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Episode Date: February 5, 2024The Senate releases an immigration bill Sunday night. Speaker Johnson says the Senate bill is DOA. New York City’s robotic police officers are taken off the street. New York is giving illegal immigr...ants prepaid credit cards. Dexter Taylor AKA Carbon Mike joins us to discuss his 2A case and getting raided by New York. Dana shares her spat with George Santos over the weekend with her town’s mayor and a paid Cameo. Rep. Chip Roy joins us to discuss the latest details in the border bill and why Republicans should vote no.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaJoin the Coffee Club today and get 30% off your first month’s subscription.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!
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It took a long time, four months of arduous negotiations.
They fell off the tracks a whole bunch of times.
I had to be on the phone even at midnight saying we've got to keep going.
Why?
We're the turning point in America.
This bill is crucial and history will look back on it and say, did America fail itself?
Why is it crucial?
Well, if we don't aid Ukraine, Putin will be walk all over Ukraine.
We will lose the war.
And we could be fighting in Eastern Europe and a NATO ally in a few years.
Americans won't like that.
You know what Americans aren't going to like either?
Americans aren't going to like if they have to fight something here on our own American shores because we had a border that wasn't even closed.
I'm so tired of having, I don't give a rat's ass about what happens over there right now because we have an entirely open southern border.
And we have lawmakers who are not at all serious about fixing it at all whatsoever.
And they dumped this stupid garbage bill last night.
And it is garbage.
Absolute garbage.
There is nothing redeeming in this bill at all whatsoever.
It is garbage.
And Chip Roy is going to be talking to us about it a little bit later on.
I mean, I said something very strong on social media just a little bit ago.
Any Republican out there that is pushing this lie that this border bill is in any way good for America,
border bill, by the way, before any enforcement mechanism kicks in at all whatsoever,
this border bill allows 1.8 million illegal immigrants into the country before any enforcement
mechanism kicks in. 1.8, that's the minimum, 1.8 before any enforcement mechanism kicks in.
Oh, and I should add that the bill also protects because Biden is giving.
complete and total authority to suspend any enforcement mechanism. It's literally written in the
bill. He has the authority to suspend any enforcement mechanism related to any kind of detainment,
any kind of deportation, anything. And in addition, you have this massive mound of money,
millions of dollars that is being given to all of these third party government contractors that have
been aiding like Catholic charities. Sorry, but they have been. They've been aiding this. I've been to the
border. I've seen them. I literally have seen it. So there are, there's some major problems here.
Now, some people are saying, no, you shouldn't get hysterical and worked up over it. Yeah, you should
actually get worked up over it. And here's why. Because we've done this. I don't know how many years.
this is the most important domestic issue of the of the time right now. In fact, it is an issue
that's so incredibly important. It's affecting all other domestic policy. And it also has an
effect on international policy, particularly as it relates to LNG, which we talked about in
depth last week. So welcome to the show. That's how we're starting it out today.
Dana, last year with you, you can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program as well.
And you can watch the simulcast, Channel 347 Direct TV.
It's a bad bill. And you should get worked up over it. You should get worked up over it because if you make it, if you codify something like this where you have 1.8 million people who illegally enter every year at a minimum before any kind of enforcement kicks in. Do you think you're going to get that number back down? I want you to seriously consider this. If you're allowing 1.8 million people to enter the country illegally, do you think that after that, if that's, if that's
passed and that number is solidified and it becomes actual law. Do you think that you are ever going to get
these lawmakers in D.C. to reduce that number voluntarily or in any other way? Do you think that that number
that they'll say, well, let's come up with another bill. This amnesty bill works so well. We've decided to
refashion an immigration bill in which we are going to lower the number from 1.8 million. Because
can you point to me any other instance throughout American history
where when government is is given something and they codify it and it's law and you
you have this set number do they ever go back whether it's monetary policy health care
you know because that that theory works so well with health care second amendment
I could go on so that's why yes you should get worked up over it
And I'm tired of everybody kicking the can down the road.
I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of seeing what is, you know, and the other parts of this bill, because there's some,
there's some Republicans out there saying, oh, no, I think you're just, it just don't get
worked up over it.
It's not anything to get worked out.
Well, that's a lie.
You should.
If there's one thing that you should, and I will tell you, and you guys know me, I tell
you frequently, oh, this is not something to get worked up over or this, this is, actually.
Because the other part of this bill, excuse me, the other part of this bill, as it pertains
to, pulling all this up here, because we got the, as it pertains to all of the illegal
crossings and everything else, you got the, you got the millions of dollars that is earmarked
for, like I said, all of these, these third government contractors. And, I mean, this is just
a bad, it's a bad thing. I mean, we're not even getting into the other stuff with Ukraine
and all of that yet. We're still going to do that. This is just, it's a giant, giant horrible
bill. This thing shouldn't even be going anywhere. There are a lot of Republican senators that are
opposing it. I mean, they may not be able to get 60 to move it forward. I don't, I don't know how
honestly that they would. Because it's so bad. I mean, the other part, the other aspect of it,
because you have changes to the rules governing the asylum process that fast tracks everything.
And then you, you have to, the other, I don't know who.
you have the whole legal system that's going to be set up to fast track these things,
because you have to them have the authority to determine one by one,
which of these claims are legitimate and which not.
And then they have to hand them off to different judges that are with the Immigration Services Department.
And those judges, each judge in these cases, they have a fair amount of, they can give their,
they can have discretion. They can enact their own discretion on this. Okay, these are judges that are
all under the Biden DOJ. See, we know how well that's going to go. I mean, there's, there's so many
bad things in this thing. There's, there's nothing redeemable in it. Oh, and one of the other things
that was pointed out, too, is that the other aspect of this, let me pull this up for you, because
there's so much here. There's so much. They dropped this last night because they wanted to,
they wanted to fast track it, and they, they wanted to fast track it. And they, they wanted to fast track it.
and they wanted to get it in.
You also have green card giveaways that have been locked in through 2030.
And that was on page, I want to say 212.
Because here's the other thing on this.
It says if the president finds that it is in the national interest to temporarily suspend the border emergency authority,
the president may direct the secretary to suspend the use of the border emergency authority on an emergency basis.
So see, that's the power that I alluded to when I said that Joe Biden has the authority to suspend any and all enforcement of this.
And he can deem anything in national emergency, as we just learned under the pan.
pandemic. So yes, do you honestly believe, do you honestly believe that any, any lawmaker that
votes to solidify all of this, that they would be, you could persuade them to walk it all
back in a separate piece of legislation? They wouldn't be one and done with us. It's,
it is, it's just a garbage, garbage bill. Now, Speaker Johnson, and I just actually saw this
and pull this up, I just saw this fly past. He's pretty much said that it's,
It's DOA. He's essentially said that it's DOA. And of course, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
absolutely once they called for an immediate passage of this. We're going to talk to Chip Roy about
this too when he comes on because this, you're looking at a giveaway, 50,000 green card giveaway.
It's expanding. When I say expanding worker visas, we're not talking about people who are
skilled and proficient in an actual particular skill where, I mean, it's just a free-for-all.
And of course, that's what the U.S. Chamber.
That's what they want.
It's, it is, this is bad, bad, bad, bad policy.
Bad policy.
And a lot of the usual suspect Republicans are, you know, of course they're right on, on,
on the same page with it.
Now there's also, I'm going to pull this up, because there's some giveaway,
there's Ukraine funding that's involved in this.
There's a lot of other stuff that's involved in this.
It's a, the, you have this aid for Israel and Ukraine that are included, $118.3 billion deal.
And that's what Schumer's pushing.
Well, you have to have Ukraine needs this aid.
They could have done a standalone bill.
They refused to do it.
They absolutely refuse to do it.
Now, Johnson said, Speaker Johnson said, quote, I've seen enough.
This bill is worse, even worse than we expected, and won't come even, won't come close to Indie.
the border catastrophe that the president has created. He says as the lead Democrat negotiator
proclaimed under this legislation, the border never closes. And if this bill reaches the house,
it will be dead on arrival. Well, that's good. It could be because it should be.
Senator Langford, he was the one who proposed this bill and he's been out there defending it all,
I mean, for the last couple of days, and particularly all this morning after they released it last night.
He's been trying to defend himself on it. It's not going over very well.
and Senator Dan Crenshaw as well.
There's a lot of things that I disagree with Dan Crenshaw on, and this bill is absolutely one of them.
And he was saying that these concerns were bizarre.
And he says that, you know, obviously we do need new laws, et cetera, et cetera.
You already, he says, are you arguing that we need new laws for the president to close the border?
Because that's not accurate.
It's not accurate.
This is bad law.
you don't fix a bad situation by passing hurriedly bad law
dropping the text in the dead of night
and then demanding that everyone get on the same page for it as the sun comes up
that's not going to happen
and you can get as smug as you want to
I'll just, you know what?
I'll match your energy.
Let's do that.
All these Republicans that are out there
that are pushing you all into this.
You know what?
Today I feel like I'm a giver.
I'm generous.
I'm going to match that energy today.
We should just call every single one of these damn people.
Let's call every one of them.
Why the hell not?
Let's just call everyone.
Be like, you want to come and defend?
the steaming turd on live radio? Let's just ask if they want to come defend this, this pile of feces
on live radio. That would be fun, would it not? Because I, I mean, make them earn your taxpayer dollars.
They're your employees. Don't you want to hear from them? I mean, people can read. We're not
illiterate. We can read this bill. What do you, I mean, I actually was watching who I, where was this?
Of course, I didn't link it on my rundown like a genius. But there was a Republican out there
They're saying, no, well, no, that's not true.
