uh, the people who were pioneering Barack Obama's digital strategy because when he ran in 2008, he, he was like, he took Howard Dean's online fundraising apparatus. and built on it. And when he left the White House, they basically took all that with them. And they kind of left Democrats high and dry.
Starting point is 00:50:59 And they sucked up all the resources that normally would be used for promoting and grooming the next generation of young guns, you know, Democrat leaders. He wanted to protect his legacy, so they didn't do that. So they really, you know,
Starting point is 00:51:13 shot themselves in the foot here. They don't have anything else. So it's interesting. Very interesting. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. All right here. So, first up,
Starting point is 00:51:30 oh, gosh. Before you, why is this a Spotify tattoo? Why are people doing this? If you get a Spotify tattoo, artists say you need to know the risks. What? I didn't even know a Spotify tattoo was a thing, but apparently it is. Yeah, QR codes too. Oh my gosh, what is up?
Starting point is 00:51:50 It's only a matter of time before somebody starts tattooing their only fans QR code on their skin. I'm like, I just gave somebody an idea. I don't know what's happening. So anyway, apparently every piece of content on Spotify has blah, blah, blah, soundbars, Spotify code. And if you tattoo it on your arm, you can scan it and it plays the content.
Starting point is 00:52:08 And so people have that on there, but they say that it's like a party trick, but you don't, you know, now you just, I don't know. I just feel like Spotify's not going to be around for forever, right? Like a tattoo wood. Yeah, like a tattoo would. And then when you're, you know, 70 years old, you have to explain to your kid who's your grandchild, how the service that doesn't exist anymore, how this works.
Starting point is 00:52:32 All right. So apparently, why are they going after raw? Hang on. Everything's slow for a moment. And your girl's about to choke to that. Okay, so this headline is garbage. It says contaminated raw milk sold in several Pennsylvania counties prompting warnings. Okay, I have no problem with raw food.
Starting point is 00:52:50 If you know what you're, if you know what you're purchasing, then why you should be able to purchase it? Why is this such a huge deal? I mean, and it's actually raw milk is good for you. All this pasteurization and the homogenization and all this stuff. I remember Rawsome out in California. That's like a, it was like a Costco for raw food. Like it was like a member's only thing. And so you knew that you were getting like raw and pasteurized milk.
Starting point is 00:53:11 And they rated it and they were accusing them. The feds like went in with full auto, no joke. They rated it and they went in and they were accusing them of, uh, uh, uh, uh, selling raw milk and tricking people. And all these people are like, it's literally called Rossum, a raw food store. Yeah. And we pay to purchase premium raw food. And it's actually even worse than that.
Starting point is 00:53:28 What they'll do is when they raid them. They throw it out. No, they let this stuff sit out for hours before they take it to the lab to test. And then they're like, oh, look at how bad this stuff is that they're selling. It's like, no, you let this sit outside for five hours before you even took it to the lab. This is a BS headline. Yeah, totally. So a junior high principal is fired for stealing seven half, half,
Starting point is 00:53:50 seven cups of coffee half cups of coffee fresh what oh so it's in Japan oh yeah you can't be doing that oh that's a big bad no no that's rude they have different things different ways of living over there
Starting point is 00:54:05 yeah this guy he went into the he was supposed to pay 75 110 yen equivalent of 75 cents for regular coffee and apparently he didn't and he stole it so he got in trouble and a major taxidermied polar bear was stolen in a bizarre Canadian heist. I'm not saying it was me, but there would be signs. The public has been asked to keep an eye out for a giant 12-foot-tall-stuffed polar bear north
Starting point is 00:54:32 of Edmonton. So they're still looking. They're trying to find out the culprit. Jennifer Van Laugh from Red State joins us next. Whether you're a policy wonk, a news junkie, or simply someone hungry for insightful discourse, the Dana Show podcast has your you're back. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Bottom of this second hour and you can listen coast to coast in a market near you. You can stream the radio show. You can watch the video portion, the simulcast, Channel 347 Direc, TV, YouTube, Facebook, all that good stuff. We were talking about the mess that the RNC is in. And what is the GOP strategy going into the most important election cycle ever? They're broken a number of different states.
Starting point is 00:55:19 nationally, their messaging is absent on some of the most important issues that voters are considered, like issues that voters are considering leaving the Democrat Party over. And they're MIA. Jennifer Van Laugh over at Red State does such amazing work. She was the one who was warning y'all, by the way, about Gavin Newsom. That was her. And she did this exclusive deep dive. So if you see this repurposed, it's her work. But she did this huge deep dive on how much the RNC has spent. and as usual, she just knocked it out of the park with us. This is going to make y'all mad. Jennifer joins us now via Skype.
Starting point is 00:55:55 So good to see you. This is a great piece. And you always do such great work over at Red State. I mean, you're one of the first people. If you haven't written about it, I'm like, I've got to wait to see what Jennifer writes about it first. But this is shocking. I mean, just from what I read, and I'm going to have you talk to everybody about this, they spent, like, for instance, more on floral arrangements than get out the vote texting.
Starting point is 00:56:15 Where's their priority at? Yeah, I don't know what they're thinking with all of that. And there's actually another $45,000 in floral that I did not put on there because it was for a fundraiser. So it was coded as fundraising expenses. So I didn't want to just, you know, slam them on that. But then they came back trying to claim. I wasn't showing all of the DNCs for all. They're like, whatever.
