The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump's DC Police Takeover, Obama's Picture Hidden & War in Ukraine Ending?

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

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That's right. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana is back tomorrow. I think she had a great time hanging out with a bunch of gun owners at a very, very cool event that actually the station I typically work for. Patriot Talk 920 was also at, which was a lot of fun. I think for everybody that was there. I didn't go, but a lot of fun for those who did. All right. Let's do this. Let's first play Beto O'Rourke. And man, oh man, is there a bunch of Beto Audio out there? We have some audio. We'll play a little later in the show where he drops the bad word, the curse word. And I don't know why I'm always so amused when Democrats do stuff like that because it seems so unnatural to them. If President Trump in the middle of something calls something bull bleep, it feels like it's pretty normal. It's fairly common for those words to come out in that situation about that thing.

and actually something I've talked about before that I like a lot. President Trump is one of two people, according to several of these podcast interview individuals, that act exactly the same on air at all. That would be Elon Musk and President Trump. They don't care if the mic's on or not. The Democrats always act different when the mics are on. But here's Beto saying how Democrats have to prioritize playing by the rules

over gaining power, one of the most ridiculous lies you've ever heard, I imagine, because Democrats have been gerrymandering, redistricting, all this stuff that they're upset that Democrats or that Republicans are going to do in Texas. They're very upset about that, but they've been doing it constantly and ridiculously for a while, and that's just one of many lies. I remember how Biden's brain didn't work at all, but he was the Autopenn President for several years, but here's Beto O'Rourke. exclusively. It's why I'm encouraged by what I'm hearing by Governor Newsom in California, Governor Prisker in Illinois, even Governor Hockel in New York. They're talking about

seizing the initiative and redrawing their congressional boundaries to maximize Democratic Party advantage. We've got to fight fire with fire. I mean, we wish the refs were going to call the fouls that there were going to be penalties for what they are doing right now, but the The refs have left the arena. They're going to corrupt it. Or corrupt it. And to win. We've got to be focused on it.

Yeah, you couldn't even really hear him say we have to follow the rules to fight this out, which is just ridiculous because his internet apparently is terrible for better or work there. Talk about weird, by the way, to be someone who ran for the office of president and your setup at home is just opening a computer, letting the microphone pick up your voice and the computer's camera be the one that sees your face. And that's it. That's all you do.

That's not exactly great. You think someone would set them up a little better than that. All right, let's play J.B. Pritzker, a fat cat out of Illinois, just another of the many idiots, an individual who told the people in Texas to flee and hang out in his state because they'll be fine there, even though I hope the FBI finds them and arrests a bunch of these people, which would be so great. But anyway, here's Pritzker talking a little bit about President Trump and so many other things that seem to disconnect. between Democrats and, well, everyday Americans.

I do want to look at the map of Illinois. Let's take a look at this. Despite President Trump winning 44% of the statewide vote in 2024, Republicans hold only three of Illinois' 17 districts. These districts seem to be designed to maximize Democratic advantage. What do you say to those who argue that it's hypocritical for you to criticize Texas for partisanship when your state also drew maps to boost your party's standing? Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is, again, violate the Voting Rights Act.

We didn't. We held public hearings, legislative hearings. People attended them. They spoke out. There was a map that was put out. There were actually changes made to the map. And a map was passed. That answer is hot trash.

You know it and I know it. We both know how bad that that answer was. And how Pritzker's brain was even like, I hate that I have to keep answering this question. because it's a gotcha and they're getting me, and I have no better answer for this. Texas is not breaking any laws either. They're absolutely not violating anything. Actually, Democrats pushed to change some things

about coalition districts that have kind of helped Republicans push a little bit further now as well. None of this. The only people breaking the rules right now are the Democrats who ran out of the state and went to go hide somewhere else. Those individuals are breaking rules. Everybody else is not.

But man, oh man, how terrible is that. This is the heir apparent in the Democratic Party. More and more people seem to think that the jelly bean, the giant J.B. Prisker, human, is the next person to potentially successfully run on the Democratic side of the aisle for the Office of President. And that's the answer he gives to a question he has to expect and seems like he doesn't, even after Colbert and others asked him about it. But man, oh, man, is that terrible? play another piece of audio. I think this is interesting as well.

This is Kathy Hokel, being asked about her own redistricting, redrawing of maps in New York, because they cheat. They do this all the time. And again, Kathy's answer is we played by the rules, that's exactly what the Texas Republicans

are saying. They're saying we're doing things exactly by the book. We're making it legal, and we're deciding to get more seats because you've been doing this forever. Here's how National Review summarized it. said it was only three years ago that New York's Democratic legislature drew up a map so brazenly contemptuous of basic rules that govern a district's contiguousness that the state's democrat dominated court of appeals threw it out. The New York Times at the time called those maps

comically contorted. That's their quote. So your state's highest court at the time all the judges appointed by Democratic governors, they threw the maps out. So fair to say Democrats have done what they're now accusing Republicans of doing. No, we've followed the rules. We do it every 10 years. But the court said you didn't follow the rules. Well, we did follow the rules. So the court was wrong? Well, we followed the rule.

Again, hot, hot trash. Just amazingly bad answers out of these questions. We followed the rules. That's on my notepad as what I'm supposed to say in response to any question about this. You're pushing harder. I wasn't expecting that. I'm going to say, again, we followed the rules and then hope that this ends. I hope that this goes away.

I'm so glad that this is a conversation that the everyday American is having. I feel like we weren't talking about this as much as just like an everyday society thing. And because of Texas and then the obsession with trying to prevent Republicans from doing things that Democrats do in mainstream media, you have this version of us discussing this now. And I think people at their dinner table are like, man, are you amazed at how crazy that map is? is or this map is. And I honestly don't think it's something that we've thought about as much. And that's not the only way, by the way, that Democrats cheat. They also try to get as many seats in certain states by having illegal people counted in the census. And then that's how they

add to the seats over here, the seats over there. So they flood the country with a whole bunch of people that are here illegally. They hope that they illegally vote to help them out winning elections. and they also allow them to manipulate how the census seats the amount of, you know, representation you have in any certain place. So there's so many ways that Democrats are cheating. And the last thing they want to do is answer a fair question back at them, which I think is just, ugh, just so good, so amazing. All right?

There are other things out there. President Trump is going to be meeting with Vladimir Putin. A lot of people are saying that this is a high-stakes conversation. For President Trump, it might be a legacy conversation. conversation. He's already found multiple different peace agreements, which is, you know, amazing. And so President Trump is going to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. All of this is before he potentially helps usher in any kind of peace between Russia and Ukraine, which would be the biggest blemish, I think, other than the exit in Afghanistan for President Biden, that he

allowed that to happen. So for Trump to end, it would be a tremendous win, not just for Trump's individual legacy, but also, I think, for conservatives in general versus the democratic failures that exist out there. But nonetheless, as I say that, I do think it's interesting that places like ABC are calling this high stakes, because I don't know if that's true. I don't really believe, I think to listen to President Trump talk about it, and granted, you can believe or not believe whatever the man says, you can have Trump arrangement syndrome if you want, I don't care. But the thing that's so interesting is he says, you know, Vladimir Putin wants to talk and I'll show up. If they want me to be a part of the conversation, if it's just me and him, whatever Russia wants, I want this to end.

I want the loss of life to end. And so to him, I think it's a, I'm walking into this conversation, hoping for the best, but accepting the idea that it's not necessarily me who started the let's sit down and talk discussion. That's at least the way he positions it. And so I don't think that the belief is that this needs to end right now in President Trump's opinion. He would like it to. He would very much want that to happen. But I don't think he's going in with like, I need that or else, a version of a thing. So we'll see.

But it is interesting. U.S. ambassadors to NATO have said it's possible that Vladimir Zelensky will attend the Trump-Putin summit, even though Russia was saying they didn't want that. And America was saying that's fine. by the way, just real quick about that, just because I find it, again, to be one of those things where mainstream media needs to find its narrative and its position to attack or crap on Trump for something. They, I think, wake up each morning go, all right, this story looks good, let's figure out how to talk about it to make it look bad. And I think that was it, saying that Trump would attend the meeting without Zelensky being there was somehow a negative.

but to President Trump, his opinion was, if I don't go, no one goes. So they're inviting me, Russia, and I'd like to end this war, and I have significant, you know, stake in this because of the amount of support we're sending to Ukraine. So Russia wants to talk to us. They want to get us to stop helping, and I want to get them to stop having a fight. So to me, I think that's very obvious that you would show up regardless of if Zelensky and Ukraine are invited. It's like basic human things. I would rather have a conversation than not have one. And mainstream media refuses to say that when it's a Republican. But if a Democrat, ugh, they'd probably praise it. Although I would have been terrified to have Biden alone in a room with Putin any more than he already was. All right,

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Dana is back tomorrow. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things going on for her. A great social media pages all run by producer Stephen and others. And Dana, of course, herself puts a lot of that out there too. It's really great stuff. Follow them on any form of social media. Let's do some things here. first Apple. I love this. They met with the president. They announced they're going to create a bunch of

stuff here in the United States. Billions of dollars that's with a B, as Trump actually said, while announcing it, will be invested in all of a sudden they're up. Apple has its best week since July of 2020 after their visit to the White House. Things are going well in the world of Apple. This is a good news for them, not that I think that they needed it. I loved when President Trump, by the way, a ripped on Tim Cook. I don't know if a lot of people

heard that at the end of what he was saying about him. Tim Cook is not necessarily athletic, excuse me. Apparently I can't really speak. But that was pretty funny

when that happened. So if you didn't hear that, that is something that you probably want to hear. You know what? I'll play it. I'll go ahead and play that because I like that so much.