Biden doesn't have the authority to suspend it.
Dude, it's on page 212.
He absolutely does.
I just read you the passage.
You know, if you want to speed read through something, you can just hit Control F on your Mac and it'll fly through whatever keywords you want to.
It's actually quite easy.
You know, I mean, you can speed read this stuff for certain things, if you're looking for certain things.
It's quite easy.
Golly.
So I don't feel that it is too strong of a statement to say any Republican pushing.
the lie that a border bill allowing 1.8 million illegal immigrants into the U.S. before any
enforcement mechanism is triggered. And Biden has the authority to suspend all enforcement.
It gives millions to groups aiding the deluge is a traitor to the people. It abs, they absolutely are.
Like I said, this is, this is absolutely the biggest issue that we have right now because it's
affecting every other issue. Every other issue. And if they can't get on the same page with it,
yeah, you should get worked up over it because you have every right to. This is some of the other stuff
that we have coming up today because we're, we have the latest with Iran. Of course, we started this,
the targeting of these Iranian-backed militia groups that have been carrying on drone attacks
and strikes against our military.
We're going to get into that.
We've got some 2024 as well.
We've got law and order.
Some of the latest with those illegal immigrants that beat up the cop in New York.
Oh my gosh.
We got all that.
We also have.
We're going to talk about some 2A.
There's a case that is coming up.
It has to do with a guy in New York and quote unquote ghost guns.
We're going to talk about that as well.
So a lot of stuff to hit today.
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Well, here's another thing to be mad at Pablo Escobar for his hippos are now attacking people in Colombia.
The drug kingpin, he's got four hippos. Well, he had four hippos that multiplied into each.
200 strong herd. You know what I learned about this? I think it was on one of the grand tours of
Jeremy Clarkson. They actually saw Escar's like his hippos, his druggie hippos. Now it's a 200
strong herd that dominates their largest river there. It's insane. The Columbia Ministry of Environment,
they said that they've been trying to control this population because they actually pose a threat
to the ecosystem. That's crazy. So yeah, they said that they were trying to start sterilizing it,
but it's very dangerous because they are like the meanest animals.
out there. Hippopotamuses, they're the meanest things out there. And of course, that's what
Escobar wanted. But let's see. Oh, sad groundhog news. So a Kentucky groundhog kick the bucket
on Groundhog day after it made a prediction of an early spring. That groundhog did not hang
itself. Days after predicting an early spring, major, a 10-year-old groundhog meteorologist
living at the Second Chances Wildlife Center, kick the bucket from heart issues, brought
on to the fact that he was old. He was a 10-year-old ground rat.
Where was de Blasio?
Yeah, Diplosio is somewhere around here.
You know where he reached his grubby little hands down there and murked it.
But they said, oh, he's at peace, eating treats, blah, blah, blah, blah,
ringing all the bells.
So at least he did one last surface.
Carl Weathers has passed away.
Age 76 years old.
Oh, man, that's a bummer because I liked him a lot.
He was great.
I mean, gosh, what an icon.
He was Apollo and Apollo Creed and Rocky, and he was in the Mandalorian,
which is the thing that I had watched him before I stopped with Disney in the last.
But yeah, Carl Weathers, absolute American icon, 76 years old.
Let's see, these.
So it's, they're rewilding feral pigs and donkeys.
Rewilding?
We're going to come back to this and revisit.
Stay with us.
More in store.
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about how they're playing this.
Yeah, I say to Speaker Johnson, don't let the 30 hard right people in the house who are extreme.
They wanted us to default.
They wanted the government not to pay its debts.
They wanted us to the government to shut down.
They're extremists.
And they're running your show.
Do the right thing.
I don't understand how they're extremists because they're just simply wanting to adhere to current law.
and if current law, if wanting to do that is what is extreme, then your issue isn't with people.
Your issue is with the law.
Senator Schumer, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, here with you.
I expect Democrats to push this type of thing, but I don't expect Republicans in the House and Senate to push this type of thing.
I don't expect them.
Now, thankfully, Speaker Johnson has said this thing is DOA, but that hasn't stopped others like Crenshaw and a number of other lawmakers from, and you got in the Senate side,
Linkford, who's in McConnell, who Lingford wrote the thing, who are trying to say that any kind of
opposition is somehow people just getting worked up is kind of the phrase that I keep seeing their
surrogates say. But as I said, you know, it's not an exaggeration to be worked up over this.
I mean, you have the president of the United States who is granted by his own discretion,
the authority to suspend any kind of enforcement mechanism on this at all whatsoever.
And nothing kicks in until you have 1.8 million people who get here illegally and then do, does
enforcement kick in? And when they say that they've, that they're upgrading their asylum or their,
how do they put it, they're increasing standards for asylum, or they're raising standards for
asylum screening. Actually, they're not. That's, that's not what this does. What it does is it, is it,
actually incentivizes people coming in here again with kids because it's only
it's only sending the predominantly young men who have been coming across the border
it's going to send them through what an extra an extra process whoopty-do so that means like
more busy work so it sends them through an extra process and it expedites people who come here
with kids so I mean that's the flores amendment just basically on steroids so you're going to
incentivize people to bring kids. You're going to start, you're going to really kick off again.
You're going to see a spike in this child trafficking because that's exactly what happened previously
with us. That's the whole reason under Obama Biden, they began separating people at the border.
Because they had random strangers coming in with kids that weren't even theirs. Because it was a
rent-a-kid program that the cartels were doing. Good grief. Like you're doing this again?
This is asinine. I mean, this is one of the most ridiculous pieces of legislation to ever
be seriously considered by any Republican in Washington, D.C.
I mean, it does not.
You have, what, 90 days that people are supposed to be screened, and then they get a judgment
within 180 days if you believe that I've abridged to sell you.
It's a mess.
And they, and their excuses, well, doing nothing isn't, isn't an option.
Okay, well, doing bad policy isn't an option either.
That's a false choice.
That either we do it your way or not choosing to do it this way, somehow means.
means that we're doing nothing. I mean, there's a number of things that we could do, but nobody in
D.C. is serious about it. That's the issue. So yes, absolutely. I expect Democrats to push this
sort of thing, but I don't, I do not expect Republicans to go along with it. But it is
370 pages released last night. And, oh, and by the way, it's actually upwards of 118 billion.
Do you know how much of it actually goes towards the border?
only 20.
Only 20 billion out of 118 billion goes towards the border.
They want to give most of it actually in aid to Ukraine.
I know.
Mm-hmm.
Now, Johnson says he wants a House vote on a clean, standalone bill for Israel.
Any kind of aid that they may be.
And allow them to buy, Israel wants to buy weapons.
That's the thing.
Like, we're not talking about welfare weaponry to Israel.
Israel wants to buy weapons.
I don't know why the administration has always been skittish about doing that, but yet they'll give weaponry to Ukraine.
And they wouldn't let, they've blocked efforts previously to allow Taiwan to purchase weapons.
We've talked to Stephen Yates about that before.
It's weird.
It's almost like you want your strongest allies in different parts of the world to fail.
I mean, that's the position that you would have if that's what your intended goal was.
assinine. So in addition to this,
we have, I got to share with you some of this other stuff. So
the five people who were here in the country illegally that were caught on video
beating two New York police officers. And then they were released without bail.
So now, finally, where has he been? Where has Alvin Bragg been?
Have you wondered where Alvin Bragg was? Because I kind of, I was wondering where
Alvin Bragg was. Well, now Alvin Bragg has entered the chat and he says that he wants to track down
these migrants who allegedly attacked two New York officers. Wait, you had them in custody already.
Why would, and then a little bit too, little too late? You literally had them in custody.
That's where we got the whole imagery of them going in to get processed and he was flipping
off the camera. That's where that came from. That video and subsequent meme, that's,
That's where it came from.
I mean, and he said, he's saying that there's some others out there that haven't been identified.
Well, where was he at?
You know what?
He was asked on video, do you remember?
This was February 3rd, that video came out where he was asked on camera, well, why did you release, why did you release these illegal entrants who attacked these cops?
You release them without bail.
Why did you do that?
And he wouldn't say anything.
So now, oh, now, guys, he's real serious.
He wants to.
Well, they were arrested and charged, but they, they, they were arrested and charged.
were released because, with no charge over a lack of evidence, it was according to police.
And that was last Saturday when that happened.
Now, some of them, they think, this is going to make you angry, four of them that they claim
that were involved in the attack that were released without bail.
Now they are suspected of having fled by bus to California using a church-affiliated charity.
I wonder what that is.
I wonder what the name of that charity is, Kane.
What is it?
I'm just wondering.
I bet it has two names,
two words in his name.
So now, you had them though.
You wouldn't have needed a,
but I feel like now he's just saying that to cover his butt.
He has no interest.
He just knows that they're gone.
They've skipped town.
He knows that they've skipped town.
It's so stupid.
This is so dumb.
Oh my gosh.
This is just,
this is the state of our government.
And the individuals that
arrested. If you had wondered whether or not they've had a record, you're you're correct and your
suspicion. In fact, so six had been had were charged, but five were released with no bail. And police
are, they're still looking for a few others that they think were involved somehow in, in, in,
this whole thing. They only, this one 24 year old remains behind bars. But they said that four of the
ones that had been released with no bail, those are the ones that they think fled to California.
and the I think all of them had a record.
Yeah, all of them had a record.
In fact, the guy who is in custody now, the 24-year-old, he was, let's see, his charges, petty larceny.
He stole from Bergdorf Goodman in October.
And he wasn't stealing bread and stuff.
He was stealing luxury items.
