The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - J.D. Vance's TPUSA Appearance, Omar Fateh Pledges LOYALTY To Somalia & Trump's China Deal

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

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You and I, at the helm of China-U.S. Relations, should stay the right course and ensure the steady sailing forward of the giant ship of China-U.S. Relations. Do you trust it? Do you, do you? I don't trust China. What does the guy say? Because I don't think I can say it. China, China, LaPaw. What?

Nothing. Oh, so the president is, he had his big. dinner, well, like meeting yesterday with China. And we got some details. We're going to get into all of that. We got some details for you as to what that means and what you can't expect and if there's anything to expect and if you actually anticipate, you know, this to be resolved in terms of the trade deal. I'm just glad that the way that I understand it is that nobody moved in negotiations. I mean, nothing was escalated, but like nothing moved. And I don't know if you consider that a win or not.

I mean, the only way that you would think it's a win is if you walked in with the anticipation of like maybe caving to China, I don't know, which I don't think. I'm not saying that's what POTUS is doing, but still. So welcome to the show. It is Thursday. It's Halloween Eve Eve. Wait, Halloween Eve. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's Halloween Eve. So very excited about that Because we always like to dress up and have fun And do fun stuff But we're going to get you set up because we've got We've got I mean a lot of Cultural stuff to get into And I'm trying to think we've got cultural stuff

I've got some odds and ends Government is still shut down Everything is going to expire on the first And that's when you're going to start seeing some stuff. That's when the food stamps, CBT, a whole bunch of stuff kicks in. And that's, you know, Democrats don't seem to be very

willing to actually take the vote, it seems like. I don't think it's going to happen. This is cut three. This is a reporter to Chuck Schumer. He's asking him, look, are you saying that this is all just Republicans and you bear? no responsibility for this. Listen. We are saying the Republicans have no responsibility for the fact that we are saying the Republicans

can fund it now and they're using these people as hostages. Plain and simple. Next, that's the answer. The answer is they can fund it right now. Okay, right now. No, they can't. Yeah, you have to vote for it. That's because you know what? If Trump is going to do something, then they're going to, if he does something unilaterally, then, oh, he's the king. We don't have any Kings, you got to vote for it, you schmuck. Oh, that's I mean, that's honestly what a lot of, uh, this is,

this is what a lot of these Republicans need to be saying. Yes, you know, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's no kings. And because it's no kings, it means, uh, you guys got to, guys got to go to vote. You guys got to get out there and vote. I mean, I thought they didn't want kings, but then they expect Trump to act unilaterally. Make it make sense.

It does. But no kings. That should just be the, that's, that should just be the response. No king. Yeah, well, you know, you should have thought about that. So this, what the hell vote are we on? I don't even know what vote we're on. Do you guys know? Nobody knows.

I think 14 is what we're on. When is 15? Okay, so it's still 14. We're not at 15 yet. Okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. Yeah, I, um, we're, okay. I'm trying to get all, it, you can't keep track of it anymore.

It's almost been a full month of shutdown. Including the stupid nuke the filibuster talk over a clean CR. Somehow you want to nuke the filibuster. Why are we going to new the filibuster? By the way, we've never done it before for anything like this. There's some people on the right that are like, oh, they break the rules. We should too. It's dumb. That's stupid. Those are the people that make us lose.

That's true. I just think you've got to fight harder. I don't think that you become the left. The left is trying to bait the right. They've been trying to bait the right into doing this forever. And again, you've got a bunch of people who, God forbid, they pop out of their mama's womb. And they think politics started the day that they graced us with their glorious divine presence.

And they're like, oh, guys, we've got a brand new idea. Let's nuke the filibuster. I said we haven't heard that from a bunch of moronic GOP-E establishment types for a million years beforehand. I get super salty about this because these people, certain people I feel like are trying to make us lose. all right so the uh it i mean it is it's it's it's i think the the republicans have been doing good on the messaging i mean i don't have anything to update you with there's no new polling that shows that this is impacting them negatively and i don't care i'm just so dear heavens i'm so tired of talking about it they're not going to vote okay fine they're not going to vote they don't want to vote on it

they don't want to vote on it that's fine they cannot vote on it but then it's going to be their responsibility when november first hits and quite frankly i don't even like all of the entitlements i don't like all the entitlements this is the current rate of spending We're just extending Joe Biden's rate of spending. I don't even like it. But this idea that somehow Republicans are, who's the one vote no, Slick? Who's voting no? It's you.

Who goes in there and says, no, it's you? That's all it is. That is it. Now, there is some tricks and maneuvers and things like that. Lorraine reminds that they're trying to go after Trump was trying to allocate funds to pay military salaries because Democrats keep voting, no. And now there's going to be some legal challenges over that. There's going to be a legal challenge over everything. If he found a way to pay for food stamps, the left would still sue him. They're still going to drag it. It's just

so asinine. This whole thing is ridiculous. But this is what this is the, I mean, that's Democrats keep voting. No, there it is. There's nothing else to, there's no other way to spin this. There's no other way to spend this. And the idea that somehow they have a pot of money just sitting around somewhere. Then Trump is just hoarding it like Scrooge McDuck. And that's why they can't pay for anything is just also asinine. So as you know, POTUS again, he was in South Korea. He was visiting South Korean leadership. Also meeting with Xi Jinping. And they had a very, I always think they're, I always like the way that they face off at the table. Whenever they sit at the table, I love reading the body language on that.

I can't tell you what, you know, half the time, what usually you have the simultaneous interpreter in the year of whatever foreign leader it is. But I always liked seeing them face off. So they, he got, I guess you could say he, there were a few concessions, but there weren't any major changes in terms of, like, for instance, the sanctions with Russian oil. and this is something, let me pull this up. This is a Wall Street Journal piece

because he wanted immediately cuts to, he was asking for cuts to tariffs, et cetera. But with this piece, this is their first face-to-face meeting. I think previously it was just on the phone in six years. So they have kind of like what Wall Street Journal says is a temporary truce. And they have a reduction in some of the stiff U.S. tariffs

on Chinese goods. in exchange, China's going to crack down on the trade in the precursors that are used to manufacture fentanyl. And then China also promised to ease up on the exports of rare earths. This is what, can I just revisit this again? This is what always infuriates me about the left and the enviroacos. Like, they're not conservationists, they're environmentalists. Conservation is about actual good stewardship of Earth's resources. And environmentalism is just an insane cult where they believe in yeating virgins into the sun.

I mean, for the most part. But the rare earth elements, which I don't know why they're called rare. It's not that they're rare. I mean, the United States, we've got a ton of them. I mean, we're sitting on massive amounts of rare earths. It's not that they're rare. It's that the extraction process is laborious. And also, there's a high chance of additional pollution. If that's a, you know, it's very difficult to extract some of the stuff. So it's not that it's rare. It's just the extraction process is difficult. you're China and you don't care, you know, unless you're China and you don't care about turning lakes pink and putting carcinogens in the soil. I mean, they have entire towns over there where their DNA is irrevocably altered because of the reckless wherewithal extraction process that China uses for rare earths. So it's not that they have more of them. It's just that they don't care.

They don't have worker protections over there. They don't have anything like that. They have environmental protections, nothing. So they can do whatever the hell they want because it's the communist Chinese government, right? If commies want it, commies will get it. They'll find a way. So they just extract however fast they can. And that's what makes them dominant in rare earths. So, and then here in the United States, we, I mean, it's, you can't even drag people into the boardroom to negotiate even exploratory leases or exploratory permits in order to even gauge, whether or not there's rare earths to be extracted from a particular region. So it's incredibly difficult here.

To say nothing of the like OSHA and everything else in terms of what you're exposed to through the extraction process. We could, I mean, if we wanted to, I'm sure you could unleash our engineers and scientists and we could have like very, very steam. We could steam roll China on this and we could come up with amazingly efficient and also clean. ways to extract like we did with oil and gas. The United States was a pioneer in that. We immediately developed the cleanest processes to, for gas and for oil, et cetera. We can't, there's so many environmental restrictions. It almost makes even the progression of that, a problem here in the United States. So they've got, he got, long story short, he got an agreement on rare earths that we need because the left was marrying us to the Chinese

monopoly of this. That's all Biden's Green New Deal. I mean, if you're going to have EVs on the, guess how many rare earths you're going to have to have from China in order to be able to manufacture that for batteries, et cetera, et cetera, for everything. I mean, it's just unsustainable with the way that Democrats, the path that Democrats have us on. And I mean, really our industry is still developing. I think there's one rare earth's mine that got cleared. I can't remember if it's in the southwest or if it was in New Hampshire. But, I mean, really, the industry, the sure, but there was like, they haven't even started yet, but they've just cleared like some of the initial bureaucracy in order to even get to the point of the extraction process. So it's not that

it's impossible. It's just prohibitively expensive and it takes forever. So Beijing also promised to buy whatever the variable, whatever quantity, tremendous amounts of American soybeans are. So this really, I mean, and obviously our market, you know, responded positively to this. But there wasn't any big thing that, like the TikTok stuff that wasn't resolved. The Navidia chips, that wasn't resolved. And we didn't give up any ground, but they didn't really give up any ground either. So there are a few things that Trump got concessions on. but they're being very, very measured

and how they describe it to the press. And he's also being very measured so he doesn't give up any of his cards. So interesting stuff. We have more on the way. We've got headlines coming up. Also, I've got a bunch of things to get into. The latest with Mamdani.

