The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Mamdani's Failed Bench Press, Trump's Flag Burning Jailtime Order & Cracker Barrel's Apology

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

President Trump signs an executive order ENDING cash bail in Washington, D.C. to prevent criminals from being put back on the streets. Democrats are calling the raid on John Bolton’s home, political retribution. Zohran Mamdani tried showing off at a men's day in Brooklyn by doing the bench press and couldn't do a single rep without help. Snoop Dogg said he's scared to go to the movies after watching Disney's Lightyear film with his grandson and seeing an LGBTQ couple. President Trump signs an executive order to jail people who burn the American flag for one year. Is this a violation of free speech? Zohran Mamdani announces a scavenger hunt across NYC. Australian travel vloggers were shocked when they were SLAPPED with a lengthy list of offenses after visiting the Aussie heritage site, Uluru, out of respect for the Aboriginal Anangu people. The Indian truck driver arrested for vehicular manslaughter doesn't even know English enough to understand his charges. Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to discuss Venezuela calling on China as the US increases its pressure, India’s clarification of Taiwan, and more. Cracker Barrel releases a statement saying how they could’ve done a better job with the new brand rollout.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Start today and take your health back with All Family Pharmacy. Use code DANA10 for savings and enjoy your health, your choice, no more waiting, no more “no’s.”Webroothttps://WebRoot.com/Dana Protect your digital life and get 50% off Webroot Total Protection or Essentials, exclusively with my URL!Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFBoost anti-inflammatory power with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://HumanN.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale for $5 off at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best.

Also on the issue of cashless bail, sir, this is a DC-specific executive order. In addition to the measures that we're taking that are quite similar to what we're doing around the country, in D.C. in particular, the objective is holding as many criminal defendants in federal custody and subjecting them to federal charges as possible. That means that they'll be held pre-trial in federal jail as opposed to just being cut back out on the streets due to a cashless bail policy. Okay? And we have the room. And by the way, the prison they have in D.C. is horrible. It's horrible.

People were subjected to live in that dog trap for so long, so unfairly. I have stories you'll be hearing about him. That prison is horrible. I like, my favorite still is the guy that is telling POTUS, all the stuff that he's signing and everything that's on his desk. Like, sir, you know, this is a delicious bowl. of cream of wheat. It is a type of breakfast porridge mix. And they use wheat middling, sir. It's very similar to grits what people in the southern part of the United States enjoy. And, you know,

that's what you're looking at today, sir. That's what you're looking at today. I love that because he's, he's so informative and just so nice about it, that guy. He's like the official announcer of all the things. Welcome to the program. It's Manya. Happy Monday to you. A few things that you need to be aware of and we're going to get you set up for the week. And we're starting out with a couple of things. POTUS is, you know, he's meeting with South Korea leadership. He's also taking action as it pertains to some of the tariffs, etc. We're going to get into some cultural issues as well and run all that down for you. So happy Monday. I hope everyone had a nice weekend. Yeah, everybody had a good weekend. Good, sure, yeah. And then John Bolton didn't. If you get the newsletter, Lorraine has had that all written up for you,

for those of you that are subscribers. And I'm pulling this up on my giant, you would think I'd four and a half foot gaming screen right in front of me. And I'm like, where's this at? Yeah, it's only the best middling, sir. Only the middilings or middlings. I even know. Yeah, I don't not. Anyway, all right. So the cashless bail executive order that's in Washington and nationwide. And then the Department of Defense is going to be creating a National Guard unit. They're going to be looking at public disorder. He was also talking about expanding it to Chicago, because Chicago is so, Chicago is dangerous. And I loved Chicago growing up. I visited there frequently when I was in college, loved Chicago, loved it, but it got a little different. The crime started getting out of control.

You know, when you would, I mean, we used to be able to go up there with different college groups and when I was a student and you could just like run around the city and have fun and go eat late and do all the and it was safe and, you know, for the most part, relatively safe, not like that anymore. Not even remotely like that. So extending that to Chicago and of course, you know, J.B. Pritzker, I think he would love to have that. That's the thing I was thinking about. I don't know necessarily if I want POTUS to extend it, to expand it to Chicago.

Because, doesn't that elevate J.B. Pritzker and his desperate desire to be seen as this leader within the Democrat Party? They can't do it unless they have a boogeyman. Right. I see what you're saying there. But sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do in spite of what the other people. But he's going to stunt on that so hard.

know he is. He will. He has to. What else does he have? He doesn't have a record to run on. So he's got to do something. He's going to be like, oh, look at, look at President Trump coming in here with the police. And then he's, you know, he's going to, in the meantime, I mean, forget about his entire, uh, the way that he's run his state. But like when we were talking about the gerrymandering, et cetera, I just, I don't know, I'm very cautious about elevating some of these fools. And I feel like going into midterms and then you got to look all the way down the road to 2028. I just don't want to set anybody up because you already have your hands full kind of with Gavin Newsom. Is it elevating them though or is it shining a light on the horrible management that they've

been able to do over the past? I agree with you. Look, I agree with you. However, I also think that in a way it does elevate him to this national status where it looks like it's, it'll Pritzker will and Democrats will make it to where it looks. It's like Pritzker v. Trump. Like how Newsom is desperate to make it Nussom v. Trump? Yeah, the media will definitely help Pritzker with that. But I will say one of our the saving, one of the bits of saving grace is that I don't really think that the left is as enamored of J.B. Pritzker. As J.B. Pritzker is enamored of J.B. Pritzker. So there may be something to that. But as I was saying, going back to the whole John Bolton thing,

Lorraine is a great piece up over at Substack. Apparently they were looking at looking forward. classified documents in the former national security advisor's house. They raided his home. Who is it? Is it Kelly and Conway's husband who was standing outside? Yes. He was a meme holding his phone. George.

George. Oh, just George Comic. Okay. Duh. He, I just don't pay attention to him. Doesn't he whine like on CNN or MSNBC or something? Yes, and online a lot. Yeah, I don't really pay attention to it.

Anyway. So the, uh, rated his house. And they're trying to say that, well, by they, I mean, the media is trying to argue that it's his memoir that kicked off this investigation into how he handled things as, you know, national security advisor. This is five years after they began looking at these possible disclosures of class of head information. Bolton had a memoir on 2020. He was the third National Security Advisor for POTUS. The book is the room where it happened, and there's a lot of questions as to some of the stuff that's in it. Bolton said that he had permission, including, I guess they have to get for certain things permission from the National Archives that deal with classification of elements, and they have to get permission from National Archives.

Side part, those National Archive people seem like very territorial with their things. But anyway, Bolton said that night gave him the approval to publish it, the verbal review. But now apparently in 2020, in June, the DOJ was seeking an emergency court order to block it. New York Post had a big deep dive on it. But long story short, the administration is saying that he broke a non-disclosure agreement, and they filed a civil suit against him. This was, there's all kinds of this book. This was under the Biden administration. They were saying that one of the suits came out.

Simon and Schuster said that the the Trump administration claimed that he broke the nondisclosure. The civil suit was even fired before then filed before then. The Simon and Schuster, they were saying that this is just specifically politically motivated. Is it though? I don't know. I mean, there is a reason. The investigation into Bolton was shut down like in 2021. and this was after Biden took office, and some people were saying that it was for political reasons.

And so this piece, and Lorraine has a deep dive on it over again at Substack chapter and verse, he said he had no idea that was happening. Van said that it was not, you know, he wasn't targeted for political reasons. And he said, we would just be throwing out prosecutions, you know, if we were going to do that like the Biden administration did. I don't know if Bolton helped himself because there, he was already fighting to get this book released and get certain elements declassified before it came out. So you would think that that's going to be a sign that there's going to be a push on it. There was a great thread over by Dada Republican that got into his associations with U.S. aid and many other things. And he made himself a lot of enemies when he was in the administration.

He made a lot of enemies, and that doesn't ever serve anyone. But he was in a lot of NGO. He gets money from think tanks and NGOs, and that's how he makes his bank. That's how a lot of people who are in these administrations when they're finished, you know, when they leave, they go and they end up making a lot of money with these NGOs, etc. So he had said that, you know, he'd been at USAID for a long time. He was involved in running a lot of the policy there. So I don't know.

The Trump administration says that they didn't know. I think that there's, I mean, the fact that this began, and it predates even this administration, that there was that much of a push and shove over what he could put in the book and when it was coming out, et cetera, et cetera. And there was even questions as to whether or not he even got proper clearance from the National Archives. I mean, that kind of indicates that there's probably something that, you know, he put a foot wrong and now he's in trouble for it. Because the archives, folks, they seem to be pretty territorial. I mean, they went to, after Pence too. They went after Biden. I mean, they're like equal opportunity, you know, territorial people.

