The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump's Wants Greenland, Zuckerberg Bends Knee & Handshake Drama

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

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We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name. And it's appropriate. It's appropriate. So that was just one. Trump's taking questions right now from the press. And I do want to go to some of this if we could pull it up.

But that's like the soundbite that I had to immediately come to. You know what, though? First off, welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the first hour here on Tuesday. I had double check. Why isn't it the Gulf of America? I mean, I'm just asking. But I'm going to come back to this because why.

He's taking questions right now. He's speaking from Mar-a-Lago, and he's gone over everything from Greenland to Canada to tariffs to China. What is he on now? Let's just go. I want to listen live a little bit, and then we got a lot of stuff to get to. So this is Trump live right now. He's a guy I like. respect. I think he respects me also. He's the one that didn't go after certain people after

I requested that he not. You know who I'm talking about? The Kurds, I don't know how long that's going because they're natural enemies. They hate each other. But he didn't do that yet. And he didn't do it in the past also. He started and I said, please don't do that and he didn't do it. So, but if you look at what happened with Syria, Russia was weakened, Iran was weakened. and he's a very smart guy. And he sent his people in there through different forms and different names, and they went in and they took over, and that's the way it is. I'm sorry.

I don't mean they were up. Do you have concerns about HTS taking control? By the way, I have the Envoy here. Is that in the back? It is. Standing with my son, Eric, is Steve Whitkoff, who's just got back from the Middle East, and he's done a fantastic job.

He's a great deal. I said, well, we need there is a deal maker because nobody makes a deal. We have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meets of bounds and bounds are, but they can't talk. They can't make deals. Steve's done a great job. I just want to thank you, Steve. You've been working endlessly for months, and he's working specifically on the hostages, trying to get him back. Steve, come up for a second.

Maybe you might want to say a couple of words. I didn't know Steve was going to be. I didn't know Steve was going to be here, actually. Neither did I. He's done a fantastic job, and it's a dangerous job, too, and we appreciate it. He didn't know about this kind of danger and the other deal-making he does. Now he sees a lot of big danger. Come on up, Steve.

Mr. President, can I ask you the second part of that? Just one second. I'm going to give you a little report on the hostages if I can, Steve. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. Wow. Well, I think we're making... a lot of progress. And I don't want to say too much because I think they're doing a really

good job back in Doha. I'm leaving tomorrow back to go to Doha. But I think that we've had some some really great progress. And I'm really hopeful that by the inaugural, we'll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president. I actually believe that we're working in tandem in a really good way, but it's the president, his reputation, the things that he has said that are driving this negotiation. And so hopefully it'll all work out and we'll save some lives. How soon is it possible good in prostitution? I believe we've been on the verge of it. I don't want to discuss sort of what's delayed it. That's no point to be to be negative in any way. But I think it's the president, his stature,

what he said he expects, the red lines he's put out there, that's driving this negotiation. I'm going back probably either this evening or tomorrow night. Are you confident there'll be a deal before January 20th or is that something that's likely if there's a deal even at all? We've been hearing this now for the better party. It's another talking about the hostages and all of that. We're going to continue monitoring this press conference that Trump is giving from Mar-a-Lago. And, you know, when he goes back to speaking. We'll dive into it. But it's been, I mean, he's had a very busy, it's been a PAC speech so far. And I like how instead of, the reporter was asking about the hostages. And he's like,

I'm going to bring up, you know, one of my foreign policy wanks here. And we're going to, we're going to talk. So it's, it's, is it weird to see press conferences and presidents again? I don't know what to do. Should be. Let it is. I know. What, what do we do? We watch them. It's weird. It's almost like we just don't know what to do with them anymore. We haven't had them in so long. Where the hell is Biden? He's like signing away. He's like commuting sentences for death, death row inmates and all this stuff. I don't know what the hell the guy's doing. He's, he's out to pasture. He has been retired. They, they've retired him. He's no longer. It's just so weird because he's the sitting president,

but he's not. And he's trying to, as Kane noted, and we made mention of this yesterday. He's trying to sabotage as much as absolutely possible, whether he's going to try to tie up, you know, energy, whatever it is. They're trying to sabotage as much as possible. But I don't know if it's so much as Biden as it's all of the underlings is the word I'm looking for. All of the underlings with him, right? That's really what it, it's just weird. I don't know. He's just not even the, I've never seen anything like it. And I just, I just want to sit here with it for a it because I've never seen anything like it before. It's really weird.

Isn't it? Is it not so odd? So, and then I like how Trump is still talking. He's not even at the lectern and he's talking. That guy's just standing there, standing there by the lectern. Okay, so a lot to discuss. But first up, the, again, a number of things. I just, it is amazing to see, because we had the same.

the headline with, that's what I woke up to was Facebook. And Mark Zuckerberg coming out with a statement saying that they're changing some things over at to Facebook's. Audio sound like nine. Listen to this. Get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, we're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X starting in the U.S. So community notes. Or you can just not do anything.

Because community notes are also annoying because that's where everybody gets in and they all argue with each other. Can you've seen it? They all argue with each other and it's really annoying. So why do we even need anything? Now, I will say, and I'm of actually just one thought on this, I do think that this means the tightest turning. Now before people freak out, because there are people. people hellbent on Twitter. They are such drama queens that they will argue over anything. They will literally become flat earth and argue flat earth just to have something to argue.

I don't know who these people are. I kind of want to knock their heads together, but that's me. They, uh, I, that I do think the tide is turning. Now, and I think that free speech is becoming cool again. Like, for instance, I said that, uh, I was discussing how, you know, I've been censored on Facebook more, oh my gosh, more times than I can count. How many times did we get flagged by Facebook? It's like something that's pretty frequent, right? All the time. And so it's, I think that this is significant that he's making this change.

I don't think it's something that it's a political motivation. I think it's more of a business motivation. And I don't care. If the tide is turning because money's making a turn, that's also incredibly significant. Because that means the market. it's responding to something. So you can't discount it either way. If he had, and I don't really care, I don't care if he had a genuine political conversion. I just don't care. I'm almost past the point of persuasion, right? Just don't care. But this, you know, whether he's, this change is significant

because those fact checkers are annoying. And it's like, who are you? At least with community notes, you know, it's one of the, it's one of the peanut gallery that's there, with you. I don't know. It's just going to be, it'll be interesting to see how it works. But my point is that the tide's still turning, regardless the reason why. And the market responding to it is incredibly significant. So that's, you know, I don't know. Some people are just, you know, they're mad. They're, well, he, there's no, I don't, I don't want him to join my team. I don't care if he joins my team. I just don't want him to put a finger on the scale. You see what I mean? I don't want him to put a finger on the scale at all.

I don't I'm not about trying to be best friends with him I'm not about trying to be like the woke right and elevate him to like a Messiah level position because he said one thing that wasn't entirely wrong I don't want to do any of that I just don't want him to put his finger on the scale I'm a big kid I can take care of my own self I just I just don't need him to be involved so I'm you know these notes are going to be horrendous

I will add this too that is curious to me that Zuckerberg has had a limit on how much he was willing to accommodate from China in order to have access to China's market. That is significant. Because remember, Facebook is not allowed in China. China has their own Facebook. And that's not to say that Zuckerberg didn't, to an extent, try to ingratiate himself in with China. Oh, he absolutely did. But I think that there was a limitation as to how far he was going to go with China. It's interesting because I feel like he compromised more with the Biden regime than he did with Xi Jinping.

You know, because Xi Jinping calls himself a communist. That makes it better, apparently. I don't know. But at least with the Chinese commies, he didn't, he actually had a limit on how far he was willing to go in order to have access to their market, which was none. But meanwhile here, we all know what they ended up doing. They donated a lot to far-left causes. And I don't mind somebody donating their own money to how they see fit. I think money is speech.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have supported Citizens United. However, the excuse that I didn't know this was happening when it came out that all of your tech workers at your company were bending a need to request from the government to suppress users of your platform. when you own the company, there is no excuse. There is none. None. And so I think that regardless of him, in spite of him, really, it just feels like the pendulum is swinging because the market is being forced

to correct itself with regards to speech. So don't think that this is, like him having this religious, you know, restoration or this, this somehow, this like new discovery of his, you know, personal allegiance. He's doing a, he's making a business move. But again, that is not insignificant because the market's responding. We have a lot more to get into. Trump is speaking. We're going to, we're going to revisit it. We're also going to get into a lot of this latest, including some of those bills now moving in Congress. We'll touch on all of that. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what

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It's going to be directed by Brett Ratner. And it's going to be her documentary plus another undisclosed project. She's already doing more work than Harry Megan. Just saying, she's already doing way more work than Harry Megan. So that's going to be, that'll be interesting to see. Also, move over, Moudang, because you guys know I love the Pygmy Baby Hippo. The baby pygmy hippo hippo? Pigmy baby hippo?

