The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Monday February 19 - Full Show

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

Biden blames Republicans for not responding after the death of Alexei Navalny. Dana explains the fight that conservatives continue to have against big tech. The NYPD now has its own dance team. Pro-Trump Truckers boycott NYC After the civil fraud verdict. Some on the right are coddling up to Russia for attention and spewing Putin’s propaganda. An elderly volunteer claims she was forced out of her MS Society job for asking about pronoun usage. Foreign policy expert Stephen Yates joins us on Ukraine funding, Navalny's death, Chinese military exercises & more.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaJoin the Coffee Club today and get 30% off your first month’s subscription.Fast Growing Treeshttps://fastgrowingtrees.comUse code Dana at checkout to save an additional 15%.Field of Greens (Brickhouse Nutrition)https://fieldofgreens.comUse promo code Dana to get 15% off your first order and free rush shipping. Goldcohttps://danalikesgold.comGet your free Gold Kit from GoldCo today.Hillsdale Collegehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit today to hear a Constitution Minute and reserve your free pocket copy of the Constitution.KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSign up for the KelTec Insider and be the first to know the latest KelTec news.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet free activation with code Dana.Wise Food Storagehttps://preparewithdana.comSave $50 on your 4-Week Survival Food Kit plus free shipping when you order today!

I mean, you guys saying they're making a big mistake now. The way they walk and the way. What in the, I love when they get, get him right by the chopper. Faf, fuf, fuf, f, f, this is he, yeah, so basically what you just heard was that, it's true. Basically what you just heard. So someone had CNN asked him, they, this is CNN. They asked him, they said, would you go so as far as to say, Alexine of all these blood?

is on the hands of House Republicans. And Biden said, I wouldn't use that term, but I think they're making a big mistake. And then he said that their conduct is wild. And the way they're walking away from the threat of Russia. And they're walking away from NATO. And they're walking away so he

like was going on and on. You could hardly hear it because A, he's a, you know, marble mouth. And B, the chopper, the chopper right there in the background. That's Monday for you. Hi. Dana Lash here with you. Top of this. Top of this first hour.

It's going to be a weak and stupid. I can feel it in my bones, Kane. It's going to be so dumb. It's going to be such a dumb week. I can feel it already. If that wasn't it. I mean, this is, they keep trying to make it about something that it's not. And this idea that somehow the party that actually expanded NATO is somehow walking away from NATO is bonkers.

that doesn't make any sense. Just because why would you even have that? This is what angers me about the press. The fact that he can even say that, anybody, any Democrat can. And then you have the media going, oh, yeah, it's right. This is CNN. And that's the response. Instead of going, well, wait a minute, sir, didn't NATO expand?

Before you were in office? Didn't the other party expand NATO? didn't they add countries? Didn't they start the pathway for Finland to join? Then what's he going to say? Oh, but heaven forbid the media ask him that. Oh, because then they would have to forego their precious invitations to the White House Correspondence Dinner, which is basically a knockoff Oscar party for people who are either too stupid, ugly,

misshapen, or otherwise unintelligent to ever make it anywhere else. But Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., the great value version of Hollywood, Hollywood. Yay. So Dana Lash with you. Can listen to this, this program coast to coast so long as George Soros allows it. I'm waiting, Kane, for the calls on that. I'm waiting for them to tell Radio America to say, stop her from saying that. No, no, no, I'm going to keep doing it until you're going to have to fly to my studio, make it past Castle Doctrine, and put a hand over my mouth. So welcome. You can, I'm stealing that. Just say it right now. Say it. Don't put it in slack. DC, the junk drawer of humans.

Yes. That's actually great. That's what they are. That's, it's true. It's so true. So you can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program. You can watch the simulcast.

There's a video component. I always wear black because I don't, I'm not going to pay money to hire a stylist to tell me to wear a color that I hate. And so there you go. Welcome. And you can find us on substack chapter. You're over laughing. Chapter and verse. And you can find me on social media telling someone that they're moronic, I'm sure.

Brought to you by Patreon Mobile. All right, so Code Dana for activation. So this Q&A and this idea about NATO, and this is because Trump had said, well, you know, maybe if they're not going to pay, then well, whatever. But the whole thing is that, excuse me, NATO expanded. NATO expanded. I don't know where they get off saying this and why no one is passing, are pushing back on this. This is what really is frustrating because this isn't a correct presentation of this

entire. This is not a correct presentation of this. This is, they're making stuff up to try to make it look like they're the, this was the, Biden was vice president when they, and they said nothing when Russia annexed Crimea. So, just curious how this works. They said nothing. They said nothing. that's where really you should have Republicans pushing back on this. If only they had messaging. Oh, but they're now having a slap fight. I don't even want to get into all of that unless I'm forced because I just don't care. There's so many other things to talk about than people's ego and this person dropping opo about this Republican to NBC.

And this Republican dropping oppo about this other Republican to another outlet. That's going to happen back and forth until people get their stuff. I want all of those people running for seats to lose. in the Republican Party on the RNC. Everybody, every single person who's all the people who are arguing over it, I'm just done with it. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. All right. So they, this, you put this up. This was audio sound bite four, I believe. Correct. Yes. So this was Biden discussing this NATO issue. Listen.

The idea that we're going to walk away from Ukraine, the idea that we're going to let NATO begin to split. It's totally against the interest of the United States of America, and it is against our word we've given for percent, two percent, all the way back to Eisenhower. So it's about time when we make sure that Congress come home and pass the legislation funding NATO. It's critical. Wait, why are we talking about funding NATO? Wait, what the hell? What? I thought this was a Ukraine supplemental, where we were giving $60 per trillion dollars.

to Ukraine, right? That's what I was told. That's how I thought this was working. So what happened? What's changed, Kane? So it's a NATO bill now? He either had another, you know, cognitive brain fart,

or he just gave away the game. And the game would be to get Ukraine into NATO for the ultimate conflict with Russia. Yes, I don't want Ukraine and NATO because they're corrupt as all get out. I don't want Ukraine and NATO. As an American taxpayer that basically subsidizes 95% of NATO, I don't want Ukraine and NATO. And remember, Ukraine actually had kind of an opportunity there for a little bit to join NATO,

but they dithered and dodd and whatever that, you know, blah, blah, and never actually began that process. And I don't want them to be part of it. I don't see a reason for them to be part of it. I don't see this might sound, well, I don't care if it does sound or not because I'm only in the interest of of American interests protecting our well-being, et cetera, et cetera. And I just don't see as continuing to subsidize this ongoing foreign land dispute as being in the interest, best interest of the United States. And if the people who are the singular result of cousins getting with cousins want to disagree with that, and that's true because that explains the intellectual limitations of the people who make these stupid neocon arguments,

if they want to say that, oh, well, it's because, well, you're just doing, the Putin wins. Putin doesn't, he didn't, he's been trying to take over Ukraine for how many years now? He can't. But you think he's going to take on NATO. Okay, Nikki Haley. All right. So speaking of which, she's going all the way to South Carolina. Did you see the tweet she had yesterday?

What did she say? Twelve fellas down. One more to go. Fraising. I feel like this is a weird cutting room floor episode of Archer at the, point. Go ahead, play this. Go ahead. Slap it on us. There were 14 candidates in the race. We've defeated a dozen of the fellas.

I just have one more fella to catch up to. The majority of Americans disapprove of Joe Biden. The majority of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump. We don't annoy kings in this country. We let the people vote. Well, true. Thanks for repeating stuff that, you know, we've all said for years. Okay. But Why? She was in, actually, she was in Dallas. I think it was end of last week. Wasn't it end of last week over the weekend? She was in Dallas. And she was raising some big old money from some big old establishment folks. And they'll keep funding her and keep her in as long as possible. But the stuff with Biden and the NATO stuff actually only benefits. It benefits her. Because people don't really trust Biden. But this is one area that I will say that independents actually think that Nikki is legit on. I disagree with her foreign policy. That's like my biggest point of contention with her. But there are independents and moderates out there who, for whatever reason, think, oh, well, you know, she sounds actually kind of put together here. And that actually,

she leads with that group, with those demos. She actually is strong on foreign policy with those demos. So Biden doing this, this back and forth, NATO stuff with Trump, he's actually opening up someone who isn't going to get the delegates, but would actually be stronger against him in the general. Oh my gosh, get over it. I know that you love, I know that you love

45, but that's, I don't give a rat's ass. This is the numbers of it. This is the honest to heaven's numbers of it. I don't want a neocon Nikki. I don't want a mouse house Nikki. I don't want any of that stuff. But she actually, and again, there's a number of reasons that

into this. But the bottom line is that with independence and moderates, I know, she leads with this. Oh, I don't know. I get you. But she leads with them on this issue. Survey after survey, that's her strongest issue. And she's, and I do not want a Nikki Haley candidate. She's competitive against Biden. I don't want to say any of these things out loud. You know, I think if let me play this thought train out for a second. Again, speculating. Do you realize that say something happened and the something pushing 80 boomers, Trump and Biden had to step aside or they weren't the nominee, you realized that it would be Haley and Newsom? And I think Newsom would best her. I'm just saying keep all this stuff out on the table. Keep it all out on the table. So this is all

the stuff that we've been kind of watching, some of the stuff that we've been watching over the weekend, including all of the latest, and we're going to get into that, all of the latest with Israel. We have some headlines on that as well. But yes, I was reading a couple of editorials, including this one, that was over at the LA Times. Blocking Ukraine aid is no way to put America first. I mean, I would think that that's the exact way to put America first, particularly when that's border security money. I'm telling you, they're going really, really hard on this. Really hard on this. Now, in the meantime, there's a good piece of our Red State discussing how Biden has very quietly trashed a key climate policy because he realized that it's kind of nuts.

