The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Jazzy Crockett Gets CRUSHED, GOP Runoff & Trump, & Rubio DRAGS Leftist Media Again

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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So that's my news, is that we're not going to have election results tonight, in my opinion, based upon what specifically is taking place in Dallas County. Unfortunately, this is what Republicans like to do. And so they specifically targeted Dallas County, and I think we all know why. So, I want you to enjoy yourselves, but I won't be back tonight because I have no idea of when we're going to get results and I fully anticipate it won't be until tomorrow. This is so dumb. This is such a dumb. That was so dumb for her to say.

Welcome back to the program. We were able to extricate my eyeball from the attack of the fuzz, by the way. It's just like, I don't know what it is. I blinded. I'm like, oh, my gosh. So thank you guys. It's a little drama to start today. What's, you know, what's new? So first off, I feel like I got to remind everybody. Whatever county, so Dallas County is run by, what party came? What party runs Dallas? Democrats, thank you. And Democrats, when they take over these precincts and when they run the party, when they're head of the party and they run the elections, they are the ones who determine. you know, the voting machines, the setup.

And as somebody who has volunteered before to like poll watch and that, that's the way that this works. So the party that is in charge of that county, they run the elections, right? So that's the party that dominates. They're the ones who win the local immunitable elections to run these, or to run the elections essentially. And if there is a problem with it, then that is the party that's, running it, the people that are running it, that is the problem. It's not, Republicans aren't

able to go in and cheat. That's not how this works. They're not able to go in and mess with that. This is, Dallas County should have done a better job running their elections. I was looking at, I was just going to pull up, this is the story that I had. So the, what they were trying to argue, they were saying that people were showing up to the wrong polling places. And they were trying to blame the Republican Party for it. And this is all, it started, so the narrative started with the left on social media and their little websites. And then it just went all the way up now. It's, you know, you, it's, some leftist media entities are reporting it. But they're saying that they had, they had different

precincts, and they had different polling places. So the problem is that they weren't informed. And they were trying to say, well, it was the Dallas County Republican Party that, no, no, no, hold up. Who runs the elections in this county? It's Democrats that run the elections in this county. So if you are upset with how your elections were run, then you need to talk to the party that was in charge. In my county, it's Republicans that run it. And if you notice, in every single one of these areas where there's always a complaint about voting or clarity or lines or operational machines, any of that, there's one common denominator every single time. And that common denominator is that it's a Democrat. It's a Democrat run election every single time. Every

single time. So she only has her own party to blame. And here's something else, too. If you want to look at some of the key takeaways to this. And I'm pulling up my giant mound of notes because I was making a lot of notes last night. She wasn't just beaten. She was clobbered. She didn't just get beaten. Let's let's not meant for it. She was absolutely destroyed in elections. I mean, in a lot of the count and a lot of the areas, she did well in urban areas, but that was about it. In, like in and around, And she just did horribly. She actually did bad. I'm looking at, let me pull this up.

So in some of the more, in some of the blue precinct, she actually ended up getting beaten some areas by double digits. In Travis County, which is a very, this is like out, this is, you know, like with Austin and that. Travis County, very interesting because this is, this is an area that typically, you know, they'll go moderate. They'll go with Democrat primaries.

They always go for the craziest Democrat, right? So this is like where Austin is. So this is an area she should have done incredibly well in. This is an area that's considered a bellwether, right? Austin, in terms of primaries for Democrats, it's a solid, reliable blue voting area. It is a solid, reliable, progressive Democrat voting area. Bernie Sanders won this primary in 2020. In fact, it's always the most leftist candidate in a primary that wins, especially all the way up

at that level, presidential level. Bernie Sanders took this. I mean, it's, Trump never does well in this county. She, I mean, look at this. She ended up with only 23% of the vote compared to James Tala Rico, who came in with 76% of the vote. In fact, the third party candidate, Ahmad Hassan, only got 735 votes in the bluest county in Texas, Travis County, blue, blue, blue is the day as long. at Tala Rico got 103,985 votes. Jasmine Crockett got 31,989 votes. So it's not, she just got beat every, she wasn't leading anywhere. She didn't lead anywhere.

She was just utterly destroyed everywhere she went. And this wasn't anybody that cheated. It was because her own party is rejecting her. Her own party is rejecting her. They don't want her. And here's something else to consider. And I made this point when I think it was we were talking about Tala Rico and Pete Buttiguce and who else? John Ossoff, Beto O'Rourke, all of these guys have this appearance of being a moderate, but their rhetoric is still insane.

So if you listen, I mean, there's a lot of flashback audio of Tala RICO going around right now. but the rhetoric that he has, if you don't listen to what he says and you just turn the volume off, he looks normal. Actually, let's do that for a moment. Let's just play just no sound right now. Just play video of him.

Because his mannerisms, I'm telling you, even the far left, I'm not talking about race or anything else. The mannerisms of the left and the anger that they have on their face is insane. Now, just ignore the words at the bottom. Now look at him.

He looks like, he looks like he's, he's innocuous, right? Look at him. He's not wildly gesticulating. He's looking at everyone. There's, there's no riot. I mean, it's, you know, all of this.

He looks like he's a normal, dare I say, normal guy. But he's not. When you listen to what he says, you're like, holy cow, who is this demon? All right, now we can listen to it. Because he's talking about how God is non-binary and that, abortions are in the Bible and all this insane nonsense. It's crazy. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. That's not what that means. That's not, oh my gosh. No, I mean, they were created man and woman.

The Bible is incredibly clear about all of this. This guy, I mean, proves even the devil can quote scripture. So he's going ahead. He's going to. He's going to. be up against a Cornyn or a Paxton. And let me tell you something. They were really close yesterday, Cornyn and Paxton. And they, Cornyn spent for the amount of money that he spent to only get 43% of the vote. You know how much money he spent? He spent with over, he spent over 70 million dollars. Now, in Texas, the top two contenders, whoever, if you don't have anybody that gets over 50% of the vote. 50% are over, then you go to a runoff. So they're going to a runoff. Neither of them made it to 50%. Paxton got about 40% of the vote. Cornyn got 43% of the vote.

Paxton spent 4.1 million and Cornyn spent 70 million, and that was the result. I just need to grab onto something because I'm about damn near file out of my seat when I saw the disparity between those numbers. That's insane. So now it's going to be the runoff. Now, Jackson has a really good chance at winning this, but I also feel like Cornyn hasn't even, their people haven't even begun to play dirty. Now I have some friends I was arguing with a friend of mine. It was a pretty heated argument. It began last night and it continued this morning before I glued fuzz in my eyeball. And it continued this morning and my friend was saying, and they're a little bit older than me, it works in Austin and works with different. He doesn't

work with Jeff Rowe or anybody, but has worked with campaigns before. And he was saying he just doesn't think that Paxton can turn it out against Tala Rico because his argument is, and I'm going to tell you what his argument is, and I don't necessarily agree with it. I understand what he's saying, but I don't agree with it. His argument is that, well, Paxton has some dirty laundry. He's got dirty laundry, right? I mean, he's got some, you know, that's just the way it is. I get very Machiavelli about this stuff as long as you're doing your job and you're representing me and I'm getting my way, then I, that's

the whole point. That's the whole point of elections. We're not electing a Messiah. But he's, you know, he's got baggage. I mean, you can't say that he doesn't because you're just lying and that's not a conservative trait. However, the argument is that Tala Rico is going to be made to look like

this, you know, goody, goody two shoes, even though the stuff that he says is crazy and that that coupled with the damage that he's going to take in this runoff, he's going to be like limping into the general and that he is, has too much to actually win it, is my friend's argument. And he thinks that Cornyn, he actually thinks Cornyn is a good lawmaker. I just, I can't agree with that because of the gun control issue alone. I mean, not to talk, just to disregard everything else for a moment. That is a major issue for me.