So we're going to come back to this. We'll have more on it coming up. In the meantime, Democrats are hoping that if they can revise their language, you'll forget how badly they suck. This is an actual new thing. Third way, this came from Politico. And the piece on this is that Democrats are hoping, per New York Post, that they can just change their language. and that's going to help them not sound like the woke hall monitors, like the woke enforcers. So it's a think tank, a center-left think tank. They released a list of 45 words and phrases that they're demanding Democrats removed from their vocabulary, so they do not sound like, quote-unquote, enforcers of wokeness.

The group is called Third Way, and it's the blue-black black. list. That's what it is. And Politico asks, can Democrats talk their way out of the wilderness? That's the million dollar question. I don't think so, but we'll see. They said that they include, they have several categories that they classify their words in, including, just bear with me, therapy speak, organizer jargon, and explaining away crime. It's a memo they released that they want, they said they want to help Democrats communicate in authentic ways. So things like that they want struck from the list that they say that fall into the therapy speak bucket is the words privilege, othering, triggering, safe space, body shaming. The memo notes that the language conveys the sentiment, I'm more empathetic

than you, and you are callous to hurting other people's feelings, which they say is very intact. They also want to get rid of chest feeding, patriarchy, pregnant people, birthing person because they don't want to, quote, confuse or shame people who could otherwise be allies. So it's not as though their motivation comes from any correct way at all. It's that they think that that somehow is going to alienate potential allies. We don't like it because it's stupid and it's illiberal and it's anti-science and it's just fly. latter thing. That's what it is. That's why. They also say that terms like justice involved and involuntary confinement, this is where they do get stupid, makes it seem as though they say you can't say justice involved because the criminal can't be seen as the victim. And I can't believe they actually said you can't make the victim look like an afterthought. Oh my gosh. Like that's literally all of restorative justice, by the way. So you can change the language, but when you are still pushing these sorts of policies, that's not really going to help.

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So this is Mam Danny. What was this at the men's? I was looking for what the name of this event is. Some kind of, I don't know, men's health thing. And he shows up and he's trying to do a bench press. I can't tell what the hell the spotter's doing. There's like barely any weight on this thing. And the spotter is basically doing it for him.

He's not letting it go. Man Danny could not do it without. that guy doing it for him. That is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen. And I made this mention, I told Kane this and I'm sorry, but I've got it, you guys, one of the reasons that you sit

next to me and we talk every day is because I say the things you think. I don't know how this guy's wife looks at him after that and wants to sleep with him. I'm sorry. That's so, that was natural birth control that I just watched. That is so sad. That's, I mean, I can

lift that. That's, I can do. that. That's, that's, oh man, he should not struggle as a man that much with, basically, it's just the bar at that point. I, I, and I get it that it was just this impromptu thing, right? I get it. But the spotter, like what, is the spotter trying to add more weight onto it? Now, just let me entertain this for a moment. Is the spotter to this ma'am Donnie stunt trying to add, like push down on him almost. Who spots like that? Well, I guess he's used to spotting heavier weight because that's

what you would do for somebody who's struggling with heavier weight. You want to make sure you've got one hand underneath, one hand over. You can pull it up. Maybe it's because there's hard their way on it. There are some people that deadlift that way as well. I have never seen anything like that with just that kind of weight. What are those on there? Those aren't even 25s,

probably. What is that on there? Oh, yeah. No, if that. If that. I think those are maybe 20s. Yeah, that's like, those are the middle, the mid-size. Those could be 15s. Those are, oh my gosh. I mean, at least help him out and put like the, oh, what is the one that everyone always says that they do? No, the type of weightlifting where they cross-fed Giva.

So maybe they could help him out and put those weird little cross-fit rubber weights on that are like five pounds, but they're huge looking. And they could have helped him out and done that at least. So that way he looked real. I would have done that if I was this guy. You know, I would have just kept the, you know, kept the Victorian freak show going and just put some fake ones on. That is just, it's so embarrassing. And I'm not the only one who saw that. Obviously, all of his competitors seized on it.

Man, it was Brooklyn Men's Day is what it was. That's what I was looking for. Because at first I was like, why is he doing this in the middle of the street? Did he just like walk over and, oh, you're lifting, let me lift? No, it was Brooklyn Men's Day. And I get the sense that he was not expecting to do this. he completed two assisted reps men he completed two assisted reps I can hear the ribbing all the guys in the audience are giving him right now from here I feel it I'm like 100 reps oh my gosh two two assisted reps wait two sets no reps man scrawny is what eric adams called him he goes the lifetime of hard work versus a silver spiel

soon. Eric Adams went out there and, I mean, just saying, I can't believe I'm in a position of talking positively about Eric Adams. This is why I hate the left. Look what they've done to us. Look at what they've done. Look what you did to my boy. Look what you did to us. And even Cuomo got out there. So now they're all out there lifting. Man, Danny, that was, I know, I don't know. you don't go to a men's day event and celebrate masculinity like a okay you know what they did they saw the heck set in rfk junior video and then they're like you know why would you try to do that we have got to appeal to oh my gosh why dude you need to go on steroid stat like why would you try to even do that oh my gosh i believe that this was an actual strategy i'm not kidding oh my gosh shares are in the

corner i i just got to tell you I'm, I feel like, I'm not speaking for all ladies, but I feel that I can speak for enough of us, sisters, right? Enough of us, especially as conservative ladies. Yes, strength absolutely matters. I, I'm not into the, I'm not into the Beto-shaped people, you know what I mean? Or the man, Danny shaped kind of people. I want to feel like if our car was going off a cliff that my husband could hold on a tree and then literally hold onto the car with one other hand and then shoot another hand out of his neck and grab me and save it. I mean, I want to feel like that. I want to not be able to get my hands around your arms. That's what I want to do. And I don't care how you achieve it. I don't,

my husband does not take steroids or anything. I don't care how it's achieved. I'm not throwing no shade on it if you do. I'm just saying I don't want to be able to put my hands around my husband's waist or his arms or his legs. I don't want to do that. Now, I'm not saying I want you to be, you know, morbidly obese and 7,000 pounds, but I don't want to feel like we could wear the same shirt, right? I don't want to be the same size as you. I just, I'm the woman, you know, it's me. So I don't know. That is a big deal. And I, I'm very old school about this stuff. And I just feel like this dude is too femme, man. He's way too, he's a lady dude.

He's, I watch this and I'm like, that man's poor wife. Can I have something so inappropriate to say, go ahead. I'm just going to say, I know why you call him ma'am, Donnie. No. Ma'am. It's ma'am, Donnie. You know what I wanted to say

is can he even lift I just am asking for a friend inquiring minds. She's probably good. I mean, I don't want to be able to lift the same as my husband, right? I want to just collapse of exhaustion, just looking at the weight that my man does in the gym.

You know what I mean? I'm very old school about this stuff. So, I don't know. And when we're at the gym, my husband will spot me. I'm not even going to pretend that I can spot him. But, and he's just like with a finger. like, okay, and here I'm like, and I'm feeling pretty badass for a lady. I'm doing a lot, you know, and I'm just saying. So I looked at this and it hurt me. It hurt my soul. It hurt my heart.

And I'm like, man, like how would, like, how does his lady even get romantical with that? Is that mean? I can't get away from this subject. This is what is wrong with the left. You know their birth rates have fallen? Because look at their damn men. Look at the men. Do you think that men could storm beaches? No. Do you think the men could fight off like a horde of invaders? No. Hell, they're tucking and calling themselves ladies. No, that's why the birth rates are fallen, because the men are ugly. They're weak and they're thin, thin, thin alarms, little noodle arms, and then the women are bigger than the men. Stop it. Good night. I don't care who gets offended over that. It needs to be said.

You know, we need to go back to that. Good heavens. So, as you can imagine, now Cuomo's getting in on it. I don't, he'll bust a blood vessel in his face. Let's not do that. Is that going to play, though, with New York voters? I mean, that kind of stuff absolutely plays with me. But I'm not a New York voter.

I'm not, you know, one of those people. I think at this point, if you're still living in New York, you're, you know, and it's, and you have a choice of leaving. I don't know. It just feels like I don't, maybe it doesn't matter to them. Doesn't matter to them? Honestly, I think it was focus grouped and I couldn't be, you know, overjoyed more about the whole idea. Just laughing about this whole thing.

They literally had a meeting and decided to do this. You know that they did. Do you think that was just like some avant-garde thing that happened while he was getting a bagel or something? No, he wasn't out. No, no, no, no. They planned this. They actually, this was a strategy of theirs. It's amazing.