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First is the Fed has cut the rates again. Powell raises more doubts about easing further. the next meeting. This comes in from CNBC. It was a 10 to vote. So they, uh, central banks federal open market committee lowered its benchmark overnight. Uh, borrowing rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%. They also said they're ending the reduction of asset per of its asset purchases. That's the quantitative tightening. You have quantitative easing, quantitative tightening on December 1st. So finally there, Are you happy, Cane? Did you get a little bit of what you wanted?

Tiniest a bit. But after we got the revised job numbers, why wouldn't he commit to lowering more in the next meeting? It's silly. Why are you asking things that don't make sense, sir? I almost said Gil Bates instead of Bill Gates. I kind of want to keep that verbal typo. I sort of like his name better as Gil Bates, don't you? That's a SpongeBob character's name.

It's Gil Bates. Bill Gates says we're in an AI bubble similar to the dot-com bubble. I actually do believe that. Oh, completely. I mean, we've been there for a while now. He says it's not like tulip mania that took place in the Netherlands in the 1630s,

but it could be like the dot-com bubble where a bunch of companies end up being overhauled. We'll see. I mean, I think it also depends on the, for the lack of a better way to put it, the evolution of AI and its uses and how quickly consumers take to it. Internet Pioneer AOL is going to be acquired

by an Italian tech company bending spoon. that's what they're called. $2.8 billion. Is anybody else shocked that AOL was worth $2.8 billion still because I could not take

anything else away from this article as a Wall Street journey. Really? 2.8? Only every now and then I get some very, very far left older individuals that have AOL accounts

that want to tell me how horrible I am because I'm not a dirty, Marxist tippy, but you know, whatever. Let's see. Also, well, we've got more. I'm running out of time here,

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find a bipartisan path toward a spending agreement that actually meets the needs of the American people, and address the healthcare crisis that Republicans have created. So are they saying they're harder to work with in Hamas? That's what they're saying. I mean, they are hiding behind women and children. and with snap, so I mean, there's no difference there. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash with you. The chats at Rumble, channel 347 is where you can watch us do the radio program. Who keeps voting no? Oh, you do. You keep voting no. Oh, hi. Hi there. Yeah, Hakeem Jeffries, he was just speaking.

He's the one who keeps voting, no. POTUS, his job isn't to stay in the Senate and do y'all's job for you. You know, this summit that they had in South Korea has been on the books for quite a while now. It's been on the books for some time. So just stop voting no. Stop voting no. I mean, the potus is over there doing what he's supposed to be doing as the executive. Cementing trade agreements, trying to cease China's monopoly as it pertains to rare earths.

In the meantime, they could just stop voting. No. That's it. I keep seeing these, like, Democrats have tweeted a million times. I just saw another one go by. Snap in if it's going to run out. Healthcare premiums are going to go up. Federal workers are going to miss their full paycheck. Why'd you keep voting no? By the way, all of this stuff is unnecessary. Healthcare premiums are going to go up because they purposefully made Obamacare incredibly unaffordable. That's what the funny thing about all this is, too, is that this whole thing about the shutdown is showing you how unbelievably expensive Obama. care is. Everything that they ever said about it was a lie. We knew that because we could do math and we have reading comprehension, but not everybody else is like that. Right. Some people just blindly worship whatever policy Democrats would put out. A lot of people were called racist if they didn't

support the healthcare, the socializing medicine. This is so asinine. This is honestly some of the dumbest stuff. This is why, you know, aliens should just take some of us with them. I'll go. you know, if there's not going to be a giant space rock that blows us, you know, an asteroid that blows us up, then just let some aliens come and zip us up. I can't tell you how many times I'm messaging lawmakers. Like, if you want to leak anything about them aliens, you know, come find me. So far, nobody's taken. Nobody's taken up my offer. I'm trying to give you that information, you know, we'll say. But this, this is, this is, it's goofy. Democrats are admitting that they've been using all of this as leverage. They want one and a half trillion dollars. We don't have. We don't have. of one and a half trillion dollars. Again, we've gone to war for less. I'm ready to go to war. You know, we went to war over for less than this. This is egregious in terms of tax abuse.

Let's go to war. Nobody wants to be the first one out, right? Like nobody wants to be like, you got all my stuff. Let's go to war. And then they get out there for a civil war and they're like, where's everybody at? I'm the only one.

Nobody wants to do that. But still, my point is. And my point remains that, I mean, the Stamp Act was way less egregious than what a lot of the stuff is. So, you know, I don't know. Why are so? I mean, the problem is that we have over 11% of our country's population that's on SNAP. That's not a success.

That's a failure. We're making people easy in their dependence. And that's, if you want to boil it down to the most basic difference between Republicans and Democrats, it's that. They want people to be easy and their dependence on government. And they think that if you do anything that makes individuals have to empower themselves that you are being cruel and that it's mean to make people work. That's their view. That's how they look at it. Like you're the mean one. If you want to work, then gay for you. But some people just don't want to work and you shouldn't be mean to the people who just don't want to work. In fact, you should voluntarily give up more of your income

to give to the people who don't want to work. That's their whole MO. I mean, we have our spending, just, it's not even been the past five years. Federal spending on SNAP alone has more than doubled. That's like in maybe four and a half years. It has more than doubled. Why would anyone say that this has been like a success. And then isn't it something like 40% of those individuals are not Americans? I mean, we've, it's ballooned to an unsustainable degree. We went from 63 billion to 146 billion

in four and a half years. The left calls that compassion. And I don't think that that's, compassion. I think that's a sign of government failure. I think it's a sign of societal failure as well. Society is reconditioning you to think that you have to in some way, in order to be a successful citizen of this country, have a dependency upon the federal government. And whenever Democrats also, they say, oh, there's a problem to be solved. They don't want to just solve the problem. It's always a bureaucracy. It's always some kind of bureaucratic response.

Like in Georgia, they said, I was looking at the stats. It's like over a million people in Georgia have EBT cards. 1.38. That's insane. Kane, that's one point. That's insane. Have EBT. That's just in Georgia. Why? Well, that's. And again, I, this is why I say a lot of Republicans don't have the balls to be conservative. There's not been. Whenever I hear people railing against conservative, I'm like, you just, you don't know anything. These are again, people who think politics began the day that

they were born. They have no life experience and they get out and they're like, I made my first political post on X. Go me. I'm an expert. There's never, ever been an actual conservative policy that has ever been proposed in past because Republicans are spineless. Now, I tend to vote Republican. I vote Republican because of our two parties in our two party system, that's the one that just is best going to move the ball down the field the way that I wanted to go. But, you know, the truth of the matter is that they're not, they're just not conservative enough. I don't want Snap.

I don't think we should have any entitlement. I think it's all communist. It's Marxist. but Dana, you should have a safety net. Why do you have to be generous with everyone else's money? If you were truly a person moved by the spirit of giving, you would do it as much as you wanted to without the government having to take money from everybody else too.

So I always hear these people that are like, can you believe it? Oh my gosh. We need to feed the poor. Okay, then write a bigger check. These people are not generous. They preen and pretend like they are. They can't actually be good unless the government forces them, but then it's got to force everybody else too.

That's the problem. So no, I don't even think we should have a snap. It's Marxist. All of these entitlement programs are Marxist. It's all welfare. It's all wealth redistribution. That's exactly what it is. And you can dislike that I'm saying that all day, but I am so damn right. It's painful. But that's a conservative perspective to not want it. The response to it is to have private, privatize, don't tax people to the point where they don't have anything left for charity at the end of the month. That's the first thing that drops, too, economically when we are being pressured by inflation,

when we're in a recession, when we got high taxes, et cetera. The two things that drop, first is charitable giving. Second thing is marketing budget shrink. Boom and boom. Housing then. It all comes in. The first thing you notice is when charitable donations drop. If people weren't taxed to death, if we weren't living in an egregiously blow,

not even a republic anymore government, then they would be able to do more to be good stewards of their fellow man. But see, government always exploits it. Oh my gosh, they create this economic system where you can't go and help people voluntarily because you're broke after you give it all to Uncle Sam. And then government uses the absence of that charitable giving as a justification to further engorge and expand itself. It's a horrible cycle. I mean, this is insane.

