The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - JD Vance Just Gave Tucker a MASSIVE Pass | Political Commentary

Episode Date: September 3, 2026

JD Vance gets asked directly about his friendship with Tucker Carlson while hosting The White House Press Briefing and completely dodges the answer. Tucker Carlson basically endorses Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S. Senate after calling Mike Rodgers a “stooge for Israel”. Dana slams a raving tribute by the New York Times to the late Gloria Steinem and explains how Steinem’s legacy was a “cancer on women” which forced them to work harder to achieve the goals they had already achieved. Comedian/Impressionist and Musician, Ami Kozak, joins us to chat about the reactions to his viral impressions of Tucker, President Trump plus the divisions within the right & more political commentary.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Relief Factorhttps://www.ReliefFactor.comYou could be the next person sharing a Relief Factor success story. Get started today with the 3-Week QuickStart for only $17.76 and tell them you heard about them on The Dana Show. Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAFor a limited time during Ghost Bed’s Labor Day Sale, they’re offering my audience an extra 10% off their lowest prices of the season with promo code DANA. Chapterhttps://AskChapter.Org/danaAsk Chapter today if you could be saving money on your medicare coverage. Alliance Defending Freedomhttps://JoinADF.com/DanaAlliance Defending Freedom is on the front lines defending the freedoms and values that matter. Join the fight today. Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaGet the limited edition HumanN Watermelon Flavor and find out how to get a FREE 30-day supply before they sell out.Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAMake the switch to Patriot Mobile today. Visit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Webroothttps://Webroot.com/DanaSave 60% off Webroot. Protect your devices. Protect your family. Protect your peace of mind. Live a better digital life with Webroot. Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Welcome to the program. The vice president is speaking right now, taking some questions from the press. And very interestingly, Carrie Pickett just asked him about Tucker Carlson. Because as you know, Carlson has been calling for Trump's impeachment and repeatedly and has done quite a bit. I mean, we've talked about it on the program. And she was, she asked him about this because I don't think he's ever really addressed it since the Fuentes stuff. And there's been a lot that's happened since that whole softball sit down that Carlson did with Fuentes,

and then you get the Heritage Foundation involved, and it turned into this big thing. There's been a lot said by Carlson since then. Now, remember, Carlson takes credit for installing Vance as Trump's VP pick. He takes credit for that. And Vance has kind of acquiesced to that in pre-exam. remarks. He's previously described him as a friend this even after he's, you know, just all of the stuff that's happened. And he's never been really asked straight on about it. And here he is at this press conference. It's not like a press conference, a special one. This is just the

regular White House press briefing that Caroline Levitt would do. As you know, Caroline Levitt left because she just had her second child. She's standing home with her baby. And, and, And she's stepping down from her position so she can be more present for her kids. And so the VP has stepped in for that. This is that question. Now, remember, this has not been asked of him since the Fuentes stuff. Watch. Carlson has called for the president's impeachment and many accuse him of trying to jeopardize

U.S. Israel relations. What do you say to those were uneasy with your close relationship with Carlson and claim that you're avoiding addressing a lot of these issues, which may be causing divisions within the GOP? Well, look, I'm not avoiding addressing. anything. Everybody knows that Tucker Carlson and I are friends, and I think it's very obvious that Tucker has said some things that I disagree with. He said some things about the president of United States that I think are just wrong. I think yesterday somebody sent me a clip that said that

he would support El Sayed over Rogers. I think El Sajad's a crazy person, and I think whatever your views on Mike Rogers' specific policy prescriptions, I'd like to have a non-crazy person like Mike Rogers representing Michigan and the United States Senate rather than a crazy person like El Sayed. I said what my attitude towards this and I try to, I try to practice what I preach. And I remember when I became the vice presidential nominee, one of the hardest things for me, personally, is not when people attacked me, but when people attacked my wife, including friends of hers who knew her heart, who knew what a good person she was. And I remember thinking of myself, what a travesty it is, that in the United States of America, we let political disagreements define who our friends are going to be and not going to be. be. So yeah, Tucker is a friend of mine. Tucker is a friend despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things. And I'm not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I

have political disagreements with them. I think that is a terrible place for the United States to go. And if you have a disagreement with somebody politically, even over a deeply held issue, you should still be friends with that person because the whole republic depends on people of different perspectives, being able to talk to one another. That's how I try to live my life. And I encourage everybody else to the same. So if you were waiting to see if the vice president was going to say anything negative about Tucker Carlson, who has platformed people that have called the vice president's wife horrible slurs and has said repeatedly that Trump needs to be impeached, has gone off on, has tried to create international incidents between us and allies. That was your answer.

I don't agree with what Vance said there, and I feel like it's a cop out. I feel like Vance saying that he's, and that's a quote that he's repeated. The quote that he said about, I'm not going to get in the habit of throwing friends under the bus is the exact same thing that he said. After Carlson sat down with this, you know, friend fest, this softball hangout, not a hard question was asked with that Nick Fuentes guy. And a lot of people were up in arms about it. Because these are ideas that have already been platformed and they've been defeated. And at some point, just like you don't allow pedophiles around your kids, yeah, you gatekeep your ideology from the same sort of infection. You know what I mean? And you have every right to do that. Every right to do that. You're called

to practice Christian discernment. And so him saying this, first off, he's made it very clear that he stands with Tucker. You can view it any way you want to, but that's what I heard. He's not going to get in the habit of throwing friends under the bus. Friends that are actively calling for your boss's impeachment and that are advocating for you to lose Senate and House majority because he's out there demanding that they get behind Sharia candidates. That is beyond friendship. Now, what wasn't mentioned is whether or not this is transactional, because as you know, Tucker himself has bragged openly and frequently about how he lobbied to install Vance as Trump's vice presidential pick. Not only that, but he talked about getting Peter Thiel in to raise money for him when he was running for Senate.

