The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Podcastistan Takes Another Loss: Commentary on Thomas Massie's Defeat

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

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Welcome to the program. So I wrote about this if you are a subscriber over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, I wrote about this last night. Massey lost because Massey made it to where he was going to lose. And all of these people, sorry, but that's nonsense to sit here and say that it's Trump's fault. You don't have to like Trump or hate him to objectively say that Trump had nothing to do with Massey's loss. Massey lost because he bought into his own hubris. Massey lost because Massey lost focus. That is why Massey lost.

There's no other reason why. And to sit here and blame it and act like, well, it's because of Trump. It's because of this. That is such a low-tie, lame thing to say that just betrays any claim to political acumen, the speaker of such slop could claim. It's the bottom line of it. He lost because voters didn't trust him anymore. He lost because he lost focus.

And now I talked about this. He went from, you know, in the beginning when Massey was elected, it was in 2012, he was elected kind of on the tail end of the Tea Party. The Tea Party really peaked 2009, 2010. And he was elected on the tail end of that. That was the same year that Mitt Romney was running for election, right? And it was kind of weird in the GOP and libertarians were having a hot streak. Rand Paul was very popular.

And so he came in as like this weirdo nerd, right? Really affable, kind of harmless, very smart nerd. Right? That's how he came in. And then he lost track. He lost sight of that. I don't know if it's because Kevin McCarthy. wasn't speaker. I think it maybe is a bunch of things. Or maybe, you know, I'm not going to sit here.

I don't care all that much to sit here and dive into his heel turn. Maybe it was because he lost his wife. Maybe he was because he was sleeping around Washington. I don't know. That's what Congress people were telling me. Maybe it's because Kevin McCarthy wasn't the speaker anymore and so he didn't have shade to, you know, jack around it. I don't know. I don't know what it was. But he lost focus. That's what I do know. And he ended up chasing clout with podcast to stand. more than he was chasing clout with his voters. That's going to get you every time. Trump or no Trump. That will get you every time. And you can't sit here and argue with me otherwise because I've done the legwork on it. This man had no bill that he sponsored. And then he kept talking about Epstein,

but not release all the names. And then he was reading, trying to apparently include people. And I explained this before. When you have the FBI conducting an investigation, they will name anybody that's even in the periphery. Like if Jeffrey Epstein goes and buys a Kalachi, I mean, and he says hello to the person who sold him the Kalachi. Hot damn, that person may have their name in the files. People like that, who had nothing to do with us, were being included and being accused of being in the files. That's part of a messy problem. There was no discernment.

It was sloppy, throwing noodles at the wall, completely out of character for how he had been originally. And then he decided to saddle up with a bunch of cable news castoffs and a bunch of people who've made their entire careers on hating Jews. They're not smart enough to do anything else without the Fox News research floor. So this is the best they got. Jews, Jews, Jews, all damn day every day. I mean, good night. You thought Buckley got tired dealing with the birchers. So he decided to lean into that.

What did you think was going to happen? Do you think voters in a solid red district give a rat's ass about all your conspiracy theories and whether or not Tucker Carlson wrestled with demons? No, they don't. And he stopped making them the focus. And he made himself the focus. That's how he defeated himself. I mean, my gosh, 14 years.

This man represented the fourth congressional district in Kentucky for 14 years. voters don't turn on an incumbent like that without good reason. And you can't say it was Trump. Trump opposed him in 2020. And Massey beat the snot out of his challenger. Trump couldn't take him out in 2020. But Massey was still focused then. That's why.

Massey was still representing his voters, speaking to the issues that his voters cared about. So for all the people who act like, don't anybody who tells you that Trump did this, they're not smart enough to talk to you about politics. they really aren't this is a very saturated field and about 0.8% of the people in it can actually actually have the brains to sit here and and ego aside share this information now 14 years he was in that seat Trump tried to take him out in 2020 didn't work I mean he won't by double digits and now he lost by him so he ended up I mean 54 to 46 went from 39,380 votes to 33,000. He lost 33,568. That's how much he was up against Gowrain.

Oh, I guess that's how you say his name? I don't even know. Everyone's like, well, you were in Gowrain's camp. I couldn't say his name if your life depended on it. I don't know how the hell you say this guy's name. All I know is that he's a retired Navy SEAL. Seems like a nice guy. All of the, you know, all of the podcasts to stand his lawmist hate him. Massey became his own worst enemy. And here's the big thing to note. A friend of mine said something similar to this, but it goes basically like this. Podcastistan and influencers can cultivate a narrative. And they can cultivate some momentum. But reality has a vote. And reality voted last night.