And again, this is, it began with a report from New York Times. and it's these EPA emissions. The change rule, the change to these rules, they haven't actually implemented them yet, but they were going to. They decided to make this concession to big labor, the unions, and these auto executives. And this is the, it was one of their climate change,

the limitations on tailpipe emissions to try to force people to switch from gals. power to electric vehicles and they were going and it and it kind of well kind of it did it required automakers to produce more EVs or ramp up sales of EVs people are not buying EVs and they had a sharp increase that was going to hit how many that they had to sell can you believe that the government was actually pushing them to sell X amount of EVs that was going to hit after 20 in 2030 I think 2030 was the year they they were actually going to increase what they were demanding in order for them to be compliant with this ridiculous rule that they were pushing through the EPA.

And thankfully, they changed it. Well, at least they didn't take it off the table. They're just not going to implement it because auto execs and labor unions were saying, look, I don't know if you're seeing this, but people aren't buying EVs. We're going to talk more about this here as we roll towards the bottom of the program. We have headlines on the way as well that you want to miss. All right, folks, so new sponsors over at Fast Growing Trees, the biggest online nursery in the United States, and they have more than 10,000 different kinds of plants and over 2 million happy customers in the United States. Get lemon, avocado, olive, fig trees. You can have all of these at your home on top of the wide variety of house plants that they have available. And fast growing

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Wands has had his hands tied. The whole team has had their hands tied since last week. They regularly drop demonetized videos, suppress videos, throttle views, throttle access, throttle sharing, throttle distro. And Facebook to that list. Yeah, Facebook. Twitter, the same thing. I literally, last week, I didn't get over 20 impressions

on a single tweet. So there's something seriously going on. Anytime that there's a shooting that happens, they literally put a boot on my throat. So that's what's happening. Right now, that's what we've been dealing with. And it's actually affecting us professionally, which I feel like there's grounds for.

I thought, this is why I can't be a millionaire, or a billionaire, or a trillionaire. I would sue all these people, all their related families. I would lock them up into lawfare until I put them into generational poverty and they had to sell their souls in order to feed their families. That's what I would do. And I'm not joking. All right, moving on. Let's move on. Because it's aggravating because we hear from you guys and we can't do anything about it because we're at their mercy.

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Twelve months inside Mars, June Alpha, and you get to take off from Houston. You get to take off from America from Texas. So we've got that. Russia has been arresting citizens for mourning the death of Alexei Navalny. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Our friends over at Field of Greens. This is, it's not a supplement. It's basically a way to get all of the veggie sides that you never eat at dinner. lunch because let's be real. You never eat all the broccoli on your plate if you have broccoli on your plate. Like say you go out to eat or you just make it at home. You never eat it. Come on. You never eat all of it. Don't lie and say you do because God's watching you. But it's true. But with Field of Greens, you can start a healthier dietary journey because that's a huge part

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Wholesale and retail prices went up in January. You can't believe the government's job numbers. The spin will be out there. Check out the watchdog on Wall Street podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. Out here in Hacumba, we're about an hour east of downtown San Diego right now. This is a very remote area that has seen an explosion of illegal crossings from Chinese migrants and Middle Eastern migrants. This is the area the cartel has been pushing them across for some reason. You can see some of them over my shoulder right now camped out off a major interstate out here, waiting for Border Patrol to pick them up.

I'll show you what it looked like out here last night. Take a look at this video. I came out before midnight. There were dozens of these migrants from all around the world who are camping out here with fires. It's chilly out here. Again, waiting for Border Patrol to pick them up. This is right off of Interstate 8 out here in San Diego County, a main thoroughfare. There was not a single Border Patrol agent out here for hours when I was out here.

All these people waiting to be picked up, some from China, some from Turkey, some from Central America. They were just waiting. Yeah, just waiting. Just waiting there at the border. These people camping out under the interstate. So now everybody is starting to shift over to, uh, to, the different access points. They're shifting over

to different access points. That's what happened. Texas started using a force multiplier. Welcome back to the program, bottom of this first hour. And Malooja noted it's not just people coming from Central and South America either.

Listen to this. Where else everybody's coming from? This is the follow-up to this. Check this out. Here's some of what they had to say when I talked to them. Take a listen. Where are you guys from? Turkey.

Turkey. Where are you guys from? Did you know where are you guys from? China. China. China. What city in the U.S. do you want to go to? Los Angeles.

L.A.? Los Angeles, okay. So we got people coming in from China in the Middle East and there were people coming in from Syria, etc. I mean, coming in from all over, all over. Just, it's crazy. No, nobody, you know, but heaven forbid, if you try to get, if you try to get, you know, take over 3.4 ounces of liquid on an airplane, then you're in trouble. Or if you tried, if you were trying to, if you were trying to enter in your own country in which you live without the ID coming back in from a different country, you'd get in trouble.

But hey, this is okay. I'm just It's everything feels like it's ascending to a shriek a scream an explosion I don't know Doesn't it feel like it's all amping up

It's like that Beatles song What is it a day in the life At the very end when it's just all the instruments at once And it plays up and then it just stops and drops down to the keys again That's what it feels like Does feel like that doesn't it Goodness Again welcome back Dana last year

For those asking because I'm getting a lot of questions about it that we're the YouTube is constantly uh we're people need to understand that particularly conservative creators we are we we don't just fight the left we have to fight big tech and then grifters on the right and all this other stuff we got to fight we have like multiple fronts of a daily fight and YouTube has been throttling us people have been asking us well go to rumble I can't access rumble because the first has my account on rumble and they have not given us access to it and over like since the beginning yeah we don't have a access to it. I've asked and asked repeatedly. We've never been given access to that.

So unfortunately, if you guys, you guys are free to ask the first why I don't have access to my name, but I can't help you with that. So I, we're, our hands are tied there too. So every, every day is a fight. Every day is a fight. So I don't know. We're, we're trying to get the YouTube stuff, trying to do a live show. But this is, this is like the reality of dealing with a lot of this big tech stuff. And the, the algorithms that are editorialized and, and weaponized against people. That's what I'm saying. All you've got to do is just define algorithm as an editorial

and have that as part of Section 230. You don't have to get rid of Section 230. You don't have to change Section 230. But edited algorithms to display artificial results that's editorializing. It's the new news. Is it not? So that's the state of things.

all amping up during an election season, which is what Kane always thinks this is. You think I've noticed every single time there's any kind of shooting, all of a sudden, and I think this has been in place since the Parkland tragedy, I disappear on social media, not because I don't go on social media. I think that there have been things in place since then to just completely, anytime that comes up, I am out. And I think it's a lot of it's still in there. I think it's still there in YouTube. I think it's still there on Facebook. Instagram, I don't see it as much.

But on Twitter slash X, I still see a lot of it there. So ever since the Kansas City parade shooting, I've seen my account throttle. I would have literal, like actual posts that had 10 impressions. Now, I've had, they've kept me at 1.2 million followers for six years. And finally, something's kind of started breaking loose towards the end of last year and that changed a little bit. Now it's at 1.3. It's so goofy. But I just noticed after the Kansas City

parade shooting, my impressions dropped down to nothing. And basically 10 impressions, what does that mean? I mean, I'm not kidding. One of them, it was 11. 11 impressions and it was up there for three days. They're trying to say that out of all those followers, 11 people saw it.