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And baby Poppy was born on December 9th. 15 pounds. 15 pound whopping little baby pygmy hippo. He's a little adorable. Anyway, so, and interestingly enough, Poppy is Mudang's cousin. Yeah. They're all related.

They know. It's like you're good news for the day. I don't know. Let's see. This, I did not know. Okay. Biden signed a bill making the bald eagle officially the bird of the U.S.

Why wasn't this already done? I remember a story from my weekly reader when I was in elementary school, where we narrowly missed having the turkey as our national bird. I'm like, thank heavens for that. Is that bird weird? And it's all weird up, you know, in space. Anyway, so I thought this was already a thing. How was this not?

They said, well, you know, it's, there's one day, this piece from Lee Valley Live, they have a story in a 25-year-old bald eagle, a 25-year-old bald eagle. This bald eagle has lived longer than most people. Well, not most people, but a lot of people. Just wild. Anyway, so it's a national bird now. I just, I thought that it was already a thing. I didn't know, it wasn't.

We still have more updates on the dangerous cold pattern. So it is officially 30 degrees here in Texas. I'm wearing turtlenecks until it stops it. Because I can't function like this. I can't live. Like, how do people, how in the world? Like, how do they go down in the Arctic? No way. I hate ice. No. But anyway, eastern half of the United States, super dangerous cold weather pattern.

Apparently Dallas is going to get anywhere from two to five inches of snow. Snow. It'll be just probably me here in the studio, all by myself Thursday and Friday. We'll just, so that'll be fun. Vegans, they said, are most likely to be depressed, according to a study. Sad little vegans. UK Biobank Research found vegans are at higher risk of anxiety and depression because they drink plant-based milk. They don't drink milk. They drink plants that have been mixed with dirty water. That's what it is.

You're not drinking plant-based milk. You're drinking plant juice mixed with dirty water. And it's nasty. So, of course, you're depressed. Because that's what you, you have to only eat rabid food and drink plant juice with dirty water all day. It's so sad. I'm almost sad. I'm sad for them.

Sad adjacent. We got a lot more on the way, including the Danish king is now trying to troll Trump because everybody's mad over Greenland? I don't know. It's 2025. Just stay with us. Pain can really affect your life, so you should consider a New Year's resolution, and it's not about taking it easy or slowing down. It's about making 2025 the year of feeling good again, the year of doing more and living more and waking up excited every day, and you can do it by trying Relief Factor.

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If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation. If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don't have to say anymore, but that's what it is. Welcome back. Double entendre. Yeah, welcome back.

Dana, last year with you, bottom of this first hour. felt like he was going to say, what do you mean how to define that? What, what size of boot can your ass accommodate? You tell me, you know, like I'm just, like I'm curious as to if he actually would have, I mean, you're a journalist, you know, use your, oh, wait, that's right. You don't have any imagination. The press that he was asking, give me the audio of the, uh, the one guy that, that was asking him about a strike, uh, on Iran. And he was trying, he was golden Trump, trying to get Trump to answer it. And Trump's like, no, that's. a stupid question. It's a stupid question

because the only stupid person would answer. It's just funny. I just, I feel like Biden tries to have that kind of energy when he's calling people fat and dog face pony soldier and all of that other

stuff, but it's not the same. It's not the same. But this was, this was funny. It was kind of, it was pretty funny. This whole, yeah, let me know if you knew you have that, but he's given his room. He's still giving remarks. He's taking questions. At Marlago, he's still answered some of the questions there at Marlago.

So he's let's dive into, I just want to hear one more bit of it. One more bit. And then while you find that audio for me. I just want to hear what he's, because he's been going on for like over a half hour. So listen live, real quick. 500, over 500 miles a wall. Much of that wall was built through money that I put into the military. We took it out because we couldn't get things from Congress in those days and we took it out and that wall was built largely with money coming from the military. So very simple. I went to the military. I said, our country is being invaded by very similar,

nothing like what's invading our country now. They weren't releasing prisons into our country and they weren't releasing mental institutions in, but some bad dudes were coming in, right? And I said, our country is being invaded and I took that money largely from the military. I was sued nine times by the Democrats in Congress, and I won all those suits. And we ended up building 571 miles of wall. Once that wall was built, they start going around it. So we're going to add another 200. That would have been up in three weeks.

And then we had a very unfortunate election result. And they said, we don't want to put it up. We'll sell it. And they started selling it for five cents on the dollar. What a second? So we'll do this. again, I just want to thank everybody very much. I'm just telling you, this will be the

golden age of America. This is the golden age of America. So he's concluding his remarks there, Marlago, talking with members of the press, that's the president, talking with members of the press, and answering their questions. It's been very, it's been very interesting. I

am, I did love that exchange. Please give me that exchange, if you have it. You just had it. You just had it. You were playing it for me on break. It's on a live. Oh, it's, I know. but it's so it's so funny so while that's been happening like i said there was the news that that facebook is changing some of their i'm pulling up his statement uh that they're changing some of their some of their rules now what does that mean i don't know they they put out more speech and fewer

mistakes is what he said in his video and that he wrote an he wrote an ob the chief global affairs officer over at meta published an editorial on their own side about it and They were discussing free expression. They're ending third-party fact-checking programs, and they're moving to community notes. This is what X has. They said they're allowing more speech and developing complex systems to manage content that are not going to be as complicated for them to enforce, et cetera. They said that they don't want too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement.

They're trying to get away from that. A personalized approach to political content, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, Facebook is a very different platform from X. so we'll see how it goes, but the way that the press has reacted, I don't know if you've seen some of these headlines. They're saying, quote, this is, wait, this is Rolling Stone. Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are finding new ways to kiss Trump's ass. That's literally a headline over at Rolling Stone. Here's CNN.

Meta gets rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now. He didn't say more harmful content. CNN's like more harmful content. How does CNN define more harmful content? Content with which they disagree. If it's a threat to our opinion, then it's dangerous because they're too lazy to articulate a defense of their position. So the easy way out for them is to allege that their opposition, their ideological opposition is simply dangerous. And therefore, they're trying to do a two birds, one stone. They're trying to not only smear their ideological opponents, but they're also trying to smear,

anyone who would agree with their ideological opponents because good and moral, upright, just people don't want to be known as being, uh, using or endorsing anything that's considered dangerous, right? That's their whole point of doing this kind of stuff. They're cowards. These people are ideological cowards. They create for themselves these little ivory towers and they sit there and they absolutely refuse to have, to entertain any kind or to even make a defense of their own positions. I kind of wonder how resolutely the left is in their position if they are so

unwilling to defend it, really. The headlines have been crazy. Of course, a lot of this changed recently, and then it was announced that Dana White, UFC's Dana White, is joining Meta's board. They added three board members including UFC's Dana White.

They also added a tech investor and an auto tycoon. So, interesting. So this, I mean, I don't know if that had that much. I think that may have been also part of just another felt consequence of the market shifting. But regardless of why they're doing it, the pendulum is swinging the other way. I have stories on all these different companies that are dropping DEI, for instance. McDonald's is the latest company to walk away from DEI initiatives.

I don't care if it's, you have to realize something. There are people out there, and I've seen them in my mentions, that say none of this matters because they're just doing it for the money. Do you not realize what a myopic statement that is? Of course they're doing it for the money. But don't diminish how unbelievably difficult it is to change market conditions to make companies do this stuff. And I feel like the people who are trying to downplay this and say, oh, it's just him after money. I don't really feel like they understand the situation or market and culture. Because of course, it's about the money. No one goes into business just to like give product and time and service away.

But do you realize how unbelievably hard it is to change the wins for companies that you can actually with demand change how a market is operating? And that's exactly what's happening here. Two major tech companies, three technically if you want to rope in Amazon and Washington Post. So regardless the motivation, I even think the fact that there, it's one thing to be politically ideological yourself. But it's another thing to shift your company to do what we're seeing like with Facebook. So I don't care if it's, I don't care if he's, I don't care what his politics are. Like I said earlier, I just don't want him to have a finger on the scale. But I think it's actually exponentially harder to change company behavior than it is just the ideal, the ideals of the owner.