Starting point is 00:56:39 Do we need flowers, period? Right. The DNC is not the one that's broke. Right. They're winning. this is so Jennifer went through all of this all of the finances she looked at everything where all the spending was going where the money was coming in from how bad is it like how much are they being outgunned financially by Democrats right now I mean well first of all the way they have a lot more
Starting point is 00:57:03 cash on hand they sent at least $10 million more to state parties that's not even including all the things that the DNC paid for state parties for things like data services subscriptions and things that directly go to get out the vote. There's another few million dollars there. So we're talking 13, 15 million dollars at least that we're being outspent, just going to state parties. And then the DNC also spent like a million dollars on canvassing that just that the national party did that our national party isn't doing.
Starting point is 00:57:35 They're just sending out these contracts to connected people really for things that aren't measurable for things like management consulting where you don't get like a data strategy thing, you might get a report. You might get something measurable, but they're giving out $20,000 type of a month contracts on that. Wow. Yeah, the consulting, I'm just looking at some of what, and Jennifer Van Larson piece is up at redstate.com, I'm just looking at some of the, I mean, along with, and I get it, you know, that every party works with a lot of consultants. But what are they getting for it, though? I mean, they have a string of losses, you know, post-2016, we see states struggling. I mean, I'm, I was
Starting point is 00:58:14 reading that they were getting out maneuvered with media buys by Democrats who were just buying up airtime and sitting on it because Republicans can't afford to do it right now and they probably won't be able to afford to do it coming up. I mean, this is all these different, all the different consult. Is that unusual to have this many? It seems excessive. For management consulting, yes. Like you, I think that there is a place for consultants in politics and in all business, but it needs to be on things that are specialized things where people build up expertise and that you. you can't keep on staff because it's too expensive to keep that staff. So that, but they're not doing it that way.
Starting point is 00:58:51 They're doing it just dueling it out. They also paid almost $100,000 just in 13 months to the guy that's the treasurer for Wyn Red for management consulting. That's, yeah, I love how vague they all, because I agree, like they should have some sort of expertise that the campaign lacks, but it just kind of seems like that's like a free-for-all for everybody's friends and all of their groups. The office supply thing. You cited in July 2023, a study found you were looking at how much people spend on office supplies.
Starting point is 00:59:21 Oh, my goodness. They said, you said an office supply expenditure of 86,000. That's kind of in line with industry standards. That's not what the RNC did, though. No, they did 300,000. And they're trying to say, well, that includes all these other categories of, you know, office equipment or things like that. But that number that I quoted should cover break room stuff. It should cover janitorial.
Starting point is 00:59:45 It should cover all these things. And they even have a separate janitorial expense. They spent $60,000 on break room supplies. What? Where are they getting them at? Oh, my gosh. Well, when you get Instacart sent to the office all the time, then it adds up. Oh, my word.
Starting point is 01:00:02 Some of the other, some of the other, the RNC Youth Advisory Committee co-chair, got paid $26,000, $1,000. I just, I mean, it reads like a free-for-all. reads like a blank check and they're just giving all this donor money to, I mean, I don't, I'm just shocked by this. I'm shocked at how bad it is. I am too. And I was getting more shocked as I worked on it over a two month period. And by the end, I was asking some coworkers, am I crazy? Is it just that I'm in the middle of all this? And I think it's terrible and it's really not. And they looked at no, Jen, it's really terrible. And these amounts like that, the 26,000,
Starting point is 01:00:40 and that's a $35, $3,700 a month contract to a 20-year-old. Wow. I mean, look, I think the youth is important. I'm not going to get all Whitney Houston about it, you know, children are future, whatever. But at the same time, I'm just like, you need to bring something to the table if you're going to be lecturing voters about their taxes and how they're going to be spending their Social Security and retirement and all this other stuff. That seems excessive, you know, I mean, I'm just shocked by all this. I mean, you get into the liquor, the beverages, the coffee.
Starting point is 01:01:11 What was the thing that shocked you the most when you were digging through this and all the things that you uncovered? I think part of it was one thing I didn't even really report because there's just there's so much was they spent $110,000 in restaurants around Washington, D.C. and 13 months and build it to catering for fundraisers. Wow. And that's so that's two transactions a day, averaging 100,000. $185 each. So when you look at it like that, you're going, how, how can all of this possibly be legitimate? And $270,000 to a company called Savoya, which is an executive car company that you can get monthly contracts, they're saying that they didn't rent any limos with that. None, none at all. And I'm going, okay, well, show us your monthly statement with that that's itemized.
Starting point is 01:02:00 Yeah. We can see. But until then, I don't believe it. Yeah. And I, I mean, and Jennifer, for those don't know. She's got screenshots and all the, all the receipts on here. Now, when you came out with us, when you first published this story, the reaction from the RNC was pretty hostile. What happened? Well, first, before I even published it, they kept me from publishing for 24 hours by sending me on just wild goose chases of what they were trying to justify. And once I realized that it was a delay tactic, I just said, okay, I'll incorporate some of what you told me. And I'll just put the facts and let the facts go where they go. So then they sent out a debunking email allegedly to the 168,
Starting point is 01:02:43 calling me dishonest and biased and all that kind of thing. And they had remade my chart to how they thought it should be. But they took out the limos and they took out the get out of the vote texting because that doesn't make it look good for them. And then the constructor went after me on Twitter last night. So they've been pretty extremely hostile and defamatory actually. Wow. That's, I mean, for an organization that has trouble with messaging and has trouble with finances, that seems like the wrong move to make because Jennifer's not going to back down. She's not going to change her reporting on this. I mean, they instead, they should be apologizing. They should be apologizing for being poor stewards of donor money. I mean, are they, and we, and they wonder why so few people are donating to the RNC anymore. Right. They should be apologizing to all the donors, to all of the candidates that they're failing, to all of the grassroots.
