The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump's Ukraine Recap, The Mail-In Voting Fight Returns & Dana's College Move-In Nightmare

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

Dana recaps the White House meeting between Trump and European leaders including the best-and-worst moments. Do some Conservatives think Putin WON this negotiation? Russia agreed to the US and Europe providing security assurances for Ukraine for the first time. Why did Pam Bondi tap Missouri AG Andrew Bailey as an additional FBI Co-Deputy Director alongside Dan Bongino? Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold claims Trump is “obviously taking cues about democracy from a dictator like Putin” because he wants to BAN mail-in voting. Could Republicans take advantage of mail-in voting? Gavin Newsom’s press office has been embarrassingly tweeting ridiculous things to try and troll Trump and his Truth Social. Dana is having a difficult time getting her son to properly pack for another year of college. Sen. Eric Schmitt joins us to react to Trump’s Ukraine Summit, Attorney General Bailey getting promoted to the FBI, the Texas redistricting fight, mail-in ballots and more.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Boll & Branchhttps://bollandbranch.com/DANASHOWExperience your best sleep ever—get 15% off plus free shipping on your first set!Webroothttps://webroot.com/Dana Protect your digital life and get 50% off Webroot Total Protection or Essentials, exclusively with my URL!Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://humann.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its bestAngel Studioshttps://Angel.com/danaDecide what gets made — join the Angel Studios Member’s Guild today. Sign up and start making a difference.All Family Pharmacyhttps://allfamilypharmacy.com/Dana Start today and take your health back with All Family Pharmacy. Use code DANA10 for savings and enjoy your health, your choice, no more waiting, no more “no’s.”

Is there a date for you to meet with President Putin of Russia? Sorry, what you... Is there a date for you to meet with President? Date? Yes. No, no, we don't have any date. We don't have any date. We just conformed after this productive meeting with President

and then with all our colleagues, with the partners, we conformed that. We are ready for a trilateral meeting. And if Russia proposed to President of the United States, bilateral, and then, we will see there, the result. see that the result of bilateral and then it can be the trilateral. So I said always so Ukraine will never stop on the way to peace and we are ready for any kind of FOMAS, but on the level of leaders. Thank you so much. Well, nothing's changed. I mean ultimately, the we were talking about this all day yesterday. It's dominated the new cycle. All of the European

leaders that are in, we're in D.C. yesterday. for this high stakes meetings that they were having with everything having to do with Russia and Ukraine and and then if they can ever end the war, which I think there are people that they just don't want to end it. But ultimately it's at some point, you know, these European leaders have to step up. The EU can't sit here and call shots if they're not going to do anything. The EU can't call shots if they're going to run defense for, you know, member nations that. that don't want to meet the bare minimum of what they're supposed to owe for NATO. And NATO's not this cudgel that everybody can use because it's the United States, ultimately.

It's all us. So welcome to the radio program, Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this first hour and we're going to get into some of this. We're also going to get in. We've got some domestic stuff. We've got some oil and gas. We've got some culture for you as well. But, you know, he did ultimately end up putting on a suit jacket, I will say.

if you're watching that video. So apparently when he first arrived, he didn't have, he didn't, he was just in a t-shirt, apparently. But then he later put on a jacket. And I think Trump liked the jacket at least, even though it didn't have a tie. I think he, he at least did appreciate the jacket. And he had, he talked about that. This, I mean, will, whether or not Trump is, is successful in actually brokering this remains to be seen.

one of my favorite bits of audio, though, this is audio sound bite nine. Georgia Maloney. She rolls her eyes at Chancellor Merse. She's if Maloney has a famous eye roll. Watch. To work on that. And let's try to put pressure on Russia because the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are undertaking today are depending on at least a ceasefire from the beginning

of the serious negotiations from next step on. So I would like to emphasize this aspect and would like to see a ceasefire from the next meeting, which should be a trilateral meeting wherever it takes place. Well, we're going to let the president go over and talk to the president. She rolled her eyes out of her head when the German chancellor. That's not the first time that she's done that either. It's like there are all of these memes. And it's usually when Macron speaks or when the German chancellor speaks,

You can tell that she's not a major fan of them. Because she's not, I mean, she's conservative for crying out loud, but she's not a major fan of them. But it's funny to watch her react in real time to that. I always immediately, whenever they get together, my first thought is, where's Maloney? I want to watch what Maloney. That's immediately what I want to do. Because she's hysterical with, she's so expressive. She does not have a poker face at all.

She's very, very expressive. And so you know, whenever. immediately. It's starting to get stupid. Her eyes are going up to the ceiling. So they, we'll see how successful all of this is. But, you know, ultimately, I don't think that it, because there was more, I know, there were more bombings today. Russia launched a missile attack on central Ukraine. This was hours after the meeting that Trump had with Zelensky. And I don't, what, I'm trying to figure out what is the what is the point

with some on the right to run this narrative that Putin somehow is the winner from just a simple beginning negotiation someone explain this to me

Kane why the hell I've read two of the stupidest editorials this morning and I've been mad ever since there are factions of the right that still want war Is that what it is? Are they just like, I just don't like Trump so much that I want Putin to win? That's probably some of that too. I mean, there's, I would, you know, I'm a constitutionalist.

I would never consider myself a cult of personality for any lawmaker. Makes no sense. But at the same time, that's irrelevant to the fact that I want the United States to be successful. And I feel like this, you have a better chance here than you ever did with Biden. So why the hell would you cheer Vladimir Putin? That makes no sense to me. And they and so here's the defense like, well, we're not cheering Putin. No, but you're writing like they have, I mean, I can't even look at Drudge Report anymore.

What happened to Drudge Report? I don't know. Like Russia keeps, well, of course they do. They're an award. That's been long going though, yeah. But it's not, I mean, there are like a mill, there are, there's not a million, but there's, there's this, this faction that. I don't know, this faction that I've seen where they're very, I don't know, they're, they're celebrating, they're celebrating Putin. like, oh, he really got one over on Trump, and I'm scratching my head thinking how.

Okay, so he bombed parts of Ukraine. Nothing that they have touches what we flew over his head in Alaska, nothing. I mean, we, oh, do I want to say this on air? Well, hang on, let me test it with Kane. Hang on. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm just going to. My first thought was we literally with a B-2. Can I say that?

Of course, I mean, you can, but do you really want to? Well, I mean, it's very descriptive. How did you not think that? What? How did you not? When I watched, I was like, I know what that looks like. I don't know. Yeah.

I'm uncomfortable now. Oh, okay. Maybe if Kane wants you guys to know, Kane will tell you. Or he'll be selfish and keep it all to himself. We'll just put it on to him and see how this goes. We'll do that. What? Yeah, I'm just, I mean, it does have to do some tea.

That's for sure. That's for sure. So I I don't know And Lorraine says you noticed that Zelensky lost the jacket And unbuttoned the top of his shirt For the presser outside of the White House I mean you gotta look the part

I don't care if it's all black I actually prefer I like the black tie black shirt black jacket I like that look I mean you know we're tired goth kid You know it's a nice look But you know he That's fine if he did that when he went and met with Trump And that's fine dress the part we talked about this yesterday So I mean we're we're we're

going to keep our eye on this. We'll have more on it as well because their discussions are going to be ongoing for some time. In the meantime, the takeover of the D.C. police, do you know a number of states have committed their National Guard troops to this effort? How nice is that? That's so

nice. No, none of them are not a single one of them are what's they going to say, Democrat. Not a single one of them are Democrat. It's all Republicans. That one law and order, Republican governors. Residents. that are in the highest crime areas in D.C. are pushing back against this narrative that there's no crime.

They have been talking to the press that will talk to them anyway. And they said that they actually like this. They like the fact that their streets are getting cleaned out. They like the fact that, you know, if they go to the grocery store after they get off work and it's dusk turning into dark and they want to get their groceries out and go into their house because they have on street parking or off street parking, they can do it without getting run up from behind or mugged or assaulted or carjacked. I mean, the polling speaks for itself.

Now, the question is, at what point does the poll, do Democrats start to look at the polling and go, ooh, maybe we should back away from this narrative that crime is good? That's, I mean, boys on women's teams, crime is great. There's no inflation. I mean, that's Democrats, right? that's what has been happening. The data, they have already shown a dramatic drop in carjacking's down 83%.

This is new data. Washington Examiner has it. New data. Right? Carjacking is down 83%. Robberies down 46%. Overall violent crime down 22% during the first week. And one, because,

because I know it's important to the left. One of the victims, Ibrahim Hassan, who is attacked earlier this month by a mob of teens while he was working at the mall in Northeast, he said that the surge is of these federal agents actually is making his, it's helping his anxiety about becoming a victim again. He's been terrified to go to work. He just had the snop beat out of him by a team of a mob of teenagers. And so they've even been suggesting problem areas to federal authorities. So it's spreading. It's ongoing.