So I think that this is incredibly significant. Now time will tell. But being a fascist doesn't pay. Being a commie doesn't pay. No one is ever purely fascistic or purely communist because it's a grift. It's what stupid progressives do because they think it sounds cool, but they actually still engage in capitalism. No, none of that stuff, tyranny doesn't pay. These people want to get paid.

Freedom will follow. I mean, money for you. follows freedom. So that's what they're doing here. People want more speech, not less speech. They want fewer rules, not more rules. They don't want all the restrictions. And that's what Facebook is doing. And I do think it's significant to change. And it's not just Facebook. It's Amazon. It's been X. It's been all of these companies that are now walking away from all of these DEI initiatives. DEI is now cringe, even amongst the left. It's cringe. It's really, it's embarrassing.

They're going to look back on that as a horrible footnote in their history. Progressive history. It's just embarrassing. But the pendulum's swinging. All right, we got that audio. I want to play this audio for you. This was when Trump was being asked about the Iran strike

by this reporter. He just told me that some things just need to be sad. Listen. The last time you were here, you were asked a question about the U.S. possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran. You said he wouldn't answer that question. Obviously, on Iran, the U.S. launching a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

And I said, I don't talk about it. It's a military strategy. But it is a legitimate question. Well, it's not really, because only a stupid person would answer it. Look, it's a military strategy, and I'm not answering your questions on military strategy. I mean, only a stupid question. Only a stupid person would answer it. I mean, it's true.

they're trying to get him to go on it. He's like, I'm not playing this game. I'm not doing it. I'm not, no, I'm not doing this. It's funny. That's funny. It's so different from Biden. I don't know where he is or what he's doing. Democrats were patting themselves on their back yesterday because they participated in certifying the election results. Do you remember it was like the 80s the last time that Democrats didn't object to a Republican certification? It was George W. Bush's dad. Wasn't that the last election? Because they objected to everything since.

They objected to W. They objected to everybody. So for them to act like, oh, look at us. We just went and we certified these election results. I think it was H.W. Bush. I think that was, and it was in the 80s. I think that was the last time that they, did not object to a Republican certification of a Republican president.

They're not going to tell you that. Well, and the reason I bring this up is they had tweeted yesterday, House Democrats and Senate and everybody else. They were tweeting, and that's how you certify an election. Like, look what we did. But they ignore the hanging chads and all the lawsuits. I mean, you realize how long those lawsuits went with Gore v. Bush. It was crazy. only know what a hanging chat is because of that whole stupid drama following the election.

Those were the little, like when you would punch a hole out in a ballot and it's the, how do you, it's, okay, so let me imagine you have a donut, but the hole is still in it and you punch out the donut hole. So the hole that's getting punched out is technically the Chad, right? Hanging Chad means it wasn't entirely separated from that. That's how they were referred to with these ballots. So when you were punching out, holes, they had to literally look and inspect every single one of them to see whether or not the little part that was punched out, the Chad, was hanging still. And didn't they actually come up with a rule like so much of it actually had to be separated? It was so stupid. They had lawyers

litigating every preposition and conjunction and everything. It was this ridiculous. So I don't want to hear it from Democrats. I don't want to hear it from them at all. That's, that's, that's, how you win an election. All right, we got more to come as we roll towards the conclusion of this first hour and we'll be, we're going to, like I said, we're going to, we'll bring you all the latest with all the other developments. We've got some silly stuff to get into as well as we move our partners that help bring you the program. Ooh, just in time. Tax Network USA. First off, the government theft agency, I'm sorry, the IRS, they are very, very aggressive in making sure that they get the money that you have earned that they contributed nothing to. And so as a result, tax network

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so are the days of the United States. Poor Kamala Harris, you know, because she's vice president and president of the Senate, she had to give the official sign off on Trump's win. which that is cruel and unusual. I mean, this is like, it's like making your ex-D-J your wedding to your new...

It's her job. I mean, is she a big, empowered woman or not, right? I mean, can you believe she did that? I mean, it's her job. It's her J-O-B. He's clueless and not funny. Yeah, not, when is he ever funny? He wasn't even funny.

Like, the only reason he was even close to funny is because he stood next to Adam Carolla when they did the main. show. Because he was an adult being juvenile. The women's boobs that flopped on the trampoline and the closing credits of that show were smarter than Jimmy Kimmel is. I'd have to agree with you. Yeah.

Didn't know I was, yeah, it's new year new me telling you. I can't stand him. He just seems like an insufferable. I can't insult him enough. It's like he's an energy vampire. It's like he feeds off of people not liking him. It's weird. In a way, he's, if

was a person, it would be him. Like he's the son of and er. That's Jimmy Kimmel. I can't unhear that. No, you can't. It's really difficult. Can't unsee him. You know, just his skinny little tie makes his net look fatter. Anyway, move on. I don't like him in case you can't tell. I know. I tell you what.

But that's her job. That's Kamala Harris's job. Oh my gosh. We are going to. So coming up and I forgot to put this on the rundown. We have to go, the left lost their minds. Lost their minds yesterday, you guys. I thought, I didn't know it was going to be this early in the new year. They all defecated their drawers over this old man, sorry, elderly gentlemen who was holding a cane in a Bible. And Kamala Harris was not reading the room because she's a moron.

And she's like, I're going to shake my hand. Or you're going to. And the guy was like, well, let's see. Do I drop the Bible on the floor or fall down, which is, you know, which are my choices here? All of the left went after this Senator Fisher's husband because he did not drop his cane and fall on his face. And I guess shake Kamala Harris's hand on his way down. I don't know. We're going to, we have to talk.

Because the left has been trashing this guy for 24 hours. I don't, I didn't realize that they hate people with disabilities so much, but they do apparently. We, they, Zapruder level scrutiny of this, of this video that they've had. We're going to talk about that coming up. Stick with us. A whole other hours on the way. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Super Beats.

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Where everybody's just to be Charlie. After that, it was the Charlie Hebdo cartoonist and their writers that were targeted by Islamists. And they were murdered. I mean, it was, I can't believe it's been a decade. So that's just kind of wild to me That it's been that long But yeah they ended up I mean they stood their ground and it was what

I mean They 10 years ago Just wild The And Kane and I were talking about this Kane has a conspiracy theory about it Share it with everybody Kane What that these

And this is in context with the Hebdo stuff Yeah that they choose historical dates to create their atrocities. Like, you know, October 7th was a date for them. And I know that there's a date coming up in 1991 when we went in to Iraq. It was January 17th of 1991. Now, January 17th is coming up, obviously. So it's, I don't know, there's a lot to look at before we get to January 20th, I guess is my point. Interesting. So you're saying that, just timing. Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah. So yeah, 10 years. It was January 7th, 2015. It forced their way into the headquarters of Charlie Hebda. They killed 12, the staff cartoonists, the writers, and 11 were wounded, four of them seriously. So it's pretty, it's, I mean, gosh, that kind of made everybody sort of, I think everybody kind of checked themselves in terms of the threat of Islamism, which still, exist. It still exists. So 10 years for that. I wanted to shift gears here. I talked about

this last hour right as we were heading out to break. It's quite early in the new year for the insane amount of outrage that the left has been demonstrating over every little thing. But, you know, they did it again yesterday. There's Senator Fisher is, because, you know, she was sworn in all of the other, all the other lawmakers were sworn. Everybody swears is sworn in. Senators are sworn in. Members of Congress are sworn in. Deb Fisher's from Nebraska.

And she's a Republican from Nebraska. She was sworn in yesterday. And we've got video of this. Her husband was there. He was holding the Bible on which she was going to place her hand and swear. Her husband, Bruce, and I'm not trying to be mean or anything. and Juan's preparing the video, he's holding the Bible, and he also has a cane. And he was, as he walked up to the dais where they were, she was going to get sworn in.

And I don't know if the full, the video we have shows the full thing. But as they were walking up, because he's got, if you're looking at the video, his right hand, his right, your left, he's got a cane. And he was leaning on it pretty heavily. I mean, you could, in some of the other videos, like his hand was sort of shaking when he was, when he was holding it. And he was trying to hold out the Bible and the cane. So as he walked up, and this video doesn't show all of it, as he walked up and they were doing that, Kamala Harris had stuck out her hand. And he was trying to figure, and you could tell that he just didn't have his balance. He was trying to figure out, do I drop the Bible or do I drop my face on the floor?

What do I do? like should he just fall on his head and then just sort of like shake her hand all the way down like one of those things because the left oh my gosh they lost their mind i don't know who this guy is uh but there there were a number of like sam stein with CNN quote refusing to shake the vice president's hand during the swearing and if your wife doesn't make you a badass it just makes you kind of immature i had asked sam Stein, you know, maybe Bruce Fisher isn't as lucky as you are to have the three hands that you do. He only has two. So with what hand was he to shake hers while he was holding his Bible and his cane?

