The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Monday May 6 - Full Show

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

Protesters disrupt multiple college graduations as Hamas rejects another ceasefire offer. Gov. Kristi Noem hits the Sunday morning talk circuit to double and triple down on the stories of her shooting her dog and meeting world leaders. Democrats still boast Biden’s economy as the threat of a housing crisis looms. Foreign policy Stephen Yates joins us on a possible ceasefire agreement, President Xi’s trip to France and more. Hamas reportedly agrees to a ceasefire by Egypt and Qatar which Israel declines. Dem Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife are hit with a Federal bribery indictment. Dana reflects on the old days of Rat Pack roasts following last night’s roast of Tom Brady on Netflix. Dana chimes in on Man vs. Bear Internet debate.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Goldcohttps://danalikesgold.comGet your free Gold Kit from GoldCo today.Hillsdale Collegehttps://danaforhillsdale.comVisit today to hear a Constitution Minute and sign up for Hillsdales FREE Imprimis publication.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.ReadyWise https://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on any regularly priced item.The Wellness Companyhttps://twc.health/danaGet 15% off with promo code DANA.

No, I don't think that, but I will say that these kind of protests haven't been helpful. And ironically, they are actually working against peace in Middle East as well. And it's also very strange to me that now they're not actually protesting for a ceasefire now. And there's been a very valid ceasefire that's been on the table now, and Hamas has been refused to take that on. And I don't know why we're not, if we're going to protesting, why aren't we protesting that? demanding Hamas to take that kind of a ceasefire. And then that would, that would end all of of the, the trauma and the chaotic going on there in Gaza. Well, I mean, he makes the most sense, I think almost out of the, all of the, I can't believe I'm saying that, all of the Democrats,

which is, I mean, never, never, just things that you never thought you'd say about other actual Democrats. Welcome to the program. Dana last year with you, top of this first segment of the radio program. And you can make sure you sign up for substack. Stuff goes out there regularly. So we got some things to cover because there was a busy weekend of college graduation

ceremonies that were canceled. Columbia canceled theirs. And I think there were some other colleges that were also canceling their events because they because you have these nonstop protests that just keep, they keep continuing.

And it's incredibly I mean, you can't have a graduation ceremony while you have people out there protesting for Hamas and blocking everything and screaming. I think it was that, what is it, Old Miss? They were telling all the protesters, they were telling them to blank off or something like that. What were they saying at all? Oh, I can't actually say that on air. You're like, wait a minute, Dana. No, you can't say that on radio. You can't say it. So the, yeah, you can't say. My bad. You can't say that word. But they They canceled a number of these graduation ceremonies. And like I said, Columbia, they canceled Columbia's.

And they were targeting a bunch of others. And I don't know. I mean, at the same, I don't really, I don't really feel bad. But then at the same time, I kind of do. Does that mean? I mean, I kind of feel bad. But at the, but I feel like all of these colleges created this situation. So, you know, we've talked about this before to the point I'd rather shoot my head, my head in.

I'm done. I'm done talking about it. It's been ridiculous. It's ridiculous at this point. We, you know, I mean, this is what happens. You, you go and you send your kids to a university. Everybody knew what these universities were like for a very, very long time. So it's not like it's like a big giant, you know, surprise. So some of the stuff, like I said, we're following this. The latest with Gaza and the Rafa situation because guess what, Hamas rejected yet another offer of, you know, civility of peace. they won't release the hostages. There was a barrage over the weekend where Hamas killed three IDF soldiers. But they want to ceasefire, though.

How are you demanding a ceasefire when you're literally the one who just will not stop firing? I mean, that's like the million dollar question. So all of this was happening. They claimed responsibility for the attack. They're doing this, I guess, in response to IDF plans with regards to Rafa, et cetera, et cetera. and they claimed the fatalities. They said that, yes, it was them. They did it.

So that was all over just the weekend. With the college protest, more evidence coming out about leftist groups that are training these idiotic students, which this is, you know, this is not anything new. Anybody who's been following this for any period of time, and we've known this since the Occupy days, by the way,

that this was the case. So this is what, this is all the stuff that's, this is all the stuff that's been happening over the weekend. So in addition to that, we're going to touch on today some of the economic stuff as well happening. There's, we got some economic news, we got some tax stuff. We're going to touch on all that good stuff. So you're going to want to, like again, you're going to want to follow along with all of it. All right. So first and foremost, as we're getting down into it. Do we have, let me play this. This is audio soundbite. It's one of the, well, I don't know, because I guess you can't really hear any of it because it would all be.

it would all be censored. Audio sound by 8. This was in Michigan. Michigan's graduation ceremony where the crowd cheered as anti-Israeli pro-Hamas protesters were removed because they were ruining the graduation ceremony.

Listen. People are having enough of it. They're done with all of it. They're done with the protests. They're done with everything. And that was in University of Michigan. This was Columbia, audio sound bite six, where the university president was trying to have both ways. Not working so well, though. Listen to this. No matter where you stand on any issue, Colombia should be a community that feels welcoming and safe for everyone. We tried very hard to resolve the issue of the encampment through dialogue. Many people who gathered there were largely peaceful and cared deeply about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Academic leaders talked with students for eight days and nights.

The university made a sincere and good offer, but it was not accepted. No, it wasn't accepted. Just like Hamas's, their stuff is never, they always reject every offer. So, you know, there you go. This was audio sound bite nine. This was Big Gretch. This was Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Her daughter graduated, and Democrat protesters were screaming at her.

Listen to this. Genocide! How do you justify genocide? How do you justify genocide? How do you sleep in night? What are you doing about Palestinian children? What are you doing about Palestinian students at the U of the U of M? What is he must do you?

I'm hearing a graduation meal with my daughter. How do you? What about all of the children that are in mass graves? What about them? I get the an elected official and you're supposed to be nice to like these protesters and stuff, but honestly, this is so, it's so insane. I mean, I, that's ridiculous. What are you talking to do about the math?

What about Hamas? No one ever asked this question of Hamas. It's never, ever asked, ever. So this was just a taste of what was happening, like over the weekend at all of these different graduation ceremonies. Like, for instance, audio sound by 11, this was a graduate, Imagine being at your child's graduation ceremony and a graduate covers themselves in fake blood and storms the stage. Listen to this.

Everybody. The stage. Can I have your attention, please? They're very upset. May I ask the audience for your attention, please? We respect your passion and your opinions. We respect your right to voice. We don't respect. You don't respect. We're not respecting.

Yeah, there's nothing to respect about that. There's nothing respectable about that. Dude, covers himself in faith blood storms the stage. Again, nobody says a damn thing about Hamas or the protesters that Hamas still has. All of these terrorist-loving morons are going to, they're going to give Hamas a pass. They're going to give people who kidnap babies and rape women to death of pass. All of it. Can you imagine, again, being at your kid's graduation ceremony. Kane, you made a good point because Kane was saying in Slack, imagine having it disrupted by COVID.

My son was in 2020 and Lorraine made this comment in Slack and it's very true. Like in 2020, his graduation stuff was interrupted because of COVID. And all that stuff, you couldn't gather, all that, you know, everything was shut down because of COVID. and now you have in another election year, by the way, just coincidence, I'm sure, that now we have graduations being shut down because of professional protesters, and that's exactly where we are. Professional protesters. And just, I mean, there's so much of this.

And we have a lot more of it. We're going to get into more. Additionally, like I said, the Hamas rocket barrage, because they don't really want to cease fire while all this was happening. Al Jazeera got mad because. Israel shut down Al Jazeera, their office. Al Jazeera, as you know, is a propaganda. It's like, it's like the, it's like Hamas's Pravda.

Like what Pravda is to Russia. I mean, Al Jazeera is to Islamofascists. And Al Jazeera, they were upset because they said that the Israeli government closed their operations in Israel and they said it was a criminal act. Didn't they have one of their reporters that also participated in October 7th of memory serves. I know it was one of the AP reporters, et cetera, that there were like a couple of outlets, but I think it was like maybe one of theirs as well. It's not, you're not a for real outlet. Come on. Now, while all of this is happening, it's been negatively impacting Democrats at

the polls. And Democrats are not, well, I mean, it's taking them in the polls. Additionally, it's also causing them to engage in some inter-party arguing, which then also hurts them in the polls as well. So there it's this couple of, we're going to get into some of the 2024 polling. There was a survey that came out that Politica reported on that talked about how the, touched upon some of the survey about how people are reacting to Democrat support or Democrats refusing to disavow it or step away from it. a lot of the more moderate Democrat voters, I mean, clearly find some issue with this. And now there's concern about a down ticket, maybe suppression or that it could translate into absolute

absence of enthusiasm. So this, I'm all for that. I mean, this is what universities, they all created, they all work together to create this problem. In addition to this, Republicans aren't helping themselves anymore. And particularly where it concerns the VP audition, Christy Noam is her own worst enemy. And we're going to talk about this here coming up because she did an interview with CBS over the weekend. And it was one of the worst interviews I've ever seen a politician do in modern time. It is a case study on what not to do in an interview as a politician. It is her, any hope that she ever had, a VP is gone. Any hope that she ever had at being taken seriously after this is gone. We're going to talk about this. We got 2024. We've got. We got.

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I can't even get the sentence out and Juan's already over there like giggling. He's already. Monkey Pox cases have spiked in New York City. They say now that they're averaging dozens of... cases a month. Dozens of cases a month. Now, you can't, you're not supposed to call it Monkey Pox.