Mitch McConnell had to go in and raise money in or put money in for the advice for that race to put him over the top. And that, I don't know, maybe as a thank you to that, Vance then had his son, who is not there any, or sorry, Carlson had his son work as Vance's deputy communications secretary, which he's not there. anymore and it happened after a lot of people started asking questions about it when Tucker started really getting caustic with his remarks. But this is not about throwing friends under the bus. I just yesterday very, very vociferously disagreed with Mark Tieson on the Paxton-Talorico Senate race. I would not classify a disagreement with friends as throwing a friend under the bus. I feel like that's weak and it's designed to suppress questions and designed to suppress criticism so that they're conflating two things. Criticizing or correcting a friend is not throwing a friend under the bus.

In fact, it's saving him from going under the bus with bad logic, bad reasoning or bad ideology or bad theology. you're preventing your friend from getting under the bus themselves. But to say that you're not going to throw a friend under the bus, this isn't an issue of, do you like the Dallas Cowboys? This isn't an issue of, you know, my favorite movie is this, but oh, you're wrong, my friend. It also diminishes the issue at hand down to something, I don't know, trivial. It trivializes what we're actually discussing.

We're talking about a guy that has already pulled stunts with the purpose of trying to create an international incident to the detriment of the United States. We're talking about a guy who espouses himself insane beliefs that are detrimental and antithetical to the founding of this republic and everything in which we believe. We are talking about a guy who is literally misrepresenting scripture and lying to your face while not disclosing whether or not he's taking foreign capital for doing so.

There are a lot of questions here that it's creating not just, I mean, you could also say that maybe, I mean, it could be of national security concern at some point when you're talking about trying to brainwash people into believing some of the ideology that he's been promoting. Multi-polarity, Alexander Dugan, all of this stuff. I really am disappointed in Vance's answer here. Because I have no problem, and you guys have seen it, I have no problem saying that a friend is wrong. I have disagreed with a lot of, I mean, I'll disagree with friends in publicly.

You know, I'll talk to my friend's back channel and say, this is wrong. wrong. And I will even disagree with them publicly. Like just yesterday, Mark Teeson, I've known for over a decade. He was wrong to call voters in Texas morons by, with this whole Paxton, you know, Tala RICO race. It's wrong to do that. And I explained why. I'm not throwing Mark under the bus. That is a disingenuous illogical way to try to die. criticism. I mean, really, that's kind of, that's it. That's what it is. I mean, just the other day, he, I mean, was going, I mean, good heavens, he was endorsing Abdul al-Said yesterday. The day before that, I can't even remember, Kane, because every single day, it's something. It's something, every single day.

But they're circling, I really, they're circling the wagons around Tucker, and I feel like they're circling the ragon's around Tucker because they don't think that they can win on a post-liberal ticket without him. If you want to know my honest thought, that's, that's, I think, the truth of it. The, and we talked about post-liberalism and all of that before. But what this comment, and like I said, this is what we've seen before, politics isn't trivialized, and it's not trivialized to the point where it's just like a hobby. And when you're talking about, rhetoric that is purposefully designed to destabilize a Republican majority, that isn't just about being a disagreement at that point. It's not a disagreement when you're talking about destabilizing

the Republican majority. Because you're talking about a difference in, are you allowed to own your guns or not? Are you allowed to have just women on women's sports teams or not? Are you going to pack the court or not? And trivializing it, purposefully, the goal of that is to hide the impact of that rhetoric and hide the impact of that ideology. That's the purpose of it. You're allowing people to ignore the real harm caused by that rhetoric. And saying that it doesn't matter for personal friendships, you're trying to divide the public and win power in that way. If these views matter enough to shape law, and society, then they matter enough to judge a person's character. I'll repeat that. If these views

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We're at the bottom of the second hour this Thursday, getting you set up for your Labor Day weekend. And I wanted to play some video or some audio slash video for you. If you're listening terrestrially, it'll be audio. If you're watching the simulcast, Channel 347 DirecTV or on YouTube, Facebook, it will be video. Tucker Carlson essentially endorsed Abdul al-Said for the U.S. Senate. I want you to listen to this cut. And then I have a question for you.

I want you to take this full cut in. This is cut 15. I want you to listen to this. Now, let me just tell you, the guess that he's speaking with, Seagar and Jetty, is a founding, well, he used to be a daily caller. And I made mention to Kane, by the way, everybody that Tucker, and I've known Tucker for a long time, everybody that he hired a Daily Collar himself,

more than not became a weird lefty. Caitlin Collins, he had hired to work at Daily Collar. She became a weird lefty. Patrick Howley. Oh my gosh, who else? There's been a ton of people that he's hired that kind of went weird. They turned into like really weird leftists. I don't know how else to describe it.

