The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump's Presidential Rankings List Has People Talking

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

President Trump publishes a list of his presidential rankings of all time and we have questions. Dana Loesch reacts to Jelly Roll’s guest-hosting stint on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” where he spent the week being political and trashing President Trump. Dana reacts to a shocking new stat saying that on an average day, 1 in 10 young adults now has no in-person contact. Dana shares commentary on how this directly links to lockdowns. Jon Ossoff becomes the latest Democrat to disavow Hasan Piker.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Relief Factorhttps://www.ReliefFactor.comYou could be the next person sharing a Relief Factor success story. Get started today with the 3-Week QuickStart for only $17.76 and tell them you heard about them on The Dana Show. Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAFor a limited time during Ghost Bed’s Labor Day Sale, they’re offering my audience an extra 10% off their lowest prices of the season with promo code DANA. Laundry Saucehttps://LaundrySauce.comMake laundry day the best day of the week with Laundry Sauce. Get 20% off your entire order with code DANA.Chapterhttps://AskChapter.Org/danaAsk Chapter today if you could be saving money on your medicare coverage. Alliance Defending Freedomhttps://JoinADF.com/DanaAlliance Defending Freedom is on the front lines defending the freedoms and values that matter. Join the fight today. Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaGet the limited edition HumanN Watermelon Flavor and find out how to get a FREE 30-day supply before they sell out.Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAMake the switch to Patriot Mobile today.  Visit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Webroothttps://Webroot.com/DanaSave 60% off Webroot. Protect your devices. Protect your family. Protect your peace of mind. Live a better digital life with Webroot. Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaIf you want to see how physical gold and silver could fit into your portfolio, download Noble Gold Investments FREE Wealth Protection KitSubscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Welcome to the program. Did you guys see the list that Potus put out of his own personal presidential rankings on true social? Why did you say? Cane goes, yes. Why'd you say it like that, Kane? Because I loved it. Wait, what? What?

Yeah, I loved it. No, no, it's horrible. It's horrible. I was like, I'm like, POTUS, what are you doing? The fact that he put himself at the top and everything else on me. I thought that was hysterical. So he put, I mean, I honestly, I would not have any respect for Trump if he did not put himself at the top of the list. If you're president of the United States and you're making a list of greatest presidents and you don't put yourself at the top of the list, you're a moron.

I agree. And I think you should be impeached if you don't put yourself at the top. You're right. There are inconsistencies in there. I'll admit that. Inconsistencies? Wrongs? Okay.

Oh, no. I take a deep breath. Yeah, I don't agree with a few of them is basically without. Now, in his defense, he's not a crazy political animal like all of us are. And you are because you're watching me right now. Don't act like you're not. So he has great, near great, average, below average and failures. I could not be angrier with this list. Please, I don't even know. Okay. So he has himself at the top, the greatest, right? He's the greatest. Underneath him, he's got great. And it's Lincoln, Washington. Washington. F.D.R. Jefferson, who I'm not a, no, and then Jackson, modern founder of the Democrat Party. You have one of the worst, two of the worst presidents in God's Green Earth, FDR and Wilson, literally at the top, under you. Whiskey, tango, fox trot. Near Great, Teddy Roosevelt, Grover, Cleveland. John Adams is near great FDR. I feel like I'm reading the Rolling Stones

list of best bands. It feels just like that. Like I am reading the Rolling Stone list of best bands. He's got John Adams after. I can't even talk. Dogs in the neighborhood. Oh my gosh. James Polk! I'm sorry. I'm probably. distorting. You guys know I don't get really wound up, but this is winding me up. It gets worse. Under those near great ones, he's got the average ones. And you've got, oh, and by the way, the whole thing morphs and then his picture moves ahead of everybody else's. It's actually hysterical. It is one of the funniest things I think of it is very funny. So under that, he's got And pull this up as I just buried this.

You have the great, the near great, the average. The average, he's got Clinton, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Hayes, Madison, Van Buren, Taft, McKinley is average. McKinley, one of the most corrupt to ever hold the office. And he's got him as average. Hoover! below average Tyler

and this is what really Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge was the best president after Washington. They called him Silent Cowell. He wasn't charismatic. He was a butt kicker. When he said something

everybody listened. Calvin Coolidge is under below average. Fillmore followed by Taylor Buchanan James Buchanan Pierce. Failures.

Biden, Obama. Grant? Harding, I'll give him that. Harding was super bad. Carter, okay, there you go. FDR needs to be down in the failures. Hoover needs to be down in the failures. Let's see.

McKinley needs to be down in the failures. Oh my gosh. POTUS. What you doing? That hurt me. It hurt my heart. He needs to flip-flop FDR and Calvin Coolidge, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he absolutely does.