Does that make sense to you guys? I mean, I took screenshots. Does that make sense to you guys? If I accidentally tweet, like a comma, it gets 11 impressions right away. Yeah. So that's, it's, it's all, it's all by design. It's, this has been going on since pre-2012. This has been happening for a long time because the right was so successful at using

social media to raise awareness and push back on narratives to the point that the left was not prepared for it. In fact, one of the reasons why in 2010, the midterm elections were so successful for conservatives was because conservatives was because conservatives really, really used, they really leveraged social media as a way to to fight against media narratives. In fact, the left created in the wake of, they used a lot of the Howard Dean stuff, but going into, after they ended up, after Howard Dean lost, they ended up trying to try to figure out how they could use the internet as a way to raise money, et cetera, and they were really slow with it. And then Barack Obama got in office and they started,

they created net roots, which was this. It was like, a social media confab that was for progressives and I crashed one actually I bought right I purchased a ticket and I attended and they freaked out and this was in Rhode Island went all the way to Rhode Island beautiful state and went to a net roots thing and they the whole thing was about raising money and trying to battle narratives online now this was back like oh this was back like 2009 so this was when conservatives were very very successful at lever social media. And this was in the wake of the tea party. We were able to raise money. We were able to fight media narratives. We were able to do all of this. And I would say the real big, the first time ever that the conservative media leveraged the internet to wage war against media narratives was Powerline, a blog that's still up run by attorneys that swift, well, they went after Dan Rather. They had the Dan Rather papers, the Mary Mapes, Dan Rather stuff. Drudge began that way, but it was really powerline the website before micro, you know, media or social media, before all of that took off, that's what they were, they were so successful and that scared the hell out of the left. It scared them half to death. I mean, everybody who was anybody on the left and in social media was at net roots. And it was all specifically for progressives. And they had to figure out, how are we going to counter this? And then they began courting people like Jack Dorsey over

at Twitter. So I saw a lot of this. There were a lot of people who were, I guess, bloggers at the time, and they were trying to help a lot of the social, a lot of the progressives on social media network with Jack Dorsey, et cetera, and having a relationship established there because the left figured out that since they couldn't really defeat the right on social media, they would just change the game on social media and shut the right down. It wasn't because they, I mean, they were just afraid of the right speaking truth. They were afraid of the right converting more people. I mean, in 2010, you guys, I don't think you realize the magnitude of that win.

That was a humbling loss for Democrats. And it was all at the hands of all of us who were on social media and who had been in the streets, because that's the thing. You can't just be on social media. You have to pair it with real-time, meet-space activism. One without the other anymore does not work. you have to have a compliment of both, and it has to be well balanced. And we were so effective at that in the early days that they had to change the rules and change the game and edit algorithms in order to try to shut us down.

And then the last big movement that took place using that was the don't go movement. And that was back when the House Republicans were holding the line against, they were the minority holding the line against Nancy Pelosi. They didn't want to leave. They wanted to negotiate lower gas prices. Democrats literally turned the lights off and had Capitol Police escort Republicans out of the House that time. I remember that they shut the C-SPAN cameras off. We don't ever remember that happening. And escorted them out. And that was, there was so much chaos that was raised online from that. The left was terrified to do it again. So they changed the rules. That's what this is all about.

It's a penalty to the right because the right outmaneuvered the left on social media and the left couldn't match it. so they decide to shut the right down because they're a rat bastard cowards that's what it is and that's been happening on youtube facebook instagram x they're still dealing with all of the layers of uh previous manipulation to falsify results for people and to falsify uh organic interactions because nothing is organic anymore it's all contrived so that you have a specific experience with the end result designed for you to be persuaded to do something differently from what you're going to do. That's the whole thing. That's the matrix.

Social media is the matrix. Now, a few other things to hit. In addition to this insanity with the border, still nothing from the administration on the importance of that. They're saying things like, well, you know, they got Alexei Navalny's blood on their hands. You know, what about the hands of all of the people who have. been human trafficking at the southern border. What about that? This is what I just don't understand how people can go out and say, like one of the editorials that I shared with you, the editorial of, well,

you know, blocking Ukraine aid is no way to put America first. The argument is that Ukraine has to win over Russia or Russia and China are going to start World War III. That's the argument that the left and the neocons want to make. That's what they're saying without saying it. That's doesn't make sense to you, does it? Because it's stupid. It's a stupid argument. We're going to bring this up with Stephen Yates here coming up. He's going to be joining us in our third hour bar partners over at Wise Foods. Wise Food Storage. When emergency strike, the last thing that you want to worry about ever is having to figure out where your next meal is coming from. And this is where Wise Food Storage comes in. They have a buy one, get one offer right now. In fact, they have a bunch of

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And Juneteenth, which you already celebrated anyway, is your reparations. And yet, you built this country. You literally physically built this country. And yet the attitude toward you from a lot of your peers and your fellow citizens is just shut up and be grateful. Can I be real? And it's, her mom, her dad was from the Democratic Republic of Congo, you know, where they hand mine where Biden uses kids to hand mine for cobalt for all of his electric vehicles. It's green, Dana.

Uh-huh. It's green. Oh, yeah, it's green. That's right. So it's okay. and her mom is from Guyana. So what do you mean you built this country? I mean, it's a fair question, right?

Literally and physically different. I mean, you can come over and, you know, join the American fabric and be a city. But it's like when you say overly self-important and hyper-inflated things like that, like I literally belt this. Can people stop using the word literally? Figuratively acceptable. Literally means you're actually doing it. Like, I literally built this country. Oh, you built it, did you?

you mean you went out and you you stone by stone placed everything to build the buildings and you till the shut up you didn't do that but can i just it seems a little bit like cultural appropriation to claim that you built the country when i mean she was born in brooklyn but her parents were from drc and guiana respectively her her dad mom so that is that wrong Because I know appropriation, we've been told that that's really bad. I mean, I remember I got yelled at by the left for wearing gold hoops on CNN one time. And I asked them if they appropriated the gold hoops from Sumeria. And because that's really where it started.

I know my jewelry. Do not. There's certain things I know. I know weird things. I have a particular set of skills. And knowing useless random trivia. Oh, man, I'm your girl for trivia night. let me tell you what

I don't know what it is but I can retain the weirdest parcels of information unlike anything you've ever seen do you know what the ends of sheilaces are called cane Aglets What

Anyway So I Is that I was told that Appropriations bad Yeah is that Her hair looks like she's appropriated that

As well So it's not just a narrative I mean, I think she's appropriated that hair. I mean, if I could be told that I was appropriating from the Sumerians, you know, the gold hoops, then, right? I mean, it's literally she's taken the idea of Trump's top part of his hair. She stole Trump's hair. Yeah, and she stole it. That's his hair.

She just appropriated it. I mean, it's like, I just want to know why. I just want to know why she's wearing Trump's hair. it's a little goldener than his you know his hair color but you remember the lego dudes like back in the day you'd snap their hair on their heads the same thing it's the lego hair it's also that i okay can i be honest about the sneaker thing yeah so trump was at that what what sneaker event was it sneaker con literally i think it's what it's called everything's a convention everything's a con and um he debuted a pair of sneakers. I'm going to be real. It looks like something

you get off Shine. Looks like something you buy off Shine. Really? Or Timu, Temu, what is that? I know what Timu is. Is Shine and like a Timu? I don't, I think so. I don't know. None of those things sound legit, so I don't buy them, anything off of them. And Timu or Temu, doesn't that, that's a CCP entity that just steals all your information and gives it to the commies in Beijing. But they just, they don't, I would not pay $300 something dollars for those things because it's an inflation period

and they are ugly. I'm not going to lie, they're ugly. You don't have to say that something's pretty just because you like the person. It can be ugly. They're friends of mine who have made really bad movies. And I'm like, I just don't talk about them. We got more on the way.

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roasted coffee right here in America. Blackwiflecoffee.com slash Dana. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour, Dana lash with you. I can't get over the video. Oh, you're going to see it in a moment. Good to be with you. This Monday, we're getting you set up for a good week. Really sorry to do this one video with you, but that's okay. You can listen coast to coast. We've been having issues with this simulcast because YouTube hates us, social media just in general, it's the throttle conservatives have to death. But it's good to be with you. All right, so first and foremost, remember how just two weeks, I think it was longer than two weeks ago. Eric Adams came out and said, oh, because of all of the illegal immigrants that

Greg Abbott has been sending to New York, that they're going to have to cut a whole bunch of stuff, right? They're going to have to cut money from the police budget. They're going to have to cut money from education. They're going to have to, oh, my gosh, millions of dollars. They're going to have to cut so that they can pay for these illegal immigrants coming in and living. The video's killing me. That's coming in and living in New York City. They're not cut in the dance team, though. the NYPD dance team so if there's a crime that happens you know imagine you somebody you call 911 you see somebody getting shibbed in the street you call 911 and the NYPD dance team comes to Fosse the bad guys away

I um my favorite is the chick on the left if you're watching the simulcast wand showing you like she got her knee pads on in that but when the other chicks go to the floor because they're doing all these dance moves and that and like she's you know she's in it she's in it but when they go to the floor she just like girlfriend marks it she doesn't even go all that we got to run that we got a one in the middle and there to see she not even go nope not not nope not uh-uh nope got the knee pads on though mm-mm just saying i just the dance team what is the purpose of this anybody the purpose of it i mean i encourage it more cardio means cops can run after bad guys better cane it's a new ypd dance team really trying to look at the silver lining

I don't care about silver linings. Trying to see the positive. I don't care about positive. I just think it's weird. That's what I'm trying to do. Like, I don't think this is going to help. What is this supposed to do? Is it supposed to help foster goodwill with the community?