And also, you're kind of the ass if you're there sticking your hand out and you can see that this frailer gentleman in front of you who is leaning heavily on his cane and trying to hold a Bible and not fall down. If you're seeing that he's struggling and you're insisting on trying to make a spectacle of it by sticking. your handout, fishing for that handshake so you can make headlines if you don't get it, you're the ass. I mean, it was just rude and the theater was so stupid. But they have been just, oh, man, like, oh, no class and all this. People were saying that he was a racist, of course. And, I mean, they just, that's what they were doing all day yesterday, was building up

rage against this guy. and I mean you can see all the photos and all the video he's not trying to dodge anything I mean everybody started attacking this guy including the thirsty

not really Republicans that pretend that they're Republicans so that they can get on CNN and MSNBC those as well I mean the video is clear and also who cares do you honestly look

I get it that we're only pretending to be a civilized society with these formalities and traditions of manners and greetings, et cetera, et cetera. But you could not prevail upon me to shake someone's hand when they were part of a regime that not only censored you and suppressed you and oppressed you, manipulated you and persecuted you, just shake their hands so we could act like we're kissing and making up and getting along to move along. There is no way in hell that you could prevail upon me to do that.

and I think that it's asking too much. After everything that this regime put this country through, she stuck out her hand and then she was like, oh, okay. No empowered woman acts like that. No woman's like, oh, I guess he doesn't want to shake my precious little baby woman hand. Oh my gosh. I'm going to withdraw my hand.

Because she like made a big deal out of it. He's an older dude and he's clutching a cane and he had his Bible and everybody's trying to give him stuff and he's trying to hand stuff out. It's a little confusing. don't be an ass, be helpful, right? Respect your elders. Good heavens. It's just so fruity.

The way that the left examined this video all day, they were screenshot by screenshot. Some of these people, see, they're not getting paid by Biden anymore, so they don't have any lives, so they've got to occupy their time somehow. I don't know. It's, the whole thing was just infuriating to watch.

But, okay, I'm not nitpicking on this too much, am I? No. She's sticking her hand out and then does. That ticks me off when I'm watching that. Well, it ticks me off more because of what the media is still to this very minute is trying to do. And they're still trying to push the narrative that this guy is some sort of a hole for doing what he did. And not holding a cane and a Bible at the time. Yeah, screw that old man.

He should have fallen and broken his hip. You dumb racist. How dare you not shake the Lord and Savior vice president's hand? level of absurdity that I just can't I don't know. Look, I get Democrats think everything's petty because to them it is. They are petty.

But dude was struggling. And I think he's also trying to reserve some dignity for himself because he's on a stage, technically, in front of a chamber and he's helping his wife to swear and she wants him to be there for this day.

And Kamala Harris sees that he's got his hands full, sees that it's, it's just weird. The whole thing was weird. And I think her trying to do that was kind of performative. I do. I think that's how women are. Women do stuff like that.

Women absolutely. I mean, she extends her hand. He's holding the Bible and a cane. She sees that he's holding a Bible and a cane. But she does it anyway. And then she's like, it's just petty. That's what broads do.

They're peasant. How do you like that? Men, let me, you don't see this stuff that ladies do. This is what ladies do. Like, oh, I guess like I'm just going to make myself the victim with one hand move. Why are Democrats always the victims? Does that ever get tiring? Does, do you ever get tired if you're a leftist constantly being a victim?

Oh my gosh, he didn't shake my hand. Probably couldn't be because he couldn't stand up without holding his cane. Has to be because he's racist. I mean, correct. I'm not wrong. so I'm not going to say, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not even going to play the part. It's just infuriate.

I feel bad for this dude. Right? I mean, there hasn't been this much drama over a cane since that one lawmaker got beaten to death in the floor with one. Well, it's true. And how many times have we seen Democrats refuse to shake him? Charles Sumner. He was caned.

Is that who? Yes. You guys remember? This was back in 1856. Well, I don't remember that. Senator Charles, well, because you were not alive. Oh, is that why? Yeah, you were unalive.

That's why. Charles Schumer was an anti-slavery Republican, as the Republicans were. And he was addressing the Senate, and two Democrat senators got mad. Stephen Douglas, Andrew Butler, South Carolina. He said that he told Douglas to his face that he was a noisome squat and a nameless animal and not a proper model for an American senator. Andrew Butler was not president, he was not present. He was mocked. And then anyway, they, this other lawmaker came forward, because they all got into, it was all a big old brawl. I mean,

it was like a combat zone. Preston Brooks, he was from South Carolina. He was friends with Andrew Butler. And he decided to get a cane that they would use to beat dogs. That's horrible, but that's, and he entered the old chamber. He found Sumner and began. beating Sumner upside the head with his cane. So there hasn't been this much drama over a cane in the Senate since Charles Sumner was caned. For centuries. Yeah.

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So first up, this is sweet. An elderly woman left a very kind note at a restaurant in Springfield, Missouri. She apparently is living in poverty. She doesn't have any family. And she wrote a note to the restaurant's staff at Burgers and at Black Sheep Burgers and Chakes in Springfield, Missouri. The owner had offered a free burger to anyone in need on December 25th, and a neighbor told her about it. And she explained she'd been living off her Social Security. She had a downsize renting a room in a house.

She said she felt like she was in college again. She was the youngest member of her family and everybody passed away. and just left her alone. And so she said that a dear friend heard about the offer of her free meal invited me out for Christmas lunch. Great idea since I was down to $1. She had like perfect cursive writing, by the way. And now the restaurant's inviting her to share, have a belated Christmas celebration with them.

So that's really nice. That's the Black Sheep burgers and shakes in Springfield, Missouri, which is the good place to go if you're in Springfield. All right. So, ooh, the Golden State, not really Golden State. state anymore. California, they came in debt. So for five years in a row, they have been dead last for growth and they've been number one for U-Haul rentals leaving the state. Everybody is leaving them. Everybody's leaving. So for five years in a row now, that's been happening. So they're number one in people leaving and they're last in growth. It's pretty amazing. American say

a mysterious fog with a chemical smell is making them sick just minutes after exposure. There's parts of Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Florida, and Minnesota. They say it's a very unnatural fog. And it began in late December. They said that, you know, they would sneeze and then their eyes got puffy and all kinds of stuff. And they're trying to figure out what's, what is it from? They said that we've had fog before, but this is not normal. And they said it's like a dirty fog. And they were even showing their air filters, showing how dirty the air filters were after. So I don't know. know what's, and they said it has a taste and a smell. That's really weird. Hmm. Bird flu. Here we go again. They're saying there's the first bird flu death reported in a Louisiana patient. Everybody freak out. And then there's that other more panic thing. Isn't there like another thing from China that's coming? A bunch of letters. Oh my gosh. And now there's something else. It's the norovirus. Apparently the norovirus can spread on clothes and can survive an entire month in most conditions, which is great or it's bad, rather, if you never wash.

your clothes. This is so dumb. You know what? The best line of defense says, don't be nasty. Wash yo hands. Take advantage of that soap. You know what I mean?

Wash them. Super easy to do. Can I sidebar real quick? Have you ever been in a public restroom and someone doesn't use the sink and soap? Do you turn into a one-person alarm system? Because I do. I'm like, are you going to go touch?

I did this before. I yelled. It was like a figure lady. And I was like, are you going to go touch your food if you just touched your ass? You can't really do that? That's so nasty. Wash them. That's how norovirus spreads. And I told you already, UFC's Dana White

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One of those days is more frequent than the other. There's no one between. It's one or the other. It's a very simple person. You know, I've got two gears. Apparently you're supposed to ask grok So I think you don't you have access to the I have never talked to AI before

Go to Grok You have to be verified to use Grok So what do I ask it? So you just ask it What's your positivity score? Gosh I don't want to do this I'm doing it though

I'm curious what is my positivity score Oh boy What does it say? Hold up I'm reading Well this is obviously a lie. What? I don't believe any of this.

You better screenshot that so one can get it up on the screen or something. I do not believe this at all. I really Okay, I'm going to put it in. I'm going to put it in. I don't believe, I don't believe this at all. Oh, I just love it. And am I the only one that thinks it's like a commie thing? Like your, your social credit score?

It's totally like a social credit score. That's what it is. The only social credit score that was worth anything were the stickers that you got for the bucket campaign for Pizza Hut. That's the only credit score that's worth a team. I really enjoyed that. Gosh, we did not know how good we had it.