I don't, and I swear I want to move off of this, but I also don't know any man that would allow another man unless he's lifting an ungodly amount of weight and going for like a PR. I do not know anybody that would allow that kind of spotting. Like, dude, broke it off of it. I got this. Just like actually spot me. Don't like help me, you know. That's a good point. I don't know any man that would subject themselves to that publicly even.

And Mandani was like, okay. You could tell the dudes never lift. Look at his wrist. Look at the way he was lifting. Juan, you know that's right. My comfort is never this heavy. Juan's like, I could toss him up into the sky. Like, what is he doing?

Juan could spin him on his finger. It's just crazy. I don't know. That's the stuff that they're... Guys, we're going to have to... We're going to have to... Oh, gosh, help us all. I just realized this.

We're embarking on a new type of Democrat electioneering. they're going to pretend to be tough. God help us all. We are going to be subjected to this. This is why this keeps happening. They're like, look, we're talking tough. And then you got Newsom out there almost stuttering when he drops an F bomb because he's so unsure of himself. I don't know. This word's too explosive to come out of my mouth. I don't know. And I can't deal. And now they're going to try to outlift each other. Heaven help us all. I can't. That's what we have come. That's what we're going to be subjected to. I don't know. We're going to talk about this

flag burning thing. How you're feeling about this? The flag burning mandate. Potus has combating flag desecration. This is an EO that he has. It's the prosecution of burning of the American flag. And he's saying that it's basically what they're arguing is that burning the flag is tantamount to fighting words. And fighting words, as you know, there's protected forms of speech and unprotected forms of speech, meaning forms of speech that are absolutely protected against litigation so that no one can drag you through court, the government can't come after you, et cetera. But there's, there are, you have things like libel and slander and defamation and then the fighting words. And what they're arguing is that burning the flag is tantamount to fighting words because

it by itself is incitement. And I am very, very sketchy on this. I don't like flag burning, but I'm also very, very nervous about setting standards on expression or speech simply because I have lived through now two Democrat administrations where they've tried to come at us for it. Under Obama Biden during the Tea Party days, they literally tried to stop us from creating. And I don't mean just like generally, I mean like groups that I was helping stop a number of us from being able to get our tax. tax-exempt status and be able to organize and raise money in a manner keeping with the current law, even though I think the law is ridiculous and an abridgment of speech by itself. Thanks, McCain-Feingold. But that's one way that they tried to stop us because they didn't like what we were saying.

They didn't like our dissent. They didn't like our disagreement. Remember, they were going after Associated Press. They were going after a number of individuals. And then under the Biden administration, simply from sharing things like the laptop story, things of that nature, that was considered to be Russian disinformation, thus the threat to national securities, so the government was able to use these tech agencies, get involved, and literally silence people. So I get very, very nervous about this type of stuff for that reason. I don't like

flag burners. I've crashed protests where I've seen people burn flags. I've had leftist crash rallies that I've attended or helped organize and they try to burn flags as a way to incite. And I just don't, it didn't incite anyone. They just kind of got made fun of. But I get very nervous about this. Not, this isn't so much about specifically the flag. It's about how this is going to be used as sort of a Pandora's box to justify other means. Like if you can classify this as fighting words, what else are you going to be able to classify as fighting words? And I don't think that you need much of an explanation if you've seen the previous administration's efforts to this extent. I don't think you're going to need much of an, you'll be given much of an explanation on it.

So we're going to come back to this. I'm curious as to what people think about it because I get, I'm, this is, this is a Pandora's box, our partners that help make it possible. Relief factor. Relief factor is a veteran-owned company and they decided they wanted to help people manage their aches and pains naturally with a daily drug-free supplement. And so it targets inflammation and it supports joint health with a combination of powerful ingredients like turmeric, omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, and more, 100% drug-free,

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Oh, the new buzz, the light year. I think it's called Lightyear. Yeah, with Kiki Palmer is in that movie. Okay, okay. She plays like the daughter. So we're watching it, and the lady, which is Kiki's mama, they move on into the space years. They move down the line. They're like, then she had a baby with a woman. My grandson, in the middle of the movie, like, Papa Snoop, how does she have a baby with a woman?

She's a woman. Oh, shit. I didn't come in for this shit. I just came and watched a damn movie. Hey, man, watch the movie. Uh-uh. They just said she and she had a baby. They both women's.

How does she have a baby? Shh. The movie ain't over wet. So it's like, it's fuck me. I'm scared to go to the movies. Like, y'all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don't have an answer for. You know, he's not wrong. I think it's hysterical.

And he's getting all kinds of hate for this, too. Why are they flaming him so hard for? I mean, it's not too. It's true. I mean, there's different ways to, to, to, to showcase things like that in film, but apparently what that film did is they just basically insinuated

that it is the same as just a woman coupling and having a baby. And that's true. You want to go to a movie, especially for the kids' movie, and you don't want to have to sit here and answer questions about this stuff. You want to escape.

This is why, is that a Disney movie? It's Disney so damn garbage. They opened up a Pirates of the Caribbean bar somewhere. I saw this. I was almost going to include it in my headlines, but I'm like, they don't deserve it. You can open up however many Pirates bars you want to. You're trash.

You're still trash. You're trash. It's just nonsense. Nobody wants to have to answer those kind of questions. That's something that if people want to bring that up with their kids themselves on their own timelines, that's their right to do it. But incorporating things like this into kids movies where it's something that is way above their level. of understanding and there's a lot of nuance and a lot of, it's not for kids. It's not for kids. And it's not wrong to say that there are certain things that are just way age inappropriate.

And that's one of them. We got a lot more on the way, including why is the, I don't think the left has any reason to be upset over the Trump flag order when they were trying to charge people for leaving tire tracks on pride flag crosswalks. We're going to talk about all of this stuff. coming up. Stick with us. Second Hour on the way. Our partners that help make it possible, relief factor. Relief factor is a veteran-owned company, and they decided they wanted to help people manage their aches and pains naturally with a daily drug-free supplement. And so it targets inflammation and it supports joint health with a combination of powerful ingredients like turmeric, omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, and more. A hundred percent drug-free, developed to support your

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And so, you know, look, we're going to remain firm. We'll take legal action, but the people in this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny. And if that's necessary, I believe that the people of Chicago will stand firm alongside of me as I work every single day to protect the people of this city. So just to understand what the mayor of Chicago was saying is that people will rise up because it's tyranny to make sure that criminals don't run the streets and that lawlessness and disorder aren't paramount. If you try to minimize crime, that's tyranny. That's literally what the Chicago mayor just said, Brandon Johnson, that it's tyranny to, you know, get criminals off the streets, Kane. It's tyranny.

I think they call that tyranny. Oh, could be, yeah. Irony. Yeah, it could be. That's Brandon Johnson. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. Dana Lash the Thea. The Chats at Rumble. You can watch us do radio, Channel 347, direct TV. And we're also over at X and Facebook, too. Anyway, that's not what tyranny is allowing criminals to run the streets. That's actually what tyranny is. Tyranny is allowing criminals to run the streets. Tyranny is not having proper response or representation for your constituents, for your taxpayers. So now Democrats are like,

yes, we love crime. What else? I mean, all of the things that they're embracing just because it's not Trump. They have, it's just whatever the opposite of Trump, that's their platform. That's a really bad reactionary position to have. Anything opposite of Trump, that's what. So we're we're doing. We're just going to be opposite of him. He wants to cure diseases. We love diseases. How dare you? Cancer has a right to live. Right? Well, I mean, it's ultimately like what they're arguing. This is just, it's assonite. There's genuine things to object to him doing. But then this is stupid, though, because he's not wrong on the crime and the lawlessness and disorder. He's not wrong about any of that. For instance, we've been talking about this flag burning thing. I don't agree with it.

I think that the government has absolutely no business regulating speech. I don't care how vile someone thinks flag burning is, which it is. You not liking speech is not a reason to use the government to limit it. So that's, you know, we've got to think of this stuff as well. This order that POTUS has put out where they want to prosecute people who burn the American flag, and they want to reclassify it as being. an action that is tantamount to fighting words. So they're trying to argue that it is unprotected speech because it's fighting words. And for you to understand that if you're just tuning in, we talked a

little bit about this last hour, you have different forms of speech that are protected and speech that isn't protected. What that means is that you're protected from litigation. You're protected from, you know, the government persecuting you or prosecuting you. So libel, slander, defamation, and then fighting words. Fighting words is an interesting thing because it's specifically about incitement and incitement that is immediately trying to get a retaliatory response.