Voters don't care about half-literate non-sum. sense from barely educated cable castoffs who can't move the needle in elections to save their lives. This is like what, the third election that podcast is Stan lost. They do not have momentum outside of the internet. Do you know why? Because Pakistani bots can't vote. Do you know why? Because Doha can't vote. That's why. Influencers from Qatar can't vote. Phones on racks in India. can't vote. That's why. They have this outsized appearance of influence, but it is so manufactured, and it is so heavily astroturfed. It doesn't move the needle. Voters don't care about that.

The true measure of podcastistan's influence last night was revealed to be nothing but a pathetic paper tiger, because podcastistan isn't real life. It's a bunch of doomer slop that lost big. That's what it was. And like I said, the other thing that they, with podcastistan, these people, they don't care.

They are going to get their cliques somewhere or the other. And you have these fame-hor politicians so desperate for influence, so desperate to bail themselves out of a position they put themselves in, they go on this doomer slop, the slop sphere, and they fall on the sword of their own hubris. But podcastistan still gets its clicks at the expense of the stupid politician who leaned into it. So they get their clicks, they get their temporary satisfaction from chasing trends,

which is a poor substitute for years of established consistency. and the politicians that they used got screwed over, and the voters particularly got screwed. That's not America first. That's clicks first. And it hurts because they know it. No, this has nothing to do with Trump, but it's easier for these frauds to insist that it does.

It's easier for them to mischaracterize criticism with association fallacy, right? They say, oh, well, you guys got your marching orders because it absolves them of, from the response. of addressing the very real and very legitimate criticism of Massey's behavior over the past couple of years. I and others have been more fairly critical of Trump's mistakes and have praised his victories with more consistency than these frauds have ever demonstrated in the entirety of their careers. Now, I've never spoke with Ed Galrain. He's never been on my program. We've never came. We've

never invited him on the program. I mean, yesterday I did. Well, yeah, just yesterday after he won, you did. But that's another irrelevant association fallacy. The plain truth is that Massey and Massey alone did this to himself. You know, I didn't get into the sex scandals that implicated him last week because I thought the timing was cheap. And I mean, I've heard rumors from all over D.C. from conservatives in the press, hardcore conservative Christians in the press that were shocked by some of this stuff. Congressional members. But I was, I didn't want to get into the shenanigans in the annex and all of that. I was more

interested in the fact that a sitting member of Congress had removed his super sharp MIT brain and replaced it with Tucker Carlson's CIA rejected cerebral matter. Sometimes very smart people are very stupid. And Massey was very stupid about this reelection bid. He, and he didn't choose class on his way off, outstage off stage either. That's the sad thing about this. You know, I wrote a post earlier on Substac that got into all of the money because he made it a big deal that, oh, Ed Gowrain's taking A-PAC money. Do you want to know what all that's about? Because coming up next hour, I'm going to dive, I'm going to drag you down gator deep in it. We're going to death roll into this subject. So you're going to be so exhausted of hearing it. You're not even going to want to hear people

hash it out and comments on Facebook anymore. But you're going to be well equipped to deal. with the nonsense. Because no one's telling you this stuff. It's stupid. It's not difficult. And I'm going to completely eviscerate the illogical arguments that are used in this. So you can take that and move forward with it. We're going to dive into all of it. But last night was Massey's to lose alone. And podcast to Stan committed Sepaku. They are too small of a real contingent. All of the information, is manufactured and bought it up online. But the bottom line and the real reality is phones and racks in India, like I said, they don't get to vote. Doha doesn't get a vote.

Pakistani bots don't get a vote. Burner accounts don't get a vote. So this had nothing to do with Trump. Trump could sit here and claim it all he wants to, but it really had nothing to do with him. This had everything to do with Massey. And smart politicians out there ought to look at this as a warning and learn from it if their heads aren't lodged too far up their back sides. As we move, the folks who help make the program possible, oh my gosh, I love my ghost bed. Although I went to bed way late last night because I was up getting so many things prepared for you all today and getting some stuff out last night. Ghost bed is literally the best mattress I've ever slept on. And I, gosh, I'm not going to tell you how much I spent on my previous mattress. It was like a big splurge for us

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And that's a real thing. Woke Rike is a real thing. It is infected podcast to stand. And they've got their stupid talking points. And one of the lead talking points has to do with this group called A-PAC. Now, I saw this. You know, he had Chunk Yugar yesterday going off on Ed Gowleran. Ed Gowleran was in the Navy for 15 years before Chunk Yugar was even an American, the Turkish-born Chunk Yugar. So you can shut the hell up. Any foreigner who is running their mouths about a

retired Navy seal, about a veteran, someone who fought for our freedoms here, you can either be silent and be respectful, or you can go back to the third world hellhole from which you originated. So a lot of this had to do with APEC. And there were these ads going around, and I saw people share. I see conservative sharing this stuff, APEC tracker. Do you guys know, again, APEC tracker is a website and a social media account, literally founded by a Marxist who doesn't even live in America. They live in Germany.