And I think it's kind of indicative of maybe where he stands on some stuff that it happened. Like that that happened that way, right? I was just thinking of all the people that he had hired that turned out to maybe a couple of them did not. I think a couple of them did not turn out that way. But more often than not, you guys know Collins over at CNN. He hired her. Yeah, Howley, who else did he hire? Saga and Jetty hired him.

Turned out to be kind of a weird lefty. It's just a little weird, you know. Who else? Matt Lewis, turned out to be a weird lefty with long hair and he wears it in a bizarre side part. I don't understand that. Anyway, long story, short, that's his decision-making process, and it's consistent. Anyway, so this guy that he has on, and Jetty was also a founding board member

of American Moment. It's a group that was set up in 2021. Vance is also on the board, and it's about promoting populism and training staffers to promote. Populism is a tactic. They're not promoting populism. They're promoting post-liberalism.

Big difference. Populism is a tactic, not a belief set. Anybody can use it. The left uses it. So it's important to remember that. So here, Carlson's talking to this guy. I want you to listen to this conversation. And I got a question.

Mike Rogers is really, I wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint. Right. And so that's the candidate, the guy, a literal loser who lost when Donald Trump won the state, just to show you how much of a headwind he had at his back. It was basically a tool of Israel and the intel agencies. How would you run someone like that? Exactly. It doesn't even make sense.

So that makes no sense. Well, El-Saiad, who, look, El-Syad. who, look, Al-Saiet is a full-blown D-S. He doesn't call himself DSA. He's a full-blown leftist. I've known him for quite a long time. This is somebody... Not well.

I've interviewed him many times over the years because of my co-host, Crystal. And so I've watched his ideological evolution, who you could easily call, as AOC said, was, quote, woke one, right? Woke one, where he said defund the police on a... Woke-2 is when they start becoming... Post-Liberal.

...on the left of... Post-Locles on the lefty night. That's Woke-Mackina Island. He's for vaccine mandates. Right. Classic stuff. Right. I watch his campaign now.

It's America first. The amount of times he says, when he talks about Israel, he says Israel is committing a genocide, but ultimately, I want to make sure that you don't pay more for health care. I don't want your tax dollars

going abroad to fund this barbaric military. He stands in front of a giant American flag. It's almost Trumpian in terms of a lot. Well, it's literally Trumpian. Exactly. So he's basically endorsing Mamdani. or not Mandani, sorry, they're all the same.

All these leftist Islamists are the same. He's essentially endorsing Abdul al-Said. And not essentially, I mean, he really is. He's absolutely endorsing it. There's no other way around that. And there is no genocide, by the way. There's never been a genocide. You don't have a population that explodes by 600% in a genocide.

We've gone over that before. So he's saying that he would never vote for Mike Rogers. actively encouraging people to not vote for the Republican there, are we supposed to still unite with us? Because you remember when Kevin Roberts came on our program after he first sat and had a softball sit down with Nick Fuentes and didn't have the balls to ask him a tough question because he's a horrible interviewer and just did all that all in between, you know, the whole thing. And then you had Kevin Roberts at Heritage and all of these other post-liberals come out and say that we were supposed to unite with us. And that criticism is cancellation. They were trying to tell you to ignore your Christian discernment, which is exactly what the devil would do, by the way. The devil wants you to ignore your Christian discernment.

So it's no surprise that there are post-liberals that want you to do the same thing. But it was just very interesting to me. They didn't want any criticism and that if you took issue with it, then you were attacking or you were trying to cancel his free speech or something. Are we, so my question is, are we supposed to unite with that? A guy who's applauding a Sharia candidate. Are we supposed to unite with that? Where's Kevin Roberts at the Heritage Foundation? Are we supposed to unite with that?

I've got questions. I asked earlier, I said, I'm waiting for Tucker's allies in the administration also to say anything about his repeated attacks on Americans in favor of Sharia candidates. Would criticizing him help or hurt the post-liberal establishment who thinks that they're being clever by ignoring it. I'm curious too.

You know, you've got the vice president of the United States is going to be taking questions here, and I would like to know as a voter who sees a wide open field in 2028. The last time Tucker found himself being criticized and in the headlines, we were told by the vice president that it's ridiculous to think that Carlson is not part of the conservative movement

and that that was his friend and that he's not going to get into the habit of throwing his friends under the bus. These are direct quotes. He said them on video. I linked them in a piece that I wrote on substack this week. Is that still the case? I'm curious, is that still the case? Are we supposed to unite with us because I have a major problem with it. I just think it is interesting. They all know each other. It's a very incestuous group, a group that only talks to each other, and they go on their podcast, and they're all on these little groups. They all do this stuff. They're doing something. There's a cocktail hour that they're having at the RNC, this little midterm, whatever convention that they're having next week. And apparently it's a bunch of post-liberals

getting together, and they're essentially toasting themselves that they're taking over 20 28. One of one of the people attending told me that. I thought that was interesting. So I'm curious because there's only so long that we can dance around this. It's very obvious for us nerds who deal with us day in and day out. But how is that America first to promote a guy who absolutely defends Islamic jurisprudence and thinks it should be established here in the United States. How is that America first? Why does everything with Tucker have to go back to the Jews to Israel? Like, nonsensically, anything he takes back to Israel. They sit here and bitch and moan about APAC, but they don't talk about the foreign investment in their own companies. They're Indian-made

tobacco pouch or, you know, anything else. I'm just curious. When is that, when are we going to be able to ask these questions without a faction of the right melting down like the left and crying about cancellation. When are Christians going to be allowed their discernment? I've got a million questions on this. And I think they're important to ask, right? This idea that he wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers. Trump won Michigan, but by a small amount.