I mean, 11% on this. But this is, again, it's not, that's, none of that's conservative. But Republicans don't have the spine to say. So I'm going to tell you what. I was sitting next to, he's an attorney now in D.C. But he used to run for all kinds of seats in Missouri. And I remember sitting at a table with this guy. And this was, I was in my 20s.

And so this was the first time that I realized just how cowardly Republicans were. and we were talking about privatizing social security, something I've talked about for forever. And he was like, yeah, well, you can't say that. You can't go out there and say that. He's like, yeah, you know, Republicans just got to go along with it. It doesn't go over well with voters. And I'm like, yeah, if you just say it, but if you actually tell people that it's their own money and they're going to get more back, if they invest it themselves as opposed to the government, then that's messaging and that's explaining it to people. They didn't even have the spine to deal with it. It's like, yeah, I just don't want that fight. I'm not kidding. It's what he told me verbatim. He told me verbatim.

I just don't want that fight. They don't have spines. So whenever you hear people talk about conservatives and Republicans, that's the difference. A lot of these people that act like there, there's a horrible trick going around where it's just like it was an 08. The establishment is trying to convince you that if you don't go along with big spending establishment stuff that you're the traitor, when it's actually they're the traitors. They're the ones that would have been run out on a rail like Elijah Lovejoy back in the day for betraying the. the American public over their tax dollars. But I digress.

11% of the population. And people are so taxed. They are so taxed. And you know that tax burden, there are a lot of people still digging out of the tax burden after COVID. There are property owners that I heard from that own apartment buildings or they own

like buildings where multiple businesses, maybe strip malls or something like that. And they were all, I will never forget the amount, the stuff that I heard from people when they were saying that they still had to pay taxes, but they were also, especially those who owned condos and apartment buildings and people who were renting houses. I heard from so many people all across the nation. They were saying, yeah, we still had to pay our taxes, but we weren't allowed to collect rent

until that court battle that overturned that. You know, none of those people got their money back, by the way. that was money that they ended up just spending because they had to spend they had to pay someone else's rent and their utilities during COVID. But oh my gosh, Uncle Sam came running out with his handout during tax season, what he thought was his. They didn't get a break on their taxes. They not only had to pay double, but they had to still pay their taxes. They didn't get a moratorium on that. You don't even know.

I mean, that had a major effect on the economy. there were so many people that were writing about that. 11%. I, those people shouldn't be allowed to vote. You should not be, you're getting paid off by your government. That is a conflict of interest. If you're receiving welfare, you shouldn't be able to vote. Now, I don't want to hear anybody sit here and tell me about unfortunate circumstances.

I will, I will beat you over the head with my, I'll play my card on that. Like I said, I grew up poor as poor could be. I couldn't even afford notebook paper. Single mom working three jobs. So I know there are sometimes people get into situations. They need a safety net. That's what families for, not the taxpayer. It's not unfeeling.

It's not any more unfeeling than demanding that strangers pay for everything that happens to you in your life. It's called courtesy and responsibility. and sometimes things happen, but that doesn't mean somebody else is responsible for it. 11% guys, how is that, if this was in the context

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This isn't anything. society did to you. It's what you did to yourself. Everybody else is out there making money. What's so wrong with you that you can't go out there and make money? Oh, because you're lazy. That's what it is, because you are lazy and you worship at the altar of self. That's the problem. 11% of the public are on food stamps. That is not a success. That is a failure. In the meantime, they don't do nothing to make health care affordable. Oh, they made sure. that you couldn't be portable with your insurance and they made sure to tie it to your employer. We got a whole bunch more coming. Second hour on the way. Stick with us. Sometimes makeup can be super

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I'm going to use my position to advocate for Somalia. This is actually not anything unlike what Ilan Omar has said before. This was a rally not too long ago. The video is now coming out. We're showing him doing this. I don't think that you should be able to run for elected office if you're, you have other allegiances. If you want to have an allegiance to Somalia, go to Somalia and do it there. Go do it there. Go try to get into government and all of that stuff.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Man, Minneapolis is good night. Expressing loyalty to Somalia. I am very much like our founders. I'm like George Mason when it concerns participation in politics. And I've a very much.

piece up, by the way, if you haven't read it yet, it's over in substack. It's not behind a, it's not behind a paywall unless you only read the, unless you click through all the time. But the point that I made in this is I was actually talking about, you know, the whole idea of where the founders were in terms of immigration. And I got into, you know, a whole bunch of stuff with this, but it was during one of the debates at the constitutional convention or George Mason. By the way, George Mason was also the guy who pretty much defined what militia was. You know, if you're talking about, well, who is the militia? Well, it's every man and woman in the United States.

That's who the militia is and was. It's how it was always defined to be. But one of the things that where they kind of stood on immigration, in some aspects, they were a little progressive. Not all. But in some aspects, some of them might be measured by today's conservatives as a little progressives. But that was just specifically on legal entry. After that, they were very conservative. And they believed in kind of like a quarantine period of sorts. And Mason did not think that you should be, running for any kind of office, not even dog catcher. Well, they didn't really have dog catchers back there, but you know what I mean, unless you had been here for a minimum of three years. And he's right, how can you come to a country that you, it's like me going to, well, hell would be like me going to like Jamaica or Puerto Rico or somewhere else or Italy or Spain. And immediately as I get over there, like, okay, I'm going to run for, I'm going to run and mess up all your politics now. I'm going to

run for office. And I mean, it makes sense. And that's what he and many. And that's what he and many, of the other founders believed. In fact, Mason had stated, quote, citizenship for three years was not enough for ensuring that local knowledge, which ought to be possessed by the representative, making sure that, you know, you can't tell if it's going to be measurable at that point. And he's not wrong. Omar Fata is the problem of the rejection of assimilation. And that is a big aspect of this. There's a problem with the way that we, I don't really know when this kicked into gear. I was thinking about this this morning and trying to get my thoughts organized about this. But I don't know when it kicked in. Was it the 80s? Because I remember, you remember the phrase melting pot, right? Everybody

remembers the melting pot phrase. And at some point, when was this canon, the a early aughts? When did that become like a politically incorrect phrase? Like you're not supposed to say that anymore. When did that happen? Because that's a sciop for sure. Well, it's a psychological trick on you. And I say that because melting pot, what does melting pot suggest? You have a bunch of people who come over and they all basically melt into one thing as a way. It's not homogenous, but it is assimilated, meaning you don't have to reject where you're coming from or some of the values that you have, but it is that commonality.

and coming over here, do you want to be free? And then your loyalty is to this republic as a citizen before any other sovereign entity. We are not demanding that happen of people who are coming here and immigrating. So at some point, the left decided, and this is, again, all because of CRT, critical race theory. Now, we can't say melting pot anymore. This is the only time they didn't want to actually focus on race and ethnicness. No, no, no, we don't want to say melting pot. They wanted to keep everything separate so that they could load up factions against each other.

This is the whole purpose. So you melting pot, the rejection of that wasn't just a rejection of a term that they found offensive. It was a rejection of assimilation. When they started attacking the conservatives or started attacking the right for using that phrase, they weren't attacking language. They were trying to re-condition you into how you think about assimilation. It is rude, they posit, to expect people who immigrate over here to adapt to our way of life to adapt to our culture. And as a result, you get things like what we were dealing with in

Irving, Texas, people coming over here from Middle Eastern countries and they wanted to reject Western jurisprudence and establish an entire court of Sharia law. That's something they actively tried to push for. In Minneapolis, the same thing is happening there. Minneapolis is turning into Luton. There's a place in England called Luton. And in fact, some of the 9-11 terrorists, that's where some of their mams were in Luton. In fact, one of the craziest ammns in all of the U.K. is in Luton. That's where a lot of this stuff kicked off, like with Tommy Robinson and all of that was in Luton.

Minneapolis is turning into Luton. This is, it's, there was a rejection of assimilation. So you had people coming here who didn't, not only did they not want to be free, but they don't want you to be free. That's, that's what it is. And now we're skyrocketing these people into elected office before they've even assimilated. How are you representing a people when you're rejecting their way of life?