Starting point is 01:03:34 through organizations that need that infrastructure and leadership from someone. I mean, if they were spending a little bit of money on leadership consulting that was legitimate, maybe I could be behind that. But clearly, you're not. I mean, they get out the vote texting efforts and a lot of the canvassing. That thing is really terrifying. I just remember back in 2012 when they had the big technical fail with getting out the vote for Romney the day of, they didn't test any of their infrastructure. And it was just a giant disaster. I don't know how many votes that cost. It was a huge disaster. And it looks like they're trying to cede the ground to do it again. And it looks like they're trying to seed the ground to do it again. And it's not just the national party, too, state by state parties.
Starting point is 01:04:08 There are several that are near bankruptcy. If they're not bankrupt already, or they have 90 bucks in the bank account. This is a huge systemic problem clearly throughout the entire party. How, if they keep on this track, what do you foresee for November? I mean, actually, if Biden is so terrible, Trump could still get a win. But my, the problem with that is that then someone like Ron is going to take credit for it and they're going to take that as a mandate to keep the same leadership in place. And speaking of data, they say that data trust, the million dollars that they sent there, that that should all be accounted as voter file maintenance, which there's no way that it is because data trust does a lot of other things. And I'm sure
Starting point is 01:04:52 you like me, know a lot of people in grassroots that work with campaign sidekick and other things. And that data is not up to date in any way or is it in a very usable form. Wow. I mean, this is echoes of 2012 all over again. That's really frightening. This is such great work that you've done. You can find Jennifer stuff over at redstate.com and she's also on Twitter at Jen Van Laar 2A's and I would suggest, or X now, I would suggest you go follow her on that. You've done great work. Keep it up. I mean, I know the RNC gets mad at you, but I mean, so many people would know this if you hadn't dug through it and reported on it. But 168 wouldn't even know it. They don't even give the 168 this level. Wow.
Starting point is 01:05:29 But thank you. Wow. You do great work. And thank you. so much and I can't wait to see what you come out with next. So thank you so much. Jennifer Van Laugh at redstate.com. Yeah, this is, and I put this out in your show prep so you have this story, her story that she wrote. But that's, that's infuriating. That is so infuriating. I'll even drop it in the YouTube description. Yeah, we'll have it in the, we'll have it in the YouTube description as well. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. I love.
Starting point is 01:06:03 Some of these headlines are just so funny. So this Florida man who is apparently a self-proclaimed bear trainer. Okay. You're still alive. Yeah, in Okalusa County. Apparently, the guy got in trouble because two Codiac bear cubs escaped from an inadequate enclosure on his property. ABC Channel 3 has the story. they said that two Codiac Cubs found their way to the Sunshine State via a, quote, self-proclaimed bear trainer.
Starting point is 01:06:42 And in Oklahoma County, Deputy Bileil was the one who was called. This is his quote. He says, quote, when I rolled up on the scene and this guy's literally playing with him in the middle of the street, I'm like, okay, this is definitely an odd call. He's like, I've been to bear calls before, that they're black bears. He goes, what piqued my interest with this one is when dispatch said the bears were in his truck. he goes because all of their all of their car calls i've responded to they're in the trash or they're up a tree but they're not like in a truck and uh they're i mean the codyack bears that's a large that's the largest bear right in the world that's like the biggest bear and they're usually they're on
Starting point is 01:07:22 codyack the islands up there there there a capellago up there uh which is like many miles away from florida and so the deputy said that uh yeah it was an inadequate enclosure the guy got in trouble for that because they said that they were they were they said they could have been legally purchased and moved but it's really almost impossible to obtain the proper permits to do that and so uh they're they're still investigating but yeah that was that was pretty wild uh almost as wild oh no i'm gonna get to i'm gonna save this one for last i'm gonna save this one for last uh there's also this uh a florida man who was sentenced for an alarming series of crimes committed days after he was released from prison. Well, the giant neck tat definitely didn't give anything away. Central Florida,
Starting point is 01:08:09 man, he was sentenced yesterday. Marying County jury convicted 45-year-old Rocco, jillenies for a whole list of charges. Oh, boy. So they were, there's Paddock Mall, a robbery. Apparently he robbed a J.C. Penny, a 450-something dollars worth. Some of it's sad. Like, he stole baby clothes and shoes. That's kind of sad. That makes me sad. But then he also did some other stuff, though. That's not sad at all. It's creepy. He ran up to some people's van in the parking lot and said, driver, I'll shoot you. So yeah. And he had his arms full of merchandise. And he's, you know, he apparently ran up to a number of different cars and said that. And then at one point, he got into one car. The victim in the front passenger seat turned around,
Starting point is 01:08:53 pushed him halfway out of the van. Apparently, he tried to carjack a minivan. The driver stomped on the gas, sped off, causing the suspect to fall out and roll into the pavement. Oh my gosh. This was crazy. Then he gets. up and then he tries to rob another car. I mean, all like he like try to rob like a whole handful of people in the matter of like five minutes, threatening to shoot everyone in the parking lot with his arms full of JCPenney onesies and shoes. This is weird. So he got a sentence, life sentence for his crimes because he's already had a huge record and his status as a repeat a prison release reoffender. So he faced minimum mandatory, which included potentially
Starting point is 01:09:34 life in prison, which is what they got. So, I mean, it sounds like that's where he needs to go. It's, he sounds totally lawless. Imagine driving down the road and you just happen to see a dude wrestling a python in the middle of the highway. You're in Florida. A Florida man was hunting for invasive Burmese pythons in the big Cyprus National Reserve. He came across and captured the longest example of the species ever caught. All I'm going to say is this python can wrap itself around this dude easily. Yeah, it is terrifying. but he's like an actual python hunter because they're invasive species and they're bad and to the ecosystem there and they have no natural predators so they have a major python like a big python problem and so he uh it was a 20 foot long burmese python and it has the head the size of a dog and as it wrapped around him because he was wrestling with it it legit unhinged its job because it was it was preparing to strike to to swallow him I mean, he beat it, but oh my gosh, I don't like anything that can do that with its jaw.