Michigan is a blue wall. I think people forget that. He didn't take it in 2020. He took it in 24. Didn't take it in 2020. I noticed that Sanjay or EJet or whatever his name is, he apparently didn't under, I guess he doesn't have that full history of how voting works in that state and where that state went. So sitting here saying, well, Trump took that state and Mike Rogers struggled. The vice president of the United States had to get bailed out by Peter Thiel and Mitch McConnell.

Mitch McConnell had to give millions of dollars to pull him across. So I would be very, very careful about using that as a metric. that's the guy you have that's going to be sitting in the seat that you need in order to keep the majority. So I would, if I were smart, which these people are not, what I would do is not try to jeopardize that. But doesn't it seem like they don't want Trump to have his Senate majority or his house majority? Hmm. I do find that interesting. Kane, you made a really good point. Kane wrote in Slack that Tucker wouldn't vote for Rogers by gunpoint, but yet he would vote for El Saeed, who would literally hold him at gunpoint for not bowing to Sharia, which is important.

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Gloria, I'm just to get ready. Gloria Steinem. Here's how the New York Times remembered her. Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern woman's movement, challenged sexist assumptions, and fought for gender equality. She's dead, by the way. She kicked the bucket at, at 92 years old, I think. And, yeah, at the end, she came full circle, though.

That's what the piece, and I made mention of this on social media, that's what the piece actually does. Or that's what, I mean, that's what this piece actually does. It's like celebrating her as this big, you know, feminist warrior. But in reality, she literally crusaded to force the de-evolution of women's sports. And she pushed for the forcible entry of men. into women's sports and societal rape, maybe. And at the end, she came full circle. She came back to promoting the progressive patriarchy

that she always claimed to oppose. She was truly an abysmal champion of women. She wasn't a champion of women. She believed in genociding women. She believed in aborting women. She believed in really silencing women that didn't accept her views. She was one of the women. Was this back in, I'm not going to Google it because I care so little about her fake manufactured legacy.

Gloria Steinem is a cancer on women. Gloria Steinem is one of the biggest traitors of the female sex that has ever been put on this earth since Eve. She is a disappointment. She is a horrific example for women. She is a clout chaser. She was a fame horror communist. I'm breaking my mother's rule that says don't talk ill of the dead. I talked ill of her when she was alive and I'll continue to do so.

Her death makes no difference. I am not going to allow some sort of fake, ridiculous emotion, some sort of manufactured sentimentality, this to paper over what she did. to women. She made an entire generation of women have to work harder for less. She made an entire generation of women. She and those old crusty crones like Linda Hirschman and all of the other communist bitches, every single one of those women made it harder for other women. They made women question their roles. If women wanted to stay home with their children, women had existential

crisises and were asking themselves whether or not they were really a strong enough woman if they didn't want to go outside of the home to work and instead work inside of the home. She, along with all of these other women, accused women of betraying their sex if they were educated and didn't go out into the workforce. And then later on, she tried to call women bigots if they simply wanted to protect women's sports from the entry of men. Do not all the drive-bys out there. Think for one second that I'm going to hold my punches just because death got to her first. Stop it. I have no nice words or courteousness to say, and she should be remembered for the stain on history that she is. You have to realize when I was a young mother, all of the stuff, all of the

obstacles and the hurdles that were put in my way were not put there by men. They were put there by women. I had a three-month-old at home, and I was being attacked nationally by Linda Hirschman. because I wanted to stay home with my kids, trying to call me out by my name. All these feminist bitches. I'd say worse about them. I have a different word for them, but I can't say it on air.

So I guess I'll see you next Tuesday. I loathe these movements because they betrayed women and tried to shame women if they didn't share their choices. I will never forget. I had a column that I had written. And when I first started, I stayed at home. My husband was building a business and I freelanced, right? I did freelance writing. And I wrote four different newspapers and one of my columns ended up getting picked up because I was talking. I don't even remember exactly what it was, but it was something along the lines of finding my value doing what I was exactly doing. I wrote on the side, which, you know, you could say it was a hobby, but I made my

money with it. And that's what I went to school to do, by the way. I wrote on the side, but then I was getting ready to start my oldest son in homeschool. He was kindergartener, and we were going to homeschool. I found a co-op, and I was talking about it. And I think it was, oh, gosh, it's my Friday. So my mind is fit. It was one of those dime a dozen feminist sites. We just talked about it a couple weeks ago. Remember? Yes, yes, yeah. That one. And then there was a lot. another one that Valenti, that one chick, I can't remember her, Jessica Valenti, that she ran. And they started, they were like making fun of me.

The mean girls in school were making fun of me because I was writing, I wrote a piece where I was talking about finding values, staying home with my kids and doing all of this. And they were like, oh, it's fake and all this other stuff. And then at one point, Hirschman referenced it during an interview. and then she said, I think it was on NBC's Today Show, she had said that women who were educated and then who choose to stay home and don't go into the workforce arbitral of their sex. And I lost my mind, as you can imagine. I mean, I had a baby at home and a toddler at home.