That should be, I don't think you have to be a full-on citizen to even be considered for elected office. And even then, I think it should only be state and local. I am really hardcore. So this is why I'm saying Republicans are too big government for me. Whenever I hear someone, I am probably the most consistent. conservative person you will ever know. The full scope of my views, even some of my friends are like, oh my gosh, but no, that's just the way it should be. And that's the way it was. I wouldn't, I would dare, first off, maybe I was raised in a barn, but I would never think of going to

another nation and say, now you got to be me now. You got to go, I'm not assimilating to you. You're going to assimilate to me. We're going to do things my way. I'm going to displace your legal system. I'm going to displace this that, no. But that's part of the attack on our freedom. That's why CRT is in so many ways even more effective than the economic warfare that you associate with more traditional Marxist tactics. So you look at this stuff in Minneapolis. It's insane. You look at Mandani in New York. I had some polling on him, by the way. You look at Mandani in New York. I mean, they did one survey that I saw. Do you know that his support, is greatest in the busiest parts of Manhattan.

So the richest Manhattanites are supporting him because they can. It doesn't matter to them if there's going to be higher taxes. It doesn't matter. They're not affected by any of this stuff. But the people who aren't billionaires will be. I got some also pulling about Jay Jones. This is in Virginia. Somiarez is at 46% and Jay Jones is at 3.000.

38% right now. Samayares is finally over. This is a Roanoke college poll that was taken from October 22nd to the 27th. And he's below the margin of error. It's still going to be close. If they get a lot of turnout, it won't be. But it's still going to be relatively close. And Mandani's just cruising. He's, you know, he's leading. He's going to win. He's another case of refusing to assimilate. We're going to bring our perspective of, you know, Sharia. and Islamic jurisprudence here, and we're going to start offsetting how you do things in the United States. That's a real problem because you're, I mean, because you see things like what you've been seen in Ireland and what you've been seeing in the UK with Rotherham and all, and a lot of these other places where the refusal to assimilate has made people vulnerable. I mean, good hunt. Night, there's crime, lawlessness disorder.

I have a couple of other things, too. Did you guys watch the T.P. USA thing? I had some of it on. I was doing work. I worked pretty late. I've been prepping for this debate. And that's going to be taking place next to Wednesday. I thought that J.D. Vance was giving some really good answers except for a couple. And I think it's good when, you know, you can have people answer questions. The other thing that struck me was how many college students repeated the same thing with regards to Israel.

the way, I think that you can be a Christian and not be a Zionist. I think it's a different interpretation on Revelation. And if anybody wants to take, you know, have a fight about it, then I suggest you go read Paul. You go read Paul in Romans and you read what he has talked about in terms of divisions in the church. And before you call anybody heretical, maybe find out if you're in keeping with what scripture says about dealing with differences and interpretation as it pertains to church and congregation. And then you measure yourself and see if you are not fall in into heresy by not following Paul's commands. Now, that being said, there were certain things, there was one question, who's asked a

couple of questions, one of them, there were a number of students that, I think there were, like, three questions that they had televised, where they were asking him about Israel. And this was, this is cut, let's do cut 15, please. This is that question, his answer. ethnic cleansing in Gaza. I'm just confused why this idea has come around, considering the fact that not only does their religion not agree with ours, but also openly supports the prosecution of ours. Yeah, so. Somebody is on TikTok too much. Let's say a few things about this. First of all, when the President of the United States says America first, that means that he pursues. the interests of Americans first. That is our entire foreign policy. And that doesn't mean that you're

not going to have alliances, that you're not going to work with other countries from time to time. And that is what the president believes, is that Israel, sometimes they have similar interests to the United States and we're going to work with them in that case. Sometimes they don't have similar interests of the United States. In this example, the most recent Gaza peace plan that all of us have been working on very hard for the past few weeks, the president of the United States could only get that peace deal done by actually being willing to apply leverage to the state of Israel. So when people say that Israel is somehow manipulating or controlling the president of the United States, they're not controlling this president of the United States,

which is one of the reasons why would be able to have some of the success that we've had in the Middle East. So the end of it is what I wanted there. Because I thought his answer started off strong and then I didn't like the end of it. First off, nobody's controlling the president of the United States. Some of these people need to learn how lobbying works. Every single country has a lobbying entity in the United States. Every single country. We have lobbying entities in other countries.

That is a fact. I found the entire premise of that dude's question when he asked. I just found it felt like it was like TikTok brain slop. Like if you're going to use phrases, if you're going to use Hamas phrases like ethnic cleansing as it pertains to Gaza. And J.D. Vance was way nicer than I would have been in answering the question. because I just reject brain slop. I just can't tolerate it. But I didn't like where he got towards the end because he was like, well, he's not

maybe you could also say, yeah, you know, it's our ally in the Middle East and they're not controlling us any more than we're trying to control anybody else. I just think it reinforces this stereotype that there's a big bad Jewish boogeyman and a bunch of people who don't know their ass from their heads sit here and read this stuff on Instagram or on X or they absorb it off a TikTok and they just parrot it. I mean, and I'm going to break that down even further for you here coming up. A lot of the people who have these criticisms can't even spell Knesset. They don't even know how to pronounce it.

But they want to sit here and be like, well, you know, they're controlling the president of the United States. We're going to revisit this. And by the way, I'm going to lay this down really quickly. I operate in a world where if you're entering political debate, you have the balls and the thick skin to be able to weather disagreements. and to be able to disagree with someone without devolving into like a menstrual acutane rage-fueled tantrum. And heaven forbid, if we ever get to the point where no one on the same side or even, we see what happens with the right and left, heaven forbid we ever get to the point where people on the same side can't agree or disagree or run across opinions that they maybe disagree with every now and then without devolving into like a progressive mental healthcape. Because no one is being attacked simply by being disagreed with.

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You can meet you. I'm glad to see you again. I'm just to see you again. Yes. Me too. And we're going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt. I'm a very tough negotiator. That's not good. We know each other well.

Mr. President, do you plan to sign a three deal today? We think we have a great understanding. Just goes to show you how really tall. show you how really tall Trump is. He's very tall. I mean, that seems kind of, I mean, you can tell there. Welcome back to the show, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of the second hour.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. I want aliens to come and visit us. What you're laughing? Why are you laughing for? Blah, blah, blah, blah. I get, I get, like, I see the discussion of this whole visit. I feel like half of the people are mad because I think that they thought he was going to be walking away. and he was going to have, I don't know, like he was, he was just going to be able to get total capitulation, Chinese capitulation.

And then I have other people say, no, no, no, it's so great. I mean, there really wasn't. I don't think anything moved on the board, do you think? I don't think anything. I mean, they got a couple of concessions, but they're still. And she, I mean, and Trump was being very diplomatic. He's like, well, Xi Jinping is a tough negotiator. And then you had the left going, look at him.

He's complimenting him. you guys sent pallets of cash to Iran. Shut up. You literally sent pallets of cash. You remove sanctions on Iran. That seems way better, or way worse, rather, than being a diplomat king. Just being diplomatic and dealing with it. Welcome back to the program.

So I'm like this New York Times piece. If you read the New York Times, they're making it. like, well, Trump just got bowled over by Xi Jinping. Withholding soybean purchases and rare earth exports, China extracted relief from U.S. tariffs and delayed export controls without conceding much in return. Oh, boy. I mean, it sounds like they really like China when I read this piece. I'm like, who side are you on?

Go ahead. Remember when they were complaining about the tariffs being. too high on China. And then when Trump and rightfully uses it as a tool and then lowers it in order to get the guarantee for the three-year deal on 25 metric tons of soybeans bought by China from the U.S., which, by the way, they were just complaining in the media about how the farmers have been hit the hardest in this because Biden didn't hold China accountable to the purchases they agreed to during Biden's administration. And now they're saying that somehow we capitulated Wait a minute. I thought the terrorists were too high to begin with.

I mean, if they're trying to, the way that they're putting this out, the way, and we're talking about this New York Times piece, by the way, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. The way that they're putting it out is, I mean, it's just defeatist and fatalist, and I don't think it's an accurate representation. Even though I really don't think that there were a lot of, I mean, it really didn't do any, they didn't really do anything to resolve, that's the word I was looking for, resolve this trade war. It's not a, I think the closest thing that you could say is that it may be, it might be a truce because they did agree to purchase more American agricultural products, soybeans and sorghum. There is that. And they also have the lifting, and this is something that China and the U.S. agreed to, they're lifting of docking fees. It's a reciprocal lift of those docking fees because they're trying to reduce the cost. cost of trade, cost of doing trade. And there were some reductions, some reductions with tariffs announced later in the president, I think, addressed that from when he was getting on the plane. But he said that China's exports by Trump's estimation, it was still going to be

at about a 47 percent tariff rate. So it's a scoge forward. So it's a scoge forward. to use a Midwestern term. That's true. It's a little bit of a scoge forward. It's not a step back, and that's, I really, and I've read this New York Times piece now a couple times. Like, they're really trying to make it sound like, I mean, I'm like, does Xi Jinping write this?

