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look at that prices are coming down their prices it's a hoax they just remember they said this is going to be problematic this kind of messaging coming up

I'm telling you it's going to be problematic because people are going to be reacting to that going to the ballot box welcome to the radio program Dana Lash with you it's going to be problematic because we got to talk about the Miami race

last night and this is a list there a list of other races too. And I know I, you know, I'm not trying to dispirate everyone, but I got to be honest with you. You know, there's, there's a reason why we talk about these things, and we talk about the, um, uh, turnout. Turnout was abysmal last night. We're going to set some of the narrative. There's, there's a couple of narratives that are wrong about the Miami race, because it flipped from red to Democrat, went from red to blue last night. And that's a big, And this is just a long list of, this is a long list of issues because we've had a number of races. It's not isolated to blue states and it's not just like a couple of one-offs either.

It is a problem that's been building and half of it. Yes, some of it has to do with turnout. But, you know, jevis, come on, people. Do we have to sit here and baby people? I just feel like if grown-ass adults can't get their lazy asses to the ballot box and vote on the damn election day, then you deserve the government you get. I'm sick and tired of like trying to cajole people into caring more about the Republic

than the people who don't even live in the area they live in. And if I sound mad, it's because I am, because I'm tired of it. We have people who participate in welfare activism. They're welfare addicts. They want to go out and have everybody else go and do all of the work for them. In every county in the country, I bet you can find a small group of people that do all of the heavy lifting.

They do all the door-to-door stuff. They do all the canvassing. They do everything. And you're not supposed to say this stuff because voters' feelings get hurt. Well, I'm not seeking anybody's vote, so I don't give a rat's backside. It's just ridiculous. And it's got to stop. It really does. So we're going to dive into some of this as well and get into some of the latest with what those numbers look like. And then kind of what the trend is as well for the rest of the nation. Because I'm telling you, This, there also was no outreach last night. And a lot of people think, well, it's just, it's just Miami. It's not, well, it was significant because you had a Republican there. It's an area that Trump won. And it goes to show you that we're not winning anything if Trump isn't on the ballot. And Republicans have gotten super lazy, super lazy. I am so livid with the Republican Party right now. I'm there do nothing in every state. They're in Kansas. What are you guys? doing in Kansas Republicans? What is the Republican Party of Kansas doing? You guys lost some school board races up there. What are you guys doing? What are some of these Republicans doing? It's so incredibly frustrating. I have a friend who lives in Miami and the only reason that he even knew about some of the stuff with the races is because he's just super tuned in. He's just super tuned in is why. And that's why he was able to kind of follow along and that's why he knew some of this

stuff. But, you know, by and large, they had no ad buys. They had, they had no canvassing. There was no phone banking. Where were they doing? Oh, everybody was getting drunk off their backsides in D.C. This is another thing I hate about Republicans. And yes, I hate the Uniparty. It's a uniparty. That's why I don't like any of them. It's a uniparty. Why in the world do you people want me to come to your states and fundraise for you? I will never understand because you're in for a shock, those of you who asked. Just gird your loins at your little dinners, okay? Because what do you guys do?

You're supposed to show up and cover them with adoration and compliments. For doing what? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Have you guys had Obamacare repealed? No. Do you guys still have insane property taxes in your state? Do you guys, for those of you who have their income taxes determined by, like, individual,

like individual counties and things like that? you guys found any relief with any of that no i don't think you guys have found any no you haven't you haven't you haven't you haven't found any of it in texas we always go on and on about getting rid of the um uh property tax but you know that's just that's determined locally and guess who's in charge of everything locally who's in charge of tarrant county cane the board well no republicans are in charge of tarrant county and they get really mad when you say stuff like this they get really when you bring it up. I don't care. Get mad. I get hate mail from some people in some of these Republican parties. They get mad. Like, Dana, you shouldn't say, yes, I can. I've been doing this

longer than you've been. So, yeah, I get aggravated about it. And so, you know, I look at this. I'm mad about this stuff. A couple of things, though, I want to set straight about Miami. Let's just set something straight about Miami right now. So one of the things that people were saying is that it hasn't been like what did they say it was something like it's flipped for it's been Republican for like 30 years or something

I don't know where some of it you got to be careful with some of the people that you get your information from because so you had they I have heard they had 30 straight years of Republican mayors that's an absolute who's saying this stuff someone who doesn't live in Florida Mani Diaz was throughout the aughts he was the mayor

and he was an independent he he was a Democrat but he was more of a moderate Democrat if that still exists anymore he was a Democrat he went on to chair the uh Democrat Party in Florida and then the races they so the 30 year streak is just a lie but it was a bad night and it was a bad night for Republicans last night in Miami remember how everybody was so excited because it flipped and it went from red to blue or blue to red. And it was very popular. I mean, the Palm Beach County and Miami Day, they went red, they went blue to red in the last election. And now the mayoral race. A lot of it is, there's a number of things that go into it. First off, Democrats ran an actual good candidate.

They didn't run an AOC type idiot. They were out there in the streets. They phone bank. They've been doing this in all of the races in Georgia, in. all of the races where Republicans were competitive, this is what Democrats have been doing. They've been running actual races. They've been doing all of this stuff. And so, Democrats in Florida were really smart. Can't say that

about Democrats in other states in the Union or even the National Party, but they were smart in Florida. And they went out there, they mobilized, they got their people out. Do you realize that you had less than 20% of Republican voters that went out and voted last night in that race? So I don't

feel bad for anybody. I've told people, when I've had people that come up to me and complain, I go, how did you vote in your local and municipal? I literally will walk away from you mid-conversation. You can go straight to hell. I will have nothing. Don't sit here and complain to me when you can't even get off your lazy keyster and go vote. And some of these voters, honestly, I get it that everybody's used to the left baby and

everybody about their gender and everything else, but we ain't doing that here. If people can't stand the accountability of not voting and not showing up, if they can't stand it, then maybe America is not for them. That's one of the most un-American things you can do is not go vote. And if you're a Republican, I spit on you. If you don't go and vote and you're somebody who votes Republican and you just don't show up, I don't care about your excuses. I've heard every damn excuse possible. I'm going to tell you something. When we went to early vote, we met a woman who was going to vote. This was, I can't remember one. This was a municipal election. Her husband is a Vietnam veteran had a leg amputated.

and this man is like pretty much housebound can't even get out and he makes sure that he votes every election if this old vietnam veteran with one leg can get out there and vote by god you can too so i don't want to hear any excuses and these republicans are too scared of you to tell you to wake the blank up so i will i don't care if trump's not on the ballot get over it it's un-american to not show up just because your favorite candidate isn't on the ballot you got to work with the cards you have I don't care if it can't think I'm being mean I don't care people can step off

I'm so tired of this I get so many complaints from people and I can't tell you the number of people who tell me that they don't vote in these local elections because it's not national spare me so I get really I get mad about it and you ought to get mad about it

because those of you who get out there and you pay attention and you go and vote this is what you're given how is that fair I mean, it's not. I mean, we're talking, it's not fair. It's not fair at all. Not fair to you. It's not fair to other people in the country. So it's frustrating. We're going to talk more about that because there's other elections as well. And people keep saying, oh, well, this is leading up. It's a, it's a Democrat narrative warning people about midterms. No, it's not. And if you want to lose, go ahead and listen to the people who keep telling you there's nothing to worry about. If you want to lose, you go ahead and you listen to those clueless people. who have never moved the needle in their lives. You go ahead and listen to them. I want to win.

I want to win so bad that on election day, when my political enemies, when they walk away from the ballot box, they collapse in the street before they make it to their car because they're so overcome with grief at losing and not just losing, but losing so badly that their grandchildren feel the loss. And they're scared of becoming loser Democrats,

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It's an amazing scene. All right, so, well, I'm going to die. Less than seven hours of sleep is linked to shorter life expectancy across America. We're all going to die. Well, those of us who, the people who are like, I slept nine hours, you're a Martian. Sleeping fewer than seven hours per night is linked to a shorter life expectancy across all the guys... Wait, you don't believe it? I'm a victim.