You're promoting foreign Marxism. And their figures aren't even accurate. it. But nobody decides to search anything. They don't want to Google anything. Heaven forbid. I run it in a meme, so it must be true. That's not how this works. You can't sit here and say America first while behaving like the left. You can't say America first while literally promoting foreign Marxist garbage, especially going after a retired Navy SEAL. Really? How does that score that circle. APAC stands for American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Now, what is it? Well, contrary to everything Thomas Massey said, it isn't, and Tucker Carlson, it's not a foreign group. It's a bunch of Americans

who also happen to be Jewish. And they use their group to advocate for a strong alliance. Now, let's stop right there. Because I've had a lot of discussions about, Well, isn't that just foreign directed? What does foreign directed mean to you? Let's look at this. Foreign directed. What does that mean? Because that phrase is, I don't even know what that phrase means.

It's not even a poly-sci term. I don't even know what, it's not a poly-side term. It's not even technically a legal term. It's sort of like a Lewis Carroll phrase to support a faulty premise. It's kind of how it is. You have state directed and then you have citizen directed, right? So when Qatar, and by the way, Cutter spends tons of money. You want to talk about foreign lobbying.

A PAC doesn't even compare to Qatari lobbying. That's millions and millions and millions. Sometimes triple what APEC spends. But when Qatar, which has spent almost 300 million in the U.S. since 2017, specifically on lobbying and public relations, China, by the way, spends even more on that. but Qatar donates more to American universities, and I'll come back to that. Why do they do that? Why does Qatar and why, what purpose do Qatar and China have in doing something like that?

See, they use state-directed resources to manipulate foreign nations to serve their interests, right? So that is foreign directed. They're directing a foreign entity, their resources so that when Qatar is, spends money, they want a Qatari state benefit. When China spends money, they want a Chinese state benefit. Well, then how would you describe APAC? Well, when APAC spends money, and APAC, again, is a literal group of Americans who are also Jewish, and it is a domestic group. It's all American money. And so far, no one has been able to articulate exactly what federal election campaign laws that they've broken. Nobody's been able to say that they haven't followed any restrictions or regulations.

So when Qatar spends money, the outcome that Qatar wants is a Qatari benefit. Same with China. Similarly with anybody. But when American voters pull their money together because they want a strong alliance, that benefits the United States. So one of the first illogical fallacies is assuming it begs the question that their advocacy is for a foreign entity. But it's not. They're acting like it's actually a dual loyalty, Conard, because they're arguing that even if you're American and you're Jewish, that somehow you must be prioritizing Israel's interest over that of the United States. That is dual loyalty, whether you're saying it or not.

And it is absolutely assigning a horrific motive. So that's what the left does, is that anti-Semitic, and that's actually anti-Semitic. When you're assuming that because someone's Jewish, maybe, hell, their family may have been here longer than yours. But because they happen to be Jewish, you're assuming that they have dual loyalty or that they're prioritizing a different nation over that of the United States. That's the thing. I don't know anybody in APEC. I've never done anything with APEC, but I don't see them as a foreign organization because they're not. Words have meanings or they don't.

I mean, are we going to go full on trans and start just bibbidi-bop-ty-booing up the language to suit whatever BS podcast to stand slops fear nonsense comes out? Because words have meanings here. I had an interesting discussion with somebody last night about this because it is amazing to me. it's not a slide of hand that groups like APEC aren't registered under FARA because they're not a foreign agent. Either you believe that free Americans have free speech or you don't. You either believe that free Americans can freely assemble and speak how they want and spend their money how they want, or you don't. There is no gray area.

So you either support the First Amendment or you don't. And a lot of people going after domestic entities that are created by American citizens are demonstrating that they have a major problem with the First Amendment. That is not America First. That's Chinese. That's Russian. Sure as hell isn't America First, though. Which is so odd because we're coming up on the 250th birthday of this republic. and yet we have some people out there that are so quick to betray the actual founding principles of this nation so fast because some cable news reject encouraged them to do so. No, all of this, and this came up, I wrote this piece about Massey, and I was talking about all the Muslim money he got. Millions.