So one of the reports I saw, he was like, he was trying to steal.
like designer clothes and all this stuff. And he stole from Macy's Bergdorf-Gudman. Some of them had
previous records of assault, battery, the other guy who had stolen from a Nordstrom.
Let's see. Yeah. So the, I mean, yes, they had all, all of them had a previous record with authorities.
All of them did. Every single one of them. Every one of them. Hmm. I mean, it's, now you have
Hocles saying, oh, well, you know, you don't touch our police officers. You mean the ones that you
wanted to defund, right? And you ran down for forever? Those, those ones? Now, speaking of
Law and Order in New York, do you guys remember when Eric Adams was talking about that robot?
Do you remember that little police bot that looked like that, gosh, I can't remember the name of it now,
from Doctor Who, the little trash came with the toilet plunger? The Dalek? Yeah. So they had these
robot security cops, right? And they were these weird-looking
Wally type things. I don't know. And it said NYPD on it. And it was basically a security camera. And I think it could talk to you in its little robot voice. And they unveiled a whole fleet of them. Remember, they spent a lot of money on this. And it was going to be, they, they put these NYPD bots in the transit system and the subway system. And now they's, and Eric Adams gave this big speech where he said that there, these things are part of the fabric of our future and all that stuff. And they put, they had, uh, they had, uh, they had, uh,
he
did a
photo op with it
can we stop doing the heart thing
because I'm so tired of this
where they do this
because he did a photo
where he did it with the robot
but he only had one part of it
so it looked dumb
but now they're no longer being deployed
yeah they're not
using them anymore
I love this
it says it's unclear
whether the AI program
was considered a success
what
but everyone talked about these things like crime has risen in virtually every category in New York
even after these things were deployed now they leased these what they called fully autonomous bots
for six months for I think was it 12,500 per bot that's a good question I feel like it was more
than that it they called it a K5 device and it had the NYPD colors and all of this stuff and
It can move at an astonishing speed of three miles per hour.
And they said that the robot, $12,500 robot, can capture video footage but not audio.
And members of the public could press a button to report an emergency or ask questions.
So in 2015, one of the robots knocked a baby to the ground and ran over its feet.
Then there was in D.C. when another one of these robots yeated itself into the fountain and a sad attempt at,
suicide. And yeah, it rolled itself. I love how it was described as the K-5 model rolled itself
fatally into a fountain. There was some of the MTA employees said, they told the New York Post,
we don't think they're working. They were saying, we don't think that they're actually working.
They're just kind of sitting there. It's 400-pound egg shape thing. They go, one MTA worker said,
I think it's just to scare people. It didn't do a damn thing. Is what she said?
That's what she told New York Post.
It's so funny.
They're like, we need police, not robots.
And it worked 18-hour shifts.
And then it had to go, I guess, get charged or something like that.
And it just, I'm actually surprised they weren't graffitied.
I will say, I, you know, I was, I was wondering whether or not that was going to happen.
But think about this.
They're leasing them for $12,500 per month.
And I'm assuming that's like one bot.
Why would you lease a bot that can't even record audio?
If somebody fell on the tracks,
it can't do anything. It's not armed. It can't do nothing.
You could, for that amount, you could have two officers there.
Or one really well-paid, really well-trained security guy at the busiest transit stops.
Why? Do you see what I'm saying? Why? That is so dumb. You could have two well-trained dudes,
and that would be a nice salary. What in the world? I mean, like, not like trained, like NYPD
trained. Like, you could have like spec-op dudes there.
If it's that worrisome, if you can spend $12,500 for a stupid robot to patrol one transit system,
then you can one stop, then surely you could have like an actual person who can carry a gun
and can save people if they fall on the tracks, right?
That little bot can't do anything.
Golly.
People said that it was a waste of taxpayer money.
You think?
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So, yeah, I'm just saying, you know, a really feels like this.
I don't know.
She's, why is, can you see her making a major policy address?
Right?
No.
You can't?
Can you?
You can't because it's just not, not.
it sounds goofy.
My idea of, you know, what kind of country we went to live in is where, it's where we have,
you know, actual enforced border law and where government leaves me alone and stops
taking all my money to go and send elsewhere and spend on entitlements for people who
break into the country and enter illegally.
Things like that, you know, that's kind of what I, that's, those are the things that I like.
So some of the stuff that we have coming up in our subsequent,
hour here. We have more on the border bill. We've been doing a deep dive into it bit by bit.
And Democrat senators are really pushing it. House Speaker, Johnson says it's DOA. In the meantime,
do you know that while they've been complaining about all of these illegal entrants coming up to
New York, New York City has launched a $53 million program to give
prepaid debit cards to people who enter the country illegally and they can spend it in bodegas or sorry
what's her face uh jill biden says boga does that what she says bo da. How did she say it?
I can't even say it bodega. That's even dumber. Gully.
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fewer people to come to New York? We're going to get into that. We also have Congressman Chip
Roy. He's going to dissect this ridiculous bill with us and a Second Amendment story that you should
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reprehensible thing that I've seen take place over the past 48 hours when you see
police officers in New York City being beaten by illegal immigrants in this country who should not be in the country in the first place.
And then after they engage in this crime against a law enforcement officer, they are let loose back out onto the streets.
What's going on in New York is outrageous, and Americans across the entire country are angry, not just about what's going on in New York, but the underlying cause for it, which is Joe Biden's open border policy.
And if you thought that New York learned from it, they didn't because now they've launched a $53 million program to give prepaid debit cards to people who enter the country illegally, which is going to incentivize even more people who entered the country illegally to go to New York.
And then they're going to have Kathy Hokel and Eric Adams complain about it, and then they're going to keep doing it.
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Now, they say the cards can only be used
at bodegas, grocery stores,
supermarkets and convenience store.
Sorry, Dr. Jill Biden calls the bodegas.
What, Kane?
Bodegas.
Bodegas.
Céset Pue d'A.
She's never going to look that down.
It's horrible.
I laugh every time I hear that hysterically.
It just never stops being as funny
as the first time I've heard it.
And it's $1,000 a month,
so a family four can get $1,000.
a month. Taxpayer funded dollars. That's crazy. A thousand dollars a month. That's pretty wild.
Prepaid cards. Yeah. But now you can only go to those things and you got to get your food and your
supplies, et cetera. That's just like I said, it's going to incentivize more illegal entries. Oh,
and then the cards get refilled every 28 days. So it's $1,000 per month for a family of four.
and they
cane is not happy
and they refill them
every 28 days
yeah
our veterans
don't even get
this kind of treatment
they don't get like
nice cushy hotel stays
you know
for unlimited periods of time
they don't get
they don't get a thousand dollars a month
they've gone out
and they've bled for our country
they don't get $1,000 a month
this is wild
hell they can walk right up to the VA
and still got
still not get standard care
exactly
it's just wild
the program is being run
by a company called Mo Kofi
M-O-C-A-F-I
and they say it's a financial services
platform blah blah blah so that's what they're
so they're refilling them and then every
20 days they refill them and they
this was literally the quote from
Kayla Mamelik who is Adams as spokesperson
I want you to listen to this
not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food for their culturally
relevant diets the pilot program is expected to save new york city more than six hundred thousand
dollars per month wait what how is it your wait so you're spending a thousand dollars per family
every month how are you what so i don't understand the culturally relevant diet if you wanted a
culturally relevant diet you should have thought about that before you enter the country illegally you don't
to illegally enter a country and then demand.
It's like me going to
trying to think.
Tell me, so it's like me going to Saudi Arabia and demanding
Big Macs.
Or me going to, yeah,
any other country, any other country.
Right?
Me going to Mexico and demanding Taco Bell or something.
I don't know. See what I'm saying?
It's just so, this is so insane.
I liked, Kane pointed out,
I liked what Babylon B had done because
you know, with this border bill, which is a giant piece of just giant garbage, they are saying,
well, after 1.8 million people entered illegally, you know, after 1.8 million people enter illegally,
then we're going to, then we'll close the border. And what did Babylon B say like, well, after 1.8
million murders. Yeah, after 5,000 murders a day, then murder will become illegal.
Yeah, then we'll, then we'll make it illegal.
after that. Wow. So it's just pretty,
woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-poo-pree wild. So this is the
I know, I mean, there's no, do you see how the cycle is, is continued and is
encouraged? I mean, I'm just, if you haven't read through, I mean, I don't, I don't
anticipate that people are going to read, you know, they can't read through a giant
300-something page bill that's dropped last night. I mean, you got to get up and you got to go to
work in the morning. You know, you have to pay for all this taxpayer-funded stuff. You know, you heard
Governor Greg Abbott, who said that it was insanity to do this stuff to these prepaid
cards like this. Abbott says that Texas has sent about 37,600 illegal immigrants to New York
City since, yeah, August of what, what, 2022? More than any other city. But
it's among more than the 150,000 that have arrived because Biden's been sending people up there as well.
That's one of the things that they won't tell you.
Biden's been doing this long before.
He's been sending illegal immigrants to these other cities, you know, for quite some time.
So this border bill, $118 billion, of which only $20 billion is actually going to be spent on the border.
The House isn't going to support it.
They are going, they're not going to.
They're going to encourage basically the floresa amendment on steroids because they're going to still expedite people who come in with kids.
So that's the one thing that changes is that's going to be officials.
So that's going to encourage child trafficking.
They said 40 billion is going to be allotted to respond to situations in foreign policy or foreign situations like Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel.