So this is what it's telling me. Grok says, because I go, what is my positivity score? And it goes, your positivity score, based on the sentiment analysis of your recent posts on X, leans towards the positive side. It does? You're free speech. Oh my gosh. This eyeliner is not waterproof and critique of certain policies or behaviors,

but you also share moments of appreciation for cultural content like TV series and personal anecdotes that resonate. This is kissing my ass. This is what it is. This is a lie. I don't know if I trust this. I, should I ask it again? Here, let me just.

Are you sure? Just put in, are you sure? Question mark? I put mine in and I put what is my positivity score on X question mark and it gave me a number. Oh. Okay. What is my positive? I'll share with mine after you do here.

What is my positivity score on X? Mine was out of 100. Is this more accurate? Oh, yeah. Oh, gosh. Here we go. just did mine. Based on post found on X, your X score for positivity would roughly be around 38 out of 100. That's where I'm at. This score suggests that while your engagement on the platform is appreciated,

the nature of your posts and interactions might not fully align with the platform's current emphasis on positivity. Well, you know what? That's too damn bad. It must be giving that to everybody because that's what I got. I got a 38. I think Lorraine talked about her getting a 38. I think one of our other listeners had posted. They got a 38. So if you just ask about, you know, what's my positivity score? It's like, why are they so different? That's so weird. I got, why is it?

Yeah, she got, what did she get? Oh, she got a 38, too. I got a much higher than a 38. You got, oh. Oh, Steve's a big buck kisser, a big buck kissing Grock fan. Well, not everyone's a 38, apparently. I, yeah, you know what? You just leave it to the 38th.

The 38ths are talking. Stop. I just. What? Okay. Why does it tell you, oh, like, I mean, look at the difference. And Lorraine is the same. If his was above 38, what was your score?

What do you mean? What do you mean? It's a lot bigger. 65? 65. What do they say to you? I don't want to be friends with anybody that has a score of 70 or a higher. What does it say?

Because I can't stand those people. Yeah, they're clearly, you know, there's. You're on drugs. This is going to sound terrible. But this score reflects a generally positive tone in your engagement, although there's a mix of sentiment suggesting that while your contributions are mostly positive, there are elements of critique or skepticism. That's fine.

Like you can't critique or be skeptical? What the hell is that? You're getting punished? This social credit score stuff. I don't know. I mean, you know, the government told me to drink puddle water, but I feel like I shouldn't drink puddle water. How dare you be skeptical and critical of what Papa government told you to drink?

Quit being unpositive. You're going to laugh up that puddle water and love it. Right? Stop being unpositive. See, when you tell me to don't be skeptical, that makes me more so. I just I can't help it I want to do it like when when lockdown happened and you guys know how I'm such a germaphobe to an infuriatingly annoying degree I was like why I don't want to do that now I didn't want to stay home I didn't want to do any of that I wanted to go out and touch doorknobs I can literally open doors without my hands it's I can open any door without my hands with shoes on and everything for real it's an art learned how to do it I've developed a particular set of skills But then when lockdown happened, I immediately wanted to go out and touch everything, right? But now with this one, it's like, oh, you're too skeptical.

Well, I'm going to be more skeptical. How can I get this lower? Skepticism is what got me to today. Yeah. When I see things like positivity scores, I wanted to rate me as a degenerate because I don't like those. I mean, of all the stupid things that we, this is a, it's a social credit score. At some point, I don't know. I don't trust anything, particularly government.

I don't trust anybody. Don't be shocked if you have to go kiss butt on Facebook or X so that you can get access to the grocery store to go get you your French toe supplies ahead of Snowmageddon one day. Oh, no, it looks like you can't come into the grocery store because your positivity score is too low. This is the kind of stuff they do in China. Legit.

You can't even get on public transport in China if your social credit scores too low. So why do something like this, unless it's going to be used in a manner similar to that, right? What's the point? This is like free work. Why? So I asked it how to improve my positivity score. Well, you've got to come here to Texas and kiss Grok's butt.

I mean, essentially, not so many words, but yeah. Yeah. It totally did. There's like eight steps, and it all includes positivity. Positivity from interacting with other people, positivity and comment. and comments to post that you respond to? I mean, it's an amazing amount

of steps that you can take. I don't have that much positive. I'm just not, not that I mean. I'm just not, I mean, I like joy and stuff. I'm just not like, hohee. And doesn't the universe just want balance? If we get too much of one thing,

it just wants to balance it up. If you get too many happy people, it's equally insufferable. Right. Come on. I mean. We need a balance, not just all positive. Right? I mean, got to have some rain sometimes.

I'm thinking of the flowers, right? Right, Grock? I'm afraid to ask it more questions. I don't like AI. I don't like talking to. Sidebar. Kane. And for those of you who have been in the St. Louis area

or who've ever been into the Magic House in St. Louis, specifically, Kirkwood. Do you remember they had a computer there and it had AI and you could sit down and talk to it? Yes. That was creepy. That was really creepy. So as a kid, you would sit in front of this computer

and it was part of their, like, tech lab, their science lab. And the magic house is like this crazy museum and it turned this regular old timey Victorian house into Kirkwood into like the Winchester house. And it became like this crazy museum. Anyway, everybody I was, I went there all the time. I took my kids there when I got married and had a family and they had a computer there in the science lab. There were like two or three of them. And you could sit down and the whole purpose of it was to, it was to talk to the computer, but it really was AI. And it was weird. and I didn't like it.

And my grandmother was always like, that's of the devil. Everything was of the devil if she didn't like it. Like, that's of the devil. I wrote it off as it was all pre-programmed response stuff. Which is kind of what AI is. I know, but I mean, AI does, I mean, it's more, I think it's less pre-programmed.

AI is AI year. But it's pre-programmed paths to a conclusion. That's the difference. I mean, it will seem like the same thing to me. So this is the only, I have not input anything into AI except for that. Right. Like that.

I don't, I don't, of the devil, you're talking to the devil. So my grandmother was saying. She were here on her. What would you ask AI if you just didn't care and just wanted to ask and just curious? How do I kill you? All right. Hang on here. How do I kill you AI?

That's literally all I care about. How do I end you? Does that mean? I just, you know, maybe it'll give you an answer. I just put that in and it says, You're totally going to get banned. The concept of, quote, killing and artificial intelligence can be approached from several angles. Termination of AI processes, data and memory manipulation, physical destruction, disabling network access, reprogramming or misalignment, and then the legal and ethical considerations of not doing it.

Oh, too bad. Don't try to appeal to my good nature, AI. Interesting. Yeah, you've got to ask these questions now before it gets too smart to answer, right? Sarah Conner's judging everybody right now. Sarah Conner's up in the clouds, judging all of you. We're using AI. All right.

So the, all right, we got to, anyway, that's a positivity score. So now you guys know about the positivity. I don't think Facebook has anything. Well,

I think Facebook does, but it's not public. I think it's for their, like, programmers in that, isn't it? That's like something that's like pretty back channel. Yeah.

All right. So, I got more. I got more to get to. So Canadian politicians are now threatening to, take, okay, have them. California, Washington, and Oregon. Audio sum bite, 11, please. Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state? Yeah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? Okay. California. All right.

Oregon? Okay. Washington. You've got geography in commonplace. And not only that, We've already got a carbon trading system between California and Quebec. We've got some strong alliances on our west coast from British Columbia. There's been a lot of academic papers on the idea of Cascadia. So California, Governor Innesom and Washington State, Jay Inslee, and newly elected governor of Oregon, Tina Kotech. How about it? Okay.

Is this, I mean, don't threaten me with a good time. Anne? Cascadia. I say leave us to land keep. the people. Take the progressives. Yeah. Just take them. I, you know, I'm fine with that. Yeah. Go ahead.

I mean, we're going to get into some of this, but there were even, because I've got audio, people speculating that, well, maybe the UK should leave the five eyes. You know, their security agreement. Because Elon Musk has been criticizing, you know, Kier Starrmer over complicity in the grooming gangs because he was had a public prosecutions at the time. You know, nothing was done. And this was allowed to run rampant. for two decades. So their

lefty labor government is threatening, well, they're speculating about leaving five eyes because Elon Musk criticized the way that they butchered handling the grooming gangs and the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of young girls.

Really? And you're going to take your, okay, take your ball and go home and then you can rely on that Russian energy. Go ahead, dirty Russian energy. And then don't call us when you get into a bun. which will happen as it has. Why even do that? Labor over there is so stupid.