He got tons of Islamic money. And I felt that that was important because he was literally pounding, not literally, rhetorically pounding, his opponent. No, no, no, no, no, the boner phone, I don't know. his opponent about getting money from APEC. But yet, the donations that Massey received from Muslims, especially over, you know, the past several years have been quite, that's been quite hefty. So you either believe in consistency as a constitutionalist or you don't, like a leftist. That's where we're going with us.

Here's the thing. APEC, some people say, well, you know, APEC, they spend a lot of money on elections. Yeah, well, you know, Carter does too. oh, well, you know, Carter, you know, they're not really solely focused on elections. You know, they actually donate more to American universities. And I had the, in fact, yeah, about 300 million since 2017 on lobbying and public relations. And that doesn't even touch the billions that they, billions, you heard that correctly, that they have donated to universities. I find that interesting.

Do you know what I, why I find that interesting? Because universities not only shape academic curricula, but they also, shaped perspectives and they shape voting. Have you not been paying attention to a lot of the riots and protests that have been happening on college campuses the past several years? Have you not paid attention to the people that have been coming out of colleges and universities? And how there are no conservatives, not even moderates, according to a late, a new study that has been measuring political ideology that's in campus administration or in even in teaching positions in colleges and universities? There are no conservatives. There are no moderates, especially at the administrative level. There are none. I mean, that's not an exaggeration. There are none. So you could actually argue that because the donations to universities shapes academic curricula and perspectives and voting, that that actually would be a slight of hand. APEC doesn't do that.

APEC focuses on from everything that I've read, the allyship between the United States and Israel. Now, if you don't want to be allied with Israel, fine, you can say it. If you don't like Jews, just grow balls and see it. Say it. Stop staying the Epstein class. Stop saying, oh, well, A-PAC. Just say Jews, you absolute low-tie cowards. I'm so tired of it. I've never seen a bunch of biggest bunch of pansies in my life. These people don't have the nads to go out there and say, well, just say Jews. Be honest about it. We all know what you mean. Have the guts to say what you mean like I do. And others. It's so stupid. This is what the left does. No, but this is the thing. Massey refused to be subjected to the same scrutiny on donations, presumably because the associations of religion, the religion of his donors was more acceptable to critics than the religion and the association of his opponent's donors. And that was my point, right? So APAC is a domestic organization and they spend money. Yeah, they'll donate to candidates. And why shouldn't they?

teachers unions do to say that APAC is a foreign organization is like saying the teachers union which i'm not a fan of uh but still that that's a foreign organization right it's like saying the same thing you know you have groups of americans here domestically that have formed groups to advocate for a stronger support stronger united states support of taiwan and they haven't been called foreign agents you have the taiwanese american action council you have the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. And they are supporting, they go out and advocate for support of the United States of Taiwan. And it's important really when you think about semiconductors, when you think about the importance of Taiwan's in the South Sea.

That's an incredibly important ally for the United States in that part of the world. So that is a benefit to the United States. But nobody talks about that because Taiwan isn't a Jewish nation. and that's what all comes down to. Be honest. That's what it all comes down to. But nobody's got the spine anymore. Everybody talks tough behind

Brando bunch of number names on social media, but nobody will actually say what needs to be said. And that's really it. The electoral influence, yes, APEC has some, but so do a ton of other packs. They have a ton of other, they have a ton of other packs that do this. The only thing that I'm not a fan of with AAC is it's bipartisan, and I don't like that.

They have Democrats and Republicans in APEC. And I'm just like, you look at the Democrats. Look at Graham Platner for crying out loud. Democrats are trying to contextualize a legitimate Nazi who's running for office in Maine by acting like it's no big deal. Notice that Democrats are electing their Nazis and Republicans are rejecting them at the ballot box. That's a huge point. That's my only critique is that I don't like the fact that, you know, They try to, and I get it, they're trying to make inroads to Democrats, but I think that ship has sailed.

Look at Mamdani in New York. That's who Democrats are now. They're not flirting with it anymore. It's part of their platform. So I think that advocacy was lost. But to say that they're a foreign group is stupid and anti-intellectual, because they're not. And when people say that groups like APEC shouldn't be able to do what they want, what that person is saying is, I don't like free speech if it involves Jews. That's what they're saying. Just be honest about it. Because that's what it comes down to. They're not even associated with a branch of the Israeli government. All of this matters if we're talking about facts. I asked this person yesterday, they were like, oh, well, these groups, you know, they could get us involved in a war. when in history has a domestic political action committee ever gotten the United States of America to disregard constitutional power, separation of church and state, and deploy troops itself? I've got a lot more on this. We haven't even just begun. So buckle up as we move. The folks who help make the program possible, we're capitalists. It's our friends over at Superbeats. The company, Human, based in Texas, created Superbeats. And now they have cholesterol health daily. It's very important to support.