But only 20 billion for the border.
it is any Republican pushing this is a traitor to the people and that's and again that's not a strong
sentence to say when you consider that throughout American history every single time something like
this has been proposed and become law you have lost you you don't it doesn't get walked back you don't
walk it back you didn't get to walk back Obamacare and that was when we had a Republican president
of Republican House you didn't get to do that it didn't happen we didn't we didn't see two A
infringements rolled back we haven't seen fiscal restrictions
or regulations rolled by. I haven't seen any of this.
When it becomes law, it's law.
It's just garbage.
Absolute garbage.
And then you, with this, too, in this bill, one of the other things that, because there's
bits and pieces, you can speed rate it using Control Off, because honestly, that's what I've
been doing is going through and looking at different aspects of it.
One of the other things, you've got, what, D.C. federal judges, they're giving them
control over an immigration system. That's one of the things that is happening with
this bill.
So don't trust this, you know, the, the proposal that because, oh, we're going to have more judges involved with adjudicating these cases, et cetera.
No, no, no, because you're giving them, it's all under Biden, DOJ, and you're giving them to DC judges.
This is, this is, it's just, it's a farce. It's an absolute farce.
And additionally, by, by centralizing a lot of these decisions that are affecting mostly border states, you know, as Kane points out, you're, you're also removing state sovereignty to be able to,
control what happens within its own borders.
I mean, it is, it is, this is bad. There's nothing about this that's good.
Bill Malugian noted that the $60 billion in Ukraine assistance in this bill is larger than
the entire budget that the U.S. Marine Corps requested for the fiscal year 2024.
The entire budget that the U.S. Marine Corps requested for 2024 was $53 billion.
The Ukraine assistance in the Senate deal is $60 billion.
we are spending more money on Ukraine than we are our own military.
We are spending more money on a foreign land dispute with a weakened Russia that if it was going to challenge NATO would have had no problems in taking over Ukraine with the resistance that it found.
We are spending more on that than we are on our own military.
That is inexcusable.
So no, it is. It's, it is a slap in the face to American voters.
And it gives the D.C. District Court not just authority. And this is one of the things I wanted to point out. And this is it under judicial review on this subsection. Let me just read this. This is, was page two something. It says not, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, judicial review of any decision or action in this section shall be governed only by the United States.
state's district court for the district of Columbia, which shall have sole and original jurisdiction
to hear challenges, whether constitutional or otherwise, to the validity of the section or any
written policy directive, written policy guideline, written policy procedure, or the implementation
thereof issued by or under the authority of the secretary to implement the section. So the big
sentences only by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. They have sole
an original jurisdiction. So what does this mean? It means that this bill grant,
the D.C. District Court, the far-left D.C. District Court, absolute exclusive, unquestionable
authority over any and all current and future immigration disputes. Do you trust that? Do you want to,
do you want to have that be permanent law? This is what I would ask, all of these Republican
lawmakers that are, any of the Republican lawmakers that are supporting this. There seems to be few
in the House, more in the Senate, but do you support that? Because that's, ultimately, that's what you
have. Ken Paxton notes that it's a disaster and it enshrines open border policies. And he also points out that
the legal challenges to these provisions to be heard in a highly partisan D.C. court. And this is a,
this is a, as a way, it's a penalty to Texas because Texas, as he noted, created major slowdowns
to this open borders doctrine. Because we, because, and as, as a, and, as, you know, as, and, as, you know, it's a, it's,
As Paxton notes, quote, our constitutional system allows us to sue the federal government in fair venues.
What Biden, Mayorkas and the Senate Udun Party in the swamp want to do is prevent the Texas AG and all other state AGs from acting as a check on the federal government's tyrannical abuses of power.
So what AG Paxton is noting is that all of these challenges that you see being brought by these AGs, this is the way to strip.
them of that ability to do so and centralize it in D.C. with the D.C. District Court. That's exactly what
this is. This is one of the remaining checks and balances that Republicans have been able to use
on an unaccountable Biden administration regarding this open border doctrine, and they are removing it
in this bill, stripping it entirely. That is not an exaggeration, as I literally just read
verbatim the passage to you. And they are enshrining it in the D.C. Far-L.
D.C. District Court. So when I say that Republicans, any Republican lawmakers supporting this is a
traitor to the Republic, that is not an exaggeration. You don't walk something like this back once it's
made law. You do not, once you give away your sovereignty, your state sovereignty, once you give
away the power of the AG to be able to temper what the federal government is doing, you're not going
to get it back. Point to me at any time in American history,
where that has happened. It hasn't. We have more on the way. We have headlines coming up. And speaking of
infringements, imagine this is just one variable. So take immigration. Once they establish this precedent,
imagine what they would do for everything else. Consider Second Amendment. So there's a guy up in New York.
He is a longtime hobbyist. And he's been creating as a hobbyist for his own personal possession,
he builds his own firearms, which is a completely legal and
acceptable to do. That is according to our federal statutes, it's absolutely allowed to, you can do it.
Well, New York decided that they wanted to criminalize a bunch of things. And now ex post facto,
they're going to try to go after him and retroactively punish him for completely legal behavior with
completely legal items inanimate objects for laws that they had just passed. We're going to talk
to him about that here coming out because it's a case that has ramifications that go way beyond
Second Amendment if you think it doesn't concern you because it will.
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So Britain's King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer.
The 75-year-old monarch has postponed to all of his public duties.
He just went in for a procedure on an enlarged prostate.
They said that there was a mass there that was benign.
However, this cancer is not of his prostate.
It's another form.
They haven't been specific.
But they said that it was a separate issue of concern that was noted and subsequent diagnostic tests have identified it.
and so now he's going to receive treatment for that.
Also, this looks like men benefit more from their looks at work than women do.
Who, who, who, who, according to new research,
because, you know, you've always heard that women use their looks to get ahead in their careers.
Actually, men reap greater benefits from being attractive in the workplace.
A recent study of more than 11,000 Americans conducted over 20 years found that good-looking dudes
are more likely to attain better jobs and make more money than their similarly attractive female count.
counterparts. These were sociologists from Oslo and the Polish Academy of Sciences. They looked at all of this and for quite a span of time. And they said, yes, that it, that looks, will play a role, but that good looking dudes apparently used it more to their advantage than good looking chicks. And actually, it was more effective. It's interesting. Los Angeles faces a high risk of flash flooding as an atmospheric river takes aim at Southern California. Isn't that the Pineapple Express? Isn't that what it is? Yeah, that's happening now?
And NASA has tracked a stadium-sized asteroid that passed by Earth but was not a threat.
It is not Smod because Smod would have hit us.
Smod 2024. It would have hit us.
So they said, no, it passed Earth. It's fine.
So just everyone, you know, it's not, you know, there you go.
Let's see, there's, uh, Kansas Wildlife officials removed an angler's trophy catch from the state record list.
It was, uh, in what, a 60-year-old fishing record catch of a lifetime.
and they removed it.
They said, this is like a white crappy is what it's called.
Croppy?
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Bottom of this second hour.
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So you probably saw, if you follow me anywhere on social media,
I can't believe I'm just finding out about this story, like in the past week,
because this is one of the craziest stories.
And there's a lot of crazy stories regarding firearms coming out of New York.
This is a wild one.
So just to break it down, and we're going to have this gentleman on us our guests here, just to give you some backstory in Brooklyn, you know, American man building guns as a hobbyist.
You know, he's fascinated with putting things together, as are a lot of people.
You know, he's a hobbyist.
He builds, you know, firearms.
He gets, you know, receivers.
He builds different things.
I love the way that the media described that he had a whole arsenal.
He had like a few things.
That was it.
They make him sound like he's like Bert Gummer from Trump.
or something like he's got like he made an elephant gun or something like this but he's 52 year old native
new york or software engineer he likes building stuff and i was reading this great piece uh jeff charles
has a piece over at red state and he has no criminal record he's not hunter biden you know he's
you know he's just doing his thing and because new york doesn't want to issue any permits they're
slow walking everything new york is trying to do everything possible to make it where people cannot
be armed to protect themselves or to even
enjoy machinery as a hobby.
They're going after this guy, and they're trying to put him in jail for 18 years for doing
nothing but legal activity with legal inanimate objects.
And some of this, and I was talking to a couple of lawyer friends of mine, it seems weird
to try to ex post facto go after someone.
And I don't know, to me, that seems like clownish, that's a clown move.
And I don't know what kind of scrutiny that's going to uphold in a court of law.
but I wanted to bring on our friend here to talk about this, Dexter Taylor, aka Carbon Mike.
He's got his podcast.
He's online.
He's also, I mean, he's, and I say this because I think it's a compliment.
He's a nerd, right?
He loves math.
He loves machining things.
He loves software engineering.
He does all, look at all the stuff he's got behind him.
That's a nerd man cave right there.
But Carbon Mike, AKA Dexter, first off, thank you so much for bringing this to
my attention so we can get this story out here. I know Jeff Charles at Red State and some really other
great folks have been doing this too. I just want to get, I want to make everybody familiar with this.
Everybody knows, you know, ghost guns is such a goofy name. So many people I know make their own firearms.
And you don't have to serialize them. That's federal law. It's USC 1822 or 18 U.S.C. 922 A through Z.
You don't have to serialize them unless you're selling them, which you're not doing.
Correct. Correct. Correct. Not only,
basically not only did not intend to transfer or sell them or anything else, the state of New York should know this because, of course, they seized my daily driver, my computer, my regular desktop, my work laptop, they seized my phone, they seized my credit cards, they said in my email records.
So they know that I wasn't out there talking about guns. I wasn't out there advertising guns. I wasn't out there talking about them on social media.
And I certainly wasn't talking or thinking about transferring weapons.
These were my weapons, my rifles.
I named them, you know what I'm saying?
And I was trying to start my second career in weapon science, right?