You're supposed to call it that Hanson song. M Pox. Bipidapa. Anyway, monkey pox, which is, it's an STD. It's an STD that is predominantly in a dudes plus dudes type of scenario. Forget my drift. And they said

that they've been averaging since October 36 cases a month, which is a spike, that it went from two to 20 cases per month, and then now it's at 36 cases per month. Because people won't stop being skanks. So stop being skanks. That's just, there's your, the more you know. This vehicle apparently crashed into a White House gate killing the driver. Secret Service says no threat.

I mean, unless, you know, they were outside there by the gate. That's kind of still scary. It was a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. It crashed right into the White House complex late Saturday, killing the driver, according to U.S. Secret Service. They said it was a barricade just before 10.30 p.m. That's where the car crashed. They said security protocols were implemented.

Officers cleared the vehicle. They rendered aid. And they said that was pretty much the end of it. But it's still being investigated only as a traffic crash. Oh, my gosh. I ignored this headline for the longest time, this furry convention. Do I really want to do this? It is the sixth largest furry con in history.

And it was at, apparently, in Seattle. And apparently, the event went off the rails when someone loosened a bolt on one of the toilets, and it flooded. And then in addition to that, apparently there was drink and drugs and complete and it was bad. It was bad. It was people dressed up as

animal costumes and they it was just horrible. Everything, every bit of debauchery you can think of. It happened. It happened there. So now I don't think the hotel wants to host Furry Khan anymore. Yeah, I don't I don't think so either. This Sadiq Khan was re-elected

mayor of London in the latest win for the Labor Party. He was re-elected. Yeah, I know. I was looking at the vote breakdown of this. The two terms, they say he's center left. He's a straight-up socialist. He's a British-hating socialist. He's

the first three-time winner by a clear margin than some of his supporters that ever predicted. Labor Party, which is the Socialist Party, essentially, it's what it does. They call it labor for their socialist. He was first elected. He was from the main opposition Labor Party. He was initially elected to the Post in 2016, now.

he's won three consecutive terms. So that's the latest. And then now they've been using, there's people who've got our hangovers. They've been doing vitamins and mineral drips for them. It's the IV drip. This has been going along in popularity for the past 10 years. So this isn't anything new.

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I don't believe so. Specifically, when you write in the book, I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, I'm sure he underestimated me. That, as I understand, is now being removed from the book at your request. Yes. When I became aware of that, we changed the content and the future editions will be adjusted. And, you know, I appreciate that. I've met with many, many world leaders. I've traveled around the world.

I should not have put that anecdote in the book. And at my request, they have a little bit. That specific meeting didn't happen. I'm saying that I'm not talking about that meeting. I'm not talking about my meetings with world leaders. But there's some that are in the book. world leaders. There's some that are in the book and then there's some that's not in the book. Many of them actually.

But why are there two specific mentions of meeting Kim Jong-un and talking about him and a specific memory, I'm sure he underestimated me having no clue about my experience, staring down little tyrants. Did you tell your ghost writer to write them? I specifically have worked on policy for over 30 years. And over that time, I have traveled around the world and I have met with leaders around the world. And that anecdote, I've asked them to change the content and it will be removed. It's a simple question. Did you or did you not be? That's, that's the answer that I have for you is that I'm, it will be adjusted. And as soon as I became aware of it, that content. I am dying to death because that is so hard to watch. Oh my gosh.

That was, uh, governor Christy Noam. We told you this last week that in her book, what is it called the gravel pit, my career, how I killed it in the gravel pit. that she wrote in her book. She included in her book. Now, after she writes about, she tries to have this like weird flex where she writes about shooting her puppy, then she says that she stared down Kim Jong-un.

And her own staff was like, yeah, that didn't happen. And that got out into the press. And so then she goes on CB. You didn't, that's like as much as you're prepared. Girl, you're crumbling under pressure. And it's pressure that you created because you lied in your book.

Why would you do this? This is such a disaster. Who is her public? Cintra Street? Do they hate her? Do they hate her? Because that's what you do to somebody if you hate them. You put a bunch of, you celebrate, you encourage them to put all this nonsense in their book.

And then you go, yeah, yeah, go out and do, let's excerpt this part. And go on and do all the press on it to hype your book. And then you send her out there. And she's just mauled on, she's just mauled on the Sunday morning show with like some D-list anchor. I don't even know who that lady is. Oh my gosh. And it took three, and there were all three sitting there. And they were just like, yeah, we're watching your career die. Yeah, we're watching your VP hopes and dreams just crash and burn into the gravel pit that you created right after cricket. That's where your career went.

Oh my gosh. That's so uncomfortable to watch. Oh, but it got worse. And by the way, what she's mad that everyone's talking about this, these anecdotes that she says in the book, but she's the one who put them in the book. She put them in the book because she wanted everyone to talk about them, but she only wanted people to talk about them in a way that she wanted them to talk about them. She wanted everybody to be like, oh my gosh, you're so tough, Governor Nome. Girl power, uh, uh, you're so tough. You're so hardcore. Flex harder queen. They wanted, she wanted that. She wanted that response. And she didn't get that response. So now she's mad about it. And now it's everyone else that's talking about it and hyping

it up. Cain's just dying. But it is. You know it's true. Now she doesn't like the way everybody's reacting to it. So now everybody has a problem and they're all picking on her and she's such a victim. Oh my gosh, me too. And then it got worse because there's more. Oh yes. It did. There's more of this. This is, this is. Oh, yeah. Audio's El 818. You talk multiple times about it. In fact, at the end of the book, you say the very first thing you would do if you got to the White House that was different from Joe Biden is you'd make sure Joe Biden's dog was nowhere on the grounds. Commander say hello to cricket. Are you doing this to try to look tough?

Do you still think that you have a shot at being a VP? Well, number one, Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people. So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog? Well, he's not living at the White House anymore. That's the question that the president should be held accountable to. You're saying he should be shot? That's what the president should be accountable to? What is the number?

And I would say about Republicans criticizing me, these are the same Republicans that criticized me during COVID. You mean when you try to lock your state down, but your state legislature stopped you? Those Republicans are when you wouldn't sign the bill to protect women in women's sports? You mean those Republicans that were criticizing you? Look, I'm not trying to be ignorant, but have you seen Christy Noem six years ago compared to the Christy Noem now with like the longer, I don't know if their extensions, her face is different, everything's different. I'm just saying she's trying way too damn hard and it's cringe. Stop it. I get it. Either she's trying to be a real housewife of, you know, D.C. or she thought that that was going to be her glow up and that was all part of her makeover to go and get into the vice president's office. But what she failed to. to do in her effort to have this glow up is she failed to have a glow up to her actual voting record. She was a moderate when she was in the House. Go and look at her. There are a ton of other Republican lawmakers when they served in the House of Representatives that had a way more conservative record than she did. And she's a moderate governor that's trying to retcon

history and gaslighting everybody into thinking that she's actually conservative. And she's not. She almost shut her state down had it not been for the Republican state legislature that stopped her and overrid her. She would not protect women in women's sports from men cosplay as women who wanted to compete with women. In fact, she didn't sign it. She vetoed it. And then they came back with a different bill. So this, I mean, she flexes on all the wrong stuff. She's flexing on her puppy. And then she doubles down on it later in the book acting like she would have done the same thing to commander that she did to cricket. So that right there is your evidence that she actually thought that that was a smart idea to include something like that in the book. But she's flexing

on this stupidest stuff. And maybe she's flexing on the stupidest stuff because she doesn't have anything else to flex on. She can't act like she's Ron DeSantis. She can't act like she's even Brian Kemp because she doesn't have that conservative of a record. She is a moderate at best who's playing on the ignorance and the unfamiliarity that American voters at large have with what she has done previously. And she's trying to make herself look like Sarah Palin 2.0. Except Palin, actually had kind of a conservative record, whereas Noam doesn't. And Payland didn't do all that stuff to herself. Or as Noam did. I'm not trying to be ignorant, but at some point you got to stop going to the doctor's office. You know what I mean? Stop. Just lay off it. I mean, when everybody starts looking

indistinguishable and they start looking like the same inflated real housewife of whatever zip code, then it's a little too much. And I just think it makes Republicans look bad, especially when you're trying so hard for higher office. No one else will say it. So I will say it for you, because I know you're all thinking it. I mean, I'm glad at least the, you know, I don't know. You do you, but at the same time, be able to move your face. No one. See, guys can't say that.

I'm the only person in commentary that can say it because I'm a chick. So, you know what, though? I would not be. I'm still nowhere near as indestructible as Tim Scott would be if he ends up being the VP pick. So you think he's going to be a VP pick, Kate. Tim Scott. Well, Steve was talking about that on the break. And I agreed because think about it.

The VP is the president of the Senate. He is a former senator. He checks at least a couple of boxes. Conservatively is not in Florida, number one. And I think that, you know, of all the people in, I guess in the running, there's a couple of governors that look pretty good. But I don't know. It seems like Tim Scott could be at the top of that list. Yeah.

I mean, I don't, to me, if you're a conservative, I mean, if you vote the way I want you to vote, I don't care if you have two heads. If you, if you're like, I'll abolish the IRS and also, uh, protect your second amendment rights by getting rid of the ATF and, uh,

you know, protect life and liberty, etc. Okay, that you have three heads? Okay, great. I don't care.