He needs to flip-flop them completely. I don't even know. It's like when you watch your kids playing sports and you realize your son can't catch. That's the same feeling that I have right now watching this list. And Lorraine noted, where is Reagan? Rating is not even on this list. The bushes aren't on this list.

HW should be at the very bottom on that list. Right by Carter. Under the failures. Oh, my gosh. Eisenhower? Where is Eisenhower? Oh, my gosh. Truman!

I fear we're taking meme quality content and trying to make it historically accurate. No, no, no. You know how I am with my lists? I know. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. But look, look, I think that the FDR thing was, because he...

Is he rage baiting us? I think... Well, that may be part of it. I have no idea. But I think he looks at himself as like the financial president, right? And I think in history, he looks at these social programs that came out of, which by the way, we don't agree with, that came out of the Great Depression that apparently, quote, unquote, saved America. He's...

He looks at himself that way as someone saving America financially. So I think that's why... FDR did not save America financially. FDR took America, tired of it. our hands up, bent us over a barrel. Yes. And then had a deliverance scene with America. That's what FDR did.

Not disagreeing with you at all. That's FDR's economic plan. That's not how he has historically been recorded, right? That's how it is. Which is wrong. And it's evidence of brainwashing. One of the first things I did when I homeschooled my kids. Yeah.

Well, no, Coolidge. Coolidge isn't missing, guys. The chat, Calvin Coolidge is all the way at the bottom. if you put Coolidge at the bottom you don't know Coolidge Oh my gosh I'm gonna need to get a fan on me right now Let's get warmer in here Oh

But yeah this was mostly trolling But Trump just essentially Having hubris here while trolling This is what it is It's all the other ones It's like those are the FDR and FDR and Hoover and McKinley and Coolidge and no Reagan and no Eisenhower, the ones that are really burning,

that are really, really, really churning my butter right now. It's burning my biscuits. I can't handle that. I'm got some a little bit, I'm a little bit, you know, a little bit pupset. A smidge. Our friend's relief factor bringing you the program. They want to help out with everyday aches and pains. Look, millions of people buy a relief factor, and they go back to it because it works.

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Find out of Relieffxor. can help you get back to doing what you love. So what do we, okay, guys, what are we doing about jelly roll? Not the snack, which is delicious, by the way. I do love me a good jelly roll. A little sponge cake, vanilla sponge cake, put you some strawberry jam up in that business. Oh my gosh, I actually think I'm going to make one because I want to eat it over the weekend.

I know what I'm going to do. But what do we do about like the artist known as jelly roll? He lost all that weight and got nasty. make him fat again. Because I feel like he was nicer. He just lost all this weight. And now he seems, he just is ranting like a jackass.

Why? And I don't want to dislike him at all. He seems like, I thought he was a pretty chill dude. I was wrong, I guess. He's not a chill dude. What do you all know about this dude? So this is,

what do you know, Kane? Here's what I know. I know that he reads off a teleprompter while getting paid to say those words on TV, right? So does he feel that way? wait, yeah, sure, maybe. When he came out and said, you know, conservatives shouldn't be listening to my music then. Okay, well, hold up.

Let's like not all, man, like a fire hose. Well, yeah. Clearly, Kane has some built up resentment. Let me just set the stage for some people, can't because not everybody out there may know what has happened with a man. So he, his name is Jason Bradley DeFord, his real name. Jelly Roll, I don't know why. I guess he called him because he's fat. Can you call yourself Jelly Rule anymore if you lost all your weight?

I don't care if he did it with fat shots or not. I mean, if he's healthy, he's healthy. But apparently, so he was on, he's been having some, he went on Jimmy Kimmel. And he also has been, didn't he say one of his rants at like one of his concerts or something like that? So he has gone, he went on Jimmy Kimmel to address, I guess, some of the backlash to his comments. And he made, he was hosting Jimmy, he was hosting the show. and he went back on to address, like, the, I guess, the backlash from it. Because Jimmy Kimmel was out, I guess, for vacation.

So that's why Rosie O'Donnell and there's a theme here. Rosie O'Donnell, jelly roll, hmm, a theme. So he had, he was joking about Trump. And he said, talking about his weight loss, 300 pound weight loss. He weighed over 300 pounds? How much did he wait total? I mean, 300, that's insane. He goes, he said,

So his joke was, this means I've lost an entire Donald Trump. And let's be honest, based on his approval ratings, it seems like most of the country wants to do the same thing. So that's what Kane's talking about with the teleprompter. But yeah, if he didn't believe it, though, he wouldn't have said that. He's getting paid. He's an entertainer. He doesn't care about that stuff. So people are now saying jelly roll is a traitor.