I had all these plans to buy some land in New Hampshire and, you know, build a gun lab.
And, you know, like kind of bring my expertise as a software guy and as a data guy to firearms.
I was looking up to guys like Bill Geisley from Geysley Automatics, you know, who got his first contract.
right building triggers for the u.s army sharpshooting group do you know what i'm saying like yeah yeah so so
you are home reading an audiobook or listening to an audiobook you're you're you're you're relaxing
and you heard something yeah that was not in the audio book you heard voices that were not the people
in the audiobook so it was not you had no tip off to this tell everybody what happened to you so yeah
the night before this was like april 6th i believe uh 2022 so the night before
Or I go into bed like I usually do, listen to an audio book.
And I woke up and I was hearing sounds like you said that weren't the audio book voices.
And then I heard a bang and the voices were louder like they were inside my living space.
And then I saw weapon lights flickering back and forth underneath my bedroom door.
And so the first thing I said was, hello, hello, hello.
My name is Dexter Taylor.
Who are you guys looking for?
Because I thought they had the wrong house.
You know what I'm saying?
Because it's like it never would have occurred to me that that the state of New York would be like, we have to get this guy.
Right?
Wow.
So because again, I never carried weapons.
I never talked about them.
I never did anything like that.
Never committed and fraud.
You don't have a record.
You're squeaky clean.
At the time I was rated, I was a member in good standing of the West Side Rifle and Pistol Range in New York.
So I had passed their background check.
Okay.
And again, you've seen my work online.
I'm not out there saying anything or doing anything.
anything that would make even a reasonable non-two-way enthusiast say, this guy shouldn't have
weapons.
See what I'm saying?
So, yeah, so I said, hello, hello, you guys looking for it?
And they said, we're here for you.
And so I said, I paid it cool and, you know, came out of my bedroom and got locked up like a gentleman,
and they ransacked my house, took my weapons, took my tools, and that was that, yeah.
Wow, took everything.
And now they're going to, they try to get you, they try to make you accept, what, eight
years?
And you said, no, told them to go pound sand from what,
understand rightfully so. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. They I spent this was, so by the way, I was arrested.
I, they took me off to birth to the local jail. I guess that was the 85 precinct, 85 precinct,
and then I went to Rikers. So I was in Rikers Island for a week, right? Now, my bail, right,
to get out of Rikers, my bail was almost a quarter of a million dollars. Okay. Now, this is in a city,
this is in a city where people can beat up on cops on camera and walk, right?
This is a city where a nutty professor from, adjunct professor from Hunter College can chase a cameraman down the street in the Bronx with a deadly weapon, okay, and traips into the precinct and traips out the same day.
So when people say, when people say that this whole obsession with violating our rights is about public safety,
that's a lie.
Yeah, I'm inclined to say they're lying.
Yes.
He's so polite.
It's a lie.
It's absolutely a lie.
I mean, we're talking with our friend Dexter Taylor, aka Carbon Mike, who was raided by New York in this joint SWAT-AT-F task force theatrical stunt because they're accusing him of being in violation.
of, he's not in violation of the law,
but they're accusing him of being in violation of the law.
I was reading the press release,
legal possession of ghost guns,
which is such a dumb,
such a dumb phrase.
I prefer the term traditional guns.
Oh, I love that.
That's right, though.
That's absolutely right.
It's squarely within the history and tradition
of the United States.
Absolutely right.
And let me say this.
You know, look,
look, it's no, I mean,
I myself, I am of no political affiliation.
I'm not a Democrat.
I'm not Republican.
Okay.
But it's worth noting that New York State is run by Democrats.
New York City is run by Democrats.
These are the same people.
He's the same people who are telling me and telling people like me, right,
that there's murderous white supremacists hiding behind rocks and bushes and trees
waiting to jump out and lynch us from the nearest traffic light.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So if these murderous white supremacists and clan members are the biggest threat to domestic safety,
and you care about my health and well-being,
well, why are you willing to actually defy the highest court in the land?
Why are you willing to contravene the laws of this republic to disarm me?
Isn't that odd for someone who says they care about you?
Yeah, and for an entity that says that this is about public safety
when clearly they don't care about public safety.
I was looking at these charges.
They said, oh, goodness, everything,
numerous ghost gun kits, component parts.
Oh, he's violating the, what is it, criminal possession of a firearm prohibition,
unfinished frames of receivers, one kind of unlawful possession, pistol ammunition.
Oh, no, it's not pistol ammunition.
Oh, my goodness.
You can be the son of the president of the United States, and you can dispose of an illegally purchased handgun,
literally across the street from an elementary school, not even properly holstered in a pouch covered with cocaine,
and that's all right.
But you, making firearms in the, in the spearmes.
of our founders, the historical American tradition, that's a no-no.
Well, you know, I, as you're talking, I realize what my mistake was.
If I had had some Russian hookers and maybe a couple of baseball-sized crack rocks, it would
have been a problem.
But I just identify as Hunter Biden at this point.
Just say, no, no, no, I'm Hunter Biden.
I'm Hunter now.
Did you say identify as a, am I going to be trans-hunter now?
Respect my pronouns.
Dana, respect my pronouns.
Apparently it works. Apparently it works. We're talking to Dexter Taylor. So I know that you're fighting this. And I was telling people, the thing that what I find, I mean, I think your case is, it's terrifying as, you know, a Second Amendment supporter, practitioner, gun owner, shooter. It's scary because if they can just create law and then try to retroactively penalize you for it just at their discretion, that's frightening. But also firearms is.
just a variable that I want people who maybe do not have firearms or who are not as invested in the
Second Amendment as we are. If this is a formula and guns are the variable, they can go after
anything at this point if they're allowed to have your case set as a precedent. Well, they can and
they do. You know, it's funny. Like, I have, I have, I have a lot of friends overseas, you know,
my kind of conservative poor man's think tank, the foundation of society, kind of first, I guess,
gain prominence with people on the other side of the ocean because I had did a few interviews
with James Jellingpole from Breitbart. Now, in the UK, for example, right, it's not just guns
that are banned, right? It's like edged weapons. I believe brass knuckles are illegal. I believe,
like, you can't carry around a blackjack, a kosh, right? So when they say it's the guns,
Like they're lying because if it would really the guns, then they wouldn't also go after edged weapons.
That's right.
You see what I'm saying?
They wouldn't also go after force multipliers like brass knuckles.
So it's not about the guns.
And you could look at any place where guns are illegal.
Chances are they've banned a whole lot of other weapons that are not ranged weapons,
that are not firearms.
You know what I'm saying?
Yes.
So this is fundamentally, in my opinion, this is about the relationship between the citizen and the state.
And there are people who think that we should be their servants.
And that's a problem.
I mean, that's just a problem.
It's antithetical to the American spirit.
Absolutely.
Dexter Taylor, I want to stay in touch with you.
And I want to bring you back on for regular updates about this case.
Because they're going to take you through the ringer on this, obviously, as you know.
What can people do to help?
Because cases like this aren't cheap.
I know that.
Yes, ma'am.
I do have a give-send go.
the link is in my Twitter profile.
I believe it's Givesendgo slash
detail. We got it right down the bottom.
We got it right down there. Lower third right there.
So we'll put this out online too.
Thank you.
But I think more importantly than that, of course,
is first, keep those prayers coming.
I need all the help I can get.
And second, just spread the word.
You see, the optics of this case are obviously
very, very bad for New York State.
You know, like they thought they had gotten some guy who was a gangbanger or had a record as long as your arm or what have you.
And then they thought they could flash like this large number, you know, like 18 years.
And I'd fold and then they could shuffle me off to the obliad and we'd be done.
But the fact is, I'm not doing that.
I'm going to stand up.
And so the optics are bad for them, but that presupposes that people are watching.
So the more people know about this, the more people talk about this, the more people like you who are generous enough to give me a hot mic,
the better because I'll run my mouth all day about this and show what these people are about.
Absolutely. And however we can help where we're in. This is just a crazy story. Dexter Taylor,
we're going to follow it. We're going to we're going to check in with you and get updates about this.
And people can go to the gifts and go. We're going to make sure we have this link included with the video as well.
Because this is one of those cases I think where you're you're actually investing in fighting for your rights.
Because it could be a court case. If it's allowed to stand as a precedent, this will be used against everybody at some point.
Dexter, I so appreciate you, my friend.
So we'll keep in touch.
We're going to have you back on and we'll follow the story.
Thank you so much for bringing this up and fighting the good fight.
It's his life mission to make bad decisions.
It's time for Florida man.
So I have a couple, I have a whole handful.
First off, there was a Florida man who tried to sick his pit bull on police,
and then the pit bull attacked the Florida man.
Didn't actually work.
You're doing that.
You're not a good dog owner.
It was Palm Beach Post who said that it was in South Riviera Beach.
It was a reported burglary.
Cops arrived and they observed the guy matching the description of the suspect.
He was carrying hair products.
And they ordered the guy to lay on the ground.
He did so while hugging his dog.
He told officers, quote, y'all going to have to kill us before getting up and trying to run away.
They fired a stun gun, temporarily knocking him back to the ground.
He got up again and as officers pursued, he released the dog from its leash and yelled, quote,
kill him, boy, kill him.
And pointed at the officers.
And the dog, because it has morals, just literally took a, I think it ripped a butt cheek off.
And then it bit his head.
He was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center.
I hope, yeah, it's a very good boy.
His uncle, boy, I hope that they, I don't know what happened to the dog, but nothing better have happened to that dog.