You're a victim? I'm actually surprised by you. Because I just, I don't know, I thought you would be one of the people who. who's like, I got my eight hours. No, I don't get eight hours. Oh, my God, I dream about eight hours. I don't think I could sleep for eight hours if I wanted to. I don't think I can sleep past seven.

I think it's a thing. They said, sleeping fewer than seven hours per night is linked to shorter life expectancy. Sleep insufficiency ranked as the second strongest predictor of reduced life expectancy, blah, blah, blah, blah, and there you go. We're all going to die. Well, no, I mean, it's, do you just know that you, I think that people need different amounts of sleep. Different people need different amounts of sleep. Trump doesn't sleep more than five hours a night because he's also a Martian. And the people who sleep more than eight hours,

I don't understand you, people. You guys are like, you know, hibernating bears. I don't get that. I got to hit like six, seven, maybe. Oh my gosh, did I just do that on. All right, we're done. Cut the camera. We are so done. How did that even happen? I swear to you that, okay let's just move on here uh police are swapping suspect sketches for AI I feel like this is going to go poorly you think they they started in Arizona and they said the AI and like for instance they had one image out and it said this AI image is based on victim witness statements doesn't depict a real person see I feel like you need it to depict a real person though like what how is it I mean it's no less of the sketch

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Everything's auto. I have not, and then I go check it every month. I have not written a check in forever. What do you mean? They want you to go digital with everything. Yeah, but I obsess over it. everything. See, they're getting rid of checks. I don't like it. I'm like Mick Jagger with

my finances like that. I just, I want to know everything. You know what I mean? Everything has to be like a promissory note. You want to just promise to pay some money, money? Do you like the checks? I'm going to carry it like it. I don't like carrying a big bag. You got to carry it in your bag. Well, I know that the grandparents are going to be upset over this one.

I mean, in our family, probably your family too. Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to block Trump from putting his face on the dollar coin. Is that a thing they need to be worrying about right now? I mean, I don't know if you guys have seen some of the stuff that's been happening in this nation lately, but I don't know. It feels like something else. Oh, oh.

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Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. I'm sure I'm going to get some hate mail because I was really mad at the GOP because of the Miami stuff yesterday. 21%. 21% dudes. That's insane. That is insane. There are more people who go to like roller skate in today's world than have been going out to vote for the, um, at these local and municipal elections. It's crazy. And I, I'm worried because you know what? The reason I get so upset with why, you know, the turnout is the way it is, when Trump isn't on the ballot is because, dear heavens, what if we get stuck? Now, I'm just, just hear me out.

I'm using this as an example. What if you don't have turnout, like in an important race? Like, oh, I don't know, say Senate race. And you end up getting us stuck with Jasmine Crockett. Can you imagine? That could happen. I know you guys are like, Dana, that could never happen. I'm telling you all, I have seen, I have done over the years.

I don't even know. I've been to every state in the union. I can't even remember how many fundraisers I've done for candidates. And I'm not one of those grifters like a lot of the con ink podcasters that you see where I charge to go out and all these different politicians are for issues. And I mean, I just, I want to win. That's, you know, what I want to do. And I want people to be empowered in their own community. So I don't have to go back out there. Sounds mean, but, you know, it's true. There's only so much you can do. But I can't tell you how many different areas that I've been in. And I first started seeing this back in 2009, in person anyway, when I was going out and we were

helping different grassroots groups fight back against Obamacare. And a lot of the Democrat candidates that were running for like state legislature or that were running for, you know, just like different smaller, more localized race. or those even who wanted to go for Congress, et cetera, if it was an off year, it was like beating your head against a brick wall, trying to get people to care about it. I was at an event once with John Stossel. And so I'm kind of brought in as like the closer and talking to these people and it was a beautiful Saturday. And I flew with one of my kids, beautiful Saturday. And we were in the East Coast. I'm trying to remember what state we were on. It was on the East Coast. Anyway,

it's not the point. The point is that I asked people, I said, well, how many people, because they came out for this meet and greed and all this stuff and a rally. Everybody loves coming out to rallies. And I'm like, okay, so how many of you are going to stay and do, like, phone banking and things like that after? Because that was kind of the purpose of having this event. Like, how many of you were going to come out? How many of you are going to phone bank and to hands. There were like 400 people there. Not even kidding you. And it shocked me. And I just stopped where I was. And I literally almost dropped the microphone. It slid my hand. And I was, I just, I was shocked. And I lost it. I went from real nice to lost it. And I'm like, I, you know,

I told people I said, I'm going to, you know, I came here. I'm not being paid to be here. I'm not making money being here right now. I took a Saturday away from my family, brought my son with me, spent a week, a weekend day. I work away from my family, coming to your state where I can't even vote to help you. And then I just like went into, you know, a story about the greatest generation on all this. By the end of, though, I did my job. And there were probably, there were a lot more not the whole room which should have not even half the room but there were a hell of a lot more people that raised their hand and they stayed and they helped out but I was just I could I was shocked and even here in the county that I live in super red county the same people that are it's the same people

all the time that do all of the active all the heavy lifting all of the advocacy they watch all the deadlines and it gets hard and it builds a lot of resentment if you you can't do it, then you encourage the people who are doing it. If you can't do it yourself, then you be there and you encourage the people who are doing it. Like maybe they're phone banking for a candidate or an issue. Maybe you could send them pizza or bring them coffee or do something. Even if you just stop by and say, I appreciate what you're doing, because they're doing it for you. And this is where I get the welfare activism from. They're doing it for you. encourage them. If you can't do it, then you be their strength when theirs is depleted.

That is the least you can do. Because it will come to a point where you are looking down the political barrel of socialism or freedom. And it's happened in a number of states. Look at Manhattan. I have a Republican. I have a Republican and friends that live in Manhattan, one of them works in finance, gave up like five years ago, six years ago in trying to do any kind of activism in New York, not just because they're outnumbered, but because people are apathetic. And they're like, oh, well, it's just not going to work anyway. If you can't do it, please, I can't tell you how much that means to people. There were times when we would be phone banking and it's like 9 o'clock at night and, you know,

I'm trying to finish my list so I can get home and, you know, see my kids and do all of this. And the people that would come in and they'd bring like donuts or coffee or something, they're like, we just, you know, we just got off work ourselves and we just wanted to say thank you so much. That means a lot. It means a lot to these people. So please do that. If you can't do it, but you should, you should at least try to do it once in your life. the biggest

problem that Republicans have going into midterms is Republicans it's not Democrats it's not people like Jasmine Crockett it's Republicans 21% voter turnout that's some of these races and school board races in Wichita

that was one of the problems too I heard from people that wrote me and said that they had a turn out problem there, too. Same thing in some of these other races. It's a real thing. And then you got, where's Joe Grutter, is that guy, the Florida guy?

He just got reelected as party chair. The hell is he doing? He's the RNC party chair. Where's the RNC? This is the time that, and I'm sorry I'm spending so much time on this, but this has really been at the forefront of my mind. Where is the,