But they've seen a precipitous drop. And this guy, when he was talking to the Washington Examiner, was saying that they started to see an increase in this. They would see teenagers that would, like, come in. It would start with, like, small groups of teenage boys. And they would come in and they would kind of scope the place out. And then they'd come back. And maybe there was, like, a couple of more with them.

And they would scope the place out again. maybe tried to see what they could take. I mean, it was very organized and methodical. And then later on, that's when the mob would come in. Because I guess they were testing to see what their reaction would be, if only a small amount of things were taken. And they said that, I mean, it was horrible. They were throwing bricks, everything.

And this is just one example. How many times have we heard stories where you have like packs of wild teenagers that just start reading these stores? Some kids neither are ASB, and these parents do too, honestly. But they're seeing a major drop. And this is incredibly significant. A major, major drop in crime already. Well, yeah, with the first week, these criminals,

I hope they don't try to wait out law enforcement and then try to do these shenanigans again. That's the thing. So we're going to have more on this. Also, do you guys remember this story of, I'm going to pull this up. quick while I have time. You guys remember the story of the restaurant where this influencer walked in and was demanding a free meal. Okay, well, she ruined the chef's life. This influencer, who only had like a couple of thousand followers. You're not an influencer. You're your own fan. Stop. And she walked in expecting this free meal from this restaurant for quote unquote exposure.

And the chef was like, no, we're not doing this. This is stupid. And so she badmouthed them on line and his life is ruined. He got fired. The restaurant didn't have his back, which was kind of crappy, to be honest. This whole influencer culture, this guy's story gets worse and worse. So he ended up getting fired. He was getting harassed. And he was the one who was in the right. An entitled influencer shows up wanting a free meal doesn't get it. I mean, I would go after this girl for defamation because, you know, she's broke and she don't have it. if she's begging for free meals. So interesting story.

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Well, thank you very much, Donald, Mr. President, for hosting us today in this important meeting. And I think it is an important day, a new face, after three years and a half, that we didn't see any kind of sign from the Russian side that there was a willing for dialogue. So something is changing, something has changed thanks to you. Thanks also to the Stalin in the battlefield, which was achieved with the bravery of Ukrainian and with the unity that we all provided to Ukraine. Well, I mean, she seems pleased with it. I mean, I think there were some positive things

that came out of all of that yesterday. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. You are listening to the radio program. You can watch us do radio, Channel 347, Direct TV, as well as X and, you know, et cetera, all that good stuff. The, there was some encouraging things.

you had the EU president, Ursula von der Leyen, who was there. You were just hearing the Italy's Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney. You also had Alexander Stubb from Finland, Emmanuel Macron out of France, Kirstarmer from Britain, and who else am I mean? Oh, the NATO Secretary-Secretary General and a few other world leaders, the German Chancellor, were also there. And they, I think that there were, I still think that we're going to try to see what the Article 5 like means. I think that's something that they're still probably having to hammer out. And that's something that Steve Whitkoff was putting out there in the public, even days before all of this was happening, kind of getting people, I guess, used to the idea of what Article 5 like language to cover the security.

That's what he said. He goes, he said that we got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations could effectively, offer Article 5 like language to cover a security guarantee. So, you know, because Putin's, uh, red line was NATO membership. And so if they don't have NATO membership, but they have like NATO like security guarantee, well, what does a NATO like security guarantee look like? Because Ukraine just wants us to fight their conflict. That's what that is. They want us to fight their conflict. They want to get into NATO so they can say, oh, Article 5 is triggered. You guys have to come fight for us. And absolutely the hell not. Just no. That's just we do not have to attend every fight to

which we are invited. I know that that there is a neocon push to do that, but that's, I still need someone to actually elucidate what our interests are that would be threatened in that regard. So that's what that, his whole article five like, and that's what they've all been, all been kind of talk. I still don't know what that means. So what security assurance says. Now, remember, Article 5, this is what Article 5 says, quote, the parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them, it's the mutual defense. One or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently agreed that if such armed attack occurs, each of them an exercise of the right or the individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51,

blah, blah, blah, blah, will assist the party or parties so attacked by talking, by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with other parties, such actions as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. So it is Article 5 like protection, which I don't know what that means, but we'll see. It's all about this disputed territory. Now, what would happen then if it's an Article 5 like protection, well, what happens if there's another incursion.

And would, wouldn't, for there to be a peace agreement, isn't there something that Putin would have to agree to? And do you see Putin agreeing to this? That's the, Whitkoff said Putin already agreed to Article 5 like. To Article 5 like, yes. Yeah, I don't know about that. I mean, maybe. But then that kind of contradicts a lot of the stuff that we heard when they came out that

they didn't really come to a serious, I mean, they, they didn't, Trump didn't walk away. And they held a press conference. I think if it had gone completely sour, they would have not held a press conference. But wouldn't you think Putin, if this is what Whitkoff put out a couple days ago, that by now he would have refuted it if it wasn't true? No, not necessarily.

I don't think Whitkoff answers to the press. No, I mean Putin would have refuted it. I don't know if that's... The only person I've seen saying that it's been totally agreed upon is Whitkoff. Right. That's the only thing. I've seen a lot of European leaders say, yes, we would like Article 5 like protections to be included.

But so far, Wicoff is the only person that I've seen that's kind of, you know, kind of put this out there in that way. So we'll see. But what that would look like, I mean, that security guarantee that remains to be seen. So we'll circle back to this. Also, a couple of other things. I saw this too. Trump administration's unveiled a massive oil and gas lease expansion.

This is one that Biden tried to kill. It's over a daily caller. I thought this was a very interesting development, something that needed to be done. This is all a part of POTUS trying to, or moving to unleash domestic energy, which we need to, our production. It's part of the one big, beautiful bill. You had the Department of the Interior. They released a long-term offshore leasing schedule earlier today, all about boosting American energy. and they said that it's a schedule for offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of America and Alaska's Cook Inlet.

So they're going to hold four lease sales by next August and 10 offshore lease sales by 2028, according to the Department of the Interior. And the Biden administration clamp down on offshore gas, and you guys know this, enacting this last minute drilling ban. et cetera, et cetera. So this is good. You know what we need, though? We need more refineries. I mean, that's great. You can have all the lease. You can expand all the leases you want. It doesn't mean nothing if we don't have more refineries. I'm not quite sure why that hasn't been brought up by energy and DOI. That's a significant thing. So this is good. This is all excellent. I'm very pleased with us. But I would love to see some regulation blasting as it pertains to Because how are you going to refine all this stuff?

You get your career, how are you going to do it? You know, we have a limited number now. And every time we seem to move towards expansion or exploration of expansion, Dems shut it down. They shut it down under Biden. So we'll see. Another development, and this is an interesting one. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I found this out last night.

We were at a fundraiser for the guy going for Armin Mazzani, who's a mayor of Keller, Texas. for Giovanni Capiglione's seat, Giovanni Carpiglioni. Guy slept around on his wife and was a really bad lawmaker. He was a moderate squish for Rhino and he's leaving. So now we got this special election. So I met this dinner and then I see this headline pop up. So I, Missouri has some really, has had a series of really good attorneys general, right? You had Eric Schmidt, who's now a senator.

He's been a great senator. and then Andrew Bailey, who we've gotten to know very well, Missouri being my home state, became the AG in Schmidt's place. And he's done really, really well, very aggressive. Schmidt was very aggressive. Bailey's very aggressive. They're one of the aggressive, you know, that two of the, they were two very aggressive AGs. Bailey's been very good. And it was announced yesterday that he's going to be co-deady director alongside Dan Bongino, tapped by. Pam Bondi. I really like Andrew Bailey and I think he's a gem but I don't know what I think of this move.

It seems like a demotion. A deputy co-director, I'm sorry, somebody who does not have the legal background. I just don't get it. Yeah, I understand. And I look at it like... Like what the hell are you going to do is co-deputy director. You're AG. You can be literally the tip of the spear on so many things and he has been.

That's why everybody knows his name because he's amazing. Absolutely agree with you. Why do you have to be a co-deafee? deputy. I look at it as you know the role of the FBI isn't it is to gather the evidence do the investigation and to gather the evidence and that's where it ends. So what I like about the move is that Andrew has and knows the evidence that's required in order to make something work in order to so it's almost like the assembly line worker that's a mechanic who designs it that way so that four years down the road when your car has to be taken to a mechanic the mechanic's like

oh thank God a mechanic design this because I actually can fix it. This is what I think Andrew would do best. He would have the evidence, understand what's powerful and what isn't in that category, and be able to effectively help the FBI in their efforts of gathering and investigating. I feel like if you, I just, I feel like it's a demotion for both of them. Because it's like, oh, you're not good enough as a deputy.