And if you hear Wick, Wic is trying to interject in here. He broke through his gate. He desperately wants to be a studio pub. I see you. We're talking about liable and defamation. are issues you do not know about because you're a dog he's confused he's looking at me so this uh idea of this can being something that this being fighting words i just don't think that's i don't

think that's accurate i don't think that's i don't think that that's uh i i worry about reclassifying that so yeah i worry about him reclassifying that this This is audio sound. Well, no, that's, that's Chicago. I don't want to play that. Oh, 4-4-4. So, no, that's not what we're, that's not, that's not, no, that's not it. That's not it. That's not the flag. No. So, this idea that you're going to reclassify this as being an unprotected form of speech. Again, I don't care how violent it is. That's not the litmus as to whether or not it should be protected or not. Here's one thing I sure as hell know. I don't want to hear from the left on this. at all. I don't want to hear from the left on this at all because if you remember we have had, let me pull this up. We have had these issues where people have been charged for driving over pride flags, right? So they've been, there's one instance where you have had two kids. Do you remember this? I think it was in like Florida where there were kids that had like their little bikes and they were driving across these crosswalks that had been painted like pride flags and oh my gosh they

left tire marks and so they were talking about charging these kids there was a guy uh this was in let me pull this up because i had this story uh i think this was like delray beach no well here's one team this is the teen facing felony charges for leaving tire marks on alphabet pride intersection I mean, they painted the pride flag on the street and people drive over. Can't where to cars go? On the street. Okay. Yeah, that's where they go.

They go on the street. And when you drive over the street, sometimes you leave tire marks, especially if it's like a newly painted thing, which that was. They were going to go after. Delray Beach was going to go after this 19-year-old because they said that he left tire marks on an intersection. and thus that's considered vandalizing it. So the left has nothing to say about this. They've tried to go after people who have burned alphabet flags and all this other stuff for, I don't know how long.

The BLM stuff, they went after people who drove over like BLM things, whether it was like in New York or in Florida, California, or wherever. So the left has no, nothing to stand on with this. I just think that this is a slippery slope, right? And Lorraine brings up a very good point for the people who are talking about the flag. I mean, I think there needs to be consistency. You're not supposed to wear it as a shirt. You're not supposed to write on it.

You're not supposed to have, I mean, and we see that a lot. Like you're not even, you're not, no, you're not supposed to have an American flag button up. No, that's like a repurposing of it. That's actually against flag code, U.S. flag code. But we've also had these cases, too, in 1990, as she notes, Texas v. Johnson. Now, this was, actually, it's 1989, Texas v. Johnson, where the court has never held that desecration

that is in any way done, that it amounts to incitement or fighting words. In fact, what they said, and this was a case, there are a couple of cases. Texas v. Johnson, 89, United States v. Eichmann in 1990, both ruled that desecrating the American flag as a form of political protest is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. The court affirmed that while society may find flag burning offensive, the government cannot suppress this form of expression simply because of its controversial nature. And I think that that's true.

This edict is not going to stand because it's going to get overturned in court. And we're going to have to spend tax dollars to litigate it. And that's what aggravates me. Sorry, but we don't have that kind of, I mean, we're all taxed to death and we're broke. we don't have the time and the bandwidth to sit here and start trying to defend against litigation that should never even be happening because this is I don't see why why this now there are other things that I like that he's done but I don't like this I don't like this also because of everything that we all just went through the past eight years with different government agencies trying

to silence people and trying to argue that you asking questions about Ivermectin online is tantamount to misinformation and that enough of this misinformation is going to be a threat to American health and that constitutes a national security threat. So that's why we, the government, are going to press upon these, these social media companies to shut people down that do this. We are all still living, many of us, with the consequences of those actions from the previous administration. You know, we, we went through the whole, we had, I mean, I lost my, my damn social media accounts because I simply asked about the, the laptop. story. I didn't even tweet the New York Post laptop story. I wrote about it on my newsletter and then I

tweeted it out. But because it was about the laptop story, I ended up losing for several days. My social media accounts, they, I put a strike against me over at YouTube. I was briefly suspended on Instagram. I was briefly suspended on X. I got locked out in Facebook. YouTube. I mean, it was nuts all because we were asking questions about a very legitimate thing. So I am absolutely completely a thousand percent against the administration doing this. And again, that is completely separate from how vile you think flag burning is. Nobody likes flag burning. I think it's, I don't know why people do it.

I mean, it's the greatest nation in the land, even with all of our problems. Still, it's heads and shoulders above everybody else. And that's just the truth of it. You don't even have to classify yourself as a nationalist to observe this accurately. But my point is, is that the flag burning is vile, but that's not, that is not justification to set a earth-shattering precedent that will affect so many aspects of American culture, law, et cetera, policy, because it's built on a dislike of something. Someone's dislike of it is not enough of a legitimate reason to use the government to control it. and this is where I get very, very nervous with this stuff. There is no reason.

I don't know. I have something to add to it too because the way they described it today was like, well, if there's an incitement or some underlying crime, we can go after them and not run afoul of the First Amendment. And it's like, well, if that's the case, then we should be able to prosecute based on those other crimes. Why are we doing this with the flag burning? if there's property damage, you go after him for that.

If you're not supposed to be burning in a public place, no matter what it is, whether it's sticks or a flag, there's an avenue there. Why do we have to do this and label it as an EO and a flag burning thing? And the other thing, too, is if this is going to be constituted as incitement, then what happens if someone's wearing a flag? No, what if you just have like a flag jacket on? A lot of people consider that to be very disrespectful.

I mean, I've seen people get mad because someone had an American flag beach towel and they laid on it. This was like several years ago. It was like on Instagram. What did in the top gun movie? And people get very upset. So is that going to all? Oh, that's incitement. Then how are we defining incitement?

This is the problem that I have with this. It opens up so many other doors and you're setting up a dangerous, dangerous precedent. Because if you can, if you can define what incitement is just simply based on dislike of it, I mean, I hope that you all are prepared to weather the storm, if we lose in 28, the hammer that will come down on conservatives. If you allow the left that, how the hell do you think that that's going to turn out if they ever get back in power? These people are not thinking things through. This is what I'm saying. You know, going back to my original point, you know, getting upset over Trump for crime, fighting crime.

I mean, that's dumb. there's things I don't agree with that require legitimate dissent because this is this is an action of big government. And this is one of two moves that this administration has made in the past week that I don't agree with. They've done a lot that I agree with. But I also am not going to be held hostage and saying that, well, you have to agree with every single thing the administration does or you're not a patriot. Well, that's un-American. That's some red coat garbage. So that's reject that stuff because we're going to talk.

talk about the government taking ownership, taking a stake in Intel. I got problems with that, too. What in the hell is happening? This is where nationalism isn't bad, but there's too much of anything can be dangerous. And we're going to talk about this here coming up as we move. Our partners that help bring you the program, KELTEC, the PR 57, it is a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 57, 40% lighter than the competition if you're looking for something for concealed carry. And way that they accomplish this two ways the innovative rotary barrel that makes it light but also a unique top loading design that replaces the traditional magazine with a stripper clip for a slimmer carry profile and a 20 plus one capacity it's a super fast and easy field strip it's also uh really

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Home purchases are getting canceled at a record rate reports the Hill. More than 15% of home purchases fell through last month. total, 58,000 U.S. home purchase agreements were canceled. Cancellations are most common in Texas and Florida. Home sales, they said, are falling through the highest rate in years. You got record prices, elevated mortgage rates, economic uncertainty. A lot of people are walking away.

And so that's really destabilizing this whole market. This protest as a newborn has been removed from its mother in Greenland. I don't know if it's a boy or girl from the baby's mother in Greenland because they were saying that she underwent Danish authorities she underwent a parenting competence test

and apparently I guess didn't pass it that's kind of terrifying the local municipality took her baby into foster care the mother who is 18 says she's only seen her daughter once they said that even though there's a new law that bans the

controversial psychometric assessment on people with Greenlandic backgrounds. This woman who was born to Greenlandic parents, etc. She gave birth to her daughter in Copenhagen and they apparently, they sent all the laws clear.

What? This is crazy. They said that they started testing her before the announcement that the ban was coming in. And then when they completed the test, the law was in force, but because I guess they started it before the law that

banned those psychometric test went into effect. I guess it's considered like allowable. This is insane. Again, big government. Big government, guys. This is what you get with it. This, this, uh, a 92 year old sprinter is said to have the muscle

cells of someone who is in their 20s. That's crazy. She's, uh, lives in a Padua, Italy. So like, Apadjuas, you know, it's like north of Venice. Northern Italy. Five foot one,

Elite Sprint, 92 years old. They said that she literally, like her muscle cells look like their muscle cells of somebody that are in their 20s. They're studying her. She's like this champion sprinter. She's been a champion sprinter

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Here's how to work. You'll solve a series of clues all related to a very particular theme in New York City history, each of which will take you the next location, all accessible by public transit. When you arrive at the location, look for a campaign volunteer who will mark off your card and give you a clue to the next location. At the first stop, you'll get this card. At the final stop, you'll find a special surprise, not a lot of cash. So make sure you go all the way to the ends.