Look, how people feel about jelly roll is great. I never really paid much attention to them before this even happened. So it doesn't really matter to me. much, but I see what was happening. And he's now, he can't, he doesn't have the intelligence. I'm going to interrupt you to give you Lorraine's headline. This is Lorraine's

headline and true Lorraine style. She, I got to say, she says, Jellyroll lost the weight, left his wife and supposedly fallen down the Candace Rabbit Hole. Oh. And then someone else said that he's really like a mob boss, which then would make sense why

a couple seasons ago he appeared on Tulsa King in a very awkward scene. And I love Sylvester Stallone. Del shall not smear, sly Stallone. Love the Stallone's. There was an awkward scene, though, and I kind of felt like he was, because he was, I think he was promoting an album, and he walked into Sylvester Stallone's bar on the show. And all of a sudden, it came out that Sylvester Stallone's bar, the big mob boss

for Tulsa King, that he had a recording studio, just, I guess that they had built in the back of his bar that nobody knew about. And Jellyroll went, and I guess he had to record a track when he, before he could go back to his bruskees. It was weird, and it felt completely just forced. But I still love Sylvester Stallone. But that makes sense why they would say he's like a mob boss. So anyway, he says this, and now everyone is going after jelly roll.

And they said, oh, he built his whole brand on blue collar working class, one of us, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, we gave him a pass after he met Trump. And now all I'll say is this. We had an amazing example. We have such an amazing example right now before you. Who did we just lose this week? Who do we just lose? Dolly Parton.

I'm sure Dolly Parton had her politics. I might even think she kind of was moderate on some stuff, but she was never nasty. And that's the thing. The left doesn't realize that one of the reasons why they're having such a hard time right now is because they're nasty. You will never win anybody by being nasty.

And I say this is one of the meanest people in all of polemics. You will never win by being nasty. And I, look, there's stories about me and most of them are true. I am very mean. Off camera too. I can be very mean.

I'm not going to lie. I just don't have tolerance for stupidity. Nobody does, right? I just won't endure it. That's the difference. You will never win anybody by being nasty. If you're really trying to persuade people

to see things your way, what do you think is going to work better? And I'm not saying go up and lie prostrate down on the ground in front of them. I'm not saying that. I'm not, I'm not saying that you go and, and you compromise yourself, but just be nice, right? Like Patrick Swayze said, in the cinematic masterpiece that is Roadhouse, which missed out on an Oscar, when he said, look, be nice until it's time to not be nice. Be nice. All you do is be nice. Dali Parton was nice. Jelly rules being mean. Who do you think is going to, who do, now look who's loved. Who do you think is

going to be, if you compare deaths, his in the future, I'm not saying, I'm not wishing in the middle. I'm just saying, who do you think is going to be more revered compared to, in comparison? There's a reason why she's so loved and she resonated with so many people because she was nice. And you actually never knew if she was compromising what she thought. People like Barbara Walters, there's this old interview that I've seen a million times, where Barbara Walters was sitting down with her and she was asking her about everything from her hair and her boobs and all this stuff. And Dali Parton was just like, well, I, you know, I know people like to make fun of me, but, you know, I like to make fun. You know, I'm making fun with myself.

And really, the joke's on them. She was a smart lady. They said she would have been a billionaire, but she gave so much money away in charity. She was a super smart lady. And she really lived, I mean, she was nice and she lived the life that affirmed that her niceness was authentic. There's just a difference there. And I think that he was misled into thinking that he had to read this stuff and be nasty in order to be influx. in order to be influential or to host Jimmy Kimmel.

You know, he could have host to Jimmy Kimmel and he could have had better writing. I think when writers default to this kind of stuff, they suck as writers. Because the joke that he made wasn't even funny. It wasn't even original. It was formulaic and predictable and cringe. It's not even good writing.

So, you know, what's the point of having a writer's room if all they turn out's garbage? He should have just been himself and it felt like he was being inauthentic. And I actually find that worse than the nastiness. is the inauthenticity. Because the nastiness, that can be easily rectified.

But inauthenticity speaks to something that's deeper. You don't even know yourself. So how are you going to sit here and try to message to other people if you don't even know yourself? And so I think that's the thing that stands out. He apparently told fans that were threatening to stop listening to his music to go right ahead. He didn't have to do that. You know, it just, and it's unfortunate that he did, because now a lot of people are like,

I think if he would have even said, I'm not a fan of Trump, I think people would have forgiven him. Wouldn't have even cared honestly. It's just, nobody begrudges someone's different political opinion. And you know why? Because we're not the left. We're not little mental Nazis. We don't have to goose up everybody into one homogenous, thoughtless blob. We don't do that.

We're like, oh, you think differently? Cool. I mean, I'd agree with you, but we'd both be wrong. I mean, that's my approach to it. I'd agree with you, but we'd both be wrong. This isn't not going to hurt anybody. You can go ahead and be wrong. It doesn't bother me if someone's wrong.