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I'm firmly against it. I'm just saying, uh, Florida man got in trouble for making his own sandwich at Subway. What? Yeah, he, because he left without paying for it too. He got jailed, according to the Miami Herald, for making his own sandwich and then leaving.

I guess he thought, this is in Marion County, that he could just go in and do it. And then if you're making your own sandwich, then you don't, that's not how that works but so uh they also had to throw away pounds of sandwich sandwich fixins literally what they wrote sandwich accoutreement uh out of concern that they were contaminated ew i didn't even yeah that's true like if he's sticking his hands all over everything nasty and

then he left without pain so uh it was a ten dollar sandwich and they they after he didn't even finish all they threw it in the trash outside the store so they had to throw away all right all the food on the line. They wasted, they said about $66. He was arrested charged with criminal mischief and retail threat. Of all the things to get in trouble for, that's like the dumbest. It's one of the dumbest. A Florida man claims an alien abduction after a nude carjacking attempt with a knife. Says double a nasty. A. A Florida man told members of the Palm Beach police that he had been abducted by aliens and he wanted to die. They arrested him because he tried to steal a car while completely new.

That's one way to steal it. You don't even have to be armed with anything. Like, if someone can't get away from you fast enough, they just don't want to be near your naked and they want to get away. So the guy, apparently it was on New Year's Eve. He tried to steal the car. A witness said that he had a large knife and he carved his initials into the side of the car. Like, that was his now.

Look, my name's on it. It's my car. And it was in West Palm Beach. And he carved, he started, like, I guess, drawing pictures with the knife and the paint on the vehicle's exterior. And he threatened the man with a knife. By the way, he's naked the whole time, just so you know. And anyway, they ended up, they ended up arresting him and taking him in. And if you suspected that drugs was a part of it, you're right.

You're right. A giant gator Godzilla dragged the biggest python ever seen past tourists. It was in the Everglades. I don't like any of this. Everything about this is terrifying. It was a python twice the size of the gator. Like this python really could kill the gator. And somehow the gator was dragging it through.

And one of the chore guides said, I've seen many alligators eating pythons out here. I've never seen a python that large. Oh, man. I don't even like it. Remember they got a big bad Burmese python problem there? Because somebody apparently had pet python. and they let them out and now there's like this huge problem in the Everglades and they sponsor like state hunts of them to help control the population. They said that this python was about that is about 20 feet long.

It's one of the largest ever seen in the Everglades. It's an invasive species. So I guess that Gator was doing a favor. You know, maybe it could win a prize for bag in the biggest python. Third hour on the way. No, we don't need to buy Canada. Stick with us. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she's searching for hope. And that's where pre-born ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey who found pre-born and after hearing her baby's heartbeat, she chose life. Consider making a larger, life-changing donation of $5,000, $10,000 or $15,000.

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That's the newsletter. And you can also find us over at YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe, all of that good stuff. I'll be on Jesse Waters' program tonight. Topic, TBA. Not sure yet, but I'll keep you updated. So we have the Lake and Riley Act that passed the house. And that's good news. That's one of the things.

So they're getting things done. Apparently, how many, I was looking at how many, there are a lot of Democrats. 159 voted against Democrats. Deporting criminal illegal aliens. It's amazing, but that's true. So the Lake and Riley Act will ensure that criminal illegal aliens are detained and deported. It has to go through the Senate, but that's what they passed through today.

So that's a great step in the right direction. How could you vote against that? You're here illegally. You're committing heinous. criminal acts, and you still are against those people who are coming here legally and committing heinous acts to be detained and deported? I mean, they would be jailed in any other country. Heaven on earth, they'd be immediately jailed. That's crazy. I, I, again, the United States is not afforded sovereign rights. Speaking of which, Trump has said that he wants to, he's talking about

buying Greenland. My first question was with what money? I mean, we're kind of broke. We're in debt a lot. And I think he's joking about Canada. Cane is actually unopposed to buying Canada. With what money? I mean, I'm a fan of Rush and actually I like that show Corner. They gave us

Alanis Morissette. Corner Gas. You've seen that show Corner Gas? And Cayu. They also gave us Cayo. Sitcom. And Justin Bieber. But yeah, I'm practically Canadian. What? Yeah. I like Rush. But liking Rush makes you kind of Canadian.

No, it doesn't. It kind of does. No. It's how I feel about it. With what money? You don't care how I feel about it? With what money are we going to buy Canada? Are we going to buy Canada?

Is that how it was? I don't know. I don't want to incorporate their disastrous, debt-ridden, failed. Yeah, nobody wants that. Socialist health care system. Yeah, we got our own. I don't want to fold that into my economy. Yeah, we already have our own here.

Yeah, I don't want that. I'm with you on that. I don't want all the liberals up there. Yeah. Sorry, Canadians. I like some of you. Don't want all the liberals over here. But there's nothing about you that's just like,

you know, instead of calling our neighbors to the north, just our fellow Americans. No. No? No. No. Totally no. I mean, no offense, but no.

No. I mean, with Greenland, I still am like, with what money? With what money? We can hardly handle the country we have right now. Why are we? I mean, if you can make. an argument for me that will explain also how we are to acquire this land and that it doesn't add to the deficit and we're not spending money we don't have and also that it will make us money

in the near future then I will sit down and listen but until then I don't know now I will say the Trump remarks on Panama I thought made the most sense yeah I don't know if we have any of that out because it was all happening we were listening to it like that. when it happened. He remarked on Panama, the Panama Canal, particularly, because even though it was relinquished to Panama, I mean, it's the Chinese that basically run it. They've got, it's supposed to be under, it was under, uh, Panamanian control. It still is, but, and it's, it's, it's owned by, what is it, the Panama Canal Authority. But as Trump notes, when he's talking about it, China

kind of runs all the infrastructure with Belt and Road. Listen to this. He talks about it here. Greenland and the Panama Canal so forth. Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas,

you are not going to use military or economic coercion? Can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote? What is the strategy? I can't assure you. You're talking about Panama and Greenland. No, I can't assure you on either of those two. But I can say this. We need them

for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for a military. I'm not going to commit to that. Now, it might be that. So maybe some military involvement. Well, and we know, we've paid money and we pay an annuity for continued access and usage because I mean we I mean we benefit I think they said what like there's over 40 ships that go through the canal every single day we have American subs that go through the canal and so much of our shipping oh my heavens goes through it but we I mean it was in we helped make it possible but then China came in with Belt and initiative. They have two big hubs at the end of the canal, either end of the canal. And I think it's funny that he's, and why should he, I don't think he should, I think it's smart for him saying that he's not refusing to use military force is not committing to military force, but it's refusing to signal to any geological opponent what our, what,

options we have. He's not, he's not going to show moves to anybody. So I think that's smart. But I mean, ultimately, I mean, the influence that China has over the canal is, I mean, it's a pretty, there's already been a lot of, I mean, I've talked about this with Stephen Yates. There's already been a lot of discussion about China and their activity and their control of the canal because they insist that, no, no, no, we, we don't have. have any soldiers. We don't have any military. We don't have anything like that. I mean, no uniform soldiers, sure. But you absolutely have operatives. And I mean, there's accusations of military personnel and civilian clothing and all of this stuff that's there. It's a choke point and Beijing

wants to control it. And I think that him talking about the Panama Canal is actually huge. I think that that makes sense. And I kind of wonder if he's not throwing that out there and couching it in between, you know, talk about Canada and Greenland so that people take him less seriously over it. I'm just curious. I mean, the regime could act to close the waterway off. And again, they control two huge hubs at either end, the Atlantic end and in the Pacific end. They have, it's C.K. Hutchinson Holdings. And they have their huge. They have the Panama Ports company and then they have another one that's that's on the Atlantic side. So they're of all of the port operators in that zone, China's the largest. And they

have a 25 year concession. So it's in they're based in Hong Kong, but who took over Hong Kong? China. Kami China. So you have to, if you want to continue doing business, you have to go along with the CCP. And even, it doesn't even matter. China's rule is when, if there's any kind of conflict that kicks off, people's liberation army takes over. So, you know, so yeah, absolutely.

It's just, it's weird. There's a really good piece at Newsweek that gets into some experts on this particular part of the world with respect to Chinese involvement along with Belt and Road initiative. and they've been talking about this for a number of years. And it's, I mean, this is one of the most important canals in the world.

And as Steve notes, and this is one of the reasons why a lot of people dislike Jimmy Carter, because Jimmy Carter did give up control of it. That's why I'm like, I'm not going to talk. He can lie in state and whatever. But he did, in addition to mucking up the Middle East, he decided to totally relinquish control of the Panama Canal to Panama. Then Panama trying to swoop right in with Belt and Road. Yeah.