And I lost my mind because I didn't attack them for their choices when I was writing my piece with my column. And I had a website, too, that I ran. I didn't attack them for their choices. I was simply talking about my own, but that wasn't good enough for them. The mere presence of a different choice, these pro-choice fake bitches, a mere presence of a different choice was enough to send them into a rage spiral. Oh my gosh, and they came torches and pitchforks.

This was one of the first times that I ever had to deal. I was like 23 years old. I was 23 years old. Actually, no, I think it was, yeah, 23, 24. I had two kids under the age of three and a half in my house, and I'm dealing with this. So you can imagine I've not let that go. I'm still mad about it.

Because it's all this. And now we're supposed to lionize these old Crohn's? Hmm. My discipline's really being tested right now, Kane, and radio audience. they she signed a letter and well actually she did a number of things she signed a letter uh i think it was like in the like 20 21 and it was printed in the advocate and she stated that transgender women should be absolutely fully included in women's spaces and sports and she said quote i quote trans women are women. No, they're not. They're dudes. Although some of them look more feminine than you did, Gloria. They're dudes. She's, there's no such thing as trans-inclusive feminism. First off, and I'll tell you this, because I see guys out there that are like, oh, repeal the 19th Amendment. I'm like, when you make as much as me and you pay as much tax as me and you do as much to secure constitutional wins as I do, then I will let you sit at my table.

and talk about that issue. But until then, sit down and make me a sandwich. I'm not going to deal with that. That's how, by the way, you create feminists when you have godless men that do stuff like that. That's how you get feminist, so don't do that. Godly men make it to where feminism is irrelevant. So I see stuff like that out there,

and I'm like, oh, my gosh, because I don't want a whole generation of women falling into that trap. And I sure as hell don't need bruns out there to do it for them. You know what I mean? We don't need a whole other generation of women going into this stuff. because you have some clout chasing dudes out there trying to get likes with stupid comments.

It's ridiculous. I'm all for, you know, fine, if you're equally talented, you get equal paid, the basic stuff. I want to, you know, if my husband passes away, I don't want to be in the poor house. You know, things like that. I want to be able to, women want to be able to make choices as well. You realize Susan B. Anthony was a pro-life Republican. You want to, and you don't want to take away that. woman's vote. I'm telling you, some of your Republican sisters out there are more conservative than

you are. Dear God, you better be kissing the hands of them women. Those are the women you want out there. You don't want to silence them because you think that there are more of the crazy women than not. I get, I don't believe in this whole trans-inclusive feminism. What does that even mean? That was a statement that, that was an idea that she promoted. Think about it. That means men-inclusive feminism. feminism. What is feminism anymore? Seriously, what even is it? The women who are promoting it are now saying that you have to include men. It's not just women's sports. It's not just women's bathrooms. It's not just women's changing rooms. It's the sex itself. Oh no, you have to take them for the part of the sisterhood. What? That's what she promoted. How is that? I'm taking the long

way around to this question. How is that not a bigger erosion of what it is to be a woman than anything else? Is that the final insult of feminism, quote unquote, trans inclusion? the final insult of this cottage industry that was created to force women to ignore the special features and attributes that they were endowed with by their creator and measure themselves by men's standards. That's like saying, you know, if you judge a fish, fish's talent by how well it can ride a bicycle or climb a tree, you know, the fish is going to look pretty stupid and talentless. It's dumb.

But that's what they're telling women to do. Disregard your strengths, the only strengths that matter and the only strengths that will be the standard of measure are the ones men have. How long men can work at the office, how strong men are, what men can do. Notice how they completely rejected the strength of women and the virtues and the amazing gifts that God has given women. They throw those to the wayside and they substitute in their place as the standard, all the things that men do. That is how they, that's how feminism demanded women judge themselves. That's the first betrayal. The second betrayal was getting them to attack their partners in this journey on earth to go after the men. I get it. Men have been,

look, I am a boy mom. You're not going to find a greater ally. But I also would like to have grandkids someday. So I'm telling you, don't make it harder for the younger women out there. Don't harden their hearts. Show them how wrong this ideology has been. But you show them with godliness and with kindness and you don't spurn them and realize, especially the younger ones are going to make mistakes, but you be welcoming and loving. That's all the things that feminism wasn't. I did not find that with feminism. No young woman finds that with feminism. Do you know why? because it's a bunch of jealous old crones. They believe that there's a scarcity of opportunity.

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it's gone. Visit human.com slash Dana right now to get a free 30-day supply of limited addition watermelon superbeats heart juice before they sell out. That's human.com slash Dana. He is a comedian. He is a musician and he's also a very, I would say, we don't have a word like polemicist for artists that engages in ridicule, but I would say that for for Ami and he joins us now via video. It's so good to have you. And thank you so much for your time and for making your videos because they're hysterical. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here, Dana. Thank you so much for having me. You do very good impressions, though. That's actually kind of hard. It's not an easy thing to do.