Here we go. Ukraine, getting it settled, getting it ended, should have never started, would have never started, if I were president who would have never started, I want to thank Tim Cook.

He's a great, great man, a visionary, a businessman, just about every quality he can have other than athleticism. I don't know. I'm looking at him. I'm not 100% sure about you, you're a good athlete. I bet you're pretty good. I think he's good at everything, but I want to. That's hilarious. But again, that was Trump ripping on Tim Cook.

But apparently Apple doing quite well. And maybe Tim's hitting the gym. I don't know. Other quick five things out there. smartphones are ruining our brains. There's an effective study demonstrating how bad this is, especially for young people. So they looked at different qualities of people from 2014 to now. So already a world where social media and a lot of things were already ubiquitous,

but maybe not necessarily the situation where, say, every single human being was glued to the phone the way they are now. conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, and extroversion were four different traits that were studied. Conscientiousness is the most important one, they say, to just being a quality human, being someone who cares about, say, your work, all kinds of things. 16 to 39-year-olds in the tank. It used to be about 50% of people who ranked well in that regard. Now it's only about 30% 60 plus stayed relatively the same. 40 to 59 went down about 10 points from 50 to 40, but 16 to 39 in the trash. Neuroticism, they skyrocketed upward. Again, people about 60 years older so stayed relatively flat. People that were 40 to 59 went up a little bit, but people that

are 16 to 39 skyrocketed from about 60% to 75% of that group. Again, agreeableness. We're way down in the tank, extraversion way in the tank, all these things, not surprising. Fairly typical of a world where you're addicted to your phone. But the data says how bad this is, no one seems to care. I guess the good news here, by the way, is one of their quick five story. 14% of kids are happy to go back to school. 16% are very sad. But 14% say that it's awesome. They're very excited. They look forward to it. A whole lot of people in the middle on this study. 23% said they have no answer to the question, which is never good. I don't think that that's good.

I think you need to at least answer. Tell me yes, tell me no. Maybe that's the first thing we do to get back some of the mental capability of kids is you just make them say yes or no to one of the questions. They can't say, I don't know. You got at least give me opinion. Everybody else has one. Let's make the kids have one sooner.

No, I don't know. That actually sounds terrible too. But anyway, a thousand adults were asked that question about their children, and a whole lot said that their kids are very excited to go back to school. The one flaw in this study is they ask the parents, because some of those parents might lie. Some of them might think that somehow it's a reflection on them. If the kid doesn't want to go to school, so then they say,

ah, he's great. All right. Well, take a break. A lot coming up on the show. Thrilled to be here for Dana. Dana Lash is back tomorrow. This is the Dana show. Craig Collins filling in.

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He will have full control of the D.C. police department through the federal government, through the National Guard, because D.C. is a broken mess. And the president started out by saying, and I have most of this audio, I think, a Fox News cut off the very first couple sentences or first couple words, where he said that he's there for a very important reason this morning, and it's to make a giant announcement, which he did. Here we go. Very serious purpose.

Something's out of control, but we're going to put it in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squadswere. Waller and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.

and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. I do love the fact that when he referenced the very specific part of the specific act, he's going to use to gain federal control of D.C. That he said, you know about this. You've heard about this before. He already knows there's going to be a fight in a courtroom somewhere. So he wants to go that road. And I'm sure a whole lot of Americans are not well-versed in every single part of every single rule

that might inevitably allow Trump. But darn it, some of us will just take him at his word. I think you have the power to do this, sir. That's fine. Keep going. Go ahead. Very good people, but they're tough, and they know what's happening. They've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order of public safety in Washington, D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.

And you people are victims of it, too. You know, your reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but you don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all know people and friends of yours that happened. And so you can be anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets. You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live. Yes.

And feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper. You know what's really interesting about this part of Trump saying this? He was reading off of a piece of paper at the beginning when he says the act he's using in this and that, because, of course, that's a part that, you know, he's not necessarily going to riff. He's going to have to get that right. But then he lifts his head and all the other stuff that he's saying is just him. And all the time, whether he's standing on the top of the White House,

which I think a lot of people remember he was answering questions from reporters last week on the roof of the White House. That is just the way this individual behaves. A good portion of him speaking is just him. I imagine when you write notes for him, if you're like a speechwriter of some kind, you put a few things in that you think he's going to follow, and then you have a big, just blank section that says, go ahead and riff, sir, and then you wait until he comes back to whatever it is

that he's supposed to be saying because he will. But yes, I think it's true, regardless of your political affiliation, if you voted Democrat or Republican, you would like to be safe wherever you live. You don't want to have any sort of harm come your way on your walk home. And I love the way he said that to the press.

It's like most of you are liberal, I think, And yet still, we're going to protect you all the same as everyone else because we think that it's the right thing to do. Here, a little bit more, Trump on this. Buy something. And you don't have that now. The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Columbia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth, much higher. This is much higher. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years.

years and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate. Probably ever, they say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just goes back 25 years. I kind of love that, too. It's like, they don't know. They're not really looking beyond this. This is probably the worst rate we've ever seen. And this is not just D.C., by the way.

If you live in any sort of big city or if you live in a place that talks about a big city a lot, which most of the states that have one talk about them all the time in the news. All these cities are having this same problem. Carjackings are up. There are young people that steal cars to go viral on social media. That's not the only reason that carjackings are up, but it's one of them. There's just so many scenarios that demonstrate how bad things have gotten in so many parts of this country. And it's nice that in D.C., at least, they could do something like this to potentially take it back.

Of course, people are going to have a problem with this. And I will say one other thing. And this is the tinfoil hat moment if you want to put it on. There's something that people will claim as a conspiracy theory. I'm not really sure if it is. But to me, it feels like it's very much likely to be a truth, a thing that's actually real as well. Taking this level of control over Washington, D.C. may have a fringe benefit to what other investigations are going on, gaining access to anything and everything.

and everything they didn't have access to before, might hand Trump some more information that might be secretly part of why they're doing this. It might not just be to protect D.C., although that's important. There might be another avenue to gaining some valuable intel that Trump wants to hold people accountable for all kinds of corrupt things they do in Washington, D.C. So we'll see if there's a potential side benefit or maybe an actual, like the real intention of all this, I'd be doing this a certain way. All right, I'll move on. on to Bernie Sanders, oh, I hate this audio so much. I hate this, he's not alone in thinking this. What I should say about this is I hate this sentiment from Democrats in general. I hate the way

that they demonstrate hypocrisy in a sentence. And they're like, yeah, it's fine. I'm allowed to think both things in this situation because it's the only way that they walk away from any sort of topic a believing that there's not an obvious solution. They're like, well, it has to be complicated because of this or that. Bernie Sanders was talking about Hamas and talking about what's going on with Israel and Gaza. He says out loud that Hamas has no responsibility or culpability for the starving of people in Gaza. Now, what's interesting about that is the way that he should mean that is that Hamas is not protecting the people that they voted into power. because it's a terrorist organization.

And this small piece of land, this small strip of, you know, earth in the world, excuse me, that has a ton of people on it, voted into power a group that doesn't care about their safety whatsoever. I've talked about many times how in Ukraine, one of the reasons you don't see as much civilian harm happen during a conflict is Ukraine allows people to hide under the earth in underground bunkers and whatnot throughout cities and states whenever the bombing happens. Hamas has a tremendous amount of underground tunnels. They don't let any of the people in them. They only let themselves, the terrorist group, go through that system,

which is one of the reasons that more people are in jeopardy during the back-and-forth fighting between Israel and Hamas. But anyway, the reason that Sanders is saying this is because he thinks that it shifts blame entirely to Israel. And this is insane. This is as hypocritical as you can possibly get to admit that Hamas doesn't care at all about the people that they're supposed to care about. And then at the same time, somehow blame Israel for that is the brokenness of people's minds

that exists to a degree that I'll never understand in order to walk away from a situation and say, I have to be right. This is why this is how nothing else could possibly be true, essentially meaning that it can't possibly be accurate to say that it's Hamas's fault that people are starving and is in Gaza, et cetera, et cetera. Here we go. Do you say Hamas has some culpability and people starving? No.

Why? When they spent so much money building tunnels and everything under the room. And they also steal people's food, by the way, Bernie? Right now, what is going on is a Florida. All right? And right now, Israel is, you know, with... Would you say Hamas has some... All right, that was it.