And it wasn't to try to work on the issue to make it less repulsive. I mean, a lot of the proposals that were egregious were in part suggesting. vested by Cornyn because I was reading the proposal. I had Cornyn on the program. You know, we were disagreeing with on a lot of it. So that's a big issue. Cornyn is, it's, Cornyn is weird in Texas. One of the things that everyone was saying is that Democrats outvoted, and this weighs into this, Democrats outvoted Republicans in the primary. This is the one thing that I struggle with. Cornyn is a wacko on the ballot. Like, his numbers are wacko. During the 2020, election, he got more votes than Trump did in the state. He did. He got more votes than Trump.

Remember, we talked about that, can I broke out the numbers from the Texas Secretary of State's website. He got more, I don't, it is weird. I don't know how this, how does he play so strongly? A lot of it is, I think, maybe just the name recognition. And he's really tied in with oil and gas and he represents oil and gas and people in Texas like oil and gas. And so that's like they, they just, that's that association, that power of association. It is wild, though. So there's something there that I want to come back to. But Democrats did outpace Republicans in terms of early voting. They always do, though. Why do we always act like that's a big headline story? Because it's not. They always outpace, right? True. I think it's also indicative of how

they use mail-in ballots as, you know, in the times when you're really not supposed to. It's supposed to be for emergency purposes for travel, medical, military. But for whatever reason, they love to use it for whatever reason. And I think that's part of their early voting, too. Yeah. Well, true. Yeah, a lot of Republicans, I know a lot of them vote on Election Day or at least on my county. A lot of them voted the last day of early voting.

So I voted the second last day of early voting. And it was a really long line. And there weren't as many Democrats there. But Republicans always, that was something, too, that I learned to analyze whenever we did election coverage when we were looking at the disparity of support from early voting to day voting. And it was always Democrats that just completely suffocated Republican turnout in early voting. I don't think that's necessarily indicative of anything. Sometimes it's a measure of enthusiasm, but that's only after you get all the totals in. You can't really judge it. I think it's a it's a behavioral thing more than an of enthusiasm. So I think that's interpreted incorrectly many times. So coming up, Portugal moves to become friends with the United States. And the whole issue of maritime insurance, which is playing a major outsized role in this conflict with Iran. It's one of the biggest stories that nobody's talking about. And it has to do with the global insurance market. And it's another way that

Trump is actually thwarting China. I'm going to explain that so that you know what to expect. And what that means, we're also going to get into the choke point issue. Another big issue that's also playing heavily into this. Our alliances are now starting to die. We are making new alliances. But as we can see, we can no longer rely on the UK, and we sure as hell can't rely on Spain. And we can't rely on Canada, nor can we rely on France. We're going to discuss all of that coming up.

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Murdering someone for their difference is not good. Whoever does. It's not good. So that's why I said, you are. You weren't saying what I heard was not what you meant. I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran. Not if you're black. Not for everybody.

Not if you're black. Guys, don't go to Iran. What are they even clucking about? I'm so done with us. The gist of it is that it's worse being black in America than it is being Iranian in Iran or Persian in Iran. You know, that is really a lot. of entitlement to be able to sit there on your network and say that. A bunch of women who aren't covered up with black sheets being able to sit on a network set hosting a network show that is all

about the indulgence of progressive womanhood and thinking that you are somehow more repressed. That's like a hobby for entitled white progressive bitches to think that's it's like putting a luboo on your overpriced bag to act like you're repressed somehow. These broads have no idea what actual repression, oppression,

oppression is. No clue. No idea. It's insulting to the women of Iran. We have a lot more to get into. The choke point and the importance of maritime insurance. It sounds like a nerdy thing, but I promise you it's not, and it's playing majorly

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And that remains the case. So he's at this event where it's at a, it's a, it was in Westminster and it was an event that was to mark the close or the end of Ramadan. And he's speaking and he's begging people like, look guys, I mean, he's telling all these Muslim community leaders. Well, Britain didn't pay a part in the strikes on Iran. You know, we're, we're not going to do so. He was like so terrified. He gives this speech there in Westminster Hall. And he said, yes, we're not going to support the strikes on Iran.

Iran, even after Iran was like hit their bases in Cyprus with a drone attack. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Okay, again, a reminder as to why Trump wanted to get his hands on Greenland because you cannot trust. I mean, the allies that we have had, all of this is going away. This is not the same anymore. This is not the same alliance that we had in World War II because we have feckless weak leaders. This is a whole different ballgame. And the United States, States is not able to rely on Britain. We're not able, also we're not able to rely on Canada either. Listen to Mark Carney. This is cut 10. We do, however, take this position with regret because the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of

UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat remains. And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada. Well, when have you been acting like, when have you been an ally? Oh, we, we, he said in one of it, later on in his remarks, he says the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. The international order. What international order? The international order, the international order that condemned, not the antagonist, but the victims of October 7th that included 13 Americans that were taken hostage as well, not including the number of Americans killed in

that terror attack. You know, Canada, really, Mark Carney, who's flirting with China. Canada, under Mark Carney, that's acting like they're going to get involved and have a robust economic relationship with China, and they're doing that to try to spit in our eye, really? When have you been acting like an ally. This is the thing. These countries have taken to stabbing us in the back. If they're not doing it directly, then they're doing it with these economic agreements with quasi-built-and-road initiatives wrapped up in this technological veneer, all of this. You can't rely on such weak alliances. It's hurting our national security and hurting our interests. That's the way of it. and where it's a troubling thing.