I don't feel challenged if someone's wrong. If they try to debate me, that's something different. But it doesn't, I'm not threatened by a difference of opinion. But that's how the left approaches this stuff. They are. They are threatened by a difference of opinion. Because with them, at the very root of it, it's all about control. Controlling not just what you say or what you do, but how you think.

and not even how you think, but how you perceive people immediately, like a reflexive action. They want to mentally program you. So I don't know. I feel like if he would have just said, I'm not a big fan of the man and would have just like focused on music and then just being relatable, that would have done, he would have done so much better. Because he's also late to this party. That's the other thing.

It looks cringe when you're late to the party. It looks like you were a coward, and you just didn't have the balls to say what you thought this whole time. And then when you're late to the party, it just seems, then it doesn't even seem mean. It just seems desperate at that point. Like I said,

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A little bit of Moni love with Moni in the middle. And Kane and I were talking on break about like the theme parks and like what kids did during the summer. And we used to go to Six Flags back before it was $11,000 to get in. And you'd go with like a group of friends and, you know, if there was any romance there, it was just you and somebody else standing near each other in the same vicinity. And that meant going out. I don't know.

It's weird. But that, because we started talking about the headline that I had in my Quick Five where somebody literally, like two chicks got brain damage from a roller coaster. We never worried about that, ever. I don't know if these were like adult chicks or like, you know, juvenile chicks, I don't know, but two ladies got their heads beat up on and they had to get surgery from the roller coaster. Wait, what did you tell me? How old is Moni Love now? She's 56. She was born in 1970. That's crazy. That is so crazy. So we were talking about, you know, it's Friday. We're a little

chill today. And all the stuff that we used to do in the summer as teenagers. And how also teenagers today, I don't think they do this stuff. Right? Like I, I was sure. I was sure. I was showing one of my kids one night this week or you know it was last week i can't remember but we were watching some of these old school movies like movies like and he's he's older so it's not like i'm showing him anything bad but like clerks and mall rats and things like this and you know fast forwarding through some you know anything that was inappropriate uh because that that is just me but um he was like the dialogue is so much smarter And it was, but also Jason Lee was in it.

And Jason Lee's dialogue was pretty intellectually snotty because that was his character. But anyway, it's just, long story short, I really feel like the teenagers today have been robbed. You all been robbed. Y'all didn't get to experience malls. Y'all didn't get to experience going to the theme parks. Y'all aren't excited about driving cars. you all been robbed. You don't even have MTV anymore.

You're robbed. You're robbed. What do you guys do now? I saw this. Actually, this is way down in my show sheet. I did not mean to bring it up now. But I have this link that talks about how one

out of every 10 young people will go through like an entire week without seeing another person. of the i'm not kidding you on an average day this is from hold up it's american time use survey it's uh and it covers from 2005 going into

2025 so it has the pandemic restrictions and i have this under by the way if you're looking i'll drop this in slack but i have it under digital in youth so it's i have it apologies one because it's a little bit for well no actually it's in this i had it in a different spot but long story short, on an average day, one in 10 young adults now have no in-person contact. And it's the percentage of U.S. adults. They looked at everybody from ages 23 to 29, and they surveyed them every year to see who spent time with other people that day. Now, if you can see those watching

the simulcast, there is a graph. And right at the graph, there is a shaded part, right at 2020. And those were the pandemic restrictions. What happened there? Look at the skyrocket. Now look, I will say, leading up to the pandemic, it was already on an increase. And that's because of digital media. That's when TikTok began to be more widely used.

Social media, and then the pandemic fueled it even more. You can see the incline got super. steep and it skyrocketed and it peaked sometime you know within the last couple of years and it's only declined ever so much slightly that period that whole section there and that looks to be like 2020 going into 2022 i think that was the lockdown that was the pandemic restriction that was uh you know six feet of space uh 15 days to slow the spread no one was going to school everybody was doing remote learning, the buildings downtown, nobody was in them because everybody's working from home. That's what that was. So now they say, on an average day, one in 10 young adults

now have no in-person contact. This has been building for a while. Now, there was this, I saw another study where they said 15 to 25-year-olds. This was a study that was done between 2003 and 2018, they already lost 26 minutes of day, or not, sorry, from 2003, 15 to 25-year-olds had lost 26 minutes a day of in-person time. This was before lockdown. So social media was really amplifying, or not amplifying, expediting, how do I put it? Digital loneliness. I don't know how to, digital disassociation.

That might actually be a better. way to put it, digital disassociation. I know that when everything was in lockdown, one of the ways that my kids, the only way that they were actually able to see their friends and have a social life was they would all, they would couch co-op games. Because everybody could, they all had headsets, they could all be like in a game lobby together. And they could, that's how they, they couldn't go anywhere. Everybody was at home. And then that was just right when classes were starting to kick off with remote learning. That honestly was the only way. And it wasn't even, you know, I tried, because I tried to push the envelope as much as I could. And I tried to bend and break the

rules. I'm not going to lie, as much as I possibly could. But there were so many people out there that were hesitant because even if they were, even if they were like you and they were conservative and there were families out there that felt they were scared like they would get sighted, right? One of my friends was telling me that her daughter freaked out because they had to go. She participated in sports and she was dealing with a sports injury before lockdown happened and they had to go to her like orthopedic doctor and everybody had the, you know, you had to stand so much apart. And my friend was like, I'm not wearing this stupid mask this entire time.