Here's a co-deady. And then we're going to take our brightest AG and we're going to shove him down to a deputy. I mean I can see that I can see that perspective I'm all about maximizing every piece on the board and I'm sorry but that's how I look at a lot

I tell I look at these people I'm like how it's human chess how can we maximize this position how can we maximize this and I just I just don't I just don't see how this is a this isn't even a parallel move this isn't

I don't know how to say lateral move thank you this isn't even a lateral move. I don't know, because he's been such a great AG. And he's led. I mean, you remember all the stuff that he's led on when you had Joe Biden. Oh, man. In China? Oh, my gosh. He's been amazing. So now he's going to be a co-de deputy director. I mean, how many damn deputy directors do you have to have? What that says to me is that somebody doesn't feel confident about the leadership at the FBI and they need someone basically to drive the ship and somebody else to act like the avatar. That's what

it reads to me. I mean, or you could put qualified people in the positions in the first place if you're worried about their legal background. I don't, I mean, I don't even necessarily think that you have to have that sort of a legal background as a deputy director of the FBI. That's why he seems entirely overqualified for this position. Rumor was, Janine Piro wanted it and she turned it down. Yeah, it's fair to say he's overqualified for that position, absolutely. That the rumor was Piero wanted it. Or no, they wanted Piro in it. And she said, no, I'm not doing that. that. And she's better as U.S. Attorney in D.C. anyway. I mean, she's very good. So I, I don't know. I, and then my other concern is, well, who's going to replace Bailey as AG? And apparently it's

Catherine Hannaway. And I don't, Catherine Hannaway, I had a couple, I don't know, we kind of danced, I guess, during the Tea Party days. She's, uh, an old school Republican out of Missouri. And She was viewed in the Tea Party days as a very big time moderate. Big time moderate. She was not a Tea Party favorite during those days, the early Tea Party days. And I feel like, I don't know, I was hearing from some folks that it was Andy Blunt that was calling the shots. And I don't know how many Blunts got to be involved in this stuff. If it's not Roy Blunt, then it's Matt Blunt.

I mean, how many blunts do we got? It's a snoop dog joke in there somewhere. But I don't know how I feel about all this because I don't, I just don't know how you go from a Bailey to a Hannaway. You know what I mean? I mean, she's an attorney, but is she aggressive like Bailey? Her record, from my view, does not support that at all. It's like a, I'm not being mean. I'm just calling it as it is.

If people want to get mad at me for being honest about it, then maybe have a different narrative for me to observe. but she's not the fighter like Bailey is. So we've knee-capped, at least with regards to attorney general, I feel like we knee-capped. Because I've known all these people, I know every single one of these players. And I was really shocked at that replacement. I mean, my jaw hit the floor last night. I was at the table. I had people from Missouri calling me and texting.

Like, did you see this? Did you can actually text it at first? And I kid you not, like 23 minutes after, I got like a. series of text, then my phone started ringing. And I was really shocked to see the replacement. Because that's not a name that's come up in, I mean, at least to that level for a while. She's been around in Missouri Republican politics since 98, a long time. So I don't get this move. And I also know that he was not interested in running for governor. he's got little kids and he wanted to stay in Missouri.

So what does this mean? This means he's going to go to D.C. This means you're going to, I mean, I just, I'm not questioning what people do privately. I'm questioning the strategy of this. Especially, you know, if you are wanting to make the move to run for a higher office, I don't see how stepping down to do a co-de deputy position, how that helps you. I wonder if Trump saw his work with China on the legal side of things. And maybe he has.

Let's shove you in the closet as a co-deady. What I mean is that there's some investigations that can go on that probably his expertise going through that already would be helpful for something that Trump hasn't mentioned yet. I'm just, it's all speculation at this point, but. Why can't Bondi do it? I'm like, let the dude. The hell is she there for anyway then? Let the dude cook, bro. Well, then why can't she do it?

Let the dude cook, bro. I mean, she's there for a purpose. Why do we got to be poaching and kneecapping ourselves with our really good AGs and shoving them in the closet? Yeah, I know. you're right. But FBI doesn't do any of the prosecuting. They only do the investigating and the... Well, that's her job. That's her job. That's her job.

Do your damn job. Don't be poaching other AGs. Now I'm questioning her ability to do this. And I had questions in the get-go. Now I'm wondering, why the hell we've got to bring Bailey in? Now you're going to have two different attorneys general. The one is DOJ and now another is co-depity. I'm sorry, that is such a position.

That is such a demotion. That is such... I mean, it is a demotion. I'm sorry. That's how I look at it. I'm just shocked. I was just shocked by it. We have more on the way as we rolled awards our second hour as we do so.

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elections. Look, mail ballots are secure. They cannot be hacked because they're a piece of paper. That is increasingly more important, as Trump has made our elections less secure since taking office again. He's disbanded. Much of the federal government's work on countering foreign disinformation and it's obviously taking cues about democracy from a dictator, Putin. This is so stupid. I mean, he's obviously taking cues from Putin. This is so goofy. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. You can watch us do the radio show on Channel 347 DirecTV. I had some panty waste who tried to have his pre-minstrel dysphoric disorder at me in an email because he hated my microphone and because I look down.

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And good and bad. There's reasons to like and reasons to hate. And then also the acknowledgement that, I don't know if it's ever going to go away. That's kind of a problem. So let's start with the obvious. This woman is full of excrement. Absolutely. what she said was one of the dumbest things I've ever heard anybody say.

I literally had people mail to my home, mail-in ballots, fraudulent mail-in ballots for other people to my address. I had to go and deal with the Department of Elections through your Secretary of State, not just for Texas. I also got a mail-in ballot to vote in Missouri in 2016. We moved here to Texas in 2013. So don't tell me that they're secure because I know firsthand that they're not. Someone asked me, are you going to share photos? Yeah, I'm going to put my home address in a photo online for you. I, it was not an easy thing to reconcile either, by the way, because apparently someone had

voted from my address fraudulently in 2016 for Hillary Clinton at this address. And then they just kept using this address to vote in. And so we had to get that, we'd like strike their votes. It was crazy. but we had ballots for other people that were fraudulent. They registered to this to our home address sent to my house. And I could have voted in Missouri in 2016. So what she's saying here, and this is, what's her face again?

She's whatever. Colorado Secretary of State. They are not secure at all. And I don't know where this whole thing, well, she's taking cues from a dictator. Can you just be smarter? I'm so tired of hearing this absolutely specious brain dead talking point. It's not creative and you sound stupid. It's just dumb. It's a dumb thing to say. Stop it. Well, it's taking cues from people. No, he's not. But I actually differ a little bit from POTUS on mail and ballots and I'm going to get into that. But this idea that these are secure is an absolute lie. I mean, truth of vote uncovered mail and ballots that were parked in somebody's, you know, like tons of them parked in people's houses in Houston. I mean, there's too many examples all over the country. It's just simply not.

actual. But here's the reality of these mail and ballots. First off, that this, I don't know if it's here to stay, but it has been increasing. Because, and I think Republicans did contribute some of that because there's been different ways to look at it, right? You're not guaranteed either straight voter integrity and honesty with the old way of voting. Now, that's not an argument for mail and ballots, but I'm I want to make sure that people understand that even the old school way is corruptible. There's a story of Lyndon Johnson. This was in goodness. It was a Democratic Senate primary in Texas in like 1948. And they stuffed the ballots to put him over the top in that race.

That's fact. It was box 13 and they made sure that they had enough ballots to put him over the top. So that's a true thing that's happened, you know. Don't forget what happened in Florida in 2000 with the hanging chads. It's the only reason why we all know what those dots are is because of that. And that was old school. And that had to, that was determining a presidential election. And how many months did they take?

They had to go through and painstakingly examine every single card by hand. Now, the mail and ballot has been growing. And this is where I actually like this approach to it. So in Florida, they started doing it different. They threatened, and I think DeSantis was one of the people who started it. They threatened Democrats, okay, you want mail and ballots. We're going to get so good at it that you're going to want to outlaw it. And that's what they started doing.

They started doing that. And Republicans, they went from, I think, in Pennsylvania, 24% of the vote for mail and ballots. And that was in 2020 to 33% in 2024. and then they started outpacing Democrats with mail and ballots in Arizona. So when you're getting these people to vote that early, first off, you've got to look at voters in different tiers. You have your high propensity voters. You have like different gauges of how devoted and active they are in terms of party politics.

And when you get those people to go out and vote early, you immediately lock them in. They are off the chess board. And there's a, there's a good strategy to that. And there's a good point to it. But not every single state does mail and balloting in a way that assures residents of another state of its integrity. And this is one of the criticisms that a lot of people had in 2020 because of, you know, COVID and everything else and everything kicking out. Everybody went and going into the elections, people were very nervous about, you know, what did that look like? How can you trust the integrity of this vote? Because the states each run their voting. But if you want other states to accept your state's voting results, then you need to keep to the agreement that everybody has with each other. And you need to prove that you are doing everything that you can do to make sure that it is, that the integrity is upheld and that it is as pure as possible. Now, I have some friends who think

that Georgia handles theirs. I don't actually like Georgia's law. I think that theirs are too loose. Some people think that they're too, that they're really strict. In Georgia, you ask for an absentee ballot and then you have to provide a photo ID, like a valid photo ID. And you have to do it X amount of days before the actual election day and all of that stuff. And then the outer everything has to be completed and has the date and all that stuff. Or it's rejected by the county elections office. but I still think that it's a little, I still think that that's loose. I mean, 11 days, come on.