But we are losing that those alliances, not because of what we're doing, but because they've gone so far left, so far left. But here's the big story. So I was reading a couple of things. There's a piece from John Conrad, who's a merchant marine captain, works with literally shipbuilding. shipping, all of it. And it's a crazy story about Lloyd's of London. And he adds that a lot of people, which is true, don't really realize, this is not something that normal people think about. So if

you're not aware of this, it doesn't mean that you're uninformed. You know, there's a lot of things that you have to process day in and day out. People who work with shipping understand this story. People who work with coding understand something entirely different. It's just the way of it. London is not just a financial center. It's also the center of global insurance, like the center of global insurance. They underwrite somewhere roughly around 40% of the world's maritime cargo. So that gets, you know, all of it, ships, ports, everything. And so if there is a port that's attacked or if a ship is, you know,

sunk. The bill for that winds up on a desk in Lloyd's in London. That's how it works. And so it is all about diplomacy and insurance. Because if you're able to control insurance, and Conrad notes this, and it's a great point, if you're able to control insurance, you can actually really control trade. It's very Pirates of the Caribbean, is it not? Right? West Indyote. and London doesn't just control, what is it, something like 90% of the global trade that is moving out in the seas. There are major insurers of a lot of other stuff too, skyscrapers, satellites, I mean entire supply chains. And that's a big thing. You cannot be in the public market without being able to have a lot of capital.

have a lot of insurance. I mean, that's just the, that's, I mean, that's how our world works. And he says the normal playbook for war risk is repricing and not cancellation. He adds canceling coverage entirely as a massive escalation in underwriting posture because it signals something beyond just risk. He says it signals an uncertainty that is so deep that the underwriter cannot even price it. They can't forecast it. So why is this? I mean, why not just, you know, jack up premiums and make a lot of money off stuff? He gave an example of this happening in the Black Sea off Ukraine. So why is London maintained this stranglehold on global insurance while losing, you know, nearly sub-market related to ships? And he says, the answer is better Intel.

So this is what's interesting. I did not know this. So the headquarters, the, the the famed British headquarters, which is the UK's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, is like across the street from Lloyds. It's kind of interesting, is it not? I mean, it could just be it's London. That's the way things are situated, you know, could be. But they're across the street from Lloyds, directly across the Thames from not just Lloyds,

but also the international maritime, organization offices, which is M.O.HQ, for short, International Maritime Organization. So they're right all right there, literally within the same block. And there's always been a lot of speculation that a lot of the intelligence from MI6 goes right to Lloyds. And he says, having the best intel in the world would be the single greatest competitive advantage that any insurer could possess, the ability to price risk that competitors can only guess at. He says the problem, though, is that MI6 Intel doesn't come from its own agents. It comes from the Five Eyes lines. You guys know what Five Eyes is. That's Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and the United States. Remember, Canada threatened to leave

Five Eyes, whatever. And the, I mean, everybody knows who the dominant member of Five Eyes is. And then you have the CIA, the NSA, etc., and they come up with the bulk of Intel. So he says if Lloyd's pricing advantage flows from MI6 and MI6's best intelligence flows from the U.S., well, then if the data pipelines throttled, what happens? So this is where it gets into Trump and Starmor, right? So Kier Starmor, remember, he was pretty much taken by surprise by the intensity and strength and scope of the strikes. He was really blindsided by them.

And that is an indication of the throttling of transatlantic intel sharing. It really is. There's been a lot of anger. Remember when we cover the Diego Garcia, when they sold that base to back to, the country of origin in the Indian Ocean. So there was a lot of, because that was a very strategic location for us. And so there was a lot of anger over that. And that's when a lot of this discussion about Britain being an unreliable ally began, really. So he says it's not a huge leap to

conclude that the submarine cables linking Langley to London have gone dark or have been significantly throttled. So what that means is that UK national security is now a question for the British. But what it means for every company globally is that insured through the London market has massive implications for the entire system because everybody nobody does their own work everybody indexes off of Lloyds they've been around for like how many hundreds of years forever Lloyds has been around forever it is a historic entity it doesn't matter what you're doing if you're building a skyscraper in in new york or in Tokyo you whatever it is you go get a quote from Lloyd's that's how it works and then you shop it around based on that. Everybody else sees the number that Lloyd's the price that Lloyd's is given,

and they assume because it's Lloyds, that all of the research and all of the due diligence was done. And everything is priced accordingly based off of Lloyds. That's how it works. So if they're suddenly flying blind, it's not just their policyholders at risk. Conrad notes it's the entire global reinsurance chain. So the cancellation of war risk coverage on ships isn't the crisis. It's the canary. And he says if this hypothesis is correct, we could be looking at a systemic repricing event across global insurance markets, the kind of cascading uncertainty, he writes, that define 2008 and COVID. So he says to watch Lloyds, watch the reinsurance spreads, watch five

eyes, and even Wall Street, because that's where everything breaks. This comes after this story that was on, it's gcaptain.com, major marine insurers just cancel war risk coverage for Strait of Hormuz. So that leaves 150 plus ships stranded, tripled rates. And that's day three. That is, that's significant, incredibly significant. Of course, you could also argue, this would have been a hell of a lot worse if nothing had been done and the threat gathered. So it goes back to the point yesterday. Sometimes the consequence of inaction is greater than the consequence of action. So that's it. Now, they're not going to be able to stop anything in the straight of Hormuz, not Iran, because Iran's Navy's been, you know, not just decimated, but utterly destroyed.

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Cain, what did Trump just accomplish in Venezuela? Top of the regime and got a bunch of oil. That's right. So less likely that we're going to be relying on stuff that comes through the straight. or Hormuz. Very true. So if you look back and see what Trump has been doing, because he's also, do you realize that they're also stepping in where Lloyd's is leaving off and they're offering to insure?

You guys know about that? That's a big, big deal too. That all goes into this because he put out a statement. I'm going to get to this because we're running short on time for this segment. But they're looking to step in for maritime insurance. Trump is covering all of the bases. You know what? his moves are just like, I mean, he's in his last term. He does not GAAF. He doesn't have to run for

re-election again. He is, he's just getting things done and checking off boxes at this point. And strategically putting the United States in a better position than it was. So if you look back, look at Venezuela. Look at what they were doing in Panama. That was Marco Rubio's first trip after the election was going on to Panama. You know who the first visit at the White House was after all this? After the election, Argentina. There's a reason why, because right after Panama Canal, right around Argentina is the second most important passage, at least in this hemisphere. We're going to get into that as well. He has been very smartly covering all of the bases. I think he has had excellent counsel in this. And yeah,

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Did it help? I really want to know what beauty lighting it was. She had requested the beauty lighting from the Chappaqua Performing Art Center. So they had the camera shifted to the left to get the most flattering angles. So if you were wondering why the camera, why she wasn't like straight on, that's why, because I actually wondered that. And then they brought it. They used white tablecloths to reflect the light to minimize shadows on her face.

And, wow. Oh, and then they had the customized blue panel background because she says that that was apparently the most complimentary color for her. I cannot even believe this. Just like ask the damn questions. Oh, my gosh. So obsessed. Also, apparently a new warning for parents. There's a fire breathing trend.

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Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran, and that that's why we needed to get involved. Today, the president said that Iran was going to get. Yeah, your statement is false. So that's not what you. I was asked very specifically. Were you there yesterday? Yes, I asked the question.

Okay. No, were you the one that? Because somebody asked me a question. I said, did we go in because of Israel? And I said, you were asking me. Are you that follow up? And I said, no. I told you this had to happen anyway.