R&C organization in this. I've seen good organization. You know, after Romney screwed the pooch in 2012 and it was disastrous, I don't think you guys remember that. They had to get out the vote app that was supposed to get people, you know, find people who haven't registered

or who haven't voted, etc. And get, you know, all this stuff. And they didn't test it until the election day and it failed horribly. After that, they got new leadership and they were really trying to restructure. And then they were really active and very organized to the point where it was annoying. I want to be annoyed by how overactive the party is. I want to be so annoyed

at all of, and I don't want texts from different candidates begging for money. I want RNC updates. I want updates, GOP updates in my area. I just don't want people making up stupid stories and asking for money. But where is the, where's the RNC in this? Where's Joe Grooters post all these damn photos of himself at the White House and places of government, which seems a little anti-founder, by the way. I don't think our founders would be rushing to go take selfies at different places in government, but whatever. But he's all over taking photos of himself doing this stuff. I see him all getting drunk at their little cocktail parties in D.C., all with their red noses and everything. Ho, ho, ho. I see all that, but I don't see any action. All the people that I know that

live in Florida, for instance. Like I said, they were saying, we didn't see any get out the boat stuff. And I've been hearing this from people in Jersey, in Kansas, in Georgia, in Tennessee, in Texas. We got a problem. I want to win, so I need it to get corrected now. Because we can't be doing this coming up on midterms. Can you imagine? Think about this. Audio Soundbite 8. This is Jasmine Crockett. Now, I want you to listen to this messaging. Listen to this messaging. Let's cut 8. How will you make voters who previously voted for Trump, particularly given that you have been an outspoken critic and he has inserted himself, just take your campaign video as is. He has inserted himself at every turn when it comes to your commentary. How will you convert those who are supportive of him to voters for? for you? Yeah, I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump supporters. That's not our goal. Do you need to? Our goal is to definitely talk to people. No, we don't. We don't need to. You know, I was looking at this. Democrats have lost, not a quarter of their base, but just about

so many people have left that party. And if they haven't registered as Republicans, then they've been independents. What is the, you actually do need them. unless you live in a weirdly drawn district that's that's drawn in such a way to favor your party you have to have them but did you hear what she said their democrats don't care about convincing you because they don't care about you they don't care about the issues they care about power they don't care about putting a win on the board they just care about power they don't care if they have to debase themselves guys that is the most dangerous type of ambition i can think of you will debase yourself

just to be adjacent to power you will debase yourself and stab your loyal base in the back just to be able to pull the levers what she's saying there in that interview is that she doesn't care about messaging she doesn't want to convince you on any kind of issue I mean she like she could

but even if she doesn't care about that because she doesn't need you she's not running to represent you she's not running to even hear you she's not running to address you she didn't need you Democrats don't need you that should be a campaign ad for the RNC

why are they not cutting this why are there not ads about the Somali diaspora in Minnesota bilking taxpayers of all this money why isn't why aren't there ads all over I see a million ads look I know I've said this before. I don't care of Christy Noem literally wears stilettos and leather leggings.

I don't care just as long as the border is closed. But I, you know, I see a million videos of Christy Noem with her right here. It's like a South Park skit, but in real life. And she's like, well, you know what, we've done all this? They can put those videos out. What are all these videos? Where's the rest of it? Why am I not being pummeled with ads on Facebook and X and Instagram?

The only people that are doing it are ICE and DHS. those that's literally the only agency doing this I don't see any any political part I don't see any of that hmm I can I can I play one more cut this is cut tin this is cracket still also a little nugget in this listen let me tell you something mandami has not back down whatsoever from his rhetoric against the president in the oval office he stood at he stood there and he said

what he said about him being a fascist Yet he was able to win those voters. So Democrats that believe the only way that you can win is by being soft and sounding like a Republican, that is not true. What people are looking for are people that are tough and are fighters and are going to fight for them. Yeah, that's what I want her to go with. New York is like not the rest of the nation. Cana's over there. You're like talking to a ghost.

You're just, is it tough to call somebody a fascist without any proof of fascism? I don't think she knows what tough means, but. I don't think she has any idea what that means, but I digress. I don't think she has any idea. I mean, that's not tough. It's, yeah, it's pretty amazing. But what she's saying there is that she wants to be more like that. She thinks that they need to be more in your face and more aggressive and more and nastier, et cetera.

That's what she's arguing. It has not work for them. better ideas. No, no, no, you can't do that. Can't have better ideas. She didn't have better ideas. And they know that. So, they just want to be nasty. I want them to keep doing this, but she thinks that that's what it takes for Democrats to win.

I mean, obviously, it doesn't, if you've seen some of these races. New York is just it's an outlier. It's not like a, it's not the blueprint. But I want her, I want them to think that it's the blueprint. I want them to think that New York is the way to do it. You run that play in Texas and you see what

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I don't know. I just pulled out of the garage and I saw this going on. on. It's like, it's a Waymo standoff. They all do that. It's a Waymo standoff. They're all facing each other in four different positions. And they did those two of them collide? It looks like two of them almost collided. So you have

Waymo's that are facing off. Two of them are bumper to bumper. And they had to call, this is, we've had a Waymo run over a dog. We had a Waymo take a dude on a wild ride and lock the door and would let him out. out, would you, I would not get into a waymo. There is no way in the world I would get to a waymo. Ever. I am not getting into a, uh-uh, no. Not happening. I like to drive. I don't like to be a passenger at all. I hate being a passenger. It's an, and it like being driven. I can't, I like it. Would you get in a waymo, Kane? No. I don't think so. I mean,

I'd try it with somebody else if they're with me, maybe. How does that help traffic when they cause traffic. It doesn't. We have another video, which I think we're running out at a time, but we'll get to, of, what is it, a Dordash driver? Yeah. A Doredash driver who put pepper spray on food that she delivered. So it's like, what if a Waymo delivered your food?

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And our legislation is not taking seriously. It was... I don't believe that at all. I think that's an excuse because she fell on our face. And I don't, you know, I don't really care to get involved in the Trump versus Marjorie Taylor-Green fight. I think that, you know, when you politic a certain way and you, you know, you know, you, you, I think some people mistake, um, opportunistic people as being people who believe in fealty. And I think that that's kind of what's with green. Um, you know, you, when Scorpion

steams you, are you surprised? Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. Chats at Rumble. Uh, channel three, 47, uh, uh, direct TV. Thank you. Uh, but actually, YouTube's the best place to watch us. It's the best place to watch us. Yeah. We got a lot of stuff coming up in the first of the year, a lot. We'll talk more about that later. But anyway, so I think that's lame and dumb. That's gay and lame, what she just said. I don't feel that.

And also, I have never been in a situation, and I don't like to go to D.C., as you guys know, famously. Because I don't like, I'm not good at small talk. I'm not saying this as like a flex. As Kane knows, I'm embarrassingly bad at small talk. It's horrible. It's so bad. And you know it. You've seen it.

No, I'm not. I can't stand the little, I can't stand the whole cocktail circuit. I don't, no. I just don't, I don't do that. I don't do that whole power adjacency like Green does and all that. And I think, in all of the situations, that I've been in. I have never once felt uncomfortable or felt as though I was being treated in a sexist manner. And anytime it even got near that point, I'm the type of person that I love a

challenge and I will flip it right back on you. So I've never had an issue with that ever in my life. I just don't, I mean, I think that speaks to her weakness. And not to the weaknesses of other female Republican women in D.C. I know some female Republican lawmakers who don't roll that that way. And they don't have any issue at all. They're on committees. They're doing this stuff. She's mad because she wanted to run for Senate.

And the numbers were abysmal for her. I don't know why she just didn't stay in her house seat. Like what's so bad? Like build up seniority. What is so bad about you staying in your house seat? The story goes, and my sources were telling me this is 100% correct. the story goes that she wanted to run for Senate and they weren't allowing that or the polling wasn't allowing that the numbers the internals did not support that it it showed that she was not

going to be a formidable candidate and she was trying to get Trump to kind of help change that I guess she thought that he could just go and tell people to like her more and then that was going to solve the issue. And he looked at the numbers and got back to her and was like, you just need to stay where you are. This isn't going to work out. And then, you know, she was apoplectic and all hell broke loose. That's what this is. She's a spurned woman. And she's been going everywhere to bitch and moan. I'm tired of hearing Marjorie Taylor Green, bitch and moan. If she felt so strongly about all of these issues, then why didn't she do more during her time in Congress? Why weren't there more bills that she pushed forward? I mean, she made sure to get on camera and fight with

everybody. And I don't, I think that this is also part of when you try to turn politics into entertainment, you get clowns. So I don't really have a dog in this fight. I don't dislike her, but I'm not like a major fan. I just, you know, I'm not a major fan of most lawmakers. There's some that I like more than others, and that's about it. I think it's, it's an abuse of the word to say fan. But she's not helping anybody going, is she trying to audition for the view? That's the only other thing I can think of. Is she trying to get on the view? Because that's not going to go over well.