That was all we need. He's just going to go on and on after that, so I don't want to play any of the rest of that. But anyway, Bernie Sanders, doesn't think that the group in charge is at all responsible for getting the food to people or not taking it, et cetera, et cetera. The reason that this matters so much, by the way, this exact same sentiment is the kind of thing that makes elite people in Washington think they can steal all your money and not care about you. They don't think the rules apply to everyone equally. They think that the side they disagree with has to play by a different set of

rules. Of course, in the redistricting and all those other conversations happening right now, the same version of events keeps playing out. And it's kind of amazing. And actually, we'll play some audio in about 20 minutes of all the times when mainstream media actually did its job somewhat recently and asked Democrats why their own maps of their states look ridiculous. And a whole bunch of Democrats in places like Illinois and New York just gave terrible hot trash answers to those questions. But one more time, what I think is so important about the way in which this discussion goes with Trump about to sit down and talk to Vladimir Putin and potentially hopefully end any sort of conflict between Russia and Ukraine and then hopefully then start to direct some attention and not that he's not paying attention to it. I'm sure he is, but to get a way to find peace between Israel and Hamas. And that does involve a lot more support of Israel than the terrorist group that runs the Gaza Strip. But anyway, what I think just really matters.

The biggest takeaway from this discussion is how amazing it is that Democrats have to play these gymnastics, mental hurdles, things in their mind, in order to find a way to believe the one thing that makes them think that the solution can only be Israel's, and Hamas is not involved, because it's insane. It's truly insane. And if they think that, you should be terrified of what they're doing behind closed doors to harm you here in this country. because if they really believe that Hamas doesn't have any sort of responsibility for the people that voted them into power in that area, then what exactly do they think they're supposed to do as a representative of yours? That's a great question, but I think you should probably be asking yourself all the time. But you probably should have been asking it a long time ago, but even more so with Sanders sit down with CNN. All right, we'll take a break.

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My name is Craig Collins, filling in D-Lash, Dana Lash radio on X on Twitter. Best way to stay connected to her. But she's all over, social media, lots of ways to find her. I thought this was interesting and certainly a little bit surprising, but in a good way. A tiny little Pomeranian chased off a bear that broke into somebody's house. This happened, I think, in Canada, in Vancouver. I don't know what other terrible things are happening. Lots of terrible things that happen in.

Canada. This is apparently good news out of there, so way to go them. But anyway, the Pomeranian was fearless, and its owner, Kayla, talked about how awesome it was to watch the dog, go ahead and jump into action when the black bear was in the house, something that I think also probably is unique to Canada. There's probably a whole lot of people that deal with, ah, there's a black bear in my house today compared to here in the States. Here we go. I was surprised, but also he's scary when he's mad. It was around noon, and I was in the washroom getting ready. He came sprinting around the corner, and I just saw the bear running out of our kitchen, and he chased it out of the house. He just likes to assert his dominance or, like, we'll call him the alpha dog.

Yeah, I hate everything about Kayla, I think. I don't like it all the way she spoke there. I know that she's talking about something silly and fun, and that's great. I feel like I'd be very annoyed by Kayla very quickly in any other conversation. I don't mean to break bad at her. But anyway, yes, I think it's just because of her. tongue-in-cheek but somewhat serious. It sounds a version of thinking that her Pomeranian is intimidating.

I don't like that at all. But way to go. A dog that feels like the alpha person in the house in defending yourself from the bear because it seems to be the kind of thing that maybe is happening all the time in that world. All right, let's move on to this. Police were searching for a guy they believed was involved in a drive-by shooting. For some reason, the man decided to pull over by the side of the road. and treat himself like an amusement park.

He was doing things to his body that you probably shouldn't be doing in public and in a vehicle, especially when cops are looking for you for something else, some other kind of shooting that was going on. But here's a little bit of audio of a police lieutenant talking about the arrest that was made of Ryan Campbell, who is a man that obviously doesn't care about a whole lot of rules in our society. If you drive by and try to kill people and then try to fire off other bullets alone in your car, here we go. approached the car, so that the driver was leaned back. The officer also noticed that there was a revolver in a passenger seat, arrested him for open

bludeness, took the gun, towed the car, and then he contacted the Tinnegan police that he was aware of an incident they had where a house was shot at. Yeah, so this guy is, you know, doing all sorts of things, firing bullets in public. He should not be firing. But again, very much in trouble for it, very much caught and arrested, Ryan Campbell. just a weird decision, by the way. That's got to feel, I don't know if that's the right word for it. That's got to be a strange thing to decide in your brain to do in the first place.

That's what I want to say about this. And I'm trying to be very careful because you have so many opportunities to not be in the vehicle that you just used for a drive-by shooting, to do the thing that this guy was doing that doesn't enable you to get caught by the cops. So it's a very strange thing for Ryan to be like, yeah, I'm going to do something else I shouldn't do. And that's what's going to cause me to eventually I'll be thrown in the house cow. I'm glad that this is weird. This is an odd sentence too.

I'm glad that he did this because it wound up getting him caught. And then he wound up going to jail. So certainly a good thing that happened here, even of a horrible thing. I can't even say that straight-faced. But even if a horrible thing happened, there's a good thing that happened too, of course. All right. One other quick story before we take a break, although we have very little time to talk about this.

I'll probably do it more later. There is a trend online where women set up dates with total strangers in order to get them to build IKEA furniture for them. It's a real story, more dating apps than ever, where women are like, oh, you know, it would be fun. You should swing over to the house and we can help build this IKEA thing that I got. And then they actually put the man to work. And then they usually say thank you and let him leave after that. And, you know, maybe there will be another date is a real thing happening. I'm glad that some of these guys that they're actually picking up for these dates can build this stuff

because I was worried at first that maybe a lot of young people I couldn't even put this stuff together, but they at least can do that. So that's good. The bad might be that you should say no if someone wants you to build stuff on your first date. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up. The day in a show, Craig Collins filling in.

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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back tomorrow. Thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff out there to talk about D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, on X on Twitter. Ridiculous is the Democratic position on redistricting, on jerrymandering, on all the stuff that they're upset that Texas is doing.

And partially, and I don't want to get too in the weeds in explaining something as far as the state of Texas goes. I live in Houston. I work at Patriot Talk 920, which is a loyal Dana affiliate. And actually, they all just hung out, I believe, at a recent Gun Owners of America event that happened in Knoxville, Tennessee. see, which was awesome. I didn't get to go, but a lot of people that did, I think they had a lot of fun, including Dana, was there, which is very cool. But anyway, one thing I think is pretty important

about this discussion about Texas, and again, living here, I think I understand it a little bit more than maybe people who are seeing this in the news and don't live, at least in the state. Coalition districts, essentially a way that a lot of places have said that cities get disproportionate impact on the states in which they, they, you know, uh, a wind up, uh, voting a certain way or the political identity, say in Illinois, New York, California fall into this category. Uh, they allow these politicians legally, how to carve out tiny little slices of, say, the city and then shoot it off into the suburbs where a whole lot of people think something differently in order to get disproportionate control of seats. And they do that because they say that, you know, this minority group,

or this group needs a vote. And Democrats are the ones that did away with that in Texas. Democrats are the ones that challenged it legally. The courts decided that you don't really need those. And so now Texas is going to redraw its maps to give even more control to Republicans in a very red state. The other exercise that I often tell liberal friends or anybody that argues with me on this stuff to do is just look up the map of the United States as far as the last presidential election or any presidential election go. and see how red the map is.

There's these little blue dots where cities are, but by and large, the country believes in conservative values, believes in a restriction of government. They want to see a very little spending, very little involvement in your day-to-day life. These are core tenants of a vast majority of the people who live in this country when you look at it based on the spread of ideas. These concentrations of thought in these cities,

at least, that's what they tell us, where they're overwhelmingly blue and want the government to waste all your money, are the only reason that we have contentious elections in the first place. It would be Republican after Republican if we did this a little bit differently. So I just find it interesting that the Democrats, the ones who've been doing this forever, are now complaining about it happening more in Texas, something that they also partly created an opportunity for. But here's Beto O'Rourke popping up on MSNBC saying how, I guess we have to break the rules now, something that Democrats have been doing for quite some time. Absolutely.

And I just think it's super clear that Republicans care about power and nothing else. And for far too long, Democrats have cared about being right, coloring within the lines, follows rules, and power has always been a secondary consideration. We need to absolutely flip that around and focus on power exclusively. It's why I'm encouraged by what I'm hearing by Governor Newsom, California, Governor Prisker in Illinois, even Governor Kocal in New York, they're talking about seizing the initiative and redrawing their congressional boundaries to maximize Democratic Party advantage.