I'm, I don't oppose absentee voting if, you know, like there are people who, you know, travel or have health issues or college or military, whatever. But that should be an exception, not the rule. And if we have to make it easier to have a national day of voting where everybody gets the day off to go and vote, then maybe that's something that we should consider. But Republicans have got to get better at mail-in ballot.

It's not going to go away. And in the areas where it's prevalent, Republicans need to outplay Democrats. And we've already shown that we can do that in Arizona and in Florida and in Pennsylvania. We've already shown that we can do it. But we have to have some pretty strict rules around it. You know, you can't just show up and drop an envelope in a box, you know, and not even have it signed and not even have a stamp date on it. You can't be doing that stuff. That's the stuff that was happening during COVID, right?

So these are. all things that I think these are all things that we have to deal with and one of the other realities too and I was reading this this was a thing that was done pulling this up it was done a study of voting patterns pre and post COVID and when you do the vote by mail stuff the voter turnout so the voter turnout actually, it only slightly increased, and it didn't slightly increase in favor of Democrats necessarily. So that's what I'm saying. We could totally game this, like, all get out. And that's, I think, well, that's what Republicans in Florida have done. Now Democrats down there want it, they don't want mail and ballot in anymore. They're done. And there are still, I mean, this, this, I don't know, I think that we have to go about it a smarter way. And, Just because it's a paper ballot does not mean that the integrity. I mean, you can fill out multiple paper ballots.

You remember Kane and, what was it? In St. Louis, they had, I can't remember some councilwoman that was busted in a Burger King in North St. Louis. And she was sent at a table with a bunch of Social Security, fake Social Security cards. And they were filling out mail-in-bouts. Yeah. Yeah. It is the thing. Also, we've got reports where they've run them through the machine several times.

So the paper ballot, although one vote, it was counted several times because of how many times it was put through the machine. So yes. Yeah. Yes. So the, the study that they did on this, universal vote by mail has no impact on partisan turnout or vote share. It's actually a really legit study.

The dude's not a, he's not a leftist who did it. And it's not like, you know, partisan zealotry. It is, I think you need to know the lay of the lane and you need to know the facts of it. So you know how to game it. That's how I look at it. Oh, okay. So then we can really tip the skills in our favor then if it doesn't favor Democrats necessarily. That's the thing. But you got to remember, I mean, even the paper ballots,

like I said, LBJ, man, they stuffed that when he was running for that Democrat Senate primary. It was a Democrat primary and they were still stuff in the ballot box. And then you saw it happened in Florida. So it absolutely, there's no guarantee for any of it. That is the only guarantee is turnout. That is why you have to completely, and I've said this over and over again for over a decade. The only way to guarantee is to have credit. crazy turnout. And what makes me so livid is that so many red states, some of the lowest voter turnout is in red states. In Texas, for instance, the county that I live in, Ted Cruz lost, and we live in the largest red urban county in the country. And it is the last large red urban

county in the country. And Ted Cruz lost it to Beta O'Rourke. And this was, when was this? came was this 2018 to 2020 is when O'Rourke ran against Cruz. He lost it, but he lost this county to Bader O'Rourke by over 2,000 votes. And it's not because there were more Democrats that voted. It's because Republicans didn't turn out.

It is the most, it's the rightest district for a reason. There are way more Republicans in this district than Democrats. And I went and I look, all of this stuff, folks, you can go to your Secretary of State website. They, by law, they make this available, you and you can literally break down the votes by district, by county, by city. And it's not that

we had more Democrat voters. I also ran this with the, I crossed it with the census and I was the latest available numbers looking at the influx of people moving into Tarrant County, etc. It's not that we had more Democrats moving in. That was a myth. That's a myth that Republicans who are lazy and want to sit on their asses tell themselves as a way to excuse their apathy. It wasn't that more Democrats. moved in. Republicans didn't go vote. Two-thirds of the Republicans didn't go vote. Almost two-thirds, I should say. That's insane. You know the special election in 2020 in Georgia? Marjorie Taylor Green's super red district. They had the lowest voter turnout that they had in like a decade.

There are like no Democrats that live in that district. But Republicans didn't show up. So that is always the problem. Republicans' biggest threat to themselves with voting. isn't Democrats. It's themselves. That's the issue. It is our friends over at Relief Factor. You can manage your everyday aches and pains very simply with relief factor. It's a daily drug-free supplement designed to manage those aches and pains naturally. My husband has had great results with it. He's had sports injuries from hockey and football and it helps him when he can, when he's in the gym. And the big, I think the big thing is that it targets inflammation. I mean, so many things are related to inflammation and not not paying attention to it but it's loaded with turmeric omega

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meaning they feel things more deeply than others. I have a different word for it. A review of 33 studies, 13,000 people found that higher sensitivity is linked to more symptoms of anxiety and depression. They say it's not a disorder, but it does shake. how people experience mental health. I think there's something to that. I think there's some people that are way more empathic, empathetic, but empathic, than others.

Yeah. So I think that, you know, they may take it personally or they may feel slighted because they observe something that other people didn't. But stop being panties, for real, just stop. Like, you know, it's not, stop taking everything that everybody does seriously because it's not worth it. It just not worth it.

Just, nah, shrug it off and let them. You know, let's just take it a. Gotta go through life. I know that's a very Bob Newhart of me, but okay. Let's see. A law to help sex abuse victims is creating an insurance crisis for public schools and local agencies. Or rather, people are creating these problems, not the victims. Thank you.

A new California law opened gates for victims of childhood sexual assault. They can sue public entities that failed to keep them safe. And now apparently there's, yeah, well, that's what happens, right? F-A-F-O. You don't do your job. You don't protect your students. Then guess what? this sort of stuff happens. Without penalties, it will continue to happen. Sadly, you can't appeal

to someone's morality to do their job and make sure that people are protected, but you can if there is a financial penalty. How sad is that? MSNBC is changing its name because they, we're going to joke about this letter, because they think that you're not going to know. PMSNBC. It's going to be called MS now. Ms. Now. That's what I see. Are you going to, no, I'm not going to watch it. I don't care. It just sounds goofy. But they're, they're separating and I don't know.

I just don't think that's going to assist them because I think that the reason that they even lasted this long is because they had that veneer of respectability with the NBC on it. Not that NBC is, you know what I mean, gave them a little bit of legacy. A 40-year-old man got stuck in a slide at a school playground in Vernon, Illinois. That's what you get. He got stuck in the slide. Northeast Elementary School. The fire department responded because the dude got trapped at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday. He was literally wedged in the middle of the slide and they had to get him out.

They gave him me an oxygen and it was really hot outside. They had to set up ventilation. It took him 30 minutes to free him. Oh my gosh. I mean, you know, you should know. Look at you. Look at the slide. Look at you again.

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And when you look at California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, they've squeezed out. All Republicans, they can possibly squeeze out. What Texas is doing, we're just drawing fair maps as allowed by law, and it will ensure that at least five more members of Republicans will be serving in the United States. So, I don't know. Welcome back to the program. Substack, Dana Lash, chapter inverse, find us YouTube, Facebook. So the, this situation, the drawing the maps, all that stuff, what we're doing fair, we're going to get into, I'm just so damn tired of talking about it because these people have prolonged this for so long and have dragged it out.

We want property tax relief. I am all for like having another civil war if I don't get it. And I mean it literally. I will literally, I have a zero problem with that. Remember, we choose to be peaceful. We choose to be peaceful. it's a choice. We don't choose violence every day when we wake up.

We choose peace. So we're not harmless. I'm just, it's just, you get tired of it. We're talking about the mail-on ballots, all this other stuff. I wanted to talk about, I had a great song lined up. I wanted to talk about the whole Gavin News, because what is Gavin Newsom doing? Like, he keeps picking fights with Texas over this stuff. He's been, he's picking fights with everybody.

I don't understand. what he thinks this serves, what purpose he thinks this serves. And not, I don't get it. He apparently has like a whole social media team that runs, I mean, it's the Governor Newsom Press office. So it's verified. You know what he said? He told one person who criticized him, quote, your husband keeps poop and porn in his

pockets. what that is his official account that yes not even making this up that is his actual official governor newsome verified no yes I mean I pulled

I am that's his actual if you don't believe me hold up here it is I'm giving it to you right now leaning all the way in on trolling is basically what you're saying that's not even funny or clever it's just like cringe like what what are you doing what do you think this is he has three people that run his comms team i had this where's the story at gosh i hate these gestures on this i'm going to take this the whole new computer iowa i'm going to just shoot it the mossberg uh he had there was this uh article

that was quoting his uh oh here it is this is so funny so his social media person is some i don't know some chick, and they said, oh, she's part of a team of three. This is Camille Zepeda. She's the genius behind a social media post. She's a part, she's a part of a team of three. Well, she can't wear clothing that fits her. She's wearing like the slouchy stuff in her little photo. I don't know. He has three people that run this account. Three people came. Three whole people. And then you have Izzy Garden. Oh, for the love. Seriously. That sounds like a bad HGTV show. I don't know what the genius is doing a lot of heavy lifting here with us. I, uh, I mean, not kidding.