They'll never hire her. They will never hire her. Let's switch it up. CARE, Florida, counsel for American Islamic Relations. So they got mad and held a press conference to denounce Ron DeSantis for labeling them a foreign terrorist organization,

which they are. This is cut 27. Listen. The National Lawyers Guild condemns Florida's unlawful and discriminatory designation of care as a terrorist organization. This designation is without legal or factual basis and constitutes a dangerous escalation

of anti-Muslim political rhetoric, weaponized to suppress constitutionally protected advocacy and civil rights work. Well, it's not discriminatory if it's true. And that's not discriminatory. That's just observing something. I mean, they were unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation trial. and where that was about sending money to terrorists, basically. They had a number of convictions.

That was this case where they were funneling, you had a major Muslim charity funneling millions of dollars to Hamas, millions upon millions upon millions of dollars to Hamas. And there were tons of people that were convicted in this. And you had care that was involved in it. And it was with the Muslim Brotherhood, it was with care, all of these. and it was, this was like, you had two trials and it lasted for a number of years, and they were involved in this.

They have really complicated, purposefully so, connections to Hezbollah, Hamas, you know, things like that. They're Islamists, and they were, by the way, they were involved in the 07 trial since there were two. And that was, by the way, the largest U.S. terrorism funding case. and they were the Holy Land Foundation, and that's the charity that was funneling all of this money to Hamas. They were convicted of it. Care, they were involved, and they tried to say that because they weren't convicted and weren't charged, that they're squeaky clean. Well, we all know that that's not necessarily the case. But they are Islamists, and they're upset that they're being targeted. They're not being targeted. They target other people. This is the

the reaction to that. That's like saying, oh my gosh, the Muslims were targeted by the Crusaders. How many hundreds, how many centuries had passed before the Crusaders finally reacted? I've just, that's what I, I just roll my eyes whenever I hear that. It's like Hamas saying that it's being attacked. How many years were you attacking everybody else before someone finally responded? How many times did you violate a ceasefire before someone finally responded? So they had this press conference to denounce DeSantis for this. and he seems to be pretty jolly about it. He seems to, he wants to go into discovery.

I don't think that they're prepared for that. You know what that means, right? Discover, everybody knows what that means. That means they're going to be discovering all kinds of stuff and emails and, you know, all their records, anything written. Don't destroy anything, kids. Yeah, but it's all going to be poured over. Don't destroy anything.

You're on notice. Just saying. but they it's it's a way for one of the ways to get power is to pretend that you're the victim and get sympathy and then use that as power and make everyone and penalize everybody else for seeming like the bullies that's been happening in city after city after city all across the united states which brings me to this i because i shared this in slack didn't i i put this in slack the other day, or last night, I think. This was in Deerborn. I'm pulling up my notes now. So, Deerborn Heights, they were having trouble getting a Christmas tree for their annual Christmas tree lighting.

And they had this, both a Michigan farm and a businessman decided to partner together, and they got this $10,000 40-foot Norway spruce. Can I just interject here real quick? It's Michigan, right? Can you spend the time in Michigan? I have. They got trees up there, don't they? They sure do. Okay.

Can you tell me why somebody couldn't just, you know, Clark Griswolded out to the woods and go and get you a tree and put it on top of the family rambler? I think they wanted an especially tall breed of tree, and I think that's why they went with the Norway. This thing is 40 foot tall. And the guy, so it was Huff Farms and then Sam Hussein, owner of J&T Krova. and they donated it and apparently they covered the cost of the tree and made sure it was delivered and installed in time for the holiday season but we are calling it a Christmas tree right because my first thought was well that's a pagan symbol I mean I have a tree you don't get me wrong but I'm like that's a pagan symbol but if you're calling it a Christmas tree it's not like

people got a nativity I don't know how to feel about this because half of me wants to go okay well that's a that's a good gesture and you know the Christian part of me that I'm trying to listen to more seems to seems to say if I'm quiet enough well it's good you need to acknowledge things that are done well but then the other half of me is like I became an adult shortly before 9-11 and 9-11 changed everybody's worldview and from then we have seen a lot of bad stuff happen. And we're seeing things, bad things happen in Minnesota. We're seeing bad things. I mean, we have the care story that I was just talking about. We see the stuff that's been happening over in the UK and the Christmas markets and France and in Germany and in Austria and in Italy

and all of this stuff. And I'm, I'm just, I don't have a word for it. I don't want to say suspicious because it doesn't fully mean what I feel. Does it make sense? Because I, is this a, okay, let me just say it. Is this a Trojan horse? Let me just say it. Well, I mean, if what's supposed to be inside the Trojan horse is you to feel fuzzy and warm about Islam, then yeah. Oh, I'm not feeling fuzzy and warm about Islam. I mean, it was nice that this tree was donated, but, but for what, why? I think it was designed so that people would look at this

during the holiday season as some sort of genuine gesture when it could be placating to Christians what does the chat think about this one like is this a is it like that's a good gesture

or because a lot of people are like well tequila tequila I don't know which means you know you can it's okay to lie and do bad things, basically, in pursuit of the overall good for Islam. Yeah, the deception is acceptable as long as it's good for Islam, which it could be that. Not saying that it is, but that is a possibility, clearly. I really just want to see good deeds and be able to go, that's a good deed, and, you know, I'm glad for it.

I miss those days. But I can't trust anything. And Islamism has been so rampant in its spread that it's hard to trust anything. And that's not a condition we created. That's a condition that Islamism created. So let's immediately, before we even go further in that discussion, acknowledge where that schism came from. So I don't, I don't know.

It's weird. I don't know how I feel about this. So I'm, I'm curious. The chat's going to chat about it while we, we, we have headlines and we got, uh, uh, a hat tip our sponsors as well. Think about this one. How do you feel about it? I really, again, I really want to say that's a good.

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in the Vegas sphere, and people are saying that some of the projections on the screen were Satanic. It was a skeleton that had a crown. I mean, that's all it was. I mean, I didn't think it was Satanic. It's just a skull, right? Did you think it was, Cain? I didn't. I wasn't there.

I mean, but you've seen the images. I did see the images. I did see the images, and I guess, I mean, you could interpret them that way if you're, I guess, whoever's talking to the reporter in this story. Yeah, I'm like, how is, a skull by itself is not satanic. It's just not. Stop. I don't know why, and I didn't see the whole show. I mean, if he came out was like, the devil is good, the devil is your pal, then, yeah, that's a problem, you know, I got, that's, that's, that's, that's a problem, you know, I got, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's a, that's, that's a great, not a great, uh, course. Let's see. Silver and copper eclipse gold as top metals bets on supply fears. Well, yeah, silver is exploded. It's exploded, Kane. True. And it's replaced gold as the hot metal trade heading into 2026. It's nearly double this year. So make sure you go to noblegold.com slash Dana. And most of the gains occurred, noblegold.com slash Dana in the past two months due to a historic supply squeeze in a benchmark London market.

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you. I haven't kept track with all of Groyper ink lately unless it just like comes up into my timeline. And I think this is for the people who are super hyper online because the rest of you who are normal people with all of your brain cells, you don't, God love you for holding down the same line. Holding it down. Like we need you. Protect you at all costs. So I haven't really been following a lot of the Graper ink stuff lately. So I haven't been able to keep track of who is responsible

for killing Charlie Kirk. You know, he's got a book that has been planned for some time that just came out. And he, his wife, I know, is doing the promo tour

for it, which can't be easy. But I'm looking, people have been very helpfully keeping track because, you know, can I just say, I think, and I haven't been talking a lot about Candace Owens because I just think that it's griftery trash. I mean, I just, I don't elevate someone who is a protege of Al Sharpton, who as recently as 2016, was literally, had founded a website doxing conservatives and going after people. And then when they realized, you know,

can make all this money, being a Republican, then decided to become a Republican and apply the grift there. And that's all fact, by the way. That's all fact. Some of you all got taken in. I know. But if you're keeping track, apparently she has accused everybody from the French government, the French Foreign Legion, the 13th Brigade, specifically, Israel, Israel operatives, Netanyahu himself, let's see, GIGN, Jewish donors, the U.S. government, the feds, the FBI, Deep State, CIA, Turning Point USA, his own wife, Erica Kirk, Blake Neff, Pastor Ron McCoy, Josh Hammer, Freemasons, Yahoo, like the website. Okay. The Bolsheviks. Egypt. I mean, the list is lengthy. Oh, wait, that's right. The latest was the U.S. military. Isn't that the thing that came out yesterday? She has no clue. She has no clue. I mean, honestly, Candace Owens has made more bank off of Charlie Kurt getting killed than I think anybody else. It looks suspicious, quite honestly. It looks super suspicious. I have never seen anybody tried to lift themselves up by using.

seen someone else's corpse more than the gun control stuff. This is like I haven't even seen gun control advocates stand on dead bodies as much as I've seen Candace Owens stand on dead bodies to try to gain advantage for herself and elevate herself as she is on the legacy of Charlie Kirk. And that's fact. So the next in the whole Gryper establishment, I came across this soundbite. And it pains me to say this because we were always friendly. I would never consider us like best friends or anything. But I used to do election coverage with Tucker before he had his own show at Fox. I remember when he had $3 million from Foster Freeze, who I met and knew.