We've got to fight fire with fire. I mean, we wish the refs were going to call the fouls that there were going to be penalties for what they are doing right now, but the refs have left the arena. Or corrupted. To fight this out and to win. I love when they say the refs are corrupted. I love when they point the force. finger to the judicial system being in some way, shape, or form broken or easily manipulated,

because it's exactly what Republicans say all the time and how unfair things seem to go in that arena for conservatives, President Trump, and the felony charges that were ridiculous, according to almost everybody. I keep mentioning this, and maybe I shouldn't. Maybe this is the kind of like loss you've got to get over in the world in which we live. The president seems to have moved on from it. But the thing that's so insane about people. people who call him the felon now is how ridiculous going into that case in New York, the changing from a misdemeanor charge to a felony, that entire exercise was. Most people with any sort of value in the world of legal opinion believed that that was going

to be a stretch that was going to be impossible to find a jury to say, you know what? Yeah, he's a felon even though we don't know how. Because that is what happened in New York. They say that in order for it to be a felony, you have to commit one crime with the intent to commit a second crime. And in that case, they didn't have to tell us what the second crime was. The judge said, you know what, it's not important. If you think that this first crime was somehow connected to a second crime, no matter what it was, if in your brain you think something else was going on, let's go ahead and call it a felony.

The standard was ridiculous to inflate those charges. And a jury in Manhattan was what you needed to actually find a conviction. against Trump there. So it's ridiculous. And this is absolutely something that happens all the time. Another example of this, and I know this is really delving into the conspiratorial, but darned, I can't help it, is the lack of actually trying cases in public on any sort of 2020 election fraud claim. I'm not trying to say that essentially that election was fraudulent. However, I do think it's important that those cases that were brought all throughout the country saw the light of the light. day in courtrooms, and they never did. So many of those cases were thrown out. Judges say,

ah, there's no proof here. And so then they threw that whole thing out. And a lot of Republicans at the time said, this is corruption. This is a judicial system that's broken and unfair. And honestly, for public good, you should try these cases, even if you think there's no reason that one side might win. You should put all that information into the public so we can address it. We can identify what we think is right and wrong. They didn't do that. And they said that this is the political system or the judicial system operating as intended. And now they're doing it again, just the other way. They're like, you know what? This system works whenever we want it to, however we want. And then when we don't like the outcome, we're going to call it conspiracy or

corruption, excuse me, corruption. But when you don't like it, that's you're a conspiracy theorist and a moron. And we have to ignore you. You know what I love specifically about this, too? I love the references to Illinois or New York because you have moments where mainstream media actually did hold somebody accountable and did try to demonstrate that, you know, what they're saying and doing is just complete hot trash and the struggle for these politicians to answer these questions was amazing. Let's play one of them. Let's play J.B. Pritzker being asked this question about his own map and how ridiculous it already looks and how it's going to look even more ridiculous in the near future and admit that you know what? Next question, essentially is what he said. I do want to look

at the map of Illinois. Let's take a look at this. Despite President Trump winning 44% of the statewide vote in 2024, Republicans hold only three of Illinois 17 districts. These districts seem to be designed to maximize democratic advantage. What do you say to those who argue that it's hypocritical for you to criticize Texas for partisanship when your state also drew maps? to boost your party's standing. Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is, again, violate the Voting Rights Act. No. We didn't.

We held public hearings, legislative hearings. People attended them. They spoke out. There was a map that was put out. There were actually changes made to the map. And a map was passed. I love that version of just hot trash answer. We had hearings.

People talked. We didn't listen to them because with the government, we don't have. have to care about anything people say, especially in places like Illinois or New York, we do whatever we want. But hey, we did the, we did the dog and pony show. So that means that we're allowed to do whatever we want after that. And now that Texas is trying to break some rule, the Texas is not actually breaking, by the way. They're doing everything by the book. Otherwise, the Democrats wouldn't have to run and hide for them to actually try to prevent this from being passed by upending the political system, the way it's designed, demonstrates who's trying to actually

break the rules. Again, Kathy Hokel, also in New York, asked the same question about the ridiculous maps that exist there. And again, the answer is just hot, hot garbage. Here's how National Review summarized it. They said it was only three years ago that New York's Democratic legislature drew up a map so brazenly contemptuous of basic rules that govern a district's contiguousness that the state's Democrat-dominated court of appeals threw it out. The New York Times at the time called those maps comically contorted. That's their quote. So your state's highest court, at the time, all the judges appointed by Democratic governors, they threw the maps out. So fair to say Democrats have done what they're now accusing Republicans of doing.

No, we followed the rules. We do it every 10 years. But the court said you didn't follow the rules. Well, we did follow the rules. So the court was wrong? Well, we followed the rules. That's my favorite. The J.B. Pritzker one is a terrible answer because it's like we didn't listen to anyone.

We let you speak and pretend that we cared about you. and then after you shut up, we did whatever we wanted. But the one in New York is just even so good, because Kathy Hokel, who's caught red-handed, is like, we didn't do the thing you said, even if the New York Times and others admitted it, which is hard to get them to do. You have to be very, very far to the left

to get anyone on the left to admit they've gone too far. That's how ridiculously, you know, extreme. So many in that party are. And yet the things being referenced by Fox News, it wasn't their opinion. It was the opinion of all these liberal places that you guys were drunk the last time you attempted to get even more power in New York, the state, and how do you actually go out there and think that people should listen to you

when you have that much egg on your face? And they don't care. The other thing about Democrats is getting caught in the hypocrisy. Out of them is like, who cares about this? They claim that Republicans don't like to follow the rules. Democrats don't even give a crap whatsoever about being caught red-handed doing terrible things because we'll just move on and try to blame that on conservative somehow. That's the M.O. We followed the rules. We did, even if they said we didn't, even if the courts rejected everything we were trying to do. Whoops a Daisy. Or anyway, you probably should just admit it at this point. But like, you know what, I'm a hypocrite. Let's move on because no one cares about that, even though a lot of us are supposed to, and many of us do.

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the year outside of the 25 unranked entirely. Who will that team be this year? Unsurprising. A lot of people think it might be Notre Dame. Hopefully that's not true. Notre Dame did play in the national championship last year. And for the first time in a long time, didn't look like complete garbage. They didn't exactly win that game, but at least the final score was nowhere near as embarrassing as it's been in the past for ND. We will see, though. I am interested in a lot of things going on in this list and a lot of people's take on it. For the most part, I don't hate it. Usually there's things on this top 25 when it comes out that I think are kind of garbage. They're not. IU, Indiana University, ranked at 20th. Surprise team last year, can they keep that going this year?

is a good question. I do think it's hard for some non-elite schools to recruit the athletes throughout the entirety of the team that you need to be good against the other elite teams in college football. That might be the Achilles' heel of people like IU, Indiana University, and potentially also Notre Dame. Notre Dame does not athlete for athlete match up well against some of the other elite schools in college football, and they haven't for a long time. All right, that's enough college football talk. Other things out there, Although actually I wouldn't hate talking about that a little bit more if it were made. But other things out there as far as Quick Five stuff that I think is kind of interesting.

I do like another story just because of how silly it is that so many different people seem to think that this sort of thing makes sense. But more people were asked a question about the use of cell phones and how horrible they are on our society, on our lives. and people seem to think that cell phones, by and large, are good for us, even though a recent study came out saying that, you know, our brains are ruined, rotted, and absolutely messed up by cell phone use, especially young people. There's brand new science that demonstrates how bad things are, and of course we're so addicted to the phone, none of us will admit that.

Other things out there that I thought were interesting, new noise cameras pit drivers of fast cars against their neighbor. This is a real thing. In certain communities, the Wall Street Journal talk about this. We're going to position a camera that also hears the rumble of a loud vehicle. And if you're too loud, you could get a ticket for that. You get some kind of warning and then some sort of actual fine. The fines are fairly steep, by the way, trying to quiet down neighborhoods that are annoyed by ridiculous drivers of those vehicles.

I think there's good and bad with this idea. I do think that it seems a little unfair, especially if, say, a motorcycle rider, that your loud vehicle might get you in trouble in a quieter community, because that loud vehicle also protects you on the roadways when you're on the highway and people don't see you. The fact that motorcycles are loud is good because you need to hear someone so you don't kill them by changing lanes when they're right next to you and you don't know it. But so many times, I think, again, that people, you know, are annoyed by the stupidity of some of this stuff, at least with the loud sports car and whatnot, that, yeah, I don't know. I do think the

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Thrilled to be with you. Dana is back tomorrow. I do find some things that are being talked about quite a bit by liberal media quite amusing. Oh, by the way, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected. Axios has a report about how President Trump suggested a MAGA stock listing for mortgage giants like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and others. Apple doing very well after popping up in the White House and admitting or announcing that they're going to spend billions of dollars to invest in the United States. It wouldn't be terrible to have a MAGA stock listing, I think, and demonstrate how successful many of these companies are for embracing the policies of President Trump, which is helping a lot of American companies do more. I believe that there's going to be a lot of good that comes from all this, especially the terror fights.