You have two arms and three heads. Wonderful. I don't even care. I don't care. I just, just come out and just, you know, I'm just saying,

I'm not saying he is, but I'm just, I hear, I hear rumors from the same people that like, rumor over the craziest stuff. But my point of bringing that up is how unbelievable, he would be like a, a boss in a video game. You can't defeat him. He would be like an undefeatable boss because he would

so many things. He would be black if he would, well, Republican kind of cancels that out, right? Isn't that what Democrats say? Yeah. It doesn't matter what you are. If you're Republican. What do they call Byron Donald's? Like you had, you had white progressives calling him Uncle Tom. They call them all kinds of racist things. The left can be racist. But if you're black and gay, does that two of those neutralize the one? How does that work? I'm sorry. In the political like identity death match. If you're a gay black Republican, does it cancel out what the progressives say is like race trailing or whatever?

Sure wish it did, Dana. But being a Republican, unfortunately, cancels out every other identity that you have. Who is there an expert on this? Like, DEI, stupid stuff? I'm just going by, yeah. Like, what is the math on that? But, yeah. Isn't it like fantasy football or whatever y'all do?

What? Do you do fantasy football? Steve does it, don't you? I've done it before. but what is... Yeah, okay. So I would just think like two of the boxes would cancel out that one criticism, right? Yes.

In the logical, non-political world, you're absolutely right. I don't know where fantasy is not living in life. Yeah. Well, I'm just thinking like your fantasy football brackets. Like, you know, how you have... I'm just... I'm in my head, it makes sense. I'm looking at it visually, like all the political identity stuff.

Like, this political identity battles this one. And then who wins out of, you know... For fantasy football totally works. Like, obviously, if you're a woman, that's considered an identity politic that's valuable if you're a Democrat. So it's like how Debo Samuel is also a receiver and a running back. Is that what you're saying? Oh, I see. So depending on, yeah, which side of the ball is on?

Flex position. You can use it both. They get points for both. Yeah, sure. Like that. Yeah, like two powers. I love how he just got that. Oh, that's like, you know, say something smart about football.

So it's like whack bat? Yeah. Kind of like, kind of like, not really. It's more understanding. Actually, no, you're right. Wackbat is super understandable. compared to how the left deals with identity politics. I'm saying it's like if, so if you're a woman, Democrat, you're a woman, then that, according

to the left, that's an identity political win, like an ID, a political ID, right? But if you're a trans, wait, a dude who pretends to be a woman, trans man, or is that a trans woman? I don't even know. It's trans woman if you're pretending to be a woman. So if you're a fake woman and you're, so a man pretending to be a woman cancels out. It's like rock paper scissors, right? So the trans, the dude who's pretending to be a chick will cancel out the woman, right? So she's scissors and he's rock.

Good God, almighty. This is not going great. But I'm just trying to illustrate a point here. Yes. So if you are black and gay and you're a Republican, you would think you'd have all the protection in the world. What? What?

Is their new element in the rock, paper, scissors? identity politics game? What? I just feel like that makes you undefeatable. You know what I mean? You're like a Voltron of political identities.

Like you're a dead burnt lesbian or you're a one-armed you're a Republican, one-armed black, gay, trans, right? Pirate. Pirate.

Yeah, I get it. Who's two-spirited. That's a lot. I mean, you fashion all that up and you're like a whole boss. Yeah. And you can't even criticize them for anything or else you're just going to be a bigot on all those identities. It's like a chimera of different political WTFs.

That's what it is. So it's like the more you have, I would think that that would beat it. I'm just saying. Like, yeah, well, you don't, you think our black Republican is a race traitor. Well, he's all so gay, you bigot. I mean, just, you know. And then the left is like, oh. But he proposed.

He proposed his girlfriend in January. I'm just, by the way, I'm assuming this strictly for, you know, like strategy with identity politics. I'm right along with you. I'm right along with you. I just think that the way the climate is and the way it's been for a while is that if any one of your labels is Republican, that is the only one you're allowed to have. You cannot have any other identity under that. If you're Republican, you're just automatically evil and bad. And even if you're gay, one-armed pirate with a limp.

Dead burnt lesbian. That, too. it won't matter because you're Republican. Gosh, okay, so that's not fair. You can't have, no, it's not fair. You can't have not Republican. If you're a Republican, it cancels out all your other identity politics. The left doesn't get to make up their own rules.

I call shenanigans. Hi, I'm Margaret, a rhetoric and media major at Hillsdale College. Here's Hillsdale President, Dr. Larry Arne, with a Constitution Minute. Many argue today that the Constitution is outdated because it addresses problems. peculiar to the 18th century so long ago. And some of it does read sort of quaintly. But consider the injunction against titles of nobility in Article 1, Section 9, for example. Is that so outdated? The purpose of that injunction is to prevent the government granting special privileges for partisan reasons. This strikes at the rule of law, the rule under which

were all to be treated the same. The crony capitalism is so common today, where the government gives favors and tax dollars to some businesses and advantages over the others is exactly the kind of thing the Constitution was meant to prohibit. The Constitution is not outdated at all. To learn more and get a free pocket constitution, visit constitutionminit.com. Don't let FOMO get the best of you. Stay in the loop and ahead of the curve by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. This is a man who we better be careful about, and I tell you what I'm going to do.

I'm going to ask the Justice Department and I'm going to ask the president to tell us what they're going to do to protect this country against violence if he loses. I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that he's connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting what communities they're going to attack. I myself just returned from training up in the hills. I went to Up in the Hills Training Academy, where we trained up in the hills, training at things. Violence. We trained at the violence. That's what we were training at. She reminds me of Bill Cosby playing the role of a homeless woman.

She reminds me of, like if you're at a funeral and the body just sits up and starts talking, that's what she reminds me of. The crib keeper. Yeah, it's like, you know, nice mortuary. Oh, should I not say that? It does, though. I mean, just saying. Not surprised to hear that from her, though.

Where is all of this training for violence in the hills? And why didn't I get invited? Where are these hills? Yes, let's go train for violence. Where are the hills? Exactly. Isn't she in D.C.? Where the hell is she from?

I don't even row. Point me in that direction. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, up in the hill somewhere. I just remember 2016. When Hillary lost, it wasn't Republicans out in the street that were busting up ride shares. It was the left.

It wasn't Republicans that were punching people with red hats in the face. It was the left that was doing it. It wasn't Republicans that were out there summer after summer, torching down entire neighborhoods. It was the left. So I'm just saying, where are they taking their training at? If the right is doing their training up in the hills, are they down in the valley doing their training? I'm curious. They're doing it on college campuses.

Yeah, college campuses. We have a lot more on the way. Second hour coming up. Our friend Stephen Nates is going to be joining us as well. Stick with us. The only Christian conservative cell phone service in existence. The only one like it. And they've been that way for 10 years, saving people money, funding freedom, being cool.

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That's an awkward. There was Nora O'Donnell with Hakeem Jeffries. Then voters aren't buying it then. I mean, it's just, it's pretty simple. Voters are then are not buying this. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can follow along on X and YouTube and, you know, everywhere.

The, yeah, the economy's not doing. so good. And now there's the specter of tax hikes. Not tax cuts, tax hikes. Did you see all the headlines that I put here on the rundown cane about the, yeah, none of them make me happy? You had Warren Buffett who said there's going to be a tax hike. Now you have all of these economists who are predicting a tax hike while the government refuses to stop spending. And IRS audits are about to surge. They said that the IRS is going to be doubling audits for the next three years. And they said most taxpayers are going to face greater scrutiny from the agency. Meanwhile, what is the delay on getting your return? It's like several months to your, didn't they delay for a lot of people? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But they got all that new, they got $80 billion in new funding. They said that they're going to, oh, wait a minute, what? I thought it was just going to be to hire people and improve customer service. but the IRS says right here that it's using it to increase audit rates. Oh. So it wasn't just to like provide greater customer service and, you know. Here's the big problem I have with this is because we've had record revenues coming into the treasury. Yep. Over the past few years.

Why is that not enough? Because they won't stop spending. Why? Because we need to send more money to Ukraine. Yeah. So they're literally trying to squeeze more blood out of Iraq. instead of curbing their spending habits. It's absolutely ridiculous.

The 52-page document they have outlining their plans. The IRS said they're going to start looking at different groups of people, that they're going to increase the audits. They also said complex partnerships with assets over 10 million are going to be audited at a 10 times higher rate. And they said that they promised it's not going to be for, lower income households. No one believes that. And you know why? No one believes that? Because they're going after Venmo. They're going after PayPal. They're going after online marketplaces

because they are now scrutinizing all of those. And if you don't claim any of that, then they're going to, this is what I always find amazing. Like they have no idea. They can't tell you where the hell the money in Ukraine is going. They can't tell you where any of the billions that we have sent over there where it's going. But my word, if you spent $601, if you bought like a used lawnmower or something, ride mower, whatever, and you paid $601 on Venmo, they're going to know. Isn't 600 the threshold or 800? Yeah, they're going to know. The IRS will know, and they're going to come knocking on your door.

But they can't tell you what happened to billions that were sent over to Ukraine, right? They can't tell you what happened with all the COVID money. But, oh my gosh, you're $601 on Venmo. And the tax cuts that they're going to allow to expire. will affect everyone who enjoyed lower taxes. So those people who are making less than $400,000 a year will definitely get hit with additional taxes. If you're making somewhere in the neighborhood of $75,000 a year, your taxes will go up between $17 and $1,800 for that year. So Biden is taxing those that are below the $400,000.