Because they're trying to make it sound like it was the United States that stepped back. Like, for instance, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. So this is the, like, fifth paragraph in. And it's almost like they're, they're applauding Xi Jinping. They're trying to act like he lectured Trump and they're applauding him for it.

The paragraph reads sounding almost like he was delivering a lecture. Mr. Xi, his name's Xi Jinping. Jim Ping is his last name. Mr. Xi said to Mr. Trump that the recent twist and turns of the trade war should be instructed

to them both. They make him sound like he's a professor and he's lecturing Trump the student. This whole article is like that. It's like the It's like the Chinese paper wrote this instead of the New York Times. I think what people are missing is that the United States is coming from a position of strength stronger than ever before because we have trade deals with rare earth minerals from like five or six different countries. We're talking Australia, Argentina, Japan, and now China we're working on right now.

China does have the largest. I mean, they have rare earths there, but China, the, and we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're. what we were talking about last, are they're the ones who actually extract it. They have the monopoly because they don't care about anything else. They don't care if they blow a hole in the side of the earth. They don't care. Their process for extraction, that's why. It's not that they have more. It's not that they're rare.

It's just that they don't give a right. And that's always been China's leverage against the United States. And because militarily, we need those rare. By the way, can I sidebar? This is how self-hating Democrat policy is. Under Obama, too, but under Biden Harris. Not only do they want you to be entirely reliant upon electric everything, but they, in order to do electric everything, that means that all of that goes to China, which has that monopoly because they don't have any regulations as it relates to extraction. All of that goes to China, enriches China.

And then we fall on the sword and beg for forgiveness for pollution for the Green New Deal. When China is the one that does all the, the number one polluter on. planet Earth. And they have the most pollutant extraction process ease for rare earths. Like, it's almost like they try to do it the dirtiest way. That's, I mean, and that's with anything. It's like they approach it like, how can we do this even polluter? And they ask themselves this. It's almost, I mean, that would make sense then when you look at the results. So not only where we did Democrats want the United States to give China, to give them all the control all the money, the monopoly for rare earths, you know, complete control. We would basically

be incorporating them into our energy infrastructure by their over-reliance and complete and total dependence on their production of rare earths. But then at the same time, we were going to pay basically an indulgence to, you know, a world fund for a Green New Deal. We were going to fall in the sort of an act like we were, we were going to fall in the sort of an act like we were the ones who were creating all the pollutants. This is the craziest thing ever. So, I mean, like, they say, oh, Mr. Xi also seemed to grasp that, you know, Mr. Trump needed a deal. He needs to sell a victory at home. They act like Xi Jinping, pitied Trump and tried to give Trump a little bit to make him look good. That's what I'm reading. And I don't care if you don't like Trump or

not. This is just inaccurate. This is just an idiotic way to view this. It is really good. It's it's goofy. They're, I mean, they're not going to end this trade war. They're not going to do it. And I, the New York Times, they would, either way, they're going to be mad. The left's going to be mad either way. They're going to be mad if Trump gives a victory. They're going to, they're going to find some way to paint that ridiculously.

If Trump was too hard, they were going to double down on the new kings and he's a tyrant, Nazi fascist, whatever. He held the line and we didn't lose anything and we did get a couple of concessions, but it's not an end of the trade war. Like I said, it's a scoge. in that direction. And that's, that's not definitely not enough for the New York Times. You're never going to be able to win with the left. So just stick with math. Because that's logical at least. We were talking a little bit before we broke about this, the JD Vance thing

when he was speaking last night. And I'd said, I liked some of his answers that he gave. But there were some that I thought, that I didn't like. And I didn't like the one where he was saying, where he, if we, we'll just play this again. This was, if we can just play the end, I don't need the whole like a minute long cut. If we could just do, which one was this? Was it 15? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just give me the end. I don't need the whole one minute. I literally only need the last 20 seconds. Working on very hard for the past few weeks. The President of the United States could only get that peace deal done by actually being willing to apply leverage to the State of Israel. So when people say that Israel is somehow manipulating or controlling the President of the United States, they're not controlling this President of the United States, which is one of the reasons why would be able to have some of the same. success that we've had in the Middle East.

I think that the better answer would have been, he's not control, what are you talking about? He's not controlling, they're not controlling anything. What is this that you're talking about? They're not controlling anything because the question I thought was a little assonine from the dude who asked it. I thought, you know, it was absolutely begging the question and assuming something that just was simply not true. But they were talking about lobbying and he didn't say A-PAC, but that's what they were

getting into. And if they wanted to talk, first off, you, you, It's an ally that we have in the Middle East. I don't think that they're controlling anybody anymore than we are controlling any other nation in which we have lobbying entities. That's the part where I wish that he would have, I didn't like the way that he ended that. I felt it could have been stronger verbiage for an ally. You know, I would have said, you know, if you're worried about influence on our government, let's look at Qatar that spends. I mean, so APEC is an American, it's America.

I've never met anybody with APEC. It's a domestic organization with Americans, American investors, American donors, et cetera, and they don't take foreign money. The Qatari stuff, I mean, that's just the Qatari government. And they, other than China, they outspend everybody. I think the lobbying for, I think APAC for 24, 2024 was something like $3 million, whereas with Cutter, it was a lot more than that. I wrote about it up, it's up at the post that I have, by the way, over at Chapter and Verse. My point is, is that I would have probably been, I probably would have said if you're worried about influence on our government, you know, then we need to look at Cutter. Why are Cutter and China giving billions of dollars to American universities? Why is Cutter paying millions of dollars to influence? influencers here in the United States. And that's a true thing. That is absolutely true. Yours truly has never taken any of that, by the way, which I think you can tell, because I'm not the most

popular amongst the buck kissing commentariat. And I don't care. But I would have said that, because that is absolutely true. I think when you're, this is the, the, I say commentariat for the lack of a better way to put it, because not everybody's a journalist and not, you can be in a form of media, but not everyone is practicing journalism. Some are just polemicists. Some are, you know, just trolls and some are just trying to make bank. And I think that, you know, I mean, obviously, and there's been a lot of stuff that's come out, Carter was absolutely paying influencers. I think a lot of nations actually do this. It's the new way to fight in terms of information battles. I would have brought that up and said, I think that you need to be way more concerned with this

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Florida Man, Barefoot Man Broke into a South Florida church and stole their iPads Lauderdale by the sea Florida Authorities in Broward County are investigating After a man allegedly broke into a Lauderdale by the sea church No really? Is that why you said Lauderdale by the seat at the start of the piece. Still several items, including an iPad and caused damage inside of the building.

It occurred Sunday afternoon. Surveillance footage shows a man in a tank top and swim trunks, entering the church by pulling a cart. He was barefoot and remained inside for several minutes. Apparently, he clogged the toilets with paper towels just because, and then he took their iPad. So what a weird, dude, it's the humidity. Let's just say it. That's what it is.

It's a humidity. Oh, this is infinite sadness. The Florida man was arrested for smashing pumpkins, great band. That were worth about $500. That is actually a lot of pumpkins. He, uh, his name's Aaron Thompson. He calls infinite sadness. He's been accused of smashing pumpkins valued at $500.

It was in front of a target in Tampa Bay. On security footage, he was picking pumpkins out of the boxes and smashing them on the ground at 1.15 in the morning. He was arrested several days later because he was a more. moron and he returned to the store and they recognized him and they summoned police. So they asked if he could identify the person and the surveillance footage they showed him smashing pumpkins in the video. Thompson said, that's me. He was arrested. He also was entirely unapologetic. And he said the only reason that he left is because he was, he needed to go to sleep. I don't know, man. I can't. You can't. Oh, but there, wait, there's more with the

purchase of one slap shop. You get a Florida woman who pulls a weapon on a family member over a language gap after nearly hitting them with her Porsche. Her response or their response, she's rich though. Good luck. Road rage. It was in Lee County, Florida. A family that doesn't speak English and a driver of a Porsche got into a fight and no one could understand each other. The Porsche driver got mad that the family was in the way and when she couldn't understand them, she threatened them with a weapon. They threatened her back. The Porsche driver, she tried to speed away. It actually showed her in the wrong because there was a guy. who was walking

and he was on the side of the road she did not want to share the road she was just driving in the middle of it so and then you just never stop and start arguing with people randomly when you're driving just go along your day okay and she was speeding and it was a residential area so she was like blasting

through and the funny thing is is she had a camera on our vehicle and it said when your own camera cashes you committing multiple felonies she got she was in a lot of trouble with police uh because she was also very, she was, she was, she was, I want to say Karen, but it's going to make the Karen's mad. She's the Tammy. That'll make the Tammy's mad. So you guys get to pick whose name she gets.