And I've thought that since about the beginning of it. So I love this idea. Of course, liberal media hates it. Also, the announcement in Washington, D.C., the announcement to federalize the protection of the District of Columbia, to do more because of how bad things have gotten there, and to do it through the office of the president. I'll play some of this announcement. Of course, liberal media hates this, even if they also refuse to admit how bad things have gotten in a lot of the cities in this country. I'll actually dive into that a little more, too, the way in which so many of these, and it's something that I'm not thrilled at. I'm a huge supporter of police in general, but when you cook the books to hide the amount of violence that actually exists in your city, you're doing something that that disadvantages the everyday American from understanding the totality of the problem, and you're doing it because you think it's embarrassing.

Or you're doing it because of the liberal pressure to do it in a lot of these cities where the people in charge want you, not a lie. But so many places like D.C. actually try to lower the numbers of violent crime, however they can, to not let you understand just how big of a problem this actually is. But here's the president announcing that we're going to do something about it because darn it, it's the right thing to do. And of course, again, liberal media will hate this. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States. I'm officially invoking section 740 of the district of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is.

And placing that. I love that, by the way. He's like, you know anybody that doesn't know you should. D.C. metropolitan and police department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough. And they know what's happening. Yeah.

Everything's terrible. A lot of different places do everything they can to hide and disguise just how big of a problem we actually have. The amount of liberal-leaning cities, and there's a lot of them, unfortunately, in our country, who force different people within, say, the police department and whatnot to put out information where you take out unsolved this over here, unsolved that over there. You make the, you know, a wild change to some stories to say they're less violent when they obviously are or just fully bury some of this information makes you believe that even if you can tell day in and day out that violence in your city is through the roof. They try to disguise that in any of the data that they're showing you. And then they lean on that data when they tell you, oh, there's no, no way that you need to do this or that, whatever it is to try to make things better. because everything's better than you think. Trust your eyes.

Trust the way you experience life again and again is the information you're being told by a lot of people who are willing to tell you the truth and all the people who are lying. But it's just, it's crazy to me that this becomes a discussion because you know what? I really think about a lot of these issues we talk about in today's society,

whether it's the violence in cities, whether it's, you know, the economy, the open border, whatever. More often than not, Right now, the, I think, Democratic narrative is so far removed from the day-to-day experience of Americans, that's truly the reason they're losing support. That's truly the reason that that party is in chaos. They don't have someone like a Barack Obama who can convince you not to trust your eyes, not to trust the experience that they're creating when you put them in positions of power. There are some eloquent people that seem to pull the wool over the eyes of Democrats better than others. They don't have that.

They have the Kamala Harris's of the world now who speak in these loops that make no sense to anyone. And so now you are trusting your experience more. At least that side is the other side, the smarter side, as I would say, has been trusting their experience from jump here. But the Democrats are struggling to convince you that your life isn't terrible when they're in charge because you experience it and it is. And so this is another version of that. And it will be interesting to see how effective President Trump is in federalizing Washington, D.C., as at least the policing of it, because of the desire that more cities will have out of false suit. The everyday American will want to see a safer, you name the city, close to you, after D.C. cleans up their act, as much as I hope they do through this move. And, of course, liberal media will attack it. And that's the other thing that's crazy to me, whenever.

we have these discussions. And I'll move on. I'm going to talk about Russian Ukraine in a second, but I will say this. Because of how much certain media outlets and or politicians hate President Trump, hate the conservative mindset on a lot of these topics, they just like actively have Trump derangement syndrome to a degree that's insane, they cheer against the country. Because announcement like today where Trump is saying that I want to make sure that D.C. is safer, is good for everyone. He actually went on to say in his announcement that the, reporters in the room who are by and large probably Democrats will be protected more. They'll be able to go home without the fear of any sort of harm coming their way.

And that's a good thing for everyone. So we should be cheering this on. We should be happy to see stuff like this occur. And yet liberal media will want things to get worse, not better, because it's the only way that they can actually, you know, back up the opinion they have before any of the results are available. They so often decide what they think without waiting for results on purpose and then try to manipulate those results, much like a lot of these cities do, to make their narrative make sense. All right. One other thing I do want to play. This is the president talking about his meeting with Vladimir Putin and what exactly will happen. And I do love the way he refers to the first couple minutes of the sit down and whether or not he knows if it's valuable or not.

Well, we're going to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin. And at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes, know exactly whether or not a deal can be made. Because that's what I do. I make deals. Okay. I love every part of that. You know what Trump has said a lot recently about Putin? He said, we sit down, we talk, the talk is great, the actions never fit. So I want to see the actions actually fit the words that Putin will say. And I'm sick of sitting down and chit-chatting with him. For Vladimir Putin to want to set up this meeting, it may be a scenario where Putin hopes that his his words will be enough to change the actions of the United States.

But I think that Trump is sick of it. I think he's at a point where, and that's why that mention is so good, just the first two minutes. I'll be able to decide whether or not I think we even are valuably spending our time together. And if I don't think we're doing that, then it's probably going to be a quick meeting. And I know that a lot of media is attacking Trump for being willing to sit down with Vladimir without Zelensky there. But to be honest, the United States has never had in a long. belief in what peace actually looks like between Russia and Ukraine with Ukraine. And the other president, the other leaders of the liberal party, I didn't want to admit that

out loud. But giving up some territory, I think Lindsey Graham said that recently in an interview is likely to be the way that this actually ends. Russia will be, quote, unquote, rewarded for, you know, starting that conflict because it's the only way to get them to actually stop fighting. And a lot of that land that could be seated to Russia was a contested area anyway. People need to talk about that more. They need to understand that better. The Donbos region and whatnot was not exactly a region that Ukraine had valuable control over to begin with. So giving it to Russia, yes, is something that liberal media will cry about, but it's the only way to actually end the conflict. And Ukraine has never been okay with that. Ukraine has been of the opinion that they

should get Crimea back, which won't happen again. And so I think Trump will know early on because of his clear-mindedness of what, you know, an end of this conflict looks like, how willing the United States is to say that this makes sense to us, even if Ukraine is unwilling to say that, et cetera, et cetera, and then how the United States can pressure Ukraine to actually accept a peace deal that gives land to Russia. I don't want Russia rewarded. I want to make that abundantly clear. I think Russia was the aggressor. I think they were wrong. I think Putin. is a horrible person who makes people disappear on a way too frequent basis as far as a world leader goes.

At the same time, I want peace. And I think that's what President Trump wants. I think that's what a whole lot of people want more than anything else. So it's just interesting to me that this discussion can't be had a different way because it seems to be entirely and truthfully, you know, just broken in how willing people are to say that this is the kind of thing that I refuse to acknowledge the way that you're going to say it or do it because I don't want to actually lose. I don't want to actually have the conversation that is difficult for me to have to admit inevitable defeat and say that we don't deserve something here that we obviously do. All right. I'll take a break on that. There's a lot of things to talk about.

I just think it's so interesting again that if Trump gets closer and closer to peace between Russia and Ukraine, they'll discredit him. That's truly, if anything I just said in my rant, I didn't get to the point as well as I meant to. I will say it clearly that I think that inevitably there will be a peace deal at some point that will involve Russia taking land and that everyone will crap on Trump as if it's his fault that that occurs. And he's some friend of Russia when that was obvious at the beginning of this conflict that that would be the quickest way to have ended it. And why President Trump has said many times that if he were in office at the time, there wouldn't have even been a conflict because there would have been a way to find peace quickly. in giving up the one thing Ukraine doesn't want to give up, but without our help, they can't defend themselves. So we need to pressure them to do the thing that actually gets them safety and peace quickly. All right, a lot coming up in a bit. This is a quick break. Craig Collins filling in

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That's right. It's time for Florida man on the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D. Lash, Dana Lash, Radio and X on Twitter to stay connected to her. Radio Craig C. If you want to be one of like 300 people that follow me a little bit less of a social media presence than she has. But I do like the fact that people follow me after I pop in on this show. Anyway, two quick Florida stories that I thought were.

real interesting. First, a Florida man was caught on bigamy charges because he was married to three different women in different counties. Henry Betsy Jr. is the guy's name. Apparently, like, no regard for his own personal day-to-day safety because having three wives and three different counties had to be at trouble. Had to be a problem, like a challenging thing. And he didn't seem to care at all about that. It's also illegal. So that part's not so great. ABC Action News, I imagine they're your side. We're the first to report about this. Michelle, Brandy, and Tanya discovered that they were all married to the same dude. And obviously, this demonstrates some flaws with the marriage marriage licensing system in Florida. But I can never understand this. As a guy who's happily

married to one woman, I couldn't envision giving another person the authority to think that they were married to me. You know, much less anything that would come with any sort of mistress situation. But this guy had three fully vested wives in his life. All thought they were sharing his life with him. Darn it, a whole lot of this is just sad. I feel bad for the women. I want to make sure I say that up front. But honestly, the challenge of living that life, and he's been doing that since 2020, and it took five years for three women to catch him? Like, that sounds insane. This guy probably is uniquely good at figuring out to how to compartmentalize, and with things. Because I think my wife would figure out if I had say a pet she didn't know about,

a much less a human being in my life that she was unaware of. And actually, I love that. My wife has joked with me for years that if I were to cheat on her, she'd know like a six cents, like something would go off in her brain, be like, Craig is cheating on me now. And then she would immediately find me and it would be over. That is the threat I get that I somewhat believe. And I think a lot of women might have that six cents as well. So it's just crazy to think that This guy successfully kept three marriages going for as long as he did. Honestly, some sort of gold medal deserves to be considered. Again, with the judgment and the understanding that he's a horrible person who doesn't care about the emotions of people in his life.