But don't take too long. You need to get to the final location between 5.30 and 7 p.m. Stay tuned for the first clue in a video tomorrow morning. Figure out the location and meet us there at 2 p.m. on Sunday to get your card and start to hunt. I'll see you tomorrow with the first clue. That sounds horrible. That's a scavenger hunt. By the way, that's what they're going to be doing.

That's what people are going to have to do for food. If he ends up becoming mayor of New York, they're going to have to scavenge. He's just getting everybody to start practicing now. It's just going to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just going to start practicing now. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. Oh man, I can't

I'm really amazed at what works I guess with Well he's in the lead I know I mean He's actually in the lead In New York

I don't know either man I'm right there with you I'm just a shock but that's doing a scavenger hunt That's um yeah that's that's that's that's pretty much what they're going to have to do if he ends up becoming mayor is it's all going to be just one giant scavenger hunt for day-to-day essentials just saying i have a number of things we've not gotten into yet and i don't know why like we didn't get the like half of the stuff let me la da can i i want to talk about the um i got to talk about this airs rock thing did you see this story so visitors

in Australia, they're banned from taking photos at that rock. What movie was that where they're like, oh, the Dingo ate more baby? Like a cry in the dark or something like that. It was like this movie from the 80s and some lady was accused of killing her baby and she didn't.

I don't know. It was a long story. Dingo actually apparently dragged the baby away. So anyway, the big famous, you know, Ayers Rock, the rock down in in Australia. It's this, it's considered, and I've seen stories about this, and I'm trying to pull up one of my older stories on this.

It's the Uluru rock, the Illuru rock out there. You guys know, that's like that big, iconic giant rock that's out in the desert in Australia, right? So they're trying to say now that visitors are banned from taking photos or video of the Illuru rock. Yeah. It was known as Ayers Rock. They call it Uluru Rock, or I only have ever really known it as Ayrs Rock.

They said that, well, you can't take photos or videos of it because it's culturally sensitive unless you pay. See, the cultural sensitivity is erased with cash. You can wipe literally if you go, I don't know if you knew this. You know, a lot of these old remedies are lost in the modern world. But if you go to the Ayer's Rock or Uluuru Rock, You can wash away the cultural sensitivity with money. You get a lot of cash, preferably a couple of hundreds and a fitty. Yeah.

And you make like a mat with it and you just wipe away the cultural sensitivity. Did you know that? So they said that it's a bunch of travel vloggers and just regular people who are not insufferable travel vloggers. have said they were blindsided because this one couple uploaded a video that they took of the rock to their YouTube account. And they got this lengthy email outlining 20 possible offenses linked to their YouTube upload and also their Instagram posts. You have to apply for a permit. $250 if you're going to film anything, even on your phone. $20 if you're going to just like take photos, $250 if you're going to do videos.

How do they know what you're doing? also, by the way. And then you have to buy your park pass. It's $38 per adult. And then if you're going to take any photos, you have to pay for that too. And then after they got this couple, they got the permit and all this stuff.

And then months later, they told them that all your content breaches the rules and that these are culturally sensitive sites and that they describe culturally important information. And they should only be viewed in their original, location and by specific people, this is so stupid. It's called. It stopped being culturally sensitive the moment they started asking for cash. If you have to get a permit to respect their cultural

sensitivity, it's not culturally sensitive. You're just a scammer. They're just scamming you to go see this rock that God put there out in the nature. Like you, this is the dumbest stuff. I'm so tired of the stupid woke stuff. I'm so tired of it. It's so good. It's culturally sensitive. my ass. You asked for cash. It stopped being culturally sensitive then. And if anybody would have sent me a letter about that rock, I literally would take a picture of my finger, Xerox it. And in every single way, they could electronically or otherwise receive correspondence, they would get a copy of my middle finger. Like, you can't even climb the rock. They find you thousands of dollars if you climb it. Because apparently, I don't know. They're like, it's sensitive. I'm sensitive to. I'm also a

culturally sensitive site. So I want to look at what I want to look at and take pictures of what I want to take pictures of. And if you violate that, you are disrespecting my cultural sensitivity. You know that? That's the rock. Like, you can't stop people from seeing it. That's going to cost you. Yeah. If you're going to gaze at this, it's going to cost you. Look away, unless you're going to pay. Look away. It's culturally sensitive unless you got money. Pay or look away. I mean, that's, that's what. But it's like, oh, do you, it's culturally sensitive. You hold up cold hard cash.

Oh, well, wait a minute then. Yeah. They said that also there, all of these travelers are saying that they don't even really have signs. They don't have any signs that say that you can't take a photo of this. I just, but they're making them delete all their content. And they said that, you know, unless you do all this, you can't really take a photo of it. This makes me never want to go there. if I'm being honest, which I've always wanted to go there. It looks beautiful. But I don't want to have to put up with a bunch of people preening and pretending that they're God's gift to whatever. I mean, just stop. We're all equal. It's a rock that's in the middle of the desert. And everyone can talk about cultural sensitivity. No one's hurting your feelings by taking a photo of it. No one's hurting. I mean, to an extent, I get the climbing thing, I guess. You know, I'm fine, whatever. But to go after people for taking video.

of it on their phone and then demanding that it's super sensitive unless you got $250. You got $250? Then it's not so sensitive anymore. Come on. That's what this is. That's what they're doing. That's exactly what this is. What would you do, Kane?

If they were like, um, sir, I might, you go to buy $250 to go and take a video to say a rock. Oh, you guys take dollars here? Sorry. Not happening. Yeah, that is the. weirdest thing because I think they have the framework to set it up where legally they can go after you for that. That's insane. It makes no sense. They said that they had to delete all of these posts because they were going to get fines under the Environmental, Environmental Protection of Biodiversity Act. I guess it's an Australian law. This makes me not want to visit there ever. I got to be honest with you. Got to be honest. So she said that we picked up, we had a branch. At one point, we were swatting flies and we were told we couldn't have that. And then some areas are photography zones, but you have to include the wide landscape.

And they go through each of your videos and they'll tell you what to take out. Who gets paid to do this? Who gets paid to do this? I'm telling you what? Man alive. Mm. Just saying. So is it just the 250?

Is that that a fine? Or is that the cost of the permit? So that's the permit. Oh, my goodness. So if you're going to take video, it's $250. $50. If you're just going to take a photo, it's $20. Oh. But how do you know?

What if I'm just going to take a hundred thousand photos? What if you're like, oh, whoops, I accidentally took a video. You know, just what happens if it's that? You know, it's happening. I mean, come and catch me. You know, it's not, what are you going to come to America? Make me delete my Instagram balls. I'll just keep putting it.

I'll keep putting it up. This is so dumb. This makes people turn into brats. Now, I get the. climbing, do you understand the climbing part of the rock? Like you're not supposed to climb on it? Sure. I guess I don't know what happens. Is it awakened some, I don't know what. Now that my tinfoil hat comes out when they say stuff like that. It's a very pretty area, but they're, they're acting like they're too precious. I hate that. I don't like when anybody acts too precious. You know,

the only things that can be too precious are precious moments. I'm joking. But I don't know. This is just how that that just seems like that's a scam. This is a scam. It's a scam. Oh, well, you know, it's 250 to. And I, I just can't believe that they go and they monitor people's like social media activity. The idea that some areas are sacred depending on how much you pay. Like it's sacred, but then you can, you know, you can pay and it's less sacred for you.

No, no, no. it's not as sacred for her she paid $250 to take that video with her smartphone did you okay sacred for you not sacred for her that's how was that like not a modern day indulgence it's crazy this is so this is such a joke this is such a joke absolutely joke i i don't know to me it's all still it's still airs rock i know that's a whole other argument i don't know i i i don't know i just i think this whole thing is ridiculous So just so you know, if you're ever going to go traveling. Some of the other things we have on deck. We've got Africa wants to redraw the world map, and it's mad because it says its continent size is misrepresented.

Yeah. Very upset. We're going to discuss this. They're very upset. They're saying that it needs to be true scale, and they want it redrawn because the other map was ignorant. It's ignorant. Hang on, I got a couple minutes. Let me share it.