You don't want me finding out right now after just losing Rocco that something happened to that dog because it's not going to be nice.
it's going to turn into John Wick
so there you go
oh by the way
speaking of dogs
the Snoop Dog Bobblehead statue
the canteen Olerato
it was returned
it was like $2,500
no sorry
$1,250
bobblehead
it was returned
by the cash register
it was like a special
collectible
I cannot believe this dude
stole this thing
and then got arrested for it
and because of the price
it's like you know
it's a felony
it's grand theft
oh my gosh
can you imagine
what are you in for
I stole a bobblehead.
It's grand theft.
Yeah, stole a bobblehead.
That, he can really pick him.
Florida man purchased a Porsche 9-11 turbo with a homemade check.
Wow.
So Casey William Kelly, he's got three first names, made a false check.
He literally made it up at home, apparently, to purchase a $140,000 portion 9-11 turbo.
He's been charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle.
and uttering a false bank note.
That's apparently charged per Walton County Sheriff's office.
He used his home computer and printer to copy and print a convincing looking cashier's check.
Who accepted this?
And they had no idea.
The place in Dustin apparently had no idea.
And he had the keys in title and he drove off.
And then they learned it was no good.
And so they contacted Okalusa Sheriff's office.
They found him.
Oh my gosh.
Like you couldn't really?
I think you're all going to be like reviewing your.
standards for accepting cashier's checks after that stick with us we got a lot more in store third hour on the way
but guess what you're going to get notices right now they're going to get notice the week this time you're not
not any doubt about he said it's going my name on the buyer but guess what it's not only
good thing it drove the economy what so joe Biden is saying that his
student debt cancellation that it's free
and it's not costing people anything
except we're all paying for it.
Just
I know.
Yeah.
Guys, November is going to be here before you know it.
Welcome back to the program. Dana last year with you
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And we've talked about this. This
is just a vote buying scheme. That's all it is. And it's mostly for the people that are in his
his administration. It's mostly for those people. And then of course what government workers as well?
It's we've gone through it. But the fact that he keeps pushing this and that it's like this,
it means it's free college is so that's no. Why is it that we have to pay for everybody's
college when these universities could be using their endowments.
And they're sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, a lot of these.
And particularly the universities that are benefiting the most from this bailout of the
academic aristocracy.
And there's no other way to put it.
Between this and the stuff with the border, my heavens.
And speaking of that, we're going to have Congressman Chip Roy coming up at the bottom
of this hour to talk about that because the U.S. Chambers saying, no, no, no, we need
this bill.
y'all need to pass it. Roy's not inclined if the tone and his tweets are any indication,
but there's some, there's a little bit of spiciness happening right now in the house because you
had, you know, Dan Crenshaw out there saying this is, how did he say it was a, that people
were getting too, that overworked over this, this bill? That is not the way to do it. Not the way to do it.
Just going to say, not the way to do it. That's like telling Amanda come down. I think telling
a man to calm down, it makes a dude angrier than telling a woman to calm down makes a woman
angrier. Try it. I have. It works. I don't know. Like, I don't know. I just feel like it's not,
you know, I'm just, you know, I'm going to say. It feels like it feels like it doesn't. Goodness.
And we're going to talk, we're going to break down more of this, this border stuff too,
because it is just a, it's just an absolute crazy hot mess. This is why everything in 2024 is so
incredibly important. I mean, look at the cases we got that are going to be coming up before
SCOTUS. And then we've got, you know, if this, think about this. Like say that we lose everything,
heaven forbid, but just say that we lose, you know, and the biggest defeat that we would have would be
ourselves if we do not have great voter turnout. And that's previously what's always done us in
before is low voter turnout. All of this stuff that you're going to see at the border, they're going to,
they're going to compound it. It's going to be made worse. You're going to see, I promise you,
they're going to come out with something that expands 1.8 million.
As soon as they hit the 1.8 million illegal entry mark, they're going to expand it.
Who knows?
Who knows to how much?
That's exactly what they're going to do.
So there's so many things that are on deck, so many things that are way too important.
I mean, this, what of it, $118 billion, $40 billion.
That's it.
Or sorry, $20 billion, only $20 billion for the border.
only $20 billion for the border.
And even then, this, I just can't imagine saying that,
okay, well, we're going to allow lawbreaking this many times.
And then once we law break this many times,
then we're going to say, okay, that's it, no more law breaking.
Well, that's not where the law gets its strength.
There's no consistency in application there.
I mean, this is just asinine.
Kane's pointing out, what is this from?
Chris Murphy, you're pointing, this is.
I guess he would co-authored.
some of this stuff?
Yes, yes.
Apparently, the system is allowing, so when more than 5,000 people cross the day, the border
never closes, but the claims now have to be processed at the specific ports of entry.
So if not only do 5,000 come over illegally, but then they don't close the border at that point,
and they usher them towards the ports of entry.
And then we'll have government paid lawyers.
And then what we're also included in this border bill, don't forget, is they're stripping from the attorneys general all across the United States the ability to be able to provide a check and balance on the federal government with this lawlessness.
The way that you've seen Ken Paxton and the way that you've seen, you know, the Missouri AG, Indiana AG, Texas AG, all these other AGs that have been having to really do a lot of stuff to temper this.
They're going to strip them of their ability to do that by centralizing all authorities.
over anything related to immigration deportation detainment to the D.C. Circuit.
That's in the bill. It's in the bill. I've read it. I read it a passage out loud last hour.
Just asinine. So that's a huge, that's a huge part of it. 370 pages. They dumped it last night.
And your, there's, this is, it's like worse than what we have. If that could be imagined.
And what makes it even worseer is that there's so many Republicans that,
are on board with it. I mean, there's some in the Senate. This is a lot of this big con stuff. I want to
talk about big con for a moment here. So Friday, I don't know if you followed this story. Lorraine has a
great piece that just ran up at Substack on Chapter and Verse, my substack that you can go and look at.
So I was noting that in the 26th congressional district in Texas, I don't really get involved in a lot of
the like Senate or congressional primaries and all that other stuff because there's so much happening.
I always feel like it's the candidate's responsibility to, it's the candidate that has to persuade people to vote for them.
It's nobody else's job to do that.
I mean, good grief.
I always think that candidates who require other people to persuade people to vote for them, they're already outsourcing their job.
And we have too many people like that in D.C.
But one of the things that I noticed with us is that in this primary, and it's kind of a crowd of primary, and you've got, and I don't want to, you know, I have a lot of friends that are involved in this.
and I don't want to, you know, name names, but I'll say like the top three contenders is like the mayor of my town, a guy who is the son of a Texas legacy candidate, and then another guy who is the son-in-law of a commentator.
And one of the guys is, you know, older and is kind of moderate, you know, and he's, I just don't think of, you know, conservative ideals the way that we,
We need to return to them with the older guy.
And the other guy literally just moved in from New York and has literally never worked a day in the private sector and lived in the Trump Tower and has his father-in-law that's literally buying the seat for him.
None of this stuff is exaggerated.
I mean, that's what it is.
When you create a pack and you fund it exclusively and you're buying Republican dinners and all this other stuff.
I mean, that's just, it's some of the dirtier politics I've seen.
But it's also antithetical to the conservative spirit that really fuels the movement that created the Tea Party that I helped co-found back.
in 2008, 2009, and also led the way to Trump taking the White House and all this other stuff,
tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera. It seems identical to the spirit of that movement because we don't
believe in political aristocracy and we don't believe, i.e., we haven't fought in the streets
for as long as we have against the old establishment for New York people to make themselves
the new establishment. And so there's, you know, there was a contingent from New York that was
trying to, you know, get involved and going after some people in that 26th district for speaking
out and that made me angry because I don't like to see people try to big time in a district.
I just really just rubs me the wrong way. And one of those guys worked with George Santos, right?
He was like his right-hand guy. And he got real nasty about it. And we exchanged some barbs on
social media because George Santos had made this cameo where he was reading this discredited
ridiculousness and accusing, you know, the mayor of my town, John Huffman, of doing all of these
egregious offenses, none of which were true. And so then I got a hold of George Santos. And I'm like,
well, who paid for this cameo? Because, you know, I would hope that they would have, you know,
would have at least disclosed that, you know, it's probably for a campaign or were you just,
you know, used as a stooge for it. I'm just curious. Anyway, long story short, after some back and
forth barbs and all of this stuff, Santos came to dinner on Friday. Now, I've, I've never met him
before. I had no idea, but I wanted him to meet the guy that he was, that he did the video.
after and he apologized to him
at the dinner he was like I didn't even know
who I was making this for it was anonymous
I'm not on cameo so I don't know how
sometimes I'm like is it really anonymous though
but he apologized you know profusely
to Huffman and said that he was
sorry that he just you know
he just gets stuff all the time and he just reads
whatever script is put in front of him
and he didn't know that it you know
had caused such a problem because he
you know was going after like the legitimate
conservative candidate in the primary
and it was you know it was
a, they basically made up, long story short, they, although Huffman didn't really have a problem with
them, they made up and, and Santos apologized. And, you know, and I told him, I'm like, you know,
it's one thing to have an opinion in politics, but to get involved in an area that you've never
even been to. And, and, and that, you know, you don't even know the people involved.
At some point, you can say to a, to an extent that I was just reading a script. But then, you know,
on the other end, you have to assume the consequence that goes along with just, you know,
reading a script. And so, you know, he agreed on that. But so we, we parted an agreement. But he did
apologize profusely and was very nice about it and realized the error of, of what he had done. So that
ended, that ended nicely. Because most stuff in primaries don't. Primaries can get super, which I've
never understood because I'm like, are people not always on the same side? And I also, too, think that
it should be the most conservative person who is electable, who can win in that particular race. And I just,
think that people who've never worked in the private sector and have had literally everything
provided to them, including political action committees and everything else, I just don't think that
those people are the best fit to represent hardworking American taxpayers who are working in the
private sector and deserve to have someone with a work ethic that reflects theirs. And that's just,
you know, this is kind of where I stand on it. So for the people who are asking, you know,
what happened? Lorraine's got a great piece where she wrote a little bit more about it over at
Substex. You should definitely check it out because it has some photos up there, up there as well.
of all of us together. Look at that.