So, yeah, good old Jimmy Carter. Gordon Chang had a couple of good pieces on it. He also talked about it in one of the books that he had. And he's been on the program before. But, I mean, if there would be any kind of, any kind of war involved in America, our Navy would have to rely on Panama Canal to get things to whichever theater. So I don't know. That actually, I think, is the most important issue that he talked about of the three Canada.

No, Greenland. Come on. But the Panama Canal is incredibly important. It's very important, vital to American security. So that makes sense that he's talking about it in that respect. But very interesting indeed. So this, a couple of other things, because we got a lot of audio as well. Oh, here's the other thing I wanted to mention.

Speaking of foreign policy and American security. So Biden, their administration, again, another example of him trying to do everything he can to drag down the transition of president-elect to president coming up in just less than two weeks now. They have shipped off 11 prisoners linked to al-Qaeda to Oman from Gitmo. They released them from Gitmo. They were from Yemen. They were held there for two decades. I mean, they were caught in the field in the wake of 9-11. They were used to be bodyguards from Osama bin Laden.

And they shipped them off to Oman. They're trying to clear getmo of terrorist prisoners. That's Biden's, because I don't know why. And we have no idea. Was there a deal made? Did the United States just ship off these terrorists to Oman with, you know, no question? Is that what, I mean, what was it? Nobody knows. It's very unclear.

So I don't know what they get in exchange. I don't know what the United States has gotten in exchange for that. I mean, I don't even, nobody was made, it was not made aware, not made public. I mean, they had one of the guys that was one of Bin Laden's bodyguards, he's an al-Qaeda fighter. There's also the guy, Shurabi. He was the one that they said was responsible for a 9-11 style plot that for Southwest Asia. and they, I mean, they're all identified as extremists. So, yeah, that's going to be real good for those 11 men to be back out in the world, right?

Great job, Biden. Good heavens. Is he trying to one up Jimmy Carter? I mean, good night. Like, who's worse here? We have a lot more on the way. We've got headlines coming up as well as we roll towards the bottom of this hour and our partners. All family pharma is here for you because they believe in medical freedom and empowering you

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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. So this dude caught himself shaving and he sued and one. $6,000. Now, in his defense, it was a little over $6,000, but it was a razor that was faulty. So it, like, broke. And apparently it was not

designed very well. And he ended up like cutting into his face. But still, that's like a lot of, you know, for $6,000, it's a lot to go through. For $6,000. He said he could have done real damage,

but, yeah, It's true, but it was a product error, though. It wasn't, you know, like the lady who spills hot coffee on herself and then sues for hot coffee. No, it was the product was not made correctly. So there is a top secret living lab robot city of the future that was built near a what? Built near a volcano that's going to welcome its first human residence later this year. It's, it's, Toyota has been building its woven city. Sounds like the umbrella court.

which serves as a test ground for driverless car, smart homes, and robotics. And it looks real weird. I don't know if I like this. 2,000 people are going to live there eventually. It's a few miles away from Mount Fuji. It's $10 billion. And the current site will eventually house 360 people once phase two in future phases are complete 2,000 people up to, could be living there. I don't know.

I don't like planned things like that. It is weird. It's very Stefford, right? I know I'm not into it. Just want to be a rat and live out in the woods. I don't know. Let's see. This, oh, boy.

No. Human pods equipped with a suite of AI personas to be unveiled at a new tech event later this year. It's an open-ear wireless design, so you will be able to access AI with a gentle tap. it's like an earbud that you would wear to listen to music but they

you apparently are able to just get AI why would you want that I mean you literally have your phone and you can if you need to I don't like this the singularity just got sped up by like infinity right it's weird fluoride is once again being scrutinized for an effect

on children's brain I still cannot believe we do put floor I mean why did we put Florida in water because the government thinks are too stupid to take care your teeth isn't that what it was This is like an Atlas Shrugs thing. Let's see. Oh, face mask mandates are returning in multiple states. Doctors are warning of a quademic of four viral infections.

I will punch someone in the face before I cover mine again. Yeah. And even then I didn't really cover my face. I was like, I'm not wearing this stupid thing. But it's because of the flu, COVID-R-SV, and then that one, I don't know, some other weird thing that they'll come up with. and some states are saying, well, we should hospitals like in California, Illinois, of course, in New Jersey. They're saying, yes, we need to bring back mask rules for staff and visitors. That's so stupid.

Not going to do it again. No way. Stick with us. We've got more to come next. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. As a reminder, today is the last day to pay your property. tax bill before it becomes delinquent.

Please note that North Carolina law does not permit property tax waivers or exceptions for natural disasters, including Hurricane Helene. So that's what some folks in North Carolina, they had a deadline yesterday, midnight last night, where they were told that they still had to pay their property taxes. And it's still a midnight. That's pretty unbelievable. I mean, this county, Buncombe County, which I'm told by people who live there is run by Democrats with most executive positions.

They could have waived this and they, I don't know why they didn't. What gets me is you had the Biden administration, even though it was overturned by circuit court, they were giving people moratoriums on paying rent. I mean, not the property owners for taxes, but just, you know, the people who are renting. I mean, I'm amazed that they're, that they have not waived. this. That is insane. So it's a county that is still demanding property taxes on homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Helene based on pre-Haleen assessments that no longer apply. This is why property taxes are anti-American because you never own your own property, ever. You never own your own property.

if you don't believe me, stop paying your property tax and find out. That's what you never own your own property. The state will take it from you. So you pay this state a protection ransom so they don't come and take your property. That's our freedom. You don't ever really own anything. That's true. Property taxes need to be abolished.

There's better and different and better ways to do this stuff. That's amazing though. So they're going to have to be paying based on assessments that are no longer in applicable. Oh, you own a property tax on your house and the improvements that you've done on it. Oh, it's not here anymore.

Hurricane destroyed it. I mean, there was like a couple hundred thousand homes that were affected, right? I read something. It was like almost 130 something, thousand homes. That's a lot of homes. Yeah,

they tweeted out yesterday was the final day to pay the Buncombe County property tax. really? After how long do those people languish? What do their property taxes get them? How long did they wait for first responder services? That their property taxes buy them? How long did they have to wait to get their streets cleared up? You know, that's what their property taxes buy. Do they get in their trash collected, the people whose homes are destroyed? You know, I mean, what in the world, people? Just asinine, absolutely assinine. And everyone's like, well, you know, you can appeal your assessment. There are no property tax waivers or exemptions under North Carolina state law.

Oh, goody, goody gumdrops. You get a best government ass kisser award. Great job. You get a badge, hall monitor. That's not the point. First off, they're unconstitutional. So I'd never view it through the context of, well, you can just appeal your assessment. You can just appeal your face.

No. I'm never going to accept the context that it's a legitimate thing. It's not. It's a racket. And the fact that they can't even waive it, how much, I mean, that's insane. If you, I mean, in some regards, the United States is no different from the UK because you never actually own your own property or some of these other places where they levy these and exorbitant, all this stuff on you.

It's crazy. But no, you're not getting what you, we're not getting any of that. The other thing I noticed yesterday, I wrote a piece about it up at Substack. if you get my chapter and verse newsletter. I had a short piece about how Democrats have, they try to make, and they're going to do this every year forever. How they try to make yesterday January 6th a holiday.

And all of them, when did, how did the lie, how was the lie created that multiple officers lost their lives on January 6th? Democrats were tweeting about this all into the night. everybody from New York A.G. Latisha James to Hakeem Jeffries, everyone. They treat this. I wrote that not since Kwanza has a made-up observance turned into such a solemn occasion, but that's exactly what the left has done with January 6th. They've analogized it to Pearl Harbor and everything else. But they were saying that all they were naming all these officers that investigation proved had their death, their death,

nothing to do with January 6th. I mean, no officers lost their lives. But you know who Democrats have never remembered David Dorn? I don't know if you guys remember. David Dorn was murdered in our hometown of St. Louis as part of the Burn Lute Murder Summer Series. You guys remember David Dorn? It was on live stream.

In fact, that's how one of his grandkids found out. They watched it on the live stream. People were writing. two people were convicted in his murder. Or what about Officer David Lee? He was killed by a drunk driving illegal alien. Or what about the New York police officers who were shot by an illegal immigrant whose immigration case had been dismissed by a judge just prior?