And he was fantastic. This was back in the day when Daily Caller first was created. Tucker got money from Foster Freez created Daily Caller. And then now he has this Tucker Carlson Network, which was founded with muzzle money, which is true. I mean, I'm not just saying that as a pejorative. It's just true, I think, you know, if you want to talk about dual loyalties or something like that, you know, I think it's important when you have millions of dollars that create the company that you run. You know, I think there's kind of a question as to dual loyalty and something like that, since that's a favorite topic amongst the Graper establishment. So I saw this video fly past me, fly on my timeline on X. And this is it? What cut is this? This is cut 11 million? Yeah, we got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So.

20. Thank you. So this is, he's doing, is this not when he was speaking in Doha, right? This was like some other forum. And he was asked about Bill Ackman and people like Barry Weiss, Bill Ackman. And, you know, Ackman, he's this hedge fund manager. He's a billionaire, super smart dude. his wife i think by the way is like friends with brad pitt there was like this rumor fun fact his

his wife is beautiful there was this rumor that his wife was like brad pitt's girlfriend for a while and it's just she's like this um professor uh she's an art professor super pretty and everyone was like had all these rumors about brad pitt and uh uh nary oxman and it's just bill actman's wife they're all friends anyway so they're on stage and he's he's he's talking about, I guess, the media landscape in this forum. And this is what he had to say. Listen. Impressive, like Bill Ackman.

Same thing. Bill Ackman's worth like $8 billion or something. It's fine. I don't care of Bill Ackman, whatever Bill Ackman does. But I know Bill Ackman, he's kind of dumb. He's not ever created anything. He's totally non-creative. How do these people wind up running our biggest institutions?

And the reason that's significant is because if you pay close enough attention and you realize that the people running everything, are stupid, then you think, well, actually, the system is truly rigged on behalf of people who do not deserve these positions at all. It's not just that I disagree with Barry Weiss or she's calling me names or I calling her names or whatever. It's like in no fair system and no meritocracy would Barry Weiss rise above secretary. Like, actually, and I mean that.

I've been in this business my whole, I've been in this business since Barry Weiss was breastfeeding, okay? There's no world in which Barry Weiss rises to the top of a news network except a rigged world. well I mean I guess he just can't imagine where anybody would rise up to be the top of a news agency without Muslim money I don't know I mean just you know thinking out loud here I thought that was a very odd thing for him to say he sounds resentful and better and that's not a good look for anybody Barry Weiss was at the New York Times and she was very good at what she did and she was very I mean she she's more of a moderate conservative but she made them all look like you know straight up Bolshev over at the New York Times. And she ended up being run out because she was too conservative for the old gray lady.

And then she created the free press and then that got purchased. And she's made some really smart decisions. The stuff that she does gets a lot of traction. People are really sharing their articles. I mean, you can see the traffic online. And she didn't have to go out and get Qatari money or get Iranian money either.

Just a really quick, fun thing here if you wanted to look at it. Because it's also incestual. A lot of the money that came into creating the Tucker Carlson Network was from Omead Malik, who is Pakistani and Iranian, and he created, he has a capital, a firm that's called 1789 Capital. And I think Don Jr. actually just joined. And it's part of the Rockbridge Network. He created it along with other people, including Rebecca Mercer, et cetera.

They raised a lot of money. and he's been behind a lot of the funding for the Tucker Carlson network. And also, what is it, that nicotine pouch thing, the ALP thing? But no, it's like that, yeah, it's like the new thing, and they, apparently they're a part of that. Cash Patel apparently co-founded or co-created that with Tucker Carlson, which I think is weird. It's just all so incestuous. But he got a lot of money from a foreign government. or from four he got a lot of foreign money um in fact a lot of payments through this and i'm looking

at i mean axios had a piece on it but also it's just open records you know i mean there's you can go to open secrets and you can run all of the uh where how the money shifts and you can research it all there for instance some of the payments um uh for acquiring different things for his company were run through a catari state investment entity uh it's the al uh you deed media fund that's where all of the accusations about Qatari money come from. And, I mean, it sounds like it's part, I mean,

it almost sounds like it's part of like a government coordinated media laundering campaign, honestly. That's kind of what it sounds like. So I don't know if any of that's ever been disclosed publicly or discussed, but I just think that when you have things like that in your financial portfolio, maybe you should tone down your resentment

of other people's success before you start lobbying bombs at them because they're Jewish. because let's be honest, what do Bill Ackman and Barry Weiss have in common? They're Jewish, right? They're the quote unquote homesteaders in that that Tucker Carlson talks about, right? Isn't that what that is? I mean, it seems like the only objection is that they're Jewish. I don't know. I feel like if Israel had given him money, then he would be like singing the praises of Israel or something. I don't know. I just can't, I can't explain it. It's very difficult when you see someone that you thought you would, at least kind of new, act in a way that is completely contrary to everything that you actually initially assumed about them. I mean, it's just, it's, to say that these, that these people are dumb, and Bill Ackman is not a dumb guy. He is very, very smart financially. He's made a lot of

really good decisions, some which might have seemed really risky at the time, but he knew what he was doing. He's made a lot of really good decisions, and he, he's identified undervalued assets, and he built this, you know, this company. And Barry Weiss did something similar with a media entity. So to sit here and say that they are dumb. And then to try to like use your age over it that she was breastfeeding when he was getting started. Yes. And she didn't have to take Katari money. I mean, she didn't have to be in the pocket of a government administration in order to find success. She didn't have to sell out in order to find success. She didn't have to turn and start, you know, repeating, you know, really, you know, weird rhetoric in order to try to get a slice of the

digital audience pie. It just seems resentful and bitter. And, you know, honestly, I think that that was, that sounded silly and emotional. He sounded, I mean, he sounded like an emotional woman. Well, you know, since she was breastfeeding, I've been out here. And she's further than you. So what does that say? I mean, that's kind of a self-owned. Is it not? like what happens with people this is why i hate dc and lorraine reminds me too what is this is this what we're talking about when it so is is is Tucker hating america because he's criticizing other people because people who criticize Tucker are accused of hating america but remember that only goes one way he can he can not even criticize i don't even think either of those are fair criticisms to call them criticisms

means that I'm accepting that they have some form of logic, and I just don't. It just sounds resentful and over-emotional. It seems like he's violating the rule that he expects everyone to follow when it concerns him, but he doesn't want to follow it when it concerns everywhere else. There's no enemies to the right thing. It seems like he's got a lot of enemies, and they're all-Jewish, at least in his eyes. I find that incredibly sad. I mean, we live in an age where people can create media companies right and left, and, you know, and they don't have to necessarily disclose everything. And he's using his platform to do more to tear down the right than anything I've ever seen. I don't see any of the thing. He hasn't been talking about any of these elections.