This is actually some of the, I can't even, some of them are so cringy. I don't even want to read them on the show because it's just, it, you, you just get secondhand cringe and it doesn't help anybody. But they have this great comms team guys. They're really, they've had, they've been calling people Voldemort. Hang on. I'm just looking at all of these different tweets of his that he has. Our Wi-Fi is, we're having technical issues here, so bear with us. So we've got the, him making, so they're making fun of, I mean, everybody, they went after Nome, different conservative accounts.

They went after Casey DeSantis. They cussed out Stephen Miller. They called someone Voldemort, stupid, I mean, it's bad. It's, I, I don't even understand what, this is just, it's pointless. It's embarrassing. It's absolutely embarrassing. It really is.

And I just, no, I don't see any sign of it ever ending. This is their, this is their comms team. And their, this account was the one that did the caps lock, like version of the stuff Trump does, of Trump's style of posting. So they were talking about Texas and gerrymandering. And they said, gosh, I don't want to read this. Oh, gosh, this is killing me. I'm doing it for you guys. They went after, who are they going after?

They were saying that final warning, Donald Trump, maybe the most important warning in history. Stop cheating or California. Will we redraw their maps? This is all caps lock. And all of it. And guess who will announce it this week? Gavin Newsom, many say the most loved and handsome governor

and a very powerful team. don't make us do it many exclamation points thank you for your attention to this matter see only he can do this you guys just look stupid doing it it just looks thirsty and then you have these leftists who are like we think it's so great they're like they're falling all over themselves to praise it three people three people and they were talking about their comms team they said this is the one chick that i mentioned uh she leads a team of three They troll 47 by mimicking his words and poor grammar. They don't back down.

Imagine going to college and this is what you, that's your job. I troll for Gavin Newsom. I don't even have my own byline. I just troll for his press office. That's all I do. It's embarrassing. What did they, I mean, you could have AI do this better probably. You know, that can you don't even need these three people.

You could just eliminate their jobs and. I think these three people may be AI created. they've gone after they've tried to give them people nicknames they've and it doesn't even honestly doesn't even sound like the stuff that trump would say it doesn't even sound like the stuff he would say this is what gets me the free press david mamet who we're going to have back on the show i can't say what the headline of this was but i was reading these tweets from newsome's press office and then i saw this piece over at the free press from david mamet the the subhead

is brilliant. Profanity was once a useful weapon and now it's a dull blade. Now I'm going to tell you guys, I don't have, I don't have any vices, really. I'm not, I've never done, I don't do drugs. I've never done drugs. I, you know, every now and then I'll socially drink for having dinner. I don't smoke. I don't, but I, you know, when you come from a family of sailors, you get creative with your language. And so that's my only vice, I should say. But now, because I hear it so often on the left, I'm like, ooh, no, I don't even want to do that anymore. I catch myself like, oh, no, that's a no, no Democrat word. I think what he says here is brilliant.

And he basically talks about how the left is, they're ruining profanity, like everything else. They're ruining profanity, like they're ruining everything else. And I think that that's, I mean, I think it's smart. That's, it's absolutely true. and he said profanity of the streets was, you know, in those days, it was way much, it was so much more aggressive. And it meant something, basically is what he's saying. Now they're throwing it out as a veneer. They're, they're cos playing tough.

And they think that hijacking profanity is the way to. convey that toughness without actually having anything else that defines toughness, if that makes sense. They're ruining it. Like they're making it cringe. They're ruining everything. They, they ruin comedy. They've ruined everything. They've ruined music. They've ruined arts and entertainment. They've ruined government. What have they not ruined? They are a plague upon the earth, this ideology. And he's right. I mean, it was a useful weapon. It was a sign that you went too far.

Oh, wow, wait. That was a line. Oh, there's a boundary I crossed. Oh, that person's upset or joyfully just out of their mind with exuberance, whatever. Now it's, I mean, you have Beto O'Rourke waving around his noodle arms. I mean, if you, he's like the same proportion in size as his wife. I just, I don't know. It ruins it.

It makes it cringe. And Kane, have you noticed? Have you sort of, now you kind of recoil in horror cringe whenever you hear a salty word now just because the left is ruined it so much? Yeah. Yeah, it is.

We always say that. It's a spice. Curcing is a spice. That's a good way to put it. You overdo it. It's no good. It's the spice melange. you overdo it and it's exactly i completely agree it it's but now it's just and this is this is what

newsome and his social media counter doing they're trying to act like they're so tough they're trying to act like they're so tough look we're cursing at uh you know dana perino or we're cursing at you know somebody good heavens it's just it's so oh my gosh it's just it's just cringe it's cringe so i don't know i don't think that this is going to serve the purpose that he thinks it does. I don't think that Newsom doing this is going to attract any like independents or leftist or progressives that are going to see him or hear him talk like this or see the stuff that he's tweeting and go, oh, that's so edgy. Because it just seems so contrived and forced. And that's the other thing that Mamet, you know, gets to. He's like, you know, it, it was a

spontaneous thing. It wasn't something that was focused grouped and planned out and, and released at a certain time as like some sort of toughness. buff. That's not what it's like. That's not what it's for. I don't know. It's so, it's frustrating. They're ruining something else now. We got a lot more on the way as we move our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. So when you switch to Patriot Mobile, first off, you're working with a company that shares your values, faith, family, and freedom. That you're also working with a company that has put a lot of resources into putting up wins, right, putting up points on the board.

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Is he smirking? He's smirking. 61 years old. I get what Kane says about hating old people. I mean, I don't get it. It's still mean, you know, not all of them are like that. He used a surveillance system to activate his sprinkler system to spray his disabled children next door because he was mad about their bus stop location. He did.

Look at his little island for those. watching the simulcast. I swear to you, he's smirking. This is so ignorant. What a mean person. He consistently activated his sprinklers twice a day when the victims, they have to be literally loaded and unloaded from the school bus. They can't go to like a bus stop blocks away. They have to have help to get on the bus. And so investigators actually surveilled his home and they confirmed that it was directly aimed at the school bus stop. So it was activated. Now, can you imagine getting, you know, sprayed and you're soaking wet when you're getting on the bus going to school? And the dad had to start wearing swimming attire to shield his children from the sprinklers. And when deputies made contact with this guy where the phone, he said he was upset about the location of the bus stop. And he did not like that it utilized part of his driveway for the wheelchair ramp of one of the victims needed. Oh my gosh. Can I just have 60 seconds in a locked room with this guy? That's all I need. All I need. I don't even need that. Give me 30 seconds. 30 seconds.

I'll just take 30. That's it. He faces charges of a stalking battery on disabled persons and battery. Or, yeah, battery on a disabled person and just regular battery. Wow. What a jerk. Can you imagine? Like, I, what a horrible person.

Now, if he felt like somebody was trespassing, why didn't he talk to his neighbor about it? Why did he, I don't know. And I bet he thinks he's in the right this whole time, too. That's just horrible. See, these are the kind of stories that made me so incredibly mad. Let's see here. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

So two guys got into a fight and won over Trump and bankruptcy. And then one of them got stabbed. Okay, because one of them stabbed the other. A Florida man fatally stabbed his friend during a heated political argument about Donald Trump's business ventures. And now he faces the possibility of dying. behind bars because a jury convicted him of murder. Okay, I have a real problem with his middle name. Donald James Brown Henry.

It's one word. The James, I'm not making this up. The James Brown is one word. Donald James Brown Henry. It's like Mark Wayne. So you have three first names and one last one. And the last one's the middle name. That's too many names for you.

At some point you have enough. 38 years old, 38 years old. He was found guilty of second degree murder for killing Sean Pop. I swear these names are made up. And what authorities describe as a shocking example of how political divisions can turn deadly. So he's going to have minimum 17, no parole. And apparently

they were arguing and they were doing, they were smoking pot. But I thought that like totally doesn't that space you out? Or wait, aren't they all? Or is it tweakers? The people who are always suspicious. Or paranoid, sorry.

do get paranoid. Okay, well, maybe it was the paranoid marijuana. I don't know. Are I'm sure there's different kinds, I guess, that make you more paranoid. So he said that they were both arguing over Trump going bankrupt. That's the statement. And then apparently that enraged the Mr. James Brown Henry, Donald James Brown Henry. And then the Henry, he became the antagonist, became aggravated.

And he was convinced that Pop was talking to him like he was stupid. He was sharpening apparently a kitchen knife while all this was happening. So let's just hold up for a second. They're smoking pot. He's sharpening a kitchen knife. And they're arguing over Trump's business. And so he took the knife and plunged it right into the pop's chest. The victim walked outside and then collapsed.