The president made a decision. And the decision he made was that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program. that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks. That decision had been made. The President made a decision to systematically destroy this terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out. I was very clear on that answer. This was a question of timing of why this had to happen as a joint operation,

not the question of the intent. Once the President made a decision that negotiations were not going to work, that they were playing us on the negotiations, and that this was a threat that was untenable, the decision was made to strike them. That's what I said yesterday, and you guys need to play it. If you're going to play these statements, you need to play the whole statement, not clip it to reach a narrative that you want to do, all right? Mm-hmm. So that is true.

And he said that yesterday when talking about this with the press, right? He was talking, he mentioned this yesterday, how the negotiations immediately Iran came in, and I was reading about this. Iran was saying, well, this is where the starting point is. We're not giving up anything. Get over it. That was it. So Trump was tired of pretending because it wasn't even a real negotiation. He's tired of pretending.

So he's like, let's go and do it. Welcome back to the program. That was yesterday when I thought Rubio gave a masterclass in dealing with the press because they were all over him and everybody's shouting questions. And he gave a really, really, really great answer on this. Now, what is he talking about specifically? So in your substack, and for you subscribers to my newsletter over a chapter and verse, I'm going to send you, it's a lot to cover, but it's a very deep dive on specifically the arsenal that Iran has. And very basically, Iran was building a ballistic missile stockpile.

and they were building this ballistic missile stockpile with such speed that the United States was not going to be able to create enough interceptors to counter them. And so the result is, and this is what, this is specifically what Rubio was meaning when he was talking about you wouldn't be able to touch them, is they would be free to do whatever they wanted nuclearly, continue with their nuclear weapons program, et cetera, because you would not be able

to strike Iran or do any damage to them without yourself first sustaining very, very serious damage from their ballistic missiles. Now remember, this is his direct quote from what he said. He says, quote, that is what they were trying

to do, is put themselves in a place of immunity where the damage they can inflict on the region would be so high that no one could do anything about their nuclear program or their nuclear ambitions. And when you look at the stockpile versus the interceptor capacity, it's pretty, I mean, it's pretty obvious that they were going to, I mean, they were building them at such a rapid pace. I mean, you can, I mean, it's something you can see. And they really started speeding up. It was around, really, it started kicking up between 22 and 23. And then from

2025 to 2006, that's when China resupplied them. And they went foop, I mean, a massive uptick. So they were looking at having a massive stockpile. China had shipped to them tons of propellants, guidance systems, dual use components, all kinds of stuff. So, They would have had, by 2030, we would have had only 550 interceptors, and they would have had over 10,000, at the same rate of manufacture as now. They would have had 10,000 ballistic missiles. So they could do whatever they wanted to do, and no one would be able to touch them without serious, serious damage. So this is what he was talking about. This is what we were looking at.

And China was promoting it. They wanted to keep the United States in a fast pace of manufacture. They wanted to deplete any resources that we had and basically keep us all wrapped up with this so that they would be free to do what they wanted in the Pacific. So that's apparently this is the math that they were looking at, which makes sense, especially when you look at, the, this. When you look at the, like, the joint comprehensive plan of action, JPEC, I mean, JCPOA, when you look at this, when you look at the distinction, because this was a very, so this is from the deep dive, it's that gets into under Beijing's wing, Iran's arsenal. Because, you know, Iran and China are very close. And so when we had, this was in 2015, JCPOA, it was sold to everybody as like the answer to this nuclear threat. And it placed these restrictions on uranium enrichment, centrifuge capacity, stock.

pile levels. But you know the thing that it never actually included that could actually deliver a nuclear warhead to the intended target? Ballistic missiles. Nothing about cruise missiles either. There were no limits on the testing, the development, the production, or even the deployment of the very weapon system that transforms a nuclear device from being this thing in a bunker to something that can take out New York City, right? If you have a bomb, if you have, you know, whatever, it's meaningless if you have no ability to deliver it. And this JCPOA, this missing restriction left them completely unrestrained to do that.

And that's a very important thing because the ballistic missile, is what gives value to this nuclear program, right? The strategic value. And so this is where China comes in. And so this deep dive that I'm going to share with you on my substack, it's from beyond the ideological, gets in specifically to that relationship with China and Iran. Because for several years now,

China has been the external supplier of Iran's ballistic missile program, everything from, you know, I was telling you, the chemicals, the propellants, all of it, the satellite guidance, everything. And that's why, by the way, there were several Chinese entities that were sanctioned by our U.S. Treasury Department for supplying Iran with these chemicals that are used in the production of missile fuel. So this was what Rubio was talking about. Long story long, this is what he was talking about. he's saying that there was a noticeable increase in their stockpile. It is weird that our interceptors are, our creation of interceptors stayed at the same level. Production's slow.

And I don't know if we're like, it's, you know, for offshoring. And that's what, I mean, there's, I'm sure a couple of things that, that create that problem. But that's the, that's the short of it. That is exactly what he was talking about. So we were also in basically an economic manufacturing war with China on this. So now you can see why Trump, and you can understand from Rubio's remarks, why he believes that the only way to neutralize this was to destroy their stockpiles and essentially decapitate. That's it. Does that give you more insight?

Because I find that to be very insightful. And if you think about this, so let's move the argument a little bit more. Because from this, so here's a motive, so the immediacy. And as we talked about, and by the way, I was revisiting my Federalist paper. So it's 70, 20, and Federalist 74, where you have Alexander Hamilton that writes specifically about the powers and the authority of the executive. And he does get into it. In fact, he gets into the immediacy that would require the executive to be able with one hand to strike back for an expeditious defense of the United States. So that's an absolute real.

And it makes sense. It makes sense. Saying that it's going to be, especially if there is a major threat, that it's going to be, they have to be able to have that ability is what he was talking about in this. And it's all throughout, it's all throughout the federal. of course, also being opposed to term limits, too, which I also agree with the founders on with the, with the term limits. But he writes in this, let me pull this up, he writes in this too about how I'm trying to remember, I think this was, I think this one was 70, where he's getting into the issue of being able to have one hand. So he said that the absolute power of a single man under a formidable title gets in. He's cautioning against the difference between having the ability.

to act swiftly in defense of the United States and a dictator as it was known under Roman rule. And he was saying that you need to be able to have that swiftness. And of course, obviously, restrictions to it, which is what war powers are all about. That's why with the war powers act, you have this reaction in defense of the nation from an immediate threat. And then you inform Congress, gang of it was informed. And then you have X amount of days after that, if you're, if you're if there is the plan to put boots on the ground that Congress has to formally vote. And we're not there yet because these are all very, these are all part of the same mission. So this gets to the immediacy.

What is the immediacy of this? Do you view having the only window, and this is what we're told, the only window to go after the ballistic missile stockpile and remove from Iran that ability? if you have only a short amount of time, do you view that as an immediacy, an action that requires immediate reaction in order to preserve the safety and security of the United States? Because I think that that's a very compelling argument. And that's definitely what Rubio was arguing here. He's saying that, okay, well, we have a limited window. And then if we wanted to do anything, there's no way in hell we could even get close enough to do it without sustaining massive damage.