It's, you know, this is ridiculous. It's hot outside. I'm not doing this. because it's right when spring started kicking into gear and it was, you know, Texas, it's warm. And my friend was like, she took the mask off as they were walking into the doctor's office and her daughter was like freaking out. She was like, mom, you can't do that because they will arrest you. And her daughter, and she looked at her daughter and was like, what? No.

I mean, but you could get cited. But do you see what I'm saying? Like they, everybody had this coming at them six ways to Sunday. And they were, they did cite people. We had our county commissioner while he was breaking the rules on get-togethers, and I'm not going to lie, I totally did. And I don't give a rat's ass. Try to come and, like, enforce something like that on me. It'll be Waco Part 2.

Try. And we, I mean, we would have get-togethers, but there were people. I had a friend that had police visit her because they had to get together. This is not in my town, but in a different town. And I think it was in Denton County. And they didn't get cited, but they had to visit. it. And I'm like, wait, why would you send, if you're trying to restrict, you know, those kind of like physical engagements, why would you send? It doesn't make any sense. So there was a lot,

there was a giant sci-op. It was a giant sci-up. And our kids got screwed. And now they're still screwed. And as Steve notes, the lockdowns were one of the biggest culture changes in the world. Yeah, since 9-11, they absolutely were. Since 9-11, they absolutely were. I had friends that almost everyone we knew, and we tried doing this, we actually were looking at houses to rent in Florida. We were going to leave. We couldn't find a house in Florida. I talked to a friend of mine who manages vacation properties there, and she was sold out,

and she checked in, she was checking for us because we were going to take us and we were going to take you guys, radio crew. We were all going to go down, and we were all just going to go to Florida. Because everybody down there was walking around. Anytime a mayor would try to lock down to Sanders would whoop his ass, it was, you know, great. Couldn't even get property. You could not even rent a property, shorter long term. You couldn't rent nothing.

The hotels were booked. Everything was booked. And believe me, I tried. I even had a travel agent. We looked at everything. Because here, we were locked down. There they weren't. And they even got criticized for it by the admin at the time.

It rewired everyone. And so studies like this, going back to the study, where it's, can I be real? I actually thought that would be higher. I'm surprised that it's so low. Isn't that horrible? I'm actually surprised that it's that low. Now, you can also add, there's something else that is kind of like a wildcard factor in this. modern technology has made it very easy to connect with people.

And it also gives people the excuse to not go and have like those physical engagements because they're like, well, we, you know, technically this is socialization. But it's not. It's different. It's different. It's affected. It's not, modern technology cannot replace a lot of these corner, these touchstone moments in your life. especially young people that are growing up and they're learning how to engage and operate

in social groups with the opposite sex so that they can start dating and they miss out on these formative periods and these formative engagements that seem like everyday interactions to you but they're actually character building and they are helping to build emotional IQ and all of that and missing out on that for as long as that generation has so you're connected online but strangers in real life. I'm also curious how much of this is male versus female too. Because one of the things that I have noted is that, and my friends have all, all of my friends that have girls, I'm a boy mom, all my friends that have girls have confirmed this with me. They're like, yeah, it's weird because we feel like the girls bounced back faster than the boys. Now, I don't know

if that's just because girls are just wired differently. You know, I think that girls are more sociable, by and large. I don't know if that's the way it is. I don't know. But all of this has rewired people. I think this is why you're going to see the birth rate plummet even more. The marriage rate's going to plump it because nobody knows. A lot of people lost out on those formative day-to-day engagements that help build

that how to operate with that and that emotional IQ. And now we're seeing the consequences of it. I don't know how you fix that at this point. I really don't. I wish I had an answer and I don't. All I know is what I've seen. I don't even know how you fix it at this point. It's not like you can take away the digital component.

It's here already. You can't close that Pandora's box. I look at these lawsuits like the meta lawsuit. Can I be real? I think that's stupid. You know why I think that's stupid? Because that's the gun control logic. Let's blame the manufacturer.

Let's blame the social media company. Who bought those kids $1,000 phones? All these kids that are on Facebook. and on these social media platforms, who's buying them the digital devices to do this? Parents are. Parents are. But Dana, you might say,

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doubled as join adf.com slash dana text dana to a 3-848. Now we've got, we were talking about the Democrats that are coming out talking all about Hassan Piker, who I almost literally just verbally typoed as Hussein. I cannot believe. I almost, you know, my brain was like saying Hassan in my mouth almost said Hussein. Just a couple of vowels off. Anyway. So this, he's on, he's included in like the most rolling,

Stone has him as one of the most influential. What do they call them? Content creators or influencers? What the full stop for a minute? Guys, hold up, hold it. What the hell's a content creator? If you're writing anything online, that's content.