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It was a referendum on really, it demonstrated that podcast the stands of paper, tiger. That's the first thing. The second thing is that voters are tired of identity politic nonsense. And you can sit here and say that it's not identity politics, but it absolutely is. Massey, Thomas Massey, who I've known. He used to come on the show all the time by his request. I've known him for a long time. He had a heel turn, man. I've been the same. He's not. And he decided to stop focusing on the issues and went down this rabbit hole of podcast to stand, slop chasing clicks and self-aggrandizement. I don't know if it's because it had to do with his wife passing, Kevin McCarthy not being

where he is, the new wife. Because, you know, sometimes them ladies can be influential. That's why you've got to pick good wives. But I'm just saying something happened because he made it all about Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews. That's what he did. Cut 12. Ro Khanna, who's his best friend in a Democrat, who buys into all. all of this stuff. Listen to this. This is such nonsense.

My good friend Thomas Massey lost tonight, I'm angered by the smears on his character. He lost because he had the guts to take on the Epstein class. Wait, let's stop right. What does the Epstein class mean? What Rokane lacks the Frank to say is Jews. So if you're going to say Epstein class, stopping a pansy and just say what you really mean, Jews,

the Epstein class, the hell is it, even that? What is even that? By the way, I said to you before, one of the reasons why that worm turned on Massey is because he never actually read any of the assailant's names that he claims he knows. He mentioned people who were literally in a police lineup and dismissed. Those are the names of the people that he met right on the floor. They were names on a police lineup. They're not even involved in this thing.

That's how lineups work. They line up people, some of them randos, and then they dismiss them. and somehow their names in the file and Massey apparently incriminated them. That's sloppy. It is nonsensical. And it cost him trust from voters. So he didn't even go all the way. I think he just did it as a way to get votes.

I think he just used it as a scare tactic. And he didn't tweet a damn thing about it, the 10 years leading up to this, by the way. He had like one or two when I went. back and looked in his whole timeline. He, I think, had maybe one or two tweets in 10 years about it. And then all of a sudden, in 2025, Kane, then he started tweeting about a nonstop, whereas everybody else had consistently mentioned it and discussed it. I just find that to be manufactured. That's it. So the bottom line is that they're blaming, I mean, they're blaming Jewish people for Massey's loss. That's what it is.

What, Kim? If it was about money and somehow A-PAC or the Jews were buying a seat against Massey, I mean, they weren't outspent. I mean, this wasn't about buying anything. Yeah, how much? Because he out-

raised Ed Gowlerain. Yeah, that's what I heard. I haven't dug into the numbers. No, he did. He out-raised Ed Gowardine. And that didn't even matter to voters because voters were just fed up. They were absolutely fed up with it. Yeah. And it proves this wasn't a seat buying thing. This was a voter thing.

Right. It was absolutely a voter thing. And, I mean, he really was playing into this stuff. I mean, if we're going to talk about influence, what do you think the Jordanian-born Maruk family who donated a lot of money to pro-Hamas Democrats? They've bankrolled Rashida Taleb, Corey Bush, Illinois, Graham Platner.

But they also donated to Thomas Massey. What do you think their motivation was? Because here's the problem. When people talk about the APEC stuff, they are conflating origin with destination. So you have domestic groups that advocate for a strong alliance that includes a foreign component

because they're talking about an alliance that benefits the United States. States. Whereas when the Qatari lobby spends money, they want a Qatari state benefit. That's not what the state benefit that APEC advocates for is for the United States. But the motivation is irrelevant to people because they only focus on the destination, the identity politics of going after Jewish people. That's it. And so you have to ask, well, then what's the motivation, what is the motivation of the Jordanian-born family that donated tons of money to him. They donated money to Jasmine Crockett. They donated money to

all kinds of anti-Israeli packs. They donated money to Abdul al-Said. They don't, oh yeah, that's the Michigan Democrat Senate guy. They donated to Mamdani. I mean, they're talking about tons of money here, guys. Lots of money. I'm looking at the receipts that I posted for you, linked and screenshoted at substack. Ilan Omar, Rashida Tili, Cornell West. Oh, I missed his name in this. Yeah, all kinds of stuff. By the way, several of the Maruk family members gave Massey $7,000. So maybe when his people were going after anybody who was even

constructively criticizing his approach and they were accused of getting $7,000 from Israel, maybe they were mistakenly incorporating the money they got from a Jordanian-born family and projecting that on to other people. I'm just asking questions. So what would be their motivation? Because it doesn't sound like it's a benefit for the United States. So going by that logic, there's a lot of stuff to question here. Is there not?