It's all there is to it. Uh, in a, oh, do we get a more time, do we more time? There's a guy who went after the pride flags at Starbucks. And because it's considered private property, he got in trouble. So it wasn't a speech issue. But, you know, there you go. Why, was he at Starbucks in the first place? Do you want coffee that's like overroasted hell? everything tastes like syrup pumpkin spice syrup with their over roasted beans our third hours on the way don't go anywhere or we'll know and we'll find you so folks over at super beach you guys are very familiar with super beats uh and the company human what makes their story different is where it began human was founded out of ut health science center and built on real cardiovascular research around blood flow and nitric oxide

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You're people of faith? You go to church on Sunday and pray in church on Sunday and pray on people the rest of the week. What is this? What is this? Is she trying to make fun of people using a southern accent? Is that what I'm hearing? Is that her appearing to use a southern accent while she was at Harvard? She was at an event in Harvard, 85-year-old Nancy Pelosi.

Oh, Lord, put a hand up from my mouth right now. first off welcome back to the program dana lash with you we are at the top of this third hour you can find the chat at rumble and you can also follow along and watch us do the radio program on channel 347 direct tv she is described as having baffled viewers at harvard because she slipped into a southern accent while she was talking about religious voters came She was speaking when she began to add the twang in her voice. We're going to play it again, but this is what she said. She goes, your people of faith, you go to church on Sunday and you pray in church on Sunday and pray, P-R-E-Y.

So she focused group this, on people the rest of the week. What is this? Interesting. Go ahead and play one more time, please one. Your people of faith? You go to church on Sunday and pray on. church on Sunday and pray on people the rest of the week? What is this?

What is this? You thought she was clever. You know, I met her one time. And my son met her, my oldest son met her. We were in D.C. And her staff always preps her very well. She was very polite. And she was very, you know, probably you might think,

sometimes you meet some of these people and you might think, oh, outside of politics, you seem like you might be a, you know, nice, a person you could at least talk to. You know, not a horrible person. She, uh, knew my son's name, which, that's a very, yeah, I know, right? Because it's not like, you know, they're online. It's like, whoa, her people prep her very well. She was like, oh, it's good to see you, said his name, and then, and then left.

I was like, oh, very interesting. We both kind of looked at each other. but I don't think you need to make fun of people like this. I guess she's trying to make fun of evangelicals and say that if you don't give one and a half trillion dollars for spending on illegally in health care that you're not a Christian, because my response would be, well, you just don't kill babies in the womb and then call yourself a Christian. You don't sit here and get behind all of the trans mafia that you get behind and call yourself a Christian. You know, there's a lot of stuff that you don't do. you don't take from one and give to another. That's that, that's, that's, that's not being a good Christian.

Interesting. She's making fun of them, though. That's exactly what she was doing. That's not even a great Southern accent, you know. That's not even a good Southern accent. But that's, that's, someone said that she's probably trying to keep her dentures from slipping out her mouth. And that's why she had to start talking like that, which I don't know if that helps or not. But that, it just not.

She's been, you know how she's been in Congress for so. long. I, I mean, she's been in Congress for forever. She's been in government for forever. She, I mean, I'm actually shocked. I think most everybody, I think she's older, she's been in Congress longer than Steve's been alive, definitely longer than Juan's been alive. She's been in Congress for a long time. If she is unhappy with the way that things are structured, why hasn't she used her power all of this time to do something about it, especially when she was the Speaker of the House for the first part of Barack Obama's first term in which Democrats had a super majority until they had special elections that evened it out just a bit.

But making fun of people? I don't know. Does she pick that up from Hillary Clinton using the accent? You just can't go and pray on people on Sunday and then pray on them in the streets. Who's praying on them in the streets? that, well, you're praying on them in the streets, you know, if you ain't given, you know, people who come in the country legally cane, if you ain't given them a million, a trillion and a half dollars, then you're praying on them. I don't really think that's how that works. Is that what

she thinks? You know what those people that she makes fun of, do more to help the disadvantage than she does by trying to leverage government as a fake, way of helping people really when it's all about expanding control and authority. I just hate it when people make fun of Southern folks. I don't like it. They're always so proper. Even, you know, even the mean ones are real proper. It's like how the Germans all sound mean. My husband's family's German so I can say that. It's all and everything even like joy over having a delicious meal sounds angry. It's all great. I think Democrats need to kind of think and learn their lesson just a little bit as, you know, you can't, you need those people. They need

those nice people to win elections. But this idea that we're going to use emotional blackmail for, like with religion as a way to browbeat people into supporting a great just government spending, neither shall you work, neither shall you eat. I mean, we can sit here and go back and forth with scripture all day long. She's not going to win this battle. Not going to win it. Not going to win it. So thankfully, I think that Democrats have been, or Republicans have really kept to the messaging on this. I think it's been very helpful for them. I wanted to go play some more audio for you because we have a lot of really good cuts today. So this is cut 27.

Can I just say Chuck Grassley? You all know Senator Chuck Grassley, right, Iowa. One of the nicest, I actually never met him, but he seems like one of the nicest people ever. He tweets things like, oh, I saw a deer on the side of the road. Everybody, be careful when you're out. because it is deer season and there's deer all over and you could hit a deer and I mean he used to do these updates where he almost like every week he would talk about that and then it's interspersed with he's sitting at a diner after church having lunch with his lady his wife you know real nice guy

why would you want to tap his phone I don't know that's the question for jack smith listen to this cut 27. I've recently been informed by Verizon that at least 11 members with Verizon accounts were affected. That includes a hard line for Senator Cruz's office and a staffer's cell phone for former Senator Leffler. AT&T informed me they challenged the legal basis for Jack Smith, efforts and Smith back down. Hmm. Yeah, they were, they tapped his phone. They were listening. He was listening in.

This is that Arctic Frost investigation. And this special, former special counsel had obtained phone records, not just from Grassley, but through crews. They were trying to, this is all about the Arctic Frost, and Grassley revealed, he's, this is part of that Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into that. We had Eric Schmidt, Senator Eric Schmidt on yesterday about this. But they wanted the phone toll records. That was what they're trying to say in their defense to show what numbers were called, what time they were called, you know, how long the call went on. They were trying to say, well, we weren't listening to the content of the call. Sure, I believe you. And said nobody ever. I mean, you're lying to people about wiretapping their

phones, but you're saying, oh, no, but it only went, no, you're not going to give us a little truth and then lie and then expect us to take the lie because you shared a little truth. We're not doing that. And Verizon complied with a subpoena, but AT&T. So Cruz had said, because he has apparently a phone with Verizon and a phone with AT&T, he said that this, by the way, this is why you need to have Patriot Mobile. He said that Verizon complied with the subpoena for the Senate phone, but AT&T, which has his personal phone, they refused to turn over the records. And apparently this is how he started finding out. Now, the Verizon spokesperson came out and said that they are legally required to respond to any kind of valid grand jury subpoena, and they were under a court

order to keep it confidential, et cetera. You know, the subpoenas and all of this stuff, that is so situational what they want to listen, what they want to follow on what they don't. This is more Biden abuse. They have weaponized so many different agencies of government this is more of more of that same more along the same lines and you know Cruz said that it was James Boasberg that judge who what did he say he was printing subpoenas at Jack Smith's behest like placemats at Denny's remember the Denny's placemats were those the ones you could draw on you remember that I'd go get get a moons over Miami and I'd be doing my schoolwork at the Denny's Man, I miss.

Sidebar. Shoney's. Dude. The Shoney's breakfast buffet? How many of you had a Shoney's breakfast buffet? Steve, you ever had a Shoney's breakfast buffet? Wine, you ever had Shoney's breakfast buffet? Oh, man.

Never? He's never? I'm old enough to remember what a Jason's breakfast breakfast. I don't even know what that is. No, I don't know what that is. Oh, my gosh. The bacon. You all remember the bacon tubs?

Oh, man. At the Shoney's breakfast, but oh man, them scrambled eggs were always done so nice. Oh my gosh. So when I was younger, I would get scrant, don't judge me. I would get scrambled eggs. I'd put a little syrup on them and I'd have my bacon. Oh, man, that was a breakfast of champions right there. Move over little chocolate donuts and John Belushi.

It's all about the syrup eggs and bacon for Shonis. Anyway, the last time, we almost had a car accident when we were in Florida one time because we were driving to the airport. and I saw Denny's on the side of the road literally was just like cross two lanes of traffic because I was going to go give me some of that bacon. I didn't care if I'm making my flight. Not even, did not even care.