But there's some level of awe that I have for that story. All right, another one out there, probably too much awe. I'm probably in trouble already for this. A litter bug in Tallahassee was arrested, accused of shamelessly illegally dumping just ridiculous amounts of trash. What I think is interesting about stories like this, first and foremost, is it makes me mad if you're driving and someone just like chuck something out a window. And it's a little bit of trash. But if you watch somebody just blatantly disregard the society we live in and the people around them and just like Chuck their, you know, Burger King or something immediately out of the window. No fault of Burger King, by the way.

I don't think they're a sponsor of the show, but it's not their problem. If someone is littering with their stuff, nonetheless, what I think is so amazing, about this is this guy went way above and beyond that. Just absolutely dumping stuff, mostly in Georgia. So the Florida man decided to go to a different place and drop all of his trash, just dump it on the side of the road, dump it in all kinds of places. It shouldn't be. And eventually you're arrested for that. July 12, 2025, he was hired to remove junk from a home in Thomas County in Florida. Instead of disposing of the debris, he took a shortcut, illegally dumping the garbage along Walden Road on his way back to Florida.

So the dude just like just threw everything out of the car window. And there was just tons and tons of trash all the way down the street. And I don't know why he thought this would be fine. And again, this is the kind of thing that would sort of make me want to ram a car in front of me if I saw them doing it. I wouldn't actually do it. I just want to make sure that's out there too. So no one calls the authorities and tries to get me in trouble for, you know, doing a pit maneuver on a vehicle that's just dumping trash. But I would be tempted because, again, one little piece of

trash makes me mad. I can't imagine this version. But it does also seem like a uniquely Florida man solution to a problem. The guy agrees to pick up all the trash, drives to Georgia to do it. He's got all the trash in his vehicle. And he's like, man, what do I do now? I had no plan after this point. I just wanted to take the money and I was going to take the garbage. And now all of a sudden, I don't know, you know, the end of this path. So let me just go ahead and throw everything out of the car slowly and that'll be fine. This will be great. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up in a little bit. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you a bunch of stuff to talk about. D-Lash, Dana Lash radio on X on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to all things. Her, what she's up to, what she's doing. There's several different conversations out there that deserve to be had in the light of President Trump saying he will federalize, protect.

of Washington, D.C. He will use the National Guard. He will use the powers of the office of the president to clean up all the horrible crime that exists there. One of those conversations is the amount of illegal drugs that came into our country under Biden and how that has created some of this horrible version of society we have in a lot of these big cities, which you know if you live there. The other thing that's crazy is mainstream media. Liberals will try to tell you it's not as bad as you think because the data that they've manipulated says it's better than it actually is. But anyone with eyes and the ability to experience things will know they're being lied to again. But here's a little bit of Fox News talking about why the president is even doing this

and why he's also going to be targeting foreign drug cartels in some of the ways to try to clean up the country, not just the capital of our wonderful, wonderful United States of America. Here we go. President has already classified several cartels as terrorist organizations, and now he's reportedly giving our military the green light to engage those cartels at the border. Mexican President Claudia Shinebaum responded to these reports, stressing that no U.S. military presence will be tolerated in her country. Quote, we cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion. The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military. Now, looking back at the previous administration, under Biden, over 260,000 Americans died of fentanyl poisoning.

That comes out to 1,300 per week. And the cartels only profited from it. In 2022 alone, they made a staggering $13 billion from smuggling both drugs and humans into the United States. Here's the thing. I'm married to someone who was actually born and raised in Mexico, now a U.S. citizen. So I have conversations from time to time to a degree that I wouldn't normally have had if that life change hadn't happened for me about the people in charge in Mexico. And a lot of people believe that the current president of Mexico, a woman who is closely tied to Amlo, the guy who was president just before her, they may or may not have a bunch of significant connections to the drug cartels. That's a belief I can't substantiate.

I'm not saying that this is something that's been proven to be true. it's simply a thing that a lot of people in that country who don't like the current leadership believe. People who like the current leadership don't care about that part. But under Amlo and now the current president, one of the craziest things that happened is essentially backing off in any sort of fight against the cartels. And they say that that creates peace, but it really seems to create the ability for a lot of those cartels to operate unchecked throughout Mexico. And so the United States does eventually need to find a way to prevent this. And finding an avenue towards standing tougher against the cartels that exist other places

would be praised by the people of Mexico. It might not be praised by the politicians. But if you actually could remove the narcos from the street throughout that country, somehow, some way, and I don't think sending a whole bunch of U.S. military is actually the option for that. but cutting off the financial supply, the benefit to being a, you know, a neighbor to our south that can just send us an unlimited amount of horrible drugs that come from China and other places. Finding a way to prevent that might be the actual start to winning any sort of drug fight against Mexico or anyone else, the cartels that exist there. And so I just think it's so interesting that this is going to be shaped the way it is by the politicians in charge, that may or may not, again, have deep connections. to the wildly financially successful,

however horrible it is to say that, cartels that exist in Mexico. But I do believe that if you start that process, that the United States military will be necessary to actually get any sort of success. And I do think the people of Mexico would love it. My wife comes from a very little town. I know that you don't care about this.

I'm just using it as an example. Trust me, I have a point. The little town is about an hour outside of a big city. I'm not going to get more specific than that. But anyway, the little town over the last few years has been overrun by cartels that are essentially in charge. Sometimes I get messages from my wife saying that her family has texted her, letting her know that everyone was told to be inside past a certain time, not by police that are almost non-existent in her little town, but by the cartel.

They said there's going to be a war. And a few different times there's been shooting on the streets where two different warring factions of cartels essentially had, you know, a military fight, and people were left dead on the street. And then people are removed and society continues living. That's life in a lot of towns of Mexico, as the cartel have been allowed to operate with less and less interference by the Mexican government, something that the Mexican government has never really done a good job at in general. And so the United States actually saying that they're too close to us for us to allow this to keep happening the way it does is a tremendous win for the other country, not for us. And so again,

what I think is just amazing about this is much like the things that have won over a lot of the United States. The reason that Trump can win the popular vote is that the life experience proves to you the value of the way of thinking that the other politicians are saying is terrible. And so whether it's cleaning up D.C., whatever it is that Trump does, at the end of the day, the thing that I think conservatives hope wins them these arguments, is that your life actually gets better. And if Mexicans started to realize that the influence of the cartel went away, and granted, that would be a long road and not exactly a road,

realistically you're talking about, based on Trump saying that he would categorize, you know, drug dealers, Mexican ones as terrorists, which they are, they're causing that much harm in our country. But doing that gets you closer and closer to improving the lives of people in that other country and making them fans of yours and making them believe that more influence. I've had this conversation with my wife several times where she wishes after meeting military men and women in our country, that they could be allowed to go clean up Mexico because she thinks they could do it. and the people who exist in her country right now have no interest in actually doing that.

And so it's just, it's fascinating to me that that kind of discussion actually would have that much power and significance there, regardless of what the leaders of Mexico say. All right. Another story I wanted to touch on, I just find it funny. And I love that a lot of people are upset about this. President Trump did move a portrait of Barack Obama into a, quote, hidden stairwell. Not that it's actually hidden, but it's not something that you're not something that you're not. you're going to see easily on a tour of the White House now. He didn't just move Obama, by the way. He moved a lot of other presidents, too.

Both Bushes had their portraits moved. And I love the fact that mainstream media is obsessed about this, because almost no one gives even a little bit of a crap. They don't care. They're not going to experience this. They're not going to notice it. I doubt many people who take a tour of the White House say to themselves walking into the door,

Can't wait to see that Obama portrait. Can't wait to see that, especially now. Well, Trump is in office. I imagine the people who gravitate towards seeing the White House either don't have much of a political opinion on either side or are very happy with the current person in charge. Those are the two reasons that you choose to visit now. I don't think a whole lot of people who are going that actually would get access to that place are people who overwhelmingly hate the current president because I wouldn't want them in that building. But nonetheless, what I think is most important about it is how this is a non-story that's been turned into a media story because people want to shape something about Trump and Obama as a negative. Although, to be honest, after the latest information that came out about how influential Barack Obama specifically was in the Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, I imagine things are not great between the former president and the current one, no matter how much video from months ago seemed to demonstrate.

that they could be on friendly terms sitting and talking to each other, because honestly, at some point, you would hope that people like Obama or Clinton are thrown in jail for the things that they've done to try to circumvent the authority of the president and the will of the people when the Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax are now, and actually, you know what, here, I'll touch on this real quick. And I don't mean to rant. I just, I'm thrilled to be on the Dana show. I love filling in for her. And occasionally the temptation is there. to just dive deeper into a topic that I have a lot of opinions on because, darn it, this platform so large, I get a shot at this.