If we're going by motivation, lots of stuff to question here. What about the Keani family? That's an Iranian-born family. They gave lots of money. By the way, one of the super PACs that they gave money to, I think it's the same one that was running an ad against the guy that's in Kentucky, what's his last name, Singer, and he's a Jewish donor, and he's got a gay son, I don't know, and they ran an ad on him featuring the Star of David wrapped with Rainbow. I don't even know.

But the fact that they ran that, I'm like, good night. And that was a pack that the county family donated money to. I'm just saying that it was hypocritical to baselessly accuse other people of being bought off by A-PAC when you're literally bought off by Islam. Oh, am I not to believe those figures? but I'm supposed to believe all the boomer slot from podcasts to stand with no receipts. And I wanted to clear up a lot of the, I just like, if you want to disagree with something, disagree with it.

Fine. Nobody, golly. But the problem is that there are too many people that are not, that are not, that are disagreeing on lies, that are disagreeing on falsehoods. You know, you don't have to like advocacy of a certain group, but you can't say that a domestic group is a foreign group. And that's what a lot of people have been saying about APAC. If you've missed any of that, you can go into the podcast and get our previous segments.

But the lobbying, by the way, they're not even in the top tier of influence. But this is the thing. One of the arguments about this has been the sheer volume of their domestic spending. That proves that they, that's proof of undue outside influence. But the campaign numbers, like the actual financial data, does not confirm that. So Open Secrets is where one of the places that I went to look at federal lobby, APAC is nowhere near the top tier of Washington influence. You're looking about 3 million to maybe 3.5 million on just federal legislative lobbying.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent 72 million annually. Meta spent over 24 million. The American medical, and this is just in the past year, 24 million American Medical Association. Pharmaceutical and health industry spent a record 384.5 million on lobbying. Electronics industry, their PACs, 250.6 million. insurance sector, 155 million. APAC ranks pretty much at the bottom of the mid-sized trade groups. So the comparable PAC to APAC would be like the American Association of Airport executives. Well, that doesn't sound like what the narratives are saying, does it? Doesn't sound like that at all.

And that's still, when you even compare it to like big, oh, domestic political juggernauts, it still fails. The crypto lobby, fair shake, they raised over 358 million to target candidates this last cycle. That's triple the entire APEC footprint. Super PACs that are tied to congressional leadership. Oh my gosh, you're looking at half a billion dollars for that. So the argument, people are trying to say that Apex influence is somehow uniquely dangerous because of the amount of money it spends, that's what they're arguing, but the data doesn't support

that, as I've just demonstrated. I mean, again, they are outside, well outside of the top 100 spenders in Washington, D.C., well outside of that. And they're eclipsed by other domestic single-issue networks, right? One of the things that we discussed was the motivation and the motivation and the destination of the advocacy, because people are trying to say that because this group advocates for a strong alliance between the United States and Israel, that is somehow evidence of Israel's outsized foreign influence on the United States government, which doesn't make any sense, because then you're arguing that it's foreign directed. When it's not foreign directed, it's a domestic group.

And we know that it's a domestic group, but we know exactly every single penny they spend because they're required to keep those records and do regular reporting throughout the fiscal year according to open secrets and federal election campaign law. So we know everything. No one's been able to articulate to me a single law that they've broken because they haven't broken any. But this gets into the whole motivation and then the destination. Just because they want an alliance, a strong alliance with Israel does not mean it's foreign directed. The alliance is to benefit the United States. So you can't compare it to foreign lobbying. If you have a foreign state that's lobbying in the United States, that benefit is going to that foreign state.

You can't say that it's foreign because just because they're Jews. That's stupid. The hell are we doing? It doesn't make any sense to me. But that's how it's been. That's how it's been done. So people keep sharing this A-PAC tracker. And I told you about this, right? I just want to make sure it's really understood. You can credit the free beacon for some of this reporting. The Founding, the of the APAC tracker that says that they're America first. It's literally a self-proclaimed repeatedly all over the internet, self-proclaimed Marxist, who lives in Germany. It's a foreign Marxist that's doing the track A-PAC stuff. Corey Archibald. And by the way, they haven't lived in the United States for over 20 years. But sure, and, oh, one other thing, none of their numbers actually

match up to any of the open secrets or any of the other measures that track or the the entities that track PAC spending or donations. That's another, it's like some of them, the numbers are literally just made up. And people are sharing it like it's gospel truth. Conservatives are sharing it like it's gospel truth. How is it America first to share literally German Marxist propaganda? That's not even accurate. So if you're going to, if you're going to dislike APAC because you don't like their advocacy,

then say, I don't like their advocacy. Or you could really not be a pansy and say you just don't like them because they're Jewish. Because that's the real truth of it. And they know it. They absolutely know it. But that's what it comes down to. That's all that group is. I don't know why it's like such this mystery.