I have no idea why I brought that up other than to say the placements at Denny's thing. That was, you know, that was it. But that Arctic Frost investigation, he had subpoenaed records for like over, it was 197, let's see, me pull this up, me pull all my numbers up because there's a lot. Over 400 Republican targets. and Grassley got them. You know how we know this? Whistleblowers.

Good whistleblowers. This is how it's done. You know that Alexander Vindman? Yeah, the Alexander Eugene Vindman, whichever. They're both annoying brothers. They didn't follow the proper protocol. These people followed the proper protocol for a whistleblower case. So they gave all of this stuff to Grassley.

And they had, he made public 197 of these subpoenas. and he was able to get them through these legally protected whistleblower disclosures. They were sent to 34 people, 163 businesses. They requested this, the 197 subpoenas requested testimony, communications, and records. They had 430 named Republican individuals and entities. So any kind of communication with any Fox, Fox business, Newsmax, Sinclair, anybody who had communication with legislative branch of U.S. government. They were naming members of the Trump family, statistical data and analysis, all this stuff. It was a witch hunt. It was a witch hunt. They were trying to

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. This is really a Florida man story, but it's not, like, technically a Florida man because it's someone who's visiting. But still. So a woman is doing Sea World Orlando because she was on a roller coaster and a duck hit her face. A duck flew under her face while she was riding a roller coaster. coaster, it literally knocked her unconscious. I'm done. I know, right?

She's seeking at least 50,000. She says it's negligence that led to why the duck hit her. She said that they did not maintain their premises in a reasonably safe condition. They did not want dangerous conditions, etc. They said defendant

created a zone of danger for bird strikes because of the high speed of the coaster, blah, blah, blah. I just, you know, they said she has permanent injury. and pain of a physical and mental nature. She's, I mean, how bad did the duck hurt you? I mean, it knocked her out, but like, did it rip your nose off? Did it rip your eyes out?

Like, what happened? Like, I want, I mean, that's, that duck is pretty stupid if it, like, sees a roller coaster and it's like, I'm gonna fly over, quant there. I don't know. I don't know what I feel about it, but I just, I mean, I feel bad for it. That's a bummer, man. It's dumb the suit. Lock screen ads are coming to some smartphones. No.

They said that it's. It's for mid-budget models, smartphone companies that have mid-budget models. They said there's a lot of devices. They want to subsidize cost by running ads. But they said now some Android companies have started making phones, and they pair them with other entities, and then they have ads. I would not want ads on my stupid lock screen. That sounds horrible.

Influencers in China have to have degrees to speak on finance health and law. literally cannot talk about issues in China publicly unless you have a degree in the specific area of issue that you are speaking on. This is a new thing now. That's crazy. This is a crazy. You can't, I mean, it's definitely not, you know, free speech, but they're demanding that influencers prove their qualifications, uh, or they get in trouble. Now, officials say it's a fight over misinformation. That's all it is. Really. I don't believe so. So yeah, they can't post about what they call regulated topics if it has to do with medicine, law, education, or finance. Those are, they're not allowed apparently to talk about those in social media in China unless they have a degree in one of those things. Fair, not not not free speech at all. Joining us coming up, Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Jade Collins, because all man Donnie's people are going to Florida. It's our partners that help make it possible. It's the folks over at Ammo Square. They have you covered for all of your ammunition.

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You can listen across the country. Channel 347 is how you can stream the radio program. So, you know, in New York, it looks like they're going to get that feller, that Zoran Mandani looks like he's going to happen. And, you know, I'm trying to be real nice. I feel like, you know, the people who voted for him should have to stay there and suffer the consequences. But there are a lot of people that are already talking about leaving, including people who were like previously pretty vocally supportive of him. And now they're like, oh, wow, we really may have to live with these policies. The only people, like the hardcore support that he's got are from the bougiest parts of Manhattan. And that's something the New York Post came out with a couple of days ago.

So where are they going to go? You guessed it. They're going to Florida. They're going for Florida. And I have friends in Florida, and they're a little nervous about this. And they're not the only people who are keeping an eye on all of this. So is the lieutenant governor of Florida. Jay Collins, who is a veteran of Army Special Forces, and he is the lieutenant governor of the Sunshine State.

He joins us now via video. Sir, always a pleasure to have you. how are you feeling about this? Because you got to know that, yes, there's going to be some people who may be kind of moderate who probably aren't going to be, you know, as bad if they are coming to Florida. But there's going to, there are a lot of people who are just realizing too little too late the consequence of supporting this guy. They're going to come to Florida.

And when they go to Florida, you know what they bring with them. They're going to be bringing the way that they vote. And you guys have worked so hard to flip that swing state. Are you a little nervous about this? Well, I'll tell you what, Dana, as always, it is great to be on here. Why on earth in all cities in this great nation does New York City have to learn this lesson? My goodness, 9-11 wasn't that long ago. Look at this guy.

He's a watered-down communist. He's saying exactly what he means. The policies are going to be there, and people want to put him in office? I guess they don't like prosperity. So what we'll say is this, don't New York are Florida, right? We love Florida just how it is. Here's the truth in landing. We're very conservative.

We do good math. We don't want failed communist socialist nonsense to be brought here. Don't take that here. We love Florida just how it is. And if you're going to come here, adopt our ways. See, and that's it. And that's, you know, I was looking at just the percentages, you know, Miami-Dade. A lot of these counties that have been, you know, Palm Beach County that have been historically blue that have gone flipped red, that have been voting Republican, which I remember when I first heard that, by the way, with y'all's last election, I was shocked that those countries.

those counties went the way that they did. So what can you do, you know, your lieutenant governor of Florida, how are you looking to mitigate this? Like, what do you do to be prepared? Not just, you know, for the influx of people, but for now, it's like you're going to have to fight a new wave of that same ideology all over again with the newbies coming in. Well, Dana, that's a great question. So, you know, as always, it's about leadership, right? We're going to set the tone. We're going to say what we mean, we're going to mean what we say, we're going to follow up with actions. You know, whether it's things like property tax, whether it's things like education, not indoctrination, we're going to hold people accountable. And let's talk about rule of law.

If you mess with our cops, you mess with their families, you don't follow the rules, you don't follow the laws, we're going to put you in front of the court, you're going to be found guilty, more than likely, and I'll tell you what, you're going to do your time. Accountability matters. We hold that, and we will always take that very seriously. But that's Florida is about. It's freedom for people to live their best lives. We don't want the government in our lives. We want opportunity. We want potential. We want freedom. That's why we're here. I remember during COVID, everybody's going to Florida. Everybody wanted to go to Florida because they were, I mean, you were able to walk around and not get in trouble outside. I mean, people were like,

you know, in Texas. There were big fights here. Even in Texas. I was, I was real jealous of the state of Florida because they did so well with all of that. Now, and that was a big part of it, you know, the state flipping from being a swing state, because I remember watching 2012 and how that all went down, you're lieutenant governor right now, but you've decided, you know, you serve the country in Army Special Forces, you're serving the country, you know, in the state, the state, and the state senate there in Florida. Now you're serving it again as lieutenant governor, and now there's a new horizon, and you're going to be fighting for people and serving your great state again. Tell us, because you may, you have an announcement.

Well, Dana, I'll tell you what, we're not quite there. You're not there yet, okay. You're still deciding. I have people saying, oh, I think that they want you to run so bad. They think you're going to run. So I don't mean to put you in a bad position. Dana, no, hey, not a bad position at all. Man, what a blessing to have people actually want you to do something

and to be clamoring for someone to run for the, you know, to be the governor of the free state of Florida. I grew up in a trailer, Dana. I grew up without two wood and nickels to rub together. Only in America can our story, my story even exist. How blessed are we for that? But here's the deal. I want to make sure my family was good. I want to make sure our surrounding communities.

We're ready for this. And it's about leadership. Here's what I can tell you. And we are finalizing our decision right now. And when we put it out there, Dana, you will be one of the very first people that I call. Because, you know, we're trying to make sure you move here. It's important. I want Dana in Florida.