So he's absolutely, yeah, he's totally charged with murder because he did it. So 17 years minimum. No parole. It's wild, wild, wild. Let's see. oh, we got, well, I'll have to tell you about the jester who was actually arrested for felony assault tomorrow. We have our third hour on the way. Stick with us. It's the folks over at WebRood.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour and you can watch us make radio magic. Channel 347 Direc TV is a simulcast. The chat is at Rumble. all kinds of good stuff. So I got to tell you, a little sidebar for moms and dads

that are dealing with the back-to-school stuff. So for my friends, my husband and I got married very young. So our kids out of all of our friend group are the oldest of all the kids because everybody waited until like they were basically in their 30s before they started having kids.

And we, I mean, we started right away. And I always hear them talk about, oh my gosh, back to school. like going to high school, going to, which it is. There's always a list of stuff that you have to get. There's things that you have to get, you know, and there's specific items and then everybody goes to the same stores. And so, you know, you got to go earlier at Slim Pickens. Nothing prepares you, though.

Boy moms out there, I know you're going to feel me. Nothing prepares you, though, for when you have sons that are going to college. And they, it's worse than the high school junior high going back to school stuff. Now, love the boys. They're great, they're responsible. And I always tell people, I don't think college is for everybody. I think there's certain disciplines. And my son, he got scholarships. So I'm like, it's, be stupid to not take them. But I also think his discipline is one that I would suggest college for if you're going into a particular field. You know, if you're going into certain engineering, you're going into medicine law. I think that's fine. And he's going into one of the three.

So to that point, boy moms, at some point your sons go from Chattie Cathies to here is a one-syllable answer to everything. And then you have to take out your runes and basically try to figure out from your runes what that means. You have to use magic to try to figure out what they mean from this one-syllable word. It is the most frustrating thing ever. and when you have a bunch of boys that are like rooming together, it's even crazier. So for instance, I'm like, okay, well, they don't think, you always think that you prepare your kids for everything, right? And I feel like, you know, we've been doing a really good job with that stuff. And then you get weird questions like, can I put this in the microwave or can I use metal on a nonstick pot or, you know, things like that?

And then you go full stop. What did I not teach you? And so every year at this time, for those who have left the house, I go through this crazy list of I need to repeat this as often as possible. Send them a list of things that they need to understand basic, just in case I didn't cover this. You're like, oh my gosh, don't put foil in the microwave. Oh my gosh. You know, all this crazy stuff. And my son's getting stuff together and he's going to college and he's rooming.

He's got three other roommates. And they have like a kitchen, right? And they were talking about, you know, I guess stuff that they can make and things like that. And I said to my son casual, I was like, do you have like plates and utensils? I mean, you can't eat out all the time. And you have a meal plan with school. So that's going to be helpful. But what about inclement weather?

You know, what, you know, what was something? I guess we need plates. Like, you guess? You get! You get! Like, I can't eat. even tell you for someone who I plan methodically everything, everything out. If we go anywhere, if we travel, if we do anything, if we Christmas, Thanksgiving, I mean, my meals are planned out.

Everything I do. I will go to a restaurant if we host like a business thing and everything is planned out. I mean, I will literally pre-order things. I'm so type A. And your days, you know, away from like going somewhere, moving in and you're like, I have to need some plates. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'll just see it with my feet. I don't know. And I'm just thinking, how? I can't even hardly verbalize it. And it just gives, I don't get anxiety. So I don't know if that's what this is. But I, I am unsettled. And I feel like, is that, I don't know if that's, I don't want to be like, doctor, do I have anxiety? I feel unsettled. And, you know, because of this instance, because they don't know if they need plates and they don't have any silverware. What are you going to cook? get in. You're going to use your hands. Like what is good? What are you doing? See, I think that's a difference between moms and dads. Because I think dads would be like, oh, you know what, this is a good opportunity for the kid to learn. A little lesson. I'm not going to sit there and like help him out with dishes, something basic like that. He's going to have to figure it out for himself. And guess what?

He'll learn and it'll be fine. And everybody will be happy and he'll be a self-sufficient individual. Well, I told him, I'm like, so, you know, you could get like, uh, melamine. You know, dishwasher safe melamine. That way you don't have to get like a nice plate that's going to break. And then I get, well, I guess any plastic? No. No. No.

It's not the same. Some lead plates while you're on. Oh my gosh. Oh, boy moms, please. I know you feel me out there. And the girls, I don't even under. Oh, the Lord did not give me daughters for a reason. Oh my gosh.

Because I, I've been watching all of my girlfriends, their daughters that are going to college. what is up with the rooms? So one of our friends' daughters was telling me about this site. I swear they don't advertise. It's just the whole name screams Cupcake. Love Shack Fancy. I don't even know.

Like three random words. We're going to throw it together. It's basically like if unicorns explode on sale. That's what it is. Everything like roughly and glitter and brine stones. And these girls' rooms look like someone. It looks like the Cupcake room. room in Willie Wonka's factory. I don't know how else to describe it. Like they go in and they have like

whole entire houses in their dorm rooms. I don't get this. And they, they've like the frilly curtains and they have feathers on the lamps and multiple rugs and things are hung on the walls and you go in the like my son's room. And he has an anti-commy poster taped to the wall and like a couple of hodgepodge things and that's it. It is super. Spartan, very Spartan. And he's, I think he honestly, I think that guys pride themselves on how Spartan they can be. Is that true? Is that true, Kane?

There is a level of truth to that. I'll admit it. Like, they move in and it takes a second. And then they get messages from their friends that are girls like, can you help me? I don't know. And they, you know, they have to go and hang up things with like feathers and boas and, you know, ruffles. and it's just so crazy. But the rooms could not be more different.

You go into some of these girls' rooms and it's like you walked into a boutique. It's like not even a dorm. It's like a Harry Potter tent, you know, where they throw a little tent down and it looks a little tiny and you walk in and it's like a whole thing. That's like the girls' college dorm rooms. It is the wildest thing ever. And then you go into these like the boys' rooms and they just look like hobos, like the poorer hobos. I like there was a sliding scale of hobos there on the other end of it and I just like how do you live how do you live I don't understand it so I don't know I'm just sitting here thinking they're gonna burn this place down they're gonna cook and like my son can cook because he does his own laundry I have not done my kids laundering forever because I am not that mom I'm like I'm not gonna be doing this for you but I missed apparently the whole you need plates and utensils and some other basic necessities when you're moving out into your own thing for the first time. And you just, I just figure they knew that and they

don't. Right. Like I, you know what it's like to get a text? Like, can you actually put plastic wear in the dishwasher? No, you can't, not even on the bottom rack. That's not where it's just gonna melt to death. You're gonna die. Don't do it. You know, like we just, oh my gosh. And then to have all of this happen. And I'm, I'm, so I'm juggling a few things. You're gonna have, please indulge me. give me some grace because it is I don't know man it's weird I don't like this part of it this is the part that they don't prepare you for it was easier when they were toddlers

and you know your worst worries were like fevers and stranger danger I feel like this is way worse it's a way worse because it's like now the danger is you it's just like you're going to set your house on fire oh my gosh so I don't know I just get little

a little worried boy mom's out there but man the girl mom's are, I don't, I'm so glad I couldn't, I'd be like, do you really need another lamp with feathers? Do you really need this? You really need all these things. And it takes them hours to move into like a box size of a room. I know y'all out there feel me on that. Good heavens. It is wild. It's wild. So I don't know. And I consider myself a maximalist. And when I'm even going, hmm, that's a lot. You know, that's a big thing. It's a big thing. So I don't know, I'm a little, all you parents with kids going back to school, I feel you.

It gets worse. It gets worse. I'm going to tell you that. It just gets, you know, it just gets worse. You didn't throw your kids in the pool to teach them how to swim? You didn't do anything like that?

Like, well, how protective are you? Because in this instance, I got to tell you, as a dad, I'm like, you're on your own.

You're the dad. I'm saying, that's how you learn. These are boys. This is not about hovering. I'm like, what are you going to eat off of, you hobo?

No, I'm not suggesting you're hovering. You don't. even have a plate. But what I'm saying is, there's some failures you have to have. You have plates, right? Did you only, what?

He didn't either. He's admitting it. He's being honest about it. Hold up, but no more. Steve, dear heaven, save us. Please tell me.

Save us. Please tell me that when you moved out, that you at least had like some plates and some eating utensils. You like when I moved to my freshman your dorm? Anything. He didn't. Yeah, no, I had half meal plan.