Here's the other thing. When it comes to alliance, you want to talk about the alliance? So let's talk about the alliance. You know we require Israel to purchase weapons from the United States, correct? So we might have three, which is ending, apparently, the $3 billion in aid that goes towards Israel, but then yet we're looking at like $40-something million in return for weapons purchases that they make. In addition for the joint missile defense systems that they pretty much test out and then we get

the net benefit of, right? The vast majority is required, they are literally required to spend the vast majority of their military purchasing weapons munitions on U.S. military. made equipment. And that's true. How did that come? I mean, that's their foreign military financing program that the Department of State manages. And it's the, one of the reasons that we force the use of the force their purchase is because it guarantees, number one, that is really forces are highly interoperable, yes, with U.S. military, sharing the same systems, communication systems, standards for ammunition, mechanical parts, because it allows for seamless joint operations and also

intel sharing. That's a big thing. And by the way, all of these acquisitions are routed through the U.S. government, which gives Washington, D.C., and all of these lawmakers, complete structural oversight and end-use monitoring over every single weapon that's deployed. There's nothing that goes out. they don't do anything without us knowing it. We'll just act like we're shocked. Oh, wow, we didn't know that they went into Iran and totally created a drone headquarter and drone the hell. Oh, how did that happen?

We just didn't know. Now, Israel is legally bound, by the way, to spend 100% of its, if it's defensive grant, the FMF money that we're talking about, the grant money, the foreign military financing program that the Department of State manages literally on U.S. Defense products. and that's even angered some of Israeli leadership, some of the leftist Israelis over in Israeli leadership. And they would love nothing more than to see that end.

So that's the truth of it. But what gets me is, you know, with all of this, this discussion, everyone was saying like in Kentucky and elsewhere, oh my gosh, rig primary, all everything in favor of Israel. But none of the other 21 Trump endorsed candidates. who won in Pennsylvania, Oregon, Idaho, Alabama, and Georgia. They didn't touch any of those races? That's weird, Cain.

You would think if they wanted to exercise undue influence over the American electoral system, they wouldn't just go after one seat. Jesus, stupid. So that's the truth of it all. That is why we have it and that this is structured the way that it is. Stop listening to the nonsense from the podcast to state. woke Reich boomer slop sphere. Stop sharing graphics made by Marxists who live in Germany and haven't even touched foot in the

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Maureen Galindo. She is called for transforming an immigration facility, and I'm quoting it, into a prison for American Zionists. Yeah. And she put that up on Instagram, and it was still up there. I think everybody was like, everybody's been watching this to see, like, what? It's still up there. Still up there. and she's in she could win a runoff race she's running for congress it's a texas house race she is a sex

therapist she said that they want to she wants to turn an immigration facility into a prison for american zionist and equip it with a castration center you know what it sounds like um it sounds like a transition thing yeah i mean what yeah go ahead kane Who's the authoritarian party again? Who's the authoritarians in the room? Wouldn't be Republicans. Wouldn't be them. Nope.

Yeah, she wants to, and the way, she has it up on, it was up on her, let me get this graphic here. She has this graphic up, and it's been on Instagram. And I'm saying, And it's bad. It just looks bad. It says when Maureen gets into Congress, it's hard to read it because she, it's got, I'm going to put this in slack and you guys can see if you can read it easier. When Maureen gets into Congress, she'll write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism, I'm reading the graphic, is undoubtedly anti-Semitic since it's Zionists harming the Semites.

she'll turn the Carnes ICE detention center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking. And it will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists. She posted this a week ago. Oh, no, it's there. Wow. That's who Democrats are. Democrats keep electing these people on their party, and Republicans are. defeating them. Wow. I'll bet a hundred bucks she doesn't even know what a Zionist actually. Yeah, most of them can't define what a Zionist is anyway. They have no idea what it is. I mean,

what is a Zionist? Real quick. What the hell is it? What is it? Do you believe that Israel has a right to exist and that alone makes you a Zionist? That's the new standard. Because I've heard ever, I've heard it defined. I mean, this is why I've been studying on Revelation and I've been reading a couple of books about Revelation, because some of it gets into, it used to be, if you believed that revelation was a prophecy and had not taken place, then that was the thing that made you a Zionist, but now it's, if you simply don't want to genocide all of Israel, then you're a Zionist. I mean, I'm not kidding. That's apparently what it means now. None of these people will define it. It's like when you go to a leftist protest and they've got a million different signs and you're like,

what are you here for? It's like the same way, these things. They can't define anything. So this was, she's accused her runoff opponent, Bear County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia, of literally participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire Zionist Jews. She said, she was on Texas Public Radio, and she said she was going to put Garcia on trial for treason.