Starting point is 01:10:40 That's terrifying. But it's all on video. I can't, I don't have a problem with snakes. I do have a problem when giant snakes unhinged their jaws like they're going to swallow someone on video for my eyes to see. Because there's no backspace key. I don't like that. But yeah, he's a very successful python hunter, apparently. So, yeah, I'm not 20 foot long.
Starting point is 01:11:01 He's 22. This dude's 22. Jake Willary, 22 years old. I bet he was tired. I mean, this thing is, it's like all muscle. It's crazy. All right, we have our third hour on the way. And coming up, we have all of the latest with the immigration battle.
Starting point is 01:11:17 And we also have, we're going to get into some of the 2024, the Iranian issues, all that. So stick with us. We got more in store. Get them all and send them back. You don't touch our police officers. We don't touch anybody. Thank you, everybody. You know, that's Kathy Holkill, who's governor of New York,
Starting point is 01:11:36 and I would believe her apparent, I don't know, loyalty to police or to law and order, had she, I don't know, practice that are supported it in the first place. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Top of this third hour on this Friday. You can listen coast to coast, all kinds of good stuff. So the issue with these five, we were talking earlier last hour, the five individuals that were in the country illegally attacked on video police and then get to walk. They attack officers and walk.
Starting point is 01:12:21 They've been identified. That's, you know, sanctuary cities. And then they smiled and they showed up and threw up middle fingers on camera as they showed up. Because they know that there's no consequences. I mean, remember, that's their bail reform in New York. Bail reform is you can actually engage in assault and walk. It's the wildest thing, but that's what you can do. You can do that.
Starting point is 01:12:42 You can engage in assault and you can walk. And now she's saying, now Hockel is saying, oh, it's, we would deport everyone. Well, that's not what she was saying, you know, when she was running for office. That wasn't what she was saying when she was promoting New York. is like a sanctuary state. I mean, she's, you can't retcon history. I mean, that's the whole thing. Now she's seeing the light, I guess.
Starting point is 01:13:12 I don't know. I mean, you, I'm happy that she's kind of seeing reality, but it's sad that it took somebody getting beat up on camera for that to happen, right? And that's, now she wants to end, what is it, the right to shelter law. It was something that she was pushing last fall because they have a New York City's right to shelter and the whole point was that if people experiencing difficulties, you basically, you could find shelter in the city and the city was going to help shelter you. And now they're saying, oh, well, that right to shelter role, now they're taking advantage of it.
Starting point is 01:13:54 Wow, you mean when you extended an entitlement like that, that people took advantage. I'm so shocked. That's never happened before in the history of government entitlements, Kane. I'm so shocked about that. Yeah, so unique. Well, she, I mean, if she wants them deported, she has the ability to, I mean, can't she do it? Can't she just try to do what Abbott does? I mean, she could do it.
Starting point is 01:14:15 How serious are you? If she was really serious about this, she probably would stand with Texas. She would be one of the only Democrat governors and they could stand with Texas, but she hasn't done that. So again, I question how serious she is about all of this because she can't even do that much. She can't even bring herself to directly criticize. the administration whose policies have contributed to all of this. I mean, that's, it should be, and I don't think a lot of Democrats would blame her for saying it, but yet, you know, she approved the temporary jobs for illegal immigrants.
Starting point is 01:14:48 That's the other thing. She's not serious about any of this. It's all for show. Her administration, this was last, this was just like, what, a couple of days ago, they approved temporary government jobs for illegal immigrants. who sent people who entered the country illegally. She said the Civil Service Committee, well, it was the Civil Service Commission that voted to approve her measure. And they said they had 10,000. She gave a speech. She said there's 10,000 openings in the New York State workforce.
Starting point is 01:15:19 And so they said that she wanted to give options to people and work authorization. She, she was looking at, I mean, these are thousands of jobs. Okay. So those are her priorities. So you see what I'm saying? Like I don't understand. She's not consistent on this. She's not consistent at all. And then they had the, after they had approved that, I mean, do one of the jobs that, and I'm looking at this, sorry, this piece, that's New York One.com.
Starting point is 01:15:55 One of the jobs, apparently, it was an administrative position. and I'm trying to figure out how you could have people working like a clerical position and it says in this, as it's reported here in NY1.com, that you don't, English isn't required to fill it? How, Kane, that's a clerical job in the state administration. How?