But when I ate at home, I had like plates to wash and stuff. We didn't have a dishwash. We had to hand wash him. But yeah. okay there's some hope I mean I just it's just like the little things like they like to not know the difference between a blind and a shutter I'm like what do you want people looking in your room at night you got something to cover them windows you know I just oh my gosh it is the craziest thing ever so I had to vent to you guys right now I know we always talk about meat potatoes but I'm over here like looking at my list I always make a list even though it's not for me and then I'm looking at my list and I'm like so many things are done what is that? happening and it just is and I'm you know I'm not that mom that's going to be all up

in there like this is hard I'm not going to cook for you I'm not doing your laundry I'm not cleaning your place but I think failure is a great lesson that's all I'm saying I also don't want to be somebody going to you know Walmart at like 10 o'clock at night because we don't have anything to eat off of you know and then they're going to buy something

dumb that breaks or you know I don't know or they're going to think it's melamine and it's not and they're going to set something on fire you know if they have a they didn't even know if they had a dishwasher I'm like that's like the first thing that I'm sorry I just alerted everybody's dogs just then but I'm like how do you not know this how are these things you don't know oh my gosh oh I guess like when we when we travel we travel I'm that person I will literally Google tour the area and I don't even

need a map I need GPS I get there and I'm like now we're going here and here and Chris is like why are you an alien you are psycho And but I know exactly where to go and I'll be like, yeah, we're going here, here, here. This is where we're eating. This is breakfast, this dinner. I'm like, reservation here. This, you know, everything is set. I go in and there is nothing left to chance.

So it is just crazy to me for, I don't know, some of this stuff. But I know it's the life of a boy mom. It really is. So, man, I don't know. But, oh my gosh. And thank the boy mom. Oh my gosh. Literally.

So David, one of our listeners out of Orlando, he says, I literally, just used a pot and spoon my first year of college. See? A pot and spoon. That's like an instrument. Look, you got to let them experience that. No, I know that, but I know that, but I'm, you know that, but I'm, you know, I'm just like, I can't, you're going to live your life even if it's stupid. That's the perils of being a great mom.

The perils of being a good parent. And I had one, another listener, Jules, who said I had to go shopping for my eldest first apartment because he didn't know he needed. plates and cookware. I think they think they go into the, they're going to go into the apartment and open the cabinets and total. The glasses, it's like mom's house, it's plates like home.

It's not like that. You've got to put that stuff in there. It doesn't just evaporate into the cabinet. If you're eating pizza and instant ramen, it's very little. If you're just going to eat bad carbs and sodium. Right. That's what did you do in college? That's very little meat. And that's why everybody has the butt cancer.

Kane, that's why they all got it. because that's all they eat in college. I did not pick that out of my bingo card. Horrible. All right. It's shiby. I mean, it's rising rates. You know,

I'm always like, for your health. All right, we got to get moving because I don't know what happened. I'm just spazzing out right now. We got other stuff we got to hit as we move my, oh, this is actually perfect.

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we're not a cult, you might be. So apparently there's a church in California. It's called the alien church. It's an alternative California church that's about UFOs or something. Yeah. Like, are aliens participating in it? Is that what makes it? It's called the alien church.

And they've got aliens dressed up as like religious figures and it's literally called alien church. And then the stuff outside. aliens on it. So yeah, it's kind of about aliens. I mean, you know, something for everybody, I guess. Maybe it's all aliens. Just saying it could be, yeah. A hijacked crane caused a crash.

Why is this so slow? It caused a crash. Suspect isn't... How do you... I'm a hijacked crane. That's actually very... This is in Louisiana. This guy's facing multiple charges. He just decided on an early Saturday morning to

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Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour on this happy little Tuesday in Dallas, Texas. You can listen around the country. And if you're not listening terrestrily, you can watch us do the radio show, Channel 347, Direct TV. So a lot of stuff to discuss. And, of course, we've been recapping for the past couple of days, the big summit,

I guess you could say, all the European leaders. yesterday in Washington, D.C. And that very interesting meeting between Trump and Putin on Friday. And let's get some more thoughts on this and some other stuff from our friend. Senator Eric Schmidt from my home state of Missouri, the show me state. And he's got a new book out, the last line of defense, how to beat the left in court. And I believe it's out today. Today's the launch day.

Is it not set? Today is the launch date. And as you know, Dana, in this great book, there's a blurb from the great Dana. Right here on the cover jazz. it just, you know, talking about how we defended the Second Amendment and individual rights. So that's right. It's good to be with you again. And in honor of you, I've got a little bit of a show me hat on. Love the hat. Well, congrats on the book. Thanks. Well, deserve, for sure. I got to ask you about, okay, I feel like it's a Rorschach test, kind of, with the left and the right. I just want to go back real quick to Friday. And POTUS meeting Putin. And I thought,

that it was a giant troll the way that they made him come and meet the president because he, you know, flies in, he gets out on this ridiculously long red carpet, like Monty Python length. And this is after like last year, everybody was speculating. Does he have a limp? Can he walk unassisted? What's happening? And it looked a little weird. I'm pretty sure that I saw some thick soles and lifts in those shoes. But whatever, you know, because he's sensitive about his height, you know. So he, then he meets POTUS. POTUS didn't walk out to meet him. POTUS just did worry. wasn't made him walk out. Then as he meets them, we have a B2 that flies over ahead to remind them of what they don't have in this state that they sold us for just pennies on the dollar with all the natural resources there. Then he has to climb up some steps on a stage. They get photos and then they walk some more. I don't think that that's like rolling out the red carpet for the guy any more than, I mean, it looked to me like he was going through an obstacle course. And I just wanted to get your initial thoughts on that meeting Friday because I didn't think

it was an optical win at all for Putin. No, I agree with you. And by the way, that B2 that's flying over is from Missouri. So greetings from Missouri. Of course it is. So I love seeing that. And then you have all this, you know, the fifth generation fighters lined up. It sort of reminded me of like maybe you got a neighbor and maybe you're having a bit

of a property dispute or something like that. And you bring them over and you show them your gun, you know, your gun safe. That's kind of like what it was. stuff I got in here. Just to like, hey, this is this is the arsenal right here we've got next door. So, no, I think it also was, you know, think of the last four years. Joe Biden, first of all, never had the will to do that, nor the ability to do that. I think there's a lot of confidence and strength in an American president who says, look,

I'm serious about trying to get to a peace deal. It's not our war over there. We're trying to get to a peace settlement between two parties. The two parties are actually at war, Russia and Ukraine. that was the first step, which of course led to the second step, which took place yesterday in Washington. And then now it's going to lead to a third step, which is Ukraine and Russia being part of a negotiation to end a war where a million people have died and thousands and thousands of people are dying every month still. And what appears to be, by all accounts, a meat grinder. This is a stalemate.

This is a just sort of a war of attrition. And so President Trump's doing what you can do when you actually want to, you know, be a leader. And he's trying to find peace. And I think we should celebrate that. What do you make of the Article 5 like protections that are being, that's how the, I guess, the security guarantee for Ukraine is being described by the administration. I think it was Steve Wyckhoff that first floated it in an interview over the last weekend. What does that mean to you? Is that something that concerns you? Because, you know, that we could, I mean, that could kind of be a fast track to World War III, but we don't know what the particulars are yet. Right. And so I don't want to get out in front of the negotiations. I'm sure that's a, as they said yesterday, a very sensitive part of what they're talking about. I think the press secretary today clarified that does not mean U.S. troops on the ground. I think that's a very important thing. I think, you know, ultimately Europe having a much larger role in the defense of their own continent is a good thing. And the only president, again, that's forced that issue is President Trump. I actually went to the Munich Security Conference in February. And normally it's, you know, some more neo-conservative members that go over there and a lot of people tell the Europeans what they want to hear and not the truth. And I told them the truth, which is, look, we need to focus on the homeland and we need to pivot to China in a much more meaningful way. And that means you guys need to step up. And you got a

president now that is getting them to the 5% defense spending, which never would have happened under anybody else. He was ridiculed for it eight years ago. And here we are now living in a different world. And you saw that kind of respect, I think, from the European leaders as they came to Washington yesterday. So we'll see what these negotiations kind of play out and what those security. And what those security guarantees really mean, but I think he is intent on having a just and lasting peace. So we'll see. That would be that that's, I mean, I think that's what everybody wants. And I think that, you know, hopefully we can get, we can get to that point talking with

Senator Eric Schmidt from the great show me state of Missouri. He's got a new book that is out, the last line of defense, how to beat the left in court, which we're going to talk about. Because you're also, you got to beat the left in Congress. And that's the other big question. Those rescissions packages and cutting spending because I don't understand. I do not envy the job that you all have to do because I just don't have the patience to deal with some of them people on the left. That's the attorney in you.