Because you have impersonated, I think, everybody from Carlson to Trump to Gal Sharpton to everyone. Who's your favorite to do, though? What is the most red meat for you? Well, the issues going on politically and culturally are just such an abundance of material. So I leave it to the people. You know, they get to decide the flavor of the moment. month the flavor of the day, whatever we want to talk about your favorite president. Some people good, some people, not so good, not so good, you know. So depending on who's got the latest crazy episode, you know, it's always so tempting,

but they provide me no shortage of material from Candace to Tucker to our favorite president. You do a really good job with Tucker, though, too, with the laugh and I'm just asking questions. Do you actually put yourself through watching like the entirety of like all of his programming to do it, or is it one of those? I heard it. I got it. You know, I don't need much at this point. But I don't have to watch an episode in its entirety.

You know, one clip, one segment is generally enough it is to basically, you know. I mean, I shut up, Nazi. I mean, I basically, I watch a little clip, a segment of the show. I've actually never seen Tucker Carlson. I don't know who that is, actually. I don't know what that means an episode. I don't know what that means. Are we talking about a series, a show program?

I mean, cable's dead. And so is the West. Who cares, right? What does that mean? That is it entirely. That's, I mean, that is completely it because he always, I love, for those watching, Ami Kosek is joining us, he does all of these great comedic videos of all of these actual current conversations and all the stuff that you see, all the video that you see with podcasts to stand. But the thing that you do, it's hysterical, but you also highlight just the buffer that he tries to put between the crazy stuff that he says and the fact that he actually shares that, excuse me, that I. ideology, whether he's talking about Israel, whether he's talking about Jewish Americans. I mean,

he says this stuff and he'll go, well, we're just asking questions. No, you're stating a belief, and then you're trying to say that to cover your ass after. Yeah, I think that the thing about comedy is it has a way of showing and not just telling. You know, we talk about a lot of issues. We can debate with different people. We can talk about who's nefarious. We can talk about the damage that various people are doing, but there's nothing more powerful than showing it. And I think one of the things that's been hard for a lot of people to pinpoint about Tucker is it, It's not like the particular position he takes. It's the fact that he takes every position and its contradiction under the sun,

creating basically confusion. I've always described them as a confusion artist. And there's compilations now at this point because in the beginning, first you kind of raise your eyebrow. But then once you start to see a pattern, by the way, no problem with Israel, beautiful country, and I hate it. So once you start to see a pattern of contradiction, you realize, oh, this person is an agent of demoralization. And there's no more divisive figure in a coalition that's been desperately trying to unification. than Tucker Carlson. Part of comedy is studying people's behavior and under and to an extent understanding what they believe and even kind of why they believe it. The stuff that Tucker, like for

instance, with Tucker Carlson, I mean, we could go and do this almost with every single person and podcast to stand, but he's, you know, he was on cable news. So, you know, so he has this cred that comes with him. When you watch him, do you think that this is someone that is sharing beliefs that are newly formed, or do you think that this is one of these instances where this is a guy who's always believed this, but now he has, I guess, the freedom of digital to just be who he is. Yeah, that's a good question on how to, you know, the big question is like, what are you doing, man? Like, where is this coming from? This whole notion, you know, that the right is divided, the whole notion that there's this schism in the right wing, there's this infighting,

It really stems from like a few key people, one of them being Tucker Carlson, who took issues that generally the right coalesced around capitalism, Israel, the West being morally superior to, you know, the backwards countries that want to destroy Western civilization. These were ideas that everyone, especially on the right and conservative mainstream circles, coalesced around and agreed upon. That was the consensus. He's the wedge issue. He's the one who sowed the division. why he's doing that. I mean, there's been different diagnoses and like attributing what the motivation is. Jeremy Boring, I thought, made an interesting observation about him having an actual political motivation and aspiration to create a new movement that's, you know, economically left wing and populist and socially conservative, which is why I think it aligns very well in the sort of radical Islamic world because, hey, economically populist and socialist and socially conservative. I mean, there's a lot of a connective tissue there. But there's Clearly this, I think he's got a chip on a shoulder, a little bit of a gripe with legacy media, which didn't work out in the long run. And he's like, his vengeance will be, I'm going to destroy this evangelical base and, you know, use Israel as that wedge issue to divide them generationally to divorce Israel from the Republican Party. And the agreement that Israel was a beacon of Western civilization fighting radical jihadists in that region. We're going to take all these ideas that were once kind of understood to be consensus.

this World War II. Should we have won? I don't know if we should have won it. Maybe. I mean, I don't know. Was Churchill good? I'm not sure. I'm not saying he was good.

By the way, I love Churchill. The darkest hour. I mean, I hated that movie. I hated it. You know, I don't know. I saw Europa. You know, these kind of ideas. And if you can create confusion,

then you can confuse a whole generation of people. And I think there's a political and almost personal motivation there to sort of, you know, get at and demoralize this base for his own influence. I think he's seeking some kind of influence and impact. Whether that means running for office, I don't know. But certainly, first, the way to destroy a base and consensus is to first create confusion around the ideas we all thought we agreed on.

And it hands a victory to the far left, which is like, that's the real irony here. Because all they have to do now is point to the right. And for years, they made up this accusation. Look, Nazis on the right. And it was just crying wolf. But now they'll kind of be right if we don't properly draw ideological boundaries. And that's a really good point. But people, I mean, people go, well, that's gatekeeping.

Well, yeah. Just like you don't let a pedophile around your kids. You don't let Nazis into your Republican clubhouse. By the way, nothing against pedophiles. They like people. Yeah. I mean, they're good with kids. Except for Epstein, of course, for obvious reasons, obviously.