Well, yeah, and anybody who claims an earned income tax credit, they said they are going to be twice as likely to get audited. that's why when they're like oh no no it's not going to be for you know lower incomes that's a lie because of all the digital stuff and like i just said the earn income tax credit if you get a tax break for earning below a certain threshold you're going to be literally twice as likely as others to get audited so it's a lie when they sit here and and say oh no it's only going to be for the rich people which is still even if you're not one of the rich people that's still lame all of this is theft it's all theft like property tax stuff We're getting ready to contest that because that's insane. Property tax, yeah, contest it again. Contest it every damn time you get an opportunity to contest it. It's theft. You never really own your own property. It's all just, it's all, there's, there is agreed to social contracts,

and then there's abusing the idea of a social contract. And that's the stage we're in in the United States right now. So the IRS said that, oh, guys, guess what? they cut their weight time down by a few minutes if you call in i'm so glad we spent 80 billion right dollars yeah well we got 80 000 agents and then half more than half of those yeah 87 000 agents and the majority of them were given guns well i mean you know when you go i mean it's only proper that you know someone who's going to rob you should actually give you the courtesy of saying you know stick them up before you know what i mean and have the means to do so if you're going to get robbed you might as well

be robbed at gunpoint, right? I mean, you know, it makes sense for the IRS to be armed. Yeah, it makes sense, right? I'm just saying. So it's, uh, and then now all of this is tying into questions of whether or not we're going to see another housing collapse. I'm going to include this. If you sign up over at Substack for Chapter Inverse, the newsletter, I'm going to have all this in your newsletter as well, because that's what it's looking like. I was looking at financial times this morning, uh, the mortgage reform that everyone is saying could potentially unleash now this, the next big U.S. stimulus and then perhaps a housing crash. Good grief.

If it's not one thing, we're never going to get a break. We are never going to get a break. It's just never going to happen. This heritage had a really good piece where they were analyzing some of this data about the nationwide real estate mess and how inflation, because everybody's already broke. everything's been stretched thin, higher monthly mortgage payments, a lot of people have been pushed off the cliff. Couple that with, again, higher property taxes. Texas has crazy property taxes.

Crazy property taxes. They've got to get that under control because I'm going to tell you why, what's good to vote for Republicans in Texas if they're going to keep taxing and increasing taxes on your property? When you could just, Democrats are honest about it, at least. You know, why sit here and keep voting for Republicans if they're not going to do anything about the theft? of your actual property. I mean, property taxes are a communist idea. It is communist.

I don't believe that I should have to continue paying taxes towards off of my property, never being able to own my actual own real property outright because under threat of penalty, I have to keep paying, you know, this indulgence to the state so that it doesn't come and get me. I mean, there's the difference between government and the mafia is that the government pretends it's virtuous.

That's the difference. It's a protection racket. Property taxes are literally nothing more than racketeering. It's legalized racketeering. Pay us for protection. Oh, yeah, we're going to give you some services except when we shut it down for COVID. graduated consumption taxes would solve this. The government will never go that route because it forces them to live within their means. And government doesn't want to live within their means. No government, whether it's local, state, or federal. No government wants to live within their means.

So they tax you, they tax you when you die. They tax you if you try to pass enough money. They tax you if you sell something. Then they tax you in Missouri, you still had to pay. What was the percent you had to pay on your car? Your property tax. You had to pay additional tax on your car. Every year.

You had to buy your car in the state of Missouri, buy your car, pay a tax on the sale. Then you had to pay an additional tax. You know you already paid tax on it once. You had to pay tax on it again just for owning the damn car every single year. They call it personal property tax. Yeah. You would have to still pay tax on it just because you owned it in Missouri. Well, at least Texas doesn't have that.

But still, graduated consumption tax. That is the way to go. Because it forces, it would force schools to compete to actually provide better. services to kids because it would make people have to compete, but people don't want to do that. They like the protection that this racketeering from the government provides. And then they dress it up in virtuous veneers and say, oh, no, no, it's for the common good. So much tyranny and so much bad, so many bad things have been done in the name of the common good. But this, now we're seeing the ever, the expansion of federal expenditures.

And this is just, there's a disaster in the making. And now interest rates, they're not going to cut interest rates. You have a quarter of the loans backed by, it said, conventional home mortgages looking at commercial real estate, which is, by the way, that's like a time bomb by itself, short-term debt that's frequently rolled over nearly one trillion or roughly one-fifth of those loans are going to have to be refinanced this year. And a quarter of those loans back by office properties and nearly 40% backed by hotels also mature this year. So commercial property. And then you can't even fill it with tenants. So their incomes are, this is just, they're. is going to, something's got to give.

Something's got to give. And it's not going to be the government. It'll be you. That's what it'll be. So to hear a Hakeem Jeffries, oh, no, it's on. In the meantime, conservatives are insisting some conservatives. I, look, I

like the conservatives that are in the Republican Party, and I think that you need people to plant that flag on that end of that part of the spectrum. But this idea to try to force this vote this week of Johnson, because Democrats said that they're going to help save his job. You still have, and I love Tom Massey,

Representative Massey out of Kentucky. He's a great lawmaker. I just think he's wrong on this one. Marjorie Taylor Green, I just think that she's wrong on this one. There's nothing wrong with thinking that somebody's wrong on this because it's wrong. I mean, to sit here and force this when you barely have enough of a majority, you're not going to get anybody more, you're going to get somebody even more liberal, somebody way more progressive than this.

This is just the dumbest, dumbest time to do this. Dumbest time to do this. They need to stop it and not do this. this stuff until after the election. Because Democrats said they'll vote to save Johnson. And then it makes Democrats, then you're allowing Democrats to take this opportunity to make themselves look reasonable. Instead, you know what Republicans should be focusing on instead of all this stuff? There's a new, well, this is like a couple of new surveys out. Texas Hispanics are backing the tougher border policy here in Texas, which that's not surprising if you understand the voting block in Texas.

but what's surprising is the fact that nobody in media wants nobody's going to touch it nobody's going to touch this there was it was buried in this piece that i was reading that gets into uh it was a survey it was a trump it was a cnninian survey and cnn just glossed right over it and it shows that hispanics support in texas support tougher border policies completely unlike how it's represented in the press they had 61% of texas life voters supported spending more tax dollars on border security from the border wall construction to deployment of the National Guard. And they said two-thirds of white and three-fifths of Hispanic-likely voters supported this policy. Sixty-four percent of independence supported

the policy. And 33 percent Democrats supported the policy. Hispanics who lived by the border over 70 percent backed this policy. That is, you never get that kind of number for any kind of survey. That is stunning. And if Republicans were smart, instead of playing musical chairs in the house, they would be focusing on and seizing on this and using this as a way to increase voter outreach. This is a great voter outreach mechanism. I don't know why they're not doing it. I mean, I think they're incompetent at this point. We have a lot more on the way, including the, oh, our Department of Interior is focused on sustainable recreation. I don't even know what that word salad means. We're going to discuss that coming up. We also have Stevie Needs joining us this hour instead of our

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So now they're looking at whether or not it's considered, it's large enough to be considered a monopoly. And are they engaging in business practices that are squeezing out any kind of competition or choice? So we'll see. U.S. Air Force Secretary flew a one-of-a-kind lockyed fighter jet after the AI versus human dog fight test. and it was a very interesting, basically it was like a drone fight, right? I mean, at that point, if it's an AI thing, isn't it like a drone fight at that point? Although with drones, you still have a human operator. But it was a variable in-flight simulation test aircraft, and they were hosting an event showcasing this thing.

And it's very, I mean, it's interesting. It's autonomous air-to-air combat. But at the same time, I'm a little nervous about having AI jets because they're literally the latest mission impossible film. I don't care if you don't like Tom Cruise or whatever. You need to watch it just because you don't have to see any of the other mission impossibles. You need to watch this one because we are there right now. We're like if we're not there already, we're on the cusp of what happens if the robots take over or if AI makes all the calls in war. That's where we're at.

It is actually terrifying. Apparently they said Americans, a new survey, I have no idea why this is a survey, says Americans would rather live a shorter life in good health and a longer life with health issues. Yeah, why did you need a study for that? Now, Kang goes, they really want this fluoride poison to get in here. It's not recommended to rinse your teeth after brushing. Who says that? These people have seen it. It's a story where it's seen it.

They said that, yeah, you don't really have to, the American Dental Association, and they said that you really don't have to wrench your mouth after having all that fluoride. Fluoride's poison. I don't know why you wouldn't. I wouldn't with that taste them. mouth all day. All right, stick with this because we got Stephen Yates coming up. Don't miss.

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You can listen coast to coast. You can also stream the radio program, watch the simulcast of it as well. As we told you, it was announced earlier this morning, but details are now coming out. Hamas announces. They were very quickly to say this. They've announced that they've accepted this Egyptian Qatari, I guess negotiated ceasefire proposal that from what I see from the Associated Press benefits Hamas greatly and apparently you

get like a handful of Israeli hostages in exchange for a couple of hundred of terrorists from Gaza that have been working with Hamas that are imprisoned in Israel so you know hundreds to a handful I mean they both start with H so I guess that makes it even but what I found interesting was how quickly

all of this is rushed out before Israel has even commented as to whether or not they will accept it, because obviously it's a pressure tactic. Joining us on this and of course, Xi Jinping is in France. All of those issues are very good friends Stephen Yates at Yates comms on X. I keep almost wanting to say Twitter and it's not Twitter anymore. It's X. And you all know him. He's the chair of the China Policy Initiative with the America First Policy Institute where he is also senior fellow and he joins us now via Skype. Always a pleasure to have you. I wanted to get kind of your take on that. Doesn't that seem like a pressure tactic by them rushing to announce that they have this Egyptian Qatari broker deal.