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
Canada has halted their controversial assisted suicide program for mentally ill people
due to lack of doctors willing to participate. They offer euthanasia to terminally and chronically
ill people. They were going to extend the program to those with mental illnesses, but it's
divided Canadians, according to the New York Times. Some say it's due to
a lack of adequate psychiatric care, et cetera, and it's just, there's a lot of, it's sad, it is sad.
But the fact that there aren't enough doctors willing to participate, though, gives me a little bit of hope.
So that's just, the whole thing is sad.
Another dead whale on the beaches in Maryland.
So this is apparently, this has been happening, like, quite a bit.
37 humpback whales were discovered dead last year.
It was the highest number ever recorded, according to federal data.
They said that the definitive cause they were unable to determine during the examination, and they're looking for, they said they sent the samples that they shipped out for diagnostic analysis.
And they discovered another hump back just a few days ago, or actually January 16th of last month, beached in the exact same location.
In NPS, National Park Services, there was no obvious signs as to the cause of death.
So some people are wondering if windmills, the offshore windmills, some of are wondering that.
think it could actually, that could actually be a thing.
What, that kills the whales? Yeah.
I think it's the actual, they had to do the survey of that sea floor. And in order to do that,
they have to use high frequency sounds. And I think that there's a lot of that that has to do
with what we're seeing with these whales washing up on shore.
Golly. This is sad. San Mateo County becomes the first in the U.S. to declare loneliness as a
health emergency. It's because we're so tech, where everybody's like so digital. They've got to go
on touch grass every now and then. They had a
unanimous vote in
San Mateo County in California
by their board of supervisors to become the first
county to recognize loneliness as a
public health emergency. And that was
their supervisor says
quote, we have 45% of the people who find themselves
lonely, suffer from loneliness.
So what are you going to do? If you say it's a health issue,
what are you going to do? Like, what's your response
to it? Stand next to them? Yeah, are you
going to, like, going to go to people's houses? Like what?
I don't, it's like, I can't stand
like these, you know, do nothing, do
You got her, you know, here's my virtue signal.
And they shine it like a spotlight into the sky a la Batman.
I just, I don't get the point.
What was the point of it?
For those people still buying Girl Scout cookies,
I know there was the whole thing with Planned Parenthood and all of that some years ago.
I haven't had any since then.
They apparently are going to be more expensive than they ever were before.
Inflation hits everything.
So it's like, what, half a box of the lemonade's cookies is like $6.
I don't even know what those cookies are.
Because the only ones that mean anything are thin mince and everything else is trash.
The one that has on one side that, like a lemony icing and it's a lemon cookie.
And it's got that logo stamped on it.
Thin mints are the only ones that count.
That's good, too.
Yeah.
By the way, you can get thin mint tasting chocolate covered almonds at Costco in a giant plastic jug.
I'm not telling you how I know this or how many of them I eat, which I'm not saying I do.
But they taste just like it.
And it's an almond, so I tell myself it's healthier.
And there's more protein involved.
taste just like a giant jug
like you can fit your head in the jug
it's that big. I'm not going to tell you how many I go through
but they're really delicious maybe.
Let's see. An Italian court ordered Getty images
to remove photos of Michelangelo's David.
Okay, I'm for this because Getty itself
is so litigious. I am all for them
putting a boot up Getty's butt. I'm all for it.
So they said that their Italian operation
is facing a lawsuit before the Tribunal of Florence
regarding their content depicting
Michelangelo's David. They said they
temporarily removed it from their local
Italian websites, but they're convinced that the
legitimacy of the conduct
and are unconvinced, and they're
going to contest it. So they said that it's
basically an infringement.
You can't, you know, they have to, you have to
have proper appropriation
and it has to include the following words
and we're protecting, they're protecting the
cultural and heritage memory. I'm all
for whatever Florence wants to do, because Getty
will literally sue you if you so much as wink at
one of their photos. So,
all right. Congressman Chip Roy up next.
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We're going to start to see the visualization of the failure of the policy.
I said this over and over again.
I said it last year.
I said it of, you know, from the beginning of this crisis,
we're seeing the visual of what a failed national policy is producing.
And when I speak to my colleagues
And other cities, they're saying the same thing
It's not unique to New York
We have to fix this with a national solution
Hmm
Hmm
He needs to kind of figure out a solution for Manhattan
I mean they just announced this 50
Was it $53 million program
Where they're giving
Every 28 days they get refilled credit cards
To
Yeah yeah incentives
To people who enter the country illegally
Going up to Manhattan
That was Eric Adams
up mayor up there. Welcome back to the program.
Dana Lesher with you. We're at the bottom of
this third hour. Joining us right now, he's, I'm just
warning you, he's mad. He's mad.
I can tell immediately.
And if you haven't been following his
vicious takedown of
this disastrous border
bill on social media, I don't know what you're doing.
Congressman Chip Roy from the Great
Republic of Texas joins us. He's in the
swamp right now. So this, you
called it the war debt and open
borders bill. It is not a
border security bill, you said.
The bill is not well intended. It's a bill designed by Democrats to boost Biden against Trump by helping Democrats blame Republicans for open borders.
Now, I've been reading this 300-some-odd page bill. It is, it's worse than what we have. The two things that stick out to me, the stripping of AG power or reducing the effectiveness of attorneys general by taking everything to the D.C. circuit is insane to me, giving them like sole authority to determine everything on detention, immigration.
And then, so we're now deciding we're going to allow this many crimes to occur before we decide to say, okay, that's the quota, no more crimes.
We're going to stop it now.
That's where we are, the 1.8 million.
Well, Dana, no, it's great.
I'm actually in a great mood.
I actually watched The Chosen in the theater of my family last night.
I had a good time of my family.
I flew to D.C.
I didn't mean to misrepresent you.
I'm sorry, Congressman.
No, no, no, no.
I actually enjoy this because actually, right now, my feeling is that the bill is dead.
And that's a good thing. Now, we need to make sure that everybody understands that.
We need to make sure that Senate. Senate Republicans should kill this on cloture.
They shouldn't get it out of the Senate. That's our goal right now. But it's dead in the House.
Steve Scalese said he won't give it four time. Mike Johnson has said he's dead on arrival.
But here's what's important. I'm trying to debate even how much air time to give to this,
because let's be clear why Democrats want to do this.
It's exactly what you just read from my tweet threat. They want to put something out there.
They claim is a compromise border security. And they want to say,
we killed it and therefore the border problem is on us.
They don't want to own that which they created, right?
They're the ones that created this mess.
Joe Biden comes in, he ends microprotection protocols, remained in Mexico,
all sorts of like 50 something executive orders and actions.
Mike Johnson did a great job cataloging those, put out a list,
where they opened up our border.
And just I know you've got a really smart audience,
but just so everybody understands what's actually happening, right?
The law, the spirit and the text of our existing law says that
you shall attain, you shall maintain operational control of the border.
And then there are some exceptions and loopholes to that.
Loopholes that were created by judges, shocker, right?
It's called the Flores settlement, DPPRA, it's called,
they're little judge made loopholes.
And then the exceptions in our law, Congress passed for asylum and parole,
which are meant to be case by case exceptions in the case of asylum for credible fear of
persecution and a parole for very specific cases where, oh, we need to bring you in,
because you're in some problem in China or whatever.
But now they've taken that and use those exceptions and those loopholes to flood the zone and say,
anybody can come here, say to magic words and we'll release you.
They've done it purposely.
We set out to fix that executive branch abuse with HR2.
And frankly, the bill that I introduced, you'll remember HR 29, which was designed to say,
you shall detain or you shall turn away.
That was my bill, which I still think is the best approach, like four pages.
We did HR2 and we embed.
we embedded that concept into a broader package, fixed asylum, fix a parole, fixed a bunch of provisions, fund the wall, include the basic point that you shall attain, put in removal proceedings, or you're going to stay in Mexico. That was basically what we drafted. They're now coming in with Democrats to create cover past this bill that will do the opposite. It does more than what you just said, it's even worse. One point four billion dollars for the NGOs that are tied to the United Nations pumping people through Mexico to say.
send people into the United States.
$4 billion to hire asylum officers and run judges, process people,
get them into the United States under 180 day clock so they're not detained too long.
While they would then, if they're detained too long, they would put them in,
they'd immediately release them under alternatives to detention.
The point is it's all a ruse.
It would end up codifying illegal immigration, as Daniel Horowitz put it, right?
You're legalizing illegal immigration to the tune of 2 million people.
people a year. So that's too much, too much in the weeds, but you've got a smart audience
and want them to understand it. The bottom line is politically, it's dead, in my opinion,
we need to make sure a bullet in it and kill it. And then we need to pivot. And I think we need to
pivot to say we need to be back on offense, cramming H.R. 2 back down the throats of the Senate.
That's my message to Mike Johnson. I like the four page, talking to Congressman Chip Roy.