I do believe that there are two things that are not mutually exclusive that can both be true about the Epstein stuff. I believe that Democrats had so much time and power with the Epstein story, and they could have done anything they wanted with it. They could have released all the information that you couldn't possibly have any more dirt on Trump that's hidden because Democrats would have put it out. there. A lot of people believe that. That's a very common belief, I think, within conservative media. I also believe that they could have manipulated whatever they left to exist to essentially try to make

it look worse for Trump and conservatives than it actually was. That's a little less common of a belief, but I think a lot of people agree that there's a possibility of that. The other thing that I think is true, though, and this is where I land, I think, in the minority of people on this topic, is that it might just all be a giant hoax. That the remnants of the remnants of the, the remnants of the, and the Epstein story, the surrounding details, not the actual core of that information. You have a horrible pedophile that must have operated a ring of other individuals to do horrible stuff. That part is unique to this story. But the idea that the Democrats are now using it as the most valuable shot that they take at Trump to try to undercut his power

and authority, it sounds very similar to Russia. It sounds very similar to all these other hoaxes that they use to try to prevent the president in his first year in office and having the type of influence and popularity that he should have. And so it seems like Democrats are leaning into this. Their plan with Trump all along has always been to undercut his value, to attack him, to convince people that he's bad somehow so that his influence is weakened once he actually wins the office that they do everything they can to prevent him from winning. So I can believe that I think there might be more information I want about the Epstein story, well, also believing that by and large, what you have currently is more Russia hoax than the reality of the story that existed

a few years ago when Democrats had every ability to put whatever they wanted out in the public space and chose not to do it and now pretend as though they never had that authority to begin with. It's also very similar to how Harris tried to run her presidential campaign, pretending that she wasn't the current vice president in charge of things with Biden's brain being broken, as she said what she would do if she won the office of president, which made no sense. But it's the same thing. Democrats ignore the moments when they're in power because the things that they actually want to see happen. They don't create those things. They don't make those things happen. They just want the controversy without the results. And they seem to be doing that now.

All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Sorry for the rant. Thrilled to be in for Dana, though. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. That's right. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Time for a rapid fire quick 5.

I love two pieces of audio out there. So we'll play both of these. First, apparently, women are ordering food with men's names because they think they get more food. If they give a woman's name when ordering something, they think that the portion is smaller. But if you throw a man's name out, I don't know if this is. actually true. I doubt this is true. But they believe this is true and darn it, the internet is claiming this. So here, let's go ahead and play on that. I got the exact same order from Chipotle with a girly name, my name, and with a man's name. I changed my customer account,

name and everything. So let's see who they gave more food to. Ladies first, we're going to start with mine. This is Emily Joy. It's not a bad portion. And this one, I use the name Andrew. It feels a little heavy, but let's see. It looks a lot more full. This makes me really mad. It's a one off. Come on, people. This is one time where she claims that this happened. It doesn't have to be an everyday thing. And I know for a fact, especially with places like Chipotle, where they're just shoveling stuff into a burrito or into the bowl, that it can be all over the place as far as the portion goes.

Actually, the saddest thing to do when you're doing one of those walk-through lines with someone who's making food in front of you, you know, a sub shop, subway, whatever it might be, or a place like Chipotle is watching when someone does a little scoop. when they just get a few of the chicken pieces in or something, they're like, ah, no, that wasn't enough. And then you're tempted to immediately say, can I get a second helping, even though I got to pay for that, because you did a smaller portion than somebody else. There's no rules here, people.

I've had large helpings and small helpings, and I'm a dude who uses a man's name. Another piece of audio that I like out there for another quick five topic, the top five hours of the day where I'm not doing anything. A dude went on social media and admitted that five, of his eight-hour day at work, he's actually doing absolutely nothing, and he broke down how. He does very little on the clock. And I imagine he's fired by an hour, at least, we'll be soon. Here we go.

Number five, we have the hour before lunch. I'm hungry. All I'm thinking about is I want to get the hell out of here. Number four, the hour directly after a meeting. Paying attention during the meeting has absolutely cooked to me. Number three, the hour after lunch, I'm depressed. All I can think about now is how badly I want to have a nap. Number two, the first hour of the day. Quick socialize with the colleagues immediately looking to get a coffee. I might turn my computer on and see if I got any urgent emails. Number one, the last hour of the day. I busted my ass all day. Now it's time for me to start wrapping things up and look for the exit door. It doesn't sound like you did that, by the way, bud. If you're saying you did nothing, the first hour of the day, the first hour before lunch,

the first hour after lunch, and the last hour of the day, that's four of the hours. And then one hour interspersed in there whenever you had a meeting, that means you did not bust anything for five of the eight hour day, and in three hours, you did some semblance of work. But this guy seemed to brag about this on the internet, and again, I assume it's going to get him fired, and also tough to find his next job, because he's only paying him for three hours of work. That's all he's doing. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast, because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube.

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President Trump has removed an IRS chief. I find this hilarious. I know this broke, I think, toward the tail end of last week, even though I guess it's a bigger talking point today than it was on Friday. But I definitely think this is the right decision, too. And they actually, and I still have this audio, so I might as well play it from Friday. But they talked about how many things these individuals would get wrong when Biden was in office. And the way in which they play this weird version of math to make job reports look better or worse,

to make the economy look better or worse, all kinds of things. And so Trump has fired somebody that's only been on the job a couple months. The other thing I love about this, and I'm just being as, as honest as they can be, is when first a bunch of appointments happened, when a bunch of the, and honestly, there's a whole lot that are still stuck that Trump has nominated for cabinet positions and all kinds of things. The Democrats are just trying to ignore a way, which is sad, and that unfortunately is working better than it should. But nonetheless, when all those cabinet positions first started coming out, the nominations were being debated, and mainstream

media had said how terrible this person would be, because they have no idea what they're doing. The thing I found most amusing about that is it's Trump. He's literally the guy who was famous from The Apprentice. He can fire people. If people do a bad job, even people that he thinks are good, he'll can them. His first time in office, I think the one thing that Trump didn't do as well as he should have done was once you appointed people, if you didn't like them, fire them. I think there were some positions that wound up going away that Trump didn't want it to go,

where he would have said, well, this person was recommended to me, and I gave them a authority position, and I regret it. I think Trump 2.0 this time in office has prevented this. But here, this is Stephen Moore with a graph talking to news last week about how many things the Bureau of Labor Statistics was getting wrong and other departments are getting wrong. So Trump is firing people. And so that part seems good to me. Here we go.

That he did the right thing in calling for a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because this shows that over the last two years of the Biden administration, the BLS overestimated job creation by 1.5 million jobs. That's a, Mr. President, that's a gigantic error. And I don't know if she's, I might never have been an era. That's the bad part. There was an era. It would be one thing.

I don't think it's an error. I think they did it purposely. You know, I love that he says stuff like that, too. I know that's from last week. I know that's older audio. And I will play Trump talking about Vladimir Putin today in just a second, because I think that it's interesting, too. But talk about a man who's just simply not afraid to,

to say things out loud. And not that you don't already know this about President Trump, but I love that version of, you know what, I don't think that's an error. I think they did that on purpose. I believe that they're going to kind of do stuff like that again and again, and I'll be able to understand when and if that's the kind of thing that I think has no value to us whatsoever, and I'll fire more people. All right, let's play this audio. This is from today. Someone in the press corps asked a question to President Trump about his meeting with Vladimir Putin, and Trump said it'll only take me a couple minutes to be able to decide whether or not this is valuable

for me, for the United States, for anyone. Well, we're going to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin, and at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made. Because that's what I do. I make deals. Okay. I love that that's all the answer he needs to give. Let's do to get. I do to deal can be way.

Because that's what I do. I make deals. Here's the thing. What Trump is trying to say, or what he would like to say, but, you know, isn't saying it quite as differently as we'd say it if we were saying a bar sitting next to each other, is that in the first couple minutes I'll be able to detect any of the bull bleep that might be slung by Putin this time. Trump has said several times that he likes the conversations he has with Vladimir Putin. He believes that real action will be taking that matches the words, but then the action never matches the words.

Trump has been willing to say out loud, even though people claim that he's somehow, you know, friendlier with Putin than anyone else is, that he doesn't like the fact that he gets off the phone with Putin and then bombs start flying. And so I think that that will come up fairly quickly in any sort of conversation between the two world leaders. Now, the other thing I will say, and I feel like I'm a broken record on saying this, and I don't even know what level of insight this is anymore in this conversation, but there's so many people on the left who refuse the truth of this statement. Ukraine will have to give up territory to Russia to end this thing in contested areas like the Donbos region. These are things that Russia wanted from jump.

Yes, they are essentially being rewarded for starting a war against Ukraine attacking them, which a whole lot of people don't want to see happen. Ukraine has fought valiantly, courageously, and incredibly. Many people thought that that fight would be over quickly instead of a years-long war that it actually has been. And the Ukrainian people have every reason to feel as though the last thing they should do is given anything. But we can't let this war just continue. And Ukraine is not going to defeat Russia that's not actually going to occur. So in order for Putin to actually put the weapons down for whatever amount of time he's willing to do it, you'll have to give him something.