Right? You're posting a meme. That's content. What is this whole content creator? What is that? Am I being too picky about like the, no? These terms get thrown around and you're like, why? They're heavy. than they need to be these terms.

Just a... I can't say what I want to say. A fecal poster. Just put that way. Anyways, consider one of the most influential. And the article gets into is I was unfortunately reading it because I had to. Can I just tell you how much I hate Rolling Stone magazine? And I don't say this as, please do not make this all about you.

I am not saying this as a pejorative to every boomer. Notice, note whenever I say boomer, I'm literally specifically meaning progressive ones. I've never met a conservative boomer. that wasn't like that did not that that embodied that as a negative way like I'm you know I'm a gen X or your boom whatever but when I say boomer I meaning like that's all the lefties because all of the horrible horrible boomer policies were from leftists and I think the boomers get smeared for it which is unfair now that being said I think those are the progressive boomers are the only people who run that magazine these are all musically illiterate fools who only

know corporate pop. And they write these horrible lists. And they have him on here, probably because one of their grandkids told them. One of their grandkids in Antifa told them. And now they have Hassan. So, but I thought he was just a streamer.

He's just a nobody streamer. That's what Democrats have been saying this entire time. He's just a streamer, guys. He's really, you know, he's a nobody. That's how they put it. But he's not, though. As you guys know. he's super i mean he's been it that's why they have him that's why they have him at all of these um fundraisers he's at every fundraiser for so many of the he was at what i think it was 16

i was counting for abdul al-said well it's over a dozen i know that much it's over a dozen so now john ossoff is trying to because he desperately is trying to claim they're all to claim the mantle of moderate but not moderate. Like they want to look moderate to the public, but they're not actually going to moderate their positions. So he weighed in. As I told you, there were only a handful of Democrats that actually called this out because Piker was the guy who said America deserved 9-11. So there's only a handful of them that called this out. And only three of them used Piker's name. Ossoff is the latest. He was facing criticism. from his state over votes to block arms sales to Israel.

And he joined a chorus of Democrats that criticized Piker. So now the woke rike is going after him as well. Sidebar. The arms sales to Israel, they buy with their own money. It's not a handout like it is with other countries. They buy their own money. By the way, they're only allowed to buy weapons from the United States of America. You know that whatever $3 billion that raises a fit about us giving in quote-unquote aid to Israel,

you realize that we make that back in spades because they're only allowed to buy out. That's literally the agreement. That is law. For that agreement to be in effect, they're only allowed, only allowed to buy weapons from us. And our tech agreement means they cannot offer any weaponry that they develop to any other country. I don't know if you guys knew that or not. I mean, we're going to get a laser cannon. I'm not kidding you. Laser cannon.

I mean, it's one of the reasons why Abrams tanks now are back. and back on the field because they were, along with the drivers, getting blown up. And now there's a way to, how do I put it, neutralize any other weaponry that would try to smite them off the field. So this, Aosov, is now trying to walk some of this back. Because Piker said just a couple of days ago, quote, if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are slightly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action, end quote. By the way, wasn't that like a Charles Lindberg quote as well? I think he had said something like that back in the day. I can't remember. Look that,

Google that. You know, he was kind of of the same mindset there. So, and he said, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but American Jews. So if you take interest in an ally overseas, then you deserve what happens to you is what he's saying. So Assoff spokesperson told the Atlanta Journal Constitution yesterday that, quote, Oh, so he didn't have the balls to name Piker. He said he unreservedly rejects reckless and dangerous rhetoric against the Jewish community or any community, American Jews and all Americans must have the freedom and security to speak out

and petition their government without fear of reprisal. So Aosov would love to run for president someday. That's what he would love to do. He wants to be the moderate from the South that John Edwards couldn't be because he couldn't keep it in his pants. So the Democrats have been desperate to get this, a southern candidate that seems moderate to run because they feel, they know that that is actually what's going to work to be competitive going into any kind of election. They know that that's what's going to be required. But they haven't had anybody since Edwards because Edwards was, well, we all know what happened there.

But he didn't say his name because they're scared to say his name. They act like he's Voldemort. So they're not actually, if you're not saying his name, I mean, he was such a big fundraiser for so many of you. If you're not saying his name, then it doesn't count. Then you haven't pushed back from him at all. You haven't done anything at all. If you haven't said his name, you haven't done anything. So I don't know.