Starting point is 01:16:27 I was told that we needed people to pick fruit and stuff, though. I mean, that's what I was told. As Van Adler said, you're right. And Pelosi. So, somebody's not telling the truth here. This does not sound like picking fruit. No. I mean, I'm all for qualified people taking qualified jobs.
Starting point is 01:16:47 I don't want more government jobs. But I just think when you're, how long have you had, they've had, wait a minute, they've had 10,000 job openings in New York and they haven't been able to fill them this entire time. And that wasn't a concern. And all of a sudden now, I thought they were just, broke because all these illegal immigrants were coming in. Now they have taxpayer dollars to pay for 10,000 openings
Starting point is 01:17:08 that they could put illegal entrance in. Suss, bro. I'm made of questions right now. So it sounds like she doesn't want to deport them. It sounds like she wants a publicly paid workforce that she got to come into the country illegally. I guess what it sounds like to me. I'm just saying.
Starting point is 01:17:25 I got some questions with us. And I did not know there's no New Yorkers. There aren't any New Yorkers that could fill that job? I've got a lot of questions here. None of this makes sense. So I can't take her seriously. I love how they were putting it as it's part of a new effort to inject new blood,
Starting point is 01:17:46 or part of an effort to inject new blood into a shrinking state workforce. Maybe the workforce in the state needs to shrink, especially when you've had all these people leaving the state. Sounds like you don't need that many people working in state government because you've lost a lot of your population for a reason. They also have a resettlement program for people who entered illegally. So they move people in and around and outside the five boroughs. And they have almost 400 that have been approved and are waiting for, waiting placement.
Starting point is 01:18:15 And they could send in to Eric Adams' house, Kathy Hochle's house, and they could house house people there. I mean, this, so you can come in illegally, you can beat up cops in New York, and you can get a government job. Taxpayer funded. That apparently we didn't know there was. was a huge issue at filling until suddenly just now. Fascinating. Just fascinating. And that's, that's, I don't know. This is crazy. They say, oh, yes, it's, it's, we need these
Starting point is 01:18:47 positions filled. No New Yorkers could do it. New Yorkers are upset at all the real estate that's being commandeered by the government. Yeah. To house these people in, in places where citizens of New York can't even afford. Well, that's part of their right to shelter thing. that she's talking about getting rid of them now. That's part of their whole right to the right to shelter thing. I just, it's just, I mean, amazing. Now, the illegal crossings,
Starting point is 01:19:17 this was a piece, let me pull this up, that I had read last night. And it came, a couple of different sources here, Bill Malugian was one that I first saw this from. So the force multipliers, like the razor wire and the,
Starting point is 01:19:34 shipping containers that are being used at some of the most crossed, the most illegally crossed portions, like in Eagle Pass, Texas, etc. Apparently, those force multipliers are having an impact. So Bill Malugin reported that something has changed because just within the past, you know, a couple of weeks,
Starting point is 01:19:57 the majority of illegal crossings has shifted from Eagle Pass to Arizona and California. So border patrol for the last week of January apprehended 32,809 illegal immigrants. 23,576 of them, which is almost 72 percent were in Arizona and California. The numbers in Del Rio have dropped. And this is apparently coming from Border Patrol. This is for Customs and Border Patrol. So they're still coming in.
Starting point is 01:20:32 we're not seeing a reduced number of entry, they're moving. So the areas where the razor wire was implemented, the floating barriers in the Rio, the shipping containers put up, those as a force multiplier to deter crossing apparently, I mean, just going by some of this initial data, I think you could easily beg the question that it's having an impact, but it's not stopping illegal immigration,
Starting point is 01:21:02 It's simply moving it to an area that doesn't have any of these force multipliers. So now they're moving. So they're moving from the Del Rio sector and they're now going to Arizona and parts of California. Now Mexico did, and this is one of the things that he noted, because Texas has really locked things down. Mexico had increased enforcement against those who were looking to immigrate illegally inter- illegally arriving in one certain border state in Mexico and
Starting point is 01:21:41 they're trying to, but they also have to kind of fight the cartels too to try to dissuade or stop illegal immigrants from boarding trains and doing all that stuff but I don't know I don't think that any as Melugian didn't say this, but he doesn't seem pretty positive that the assistance from Mexico is lasting at all. But it's not, and it's only happening in those two sectors. So an eagle, it's only happening really in Del Rio. And the, in the number of people who are trying to cross, so it's just moved to California and Arizona. So I don't, I don't know. I think if for Mexico to truly help, you'd see, I think, a cross-border reduction. But those force multipliers are working. You can't say that they aren't anymore. They
Starting point is 01:22:30 are clearly having an impact. And, you know, we'll see. Enforcement's working. Border Patrol Union had tweeted, quote, those who say Governor Abbott isn't reducing illegal immigration or morons. In December, there were 72,000 arrests in Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass. In January, after the Shelby Park seizure by Texas National Guard, it went down to 16,000. Enforcement works. Take note Biden admin. It does work. But now you're looking at Arizona and California. California, you're not going to do anything. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. So apparently, uh, they had in, what is this, Colorado, because the, uh, drug situation is so bad, they have free opioid overdose antidotes. They're going to have them at distribution boxes.
Starting point is 01:23:23 This is wild. This is good heavens. I was look at this is coming. Where's this coming from? Lee Valley Live. They said that it's, I guess, part of the anti-fentanal campaign. Nine Narcan distribution boxes in Lake Valley locations.