And look, Hamas has already eagerly accepted it. It really doesn't benefit Israel at all. It seems like a pressure tactic to get them to accept it. Yeah, it's almost as if the broader Middle East, perhaps, together with the woke movement on campus and our media are all working together to put pressure on Israel to accept something that obviously, it doesn't meet sort of the common sense threshold of you attacked us and took a bunch of our people. How about we negotiate terms after you return our people? And then we'll start digging out of the whole you made of attacking us. And I also really have a hard time putting pressure on another country to do what I as an American would never do,

which is to accept that part of our sovereign territory doesn't belong to us. Why is it that Israel is being pressured to say withdraw from territory that is within its sovereign boundaries as part of some kind of a ceasefire imposed by, you know, that state of Qatar, which has been kind of home base for the jihadi movement pretty much before, during and after 9-11 and all the way to today? So there's a lot about this that I think you should have initial squeamishness about. But really, I think you dialed it in exactly right. This is basically being set up to pressure Israel to have to say yes, that somehow they look like an aggressor if they say no. And of course, the announcement came just moments after Israelis tried to do the humane thing to warn civilians to get out of Dodge away from the terrorists because we've got to come in and rid them of them. Right. Right. And it's weird, too, this floating pier that it was going to be 200, 230. $230 million, now it's $320 million, and it was being mortared last week. And it's odd to demand.

And I wasn't aware of this right when I guess it first came out, that the IDF was supposed to protect our boots on the ground that are providing aid to the enemy of our only ally over there. That's a really weird setup. Every part of this is weird because it defies common sense. It ignores fundamental principles of you have an ally with sovereignty that was a act by not just an organization that the Israelis call terrorists. Most of the world, under even the ridiculous UN system, have called this organization a terrorist organization. And so when you start deviating from common sense and what you know to be true, of course you're going to end up

with weird outcomes. And that's what this represents. Weird outcome also. I don't know what outcome is to be expected with Xi Jinping in France. That's kind of unusual for him to be there, right? I mean, he doesn't normally, he usually goes to super commie friendly places. Well, I mean, I guess they're, you know, going to meet McCrone. I guess it would be commie friendly. The last place, you know, San Francisco, it's pretty commie friendly. I mean, we literally flew the flag for him. But what is, he's meeting with McCrone. McCrone's apparently, it's trade and Ukraine. I find that interesting that Macron's talking with him about Ukraine. What do you make of this? What do you think is going to come from this? Well, it comes on the heels of Secretary Blinken going to China to give yet another warning that

It's unacceptable for China to be doing what it's been doing for two and a half years, which is aiding and abetting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We had officials try to pretend as if that was a red line, pretend as if we didn't know. And so as the global conversation sort of gains momentum that, hey, maybe some sanctions will be imposed on China for doing this because Europeans somehow had a conscience, collect up, catch up with them from behind on this.

So I think that she is going there to solidify the usual old European deal of, you're not really going to sanction us, are you? And how about we give you a little bit more sugar on the economic front? And we can continue to act with impunity, whether it's persecuting Uyghers in the Xinjiang concentration forced labor camps or threatening Taiwan. You're not going to help with that, are you? That's a very good point. talk with her good friend, Stephen Yates at Yates Combs.

Because I know that, I mean, it always, I always kind of grit my teeth whenever I see headlines of China pursuing trade expansion with EU nations. And I know there's a contingent of the EU. I guess the more conservative minded members that have their, they, I guess, form their conservative portion of the European Union that are trying to reduce Chinese involvement with regards to economics in their countries and reduce trade. I was reading headlines about, you know, China trying to get more and more involved with EVs in Italy and et cetera, et cetera. Is this something that do you think that this, I, where is that at? Are they at like a stalemate? Is that gaining momentum? Because so many of these are our allies. And the last thing that I want to see is, you know, as Russia, I feel like Wayne's, China is taking that role that Russia once occupied during the 80s Cold War. And I just don't want to see one bad guy, Wayne, only for a new bad guy to take their spot empowered by business ties with the EU. Well, there's two things that the Chinese Communist Party does better than the Russians have.

And the Russians tried for a long time. That's increasing economic leverage and sowing division. Better than the Russians. The Russians do that, but the Chinese do it better. Wow. And even among the conservatives in Europe, there are divisions that Xi Jinping on this very visit is trying to accentuate. There's a lot that's going on in Hungary that I find interesting and something that I can work with. And yet the leader there is openly embracing China as an investor and part of its economic supply chain.

At the same time, you have Poland, who's also on the right side of things in number of waste screaming, that this EV push is going to disenfranchise a lot of their workforce that has been built into the combustion engine supply chain. And so that is an area where China so's divisions. You have parts of Europe, even the freer parts, more traditional family values parts of Europe, that are divided on this. And so she shows up and soes those divisions to his advantage. It weakens the sort of sense that, hey, you know what? We don't like what China and Russia and Iran and others are trying to do. And we see this chaos spreading from Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

And so maybe those Americans aren't completely wrong. about this and we should look at the sanctions list. So even just getting that on the conversation table like Blinken has tried, I think has pushed this engagement. And Xi Jinping doesn't travel that much anymore. So I think this was motivated by that conversation. That I find that talking with our good friend Stephen Yates from America First Policy Institute, I find that their involvement in Europe to be one of the most terror.

I mean, with granted, you know, with Taiwan and the Pacific, et cetera, all of that, you know, that's also very concerning. I find they're gaining so much ground and what you just touched on. People that we, and I've seen like different conservative groups in the United States make overtures to these other conservative leaders and make these alliances. But at the same time, like you just said with Hungary, you know, their conservative leadership is, you know, making these inroads with China. And they don't look at China as the geopolitical foe that we, the United States do. So this could completely upend everything that we thought of. in terms of, you know, who our geopolitical alliances are in that part of the world.

And I don't know what kind of ground we would be on after. I mean, these are people who would be allies with us that may end up, you know, at the end of the day, picking China over us. Right. And that's exactly a win for China. Chaos is net advantage Xi Jinping. Uncertainty net advantage Xi Jinping. And so that's why our work is cut out for us.

And the CCP's done a great job of putting, fanning the flames, division here in our own country. And so all of this is basically to set an environment where their kind of aggression or pulling us down is what seems to be working. And that way, they can kind of act with impunity and don't really have to listen much to what we have to say or what our people need. That's a good point. Looking at one last topic here. Australia is boosting their security cooperation with the U.S. reading this piece where Japan and Philadelphia, with Australia, apparently. So now they're boosting ties with the Philippine military and the South Seas against China. That seems pretty standard, although it looks like it's a little bit,

you know, a little bit beefier than what they had prior. Otherwise, it doesn't really stand out to me. But at least we have allies. I feel better that we have like, you know, we have Japan, we have Australia that, you know, we're all on the same page here. Yeah, well, Japan has basically been on the same page since former Prime Minister Shenzhou Abe, really came to power. Zenophobic, Japan? Right. But yeah, the

sewing Asian hate Asian power. But the rest of our allies have basically felt uneasy being forced to pick sides. And I wish that this was courtesy of great American cooperation and thinking and strategy and investment.

But really, this is Xi Jinping just cheesing off everybody. And that now, You've got Australia much more squarely focused on the right kinds of China policies. And that's taken more work than it should. The Philippines was always a fence sitter, but really now has no choice. It's clear. And so basically that arc from Japan all the way down that first island chain,

down through Indonesia to Australia, and even some uncertainty in India, Xi Jinping has actually done a good job of making things harder for himself. then we're just blessed that our current distractions haven't let our allies kind of meander in a way that's been more of an advantage to China than otherwise would be. Gosh, if only we could replicate that, you know, in Europe, that would be, I'd feel better. I think we all would. Tougher road to ho there, for sure. Very tough.

Our good friend, Stephen Yates, and you can find him on X at Yates' comms. Always such a pleasure. Always appreciate your expertise. There's literally nothing that I would ever be able to ask you that would throw you. You're like a living, breathing encyclopedia. So we so appreciate you sharing your talent with us. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, Dana.

Take care. Have a good week. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up the second hour. And, of course, on the way is Florida Man. But before we go into Florida, man, of course, you know, we had tip to the people who bring you free radio. And those include Black Rifle Coffee.com. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

It's time for Florida Man. Y'all, what have we told people about bodies of water in Florida? Avoid them. What did we told them? It's going to be a gator in there. I don't care if it's a puddle that's a size of a dime. There's a gator in it. A 34-year-old man was rushed to the hospital because he went for a swim in a Florida lake,

and guess what? An alligator bit him in the face. Bid him in the face. And Hillsborough County Fire and Rescue transported the man. They didn't identify, and they just said he had injuries. And he was taken to the Tampa Hospital. but that's like I'm telling you this got to be careful this stuff how do you get bit in the face though were you just like do you not see it does not see it coming to you I don't know how that

happens this um really a man was stopped at Miami International Airport with snakes in his pants I mean we've all joked I mean we have is that a snake in your pants or you just know it is a snake officer it's an actual physical snake They said that they detected a literal bag of snakes in this dude's pants. And they turned them over to Florida, fish, and wildlife. I mean, I don't even, I get weird about putting certain things in my pockets, much less like having like a bag of snakes in my, l'lure. They turn them over to Florida Fish and Wildlife. And earlier, we had the story last week where a dude tried to get a machete through security.