Tucker Carlson hasn't had, he hasn't been talking about any of these special elections. He's not talking about redistricting. He's not talking about the lay of the land. He's having Nazi twinks on his show. And he doesn't have the balls to push back and actually ask serious questions. And all of the people who are just desperate to be in business with him, none of them have the balls or the spines to point this out because they're terrified, terrified over jeopardizing business relationships. They don't want to jeopardize their ad network. They don't want to jeopardize any kind of investment. They don't want to jeopardize any kind of association, professional association, that elevates them in the digital sphere. So they say nothing. And they pretend they don't

see it. They say nothing. But this has done more to cause problems on the right than anything that I've seen from the left to date. We're all agreed that the left is crazy. But now what I see are people, it's interesting because it's like right after Cutter gets involved. And, you know, Cutter's been spending a ton of money. We're not supposed to talk about that. We're supposed to obsess and have a fetish with Israel and APEC, even though they donate a pittance. They spend a pittance on lobbying compared to Qatar.

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And then he says that he had been teleported into it. What? Volusia County Sheriff's Office. They said a man left his BMW unlocked in the park, the keys, and a closed cup holder, which was stupid. while the man was walking his dog. Why didn't you take your kid? So dumb. His car was stolen.

A few minutes later, it crashed at an intersection. Witnesses got the driver out, and they told deputies the driver, 36-year-old Calvin Johnson. He was speeding over 100 miles per hour. He said that he didn't steal the car. He teleported into it. Oh. It was against his will. He just teleported right into the car.

He has been charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and driving with a suspended. license the footage is pretty that's the footage he would just he said he was he was telling deputies he was teleported into the vehicle i don't think that's how that works you know and and you so even wait you were teleported in the vehicle and then you just started it and drove it off i mean you're missing a key component here my dude i mean it didn't start by itself you know just saying it did not start by itself so hmm uh let's see a um coral springs me and try to beat his to death with a frying pan over a dementia diagnosis, according to police. This is horrible. Oh my gosh. They arrested this man. He tried to beat his 82-year-old mother to death. Oh, we tried

to smother her as well. Keith Woodward. He wanted to kill her because her early dementia and need for constant assistance. I'm all, I mean, I don't believe in abortion, but I do for this guy. I believe in a late stage abortion for this guy. I'm just saying. So we got a frying pan, entered her room and then began beating her over the head trying to kill her. A violent struggle ensued and she apparently tried to smother her. She ultimately escaped so he's a big giant pansy because he couldn't even beat up an 80-some year old lady. I'm just not saying you should, but good grief, right? So he's held without bond. He can't have any contact with his mother. He has to undergo a mental health screening. I think he's just evil. Look at this guy. I mean,

I'm not saying that if prison justice were to occur, I would love to donate to the commissary of anybody who might be behind it. I'm not saying that at all. But I'm just saying, you know, fate has a funny way of working things out in the prison system, you know. Let's see. No, I don't want to talk about this good will one, Kane. Don't make me do this one. This is so of all the places to be nasty. Right. Well, we are running the time, so lucky you. I mean, and there's another, a drunk Florida woman who was walking down the street with her liquor in hand and no bridges. There's that story, too. I mean, we got a lot of them. with us. Third hour on the way. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of this third

hour. So the late Charlie Kirk has a book that is out. It's out now this week. And it was already planned. He had already been writing it. And it was already, I think everything was pretty much done except for like the illegal reads and all that stuff, you know, the same old stuff in publishing. And so now it's out. And his wife, Erica Kirk, is doing. the promoting the book for him this week. And she was on Fox recently, just a little bit ago, and for the first time addressed those conspiracy theories head on. So it's the soundbite you've been waiting for. Listen. Come after me. Call me names. I don't care. Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole. Whatever. But when you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family,

my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go after the people that, that I love, and you're making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they're in on this. No. You know, I have to say it, I've never seen you like this. No, I'm, I'm very, this is righteous anger because this is not okay. It's not healthy. This is a mind virus.

Yes, I believe in our judicial, judicial. system. I do. We have a hell of a team working on this. Excuse my French. But this is not okay. So you want to put these people back in the box where they've been creeping from? I don't care what box you're in. But just know that your words are very powerful and we are human. My team are not machines and they're not robots. They are human. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen. I have kidnapping threats. I have, you name it, we have it. And my poor team is exhausted. And every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do, relive that trauma all over again? They watched my husband

get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day. And thank the good Lord that I did not have to see that happen. But my team, they are rocked to the core. So why every single day, did they have to be dragged through the mud, analyzed, hyper-analyzed. You know, sit in the corner and cry in the fetal position. Sometimes you see things in life and you wonder, well, what does this mean? Why does this person come from this background? Why does this person, like I, you know, if you're not familiar with Erica Kirk's story, she's a pageant girl. And I'm not saying that. That's not a pejorative. I'm just, that's, you know, She was in pageants for a long time.

And I think she won a number of really impressive titles. And when you start young in that industry, that circuit, you develop the habit of always being very put together, always being very ready, especially at the upper levels. You're always ready. You're always put together. Remember when people were trying to criticize her for how she dabbed her eyes, that's literally, that's a TV thing too. It's pageant TV thing. You do that so you don't mess up your makeup and smear everything. And she already had a business, a Christian business.

She did apparel and accessories before she ever met Charlie Kirk. She was successful. She had a business in New York where it's hard to create and maintain a business. And she was already successful in her own right. And she was always very put together because of that pageant background, right? And when you, it made sense to me for the first time when we were at the funeral service. because I thought, oh, all of these things in her life have prepared her for the storm. Isn't it interesting how when you get in the storm, you suddenly realize how all the things in your life prepare you for that?

What she said here, and this is the first time that she's ever addressed any of those ridiculous conspiracy theories. and she, I mean, righteous indignation indeed. And as I said on X with this, she has every right to be right. She has every right to be angry. And she's angry in the classiest of ways here. There's such a clear difference between her and these grifters like Candace Owens. And as I said, Candice Owens was an Al Sharpton protégé who was doxing conservatives in 2016. She can't compete.

Her poorly researched conspiracy chiching theories, they can't compete with this real and righteous indignation. It's just not possible. And honestly, kudos to the way that Erica Kirk addressed it. I don't think she needs to say anything else. to that grifter. No more pearls for swine after that. There was an interview that Erica Kurt gave, too. This was a, when she started promoting again, Charlie's book. And, you know that's part of the contract, too. When you come out with a book, you promote it for that first week.

And I know that she's probably, you know, really pushing to fulfill all of those obligations. She was on this book summit thing. It was a New York Times deal book summit. And this was Wednesday of last week. And she was asked about the Second Amendment. And, you know, in light of what happened to her husband. And she outright rejected it. She said it is not a gun problem.

It's a human, a deeply human problem. And she said, you will always have individuals that will always resort to violence. She says that she doesn't wish what she has endured upon anyone. And she says, I support the Second Amendment as well. That right there, telling you what, folks. That's pretty impressive. That's strength. Candice Owens looks like a clown compared to that.

That's that can't compete. Next. Sweep the stage. Get the, get the Sandman at the Apollo and pull that clown off the stage. She's done. And it's super powerful. Super, super powerful. She also said this too, because, you know, they got this trial with this murderer coming up.

This is cut 24. Listen to this. We have a trial coming up. Unfortunately, that trial is in a long time. What I want to be mindful of for people is that this was a murder. This is not something that what I don't want to have happened is for this to taint the jury pool. I don't. I want my husband.

I want justice for my husband more than anything. other person on the internet any other person in this world that was my husband and the father to my kids we will make sure and we have been turning over every single stone going down every single lead so when these people say oh they haven't talked about this or done that how do you know you're not in those those meetings with the attorneys and the prosecutors you have no idea and why she just gave me an idea what i mean honestly is it can we ask of can't Ms. Owens is trying to help Charlie Kirk's killer by tainting the jury pool with her stupid, poorly researched, absolute trash rat conspiracy theories? That's a fair question, isn't it?

Super fair question. Maybe she can ask her gay husband about it. Oh, don't expect. Don't. Not even. I just get, you see someone who's hurting and I see hurting, I see people trying to hurt, hurt people, and I want to go after the people who are trying to. to hurt, hurt people. I, enough, enough. No more pearls before swine. We've had enough of the swine. Have we not? We want a fair trial. We want this guy to, capital punishment, I think, serves it best.