Starting point is 01:23:38 And they're trying to raise awareness of deadly phenol. Do you have to do that, though? I mean, does it really? I mean, you know that it's bad. Well, isn't this just like enabling it in a way? or I don't know, I have questions about this. Apparently, yeah, you can't eat puffer fish. This dude cooked and ate a puffer fish.
Starting point is 01:23:59 You've got to be very careful how you cook it. And it killed him because he did it improperly. The Brazilian man who had one of the most poisonous fishes in the world, he died after spending five weeks in the hospital. Magnonome's 46. He and his friend ate toxic puffer fish. It's 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide. They got it as a present. They ate it.
Starting point is 01:24:21 and he died. And it's like a little fish. But they gutted it, removed the liver, et cetera, et cetera. An hour later, they felt seriously ill. It's not like a regular fish. It's, you have to, it's, you have to be very, yeah, because it can kill you. And they have those, the deadly toxins. And it can cause severe illness and death. And it affects the nervous system, et cetera.
Starting point is 01:24:41 It's like, they said 20 minutes to two hours after eating it. And it's like the second most poisonous vertebrae in the world. The first is this frog, this like golden frog or whatever. Yeah. And they, I mean, you can eat it. It's a delicacy, a delicacy in Japan, but they, they go through training because they have to very, you have to very carefully, you know, prepare the fish and all of that stuff. And not a lot of people, it's not like, you know, doing a regular fish. So that's sad. A mysterious ghost shipwreck washes up on a coastline centuries after it sank. This is interesting. It appeared on Cape Ray Newfoundland after a tropical storm Fiona moved through the area. A local bird hunter first. noticed it under the waves and then the words spread quickly throughout the community. They said they don't know how old it is. They, you know, they think that it may, could date back to the 19th century because of the dowels that they see on the boat. It's 80 feet.
Starting point is 01:25:35 They think it was a schooner, but something, it might be too large to be a schooner. But they said they're still looking at it and trying to figure out what kind of hardwood species it is. But, and they said that that would tell them whether or not it was actually made in Newfoundland or if it was made in Europe somewhere and it goes into this database of shipwrecks. and all this stuff. So that's kind of interesting for those who follow that. So I don't know how they did this, but Taggers, graffiti, 27
Starting point is 01:25:59 stories of a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. The exterior. I don't know how they gained entry to it or how long it took them. I mean, they said that they had been blasting the building. One witness said for three nights they could see people up on the balcony, tagging
Starting point is 01:26:15 everything. And it, I mean, it was all the way up on this high rise. Well, LAPD only announced two arrests in connection with it. They said it was an illegal art installment. A 35 year old man and a 25 year old man. But that's, they said they were looking for additional security
Starting point is 01:26:31 measures to make sure that it doesn't happen again and they had to remove what they did. That's 27 stories of it. Let's see. Queensland police this is a kid in Australia. Of course Australia, even their claw machines are dangerous. At a shopping center, a three-year-old got stuck literally in the claw machine.
Starting point is 01:26:47 I don't know how it. Father of a three-year-old boy said that his kid was having the time of his life. Three-year-old Ethan climbed into the machine through the prize dispenser at a shopping center. He was very chill. And the adults were trying to coax him out of the machine. But they said he was up there so fast. The dad said that he just, you know, blinked his eyes and the kids in there.
Starting point is 01:27:08 And he said that his son, you know, always played the machines when they were at the mall. But he said he realized it was going to be very difficult to get him out. They had a call the claw machine company. And his response was, My child is stuck in the machine. I'd like to have him back. Stay with us. Elevate your commute, workouts, or downtime with the Dana Show podcast.
Starting point is 01:27:30 Unleash the power of knowledge at your fingertips by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Why were they released? Why were they first? The Pirates released. Can you ask you say that it's successful? You give us one comment. Sir, you're on behalf of the people. Can you just comment on the situation?
Starting point is 01:28:18 Well, the wreck's not going to say the word. He got a smirk on his face. Boy, he's always he's smirking like that dude who had to go in and was arrested for trying to, while fighting with law enforcement. He was asked, do you regret it? Do you regret letting them free? Letting them walk free? Do you regret that they were released?
Starting point is 01:28:39 He doesn't say a single thing. Smiles. Yeah, he just, you know, he smirks. I mean, look, the stuff that he sat here and he bent, tried to bend state law so he could go and prosecute Trump on one of the cases in New York, which I thought was a witch hunt. The Mar-a-Lago one with the docks, it's a whole other story. That one, though, this man stretched and folded and bent. and did everything he could to state law to try to necessitate a charge so they could prosecute. But these dudes, he just lets walk free.
Starting point is 01:29:18 Just let's walk. They get to walk. Is that not something? I'll go back to the program, Dana last year with you. Is that not something? And of course he doesn't say a single thing. Is this what Build Back Better meant? That's Build Back Better.
Starting point is 01:29:35 Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, it's, I had one of the means I saw as a community organizing Democrat style. True. It's what it is. It's amazing. This is going to be the big, it is a huge issue. The amount of fentanyl that comes across the border, what was the, I'm going to pull
Starting point is 01:29:59 this story out, because there was one, how many, how many, it was like a kilogram that they found, crossing the border. It was like a, yeah, oh no, sorry. 38 pounds, 38 fentanyl hidden in a spare tire. And that was in San Clemente. And then going across the Texas border, there have been, I mean, too many here. The fentanyl seizures have skyrocketed.