I like the four page. I mean, it's very simple. Four pages, everybody can read it, you know,
with their coffee in the morning before they had out to work because this thing, 300-something
pages dropped last night. I mean, my gosh, I'm scrant. I mean, we're scrambling before the show to
get everything read. So we were talking about on air today. And you're, and then they're making you
all determine policy in that time frame. Right. And the worst part is in the House, we get time to
read it, tell it, figure out we're going to do the Senate. They got a vote on it, I think,
by tomorrow. So, you know, Mike Lee has been, you know, tweeting this out all last week saying,
guys, you guys have been doing this in secret. We're going to have to review this bill over the
And now, the good news is it's so bad that it's pretty easy for us to take shots at it.
I mean, it's really hard to defend.
I mean, I'll listen to, you know, at some point somebody who's trying to defend it, I guess,
but I don't really understand how you can defend what they're doing with respect to releasing people in the United States,
the asylum officers I just described, the really good point you made where all these courts go into D.C.
Remember in HR2, we also empowered AGs to sue in federal court if we weren't doing the job.
That would be in the Fifth Circuit in Texas.
That would be in the circuit courts, not in D.C.
Importantly, we fixed asylum, we fixed parole, all of those kinds of things.
There's nothing in this bill that requires building the wall.
I already talked about the NGOs.
There's so much stuff for trying to remember.
There's only like, what, a fraction of this, out of the $118 billion, it's only, what,
60 billion that goes to the border?
No, no, it's $20 billion.
It's $20 billion.
$60 billion goes to Ukraine.
So, again, that's a really important.
important part. This is a war bill. Ukraine, it's got money for Israel. Of course, we all support
Israel, although we should come back to that in a minute, money in there for Taiwan and other stuff,
and then $20 billion in there for border security, but it's not really for border security.
Not to, you know, really help build the wall and all that, it's to fund the processing of more
illegal alien to come here and claim asylum and can't, and don't have a legitimate claim. Also,
we're funding lawyers. We're going to fund lawyers for children and other illegal
aliens, not just children, and that's going to be a magnet. And oh, by the way, unaccompanied alien
children, they're left out of the detention requirements. So what does that mean? More of these bad
actors will use children as their ticket to get in. Like, not their real children. They'll grab a child
come here, use them to get into the United States. So this is the problem we're having. And that's the exact
problem that was under Obama Biden. That's why they started the separation of families,
that whole phrase at the border, but way before Trump, because of that with the Florida.
a settlement. That was one of the things that I'd actually
encouraged. To touch back on, and we'll switch to the
Israel funding part of this,
the 20 billion, from what I understand, correct me
if I'm wrong on this, I had read that the Marine
Corps' entire fiscal year, 2024
budget was $53
billion. That was the request
and it's 60 billion. That's
earmarked for Ukraine on this.
Ukraine is going to get more money than the Marine Corps
budget. That is true. And look,
you can have an honest
debate, I suppose, on what we should or shouldn't do about
Ukraine. I've got my problem.
with sending another dollar to Ukraine at all.
But just if you're so, if you think that's so important,
let's just put a clean straight up or down vote on the floor.
Let's have a full two weeks of debate.
Let's debate the pros and cons.
Let's let the hawks, the doves, the people who are kind of in the middle,
have a big full debate, debate the funding, pay for that funding,
and then debate it back and forth.
But we don't do that.
No, it's a swamp bill, all unpaid for, all jammed through,
trying to leverage people's concern about the border to try to masquerade getting an actual war bill,
a war machine bill through the swamp.
One other important part, I think, that the merits conversation is that every bit of
this is borrowed.
The full $118 billion, the $60 billion for Ukraine, the Taiwan, the border, it's $118 billion
of additional money fully borrowed and not paid.
Wow.
Talking with Congressman Chip Roy, I know that Speaker Johnson had said that he wants a
standalone bill regarding Israel aid.
Tell me about this.
Because I just don't see something like that going through even the Senate.
I don't see Democrats joining on to that.
Well, I mean, I'm a little torn on that one.
I think at the end of the day, the Senate probably they would have to eat it and say that they're going to do it for Israel.
It's a tough vote for them.
But I'm not sure.
And how much even?
What amount even?
Well, the Republicans plus a few Democrats probably get it done.
But I don't support it.
And that's hard for me, right?
And I'm sure you're in the same boat in terms of your support of Israel.
I love Israel.
I love going to Israel.
I love people of Israel.
I want them to wipe Hamas off to face the planet.
I want them to defend themselves.
And I want to continue to stand by Israel.
I support the money that's in our normal defense budget,
which is about $4 billion to work with them on Iron Dome
and to make sure we stand alongside them.
But for me to go to my constituents in Texas
and tell them that I'm gonna go pay for,
I'm not gonna pay for, $17.6 billion.
We're gonna borrow money, give it to Israel,
and we're not gonna secure the border of the United States.
So unpaid for, racking up debt and no security for our border.
I can't look my constituents in the eyes,
and say, I'm going to go give money to our friend, even our best friend, right?
My best friend over here who's got a tough time going on.
And over here, my family's getting absolutely mauled because my border's open and we're spending
money we don't have.
It says, I said in my tweet about Israel, there's not going to be a United States of America
to stand with Israel.
If we keep spending money, we don't have it.
If we're not a sovereign nation with secure border.
That's just the truth.
I think that's the best explanation I've heard of it, is your position on it right there.
Well, and that is it because I love Israel.
And I reached out to a lot of my Jewish friends and constituents.
I said, look, I hate this.
I want to be right there side by side of Israel.
God bless me.
Like I said, we can't afford it because we don't have the money.
Like you said, it's not paid for.
We are borrowing from our future.
And it's not even to secure our own domestic situation here, our southern border.
Right.
It would be one thing if we look, we're not going to solve the two trillion dollar deficit in one fell swoop.
I get that.
It'd be one thing.
Like right now, if we were going to pass a.
continuing resolution for the rest of this year that the cap spending at 1564, which is basically
where it would be, which would save us about $100 billion. That would be responsible-ish.
If we were doing something to secure our border, if we were taking steps that we need to do here
at the home front on, say, energy policy, those kinds of things. And I'm seeing that happen.
And then I was like, okay, Chip, can we eat $17 billion unpaid for for Israel?
Or can we go take some other funds, some COVID-slush fund money or something and pay for
Israel, I'd say, you bet. I want to be there with Israel. That's a good use of money to fight
enemies and fight Hamas and fight Hezbollah and the pushback of Iran. That's in our interest.
It's in their interest. It's in the world's interest. It's in the interest of Western civilization.
But right now, look, we're just getting sucker punch left and right. And I'm telling you,
this country is hanging on by a very thin threat. In fact, America in about five years,
if we keep on this current trajectory, I don't know that we would have the votes to withstand giving
the Palestinians a two-state solution.
and walking away from Israel. So we better get our home front secure first.
And that's a very important point. I think that you just made here talking with Congressman Chip Roy. We're out of time right now, but I'd love to have you back always whenever you got anything. I mean, I like the way that you explain that because without the nuance and without actually discussing it. Like, for instance, the issue with Israel, there's a lot of false characterizations that are put out there. And it's just, it's silly. It's silly when you can just hear, you know, just here, you know, 60 seconds of him explaining it like like he just did. Congressman Chip Roy, we were.
appreciate you. Thank you for your fight. God bless.
Sam. Take care. Of course.
Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your
ultimate superpower. Well, here's the problem, David. The president can't do this by himself.
The president doesn't have the legal authority without additional legislation to control the border
and fix the broken asylum system in the way that needs to be done. But he had the authority
to open the border and like compound the broken asylum system by ordering immigration judges to do
busy work or processing people with barely a review and then handing them a date for
some sort of maybe hearing six years later after they've illegally crossed into the country.
Don't sit here and tell me that he can't do something after he already did something to make it
worse. Then he can undo the things that he did to make it worse. That's Chris Murphy trying to
mansplained to everybody. That doesn't, that doesn't, that doesn't, doesn't fly. It doesn't fly at all.
I mean, he, these are all things that he did. He could stop the federal government's blocking
of Texas law enforcement and dealing with apprehension and detainment of people that are crossing
in illegally. They could stop, you know, I mean, he was the one, it was Biden that gave the order
to go and cut the razor wire. That razor wire I read identifies as just an aggressive slinky.
all. I'm going to start using that phrase from now. And it's not razor wire. This is just
slinky with attitude. That's all it is. It's right there. But he had, he was the one who
ordered the feds to go and cut that razor wire. So if he doesn't have any control of the border,
then I would wonder why, how did that happen? Maybe Chris Murphy could, you know, mansplain
that one too. I mean, considering he's not receiving any pushback from the stooge that's interviewing
him, I'm like, well, how are you not pushing back on this stuff? How are you not interrupting and saying,
I'm sorry, excuse me, what?
Like, what do you mean?
He, but he did all of these things that made it worse.
These are steps that he took, actions he undertook and made it worse.
Doesn't make any sense.
All right, today in stupidity came.
Oh, boy, there is a lot, but I think we're going to have to lean on our vice president, Kamala Harris, on this one.
She's got all the solutions for the border crisis.
Listen to this.
And, Juan, this is cut three.
Go for it.
Here's the thing on this issue.
we all know that our immigration system is broken.
It has been for a long time.
The gas letter.
On day one, right after our inauguration, when President Biden and I came in,
first bill we offered was to clean up the immigration system and create a pathway for citizenship.
They've not taken it up.
Because sadly, there are a lot of members of the Republican Party who elected members of the Republican Party
who would prefer to run on the problem
instead of fixing the problem.
We're offering solutions.
Okay, here's the thing.
Democrats caused this problem
to be as bad as it is.
It has never been as bad as it is
right this very second.
It's because of what Biden did
when he first got into office.
The gas lighting here is unbelievable.
And if you believe it, you're stupid.
Well, there you go.
Wow.
Look at that.
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