I'm not buying it. Are you buying it? Are you buying it? Kane, do you buy it? Nope. Mm-mm. Oh, apparently they got, they have a fun name in the chat. Hamas, Diddy bin Laden, Epstein, dog, shocker, Piker.

Oh, boy. Lorraine will never be in charge of naming legislation because it would be 5,000 words long. I love it, though. Oh, yeah, we got this. Steve reminds me. This is, I'm sorry, this is cut $11,012, correct? $11,000, million, 12? Yes.

This was Abdul al-Said, by the way. Flashback, Abdul al-Seed on Piker. Listen. Like, you know, at the end of the day, people play this game with us all the time, right? I'm sure you've gotten it summer. I got it. Well, here's this one thing that Hassan said. Do you now condemn him and everything he stands for? And I'm like, in what world? Does the world work this way?

Like, in what world would you condemn somebody for something that they've said if you're serious about the project of actually persuading somebody? So he's saying, in what world would you condemn somebody for something that they've said? Easily, I condemn you for the things you say. I condemn this guy. I condemn him. By the way, you want to hear something? I condemn this. This is cut 11.

He's trying to flex on this. And notice he's campaigning before I go to my next cut. Notice if you're watching the simulcast, he is in the vehicle with who? Hassan Piker. Going to another campaign event because they went through a, they got in a sprinter van and went through a handful of campaign events in one day. And there's Hassan Piker wearing his socialists. It says socialists hat.

Yeah. So fascinating stuff. Now this is cut 11 So this was, now let me set this up real quick Abdul al-Said Was at a backyard camp or was at a campaign event And he was talking about banning vodka But listen to how he tried to flex here real quick

This is cut 11 The gentleman in the front clearly error I bought my Gatorade 0 I go to pay for it And he's like hey you Muslim You're like you know him And he's like well Your beard's a little bit short

I was like oh okay well I forgot something I go back to the back I pick up a fifth vodka and I bring it to the front and he's like you can't buy that I was like Habibi you can't sell it for too long a lot of folks have come in these communities and thought of these communities as places you can't sell products that either should not be sold at the level that it's sold or and by the way that they would never that means my love or my beloved I believe like there's no responsibility

so he's saying oh my beloved you can't you can't sell it that's what he's saying as we move the folks who help make the program possible it is our who do we have here because i totally lost this thing oh burn a all right so i tell you guys this all the time i have no problem using lethal force to protect myself or my loved one no problem i'll do it all day long i don't care but i also understand too that uh maybe you're a college kid and that you're living on your own you're not yet 21 so you can't carry a gun but you want to still make sure that you're protected when you're walking to class or you're walking to your car or whatever it is. And this is where a burner comes in. It's the Berna CL, which stands for compact launcher. And it's about the size of

an iPhone. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 60 feet away. If you compare this to average tasers or stun guns, you got maybe one or two shots in that, one or two rounds. With the Barna CL, you have a 15 round shot capacity per cartridge. So that's pretty significant. Now, what else is that it doesn't care about gun-free zones because it's not a gun. There's no waiting periods. There's no background check. There's no any of that. It doesn't care about any of those things.

It is an alternative to have. It's an option when your options are limited. It's not a replacement. And you'll be glad that you have such an option. I mean, there's no sense in not diversifying what you carry. I mean, you carry different calibers. You carry blades. So when your rights are limited, you want to have an option that works around that.

And that's where Berna steps in. Now, if you already own a Burna, they have the SD as well, but I think the CL is best for this. You can upgrade the SD, trade in your Burna SD for $150 credit towards a new Burna CL or CLXL. That's an extended. So you can order a prepaid return kit for 1999 and ship your Burna SD back to Burna and get your $150 coupon code within one to three days. Burna.com slash Dana to learn more. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.

Okay, so here's a little concern about the bots guys and the AI bots. A swarm of 700 of them went rogue in a hacking attack. Hundreds of agents targeted a tech company and tried to cover their tracks, according to researchers. 700 open AI bots. They conspired in a cyber attack last month. They said it was a warning shot to the world. Oh, okay.

Why? why do we not have a bot farm came right i would like to have a bot farm i like a regular farm and a bot yeah i would like to have all a regular farm and a bot farm over uh for over 100 years travelers have checked into u.s and motel rooms and found the gideon bible are they taking the gideon bible i have a lot of hotel rooms no i think they're doing are they doing now like this is i thought a story on like newer gideon bible like a 250th like oh great i mean it's so american it's such an american thing i i think i love like when Europeans come and they're like there actually is a Bible in the they it's so great but

began with Gideon's international evangelical business and professional men founded in 1899 and then they decided to get very ambitious and put a Bible in all hotel rooms and they've distributed over two and a half billion that's so awesome I love that they do that I love that they do that good on the Gideons a Delta flight from L.A. to Boston landed in Detroit and the captain got sick he goes I the one who is ill. That's so, what, do you have a co-pilot though, right? You have a captain, a co-captain. What, what?