Wow. So, um, huh, Democrats are like, she's just thinking out of the box. They're calling to literally imprison people in a camp, Kane. Hmm. I feel like I've seen this movie before. A couple of them. Yeah.

I think I've seen it. But here's the crazy thing. A friend of mine was looking at the, just looking at the comments. And there were a lot of people who think she's nuts. But there were a lot of people who were like, team Maureen. I'm not kidding you. Whenever I do anything on Israel, on Instagram, or Facebook, I actually had to start

putting in, I had to start putting in, what is it, on your settings, because I had people calling me some of the most heinous slurs imaginable. Some of them are bots, but a lot of them are real people. I've been accused of being secretly Jewish. I've been, and so one of the things I've been doing, by the way, you better be real careful about doing this to me on Facebook because I am so petty. I will screenshot it, and then I will literally email your employer,

all your friends and family, and I will, I'll make sure that I have the time to completely bully the hell out of you. So be very careful because I am so petty. Anyway, I do sleep, really. But I've had tons, like, I've, there were people, people who were accusing me of being Jewish, people who said that they were going to deport me, which I don't even know what that means. I mean, if I wanted to be a brat, my, you know,

my family was here a hell of a lot longer than your family's been here. I've been all kinds of stuff. I mean, I can't even, some of it I can't even say on air. So her comments don't surprise me. There were a lot of people that were, like, jubilant, that she said this. Lots of people that we're supportive of it. This is really bad. And so it is becoming super prevalent on the left because this is who Democrats are. This has been my complaint with APAC. I'm like, if APAC is so powerful, then how come they haven't been able to prevent Democrats from going like full-on SS? I mean, that's a legitimate question, right? Because we're told all the time that, oh, my gosh, Jewish people are so powerful. Well, then why is it such a struggle for?

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. All right. So first, Barney Frank has passed away at age 86. You guys remember him. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, too big to fail, all of that. He had been in hospice care, apparently, in his home in Maine. and it was congestive heart failure, age 86, so he represented Boston for quite a long time. I don't really have anything else nice to say. The IRS is going to drop audits of Trump and his family as part of the DOJ deal. Officials vowing not to pursue any matters, including those involving POTUS's tax returns because they've been trying to weaponize everything.

The DOJ granted the president and his business's immunity from, I wouldn't say, ongoing inquiries. I would say lawfare, as we've talked about quite frequently on the program. And they said, oh, it's a lucrative arrangement that could shield him for financial liability. No, it's actually stopping from the witch hunt that we saw in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, goes on quite a lot. I mean, quite a lot. Elon Musk unleashes apparently the biggest mega rocket in what's being described as a giant space gamble. ultra-powerful Starship 3-Megar rocket, which sounds like a fake thing. High-stakes test vital to NASA's 28-28 moon landing mission.

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If you kill Americans, we will pursue you, no matter who you are and no matter what title you hold, end quote. that's a pretty big that's a pretty big deal so we're going to continue to follow that we're going to follow that development for you but he's just Trump's just slapping everybody and I think one of the reasons why people are going so hard on him is because he's he's um they don't like who he's slapping he wasn't supposed to he went he went constitutionalist and they didn't like that it's kind of what it is so very interesting indeed now One of the other, I'm going to address this real quick because I had somebody trying to tell me, oh, well, you know, Thomas Massey was so outraged. This is a stupid statement. Thomas Massey literally outraged Ed Gowrain. He literally outraged him. And I have people in the comments that are trying to argue with me because they don't understand how PACs or any of this stuff worked. He was, he outraged. You're looking at like five to three. He was greatly outraged. Thomas Massey greatly outraised at Galrain.

So I don't know where people, this is so stupid. Just stop with the fake news. All right, today's stupidity came. All right, it's Democrats talking. Hakeem Jeffries here, cut 17. Listen to this. This is the Democrat Party, folks. I guess part of how we as House Democrats view this moment,

either MAGA extremists are going to break the country or we're going to break them. And our goal is to break them. Wow. I guess this is what toning down the rhetoric sounds like. Like break us how? Yeah. What are you talking about?

Yeah, toning down the rhetoric. I invite you to try. Tomorrow we're going to dive into those killers in San Diego. Very interesting backgrounds of these teenagers that committed this. We've got to have a discussion. Have a great evening, folks. Find us over at Substack, YouTube, Facebook, download the podcast. I'll be back with you tomorrow.