The one in the middle is like really good. Number 24, she's actually pretty good. They're in basketball jerseys and they're in like biker pants. They got the knee pads on. You know, they're like dressed 1990s, L.A. dancing style. Yeah. You see these moves in cheerleading a lot, you know, like college. cheerleading. So at what point does this become cheerleading? Well, they're actually dancing. Yeah,

but I mean, it seems like they're cheerleading. The one in the middle seems like she legit has dance training. Because I'm watching it without music. Yeah, we can't play because it'll be another strike against us. It seems like it could be a cheerleading thing. Yeah, it's not. Cheerleaders don't know. Maybe the Palm Squad, but no. Yeah, something. I just want to know what this has to do with. It's like a bad jazz or size class. I'm just wanting to know what this has to do with, you policing serving and protecting like this doesn't get cut but like Eric Adams goes out and is all oh man everything else has got to get cut because you know these illegal immigrants that are coming in we got to cut everything but not the dance team they they spent all this money on the robots

that didn't work on the subway platforms but you know we got everything's got to get cut but not this dance team not the dance team what what's up criminals Fosse what's up and dance the crime away what's happening but that make you feel safe i think i'd be i don't know if i'd be more scared of that or the criminal i don't think we see a lot of jazz hand jailing going on out there yeah i don't i don't i don't think so either i think it's um hmm some interesting stuff interesting stuff so i just feel like that maybe wouldn't shouldn't be the thing that they should be doing new york seems like it's going to have a lot of problems coming up because you also have this audio sound by 19 so there are a lot of truckers that are not happy

because of the civil fraud verdict we got we had that happened Friday after we were off air which I I got to say I don't know that I've ever heard of a fraud case happening without a victim or like who do they pay damages to who do the damages go to I I I Yeah, so there's truckers saying that they're not going to go and pick up loads or do anything in New York. Listen to this. Audio Soundbite 19. Hey, folks, your old pal, Chicago, Ray. I've been on the radio talking to drivers for about the last hour, hour, 15 minutes.

And I'm talking about at least 10 drivers going the other way. I'm heading down from South Wisconsin. and they're going to start refusing loads in New York City starting out Monday. All right. I got about three drivers that I drive with. They already vibed the boss and told them they ain't going to New York City. So I don't know how far across the country this is or how many truckers are going to start to denying loads to go

to New York City. But I'll tell you what. I feel like you don't mess with a guy driving a truck wearing sunglasses at night. I just feel like that's the kind of guy you don't mess with. You know what I'm saying?

It's like he needs to wear sunglasses at night because he has lasers for eyes. Who is that guy that was in was it Marvel, one of the Marvel? He had to wear the special Star Trek glasses because he had lasers for eyes. I'm just saying, can I also add as a sidebar that why is there, is, I know that there's like ice road truckers, but is there like a reality show about truckers?

No, I mean like about like, because they seem kind of like they have their groups. You know what I mean? Like you have different groups that, that all know each other? It's like a whole league. You know what I mean? Like they're, it's like a whole like association. They all got their friends and they all got. And they really, if they wanted to, they could, they could destroy.

destroy you because all the stuff that you need is stuff that they're driving to you. You know what I mean? Like, I just feel like the last people on earth that you probably would want to make mad or them. I mean, think about all the stuff that you need every single day and how much of it comes by way of a truck, you know? Did you ever when you were a kid in a road trip? And for whatever reason, why were we allowed to climb all over the car during road trips?

I don't know. It was the 80s. who knows but did you ever like do the where you were trying to get the trucker to honk his rigs horn and they always did and it was like oh you try to see who could get the most if you had other kids in the car that were apparently for some reason because it was the 80s allowed to climb all over the car and restrained seemed kind of dangerous but i'm just right like i'm thinking about that and i'm like was i parented badly i don't know feels like that was more of a danger than the than anything else. But yeah, it just seems like those are maybe the people. That's why I never understood why

Canada wanted to mess with the truckers up there. It's like you're ice. You're literally a country of ice and moose and bad leadership. Why would you, why would you do that? Why would you taunt the people who bring you your stuff? I don't get it. Like you go to the, say you got to go to the grocery store and you can't find what you need. Who's to blame you? because you made mad the people who bring it to you. I'm just saying. Yeah, never, never, ever taunt a guy who's, it's nighttime. He's driving a semi and he's got sunglasses on there.

Probably prescription. I know a lot of guys who do that. But I'm just saying. So there's people, I don't know, I haven't really heard anything else about it. But, you know, they're going to appeal that ruling. So that's going to go through a whole process. But the New York one I thought was stupid. because you had to bend

essentially the way that state law works in order to try to ratchet it up to a felony. And I'm not going to get in the weeds of all this stuff. The only one that I actually thought had bearing was the doc case with Mar-Lago. But at this, I don't know how Mike Pence stored his stuff. He got in trouble, but I don't, he apparently gave everything.

I don't know how he had his stuff situated. But at the same time, and not just the way that Trump had it stored, but apparently the accusations, which, you know, they'll, and they'll go through that and determine if they have merit or not, of sharing or showing people the information. That's to me what I thought was like the one that if they were going to try to get him on something that would be it. But if it's just the way that he stores stuff,

I don't really understand how you can have a case anymore. particularly after you decided that Biden didn't do anything wrong. Oh, but because Biden's cheesebrained, that's why. So they can't prosecute him because he's not mentally willful. Wow. That's your defense, really? Now you can see why Democrats are kind of freaking out a little bit with all this stuff. Now, in terms of switching gears here, Greg Abbott says he had released a statement this morning

and saying Texas has a constitutional right to defend itself from an invasion. This is a new phase in this. And it's predicated upon what James Madison, and he wrote this in an op-ed that he had published in the New York Post. Abbott writes that Madison, who is the father of the Constitution, emphasized that Article 1, Section 10 Clause 3, would allow Virginia state militia to be called forth to suppress smugglers who had endangered their state. Abbott noted that the smugglers were bringing contraband into the state and threatening the sovereignty of Virginia's borders. Madison knew that the states must have the means to defend themselves and John Marshall reinforced this right held by the states. And he discusses the

mechanism through which they did that with Article 1, Section 10 Clause 3, that states can use the militia when they find it necessary to respond to an invasion or imminent danger. And he makes that comparison with what happened with Virginia, with what is happening with Texas and Mexico smuggling in contraband and people, whether it's fentanyl or whatever it is. But he makes a really great argument, which is why this is ongoing in the courts with Article 1, Section 10 clause 3. that the Constitution and the supremacy of the Constitution provides, and he cites the supremacy clause, that this constitutional provision supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary if Congress should pass one. So he's saying if the feds can't do it and won't do it, then the states retain the right to do it.

That's a really, I thought it was a very good op-ed, and he explained it out very, very clearly. and carefully. And that's going to be ongoing. In the meantime, you have a million different op-eds trying to push people into this whole accepting this supplemental

without any kind of security at the border. But you also have some Democrats that are getting a little nervous about this because the border issues and the discontentment with regard to the border plus Biden's own mental frailty is really, it's not helping them. And I'm wondering how much effect that's going

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They say it was a business decision. So she got a $10,000 tip, this waitress in Michigan. But the restaurant, and then she was fired days later. The restaurant said it was just a business decision. It was unrelated to the gratuity. The cafe, that was in Benton Harbor, canned Lindsay Boyd, a week after this anonymous customer left the $10,000 tip on a $32 bill that was according to Detroit Free Press. The guy wanted to be anonymous. He was honoring a friend. He was in town for a funeral, for his friend's funeral.

And he requested that she split the gift amongst the wait staff, which came out to about a little over $1,000 for each employee. And they said that she got the tip, but she did not pay taxes on it. The business did. and she shared it at the request of the guy who left it. So they said that, I mean, at that point, they let her go. And the management said it had nothing to do with the tip, but we couldn't go into detail because of labor laws. What? It sounds like it does have something to do with the tip.

What do they get mad about? Like, you need to do a little bit better business. What do you mean if it was a business decision? And you don't have to worry about a labor law. I just feel like that that's like a cop out. them saying that. If I'm the person who wants to give it to the entire staff, I'm not going to give it to one of the staff.

I'm going to give it to the manager or the owner of that particular establishment. So what do you, does it seem like there's more here than meets the eye? Yeah, I think so. I think so. Hmm. Interesting. Also, so apparently I don't know why we're doing this with the dodo stem cell stuff, but we are. There's an ambitious plan to de-extinct the dodo.