So yeah, you don't, don't bring. And it was in a, they were in a sunglasses bag. I literally, oh, you can't see my arm, but I legit got chills from that. I just, oh, all right, moving on. I don't like anything in bags and pants like that, like, just no. They're just future politicians. A Florida man was accused of flinging hot coffee at a McDonald's drive-thor employee because he was overcharged by one cent. L.A. Zar Ravel was charged with felony battery and accused of slapping,

slapping hot coffee. I'd have like work this out how this works in my head. Slapping hot coffee at an employee. So I guess he slapped it in somebody's hands. The shift manager said that Ravello was upset because he was overcharged by a penny and he burnt, apparently scalded the employee's arm and chest. The 64 year old was charged with felony battery and they, yeah, so they, and he was on surveillance. 64 year old. Goes into what you say all the time. Old people are not innocent. That's not what I say. I say not all old people are innocent. I know.

I was saying that. Florida, okay, a Florida man who was taking photos of property that he wants to buy was beaten to a bloody pulp by a guy with a broomstick, said police. St. Petersburg property. They don't give the identities, but they said that he was, he was, he was bludgeoned by this dude. I guess it was a property owner nearby. And of course, that guy was taken in for assault. They didn't give the identities of the guys. But you do have to be careful with that kind of stuff.

Like, you can't just like, just, you know, just be mindful because other people are very, you know, they're mindful of property. And it does look weird. If you're out, you know, in the neighborhood and you're just randomly taking pictures of, you know, somebody's house. It does get weird. Let's see. They've, they have been, let's see, do you guys remember the boat photo of people dumping trash? They were illegal. They were juveniles engaged.

in illegal trash dumping. They'd turned themselves into the authorities on Friday. Florida Fish and Wildlife had launched this investigation because they got tons of complaints. It was a viral video which they were dumping mounds of trash. I mean, I didn't even know there was that much trash on the boat, but there was, apparently. And it was a lot of like Red Solo Cups. It was a Boca Bash. They were at Boca Bash and they filmed this boat dumping two trash cans full of garbage in the ocean.

And they got in trouble and they turned themselves in. So at least they turn themselves in, but still, like, you can't do this. And a Florida man is suing over an e-game. We're going to have this tomorrow because this guy, it's an e-sports immigration video game fight. Stick with us. We got third hour on the way. By the way, how many of it did really well with that $1.9 trillion tax cut that increased really in good shape, right?

Really changed your, well, you did. Well, that's good. I'm glad to see you're doing well already. and I'm good but guess what if you elect me you're not going to have you your taxes are going to be raised not cut if you're if you benefit from that. That's a flashback from Biden. He actually sounded more sentient there, didn't he?

Sure does. Then, and that was just what, back on 20, before 2020? Yeah, yeah. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. That was the president saying, you know, back a flashback. He's like, no, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut. they try to act like the Trump tax cuts were ineffective.

They were so effective. People were angry at that they were angry because they weren't made permanent, particularly, like some of the corporate rates were, but not everything was made permanent. And it should have been. That's what, because they were, they were that effective. So, again, welcome. Always good to be with you. The, we talked a little bit about some of the economic issues, the idea that, I just keep seeing story after story.

These experts are saying that the, do you think they're going to jack up taxes? We're going to get everything that Grover and Norquist warned about at the start of the month last month, right? Well, they can't help. He's letting the Trump tax cuts expire. Well, yeah, but no, in addition to that, he wants to levy more.

Yeah. And they're trying to say that the additional levies are going to be on just those making $400,000 a year or more, when in fact, that's not the case at all. We all know that's not true. We all know that's not true. It's going to, there, the tax cuts, everything from cap gains to the death taxes to the step up basis, all of it.

That is going to, it's going to be so destructive. We're never going to see, we're never going to see lowered interest rates again, are we? Not in our, maybe not in our lifetime. Good night. Good night. And in the meantime, this is the stuff that really, if you were going to be out in the street protesting something this is what you would go out and protest not we were talking a little earlier about all the stuff college kids were out there protest college adults were out there protesting and on the

heels of that there was this story about this offer of a ceasefire offer and Hamas is like we just we just accepted the ceasefire offer this Egyptian Qatari brokered agreement that was some sort of the details that I that I was looking that I saw that came out they were trying to say that it was they would release like a handful of hostages for like hundreds or whatever of these prisoners that Israel has of Gazans that have been working with Hamas to blow up Israelis. And the details on it, they said it was a three-phased agreement. And Israel would have to withdraw from Gaza. And the Egyptian mediators apparently said they would guarantee that war would not resume in Gaza, which is weird. This is via Reuters. The Egyptian mediators said this. Okay. And the deputy,

the Hamas's deputy Gaza chief said, well, I think this agreement satisfies all parties. No, it doesn't. It doesn't do anything to nothing. But they rushed this out there and then rush to the press to act like Hamas was agreeing to it and to make it look as though Israel is the one that's unrealistic or Israel's the one that's demanding too much. That's what it is. And so Israel rejected it. They rejected the agreement because it wasn't, it wasn't in any way a fair or safe agreement at all. I mean, it was very, very, very, very favorable to Hamas. And it does not, did not include from everything that I've seen is the release of all hostages. I didn't see, I haven't seen that in anywhere in any part of the any part of this so why there should there that's that to me is a non-negotiable

if you do not have a full release of all hostages then there's no negotiating that's it but they were really quick to run out and say oh well Hamas has accepted it look look Hamas is accepting a ceasefire it's up to you it's up to you Israel to accept it if you really want to ceasefire well if they really wanted a ceasefire then they would have included the release of hostages and they didn't So they, this was just a, it was just a trick. This, they were never serious about having any kind of ceasefire at all whatsoever. Because they didn't include anything about the hostages. Nothing.

How are you going to, how are you going to demand a ceasefire when you refuse to release innocent people that you took, that you kidnapped? This is stupid. And they have Hamas on record saying, well, Israel has to decide whether it accepts or obstructs a truth. Obstructs. No, Hamas started a war that they couldn't. finish and now they say it's unfair. It's not how that happens. Israel's foreign minister said our war and Gaza continues with the exact same colds, the release of all hostages and the defeat of Hamas. True. They need to stop, I think that they need to step it up and just go into Rafah. Just get it over with.

Get it over with. Because this has got to end. It has to end. And so the people were saying, well, you shouldn't attack, Israel shouldn't attack Rafa, but they have to, they have to go through. And they have to, they still have what, how many fighters, how many Hamas battalions that they have in Rafa? It's not something Israel chose to do. It's something Hamas chose to do. And if these other Arab nations don't want to take any refugees, well, then they're, they're making this determination, but you don't get to tell the person attacked how to respond in self-defense. You don't get to make that. You don't get to set those rules and contextualize how they can respond. You don't get to do that. So they are not, oh, by the way, can you play this that you dumped in?

Because this is, apparently it was just brought up to, was she shopping? Yeah, she's. Kamala Harris. At a restaurant, apparently. I guess she was at lunch. And a reporter approached her and said, it's only like 10 seconds or so, and said that Hamas says it accepted a ceasefire deal. And they asked her about this. Do it play this if we have it.

Madam Vice President, Hamas said it accepted a ceasefire deal. Hamas has accepted a ceasefire deal. Your reaction. What are your thoughts on Hamas accepting a ceasefire deal? Now, she heard them. She just didn't want to answer. So her response, the response should be,

oh, are they releasing the hostages? Oh, they're not. How is that a deal? That's it. That's the response. Oh, are they releasing the hostages? Oh, they're not releasing the hostages. It's not a deal.

No one should be expected to accept. anything that doesn't include the full release of hostages. Again, this could be over tomorrow if Hamas wanted to, but they don't want it to be over. They will not, I don't even know, do you think they have, I hate saying this, do you even think they have half of these hostages alive? I don't think the kids are alive. I don't think that it's as horrible as it is to say this. I think the babies that they kidnapped are gone.

Just consider how they've treated their own people, Hamas. Their own people. They have no problems killing their own people, the ones that approach, those aid trucks, they have no problem killing those people. So I have a hard time believing they're just, you know, taking care of these hostages and waiting for a deal. I don't see that the majority of them are even there anymore or alive anymore. I don't either.

And that's the heartbreaking, I think, reality of all of this. I want to switch gears and get into some 2024 stuff. And I know you saw that the headlines about Henry Quay are. He's a moderate. He was one of the guys who came out, one of the lawmakers who came out pretty hard against Joe Biden's immigration policies. The Justice Department indicted him and his wife Friday as we were finishing the show. They were accused of accepting bribes close to a little over half a million dollars. And they said the bribes came between 2014 to 2021 from an oil and gas firm and a bank based out of Mexico City.

and it went through a Texas-based shell company that's owned by Quayar's wife. And so they basically got, they're being accused of getting paid to lobby for a foreign entity. And that was what the agreement was. They'll pay them and then they have to push the interests of these foreign entities, foreign countries. And well, I mean, that's, then you should be registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. And he can't do that as a lawmaker anyway. So, this, that's what, that's what this, I do think the timing of this is kind of interesting, don't you?