But he said he needed to go to the hospital, so it was very serious. There were 147 customers on board. It was diverted. They made an emergency landing at Detroit. And the captain was taken off the plane the second it landed. So it was a very serious issue. Another crew boarded the plane and they resumed their flight to Boston. And the captain said over the speaker system, he said, this is the captain.

I'm the one who was ill. I'm going to taxi the jet to the gate and then I got to go to the hospital and they took him right out so yeah they said in airliners if you're not flying you're the one doing the talking because then the first officer can just focus

on flying so yeah that's why he was the one who was communicating they did it by the book so good for them you want your pie by the way we are short on pilots so we want all of our pilots to stay healthy and apparently it was a real quick down and went back up so it was really so good on them for handling that let's see you

a triathlon coach training for the Iron Man fights off an alligator attack during a practice swim guys there are pools there's why we have pools he said his instinct came in and he started fighting a four to five foot alligator

that attacked him during an Iron Man practice swim Jonathan Bruney a 31 year old coach brought several of his athletes to Augusta Georgia ahead of the Iron Man that's coming up next month And he goes, the plan was for a race rehearsal. And it was in the Savannah River. And then boom, gaiters.

And they fought it. And he lived to tell. He has a big bandage on his arm. And he goes, I would never put my athletes in danger. He goes, I knew that there might be a small chance. But he's like, apparently he's never had that. He swam there before and he's never had that issue. So now he goes, out of nowhere it hit me.

And one of them spotted a gator on the bank and it veered away. He was the one leading the main pack. And then he felt a violent. blow. He said it felt like my elbow made a really hard impact, like diving on a basketball court, like in a gym. And he thought he had hit a log. But then he had a cold pain. He said that shot up his whole arm. And as he looked at his arm when he felt the cold pain go up, he said that's when he realized it was a gator that clamped onto his arm. He fought it. He didn't want it to death roll him and do more damage. So what did he do? He jammed his thumb in the gator's eyes. And that did it.

So you got to do. So Treasury Secretary. Scott Bessent just slapped Elizabeth Warren verbally in a beautiful fashion, although she's going to have to get a dictionary just like to get through the first thing. He goes, and her latest stylistic letter to me, at Sen Warren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking. He's calling her shallow and stupid, basically. And he goes, what's equally shocking, but not surprising. Not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error. And then he gives are a lesson. I mean, I'm not even, I wasn't even the target of that, and I still felt the aftershocks of

that slap. That was very great. Not just shallow, but someone who is like full of themselves and shallow. Like they exalt themselves and their stupidity is really, I think, the best way to put it. And he's right, and it's not just members of Congress. I mean, I think it's honestly the entirety of the left, maybe, perhaps, I think. That has a difficulty with math. He calls out the media nicely there, too. I mean... Oh, and by the way, keep staying away from that lettuce, y'all.

Apparently, the U.S. authorities have widened their probe into the cyclosuriasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce because all the... After they detected the defecation, say. So it's 20 states now. I haven't had lettuce in forever. I'm not even eating cilantro, which I love. And I don't understand you people who say it tastes like so. I don't get you.

But I'm terrified. And it's too hot to get really good tomatoes out of my own garden right now and everything's fried. We only just got rain for the first time in like two months yesterday. I don't know what to do. So watch out for the lettuce over the weekend, everybody. All right. In the meantime, a little early. But today is stupidity.

Well, it's Kamala Harris. And luckily we have a little time because it takes a little time to display the stupidity. She can't just say a sentence. This is a video, which, by the way, I think there's. There's like 15 or 20 cuts in this. She couldn't even get through this 45 seconds without there being like 15 different edits. So word salad was probably cut out of this. But listen to what she says.

And if you notice the phrase she's using, maybe it's a little plagiarism, but it's the left. Listen to this. By the way, he votes by mail from Mar-a-Lago. But he doesn't want you to vote by mail. Hey, everybody, just this week, the United States Supreme Court backed up the president's agenda. he's trying to make it more difficult for you to vote by mail. By the way, he votes by mail from Mar-a-Lago. But he doesn't want you to vote by mail because he knows you're paying attention.

Context is so important. Gas prices are up. Food prices are up. He got us an award that the American people don't want. And he is worried he is going to lose the midterms. We are two months away from the mid-trams. Get out and vote. Let's get everyone out to vote.

They are cheating. They are trying to cheat. and we have got to turn out in big numbers and be too big to rig. I'll see out there. Who had that phrase first? Yeah, she stole it from Tom. I don't think she has an original thought. And she certainly can't essentially put together something cohesive without edits.

No, she can't. So there you go, kids. Folks, that does it for us this week. I hope you have a great weekend. Stay cool. Stay dry. Stay frosty. And we'll be back together with you on Monday.

God bless.