It's the African Union. They've backed a campaign to end the use of governments and international organizations of the Mercator map. That's the one that, you know, you see the globes and the maps everywhere. And they're like, no, it's underplays the size and importance of Africa. And it disproportionately accentuates the scale of America and Europe to make them look larger than they are. it was created by a Flemish cartographer a Flemish cartographer for navigation

all the way back in the 1560s so Greenland looks like it's the same size as Africa when really Africa's larger so I guess that changes all the problems that they have in South Africa right I guess it goes back and stops like different nations from selling their their rival nations

into slavery I guess it ends all that huh just stop All of it. Yeah, ignore all that stuff. I just think that the maps they use for navigation aren't those maps he's talking about. You know, that's funny that you would say that. I also think that probably some of these maps that were first made in 1569, probably not used today in our modern era.

And I'm pretty sure that no one's like, wow, we don't have a great opinion of Africa because of the Mercator app or the map, the Mercator. map or we, does it matter? Does it matter? I mean, I think most people real, I mean, it's an old timey map. It was an old, I mean, still pretty great for the times, you know, 1560s, okay, but my kid's drawing of my neighborhood got me lost. I know. It's like, what? Can you believe this? I mean, I was using this map from 1569 to navigate and I just couldn't finding this cannot be Greenland because Greenland is on here on my 1569 map. It's similarly sized to Africa.

I, nobody's doing this. Also, we have satellite images. I think that's probably what people go after. I just thought that maybe they had other issues that they were dealing with, but apparently maps it is. It feels like they do, though. It would feel that way, but that's probably all. also because the map.

I mean, you might think it, but I don't know. I mean, that's, who hears this stuff? Like, who do you go tell on about this? Like, I don't like the map. Where are the mat people? I'm going to go and tell the map person. I want the map person to know. Who do you go and tell on?

Who do you snitch to over this? Right? is there like some I mean is there like a ministry of maps for the whole world and there's just like it's like the high table in John Wick and there's just like these people with questionably Scandinavian accents that are you know determine no people keep this map in place yes I don't know

I'm very curious like where do you go to handle this problem is there in HR I don't know we have more on the way we got Florida man coming up as we move our partners that help keep the program It's Patriot Mobile. So if you're going to tell someone that they're wrong on the internet, tell them that they're wrong with Patriot Mobile. Because nothing packs a punch like using a Christian conservative cell phone service to just put somebody in their place. Just saying, you can actually switch today and you don't sacrifice your quality or service.

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All right, so first of if it decides to open here, let me get this. We've got Florida Man accused of boarding a school bus and threatening a driver. You can't be doing that. You're not a student. You don't need to be getting on the bus. You're not one going to school. Well, that's apparently this Florida man didn't get that.

And neither did ABC 12 News in Florida, whose website is so heinous and they have it loaded up with so many cut rate, you know, ads that you can't even read their stupid, ridiculous story. A Spring Hill man, Florida man, he apparently boarded a school bus, 45-year-old Alvin Corley and Hernando County while it was picking up kids. Now, I got to tell you, my first thought was that is this a dad who's like getting on the bus? And apparently he like has a child who rides the bus. But he got on the bus. It was going to the elementary school. The bus driver demanded that he get off the bus. Please leave.

Don't get on the bus. He wouldn't do it. He used profane language according to the deputies. Then he said he was going to go back and get his gun. I don't know. Yeah, you can't be doing that. They still don't know why he boarded it. Like all I know is that he's being held on $5,000 bond.

He was arrested. So I have no idea why he boarded it. I don't know. but you can't be doing that kind of stuff. Tomorrow, I'll tell you why you don't drive your lawnmower on the road while you're drunk. A lesson from Florida, man. Stick with us. Third hour next.

He is absolutely going to be deported in this country. He's not going to walk the streets of the station, so he can enjoy the little time he has with his family. And for the person who says, we're not going to separate family. With his family can go with. They can go with him, he said. Tom Homan was like, well, if they don't want to be separated his family's family, he can go with him. I think that's a pretty good deal, Kane. I like that.

Yeah, that's a good deal. Works out forever. Yeah, he should take that deal. Sounds like we're almost talking from the scene from Unglorious Bastards at the very end when Brad Pitt is talking to Hans. I'd take that deal. All right. So, welcome back to the program. Top of this third hour.

Dana Lash with you. You can find us doing radio all across the nation. You can also watch us do the radio show, Channel 347 direct TV. The chats at Rumble. all kinds of good stuff. So that Kilmorrow Brigo Garcia, he's getting... Gosh, when does this guy... Go away.

Tired of this guy. Just deport. But the left is trying to prevent it for some reason. The same left that is also petitioning, I'm shocked by this, on behalf of this illegal immigrant trucker that killed three people in Florida. Did you guys hear about this?

This is insane. This story is just... crazy. So the guy who was driving at, he somehow got his CDL, not in the country legally, and is, like, is arrested, but he was using this official use only median on Florida's turnpike. He blocked every oncoming lane, zero warning, killed three people as a result, this Harjender Singh. He was here illegally. He somehow. got a CDL and from two states, two states that are also sanctuary city states, it should be noted. And three million people have signed a petition to support him. Watch this video. He can't,

he doesn't even know enough, he doesn't even know what his charges are because he doesn't speak English, but yet he had a CDL. Watch this. This is wild. Juan's pulling it up right now. This is him being a ring. Good morning, sir. Please speak your full name for the record. He doesn't. He doesn't. He's got to have it translated. My name is Harjinder Singh. My name is Harjinder Singh.

Okay, thank you, sir. You have been arrested on two separate warrants, sir. Uh, well, tell you, so you're not, two very, he doesn't even understand the charges against him. The first arrest warrant is for three counts of. for three counts of vehicular homicide.

It has to all be translated. He was here illegally. Illegally got a CDL. Illegally given a CDL. He has to have everything translated. How did he pass a test to drive a semi? When existing law states, you have to know enough English to be able to like talk to

talk to people and read road signs. This is, three people are dead because of this guy. Because he was here illegally and he didn't follow the law. He killed three people. I think all of the companies that employed him are culpable. I think the states that all the people who push this open, whatever, borders, everything, giving everybody driver's licenses, all these people are culpable. They have the blood of these people all on their hands, advocating, advocating for this type of stuff.

He failed his English language proficiency assessment. He only understood two of the questions. He was asked over 12 questions. He only understood two of them. He only accurately identified one highway traffic sign out of a series that they showed him. And yet, in California, he got a CDL. Lorraine goes, oh, he didn't pass. Somebody was bribed.

Somebody was bribed. There's no way. Now who, then who? It is not a tragic accident. People are like, well, you know, he didn't, that wasn't his end goal, was to kill people. Well, then you should have followed the law because not following the law has a consequence. And sometimes the consequences are pretty horrible. And this is a pretty horrible consequence.

He's lived here for seven years and he had no, he has no, holy crap. I've, you know, I've only been to Italy, you know, a couple of times. and I know more Italian than this guy knows English. Oh my gosh. This is crazy. The rules have to apply to him. You can't say that he is exempt from following the rules because he is an illegal immigrant. He victimized everyone else because he refused to follow the law.

And his supporters and his backers somehow think that you are exempt if you are not here legally. You are exempt from following the law. It was recklessness and it killed people. And what's crazier, I mean, as if you can get crazier, they have over 2,700,000 signatures that are demanding that he be treated with leniency. Anything about that, King? How many? Over two million, almost three million. Who signed where did they come from?

People from Florida. It couldn't have been people from Florida. I mean, he didn't even, you saw the video, he didn't even understand the charges that were being brought against him. And when he watched it actually happened where that family went right into the truck, it was like nothing to him. He had no emotional response. It was so weird.

Like dead inside. So weird. I don't know. He's been like for seven years he's been working for different companies, I guess, with his CDL. I'm just shocked over this. But the people who signed it, they want him being treated with lenient. And say, what if their families had been killed by someone who came here illegally, violated the law and then was still violating law? I don't know.