There's a reason why God took it off the earth. Scientists want to use stem cell tech to bring back the extinct species. Why? I just feel like there's certain things that you don't do. Now, this startup is based here in Dallas. It's called colossal biosciences. They're using stem cell tech and genome editing to create a modern approximation of the species. It's actually a really ugly bird.

Sounds like a Jurassic Park story. Yeah, it's a very ugly looking bird. And I don't understand. Why are you? It's extinct for a reason. There's a reason why God took it off the earth. What if it was evil? You know, I mean, like, archaeology can't really tell you all that. You know, what if it, what if it spit lasers?

I don't know. Like, what if it, there's just things. They just, you know, political gender gap grows. Axio says that more Gen Z women are shifting left. 18 to 29 is what they're, how is a 29-year-old in Gen Z? Can we stop with these stupid, like, generational, classifications. It's so dumb. Because I heard that if you're in your late 20s, you're still millennial. Now they're saying no,

your genie. That's so stupid. But gender is a spectrum, right? So then there's no gap at all. It's all a spectrum. There's no gaps. More young people typically identify as being left and then they, as they become older or more educated, yeah, they shift right. That's like typical. If you look back throughout generations, this is so dumb. We have a lot more on the way, including the latest with the border battle. Ooh, and then more headlines on the Biden's, 24, more. Stick with us. Our new partners for radio, Goldco, precious metals. And Goldco, this is, it can be really confusing if you're out there trying to

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we also have Facebook YouTube as well and the I believe the video portion of the radio program, the live stream is up, back up. We've been fighting with YouTube. It's a long story. Anyway, so speaking the Navalny thing, I ran across a really good editorial that is over at European Conservative, and it gets into Russia's Christian dissidents. And it's really insightful. It's a piece that's written by Jonathan Van Maren, and he discusses how essentially Alexei Navalny was a Christian, and he had written about his Christian faith previously and how it had informed him in his positions and led him on the path that he had taken.

And this plays in the face of Putin's seeming embrace of traditional values and faith. because as Marin notes in his piece, Putin tries to appeal to these traditional values of people in the West, but he uses an establishment, an Orthodox establishment that hides his corruption. In fact, as Andrew Walker put it, the Orthodox establishment placed chaplain to his corruption, which I thought was a very good way of saying it. But this piece is interesting because I've noticed,

this increase in sentiment with some on the right, not all, very few, but some. And it's enough that the media has taken notice and they want to make these few look like the de facto representation of sentiment towards Putin on the right, which again is misleading, but purposefully so, because they're trying to leverage everything that they can to help Biden in the elections. Now, let's ignore the fact that the previous, you know, D&C, just an election ago, literally worked with the Kremlin to try to rob America of a free and fair election in 2016, but, you know, whatever. But this piece is interesting. And I wanted to read this portion to you, because keep this in mind, as you hear people try to romanticize what they think, oh, Putin doesn't, he embraces traditional values

and all of this other stuff. The, uh, the piece from Van Maren goes, despite all of this, Vladimir Putin has gained fans in the West who see him as a defender of Christianity. It has been utterly bizarre, Van Maren writes, to watch this unfold, not least because Putin is following the oldest propaganda trick in the book, portraying himself as a defender of traditional values against Western decadence in order to deflect criticism from an oppressive regime maintained by murder, censorship, mass arrests, a rigged judiciary, and faux elections. Van Maren notes, as he's written before, Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe, utilized rape, death, and death squads and tortured and controlled his subjects. He famously condemned the LGBT movement at the UN in defense of quote-unquote traditional values.

Libyan strongman, Maumar Gaddafi vocally opposed homosexuality at the African Union while running covert rape rooms and forced abortion chambers. There's dozens of other examples out there, by the way. I mean, you could look down at North Korea's leadership. All you have to do is look over at Xi Jinping, which Van Meren also notes, that he is doing this exact, Xi Jinping is doing this exact same playbook. The exact same playbook that Putin is using right now, Xi Jinping is using. Cracking down on the LGBT movement, Van Maren writes, and censoring certain films, citing a defense of traditional Chinese values and a need to combat Western influence. But yet, Jinping also presides over the mass persecution of Christians, the murder of dissoning.

the genocide against Uyghurs. And in North Korea, where the alphabet lifestyle are presented by state media as a Western corruption, North Korea's Kim Jong-un winsofar as to ban mullet hairstyles and skinny jeans with those who repeatedly violate fashion laws sent to the labor camps. All of these leaders see, quote, unquote, traditional values as an identitarian and political issue, rather than one of biblical piety or religion. That last sentence cannot be overstated enough. And there are enough people out there that are seeing this. And some on the right who believe that politics began the day they were born,

are stupid enough and shallow enough to embrace it and act as though that is somehow an illegitimate defense. of traditional values or that Putin represents anything that is a traditional value. Define traditional value. That's the question I would like to ask these people. I told you before a podcaster, a very popular podcaster, a dude, a younger dude, on the right, and he never aired this debate that we had, sat down across from him, and he was telling me, the leader of Hungary's doing these things. Shouldn't we in the United States also be promoting traditional values? And of course, this younger commentator is out there praising Putin right now.

And it was at an event we sat down and we had it back and forth and they never aired this. And it was one of the first that he did. But he was saying, oh, the leader of Hungary. Now, they're paying people to have more Hungarian babies. And that's what we should do here in the West. And I said, so like welfare. No, not like welfare. in what way is it not like welfare? It's exactly like welfare. How successful has that been here in the United States? Go back and look generationally. We are still doing it. Can you cite for me the success rate? Can you cite for me any sort of evidence of achievement of such a plan that you think would equate to success in Hungary? They couldn't answer. And I see it again.

Again, with this people talking about Vladimir Putin, you know, I made mention yesterday the subway system in Moscow, the one subway, the one little, the big area there that everybody always goes to, was literally designed to appeal to people from the West and try to make them feel bad about where they come from. Even though it was designed by people from the West, that very train station or that very subway station in Moscow. was conceived, designed, and entirely built by Western designers, architects, and laborers that were imported from London by Stalin. And they left the little stuff like the murals in that to the actual Soviet workers because they apparently couldn't trust their own brain trust to do any of this. And then afterwards they jailed some of the consultants and architects for the accusation that they just simply knew too much about their transit system and that it then

created a national security issue. How convenient. But that's exactly, that's exactly what happened. So they appealed to the West to build something that they could try to then appropriate and say it was their own creation, even though they could not have conceived it or built it without the West at all. So capitalism once again prevailed and right there in the heart of Moscow. That's delicious. And this here, I'm very curious as how anyone can say that Putin is somehow a defender of traditional values when political opponents are poisoned routinely, murdered regularly. And this guy who apparently has more evidence of his professed faith in his life than Putin ever did. This guy's a Christian. And he's been, his life has been dictated by his faith.

And yet all the people who are praising Putin's so-called traditional values have nothing to say, really? Maybe one contrived little generic statement and then it's just back to the way things were. They have nothing else to say. You had an actual Christian dissident speak out and was murdered. These same people sit here and run their mouths about Joel Austin, but they say nothing about the Orthodox establishment in Russia that give covered of Vladimir Putin. I just find it fascinating. How much certain people will overlook. I just, when did it be cool to sit here and act as though? anything that Putin or Russia did is in any way greater than what the United States has done or that somehow, yes, we have our problems in the United States.

But if you wanted to have a fallous measuring contest about a laundry list of problems, pretty sure Russia will win that one. I feel like it's a siop. And I feel like a lot of thirsty influencers out there who are desperately trying to break through a very saturated environment and desperately competing with each other for clicks are trying to outshine. one another by seeing who can be edgier. Oh, they found the missing, they found the missing thing with Putin that makes it somehow different than previous praise heaped upon Putin. Oh, no, this time it's different because it's more conservative because, or it makes sense because, because it's you? Because you just, you, you have, because what? They can never answer. I mean, how is it any different from what Xi Jinping is doing? Christians are persecuted in China.