And I think the United States knows that. I think Trump knows that. I think the only one who's unwilling to admit that, even if they know it too, are the leaders like Zelensky in Ukraine. And so I imagine the first couple minutes of this meeting will be, what do you want? How much do you want? No, I assume at some point Trump will also say no, because Putin will tell him he wants everything. And then eventually, what will you settle for? Where is the deal?

And in the first few minutes, Trump will know if it's a serious version or a fake version of saying, I want a deal. And that, you know, peace actually does have to exist. And then you have to be the strong person to turn to a Ukraine that has defended itself courageously for years. and say you have to give in something to make this end, which is something they won't want to do at all, and something that Biden was incapable of doing. Not just because his brain was broken, but he's just simply not strong enough as a person

to do something like that. This is the same person who made tons of jokes about how his wife was actually in charge at home, and I'm pretty sure his wife might have actually been in charge the entire time that he was in the White House of the actual country itself along with the auto pen. All right, I want to shift gears to something else. I think this is interesting.

Fighting climate change is just as dangerous as Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. This is according to an actual military individual who said this into a microphone, and this is insane. This is beyond stupid and 100% pushed by politics and politicians and not reality. And honestly, I'm such a defender of so many of our military that it's so hard when you hear someone with, you know, a connection or literal times. served in our military, this person, Lieutenant Colonel William Atkins, saying something this ridiculous, that would make most military people mad if they hurt it. But I want to play this because

Tom Elliott of Gravian put it out on social media and it's absolutely the kind of thing you should be paying attention to. This was said into a microphone and C-SPAN earlier today, and it's just ridiculous. And most of my military service was conducting humanitarian aid missions following natural disasters that were made worse by climate change. So imagine, if you will, having to carry 100,000 body bags in your aircraft due to flooding and mudslides around the globe as I had to. Imagine losing dear friends when their aircraft crashed while fighting wildfires in California and another one in Australia.

as I have. Imagine retiring from the military after 22 years, thinking that you're safe and moving home to Tampa, Florida, and immediately being hit with back-to-back hurricanes, record storm surge. I'll stop it here. I think you get the point, and I wanted to be respectful since he's a military guy, and I tremendously respect our military. But what's sad is that he's been given a bad guy. I think that very often a military have an understanding that there's a good guy and a bad guy. And for whatever reason, climate change has been the bad guy that Lieutenant Colonel William Atkins has been convinced exists to a degree that I'm not saying it doesn't, you know, but it doesn't create all the weather events that they claim it does. But so now he wants to fight climate change because he's seen horrible things. And I feel tremendously bad for any first responders who show up after horrific things happen in our society.

but it's ridiculous to say that fighting climate changes as dangerous as fighting al-Qaeda, the Taliban, anyone else. And it demonstrates a lack of experience in that world from him saying that his military career was by and large him doing this for the Air Force, you know, responding to climate and weather events. Yes, it's tragic. Yes, there's horrific, you know, loss of life that occurs in these situations. But it's uniquely different when I talk to men and women who served our country fighting. in active war, people that I know that have fought in everything from Vietnam to more recent conflicts, and telling you what it's like to lose someone, a friend in that way, and how, you know, difficult it is to move on and keep fighting the actual enemy, the enemy you can see, the tangible enemy you can touch. And then by and large, and I know this is true of a lot of

military people, I guess maybe not true of this lieutenant colonel who's sounding more and more like a politician than a member of our military, which I think is what he is. But essentially saying that the government is not the solution to those problems. Yes, they are the military men and women who fight and protect our freedom, a solution to all kinds of problems. But the overarching government above us isn't going to do the good work we want them to do if we ask them to. And so believing that the fixed climate change is government is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard anyone say, because they're willfully ignoring every version of how that winds up not being true. But this guy is going to go viral. He's going to be put all over the place by liberal media as a military man saying that, you know, climate change is as bad as Al-Qaeda. And I assume that most military who hear it are going to scoff and laugh and be somewhat upset or mad, listening to this individual say this stuff. And also say to themselves something that me is someone who never served our country feels awful saying. But it sounds like his unique military experience is jading his position more than it deserves to be. If he had fought in the, uh,

conflicts that his fellow servicemen and women have fought in that he's comparing them to, I doubt very much he'd compare anything out of those kind of fights because truthfully, there's nothing like it. Fighting global warming, climate change, any of that stuff, not even remotely close, I imagine out of this fight. And I don't know for sure. I just know from what I've been told by men and women who fight the real fight, how horrific that is.

So again, no matter what you think of him saying, his bad experience and body bags and all the things he's dealt with. It's just utterly different to be responding to a natural tragedy where there seems like there was no way to prevent it. And absolutely the government has no interest in actually doing that. They just want more of your money to embezzle and steal for other stuff than a fight where you're fighting against a real enemy who's firing bullets in your direction and who's taking the life of your friend. It's surreal to hear anyone with a military connection say that. So it actually makes me bad enough that I'm also going to take a break. And I have no connection to it, like friends and family that I know that have served,

and also a lot of the people I've talked to over the years being in the role in media that I've been in. And I imagine it's making a lot of people mad. But it is something the left will prop up. It'll be out there. Quick break, a lot more. This is Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show. Not able to catch the full Dana show? Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes.

ideal for your busy lifestyle on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. This is the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back tomorrow. I am tempted to talk a little bit more college football as we're getting closer and closer to this actually being a thing that happens again, which is awesome. We're just a couple weeks away. And there's some amazing matchups in week one of the college football season that I feel like

the AP poll that came out today was kind of thinking about. when they decided to put out their rankings. So there's some ways in which the AP poll differs from the coach's poll. One of those is that Ohio State is ranked third instead of second. Texas is ranked one in both polls, which makes sense to me. Texas is a great team. And Arch Manning is going to be amazing, or at least people assume he's going to be amazing because he's a Manning nonetheless.

And I know this might be a deeper dive into football than you were expecting, but I can't help it. I think that the disrespect for Ohio State is amazing. They are the defending national champion. Notre Dame is ranked sixth, by the way, the team that Ohio State beat in that national title game, ranked fifth, I think, in the coaches poll preseason. But a lot of the truth is, and I think actually Brett McMurphy and others put this pretty great, that the preseason poll is just throwing stuff against the wall. You don't really know. You got to see the teams play. You got to understand over the course of the season, who's actually good what valuable pieces were used to replace a valuable piece.

that left and I understand Ohio State has some defensive question marks with the amount of their university that went off to play in the NFL. So I get it. And again, I'm trying to be tree branches version of discussing this because I know this isn't a sport show. But I can't help but wonder if you rank Ohio State lower because you hope more people watch the week one matchup where they're playing Texas. Because after one week of the season, you will know who the definitive number one team in the country is, and it's whoever wins that game. And if Arch Manning plays uniquely well against Ohio State, maybe some will say that the defense isn't what it was the year before, again, because of having to replace personnel.

But they have athletes, they have athletes all across the football field, so it'll be interesting to see. And then also, I think that Miami University being ranked as high as they were, the U being ranked at 10, playing Notre Dame in week one. Notre Dame is ranked at number six. Again, I know that there's a lot of optimism in Miami right now after you get a really, really good quarterback to transfer and become a leader for your team. Carson Beck is the starting quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes. But as I say that, I wonder if there's artificially inflating one or both of those rankings, although Notre Dame again is ranked well in a lot of preseason polls because you want more people to watch week one.

The college football season usually has a lot of joke games to begin. and then as you get deeper into the season, you see real games against, you know, real opponents, and you actually get to understand how good a lot of these teams are. But that is not the case in just a couple Saturdays. We will see some amazing, amazing football, I assume, and then also have a lot of things to say about it. Will Arch Manning just walk his way to a Heisman trophy?

I wonder. And then actually also the question will become, will he stay in school? I know a lot of people wonder about that, but I know that the discussion for many people, And I know that the last thing I'll say about sports, and I think we're basically out of time. And I waited until the end of the show. A lot of people believe that the Manning's value education.

So Arch will stay in school for longer than anyone thinks he should, especially if he plays incredibly well in his first season as a starter. We will see. And he was great whenever he would pop into games. So you wonder, again, if it's just the beginning of a season of obsessing about just how good Arch Manning is and how great his NFL career potentially will be. be, but we'll see. And certainly a lot of people will say Notre Dame is overrated, especially if they lose in week one. But again, they're playing a uniquely good Miami team with a uniquely

good quarterback that did a lot of great things just last year with Georgia. So I will say a lot to talk about a lot of things out there. But part of me wonders if the preseason poll, since they know that there's going to be teams that will drop entirely out of it that are in the top 10 right now by the end of the season, is just to get more eyeballs watching sports that first week. And he didn't to do that, by the way. I was watching anyway. That's it. That's the show. Sports Rant done. Greg Collins filling in. See you later. Dana back tomorrow on the Dana show.