Oh, yeah. Now, I've noticed as well, let me pull this up, because I was looking at some of the reactions to all of it. And I did think it was interesting because some are seeing this as like some payback for George Santos. So George Santos, as you know, before they even had, you know, the, before it was even litigated before he went to court, et cetera, the GOP joined in and ran him out of office. And then his seat went to a Democrat. So with Quayar, because he was amongst the 206 Democrats

that voted to expel Santos. He was one of the ones that voted against it. So some of the Republicans are looking at it like it's payback. for that. And they joined with Democrats to expel, 105 Republicans joined with those Democrats back in December to expel Santos before he was convicted, et cetera, et cetera. And a lot of people were, I was one of them. I thought it was stupid that the GOP were trying to act like this was, look at us. We're so devoted to principle that we're actually willing to reduce our majority in the House, which they did. They absolutely did. And now you have Quayar and his wife, now you have this like half a million dollars. This was an ethics committee report. I think that also, yeah,

also Ethics Committee report. Now, the NRC has compiled a database of statements from Democrats that were calling for Santos's removal. Here's the thing. Republicans did this themselves because you had 105 Republicans that voted for his removal, which I don't think he would have been removed if everybody had kind of been on the same page within the Republican Party. But there's the difference.

they, I, it's important, yes, principles important, but the Republican Party has got to stop betting on the public recognizing double standards as a tactic. They look at this like it is a get-out-the-vote effort. They look at it like, oh, well, this is going to make us more appealing to voters, whereas voters see a party that literally minimize their majority in the House by a seat because before any kind of guilt is is is adjudicated etc. They reduce their majority by one in the House committing quasi-political sepacu for what? To try to make them seem more principle than Democrats? To try to make them to try to shame Democrats are going to be shamed.

You're not going to shame a Democrat. For crying out loud, this is the party of Mary Joe Kopechnie. Okay. You're not going to shame the Democrat Party. It's not going to happen. It's the part of, this is the party of Monica Lewinsky under the resolute desk. You're not going to shame this party. It's never going to happen.

I just think they need to stop. Yes, people know that they're double standards. You don't cut off your nose despite your face. And I feel like that's what they did with Santos and their numbers. I don't care. I don't care. Then let him be found guilty. Let the voters decide.

Let voters decide what they want to do. I hate these people that are like, I'm so principled. look at me. I'm going to reduce my majority by one seat because of my principle. We're going to do it. We're not going to allow the voters to do it. That was the second mistake that the Republicans made. They shot themselves in the foot and then they didn't allow the voters to do it. That's a voter's choice. So now they're going after with Quayr. And Democrats are fine with it because Quayor is a moderate. And they're mad at him for him coming out against the Biden administration on immigration. So they're fine with it. So now you got you got House Republicans. they're looking at Kueyar's vote on Santos. He's a moderate. Excuse me. He stood with him on immigration. And now it's like they're going to try to run out a moderate from that district.

What are they doing? What are you doing, Republicans? What in the world are you doing? I don't know. I don't know. And then you've got that. You got Nome crying fake news on. She did what?

MSNBC and CBS Sunday morning. Two back-to-back disastrous interviews. Jeez. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right. So, top of this first. The, well, we talked about this wolf thing.

That's old. Perrier, Perrier, Perrier. Perrier is not soda. They actually had a legal fight over this. I don't drink carbonated water because I think it's gross. But they said that a court rules that Perrier, is soda, not water, and therefore can be taxed. Oh, yeah.

That's, so if it was water, it couldn't be taxed. Right. It's in Pennsylvania. They said it's not French mineral water. It's soda. So that, there was this petition that was filed all the way back in 2019 because this lady was, she bought some Perry A and she got taxed 24 cents, and I cannot believe that somebody would spend this amount of money to litigate this, but somebody did.

So wait a minute. It's just the carbonation makes sense. soda, right? Is that what they're saying? Not syrup or any of the other stuff in it? I don't even know. I think they just want to tax and tax more things. This is why they made the decision. Yeah, well, I'm not surprising. This, a friend of a crowd star victim provided an update. She had a horrific accident. This woman would not have lived through a mosh pit. Like, she would not have lived through the 90s. Buffalo, New York, a woman's fighting to recover after suffering a serious injury during a concert in downtown Buffalo.

It was a band member jumped into the crowd. The crowd surfing attempt left this 24-year-old with a serious spinal cord injury. So now she still has a very extensive record. Did he jump on her? It broke her neck and every. What a moron band member. Apparently you didn't have enough fans in the floor to do this. Stop it.

Who does that? This isn't the late 90s and people are litigious. And I also think that that's not the place. That was never the place to be. Never the place to be in a concert, especially if you're young, and you're young and you're littler. Let's see this.

Oh, a woman fed, oh, golly. A woman fed a, it was a cow, a bull, a banana. And then the cows began showing up at her back door. According to WFAA, Mansfield, Texas. They had to take the cow back to its pasture.

And this bull and another one would go up to this one. Latoya Keeling's, backyard every day where she started giving them snacks and feeding them. She's like an old lady with birds, but with cows. And they had to come and lead the cattle back because more and more kept showing up in our yard. Lead them back to their pasture.

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It pisses me off. I flew all the way out here. And you guys give me 60 seconds. My name is Dana. Is that not trans enough for you liberal f***? As Dana White at the roast, the Tom Brady roast, which all those roast seem awkward. They do, right? Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this third hour. That was Dana White, UFC. They gave him 60 seconds. You're going to bring out Dana White and only have him talk for 60 seconds. It's kind of lame. I don't understand the point of modern day roast.

Like back in the day, I mean, I wasn't alive, but I watched like rebroadcasts of it. So, mm-hmm. But they had like the rat pack, right? Yeah, the Dean Martin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They do the Dean Martin roast.

And you know why it was so funny? Because all those dudes were friends. all those dudes knew each other, and they were funny, and they were friends. And I mean, I watched, there's a couple of them I watched, and they roasted their other friends. And they were all out there just dying. Like, my favorite was watching Sammy Davis Jr. fallout every time. That man was crying. Dean Martin, who I don't think I read didn't really drink it.

He just kind of acted like he was slashed. Oh, dude. He was slashed. No, I read that he was kind of like a thing. You may have read that. Who was the guy, who was the comedian who, his whole schick was he was, totally drunk and barely, like, could barely talk. He went up, I can't remember.

It was a roast of somebody. It was, I cannot think of the comic's name. But he went up and was like doing a bit about the dude's wife and how he was kind of having an affair with the guy's wife. Oh, you're talking about Jeff Ross? No, no, this is older than Jeff Ross. This is rat pack stuff. Oh, rat packs stuff?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the old ones because these are lame. These are so stupid. Nobody, there are a bunch of people that get up and they have, they don't know each other. They don't hang out with each other. other? Do you honestly believe that Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian and Jeff Ross all hang out? No, they don't. And Dana White, they all just hang out. They're all buddies. My favorite part of the Dean Martin

roast was that Don Rickles got through those. Don Rickles. That was the one. I watched the roast of Don Rickles. And it was this dude who got up, this old dude. He had white hair and like white hair, like Santa, fake Santa beard white. Like it was tufted it. It was so white. It ceased being hair. It was just like poof. And he gets up and he was like, and it was a whole thing. It was like a whole put on. But he was so funny. They were hysterical. And that's what they all knew each other. And they all had that camaraderie. You don't have that with this. It's just very clinical. And they're like, okay, you're the comedian. So you host and you're the pop culture, whatever person in pop culture. And you're the athlete. And it's just, it seems cold and impersonal.

doesn't it? I don't like them. I never watch those. They're all lame. They're all so lame. And it's only there, the shock value is the only thing that's actually increased. It hasn't been like They don't even write their own stuff. Yeah, exactly. You don't think Kim Kardashian wrote her own jokes. No, you don't. Jeff Ross probably also had a ghost writer. I don't even know. And you can tell that they don't like it. You can tell that they don't hang out because there was at one point when Tom Brady got up, he made a joke. Jeff Ross made a joke about craft. and Tom Brady got mad about it, like in the middle of it, and went up and stage whispered right by the mic, like, knock that blank off.

Don't do that again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't do it again. Don't say that blank again. And went and said, they don't even know each other well enough to, so it's just impersonal and it's weird. And it just seems, who would watch that? It's like a humiliation like thing for some of these people. Like they'd almost like a ritual.

It's weird. Who was not even all at this roast? I don't even know. no interest in watching it at all whatsoever. I don't even, Tom Brady didn't even look like he liked being there. Jeff Ross, I don't even think like being there. They had like a couple people, what Bill Belichick was there, and then, I don't know. Kevin Hart was that?

Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart's funny, but do I actually think that he hangs out with Tom Brady? No. Kevin Hart is, I think, one of the funniest comedians right now. He is hysterical. But do I actually think they hang out with Tom Brady? you know they don't hang out. This is so stupid. This is what I hate.

It's like, let's just go ahead. Central casting. Let's go ahead and pick celebrities to roast Tom Brady. So Kevin Hart hosted it, though. And who else? Jeff, I don't even know who all the other people are. Some other guy I've never seen before. You had Rob Gronsky, Grunkowski, who was there.

Okay, I get it. But that's it. Like, there's only like a few of them that hang out. And that's, you know, this is, it's dumb. Nobody watches that. Nobody's going to watch that. Those are people that are going to watch a skibbitty toilet. Like we were just talking about on break.