Sorry. Sorry, it keeps triggering my doctor. So I don't know if you got to see it, but the vice president just had a press conference where, I mean, I don't know if you saw it or not. We can play a clip of that if you need us to. But he basically repeated, the vice president was asked, point blank. You know, Tucker Carlson, who's repeatedly called for the. impeachment, et cetera, you know, where do you stand on that? And he repeated the quote that he said after the Nick Fuentes stuff, where I'm not going to get into the habit of throwing friends

under the bus. What do you make a, do you think that's a solid response from the vice president or not? Well, look, I think it just ignores the question and ignores the issue. He's not just a guy being asked to condemn a friend. It's the vice president of the United States with political aspirations to lead a coalition and a party. And so the mature response, if you want to throw him a bone and say,

hey, you know, JD, you can say, while I have a personal relationship with Tucker or I owe him a debt of gratitude for my position as vice president, I have to say that this behavior, this conduct is wrong, texting Erica Kirk and Candace Owens in the same day and trying to appeal to both

without any standards of condemning unethical behavior, evil behavior is wrong. And I've expressed that to him personally, and I'll say it now. Because the issue isn't as much, J.D. It's his proximity to Tucker Carlson. And if you're as a leader, you can't differentiate compromised personal relationships you may have. Everyone's got crazy friends, but now you're in a position. And Ben Shapiro talked about this at Amfest. Like, there's more to be expected of you. You're representing a coalition and you're running on certain values and principles we hope you can uphold. And that also means not just standing for those principles, but standing against those who are against those principles. And I'm sorry, like,

that's not good enough. And I'm not making demands. Don't do it for me. It's like strategically and politically, I think, very short-sighted to not draw the proper ideological boundaries and always kind of duck and weave. And when to ask to condemn Tucker Carlson, he just condemns Nick Fuentes. We're not asking about Nick Fuentes. There's nothing easier than condemning a proud, unapologetic, white supremacist and anti-Semite that Nick Fuentes has been pedaling for years. No. No one's asking you even to condemn Joe Rogan, who's a like, you know, likable podcaster with a huge audience and he's a comedian. Like, we're talking about the person that actually has proximity to you and influence and has a real nefarious evil agenda and has been

peddling and mainstreaming anti-Semitism to millions and millions of younger people and new audiences. The fact that you have a friendly relationship outside of that is irrelevant. And you have to be able to either make those distinctions or have certain red lines and thresholds that, you know, to keep evading it under the guise of, well, we all have respect. Disagreements. You don't have respectful Discreasque. Yeah, you have respectful discreet with Abdul-El-Said and you're perfectly willing to condemn and call him out for his views

and his behavior. There are plenty of people, Vice President, that you rightfully condemn, call out, confront as dangerous, ideologically, politically, culturally. But Tucker's just someone we need to keep in the mix to unite the party around the most divisive figure in the party. Come on. It's not good enough.

I don't want to unite with that. I don't find any value in that as a constitutionalist. And I have friends that I disagree with. I have no, like Mark Tieson, I just disagreed with him yesterday because he was calling people in Texas morons. And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, look, here's the lay of the land. It's not as easy as all that.

And I don't, you know, I'm not throwing Mark under the bus. I disagree with people all the time. Like, when did we get so fragile and sensitive on the right? And, I mean, that's what I'm also worried about. I feel like the right is getting as sensitive. And I hate using this word, but for the lack of a better one, triggered as the left with us. What's your take on that last question? Oh yeah, that's the great irony too, like the right, which is claiming to always be about respectful disagreement.

It's like this same line of thinking is what leads to Megan Kelly taking such personal offense to Ben Shapiro, disagreeing with her and confronting some of the things that he does that he disagrees with. And all of a sudden, like, it's a lot of psychological projection that goes on where under the guise of we're all about free speech, we're all about open debate and having polite disagreements and respectful disagreements. But the second they get criticized, they call it cancel culture. Israel trying to shut down debate and conversation. So there's a lot of a lot of projection there. And I just think, yeah, that's the great iron here. And while all this infighting is going on, it hands victories.

It hands victories to the left. And I'm sorry, I also have to say, like, conflating what Tucker's been doing into the realm of civil, respectful disagreement. I'm sorry, there are thresholds. Like, I have respectful disagreements with my friends who are very left wing. But once they start supporting Hamas, once they start ripping down hostage posters, it's not a respectful disagreement. It's a disrespectful disagreement. And there needs to be a place for that as well.

Disrespectful disagreements. Like, I'll have friends across the political spectrum, but when it goes beyond politics into real ethical issues, we're not in the marketplace of ideas anymore. We're in the marketplace of conduct. When you're throwing up a grieving widow and going and mocking Erica Kirk and blaming the Jews for it,

when you're peddling real anti-Semitism and some of the darkest tropes and darkest things that have led to the falls of civilizations before you, it's not respectful. disagreements anymore. It's disrespectful disagreements about conduct, not ideas. So don't get that confused. Exactly. I'd love to have you back.

Ami Kozak. I would love to have you back. I love what you do. You can go find us work at Omicozac.com. We'll have everything down there in the lower thirds and on YouTube as well. Thank you for making us laugh because honestly, like some days, I just want to gouge my eyes out like an event horizon scene. But I don't because, you know, I find you making fun of it and it just brings, it just lifts it all back up. It's just funny. Well, don't you have beautiful eyes in it? We don't want to see lose your eyes. You need to be able to see. Clearly, we love the eyes, great eyes, unbelievable eyes.