So at what point do we allow it to, you know, do we let it immediateize? I mean, I don't know what the word is. I mean, do you let a threat, if that seems pretty immediate already, but do you let it, for the lack of a better way to say it, immediateize more, thereby increasing the chances for serious severe damage as a result? Do we jack up the chances of losing our service members in a greater number? Because we waited for a threat. to immediateize when we know the threats there, we know what is happening, we know China is involved, I feel like that Rubio and Trump are making a very compelling argument here. So see, this gets back to his first remark that the press was apoplectic over. The consequence of inaction can sometimes be greater than the consequence of action. So at this stage in the game, they're hedging their bets on the available evidence that says the consequence of an action is going to be less or going to be greater. Well, the consequence of an action is going to be less than if they, consequence action will be less than if they don't

do anything at all. Because if they don't do anything at all, then the problem is going to compound. You're going to have a greater amount of missiles. They're going to resituate. They are going to shore up their defenses. They are going to activate terrorists. They're going to do, they were activating terror cells in Qatar. That's who Carter arrested. They arrested. They arrested. Revolutionary Guard members from Iran who were setting off explosions throughout Doha and elsewhere.

So it gets back to Rubio's point that the consequence of an action is greater than the consequence of action. At some point that is going to shift. After that, you have a limited window. After that line, the consequence of action will then become greater than the consequence of inaction. Or will it?

You remove a choice from yourself at that point. That's what he's talking about. But we have an idiot media that doesn't understand nuance. You have digital whores who have money thrown at them by Middle Eastern supporters that want to impart Christlam on the United States. It is a very big deal. And the nuance is lost because you have a bunch of morons who have no idea what they're talking about.

I think this is a compelling argument that has nothing, by the way, nothing to do with Israel. So far, Israel has not come into this. And I actually agree with POTUS. I think he pushed their hand and not, definitely not the other way around. We have a lot more on the way as we move. The folks who help make the program possible, it is our friends over at Burnagun. I've told you before I have no problem using lethal force to defend myself or defend any of my loved ones, etc. But I also realize, too, that sometimes we find ourselves in situations where our rights are abridged, whether it's by municipal restrictions, local restrictions, private property restrictions. So you still want to be able to have the opportunity to defend yourself. And you can do that by having a burn a gun. Now, if you compare this to a stun gun, stun guns, stun guns have what, maybe one or two rounds, the burn a gun. The CL, particularly, the compact launcher. This is the one you need to look at. It has a 15-round shot capacity per cartridge. And like I said, it shoots chemical errant projectiles. It can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. You have different accessories for it made right here in the US of A, but here's the big thing.

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Florida man stories that I'm going to just bypass right over right now. Let's do this one. So this guy, an Apple air tag led to the arrest of a Cape Coral man accused of stealing a Jeep from a gas station. So I have a love-hate relationship with those things because I think they're incredibly helpful in certain

aspects, but I also think that's a way that you can be like preyed upon, right? Yeah, technically. Yeah? I mean, anything... I mean, you can use anything as nefariously if you want to, but you're right. It weirds me out. I mean, this was a story where it helped out the victim rather than help create because I've read them I

read like in stocking situations like they're used in stocking cases a cape coral man stole a car from a gas station and then Cape Coral officers responded to the gas station it was a black Jeep wrangler and the victim said he was inside the store vehicle was stolen he had an apple air attack attached to his keys and it pinged at the residence so apparently the guy didn't know what it was and he just left him on the keys so yeah they got the guy that it was like one of the easiest that seems like one of the easiest investigations ever. So in some of those instances, yeah, I do think that it's like, it's very helpful, right? Maybe you could put like an apple, hide an apple tag in your vehicle and things like that. But then at the same time, would that encourage vigilanteism?

Because would you, I would call the cops and then also respond myself. That's me. I legit would. I would be rolling up with maybe one eighth of my gear. I'm not kidding you. I'd be rolling up and be like, why did you steal my car? But, you know, let's see. A Florida man called 911. I can't actually, well, he says there's a big blank python at my door, big A double snakes python, Riviera Beach in Florida. So a guy tries to go out the front door of his townhouse, but he can't because there's a giant python stretched across the walk. He doesn't know what to do. So he calls 911 and he says, oh my gosh, there's a big blank python blocking my exit. So the Riviera Beach police, they responded. they found two men trying to handle the situation themselves.

One had a shovel, one had a gun. So they took over the rescue operation and they got it. They got the snake out. But that's actually hysterical. And that was a huge snake. It did take all two people to do it. Stick with us. Third hour next.

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But that's not what you're advocating for. You're advocating for just like full unfettered. Just doesn't matter if it's illegal or illegal. It doesn't matter. He wants full unfettered, period. Immigration. That's what he's talked about. That's James Tolariko.

Good night. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. James Tala Rico is the guy who's going to be facing off against whoever wins the Republican primary

for Senate, be it John Cornyn or Ken Paxton. They are going to a May runoff. Bum, bum, I wasn't surprised, really, because Cornyn is a very

divisive figure and Paxton is a very divisive figure, both entirely for different things. So if you're looking as to, you know, you're looking at this race and you're looking at the baggage that each of them have, one, his record is baggage and then one's got some personal issues. I get very Machiavelliing about things, as we know. Who is going to give me what I want? Guys, there's no, stop acting like you're ashamed to ask, you're a voter, damn it. You get to ask that. You're the voter. You get to go into that polling place and go, okay, who's going to give me what I want? Dazzle me. That's your job. That's your,

that's your right as a voter. You get to, they get to impress you. You get to sit back and be impressed, but you've got to make a decision. So I look at it. If you're struggling, one has a very bad record. One has some personal issues. That's what's competing against the other one. Does the bad record mean that I'm not going to get things that I want? Yeah, it actually does. I don't like the gun control stuff. I don't like the softness on certain immigration issues.

I don't like the softness on age 1Bs. That's kind of bad. And I look at the other one. Does this guy's personal issue? Does this personal package mean that I'm going to get more gun control? No, it doesn't. Does this personal baggage mean that I'm going to get H-1Bs? No, it doesn't.

So it's a really easy decision for me when I look at it like that. You see what I'm saying? It's very simple. It's very simple. It's like, do you want to get the guy who wants to abridge your Second Amendment rights by working with the Democrat administration? And no matter what anybody says, don't sit here and tell me that there were things that had to be done in order to make things less worse.

That's such a remedial argument. Or the guy, you know, who cheated on his... wife. I mean, I don't like any of those things. But one's going to abridge my rights and one isn't. That's how I look at it. So think about that accord. It's the fact. You get mad at me all day and Dave for saying the fact, but it's the fact. We're not going to sit. I'm not blowing smoke up anybody's backside. Get real. I look at it like who's going to leave me alone? Who's going to, who's offering me to fight for reduction in property tax? Who's offering to fight for gun rights? Who doesn't want to bring every H-1B, Tom, Dick, and Harry to the United States?

I mean, it seems pretty obvious, right? I mean, as long as you're not screwing me, I don't care. I want what I want, and I want my rights unabridged. I want no property taxes, and I want my border closed, and I don't want a bunch of H-1Bs coming in and exploiting the system. Very similar. Look, somebody's going to get screwed in that decision, but it's going to be you if you make the wrong one.