Starting point is 01:30:35 And I think it's like, what, $10,000 a kill Don't you just need like one microgram? I mean, essentially what they keep catching going through the southern border in Texas is the, I mean, you could use that to kill the equivalent of a city the size of New York. That's how deadly this stuff is. And you can't tell me that all of this is happening, the smuggling of humans, the smuggling of drugs, everything else across the southern border. massive bank be made by the cartels and nobody in D.C. is getting a cut? Because anybody else would be fighting to shut this down. It's that dangerous to national security. No. No, in the meantime, Biden demands that supermarkets cut their prices to deal with inflation.
Starting point is 01:31:27 You okay, Kane? Yeah. Government needs to cut their spending. No, it's the grocery stores, Kane. The supermarkets are inflating their prices. means, meanly, and Biden in a speech in South Carolina, he already touched on it last week. Now they're still pushing it because yesterday White House aides told the New York Times that Biden was taking aim at the supermarket. So he mentioned it already in his, in his White House speech. And now the AIDS told the New York Times, oh, he's really, he's really going after it now. So this is going to be,
Starting point is 01:32:08 I'm sure he's going to unveil something or class warfare stuff. But it says it's the supermarket prices. He doesn't say anything about supply chain issues or inflation. He, because the stores obviously don't control those things, the increase in eggs, milk, and that he thinks that it's, well, this is what he says, quote, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off. Price gouging junk fees, greed, flation, shrinkflation. That was his direct quote.
Starting point is 01:32:43 And he goes, Americans were tired of being played for suckers. And that's why we're going to keep these guys, keep on them, and get the prices down. So then White House AIDS yesterday told the New York Times that he was taking aim at the supermarkets.
Starting point is 01:32:56 And that's not going to work. I'm just going to go ahead and wager that that's not going to work. This is so bad. They said that, I mean, I don't know how they're, I don't know how they're going to do that. it's greedflation that's what they say it as the administration says it's greedflation oh please someone
Starting point is 01:33:16 teach us man about supply and demand and what inflation does what his economic policies have done how do you how that's not how supermarkets work when you when you have something when you have a product that you sell and the product is made more expensive because of supply disruptions or the increased cost of energy, which increases the cost of acquiring the product, getting the product, putting the product on the shelves, making the product, and inflation on top of it,
Starting point is 01:33:51 how do supermarkets control that? That's not a supermarket issue. There's no big supermarket sitting out there going, we see these people are in a tough spot. Let's raise prices. I know that that's what Democrats like to use as boogeyman to scare, voters. Because it's
Starting point is 01:34:07 really them. The call is coming from inside the house. It's Democrats who are doing this. It's their policies and then they want to blame everyone else for reacting to their policies. It's like if you paint houses for a living and that is your business, house painting and
Starting point is 01:34:23 wages are having difficulty keeping up with everything else because of inflation because government spending is making it to where your dollar actually goes less. It stretches less. And because of increase energy costs, it's more expensive to manufacture the product that you use, paint. It's more expensive to package it, to distribute it, to obtain it, and then maybe what you used to be able to get
Starting point is 01:34:52 two cans of paint for now is just one. Are you bad because you have to increase your prices to offset the increase in prices that you have incurred due to things that are not in your control. I can't believe we have to have this like remedial explanation of how markets work. But this is what Democrats do. They think you're stupid. They think every, you know, they don't know about money because half of them are trust fund socialist. They have no idea. Joe Biden has been on the public teat for his whole life. Do you think he worries about any money? No, he doesn't. That's why they can go out there and they can say it with full conviction. Oh my gosh. You know, it's big supermarket that's keeping these prices high. It's, it's big grocery.
Starting point is 01:35:36 when it's your it's you dude it's you but they they need a boogeyman they want to they want to blame something other than themselves I mean good grief so what do you so now where I guess we're going to target big grocery what the hell can they do
Starting point is 01:35:58 avian flu increased egg prices on top of it what are you going to do to make them reduce the cost of eggs don't forget about the chicken farms going up in flames Yeah. We're going to have government setting price controls now? They're going to go full Venezuela on this stuff. This is the gargantuan projection from the government. This is exactly what they're. They're the greed inflation people.
Starting point is 01:36:22 They're the ones that are taking other people's money and just so so frivolously spending it everywhere. They are the reason for inflation. Everyone knows that the government overspending and printing money is the reason why we have inflation. It has nothing to do with the free market. in business. In June 2020, a 40-year high, 9.1% price inflation, 9.1% 40-year high, increased 3.4% just for the month of December. I mean, there, and he had said, he goes after them and says that it's, I guess he's accusing the supermarket chains of being greedy and unnecessarily raising, I don't know how that's unnecessarily raising the prices,
Starting point is 01:37:10 because if they wanted to compete with each other, then they would each be lowering, they would be lowering their prices to what they could in order to be competitive on pricing with one another. But the fact that they don't have a lot of room to move should be another giant signal to this mathematically illiterate sponge
Starting point is 01:37:29 that, you know, there's forces at play here other than his make-believe greedflation claim. I can't stand people that don't know basic markets. how the economy works. My friend Carol Roth is right. There's a huge economic illiteracy in this country. And it's in the White House right now. It's an epidemic.
Starting point is 01:37:50 It's in the White House. Now, a few other things. Looking at South Carolina. Because we got South Carolina primary. It's what? A couple of like two and a half weeks away. Is anyone else like really concerned about the primaries anymore? Nikki Haley's not going to win.