But that was powerful. It's super powerful stuff. But I was thinking, like I said in the beginning, you know, it's class, it's grace. And for the people who are saying, well, you know, she's out there. awful lot. You know what? Let me tell you something. She is in this industry and because of the nature of things. Where do you think that she can go to get a job if she needs one? Nowhere. It's hard. It's hard when you are stereotyped as a conservative, especially in today's world. So strike while the iron's hot. Sure up what you can for you and your family so that you don't

have to worry about that in the future. I don't begrudge anybody that. I don't, and for the people who get mad at her because she smiles when she's out in public, I feel, you know, you must be touched by luck to not know grief. You must not know what it's like to find just a moment of peace in a storm where you can just smile. You know, apparently widows are never supposed to smile. They're supposed to stay mired in their grief and suffering for forever. That's what those criticizing her, saying, I'm done with it. I'm done. I don't want to hear from a single fecal bird. I'm not going to say that word I usually say, criticizing a widow. Leave it alone. Have class. Leave it alone. But I really do think that she's been prepared for this,

maybe not knowingly her whole life. I don't know if you've ever seen this. Oh gosh, what is the, um, uh, let me let me look this up. It's an Night Shammelin movie. And it wasn't actually one of his more well-received ones, but I actually think it's brilliant. It was called Lady in the Lake. I'm not going to give it all away, but I really, if you've never watched it, you should. Because it gets, in one of her interviews, she mentioned Nehemiah, which interestingly, that was my morning devotional. That's odd now that I think about it. She mentioned Nehemiah when she was on Fox earlier, as a example of teamwork and I'm like holy cow that literally was my devotional this morning it's very

neymia-esque lady in the lake and you have a group of people living in an apartment complex dealing with a supernatural event and every single person has their own eccentricities and in the end of the movie it has the same revelation as like the usual suspects you know when the detective realize who Kaiser Sose actually is you have that level of revelation towards the end of this movie where you see a great puzzle being placed piece by piece together before you by all of these people's, these apartment complex dwellers, all of their little eccentricities. Each of them, you realize now that there was design in it, that there was a design in the way that they were all living here. There was design in the way that they have all

of their little eccentricities. There was a design in the way that they do everything that they do and they've come to know everything that they know and they have the relationships with each other that they have. And it is a really humbling, awesome thing when you realize that and you look at this at the end of this film. And I, in a lot of these instances, I see the same things. I see the same thing in this. There are certain things that happen in life. And it's always usually something tragic. But it is in the victory of overcoming the tragedy that you see these things come into play. And that's what I see in this. it's a you should watch that it's a it's a it's a when was it 2012 maybe lady in the lake am night

chamolin it's good bryce dallas howard is in it uh there's some really good actors in it and it wasn't one of his most celebrated ones but i think actually the message is one of the most powerful ones he always does very thoughtful films so and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for dana's quick five so i watch uh mayor of kingstown and i saw one episode where they had drones delivering drugs, and I thought, oh, that's kind of interesting. I wonder if that actually happens. Oh, well, Associated Press says a drone dropped steak and crab legs for a prisoner feast, but South Carolina guards found it first.

Bishopville, South Carolina, twas three weeks before Christmas and in the prison yard, a drone drop package was found by a guard with steak, weed and crab legs, and cigarettes for days, and also included a tin of old bay. literally that happened at Lee Correctional Institution Prison Yard according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections Yeah and they seized it They said no arrests have been made They said I guess the people expecting the package are crabby

That's actually kind of funny That's very thoughtful gift for them prisoners Let's see local oh nope not doing that one A humanoid robots in an Iranian tech expo turned out to be humans in disguise. Humans in disguise. Autobots. It was a pair of advanced humanoid robots

that literally were just two people, like dressed up to be like robots. They were fake robots. They were actual just people. Coming up, religious freedom in the administration and more. Stick with us. The Dana Show podcast.

Your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. Dana Lash here with you. I'll keep it going. It's a little Nat King Cole Old Holy Night. It's our first Christmas song of the season. I think this is my favorite Christmas song. And it's really impossible as a church of Christor to not immediately kick in my

alto part and start harmonizing when I hear this. It's taken everything I have right now. But I love this song and I love the history behind it. So it's, it almost sounds like a joke. You know, you have an atheist and a Jewish person and then an abolition. that walk into a bar. But that's kind of like the origins of this story without the bar. So this song, there's many different versions, but O Holy Night started. It was a poem that was written by an atheist, a French atheist. He was a local poet and a wine merchant, placid capo, and he was asked by this parish priest if you could just please craft a poem for Christmas. And so he did. And then later,

on the accompanying music for it was a Jewish man named Adolph Adam. He heard the poem. He put this music to it. And then in 1847, it went from there. And then it came to the Americas where an abolitionist named John Sullivan Dwight. He heard it. And the one line, you know, chains shall he break, really, really resonated with him. He was a huge abolitionist. And so he translated. And so he translated the lyrics and amended some of them. And it became, now it is what it is. It had been banned in France for a while because an atheist wrote the original poem on which the song was based. And now it's one of our best love Christmas songs. And I found it interesting because I told you this morning, my devotional was the story of Nehemiah. And then you had Erica Kirk on with,

on Fox this afternoon, mentioned Nehemi. And I'm like, well, there's a theme here. We got a theme happening. And I think all of this is important, not just because it's Christmas, but because some of the things that we've talked about on this program, the attacks of the Christmas markets in Austria and Germany and France, the things that we've seen in the United Kingdom, even the things that we've seen here in the United States, it all comes back to it is a spiritual war. It's not a war between Republicans and Democrats. It is a war between the heavenly realms and the dark forces, as you see in Ephesians. And this is why I think it's incredibly important to have good people, people of strong faith, advice. the powers that be in this administration, which brings us to our next guest. So I had a friend of mine that reached out and said, oh my gosh, this is a serious issue. We have, you know, you have stories of Christians that are being killed in Niger and Sudan, tortured for their faith daily around the world, thousands more face imprisonment. So a few months ago, POTUS had nominated former congressman and pastor Mark Walker to kind of lead the charge for this, to be as ambassador at large for international religious freedom. And he's on the waiting list. He's got the support of

I think every faith leader, a lot of people in Congress, and he needs to have a hearing. And he joins us now, Mark Walker, Congressman, former Congressman and Pastor. It's good to have you. Thank you so much for joining us. And Merry Christmas. Thank you. Merry Christmas to you. It's a privilege to be here before I became a senior pastor. I was a music and worship minister. Oh, yeah. Big choir and orchestra doing that oh holy night there's nothing like it in my opinion it is one of the best it's so beautiful to hear all the parts sung it's just it's one of my absolute favorites i wanted to ask you so you're so have us understand you're on the waiting list and i know a lot of there's a lot of nominees for different posts that have just been languishing on these waiting lists that that need these hearings

and it's getting all tied up in the senate and we know the president is quite upset about all of this what is happening and then i want to talk to you about the importance of your post Yeah, so, you know, it's been since April. President Trump called me and said, Mark, I want you to serve in this capacity with your background as a minister, but also in the House. As a former ranking member on intelligence and counterterrorism for our Homeland Security Committee, we've traveled the world extensively and have looked at these issues as a former ministers. We've ministered we've been in these countries. We've worked in the refugee camps. We have some idea. I think that's part of the reason that he saw that we had the credibility to engage this. obviously we are our conservative history is is certainly not in doubt but there has been some some gamesmanship I guess on the Senate side and we are trying to figure out where the issue is

we've got great support from the cabinet from many of the senators everyone we've talked to we don't have a single no but for whatever reason there's been a little bit of an issue getting over this last hurdle and we're just trying to do what we can to follow through what President Trump's asked us but even on the larger context the amount of people that are suffering across the world is just is heart-wrenching and heartbreaking. And we've got 30 people in the staff department ready to go that need the guidance, that need the push to be able to engage in this level. Yeah. And this, so essentially the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they need to put you on their nominations. They're hearing for this, for tomorrow, for Thursday.