Ha ha. So that's the way it is. Yes, Dana, that's so mean for you to say it that way. But it's right. I know Paxson. I know Kim Paxson very well. And I know that he's been very, very strong on 2A. He's been very strong on a number of issues. This is how I look at it. Guys, you got to look at how you're going to play on the board here. What's going to advance you? What's going to get you to what you want? And no, it's not at all like the Tony Gonzalez thing. Dear, sweet baby angels in heaven. It's not. anything like that, okay? I will say, Paxton just came out and said it. Like, yeah, this happened. Okay. Meanwhile, Tony Gonzalez is like, what woman? What staffer? You mean the one who's self-immolated? I have no idea. Yeah, what fire? Good heavens. So Tony Gonzalez and Brandon Herrera are going to a runoff. And I think Herrera can win it. I really do. It was a very, very, very, very. close. Very close. You know, the last time that they ran against each other, it was also very close. And I was looking at, because he almost went to a runoff last time, Herrera did. And, you know, Trump came in. And I don't know why Trump endorsed Tony Gonzalez because he's a, he's also a big gun control guy. He was actually advocating for it. So he's forced into this runoff.

I mean, they were just like what? Neither reached the 50% threshold. There was just a couple of percentage points apart. And I really do think that it's within striking distance for Herrera. I really do think that he can win this runoff. Now, remember, Tony Gonzalez was the guy who helped pass that gun control bill after Evaldi. And he talked about banning, you know, he's given a lot of, he's given a lot of hope to gun control activists who, who say things like they want to ban assault weapons and things like that, right?

Herrera is, he's a YouTuber, he's a business owner, he builds firearms, he loves firearms, he's, you know, all kinds of stuff. And some people try to go after him for his very irreverent, joking behavior, which is completely different. Gonzalez, not only did he do the gun control stuff, he's also been soft on H-1Bs and all of the, a few other issues as it pertains to immigration. but the big thing is that he had an affair with a staffer, and then the staffer was so despondent that she set herself on fire in her backyard and killed herself, which, by the way, that is like the craziest way to go out, the most painful and craziest way to go out.

Her husband's been all over, well, not all over her. He's said a couple of things on social media where he's really gone after Gonzalez. Gonzalez never, he won't, the cover up is always sometimes bigger or as bad as the crime, or the offense. And he absolutely pretends that none of this hasn't happened. He won't come clean about it despite the fact that text messages have been released. The husband has spoken out about it. There's a lot there. And he's been in pictures with her. Other staffers have talked about it. It's bad. And there's a life lost. Literally someone set themselves on fire. So it's not even remotely the same. If you want to talk about infidelity,

It's not even remotely the same comparing it to Paxton. I mean, you have, yes, you have lapses of moral significance and personal life. Absolutely. One was like, yeah, this happened. The other one, what? I don't even know. What fire? What?

And you have a fatality. And yes, yes, you are absolutely correct. If someone votes the way that I want them to, I am absolutely more inclined to overlook what they did in their personal life. Yes, because you know what? It's about me, the voter. It's not about anybody else. It's all about me. It's about you.

I have zero problem in adjudicating things in this manner. At all, I sleep so soundly at night with a smile on my face and dreaming of kittens and sunshine. Doesn't bother me at all. You've got to be a little bit ballsy about getting what you want, folks. Stop settling because you're like, oh, well, I don't want to be seen as supporting this person because are you getting what you want? Are you getting lower taxes? This is the deal here. I'm not marrying these dudes.

One of them could vote again. my gun rights. That's a problem for me. One of them could increase my taxes. That's a problem for me. Right? One of them could let in more illegal immigrants in the southern border. One of them could bring in more unvetted people through H-1B and completely just overrun and run out jobs, etc., etc., in your area. That's a problem for me. Big problem. That's how I look at it. And there's no problem at all in looking at it that way as well. You are not accepting a share of sin for doing so. Let's be realistic. Now, that being said, the Tala Rico thing, he's, I don't, you can only go so far in Texas looking normal, er-ish. But it's when you start saying the

rhetoric that you're saying and the stuff that he says, that's the problem. And I don't think that that's going to get a lot of play in and around Texas. I really don't. So I'm not very scared of him. He doesn't raise money like Crockett does. So he's even less of a lightning rod than Wendy Davis. Wendy Davis, for my understanding, raise more money than him. So we'll see. In the meantime, with the Republicans, I'm trying to figure out why in the world the hearing yesterday, that's ongoing today, went the way that it did with, especially when you look at Tillis, Tom Tillis, and Christy

Noem. I'm just trying to figure out how in the world he went so nuclear on her. This is 27 and 28. Let's play 28 because this was the first. This is the non-comparison. This was yesterday. Watch this.

Yeah. Cut 20. I'm disappointed with Secretary Nome. Because we're not going after enough people who did this damage at the expense of running numbers that Stephen Miller wants out of the White House. We just want numbers. We want 1,000 a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day because numbers matter, right? No, they don't matter. Quality matters, not quantity, quality. And what we've seen is a disaster. Under your leadership,

Ms. Nome, a disaster. Why is he so hardcore on her with this? Why is it a disaster? I'm trying to understand this. They're saying that I guess what she's not doing a good of enough job. But what's crazy is that he seems to go harder on her than he has on Democrats that he has previously questioned. So here is a comparison for you. We just played 28. This is cut, is this, this is this, this is cut 27. So this is Tom Tillis going after the DH secretary under Biden. Is this Bacera? Xavier Bucera? That he was going on? No, no, no. Zavir Bucera ended up being health and human services. So this is cut 27.

Going after the DHS secretary that allowed 15 million unvetted illegal aliens into the country compared to like how he dealt with Noem. Listen to this. Case to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of payout. It's going to be another reason why it's a crisis and not just the situation we're trying to work through. Thank you. And I wish a good help.

Wow. Thank you, Senator. I was Mayorkas Alejandro Mayorcas Wow, that's kind of a big difference Oh, holy crap Huh

That's That's quite a difference Is he a Democrat? Yeah, Mayorcass is a Alejandro Mayorcas is a big old Democrat Oh, Tom Tillis Yeah No

And now All of the news you would probably miss It's time for Dana's Quick 5 All right Alright, so first up, this, what is? It's an airplane seat that has people very upset. It's called the Cheek Splitter. The Cheek Splitter 9,000.

It's, yeah. There were 8,000 more? What? There was like eight versions of this before? Apparently. So, apparently, this was on a flight. Is this Japanese flight? Yeah, it looks like that.

So they have like a hump right in the middle of the seat. Why? I don't know why this is. They said it's to keep... Apparently somebody said it's to keep homeless pilots from occupying the cockpit. I don't know. They... I don't even know what...