Starting point is 01:38:11 she's still 20 points down, right? And that's, and that's, and she already had her boost of 14 points since last September, but she's down. So I don't, I don't think it's, she's, I, it's stupid for her to even go, I think, to South Carolina. And I don't know how she's going to be able to do that even after South Carolina because the story of you can't even be competitive in your home state is a powerful one. the only thing that she can do is try to get Democrats to vote for her. Now, these are not the Reagan Democrats, like the people who turn and become Republican. These are the people who would vote for her one time, and then they go back to voting, go back to voting Democrat.
Starting point is 01:38:54 But I do want you to be cautious about a lot of the polling out there. There was another, pull this up. Never trust the media to, or don't think that the media is not going to try to, you, make you feel apathetic. They were doing, Quinnipeak was doing a poll where it showed that Biden opened up a six point lead over Trump. And I don't know. I've been looking at this. It's not the, I, I, there's some polls out there that showed that they were head and had, some that show Biden in the lead. I do, I, I don't know. It's, it's a little too early to start using these as like
Starting point is 01:39:35 tools of, of fortune telling. because so many times they're wrong. They've been wrong so consistently. But I do think that at this point, you know, if Trump is going to be the Republican nominee, he's got to stop talking about his legal stuff and he's got to start focusing singularly on issues because that's what did it in 2016. When you start talking about fights that you've had or fights that you've lost or you talk about the legal issues that voters are not going to be, they're not going to,
Starting point is 01:40:08 they can only empathize, I think, so much. So we'll see. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. People felt like, okay, yeah, he's one of us. Well, that's Biden. So let Fox News make fun of him because he has the same stutter he had since he was 14 years old. But go out and show flashes of anger.
Starting point is 01:40:32 That happened, by the way, in 2020, he went after a guy in Iowa, almost called him. a fat something and he cut himself off and they're actually again it showed a human side of him i was talking yes please let biden speak more please actually wait uh like this audio sound bite um four or five any of them any literally any of the ones that we have just just surprise us one i've been doing this a long time i know i don't look like i'm 40 but i'm four Right? Right. Anyway,
Starting point is 01:41:16 40 times two. Hmm. Yeah. That's so... Oh, what about the other one? Like when he's talking about... Wait, when he said that he... Oh, yeah, I guess this is when he was still in the White House.
Starting point is 01:41:30 Somebody let him in a Corvette to go 130 mile per hour. You see, this is about giving people a shot. That's all it is. It's just fairness, give people a shot. That's what you do. That's what you do. And besides, you built my 67 Corvette? My pride.
Starting point is 01:41:49 Any ever watched Jay Leno's garage? You watch me race on my 67 Corvette? It's only a 327 C-50. I tell you well, man. I got up to 130 miles an hour, though. Secret service doesn't like riding with me very much in a hour. anyway thank you
Starting point is 01:42:09 thank you thank you yeah yeah that's so it's so I want him to talk more because it shows he seems like he's
Starting point is 01:42:22 it works better for us and there's more material that I can play on my show and we can you know we can laugh about it because if he puts himself in this position
Starting point is 01:42:32 because he's so power thirsty and all of his back are so power thirsty, you have no obligation to feel any kind of remorse for laughing at how ridiculous he sounds every time he gets in front of a microphone. They sign up for that. They signed up for it. Golly, so insane. So yes, more unfiltered Biden as we come into November. Please. Yeah, put him out. You know what? Let's have him do a huge hour-long Q&A. Have him give a giant speech, no prompter.
Starting point is 01:43:00 Can he do it? You know, have him speak from the heart. Can he do anything but sleep for more than an hour? I mean, that'd have to jack him up with whatever Hunter has laying around. You know, give him some of that Booker's sugar. You know, get out of his White House cubby. Or maybe he can just snort it off of his gun pouch. Didn't even have it holstered, just his little pouch. Maybe he can snort it off that with Hunter's illegally purchased firearm.
Starting point is 01:43:24 You know, and just that should help him, right? I mean, isn't that how it works? Yeah, the media loves them. Yeah, it should rile them up for a little bit. You know, it's not a big deal. The media didn't think it's a big deal. So, you know, let's maybe do that. that's yeah so there you go that can work I tell you I think that's the best idea that has ever
Starting point is 01:43:44 taken place on that program yes more of Biden speaking more of him speaking folks make sure that you go and find all of our past discussions up at YouTube and Facebook and sign it for the newsletter over at substack chapter and verse there's more stuff coming out about that in the meantime today in stupidity well it is the White House press secretary Juan this is cut eight listen to the gas lighting oh I'll play it from here then. Listen to the gaslighting from Kareen-Jean-Pier. Bionomics is working.
Starting point is 01:44:11 Unemployment is under 4%. 14 million jobs. He's going to continue to lowering costs. And so we know economists have said it takes a long time to make that connection. It takes a long time to make the connection. Like how long? We felt it right away, actually, when he got into office. And we're still feeling it. Yeah, no, completely.
Starting point is 01:44:29 So quit gaslighting and do something about it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we're not going to believe that. We're not going to believe it. All right. folks, that does it for us this week. And appreciate your prayers for our sweet pup rocko. As you know, we lost him this week. And he's greatly missed. He was the bestest of all the good boys. So we miss him and love him. Thank you guys so much. Have a great weekend. Back with you Monday.

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