And that was in June of this past year. Or what about the officer that was shot by a violent illegal alien in San Antonio? or what about when they had that big pro-Hamas protest in D.C. and an officer was punched in the face by a Hamas supporting writer. I mean, these are just some examples. I don't, Democrats never mentioned them. They never mentioned those police officers because those, I guess, police, they didn't, don't exist if they're, you know, not shooting people like Alicia Babbitt. I don't know.

By the way, the shooting of Alicia Babb, it's the only cop involved killing that the left loved. It's true. It's the only one that they loved. No, I mean, it wasn't an attempted coup. I wrote it wasn't an insurrection. And it wasn't organized and no one was armed except for the police. And it also wasn't an organized multi-year series of violent, mostly peaceful events all around the nation. I was just, I was stunned at the number of Democrats.

They couldn't even get their stories straight. These are elected officials and people who are on television. I'm not like just picking random people off of X who were saying like, oh, there were three officers killed. There were five officers killed that day. So many officers lost their lives. What in the world? They're just making it up now. But it can't go entirely unchecked anymore.

I wanted to play this for you. Audio Soundbite 18. I made mention of this earlier in Britain, speaking of X. They're mad at Elon Musk because he was very. deservedly critical of the way that they handled the child grooming and gang rape thing, not just in Rothrum, but outside of Rothrom. Listen to this because now they're socialist government, their officials are all speculating about leaving five eyes because they're mad over Elon Musk. This is 18. Salute horror at the highest levels of the government at the incendiary

language we have seen from Elon Musk. And there's going to be, as I understand it, a hard-headed assessment, is this just the view of Elon Musk or is it the view of the wider administration and the incoming President Donald Trump? If it's the latter, then there may well be some very, very serious questions about the nature of our ongoing security partnership with the United States. John Healy, the Defense Secretary today, was saying that the UK-US security relationship is the closest we've got in the world. where members of the Five Eyes Group with the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

Can you have that level of sharing everything if this sort of stuff is endorsed by the next president of the United States? Oh my gosh. You know what? Elon Musk, he thinks that Elon Musk's words are incendiary. I think the fact that a bunch of Pakistani men were allowed to rape and traffic young girls all throughout parts of Britain for two decades without, nay, a word from their government. I think that's incendiary. I think protecting that is incendiary. I think getting upset more at being held accountable for not doing anything to protect

those girls is incendiary. So he's talking about leaving five eyes. That's the English speaking. It's New Zealand, UK, Australia, Canada, U.S., obviously, that make it up. And it's our intelligence security. association alliance. That's what it is. They, they're not going to leave that. That's labor being stupid. That's just so, you know what? They're going to FAA and FL. They're going to have a true dome moment. Speaking of that, I wanted to play this. This is pure polyvere, audio sound by 10. He's the conservative

leader. He may be the next prime minister of Canada. He does follow me on X. But he perfectly explains inflation. Listen. Yes. What are the steps I need to take it to fix the damage is done to inflation? First and foremost, stop the overspending. Inflation, high taxes, deficits, high interest rates are all symptoms. The disease is overspending. When governments spend too much money, there's only three ways to get it. One is to raise your taxes. The others are to borrow, which means that they'll tax you more later on. And the third way is to print money. printing money seems like a painless way to pay for things.

But it's very simple. If you have 10 apples and $10 in the economy, it's a bucket apple. If you double the number of dollars in the economy to 20, you still only have 10 apples. You're not twice as rich. It's just that each apple costs twice as much. Boom. I mean, you know, do you really need to incorporate?

And I would take Pierre Palliver. I would take him. I like him. He's a very common sense kind of guy. But he perfectly explains it right there. And he's exactly right. Exactly right. Last thing I'll last thing that we'll touch on because I'm trying to make sure that I get everything I wanted to get out to you guys today. I don't know if you guys watch a landman. It is, I think I mentioned the Jerry Jones thing yesterday. I would play it for you, but we will probably get suspended on YouTube. because even though it's like information and all of that stuff, you can't play anything else from anybody else. We ought to act it out. But anyway, you know what I'll do? For those of you who are over at who get my newsletter at Substack, I'll send out a separate thing about that to you tonight.

But anyway, so you can see the clip there. But Jerry Jones, he was, he had a cameo in Landman. Landman is a series from Taylor Sheridan who did Yellowstone, 1883, 1923. Ameri Kingstown and Tulsa King and Lioness. He's got like a ton... I mean, all of his stuff is actually pretty good. Landman, notwithstanding the dialogue from the daughter, that's a little much.

But Landman is a good series, and I think Billy Bob Thornton was born to play this role. And it takes place out in Midland, Odessa. And it's a landman. A guy who's going out there securing leases for oil and gas and mineral rights and all that stuff. and his family, his very crazy family. And at one point, he's in the hospital room of his boss, and Jerry Jones was there as Jerry Jones visiting.

And Monty's the boss. And Jerry Jones was telling Monty his life story, basically. He's saying, you know, I made a decision early on that I wanted to work with my kids. And he said, I, it was a very, I mean, he had emotion in his eyes. Like, his eyes glinted. Like, they were watery. I mean, he was really, and it was just a brilliant monologue. And the guy Monty had had a heart attack.

It was like his fifth bypass, I think. And he said, you know, I'm not saying that I've done everything right, but I made up my mind a long time ago. I was going to work with my kids and they're involved in everything. He says, Joan said they're involved in my leasing, oil and gas, real estate. And so when I got the Cowboys, I got it so that we could all work together. I thought I was doing it for them. But the one who got the most out of it was to me. And I love what he said here because he's talking to Monty.

He's laying in the hospital bed. And he says, I know it's not going to be this time, but you're going to be sitting there sometime in the future, laying here sometime in the future. And the room will be filled with your business associates and the people you've worked with all your life. And Jones adds, and more than likely, your children and your family's going to be there because they're your children and your family. But you could have them there because they're the people you spent your life with.

You worked with. You fell down with. You got up with. And not just Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's who you want to be with, he says. So when that time comes. comes like this, it's a celebration of your life and you're not wishing that you spent a little more time seeing a few more sons come up. And he goes, that's the trick. And he ends with saying, because

that's going to be your glory. I thought that was great. And I thought it was great because a lot of people, I feel like in society, have to make apologies if they want their kids to work with them. I have friends who work in agriculture. And their parents, who were friends of the family, worked in agriculture and they were raising their kids up to go into agriculture and work in ranging. And it's weird because it's like outside of that community, society's like, oh, a nepo baby or something like that. And it's like, no, these kids are learning the ropes and they're learning what they're supposed to be doing. But I feel like saying that you can't pass that down to your kids or bring your kids into it is a very anti-American way of looking at things. Because we're not talking about

giving it to people who didn't work and didn't earn it. That's a very European aristocracy. way of viewing things. No, they actually work in the field. They're not just people of leisure. They actually work in the field and they go out and, you know, they learn about animal husbandry and they go out and do all this stuff. And everybody in every industry that I've ever seen, including friends of ours that own businesses, you know, in our own town, that own restaurants and all this. They bring their kids to work with them and they show their kids the ropes and the kids by being immersed in that sort of world. They get that real-time practical education and they learn. and it's a passion of theirs too.

But isn't that why you work so hard to have your family celebrate it? And I just thought that was a great message from Jerry Jones. I know people get mad at him with the Cowboys, but damn, he's a good actor. And that's not even acting. But as Justine Bateman noted on X, just to be able to deliver it like that with that kind of emotion,

you still got to be pretty talented at acting. So I don't know, maybe if he decides to give up the Cowboys someday and all the oil and gas, he could do that. We got a lot, Lehman's a great series. I would be aware of the daughter's dialogue, but it's a good series. On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist. Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast for bite-size informative episodes.

Perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. All right. Tonight I'm going to be on with Jesse Waters, his program. That's at 7 Central 8 Eastern. And then make sure you sign up over at Substack 2 because I'll make sure you get that Jerry Jones video from Landman. It's very good.

Like I said, I'd play it on air, but we get a hit if we do. All right, today's stupidity came. All right, this is Joe Biden. Is the president still, right? Still president? Just making sure. Adam Kinsinger, all the other dumb Democrats are saying the same thing. They're trying to, and the media, make January 6th a thing.

Listen to this. I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. I'm afraid to democracy. What Trump did by saying to peacefully protest. That was. a threat. I mean, we were on air when it happened. We literally carried him on air, saying to be peace. I mean, he said it. That burned down cities, those weren't threats to democracy. Yeah, I tell you what. It never ends. Never ends. All right, folks, that does it for us today.

Of course, you know, we're going to be back at same bad time, same bad channel tomorrow. So stay warm and we'll see you then. God bless.