What is this? I don't know what I'm looking at. I don't understand this seat. People said that they were perplexed, but it's been on a number of, like, airline seats. It's the bifurcated butt pad, apparently. I don't know. But they said that it's a quirk of aviation safety, and it's, you know, basically... basically the said chair is permanently out of service and nobody can ever sit there. So why would you not just move the seat entirely? And they said that it's the first, usually the first row of coach and it's a blah, blah, blah, safety concern. So instead of just, they just put that, they put that there to like as a barrier so no one sits there. Or yeah, or you could just put don't sit here on it instead of that. I don't know. The cheek splitter. Oh my gosh. Ma'am Donnie wants to raise revenue by ticketing New Yorkers and everybody else. So they want, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

speed camera operator, all of this stuff, what temporary tags, red light, oh, they just got a red light camera that inked a $1 billion deal with the city? Wow. And they said, well, they lose tens and millions and unpaid fines because, you know, the company that runs our red light cameras, they can't catch cars with temporary tags. So now they're going to, everything's getting tax. Everything's getting a fees. How are people still there? How are, how were, how were they there during COVID? How did they? Everybody that I think had since left during COVID. United Airlines plane burst into flames at an emergency L-A-X landing evacuation was ordered.

That's never good. They were able to get it under control. They got everybody out. They said all 256 passengers and 12 crew members were. They used the slides. They slid out of the plane. That had to be kind of somewhat fun. Only one injury.

Somebody cut their finger. But that was it. Everybody else is okay. Let's see. Billy Idol says smoking crack helped him quit heroin. Oh. But you're on the car. crack, though. Okay, but you're not on the heroin, but you are on the crack. It's a documentary

called Billy Idol should be dead. I think he's pretty much made of like whiskey and that. He's like Keith Richards, right? I think he can survive a nuclear blast. Stick with us. Keep your finger on the pulse with a Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Congress. Our notification, listen, let me explain to you guys this in simple, English. Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things.

And this is the weakest they've ever been. Now is the time to go after them. The president made the decision to go after them, take away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things so that they can never have a nuclear weapon. That's why the president made this decision. It was the right decision, and the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics and the law of them have access to these weapons. You see how they're using them now. I think his point was made so well.

And this was, that was yesterday, I think it was like right when we were off air, wasn't it? That that happened. And I really liked how he handled it and he was able to really, very, you could tell he very much understands this issue. He was able to really explain that so well. Well, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. Welcome back. Dana Lash, with you, bottom of this third hour. And make sure Channel 347 is where you can watch us.

And if you haven't yet downloaded the podcast, definitely do so. In case you missed anything. I just missed that Lorraine had said, what is it mediatize? It's a word that we made up. Because talking about the threats, it's like, on what point do you wait for that threat to get like super threaty? Right? Like, wicked threatening. Like, do you wait?

You know what they're going to do. They're telegraphing what they're going to do. There is a threat. How long do you wait for it to amediatize, right? And this is what I was talking about, by the way, with the Federalist Papers. And it's 74. And one of the things that Hamilton wrote was that, of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly, most peculiarly demands those qualities which

distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. And the direction of war implies the direction of common strength. And the power of directing and employing the common strength forms a usual an essential part in the definition of the executive authority. And that's one of the things that Hamilton wrote in the Federalist papers. And it's Federalist 74, 70, and 20, if you want to go back and read it. He was very, very clear on this. And it's not, and he was also very clear in Federalist 20 in setting up the differences between what he's talking about. And then, of course, you know, dictatorial powers like you would see in ancient Rome, very different. Because there's still,

you still have Congress, you still have those checks and balances. But for that immediacy, you have to be able to have a clear and concise action, a clear and concise response for the safety of the United States. And that's what Rubio is discussing as well. And we've talked about this a lot. The other thing, too, is I want to have a caveat on to what we were discussing with the, like for instance, Cornyn and Paxton, because they keep hearing from a lot of people. and they're good people. And they have, I mean, their, their questions and concerns are legitimate. But I always look at it as you're the voter. You've got to look at what you want to get out of it. With one choice, I know that I'm going to get screwed. And with the other choice,

I know it's only going to be the mistress that gets screwed. So I like that. I like that setup. And I know you're like, Dan, I can't believe you just said it like that. Hi, you clearly have just met me. I am very Machiavellian. I want to win. It's about me, the voter. It's all about me. This guys is where it's okay to make it all about you. You're not selfish. You're the voter. That's what this is all about.

It's all about you. So make it about you. So I look at it that way. I know it's like a very basic way. And I like Paxton. I met Cornyn before. Can I tell you a really quickly? A quick thing about Cornyn.

He's come on the show before, but can I tell you something that always stuck with me? I was at a, I was invited. My husband and I were invited. I think it was by Patriot Mobile. to a Republican event, and it was at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, right? And everybody was sitting on the turf for this big Republican event, right? It was very cool. I'd never sat on the turf before. It was very cool. And, you know, you're in Jerry's house, Jerry World. So we get there, and as you arrive, you know, you do your meet and greet and you're talking with everyone. And,

And I was talking to somebody, my husband moved and was talking to other people and we ended up being in different parts of the room. And he came over to me and he just kind of chuckled. And I was like, what is with your smirk? And I had seen that he was talking that he was near Cornyn because John Cornyn was there. And he said, oh, no, I just, you know, I went and I said, I happened to be by Senator Cornyn and I said hello to him. And he kind of brushed him off. Like if they don't, my husband was like, I go. got the impression that if they don't know who you are, then it's not a big deal. And, you know,

you're not, they're not going to waste any energy on it. And that was my husband. And my husband is not a person as cane as you know that says something like this. So it was a little bit out of character. And I thought that's very interesting. So they had to, I feel like he was downplaying it. So it seemed like they just brushed him off because they didn't know who he was. Not that that matters, but you should, you know, voters are voters, right? And he was like, yeah, I just didn't really. was like, oh, you know, moved on. He just said, you know, my name's Chris Lash, you know, nice to meet you, et cetera. And they were just like, whatever, you know, bye. That's kind of what the infirmant was. And this, so then we were walking onto the turf. And I had not

spoken to Cornyn yet. And Cornyn and his, one of his staffers were coming up behind me. And the staffer stopped him and was like, oh, it's, you know, Dana Lash, nice to see you. And then Cornyn, you, oh, Dana Lash, nice to meet you. You're nice to talk to you. Because I think I met him before, you know, hello, hello. And I said, because I said, because, because it's me. And I'm like, oh, I think my husband had greeted you a little bit earlier, but you didn't know who he was. That was me. And they, at first he looked kind of mortified, like, oh, dear, heavens, what just happened? Like, what did I, you know, like, you could tell he was going through his mental roodontics. But that kind of stuff, little stuff sticks with me. I don't like you, you, it shouldn't

matter if you're in radio or television or if you're married to somebody in radio and television. A voter is as important as any other voter. And voters, you know, know, can, and people can be active in their community and do, and move as much as, you know, somebody on TV can. So that always kind of stuck with me. And I never, I never made a big, I never made a big deal of it. But I just thought it was different. You know, it was very interesting. When I compare that to Paxton, Paxton remembers everybody. And he was like, oh, you know, talked to Chris. I've watched him talk to kids. I've watched him talk to, you know, a million different people. Because we've been at several different events at the same time. It's just very

interesting. But bottom line is too. Virtue is also incredibly important in office. And this is something that the founders mention over and over and over again, the importance of virtue. When you get to the point where you have your candidate selected, you go to war with the soldiers you have. If you are displeased with the candidate, then you work harder in previous primaries. You work harder in recruiting the next candidate. You've got to do the legwork to do it. Because otherwise, you sort of forfeit the right to complain if you haven't done anything at all whatsoever up to that point to affect a different change in candidate or change in candidate. So that's, I think, incredibly important.