You're used to this stuff. What does that look like? Are you optimistic, you know, this fall that we're going to be able to get some of this stuff in? And maybe I know some people have floated like the pocket rescissions. I know you can't really give the game away with that one. But I know there's more rescissions packages coming. Are you optimistic that we're going to start, you know, chiseling in some of these other cuts? I hope so. And this is coming from, I actually was the senator that handled the recisions package on the Senate floor for 16 or 17 hours. And we beat back all the Democrat amendments. And we held it, you know, it's probably shouldn't have been as hard as it was at times. But we held the Republican votes necessary to get the savings. And so the result of that is something that Republicans have talked about for decades. NPR is now defunded from federal tax dollars. So is PBS. And about $8 billion now is clawed away from this ridiculous spending that, you know, like,

Guatemalan sex changes in D, I in Burma, and Sesame Street in Iraq, all this stuff that no one would support, no one ever voted on, that we were able to get done. And so I was proud of that. And certainly something to work with the White House on that. And then the Republican Senate and then the House passed it as well. So my hope is that we will have more of those. I think what I hear about most, and sometimes, as you know, we've talked about on your show before, the conversations in Washington are so detached sometimes from what like normal people talk about in place. like Missouri. And what I hear mostly is, yeah, like, what are we spending money on that nonsense for? So in addition to saving the money, it's also about restoring some trust, right, that we actually

would go up there and do their right thing on these things. Because a lot of times what people see is just all the nonsense. They don't see that kind of accountability. So I hope we do more of it. It's certainly something that I would sign up for. True. I wanted to ask you something about Missouri because it came out yesterday. AG Andrew Bailey is not going to D.C., I guess, as the deputy co-director of the FBI. And I've got to be honest, I'm a little nervous about it because you were such a great AG and then we really needed you in the Senate. I'm really nervous about losing a good AG because I just remember how you and then he threw out the Biden administration. I felt like our attorneys general were, I mean, the tip of the spear. And I, you know, I get nervous about 2028 because I have no

idea what's going to happen. And I'm just, I'm a little nervous about it. So what are your thoughts on it? you know anything that can soothe the nerves, share it with us. Well, look, Andrew did a great job. And I think, you know, he's described as sort of his call to service in the FBI. There's a lot of reform that needs to happen internally. I think he'll do a great job. And I'm not trying to shamelessly move into a segue into the book, but honestly, it's why I wrote the book because I feel like in that time period, you've got to remember.

So the fever broke in November of 2024, right? That's how I see it. But in this long fever dream before, it's easy to kind of lose sight of all the crazy things that were happening. I mean, this was a time of lockdowns, of compulsory COVID shots, of open borders, of DEI struggle sessions, and a censorship enterprise so vast that it was the biggest affront of the First Amendment we've seen in American history. And so President Trump's out of power. You know, the historic comeback is further away down the road, but it kind of fell to some relatively unknown figures. And I was in that place and decided that. I can't, like, we sued 50 plus school districts for mass mandates.

We brought the vaccine mandate lawsuit to the Supreme Court and we won. We brought the student loan debt forgiveness case in the Supreme Court and we won. We brought that censorship lawsuit and we exposed this censorship enterprise before Twitter files, before the congressional investigations. So what it shows is, is that if you're willing to stand up and you're willing to fight, you can win. And that's the playbook. So no matter what age you are in any particular state, no matter if you're a member of Congress, I think what President Trump has taught us is that you've got to, have that fighting spirit. If you do it, people will follow you. And I think more than anything right now, Dana, people are looking for authentic leadership. People can spot a phony. And they also

know the people that just show up to the ribbon cuttings. That's the easy part. The hard part is when on the peak day of Omicron, are you willing to sue those school districts to set our kids free? The five-year-olds don't have to wear a mask all day long. Are you willing to take the slings and arrows when people call you a conspiracy theorist because you think there might be a censorship thing happening in this country and then you expose it. That's the kind of courage we need right now in this country. And it's why I wrote the book and people can get it on Amazon right now, the last line of defense. It's lessons learned, but it's also the playbook for the future. So whoever's assuming these roles, we kind of know how to fight and win now. And that's what I wanted to pass along.

Yeah. And I'm glad that you have because, you know, I feel like we're going to, we're, we still have midterms to get through. But I always look very far ahead. And I always look at how Democrats are gaming. I see the people that they're putting up. You know, they got Gavin Newsom out there trying to attack. you know, Texas on gerrymandering and then you have these Democrats fleeing to Illinois. And I got to say, you know, when you're right next door to Illinois, you know all about gerrymandering. You know what those districts look like. It's comical. I think it was, that was hilarious when the, when the Texas Democrats were going to protest redistricting, what state were they going to flee to? Illinois, like the most gerrymandered

state in the country. And I think, again, this is sort of makes the point. The Democrats have been doing this forever. Like there's plenty of states that have. 39, 41% Republicans, you know, registered Republicans in their state and not a single congressional representative in that state. And so when Texas says, you know what, our populations change, we got the ability on our constitution to redistrict. We're going to do it. Missouri, by the way, is probably going to be embarking on this. It'd go from a 6-2 map to a 7-1 map. The Democrats have done this for a long time. We're playing within the rules. The difference is what the Democrats are trying to do is break, bust up the rules. If they're ever in the position we're in right now,

Dana, you know this. They will pack the Supreme Court. They will add DC in Puerto Rico to the union to get, you know, four additional votes in the Senate. There's nothing they're not willing to do. So we need to sort of wise up and fight back. Again, why I wrote the book last line of defense? This is a new era we're entering into. And if we've got the courage, we know we've got the tools, we can go do this. We just have to have the spine to go do it. And my last question for you on this, which completely relates to the book, because you were, I mean, you've, you were in AG and then, you know, obviously Senate. So you've seen this fight. with the mail and ballots, especially if we're COVID, because POTUS were marked on, you know, we got to look at the mail and ballot thing. I could go either way on it. I like the idea of gaming where it's allowed, gaming the system to the point where Democrats are like, oh, gosh, we've got to ban this now. But I also realized, you know, going back all the way to, you know, the 40s when LBJ was stuff in ballot boxes, you know, with actual pay. And then the hanging Chad fiasco in Florida. So, you know, I think the way to fight it is by overwhelming with turnout. But I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on the mail-in-ballot stuff because I don't know if it's going anywhere.

And COVID allowed for so many states to just reduce their standards and their requirements and just kind of anything goes. What's your take on that last question? Yeah, I think federalizing elections is something the Democrats have talked about for a long time. And I think we should resist some of that. But as far as mail-in-validing goes, look, we actually, I talk about it in the book. Mark Elias during COVID was suing every state that has. had election integrity measures in place. So Missouri, for example, if you want to, if you want to have a mail-in ballot, you have to request it. There's a signature verification that goes along with it.

If you're disabled or, you know, there's accommodations made for that. If you're a son or a daughter, you got to make, you know, there's a limited pool of universe who can actually request it and send it back in with a verification signature. That's not, I don't think what President Trump's talking about. What President Trump's talking about is places like in Georgia, they entered into a ridiculous settlement with Mark Elias in that group. And what they did was they just mass mailed out ballots to everyone. And that's what creates the ballot harvesting. You don't have to request it. You don't have to have a signature verification. None of the protection measures that used to be, by the way, pretty bipartisan. Now that left, it's all about power and control. So I think

raining that stuff in would be a very smart thing to do. So you leave it for people who can't, like, get out of their home. They have disabilities or something like that. But you cut down on the drop boxes because that's what we saw. Right. mass mail-in-balloting with the drop boxes, that is right for fraud. Yeah, definite difference between the absentee ballots, which have restrictions and then what they are wanting this. Anything goes, you know, drop box, harvesting ballots, mail-in ballots. Eric Schmidt, the book is the last line of defense, how to beat the left in court.

It is out today. You can get it where books are sold. Get a copy and then get another copy and send to a friend. Senator, always a pleasure. Thank you for fighting on behalf of our Constitution for Americans in Missouri and elsewhere. We appreciate you. Congrats on the book. Thanks, Dana.

On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist. Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast for bite-size and formative episodes. Perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. So Loudoun School suspended boys that were uncomfortable with a biological female student in their locker room. So see, this like cosplay, it's cut in both ways. Stonebridge High School. They're getting suspended two boys because a female who is pretending to, to be a male demanded to use the boys' locker room at school. And they launched an investigation

Title IX into the students because they were on video asking why there was a girl in the boys' locker room. And so as a result of that, they got to punish these boys. They said that the boys are responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination. I hope that their attorney drags the school. They were suspended for 10 days. They had a contact order. They were not allowed to be in any of the same classes simply because they were filmed asking why there was a girl in the boys locker room. We are attacking these young, the left is attacking these young men because they're like, you're a girl, you don't belong in the boys' locker room. They didn't even say that. They were like, why is the girl in the locker

room? And she was the one who filmed it. And I think she's the antagonist. She's the antagonist, and she's trying to prey on these boys. This girl's not the victim. She's the problem. And so is this whole ideology. We'll have more on this tomorrow. Today in Stupidity Kane. All right.

Cut 16-1 in Rhode Island. There was a drunk woman. That part's not surprising. What's surprising is who she claims she is the entire time. Listen to this. Buddy, you're going to regret this. You're going to regret it. Dominique.

Dominique. You're also drunk. Attitude girl. Yeah, AG with an attitude. Back of a cop car. All right, folks, that does it for us tonight. Find us at Substack, Chapter Inverse, YouTube, Facebook, like, and subscribe. I will be back with you tomorrow.