Then watch this. Like two people out in our audience knew who that was. A couple of things. What is the man versus bear stuff? And why will it not get out of all of my social media feeds? Have you guys heard about this? The man versus bear thing? It's like a stupid, like a feminist thing.

Is it feminist? I don't know. So apparently women, were asked, if you were alone in the woods, would you rather encounter a bear or a man? Now, I'm always armed.

So I'm going to have, you know, a 9mm. That's not going to handle a bear. So I would feel better meeting a man because if you try to get weird, I'd just shoot him. So who has this? People are picking bear? Yeah. Is that the whole thing?

Women are picking bear? I think so. someone wrote bear man is scary I why isn't why aren't bears and men being asked the question of what would you do if you encountered a woman in the forest men should be asked if you encountered a woman or a bear in the forest what would you do if you encountered

who'd rather encounter in the forest and why a bear or a woman I'd seem more right to encounter a bear yeah because I don't know there's trouble you encounter a woman in the woods you better run away like right away because you'll either egg get blamed for something or be just here nonstop nagging about being in the woods. Yeah. And you can't correct them.

It's mansplaining. Steve, would you rather encounter a woman or a bear in the woods? I was asked this question on Saturday. And I think... He was not. You were not asked that question. I was because someone was on Twitter when we were at the bar. And I said bear.

You said bear. See? There it is. Now, why would you rather encounter a bear? Because I've never seen one like that in the wild. What? That's what he picks. He picks a bear because he's never seen a bear in the wild.

Not at a zoo. Because you got to love how, like, wholesome he is. Wait a minute. Does it nothing to do with how you don't want to encounter a woman in the woods? Maybe. Oh, my gosh. That's the part that I'd like to explore a little. So he's not endorsed in the woman.

He just said never seen a bear in the wild. And so he wants to. we've seen a real treat that's I love it I love it that's if I had to encounter if I had to pick a bear or another woman I could well I just look at

what can I overpower right so I'd pick a woman yeah yeah I could just you know she try to get weird too I just you know same nine millimeter or I just whipper one of our one of our contributors in Slack made a good point about some different way of putting this situation uh huh

you can read it for yourself but I'll let you read it. Oh, you thought you're going to read it. Wait, what? Is this the... Foster Brooks? No. What? You're talking about the quote in general. The quote in our side channel. That's one of our contributors put that.

Okay. I was like, I don't know if the chat's dying now. Oh, yeah. Well, a bear would just kill me. A man would take advantage of me first. That's what the premise is that men would, like, apparently rape the woman first and a bear would only kill, blah, blah, blah. Ladies, not every man wants to have sex with you. I just don't want to burst your bubble, but you know, you're not all that. The fact of be dedicated. Four and a half minutes of broadcast time to this subject is ridiculous. I think it's hysterical. It says everything that there is about culture.

That there, I just, who walks around like everybody wants to get with me? Everybody wants to, like, have the sexes with me. Like, it's just all the men's everywhere. Who walks around things like that? Not every man is a predator. Not every man is a predator. Just like, well, not going to say that part. But you know what I mean?

Come on. See, I don't know. Now maybe I would rather encounter a bear than a woman in the woods because a woman would drive me absolutely bad crap insane. Women drive me nuts. I'm a woman. Is it a third wave feminist? Because I think that's important. What wave are we on 11th?

I think we're in like the fourth wave at this point. The fourth turning. I don't know. We're somewhere way beyond Susan B. Anthony. That's all I know. second or third wave feminist, then yeah, I'd definitely prefer a bear. Wait, you got to do, you're going to check the,

wait a minute now, lady, you tell me, are you, which wave feminist are you? And then I'm going to, and then I'll either pick hanging with you or get mauled by this bear. So. Thumbs up to the first wave. All the other waves, you're just, you're horrible.

Well, I mean, I like the equal pay. That's, you know, for, I like meritocracy. But aside from meritocracy, you know, to hell with everything else, about all I agree with me. That's the patriarchy, though, isn't? Huh? Maritocracy.

Maritocracy is not patriarchy. Oh, that's what they say. Who says that? Oh, the left. Oh, well, there are a bunch of bitches. You can't do it. Who cares? So we told you the headline where Hamas negotiated a deal with itself and said it accepted.

And then Israel's like, wait a minute, hold up. We don't accept. And then now everyone's like, oh, it's really easy to negotiate a deal for yourself that you accept, right? like if you're in contract negotiations will I negotiate a million dollar payday for me annually and I accept that deal that works all the time doesn't it? You all try this

like right when you're negotiating you're getting ready to take a new job you negotiate a deal with yourself you're like well I accept this deal it's amazing let's get the ink on this one so that's what that's what Hamas did they just negotiated up a little deal for themselves

it's like when you're shopping for a house and you just put an offer in on the house but don't allow a counteroffer. Yeah. I accept this one. This one's, well, you can't accept for the other part. Yes, I can. That's what Hamas, I guess, thought they were doing. They were going to accept for them and for Israel. They got all out there. It was a pressure tactic to try to make Israel two, it was a two-prong thing. They wanted to make Israel accept it, and then also try to make Israel look bad because they wouldn't accept. Nothing mentioned about the hostages. So that's how you know that Hamas, oh yeah, we love this deal. We don't have to release anybody. Yeah, you just got to stop killing us. We're not going to

stop killing you. But we co-signed this deal right here that says you got to stop killing us. That's not how that works. Not how that works at all. And how are they going to get, by the way, this aid, we told you about that, because they keep firing on that little pier that they got out there, how are they going to get the aid actually into Gaza? Because the last, like from last week the last aid convoy that well not really convoy I guess

and truck one truck that came in Hamas is picking people off of it they were sniping people from the rooftop that got too close to the aid truck so how are you going to get aid into the people of Gaza because Hamas

is just going to sell it to him I don't know yeah John Kirby said that Biden made it clear oh did he though Marblemouth made it clear to the Israeli Prime Minister that he's against a ground operation and Rafa. Since when does, since when do we get to tell people what they can and can't do to secure their

own countries? That's like saying, well, we're against you, United States, reacting after Pearl Harbor. It's almost like the U.S. had a tiny hand in this Hamas negotiation, this, uh, it's almost like. acceptance of a deal. It's almost like, huh? Yeah, you can't, we don't, we don't, we don't support a ground operation. Well, what idea do you have to stop Hamas, brain trust?

What idea do you have to stop Hamas and release the hostages? That is the only option left. You got a terror group that doesn't want to release hostages, and they will not stop trying to kill people in Israel. So, all you have left is to go into Rafah. If you don't want them to go into Rafah, then maybe prevail upon your terrorist friends to release the hostages and stop firing rockets at Israelis.

otherwise you're going to get company in Rafa. See how this works? They could end all of this tomorrow, but they won't. They refuse to. That's the deal that Hamas actually negotiated and accepted for themselves. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. We've made clear our views about operations in Rafa

that could potentially put more than a million innocent people at greater risk. during his call with Prime Minister Netanyahu, the president again made this clear. He also made clear that we continue to believe that the hostage deal is the best way to avoid that sort of an outcome while securing the release of those hostages. And as I said, those conversations continue. But there's like no hostages that are a part of the, no hostages are being released in the deal that Hamas negotiated for itself. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. It's, right?

I mean... Give us our people back and then we can talk about what kind of deal. Why is it so hard to demand that Hamas do that? I don't know. Why is that so difficult

to be like, look, y'all, they got to be releasing them hostages and they got to stop firing rockets off into Israel. I mean, it just seems like those are the two most obvious things

that you would stipulate as part of any ongoing negotiation. But apparently, that can't be done, apparently. That can't be done. Make sure you sign up over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, because we have some interesting pieces coming out. We're going to have some 2024 stuff as well.

Just kind of a little bit increasing the attention given to it, just looking between the lines and some of the polling and all of that stuff as we get closer to November, which is going to be here before you know it, crazy enough. And as for the protest, you guys see Michael Moore, declare that you, because you have to take over buildings

during campus protests, and if you haven't started an encampment at your college, do it. It is really easy for him to say because he's not there doing any of it. And also, schools are getting ready to, like, be done, right?

Aren't a lot of universities done this week? You're not going to hear a lot about these campus protests anymore. I think probably after this week and next week, I think that it's going to die down as everybody goes back home and then nobody's going to be interested enough. And then what is the left going to do to get out the vote? What are they going to do to get out the vote? Do you honestly think that people are going to put up with this stuff,

taking it to the streets and all this? Because I guarantee you, people will not have the temperament for that. No, they're going to be done with it. This has gone on. The downside of the left, pushing to get this political season started as early as it has, has made people, I think, a lot, they don't have a lot of patience for shenanigans. All right, today in stupidity camp. Representative Maxine Waters. It does look like Bill Cosby playing the role of a homeless woman. Or talking corpse. Or talking corpse.

Absolutely. She's here saying that Trump supporters are just training up in the hills to attack all these cities. This is a man who we better be careful about. And I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to ask the Justice Department and I'm going to ask the president to tell us what they're going to do to protect this country against violence if he loses. I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that he's connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting, you know, what community. What was your camp, your business?

You tweeted it out. Oh, yeah. It's the up in the hills violence training. Yes, I just came back from that myself. Folks, have a wonderful evening. I'll be back with you tomorrow.