And virtue is important and it does matter because it does direct, I think, capability and discernment in dealing with every issue, not just private issues. But when you get to that point where that's the candidate, you go to war with the candidates you got. And your choices are limited at that point to those two candidates. So that's how it is. So we are at this point in this runoff where it's limited to those two candidates. And if virtue is an issue for you, which it should be, you need to work harder to make sure that that's reflected. As much as you talk about it online, it should be reflected as much in your advocacy and activist work offline. And if it's not, and there's a discrepancy and how much attention and time you're putting into

one over the other, then you need to check yourself. how much do these issues really matter to you? And I'm going to tell you, I did this. I'm no different. I worked a full-time job. My husband was getting a company off the ground, and I homeschooled kids. And I still was able to do it. There's no excuse.

And yes, I did sleep at least six to seven hours a night. And there's no excuse. All right. So moving on to some other stuff that we were getting into. This, whew, the Pallywood stuff. All of the Pallywood stuff. I don't know if you guys have seen some of this because you had this narrative that the U.S. had bombed a girls hospital. And as it turned out, it was one of their dippy made like rockets that did.

Did you guys hear that story? They were trying to say that the United States did it. Oh, my gosh. Look what the United States did. And then all the media was running with it. MSNBC was running with it. Everybody was running with it. They bombed this girl's school and tried to.

to blame the United States. And then it took, what, two days for the truth to come out, but then it would only get like, like maybe a quarter of the attention that the lie did, maybe of that. Maybe of that. But they were blaming it. They said like this, this is Al Jazeera, which by the way is owned by Qatar, quote, Iran holds mass funeral for girls and staff killed in the U.S. Israel school attack. The girl's school targeted was deliberate. They went on and on and on about this. It is all over. It is all over. And there are still, some people are still doing it. There are anchors. There were, there were news, there were commentators and and podcasters that were all repeating this. But as it turned out, it was an Iranian rocket. We don't target civilians. In fact, that's what Caroline Levitt had actually just said.

And this, she's held a press availability. And no, we did not target a girl school. This was one of the first questions that she was asked about, actually. I'm going to put this in slack. Because this is how far this went. And this is the media that's asking this question to perpetuate this false narrative. And as it turns out, it was an Iranian rocket that Iranian munitions, if you want to talk about their shoddy manufacturing, that's what did it. If we can play what I just dropped in there, that would be. So yeah, they've been blaming the United States. The IRGC blamed them. They said, oh, this is the United States. They'll pay a heavy price. But it was in southern Iran. and it was their own, they had to admit,

the Iranian foreign minister had to finally admit it. Go ahead and listen to this. Did the United States airstrike at Girls Elementary School and kill 175 people? Not that we know of Sean, and the Department of War is investigating this matter, and I would just tell you very strongly, the United States of America does not target civilians,

unlike the rogue Iranian regime, that targets civilians, that kills children, that has killed thousands of, their own people in the past several weeks and uses propaganda quite effectively. And unfortunately, many people in this room have fallen for that propaganda. So I would caution you from pointing the finger at the United States of America when it comes to targeting civilians because that's not something that these armed forces do. Reagan. Yeah, it was an Iranian, not a rocket, I should say a missile. It was an Iranian missile that actually misfired. And it hit

that girl's school. Yeah. Gavin Newsom went out. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, you know, promoted this. So now you're going to start seeing that these community notes on a lot of these posts because I mean this is this is crazy. The IRGC blamed them but it literally was a misfire from Iran. Now you say it was intentional not a misfire. I do. Why is that? Well because I've seen them so far this isn't the only one. They have several different cities in their region, several different areas, that either all of them are the mistakes or they're targeting their own people. They're targeting citizens of their enemy, too, just over the borders. They did this back in 23 after October 7th because they were trying to say that Israel bombed, what hospital was it?

They bombed a hospital and it killed 500 people. But as it turned out, and this was confirmed by the Pentagon, it was actually an Islamic jihad rocket. It was one of Hamas's stupid little rockets. And it wasn't a hospital, but it hit a parking lot. And it was a parking lot that was like half a block over from the hospital. And the hospital wasn't actually touched. It was the parking lot. And they just made up the number of casualties.

They couldn't even actually confirm that there were any. That is insane. These terrorists make up these numbers in order to push the propaganda, like what we're seeing right here. We're our own media is asking our press secretary about a false story that's been around the world. twice before the truth got a fanz off. By the way, do you know too that the elementary school is close to an IRGC base like right by it? Now I realize that sometimes that happens but that's purposeful when it concerns Iran, Islamist, Iran, Gaza, Hamas, because they use that. They put their headquarters and their munitions and all of this specifically in civilian sensitive areas to use

them as a shield. That's a war crime. This is not. just organically located. They do it on purpose. So it was Iran, not the U.S., and that's a number of a million war crimes that Iran has committed. We got more on the way. We got days of today's stupidity actually coming up. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast, because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. Don't forget to go and find the podcast where you You can, if you missed anything earlier, you can download the podcast and you are set. And of course, don't miss either the beginning tomorrow.

We're going to be diving into some of these insane myths as it relates to a number of these topics. Like, for instance, USS Liberty and the misinformation that's going around by USS Liberty. We're going to talk about friendly fire incidents and why everybody only wants to discuss the USS Liberty and purposely, like, misunderstand things that happen that led. to the catastrophe. And I think it's also fun to revisit some of, because I'm a huge World War II buff, some of the friendly fire incidents that actually are mind-boggling, especially when it relates to Montgomery and Patton and things like that, World War II going up from North Africa into Sicily, into Italy. It is pretty insane. So we're going to discuss that. That'll be a fun deep dive. In the

meantime, today in stupidity came. All right, it is Chuck Schumer. Senator Chuck Schumer was out there talking in public. But I think he meant to say Iran here, but he actually said Israel instead. Listen to listen to this. Oh, boy. Do you think Israel forced the U.S.'s hand here, boxed the U.S. in on this?

Look, no one wants a nuclear war. No one wants a nuclear Israel, but we certainly don't want an endless war, plain and simple. All right, maybe he wants to correct that. Hold on. Why would he want to do what I say? Nuclear Israel is. Oh, no. Got it. Let me say that again.

No one wants an endless war, but we certainly don't want a nuclear Iran. There is. Okay. Well, he finally corrected himself. So that's good. Oh, finally. How nice of him to finally do that. That does it for us today, folks.

I will be on Fox Business in, I think, the 4 p.m. Central hour. Newsmax later on tonight as well. Have a great rest of your night. Back with you tomorrow.