It would be great. I think there's one remaining spot. Four have been named. They usually do five or six, but it would be wonderful to get there, get the vote, get sworn in, and start working in the different places. In fact, there's about 19 countries we're focused in right now where we've seen an uptick, either in two things. One, the blasphemy laws or two, the outright Islamist killing that we see a lot of the sub-Saharan African area. And this is so incredibly important. If you guys are just joining us, we're talking to our guest. He's a former congressman and also senior pastor Mark Walker on his appointment as ambassador at large for international religious freedom. You have an interesting background, too, because you were talking about counterterrorism.

I tend to think, you know, when we have this thing in our churches, our church here in Texas, where we support missionaries that are overseas. And when I hear their stories, the first thing I think of is that's actually the first line. Because I do think at some point, you know, this is coming down to it's spiritual warfare, but also it's, you know, you're fighting Islamism and, you know, Christian people are under attack. and as we've seen in Sudan and Nigerian elsewhere. The national security implications of something like this. It's asymmetrical warfare, and I think not enough people see the granular, for the lack of a better way to say it, how important this issue is. Talk a little bit about this because, I mean, it's more than just like a faith-based exercise.

It really is a national security issue. Dana, you just broke. that unpacked it beautifully. You really did. That's why you have to go through all these different levels of security clearances to make sure because there are intelligence components. My denomination, we've got missionaries in 150 countries. And sometimes these missionaries are buried even deeper than our assets or have an understanding, getting information of where the next attack might be. Obviously, we know what they would like to do us as the great Satan. But the underlying message you're talking about, this is a national security issue, but it's also a spirit

issue that has to be dealt with because of these Islamist groups. If you look, if you watch some of the footage in the videos of what these Islamists do, where it's Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, is Swab, or other groups that go into these countries, it is pure unadulterated evil, to see the glee and the pleasure that they get from torturing, even young boys and girls. And I won't even get into the graphic nature of what their ultimate goal is here. But this has to be combated. And that's why I was in London recently in a Baroness Emma Nicholson and in her late 80s, worked with Margaret Thatcher. She came up and she put her hand on my chest and she said, Congressman, America is the last hope for religious freedom. And she said the reason why is you're the

only country that ever wrote it in its law. So we have responsibility both as believers and as Americans to get out there and advocate for those who are brothers and sisters suffering across the world. That is an incredibly important point. What needs to happen for you to be on that list tomorrow. Just for the Senate Committee Chairman, Chairman Rish, just to make it happen, that's kind of where we are right now. And we're wanting to do everything that we encourage. Look, we know they have lots of nominees. They have lots of work. I get it from somebody who served, at least on the House side, served in leadership as RSE chairman as well, familiar with the process. But this isn't necessarily about just me. This position is the principal advisor to Secretary of State and to

the President of United States on all things international religious matters. It's the ranking ambassador of whichever country, this position, which what I would be would go into, because these matters are so serious. That's why this law was passed through Republican legislation in 1998. Wow. And it is, like, as we said, it's incredibly important as well. And whether it's Nigeria, whether it's Sudan, whether it's the Islamism that's in Europe or even, you know, encroaching here in the United States. I mean, our leaders need this guidance more than ever. What can the audience do? I mean, is there anyone that they can just besiege online or phone or email in order to make it happen? Well, I just think encouraging the reaching out to the Senate

Foreign Relations Committee, they have a phone number, reaching out to the Chairman Rich there and just talk about the importance of this issue. There are many pastors, many people that are being detained. We've seen an uptick in India with Modi and increasing the blasphemy laws. South Korea, even. We've been seeing this in South Korea. Pastor's son, who's just, is detained as we speak in prison for simply having the same faith that you and I do, Dana.

That's just stunning to me because that really surprised me coming out of South Korea, to be honest. Yes. When I went over there eight or nine years, you could see the work that Billy Graham did in the 50s with all the different churches. So it goes to show you how quickly, and first of all, how blessed we are that we have a foundation of our First Amendment, though we have many on the left. that like to undermine it and wish it would go away, but those countries that do not, how quickly

culture can change and lose that opportunity or lose that ability to simply share and talk about your faith. Yeah, I completely agreed. Well, I hope to see you on that list tomorrow because I think that especially, I mean, we're just some weeks before Christmas. No pressure, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but just, you know, some weeks before Christmas. And it just seems appropriate, and also it's needed, considering the forces that we are facing spiritual warfare and also, you know, more traditional, symmetric warfare that we're facing as well. So we wish you all the best of luck in that. And we'll be watching, of course, Congressman Mark Walker, retired congressman, of course,

senior pastor, we appreciate what you do. Thank you for sharing your faith and fighting for Christians. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this segment. And that is incredibly, it is a very important thing. And as we said, you know, in our churches, we had, and his point, too, that he said, where some of these missionaries are buried deeper than our assets is incredibly important.

We can't even, in our church, we can't even discuss where, they can't even disclose where these missionaries are. When they go there, they have to stay there uncontacted for an indeterminate amount of time. And then they can come back to the United States because you don't want to be detected. that that's, because in a lot of these instances where they're going, it's very hostile towards proselyization. They don't want you sharing your faith. They don't want you evangelizing. They don't want you sharing the Bible or sharing scripture, anything like that. So, and it does come down to, that's the first line. And I don't think a lot of people realize how important that is and how many people who's, who have been brought to Christ through these mission efforts overseas. I mean,

there are some amazing stories, stunning stories that we hear from these missionaries. And also, you know, these missionaries, they go with their families. It doesn't make sense for just, you know, a couple of adults. They bring their families with them and they live in the community and they work with the community and that builds up a lot of credibility. And they, these, you know, people in these areas that have not heard or read the Bible or not heard the story of Jesus, They, you know, they're right shoulder to shoulder with these families and they see these families living with them. So it's incredibly important.

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I remember. And you're looking at all. It was like driving by like a bunch of home alone houses. That's that's what it was like. Right? Can you feel that? Oh, so good. Oh.

Is it weird? Okay. Is it weird to stop by people's houses and like when they're all decorated and you take photos of yourself in front of their houses? Because I totally do that. I think people expect that anymore these days. There's a house that's in a neighborhood near us that I, they do a whole, I think they have little kids.

They do a crazy big frozen thing. like every year they've got the store where the guys like well he was someone said they got that and that guy that's vin guy they got him there they got like all this stuff and i've got to drive by it every year those people who put out all those christmas lights bring so much joy i love those people so much the more the better i would my husband rains me in because i would have i want an attack on titan size nativity in my front yard came i would like can you imagine how having a nativity bigger than your house like right in your front yard and you got it all lit up you know baby jesus is all lit up i i even know how i'd like the manger i even know how i would light it up

does anybody else go a little overboard too any no i uh my mom one year she gonna kill me i shouldn't say this i don't know where she got it she did this uh it's the southern missouri thing she did that where it was christmas lights but in plastic clear plastic solo cups and so it was like a Christmas light disco ball. That woman for a period went through that. That was her vibe for a couple of Christmases in a row. And it only looked good at night. During the day, you're like, what are all these plastic cups up here for? What is this? But at night, it looked like a dream. But during the day, it was just a hot mess. It just didn't look right. I'm going to get hate mail from my own mother. If she sends me hate mail, I will read it on air for money. Don't

test me, Nana. All right. Today in stupidity, what we got? I encourage something. All right, cut 14. This is Adam Schiff. Now, we all know everyone got it wrong as it relates to Russia hoax, the Russia collusion hoax. So he was given

an opportunity here, Adam Schiff, to sort of get out of it and explain, but instead, this is what he did. He talks a lot about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, hoax, hoax. Did you get anything wrong about that? No, I don't think we got anything wrong. What? I do think that at the end of the investigation, there was nothing that they got

right. What did they get right? I think would be the follow-up question to that. You didn't get wrong? Oh, well, then what'd you get right? Yeah. Would you get right? Because it was nothing. Yeah, I don't see that. Yeah, I agree with you. Folks, that does it for us today. I hope you have a great rest of your evening. Make sure you find us on YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe the podcast chapter and verse over at Substack. Back with you tomorrow.