He's on that committee to make sure that happens. I love it. All right. All right. And you know, I know this. If you want a leader in Florida, Governor DeSantis wasn't America's governor until COVID happened. And what happened? He stood. And because he stood, people got alongside him. People asked, where would Florida be if it wasn't for Governor DeSantis? I asked, where would America be if it wasn't for Governor DeSantis? If you don't believe one person can make a difference, look at that man, right? Steely-eyed missile man, as his wife often calls him, right? I don't want leaders who the next hard thing they've face will be the hardest thing they've ever dealt with in their life. I want people who have a history of getting things done, solving problems, and making a difference. To me, that's what this boils down to. Well, you just said I thought was incredibly important, and I've not heard anybody put it that way, that you want somebody who's the next thing that they deal with isn't the hardest thing that they've ever done

because they have a history of dealing with super hard things. That is incredibly important because, you know, I think all states are very influential and they're all very powerful in their own ways. But Florida, is a standout because they're unpredictable with how they vote. The loyalty towards their state lawmakers is something that I think maybe only Georgia, maybe. I don't really think any other state in the union comes close. But the success story at being able to take so many people who've come into the state and get them all on the same page and convince everyone that you're really there because you're united about on that principle of liberty, and you're able to persuade people to vote, you know, the way that they need to in order to preserve those liberties. And I don't,

I've not seen that happen in any other state. I'll say, I saw it kind of happened in Colorado, but in reverse when it went Democrat after 63 years of Republican administration. Your messaging is, is pretty amazing. And I know you're part of that. What is your, when you're going out and you're looking to make supporters out of, you know, new people that you're talking to? What are their biggest concerns in Florida? Because, you know, Florida, Floridians, like I said, I think it's a really good slice, a really good representation of the rest of America. What you guys deal with is very unique. You know, Dana, it sure is. There is no place like Florida. It's incredible. You know, from the agriculture to, you know, the deep urban environments, to our growing business communities.

I mean, look at Tampa and how much it's changed over time. What I do, I think you have to reach people for who they are, how they are, where they are. I think Americans and certainly Floridians, they're done with politicians talking at them. They want people who talk with them. They want leadership who understands what it's like to sign a check, what is like to put their life at risk, what it's like to go through hard times because they've been there. You have to have a certain amount of empathy and understanding to really, truly be able to lead in a state like this. But if you look across the nation, what is it that we see with President Trump, with Governor DeSantis, with great executive leaders across this state? They communicate a vision.

They're there. They're present. They have a conversation, and they solve complex problems, often with a very nascent, smart, focused solution. That's not over complex. They speak to the language of the people. They solve simple problems, and they solve complex problems, and they explain it. That accountability is what people want. They want communicators who are problem solvers,

but they also want people with a moral compass point of the right direction because that's what we do here in Florida. Yeah, and I like how you guys are very hands-on with whether it's, you know, disaster relief because you guys were able, I know that, what is it, the bridge that was going to Sanibel Island, that bridge had been taken out by hurricane. You guys rebuilt that and like, yeah, that's insane. I mean, my guy, we have overpasses in Texas that are taking cane. How long some of these over?

10 years to build an overpass in Texas. You guys get a whole bridge, this whole cause was done in like three days. But then when you had citizens that were caught overseas when, you know, Hamas launched their October 7th attacks and you were able to make sure people were able to get back. Or that guy who got his CDL from Gavin Newsom in California and went to Florida, drove like a madman and killed people

because he could even read road signs. And I know you were heavily part of that. I think people see those results. Yeah, Dana, it's about leadership. It's being about present. The best abilities of availability. If you're not at the table, you're on the table. As a leader, then be present. Be in the community. God gave you two years of one mouth for a reason. Listen to the people, understand what they need and what they want and then solve those problems. I went to California to bring him home because if something goes wrong, if Gavin pulls some sort of stunt, let that happen in my space. Why did I go to Israel? Because I dream of a government that's bold enough, enough to go to any avenue, any extent, to rescue their people, to put their welfare above their own. You see, the government serves the people. It's not the other way around. And that is why I lead the way I do. But that's not unique to me. That's what I learned in my time in the military as a Green Beret. It's not about me. It's about we. It's we the people. It's our citizens. 23 and a half million people called Florida home. And every one of them love it for what it is. We are blessed to live here. And we're going to

going to protect it. And as a lieutenant governor, and should I decide to jump on this race, it's about protecting our people, ultimately leaving it better than we got it and making sure that Florida thrives now and into the future. I know it's a big decision. We're talking to Florida's Lieutenant Governor right now, Jay Collins. I know it's a big decision to decide to run because it's not just you running. You know, it's your lovely wife. It's your family. It's also involved in this race as well. I know you're going to be coming to a decision soon. What is, what do you think? is going to be, well, first off, let me, it's two questions. When do you think that it will be when you come to the decision? And then secondly, what is going to be the issue that really

tips you over into doing it? So, Dana, I'll tell you, we are in the final stretch of making our decision. We went through a very wide review. And, you know, I've seen a lot of online blogs and some other people talking about they thought it was this date or that date. Guys, I've not put out a date. If I give you a date, it's the one that matters, right? I've gone through this. I've been very transparent in my approach for a specific reason. I think sometimes we undersell how important and how difficult this decision should be. If you just jump in to run for governor of the free state of Florida, are you really taking the gravity of this office seriously? Do you really understand how complex the issues are in this state? Do you

understand what people need? And are you taking it seriously? I'm making sure that should I jump in? I am prepared. I have measured twice, maybe thrice, and you cut once. And I'll tell you, I say this as someone with, you know, 10 fingers, five toes, math wins. And once you cut something, once you decide, some things don't come back. Let's make sure we're doing the right thing for the people of Florida, not just my ego as a politician, right? And, you know, that's the win. And then what are the big issues? You know, what we have in Florida is an incredible economy.

We have education that is number one in the nation in higher education. We have number one in new job development, job growth. So let's not mess with success. Let's keep all of that moving forward. But those surrounding issues, we've got to make sure we continue to catapult transportation forward, job development, job growth, energy. We have to solve the energy problem. That's why small modular reactors are something we should look at. We've got to solve that issue.

But we've also got to stop playing games with solar and wind and everything else is over subsidized and doesn't put enough energy into our system. But ultimately, it's about putting money in the pockets of our people, getting the government out of the way, and reminding them that the best government is a government that isn't involved in day-to-day life. Any government's strong enough to tell people what to do and solve problems is strong enough to take away every single piece of freedom and all of their liberties. In Florida, we understand the role of limited government. Governor DeSanis has been an amazing leader. We are so blessed to have him. And to be the person that comes after him, you better understand what's at stake and what the requirement. truly are. One of the reasons I love the way that Florida's run because I don't think that there are

enough stark differences between Republicans and conservatives. And I think if you want a good measure of what conservatism looks like, look at the way Florida has been lately has been running with the leadership there and compare that to some of these other, you know, maybe Republican, like, I don't know, I'm just saying maybe Texas legislature where they can't hardly get anything done and, you know, we don't have any property tax relief. But you got Gavin Newsom and then what you're saying, that's a stark difference. We're out of time. but Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, we're going to watch. We're going to see.

We're going to wait for maybe an announcement. Maybe we'll see. Danny and never know. You better not do it the second we're off air, the lieutenant governor. God love you. But, you know, you better not do it the second we're off air. It's good to see you, though. I appreciate you joining us.

And we're going to be watching. I appreciate you. Yeah, well, tell you Mrs. We said hello. We'll be watching from that announcement. God bless you. God bless, my friend. 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. Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. I think it's fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction. In fact, when I met my wife, we were both, I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and that's what I think she would have considered herself as well.

You know, everybody has to come to their own arrangement here. The way that we've come to our arrangement is, she's my best friend. We talk to each other about this stuff. So we decided to raise our kids Christian. Our two oldest kids who go to school, they go to a Christian school. So this was one of the remarks that J.D. Vance was giving last night at the T.P. USA event. And I thought I would give him probably like an 85, 90% on it.

And it's only because there were two things that stuck out to me. One of them we played. And that's when this dude who clearly has, I don't know, he called what was happening in Gaza, ethnic cleansing. I know. Use some phrases that immediately made my red flag a suspicion go up. And it was a very loaded question. And I think that Vance could have repudiated it and said, look, no one's being controlled by anybody and countries lobby each other and just shut him down. The second thing was this because I don't know if we, well, I'm going to take, I'm going to have to save this for tomorrow because we're running out of time. This contradicts with what Usha had said. She had said

that she was raised in a really religious household. My point is that I don't want him to run away from the most fervent loudest, like Fuentes, kind of base in the right and start walking and being afraid to answer stuff head on. We'll talk more tomorrow. Today in stupidity came. This is California Democrat Josh Harder. And by the way, Democrats can't stop admitting that the pain of families losing out on SNAP benefits is their leverage. Listen to this.

Why not take that route? I think the idea that you would give up all of your leverage and then hopefully get some sort of great deal coming down. The pike is just a fool. Democrats can't stop doing this. Just open up the government, get your negotiations. Stop voting. That's it. Super simple.

Folks, that does it for us today. I will be on Fox business later on, and I think in the 4 p.m. Central hour. Have a great night back with you tomorrow.