I don't trust any licenses. If I was, you know, here in Texas, we're Florida. I wouldn't trust any other license from California. or Washington or any of these states where they just give people driver's licenses, I think that they should enforce a new standard that they have to pass that state's driver's license in order to be able to drive a truck in that state. I mean, truckers' jobs are hard enough without this all on top of it. And what gets me is, and I know so many truckers that are out there, you know,

these people, they go through all of this stuff, all of the, you know, they, I don't want to say classes, but the stuff to be familiarized with the regulations of driving a big rig on the road. And, you know, they go through all of this extra, jump through all these extra hoops. And they have to, you know, they, I can't even imagine the frustration because this is, I mean, this guy, this killed people. And they do what they do. And they see what California and Washington, how just easily they're able to throw these commercial driver's licenses out to people who

don't even understand the road signs. I'm just shocked over this. It just sickens me. And my biggest problem with it was that even if you're not a truck driver, which I'm not, you know you don't make a move like that in any vehicle on the road on the highway the way he did. To try to make a U-turn

from the middle lane to the other lanes that had a clear medium? It makes no sense. It's just unbelievable. I feel so bad for the family that are having to deal with those. It's the United States can't do what Europe has done. I don't know if you've seen some of these stories. Listen to this. There's mass protests now. A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death while calling the cops to report being followed home on her bike. She was in Holland. Cops arrested this. They called them asylum seekers. He killed her

and stabbed her. He stabbed her to death, killing her. But he had also raped a woman, earlier. Twenty-two-year-old male arrested four days ago for a rape in Amsterdam, assaulted a third woman five days earlier. And he, I mean, I just, they found her body just like, just left her body in the city. They've been protesting in Rotterdam. They've been protesting in Amsterdam. They've been protesting in different parts of Europe. It is, I mean, it's sickening. And of course, you know, it's the girls that are targeted, young women. It's girls that are, are being targeted here. And protests have exploded. Let me pull this one up. This is in Britain, outside of these hotels where they're bringing in these people who are in the country illegally. Birmingham, London, they've had protesters draped in St. George's Cross, gather outside of these different locations because they've been, they're protesting. What they've been doing, they've been having flag wars in the UK. So we had like, what was this, like a few weeks ago where we had this

video of a girl who dressed up as the Union Jack and she went to school and she was dressed up as like ginger spice and she got in trouble. She was told to take this off. You know, it's the flag, whatever. But they can, they can, people can showcase gauzen flags, but they can't showcase their own British flags. There have been protests over this. There have been protest over the intake of quote-unquote asylum seekers. I mean, this is getting, this is, Europe is really getting tense because of this. They arrested people in Bristol, Liverpool and Horley, arrested people in Birmingham. They arrested people in London. They said, enough is enough, protect our women and girls. And people are saying, oh, well, this is an anti-migrant movement, which is such a lie. If they've seen

the increase in crime, rape, violent crime, if they've seen what people are having to endure and what women are having to go through, I don't think that they would say that. Or maybe they just see it, and they just don't care. This is colonization. You hear a lot about colonization, but no one wants to talk about the colonization in reverse. What's happening in Britain's colonization. What's happening in parts of Holland in Scandinavia? It's colonization. What's been happening, what they've been trying to do in Italy's colonization, France colonization. Waves of people coming over illegally and then demanding, not assimilation, but demanding equalization of their religious jurisprudence, things like Sharia law. Demanding.

separate, entirely separate systems of quote unquote justice. It is, it's a, it's colonization and people are pushing back against it. Notice how people always talk about colonization if you're talking about, oh, the pilgrims or the British or whatever, but no one wants to talk about colonization coming from countries in North Africa or colonization coming from, you know, all like Pakistan. I mean, look at Rotherham for crying out loud. For 20 years, you have. had gangs of the same, they all came from the same area, and they were targeting and trading and exploiting and trafficking young women and girls. But you can't talk about it because they have everyone so terrified. That's why authorities there were so quiet for so long. They have people

so terrified to speak because they will accuse them of a moral failing to secure their silence. they'll accuse them of being bigots or racist if they dare speak up about it. And people are more terrified of that than they are women being violently, brutally raped and murdered. That's what it's just unbelievable. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Stop this right now. Stop the pumpkin spice.

They're bringing, they call them PSLs. I had a girlfriend who was like, oh, yeah, I can't wait for PSL. And I'm like, what? What is that? I'm thinking it was like a workout or something. Private and seat licensee? Yeah. No, it's pumpkin spice latte. It comes back today. And, okay, explain this to me. They have a pecan oat milk cortado. I just want black coffee. I want an espresso or a black coffee. Maybe I'll get an

Americana. I don't need any of those other stuff. I don't need any of those stuff. This is crazy. You know what? Pumpkin spice latte? I don't like them. They taste like turkey water. It's weird. I don't get it. It is nine. It's in the 90s. People are still at the beach. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. It's gross. It's like a chemical pumpkin. It's like a chemical pumpkin. It's blah.

Stop it. It's 90 degrees out. I don't want any of my girlfriends being like, oh my gosh, are you kidding out your pumpkin candles? No. No, I'm not. It's hot. I'm not doing any of that. Also, as K-nodes,

There's only one way that you get this nickname. This is a, I swear to you, this is a real article. I don't see me hate. The headline is a man dubbed Buttsniffer was arrested again in Burbank. You really rushed through that. What is this guy's nickname? I feel like you rushed right through it. A man dubbed Buttsniffer is arrested again in Burbank.

Again. This 38-year-old was recognized by store employees. I don't even know how someone does this, but that's his nickname. And that's what he does. He follows women inside stores, and he does that. And it's weird. It's really earning a name for himself. Yeah, he did it at the Nordstrom Rack, a Walgreens, and they see him on the surveillance system.

He's a registered sex offender on parole. And apparently he's got these offenses going back some ears, Glendale, Burbank, all this stuff. He's got a... See, I'm telling you. A, uh... Okay, I know I'm going on this MRC event. It's a boat with MRC. just saying this headline doesn't help.

A captain was arrested on suspicion of operating a container ship drunk. Coast Guard, he got in trouble. It was the MSC Jubilee. We have. Up next, Stephen Yeats, 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 podcasts. I'm really sad right now because we're playing The Beatles, happy birthday song,

and I just realized that when we have a guest, they can't hear it. And I'm not about to sing it for you because I will not subject you to such cruelty. However, it is a birthday. It's a birthday. Somebody has a birthday today. Very special birthday. Would you believe they're old enough to actually have a beer now? Mr. Stephen Yates.

Everyone knows Stephen Yates, correct? He is the Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. and he is now 21 years old. And we are celebrating you today, my friend. I hope you have a happy, wonderful birthday. And you're so generous with your time. Look, he's here on his birthday for crying out loud. So happy birthday to you.

Stephen Yates, we hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day. I wish you could have heard our song for you. But we're glad that you're here with us. So happy, happy 21st birthday. Thank you. I'm happy to be, as I said, I turned 29 for the 29th time today. That works. That works.

Yeah, as K notes, it's your birthday, but we get the gift. It's us. There you go. Right there. Well, I appreciate you. So, happy birthday to you. Okay, I, I, we have this, this, this, all, did we play this audio? I think we did.

We just came up with Beatles. Okay, so I want to set this up for you because I wanted to kind of get your reaction to this. So this is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And there's been a lot of discussion about how to handle some of these criminal entities at the border. And he's talking about in this. flashback audio soundbite, which apparently it looks like we're going to act on this.

He's talking about why the U.S. is preparing to act as it relates to Venezuela. Let's listen. Explored. Because in Venezuela, you have the Russian presence. You have a very strong Iranian presence. The Iranians, in fact, are exploring or, in fact, are beginning to build drone factories for the manufacture of Iranian drones in our own hemisphere, not to mention the long practice of the Venezuelan regime of providing real but illegitial

illegitimate passports to operatives for Hezbollah in our own hemisphere. That is a lot of stuff to pack into that country. A lot. And I mean, to say nothing of China's presence, Russia, you know, Iran, all of these entities looking to get this whole, which they have been for a long time. And I think you and I've even talked about it at some point throughout the years. Talk to me a little bit about what this means in terms of, I feel like we're resetting a little bit, our focus, our foreign policy focus.

and for far too long, maybe since the 80s, we haven't really looked down to Central and South America, particularly Venezuela. What are your thoughts on this? Well, there's a few things going on at the same time that resonate deeply with me. One is, I remember in Trump 1.0, this is an area where John Bolton really got out of ahead of the president and was kind of advocating a regime change kind of policy there. and I don't doubt for a minute that the world would be a better place with a change of regime in Venezuela. But now I think what the Trump administration's strategy is, they've declared the cartels to be terrorist organizations. They're dead set about addressing the immigration problem, but also the flow of deadly goods into our country.