We had our family, some friends of, some members of our family who worked in business in China. And they actually had to very carefully, they were there professionally, but they were also professed Christians and very devoted to their faith. And they ended up adopting through a very arduous process, a child in Beijing. But they noted how difficult it was. They could do whatever they want because they were high up executives. one of the one of the the the husband was a very high up executive with a with a business there so you could do whatever he wanted to but the employees couldn't the employees couldn't have bibles they couldn't worship regularly they couldn't go to church on sunday they couldn't do any of this stuff it's very different it's very they're very much persecuted over there and so the playbook that jing jing jing ping is using is the exact same one that vladimir putin is using why are there some people why are there some facets of the right that are looking to tyrants as models for what the United States should do or should be? I get it that Joe Biden is bad, but that doesn't mean that you go looking

at Vladimir Putin. That means you go looking in places like Florida, Ron DeSantis. You know, the guy that some of these people had such a hard problem with that they couldn't even conceive the idea and they looked at it as betrayal that even ran in 2024. But some of these same tastemakers or aspiring tastemakers want to sit here and put Putin on that pedestal? Seriously? You You don't need to go look in Moscow. We have great leaders without all of that tyranny. Here are the United States. It just blows the mind. It's a very good piece. I'm going to make sure that you get it for you subscribers over at chapter and verse. But I think it's something that we very much need to be careful of. And when you talk about traditional values, whose traditional

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A Florida man was booted from Hooters before a bizarre residential rampage thwarted by an armed homeowner. Guns save lives. Yeah. It was a Florida man accused of disrupting a Hooters restaurant before trying to break into a home in Lee County.

The homeowner was like, yeah, F-A-F-O and open fire. Hugh McManum-Hick, his is a weird list name. McManamanaman. Too many M-N-N-N-Ns in your name. You don't need that many M's and ends in your name. Hugh McMinneman.

Jiminy. 44 was arrested last week. He tried to break into a home in Cape Coral, left a path of destruction. They said earlier he would not leave a Hooters restaurant, caused a ruckus, and then targeted a home for a break-in. He knocked down portions of the home's six-foot fence around the property before he kicked in the front door. He looks like a mean dude. Doesn't he in his mugshot? He's like one of those guys.

also apparently after the break-in dropped his mom's debit card on the property driveway, he tried to break in through a home window. Homeowner was armed, fired shots, he was arrested, charged with a whole bunch of stuff. And he's including 3,000 damage to the home. He's violated parole. He had aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, all kinds of stuff. He's still in custody with Cape Coral. Mm-hmm.

And it all started at Hooters. There you go. Oh, this is so... I really don't want to read those online. This is so gross. Jacksonville, Florida. A Florida man is healing after, no. How does this happen? A horrific amount of bugs were pulled from his nasal and sinus passages earlier this month. My whole head spinning. He says, my whole face felt like it was on fire. He says over a couple of hours, my face swelled, my lips swelled, I could hardly talk.

the patient was not identified. He went to the hospital for constant nose bleeds and pain. And an E&T on call found by looking inside of his nose, there were dozens of live, oh my gosh, I can't believe this is a sentence. Dozens of live larvae feeding on his inside face cavities. They said they were right up against his skull base, right under the brain. Had they gone up through it, it could have killed him. Okay, is it going to be weird if I go to my E&T and be like, can you just look up?

My nose makes sure I don't have any bugs eating away in my facial cavities. I feel like that's something. How does this happen? How do you not blow your nose and some come out? Some of them were bugs were as large as the tip of a pinky finger. 150 of them were removed used by a variety of instruments. The larva was sent to lab for testing. Apparently, this is never, it's called nasal.

Myiasis. How is this pronounced? That sounds right. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's a nasal infestation. called by house fly larva. It's a rare condition. Oh my gosh.

Now anytime I get it running nose, I'm going to feel like I have it. I am completely freaking out right now. So that's a real story. Just wasn't one for you to get you to save my asses. Fox Channel 8. All right. Fox Channel 8.

It's an actual for real story. Sometimes you got to check those out. I mean, how does this even happen? They said that he noticed symptoms in the fall. He has a compromised immune system. And apparently that's, they said sometimes your body I mean, people with healthy immune systems can fight off things like this naturally. It's why you always wash your hands.

Wash your hands. Oh, my gosh. But he said that apparently his might have come from cleaning dead fish. I don't know. This is so gross. I can't even deal. We have a whole third hour on the way. Stay with us.

To Madam Vice President and to Mr. President, we see how difficult it is for the Congress to deal with the assistance. to Ukraine. Could you please elaborate on why such vital issue to ask has been so postponed and whether the United States has a plan B, shall the House of Representatives not confirm the assistance package to Ukraine? And also the question regarding the signature of Ukraine with bilateral security agreements, firstly with Great Britain, yesterday with France and Germany. I have a question when the agreement on cooperation in security field will be signed between Ukraine and the United States of America. Perhaps there are already preliminary negotiations on this topic.

There's only plan A, which is to ensure that Ukraine receives what it needs. To do what? Like, like, what is to do what? What's the point of it? And pensions and all this other stuff. Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour.

you can listen coast to coast, you can stream the radio program as well. And you can also check out the newsletter or Substack chapter and verse. And the live stream, the video component of the radio program at YouTube, Facebook, Channel 347, direct TV as well. Now, they never actually explain that very well to do what, what does Ukraine need to do? What is that I keep hearing from people arguing in favor of the Ukraine supplemental that it is, that it'll help Ukraine win. Well, how did the previous billions not help Ukraine win? And by what margin and how and win what exactly?

Like, what? Can people articulate this? Because it doesn't seem like it. And whenever you ask, there's never any kind of answer. It's just, how dare you ask? You should just give. No, ask, only give. That's it.

That was she, I guess that was what she was told. to do. It's just stand firm and say only that, oh, well, we're committed to this extent and nothing more. I mean, that's the only thing I can think of, right? That's, that's, she just was told to stay right here on this point. I wanted to switch gears and get into some of this other stuff. This one story that I was going to hit on Friday, it's ongoing still, about the MS Society, the National MS Society. I don't know if you've seen this story. I am shocked that it is, that this organization is doing this and how far all of this wokeery stuff has gone. It's the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. And so this woman, she's 90 years old and she's out of Long Beach, California.

And her husband had MS. And they, she and her husband apparently worked with the national MS organization. They did so much over 60 years, six decades of volunteer service. And she won multiple awards for her work. And she's 90 years old, okay? So the fact that, and I'm not saying this to be mean, but the fact that, and I'm not saying this to be mean, But the fact that she has email and uses email is pretty amazing because a lot of 90-year-olds still don't, you know, like or prefer, even if they know how to, they don't prefer to. They don't prefer to communicate with folks that way. And so she's been volunteering for 60 years with the MS Society. And her organization, it was the Lakewood Long, the Lakewood Long Beach self-help group. And her organization helps people with MS, and they do a lot. And she's just, you know, very, it looks like a very nice 90-year-old woman.

And her involvement began with her, with her husband's diagnosis. And she's, you know, she's very passionate about that issue. And so one day, what? What? Yeah, that's what I've said, like twice. Yeah, 60 years. So she saw one of these emails come in one day. And she saw that people started using these pronouns along with their names.

So people would sign, you know how you sign off an email like, oh, well, Dana Lash, whatever. And I, you know, if you chose to use pronouns, her, hers, whatever. And she had no idea what that meant. And she had said, I saw it on some letters that came in. And I saw that people had pronouns attached to their name. I just didn't know what it meant. and Fran Itkoff is her name. She said that she asked one of the people with the MS Society,

well, why are they using these after their name? She just didn't understand what it meant. She said, finally, I was talking to this representative and I thought I would ask, what does it mean? And I let her tell me. And lives of TikTok had the email that was sent. She said that she was told it meant they were all-inclusive. And she said, that still didn't make sense to me.

And she didn't know how she or her could be all inclusive. Think about this. So you're a 90-year-old woman. All you do and all you've done for six decades is volunteer work, you don't care about any of this other stuff. You're singularly minded on your mission to help people with MS. And then you start seeing people in email use these pronouns after your name. And she didn't know what that meant.

You ask, and if you don't know what it means, you ask someone and they go, well, it means all inclusive. Well, what? Do you see how it just gets even weirder if you don't live in this garbage of activist rhetoric? So then as a thinking person, she's like, well, if it's not referring to men, why is it all inclusive? So a couple of days after the conversation, she was told that she had to step down as a volunteer for the MS Society. The letter said, quote, Dear Fram, I hope this email finds you well. We appreciate you. We appreciate your dedication and contribution as a self-help group leader with our organization. She says that the letter said that your, as we discussed earlier on one of our, at our phone

conversation, after a thorough review of our guidelines and standards, it has come to our attention that there has been a failure to abide by our diversity, equity, and inclusion guidelines during your time as a volunteer. Unfortunately, based on On the situation, we have made the difficult decision to have you stepped down from your volunteer position effective immediately. Although the Lakewood Long Beach Self-Help Group will no longer be formally affiliated with our organization, we want to emphasize it does not mean the end of your group's activities. You can continue meeting independently from the society, et cetera, et cetera. You know this email was sent by someone who hasn't even done a half or a third or a quarter of the work she's done. and she said that the verbiage she still did she couldn't even understand that she couldn't be a part of as a volunteer

and her daughter pointed out the irony in the statement that they were excluding a 90 year old disabled woman who volunteered for over 60 years she's won awards with her work they gave her a volunteer lifetime achievement award in 2008 her husband went out and met jimmy carter when he was still in office because he won ms father of the year and the daughter added that it's sad that they're discriminating against her because MS doesn't discriminate she literally asked a question because she just didn't know what it meant she doesn't live in that world she doesn't pay attention to that stuff and the daughter blasted the MS Society's entire mission and wondered if they're too focused on inclusive talk and not working to actually fight MS there and I

agree with her she said she's going to continue with her group because the patients want to keep going Can you believe the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is actually valuing pronouns over fighting MS? Because that's exactly what this is. They are betraying their mission and they're sacrificing the fight for MS at the altar of transactivist rhetoric. It is offensive. It's offensive most to the people that they claim to help. is there nothing free from the infection of this activist rhetoric?