Keep the eyes. We got to see clearly because we've got a fight out of us. We really do. Thanks for having me. Of course. Good to see you. That's Ami-Kozak, everybody. You can find him on X as well. The folks who will bring you the program, it's our friends over at WebRut. WebRut wants to make sure that you're safe going back to school, going back to whatever. Look, we're all online, guys. I'm just going to be real honest with you. I see people all the time, really smart people that fall prey to very stupid fishing attempts or malware or ransomware. They're is not a single one of you out there that are smarter than the most sophisticated criminal. I hate to say it like that, but these people, they're living, is to outsmart you and exploit you.

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What is happening? You know why we're never going to find out about aliens? Because of this, right here. Because people, there are enough people that are apparently deusing in Waymo's that it is actually a thing and now somebody has, they have like a job to take care of it. That's actually insane.

They're saying that in the Bay Area, are you shocked? That, yeah, the Waymo's drivers now, are the Waymo driverless cars. They're actually having to deal with that. And it's now a labor issue. Well, yeah. Who wants to clean?

Oh my gosh. Okay. I'm skipping the next one. We have two duty stories in a row. I'm no. We're going to, can I talk about the parents at the school? This is actually the most innocuous story that we have in this quick five segment.

I can't believe I'm saying that. Now the teachers are getting drunk and getting arrested at a Manassas Park high school. Wow, she is like, yeah, I'm drunk and kind of sad. Sharon Sanders of Clifton was arrested in charge with being drunk in public and then she was taken to jail to be held until she was sober. She was apparently drunk at 7.30 a.m. on the school grounds. That is some man. She had a night out on the tiles. Did she not? Oh, my gosh. They said that they remain. The police department remains committed to maintaining a safe environment for adults and students.

Okay, that's great. Wires, this is an issue. So we had the mom that had the DUI in the school pickup line and now we got this. If it's not one thing, it's another. It never ends. Let's see here. There was one that I missed that I wanted to go back. up here and get because so now they have a guy who shot his cousin in a heated argument over whose enchiladas were

spicier. So whose were spicier, though? That's what was not answered. Irvin Gutierrez got into a fight with his cousin Nathaniel Cavassos in New Mexico and it got an, it escalated to a

shouting match and then somehow somebody got shot and it was all over whose plate. of green chili enchiladas was hotter, which plate is hotter. One of the witnesses, who is a cousin to both of the cousins, said that they spent all day drinking and cooking green chili enchiladas. And then when Gutierrez kept insisting that the chili on his enchiladas was spicier than the chili on Cavassos's plate, and he challenged him to try it, Cavassos then said, all the enchiladas were prepared together and they carried equal heat.

But then it ended up turning into a physical fight because the most retarded, people that you know in the story or fighting. And one of them was bleeding and it got crazy. And then Gutierrez drew a gun and then, oh my gosh. And they were screaming, we're family. How could you do this? And I don't know. So now Gutierrez is in jail.

I know. I know. You're like, man, I could hear about half of you out there say, I thought my family reunions were crazy. I know. And this poor dog walker in London. Just out there, taking the dog for. beautiful day in London,

right? And they turned around and they saw a man with no pants who I can't say this, Kane. No, I can't. You do it. You do it. He was inserting a carrot into his

bum. I can't believe this is a news story. I am so sorry, guys. He got in trouble because you're not allowed to do that in public. You're allowed to do that in public. to do it elsewhere? I don't want to see what, look, be a weirdo somewhere else with carrots. Don't do it.

So in the 80s, I was a kid, obviously, a little bitty kid in the 80s. I didn't come of age until the late 90s going into the odds. But I love the 80s. I feel like that was the, that I really feel like I should have come to age in that decade. Because I feel like the 80s were fantastic. Ryan Reynolds doesn't think so. And I know I'm up against the clock here. So I was hoping that maybe, are you going to choose that for your today?

stupidity? Or did I just hijack it? No, no, no. We can, yeah, we can totally do that. We'll, we'll make this a dual purpose. Because this is stupid, right? It, it is. It's more than stupid. Go ahead. What's interesting about when you get far enough away from a time period that's quite distinct, I think there's always a lovely feeling associated with. It's almost like you pave over all the trauma with like puppy dogs and ice cream. And the 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a f***ing mess. Like, you know, people forget that it was. was like that was a tremendous strife. Sociopolitical tensions everywhere.

You know, we're still like pretty fresh off like a Cuban missile crisis, which is only like, what, 15, 20 years before. So, you know, it's a tumultuous period. But you look back at it now and you're like, oh, yeah, top gun, cocaine. He's wearing a felt necklace. It looks stupid. My friend Matthew Marston said that he got something like he got people kicked off set if they didn't have COVID shots back in the day.

I really don't, I'm not a big fan of him or his wife. If I can be honest. Like, I'm not going to be mean about it. I just, I'm not a fan. I don't know. That does it. But the 80s seemed like they were awesome. For the people who really lived it, I'm sure you would agree.

That does it. I will be back behind the mic next Tuesday. See my mama for her birthday. Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend back next week.