People can easily forget that Venezuela to many parts of the United States is a shorter trip than, from that part of the United States to say Alaska. And so it's not really that far away for them to be able to touch us from there. And since 9-11, we have looked with great unease about the flow of terrorist organizations, Iran-sponsored organizations, and, of course, the Russians, and the proliferation risk going through Venezuela. So it has been an area of concern, but we've never had an administration with a serious a strategy for what to do about it. And I think Secretary Rubio is giving us an opening salvo

on what some of this will be, but also not for nothing. We should remember that Trenda Aragua comes from Venezuela. And that is not just an imaginary organization. There may be people in Aurora, Colorado, that wanted to pretend like it wasn't in America affecting Americans, but those with a sense of reality, no. And so the idea that you could have drugs, drones, terrorists, and the ability to deliver things in the United States by way of Venezuela is not conjecture or somebody's kind of play thesis. That's reality now. And I think it's worthy of the administration to do something about it. You and you mentioned too, and when I heard Rubio on that sound about when he mentioned creating, I guess like a drone factor, I just

keep thinking of drone warfare and the future of conflict. That's a terrifying thing. And the presence of it so close to the United States. I mean, it's not very, you just get it up through, you know, Central America. And then it's right there at our southern border. Yeah, well, I've kind of made a hobby of giving terrifying messages to your audience over the years. But there are, you know, I wish I could be the purveyor of happiness and sunshine, especially on my birthday. I know. But the confluence of modern drone technology with aerosolized deadly chemical.

is something that I think is more dangerous in 2025 than what we faced in the post-9-11 environment 24 years ago. And so I think it's very urgent that we get after the supply chains, that we push these things off at greater distance to the extent we can. And I think it's very, very important that the United States Navy and other responsible allies are the masters of the high seas in the Caribbean and the Gulf. And so I think this is just a very, very high priority that we have wanted to pretend like we weren't at risk of for too long. Yeah, very much.

So we're talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates Com's on X. This is interesting. I'm looking at the India, China. I saw this. This is something you had actually retweeted and you and I talked a little bit before in terms of India and China. It seems China very much wanted India to affirm that one China, you know, Taiwan is China. is Taiwan, their belief, and apparently New Delhi is, oh, they're not doing that. What does that mean for their? Because that's a big sticking point for them. And I was a little worried that

their relationship was starting to get a little cozier for my taste and obviously yours and everyone else's. Is that significant or is that just kind of more of the same? Is that really change anything with those two? Yeah, I think it's significant and it doesn't change that much. in the following sense that India has been a part of the non-aligned movement for a long time. They kind of go their own way. Sometimes that is very pro-U.S. Sometimes

that's very pro-Russian. Modi was giving sort of butterfly kisses by way of social media toward his good friend Vladimir Putin. And they will sometimes play nice with China. But every once in a while, they don't mind reminding China, hey, we're a billion people

too, and I bet if there's a legit count, we have more than you. And, oh, by the way, military has fought real wars and yours hasn't. And so every once in a while, the Indians can be counted on to just give the old in-living color line, homie-do played at. And so when the Chinese tried to say, we're going to put words in your mouth and Taiwan's a part of China, India didn't say we're going to recognize Taiwan as an independent country. And they didn't say they're going to intervene. They just said, no, we're not playing with you on that. And frankly, I thank them for that. That's better than what U.S. policy.

has been from my point of view. Yeah, I definitely, I definitely agree with that. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates, Modi was visiting Japan and China. Actually, he's going to be very busy for the next couple of weeks. What are they looking to establish? I wish, because I know we have our tariff situation with India and I wish that we didn't, because I really feel that that could be leveraged to our best interest against any geopolitical foes in the Pacific. Where does that stand? and what is he hoping to accomplish with this trip? Well, Modi pushes economic development over most other issues in these kinds of trips. And Japan and India have had a longstanding pretty good relationship.

Going back to the Koizumi administration when Shinzo Abe was the deputy chief cabinet secretary and would then be a real strong voice leading Japan toward really strong engagement with India and the arc of peace and freedom that he, advocated that became the Indo-Pacific region. So this has been a long-term trend on balancing with Japan and the friendly relations. The China engagement, India is doing kind of what a lot of the rest of the world does. They don't really want to pick a fight, but they don't mince words about the fact that it's been Chinese forces that have killed Indians in recent years in not huge numbers, but on their border skirmishes. And so they engage in order to try to shape and dissuade, but then

also to seek more normalized opportunity. But India's also been pretty shrewd about taking some manufacturing opportunities from China. iPhones have moved largely out of China into India to be where the dominant manufacturing supply is coming from. And India is going to grow in that regard, too. So I think that's more of what Modi's doing, just proving that he's his own leader of a country that is not aligned. But I think overall has more overlapping interests with ours, just not on the Russia stuff right now. Yeah. And that's going to be my last question for you because I know you were busy, you were traveling,

then you were ill and where you got under the weather. We're glad that you're recovered for your birthday today. China flu 3.0. Yeah. I wanted to get your quick thoughts on how you thought that the meeting with European leaders and Trump's meeting with Russia. When I felt that it was in terms of optics, that it was positive for us. And I felt that it was positive in terms of how Trump was perceived on the world stage,

dealing with all of these other world leaders. But what happens next is that still going to be a gain for the United States? Do you think that it moved the needle on anything? I do think it moved the needle. And I do think it was very, very important to happen. But here's my take. I don't have high confidence that Vladimir Putin wants peace. And I don't really care what his opinion is. And the president, I think, has gotten a pretty clear taste that Putin, like other leaders, can say whatever they want to say, but you ultimately have to change actions. That's changing behavior, and that usually has to be compelled,

not induced when you're dealing with an adversary or competitor. I hope he's learning these lessons with Russia and understands that China will be no different in this regard. But for now, I think that the president, though, to his credit, has put US, Europe and Ukraine itself in a better position if this has to be be a long-term grind, which I think is at least a 50-50 chance going forward. He has the president in his unique way has lit a fire under the back sides of Europeans

to sort of grow up and take care of their neighbors. He has reinvigorated America so that we have less dependencies that could be affected by a protracted conflict. He's made it so that the Europeans are going to pay for the material. Americans aren't going to give it away. All of these things put us in a better position, if there's this is just going to be a slow grind. And if we have those options to wait it out,

in a perverse way, it actually increases the chance that he can negotiate a settlement. So I think the president, whether it's been by design or intent, it's four degree chess, again, I've told us that many times. I'm not smart enough to do chess in one degree, much, you know, I doubt that. Be two degrees. But I think the president has put everyone in a better position.

It's just peace could still be elusive, even after all that hard work has been done. And I think the right moves have been taken. There you go. Stephen Yates, the birthday boy today. Happy 29th to you, my friend. I hope you have a wonderful day. And thank you for giving us some of your time.

So we at least get to wish you a very happy birthday. We appreciate you. Thank you so, so much. Of course. God bless. Good to see you. Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes.

Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube. Apple or wherever you get your podcast. So two things. First, Rolling Stone is acting like Jack White is super tough because he's standing up to Trump. Rolling Stone, which is, does anybody look at Rolling Stone for anything anymore? No, I don't think anybody does. Jan Winner is a loser. It says, oh, Jack White is standing up to Trump and his punches are landing.

How pathetic are you that you have to sit here and fluff yourself with such stupid affirmations, number one. And number two, well, can I just add an addendum onto that? Jack White is also an example of how when anyone gets older, if they dye their hair dark, you need to not be so high contrast with your hair color because it accentuates all the errors on your face. So that's number of, that's a little addendum. That's why you're here. The second thing is that, and this, Vegas Larry, Cracker Barrel says we could have done a better job.

debt hindsight dough. Yeah. So they came out with a statement saying in the last few days, if you've shown us anything, that's how deeply people care about cracker barrel. We're so grateful for your heartfelt voices. You've also shown us that we could have done a better job sharing who we are and who will always be. And then there's like a million paragraphs

about stuff I don't care about. And then they're like, oh yeah, Uncle Herschel's breakfast, blah, that, blah. And they're like, if you're not going to change your heinous millennial gray brain rot decor, then I don't care. No one wants to go feel like they're sitting in someone's pantry from 2015. Okay. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants that.

I got hate mail because I said millennial gray. So I'm saying it a lot right now. Millennial gray because it's a real thing. Yeah. It's like, we're going to get done Wayne Skoding and we're going to paint it. you know poop gray yay so trying to be neutral i hate this so anyway blah blah blah um come and experience the country hospitality and that's it you know that was they took the dude like they as you can realize they actually took the dude that old dude that was the old

cracker in his barrel um that was a real person it was yeah like how aunt jimima was a real lady Yeah. As Steve said, yeah, they saw their stock tank. We've got to get going, though, because I just realized I'm taking up all your time for today's stupidity. Well, it's easy because it's Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago. Juan, cut 11. This is how the mayor thinks everyone's going to feel about getting law and order back in Chicago. Go ahead.

The firm will take legal action, but the people in this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny. And if that's necessary, I believe that the people of Chicago will stand firm. alongside of me as I work. Number one, Chicago's mayor doesn't know what tyranny is. And number two, the people are not going to act that way. We actually already are seeing a public outcry of Trump in Chicago. They want their safety. Yeah, they do want their safety.

They're tired of it. Can you imagine that going down? I mean, you've got to, you know, maybe juicy Somelier wouldn't have been attacked by those two dudes in the street and getting a sandwich in the middle of a blizzard at two in the morning. Just saying, folks, I'll be back with you tomorrow. Have a great night.