She's a 90-year-old woman. I would love to know the identity and age of the person that thought it was acceptable to force a 90-year-old woman who had more experience than the entire lifetimes of the people who probably let her, told her to step down as a volunteer, where they get off or where they think they have the right to ask her to step down simply because she asked for clarification. And notice that at no time they offered no clarification. She wasn't doing it to make a political statement. I mean, to be frank with you, when your fight is about pronouns, you look like a moron. You're forcing everyone else to play along with your fantasy

perspective. And you claim that you're doing it because you want them to be nice to you. But by God, If they don't, then you're going to go after their job and everything else. Now, tell me the irony in that position. I wouldn't want to give any more. I wouldn't want to give any money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation after that because you don't even know what they're going to use it for. Clearly, they're not prioritizing work and advocacy on behalf of the patients that go and see them. This is just how insidious this is.

90 years old. Multiple awards. That's all she does. She loves helping people and working with people. And she literally asked a question. And apparently they provided everything, you know. She asked a question, like, what does that mean? Why is that?

Because it sounded like she was asking the question, like, should I be doing that too? Honestly, that's what it sounded like when I was reading through the discussion. She didn't say it, but it sounded like she was trying to figure out if that, is that something that she needs to be doing on behalf of MS? Like what? Do you see it? She's 90 years old. that is not her world and most people who did not come up in that way where you worship rhetoric they don't they don't prioritize that stuff i can't even believe this has to be explained and i also

think it is the indulgence of the younger activist generation who think that everything has to live and die by this stupid stuff just awful just absolutely awful now today's president's day a lot of people are saying that washington should have his own birthday. There was a really good op-ed in Newsweek that gets into how, because it was, it was his birthday, and then they kind of put together President's Day with Washington's birthday. One of my favorite books that I've ever read about George Washington was the blood of tyrants, George Washington and the forging of the U.S. presidency. It's really, really good. And it gets into a whole bunch of stuff, too, about everything that Washington and the founders dealt with, like, military tribunals over civilian trials and all kinds of other stuff.

It had his letters back and forth to the other founders. It got into everything, government debt, overspending, but it also provided a really brilliant insight into Washington and how he handled things. There was a story, too, and I'm trying to find this. and my notes. There was an interesting story about Washington that got into, I think Red State may have touched on this before, where it talked about how, you know, Washington's history, because he was always kind of hardcore. Washington was always hardcore. I mean, there's stories of when he got mad at his own fighters, cowardice, that he charged the battlefield with bullets, muskets, tearing through his coat.

And he wasn't hit. And people thought it was miraculous. and they followed him. He had, I mean, he was, he was very much chivalrous, but he also had a temper, and he did not tolerate cowardice or insubordination when it came to promoting the American ideal. And everybody knows, like, you know, it's the basic stuff about his, you know, fake teeth and all this. But there was one story where, because he worked as a surveyor. He was a very experienced, he was an experienced surveyor. He worked as a surveyor when he was younger. And he was, he was licensed at age of 17, he started being a surveyor for Cole Pepper County in Virginia.

And he was doing his job, you know, doing his stuff. And there was one landowner who, I guess, got mad at what he was doing. And long story short, they had a warrant out for his arrest. And they said that, because back in the day, you actually had to find the guy yourself. There weren't police out there to enforce a warrant. You had to hire the prosecutor. So in order to do it, if you really wanted to do it, you had to do all of the work yourself. Anyway, so long story short when they tried to finally get him the warrant

that was returned to the county court said quote the within named George Washington would not be taken he kept me off by force of arms and they actually they put it in the two hard box and then dismissed the case he wouldn't gonna

yeah I love it it's hysterical but it is President's Day but I think it should be I think we should just have Washington's birthday just be a standalone national Dana. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. So a woman is...

Wait, what? This is a weird headline. A woman is celebrating turning 100 years old on her 25th birthday. Yeah, it's wild. She's turning, but it's... What? She was born on February 29, 1924th. So that was Leap Day.

So since Leap years come around only every four... years. Technically, she's 25. He's only had 25 actual birthdays. I would just change the day. Wouldn't you? Yeah, I'm sure she celebrates on March 1st. But man, alive. Apparently, 5 million people across the world have a leap day birthday. That's like very, so it's very special. So now

the headline is, too much exercise can kill you. Yeah, especially if you're a white dude. seven and a half hours a week of fitness can double your risk of heart disease, according to Chicago researchers. I guess they want you to eat bugs and do nothing and own nothing. I don't know. Stephen Yates joins us next. Stay with us.

Whether you're a policy wonk, a news junkie, or simply someone hungry for insightful discourse, the Dana Show podcast has your back. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program. listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program. You can also catch the simulcast of the radio program. Channel 347 DirecTV, YouTube, Facebook as well. We have missed our guest, Stephen Yates. You know, he doesn't just live to come on air with us. He actually has, he does very important things and he travels all over the world. And he joins us now via Skype,

if you're unfamiliar with Mr. Yates. He is the senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute and the chair of the China Policy Initiative. I've got a million questions to ask you, but I'm glad that you've been traveling safely. Good to have you back. Right off the top. Explain this to me. So I'm looking at this headline. It's from Reuters.

And Reuters even acknowledges that it's weird. And the Guardian had a write-up on this too, and everyone's just like very, what is happening here? Very odd. In an unusual move, notes Reuters, China offers to back Hungary. Insecurity matters. on public security issues, not just trade and investment,

but apparently they've been meeting with Victor Orban, who's a prime minister over there. What is this purpose for? What are they gonna help Hungary with? Well, it's definitely headline worthy of raising eyebrows and scratching your head, because this is not a part of the world that people should be expecting China

to be having very much influence, I was in Hungary not that long ago, and it is a country where some investment from China can go a long way, and it does buy some influence. Now, I have no idea what's on offer at face value. It sounds like Xi Jinping is offering to Orban to have putty putt in the corner and not threaten their sovereignty. So it's in a way the usual gangster come by and say, hey, you know, for a little bit of coin, I can make sure that the other bully doesn't come by and break. your store window. And so that's what I always have as a first presumption when China's making a real offer. Now they have made a habit of making a lot of fake offers, whether it's a Middle East peace plan or a peace plan with Ukraine and a whole host of other things. So the second assumption

besides the sort of Mafia Don coming around for his peace is that this is just political blowiation. stirring the pot, but it's mystifying to me why Orban and Hungary would entertain this. Yeah, because my first thought was, well, because it didn't look like it was a Belt and Road initiative overture. And then I started thinking of all of the secret police offices that China had here in the United States. And I was just, it seemed like, is that, because they say with public security issues, is that what they're looking at here? Well, there is this weird wave of interest in Hungary because of some of their unique laws that look at promoting the family and childbirth and all kinds of other kinds of things.

Expanded welfare, yay! And that has echoed back a bunch of criticism, some from the right, but a lot from the left, where there's been just absolute unfiltered hatred going back toward Hungary. And we know that when you get really fanatical kind of mind zombies on the left going after you can have some public security issues. But really in that part of the world, if you have a population that isn't that big and you have an economy relative to some of your neighbors that is not that big, you have to be concerned about organized crime.

China knows about that. And you have to be worried about a bully neighbor. And so this is a way for governments in Eastern Europe. if they don't feel like they're getting it from the United States in a way that helps them feel secure. And more importantly, as we have repeatedly emphasized, your supposed neighbors in Europe are not stepping up and doing what their neighborly duty ought to be, then you turn to some of these devils far away under the theory that they're so far away, they can't hurt me. And they might help balance against a nearer demon like Russia. And so that's kind of the thought process.

I think it's fraught with peril. but you know you can't blame too many people for looking to Washington and saying all we have is hot air coming out of D.C. right now and all the money and material is going to Ukraine so the rest of us are on our own. Yeah. Talking with our very good friend Stephen Yates, who joins us very regularly. You mentioned, and I'm going to get to Russia and the Navalny death, the accidental death. He apparently had bruises all over himself. And I guess they were trying to get his body It's just a weird. I mean, he was killed.

I mean, obviously the Putin regime had him killed. What gets me about all of this? And I'm sure that you've seen this. You know, I watched, Tucker Carlson's in front of mine. I watched his interview with Putin. And what I found odd in the wake of that was the praise from certain people that identify as being on the right. I tend to joke and say that these people think that politics began the day that they were born. But they think that like people like Putin and even to an extent, J.J.

Jinping are somehow. defenders of traditional values, but yet they persecute Christians. I mean, Navalny was a professed Christian. Xi Jinping persecutes Christians to say nothing of the Uyghurs. I'm trying to figure out how that gets lost in the translation of they stand for traditional values, and that gets like represented here in the United States is a good thing. Yeah, well, I do think that there is a difference between Russian tradition and culture and Chinese tradition and culture that might make a little bit of difference in this equation. But overall, you're still dealing with aggressors who are about control, not freedom, and whatever respect they have

for an independent institution of religion, faith, family, what have you. They've certainly proven that they're willing to step over all of those boundaries when their political and their self-defined national interests are at play. So I think we have to look at people who go to the Russia example and say, you know, why are we going overboard in demonizing and fighting with Russia when we have a civilizational threat coming from China that is actually on our shores and shouldn't we be focused on other things? And every bit of material that's spent on this as just is a fact of life is taken away from meeting other challenges. is I'm open to that kind of an argument because life isn't free. We don't have unlimited capacity and multitasking is a lie.

But I don't share the idea of holding up these other kinds of people. I just, you know, so I just, I favor someone like Tucker doing an interview. I favor criticizing these people when they kill their political opponents. I do think that I care a lot more about political opponents being jailed. and killed in the United States than I do about those overseas. Maybe that makes me a bad person in some regards. But I think it's important not to overlook that. There's a large swath of our political culture that goes to high church about things far away.

And they look right past the graveyard in the United States. And I think that's a real massive problem we have in this moment, as a lot of our authors in our commentary I like to say. I agree. And I made this point last week. and I got some pushback from some folks on the left because I thought you guys, you're very upset over Alexei

Navalny, but where were you on the people who were detained on January 6th who didn't even go into the Capitol and who were arrested? Or people who went in and maybe they stood in the rotunda in between the velvet ropes, which I still to this day find entertaining that they didn't go rogue wild and they just

they literally all orderly filed, it's all in video. They orderly filed into the rotunda. I mean, yes, the people who did damages, etc., they've been processing. But the other people who were saw security guards opening the door and walked in. There are people who have been detained for months. People who have been given harsher sentences than like serious predators say out in California or up in New York.

So how was that any different except maybe, you know, they're not being poisoned or beaten to death while they're detained? How was that on its face, though, a different first step from what began with Navalny? Right. They can both be wrong. There doesn't have to be one right and one wrong. neither justifies the other, but the one that's happening here done by our government to our own people should bother us more. And we should get our own house and order first. I think that's

kind of the America First ethos that a lot of people have kind of drawn their attention to. You can pick your flavor or what have you. I think people are weary about the preachers talking about the far away. It matters to a degree. Injustice elsewhere does affect us in some. way. But injustice right here and now in our own country against our own people, I mean, I care about Americans getting killed by fentanyl cartels, others, a lot more than I do about civil strife and other parts of the world, even the places I know. And I understand if other Americans feel similarly. It's my job to make sure that we take care of America and then when we have extra capacity, work with reliable partners to help keep those problems far from our shores.

I think that's a great point. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates, so Chinese fishing vessels are now being accused of pumping cyanide into international waters. This is what the Philippines fishing authority has said. Well, not international waters, I should say, contested waters because they have the South Sea and then they are trying to say that it's theirs. They have their little man-made island that they put into it as like their flag in the water. That, that, I mean, you're intentionally destroying commercial enterprise. that point. I mean, I just think that this is something that like the Jefferson went after the Barbary Pirates for it. This is, explain what is going to happen over this? Because to me, it seems like that's a massive, massive escalation. It is an escalation. But first, I can't get past that headline and start asking, where are the high priesthood of the green universe when the CCP is obviously and verifiably poisoning? the world. And yet your salvation comes from a manufacturing platform driven almost entirely by these same people who have no sense of quality control don't care about your green universe.

And so there's that whole part. You'd think there would just be a little bit of criticism about bad China on some of this and maybe rallying to some of the victims in Asia. But on geostrategic terms, I mean, no one has really provoked China. This is all Xi Jinping picking fights. Now, he's doing it because he can. America's weak. The rest of the world is confused. All of that.

And that's by our choice and our mistakes. That can change. But it's also because he has real problems at home. He has all kinds of things happening there that are difficult pressures. And they need to have these distractions. That's why I think we're in a dangerous period. We've talked about this a number of times. A lot of people talk about big, bad China overcoming America.

That is a challenge in some theory that's not today, and it's not for near decades. But today, a fragile failing China is dangerous. And I think that's some of the symptoms that are getting to pick on the Philippines. Because we've joked in the past about why someone picks on Canada, other than their crazy prime minister. I don't know why they do. But picking on the Philippines is another one of those. If you're picking a fight borderline of war with the Philippines, odds are you're the problem. Yeah.

And it doesn't seem as though that China and it's, and I think that your point is often missed by a lot of people who talk about this, whether it's on cable news or in editorials, decades out, because China has their own issues, much like Russia has their issues. And I still don't think that a one weakened entity would help prop up another weakened entity. and then together they could become one stronger entity because I think there's too many tyrant egos at play there and too many overbearing governments that would allow, they wouldn't want to have that kind of joint venture. No, I mean, it's a race to the bottom in a certain sense. And, you know, so I think we have this opportunity

with Xi Jinping being unambiguously aggressive and wrong. you would think it would be a wake-up call to the doctrinaire Europeans, Asians, and Americans. What world does India play in this? I mean, you made the point before that we should be doing more to become better friends with India. They've already beaten China and population. They're not friends with China. Russia's been trying to saddle up to them. I mean, it seems like they could play an outsized role in this.

They could. We just have to have realistic expectations. We definitely could do more, should do more. our supply chains would be safer, relying more there than they are inside the People's Republic of China. Just have to always remember in dealing with India, like some other parts of the world, there is only one version of time, soon and very soon. And I can't tell you what they mean. You just don't want to be stuck in soon. And so things can move slowly in that relationship, but we should be pushing in that direction, we spent 40 to 50 years on this mistaken bet, making China our sole source manufacturing

platform for way too many things. We've got to change that. Faster than that 50 years, India should be a part of that. Yeah, that's a great point. Stephen Yates always appreciate it. You can find him on X at Yates' comms. Thank you so much for your time. Always enjoy talking with you. We'll talk with you again soon. Take care. Thank you, Dana. Take care. We have more to come as we wrap up this third hour, folks. roll right into today in stupidity before we do so our partners over to caltech the celtic sub 2k the gen three awesome awesome awesome awesome nine millimeter carbine if you have not checked it out now is the time uh this is total celtic innovation just you know at its best and this they've they've made so many changes they've they've upgraded some things with this like for instance the sub 2k gen 3 uh you don't have

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Keltekweapons.com. That's KELTECWeapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. And if we would give them and pass this resolution, pass this supplemental, and give them what they need so that they can continue to take this fight, Two, Vladimir Putin and the Russians, they will win. They're already, you know, they're outmaned, but they are winning, you know, almost 12 to 1, you know, and every death is hard. But for every one Ukrainian soldier that is lost, 12 to 15, Russian soldiers are lost. What do you mean?

Like, if you just give them money, they win? Huh? That's how it works. If you give money, give win. See? It's pay to win, not pay to play. Welcome back to the program, Daniel Lash with you. Confuse about that because it does not seem that way.

We've given them a lot of money. There's no winning. Now they want more money for probably more not winning, right? I don't know. I'm curious. At some point, people are going to catch. on to the idea that this is about perpetuating this so that the money printer can continue in the name of, quote, national security, unquote.

That's what this is about. Everything's about extending the timeline on all of these things. Yeah, that none of this makes sense. None of it makes sense. I'm going to be on Jesse Waters program tonight, and apparently, so they told me what my topic is going to be. It's going to be about protecting criminals that have been in threatening cops. and how Kansas City Mayor accused the governor of a racial dog whistle because he called the Super Bowl parade shooters thugs.

Were they acting like thugs? You know that white people can be thugs? Everybody can be a thug. I think actually that the Kansas City mayor is acting like a thug. So what? Anyway, we're going to be talking about this tonight, one of the many topics. All right, today in stupidly. Thanks president, thug, Kamala Harris.

to what she says here. Do you have it? Go ahead. Do you think that Ukraine can survive a year this year on the battlefield without American aid? Ukraine needs our support and we must get it. Oh, well, there it is. Must we? Folks, that does it for us today. Make sure you find us on YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe, Substack, Chapter and Verse, back with you tomorrow.